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.THE MAQPN WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1880.—TWELVE PAGES.
OVER THK STATE.
Brum. rick wants to organize a board of
‘"^mberlandlaland is to have two artesian
*Rald win's prohibition election takes place
U C ,l! R C. Humber has recovered from bis
recent illness- ... .
Griff Alien, a well known bus driver of
IncUhta, is fiend.
Tt» buzzards are killing young lambs in
Oglethorpe couuty. ... .
j M Brosius, of Texas, is to establish a
wagon factory in Rome.
Mr. S. J. Joiner, of Jackson, has invent
ed a fertilizer distributor.
Hoffman's great ten cent circns pitches
its tents in Amenous to-day.
A lot in Eatonton, 60x100 foot, recently
.old for *1-25 per front foot
Considerable corn will be planted in
Jlouston county this week.
The Brunswick tiremen are preparing for
their big time on the 25th inst.
1 Dawson negro killed an alligator nine
feet long on Notcbawny last week.
Albany has set out and boxed 125 urn-
brclla china trees on her streets.
The Jackson carriage manufactory em
ploys only white men in their shops.
' The l’atnam Rifles of Eatonton added six
new members to its roU Tuesday night.
t \V Mann, of Houston county, owns a
$1U goat, being a remarkable milker.
The Quitman mills are running on fnll
time, manufacturing yarns and rope.
A gentleman of Perry contemplates plant
ing aeveral acres in broom corn this season.
A Fsirburn lady, seventy years old, has
ne «r eaten a mouthful of ment of any
kiud.
There are fifteen lawyer* and five doctor*
in active practice in the town of Waynes-
boro,
Oscar Cantrell, of Ora obeli county, biw
removed to Macon itv -rder to study den
tistry. '*
Fifty-three acres of average land in Camp
bell county recently sold for $764, or $14.80
per acre.
I)r. David E. Butler, of Madison, has
been made pastor of tho Baptist Church at
Jackson.
John Thrasher's new trick dwelling, on
Sctiven street, will be tho handsomest house
in Quitman.
Fifteen whisky drummers visited Dawson
last n eck. Four of them were in tho city
the same day.
li ra. Goer, a Chicago millionaire, once
lived in Putnam county and went to school
at Stanfordville.
Washington has paid $275 for thirty-six
street lamps, one hnndred gallons of gaso
line and an iron tank.
Some young Indies in- Campbell county
were badly poisoned recently by chewing
the mots of poison oak.
ToIm Jackson, the Bartow dynamitard.
has written a letter, in which he says he
did not blow up Judge Collins.
An epileptic named Turner, an inmate of
the poor house at Vienna, fell in the fire,
Snndsy, aud was badly burned.
It required two traina Wednesday to hanl
out the guano from Americas on the Amer
icas. Preston and Lumpkin railroad.
William Woodal, of Wilkes connty, has a
violin that made music around the camp
Area of Gen. Andrew Jackson's army.
The waiters at the llswkins House in
Americas gave a big ball to their colored
friends at Head's Hall Monday night.
All the busim as bouses in Madison were
closed from 2 to 4 o'clock Tuesday as a
mark of respect to the late Judge ltcesc.
Henry Sullivan, a car coupler, was hor
rildy mutilated by an engine in the yard of
the Central Railroad at Augnsta Tuesday.
In Hawkinsville, yesterday, Mr. Homer
Walker, of Longxtreet, was married to Alias
Lu Watson, daughter of Judge Jacob Wat
son.
A Perry man starts off with sixty hens,
and will keep an itemized account for one
year of the uxpenee and profit of keeping
them.
Itixon A Co’s, briek machinery haa ar
rived at Quitman and they will go to work
at once in the manufacture of Ant-class
brick.
A Georgia geologist says there are quan
tities of diamouda waiting to be discovered
soinewheru botween Atlanta and the Sevan
nak river.
s "me one threw potaah or other atnff
upon a tine bone belonging to C. L. Smith,
■ Monroe, one day last week, ruining the
animal for life.
John Walker'* bone went on the ram
page in Ainericus Tuesday, demolishing t
““e buggy and leveling signs that obstruct
«1 the sidewalk.
