HAYWOOD COUNTY TN - Newspapers - The Brownsville Democrat 1875 ********************************************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sarah Hutcherson ********************************************************************************************************** THE BROWNSVILLE DEMOCRAT BROWNSVILLE,TENNESSEE VOLUME 1 NO.8 WEDNESDAY MARCH 31,1875 NEWS SUMMARY:PERSONAL AND POLITICAL---Among the recent appointments approved by the __,is that of Joseph BROOKS to be Post Master in Little Rock,Arkansas,Vice James R.POLLOCK,removed. General Butler has given an opinion that "the Civil rights bill does not give any right to a colored man to go iton a drinking saloon without the leave of the proprietor;and that a barber-shop is a private business,in which the law does not interfere." It is stated in the New Orleans dispatch of the 21st,that the WHEELER Award had been received by Governor KELLOGG,but had not been officially published. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES---Tibureoio VASQUEZ,a noted California bandit,was publicly executed at San Jose on the 19th.VASQUEZ asserted to the last his innocense of the crime of murder at any time during his career,but acknowledged the justice of his fate,having been the leader of a murdereous band.The coolness he displayed through his imprisonment did not desert him,but he maintained his fortitude to the last. Jesse FOUKS,negro,who murdered the HENDRON Family near Cedar Run in Prince William County,Virginia on the 4th of last December,was hanged on the 18th. At Little Rock,Arkansas,on the 18th,ten convicts employed in making brick above the city,revolted,overpowered the guards and escaped.One was killed by a guard during the melee.All except two of the convicts were recaptured during the day. Mr.CARRUTH,editor of a paper in Vineland,N.J.,was fatally shot on the 19th,by Charles K.LANDIS,who is known as the "Father of Vineland." The affair grew out of an article which LANDIS thought referred to him,but in which no names were mentioned. A very destructive tornado passed through a portion of Georgia and South Carolina on the afternoon of the 20th.At Comack,several houses were blown down and their inmates killed or injured.The Baptist were holding a meeting at Elam Baptist Church near Comack,when the storm demolished it,killing three and wounding twenty-five persons.Residences and outhouses were demolished on many plantations in Warren,McDuffie and Columbia Counties in Georgia,the destruction extending into Edgefield,Aiken and Barwell Counties,South Carolina. Captain R.M.BROWN,editor of the Water Valley (Mississippi)Central,was found dead near that place on the 17th.It is believed he was thrown from his mule while returning from his plantation. Additional particulars regarding the great storm in Georgia were received from Augustus on the 22nd.The Rev.J.WELLINGTON,who was presiding at Elam Church,near Comack,when the storm struck,reports Mrs.Louis JONES killed,five seriously injured and fifteen others slightly injured.Fifteen houses were destroyed near Milledgeville,and some casualties were reported at Sparta.Mr.S.D.MASSEY and Miss BERRY were killed by falling timber.The Coroner of Columbia County had arrived at Augusta and reports the destruction of life and property fearful.The territory on the line of the tornado is a desolute waste.In addition to the loss of property already reported at Appling,he reported the Methodist and Baptist churches and the Academey was demolished.Reports of diseasters were coming in from Richmond County,where the storm raged with terrific fury,destroying houses and fences,and tearing up trees.There is great distress in the districts and urgent need for assistances.Contributions sent to the Mayor of Augustus will be distrubed to the afflicted. The New Orleans Times reports a destructive tornado in Quachita Valley on the 19th,between Smithland and Ray's Point.The loss of life and destruction of property was great.Mrs.James ADAIR and child are among the killed.Smithland was leveled to the ground,and at Ray's Point plantation,buildings,fences,mules,horses and cattle were scattered for miles.The track of the tornado was 300 yards wide and extended for fifteen miles. A Lowell,Mass.,on the 23rd,Charles J.LOW shot and fatally wounded his wife,and then killed himself with the same pistol.LOW and his wife formerly lived at Fredonia,N.Y.,where LOW's parents were respectable people.He became dissipated,however,and maltreated his wife,who fled hrom her home and went to Lowell where she became a servant in a boarding house.The husband followed her,and upon her refusing to again live with him,committed the terrible crime here recorded. James BROWN was