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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER.
V ELLEN J. DORTCEI VOL, VI. NO. 33
THE TIRRIBLE DEED OF AN
UNGRATEFUL, WILLFUL,
DISOBEDIENT SON.
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OM WOOLFOLF, TllE MUR¬
DERER OF HIS FATHER,
MOTHER AND SIX
COMPANIONS.
Hacon the Scene of a Terrible Trag¬
gedy on Saturday. Threat of
Lynching the Murderer.
Prisoner Removed to
the Atlanta Jail.
TIIE PRIONER DENIES THE
ACCUSATION.
On the morning of the s>xth in
stanf, twelve anil a half miles fiorn
iMacon, the most frightful crime was
committed, of which we have an y
[account in the lustoiy of this State
[About two o’clock in the morning,
Richard F. Wool folk, his wife, six
children, and Mrs Temperance West
the aged aur.t of Mrs Woolfolk were
all brained with an ax by Thomas G.
Woolfolk, the son of Richard F.
Mr Woolfolk was a prosperous
farmer, Mrs. Woolfolk was a woo
man of fine appcarauce, was kind
hearted and highly esteemed, The
children were intelligent, handsome
and amiable. The aunt, Mrs. West
was 84 years old, and was visiting
the family. Altogether, they form¬
ed a most pleasant and happy lam
P>y
Tom, the f upposed murderer, was
the child of a former wife, he was
peculiar ir, his manners and habits
and was considered eccentric, had
failed in business several times and
|icartily hated his step-mother and
palf brothers and sisters. The mur¬
dered hears lather was fifty - four
old, a courtly gentleman and
[highly esteemed, Mr s. Woolfofk
[was forty-one, and the children were
Richard aged twenty; Miss Pearl a
beautiful and an amiable girl of sev¬
enteen years of age and a graduate
of the Wesleyan Female College,
Annie, 10 years of age, Rosebud 7,
Charles 5, and Mattie 18 months
.Id.
[ The parents, Richard, Charles,
[Pearl [the and the baby were all found in
room occupied as a sleeping
[room that by the parents. It is supposed
Richard, Pearl and Charles
heard the struggle 111 their parents
room and rushed in and were knock
led down as they entered. Mrs West,
[Annie, and Rosebud we^e found in
pie room where they slept.;
Tom weiit to'some negto houses
blithe jd4y<oud farm an hour or two before
gave the alarm. He said he
[heard the blows that killed his fath¬
er and step-mother and being fright
;CBcd, jumped out at he window And
Bed. lie hand no farther noise, ex
iccp? the children crying ss he ran
pfi. Some negroes living on the
blace heard sou-rims at the honse
[about two o’clock Tom denied all
[knowledge of the crime but there-was
blood on his hands, face and” feet
A shirt rind a pair of drawers belongs
ing to him Were fished out of the
veil, and found to b© covered with
blood and brains. He was anesteef
and burned off to Macon to prwrtit
lynching, and the jailor deeming that
it WHMirigafc to keep him in the Ma¬
con jail carried him to Atlanta wbl-re
he is now confined in the jail.
Nil motive can be assigned for the
crime exyppt Ids hatred of jiis 4 »tc)>.
mother and ber children, and a de¬
sire to jfoss.s-i h!s fatMrs estate.
There h» but little doubt of lli» guilt.
The Offense will probably be a plea
insanity.
tile highest Uhivejr»Uy Immoral A ale,
• hi* year, was taken by John Beiseltn
‘ jMMir young man. win* kgs |»»I*I hi*
*m»way tlimugh t .Jlege hi selling
type Ju a iwinflng •*!«**•. IhWert) van*
Mot i*ar dm prngre** of industr),uMUty
h*mI rnartl , .
IIOW YOUR UNCLE JOSEPH
HOLDS I1IS OWN.