The M adisonian says a good • detective
*<>nld And plenty of work in Madison.
The people just now are suffering from an
tyuieuiic of burglary.
In the McDuffie County Court last week,
* female witness alluded to the tribunal as
» "ahehang." A prompt fine for contempt
of court prevented a riot.
On Sunday, on ths plantation of W. B.
Weaves, in Pulaski county, a negro cabin
•as harried and with it a negro child that
had been left there by its mother.
Americas into be given a rare treat in
■AtWee" who will appear in ••Mum'zelle"
at the opera bouse Tuesday next. It will
oe the theatrical event of the season.
Steps have been taken and the necessary
cash raised for the building of au eighty
room hotel at Quitman, to bo formally
opened to the public ou January 1st, 1887.
Rear Milieu Sunday, while a lot of ne
groes were gambling in the woods, a dispute
«ose and ended in one of the party draw
ls * uu d shooting another in the
J - L. Mack, of Griffin, baa been put in
Charge of J. Waxelbamns large business in
Atuencus, vice Max Gross, who goes
j^ r “ot°n, Penn., to open np a business of
i J*. 0 i* 1 ® * r, *h inst, at the boms of the
>n.le* f ,ihcr. Mr. Ed Littleton in Americus
••“•SaUia Littleton was married to Mr. J.
°f Dawson, llev. John Jordan
officiating.
•mH* Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Fricker
I * '* ‘fader an elegant reception at their
june in Americas, complimentary to Miss
Mi mie Frick, of Danville, Vs., who is
vi«itin K them.
evening, at Waynesboro, Mias
Whan M. Cates and Jam<4 K. Carswell
re married at the residenceof Mrs. James
bride’s autar, Rev. W. L. Kit
ratnek officiating.
I a Thnmnm Powell, one of the parties con-
«»*i m j, i wb ; lu j; op£
u.'*V ,r »°f Lewis Brothers at WarwickTSn
^onti county, was taken out Monday night
I , “ > 1,0 ™d into tho celt.
I t»v ofi!"* “ on *‘y. “ little Carrie, dangb-
\uL£?L Hmlth, was cUmbtaT
I wL"f„* '•‘"Tfl'm needle stock in her dree.
I D r ii' J! , ‘ into flez breastbone ao bard that
^ d"^“ co “P* U « d «o ». both hrnsds
_ In . ' Vi ' 1<e6 county lives two old men. Mr
David Campbell is seventy-Bix years old
and has lived in the same house forty-nine
years. Mr. Isaiah Paschal is in his ninetv-
sixth year. '
Tho application of Augusta's new gas
company for u charter waa heard before
Judge Roney Wednesday morning. The
granting of the charter was opposed by the
old company.
Me-ara. Jeter A Bush will at once pnt up
tbc-ir wharf ni)d warehouses at Brunswick
l ie contract has already been given out.
the warehouses, two in number, will bo
50x150 feet each.
Doc Briscoe, the young negro who has
been burglarizing in Madison, was captured
Wednesday after a long and exciting ebaae.
Photographs of him will be sent to every
city in the State.
There is a quilt being mode by a family
near Forsyth, and it is padded with cotton
made by slaves 34 years ago. The head of
tho family, who is now 52 years old. was
then n sprightly boy of 18.
A. Sweat, at Quituiun, will commence
the erection of two large brick etores, hand
somely fronted, in the coarse of a feu*
weeks. J. 8. Schofield A Sons, of Macon,
havo tho contract for the front.
A Brunswick man recently purchased a
piece of land, 650 acros, in Camden county,
on the Little Satilla, near Spring Bluff, for
$250, out $1,500 worth of timber off of it,
and Tuesday sold the same land for $150.
The day passenger engine from Augnsta
No. 88, broke down at Waynesboro Tues
day by the blowing ont of one of the flues.
It exchanged engines with gravel train No.
18, which happened to be stationed there,
and caused only about twenty minute's de
lay.
Eatonton Messenger John Allen bonght
» mule for six dollars and sold it to Will
Griffin for 2A centa. Seab Lawrence bought
it for 35 centa and sold it to Walker Mc-
Dudo for $1. Walker bonght a bridle and
went after it, bnt when he found the mule
it was dead.
