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The Carroll County Times 1879
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll
County, Georgia for NOVEMBER 1879, DECEMBER 1879
NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 7, 1879
GEORGIA News
From "The Columbus News"
Yesterday morning the news reached this city of a terrible tragedy which took
place the day before in Hamilton. We could not learn the particulars as to how
the difficulty arose, but it seems that a man named Matheny and another man
named Calhoun who were at work on the track laying of the Columbus and Rome
Railroad, had a difficulty about the work. They afterward went into town and
both got under the influence of whiskey, when the quarrel was renewed. During
the difficulty, Matheny drew his knife and cut Calhoun's throat. When the
train left Hamilton yesterday morning, Calhoun was still alive, but it was
thought he could not live long. Several rumors in the city yesterday said that
he was dead, but they were not reliable. Matheny has fled the country. A
detachment of men from Harris county were in the city yesterday looking for
him, but met with no success. He is badly wanted at Hamilton.
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Jordan Reese, an old citizen of Meriwether county, is dead.
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Mr. George W. Neely was married by the Rev. Jas. Stacy in Newnan on the 30th
ultimo, to Miss Olive E. Merrell.
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The Hon. L.L. Hardy who represented Troup county last year in the
constitutional convention, was recently married to Mrs. Celestia Walker of West
Point.
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The West Point News says, that Charles Stuart Parnell, the Irish Home Rule
Leader, has a brother Mr. John H. Parnell who is living in West Point. He
visited this place while in America some years ago. The Parnells boast a
lineage of which any nobleman might be proud, but their sympathies are with the
opressed.
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The Cedar Creek correspondent of the Newnan Herald reports that in the Herald
issue of the 4th inst., the following is noted: "The Hyde family of the United
States have become heirs to over one hundred million dollars, and some of our
neighbors belong to the fortunate family. We have just read a letter from a
gentleman of Greenville, S.C. asking for the names of all the Hydes in the
country, together with the names of their ancestors, and where they were born,
etc. From the history of the family there can be but little doubt as to the
connection of the Hyde family of this county with the Hyde family of England.
It is said it is better to be born lucky than rich."
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LOCAL News
Willie Jones who recently left here with the intention of following Horace
Greely's advice to "go west" has located we understand, in Indian Territory.
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Married, on the 2nd inst., at the residence of the bride's father Dr. I.N.
Cheney, Mr. Willie J. Perdue to Miss Lucy J. Chandler, the Rev. W.W. Roop
officiating.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 14, 1879
DEATH OF SENATOR JNO. A. SPEER
From the Atlanta Constitution of the 11th inst., we learn of the death of
Senator Jno. A. Speer of this Senatorial district, which occurre don the 10th
inst. at Clifton Springs, New York, whither he had gone just before the session
of the Legislature closed, with the hope of being benefitted in health. Senator
Speer had sufferend for several years from bad health. The Constitution gives
the following short sketch of his career:
Senator Speer represented the 37th senatorial district composed of the counties
of Troup, Heard and Carroll. He was forty-five years of age and a man of force
and character. He was born in Abbeville district of South Carolina, of a
family of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and his ancestry containes names famous in
the history of South Carolina and illustrious in the history of the
Revolution.
He received his education at Oglethorpe University and was a man of information
and thought. He became a student of the law under Judge Buchanan, now judge of
the Coweta circuit, and as the senior one of the firm of Speer & Speer, has
always had a large and lucrative practice. He was a captain in the Confederate
Army and served to the end of the war. He has won reputation not only as an
eloquent orator and able lawyer, but as a wife and successful financier. He
has been all the while a director and large shareholder in the LaGrange banking
and trust company, in which one of his brothers are officers. In 1878 he was
one of the Georgia commissoners to the Paris Exposition, and spent some time in
European travel.
