Huntsville gazette., 1881-07-09
NEW SCHEDULE.
Nsishborhooa News and Gossip.

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Circuit Court convens Monday
August lst.
The Huntsville Hotel is being
,borOuyhly renovated.
The Masons will have grand
time here on the I'D.
We are threatened with q food Of
nic-nics and excursions.
Esquire Forbs, of Meredianyille,
has hen setting on 100 eggs.
The Porter Guards, of Memphis,
arrived in the city Friday and have
taken quarters at the barracks.
"A concert will be given by club
Of Young ladies and gentlemen, Friday
evening, July Is, at the U. S. Court
room for the benefit of Lakeside M.
Z. Church.
Two men covering a house near
Trinity found forty! $50 gold pieces.
They delivered it to Mr.. Jno. A. Lille,
whose father it is supposed hid the
money some years ago.
Evening Star Lodge will give a
grand Masonic picnic at the Fair
Grounds, Saturday, July %. 1t will
be the event Of the Summer All
North Alabama is expected.
The United States Court room
should be packed next Friday night,
on the occasion of the Concert for the
benefit of the NJ. E. Church. Let
everybody go and aid the good cause.
"A wag says that what is called
the Comet is nothing less than
a burning thought escaped from the
Quill of certain ambitious Hunts
vile E litor, which is seeking its
eq lilibrium out into fathomless space
beyond earthly confines.
C,pt. Jno w. R.ines, who, in eff
cency is without a peer in his depart
ment Of the Revenue service, is at
home on visit to his family. We
regret to hear that the health of his
tstimable wife, Mrs. Mary L. Raines,
is such as to necessitate her soiourn
at some springs.
IN order to determine who is en-
titled to the Warner prize of 5000 Of
fered to the first discoverer of the
comet, the Rochester Astronomical
Society issues call on all persons
who saw the comet during the week
ending June 25th, to forward their
claims to Prof. Swift. Warner Obser-
vatory, Rochester, N Y.
The Old Foundry lot on Jefferson
street, just above the depot, has been
bought for the site of the Cotton Fac
tory, price $500. Plans for the
main building: have been forwarded
by Superintendent Coons, from
Providence, T. |. It is 70 he 11O bv
70 feet. Part of the structure will
o. TWO stories high. The con tract for
Tue orlck Work has been let to Mfr. |
zoe winston. 1t is expected to have |
'ne FACTORY in operation sometime
ln October next.
-lhe Huntsville Adpocote relates
the following story Of the heroic
conduct OF youth On Thursday
June 3oth, Harry the II year old
son of Capt. ]. R Johnson in co n
pany with Eliza West, her son. and
BILL West, attempted to cross the |
tennessee river to Newman's store
when within 40 yards of the south
'ank the boat capsized. With extraor-
"'uafy courage and presence of mind,
souns Johnson, who alone of the par
y 0oula swim, managed to get the
"onan' her son, and the man. back
.H'o Tue boat, and the paddle hav-
us noated of, started to swim and
poli 'le canoe ashore, before he
ooaid reach the bank the occupants
e''ner fell out or turned the boat
e' asaln; the woman and boy dis
"ppeared, but the gallant johnson
,h Io Tie man Bill West ashore, by
'D' halr, and returned to search for
' Others. Eliza West was dis
.OVered clinging to the underside Of
~, ' ooat but of course drowned.
>De ooys body was found next da v