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Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
RIGHTS IN WATER.
General Principles Governing the Use OF
Creeks and Streams.


The Legal Adviser gives to its read
ers some information respecting water
rights, which have been q source Of
great trouble and litigation. 1t is
general principle, says the writer, that
every owner of land upon natural
stream OF water has right to use tho
water for any reasonable purpose not
inconsistent with similar right in the
owners Of the land above, below and
opposite to him. He may take the
water to supply his dwelling, to irri-
gate his land or to quench the thirst Of
his cattle; to use it for manufacturing
purposes, such as the supplying OF
steam boilers or the running OF water
wheels or other hydraulic works so
long as such use does not affect its vol
ume But this is a mere privilege rum
ming with the land, not a property III
the water itself
Where the stream is small and does
not supply the wants Of the different
proprietors living on the stream, mono
Of the proprietors can use the water Tor
ClIutI dllOil VI SON
for domestic purposes and watering
stock one proprietor will be justified III
consuming all the water.
Twenty years use adverse to the right
of another will give the person so using
the stream the right to continue use,
regardless Of the others rights.
And as to the division of water every
one who owns land situated upon u
stream has the following rights:
To the natural flow Of the stream.
That it shall continue to run in its
accustomed channels.
That it shall flow upon his land in its
usual quantity, natural place and usual
height.
That it shall flow off his land upon
the land Of his neighbor below in accus.
toned place and at its usual level.
These rights he has as an incident to
his property in the land, and he can
not be deprived of it by grant or pres
cription.
If any one shall make any change in
the natural flow Of stream, to the
material injury Of any owner situated
upon it, or by any Interference shall
prevent the stream from flowing as it
was to wont flow, he is responsible for
the damage he may occasion. These
rights are subject to the privilege Of
each one to make a reasonable use Of
tho water upon his own land while it is
| passing along the same. 1t matters
not what the source of the water may
be. whether it be backward or the flow
| age Of the same, or the water OF anoth-
er stream. Still the division Of a
stream may be mado by any one if it
be returned to its natural channel be-
! fore it leaves his premises.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS.

