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Middle Georgia Argus
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
MORNING.
INDIAN SPRING, GA.. NOV. 24, ISBI.
LOCAL MATTER.
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Joe Maddox is the latest happy
man, its a three pound boy: who
will be the next? Don’t all rise at
Once.
Died— Frank Gunnels got dead
drunk last Saturday e veiling
—T—-T~r up '
We learn from the Atlanta con
stitution of 22nd that the Cole syn
dicate has purchased the Griffin
Griffin and Madison R. R. and will
begin work at once on the tame,
they paid judge Lockraine forty
thousand dollars for the load bed
with all its franchises, being a prof
it of thirty five thousand dollar! over
cost to him,we congratulate the peo
ple of Monticelto and Jasper County
On the prospect ol a railroad at an
early day. It was not from Any
desire to deprive the good people of
jasper of a road that we the
extension from them, we weri only
acting on the principle that charity
begins at home, now we say. bully
for an other JinMhat passes through
Jasper.
- Thebe st One-horso Georgia crop
,we have heard of this year is report
ed from Early county* by the News.
Jt was made by Mr. L. A. Tubley,
pn Cob Nesbitt .3 plantation with one
plow anijnal he made 25 bales of
cotton 150 bushels of torn 2;000
pounds pf fodder besides a crop b ef
cane and potatoes;
TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
V
T ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO
<t:s either by note or ac
count, ARE REQUESTED TO
COME FORWARD AT ONCE
‘AND SETTLE, AS WE NEED
THE MONEY, AND MUST HAVE
ir. WE MAKE NO EXCEP
TIONS IN THIS CALL.
J. G. DAUGHTRY % fe&C).
NOV. lUth 1881/
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SHOE SHOP.
( William w. Hoard, who happeh
ed to the misfortune of loosing his
•leg some time ago, has become a
skilled workman in makingand re
pairing shoes, and wouid be- pleased
•to have the patronage of his friends
T r id the public generally, his shop
? > in the office of Dr. J.* H. Bryans in
this pHce, give him a trial.
■ It is a, Foolish Mistake to con
found r. remeay of merit with the
quack medicines now so common.
W© have used parker’s Ginger Tonic
.-With the happiest results for Rheu
atism and Dyspepsia, and when
worn out by overwork, and know it
to boa steiiing health restorative.
Times. See adv.
nov.3-m
PAT TY Great chances io make
vj vj Lrf LJ • money. Those who al
ways take advantage of tjie good-chances
fot making money that are offered, gen
erally become wealth, while those Who
.do hot improve such chances fomaju ih
poverty. We want many melt, wbmeri,
boys and girlsto work for ns right in.the|r
own localities. Any one cad 'dd the
work properly the first start.** The busi
,ness will pay more than ten timss ordi
nal y wages. Expensive outfit fnmfihsd
free. . No one w ho engages fails to make
moh6y rapidly. You can devote your
who time to the work or only your spare
piements. Full information ana all
that is needed sent free. Address Stin
son & Cos., Portland, Maine.
LAST CALL.
Teachers of Public Schools who have
not handed In their reports must do so
immediately. I can t settle without
them. ' E E Pound C. S. C. B. C. .
NOTICE.
Hezekiah C. McElhenny has applied
or exemption of personalty and setting
, apart valuation of homestead and I will
pass upon the same at 10 o’clock A. M.j
on tho 26th November 1881 at my office/
J. F. CoRMICTTAEL,
Ordinary B. C,
Dyspeptic symptoms, such as retast
irg'of the food, belching, heat in the
stomach, heartburn, etc., promptly cured
by Brown’s Iron Bitten.
* ■ <
One of the* in Geor
gia lives in Thomas county. He,
recently stated that although ho had
E*' Unted field peas for twenty years,
e had only learned the present
year when to plant them. ..The
'Southern Farmer’s Monthly for De
cember will tell who he is and when
lie plant! his peas.
N. Edge has suspended
the publication of the Senoia Farm
, a.sjl> Home, and will assume con
trol of the Chergkee Advance, at
Canton, Ga., this week.
We caH the attention of our readers to*
tho advertisement of J. Monroe Taylor.
