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Mlddlr Georgia Argos'
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
5 MORNING.
“IyDIAN SFRjtNG, GA. t Feb 9 1882?
LOCAL MATTER
JSS.'LIL 11 L_ —"g
Go to J. G. Daughyv, & Bro. for vour
Plow Goods They are*me cheapest in the
county.
When that horse was cut loose from
•the buggy, in ths ford of the creek near
the Spring last Sunday morning, while
the young ladies were being carried out
rpm the buggy, some on©- exclaimed,
PI wish someone would sue the county
lor damages.’
The raffle for Mr. Joe Carmichaels
tine horse in Jackson last Saturday re
sulted in ?Mr. Carmichael and M. L.
Duke getting ihe horse.
The one forty-fourth interest of the
Nclntosh House and real estate belong
ing to the wards of N, C. Collier Guardi"
an was sold on tuesday last, and bought
by “Whit” Collier at three hundred
dollars for each share making about one
thousand dollars for each childs part in
the property. Avery low price for this
valuable property.
The fin e dwelling known as the Lamp
kin mansion in Forsyth was burned on
tliursday morning last. It was occu
pied by Rev J. L. Lee, and Mr. Shan
non Head at the time of the fire and
Nearly all of their furniture was consumed
With thp building. v .
Dr. s[• L. Angier died suddenly
at bis home in Atlanta last friday
flight.
.T. G. Daughtry & Bro keeps a full sup
ply of meat, Corn, Flour, Syrup, Sugar,
Fcffee. and in fact any thing that is
Veod to eat.
The ee>ntrover£y # between the city
council of Atlanta and the official
of The Cincinati & Georgia R. R.
Cos, has been amicably settled and
the work on the extension has been
resumed on the disputed part of the
line.
Indian Spring, has adopted the
stock law in the corporate limits,
and the “bob tailed” cow and one
•'‘oared’ hog will have to retire after
|he first day of march,
Mr. S. F. Smith, of this county
killed twelve hogs on the 24th ult,
on his home place, of his own rais
ing that averaged two hundred and
fifty four pounds net
J. G. Daughtry & Bro. sells Haiman
and Ferguson Plow Stocks, at $1,85
One of the colored men working
pn the extension near the mouth of
|)ig Sandy creek, in this county,
was killed on friday last by the fal
ling of a bank of dirt under which
he was making an excavation.
Mi* Sam oxford, ths miller at the
Smith & Watkins mill has just
started his shingle machine, and is
now prepared to saw shingles of
the best quality. He lias left a
specimen of his shingles at this of
fice, And we dont think we ever
saw a more perfect shingle. All who
want shingles can have them sawed
by deliuering him the blocks.
He is also prepared to do wagon
buggy, or plow stock repairing, at
t hort notice.
There are 1,191 convicts in thp
Georgia Penitentiary of whom 150
are whites, and 36 females. Two
of the latter are white women, Kate
Southern and Lina Horrors. The
former is a domestic is a domestic
in a private family in Atlanta.
While one of the teams of Messrs
Branham and Lindsey, was attemp
ting to ford the creek, in town last
last Saturday evening the mules be
gan te plunge around, the two mules
in front swung around towaids the
bank from whence they started, and
at this juncture the driver attempt
ed to jump from the naddle mule,
ail’d in the scramble the four mules
and driver all went down in one
compressed heap and it seemed as
if the mules and driver would all be
drowned together, but by the time
ly action of the large force of hands
present they were savr ’ from ~
a fate. Some of our .s e
marked, “I wish our Ordinary
could have seen that.’
Eight Pounds good Rio Coffee for one
dollar at J. G. Daughtry & Bros,
Wiley Redding the notorious out
law naß killed at Fairborn last lri
day night, he was the most noted
outlaw the colored raee ever pro
duced, and his daring in many in
stances equalled the Jaiuese’s or
Youngers.
"■“MffcrT: "Putney, aTthe station
just this side of Albany, buys the
bark of cotton stalk roots and ships
it to Boston. Mass., where it is used
in the manufacture of certain midi
cines.