‘A\ hiie a very able man anyhow,
much of our distinguished United
States Senator Brown’s wonderful
succsR is due to the fact that he n c ver
never goes back on a frtaud, and
safely fails to punish an enemy* He
make* it a rnb to pay his political as
well as his financial dehfs, and never
rests easy until the account is balanc¬
ed. No decent gentleman, no manly
ma i has any respect whatever for
these snivel service reforms who are
utterly insensible tj an obligation,
and totally incapable of gratitude.
Of cour-e, is is always ' understood
that compt-tcncy, fidelity and hones
ty are prerequisites, but no one
a “corner” on these virtues, and the
rignt sort of a man will diseern these
ailmireuble qualities in a friend who
has done you a kindness as well as in
a straightlaced, “goody-goody” civil
service refonnci. We have in mind
now a very recent occurrence where
a man f jr violation' of these princi¬
ples and for voting against a friend
who had done him a favor, was per¬
sonally denounced to his face anil
publicly in print as an “infamous Gar,”
“a traitor,” and “an Migrate,” and
public sentiment sustain the sen re
arraignment.
JUDGE NOT.
Judge not. It is easier to obey
the ten commandments than those
two simple wordsi and \ ct if we are
never to bear false witness against
ou.* neighbor, we must bo careful
not to judge his actions. Not ti,at
many actions d@ not stand out plain¬
ly enough for judgement, and are
oftentimes absurd enough to pnavke
severe comment, but we cannot read
the motiv ,-s which inq el them, and
owght. therefore, to rcser.ic judg¬
ment until we can,
NOTICE TO FARMERS.
Oa page ’J5 of the Agricultural
list of the Piedmont Exposition ca
ti gue appears the joUowing: *
Maddox, Rucker & Bo., flankers
and Cotton lactors, Atlanta, La., of¬
fer for the best bale of upland cotten
$110 ill gold. Second best 880
Third best 8 J 0 . Tie bales to weigh
not less man 450 pounds, a;d to be
exhibited in the name of the pro¬
ducer^
NOTICE TO DEBTOIW AND
CREDITORS.
All persons having demands aga
inst tfie citri<e of Jas A C Wade
late of; Fra irk I'm county, deceased, arc
hcreby itypified to render in their dt
man.Is to tjie undersigned according
to law, and all j>ersoiis, indebted to
said estate are required to make- im¬
mediate payment. This J tine -Sth
8>7. J. W. Osborc . ■
v* Adiu’lor.*
WHISKEY WINS.
returns from Butts county
show that the election held last week
in
Wtft !C J
i
if iw Thus it will he
seen that the “drys” have made
vnlr gam of l«Hi voter.
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all'MEN \RK NOT,BAD,
Xeilhcr aiFall juepiired rviuvdies
linl/e. 'Jiiia i* proven by llie
reMifts foil-.wine Urn ime of Dr
liar lets Ir* n It ipe fi r *.Dj * j
rben*a flbm, H iolnla, jnun*ii*'e, R*i
in*J liy or am I «*•«* ml Wi'umu'iU
CAENESVILLE, GA., TUESDAY August. J 6 1887.
A GEORGIA ROMANCE.
Arrest ot a Runaway Wife ami
Paramour.
“
A special from Monroe of
Gth, says: One of the strange inq.
dents of the recent heavy rains in
Georgia, was the arrest of a
wife with her paramour, in the
of her own husband. Five years
J M Coker, a farmer in
county, married the buxom
of his adjoining neighbor. The
briile was the belle of the
meetings, and entertained the visit
j n „ ( fergymen with a graea which
won , for her the admiration ... or ... the
; ljnorai(l!( W hh the (light ol
the love of the laily for her lord
less intense, and the neighbors hint
ed that the surplus was lavished
Bruce Barber, a young man of
appearance, and Whose father owned
oiic of the finest planfajjQxis m the,
fioun/y. The for.d husband never
dreamed of infidelity, and ouly real
ized the fact, when, on one
evening his wife failed to return
h:me, she baa not been at the rest
deuce of her father ttrat day, Then
the absence of Bruce Barber was no
treed, and it became but too evident
that the pair had elope 1 . This 03 -
curreil about eighteen months ago.
tint Coker w as a changed man.