-.This house has been established nearly
•40 years, and their goods are celebrated
tier parity and strength. We would rec
ommend a trial of their Gold Medal
brands to all who desire cookery.
We regret to announce that our
friend Pony Carson is very low with
fever.
We are sorry to learn that Mr.
Thomas Baily is very Jow, and bis
recovers doubtful.
We are pleased to set our friend
A. A. Good rum improving, and
hope to see him out again soon,
but we regret to announce that hie
little son Jackie has taken down
with fever, we hope it will deal gent
ly with him, we wan‘t to see his
beaming countenance with the ac
customed smile, around our office
soon.
Mr. E. E. Pound and Wiley
Heard accompanied by their ladies
and Miss Wright, took in the cot
ton exposition last week they give
a good report of the great show.
Wiley Jiappe ned to the misfortune
of lodsmg his noted horse “Storm
Clbuld“ on his retUrti from Griffin,
he died in the road ne*r Iflat shoalsi
MilledgeVille REcOkbteft t “it"
may be a legitimate busirifcsl to buy
cottdn seed. hnd ship them off but
very unprofitable one to the peonle
of a bounty where they are shipped
from. Every pound of cotton seed
sold here and shipped takes that
much away from the fertilizing re
sources of Baldwin county. If it
were possible .to do it, the business
should be prohibited.* 4
Mrs. Fletcher, nee Harknese, wife
of our friund Wra, Fletcher, jyaj
buried in Jackson last Saturday.
She fell a vietim of the ffttil de
stroyer Coiisiimptioib
AdairpWle o is agog over a big
sc,ahdsl. ’ Thq dfdightpf of a Bap
tist (preacher And a barkeeper are
the principal! in the affair,
On the subject of “Intensive
Farming ’ the Sparter Ibhmaelite
says : “It is high time for th© peo
ple of Hancock to try theft hands
on a little intensive farming 1 . They
have tried the all-out-of-doors sys-,
teih, and have made, failures, .jt.
Now let them contract their iarmjpg
areaß, and see, what better ‘prepa-;
rafion, ir( morje,.,.extensive manuring
aqd more thorough cultivation will
do for them. It inust be cheaper to
muke a bale of cotton an one acre
than on three. It must be better to
raise four barrels of corn on one
acre than to raise one barrel on
four acres. By observing all that is
implied in,, the caption of this ar
ticle, the best results must follow/
; $n Thursday evening last our
tbwn wad made sad by a telegram to
Mr. E, P. Fours anttoimcinkthe sud
den death of his son W, H. Fears
familiarly know here, as Dump
Fears*his death, occurred in Macon
on the night previous, of heart dis
ease. He had been employed in
that city a few days previous to his
death none of his friends knew of
his illness until his untimely death
was announced, and to make itmthe
more hard for His father, the news
came while he was watching aronnd
the sick bed. of his daughter, Mrs.
Terrell, whose ..death was hourly ex
pected, her condifcioh Was so critic
cal it was not coneidcred prudent to
break the sad news to her. Dump
was brought to town and buried in
the villago cemetery on Saturday
evening last.
One of the collecting agents of
Mr. Blood worth was. sold out in
the lower part of this., county one|
day last week : as he approached a
farm house he found jie, good lady
sitting on the frejfk Jsflps weeping,
he called out ifi J a "sympathetic, tone
to know the cause' of her. grief, to
which she replied ’ between •• sobs;
“Our dog is dead/* to his query,
“what/was tlie matter with the dog.
She replied, “he barked 'himself to
death at Mr. BloodwoHH‘s ‘ collect
ing agnts.“ The last heard from
that feller he w as going at full speed
down Towaliga to get a job on the
Macon & Brunswick extension.
The Conyers weekly gets off the;
following: ■
Colquitt will never* f ba-* United !
States Senator till all of Hill’si
tongue is gone. '* •
Perhaps Ben Hill will do do ’ bet
ter now. He used to be a little too<
tofcguey. j
Jirp-.Blount is the most popular
•m*n ih’ thfe \ afotw' to -day. To be
popular with Georgians a man
must be honest. v vA M “
Bob Toombs is tha greatest 'man
in the State —when in comes to
oursing.
