February 27 1884 The Huntsville Weekly Democrat
A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts> United States > Alabama > Madison
http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=409http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=409
Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=56744http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=56744
Submitted by: klstacy_home
Article Title:The Huntsville Weekly Democrat
Article Date:February 27 1884
Article Description:Personal Mentions, Deaths - John M. Hines, Alice Green, Local Items, Candidate Announcements, Circuit Court, Alabama Items, Two Strange People, Cyclones, The Fifth Maryland, Schools of 1900 Years Ago, A Town About to be Submerged and more
Article Text:
PERSONAL MENTION
Mr. M. F. Cook, of Kittrell, N. C., is in our city.
Miss Lillie Bernstein is back from a visit to Philadelphia.
Miss Mattie Barnard returned from Cincinnati last Monday.
Mr. M. Hertins of Goldsborough, N. C., is visiting relatives in Huntsville.
Mr. Jeff D. Thompson, of Chattanooga, was in Huntsville last week.
Mr. Willie Smith, of of the late Horace P. Smith, was in our city last week.
Jesse E. Brown and R. C. Hunt, Esquires, leading lawyers of Scottsboro, attended Madison Circuit Court last Saturday.
Off for Mardi Gras at New Orleans, last Monday: Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Cooper, Mrs. VanValkenburg and her daughter, Miss Ollie, Miss Berenice Fearn, and Willie Cooper.
Ben. H. Lambert arrived in Huntsville yesterday.We hear that John Lambert is in New York.It is intimated (whether truly or falsely we can’t say) that Ben has returned to settle claims against the firm.
Mr. G. A. Nelson, real estate agent at Decatur, and Mr. John R. Mundhink, from Ohio, to whom Mr. Nelson sold the Lockhart place in this county, called on us last Saturday.We think Mr. M. will prove a valuable citizen here.
Buds:
Mr. and Mrs. Winston F. Garth—a son, Thomas Fearn, Sunday, Feb’y 24, 1884.
Cypress:
JOHN MONROE HINES, son of Capt. J. M. Hines, U. S. Marshal, died of measles in Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 25, 1884, aged nearly 10 years.
He was a bright, good boy, a favorite among his acquaintances, and a darling of his family.
Miss ALICE GREEN, daughter of Mr. Thomas U. Green, died, of some bronchial affliction, at Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 25, 1884, aged about 28 years.
Miss Alice was much esteemed and beloved for her many virtues of head and heart.She had fine business qualifications and was popular as postmistress Birmingham.Her remains will reach here to-day for burial.
LOCAL ITEMS
We have had 4 or 5 bright days, and farmers have just begun to plow their grounds.Several have told us they doubted whether as much as 100 acres had been plowed since Christmas up to Monday last.It is now Spring weather, with a prospect for rain.
During Lent
----------
Services in the Church of the Nativity
----------
Sundays—Services and sermons—11 a.m., 4 p.m.
Tuesdays—Service and Lecture –4 ½ p.m.
Wednesdays—Service and Lecture—11 a.m.
Thursdays—Service and Lecture—4 ¼ p.m.
Fridays—Service and Lecture—11 a.m.
Holy Week—Services and Lecture every day—11 a.m., except Saturday; on that day 5 ½ p.m.J. M. Banister,
Rector.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
-----------
Every announcement must be paid in advance.
----------
For Sheriff
----------
We are authorized to announce JOSEPH T.McGEHEE a candidate for Sheriff of Madison County, subject to nomination by the Democratic Party.Paid, Feb. 11.
We are authorized to announce PETER SIMMONS a candidate for Sheriff of Madison County, subject to nomination by the Democratic Party.Paid, Feb. 11.
----------
For Tax-Assessor
----------
We are authorized to announce JAMES HENRY LANDMAN a candidate for re-election as Tax Assessor of Madison County, subject to nomination by the Democratic Party.Paid, Feb. 6.
We are authorized to announce JOHN E. LAUGHINGHOUSE a candidate for Tax Assessor of Madison County, subject to nomination by the Democratic Party.Paid, Feb. 27.
We are authorized to announce HENRY B. ROPER a candidate for Tax Assessor of Madison County, subject to nomination by the Democratic Party.Paid, Feb. 13.
We are authorized to announce JONATHAN W. HARTSELL a candidate for Tax Assessor of Madison County ON THE Democratic ticket at the ensuing August election.Paid, Feb. 12.