Everything reminded him of his
iijincd happiness, lie resolved upon
a change of scene, and selling out
his possessions,“lie removed to the
Alcorn river valley, in Walton conn
ty, where he bought,a.Aarm, built a
nice house, and? .started' life -anew,
1 ^:-seemed the as if when he was bv about to - for
gilt past,, a strange
circ 11 in stance; Be repented the’ whole
matter. When the , terrible rains of
tins week began, Coker was in this
city, and becoming water • bound,
could not return home. At the same
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time a lady and a gentleman riding
m a buggy st opped at the farmers
house. They stated that they lived
near ,Ncwton factory, in Notvtoh
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cohnty; that the were caught 011 the
wr ong side of the Albova liver, and
Hie bridge being dmvu could not
cress, and would have to wait un til
tiie waters subsided.' For iwo"
ihey made their home in the lioriso
and were seated at dinner when the
owner returhed. There at his own
board Coker saw liiq vtife and her
The sce'ne May readily
be imagined. Coker culled in sever
al neighbors and had the couple nr
rested, and they ate now being tried
before Justidb Lawrence. They
deny their identity with the guilty j
couple, but Coker swears positively ! i
to them.—Courier-'Journal
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WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
, rtikn!""»
cciaii says. During m* • ; 11 t I
the practice of medicine, I usM.n
gnat deal of the pTcpfiation 'mown
as Motl.i i’s Fv.cr.d, and want 1o
loT»X d ikV^»"Lr n
u
ea.y, hu.tens .Mivei T )in<l re
mother and child. No woman can
Ik- indui'ed to-gi througtf the'imieal
Without .tafh-ronce using It huTe
also sold iti.sa driggwt, with tin
1 1 st v' of Mithlcctii " ‘ u. It is certuinly J
its weight in gold. ..
a mill
.All drni sell it. Foi jilt,it
luis i.ud fiJIdiri-ttii nsmldresH.
JJ|itI\ld R«j,r!».li 1 Co Atlanta
Di 1.1,. I saiga say*,*harj*ly miMp;
|* (lie inngf*'«it*»ai***l »*
tint vv< VII til him inq down Hi*' i
BRAINS AND FARMING.
> h
The Avocation of the Farmer taken
in a new Light.
*
I The idea once prevailed and does
j now to some extent, tnat Jess skill is
! required in fanning than in almost
any other pursuit. This idea proba
j bly infeiior grew cut of the fact limited that men mtilli- of
j ability and
genee usual’y engage in agrioul
tun-, the fact that such men never
make first rate fanners is lost sight
of. But these false notions are giv. r
ing wav to rational ideas upon lUe
the subject and the fact becomes more
apparent that brains are require! ih
fanning as Well as in other aw >ea
tions.
There lunc been many f .nne.is
who in engaging their help, seem to
think that the requisites anil the only
ones, arc size anil strength of body,
If the applicant tipped the beam at
150 pounds, other defects arc over
looked, with the idea'that he would
becoqiq au an omatlc 'machine to be
guided, anil directed inanimate object
But we ventrre the assertion that
the man who is wound up once-.a
day to work from five in; the morning
to eight in the evening* without (my
thoughts but consuming time and
getting his three meals a day
and his .s ages never made much
money for his employer,
It is true that ifiieient and l.iiel
ligent help upon the farm, is -more
difficult to secure than in mbit other
industries, for lie reason that there
is such a wide field for operations,
while in many employments, there is
only one kind of work to be done,
There arc many oases where the
farm hand is required fo exercise his
own judgement, where the employer
cannot ahvajs be at hand to direct
his com sc, anil the results of an i n 1 -
portart farm opeiatioiu x: ay turn
upon the manner in which he oper¬
ates it.
At the present time when there is
so much improved . and expensive
machinery in use on every well con
ducted farm, the faimcr is compelled
to look to some one with_ more than
the ordinary degree of intelligence, as
a competent and trdsltvoithy euf
ploycc. Ihc drudgery of lann
" or ^ ha 3 been largely lendeie l Ullr
nceccssary by the invention of laboi
saving machines, and brains as xub
as physical strength is now required
*“ *ai m work.