A Serious Cutting Affray.— -At the
hopae of Ames Berry colored near this ;
place was to have been a wedding last i
uight, Elvira daughter,of Amos was totbej
married to Clark Bennett, but about, toe
time the nappy union was about to fake!
place some disorderly boy began tor be*
Vqisy, when Heurv Henderson remou-i
strafed with them for. their couduct> for
which he was knocked dewn frightfully
put £a several place and. shot In the knee.;
The perpetrators ef this eutrage wast
Demps Byars, Tem Barlew, and Jim Atr
dre-ws.' The wife ef Ames Berry was
cut en beth bands in trying te preserve
erder in her house. •' The twe was made
Onete-day,' at the effice ■ef Judge Deug- (
lass, and they-went their way smiling as!
theughue trouble had e.cqrn?d. j
\ From the Atlanta T’ost'-Appeal:
: An Extraordinate ; J^abber.—
Yesterday evening an old * geutle
man namid H. G. Clarke, from Mer
iwether county, stepped into a bAr
ber ahop on Decatur street and had
his hair cui. After this operation
had been performed to bis satisfac
tion he yielded to the persuasion of
the barber, and allowed his whis
kers to be dyed. The pext thing in
order was the settlement of the bill*
“How much is it?“ asked the old
gentleman. “Twelve dollars, bos&,-“
replied the grinning barber. “Twelve
dollars !“ shouted the yictim. “Do
you mean to charge me twelve dol
ars for cutting my hair and dying
my whiskers?“ “Yaas, marseboss.
was the answer, “I done put you up
a bully job—sl2 is low enough for
it.“ Mr. Clarke protested, swore he
wouldn f t pay it, ahd, tb barber be
came excited and insulting. At
last it was agreed that the matter
should be left.- for arbitration to a
Kimball HouSe‘barber, and the two
started in that di lection, berDer
refusing to go until Mr, Clarke had
placed siO m hip hands as a guar
anty of good faith. As they drew
near the Kimball, still disputing
over the. matter, they met ft well
known citizen to whom Mr. Clarke
mentioned his trouble. At the ad
vice of this gentleman was called
and the ca* stated to him. “All
right Til settle this matter, slid
the officer, fnd turning to the bar
ber, he said, “Hand me that ten
dollars.* 1 The. barber reluctantly
forked over the X, and the officer
gave it to Mr. clarke, directing him
at the same time to pay the barber
one dollar. This was done at onfcte
much ib Mr. Clarke's satisfaction
but tlje : dif grunted barber retired
shhking mshead viciously, and
threatening to take out a warrant
for the policeman.
CORRESPONDENCE,
FENC%OR NO FENCE.
Editor Argus : ft
Lovers of the human race, phi
lanthropist, and dreamers of grand
dreams, all declare that since the
declaration that man had the right
to goyern himself, that tyrany, and
oppression; should be known only
as a relic of the past, we could ex
pect poshing bfetter while the power
of Kings and Princes prevailed, but
here in tbs United States man is free
and aliowed^to' enjoy the benefits of
local self governments/there should
be ’ no excuse for oppres
lon |and that the burden of our
system has become an
oppression none will_dispute.
It is true thaVwe have a yenerar
tion forth customs and traditions of
fathers, apa its a Yierj thing
for us to make ,up qur mind to change
them* but have changed and
no matter,how v reluctant wo may
be to dp sq, Necessity forces us to
change to meet the conditions that
the changes, of timb forces upor us.
then let us discuss this matter and
be prepared to vote intelligently
and promptly,
There standithat old homestead;
but lookl.See what.a change. The!
darkies, they are for we|
can’t hear them singing,ih the cane”
and so we find that the burden ©f
fencing the old homestead is an op
ptessidn that we must devise some
plaii to obviate, and as we feel that
it will be so much efcsier to walk up
to the ballo.t box and .vote no fence
than to “darice arotind” a twisted
post oak log fpr. twp hours, we will
vote no ferttje; and then instead of
spending all the wititcr- in repairing
fences, we wiR devote the time in
reclaiming the 014-; homestead by
doing more ditching- and stopping
the gullies. For this change, you
may put us down. ,
Black Ankle Solid.
FENCE otfcj|o FENCE.