THE heirs of the brothers William F. and
George w. Norton, deceased millionaires
of Louisville, KY, have decided to give
$G0,0 900 to the building fund of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, moved
to Louisville from South Carolina q few
years ago.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
to celebrate the 103d anniversary Of Davy
Crockett's birthday on the farm where he
was born near Limestone, Tenn. Among
the guests VIII be Il. p. Crockett, of Gran
berry, Tex, the only living son Of
the frontiersman, and the only living
grandson, Col. r. II. Crockett, of New
GaScony, Ark.
The New York Cotton Exchange has
come to the support of the Southern plant
ers in the cotton bagging matter and will
ask the Liverpool Cotton Exchange to do
likewise.
THE surviving brothers of the late G. NJ.
Hull, of Rosedale, Miss, have offered a re-
ward Of $500 for the apprehension and de-
livery of Messenger
THE Augusta (Ga.) Orphan Asylum,
magnificent fivestory building, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 11th. The
structure cost over 100000, and was in
sured for S60000 All the children were
gotten out safely.
THE first schedule train on the Georgia
Pacific Railroad Company's broad gauge
track reached Greenville, Miss, on the 10th.
GIGANTIC horse stealing industry is
thought to be established in the counties OF
Dakota along the Missouri river.
MYRIADs Of grasshoppers appeared in
the clover fields near Bolivar, Tenn, on the
10th, sweeping all vegetation before them.
Fortunately their inroads were circum-
scribed to an area of half a miles width, as
they passed on their journey eastward.
They stripped the corn stalks bare, eating
the husks off the ear.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners Of Arkansas have just completed
the assessment of the railroads of the State
for taxation. The total assessment is
about SIS, 200, 600, being considerably in
creased over last year.
THE announcement that the Red Lake
Reservation would soon be opened for set
tlement has caused large numbers of peo-
pie from Wisconsin, Dakota and adjoining
Minnesota counties to squat upon valuable
land on the reservation. The Indians have
become incensed at the squatters, and
threaten to go OH the war path.
"A FIND that will afford study for those In
terested has been made at st. James, Neb.,
by d. |. Brewer. While digging for the
purpose of making repairs to his mill-dam,
he unearthed the remains of prehistoric
monster that probably roamed the prairies
hundreds if not thousands of years ago.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 9th the trial of John Yeldell,
alias A. E. Flemon, the colored minister,
was begun at Edgefeld, S. C. The entire
day was consumed III calling jurors,
eleven being secured.
AT Factoryville, Pa, the post Office was
broken into and robbed on the night Of
the Sth.
MRS. BERTHA PICKETT, clerk in the
Denver (Col.) post Office. has been arrest
ed for forging a money order.
DR.. WIN. H. BRADLEY, manager of the
Weekly Press, Philadelphia, has been
arrested on a charge of embezzling the
funds of that paper. The amount OF his
shortage is said to be over 5000.
THE S. R. Vanmeter, a small boat in the
lowell (O.) and Parkersburg (Va.) trade,
was burned to the waters edge at Lowell,
on the 9th. Captain Stowe, who was asleep
on board, narrowly escaped in his night
shirt Loss, about 81 00); insurance, $1,000
The fire is supposed to have been Of IN
cendiary origin.
On the 18th the Augusta (Ga.) Orphan
Asylum was almost destroyed by fire.
The children were gotten out safely. Two
firemen were injured by falling timbers.
A lack of water hindered the efforts at
saving tn6 DuiIQlng. LOSS dDOut qOO,oVO'
OK the 18th fierce forest fire was re-
ported from Washington County, Ore.
about seven miles from Portland. Sew
eral houses and barns had been burned,
and many people were obliged to fee for
their lives.
THE schooner Samuel Wood, from Chin
colleague Island, bound for New York,
was capsized on the 10th. One seaman
was drowned.
AT Whis stletown. Pa, two freight trains
were wrecked on the 11th. Bert Ander-
son, an Erie brakeman, was killed III
stantly, aud two engines and twenty-five
cars were burned.
On the 18th two indictments-one for
forgery in the first degree and the other
for uttering forged papers-were found
against President Allen Of tie Forty
second Street Railway Company Of New
York. Allen wanted to plead guilty, but
the law requires trial on Indictment lot
forgery il the first degree.
On the 18th Fred H. Scharf, the ao-
sconding carriage dealer Of Rockville,
Conn, was arrested in Montreal, Can,
for forgery. The First National Bank OF
Rockville has number Of notes with IN
dorsement5 said 10 have been forged by
Scharf.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
THE PRIZE RING.

The Battle for the Real Championship
Law or Defiance Thereof-in Progress
In the Circuit Court at Purvis, Miss
The PreIiminaries.
PURvIS, Miss, Aug. 13.-There was
large crowd present IN court yesterday
morning when the prize fighters case
came up. Judge Terrill presided. Sulh-
van and all the accused were present ex-
cept Pat Duffy, whom the district attor-
ney had accidentally failed to notify, and
General Superintendent Carroll of the
railway. The foreman of the grand jury
is I. R. White, a mill owner and mer-
chant of Poplarville, who was at the fight
and was injured by the falling of one of
platforms. The jury is an intelligent
gathering of men. After refer
ring to the prevalence Of il
licit liquor traffic in the coun-
ty, the judge took up the prize fight
and said: "The principals and all acces-
sories before and after the act are guilty
of high misdemeanor."
The Judge went on to say that any fight,
even without stake or prize, was serious
crime under the law. There need not be
anger or ILL., will between the parties in
order to make the fight crime. The
charge occupied about fifteen minutes.
1t can not be predicted how soon the
grand jury will make their report One
of the grand jury is bondsman for some
of the accused.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
Birds and Telegraph Wires.

1t has been supposed that birds be-
come accustomed to the presence Of
telegraph wires, and are careful to
avoid them in flying. but it would seem
either that this is mistake or that tho
birds Oh the Scotch and English moors
are less intelligent than their fellows.
Systematic observation thero along
line Of telegraph wires has shown that
great destruction Of bird-lifo goes on
throughout tho. year, and that at cor-
tain seasons tho roadside is literally
strcwn with the remains OF unfortunate
grouse, black game, partridge, snipe
and other birds. Every morning at
dawn marRuLing bands Of ROCKS come
from The lowlaud woods 70 feast on the
dead and dying, md the farmers and
shepherds in the region declare that
more grouse are killed annually BY the
telegraph wires than By al the sports
men-Sportsman.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

