Huntsville gazette., 1890-07-05
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lin county, Ala, who has been missing
since the war, has returned to his old
home. His wife heard he was killed in a
hattie near the close of the war, and a
few years later she married again. Her
second husband is still living.
Atkinson says he started home some
time after the war, but heard his wife
had married again, and he went to Cali
fornia. There he married and lived un-
til a few years ago, when his wife died.
He came back to see if his first wife was
a widow, but finding that she is not, he
win return to California.
Montgomery.-There was sad sight
presented in the Recorders Court yester-
day morning.
Three small boys were arraighed an a
charge of grand larceny. There were
Jim and Sam Cartledge and Walter
Woodward ranging in age from II to IL
years of age. The evidence showed that
they had been engaged in promiscuous
pilfering at the camp grounds and around
the city. They were bound over to the
grand jury on bonds of $500 each and
committed to Jail.
MObile.-A curious phrase of the at
tempt of the government to put stop to
depredations upon the timber of the pub
=, l. 49, att r1a
raking the revised statutes with a fine
tooth comb and so far has failed to find a
section under which he can stop persons
from boxing and draining the pine trees
of their rosin.
A number of persons were brought in
to court under the section forbidding the
unlawful cutting and destroying oftimbel
ON public land but the defendants show.
ed that boxing timber did not destroy it
So the charge was amended and judg.
ment brought under the section forbid
ding the cutting and removing of timber
from public lands.
The defendants demurred that they haG
neither cut nor removed timber. The
district attorney declares that there is 8
section somewhere that will reach the
people who take what does not belong tC
them, and he will yet find it.
Gadsden.-J. T. Greene, chairman
called the sixth senatorial convention tt
order this morning. j. L. Burnett, the
present senator. was made permanent
chairman.
John. w. liner of Asheville was put in
nomination for senator and was nomi
mated by acclamation. He made speech
accepting the nomination and set forth
his views. The convention was harmoni-
Gus and the nomination pleases all.
Charles F. Porter, deputy
sheriff connected with the city court, col.
lected 1886 OIL an execution last week
and on Saturday night left the CITY, The
authorities have become alarmed at his
absence and are trying to ascertain his
whereabouts, but all in vain. Porter was
also under bond for carrying concealed
weapons.
Roanoke-The United States mail sack
on the star route between this place and
Wedowee was cut open and robbed by
the mail carrier yesterday. Your CORES.
pOndent was present at the finding of the
pouch, which was found in dense
swamp to-day. Jones, the rider, is about
% years old, has large mustache and a
downcast look.
Mobile-COntractor John Hagan began
to-day building bnlkheads for the new
coal and lumber docks OF the Mobile &
Birmingham railroad. A strip 80 feet
deep and 100 feet wide will be bulkhead-
ed at the foot of Beauregard street, and
a wharf constructed on each side and
along the river front several hundred
feet. The slip and river front will be
dredged, Mr.. Rittenhouse Moore having
the contract.
The new docks are for the use of the
road which this mouth will have via the
Briarfield and BlOctOn on extension OF
an entrance into the Birmingham coal
field and will be operated as terminus
of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor-
gia railroad. This undertaking means a
greaG deal for Mobile in the matter of the
increase of her export of coal and lum-
ber.