Editor AUuua : .J noticed in a
late Is? ie of ’thien Argus a communi-j
cation signed 4 ’ in which;
he 'hrlvocatea nO fences, and . argues •
at length in (avor of his position but
his argument is different from my
view of .the question, as our law
makers,felt it their (luiv to frame a
law that would meet the.
wants of tlief people-"in' ; any county
that it *v<fcruld be-a benefit to them-
Now there is a great many objec
'tions to a. s.tpck law ih this county.*
I speak here jTrotH what I know;
there is *
own * stock -. in this county, valued at,
125000 dellara:
And there is about 450 persons in this
county ‘that, Awn land; now you see
that there is‘6oo. that QWn, stock that
havent got land’ 6f their, oto make
those pastures that ’sorfio say we w’U
have. Then how many of those that
own land will it benefit? It takes about
all the land of some to make acting.’
Now supuse they had to devote sonfre of
that land for pastures, it would .take
their best lands that they have to ge’t to <
wat& for .the Stock, for where;
thewater is there is the best land ,
Now. any man that woujd vote for his
stock notvto have tlte .privilege of run
ning out*eu the open fields and forest it
seems like is voting away all the privi
lege that our qld fathers bequeathed us,
the advocates the stock law the many
others that it will ,nqt be any benefit to.
It don’t seepi, llk,o they are willing for
any of their, crop to have protection
whatever, and as passing the stock law
does not compell ,qa to do away with
fencing entirely; ther^.arc's great many
men that are going to keep up* their
fences if the law. does pass, and ttyere is
some that are. goifig to let their fenoes go
down entirely .and if; it does not prove!
satisfactory tneu every man. that has let
his fence godonothiug., J think he will,'
be just that far behind his neighbors: At'
least that’s the way we view ft oti'this
side of the ’ FENCE.
MARRIED .
At the residence ’of the bride s
mother on Thursday evening 1< th
inst by Ray, W Q McMtchael Mr
Arthur Goodrnm and Miss Ella
Childs, the attendant were Miss
Minnie Goodrum and Mr Peter
Childs ; Miss Nannie Bowers and
Mr. will Evans The bride and groom
have a large number of friends who
rejoce in their happiness and whose
good wishes will ever attend them.
Monroe Advertiser
We just received the first number of
the Monticello News, published by Bur
ney & Horton, and edited by judge J.
W. Burney. The News takes the place
of the Hawk-Bye, and is a neat spright
ly newSy journal.
The editor.in his salutatory maps out
the true policy for the News, and we
predict for it good support. were very
forcibly impressed VfgfcJ}*# |||fc A# ad
vances of not tryyfit ijrslrce Atf7>pljfen
upon others, that if giQye of
our people co3j things ip that
light and be by such motives
we would do a gteat better. We
wish the News and its proprietors much
success.
Mr, Walter F. Adams, of Wes,boro,
Maes., writes: “For years I suffered
the horrors of dyspepsia and indigestion.
They seemed to weaken every organ of
life, and completely shattered my nerv
ous system. At night when I lay down
I felt I could not live until morning.
Heartburn pained me uiost terribly. I
tried Brown’s Iron Bitters; it suited my
case precisely, and now my stomach
digests any kind of food, and my sallow
complexion and other symptoms of ill
health are all gone, and at night I enjoy
most refreshing, dreamless slumber.”
AN OLD GEORGIA SERMON.
A lflHy correSjlpndjßrtt df the New
York gives a skotch of
a sermon she heard in Georgia near
ly holf a century ago, from which
we give an extract:
The preacher was apparently
about fifty years of age, large, mus
cular ana well-proportioned. On
entering the pulpit he took off his
coat and hung it on a nail behind
him, then opened his collar and
wristbands, and wiped the perspira
tion from his neck and hands. He
was clad in. striped cotton home-|
spun, the samej
material. He ban traveled several
miles that morning, and deemed al
most overcome by the heat. . But
the bretheren sung a couple of
hymns while he was fanning and
cooling off, and when he rose be
looked comfortable and good-na
tured.