An agreement Said to Have Been Rea CHI
ed Between Emperor william and Lord
salisbury which Is Tautamount to a
treaty of Alliance in Case of Contir-
sency-France in a Ferment.
LONDON, Aug. 13.-According to the
Nauonal Zeltung of Berlin, which claims
10 nave positive information on the sub
lect, tne agreement reached at the recent
conference between Emperor William
ana Lord Salisbury, to all intents and
purposes, amounts to an alliance between
Germany and England. Although no
formal treaty was concluded, q memo
randum was drawn up covering the
points upon which an understanding was
reached; it is certain that this memo
randum provides for the contingency Of
a war in which either nation might be-
come involved, and defines the obliga-
tionS assumed, in such an event, by the
other. Thee German press seems to be
quite gener4iiy agreed that so much has
been accomplished, and some well-in-
formed newspapers even go so far as to
say that treaty is in course of prepara-
ton. This, however, is probably incor-
rect. 1t is not believed here that Lord
Salisbury would undertake to commit any
programme outlined in such an agree
ment, and as the arrangement will have
the force of treaty so long as he holds
the reins of power, Germany will be sat-
lshed without formal treaty.
The French press is in perfect fer
ment over this whole business, and the
Opposition papers are charging the gov
ernment with having driven England into
the arms Of Germany by her foolish
policy Of irritating her, notably in the re-
fusai to sanction the Egyptian conversion
scheme, on which England had set her
heart, and the repeated protests against
English occupation in Egypt, about
which France need not care a button.
Even so conservative an organ as La
France, while upholding the refusal Of
III. Spuller, the Foreign Minister, to
sanction the conversion, still condemns
the petty policy Of irritation to which the
government resorted in its treatment of
England, and expressed the fear that
such policy may yet drive England into
the triple alliance.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
THEY DON'T COME IN.
The New States, Except Dakota, DO Not
Come In on the Appropriation for As-
ricultural Experiment Stations.

The New States, Except Dakota, DO Not
Come In on the Appropriation for Ag-
ricultural Experiment Stations.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-In 1887 Con-
gress passed a bill providing for agri-
cultural experimental stations for the
several States, but failed to make an ap-
preparation. At the last session Of Con-
gress an appropriation Of $6000O0 was
made. The question came up under
Comptroller Durham as to whether the
Territories were included in the original
bill. The assent of the States was neces-
sary to the plan for the establishment Of
the stations, and Dakota having assent
ed, Judge Durham decided that she
was entitled to come in. The
estimates sent in by the De-
partment were for $4,000 for each
of the thirty eight States and Dakota,
and similar sum for a station in con-
nection with the Department at Wash
ington. The question has been raised be-
fore Comptroller Matthews whether the
new States or any Of the Territories lex
cept Dakota) were entitled to any of the
money. Yesterday he decided that, the
estimates providing for only thirty eight
States, the department and Dakota, none
Of the new States could claim any Of the
money.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

