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ALLAN B. POWELL, ! the counties of Irwin and Decatur, " „.?P^ eab,e *® “* "Pon *n Indian camp i President of the Senate, j wn0 shall give him fair and correct Provisions of said militia laws of this tain cautioned the part Assented to Dec. 55, 18<5. j lists of the returns of taxable proper-j 8 *"®-..— ' _ the night and accost tbi O. M. TROUP, Governor. : ty on toe respective tax-lists, so far as: ® K JT FURTHER EN- morning. N ACT TO ORGANIZE TJIE COUN- rotates to Thomas county; and it shall ® T AUTHORITY When the Indians w TIES OF THOMAS AND LOWN- be the duty of the tax collector of time of hold- fast, the three white DES, AND TO APPOINT COMMIS-; Thomas County to proceed to collect hjg th« InIe,dor C®”** ta the county them and were invited SIONERS TO SELECT PUBLIC i and disburse the same, as pointed out ®* Tlmmas shall te tm toe first Mon- While they were eating SITES FOR SAID COUNTIES AND- by the tax law of this State, as In oth- “*2 ot January and July full view of the stolen t FOR IRWIN COUNTY; AND FOR er cases. IHBY HUDSON, they were seeking; and OTHER PURPOSES. j DUNCAN G. CAMPBELL. Speaker of the House of Represents- In the conversation. Mr. • Speaker pro tern, of the House ot Rep- tlves. his companion. In Eaglli BE IT ENACTED BY THE SEN-! resentstives. THOMAS STOCKS. their guns which hadbl TE AND HOUSE OF RE5PRESEN-1 ALLEN B. POWELL. President of the 8enale. which were upon the ATIVES OF THE STATE OF GEOK-j President of the Senate. Assented to. Dreemfcer 55, 185*. property. Thltwas dot IA, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET I Assented to December 24th, 182*. ®- M. TROUP, Governor. same time the 1— ND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED BY - G. M. TROUP, Governor. °» December 2*. 1831, the town ot in number, made a rush PE AUTHORITY OF THB SAXE, NOTE: On Nov. SO, 1826, the conn- Thoaresvffle. including an of lot Thir- The »rhre-r was tm hat It shall he the duty ofbany two ty site of Lowndes County was chans- ty-nlne In the Thirteenth District, was i. nis chief a yur more of l the coun- undldates, HISTORY OF THOMAS C (COMPILED BY W. IRWIN MacINTYRE, Thomasville, Georgia) there was n ■ to DeSoto wito his army of soldiers . and adventurers spent the winter >f 1539-40 at Anhayca which, according to Chas. C. Jones, Jr., in his history of Georgia, was in the vicinity of the present city of Tallahassee. Portions of Spanish armor of that date have ' been exhumed In a field adjacent to said city sad other European relics have been toned in that vicinity con firming this opinion. On Wednesday, March 3, 1540, De- tices of the peace shall certify under J Messrs, James Handll, Dennis Wetb- farther extended’December 7,1857. I T>*** P»rf« hrertmr. were *h. their hands to the Governor, the per-! erington, John R. Stapler and WU- The trustees of the Thomas County by the Indians’ apparent repentance mighty God. contrary to the laws ot sons so elected, who shall thereupon: Uam H. Goldwlre, to choose a county Academy built a school building- on and, over Mr. Chastain’s protest, re- said state, the good order, ponce and ------- m the railroad. Valdosta was so- the comer of ^Madison and Monroe turned the Indians’ guns to them, say- dignity thereof. In Jdne term. 1827. LOTT WARREN. SoL Genl. CHARLES KINGSLEY. Prosecutor. At the same tom ot ooarVJbn. Bob be commissioned by him, and shall site an , . „ ^ hold their office until th6 next election' lected. Streets. Mr. Cresman was the first ing that they were too badly whipped tor justices of the Inferior Court J The house of Charles Kingsley was teacher and he had about forty pupils, to ever glTe any more trouble, throughout the State. . (fa lot No. 54, and near where the St. Mr. Rolph, who boarded with Colonel, The stolen property was packed 2. AND BE IT FURTHER EN • Thomas Episcopal Church now stands. Michael Young, succeeded Mr. Cres- upon a pony and the eldest ol the lire ACTED, That the justices ot the Infer- i The Tallahassee road forked at this man and taught until 1837. In the Indians led the way on the return lor Courts of the add. counties of,point, forming* the Irwlnville and meantime, a new bonding on the trip, with Mr. PfelllipPuis, Mr. Chaa-, _ T . . Thomas And Lowndes, are hereby an- ■ Troupvtlle roads. The town of Troup- corner of Broad and Monroe Streets tain -hud Mr. Nathan Paris following and Billy wera convicted of muntar, thorized and required to advertise, st rllle antedated its name and its white was in course of construction and in in the order named. One-Eye having soeapod while on his Soto’e array moved northward. On the'least fifteen days, at three or more of settlers. According to White, old 1838 Mr. Scott taught in the new build- About three o'clock In the afternoon, ■ way to court. 