Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat March 14, 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kenneth Stacy klstacyfamily@aol.com February 5, 2007, 3:05 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library March 14, 1883 PERSONAL MENTION Emmet O’Neal, Esq., of Florence, was in our city last Sunday. Major Davol has returned from a trip to Mississippi and Memphis. Mr. P. H. Moore, who is in the brick-building business in Birmingham, has been here several days. Judge Speake is holding Court in Lauderdale, not Lawrence, as we were mistaken in saying last week. Mr. Wm. R. Moore reached here last evening on a temporary visit, after a successful commercial tour in Southeast Alabama. We were gratified, a few days ago, to receive from our old and gallant friend, Capt. Hugh L. McClung, of Brenham, Texas, a letter endorsing subscription for the Democrat. He is a member of the firm of McClung & Roberson. General Insurance Agents. He has our best wishes for his health and prosperity. Mr. Fariss Smith, after a brief visit to relatives and friends here, his native home, left on Monday. He is traveling for Wheeler & Osborn, large and successful dealers in books, stationary, etc., in Nashville, Tenn. It affords us pleasure to testify to his merits as a sober, industrious young man of fine business capacity, a character and reputation achieved by well-doing. Success to him! From the Birmingham Age, we learn that Col. Matt W. Steele has concluded to settle in that city. His card, as Architect and Superintendent of building, appears in the Age. We are sorry to part with our friend and immediate neighbor, but are glad to know that he is in a position to exert his excellent talents, with a prospect of proper renumeration. A prominent lawyer tells us that Geo. S. Gordon, Esq., made an exceedingly able argument, lat Saturday, in the Lauderdale Circuit Court at Florence, for the M. & C. R. R. sued by Henry C. Jones, Jr., for $3,000 damages for non- delivery of coal, and gained his case over old and able opposing counsel. The trial occupied four days. Dr. Wm. B. Banister, after a week’s visit here, left, on Saturday last, under an order from the Medical Director of the U. S. Military Department with headquarters at St. Louis, to report to him as Acting Assistant Surgeon of the U. S. Army. His blushing honors crowd upon him, a worthy recipient. Since the above was in type, we have learned that Dr. Banister was elected as a physician in the Louisville City Hospital over several competitors, but preferred an Army position and has been ordered to a Cantonment on Uncompagre Rive, Colorado. DIED: TALIAFERRO.—Died, March 2, 1883, at New Market, Ala., of pulmonary consumption. Mrs. ELIZA M. TALIAFERRO, wife of Dr. E. T. Taliaferro. Mrs. Taliaferro was a woman of sterling worth in her family and social relations, and a sincere and devoted Christian in the communion of the Baptist Church. SAXON.—Died, in Huntsville, Ala., March 8, 1883, Mrs. MARY SAXON, aged about 76 years. Mrs. Saxon was an old resident of Huntsville, of great industry and self reliance, devoted to her family and a worthy member of the Methodist Church. With characteristic energy, she attended to planting her garden a few days before her death, and contracted pneumonia, of which she died. BAILES.—Died, in Huntsville, Ala., March 9, 1883, Mr. BENJAMIN E. BAILES, aged about 38 years. Mr. Bailes was an excellent carpenter, an industrious, enterprising, useful citizen, a devoted husband and father, and a member of the Baptist Church in good standing. MURPHEY.—Died, in Huntsville, Ala., March 9, 1883, Mrs. MARY MURPHEY, widow of the late Jere. Murphey, dec’d in her 82nd year. Mrs. Murphy was born in North Carolina, Oct. 22, 1801. She came to Madison county, Ala., about 68 years ago. She was a devoted wife and mother, and a woman of fervent piety. She was a member of the Methodist Church for about 62 years, and was known as an old time “shouting Methodist.” Her husband died in 1861. Of nine children, four survive her, of whom are Rob’t E. and Jere. Murphey. Peace to the ashes of all the dead, and a joyful resurrection, and, for surviving relatives, the consolations of Christ’s holy religion! MARRIED: LOCAL ITEMS The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Chester Co., Pa., sent us by mail, last week, 24 choice varieties of Rose plants, and they looked as fresh as if just taken from the earth. Send your orders and they will be promptly filled. For Alderman We are authorized to say that Abraham Newman expects to be a candidate for Alderman of Huntsville in the Third Ward. March 14. Our Huntsville Amateurs had another good rehearsal of “The Pirates of Penzance” at the Huntsville Hotel last night, many of the performers in their rich and elegant costumes. Mr. Ernest Deutler, with commendable enterprise, is boaring on his farm, with a diamond drill, for water, with a possibility of coal oil, of which there are indications, it is said. Mr. H. G. Otis, lessee of the Belmont Coal Mines, has the contract for boring. We hope it will prove a profitable bore. Miles Orton’s Circus and Menagerie Company have been spending the Winter in our City. They have been repainting their cars in elegant style, and making other preparations to start out on their annual Spring and Summer tour, after giving their first exhibition in Huntsville during the first week in April. Passion Week or Holy Week in Lent begins next week and will be observed by Episcopal and Roman Catholic Churches by special services every day. Good Friday, the anniversary of Christ’s crucifixion, will be celebrated March 23, and Easter, the anniversary of His resurrection, on Sunday, March 24. A few days ago, a negro boy, about 14 years old, went in to the overcoat pocket of Mr. Orrin