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Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
THECOUNTY PIX Es.
CONTRACTS Awarded for II Hiding.

The commissioners have been busy
the last two days in unraveling the turn
pike problem and figuring up the bids
for their construction, that were opened
Monday. There were thirteen bids in all
and the contract was awarded to Darnell
& Lane Company, of Indiana. theirs be-
ing the lowest bid offered
This company takes the contract for
the entire system, with the exception oil
the Madison and Trana pike. at an av-
erage of So 900 per mile. The repr. sem
ta.ives have returned hoIne to make the
required bond and will IL gin W. X -
soon :s ali the ,'ece ss.iy arrange L ents
have been made.
The commissioners can l,o~ tel re-
Iieyed, 70 some extent. as he biggest
part OF their work is finish, Tne work
now in the hands Of the contrac. ors and
the engineer employed for the county.
The labors OF the comm ssioners in ar
ranging these matters and details have
been arduous, and trying, at times, and
they deserve great credit for the satisfac-
tory manner in which they have man
aged the business for the county.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
PERSONAL.

Congressman Wheeler was in the
city this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Garth of
Nashville, Tenn, are stopping at the
Garter House.
Mr.. d. b. Ellet was called home
from Chattanooga last Sunday to the
bedside of his sick mother.
Mr. and Mrs Bishop ef Jonesboro,
Ark, are in the city. Mr.. Bishop
is in bad health and came here to
recupe:ate.
Sir Knight Iverson Wiley, cf Bir-
mingham. is en- route to Cleveland, !,
Ohio to attend the grand conclave.
Mrs. Mary Jane Conally leaves
tonight, to join her hush nd at Bay
ard, New Mexico.
Mr.. Jabez G.. Street the courte-
Gus and affabIe ExsReceiver is out OF
the city few days with his family
for recreation.
Miss Mamie Hall Of the Nashville
city school faculty,is spending severs
al weeks Of vacation in the city, the
guest Of Mr. and Mrs. James Hall
Nr. Joe johnson, Of Chattanooga
Mr.. VIM. Lot kheart and w. Sam
Scott of Decatur Aa, were up on
business this week and registered at
the Carter House.
Mr.. w. w. Derrick orders his
GAZETTE to Horse C. eek, Ala.
where he has charge Of summer
school. The good people of that
community may congratulate them
selves upon the acquisition Of such
a worthy and efficient teac'.er
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
GER'lANY'S GRIP
oD tening on the Eastern Coast
OF the Dark Continent.
the Village Of Tanga Bonn
barded and Occupied.

Goodness Between the German Agent
and Captain wissman - Englishmen
Alarmed Lest the Excited Socialists OF
Europe Make London Their Headauar-
ters-Other Foreign News
ZANZIBAR, July 12.-The Germans
have bombarded and occupied Tanga.
The natives made only slight resist
ance to the German attack, the only
casualty sustained being the wounding
OF one German soldier. Capt. Wiss-
mann is still at Pangani
Other East African Matters.
Col. Evan Smith is expected to re-
turn In September, after a conference
on Zanzibar affairs at Berlin. His re-
turn will not be welcomed by the sui
tan, who suffered much indignity at his
hands, and who prefers to deal with Mr.
Portal who is more polite A marked
ooldness exists between the German
agent and Capt. Wismann
1t is thought possible that Bushiri
has gone to attack the German station
at Mpaapwa, which is close to the Brit
ism mission. There are only two Ger
mans at Mpaapwa, which is 500 miles
from Saadani and BagamoyO.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Will Begis Work August l.a.

Messrs. o. II. P. Cornell and M. r.
Campbell, of the Cincinnati, Alabama &
Atlantic Railroad, spent yesterday in the
city.
Mr.. Cornell talked very confidently
OF the early completion Of the road. He
said everything was working smoothly
and moving along slowly but surely, and
that work will certainly begin by the
lst of August. He said that the con.
tractors. Thompson & Mattinglay, had
everything in readiness to commence
work at once, and would begin by Au'
gust lst, as called for in their contract
and would push the work as rapidly az
possible.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

Yeste' day evenings train % tie
Monte Sano Railway carried up quite a
number Of guests TO the Hotel Every
day adls more to the number already
there.
THE commissioners issued an order re-
quiring the Memphis 4 Charleston road
to erect depot at Gurleys, station on
said road near the line OF Madison aud
Jackson counties. This is represented
as very important point on the Mem
phis and Charleston road, and as having
one of the most important ind ustries OF
the south located there-a cedar pencil
factory.-Tuskaloos Gazette.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
n Short Chapter on Sh se~