4th day of the march a swift river! the most public places In their respec j mins were still to be seen at Troop- lug while the old bujldtag was being the two Paris brothers, having a gun. The throe convicted murderers wore was encountered which seems to have' live counties, for the election of:vlUe in 1849, whigh probably dated. renovated. bach, and Mr. Chastain, having an axe sentenced to bo hung Juno 17.1857. by been called by the Indians “Ochlock-1 clerks of the Superior end Inferior j^to prehistoric times. j The upstairs of the old building was on his shoulder, were fired upon from; Judge Moses Fort, ny.” The little army was now on thei Courts, a sheriff, coroner, tax collec ; - The commissioners appointed In converted Into a music room. At this ambush and would have all boon in- ] A scaffold was built oa whore waa west hank of the Ochlocknee river and tor. receiver of tax returns of taxable Paragraph 5 of the Act last above time the faculty consisted of Mr.-Stanly killed bat for the tact that afterwards erected the Plney Woods « in what was afterwards Thomas conn-1 property, and county surveyor in each mentioned selected tot No. 39 in the Scott, Mrs. Metsler and Miss Sophia Mr. Phillip Puis waa shot an instant! Hotel/and. on the day appointed, the ty and is now Grady County. On! of the aforesaid counties, and it shall j Thirteenth District of Thomas Conn- Metzler. ahead of the ethers and. when he tell, three Indians, who had boon confined March 21, DeSoto had reached the! be the duty of tue Governor to com-' ty tor the permanent county site. This I As late as 1850 the Thomasville back, Ms gun hit Mr. Chastain who in the Tallahassee jail since their first point -which Jones located as being In j mission all officers, both civil and mill- lot is Immediately west of lot No. 54; Methodist Church was la the middle dodged just In time to permit a ballet - arrest, ware carried to the place of Irwin or Coffee'County. Lary. who are elected agreeable to the in which Mr. Charles Kingsley resided. ;of Broad Street in front of the preit- to take off his right index finger in-' execution. It would,'therefore, appear that De-!provisions at this act. The lot was purchased by the com-, ent site, fronting down the street to- stead of striking his head. Mr. Chas-. At the first effort the two older Soto marched northward from Talla-. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER EN mlssionerf, June 27, 1826, from Hon. wards the courthouse but the building tain grabbed the gun of Mr. Paris, Indians were hung. The youngest ot hassee between Lake Jackson and ACTED, That the justices of the In-; Thomas J. Johnson for tne sum of being ot such architecture that there who had fallen In front of him; but, the three, who was -the ton ot one Lake Iammonla crossed the Ochlock- ferior Courts, elected agreeable to the ;$210.00. Tradition has it that Mr. was in reality a donble front ! not having noticed that his trigger and nephew of (he other, being a very was no aaveree ponuc opt: combat When the ptiaoaare- * before the court to m of death, they wore told throagh an I terpreter what was to ho done with them—hug by the nech until they wore fiend. The judge omitted to - yoke the asaal have mercy oa their Mate!’’—tor (ho ■I did The successor ot Jadgs Fort m the beach was the Honorable Thaddeoa O. Holt who waa *1 acted la 1828. to the aprtag ot 1888, the anther attend ed him on the circuit which than con sisted of thirteen counties.