He had preached there once or
twice before, but to most of the Au
dience he was a strpnger. Hence,,
he thought it lo announce!
himself, which he did as “Old Club- :
JwiWn-county, aj
Half-hafrd ana" Half-soft-shell: Bap-'
tiat,”
*‘l have given niyself that name/’j
said he, “because. I hpßeve the Lord
elected me for, alt,' ofornity, to go
ahead in the backwoods and grub
out a patch and blaze the way for
other, men. to- follow* .After the*
thickest of it is Cut away, a good’
warm Methodist, brother will come
along and take my trail, and make
things a little smoother and a good
deal noiser. And after all the un- 1
derbush is clearod out, and the owls
and wolves are skeered back, and
rattlesnakes tg killed off, a Presby-.
terian brother, in black broadcloth;
and white; cravat, will come along
and cry for decency and order. And
they’ll both? do good in their sphere.
I don’t desfiifee a. larnt man, even
when he .don’t dres§ and think as I
do. You couidn’Ppay me enough
to wear broadoloth, summer nor
winter, and you couldn’t pay a pres
byterian brother enough to go with
out it in dog days. _ I
‘ God didn’t make us all alike, my'
bretheren ; t but everV man has his
own sphere. .When God has a place
to fill He makes a man and puts ;
him hi it. t Wh'tx He wanted. Gen.
Jackson'Ke'.jnade“him- And set him
to fightih’ Injuns and the English;
when He wanted George- Whitfield,
He made- him to blow the Gospel
trumpet,as .no man ever blowed it;
and when He wanted Old Club-Axe
Dayis’, He made him and set him to
grubbing in‘th'6 backwoods.
“Bat my shell isn’t so hard but I
can s'Ce good points in everybody;
and as for the Presbyterians, they
are a long way* head of us Baptist
and Methodists., in some things.
They raisC .their children bettor
than any' people pn the face of the
earth. Only "a few days ago a Meth
dist class-leadef ikid to,me: ‘Broth
er Club-Axe, I was born a Metho
dist, I was raised a Methodist, and
by grace ot God I hcfpe to die a
Methodist; but I thank God, I’ve
got a Presyyterian wife to raise mv
children/ And I believe, my breth
ren, if the Lord should 6p*n the
way for me to marry again, I’d try
my belt to find a Presbyterian wo
man, and run my chances of break-;
in’ her into the savin’ doctrines of
feet-washin’ and immersion after
wards/ 1
Just at this poiht hb Was inter
rupted by two spotted hounds that
had been continually running up
and down the pulpit stairs. One of
them jumped upon thb Seat and be
gan his coat tail, in which
was something he had brought long
for, luhch. He turned slowly
around, andj taking, Jbyn by the ears
and tail, threw him. put ot the r win*
him, as easily as if it
had been a young kitten. The oth
er took warning and got as rapidly
as possible, though not without
howling and yelping *s if it had
been half killed. Ht then turned
to the audience, and said, smiling
ly ; “St Paul exhorted the brethren
to ‘beware of dogs/ I wonder what
he would do if he were in my place
this morning? It' appears like I
am ‘compassed about with dogs,” as
David said he Wal,”
He had scarcely commenced
preaching again before there was a
terrible squealing and kicking
among the mules and horses that
we re tied to the trees close by. He
put his head out of the window and
said: “No harm don!, brethren.
Just a creetur, with a slide-saddle
on, has broke loose. Will some
brother head the animal, for no lis
ter can walk home this not day.”
’ Quiet being restored he contin
ued :
“Well my brethren, I will now try
to say what I alluded to about the
Presbyterians.
“As* I said before, they raise their
children a heap better than we do.
They behave better in church, and
keep Sunday better, and read the
Bible and lam the catechism better
thsnoursdo. I declare, my breth
ren, their children are lamt the
Westminister catechisnri by the
time they can begin to talk plain.
“It ain’t three weeks since I was
out a cattle huntin’—for two of my
yearlin’s had strayed off; and I
stopped in at old Brother Harker’s
and took dinner. He’s a deacon in
the Presbyterian church ever thar.
Well, as true aS I stand here, breth
ren, Sister Harker bad her little gal
a-standii\’ right before her, with
toes jvst ©tferi With the crack o’ the
floor, and h!r hands Was a hangin’
down by her side; add her mouth
turned dp. likri A chicken when it
drinks; ana She wftS ft pattiii’ this
question td her otil 6’ tftAt cate
chism: . . .
