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DAILY TIMES-ENTERPrilSE THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
PAGE SEVEN
HISTORY OF THOMAS COUNTY
(By IV. Irwin MacIntyre)
three Indians, who had been confined
In the Tallabaasee jail since their first
arrest, were carried to the place of J
execution. I
At the first effort the two older
Indians were hung. The youngest ot
the three, who was the son ot one
and nephew ot the other, being a very
(Continued from Tuesday’s Issue of Mr. Phillip Paris was shot an Instant stout boy, broke the rope at the first
The Times-Enterpriae.) ’ ahead of the others and, when he fell effort and was resuscitated and hung
iSU--!! back, his gun hit Mr. Chastain who again. The rope broke the second
As late as 1850 the Thomasvllle dodged just In time to permit a bullet *■*“*
Methodist Church was In the middle to take off his right index linger in- in 1 ®
of Broad Street In front of the pres- stead of striking his head. Mr. Chas- ‘bat ‘he crowd In attendance waB
ent site, fronting down the street to- tain grabbed the gun of Mr. Paris,, “"™ “°. ve “- . . nn
wards the courthouse but the building who had fallen In front of him; but, • He said that he had no malice to-
being of such architecture that there not having noticed that his trigger "f r h d ® th .® _ w h h “® “f" ™ e rt d ’ n “ r .^
was in reality a double front. Anger was gone, he made the effort to he have the heart of a murderer, that
Diinn« i*i thn usual wav and failed *i® bad been t&usbt froin nls infancy
At the point where Smith Avenue y ’ that It was not Immoral to kill white
runs into Broad Street there was a , „ b ® Indians, seeing that they had men wbo bad sto i en their lands and
^boarding house fronting towards the to completely carry out their dr i ven them from their homes; and
r Methodist Church and the village was object, fled; and Mr. Chastain, dls- that his spirit had never been sub-
along Broad Street between the covering his wound, and noticing that dued .
church and the boarding house. There Jhe powder in the Ignition pan was Mke verv elonuentlv and am
was a cemetery In front of the church t0 ° bloody to Ignite from the flint, he- Dh “ti c X accordln E t 0 the internrT
and Bnmn nf the hndloo ware navar B an changing the powder. pnaucaiiy, according to tne tnterpre-
ana some of tne hoaies were never . , ter, saying that the sight of the dead
removed from same. ! At this Instant, Nathan Paris crawl- bod i e3 0 f his father and uncle and
The Sprlngblll Methodist Church, ed up to the side of his dead brother belng hung twice had completely
on the Sprlnghlll road about ten miles and told Mr. Chastain to escape as he, , u bdued him He begged to be taken
from Thomasvllle, Is the oldest Nathan Paris, was mortally wounded. aa a slave and worked at hard labo ,
church organization in the county and Mr. Chastain took the two guns and dur i n g the remainder of his life
* for years was the largest. The pres- ran for the nearest swamp, where ho Tbe gberJff explained to him that
ent building is the second one on the hid until dark. be waa powerless to grant his request;
site and Is about seventy-five years The Indians soon overcame their and the boy asked for a drink of
old. The first building was erected In panic and tracked Mr. Chastain to the brandy, which was supplied, saying
swamp but, knowing that one or two that IfNie had to, he would go the way
The first merchant in Thomasvllle would pay the penalty with their life of hts father and uncle,
was James Klrksey, Esq., whose store If they entered, they called to him Thus ended the last chapter in the
was on the corner of Broad and Jef- to come out and make peace, saying first sensational tragedy of Thomas
ferson streets, diagonally across from that he was a brave man and, on ac- County.
the courthouse and where the Tosco count of their tOmiratlon, they would | —
Hotel now stands. not harm. him.
Isaac P. Brooks was proprietor of Mr. Chastain remained concealed
tbe first hotel. until long after dark and escaped.