—Twiggs Lattrena. Pulaski. Telfair, Irwin, Ap pling, Ware, Lowndes. Tboatas. De catur. Early. Baker and Dooly, occupy- cams-, urq. oassr ana ismf, occurr ing about nine weeks, and the judge and bar travelling upward at six hun dred miles to complete the riding. At, Lowndes the bar was jot sad by Mr. Coal son. whi|M society ms ever agreeable, and his peculiar earnest- -ss In his causes quite refreshing. By his marriage, Mr. Coataew so- cured a large family Influence, which nee River not far from Hadley’s Fer- provisions of this act. for the counties Johnson did not collect the money but; At the point where Smith Avenmi' finger was gone, he made the effort to stont boy. broke the rope at the first ry, and, as no account is given of re- aforesaid, as soon as they are commis- made the county a present of the runs Into Broad Street there was a shoot In the usual way and tailed, j effort and was resuscitated and hung crossing the stream, he must have re-' stoned and qualified, shall proceed to county site. boarding house fronting towards the' The Indians, seeing that they h,H again. The rope broke the aeoond , malned west of the river until the select grand and petit juries agree- j As a result of the decision of the Methodist Church and the village was failed to completely carry ont their time and when the boy recovered he J was of great advantage to him ta the stream became so small near the able to the laws of this State regulat- j commissioners the following act was along Broad Street between/ the object, fled: and Mr. Chastain, dls- ’■ plead so pitifully not to be hung again j profession. Thomas county to wall headwaters that It was crossed with tag the drawing grand and petit Juriei. passed by the Georgia Legislature: church and the boarding house. There covering his wound, and noticing that | that the crowd iu attendance was i known for the wealth and upright euBe. He probably continued on the 4- AND BE IT FURTHER ENACT AN ACT TO MAKE PERMANENT was a cemetery in front of the church the powder in the ignition pan waa very much moved. | character of many of Ita cittsena, west side of the Ochlocknee River, ED. That the sheriff of Decatur coun- THE SITE OF TEE PUBLK: and some of the bodies were never too bloody to ignite from the flint, be- i He said that he had no malice to- among whom may be mentioned Gen crossing the little Ochlocknee and ty, Is hereby authorized to perform all *»"** at Tnr.„»™r. w - ■ 1 - — -- — again th e big Ochlocknee at a point the duties of sheriff in the county o. near the present city of Moultrie. This Thomas, as fqlly as if he were elected was the first record of a visit of Eu- for the same, until a sheriff Is elected. ropeans to the territroy afterwards commissioned, and qualified for the included in Thomas county. j “M county of Thomas. And that the When Gen. Andrew Jackson fought sheriff of Irwin county is hereby au- his unofficial.war against Spain and thorized to perform all the duties of the Creek and Seminole Indians, ho sheriff in the county or Lowndes, in forced a treaty with the Indians ced- THE SITE OF THE removed from same. gan changing the powder. i words the wMte men killed, nor did !®r»l Thomas E. Blackahear. Thomas i T ,a B Methodist Church. At this instant. Nathan Paris crawl- ha have the heart of n murderer; that! Ion**- Mitchell Jones. E. R. Young. tlle Springhiil road about ten miles sd op to the side of his dead brother, he had been taught from his Infancy■ William H. Reynolds. Thomas Wyehe. .fP.P from Thomasville, is the oldest and told Mr. Chastain to escape as he,; that It was not Immoral to kill white i Duncan Ray. Locisn H. Rata as, Thom- “hurch organization In the county and Nathan Parle, waa mortally wounded, men who had stolen their lands and “ Mitchell, the late James J. Black- A ' for Jeers was,the largest The pres- Mr. Chastain took the two guns and driven them from their homes; and shear. Captain Thomas Johnson. Dan iel MacIntyre, Col. Richard Mitchell. Nathaniel Mitchell. Michael Young, and others, all of whom were men of sterling worth and ot high position, more or less connected with Mr. Goal- frieads and Mitchell, were TO P.