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THE HAMS?M>N JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY.
VOL. XIV.
CORONER’S INQUEST.
Jake Dowdell, the negro boy who
was shot in Murphey’s bar room last
Tuesday, died Sunday morning. An
inquest was held by Coroner Me*
Cants, and a jury composed of B.
C. Kimbrough, John W. Dozier, O.
S. Barnes, J. A. Me Curry, P. S. Dun¬
lap, M. S. Johnston, W. M. Parker,
J. J. Hadley, M. Wolfson, W. B.
Ragland, J. B. Mobley and Brit
Williams.
T. H. F. Hadley, the first witness,
testified as follows: “On the evening
of the 5th ot this month I heard Mr.
Robinson make some remarks that
attracted my attention. I knew from
the tone of his voice that he was
mad. I looked towards him and
Mr. Sparks said ‘I will shoot you,’
and immediately he fired a pistol.
Robinson then closed in on him and
I walked back behind the counter,
when the second shot fired, 1 went
to the front door to call Mr. Nor¬
wood, but did not see him. I then
went back to where the shooting oc¬
curred. Mr. Norwood was pulling
Mr. Robinson off of Mr. Sparks,
He asked me to get him some help,
which I did. When I returned I
found Jake Dowdell lying across
some wood on the floor, with his
head leaning on a box. The hole in
his head was made, I suppose, by
a bullet. The first fired, I think, ar.
the second shot went in a different
direction.” Jake
Dan Farley testified: “Saw
Dowdell Tuesday evening in the
back of Mr. Murphey’s bar room.
He was sitting beside the fire, be
hind a bench and Mr. Wick par s,
Mr. Bartow Brooks and another man
came in the room. He said to Mr.
Sparks,‘I can beat you dancing
Mr. Sparks said, ‘I bet you five dol
lars you can’t.’ The man said, 1 at
and I’ll show you.’ He danced and
while he was dancing Mr. Brooks
grabbed him in the back and he
threw up his hand at Mr. Sparks,
striking his hat. Mr. Sparks said,
‘What in the hell did you do that for
_I’ll knock your * head off. This
man says, ‘excuse me, Mr. Cope
land.’ Mr. Brooks says, ‘He did not
intend to do that, Wick. I struck
him in the back and he thought it
was you.’ ‘I suppose you are the
cause of it, Bartow.’ Bartow Brooks
replied, ‘No, I aint.’ Mr. Sparks
replied ‘By God, you are/ and open
ed his knife. Mr. Brooks said ‘You
need not do that, Wick, I don’t care
anything for your knife.’ Mr. S.
stepped out a piece trom the fire and
said ‘I am at your service
now, if you want to fight.’ Brooks
replied ‘Nobody is scared of you,
Wick/ Sparks replied ‘I can whip
you both.’ Mr. Robinson was then
sitting down — a chair an I
when S. said t—1 can whip you
both, this other man said
‘I don’t want to fight you. f B, said
‘Aw, go on, Wick, nobody don’t care
anything about you.’ S. said T am
at your service if you want to fight.
Mr. Robinson jumped up then and
saying ‘God damn you, do you want
to fight/ struck Sparks with his fist
Sparks said ‘What do you mean.
The witness then left
Mr. Bartow Brooks substantiated
JS e evidence of Dan Farley, ‘What
3 ys that when Sparks asked,
JOSEPH L. DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
do you mean/ Robinson struck him
again. They then clinched, when
Sparks pulled out a pistol with his
left hand and shot at Robinson. They
scuffled around the room until the
pistol was again fired. Robinson
then threw Sparks down, when S
put the pistol aginst Robinson’s side
and snapped it two or three times.
Witness then ran up and took the
pistol. He did not know then that
Jake Dowdell was shot, but he was
in the direction the first shot was
fired.
Dr. T. S. Mitckell testified as to
the nature of the wound when the
jury agreed upon the following ver
We the jury find . , that , Jake T , ow
dell came to an accidental death by
a pistol shot from the hands of W.
P. Sparks, while in a difficulty with
J. D. Robinson, in the back room of
S. R. Murphey’s bar room, in the
town of Hamilton, Ga., January 5th,
1886.”
HOW GEORGIA FARES ON THE
HOUSE COMMITTEE.
Georgia has been treated very
cleverly by Speaker Carlisle in the
matter of assignment on House cona
jpittees, as will be seen from Mr.