Tho warrant sworn ont by a drummer
charging conductor R. A. Harris of tho
East Tennessee Railroad with ejecting a
passenger from his train, was issued by
Justice Carmicbicl at Jackson. The ease
will be heard before the Superior Court
hich meets in March.
Henry Ponder and John Reeves, both
colored, engagod tn a rongh and tumble
tight in front of the Savings Bank, at
Barneaville, Tuesday, during the course of
which John Reeves hurled a brick-bat ut
Henry’s head anil missing him, struck the
$10 plate-glass window in tho bunk, break
ing it to smithereons.
Capt. L. E. Spivey, the only citizen of the
nnco flourishing town of Danville, on the
Flint river, was in Americas Tuesday, and
said that with the daily steamboat visits,
and the Savannah, Dublin and Aniericus
railroad crossing the Flint at old Danville,
tho town will soon bnd and bloom into a
live and flourishing town.
Tuesday Mr. J. F. McClnno manager on
one of Col. John T. Fort's places in West
Dougherty, was shot by a negro with a
donlile barrel gnn. The shot were small
and did no serions damage. Mr. McClung'a
sister woe in range of the gnn and woe
struck by several shot Three negroes
were engaged in the difficulty.
boose of another through freight on the
sidling, A car or two waa wrecked and a
man badly hurt. Tho engineer whose lo
comotive did the damage was asleep. He
whs promptly discharged by the authori
ties and doubtless they did right to dis
charge him.
Rut there is something wrong that their
prompt action did not remedy. I am told
that the through freight schedule from Au
gnsta to Atlanta begins st 5 p. in. and ends
at 9 a. m. next day. That is, men are six
teen hours on a strain of labor and atten
tion. It is too long. The wonder is there
are not more accidents. It is not unlikely
that not a few collisions and other railroad
disasters are due to nervous exhaustion.
Sixteen hours is too long n time to keep
men on the strain to which conductors, en
gineers, firemen and train hands are sub
jected. Railroad managers do well to study
economy, but is it economy to run such
schedules? It is said that Cornelius Vander
bilt, a few days ago, on bis own motion,
reduced the working hours of many men in
ilia employment, lie did not wait for n
strike, bat he took tho best measures to
provent strikes. May it not ‘be that he
thonght it was right to be reasonable in his
demands? Perhaps, in imagination, he tried
to pnt himaelf in the place of one of hia
employes. If he did this he knew what
was reasonable and right. Many labor
troubles may bo avoided by the simplest of
all btisiness methods- fair dealing.
Atticus G. Iuvoood.
Oxford, Ga., February 15, 1886.
THE CAMPAIGN.
What the Editors are Haying About the
Next Governor.
Walton News: TheStato Press is express
ing emphatic disapprobation st tbs coarse
of some gubernatorial candidates. The
bench was never intended as a step to the
executive mansion.
Units Connty Argns: The newspapers
of the state are beginning to talk up a can
didate for Governor pretty lively. We
chum it rather early for this business, but
will mildly snggeht the name of lion. J. 8.
Boynton am most suitable man for the
gubernatorial chair.
Tulbotton Era: From all tho. indicationa
Hon. A. O. ltacon, of Bibb, will be the next
Governor of Georgia. The news from nil
stations of the State is very encouraging to
ins numerons friends. Hu will enter tho
convention us be did the last time he run,
far in tho lead of his opponents. Ho is n
much stronger candidate now than he was
then. Wo shall bo more than glad to seo
him in the chair of the executive depart
ment of the State. Under his gurdance the
old Ship of the State will not ran aground
or be cost on the rocks.
*TBZ JEDOX PROM BIBB.”
A plain old farmer thus soliloquised on
bis return from the into meeting of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society in Colnm
bus:—Talbotton Era.
"Thar’s a jedge from B
An* he talks pollttx Jam mm ion,.
All the time he’s longing for trtnunlns,
From the (real big public crib.
"As or travelin’ Jeilga he's er good nn.
An’ puts tn hte llcke nitty sly,
YU taea not took his eye off the ponduo.
In the Zacuttva House rutty high.