The first brick courthouse was built A possee of white men, on the next
In 1846-47 but was badly damaged by morning which was the sixteenth,
a storm In the early fifties. The pres- visited the scene of the tragedy and
ent structure was completed In I860 found the bodies of th<y two Paris
and remodeled in 1890. brothers badly mutilated.
In 1833 Simon Hadley, Shadrach The Governor of Georgia made re-
Pugh, Joseph Anderson, Ignacius Hall quisltion upon the Seminole chief, in
and Ralph Bozeman qualified so as to Florida, for the outlaws and all of the
take advantage of the Act of Congress Indians In the vlnclnity were scruti-
of 1832 for the benefit of soldiers of n ized by the Indian authority,
the Revolutionary War. , Mr. Chastain made several visits to
Hon. Thomas D. Mitchell Tallahassee before he could Identify
The subject of this sketch was the an y of the suspects. He finally Identl-
son of William M. Mitchell who moved fled the man he had cut, a one-eyed
to South Carolina from Virginia prior Indian, and three others as the orlgl-
to the Revolutionary War. He was n al band of assassins,
the brother of Ilr. Isaac W. Mitchell One,of the five Indians starved him-
who was i the father of Thomas C. seif to death In Jail and the other four,
Mitchell, builder of the Mitchell Hotel t 0 wit, Timpuche, alias Billy, alias
and highly esteemed citizen of Thomas Honis Hadja alias One-Eye. Jim, Boh
County. and Billy, were indicted by the Grand
Thomas D. Mitchell was the first jury a t the June term, 1827, of the
Solicitor General of the Southern Cir- Thomas Superior Court, in the follow-
cult after the creation of Thomas i n g words-
°°“ nty ’ 1 JL l) r"*s| 1 r l r e L l t « 0 ta!nre t GEORGIA, Thomas County;
flee by tbe Georgia Legislature In The Grand Jurorg 8W0 rn, chosen and
1 . . ,* _ . T selected for the County of Thomas, to-
Mr. Mitchell was born in Laurens T . „
niotvini n n .,ik fai-rtiinq i7oi on/i wit, Auron Evorltt, Joun Carlton,
District, South Carolina, in 1793 and, rpi, Amon im*,tamu,,,, n„ * _
when eighteen vears of age came to Thomas Mitchell, Joshua Proctor,
? e “ y<!a ™ h ° r . Ifi Thomas Adams, Redden Wooten, Tay-
Geoigia, teaching school In Montgom- , or M | tchelli Thomas Hurst, Burrell
,U„ Bally. Luday C. Ferrell, Thomas Dekle,
In 1S20 he was admitted to the bar Zacbar i ab Hopson, Charles H. Klngs-
In Sandersville, having completed his , ey nenry Cook6i Boaz Stan aland,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
study of the law in the office of Ely u f,!„ nivl , n . *
& awter „t 1ita tneateU William Carson, Edmund P. Wester,
George Hicks, Moses Daniel, Hardy
Bryan, Michael Horn and Shadrach
*on.
he name and behalf of the citi
zens of Georgia, charge and accuse
Tin.imche, alias Billy alias Honis Had-
jo rilias One-Eye, Jim, Bob a$d Billy,
Indians of the Hitihatah Town in the
IT
S. Shorter of Eatonton. Me located at
Hartford, In Pulaski County, In 1821.
In March, 1825, Mr. Mitchell fought "
a duel with Robert Augustus Beall,
Esq., but neither participant was
hurt.
Mr. Mitchell had served but a short
while as Solicitor General when Dr.
