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Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
Personal

Mr.. Lawrence Hendley made .
trip to Scottsboro this week.
Hon. H. V. Cashin, Of Decatur,
was up this week.
Mr.. Robt. Peasants is at home on
q visit.
Miss Julia A. billiard was down
from Brownsboro Saturday.
Hon. w. P. Williams was down
from Meridianville Saturday.
Mr.. John Bone represented Mays
vile in town Saturday.
Prof. j. r. Scales vas in town
from Madison Saturday.
Mrs. Lucy D. Pope and Mrs. Mat
tie A. Mcdaniel were at hrme Sat-
urday d Sunday.
Hon. H. V. Cashin Of Decatur
made a business trip to the city
Wednesday.
We are glad TO note that Elder
Wesley prettyman was sent back to
this district by the M. E. confer
ence.
w. D. Jones Esq. represented
Swancott Saturday, Mr.. Jones is a
warm friend Of the Great and Good
GAZETTE.
Capt. D. A. Ramsey, of the M. &
c. r. r., has been wrestling with
the La, Grippe at his home in
Memphis.
Rev. ]. S. Todd succeeds H. M.
Brown, Pastor of the M. E. Church.
The latter was promoted to P. E. of
the Marion District.
Presiding Elder Prettyman, to the
satifaction Of every body, has been
continued in the position 30 ably
f led by him for several years past.
Gen. s. H. Moore, Messrs. G. F. Sugg,
J. H. Landman, G. B. Gill and Sol Schiff-
man returned yesterday from business
trips to Nashville and other points in
Middle Tennessee.
Hon A. w. Mccullough has been
on the sick list this week. No man
is more missed from our business
circles Of Huntsville than our popu
lar clerk.
Rev. A. w. Mckinney is back
from conference, we are sorry to
learn, that during his absence one Of
his smaller children was seriously Bit
ten by dog while playing in the
street.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
VIII Locate with ".

The Birmingham Age-Herald in re-
cent issue published the following:
Mr.. Wyndham E. Brown is going to
Huntsville to live.
He was q clerk in the land Office at
Montgomery when the boom broke out
and came here to do land business. He
has succeeded beyond his utmost expec-
tations, and now that his land business is
mostly in the Huntsville district, he goes
there to be at the headquarters.
Mr.. Brown arrived in the city Thurs
day, and as soon as he can rent suita-
BILE Office he will be ready for business ss
a public and general land lawyer. We
our city and hope that he win find life
here both profitable and pleasant.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
The Cotton Market.

:. Oo''on was conspicuous yesterday by
: apSence There wasn't single bale
= market Our cotton buyers have got
..'o !. 'he habit recently of making raids on
~ .'"'f cotton markets in various parts of
s', G S'a'e and their presence abroad is
welcomed by the sellers of the sta
@ p.e as The latter get Huntsville prices,
n''n is trif1e more than they
- aseu 10 getting at the hands of their
o ,0eai men. The opinion prevails among
J., eo''on men that less than thousand
Of 7, ,tihslns u in the county undisposed
he hro,,th ~ Is thought that the last of it will
ought TO the city before March LIST.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
ScOttsbOrO Dots.

ScoTrsBoRo, ALA, Feb. 3rd, 1890
Editor Gazete:
ScOttsboro is on boom.
Glad to note that our people con-
linue to work in the interest Of Edu-
cation.
Our city school, under the man.
agement of Prof. w. J. Harris and
Miss Ellen Roach is doing we'll.
Rev. L, R. Roach and j w Wash
ington are up from Hollywood.
Mr.. James Bone is visiting MIR.
and Mrs j. w. Wisdom,
Rev. I. G. Levert and Mrs. T G.
Whitefeld are attending the M. E.
conference at Mobile.
Mrs. Lizzie Boyd was called to the
ledside of h r sick mother at Hunts
vile Saturday last.
We are sorry to note the death of
Mr.. Samuel Wisdom.-Sr. who was
taken from our midst last Saturday.
Mr. Wisdom was highly respected,
and loved by all who knew him.
La-Grippe is still the topic for
conversation.
Mrs. Charles Booth has flourish, ,
ing school here with an enrolment
OF seventy and still they come.
Seccess to the GAZETTE,
D. w. B.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
JASPER, WALKEp. co.
A Wholesale Jail De
livery.
Nine or Ten Prisoners Make
Good Their Escape Among
Them Being Three Mur-
dererS.
eiood-Aou0ds From Pratt haInee In
Pursuit..

