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Christmas Sports.
The Telegraph and Metuhger of the 27th
contains four bloody homicides within lees
then a hundred miles of Macon.
Dr. J. B. Dun woody, of Houston count/,
was called out of bis bouse on Thursday
night and shot dead b/ an unknown assassin.
A young man named Stiles, (not Styles,)
shot and killed a. young man named Crouch,
at Oglethorpe, on the S. IV. Railroad, about
3 o’clock Christmas raoro’ng. • Quarrelled
about a womar ..-Stiles fled.
Mr. Matt Murphy, a most efficient and
Rare Chance for Advertisers!
On Thursday, 7th of January, we shall is-
sue an edition—the first of the'Otb volume
of the Haws— of Three Thousand Cottas
for distribution among our. subscribers, and
popu>ar policeman, was shot and probably
killed on the 20th, by a desperado by the
name of Begley, from Chattahoochee county,
whom he was It,In, o arrest. The two
Bagievs were pursued, a desperate fight cn-
RE-ANNOUNCE
AS WELL, AS
To Their Numerous Customers & Friends!
Milledgeville, 3 p. m. 2(Uh, Fred Me*
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Flashes.
Ei ' *
. vannah News says the committee of five
Appointed st the meeting of the stockholders
count/, unices .ubjcrlplloo is 0 f the Cenlrnl r.llw./ nt Sstnnnnb. cn tbn
to 10th lost.; to present the names of twenty six
r(j ^are-holders from whom thirteen directors
. are to be chosen in January, have reported
Uie following name*:
W. M. Wadley, Usury Hull. Robt. N,
'be Saran- ben, ' v - w - Gordon, J- Rsoers. Francis Muir,
.. iv Tbos. H. Austin, Jno. R. Wilder, Oen. U.
air. w. M M>8orre „ t Geo Gwens, H. J. Havant,
rgla Game Walter 8. Chisholm, George Cornwell, Geo.
‘Magistrate A. Mercer. William Hunter, Andrew Low,
s aaeinat Gen. J. F. Gilmer, A. J: White, J. F.Boie-
u man, of Atlanta, W. Alexander, or Griffin, J.
weorge «. „ Kos## ofMaoon W SS. K Garrlaou. of New
lomon anil y 0 ,k, Moms Ta/lor. of N.» Tort.
lelr posses' ■ —i mi a—
gams laws. Haavv ox Halstbad.—The Cincinnati En-
e a number <l u ' rer H»na speaks of its neighbor*:
“The gray-haired, pot-bellied buffoon of
ken to the lhe Commercial, whose etephan-
npon exam- tine gambols and stela witticism have about
round they placed that once valuable newspaper on a
r.nned ard with Joe Miller’s Jest-book, has pro-
thl aft.r T0ked lh0 iro “* e • dltor ' of **
meaner- Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Watterson
rds to the is a humorists, too, but in the artiole which
d released we reproduce elsewhere he drope the cap
Association * n<1 bel,a t0 draw a striking likensas of the
, «ltk thb • 1 » n,,eroo,, » foul-longned. envious, lying
» with tbs Halstead. U will be recognised in this latl-
rest of all tude.”
dating the Some editors in ibis latitude would aetual-
II be quite ly regard that as personal, but Halstead rel
ishes it as an advertisement.
1, hne of them was killed, and the slayer
We Aallgo to the cxpenseVf scattering the of Murphy was wounded, captured and
riilicn ewMeh al^lAe counties of Sooth- '“««■ 3* il - L/nchin, wu lbrcnlcn-;.!.
uestem Georgia, an.l shall-take pain, to sports » bhW tragedy inja
. iztL A I'J , - . ' i bagnio. Young Watkins, son of Harry Wat*
place ^ n e an 3 o men w o arc va ua- the commed’an, stabbed a woman nd
ble to ns as readers, and valuable to adver* then plunged his kn'fe in George Kern agar,
t’sers as observers and bnyferv.' * who interfered to rescue the woman, infllct-
To Wholesalu Dbalebs Ajffi Jobbebs fog a «•} wortd. Watk«ns was ai vested.
This will be n splendid i
reaching the mercantile men oT^his entire]Combs, quite a young-
ccctioCirit Uonr InlcrnTfe co .. Wtnntl/billed b/ Hoc.cc Wll.no uud l-ct.
K Meadows. Many shots wers fired, there be-
practicable, to pltwctbepnpcr In ecer/ slore, lnglhr „ of , ho MoCombj p „ Mnt .
ttbcp, saloon and hotel on the cations lines kowerer, waaqiiarmr.1. Wilson and Meadow,
of Railway in Southwestern Georgia. Car- were both arrested,
riers wHl-be dispatched for:Jhe purpose cf t In our Bailiwick; we have only one case of
carrying out this promise. pistolling and one of cold steel. On Christ-
The paper will be on. of 1 ncLcnal interest. <$• *»«"»*• ,ob ° *° d J * mM brolb '
. .......... u .v * ere, residing last over the county line on the
and we estimate that It will be read b/ not wbrtb 5 g J „ t lnlt ,„ Sgblj ,/ d lhe Ull „
less than was seriously stabbed by the former. We
have none of the particulars.
and those * On Saturday, tho 2Gtb. a Mr. Westoo, of
Macon and AtlanU^who des’M Worth, wsb compelled to shoot a negro in
in and prosperous ? eU defeD8e Tho woani WM Berious, bnt
we forgot to inquire whether the negro died,
populalion^wc tender ns much spjice as they
, __ .aire, and shall charge them no more,]'*
than oiir nmnl rates.
Old Scn'eaiBEBs Oerril Smith 1. de td, and gone to bunt op
“ m . .. . ,44* old John trowo.
Are respectfully appealed teto aquare ae- ^ te h „ iIlltruc
counts to date, and to. renew for lhe New from Grant> , 0 be in New Orleans as a
Year. Though we have given them an accep- casual visitor on the 4th, on the occasion of
table paper heretofore, we asm£ them they the assembling of the Legislature,
shall l*rre|:belter one in future, as we shslp The Stesmship Capsapatrock, bound from
be energetically and - ably assisted by two' Lon d°n to New York, was burned off 8t He-
iournalisls ■ ena ’ anii pewons perished.
" Congreesmao Crocker, of the 10th Mass.
District, died on the 28lb.
M .* '^Dan A. Bysrly, who was stabbed in New
out next week may^ 0r | ean9j bj Warmoth. died the next day,
sample of what M d was followed to the grave by eighty oar-
can surely be relied on for the year, and we jriagea and »long procession afoot. Byerly
sincerelyTioVc that^our enterprise will be managing editor of the Bulletin. A
d'del was pending between Mr Jewell, of lhe
seme paper, and Warmoth, which was to
have been fought with pistole on the 28tb.
pay postage on every paj
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October lfi-fim
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