----------
For Tax-Collector
----------
We are authorized to announce JAMES H. WARE a candidate for re-election as Tax Collector of Madison County, subject to nomination by the Democratic Party.Paid, Feb. 12.
Amusements
----------
Illustrated Lecture On Jerusalem
----------
As the heavy rains interfered with this Lecture last Friday night, Mr. Bryson will give it next Friday night, the 29ths, at Lecture Room of Presbyterian church at 7 ½ o’clock.Tickets at both book stores.
Circuit Court
----------
Last Monday week, the Court took up the criminal docket.The following cases were continued;
Reuben Wilkerson, murder; Willis Kelly, grand larceny; Geo. Miller, burglary; Andrew T. Hanna, murder; Albert Friend, grand larceny; Dixie White, grand larceny; Frank Street and Theo. Roach, assault with intent to murder; Taylor Norris, assault with intent to ravish; Jordon Lanman, attempt at arson; Andrew Wade, grand larceny; Aleck Beirne, disposing of mortgaged property; John Lauderson, ditto; Frank Betts and Page Betts, ditto; Celia Booker, grand larceny; Rodney Fletcher, burglary; Dennis Moore, grand larceny; Jeff. Atkins, grand larceny; Turner Moore, grand larceny; John Pulley, grand larceny; Ike Pulley, grand larceny; Wm. White, robbery; Sol. Horton, illegal voting; Zeb. Davis, gaming; George Davi , gaming; Colin Garner, grand larceny;Riley Robins n alias Rolly Robinson, grand larceny; Green A. McMullen, assault with intent to murder; Frank Steele, perjury; Cling Davis alias Nicholas Davis, assault with a pistol; Dave Wiggins, illegal voting; John W. Stegall, assa!
ult with intent to murder; Solomon Davis, burglary; Steve Ricn, carrying away outstanding crop; B. F. Ponder, disposing of mortgaged property; Wm. Rigney, ditto; Sandy Beasley, negro, pleaded guilty of murder in 2nd degree, one year’s imprisonment; Frank Knowlton, negro, of burglary, one year; N. T. Fuston, white, grand larceny, sentence not yet fixed; Jere Underwood, negro, grand larceny, in two cases, one year in each.[Note: The above text is transcribed exactly.]
Acquitted on trial: John Smith, negro, rape; Levi W. Esslinger, manslaughter for killing of Dr. Henry W. Bassett; Stephen Hobbs, negro, forgery in one case.
Convicted: Jeff. Martin, negro, forgery; Stephen Hobbs, negro, forgery, in another case appeal, and a third case nol pros’d.
The criminal docket was disposed of on Monday last, besides in the manner indicated in the above recited case, by nolie pros., dismissal, and transfer to County Court, leaving a very small criminal docket for the next term of the court.
The civil docket was resumed yesterday (Tuesday) morning.The term will end next Saturday by law.
ALABAMA ITEMS
>From Tuscumbia North Alabamian.
It is generally though, by those of our citizens having the best opportunities for information, that the Sheffield and Birmingham road will run through the eastern part of Tuscumbia, and thence around through the Sheffield lands in a westwardly direction to the bed of the Old Tuscumbia Landing road and back through the western part of Tuscumbia to the point where it first crossed the M. & C. R. R.
Messrs. W. B. Wood, of Florence, Jere Baxter, of Nashville, W. V. McCracken, of Columbus, Ohio, John H. Sample, of Granville, Ohio, and H. L. Terrell, of New York, have filed articles of incorporation wit the Probate Judge of this County preparatory to organizing the Alabama Improvement co.They propose to issue one million dollars in stock and to do a general Mining, Immigration and Industrial business.