The woman killed by a train, on the
night of the 18th, near Greenwood Gene
terry, Brooklyn, was identified as Mrs.
George Thompson, of No. 402 West Thir-
ty-second street, New York
An agent on the Clanricarde estate in
Ireland, while riding to the scene Of a
number of evictions at Woodford, on the
18th, was fired at by some person in am
bush, the bullet intended for him striking
his horse, which dropped dead under him.
The assassin escaped.
AT Keifer, O., |. NJ. MarshalPs resi-
dence, store aud warehouse were de-
stroyed by fire, on the 18th, together with
their contents, including the United States
mail and township records.
MISCELLANEOUS,
IT is said that the new small arms and
smokeless powder recently adopted by
the Austrian military authorities have
been thoroughly tested. An eight-mi
limeter bullet pierced an iroB. plate one
ines thick at distance of enc huadrsd
yards.
IT is announced that the anti-slavery
conference at Lucerne, Switzerland, has
been abandoned.
DELEGATES will meet in Pittsburgh, Pa,
the latter part of next month, to form a
| federation Of railroad employees.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton s. Dayton
railroad has contracted with all the
Grand Army posts in Ohio, south of Co.
lumbus, to carry members to the G.. A.
r. encampment at Milwaukee the latter
part of this month at $755 for the round
trip from Cincinnati. This rate is less
| than a cent mile.
CABLE dispatches announce that the
note of the Greek Government regarding
| the situation in Crete and the attitude Of
the Athens Ministry in the matter has
created a bad impression in Berlin, and
is condemned by the German press.
1t is estimated that twenty-fi thou
sand persons attended the annual athletic
exhibition Of the Clan ma Gael in Phila-
delphia on the 18th. The profits, amount
| ing to $1,000. will be devoted to securing
the arrest and punishment of the Cronin
murderers.
CoLoRED Knights of Pythias opened
their convention in Cincinnati on the
18th, to continue three days.
A COMMITTEE of the New York Stock Ex-
| change met the commissioners from
! Southern cotton exchanges, on the 18th,
and after discussing the matter, agreed
| to allow the substitution of cotton bag
ging for jute bagging
On the 18th the National Journeymen
Tailors' convention assembled at Colum-
bus, o. The financial report showed total
expenses for the year, S9,52S.22, and
total balance in the treasury of 4,0S3.0S.
FRENCH newspapers are in ferment
over the new ealed friendship between
England and Germany, and the Opposi-
ton papers are charging the government
with having driven England into the
arms of Germany by her foolish and it,
ritating policy.
DURING July the gross earnings Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
were $1S7S, 399 decrease from the same
month last year Of $40, 733.
THE Porte, in view Of the Russian mili-
tary movements on the Armenian trout
ier, has issued orders to expedite the
construction of the new Notifications at
Erzeroum. A large force of men are al
ready engaged in constructing redoubts.
IT is understood that Russia is organic
ing corps Of irregular cavalry throughout
the Caucasus.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
GUINEA-PIG JUICE.
Experiments with the So-Ca1led "Eltxir
of Life" at the eMedico-Chirurgical Hos
pital in Philadelphia

Experiments with the So-Called elixir
of Life at the Medtco-Chirurgical Hos
pital in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13. The 'elixir Of
life" was tried yesterday at the Medlco-
Chirurgical Hospital by Dr.. Henry 2.
Booming in the presence Of members OF
the faculty of the college and other
physicians. Injections Of the liquid were
made into the arms of eight different
people. The immediate results were not
uniform. Two Of the men, who had
barred swarthy arms for the Injection,
complained Of some dizziness and fulness
in the head, One Of those operated upon
was slightly nauseated. On the others
no effects were apparent at the termina-
ton of half hour. Tie patients were
then dismissed.
There will be another trial at the hos
pital to-day at noon, when it is expected
that those operated on will report what
ever effects, if any, they shall have felt.
Others will be operated upon at the same
time.
Among those injected were three re-
porters and physician Of Trenton, VINO
volunteered to be subjects for expert
ment,
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

THE Sugar Trust hopes to "stave
Off the day Of rctribution by forming
d union with a similar combine" to
be built up in two Or three of the chief
European countries. There is chance,
however, that this move may arouse
the hostility Of the people, secure the
enforcement of existing laws against
combinations to unjustly control trade,
and hasten the coming Of the reckon
ing which is sought to be deferred.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

A ST. LOUIS street railway company,
that is in arrears with its employees for
wages earned, has posted a notice at
its headquarters threatening discharge
to the luckless employe whose grocer
or butcher garnishees the wages due,
in order to secure payment of bills run
by reason Of the failure of the COM
pany to comply with the law requiring
payments to be made every two weeks
bV corporations.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
An Escaned Convict Recaptured.

Charles Weinaka, an escaped convict
from the Pratt mines, Lee County, Ala,
who was sentenced from that county to
life Imprisonment in the penitentiary,
was captured at Charleston, Mo. He
made his escape in October, 1883. He was
identified by an India ink mark in the
shape Of an anchor. He was employed by
the Pratt Mining Company when he made
his escape by overpowering a guard, and
while at full speed received pistol-shot
wound in Che arm. There is a large re-
ward offered for his capture.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

HE managers of the Paris Exposi-
I'm Intend to make their closing week
0"e u great attractiveness, and to that
o"o are looking about for novelties. A
D"lnoeau display would be as much of
! novelty in Paris as the EifTel Tower
~, Io0,o W De on the Western plains, and
.He republican Flambeau Club of To-
r9Na' = HAS, have been asked by the
french Legation in Washington to
name their terms for one hundred men
to ,I'lt Paris at the time mentioned,
a1o give series OF their unique and
S"e-lnspiring displays.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
A Mississippi sheriT-s Dilemma.