Morrison, in his office near the R. R. Depot, and stole his pocket book, containing $54.35. He was caught and the money recovered. He confessed to the robbery before Justice Barclay, and, in default of bail to appear before the Circuit Court, was sent to jail. U. S. Revenue Agents Tom Hewlett and Robert Bradley brought from Winston Co., last Wednesday, and lodged in our county jail. Joe Benefield, against whom there are several indictments for illicit distilling, conspiracy and murder, we understand. Some 4 or 5 years ago, Benefield escaped from jail, here, with about 8 other prisoners. Mr. James Vick, successor to his venerable father in horticulture, Rochester, N. Y., sent us by Express, last week, a fine supply of choice vegetable and flower seeds. Send your orders, and you can rely on prompt fulfillment. Last Sunday and Monday nights, the weather was cold to freezing, followed by white frosts. We believe that fruit blooms were not injured. Our farmers are very busy preparing ground for planting and have had good weather for it. We hear that the wheat stand is “very sorry.” ALABAMA ITEMS Col. Benj. C. Yancey, brother of Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, who now resides near Cave Spring, Ga., and owns a fine tract of land near Cedar Bluff, in Cherokee county, was in our town on Monday last, in company with Mr. Bishop, who has charge of his Cherokee county business, purchasing mules for his farm. Co. Yancey is not only one of the ablest and best-posted men in public matters within our knowledge, but is, at the same time, one of the most thoroughly and practically educated and enterprising farmers in the South. He made several purchases at rather high prices, as we think. Good mules are scarce and in much demand.—Scottsboro Herald. Maj. M. D. Vanhorn, formerly of Stevenson and Chattanooga, but, for several years since, connected with the secret service of the United States, has again distinguished himself as one of the most untiring, far-reaching and successful detectives in the service, by the capture of a thief in a gambling den in Kansas City.—Scottsboro Herald. Maj. Thos. H. Price, a prominent lawyer of Mobile, died at Bandera, Texas, on the 24th ult. Maj. Price represented Mobile county in the Alabama Legislature for several terms since the war, and was one of the ablest lawyers in the State. Gov. O’Neal --------------- Our gallant Governor came to Huntsville, on Saturday last, to see his friends, and left for Montgomery yesterday. He told us that he had appointed Col. Sprott, and able lawyer of Livingston, Ala., Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, vice Judge Mudd, the able and incorruptible Judge, who had resigned on account of ill health. Col. Sprott was endorsed by a large majority of the lawyers in the Circuit, as we understand. Ex-Gov. Cobb had a strong endorsement, but not so large and representative as Col. Sprott. The Governor was in fine health and spirits, and we believe, though environed with great difficulties—inherited, not arising from his own nomination—he will come out all right.—With habitual regard for constitutional principles, State and Federal, and laws in pursuance thereof, which have characterized his past life, we believe that his administration will be so conducted as to meet with popular approval. U.S. NEWS The Elziver Library ----------------------- Decidedly the most unique venture in a literary way in which the public has been treated, is the Elzevir Library, a new semi-weekly magazine. Each number contains some complete literary gem, a characteristic specimen of the best product of the brain of the author who is represented. It is thoroughly handsome in typography, and convenient in term, and is sold at a price so low that it is startling, only $2.00 a year, for a volume of nearly 3,000 pages. The separate numbers vary in price; at two cents each we have Irving’s famous ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ Canon Farrar’s brilliant sketch of ‘The Burning of Rome,’ Wilson’s ‘Sea-Serpents of Science,’ Tennyson’s ‘Enoch Arden,’ the ‘Life of Sir Isaac Newton,’ by James Parton, and others; at three cents each there are very handsome illustrated numbers containing ‘The Life of Gustave Dore,’ by F. H. Norton, ‘Queen Mabel,’ by Ellen Tracy Alden, and ‘A Half Hour in Natural History,’ by S. H. Peabody; at six cents there is a ‘Life of Washington Irving,’ by R. H. Stoddard’ and at seven cents, Macaulay’s famous Life of Frederick the Great; at ten cents, two really beautiful illustrated numbers, one of which is Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, complete, and the other, Charles Dickens’ delightful Cricket on the Hearth. You can obtain the books from the news or book dealers, or from the publisher direct, who offers liberal terms to clubs. John B. Alden, Publisher, 18 Vesey Street, New York. m14 Life of Alex. H. Stephens A life of this eminent statesman and patriot whose name is now especially dear to all Southern hearts, is announced for publication early in April in The Elzevir Library,--a fact of decided popular interest, because in that form it will be at once a beautiful souvenir, and within the reach of every Southern home. It is written by F. H. Norton, author of the Life of General Winfield S. Hancock, the Life of Gustave Dore, etc. It will contain an excellent portrait, and other illustrations, making a volume of over 100 pages, and will be sold for the price of ten cents in paper, or 25 cents for handsome cloth binding. It will be well to order at once from your local newsdealer, or from the publisher, to be sure of securing a copy from the first edition, as, of course, the demand will be very large. John B. Alden, Publisher, 18 Vesey St., New York. mch14. 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