There is More Strength restoring
power in a 50 cents bottle of parker.s
'Ginger Tonic thau in a bush of nmli
or gallon of milk. As an appetizer
blood purifier and kidney corrector
there is nothing like it, and inval
ide find it a wonderful invigorant
for minds and body. Bee other
column.
Very few mien know how to keep
silent. Tho Italians haye a pro
verb, “Hear, see and say nothing if
you wish to live in peace.” The
man who is bent on telling all he
knows generally ends by telling
more than he knows. -
Somebody has taken the trouble
to find out, or has guessed at it, and
stated it as a fact, that one thous
and two hundred and twenty six
murders committed in the United
States last year. r
It is said that in 1880 the Irish
paid more money to liquor deal
ers than to landlords. The liquor
bill was larger than their rent iol
by nearly SIO,OOO. No wonder that
there is trouble and starvation over
there.
i
The Macon Telegrapg thinks an
honestly Democrat will
have no getting to Hea
ven, and cites the case of an old
citizen of Houston county, who
some years ago, when called upon
to leave this world.-was asked bv
his friends if he was prepaarred to
go. “Yes/' said the old man, “I feel
like the way is clear; I havo always
voted with the Democrats, and I
never voted a split ticket in my life.
The Council of Guiteau has agreed
with a Gentleman in Philadelphia
to have the body of Guiteau, packed
in a refrigerator on ice and exhibit
ed in all the principal cities of this
Country and Europe for the bene
fit of the relatives of the assassin
and the _ enterprising Patentee of
the refrigerating process. On hear
ing that Guiteau favored the scheme
in case he was executed, our devil
says hereckon-s Guiteau feels some
relief from the knowledge that his
body will ho basking around on
beds of ice while his soul is swelter
ing around in the torrid zone.
Mr, Henry Waterson, of the Lou
isville Courier-Journal has had
his attention called to a meeting
held in the London
at which the new fashion dress for
women, which, in some respect re
sembles a pair of pants, was adop
ted. Mr, Watterspn does not take
kindly to the idea of women wear
ing the breeches, and says so very
distinctly in a column-long editori
al, concluding with the remark that
“we are willing that they shall have
the ballot when they convince us
that they want it; we are willing
that they shall give us the whole
width ot the street-crossings and
take to the mud ;we are willing that
they shall resign to ns their seats in
the street cars and oilier public pla
ces, and receive in return our disre
gard ; we are willing that that they
shall crawl out of bed first and kin
dle the tire in the morning; hut by
the holy hide of the sacred bull, we
will cling to our pantaioo ns.
Till the stars are old,
And the sun grows cold ;
And our las gal hi* button shall lose its
hold,
Julius Brown said recently to the
Griffin News in connection with the
Griffin Madison and Monticello
Railroad: “Let the people subscribe
ore hundred thousand dollars,
with this amount guaranteed, I can
board the train for New York, and
float the bonds of the road on that;
basis within a weeks time. You
see, I must have something solid on
which toho- • One hun- j
bf ’ u • nrd from Abe j>eo
, te. bte sixty miles of road
. jmplishthaT purpose. Now
i will they donate it? Whenever they j
do, I stand ready to hidid
the entire road. One million dol
| lars. in round numbers, will build
I the road from Griffin so Madison,
I But that is neither here nor there.
! I own tlx road: I bought it to make
money out of and if the people
want it they must aid me in the
I manner i nave asked.’
- -Air. nr—lV- TJ.nvtmi. ns _
writes us from Calhoun County that ae
has bought enough pine land at 75cts
par acre to run a steam saw mill for five
years.
On account of high water tha Smith*
Mill Reporter failed to reach us this
week. tVe reckon the publishers were
too busily ei gaged moving their type
out of the reach of high water last Sun
day morning to get < ut their Edition time
enough to meet the mail. 0
moNTEZUMA We-ekly : “Do hogs
pay?” isthe headingofa newspaper
article. A great many do not: they
take a paper several years and then
Rave the post master send it back
marked“ refused.