The Birmingham Tenn. River Rail Road is under contract to the Franklin County line and the work is being rapidly pushed by Messrs Gordon, Tabler and Crudup, Hartney & Co., and Treadwell & Co.The construction of the road beyond that point can be greatly accelerated and its early completion secured if the citizens along the route act in a liberal spirit in granting rights of way, etc.A contrary, short-sighted policy, in claiming damages where the lands are vastly benefited by reason of the location of the road, will do much to hinder and obstruct the work.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 20.—A terrible, destructive cyclone swept through the Cahaba Valley in the eastern part of this county yesterday at noon.A special to The Daily Age from Leeds, twelve miles from here on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, gives the following account of the storm in that region: The cyclone struck Leeds about 1:30 p.m. and swept away the section house of the railroad, killing three negroes and seriously injuring an aged white couple named Bass living near.—Three miles south of Leeds the house of John Poole was blown away and a son of seventeen years old and a daughter of six and a negro child were instantly killed; Poole, his wife and four, of the other children were all badly injured.The residence and premises of Dr. N. F. Wright, railroad conductor, were demolished.—The body of Mrs. J. S. Wright, Dr. Wright’s mother, found one hundred yards from the house fearfully mangled and with the skull crushed; Annie aged, twenty, Jennie, sixteen, Thoma!
s, eighteen, James, fourteen and Edward, twelve, all children of Mr. Wright, were badly injured, having their arms or legs broken.The colored cook was killed, and of twenty-four carts, two wagons and three horses on the place, nothing remains but the carcass of one horse.The house occupied by Mr. McKughlin was blown away, and he was badly hurt.L. P. Landras, wife and daughter, all had legs broken.The house of Mr. Kerr took fire and was burned.Mrs. Kerr was fatally injured.The railroad for sever hundred yards, is thickly strewn with the debris of the cyclone, delaying trains.
U.S. NEWS
A telegram from Wilmington, Delaware, of the 18th, says “John T. Bethune, manager of Blind Tom, arrived here late Saturday night on his way to Washington.The train stopped ten minutes, and Bethune went to a restaurant to get a lunch but did not return until the train had started; he then ran and made an attempt to get on the car, and fell, was dragged some distance, and, finally, rolled under the car, his right side being horribly mangled.He died soon afterwards.”
Two Strange People
---------
Rome, Ga., Feb. 15—Georgia is just now interested in tow most peculiar personages.One is a living skeleton residing near Keno, Habersham county.He is twenty-two years of age, is fully six feet in height, and only weighs fifty-six pounds in his clothes.The skin slings so closely to his bones that it has taken their shade and configuration in every part of his body.He is in perfect health and has never had a day of sickness.At the age of fifteen he only weighed thirty-two pounds.He eats with avidity, but his food is half-digested.He has a perfect horror of himself, and never leaves his home.He is the son of an excellent citizen and his father and mother humor him in every wish.The other erratic individual lives in one of the upper counties of the State and always feels as if he was in the frigid instead of the temperate zone.Even in the hottest days of summer he wears all the clothing possible to protect him from the imagined cold.He was never wet by!
a rain in his life and never goes out at night without sheltering himself with an umbrella from dew.No part of his food is ever eaten cold, and he often remarks that it is all he can do to keep himself from freezing.He is always seen on the streets clad in a heavy overcoat.
Cyclones
----------
Atlanta, Feb. 21.—Reliable reports state that, on the line of Cherokee and Pickens counties within a space of three miles, twenty-two persons were killed and forty wounded.No deaths occurred in other counties contiguous to Atlanta.
Macon, Feb., 21.—The cyclone blew down a residence in Putnam county, dangerously wounding the occupants.Mr. Paschal, who had taken refuge in his house, was instantly killed.Seven negroes, and nearly all the stock on the farm were also killed.Davisboro, on the Central railroad was almost destroyed.Six houses were blown down; also the brick depot.Harrison, an employee of the railroad, was killed, and many were dangerously wounded.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 21.—The cyclone about Lane Creek swept away forty houses.Two negro children and three white children perished.The dead in the village of Rockingham number seventeen, those wounded, thirteen.
Wilmington, Feb. 21.—Star specials, giving father particulars of the Chickasaw storm, say the people were unable to escape from their houses and the buildings were blown into fragments.The bodies of the dead were terribly bruised and cut.The force of the wind was so great that two millstones were moved 100 feet.Chickens and birds were found picked clean.The largest trees were uprooted, the smaller ones stripped of the bark.At midnight the sky was a dazzling red. The killed and wounded being almost exclusively to the poorer classes, and there will be suffering and destitution among the survivors.Already twenty-three dead bodies have been found in Richmond county.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 21.—The number of lives lost in North Carolina by the cyclone is about fifty, and an equal number wounded.Much property damaged.