Senator Speer was a man of stern integrity and rigid moral character. He was
admired and respected by all who knew him and his loss will be deeply felt in
LaGrange and surrounding country. As a senator he was thoroughly the
conscientious legislator and gave to his public duties the most painstaking
labor and devotion. He was a positive man in all he did and his acts will
always read well whether upon the records of private or public life. The
remains of the deceased will doubtless pass through here enroute to LaGrange
tomorrow or Thursday.
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To Editor of the Times,
I would like to say through your columns to the Hyde family and representatives
that there is $300,000,000. now in the bank of England for distribution to the
Hyde family of America. It is in this as in everything else, that "union is
strength." The Hydes of New York have met and elected a president to manage
their interest. How would it suit for us of Georgia to do the same. Say we
meet in Newnan on the 15th of December, get our records up and decide what
course to pursue. If it is for us, we had as well have it as any other. I
merely suggest the time and place; I would like to hear from others on the
subject. What thou doest, do quickly. Charles H. Hyde.
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GEORGIA News
Mrs. John Spinks of Dallas, is dead.
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The Franklin News gives the following account of a fatal accident which
happened lately in that county: "Last Saturday night at the residence of Mr.
Camp, seven miles north of Franklin, occurred one of the saddest accidents it
has been our duty to record. An idiot son of Mr. Sanders Faver, about 23 years
of age, was accidentally shot and almost instantly killed by Mr. Jesse Camp,
one of Heard county's most highly respected young men.
The particulars of the sad affair are about as follows. It seems that the
deceased was very fond of hunting and would freqauently take his father's dogs
and go out rabbit hunting. On Saturday evening last, he took the dogs, two or
three in number, and went off into the woods hunting. About night, he went to
Mr. William Jackson's and stopped and ate supper. After supper Mr. Sam.
Jackson started home with the deceased, but before they got there, Mr.
Jackson's dogs treed a possum near the road, and Mr. Jackson thinking that the
deceased could find his way home, there being no road to mislead him, pointed
out the way to him and went to catch the possum.
The deceased went on towards home with his dogs, and when he came to Mr.
Camp's, who lives on the road he was traveling, Mr. Camp's dogs barked at him;
he hissed his dogs on, and they jumped over into the yard and commenced
fighting Mr. Camp's dogs. Mr. Jesse Camp hearing the noise, took his double
barreled gun and rushed out on the piazza and seing the deceased sitting down
in the road and thinking he was a dog, took aim and fired, the whole load
entering his left breast, killing him almost instantly.
One of the dogs ran up to the deceased and Mr. Camp seeing it, discharged the
other barrel of his gun at it. The dog fell and commenced howling and he went
out to knock it in the head when he was horrified to see poor
unfortunate "Tunny" Faver lying dead on the ground. He went back into the
house and told the sad story to his father and mother and a runner was sent
with the sad intelligence to the parents of the deceased. The news spread like
wild-fire and by midnight a large crowd had gathered at the scene of the
accident. This unfortunate affair will bear heavily upon Mr. Camp's feelings.
He has the sympathy of everybody in the community.
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The Rev. James Wilson, living in LaGrange, is 96 years old and is hale and
hearty. He has lived in Troup county for 46 years and has been preaching 60
years.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 21, 1879
GEORGIA News
William Segraves, a young man living near Griffin, committed sucide the other
day by shooting himself with a pistol. Cause, whiskey.
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Mrs. Henly of Paulding county is dead.
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Gen. M.D. Ector who recently died in Texas, was formerly a citizen of
Meriwether county. The Meriwether Vindicator says that he represented that
county in the Legislature in 1845 and 1846, his colleague being the Hon. Allen
Rowe of Carroll county. Gen. Ector was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals
of Texas and was absent from home attending court at the time of his death. He
was a distinguished soldier of the Southern Army during the late war.
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LOCAL News
There is a cat belonging to Mr. Elisha Gentry that was born in the fall of 1864
and hence is now over 15 years old. He is said to be quite active and is yet a
good ratter. His name is Jeff Davis.