hanged at Pottsville,Penn.,on the 24th,for the murder of Daniel S.KREAMER,his wife, her mother,Mrs.MACHEMER and Annette KREAMER,on the night of February 25,1872. BROWN was only 18 years old at the time of the murder,and at the time of his death was twenty-one.His case had twice been taken to the Supreme Court. THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL--AN OPINION FROM GENERAL BUTLER---The following letter from the Hon.Benjamin F.BUTLER,late Congressman from the District of Essex in Mass.,to Robert HARLAN,Esq.,a colored gentleman of Cincinnati,will determine some doubts hitherto existing in many intelligent minds as to the exact scope of the famous Civil Rights Act; Washington,March 18,1875. Sir--I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of yours of the 14th,containing expressions of appreciation of my efforts in behalf of the Civil Rights Bill,for which accept my thanks.You further ask;"Will you be kind enough to inform me if colored men are entitled to the privileges of saloons and barber-shops under its provisions." To this I answer:I understand by "saloons" you mean drinking- saloons,and am happy to say that the Civil Rights Bill does not give any right to a colored man to go into a drinking saloon without leave of the properietor,and am very glad that it does not.I am willing to concede,as a friend to the colored man,that the white race may have at least this one superior privilege to the colored man,that they can drink in bar-rooms and saloons,and I never shall do anything to interfere with the execise of that high and distinctive privilege.I would not advocate a bill which should give that right to the colored man. If I were to vote for any bill on this subject at all,it would be one to keep the colored man out of drinking saloons;and I hope no bar keeper will ever let a colored man have a glass of liquor at any bar open for drinking.Indeed,I should be glad,whenever a colored man should go into a drinking saloon,for the purpose of drinking at the bar,if somebody would at once put him out ,doing him as little injury as possible.He could do the colored man no greater kindness. As to the other branch of your question,in reference to barbor-shops,let me say that the trade of a barber is like any other trade to be carried on by the man who is engaged in it at his own will and pleasure,and the Civil Rights Bill has nothing to do and was intended to have nothing to do with its exercise.A barber has a right to shave whom he pleases,as much as a jeweler has a right to repair a watch for whom he pleases,or a blackamith to shoe such colored horses as he pleases.In other words,these are not public employments,but private businesses. From time immemorial all men have had equal rights at the common law in places of public ammusements,in public conveyances and in Inns or licensed taverns,because all such businesses was for public use,under special privileges granted by the Government.The theatre and like public amusements were licensed by the public authorities and protected by the police.The public conveyance used the King's highway.The public inn had a special privilege of a lein or claim upon the baggage or other property of any travelar,using it for his keep;and if any man was refused,while behaving himself well and paying his fare,a seat in any place of public ammusement,or carriage by public conveyance or shelter in a public inn,he had at common law a right of action against the party so refusing.The Civil Rights Bill only confirms these rights of all citizens to the colored man in consideration of the prejudice against him,and an attempt in certain parts of the country to interfere with the execise of those common rights.The Civil Rights Bill has not altered the colored man's rights at all from what they were before under the common law,applicable to nearly every State in the Union.And while I would sustain any colored man in firmly and properly insisting his rights under the Civil Rights Bill,which were his at common law,yet I will and should oppose to the utmost of my power,any attempt on the part of the colored man to use the Civil Rights Bill as a pretense to interfere with the private business of private parties. signed:Benjamin F.BUTLER. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE: Murdock MARTIN versus Richard MOSES--Pending in the Chancery Court of Haywood County,Tennessee.