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1 < ■' " WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 17, 1920. ?. _■ ■ ' . jp 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. 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