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We notice in the Newnan Herald of last week that Mr. E.S. Roberts of Whitesburg
in this county was married on the 5th inst. to Miss Emma E. Wright. The Rev.
J.H. Hall officiated.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 28, 1879
GEORGIA News
A man by the name of Teagle shot another man by the name of Hodge at Rocky
Mount, Meriwether county, last week. Teagle and Hodge were brothers-in-law,
but the former's wife was dead and he charged Hodge and the rest of the family
of turning against him since her death. One word bringing on another, the
result was as above stated. Hodge is seriously, though not fatally wounded.
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From the Marietta Journal
Unprovoked Shooting
We learn that last Monday, Mr. Charlie Ozburn went to Mr. Hugh McCurdy's store
seven miles from Marietta, on the Powder Springs road, walked up to the
counter, paid a small debt to the proprietor, and turning around, he saw a
negro man named Lewis Williams, sitting in the store, the sight of whom seemed
to arouse his anger, and he exclaimed, "you have been talking about me, G --D---
you!" and simultaneously with the remark, he drew his pistol and shot the
negro in the left breast, and the negro fell to the floor mortally wounded.
Ozburn then walked out of the store, when the two McEachern boys caught ahold
of him to stop him, when he defiantly drew another pistol from his pocket and
told them to turn him loose. They being unarmed, complied, and Ozburn went
home and told his father of the circumstance and left for parts unknown.
Sheriff Stephens being on duty at Cobb Superior court now in session, sent Mr.
John Mohon and Constable Morris in pursuit, but Ozburn had made good his
escape. Williams, we learn, died Tuesday evening. It is surmised that the
offense given by the negro was that he reproted Ozburn for carrying a concealed
pistol, and the Grand Jury had found a true bill against him. A grand
juryman wouldn't tell who did report Ozburn, but he says that it wasn't the
negro Lewis Williams, he is certain. Charlie Ozburn is a young man of a good
family and we never heard aught against him before. It is regretted that he
should follow his temper to involve himself in the committal of this unlawful
act.
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THE SPRINGER ESTATE
LaGrange People Heirs to an Immense Fortune
Last week a paragraph appeared in the West Point News, relative to the
connection of Mrs. C.W. Mabry of LaGrange, with the immense fortune which
belongs to the Springer heirs, who are scattered all over the United States.
We had heard something of this, but preferred not to say anything about it
until we could get the particulars. Col. Mabry has very kindly put in our
possession the papers which he has collected relating to the subject and from
them, we learn the following facts:
Christopher Springer, who died in 1669 in Sweden, was a nobleman, very wealthy
and in high favor with the reigning monarchs of that country. At one time he
was minister to Prussia, and by his judicious management of a vexed question,
prevented what threatened to be a bloody war between that country and his own.
He held several other high offices at different times, offices which correspond
to the Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of the Treasury and Judge of the
Supreme Court in the Unitd States at the present day.
He was endowed by the King with two valuable country seats in the province of
Upsala. His wife was the daughter of an eminent musician, was renowned for her
piety and other virtues, and was "Lady Companion to her Majesty, the Queen."
It will be seen that these were ancestors of whom any one might feel proud.
This Christopher Springer had, besides other children, a son, Carl Christopher
Springer, born 1658, a very promising young man, whom he sent to England to
complete his education. While in London one evening, returning to the house of
Lindenburg, the Swedish consul, with whom he made his home, Carl Christopher
Springer was kidnapped by force, hurried on board a vessel and carried to
Jamestown, Virginia. Here he was sold to a planter for five years. After
working out his time, he made his way, on foot and alone, through the forests
and over rivers, through dangers and difficulties, almost insurmountable, to a
colony of Swedes, which had been established on the Delaware river, where
Wilmington now stands.