If you want to suberibe for the Home and
Farm the best paper printed in the
world at the price, call on us and sub
scribe only 50cts a year. • u
We learn the hauling of timber, rails
and ties, over the new road will lequire
so many trains that they will be unable
to bring us our guano this spring,, too
bed aint it ? ,
There has been an explosion in the
coa! mines near Richmond Va. by which
twenty sevei women were made wid
ows and one hundred and eight children
made orphans,
The stock of goods belonging to Capt.
Nutt was sold at auction In Jackson last
tuesday and the cash jingled around
pretty livel y. Mr Beauchamp acted as
auctioneer, and demonstrated his capac
ity for that position pretty well, he
makes a good auctioneer.
Our Tax Receiver S. P. Vickers and
his father, also the little child of Mr Joe
Moore and Mrs. W. F. Douglass, the
sickness of all whom a notice‘Was pub
lished, We are glad to annonnee is‘”up
’ • •
again.
Athens Watchman : ‘Mr A. H, Head
the section master who was killed by the
North eastern trasn at Lulu last week,
was conscious to the last and a short
time before his death, while sufiering
intense agony, drew forth b.'s watch and
compared it with the railsoad time to
see how long he had to live. Ho * had
great nerve, and we are informed that
he told his wife not to sue the road for
damages, but lie supposed they would
allow her to continue to draw his salary
which was forty dollars per month. He
loaves a wife and one child.’
The Citizens of Indian Spring are dis
cussing the qteStion of extending 'the
corporation so as to take in the depot.
A Petition has been laid before, the
Ordinary asking for a public road to he
opened from town through to the depot.
If this road is opened it will he between
tho two existing roads, and the petition
ers claim it will be nearer than either.
Notice. —And Order For Leave To
Ski.l Land.
To all to whom it may concern:
Appplication will be made to the
Court of ordinary of Butts County, Geor
gia, at the first regular term after the
expiration of four weeks from this no
tice for leave to sell the lands belonging
to George Lindsey a minor for support
of said George Lindsey.
Feb. 6th, 1882 John G. Lindsey,
Guardian of
4t George Lindsey,
THE TRIPLE MURDER.
A Sequel To The Mistery
Some time ago we published an
account of the murder of three
Brothers near Aberdeen Miss, who
were en-routo to Arkansas from Ala.
and it will he rememherred that the
three was found in the bed at their
camp with their heads split open
and their brains exposed to view,
No clue could be found by which
the perpetrator could be Identified.
There was another man in compa
ny with them when they passed
through Abberdeen on the evening
previous to the murder and he was
missing from the camp when the
dead bodies were found, beyond
that nothing was known. But soon
suspicion rested upon a colored
man in the community he was ar
rested and on the commitment tri
al, he confessed complicity in the
crime, stating that an unknown
white man a stranger had induced
him to aid in the murder and rub
bery, for which he was to get half
of the money.
Every effort was made to discov
er the strange white man but all ef
forts proved to be in vain, and all
hope of solving the mvstery had
about beer, given up when a short
time ago the sheriff of Aberdeen re
ceived a letter from two Gentlemen
in Ala., stating that they believed
their Brother-in-law a man named
Jones was the guilty .party, from
the fact that the three young men
who were muiderred had stopped
at a blacksmiths shop near where
Jones lived to have some repair
j done on their wagon and hu asked
I Jones to go through with them for
•company,- promising -to—farttishr
him conveyance, which proposition
he accepted, and after several days
absence he had returned with a
horse and some other property
which he did not possess before
leaving, on receiving this informa
tion the Sheriff in company with a
■ ’nited States Marshal went imme
diately to Ala., and soon had Jones
m Irons and lodged in jail where
the Crime was committed. The
court- being in session he was put
upon trial convicted and sentenced
to be hung on the fourth of March.
The Negro accomplice was also sen
tenced to be hung on the same day.
Jones confessed the crime giving in
detail a recital of the most cruel
cold blooded outrage that could be
imagined; telling how he left his
home in the morning to go to Mr.