®T AB P, I ®?5 THE TIME ent .building is the second one on the ran for the nearest swamp, where he that his spirit had never been sub- OF HOLDING THE INI ERIOR site and is about seventy-five years hid until dark. dned. COURTS OF SAID COUNTY. | old. The first building was erected in The Indians soon overcame their He spoke very eloquently and em- i U1OTi „ „.... , UG , UUHU . Whereas, the commissioners ap-, 1820. panic and tracked Mr. Chastain to the oh&ticallv according to the intern—. ing to the State of Georgia a strip of aa ' d ®®“'?! y ’ f bD ??!, S! l°"^ d | ab pointed for the county of Thomas, pur-; The first merchant in Thomasville swamp, but knowing that several ter, saying that the sight of the dead - — ■— - land about seventy-five miles wide, V*aiified ag:reeable to the provisions gu ant to on act of the General Assem-. was James Kirksey, Esq., whose store would pay tne penalty with their life bodies of his father and uncle, and son- and all hit especial extending from the white settlements 01 acl * bly passed the twenty-third day of .was on the corner of Broad and Jef- if they entered, they called to him being hung twice had comnletelv ‘patron*. The brother* . on the east to the Chittahoochee river 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACT- December, eighteen hundred and twen-! ferson streets, diagonally across from to come out and make pence, saying subdued him. He begged to be taken uncles of Mr*. CoaUon, whoae and bounded on the south by the ED, That Duncan Ray, William J. ty-five, did fix on the site of the public; the courthouse and vrhere the Tosco that he was a brave man and, on ac- as a slave and worked at hard labor) Ei ther was Emily Q. Mitchell, pro* State of Florida. His object was to Forson, Simon Hadley, sen. Michael buildings in said county, and did pu^- Hotel now stands. count of their admiration, they would during the remainder of hi* life v *°ua t0 her marriage with Bdwar* separate the Seminole;* from the Creek Horn, and John Hill Bryan, be, and chase for county purposes lot of land j Isaac P. Brooks was proprietor of not harm him. \ The sheriff explained to him thMt | Black shear. In Montgomery couni Indians. He did not, nor did the State they are hereby appointed commis- number thirty-nine in the. thirteenth , the first hotel. ■ Mr. Chastain remained concealed he was powerless to grant his reoueaf who d, °d on his Urge estate In Thom- of Georgia consider the territory of sioners to select a public site for the district, originally Irwin, now Thomas The first brick courthouse was built until long after dark and escaped. and the boy asked for a drink of 1 as county In 1829; and on the 23d day any value except for strategic reas- : county of Thomas, and to purchase a county: In 1846-47 but was badly damaged by A possee of white men, on the next brandy, whichfwas supplied aayina °* March, 18S0, hi* »on*ln-law, the l lot nr lota of lnn/1 for tVio an mo nnd RR IT RWAPTEn R\ THE SRVATR a ofnwn. in «v. n ...u ami.. im.. t _L-i .> • . .. ...... 1 ““ * . 0 3 ,u * , __ n ...* /in.1. ■■« >■— , tots of land for the same, and BE IT ENACTEDIBY THE SENATE a storm In the early fifties. The pres- morning which was the sixteenth, that if he had to, he would so*the wire ‘ warm hearted Ptul Coalsoo, breathed After Appling, Irwin and Early! Proceed to lay off lots in the public AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-. ent structure was completed In 1860 visited the scene of the tragedy and of his father and uncle. I bis list. In the thirty-first ysw ot h!» Counties had been created embracing slte 1” said county, and expose the TIVES OF THE STATE OF GEOR-; and remodeled in 1890. found the bodies ol the two Paris! Thus ended the last chapter In the "Is eldest son, Edward B. Coal- this territory there was still consider- to public sale, af-er giving suffl- GIA, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET, in 1833 Simon Hadley. Shadracb brothers badly mutilated. , ‘first sensational tragedy of Thomas ! • 0B ’ 1,1 now » wealthy planter ia able doubt as to Its value because, f*ent notice, as usual In such cases, AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED BY Pugh, Joseph Anderson, Ignacius Hall The Governor of Georgia made re- County. j Thomas county, having married « when a committee was appointed to J s ,£ Zw? Bozeman qualified _so as to qnisition upon the Seminole chief, in Paul Coalson. | niece of the late Major John Young, Inspect the territory and advise as to °n ^? lat tlle Priieeedlngs of the commis- take^advantage of the Act of Congress Florida, for the outlaws and all'of the The following biography of Paul I of Macon county. ^ “ “ n ■* ' ““ ' were scrntl- Coalson Is token from Miller's Bench; In those days (1829 to 