“ ‘ What are tne benfits iVhich in
this life do either accoidjiftdy or
flow from justification, adoption
and sanctification?”
“Now, the question itself was’
enough to break the child down.
But when she had to begin arid
that question all over (for that’s the'
way it was in |he book) and then
hitch,.the answer to it, and which
all put together made this: ‘The
bene fits whiqb in this life do either j
accompany or flew, from.justifica
tion, adoption and are
peace of Conscience, joy in the Holy;
Ghost, increase in grace, and perse* >
verance therein to the end’—l
thought the child was the greatest
wonder I’d ever seen in all my life.-
She tuck it right through, too, with
out balkin’ ot * misßin’ the first
word. And s.hq s'fidkp so sweet and
she looked so like & little angel that
before I knowed. it the tears was a
rnnnin’ down- my cheeks as big as* :
buck-shot. - I’Ve-sdeii the day when !
I could have mauled and split a
thousand jails queiker and easier
than I sould have larnt that thing
and said it .off.like, she did.
“Now, my brethren, that child
didn’t, understand or. know the
meanin’ of, mjO Word of that. It
put t m©nip to all L-knew to take it
in myselfi But just fet that Presby
terian yosng un grow up, and ev
ery word of that Catechism will
come back to her, and her character
will atifforijiip under it—she’ll have
the backbone of the matter iR her
for life. ■ - - 1
“Now, I can’t put things. into my
children that way; v ’- Nothin’ don’t
stay, anyhow. Its like a nail driv
en into a rotten log.”
(This last remarklmever .forgot,
For thirty yMMf ll||pffrd, as I
would stand atlntf bladlboard try
ing to fix riilee and principles in the
mind of pupil, this remark
would„come back to me with its pe
culiar pertinency.)
“I tell you, my brethren,” he con-*
tinued, “if our children had a little
more catephism and, the Presbyte
rians a little less, it Would be better
for both. * . • * ■
“Then We don’t pray in our fami
lies like they do. I khow their
prayers are ndighty long, and they
pray all over creation; but, after
all, it’s the right way. It’s better
than prayin ’ too little.
“Now„ my father and mother was
good Baptisis) and raised their chiU
dren to be honest ond industrious;
but I never heered one of them pray
in my life, and I was most a grown
man before. I awer\ prayed myself,
and it was on 1
“There was tq bd a big meetin’
over in Elbert county, and I know
ed a pretty girl over thar that I
wanted to go and -See. So I bor>
rowed a little Jersey wagin, which
was a stylish thiug in them days,
and Wfctlt • wrer; to fusr house and
stayed all 1 " night, and engaged her
to ride to xnertin’ with m© next day ,
‘We went and had a glotious
time—tnd I might as will say right
here that she was afterward my wife
—but a-bomin’ home home I met
with a powerful accident that' I’ve
never got dyer to this day. As I
was a down a Steep- hill,
some part of the gearin’ ’give- way
and let me and the wagin o a my
creatuPs heels; and, bein’
and skeery and not much used to
wheels, she wriggled and kick( >d and
tore from one side of the road to the
other, till I was pfiched hea d-fore
most as much aa, ,teq, foot i.nto a
deep gully, ’and IPs a mimcle of
mercy that my heck wi.gn’t broke
on the spot. * •
“Expectin’ to be killed every inin
it, I thought I ought to ask the
Lord for mercy. But, as I had nev
er prayed in all my life, I couldn’t
think of the first thing to say but
the blessin’ my father used tt> ask
before eatin’ when we had company,
and which was this: ‘Lord make
us thankful for what wo are about
to receive/
“Now, my brethren do you ’spose
any Presbyterian raised boy was ev
er put to such a strait as that fer a
prayer? No. He would have
prayed for himself and gone off af
ter the Jews and the heathens,
whilst I was huntin’ and a gittin’
off that blessin’.”
A STdRE BURNER AND MUR
DERER.
INTiESTIN9 FAort BROUGHT TO
LIGHT BY DETECTIVES.
In Jefferson Superior Court, Fri
day, Obadiah Rost was convieted
of the murder of Nathaniel Corn
wall, on November 30, 1877. The
jury, returning a verdict of guilty;
recommended the prisoner to the
mercy of the court, thus reducing
the capital punißhment to impres
onment in tne pehitentiary for life.