He was warmly received and soon became what his education fitted him for, one
of the leading men in the colony. He did all the corresponding with the mother
country and with England; was a lay reader in the church and taught not only
the children in the colony, but also the Indians in the vicinity. He was
chiefly instrumental in procuring from William Penn, the grant of the land,
which the colony occupied. In the meantime, Carl Christopher Springer, like
the good man that he was, fell a victim to the charms of pretty Mary
Hendriksdatter, and they were married. From this union came nine children, the
seventh of whom was named John Springer. This John had ten children, the
fourth being John Springer junior. John Springer junior had four children.
The second, William G. Springer, was the father of Mrs. Mabry. He was also the
father of twelve other children, one of whom, Mary, was the mother of Mr. Wm.
G. Springer Martin, the sheriff of Troup county.
These Springers seem to have been good people. All of the sons of the old,
original Christopher Springer's, held high offices of honor and trust in
Sweden, except Carl Christopher Springer, who was kidnapped, and he, although
he held no office, was a leader and devoted himself to the good of the people.
John Springer, the grandfather of Mrs. Mabry and the great grandfather of Mr.
Martin, was a Presbyterian minister. He was ordained under the famous "big
poplar" near Washington, Ga., and was moderator of the first presbytery ever
organized in Georgia.
Now as to the fortune. Nearly the whole of the ground on which Wilmington,
Delaware is built, formerly belonged to Carl C. Springer and his children. By
them, it was leased for a long term of years. This lease having expired, the
titles revert to the heirs of the Springers, who originally owned it. This, we
understand, is admitted by the citizens of Wilmington, but they do not believe
that the heirs can trace their descent in such a manner as to recover in the
courts. The heirs are very confident that they can. They have organized
themselves into an association, with officers and committees, and they have
raised a fund to pay the expenses of the investigation and prosecution. They
are "in for the war" and are going to fight it out. They reside in almost
every state in the Union and are quite numerous. Hon. W.M. Springer, member of
congress from Illinois, is one of them.
They claim also to be heirs to a portion of the estate of Christopher Springer,
whom we mentioned as dying in Sweden in 1669, and they are going to prosecure
their claims to that. It is impossible now to even approximate the value of
the property to which they think they are entitled. It is quite large,
however, and will be very acceptable to them all.
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COMMUNICATION FROM J.C. BRANTLEY, Marshall of Whitesburg
We have received a long communication purporting to be written by J.C.
Brantley, marshall of Whitesburg, in reference to the killing of the two
negroes there not long since. The communication gives Brantley's side of the
affair, and as what we have published in reference to the matter, he says,
misrepresents him, we shall publish his statement. We have compared the
handwriting of the communication to the handwriting of Brantley in the Clerk of
the Superior court's office and it certainly looks the same.
The communication is headed Carroll county, Georgia and is enclosed in a large
envelope. It was mailed at Whitesburg. The writer is very anxious that the
communication should be published. Fifteen cents is enclosed to pay for two
papers, one to be sent to Mrs. Brantley, Whitesburg, and the other to a lady in
Florida. (The statement will appear in the next issue of the Times).
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LOCAL News
Mr. Burrell Word, just from Texas where he spent a year roaming about over the
country generally, came up on the train last Tuesday. He went down to Bowdon
on Wednesday. He is very well pleased with Texas.
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Mr. Willis McLendon of Meriwether county, father of Mr. Isaac McLendon, this
county, has 12 children living, the youngest of whom is 25 years of age; 76
grand and great grandchildren, all of them also living. His wife with whom he
lived 52 years, died last September. He himself is now 71 years old and can
walk, we are told, 30 miles a day. Of his 12 children, 7 are boys and not one
of them was ever intoxicated.
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BOWDON News
John Sewell and Mr. Pollard have sold out and are bound for Tennessee, where
they can raise clover and grass, where they can have butter and milk and hog
and hominy. But look out that they don't move back. If they do not, others are
filling their places. Messrs. Finley and Hancock are moving in from Pike
county.
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GEORGIA News
Mr. Joseph Massingale of Meriwether county is dead.