R frequently occurs tba„ .1 pit
of machinery that facilitates work f u
;,nu ,nan w l ' 1 *’" 5 ,l bindrtn.ee 0
another, and not less fi equenily ni.l
tbe latter destroy 11101 c in one d iy
’hu» be can make for hiseiliptoyer in
a week.
Stock raising requires idosc altcn
li on and careful, maiiagement, anil
here a careless and a negligent faun
hand is liable to be a source of great
,U -« " "‘US'
annoys the farmer as the iudHcieul)
rifling hhe’d man i Cli cap Jalror is
.
l ikt . ly t0 become iLc dearest in the
cnd> 0 nc good, trustworthy hand
i ' *’•"". 1C ' l “°. 1,1 “‘
hired man.that.« most ] ruhtable*is
(he one ilial has .he capacity m
.he wibirigness to Iciwn what is
u j rt;< | ol him, and to do
* ’
hivi-braiu .—•rai'in .. and , IIoiuc
mat 1 **'
ki-i-ja-r. ,
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You xi c in a infl'inr III*' face '
briny fo it. *o ibr filing worlduroui-ll
von is a mirror, i.nd you »*'* in if jwtt
m n fuel'. >Vln t v* it judge oilier* to
In> mu al
ADAM; I’.VltAP jIr AND THE
FLOOD.
Here is an item fits so well in every
piirifcnlar that we suspect it is an in
veAlien. But it is worth reading:
.Several years ago there was such a
frdiendous freshet on the Illinois river
that it was for a long time refered to as
" lu ‘"flood.' During a lawsuit at l’co
ri » »“ M »'«»• “«»¥ Adam, living in
a little hamlet on the river known as
Paradise, was examined as a witness.
“What is your name?” was the first
question asked him. “Adam, sir,”
saidhe. “Your name is Adam, is it?
Well, wberf do you live?’? “in l’arar
disc, sir. ,r “Oh, your mime is Adam,
and you live in Paradise, do you? Well,
how long have you lived there?” “Ever
since the flood, sir,” replied* the oid
man, whose words were drowned in a
roar of laughter, in which the court,
jury, counsel and spectators all joined.
—Ex.'
A BRAVE GIRL.
An instance exemplifying,
f».qt “that,the bravest are the ten
derest, the loving are the daring,”
has come to light at Warrentoii, in
this state, And if equals, if not biir
passfcs* in’some respects, the bravery
of the northern girl who recently
saved several Hyts from' drowning.
The brave .North Carolina girl is
Miss Sag Plummer, u prominent
resident of Warrenton. The inci¬
dent is thus told by a Raleigh cor¬
respondent of the at‘her Richmond,Dispath
A bull sprang father, knocked
him down and was standing
hint with horns [at 1 is threat,
the plucky girl came to the rescue.
She literally took the bull by (he
horns, and with the strength born
of desperation, contrived to pull his
horns away from tier father’s
Attendance er.me sine? Mr. ‘'Pluimwn
wn&'saved from iiijury.-Ri'deigh Neifs
ftUOKLEN’S AR NICA SALVE
, Tfce best salve in the world for
00, bruises, soies,ulcers, salf rheum
corns, sores, tetter, chapped
bd*nl», cut bln"fls, and alL skin erup
ti*H»; arid positively cures piles; qr
iiopa^v reqtored. It is gunraiityqi
give sntiafaeviya or money xcfumlod.
For salejby II hi Feemau, • ,
FOR SALE
A scholarship in Uie Louis vifio
Business College, inelitding book¬
and penmanship, This is
of "the best business colleges in
_
For terms apply at tjiie
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FOR SALE- I !
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Two elegant, Chletigu roltagu Or
guns of tire most desirable, stylo
sad ’q>im liberal t'cfn.s. office/ Tor
ulan''kpply ’
Hi at this .