1884) several the propriety of building public roads sald v cou " ty ; as well as the land so sioners, so far as respects the purchase of 1832 for the benefit of soldiers of Indians in the vincinlty to it from the settled portions of the Purchased for the public site, as a of said lot of land tor the public site, the Revolutionary War. nized by the Indian auth. state, tradition has it that there wa8 c0unt J ,und - reserving sufflc:ent to. is hereby confirmed and made valid Hon. Thomas D. Mitchell i Mr. Chastain, made sere authority. j and Bar of Georgia. Mr. Miller made members of the Florida bar practiced .. — . . . . , , , —.. — several visits to an error in his mention of the Indians-' *n *he Superior Courts of Ocoigli. a minority report to the effect that P, ay „f"5 h ^IneorJed C wlth n -> aW ixTr, D c- t-r pnI) . n ™ 1 The subject of this sketch was the Tallahassee before he could Identify ! tried tor murder. Five of them were-particularly In Thomaa and Dooatar It would he unwise to spend the peo- y ^‘ e ' a " d d i acted BY theAUTHORITY ! f° n «° f ^ 1, " am 1I M ' Mitchell who moved any of the suspects. He finally IdenU- [ indicted for killing the Paris brothers counties, and by their legal ability pie's money trying to develop a coun- regaru to tne same. r "?' AUTHORITY to South Carolina from Virginia prior fled the man he had cut, e oneeyed (and not White); one died In jail In end social qualltiea contributed aach try which God Almighty Himself hai ' AyID BB 'T FURTHER ENAC AFORESAID, That the courthouse and to the Revolutionary War. He was Indian, and three others as the origl-; Tallahassee; one escaped while being 1° ">• enjoyment of the profession.^ left in an unfinished condition. , 5P; ™ a “ Lewrenoe Ftcl».m S.on Hall, jail of said county of Thomas be. and the brother of Dr. Isaac W. Mitchell nal band of assassins. 1 brought from Tallahassee to Thome. Among them were Gen. R. K. Call. The writer has seen several old '' i iiZniel MeCautov arp^horehv -An- * S he P eby mad S pe , I ! m i laen p, at a plae ® who was the father of Thomas C. I One of the five Indians starved him- ville; nnd three were hung on a gal- "luce delegate In Congress and Oover-y maps of Georgia, particularly one in commissioners for selecting a Thnmpi**L'^ii!,!'I„°i Mi ‘ c ^ell, b uilder of the Mitchell Hotel self to death in jail and the other four. lows erected where afterwards Was nor of ths Territory: Hon. Janos D.I the State Library made in 1818, in a } ady Thomasville, and shall be called and and highly esteemed citizen of Thomas to wit, Timpuche, alias Billy, alia, built the Plney Woods Hotel. ' Westcott. United State. Senator; Hon which most of the sections herein p ... . . „ „ Dlx „ n James WU- kn “ wa G y r , th P, t I -, na , I !!. e i-r-n-riiT.-r, wm ■ County - Honis Hadja alias One-Eye, Jim, Bob Mr. Coalson lived where Mr. H. M.' Leslie A. Thompson and Hon. Charles mentioned, and particularly, every* Ema'nuel Ynoles Wmiam F<i!- nv E th/ 1 AiTTHrinm-v = Z h , 0 . ma ^ D ‘ M 1 itc . he l. 1 ’ *as the first and Billy, were indicted by the Grand Hanna now resides. His widow mar " Dupont,. AssocUte Justices of the thing e_ast of the Withlacoochee Riv- ' Elijah Beasly. be. and they are rnV, S .”!! c “"!'. Ge ?" 11 ot ‘P 6 Southern Clr- Jury at the June term, 1827, of the ried Mr. Henry Wyche and numerous Supreme Court of Florida; Hon. Thom* er, is designated as “Pine Barrens.’’ '. »‘ I)DO | n t ed y commissioners for AFORESAID, That the justices of the cuit after the creation of Thomas Thomas Superior Court, in the follow- relatives now live in this vicinity. an Baltsell. Circuit Jpdge; John K. On the map of 1818 no town, in this! b e«b y “ppointed commissioners for lnferlor Court ot the county of Thom- County, he being elected to that'of- ing words: ; “P.ul Coalson. i Campbell. Ere-. United State. Attar- vicinity is shown except Miccosukie, ^ 1 ^ a PubUc^Klte^for th^county as. or_a_majority of _them, belaud they flee by the Georgia Legislature in , GEORGIA, Thomas County: ! I t/ i, the prevailing custom to sprek aey th. Mlddle Dlririet; Jamoa A. Fla. ’ , rerotottons U 'in er th t e l ‘lr JereecUvf coun- ar e hereby authorizedand empowered. .1885. j The Grand Jurors, sworn,‘chosen and of‘the reriy'dred wlut'moTthw SST Berthe'ot. James A. Dunlap. Francis In 1823 Decatur County was createl ^'“rLownde.f and lrwTo ap nr" L.»