-R.D.No.535. It appearing to me from the alligations of the bill in this cause,which are sworn to,that Richard MOSES,"col" is a non-resident of the State of Tennessee,that said MOSES is indebted to complainant in the sum of $200,due by two promissary notes made by him,and due respectively on the 1st January 1875 and 1st January 1876 for $100 esch,and attachment having been prayed and granted,and the same having been levied upon the land in the pleadings herein mentioned.It is therefore ordered that the said Richard MOSES,"col," defendant herein,make his appearance at the office of the Clerk and Master of said Chancery Court on or before the June Rules of this Court,1875,and plead,answer or demurr to said bill. Alex DUCKWORTH C.& M. B.P.BOYD,Solicitor for Complainant March 29,1875. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE: H.B.FOLK versus Darlington TURNBOW and __,administrator of C.E.WEER,deceased--Pending in the Chancery Court of Haywood County,Tennessee. R.D.NO.534. In this cause,it appearing from the allegations of the bill,which is sworn to,that Darlington TURNBOW and __,Administrator of C.W.WEER,are non- residents of the State of Tennessee and residents of the State of Illinois,so that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon them,make their appearance herein the office of the Clerk & Master of the Chancery Court of Haywood County,Tennessee at Brownsville,on or before the June Rules of said Chancery Court. Alex DUCKWORTH,C.& M. H.B.FOLTS,Solicitor for Complainant--March 29th,1875. Mr.D.L.LOVE,Editor of tht WEST POINT (Mississippi) CITIZEN--shot and killed Colonel MIDDLETON,editor of the Times,in front of the Citizen office last Friday.The difficulty had its orgin in a paragraph in the Times,intended as a joke at the expense of Mr.LOVE. BRIGHAM YOUNG NOT OBEYING PROMPTLY the ORDER of Judge McKEAN,at Salt Lake City,that he should pay $3000 Attorney's fee and $500 per month alimony pending the suit for divorce and alimony brought by Ann E.YOUNG,one of the prophet's wives--he has been ordered to pay $25 fine,besides being incarcerated in the common jail for 24 hours. THAT EXCELLANT PAPER,FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE JACKSON COURIER-HERALD,comes to us this week under the title of JACKSON SUN,remodeled and otherwise improved.The Sun is destined to stand in the front rank of country papers. THE CHAMPION SUICIDE AGAIN--A TENTH TRY---BELLE COOK,the champion item furnisher of the South-West,made the ninth unsuccessful attempt at suicide yesterday morning.Capt.BRAUN,of the police force had found a steamboat captain who was willing to take her back to Indiana,and together they proceeded to the station house and asked for the woman.The station keeper went back to the prisoner's apartments and found her hanging by the neck in the corridor which surrounded the cells.With his pocket knife he cut the rope--made from one of her skirts.She was black in the face from strangulation,but was soon revived.Finding what a trouble she would be to him,the steanboat man refused to take her,and she was sent to the county jail where she made a tenth attempt by butting her head against the iron bars injuring herself severly. Avalance,27th. DEATH BY A SPINNING WHEEL--Capt.J.H.JONES,of District #3,was in our office this week,and gave us an account of a very sad and painful death,from a very strange accident which occurred on the 17th inst.,in said District.Mrs.SHULTZ,a widow lady,a daughter of Mr.Abraham STANFIELD,and whose husband was killed sometime ago near Boomfield,MO ,was spinning upon an old-fashioned spinning wheel on that windy day near a door,when the door blew open,scattering the wool rolls,which she stooped to pick up and while in the act of rising,the wheel blew over; the spinnell of the wheel piercing her left breast and entering two or three inches deep.The wound not being considered dangerous,the physicians were not called in until several hours afterward,during which time she had gradually sank,became livid and death like from internal hermorrage.Nothing could be done for her and she died the next day.This is a very perculiar and interesting case of accidental killing.Spinning wheels have beeb in use for ages;unread of;and having always been considered the most harmless utensils about the household.--- Union City Reville---. LOCAL BREVITIES---Miss Mollie VANPELT has opened up a handsome Millinery Emporium in the old Bruce building,adjoining Arbuckle's Undertaker Shop.Miss Mollie thoroughly understands the millinery business,as well as does the art of pleasing and will do a driving business. We invite attention to the card of Dr.R.P.LANGDON,thw distinguished London physician in this issue.He has permanently located here and comes to us well recommended.He can be found at the Exchange Hotel. The bonded warehouse of Martin & McClelland near Kelso,was burned to the ground Thrusday night last,and two thousand gallons of whiskey was lapped up by the flames.