Tne crime for which Ross will pass
the remainder of his days in penal
servitude was a heinous one. At 12
o’cldfck,on a dismal Winter night, in
the letter part of 1877, an ola man
N atheniel Cornwall, a merchant liv
ing dear Bartow 1 , JefferGOn county,
Ga., waS foully murdered. At that
hour his store was seen by neighbors
to be in A bright blaze. The fire was
beyond control and the entire build,
mg was consumed. Every vestige
but charr and remains was swept
away. Cornwall himself, who
a bachelor and slept in the building,
was never again seen in life. A
seach in tlie debris, however, discov
ered a portion of a backbone of a hu
man being, and this circumstance
that lie had here
met his death. Suspicon of foul
play was first whispered around and
thin intimated, apd afterwards
charged by many who coti.l4 find no
otper solution of the mystery. A
notorious character, named McDan
iel, .who had committed numerous
deeds pf violence, and who was then
serving out a life sentence in tbs
Dade.coal mines for a murder perpe
trated in wilkinson county, waa
pointed to as the most likely indi
vidual to accomplish a crime so
heinops. • .He had before bsen sua
piciorfed for his skilfully laid
schemes to prevent detection. This
murder looked like hia mark, yet no
steps were immediately taken to for
let out the crime. A Mr. Cornwall
a brother of the deceased, now of the
old rich firm of weed <fe Cornwall, of
Sayannah. at length determined to
bring the perpetors of of the three
fold cHfiie Of murder arson and rob
bery. to justice. Detectives were
employed,,and pdt to work. One
donne’d the .convict’s garb, gained
admittance to the Dade Mine, hand.-
led the pick for weeks among the
“black diamonds,” and soon became
intimated with McDani*l. The detec
tive said McDaniel confessed to him
there the murder c f Cornwall —that he
himself struck the fatal blow with a
hatchet when CornwalL.turned to get the
goods requested from the shelves —that
after robbing the establishment of mon
ey and valuable, he- and his accomplices
—for he implicated- several citizens of
Scriven .oounty who had before Scriven
county who ha'd uefore borne fair repu
tations —poured kerosene over the body
of Cornwall and over the door and coun
ters, set' fife to the house and rode away
by the glare of the conflagration After
his confession another detective was at
once directed to hunt up the accessories.
He went down into the suspected neigh
borhood, established a fishing station on
the river, and became to all purposes
“one of the boys,” employing one of the
E ergons suspecting in his operations in
is operations and associating intimate
ly .with them. He gradnally wormeU
himself into the confidence of those
whom McDaniel’s confession had impli
cated as the guilty parties. He .-ay.i
that Obadiah Ross told him at one time
that he accompanied McDaniel on this
foray—that they killed a horse or two, in
riding forty miles and back, betweon
suns, that he was with McDaniel, inside
the store, when he struck Cornwall with
a hatchet. Four others—Say the detec
tives —James Ross, James Newton, John
Newton and John Sikes, Were implicat
ed as accesseries before the fact by both
McDaniel and Obadiah Ross. These
four were arresied. Every effort to ar*
rest'Obadiuh Rosa failed. It was said
that he remained in the neighborhood of
his own hoine for sometfme, but fiualiy
the search became so close that he wa?
forced to flee. A large reward Was offer
ed lor his apprehension, but he contin
ued at large, and sCetned as if he won.a
escape altopetheih McDantel was re
manded to the Dade Coal Mines, anu a
short time since was brutally murdered
in one of the galleries of tho mines by *
negro convict,’ thus exemplifying, wna
is written in the Scriptures!
eheddeth men’s bieod by man shall
blood be shed.” James Newton wa;
tried and convicted, but was grarue
new trial. John Sikes was tried and ac
quitted. On the third of last Augn s. ■*
tectives Driskillahd DeMontnaouhn. v y *-
had been working up the case'for moutm,
arrested Obadiah Rom, near Ninety s* >
South Carolina’ Rosa avowed bis m
noeence and declared that he was '
where else on the night of the mu *-
An attempt was made on the tnai
prove an alibi but it failed.
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