Montgomery, Feb. 21.—The Advertiser says the river here is rapidly rising and the water extends as far as the ey reaches over the lower lands on the Autauga side.The water almost approaches the freshet of March, 1881.It extends beyond the South and North and Western roads as far as Perry street crossing in the city.The river was still rising last night.
Yesterday afternoon, the effects of the severe storms reported elsewhere was felt here to some extent, especially in the very high wind, which rose at times to a perfect gale.The roof of the ice manufactory was nearly blown off, as well as some of the tin work on the roof of the Government building.
About 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the steamer Maggie Burke, Capt. Finnegan, had received several passengers and quite a large and miscellaneous freight, and started on her return trip to Mobile.The wind was very high, and, with considerable difficulty, she succeeded in making a return.As the steamer got around the bend below the city, the wind rose to a perfect gale, and being unable to make any headway, she was blown to the northern bank or Autauga side of the river, and did not stop until she had gone nearly half a mile from the main channel, into the overflowed land beyond.
The Fifth Maryland-Incidents of the Late War
----------
An old veteran, one of Stonewall Jackson’s corps, recalls incidents of the late war that forcibly illustrate the invariable and unstinted kindness of the people of Baltimore towards defenseless Confederate prisoners.He and about two thousand others were taken prisoners at Boonesboro, or South Mountain, in Maryland, and were transported through Baltimore to Fort Delaware.Their coming was made known, and, on reaching the city early one morning they were marching through the streets.On one corner stood an aged citizen with a stack of two dollar bills in his hands; and, as the prisoners passed by, two deep each one was presented with two dollars in greenback.
The patriotic and hospital Baltimoreans, observing the needs of the same body of prisoners; chartered and loaded a schooner with overcoats, blankets, coats, pants, shoes, socks, etc., and forwarded it to Fort Delaware for their comfort.That schooner contained not less that $20,000 worth of clothing and while, through a vindictive order of Gen. Dix, then commanding the fort, much of the clothing was seized and distributed among the Union soldiers, yet this did not detract from the kind intentions of the good people of Baltimore.
People of Montgomery, some of your own citizens, relatives and friends were the recipients of that unstinted kindness, not only on those two occasions, but whenever the opportunity was presented.The hospitality of Baltimoreans to Confederate soldiers during the war is a matter of history. Will our people extend to the Fifth Maryland a reception worthy the reputation of our city?We believe they will.—Montgomery Advertiser.
Schools of 1900 Years Ago
----------
The Sunday School World, of Philadelphia recently gave an article on schools in Palestine, in the time of Christ, from which we glean the following information:
“A Jewish child was usually cared for and instructed by his parents at home, until six years of age, when he was given the fringed or tasseled garment and placed in care of a teacher.The instruction was elementary.A school or teacher was required to every twenty-five children.The school could not be located in a densely populated part of a city, nor near a river which might be crossed by an insecure bridge.Parents were accustomed to see that the child was in his place with the teacher at the proper time.The Hebrew scriptures were among the earliest things taught to the Hebrew boy, at first orally and, as soon as he could read, portions of the Old Testament on parchment were used, or, if pupils were indigent then the portions were copied in sand on the floor.Lessons suited to the capacity and progress of the children were chosen.The elementary instruction was intended to be simple and popular.Universal education was a prominent Jewish idea.At that time !
the Jews held to the opinion that the ‘world was preserved by the breath of the children in schools, and a town in which there were no schools must perish.’”
A Town About to be Submerged
----------
Cairo, Ill., Feb. 22.—At mound City two or three breaks occurred during the night, and a very large one occurred this morning on the back of the levee north of the town which threatened to inundate the place.A train with dirt and rock has been dispatched by the Wabash railroad.It is said it will take the unflagging efforts of the citizens and railroad men to save the town.At present, they are cutting a gap in the National Cemetery road to let the water across the country and relieve the stress on the levee.The water is up to the top of the levee, and there is no telling what the result will be.Everything possible is being done to save the town.
CLASSIFIEDS
Blacksmithing
If you want blacksmith work of any sort—Horseshoeing, Carriage, Buggy or Wagon work, &c.
done promptly, cheaply and in the best style, call on me.The best of references given for the manner in which I work.My shop is near the City Spring in Huntsville.
June 12-1yMOSES CLAY
~~~~~~~
NewsAbstracts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM
http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.comhttp://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com