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I • GGGD RESULTS . . '
J>. A. Bradford, uholes.Jk?
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K ^ 0b( „ vw ^ r< , llllMlt np.
did ... nod , Mtitir . -ly, ■ ei.ivd .
turn, so inn
... ihc of , ... <
by u*e a f« w bottles, Sinie
which lime be iia«I,i-ptii m Ids hoin%
for all eyugU and voids with U«t !
, 'ihie >« ike xjicrittue * o*
tiioiisfn<ls whose Ih i H . lard
Hit • ilhythi* vumlcifiH
T" rial Lullies fiev at Dr. if, M.
/>V**i ninii’s rtrng »iore,
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$ 1 ,00 PER YEAR IN APVANCE
TERRACING AND FERTI1 AZikot
The great study of the farmer, as the
Southern Cultivator has often asserteil
should he liofv to save his fields from
washing " and keep up their ’ fertility. *»
t • • *
Engineering must do the first by ter¬
racing and guard-drains. AVhen con¬
tending against water mid its disastrous
effects, whether it he from overflows
and inundations, or from its washing
effects, scientific work is necessary to
accomplish what is desired, and to do
lids work properly and effectively, the
topography of the land must bc^lhor
ouglily studied ahd understood to guard
against waters that prove disastrous"
whether it be from overflown streams,
deluges of rain from (lie clouds on
fiat lands, embankments or levees is
thy remedy. Bank out the intruding
waters, but on rolling lands guard
drains and terracing we must rely, and
as such lands are irregular in shape and
their declivity varies, accurate work is
necessary to protect them from waters
passing over them and washing the soil
away. For instance, suppose wo have
a rolling field, and on one or two sides
of it there^ire higher lands that dis¬
charge their waters through ravines on
the*field adjoining it, making gullies
and had washes. That force of water
coming from a higher point through
ravines acquires such a force anil vol¬
ume., no terrace can resist it; hence, it
makes Us way on, breaking through
terrace after terrace until the gully .in¬
tended to be stopped, becomes larger
and more fixed, instead of being nmc
died; now,.junior such conditions, to
make the terraces stand and answer
the purposes designed, the only reme¬
dy is—the waters coming in force from
the higher land through ravines must
he cut off and carried away by drain
ditches, so as to protect llie terraces
from being broken and made inefficient;
in short, if water cannot be resisted at
a given point, it must be conducted ty
another point where It can do less dam¬
age. Hence, guard drains must be
made to carry off water where terraces
cannot resists their force. Such waters
generally come from higher lands out
sidy of a field through ravines; this
vino inlet of waters must he cut off, or
the terraces will prove ineffectual.
‘As such terracing is only intended to
protect fields from waters that fall fropt
rain-clouds on said fields, waters copi
ing from other places must be carried
olT by ditches made, for such purposes,
and if impracticable to do so, then they,
must, be carried off through the field by.
one or two ditches made - , giving it such
.gradual fall as not to make a gidfv'
this distribution of the waters is the.
work of practical engineer; it require.;' J
a
skill on flic part of an engineer fo sue!
cessfqlly accomplish if. >So 119 . oyi
who undertake to terrace his fields
mpst rely entirely on terraces; he nlust
study cause and effect to accomplish
bis ends successfully. A man may
build a null-dam capable of resisting ,a
certain fort e of Water, but whbii that
1
for<-c become: greatly augmented ( .by. ,sj
larger body of water, wiliicut ivaste
gates to relieve the dum of the strain
upon it, the dam is mo«'. certain to
give way in part or whohq and so with
torrn<-«-s, ihm are i..t< mb,d to i«Vi
rainfall that covets tin- field hi w inch
they are made, fait V.bi ii.i>mititui toi
rents that find their way to such fii l<L
_,j,dm fl. fb i.l ill Foutlum rulthsi
iir i< r August.
I AD II S CF 'J LIE Wili'JK
HOUSE.
have f< iiiiJ H I < M rir h. im-lim«« »>
I’tilh* J r*i i:fc« low. weak
cl f| *l« i f>f
mul m mi
.