We claim that We have the eheapes,
line of shoes in Huntsville n addition
to our regular lines Of p. Cox Shoes
which are the very best a~de. We
have Kid Shoes in Lace and / aa-egn.
Glove tops 81 co.
Old Ladies Kid Shoes 800.
Old Ladies Seamless 81 %.
Dongoia Kid Button Opera. G $ 81 so
Donyola Md Button extra ta.s. g. 90.
Kid Opera Slippers. SOC.
Kid Opera Ties 81 co.
special line OF Men Shoes sl.7s,
All OF the above are Speci; Bargains
ano are worth fully one 1hird more
money than We ask for them. ~
NJ. M. NEWMtlNAC co
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
A New Store.

A new enterprise by colored COM
pany was put On frot last week,
which we wish 10 see a great success.
1t is first class grocery establish
ment. under the auspices of theHuut.. .
vii Trade Co., Rev. J. J. Smith
President. The store is under the
management of Messrs Chas. Dun
more and VIM. H. Walker Jr.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
PENSIONED.

Claim Agent VIM. H, Castor
scored a signal success last week by
securing pension Of over Eleven
Hundred Dollars (s1100 for AG.
Allen Walker, living near w. ridian-
vile. ED. CASTOR has made quite a
seccess in the line Of business, and
parties interested would do we'll to
consult him in their cases.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
COlOred Teachers Institutes.

Under the auspices o. the State
Superintendent, Hon Solomon Pal
mer, Institutes Will be h,ld at til,
following times and places
Tuscumhia, July S-13 Athens
Ju y 19 and 20 Scottsboro, July e
and 27 Ell, ton, August, y and 1;
Co!umbiana, August 8 and 10
Hartsell, August, /, 2 and 3. Court.
land, Aug, 16 and II. Florence
Aug, g,--Huntsv: :"e, Aug, % anc
"a
The following are among the sub
iects to he discussed:
], Arithmetic Est lessons; pima
ry and practical; the best methods.
2. Reading-The alphabet, word
and phone ic methords discussed.
Teachers wi | give their expe len
ces with any of these methods. The
OF. ect Of reading, emphasi and in,
hections.
4. Object teaching; its G aimes dis
cussed.
5. Recitations and Recesses Discussed
as to the best methods a nd time Calls
themes.
6. Grammar WY Best methods; in-
struction Systematically arranged
Geography-How to begin; meth
DDS to aid the pupils memory; map
drawing, aud how to teach it s
Singine>Its benefits; how to teach
it.
Teachers will prepare papers Oh
subjects Of iItercst to The teacher Of
TO day. Among others, the ol.ow
in-: Spell ing. PeImanship Nor. ,
nld Manners. Iromptncs Ilo, 10
interrs' Dull Pups, Tie QHa" H.;
ion uf Il yac ~, Schn,. F~rni urc,
&r. y itHcltr> AID f-.cnd1 Of cdu-
ca;ion ar, invited t. al, I'd Able
tents Mil as; t III the work II *
under that t-as;e's Nil nol dvdu, Is
anything ON sila 'iys n e. ii
er< for ;ime a. cIdi.g ,hc f. Il Il x
The Count SuperiIiten EMS are
encouraging he work III every way
that they can
Ger. :ficates Of attendance " be
given to ali teachers who attend.
Public meetings and addresses each
right in the interes Of morals, tenn
perance and education. Let all work
for success.
Respectfully,
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

An enjoyable Tea party was
royalty entertained by Miss Mary l..
Brown Tuesday evening last at the
residence Of officer and Mrs. S. J..
Pentecost. Among those present
were Misses Susie P. Mastin and
Bette Bentley DIR. Hendley, of
Nashville and aye" Editor.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

troops going to the scene Of the disturb
ance are sent there for the purpose OF
driving the dervishes beyond the
frontier. Any one caught traficking
with the dervishes will suffer the pen
atty of death. Col Wodehouse reports
that the march northward continues,
and that the Egyptians are moving on
parallel line. Four field guns have
been sent to Assouan
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

The ladies Of the 2nd ,C. P.
church will have grand emit ertain
ment for the benefit of their church
next week, July p.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Dinner to Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln.

LONDON, July l2.-Mr. William Henry
Smith, first lord of the treasury gave a
dinner Wednesday evening in honor OF
Mr. Lincoln, the American minister,
and Mrs. Lincoln. There was q large
and aristocratic party in attendance.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

Black Silk Mitts 25 cents.
Fast Black Ladies Hose 25 cents.
20 cents Sateens 10 cents.
20 cents Batistes 10 cents.
Sheer White India Lawn 10 cents.
Best Ginghams IL cent.
Fancy Colored Lawns and cents
Parasols and Fans at cost.
Good Corsets 25 cents.
9 4 wky Nj. M. NEWMAN q w.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Ipterna,ionaI Anti-sIavery Congress.