The trouble in BOLIVAR County, Miss,
was not over at last accounts. Informa-
ton was received from the sheriff OF that
county that Messenger, who killed an
editor at Rosedale, and who had escaped.
took refuge at Concordia, where, sur
rounded by friends, he defed arrest
The sheriff was powerless and said that
an effort to arrest the fugitive would
most probably result in bloodshed.
Governor Lowry replied that the sheriff
should make an eff ort to perform his
duty by the aid of posse comitatus, and
if unable to do this to call on him and he
(the Governor) would send troops.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

LATEST adviceS from England are not
calculated to inspire sympathizers with
Mrs. Maybrick with much hope. If the
lazy had lost civil suit she could have
applied for a new trial and taken an
appeal, and could have. as a last re-
source, gone before the House Of Lords.
lhe process would have occupied two
Vt three years. AS, however, her life.
anu not her property, is at stake. she
-i'S 40 appeal, and will be hanged in
17'' ihan month unless the Home
secretary can be prevailed upon to ad-
'iSe royal pardon or communication of
sentence.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
A Miners Awful Fate.

The body of George Scott one Of the
imprisoned miners in the burning Pratt
mines, near Birmingham, Ala, has been
recovered. 1t was badly decomposed
and horribly mutilated by rats, which in
fest the slopes. Scott's body was found
several hundred yards from ;where he
tended the pumps, showing that he had
made desperate effort to get to the shaft
when the fire occurred. The seventeen
imprisoned mules had not been reached,
bat there was little doubt of their death.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
Street Railways Sold.

All the street railways in Knoxville,
Tenn.-except West Knoxville lines
twelve miles in all, have been purchased
by w. G. McAdoo, Jr., Of Chattanooga,
who, it is said, represents Chattanooga
and Philadelphia capitalists. A new
company has been organized and McAdoo
elected president. The price paid was in
the neighborhood of $4,000 Electric
cars will be substituted for horse cars.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
Arrested for Child-Murder.

Dave Below and wife were arrested in
a secluded part Of Walden's Ridge, about
twenty five miles from Chattanooga,
Tenn, on a charge of having murdered
their five -year-old child, near Asheville,
N. c., eight years ago They were COM
mitted to Jail to await requisition papers.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

THERE are no pestiferou5 winged in
sccts lingering about the persons OF
the Spokane Falls bankers. The presi-
dents Of the six National institutions
in that sadly-scorched city have mott
fed the Comptroller Of the Currency
that they have survived the disaster
and will continue to do business as
near the old stands as circumstances
will admit.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
The Big Tunnel Nearly Completed.

The heading Of the great tunnel at
Cumberland Gap, which unites the
States Of Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia, was knocked in with appropriate
ceremonies. The completion Of the tun-
mel was the accomplishment Of the great
est engineering feat ever undertaken in
Kentucky. Trains in passing through
the tunnel will cross sections Of Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

NEW YORK bankers who have been
interviewed on the monetary question
nxnress great confidence in the sltua-
o,ioa. None of them expect any
strjngency in the money market An
intollicent conservatism prevails, how
ever. among the bankers. which Is one
rood reason for feeling encourage
mcnt at the outlook.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
Burned in Emgy.

At Atlanta, Ga, Postmaster Lewis, and
the Republican leader, Colonel A. E.
Buck, were burned in efigy in front Of
the court house in the presence Of prob
ably ten thousand people. This action is
the result of the appointment Of a negro
to place in the registry department OF
the post. office, where white lady was
employed as clerk. Colonel Buck is sup
posed to have induced Mr.. Lewis to make
the appointment.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
Shocking Accident.

Ethan Compton, of Webster County,
KY, was carelessly pushing straw into
the feeder Of a steam thresher standing
idle in a field, when the machinery sud-
denly began to move, and catching his
hand drew it into the machine, crushing
and mangling his arm until it had to be
amputated.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

GENERAL GRENFELL having chastised
the unfortunate Arabs and slaughtered
an indefinite number Of men who were
fighting for what they believed to be
their rights, has received orders from
the British Government to retire. The
Conservatives are thus initiating the
policy of their predecessors, although
they condemned it so bitterly five and
six wears ago.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17

THE big crops which are being har-
vested. or which are assured, this year
will prevent any new railroad rate
wars and settle, or at least lessen the
intensity Of, those under way. A lew
weeks hence the trunk lines will have
SO much to do transporting agricultural
nroducts to the Atlantic seaboard that
thew won't have time to fight.