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VOL. XXVI.
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PROPRIETORS THE GLOBE STORE.
Locust Grove.
Peachtrees are in full Dloom.
Rev. R. T. Smith spent Tuesday in
McDonough.
George Kimball, of Greenwood, vis
ited this place Sunday.
D. A. Castellan visited Jonesboro
Tuesday.
Huie Padgett of near Griffin, visit
ed this place Sunday.
Mr. Pack Walker of near Griffin,
visited here Sunday.
Robert Brooks attended preaching
here Sunday.
Mr. Bill Combs and son went up to
Atlanta Monday.
Mr. John Capeland and W. W.
George of McDonough attended
preaching here Sunday.
Mrs. Fannie Brown and Mrs. A. G.
Combs spent Thursday in Griffin,
guest of Mrs. Leola Brown.
Mr. Tom Brown and wife of Luella,
visited this place Wednesday.
G. L. Williams of this place, went
down to Macon Wednesday and re
turned Saturday.
Mrs. John Elkins of near this place
is seriously ill at this writting.
Mr. J. H. Henderson of near Luella
moved his family to this place. We
welcome them in our midst.
A large congregation attended
preaching at the Baptist church Sun
day.
Mr. Joe Combs went to Atlanta
Wednesday.
All the young people around here,
•enjoyed an entertainment at the
residence of Mr. A. H. Price’s.
Mr. G. W. Castellaw who went to
Jonesboro to be treated by Dr. John
son, came down Wednesday to visit
his family, and returned Friday.
Young Fellow, Jr.
SVadwuti
JACKSON, BUTTS COUNTY, QEOROIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1898.
HORRIBLE MURDERAT WORTHVILLE.
Mattie King, a Negro, Murders the Thirteen Year
Old Son of Mr. Lewis Washington.
Yesterday afternoon at Worthville,
a revolting murder was committed by
Mattie King, a negro woman, who,
with her husband, have, for the past
few months, been tenants on the
farm of Mr. Lewis Washington, of
that place.
For the past few days, Tom King,
husband of the murderess, has been
engaged splitting rails for Mr. Wash
ington, and on account of his failure
to perform the necessary amount of
work required, trouble ensued between
Mr. Washington and the negro, in
which some very warm words were
used by both parties. Both, the
negro and his wife have, since the
trouble, been very insulting to Mr.
Washington’s family.
Yesterday Mr. Washington was
at Worthville court house attend
ing some business, leaving the negro
at home cutting rails, and with him
was little Laborn Washington, the
18 year-old son of Mr. Lewis Wash
ington.
About 2 o’clock, someone passed
the house and told Mrs. Washington
that the negro, Tom King was down
near the road cursing and abusing
her little boy. Knowing the hellish
disposition of the negro, she picked
up her husband'B gun and started
down to investigate the trouble, but
when near the scence she saw Paul
Gunn, a young white man of that
locality, was therewith them, and
thinking he would not stand by and
let her son be imposed upon, she
turned and started back home, but
had not gone far when she met the
negro’s wife, Mattie King, coming
down the road toward her.
The negro woman then began
abusing her for carrying the
gun down to shoot her husband,
and making a grab for ths gun
she oegan fighting for its pos
session. The little boy saw
them fighting and ran to help
his mother but when he had
gotten within 10 yards of them,
the negro woman got possession
of the gun and turning fired a
barrel of its contents into his
body killing him instantly.
Mrs. Washington get the gun
and endea\ored to shoot the
other barrel at the negro wo
man but Mr. Paul Gunn
knocked the weapon down and
the shot missed its object*
The Jnegro woman and her
husband were brought to JacK
son yesterday and placed in
jail.
There was strong talk of lynch
ing the negroes betore they left
Worthville to bring them to
Jackson, but cool heads pre
vailed and kept down such ac
tion.
Mr. Washington is an honor
able and upright gentleman and
the whole of our county grieve
with his family in their deep
affliction.
Miss Minnie Carmichael has return
from an extended and pleasant visit
to friends in Atlanta.
OUR BUYERS ARE NOW IN THE EAST
ern markets making purchases that will show
great care and skill in selection and that the
buyers were thoroughly cognizant of the great
Stringency in the Honey flarket.
Dr. Bryant’s Report.
Judge J. F. Carmichael Ord’y.
Dear Sir:
I herewith forward report of
the smallpox epidemic to date.
We have in the hospital now
seventeen presons, all colored.
Of this numbei eight have had
small pox. Four have been
very bad cases and the other
extremely mild.
Tena Locket col. age 57 was
seized with epileptic convulsions
on the night of 3rd. Paralysis
supervened and she died on "the
6th. She was given a decent
burial at the pauper hurrying
ground. Her son was notified
of her death and the body off
ered him for interment but he
refused to take charge of it.
The last person to develop
smallpox is a girl 13 years of
age. The rash appeared on the
6th. 1 have vaccinated 28 per-
sons. Have visited each com
munity when the epidemic has
developed and feel safe in say
ing that we have the infected
district well in hand and that
the disease will shortly be
stamped out completely.
This, however, will depend on
the vigilence and support of the
better class in each community.
I desire to extend through you
a cordial invitation to all the
physicians of the county to
visit the pest house, examine
the cases, the manner in whicn
they are treated, and all things
else connected with the hos
ptial. W. C. Bryant.
Mr. J. M. T. Mayo returned this week
from a pleasant visit to relatives at
Baxley.
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Let’s Have Light.
F. A. Tucker, who represents the
B enedict system of gas lighting and
heating, is in Jackson this week and
informs The Argus that he isgoingto
make a most liberal proposition to
the people of Jackson in order to
place an exhibit plant in our town.
It is Mr. Tucker’s intention to cir
culate an agreement among our peo*
pie and find what amount of stock
they will take in the plant providing
he sends Mr. Mead Hendrick to
Brownsville, Tenn., to examine their
plant now in operation in that city,
and on recuru he reports favorable to
the project, and assures our people
that the gas plant is just as repre
sented.
Mr Tucker says the company will
guarantee the stockholders that tha
plant will pay 8 per cent, but from
the number of consumers who have
already subscribed their names to use
the gas providing a plant is placed in
Jackson, it will pay from 15 to 20
per cent on the investment.
Mr. Tucker has just returned from
Monticello, where he has secured a
franchise for lighting that town, and
a committee is now in Brownsville
Tenn., investigating the matter..
There is no doubting the fact that
Jackson needs some system of light*
ing and we are of the opinion that
the above proposition is a very fair
one in every respect, and we trust
our people will see their way clear to
take advantage of it.
Mr. Tucker has also secured a.
franchise and will place a plant at
Thomaston. The town was negoti*
at ing at the time for an electric
plant, but when the economical
points and advantages of the Bene*
diet system were explained to them*
they were all of one accord in favo?
of substituting the gas plant for
electric plant.
NO. 11.