DEATH OK COL. L. N. WHITTLE.
Heath of Air. Warren Partin.
Hawkinsville. February 17.—Mr. War
ren S. Partin died of consumption last night
at 8 o'clock. Hia remains will be entered
at the Oakland oemeteiy this evening.
Ho leaves a wife and a large drclo of
friends to mourn his loo*.
Two Children Horned.
A letter to the Albany Medium from Isa
bella says: On Saturday evening Mr. Joseph
Smith, living two miles from here, bad two
of his little children bnmed badly from
playing in the fire. One of them died since,
and tho other is expected to die nt any mo
ment.' Their mother hail gone to Mr. Slkca's
turpentine ilill, some two or three miles
from her home, and Smith, who was plow,
ing near tho hoose. was attracted by the
cries of the children. When he got to them
one of them had its clothes entirely burned
off, and the other was completely wrapped
in the flames.
The Artesian Welt at Amerlcus.
Aniaicvs, February 17.—At the last meet
ing of council Alderman W. P. Bart made a
motion that tendril toward tho advancemeiit
of the artesian well project. The motion
was passed over until next meeting, when
it will doubtless coma np again, and it is to
be hoped, will be carried. Americas has
•pent botween six and tight thousand Hoi
lam on artesian wells, ana as a result, onl;
has a little pump affair ".ike Atlanta,” ani
two straight holes in the ground. The peo
ple long since abandoned all hope of ob
taining a flowing well and are willing for
expenses to ceaao where they are.
The Safe-Breakers In Ilrnnswlek.
Tho office of Dr. Burroughs was burglar
ized last night. The door was prized open
with a crowbar and the safe, which was
standing by the window next tho door,
drilled, charged with gunpowder and blown
open. The explosion tore off the front ot
door, leaving tho lock exposed and render
ing it au easy matter to slip the bolts back
and enter the safe. The glass of the win
ilow near which the safe stood was com.
pletely shattered. Tho burglars did not
seenre much booty however. They 'got
three gold watches and about one hundred
dollars in old coins. They left three brass
watches and a small tin box of oi l silver
coin. The work was evidently that of ex
pert*.- Brunswick Breeze.
A FREAK OF FORTUNE.
Maty Million of Dollars Inherited by
Wilkinson Couuty Family.
A few days ago Colonel New. Murphy of
this connty, received a communication frou
a lawyer in Covington, Ga., asking for in
formation concerning the heirs of one Wit
Ham Potts, who, he stated, had been de
clared by the court of England to be the
rightful heir of sixty million of dollars.
The attorney states that investigation haa
shown by attempts to procure the money,
by two parties already, bearing the name <>l
Potts, one William Potts, and by W. F.
Potts of Atlanta, that the only surviving
heir had been traced to Wilkinson connty.
This heir is said to be Wm. Potts, who
left England in his youth and after living
in Kentucky awhile, finally drifted to this
county, where he lived nntil hi* death,
which occurred about twenty years ago.
Ha had a brother who waa drowned in the
Ohio river. Thia Wm. Potto married here,
and Mrs. Colson, of this connty, is an off
spring of that marriage. To Ler will revert
this enormous fortune, if secured. This
Wm. Potto is the only man bearing that
name who has ever lived In this county and
he was known to hive had wealthy rela
tives in England. Mr*. Colson and her
family are poor but worthy people, and this
freak of fortune is romuntionUy strung* We
trout there may be do trouble in their iden
tifjing themselves aatha heir*, and obtain
ing this property.—Irwiuton Appeal.
TOP. ENGINEER WHO NODDED.
Home Words Ft. m Dr. narzood Aaaa
Editors Augusts Chronicle: Last
them waa a^uul accident al the Covington
deooL Georgia rail mad. A locomotive
puling a through freight ran into the cn-
Sketch of liU I*lf«—Meeting of the liar—
111* Funeral.
Col. L. N. Whittle died at hi* residence
on Jefferson street at 2 o'clock yesterday
morning.