Ambrose Baber, who had been sur- JJ*' 1 ... „
geon for Mr. Beall In the above men- ltb tbe „°LT
tloned duel, made some remarks eon- d ,, ', E,®!' ‘.f, 1 ’ d H Jil^ P “^f. ’
cerning the affair which led to a duel a ’,' Vve Jim Boh Rllw in. hiv
,,, „i,„n c Du -Eye, Jim, liob and Billy, not hav-
” Thil ln;: ,he foar of God before their eyes,
rlflesf^t^ten'paces'and Mr^M.tche.l m 7 Z
TtTnd’ln tantlv'exDh-cd^He was ot November In the yea?
on thrioiH honor H hv^,u 01 our Lord Eighteen Hundred and
attended on tho field of honor by his ^ wenty-slx, with force and arms, in
in vni™? Z the ™unty aforesaid, in and upon the
exhausted all means known to the body of ono Pb | lllp p arIs a nd one
medical profession in his brothers be- Nathan ParIa> ln the P pe ace of God and
,5* , - . . ... State, then and there being felonious-
He was eulogized by one of his sue- , wlIfu „ and of thelr nlaIIce> a , 0 re.
P .nA nf; thought, did make an assault; and that
niiirrtn” e . mWrnm whTh the » al d Timpuche alias Billy alias
of Georgia and from which most of Hon , 3 HadJo alla3 One-Eye, Jim, Bob
the acts herein mentioned have been and Bi „ y four certaln f . un3 , caIled
ootamou. rifles, ot the value of Thirty Dollars
It is Interesting to note that Dr. each, then and there charged with
Baber, on March 1, 1846, ln order to gunpowder and leaden bullets (which
convince a patient that a prescription rifles, guns, the said Timpuche alias
was harmless, swollowcd a poisonous Billy alias Honis Hadjo alias One-
compound and immediately expired. E ye , Jim, Bob and Billy), In both
Thomas County’s First Murder Trial their hands, had and held at, to,
In 1825, Phillip Purls and Nathan -against, and upon tho said Phillip
Paris, friends of Charles Kingsley, Paris and Nathan Paris, then and
purchased a lot of land in the Glasgow there, feloniously, wilfully, and of
district, built a shack thereon, .and their malice aforethought, did shoot
began clearing. They were ln the and discharge; and
habit of spending the week-end with That the saId T | m puche alias Billy
Mr Kingsley in wbat is now Thomas- alia9 Hon|s HadJo a „ y a8 0 ne-Eye, Jim,
Bob and Billy, with the leaden bullets
When the Paris brothers returned aforesaid shot out of the rifles, afore-
homo from one of their usua1 visits. saldi by mean8 of 8hootlng oB a „ d dls-
on November 14, 1826, the> found that cbarg | n g tke ga | d r |n e guns, so loaded i
the premises had been robbed and t „ at _ and agalnst th0 sald p hmlp ; circuit, Springvale, Parrott, Sasser;
New Missions are Created
And Many Young Preach
ers Go Before the Board of
Examiners—Evangelists Re
port Year One of Best.
Moultrie, Ga. f Nov. 17.—The fol
lowing young preachers were yester
day before the examining commit
tees of the South Georgia Confer
ence for admission on trial: Rev.
James Oliver Burnett of Sardis;
Thomas Monroe Luke of Rhine;
Isom Clements T. Walker of Shell-
man; Anthony Hearn of Clayton; J.
Edwards Fain of Remerton; William
Henderson Wilcox of Alma; Clar
ence Ethan Smith of Mershon; Mar-
Inies Bouterse of Cusseta; (George
Pierce Padrick of Savunn&h, and
Henry Ellie Wells.
Rev. Elmer W. Graves of Colum
bus, was recommended for readmis-
sion.
One of the most important board
meetings held yesterday was that of
the Board of Missions, Rev. T. D.
Ellis, D. D. of Macon, presiding. The
meeting was opened with prayer by
Rev. J. jC. Brooks, presiding elder
of the Valdosta District, after the
roll call.
Rev. VV. P. Buxx of Tifton, was
ejected secretary of the Board of
Missions, to fill the place of Rev. J.
N. Peacock, presiding elder of the
Columbus District, who resigned on
account of his district worK. #
The following missions were dis
continued: Americus District—Lee
Street, Americus, Blakely Mission
and Smithville; Cordele Distrlct-
Arabl; Macon District—Newburg
nd Crosskeys, Gordon and Knox
ville; Savannah District—Lawton-
tile; McRae District — Surrency
ITvalda, West Green; Valdosta Dis
trict—Mllltown, Moultrie and Mis
sion; Waycross District—Woodbine
and Willacoochee.