BIRMINGHAM, February IA whole
sale jail delivery took place at Jasper,
Walker county, last night. When Jailer
Sheppard went to give the prisoners their
supper he was rushed upon by two white
prisoners, John Pattillo and William Hol-
hday, the former in for embezzIement,
and the latter for violating the revenue
laws, and overpowered, gagged and lock-
ed him in cell.
The prisoners then took the keys from
him and turned out every prisoner in the
Jail. There were three prisoners confined
In the Jail charged with murder, and i've
or six'for minor felonles and misdemean,
Ors.
Blood-hounds were ordered from Pratt
mines, and the sheriff and possee went ia
pursuit Of the men, but with what suc-
cess is not yet known.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08

DIR. Lee r. Fearn is on the sick
list.
Mrs Sydney Pentecost has been
quite sick this week.
Mr.. r. L. Houston has been
confirmed a. Post t-master At Bir-
mingham
Evening Star Lodge meets in
regular monthly communication
Monday night.
The Senate on last Tuesday con.
frmed the appointment of Mr.. l..
E. Parsons Jr. as District Attorney
for this District.
The number of joiners aud carpenters
now employed in the finishing work at
the Government building are ten. The
weather fails to affect them we are happy
to add
The sidewalk in front Of the new Struve
block on Randolph street is solid and
substantial beauty. Mr.. J. r. Graham
has certainly done good work in this
line, to which he is entitled to much
credit.
Mr.. Wydham E. Brown the Gle
yer and efficient public Land Attor-
ney removed from Birmingham to
this city and will practice here. de
is an acquisition to Huntsville's bus
iness circle that it may we'll be
proud of.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
Circuit Court Notes.

In the case of Caldwell Bros, VS.. the
0apitoi City Insurance Company, seal
Gu verdict was rendered by the jury last
evening. The verdict, however, was in
e'eryDodys mouth ON the streets half an
"our or less after court adjourned and
was to the effect that the jury had found
'or Tue plaintiffs in the full amount.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL.

II you wish to attend good school at
rates go to the State Normal
and industrial School Huntsville Ala
bama. Competent Christian Teachers,
Three years Normal course, Best ACCOM-
including good board. furnish
ed rooms, washing and ironing, lights,
fires &c. only 81. per month. Tuition
Free.
For futherer information Apply to
PROF. w. III. COUNCIL,
BNx 1a5 Huntayille, Ala
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
Only the Site Lacking.

WASHINGTON, Fet. THE bill pre-
pared by the subcommittee of the house
committee on the worlds fair was pre-
sented to the full committee and adopt
ed after an amendment appropriatlng
81 800, 900 for the construction of build
ing for government exhibits, had been
agreed to. On motion of Mr.. Frank a
committee, consisting OF Messrs Cand-
ler. Hit, Hatch and Wilson, was ap-
pointed to report q method OF pro-
cedure for the selection OF site for the
axnoGifion
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
What our Bird Hears.

Ed. Robinson went to Winchester,
and got broke.
The N. E. church made a mistake,
when it changed Mr.. Tivis from,
Trustee to Stewart
That Rev. II. N, Brown has BEEN
made Presiding Elder of the Marion
District.
The preachers usually fail to pay
for their paper.
Our Foreman is getting we'll of the
grip"
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
WANTED.
Negro Agents To Sell Our BOOK
seThe Black PhalanX."

1t is history Of the Negro Sol
diers and gives full account OF their
service in fighting for freedom and
the Union, from the Revolution to
the present time. Splendid Pictures
of the Negro Troops. All say it is
the grandest book ever written
Piles Of money to be made selling it
You can make money. Don't fail
TO send at once for circulars and our
Liberal Terms to Agents Address.
WISMAN PUB, co.
1915. Lock Box 230, Selma. Ala.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
A Farce Turns Out to Be a Tragedy.

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. Henry War
ing, of Oberlin. wrote insulting letters to
Kittie Cooper, then thought to set him
self right with the lady by hiring Henry
Blakeney to go to Miss Cooper and
confess to the writing. A part of the
scheme was that Waring was to get very
angry, chase Blakeney from the house,
and fire several shots in the air after
him. But the shots missed the air and
hit Blakeney. and now the tool is dying
and the fraud exposed.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
Inferred at the county's Expense.