Gildings shop to collect five dollars
with which he intended to travel
west as far as the money would pay
his way on the railroad, and then
walk to the destination, and after
securing a home send for his %fe
and child, and how that on arriving
at the shop and finding the young
men who learning of his desire to
go west kindly offerred him convey
ance, and how after travelling with
them for several days, the Idea of
murder and robbery enterred his
mind on waking up at midnight
and fin ding them wrapped in slum
ber on the fatal night," and hearing
a noise in the road near the camp
got up and went out and met the
negro passing, and telling him the
boys had some money and if he
would go and help to kill them he
world give him half the money, and
how they together went 'up and
chunked up the fire to make a light
to see how to com mit the foul deed
and how the negro handed him the
axe and by the flicker of the pale
light he walked deliberately to the
head of the bed, and lingering for a
moment to learn by the breathing
beneath the blanket that they were
all unconscious of any danger and
their mind far away in “dream land’
herhaps fliting back to the loved
ones beneath the parental roof at
home, and how he in the presence
of At! J s silent midnight gloom had
raised the axe and with an under
handed blow split out the brain of
the oldest brother and with an over
handed swoop brained the next ol
dest leaving the little hoy who slept
in the middel until the last stating
that he knew if he waked he could
not do much and he could kill him
any-how, ahd how with one blow
his head was laid wide open, made
a tale of horor scarcely equalled in
the annals of crime. And the
shocking recital of how after he had
committed the triple murder he
slipped his hand beneath the blood
stained blanket and taking from
the pockets the small amount of
money and watch, and then taking
the trunk from the wagon and with
the holt from the ‘double tree’ pied
the lock off of the trunk and robbed
it and then having a fight with the
negro over the spoils in the presence
of the dead bodies makes up a
scene of depravity almost without
a paralell. Surely there is no pardon
for such a brute.
GUITEAU SENTENCED
TO BE HANGED j JNE 30
Washington, February 4, —Judge
Cox overruled the motion for anew
trial, and sentenced Guiteau to be
hanged on June 30, between 12noon
2 p. m. at the jail.
After the motion for anew trial
had been overruled, Guiteau, who
had been permitted to resume his
seat at the counsel tatfe called out:
“If your Honor please, I desire to
ask if there is any motion I ought
to make to secure my rights.’ Scov
ille tried to prevent his speaking,
but he retorted : “Well I don’t want
any advantage taken of me. I need
to knew how much time I shall
have to prepare rnv appeal to the
court(en banc.” •
Scoville—“Please keep quiet, we
haven’t reached that yet.”
Guiteau (with much excitement)
—‘l won’t keep quiet. lam here,
and I propose to do my own talking
Judge Cox then informed Scov
ille of the rules of practice applica
ble to the tiling of his exceptions.
After this matter had heed arrain
ged Col. Corkhill renewed his mo
tion. saying : ‘lts not my dut rto
ask for the sentence ot the court.'
Judge Cox(tothe prisoner) Stand
up. .TUna. .you .-anything-- to -asy
why sentence should not now "be
passed upon you,’
Guiteau (still sitting)—l ask
your Honor to postpone sentence as
long as possible.
Judge Cosx —Stand up. Have
you anything to say why sentence
should not now be passed upon
vou?
The prisoner then arose, pale but
with lips compressed and a desper
ate determination stamped upon
his features. In a low and delib
erate tone he began, but soon his
soon his manner became wild and
violent, and pounding upon the ta
ble he delivered himself of the follo
wing harangue : lam not guilty
of the charge set forth in the in
dictment. It was God’s act, not
mine, and god will take care of me.
And don’t let the ameriean people
forget it. He will take care of it,
and every officer of this goverfP
merit from this executive down to
that marshall, taking in every mem
ber of the bench, will pay for it, and
the American nation will roll in
blood if my body goes into the
ground and lam hung The Jews
put the Gallilean into the grave.
For a time hoy triumphed, but at
the destruction of Jerusalem, forty
years afterwards, the Almighty got
even with them- I am not afraid of
death. lam here as God’s man.