Speer’s special.
\y e } iave 2 Chairmanships, Turner
at t h e head of the Elections Commit
teCj an( J Blount on the Post offices
anf j p, v ^ Roads.
Turner is 7th on the committee on
Revision of Laws.
Two gentlemen are 2nd on com
rnittees, next to the Chairmen, and
p res ide in the absence of the Chair
men . Candler on Banking and Crisp
on Commerce.
Candler is 7th on Education and
C nsp 5 th on Pacific Railway.
Hammond is 8ih on the Judiciary
and 4th on the Expenditures of the
Department of Justice.
Hams is 5th on Way and Means
an I 3rd on the Expenditures of Inte
r ior Department,
Norwood is 3rd on Coinage and
9 th on Naval Affairs.
Clements is 7th on both Foreign
Affairs and the select committee on
Reform of Civil Service,
Barnes is 3rd on Patents and 9th
on Territories,
Reeie » 7th on Public Buildings,
These are all nearly important
places, and evince the high estimate
placed on Georgia ability,
Georgia has thus 18 committee
positious, 2 Chairmanships, 2 next to
Chairmen, and 3 third,
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
There are several cases of measles
in town.
Mr. Sam Robinson, of Columbus,
is in the city.
Mr. H. S. Wright left for Oxford,
Fla. yesterday.
Our worthy poat master is down
with the measles.
The just gets ahead of the
memory of the oldest denizen of
these pan*
The cokl Saturday has been mov
ed up forty years and Had a Sunday
and Monday added to it.
What a grand, great country this is
mkh its vast territory, its big rivers,
*!*««* and its Veni Vidi
Vlcl cuie - Salvation Oil
HAMILTON, GA., JANUARY 12,1880.
The college did not open yesterday
because of the extreme cold. The
opening has been postponed until
next Monday, the 18th.
Talbotton went dry Saturday. The
vote stood 50 to 75 tor the dry tick¬
et. Geneva has raised the license to
$3,000 so that Talbot is dry for a
year.
Mr. W. M. Parker left yesterday
morning for Florida and many of 11s
shivered as we shook his hand at
parting and wished that we might go
with him.
The man wi[h a new thermoraeter
and a fair suppIy of woot , is the only
one who has extracted much enjoy
ment 0 ut 0 f p llc p rcse nt cold spell,
That’s us.
The wedding bells will ring again
in Hamilton next week, they say.
A popular minister will lead to the
altar one of our most popular and
axomplished girls.
The Pine mountain seems to have
shut off 7 degees of cold from us, if
we judge from the weather records of
Hamilton and Columbus. Here the
lowest point reached was 7 degrees
above zero yesterday and Sunday,
while there the thermometer reached
zero.
Our friend Vinson who hauls wood
to town with a donkey lias stopped
until the weather moderates. The
oanks of ti c creek aie so slippery be
cause of the ice that his animal’s life
or limb would be jeopardized in
crossing and he has stopped because
he has too good an *.
: s a nota bl e fact that when the
wealher j s open and wood a dreg in
the market that numerous friends of
this paper who haul wood have ex
preS sed a willingness to pay up their
subscriptions in that useful article,
but not one of these has broached the
subject to us since our new thermom
etcr has been fl ; rting with Zt , ra
The publisher of the Beaver Falls,
Pa., Courier, Mi. John F. Porter,
some time ago contracted a severe
cold. He says: “I tried half a doz¬
en remedies ineffectually, and upon
recommendation of a phydeian I
gave Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup a fair,
square trial. It relieved me immedi¬
ately and cured my cold and catarrh
entirely. It is a remedy that should
be used in every household.”
The Atlanta Capitol notes the fact
that four roads are in process of
building or soon will be that tap ter¬
ritory tributary to Atlanta, and to
these attributes the loss to that city
of the 25,000 bales of cotton on this
season’s receipts as compared with
the correspoo ling dates of last sea¬
son. It does not mention in the list
the Columbus & Rome, which for
the first reason is running to Green¬
ville. This road has carried to Col¬
umbus about six thousand bales more
than to the same date last year and
upwards of one thousand bales mors
to Savannah, making nearly this seven
thousand bales that but for ex¬
tension would have gone to or
through Atlanta. Sixteen miles of
road would give Atlanta a fighting road
chance for this cotton and the
would be a paying enterprise.
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