The remains Of Wyatt Nance were
buried yesterday in the colored cemetery
al the expense of the county. As we
stated yesterday Nance was sent to jail
rom the Meridianville precinct, but if he
mas any relatives or friends there they
they failed to come forward and claim
the body.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
The Wedding Record.

The following marriage licenses were
granted by the probate judge Thursday:
WHIrR.-James n. Lovett to Emma n.
Baker; James B. Pollard to Hattie L.
Orgain.
COLoRHD.-Jim Lewis to Anna Doug
lass; Ed. AcDsvid to Minnie Thompson.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
E What our Bird Wants to See,

& What our Bird Wants to See.
A good street leading down the
spring branch.
A bridge at the intersection Of
Blue and Big spring branches.
d, The mas,nic hall painted.
The boys kept of Of the streets
and made to attend school.
Our menC) stop hanging around
saloons.
Our girls kept at home at night.
A coed temperance society among
our young folks.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
garfous FIoods I'm Canada.

MONTREAL, Feb. TIT is reported here
that the ST. Lawrence river has risen SO
high that there is six feet OF water In
the streets Of La Prairie and serious
floods throughout that section ara anfsc-
ipated.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08

Canada to Change Her Barley Culture.
OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. THE minister
Of agriculture has decided to purchase
in England $25, 900 worth of the very
best two-row ed seed barley. The seed
will be distributed at cost price to barley
growers in Canada in order 10 promote
the production of that variety, which is
the kind desired in Great Britain. Hith-
erto six-rowed barley for the United
States market has been grown almost
exclusively in Canada, but the demand
is falling of, owing to the increased
substitution of corn, glucose and other
materials for barley in United States
brpweries
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
LEM ON'S
CoLORED HOTEL
DECATUR ALABAMA.
Accommodation

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
LAND OFFICE AT HUNTSVILLE ALA
January ctr, 1890.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim and
that said proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver at Huntsville, Ala. on
a2I-',, day OF February 1890.
viz: No, 1899 Thomas F Jennings of Morgan
Co Ala. for the Northwest quarter Southeast
quarter of section "a Township 6 Range West
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
said land. viz:
W. t. Childers, of Woodland Mills, Morgan Co
]. NJ. Mcclure, of
R, ]. Stedham, of /" {"
]. H, Dunn. of :" 4"
WM. C. WELLS.
l-11.6t. Register
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-08
Detectives at Work.

A Mr.. Kerney, q clerk in the Dallas
office, who is now in St. Louis, says
Walton's habits were of the best. He
was not drinking man, nor did he gam
bic. There was some sort of q story
about Walton having shot and killed a
man in old Mexico. but beyond this his
record was supposed to be unblemished.
Detectives are securing the country in
every direction. Superintendent Fuller
says he expects to hear Of Walton's
capture at any moment.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-10-30
Tunnelling the Mountains.

Brick" Pomeroy writes to an East
ern paper: Yes, l made good thing
out of the purchase of 156 square
miles of the Adirondack forest, having
completed the sale of my interest there
in for 1929, 900; and all made or make
will 90 right into "tunnelling" my
way into the 250 tissure veins that
form the mineral belt of Colorado. |
fear you do not quite understand the
tunnel project in which for ten years l
have been working and largely invest
ing. There are hundreds of small tun-
nels in Colorado run to get into one
vein to bring out its contents. This
tunnel does, in large. wholesale way,
what others do in small way. We
have cut through 2.10O feet of solid
granite and 900 feet of 9uartzite, and
have now reached pay ore, and are
shipping ore by the carload. The
veins we have already reached yield
ore that assays from 81 of gold and "a
ounces of silver to $24S of gold and 362
ounces of silver per ton.
I'VE need not complete the tunnel
clear through. but when it is completed
it will be handy for railroad purposes.
Inside of one year from date we will
be bringing out from 5000 to $50.-
600 per day of gold and silver from
veins we thus get access to in whole
sale way. Your sympathy is appre-
ciated, but really l do not need it
now
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-10-30
Concerning Mountains.