* l - .‘t i * Lit *
«*»*! «lo lit*.* fjUwd, 4
a t at.ir.d liiHltlJuf Dew lo Ihe diges.
*'iv« *»fgfln* riml jilrlispbot'oii* Wndif
sliiH»f|»les tim wgiti -*:oJ 4 • ml irn
Hi 1 1 Fa jion Tonii
SLAVERY IN tllE MINES. *
Vftj'
A Drunken Doctor Wit’i 5,000
Enforced Patients •V
i 4 f 1 ' nights i j / fi | f j ; t. , j sitting j | * , |
A cw ago, While on
the porch of a lintel in one of the
chief cities in the mining region, my
attention was called to a young man
fushionuble dressed, who came stag¬
gering up the street considerably
mere than half-sees over.
“That man is one of the brightest,
smartest doctors in this part of the
state,” said the citizen who attracted
my attention to him. “But—well,*
you eau see for yom self that his
worst enemy has got hold of him.
It is too bad—,i young man of such
promise and having such a failing,
can have no practice to speak of?
“But, surely ,” I said, “a man with
such a failing can have no practice
to speak of-'”
‘•Practice! Ab, there’s the rub,
He f.ns a tremendous practice. It is
compulsory practice. He is the oflh
cial physician at two or three col’
Meries. A thousand .miners, in
round numbers, with their ' families
— perhabs 5,000 persons—me under
his medical supervision, If he
would only keep sober it would be
all right, I suppose, but, unfortun¬
ately, he is not always to he depen¬
ded on. ”
“Do you mean to say,”.I cried
aghast, “that 5,000 persdnsare com¬
pelled to rely on the services of a
young doctor wu 6 is a'druiikaip?
Impossible!” '
- My young friend,” returned the
old citizen dryly, “there is nothing
impossible u» in this country, and
I pray you not to make the mistake
of thinking there is. @0 fat ms com*!
pulsion is concerned in this one
other instances that I know of, the
ease stands thus: Every njuj-rijeJ
niHii working for the companies
which make collections for yonder
drtuikeii siwbon.s is obliged-to pay
him 19 per year -nay, it Is. docked
from iiis monthly earnings; .and ev¬
ery single m«» contributes $ 0 . if
they wish to «pay this tribute and
employ another physician,’ they are
not denied fiat luxury, but us-i'ure
lyas a man is found out; doing this,
bis services are dispensed with,. You
ask >yhy ? It is tins. . The, company
docs not want strange doctors about.
Tuey’waiit their own man. And
their, there is an accident - in the
mines, why, tlyp'n is iVo’ Coi'oiiDrk in¬
quest, and no trouble abhut a certifi¬
cate of death and uU lhat*i Sey?”
r*M y God! Do yyu mean to Bay
'h«t this i» ijie truth:'” .
In vestigaty,lor youi^yl <■ ,1 nij»ke
no protestation.”—Mjuch Chunk,
Pa, Letter.' • f t
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A 9 ONDEJfFUL I-NVENTtON'
'i’lie Cosby attachment * .for the
Sewing lo-ichiiio is now Hug oflef
ed ft>i*stije in .this ciih.jty . 6 y-Mr.
It B IRgginbotham. It is higldy
by persons' Si wltio b*Vfi
have used if, and purchaser »
at ulino.-teveiT holme
there is n sewir^f Hi.-ichine ! 1 Its sim
plk-Hy t-uikis its use cutely acquin^l
and its cheujmei s places it Wittiju
the reach of all.
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iachi'n< nt <o a k'v itig for
several dii^s, mid [find it n«J*aun»t
convenn-nl and useful device, K*»
j relative* in Us asgjs easily > veilin',
and it greplly Icsm-ui- i 1 > - lain a- wrt
fatigue of 'm wing on U mi.child'. No
woman *li<* nice g ives it a fair tiM
hDI ever be . Wlibontrt. . f^rjtesrfil# «,
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