Lewis Neal Whittle waa born on the 151h
day of May, 1818, in the city of Norfolk,
Vo. lie waa the son of Fortescue Whittle,
a gentleman of good family in Ireland, who
immigrated to this country an t became
quite a prominent merchant in Norfolk, hut
was, like thousands ot otLers engagod in
foreign commerce, very much reduced by
the war of 1812. Ilia mother was Marv Ami
Daviea, the daughter of the Rev. William
Davies, a very distinguished minister
of the Presbyterian chtireh, whp was
once connected with Nassau
Hall, better known as Princeton College.
Hie father, a few yearn after the war, re
moved with hia family to the country, and
settled in Mechlcnburg connty, Vn., nn the
banks of the river Meheering, where a
brother. Dr. Conway Whittle, still resides.
When abont aeventeen years old, Lewis N.
Whittle left his father's house to seek liis
fortune in Georgia, and was engaged for a
time upon the Georgia railroad board. In
1836 he came to Macon as an assistant en-
I linear under the late Daniel Griffin, of Co-
Inmbns, on the Monroe railroad, and re'
mained connected with that rood in differ
ent capacities until it became bankrupt,
and was reoiganized as the Macon and
Western road. Whilst engaged in the
eervico of thst road, between Macon and
Forsyth, he and Mr. Griffin lived for some-
time in the family of John Powers, near the
line of llibb and Monroo counties, and af
terwards, on the 11th of December 1842, he
married Sarah M. tho beautiful and nccom-
dished daughter of Mr. Powers, by whom
■e bad twelve children, only one of whom,
i James Murray), snrvivea. Some time after
Bui this Jeitce from Bibb bein' greet.
Aud uo objecahnna to dlitance st all
Taka hia grip and Urklta tber stele.
“To the farmers' coavenshuahsaoeu
And teksell the leadin' once ealde.
An' gtu ao agur ha treed* on thar toes
Bui rich sa ms he never spied.
“But I don't beer, 1 can Ull yer,
Far I han't got very ranch eenae,
’Sides er political ledge might sell yer.
An tear's nhar I lose my confidence.
“To er good old fsrmtr what's humble.
And looks things eqonr In the eye
'Hich dolne as this Jsdga'a Jumble. •
it etui worth much when the election's nigh.
“But Bibb has another named Bakin,
An' he's winter set the state tn aglow.
Ue'U glee the sly Jedge etch a ehaklo,
Ae will make bis ambtsh atop Its grow.
“The folks understan er thing er two.
An IPs no use to say that they don’t.
They kno er good man thoo and thoo, ■
An' go back on One Bakin, they won't."
"So! They won't!”
NOTES FROM LUMPKIN.
The Ohio F.ieDnlonlete-The New Kallrnad
—Mad Dogs Again -llunaway Train, Etc,
Lumpkin, Ga., February 17.- Stewart
county people did not entbn*e worth a cent
over the Ohio excursionist* anil the at
tempt made to give them a reception and
big dinner here was a failure. Too many
of onr citizens met them during the war,
and one of our old veterans tells na thst the
first Ohio man that got off the train
Richland was the identical yankee that
captured him at the battle of the Wilder
ness.
It does not appear that any of the Ohio
ans were much inclined to invest in Geor
gia soil, and the majority ot them seemed
willing to hire ont as day laborers. A
rich planter of Webster connty is said to
have entertained on* of them royally for
three or four days, feeding him on cake
and wine while showing him his 3,010
acres ot fine lands. The Ohioan did not
purchase, but ou the fifth day is arid to
have hired to a ncighiior of the rich planter
for ten dollars a month.
TUB A., P. AND L. RAILUOAD.
The last spiks bu been driven in the
Americas, Pn ston and Lnmpkin railroad,
and passenger trains will commence a regu
lar schedule this week. This road wu com
menced in October, 1881; U forty miles
long; is equipped with new steel rails,
mogul engines and very handsome cars.
The entire out of building and equipping
the road ta only $5,000 a mile; the entire
amount having been paid by the citizens of
Sumter, W brier and Stewart counties.
At a negro supper on Saturday night last
A fight occurred between the town negroes
and the negroes engaged on the railroad.
Several heads wero badly braised though
none were broken; one negro wu shot in
the arm and another severely cut with a
knife.
MAD DOOS AOAIN.