At one time there can be little doubt
that the colossal system of ancient
peaks running right across the West
ern Continent from Nova Scotia and
Labrador to the Missouri river must
have equaled in magnitude the Hima-
layas, the Andes or the Rocky mount
aims. 1t forms the first rough sketch
and axis of America. But it belongs
to period even earlier than the pri-
mary rocks of ordinary British geology
"a period inconceivably and incalcu-
lably remote-it has been exposed for
countless centuries to the wearing
etfecs of rain, frost, snow and rivers.
In many places, therefore, the Lauren
tian range is reduced to mere low
plain of very solid gneiss. much
scratched in strange hieroglyphics by
the vast glaciers of the great ice age,
aud sometimes even followed out into
beds of lakes or traversed by the basins
of existing streams.
Many parts of it, occupied by great
sheets of water, actually fall below sea
level. Yes, even to this day, in it's dis
honored age, the Laurentian country,
however flat, preserves certain vague
mountain characteristics in the bare
ness of its rocks, the picturesque detail
of its sparse pine-elad slopes, ard the
number and beauty of its wild torrent
cataracts. You feel instinctively You
are in a mountain country, though you
stand in the midst of great UNMARRIED
plain. The Laurentian region is like
Scotland, pressed flat, or like the Dol
omites of Auvergne, with the wrinkles
ironed out of them. 1t has nothing in
common with the great plains which
have always been plains, and nothing
more-alluvial silt of river deltas-like
Holland, Lombardy, or the flat center
of Russia.
As the oldest mountains are thus
most worn out so. conversely, the
highest chains are those of most geo.
logically recent origin-the nouveaux
riches, as it were, among the orograph-
ical ariStocracy. From time to time
the earth makes itself new coat; but,
before long, as with other garments,
the nap gets worn off. the elbows
crack. and the seams become thread
bare. All the higher ranges now
known on earth are demcnstrablv not
earlier in origin than the tertiary times.
Compared with venerable pensioners
like Mount Sorrel or the Thousand
Islands of the St. Lawrence basin. the
Alps and the Andes are but things of
yesterday. Auvergne we'll may look
down upon the Pyrenees. The tops of
some of the highest Swiss mountains
consist of miocene rocks; in other
words as late as the miocene period,
the year before last of the geological
chronologist, the area occupied by the
rearing crags of the Jungfrau and the
Matterhorn slumbered at peace be-
meath IL deep sea and received there
the muddy or sandy deposits which
now figure as rocks on the jagged
Alpine SUBMITS. The upheaval of the
Alpine axis was very recent event.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-10-30
ON THE ORIGIN OF THE AlPHABE rs.
Thoughts Suggested by a Man who Has
Read Much Manuscript.

Those vino are obliged to read the
handwriting OF q number of cores
pondents are aware how large por-
ton of educated men write more or
less illegibly, and that, except in eases
of imperfect sight or of au unsteady
hand, this want of clearness is mainly
due to hurry. The writer sketches the
general effect of word so as to give
himself the least trouble in conveying
its meaning. and omits all strokes,
dots. and stops which he thinks not to
be absolutely required. Nor is this
only to be observed in civilized Eu-
rope, for the handwriting OF Orentals
who use the varieties of the Arabic
alphabet is equally rendered illegible
by the same causes.
1t is in the recognition of this desire
TO save labor that the underlying prin-
ciple to be followed in tracing the
growth of all geographic systems is to
be found. not even excepting the most
cumbrous and labOrious of existing
methods-the Chinese-and the knowl-
edge of this principle has enabled
scholars to place on a secure basis the
study of ancient models of writing.
The crude attempts made century
ago by those who had not at their COM
mand the wealth of geographic evil
dence which has now been gathered,
who regarded the square Hebrew of
their own times as All original char
acter already existing in the days of
Moses. who saw no objection to at
tributing the early Christian .'Sinaitic
Inscriptions to the Israelites, or the
coins of the Hasmoneans to the Kings
of Judah, have now been superseded
by a sounder study of facts, and the
recovery by De Sarzec of very early
Babylonian texts on the statues of Tell
Lo, and that of yet more archaic in
scriptions in Syria and Asia Minor and
Cyprus, has rendered it possible to
trace with certainty the progress of
the art of writing.
From the hurried scrawl of a mod
ern Arabic epistle to the carefully en-
graved letters of the Moabite stone is
a transition so complete hat, if we were
not possessed of the intermediate steps
represented by the Nabathean and the
Cutie, we should never be able to feel
satisfied that the Arabic alphabet is a
direct lineal descendant of the Phe-
nician. Yet not only is this the case,
but the story of the Ph9nician let
ter itself can be carried back from
the ninth century B. c. for length
OF time equal to that which divides
our own days from those of Solomon;
and the wcll-defned form of the Mo-
abite symbols is found also to result
from continual and very gradual
change, which has produced conven-
tional shape from what was original
ly the carved figure of a natural OBJ
ject. 1t has been proved, over and
over again, by Independent scholars
working at different systems of writ
ing-such as the Chinese, the cunei-
form, or the Egyptian-that no people
ever invented an arbitrary system of
writing, or ever originated an alphabet
as such by any mutual assent. All the
known graphic systems originate in
picture-writing as rude rs that of the
American Indian or of the South Afri-.
can bushman.-1he Edinbury ReUiew.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-10-30
To Escape From TOrnadOes.