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NEWSPAPER Isswue of Friday, DECEMBER 5, 1879
BRANTLEY'S STATEMENT
To Editor of the Times: I want to correct the statement you published about
me. There must be a misunderstanding about it. On Saturday night the 20th
October 1879, Henry Preston came to me to go with him to get some things which
his step-daughter had taken from him, viz: one table, one lamp, one shirt. I
said to him, that is not the way to get them, you will have to get them by a
legal course. Henry then said, Mr. Brantley, if you will go with me she will
give them up without any trouble. So I went with him and when we got there, I
asked his stepdaughter if she had the things that Henry Preston claimed and she
said she did. I told her that Henry had come after them, when she said that
Henry had given them to her, but Henry said he had not. I told her to give
them up and have no fuss about it.
About this time, Henry snatched the lamp off the fire-board and they had a
scuffle over it. Henry held on to it and carried out of the house and hid it,
I suppose. He then came back after the table. When he came back, I was
standing in the partition door. She picked up the table and tried to knock me
down with it, and said "Henry Preston, here is your old table, take it and go
to __ with it." As she was using profane language all the time, in a loud
tone, which was calculated to disturb the good order of the town, I told her
that if she didn't behave herself I would have to arrest her. She
replied "arrest and be ___. You are nothing but a __poor white rake." I then
put my hand upon her shoulder and told her to consider herself a prisoner and
go with me. She said "I am going to hunt the shirt before I go." I
said, "well, hunt for it." She then began to tear things up and look for the
shirt but as she could not find it, I said "come and go with me up town." She
said she was not going. I told her I reckon she would, when she said "I'll be
__ if I'll go with you to the calaboose." I then summoned Henry Preston to
assist me in carrying her before the council, but as he would not come, I
called upon him four times, but he never would come. I then looked around and
seeing three or four persons, I became excited. I thought that Henry Preston
had got me off down there for the purpose of mobbing me. I could see it in no
other light, and I then thought that I would have to kill or be killed.
It occurred to me to holler for some one to assist me, but I thought that if I
did make any alarm I would be killed before any one could get to me. I then
looked around and seeing no person before the door, I thought they had placed
themselves on each side for the purpose of giving me a blow. I then became
more excited and frightened than ever. I thought my time had come, I did not
know what to do, but concluded I would carry the prisoner out of the house. I
thought by carrying her out with me, the women out of doors would not make any
attempt to strike me for fear of striking her in place of me. I thought if I
could get out of the house all right, I would turn her loose and go and get
some one to assist me arrest the whole posse.
As I started out the door with her the five or six negro women in the house
bean to curse me and kick and knock me as they tried to take her away. One of
them ran up and gave me a blow in the breast. I shoved her back and told her
that if she did that any more that I would shoot her. She said "shoot and be
__, I don't care." I had my pistol in my hand, my hand and elbow was about
level with the waist of my pants, my pistol was cocked. She coming closer, I
said, "stop right there, don't come any closer." She then tried to kick the
pistol out of my hand and did kick me on the fore finger and thumb, making the
pistol fire and as the pistol fired, somebody gave me a blow and knocked me
down. As I was falling, I shot at the one I thought knocked me down.
After this, I went up town and told two of my friends what I had done and I
told them I did it in self defense and I was ready to stand trial. They then
said, "John, I would not do that, for these negroes will swear anything against
you but the truth."
It is published that I arrested the negro woman because she would not give up
the shirt. This is not correct. What I arrested her for was for using profane
language and it was loud enough to be heard all over town.
While I was in the house I thought from every movement of the negroes that
there was a trick to kill me and that Wash Bearden and his two brothers and
Port Fisher, colored, were into it, because I had put them all in the calaboose
and the Bearden boys had said they would go for me after they got out of the
calaboose. I came very near being killed by them while I was trying to arrest
them, and they went so far as to say that they would kill me when they got
out. Port Fisher said the same thing and that is the reason I did what I did.