(Fayetteville Express) Goodness!What a chance WESTBROOK missed by not being there to take part in that lapping up business.Won't his mouth water and real tears of sorrow gleam in his mild grey eyes,when he hears of this wholesale destruction of his favorite beverage? Yesterday we were shown the plans and specifications of the new building to be erected on the site of the frame buildings recently destroyed by fire,between J.A.CLARKE's and J.R. DAN(lokes like-COLES).It will be two stories high,with two storerooms below,and four office rooms on the second floor.It will also contain all the modern conveniences and improvements.The front will be embellished by a heavy cornice and a mansard roof,and when completed,this will be decidedly the handsomest building in Brownsville.Mr.FOLK,the owner,deserves credit for undertaking this enterprise in the face of hard times. PERSONALS---Mr.H.LEVY leaves for the East next Sabbath to purchase his spring stock. Mr.J.FELSENTHAL has returned from the East,where he has been for the past week purchasing spring goods. Our esteemed merchant friend,J.E.DANCE,is confined to his home by an attack of rheumatism.We wish him a speedy recovery. We are glad to see our clever townsman and sheriff,John L.SHERMAN,on the streets again,after a protracted illness. Our former fellow townsman,Paul DISMUKES arrived here with a car load of corn yesterday.Time has made but little change in his appearance. Mr.W.S.JARRETT.of this county,expects to leave soon for Los Angeles,California,where he will make his home.We wish him great success.He will be engaged in Civil Engineering. Our enterprising merchant,J.A.CLARKE,has opened up an exclusive gent's furnishing establishment on Depot Street.It is the only institution of the kind in the city,and deserves to be patronixed. Messrs.SHARKLE & YANCEY have made a life size picture of our fellow- townsman,Col.A.H.BRADFORD,which is a perfect gem of art and beauty.All lovers of fine portraits should call and see this splendid speciman. Mr.J.MURRELL,of Russelville,KY,has leased the Gait House,in this city,and will open it up in first class style in a few days.We hope the gentleman will meet with better success than former proprieters,and doing a paying business. Mr.W.F.SHORT,of Dancyville,called up to see us last Thursday.He reports active preparations for farming in that vicinity,and says that farmers are displaying unusual industry.He also mentioned the fact that the Democrat is the only paper that reaches him regularly,although he subscribes for several. The Somerville Falcon of the 25th,says Chancellor LIVINGSTON opened Court Monday and it is still in session.We have observed during the week the following members of the legal profession from other Counties in attendence;Col.Geo.C.POTTER;Capt.A.D.BRIGHT; and H.B.FOLK,of Brownsville; Capt.Thos.C.LOWE and James K.TEMPLE,of Memphis. Col.P.C.WILKES,the prince of fine stock raisers,is making extensive preparations,we understand,for his Fine Stock Fair,which will come off sometime this fall. The Alamo Sentinel speaks in the following complimentary manner of our justly poplar and highly esteemed and accomplished fellow- townsperson,Hon.F.B.RAGLAND."We think the people of this Sentorial District were peculiary fortunate in choosing Mr.RAGLAND to represent them in the Senate.Being a practical business man of sound judgement,sterling intergerty,with no prupose to display,but his ambition being to advance the interests of his constituents,he worked through entire session with that object in view."We agree with the Sentinal. The Memphis Appeal,of the 27th,pays the following well- deserved tribute to the talent of our fellow-townsman,Hon.Lewis BOND; "The legislature of Tennessee has been the subject of much comment,and has not escaped ridicule and calumny.But one member has passed through the crucible and came out refined gold.We allude to Hon.Lewis BOND of Haywood.He has won reputation for ability,efficiency and as a presiding officer of the House of Representatives. A CARD TO THE PUBLIC---In our personal card,published in the States of the 18th,inst.,we intended no reflection upon the character,honesty or interegity of Mr.J.M.BENTHALL,and are sorry it was so construed.It was meant merely as a business notice. George A. MATHIS & CO> DEAD LETTER LIST---LIST of LETTERS REMAINING in the BROWNSVILLE POST-OFFICE MARCH 27th; if not called for by the 24th day of April 1875; will be sent to the Dead Letter Office in Washington,D.C.--- BIVENS,W.; CLARK,E.S.; CLAY,J.H.; COGBY,Miss Q.; HASKINS, Gus; INGIE,W.N.; LYLE,S.F.; ORPHAN,Miss Dora,; WEBB,G.; BERRY,J.T.; CLARK,J.P.; CAVETTE,Thomas,; EMERSON,E.T.; JORDON,J.G.; KELLUM,Robt.;MOORE,Joe; PARKER,J.H.