When trying to escape from tor
nado never run to the northeast, east,
or southeast. Never take refuge in a
forest or grove of trees, or near any
object that may be overturned by the
one built of brick or stone. The form
er is more elastic and holds together
longer; the latter goes down in the
first crash and the debris is whirled
into a heap in center of the foundation.
In frame structure the cellar is the
safest place, but in 4 brick or stone
building it is the most perilous. In
the former case the debris is carried
away from the foundation, while in the
latter instance the cellar is filled with
it.
The tornado cave offers absolute
security to life and limb. and no means
of protection can replace 1t for that
purpose. As regards protection to
property, no building can be made
sufficiently large. strong, high, or low
to resist the force of the tornado's vor-
tex. There is no changing the path of
the tornado by the employment of ex-
plosives or by any artificial barrier.
To contemplate the dispersion of the
cloud by the use of any electrical con-
trivance is also idle. All buildings
should be constructed as would be
done without the knowledge of the
tornado. and then protected by legiti-
mate insurance. Protection must be
accomplished by organized capital, the
safety of one being assured by the
legitimate and successful cooperation
of many.
The writer strongly advocated this
method of protection during his tor
nado investigations in the West in 1879,
and now several million dollars worth
of property are thus i Sured every
year.-Foruna.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-10-30
GATHERINGS WRATHFUL CRUELTY.
How Czarina Punished Prince veritzin
for Smile.

The VeritZins were mobiles of enor-
nous wealth and power. Paul held Il
high office in court. One night, gilt
terins with jewels and orders. the
young prince. who was one of the
handsomest men in Russia, danced in
quadrille opposite the empress.
As she passed him in the dance she
fancied that his eyes scanned her gross
figure with covert amusement. After
the quadrille she beckoned to him, and
with smile handed him her tiny ivory
tablets, containing seven pages, one
for each day in the week. On the first
was written:
The imperial ball room, St. Peters
burg"
On the last:
The mines. Siberia"
He read it; his face grew gray as
that of a corpse; he bowed low. kissed
her hand and withdrew, taking"
says the old chronicle. .'his wife, the
beautiful princess of Novgorod. with
him." He was heard to say as he left
the ball room:
MY minutes are numbered; let US
not lose one"
rHSnC OF resistance was Impossible.
The hold of Catherine on her victim
was inexorable rs death Prince Ver-
itzin was forced to remain passive in
his palace while each day the power.
the wealth and the happiness that life
had given him were stripped from him.
First he was degraded from all his
offices at court; next his estates were
confiscated by the crown; his friends
were forbidden to hold any communi-
cation with him; his very name, one Of
the noblest in Russia, was taken from
him, and he was given that of a serf.
Then his wife and children were driven
out of the palace to herd with beggars.
The last day" says the record,
Paul Veritzin, in rags aud barefoot,
chained to convict, babe an eternal
farewell to his home, and departed to
the dark and icy north. He was seen
of men no more. - Chatter.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-10-30

Attorney defending prisoner charged
with swindiing)-''Your Honor, one of
the witnesses alleges that my client
rung a cold deck on him. A cold
deck, your Honor. it may be necessary
to explain, is a" Judge (of Mon
tana court severelD-'.The assump-
ton that the court doesn't know what
a cold deck is, Mr.. Sharp, is an i'm
pertinence that will subject you to a
fine for contempt if persisted in. Pro-
ceed with your argument. y Chicago
Tribune.
The Sunday-school teacher had been
reading the story of the fall of man.
Scholar-"You'ye told us what Adam
said, and what Eve said, and what
Satan said, but that can't be the whole
of it. What did Chauncey NJ. Depew
say?" Teacher - :'Chauncey NJ. De-
pew?" Scholar = Yes; he always
comes into the stories the governor
reads In the papers. If you can't tell
what Chauncey said the story's no
good. I've got SOS always to look for
what he says and reckon no story's
straight unless he figures in it."-Bos-
ton Transcript