BRUSSELS, July l2. Cardinal Lavi-
geries international anti-slavery con-
gress will sit at Lucerne from the 4th
to 18th of next month. The congress
will be divided into two committees for
discussion Of various questions on the
program.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Chasing Deryishes.

CAIRO, July 12-Gen Grenfel has
issued q warming to the natives, AL
though the dervishes were defeated at
Arquin, they succeeded In marching
northwszd The English and Egyptian
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

Mr.. and Mrs VIM P. Richardson and
daughter, of New Orleans. arrive in
in the city last evening, to visit rtla
tives and spend some time on Monte
SanO.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Miner, Thrctteh to q, out again.

BERLIN, July l2.-At q mas meeting
OF miners at Dortmund Wednesday, at
whl.,h Herr Schroeder presided, it was
unanimously decided that unless the
owners fulfilled their promises the
strike should be renewed. Some OF the
more excitable of the men advo ,ated a
resort to dynamite, but they were
promptly snuelched.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Treaty to BE Renounccd.

LONDON July 12.-The Standard S
correspondent at Geneva says: The
Swiss government, in note to the Ger
man government. denies the latter $
right to control the granting Of permis-
sion to Germans to reside in Switzer-
land. The Bundesrath expects that
Germany, on receipt Of the note will
renounce the Swiss-German treaty Of
lS1H
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Russell Harrison Visits the Commons

LONDON, July 10 Russell B. Harri-
son. son Of the president Of the United
States. visited the house of commons
Wednesday in company with Mr.. Henry
White, of the American legation.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

Services at all the churches to
morrow.
The Reading club meets next
week at the residence of Miss M. l..
clay 1t is proving quite a sue
cess.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Mayors Court.

The Mayors court was very quiet yes
terday, only one case being disposed Of.
Ernest Tibis was found guilty Of disor
derly conduct and fined IS and costs
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
LEMONS
COLORED HOTEL
DECATUR, ALABAMA.
~ Flrst-class accomm odation.
New N Il e.. sc hcsluic,

CORREtTED
lhe new schedule for the NJ & G.
'fains taking effect to-day, is as follows:
GOING WEST.
20 arrives 1890 P. NJ.
No. arrives $50 AN.
GOING EAST.
no. arrives 5l5 A.. NJ.
NO 4 arrives 6:I3P.M.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

Give the new trade store call
Sill the rains descend.
Send the children to Sunday
school.
Odd Fellows Lodge Tuesday
night.
The I'm maculate Courts spread
banquet in honor Of DR.. Hadley
Thursday night.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Cost sale.

All OF our stock of Dress Goods Mill.
merry Goods, Trimmings, Bu ttonfi, Silks
Imported Sateens and ChalTies :at stric,
cost. ''' '''
M. NJ. NEWMAN .& co
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
Trouble In Crete.

AT4ENs, July 12-The newspapers
here report that al emente III Crete IS
imminent
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
A New Departure in Church Work.

LONDON, July 10. A Baptist congrega-
tion at Wolverham pton has determined
on new departure in church work
by building suite Of rooms at the back
Of its chapel for social meetings. The
plans provide for smoking and billiard
room and bar for the sale of non-in-
toxicants The movement is being
watched with considerable interest
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
At Our Temporary Headquarters.
Commercial Row, Peace's Old Storey

Commercial Row. Peace's Old Storey
CROWDED FOR ROOM. NO PLACE TO SHOW OUR
GOODS. WE MUST SELL THEM TO CT ELBOW ROOM
THIS SACRIFICE SALE is FROM NECESSITY NOT
CHOICE. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF AND BE
CONVINCED. OUR MILLINER is WITH US YET AN D
BEFORE.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
EXlLED SOCIALISTS.