Kill me to-morrow, if you want to,
lam God’s man, and I. have been
from the start.
Judge Cox then proceeded to pass
the sentence, addressing the prison
er as follows:
You have been convicted o r a
crime so terrible in its circumstan
ces and so far reaching, that it has
drawn upon you the hatred of the
whole world and execrations of
yourcountrvmon. The excitement
produced by such an offense made
it no easy task to secure for you a
fair and impartial trial. But you
have had the power of the United
States Treasury and the govern
ment in your service, to protect
your person from violence, and to
procure evidence from all parts of
the country. You have had as fair
and impartial a jury as ever assem
bled in a court of justice. You
have been defended by counsel with
a zeal and devotion that merits the
highest encomium. I certainly
have done my best to secure a fair
presentation of your defense. Not
withstanding alll this, you have
been found guilty. It would have
been a comfort to my people if the
verdict of the jury had established
the fact that your act was that of
an irro sponsible man. It would
have left the people the satisfying
belief that the crime of political as
sassination was something entirely
fereign to the institutions and civ
ilizatian of the country : hut the re i
suit lias denied them that comfort.
The country will accept it as a tact
that liio crime can he committed,
and the court will have to deal with
the highest penalty known to tlie
code to serve as an example to oth
ers. Your career has been so ex
traordinary that tho people might
well at times have doubted your
sanity; hut one cannot but balievc
that when the crime wap commu
ted vbu thoroughly understood the
nature of the crime and its conse
quences [Guiteau —1 was acting as
God’s man.] and that you had mor
al sense and conscience enough to
recognize the moral iniquity of such
an act. [ The prisoner—That’s a
matter of opinion.—Your own tes
timony shows that you recoiled
with horror from the idea. You
say that you thought it might be
prevented. This shows that your
conscience warned you against it:
but by the waetehed sophistry of
your own mind you worked yourself
up against the protest of your con
science, What motive fcbuld have
induced you to this act must be a
matter of conjecture. Probably
men will think that some political
fanaticism or morbid desire for self
exaltation was the real inspiration
for the act. Your own testimony
seems to controvert the theories of
your counsel. They have main
tained and thought honestly, I be
lieve, that you were driven against
your will by an insane impulse to
commit the act. but your own testi
mony showed that you deliberate
ly resolved to do it, ahd that a de
liberate and misguided wili was the
sole impulse. This may seem in
sanity to -nine persons, but the law
"looks upon TfaFlT wilful crim
You will have due opportunity of
having any errors I may have com
mitted during the course of this
trial passed upon by the court (en
banc,)but meanwhile it is necessary
for me to pronounco the sentence of
the law, that you.Be taken hence to
the common jail of the District from
whence you came, and there h<
kept in confinement, and on Fridav
the 30th day of June, 1882, you be
taken to the place of execution
within the walls- of said jail, and
there, between the hours of 12 a. m.
and 2p. m., you be hanged by the
neck until you are dead—and may
the Lord have mercy on your soil'
During the reading Guiteau stood
apparently unmoved, and with his
gaze rivited the judge, but when the
final words were spoken he struck
the table violently and shouted
And may the Lord have mercy up
on your ’soul. I’d rather stand
where I do than where that jury
does and where vour Honor does
lam not afraid to die. i stand
here as God’s man, and Goci
Almighty will*curs? every man who
has had a part in procuring tlfit
unrighteous verdict. Nothing be*
good has com > from Garfield.-- -,v
moval, and that will be the vmh and
of posterity on my inspiration,
dont care a snap for the v< <li l
this corrupt generation.. I h. !
ther a thousand times be in my no
sition .than in that of those wh
im ve hounded me to death. I slial 1
have a glorious flight to glory, but
that miserable seoundu: ('orkhill.
will lmve a permm>' , b down be
low, where the devil i nre paring
for him.
After apparently f : king himself
out, the prisoner tu ir and to ffig
brother and without he ‘ lightest
trace of excitement conversed foi
some moments before leaving the
room.
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