Dauntless Flour Demonstration
1UESDAY, NOV. 16th-to--SATURDAY, NOV. 20th
At Neel Brothers Department Store
Dainty Biscuit, Cakes and Pastry Served Free
Daily between 11 A. M. and 6 P. M.
Mr. R. R. Doss and Mrs. Dibble, demonstrators from Nashville, Tenn.,
will be pleased to have the ladies of the community call and try the
nice cakes, pastry and biscuits that can be made from Dauntless Flour.
Cooper-Bracey Grocery Company
Distributors
Liberty Mills Celebrated Dauntless Flour
(Dauntless Flour On Sale At All Good Grocers)
were nominated as members of the SPANISH POSTAL SERVICE
b “ a , rd “ ls , 8 J°" 8 '° fi " ? he p ‘ a “ s f DECLARED INEFFICIENT
of J. W. Sheffield of Americus, C. O.!
Batson of Brunswick and W. C. Pirkle j
or Baxley, resigned. i Madrid, Nov. 9.—The postal and
Rev. C. B. McDaniel, general evan- telegraph service ln Spain Is sharply
gellst, reported gracious revivals criticized ln some newspapers. El
held during the year, 480 accessions Sol asserts that the service has reich-:
to the church, 400 family altars erect- e d such an extreme limit of <11 sor
ed, 300 pledged to tithing and $2,200 ganlzation as never hitherto existed!
received as free will offerings. due to being undermanned by fifty
Rev. J. M. Bass, general evangelist, her cent. !
reported 288 days ln revival work, It mentions several cities of 20,000 1
654 sermons preached, and 890 addi- Inhabitants as having only one offlc-S;
tions to the church. Rev. Harry C. employs and declares the postal i
Allen, conference evangelist, report- u G©nts at the railroad stations are so.
ed to the board that this has been ,BW that Private firms are compelled j
the most successful year of his min- lo send lholr owa men f o lake the!
istry, having held eighteen revivals pac,!aBOS fpom the tra J" 3 - j
during which 340 were added to the 11 polntR out that ‘ 3 of stam P j
church on profession of faith, and ro- buyors may be seen >" every post
ered as remuneration for bis ser- offlce ’ as there is not ^mdeni per-
sonnel to service the customers. |
vices about $2,800. *
Rev. W. W. McCord, approved
evangelist, reported sixteen meetings
held, 330 sermons preached and 203
The writer asserts that the majority
of the letter-carriers receive a wage
of only 365 pesetas a year, although
. , . „ . . „ ... their average round daily fn the:
members received. Rev. J. A. Smith 4 * , 9 i
country districts exceeds 20 miles a
man. (A jeseta is
about 20 cents.
normally worth
The following missions were con
tinued: AmericuH district, Shellman
they called upon their friend. Mr. John p’ rl „’ a „d Nathan Paris afore^d
twain, who being a surveyor, was and tben and tbere felonlou8ly , w(l .