! r : . Mi i c he'l was born in Laurens 1 selected for the County of Thomas, to-; ns^Tr^rel htrewT £S th« li?2f A. Cash, Philip 8. White, (brother of can; out of any land heretofore purchased | Mr. Mitchell was born in Laurens' selected for the County of Thomas, to- • nary regret because had ther lived from Early and Duncan Ray, William mThTforeHoIna‘section of couaty P“ r P^es and not otherwise District, South Carolina, in 1793 and, wit: Aaron Everitt. ,Johu Carlton, ‘ there was evwtnce to justify toe Hawthorne FhUIlp Pltto^ Jofo., fotoe^^e^on onhta d ^-fe^^™ a ;eyto‘hecommls.; -he a e« g hteenye ar3of ag e t0 Thomas Mitchell Joshua Proctor. ,hat\he7 would* hare ISichM Sanders and Martin Hardin were ai> ( the commlBslonera of the co Unty o( ^“elsimDlef.STald^atademvs^ch g Montgom- Thomas AdsmE Redden Wooten, T.y- high places and acted a useful part ^unty site”” ” the !Thomas, and with as full and ample ^rtton toe^f as Ly be thougS, Tn7 8 2? he - ... w..'SJ l K5S--. , !=fi 5.“" t '.. I3 “f”. U :‘he community. If. this Indulgent county site. j Dowers ’as ~if thev* werl^nrescribed^in 1,01X10X1 in J reo1 as ma y De tnougni« in 1820 he was admitted to the bar Baily, Luday C. Ferrell, Thomas Dekle, ; view be a weakness it Is at least an Hon. Thomas J. Johnson, who set- po ^®”' “ “ J“ ey were P rescr,bed in necessary for the purpose of erecting in Sandersville, having completed his Zachariah Hopson, Charles H. Kings- 1 Imuble on7 It b^ acmiiUd tied where is now Pebble Hill Plan-' ? AND BE FURTHER ENACT- a ® acad ® my e d j fice thereon, ;and such study of the law in the office or Ely ley, Henry Cooke, Bpaz Stanaland. by the fact, within every man’* ex* s-*i— „1 * „J_ ti/ie fwtm frimmoa.! ' BE* ii funinn.it. e.«ali other lot or lots as the said lu.stleea Q Qhnviov n f p 0 fnni An i wm**. « « «. . uy lI1H wuaJn every mans ex* six miles from Thomas-!^ - - hotongtheSupVrior °i h .t r l 01 , lo “ aa the ^Justices S. Shorter of Eatoutou. He tocated at WlillamCsrsonEdmund P! Wreter!! Srionce Stt^he preVenre of re ofo Thomasvlll6-Tallahassee B °’^he Ptece of tajltog toe Superior of the Inferior Court may think proper Hartford, In Pulaski County, in 1821. George Hicks. Moses Daniel, Hardy toet d^, no iffordTthat Intorret re the first representoUve|“ d ' atc Xr?fortoeco7ues^ore ‘o convey by way of donation or other- In March, 1825, Mr. Mitchell fought Bryan, Michael Horn and Sh.drsch' |he be^derfo7lhetlm e blto;wh.^ tation, about six ville on the road became toe um re P reseuai U .e| ( officers for the counties afore ^ g T“ "" " * Tl T' ™ ue ?, 1 “ ryan - “‘cnaei Horn mud Sbadrach' the beholder for the time being which in the Georgia House of ( Represents-' y hall be , for the count f Lown . wIse - FURTHER FN a duel . ^‘h ^hert Augustus Beall, Atkinson. , the i maK i nat |on supplies affer too lives from Decatur County. ; des. nt the house of Siou Hall; and acted BY THE^ AUTHORITY hn« participant was In the name and behalf or the eitl- object is withdrawi. and especial .... - a a »-- nun. sens of Georgia, Charge and accuse,iy when distance h-seV 1 S,e:’4S!' and for £££*£* ^roiatv'Thoto S H'^iToTtoi* ame to nouce, Air. jouubuu uiuveu h f rh9r ,. 8 vinpalnv «nd fnr ... » ^ J“ DMWO j J»n- JMiicueu nau serveu out a snort T1 that a committee be appointed to pro-: t he ,J,untv ot Irwin al the oresent or lnferlor Court , °f ‘he county of Thom- while as Solicitor General when Dr/jo pare and report a bill to form a new u B u a 7ol ace of hoWine courts and elec as ' or a ma i° r ‘ty of them, be. and Ambrose Baber, who had been sur- In from and Trwln °‘ bolding_ courts and elec they are hereby authorized, and em- aeon for Mr Beall m ,he n. ^ “ d .. B, “ y '! Principle we invest toe memory'of a . ,, ...... --. .111.1,11,1. .. unco. ui. ueoiunr OL a .a. - Indians ol the Hitlhatoh Town in the rising young man with a charm which th ® *** T ®’ the Hon. Joseph M. White), Oscar White, his ooualn, and Cot. Richard H Long, formerly o( Wilkoa county, one of the Broad Itlver Colony mestlooed in Gov. Gilmer’s wo.-k. "Georglsns.'