I did it through fear of losing my own life.
Under the circumstances I do not feel any remorse of conscience about the
affair. If feel that all is well. Of course I am sorry that the innocent had
to suffer in the place of the guilty. I did not intend to kill the little girl
and did not kill the other one, she did it to herself by trying to kick the
pistol out of my hand. If she had stood back and had not tried to do anything
there would not have been anyone hurt, and if I had not went down there with
that old rascal, it would not have happened. But I never thought of getting
into trouble, for if I had, I would not have gone, not for all the money in the
world. Under the same circumstances I do not think there is a man in
Whitesburg but what would have done the same thing. They all know that my life
was threatened by the party that I have named.
What I have written is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so
help me God. A few more words on the subject. I am charged with a double
murder, which is not so. One shot herself and the other was shot
accidentally. I am sorry that I killed the child. I did not intend to do it,
I shot at the one that knocked me down, and if the grand jury will inquire into
the affair closely they will find it just like I have written it. I want them
to question the witnesses closely.
Every marshall that Whitesburg ever had has been scared out, except me, and I
was run out. I hope no one else will take the marshallship for fear that they
will have to do as I have done, kill or be killed. If I had not been marshall,
I would not have been in this trouble. After the Bearden boys threatened my
life, my friends advised me to go prepared, for they said "your life in in
danger, if they meet you off, they will beat you to death." So one of my
friends loaned me a pistol and I carried it where it could be seen by
everybody. But my advice to everybody that has a pistol, to put it where it
can never be seen, for they have caused more trouble than anything on earth.
It has been published that I was drunk; it is all false. I was sober as I am
at this moment, and knew as well what I was doing, as I do now. I remember
every word that passed during the difficulty.
Well, since some of my friends have gone back on me and my enemies said I
should hang, for I understand that they would have me if I was in the land, as
long as they are putting themselves to so much trouble and expense, I can save
them all of that. The reader may not undertstand this, so I will explain. The
first dream that I remember dreaming in my life, was that I was going to be
buried alive. I have thought of this dream ten thousand times and always
thought it was a warning to me. But what for, I could never tell before. I
tend to bury myself in the Chattahoochee river with a rock about me so that I
never can be seen. But the place where I expect to commit this awful deed, I
will not tell.
Some one will say that I am just telling this to make them believe I am dead. I
intend to do what I have said, and if they do not believe, time will prove it.
I would come up and stand my trial like a man, but I know those negroes would
not tell the truth and the white ___ ___ would believe every word they had
sworn in court. If they would tell the truth I would not be in any trouble,
but as I know they would not, it has stricken me with sorrow and sorrow shall
be mine for ever and ever.
Mr. Editor I wan't you to publish every word I have written. Do not forget to
publish it and do not leave out a single word. This is my own hand write. I
would be glad to see my wife one more time and my four little children. What
is to become of them I cannot tell. I trust that the Lord will provide for
them, but as it is, I never will have that pleasure again. Yours
respectfully, F.J.C. Brantley, Carroll county, Georgia.
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GEORGIA News
Iverston T. Davis, charged with the murder of A.A. Daniel Jr., in Cobb county,
had his trial last week in Cobb superior court and was acquitted.
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LOCAL News
Married on the evening of the 16th inst., by the Rev. J.D.H. Robison, at the
residence of the bride's mother Mrs. Pollie Snow, Mr. John Hanson to Miss
Annie A. Snow. All of Cleburne county, Alabama.
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Married on the evening of the 27th inst. by the Rev. J.D.H. Robison, at the
residence of the bride's mother Mrs. Catherine Roberts, Mr. Wm. H. Benefield
to Miss Josephine O. Roberts. All of Carroll county, Georgia.
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IN MEMORY OF HARRIS A. ASHMORE Jr.