well acquainted with the country, and fuI | y> and of tbe|r maIlce a f or ethought,
who could speak the Infllan language, 8trlk0 penetra t e and wound, the said
to assist them in recovering their phi|1|p Parlg ln and upon the left arm
i property. and left side and in the forehead of! zuma and Mission Mystic, Pinevlew,
pr^,rp^ ^ -
! bd,a "\ a . nd .^,‘!: ree ,i 0 . l ir,! 1 !„ l "r: there with the leaden bullets, afore-
Columbus district, Cusseta, Hamilton,
Howard, Mouk, Omaha, St. Mark,
Talbot circuit. East Highland; Cor
dele district, Ashburn Mission, Monte-
sult of the thieves In the late after- gaIdf by ghootlng ofr and d | scb arging
noon of the fourteenth, they, came tbo ga | d gung s0 loaded, to, at, and
upon an Indian camp and Mr Chas- agalngt the ga|d phlmp Parl(li the
tain cautioned the party to rest for woundg aforesaid which were mortal;
the night and accost the Indians next and , n and upi)n the lef[ brcagt of
morning. b l nli tbe ga | d Nathan Paris, near the
When the Indians were at break- pap and also below the pap, giving to
fast, the three white men saluted bim, the said Nathan Paris, then and
them and were Invited to brcakfas,t. there, with the leaden bullets afore-
While they were eating they were in said, by means of shooting off and dls-
full view of tho. stolen property which charging the said guns so loaded to
they were seeking; and, during a lull anil against the said Nathan Paris, two
In the conversation, Mr. Chastain told mortal wounds on his left breast, aa
bts companion, in English, to rush for aforesaid, by such shooting, striking
their guns which had been stolen and and penetrating; and wounding tho
which were upon- the pile of stolen said Phillip Paris one mortal wound
property. This was done, and at tho In his left side and one mortal wound
same time, the Indians, who were five tn and through the forehead; and by
In number, made a rush for tho guns. s uch striking, penetrating, and wound-
The fighting was furious and Mr. ing the said Nathan Paris two wounds
Chastain cut his chief antagonist very in his left breast; of which said mortal
seriously ln the-shoulder. He would wounds the said Phillip Paris and,
have killed him but for the dog of tbe then and there Instantly died.
Indians, which was also attacking Mr. And so tbe JurorB, aforesaid, upon
Chastain. their oaths aforesaid, do say that the
The live Indians wore badly whip- said Timpuche alias Billy alias Honis
ped and subdued by the three white Hadjo alias One-Eye, Jim, Bob and
men, they begged for mercy and Billy, the said Phillip Paris and
promised to Immediately return the Nathan Paris, In manner and form
property, at the same time requesting aforesaid, felopiously, wilfully and of
that they be not reported to tbo au- their malice aforethought, did kill and
thorlttes. murder, to the great displeasure ot AI-
The Paris brothers were deceived mighty God, contrary to tbe laws of
by tho Indians’ apparent repentance said state, the good order, peace and
and, over Mr. Chastain’s protest, re- dignity thereof,
turned the Indians' guns to them, say- in June term, 1827.
Ing that they were tbo badly whipped LOTT WARREN,
to ever give any more trouble. Sol. Genl.
Tbo stolen property was packed CHARLES KINGSLEY,
upon a pony and the eldest of tbe five Prosecutor. •
Indians led tbe way on tbe return At tbe same term ot court, Jim, Bob
trip, with Mr. Phillip Paris, Mr. Chat- and BUly were convicted ot murder,
tain and Mr. Nathan Paris following One-Eye having escaped while on his
In the order named. way to court.
About three o'clock In tbe afternoon. The three convicted murderers were
the two Paris brothers, having a gun sentenced to be hung June 27, 1827, by
etch, and Mr. Chastain, having an axo Judge Moses Fort
on his shonldtr, were fired upon from A scaffold was built on where was
ambush and would have all been In- afterwards erected the Plney Woods
stanly killed but for the tact that Hotel; and, on the day appointed, the
Ideal Mission; Dublin district, Cen
tenary, Wrightsvllle, Dublin circuit,
Kite; Macon district, Empire circuit,
Igleslde; McRae district, Alamo, Ced
ar Grove, Cobbtown, Graham; Baxley
circuit, Sprlnghlll, Pembroke, Jack
sonville; Savannah district, Greco’s
Cut, Eureka, Rincon, Port Went
worth and Thunderbolt; Valdosta dis
trict, Alapaha, Eldorado, Funston,
Ellenton, Remerton, Omega, Staten-
vllle, Chula, Berlin, Lake Park,
Sparks; Waycross district, Alma cir
cuit, Atkinson; Rluckshear circuit,
Folkston, Gransberry, Hcbardvllle,
Ludowlci. Mershon, Brunswick, and
Missions, Nlcols, Pearson, St. Marys,
and Kings Island. Screven, Town
send, and Darien, Warcsboro, Homer-
ville, McKendree; Thomasvllle dls-
Eldorado, Meigs, and
Metcalfe, Brldgeboro, Cairo, Climax,
Coolldgc, Pelham.