LII oWltzerland Gets Too Hot They May
nIake London "a Rendczv,
LONDON. July H. - 1t is reported
from Berne that the band of exiled
Socialists now located in Switzerland
have already been made to feel the
pressure of the government officials
now exerted in response to the repre-
sentations made by Germany Russia
and Austria, and that they have con-
clndedto leave Switzerland
KnGlishmen Getting Nervous.
The probability that London will now
secome the rendezvous for these hunted
patriots is already making Englishmen
nervous and some Of the newspapers
here are demanding that the govern
ment take steps to make London as hot
for them as Switzerland is likely to be-
come.
Drifting Into Socialism.
In this connection 1t is interesting to
note that while Englishmen as rule
are as pronounced as ever in the detesta-
ton of and adherence for Socialists,
they are drifting every day deeper and
deeper into Socialism; while deriding
the upholders Of the theory they are
embracing with whole-souled enthusi-
asm the theory itself And this is going
on not only without protest from, but
with the actual approval of politicians
who would be most indignant if called
Socialists Professor Fawcett, strong
iedividunlist, claims the state mo-
nopoly i'll telephones, and Mr.. Raikes,
the postmaster general and a strong
Conservative. is urging the exercise of
this monopoly.
Cabinet Members Implicated.
Professor Fawcett, too, was response
for another big piece of socialism the
parcel post as for the present gov
ernment almost every member of the
cabinet has his portfolio full of Social
ist schemes.
Notwithstanding this, however, it is
not at all probable that the exiles from
Switzerland will be given warm well
come by the generality of Englishmen.
Deaf Mutes' Congress-,
PARIS, July 12.-The international
deaf mutes congress convened Wednes-
day. Delegates are present from the
United States England, Ireland,
Canada. Belgium, Russia, Switzerland,
Turkey, Austria and Spain, and they
represent 1901 900 deaf mntes in those
countries. In connection with the con-
gress there is an exhibition of the latest
mechanical and scientific appliances for
the education of deaf mntes, and others
for their comfort and well being.
The first days session was largely de-
voted to the work of organization. In
the address of welcome by one of the
local delegates the recent dedication in
America of statue to DR.. Gallaudel. the
deaf mute friend, was feelingly referred
to, and his work in founding the sys-
tenn of instruction, ut present employed
in every deaf mute school in the United
States highly praised
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13

HERSTElN & LOWENTHAL, Leaders Of Low Prize es
Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-13
making all important connections East via
Lynchburg and Washington.

No. carries Pullman Buffet Vestibu'e Drawing
Room Sleeper to Washington via LynchbUrs
No. carries Pullman Buffet Drawing Room
Sleeper to New York via Harrisburg
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The nights are wholesome; then no planets
strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to
charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time"
- HAMLET.
1t is a consequence or application
of that very ancient and popular be-
lief which assigns the night for the
Wanderings of spirits, and supposes
them, at the growing of ''the cock,
that is the trumpet to the morn" to
start ''like aguiIty thing upon a fear
fulsummOns, and betake themselves
to flight. Here again, as in so many
cases of vulgar superstition, asort Of
mental metonymy has taken place;
and the growing of the cock, which
in the early stage of the belief was
imagined to be the signal for the de-
parture of evilspirits, only because it
announced the morning, is in the fur
Their stage which we are examining,
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and was probably deemed a protec-
ton against those evil spirits over
whom this season was in every way a
triumph. Accordingly various SUI
perstitions mingled with the pre-
scribed ceremonials in respect of it.
From the authority already quoted
on this subject, we learn that it's vir-
tues were not to be extracted, unless
it were lighted with clean hands - a
direction, probably, including both
a useful household hint to the domes-
tics, and, it may be, a moral of a
higher kind
"Wash your hands or else the fire
Will not tend TO your desire;
Unwash d hands, We maidens, know,
Dead the fire though We blow"
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served, on this evening, by those who
would keep their Christmas after the
old orthodox fashion, the first to be
noticed is that ofthe Yule Clog. This
huge block, which, in ancient times,
and consistently with the capacity Of
itsvast receptacle, was frequently the
root of large tree, it was the prac-
tice to introduce into the house with
great ceremony, and to the sound of
music. Herrick's direction is: -
Come, bring with a noise
My merrle. merrle boys,
The Christmas log to the firing;
While my good dame she
Bids you all be free,
And drink to your hearts desiring"
In brakes "Winter Nights" men
ton is made of the Yule Clog, as ly-
ing, Sin ponderous majesty, on the
kitchen floor" until "each had sung
his 1ule song, standing on it's CEN
tire" . ere it was consigned to the
flames that
event roaringup the chimney wide"
This Yule Clog, according to Herrick,
was to be lighted with the brand of
the last years log, which had been
carefully laid aside for the purpose,
and music was to be played during
the ceremony of lighting:
"With the last yeeres brand
Light thenew block, and
For good successe in his spending.
On yourpsaltries play,
That sweet luck may
Come while the log is tending
This log appears to have been con-
sidered as sanctifying the roof-tree,
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CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
Some of the Fairly Customs. Ceremonies and
Festivities of Christmas.
TURKEYS AND OTHER GOOD THINGS.
Christmas Eve.

