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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. Jordan’s Joyous Julep, the only j ^ infallible core for Neuralgia and Ner vows Headache. 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