* Of the gentlemen named above as mingling with their Georgia brethren In the contests of the forum, aovaral ere known to be dead. Mr. Campbell was killed In a duel In Thomas coun ty. August 1188. by Mr. Georgs Ham lin. a merchant ol Florida, who died In a’ few months afterward from dis tress of mind. Messrs. Dunlap, Cash, Berthelot and Oscar White are also In county from Decatur and Irwin. Mes-;- ' £^££"5” SuE th6y , hereby au ‘ bori r d ’ , and , em ' «» ‘he above men- Crerk; a t.onwihtoeoffenceomuri I "a„„t .rireried'over u.Tr* sn, srs. Joseph Manning of Wayne aad comm Lioneto apLteted b; this art Peered ‘o convey In fee-simple to tioned duel, made some remarks con- der. For that, toe said Tlmpucb* Zt, of llJS^Tltenra T 7 --ri o„to»r Tr„m With Mr John- ,2^1 lmv- art ected nubli e sites for each and every religious society or as : tern ing the affair which led to a duel 1Kln * excellence. their resnectlve counHes as aforesaid Bociatio J n ot this State ’ out of the land w “ h Mr. Mitchell at Hamburg. S. C„ tneir respective counties as aioresain, ......... nP rnnn t v nnrm»a and nn, ... W....I. 1 oo= -1-1— . alias Billy alias Honis Hadjo alias! One-Eye, Jim, Bob and Billy, not hav- Betore taking leave of too Florida bar. ths author will bo pardon ad for _. .. , , , dwelling oa the peculiarities ot two of Hi aU ' h M„ rb °_ nf ^* ' h ‘* Its mambera-boto fln.story-tellar. John G. Gelder of Irwin with Mr. John- \ son were appointed a committee to report on the resolution. As a result of the committee’s report the following bills became law: from^he^CtmnUe^oMrwtoYnd'Detai-j a jj a °j of ™'^SSSTSX 73 j «=2“> « tUr ' .‘he Inferior Courts of said counties toer^on Z'Thito ” b ° Twentya.x.witoforce and arms, in i SSTtt.'UKr'SS..a h ^, P '7i2 hred. of Itap«tnte«. FUk.Ora. J^- . me imeiiur louiis oi saia couuues . ’ iwcuij-bia, niui iuiuu *uu arms, IB w .ki«k »$, _ awaa.i.««.d ucuia vi irojrai BE IT ENACTED BY THE SEN-‘ to advertise the same, stating the lot ®”®“J* ‘J®" e ° a fl0 M D H bli a exhausted. all means known to the the county aforesaid, in and upon Ke Lr LL S son as the master-spirit. Ha could ATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESEN- 0 r land selected for the public site of ™“P. vided-that the sal d land medical profession in his brother’s be- body of one Phillip Paris and one | * peat with diplomatic gravity or « TATIVES OF THE STATE OF GEOR- their county, at least in three of the ^“A re”™ ^ . ... Nathan _Paris. In the pern* of God and j <»« e«7. coovanmUooal flow of word*. GIA. IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET most pubUc p i aces in the same: and b ® ■>« Improved within one year from He was eulogized by one of his sue- State, then and there being felonious- a . as the case might require. The scene. AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED BY the same shall thereafter Immediately th e °™e of seketion and conveyance, cessors in office, Hon. Stephen F. ly. wilfully, and of their malice, afore-' ware often emuslug fa (ho extreme. THE AUTHORITY OF SAME, That become the permanent public site of Ar 5 T i ND ™ E th F FL aTitSopitv’ ia tbe la “e r a "Bench and Bar thought, did make an assault: and that ?^ . h . * r . tll .e ureoont.of.princl- had imbibed ths aplrit of each from ant after the passing of this act, sa id county or counties, any law to the ^^55 ® Y _. of Georgia and from which most of the said Timpuche alias Billy altos indiretrio,,.* u,’l/character, and drew only lire-ptetaree the seventento and eighteenth dls- contrary notwithstanding. D ', ^ ^ 1 f ™ h the ,acts herein “entloned have been Honis Hadjo alias One-Eye, Jim. Bob “y.*”®- Md . Pgf T -nothing like caricature. It are* In trlcts and such parts of the twenty- 8 ANn BE IT FURTHER ENACT- Inferl0r Co V r ‘ °* ‘ h ® coun ‘ y Thom- obtained. and Billy, four certain guns Called ^Jre «<*d a treat of toe highest order to ’ 1 third and nineteenth districts of De- EB T hg t jt shaU betheduty of the i! herilod'J*! 7 ! „ ? ,s ““festing to note that Dr. rifles, or tbe value of Thirty Dollars reSto!?. *fl reTl him la one of kta bast moods. Ton catur county as lie on the east side justlces of the inferior Court of the Mr tie 'cnnmv 3 d * Baber . on March 1, 1846, in order to each, then and there charged with or noesB years aftc-rwant, to the Mm- - of the Oaklokna river, together with i ounties G f Lowndes Thomas and Ir* J*f ° ff the id ,S? n y °5 convince a patient that a prescription gunpowder and leaden bullets (which “• nol * d tor fcUl i*^*P*» the thirteenth and fourteenth districts win so soon as their commissioners Si." ™ followed a poisonous rilles, gun., the .aid Timpuche alia* ***** * od ****** h « l » or . to *+ of IrwlnConnty. do_form and consti- “ie*SSri public ulteTfor thete re ‘” d ‘X’nerer^ S* U 7 ' S““’«?»