TURKEYS AND OTHER GOOD THINGS.
Everywhere throughout the British
isles Christmas Eve is marked by an
increased activity about the good
things of this life. "NOw," says
Stevenson, an old writer of Charles
the Seconds time, "capons and hens,
besides turkeys, geese, ducks, with
beef and mutton, must all die; for in
twelve days a multitude ofpeople will
not be fed with little" and the prep
arations in this respect of this pres
ent period of grace are made much
after the ancient prescription OF
Stevenson. The abundant displays
of every kind of edible in the London
markets on Christmas Eve, with a
view to the twelve days festival of
which it is the overture, the blaze of
lights amid which they are exhibited
and the evergreen decorations by
which they are embOwered, together
with the crowds of oilers or of pur-
chasers that wander through these
well-stored magazines, present q pic
ture of abundance and a congress OF
faces we'll worthy of single visit
from the stranger, to whom Lon
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ing you of the orchards. They mix
their flavor with the beverage, and
the beverage with them, giving anew
meaning to the line of the poet
The gentler apples why juice
for both why and gentler have they
become by this process"
sUPERsTITIONs.
We find that in some parts of Ire
land and in Germany, and probably
in districts of England, too, Christ
mas Eve is treated as a night of
omens, and that practices exist for
gathering it's auguries having a re-
semblance to those of our northern
neighbors at Halloween. Many beau
tiful, and some solemn superstitions
belong to the night and the following
morning. 1t is stated by Sir Walter
Scott, in one of his notes to "Marm-
ion," to be an article Unpopular faith,
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in alteration of the Nativity,-an
idea which Brand, no doubt correct
ly, supposes to have originated from
the representations by early painters
of the event itself. That writer men
tions a Cornish peasant who told him
(179O) of his having with some others
watched several oxen in their stalls,
on theeve of old Christmas Day. cat
twelve o'clock at night they OBJ
served the two oldest oxen fall upon
their knees, and, as he expressed it
in the idiom of the country, make "a
cruel moan like Christian creatures. >"
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chat they who are born on Christ
mas orGood Friday have the power
of seeing spirits, and even command
ing them;" and he adds that "the
Spaniards imputed the haggard and
downcast looks of their Philip II. to
the disagreeable visions to which this
privilege subjected him"
Among the finest superstitions of
the night may be mentioned that
which is alluded to by Shakespeare in
the lines:
"Some say, that ever 'gainst that season
comes.
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
This bird of dawning singeth all night long
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir
abroad;
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THE WASSAIL-BOWL.
"Honor to you who sit
Near to the we'll of wit,
And drink YOUR fill of it,

The word "wassail' is derived from the Saxon
was halle; which word and drinc-he(heil, healthy
were, as appears from old authors quoted by
Brand. the usual ancient phrases Ofquatting among
the English and equivalent to the Heres to you"
and 81 pledge you,' of the present day. "The was
sail-bowl," says Warrior, lis Shakspeares gossps
bowl in the Midsummer Nights Dream" 1t should
be composed by those who can afford it, of some
rich wine highly spced and sweetened, with roasted
apples floating it's surface. But ale was more
commonly substituted for the wine, mingled with
nutmeg, ginger, sugar, toast, and roasted crabs.
1T is, says Leigh Hunt, "a good-natured bowl,
and accommodates itself to themeans of all classes
rich and poor. You may have it of the costliest
wine ofthe humbest malt liquor. But in 10 case
must the roasted apples be forgotten. They are the
sine qua non of the wassail-boWl, the wassail-
BOWLS of the day. and very pleasant they are, pro-
vided they are not mixed up too much with the bev
erage, balmy, comfortable, and different, sort Of
meat in the drink but innocent withal and remind
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later ceremony Wnlcn no
man holds to be unimport-
ant, least of all on Christ
mas Day, the dinner.
"The 'hackin,' says that
amusing old tract, entitled
Round aboutOur Coal Fire.
must be boiled by day
break, or else two young
men must take the maiden
Ii. e., the cook by the arms,
and run her round the mar
ket-place, till she is ashamed
of her laziness.' Brand,
whose explanation Hone in
his Everyday Book has
adopted, renders 'hackin'
by the great SAUSAGE and
Mares tells us, that the word
means "a large sort OF sau-
sage, being a part of the
cheer provided for Christ
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CHRISTMAS DAY,
THE PLUM PUDDING.

Plum pudding was the earliest, and
not the least important, of the
worldly ceremonies of the day, the
due observance thereof being essen
tial to the due observance of that