Harris A. Ashmore departed this life November 28th, 1879, aged 19 years, 10
months and 1 day. The funeral and burial was largely attended. The funeral was
preached by Rev. R.P. Lumsden. He was loved by all who knew him. His life was
an example of piety. He bore his afflictions patiently and died in his right
mind. I sat by his bed side when the last fleeting breath took its flight.
Death seemed to be no terror. "Oh death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is
thy victory?" A noble young man has passed away in the spring of life. We
tender our sympathies to the bereaved parents. It is hard to give up your
child, but your loss is his eternal gain. No more toils, no more conflicts to
encounter. He has gone to the better land, where rest is found. Mourn no
more, your boy is no doubt a bright shining angel around the throne of God in
Heaven. S.M. Garrett.
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Messrs. Eugene and George Camp have sold the West place to Mr. Albert
Strickland. They have bought another place near by.
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Mr. J.N. Pope has bought out the interest of his brother Mr. Frank Pope in the
firm of J.N. Pope of Bro. and will continue business in the same stand, alone.
Frank, we understand, contemplates removing to Atlanta, though he is not
certain about it as yet.
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GEORGIA News
On Wednesday night of last week, Mr. S.D. White of Savannah was married to
Miss Viola Frost of LaGrange.
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Mr. James A. Carmical of Coweta county was recently married to Miss Ella A.
Russell.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 12, 1879
LOCAL News
We regret to learn that Mr. James Sewell of the Eleventh district had his hand
badly mangled in his gin. On the day before, Mr. Adamson had his arm hurt.
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Mr. Sam Long and Joel Miller, living a few miles north of Carrollton, left with
their families for Arkansas, the first of the week.
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Married, on the evening of the 3rd inst. by the Rev. W.W. Roop, at the
residence of the bride's father the Rev. John Bonner, Miss Mollie A. Bonner to
Mr. E.B. Martin. All of Carroll county.
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Mr. Ike Fincher, living a few miles south of Carrollton, has sold his place to
Tom Kilgore, late of Dodge county, but formerly a resident of Carroll county.
It is quite probable that Mr. Fincher will move to Lairdsboro.
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GEORGIA News
Mr. L.C. Harris of Cedartown was married at Cave Springs on the 2nd inst., to
Miss Ellie Simmons of the latter place.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 26, 1879
LOCAL News
Mr. Jas. H. Russell, 3 miles southwest of here, has sold out to John S. Floyd
of Palmetto. Mr. Floyd is the father of Mr. Wiley Floyd, merchant at Villa
Rica. Mr. Russell will move to Texas.
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GEORGIA News
Mr. B.H. Mitchell of Newnan is dead. He was 79 years of age and a highly
respected citizen of Coweta county.
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The last issue of the Newnan Herald contains the following marriage notices:
Mr. John A. Weldon of DeKalb county and Miss A.L. Young of Coweta county
Mr. Nathan H. Young and Miss Sarah B. Russell
Mr. Geo. R. Sponcler and Miss Lula Lowe
Mr. H.W. Camp and Miss Mary E. Prince of Walton county
Mr. J.H. Cook and Miss Jennie Strong
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Judge Myrom Ellis, an old citizen of Greenville, is dead.
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The people of Cobb county are agitated about the body snatching incidents.
William Johnson, an old gentleman, recently died in that county and was buried
7 or 8 miles from Marietta on the Roswell road at a Baptist church. Not long
since, it was discovered that his grave had been opened and his body taken
away. Suspicion pointed to a colored janitor of one of the Atlanta medical
colleges as one of the guilty parties. He was arrested and carried to Cobb
county where he was tried and found guilty. The penalty for robbing graves is
$1000. or twelve months on the chain gang, or both, and applies to the party
buying the body as well as the thief.
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LOCAL News
Married on the 23rd inst., at the residence of Dr. F.M. Thomasson, Mr. Tyre A.
Johnson to Miss Mattie R. Coker. The ceremony was performed by Dr. J.R.
Thomasson.
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