*« tough, a drat with tute a new county caUed Thomas. ta ^fbe u”d “efinid toe*^ i' Co SS? ^ JtaT ^“Ld“1S5y,“ to Soto BaltteR 2. AND BE IT FURTHER EN- “okormity with the provisions of this {? 7 b laId and deflned the Jus ' 1 10 1825 - p hUBn p »ri* and N.th— .fc-re a.-a. a.a —a a.,a - «*“ »<> on “ unfolded. / Jus-1 In .1825. Phillip Peris and Nathan their hands, had and held at, to. ACTeS. That the eighth, ninth, tenth. ^ Tproceed with toe testing out “ ce * ° T the . °*i Parta - w ® bd « •* Charle. Kingsley, ^ainst and uron toe raid fiillTp ^ Coalmm w« born in Burke! ^ « ho w M ‘•.shall adverUse and superintend the district, built a shack thereon, and there, feloniously wilfully end M An *»“- 17M Att&r P ua>B 8 through 7 , I election in each captains’ distrirt for | "began clearing. They were In toe their malice aforethonghLdidriioot U,e prlmary ®*° o1 ® °‘ hie neighbor- * SJJL jwndes. E n T h at the clerks of the Sucerior J“ st, “ 9 tbe Peace, giving'habit of spending the week-end with and discharge; and jhood. he was sent to Betoatow. where 3. AND BE IT FURTHER EN- Coirts in the connt ,° l of ^ des jMt«u ^notice thereof at the m«»t | Mr. Kingsley In what is now - - ‘ “ * ..riortee ACTED, That all officers, civil and Thomas and i rwIn> sbaU not be com- public place ,n said districts, who ville. teentb district* of Irwin county, form tIeg at sach 8 it e s. and constitute a new county, called 9 AND BE IT FURTHER ENACT- Lowndes. military, within the limits’of thetwo ^ to keep toiir offices at toeTr'^L *• “””!, s ( f , “ aed by ‘ b ® When the Pari, brother, returrmd *7 taSST Mtata of Thomas and Lown- £ spectlv( , Coll P rt houses. ; riMtioi for to^tires S tbT v? TT “•“«» visits 'aforesaid shot oat of the rifles, afore-! 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACT-; ?? November 14, 1826, they foond that said, by means of shooting off and die- new counties ut *uum«o »•*** ”- resDective court nouses i . .. . . .. _■■■•■ — . — — —»••>* w. »««•> uouw usua, das as aforesaid, do hold their com- 10 AND BE Ix FURTHER ENACT-jS^Mhont’thi'sto^ nSle^thofo^f Nmr ® m ? er 781 ®- ‘hey found that UJ a™. « .uoouag ou ana ojb- , e"d D fo; ,1 sa t .d%rt1es manner Sn Jo^auTSteoo^a^^trod -v sLeer charging the raid rifle.run, - 4. AND BE IT FURTHER EN- Mai com Ferguson, be, and they are ACTED, That tho new counties of hereby appointed commissioners of Thomas and Lowndes, be, and are t h e academy of the county of Thomas, hereby attached to the southern clr- n AND BE IT pxJRTHER ENACT- cuit of this State, and to the second ED . That the tax-collector of Thomas brigade and sixth division of Georgia county, when elected, commissioned, militia. and qualified, agreeable to the provis- THOMAS W. MURRAY, j ons of this act, is hereby authorised Speaker of the House of Represents- and required to- call on the receivers tives. ALLAN B. POWELL, President of the Senate. Assented to Dec. 29, 1825. G. M. TROUP, Governor. *6 ^5jiTBEFURTHER r Sj * ey ®» tod ?P! , ntoeir friend, Mr. John to, at, and agaiari toelrid Phmip ACTED BY THS MiTOamv Uhaetoin, who being a .unreyor. was:Pari, and Nathan Pari,, aforreald; eJ.. re AUTHORITY well acquainted with the country, and and then and there teloniouriy. wli- T** b »hali be toe who could speak the Indian language, folly, and of their malice aforethought, duty of toe justices of toe peace, after. to ■ assist them in recovering their; strike, penetrate and wound, tbe they shall have been commissioned as; property. i Phfllin Paris (n — n win tk« imt* arm aforraald, to adverUse in their respec- ; As soon ss Mr. Chastain viewed the - and left aide sad ia the forehead of fire ^H t 7^if^. t 5ni~ eCt,0n Dt I Premises, he recognlaed the trafl of him. toe said Phmip Paris, giriag to tom and sabalteim officers as required Indians and the three followed in pur- i him the «»to Phfflta Paris, than aad! by the militia laws in force in this suit of the thieves. In toe late after- i there with the