The following new missions were
created; Americus district, Leary;
Columbus district, Newhope; Dublin
district, Matter Mission; Macon dis
trict, Llzella Mission, Cochran Mis
sions; McRae district, Daisy, Gleen-
ville; Savannah district, Blooming-
dale and Mission; Valdosta district.
North Moultrie Mission; Waycross
district, Alma Station.
Rev. J. N. Peacock resigned os
secretary of tbe board of missions on
account ot his work as presiding
elder of the Columbus district, and
Rev W. H. Budd ot Tifton was elect
ed In his place. Dr. G. N. McDonald
of Waycross, M. H. Parker ot Daw
son and T. J. Sapplngton of Eastman,
of Macon, chairman, of the confer
ence committee on evangelism, call
ed a meeting for 2:30 o'clock yester-
day afternoon at which time reports ! j
of evangelists were heard and duly' PRE'.CHED FUNERAL OF WIFE j
considered. .
. • Berlin, Oct. 21.—(By Mail)—Wide-;
eyed mourners listened In amazement j
to Oberdadi Ilnader, Grand Exalted J
Ruler of the Order of Dadas, a literary ’
society which believes the drama j
ought to be more simple, when he re- j
cently preached a funeral serriton |
over the body of his wife. !
Smilingly the Oberdada walked up
to the coffin and in a bright and snap
py little speech explained he had no •
occasion to grieve. Death, he said, :
was merely a matter of expansion,;
and he felt quite confident that bis
GEORGIA MAY HAVE
ANOTHER MEMBER
IN CONGRESS
• Washington, D. C., Nov. 17.—Georgia
will have one additional member of
Congress if the basis of apportion
ment advocated by Chairman Siegel
of the House committee on tho cen
sus is adopted, and if no special re- [ wife was In a “wider life.’’
ductlon of Southern representation Is j At the conclusion of his sermon the
made. ! Oberdada made a cheerful pxit.
Chairman Siegel who Is from New |
York announced yesterday that he ad-1
vocates 220,000 as the basis for th»!
new congressional unit of population '
Under the 1920 census Georgia’s popu-J
latton Is 2,566,000 and this, divided by i
220,000, gives thirteen and a minor j
fraction. If tho fraction were a ma-l
jor one. (hat Is, more than one-half, it
would entitle the state to a fourtenth,
member. Under the present unit of
211,000 Georgia has twelve represm-l
tatlvcs. |
The Slegal proposition would n* to* j
sltate increasing the size ot the House I
by fifty members. There is no doubt ;
It will be fought on that ground, as (
tho House is already so numerous to
be unwieldy. It Is the Idea of somej
of the Republican leaders that this!
problem could be solved by Invoking'
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend j
ments and reducing Southern repre- 1
sentatlon In proportion to population
actually voting. I
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ATLANTA POLICE ASKED TO !
PROTECT BRITISH SUBJECTS
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 17.—Protection of.
of British subjects ln Atlanta fr m;
alleged threatened reprisals by Irish j
In this country for death of Irish at'
the hands of British soldiers has been
asked of the Atlanta police depict
Ochlocknce, j men t, ( n an appeal from A. M. Brook
field, British consul at Savannah, by J
direction of the British ambassador ln
Washington. !
Tho request was based on an alleg-'
ed threat said to have been sent to,
the British chief secretary for Ire
land by the Amalgamated Irish So
cieties of America. I
Lieutenant of Detectives T. D. Shaw •
acting chief In the absenceof Chief;
Lamar Poole, received the letter frur |
Consul Brookfield. Mr. Shaw said:
"The Irish In this city are law abid
ing. low loving people, and I don't be-1
lleve any of them would attempt to<
take the taw Into their own hands
and seek reprisals for any acts that,
might be committed ln Ireland."
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