---LETTERS HELD FOR POSTAGE: Mrs.H.KEMP,Richmond,VA.; Leonard P.RAY,Orange Factory,NC; Miss Julia GRIFFEN,Stanton,Tenn.,; Miss M.BYRUM, Denmark.Tenn. by John CLINTON,Post Master. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS---THE FOLLOWING are the REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS in HAYWOOD COUNTY,from MARCH 16th to MARCH 30th,1875. J.S.CARNEY deed to L.C.WOODARD-- interest in old Chapell Mill. W.A.MABREY deed of trust to Ruban SHAW--on goods and merchandise. W.A.COLIER deed of trust to J.N.FORD--on a tract of land. Tiff SMITH deed of trust to J.& J.STEELE&CO.--on tract of land. A.B.EATOPN Deed of Gift to A.J.EATON--a half interest in a town lot. W.T.LUCAS& Wife,deed to LEE,COWAN& Co.,--town lot. J.R.TAYLOR deed to M.J.BATTLE--to tract of land. J.R.TAYLOR to Miss Calista TAYLOR--to tract of land. W.T.LUCAS Deed of Trust to W.F.TALLEY--on saddler's material. C.R.JOHNSON deed to D.H.THOMAS--on tract of land. A.SANDERLAND Deed of Trust to D.H.THOMAS--tract of land in Civil Dist.6. M.FELSENTHAL deed to Leon GANS--town lot. W.H.DUPREE deed of trust to Albert LEE & Co.--on sawmill. G.W.STEVENS quit claim to Salas W.LEE--to tract of land. H.C.ANDERSON deed to LEE,COWAN & Co.--to town lot. W.P.BOND deed to A.J.HOLROYD--to town lot. Green WORTHAM & Wife deed to D.H.BOYD--to 135 acres of land. FROM BELLS DEPOT---Work has again commenced on the Gregory block,and will be completed and occupied by the firm og John E.GREGORY & Co.,in the fall. E.SOLOMON will move in his new house next week,he has had it arranged beautifully and no doubt it will be an honor to our towm. Prof.DAY has got a very full school in the M.E.Church,in fact,it is the largest and best school that has been here since the war.But the people will not unite in the school interest,and we can never have one of any note till they do.They have a splendid academey,but the trustees will not let the people have their choice of teachers. A TRIANGULAR AFFRAY---Early yesterday morning,Thomas Avenue,about one mile from the Northeastern limit of the city,was the scene of a desperate shooting affray between a party of negroes.Tony DIXON and Wm.HOCKETT,who are engaged in gardening near Dr.THOMAS's place,got into a dispute about the products of their labor,and Charles SPRADLIN,a negro preacher,interfered in the character of a peace-maker.During the quarrel,HOCKETT drew a pistol and shot DIXON through the ear,the ball ranging upward and perforating the skull.He next turned his weapon on SPRADLAN and shot him over the right eye--the wound proving to be a slight one.HOCKETT commenced loading his pistol for further execution when another negro,who was present,empitied a load of buckshot into him,wounding him severely in the right arm and breast.HOCKETT was then bound,taken to the station-house in a market wagon and turned over to the police authorities.A warrant was sworn out against him,and he was sent to jail.DIXON's wound is severe and may prove fatal.The wounds of the other two,while very painful,are not considered fatal.-- Avalanche,28th. MARRIED-WALLACE and WHITEHEAD--At the residence of the bride's mother,by Rev.Dr.MOORE,on the 30th inst.,Mr.W.J.WALLACE to Miss Lucy WHITEHEAD,all of this county. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT--TO THE OFFICERS & MEMBERS of BROWNSVILLE LODGE NO.162,I.O.O.F.--Whereas,it has pleased the Supreme Ruler of the Universe,to call from our Lodge below,to the Grand Lodge above,our beloved Brother,J.F.DEDLIFFS,and whereas,we bow in humble submission to His will,knowing that He "doeth all things well," and feeling that in the loss of Brother DEDLIFFS,we have lost a faithful friend and Brother,we adopt the following resolutions: RESOLVED:That in the death of Brother J.F.DEDLIFFS,the I.O.O.F.has lost a faithful and efficient member,one who was always at his post of duty,until stricken down by sickness,which resulted in his death. RESOLVED:That while we deeply deplore the loss of Brother DEDLIFFS,we bow in humble submission to the will of Him,who ruleth above. RESOLVED: That we tender our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family of our deceased Brother,and trust that they may find consolation in the belief that he has gone to that high and better world and that they will meet again to part no more forever. RESOLVED: That the Brownsville Democrat be requested to publish these resolutions,and that a copy of same be sent to the family of our deceased Brother,and these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Lodge,and the Brothers wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. COMMITTEE: B.W.WARE; J.P.BUTTERLY; J.N.ODELL. END THIS ISSUE. SOURCE: TENNESSEE STATE ARCHIVES MICROFILM ROLL #101 BROWNSVILLE GRAPHICS & MINSC. DEC.1838--DEC.1905