The mad dog excitement is at a high pitch
bore. A negro woman wu badly bitten by
a dog last night, which is thonght to have
been suffering with rabies. The dog wu
killed this morning. A calf in town bu
developed a genuine case of hydrophobia,
is attracting considerable attention. A rabid
dog wu killed at Richland Sunday, and
two or three others that acted strangely
were killed her* to-day. Within the put
eight months, at leut fifteen dogs have
been killed in Htewirt connty tbit were
supposed to have been rabid. As the legis
lature seems to be too weak-kneed to peas
a dog law, the people of Utle section pro
pose to tale the matter into their own
hands, and shoot every dog that.liowed his
teeth or the white* of his eyes.
A kt'NAWAT TRAIN.
Last night u the train on the Americas,
Preston, and Lumpkin, palled up at Rich
land, thru freight can wen detached
from the tnim JWng on an upgrade and
“°t being scotched, the thru can started
on a wild urn back towards Americas. The
train wu ran hack after them bnt did not
find them util they had sons thru miles
bejpnd Prntoo, the freight can having
mad* a rapid run of seven or eight mike
without the aid of an angina, S
A $10,000 open Loom 1* to bo bail: st
Tana.
that a monument be erected to the memory of Col.
L. X. Whittle. ••All cIium aud every »Re, ,# the
wiiter my*, “I etn confident, would chrerfully give
their iiilto toward » monument to be erected to hU
memory, from tuu liUld schoolgirl end the little
■ctioolboy to the oldeet citixen of the county,"
The hiiKge*tion ia given m a nutter of iutereet to
the people of Macou aud Bibb county.
8aveil by m Volley.
Late Wednesday night one of the colored military
comi.auIt** .iiurched to the house of one of it*
member*. neerNew street aud Walnut, and eeluted
hitu with Muctj volleya iu ,'touor of hU rveeut iuur-
rt F, . Will Taj lor. whose home i* At the corner of
New end WAluut. waa Awakened by the firing.
While wondering wliAt waa the matter he obaerved
that hia room waa filled with amoko. Haatily
springing out of bed, he fouud that a coal had
ilropt>cd from the grate to the floor. He hurriedly
atamped the fire out, aud tbeu diacovered that the
“ *or m well an the carpet had been burned.
Mr. Taylor feela thankful to the tueu who fired
the volley that awoke him—particularly ao, aa the
fire in hia room waa between him and the door.
Counterfeit Silver Dollar*.
l)y the Sr**) a. m. train from Savannah Tuesday,
a young man and a young woman arrived In Macon
aud weut to the Commercial Hotel aud registered
their names aa •'Thomas Mmith and sister, Bavau-
" They occupied separate rooms, and escited
no unuaual comment
About U o'clock vcMterday afternoon Police-officers
Alien Jours and McCloaky appeared at the Conn
cial and arrested Smith upon the charge of passing
counterfeit silver dollars. It waa alleged that he
had defrauded Mr. O. IsAgerquist, Messrs. Cl
bliss k Brother, and several other*. He waa takon
to the city prisou and lodged In a cell.
To a reporter of the Tki.eoiu**»i who visited him.
Smith denied all knowledge of the counterfeit
money.
Late 1c the afternoon Smith's "sister" announced
hor intention of going io ih« city je«Uon to visit
him. She left the hotel and haa not since been
NIP AND TUCK.
IBB USABLY OLD MKASL2S.
I've just received your note, John,
Ilcquiriug leave to call
Ami Fjtcu'l the evening with me;
Hut you must not come stall.
Your iMit has got the mcseles. John,
Without a single doubt
Aud she’* covered over with plmnlaa.
F»uiu toe to dainty snout; ^
And the agravating, bumptious things
Are still a-breaklng out.
Cotton raising is to be tried in Amador
connty, Califotnis.
Los Anoei.is, Cal., police arrested 118 re
tail liquor dealers one day recently.
Ta* town of Sapnltepee, Mexico, has
three thousand inhabitants and no sohools.
In one month a Sonoma connty (Cal.)
banter killed twenty-five wildcats, forty
coons, eight foxes, four eagles and six wild
hog*.
—Mr. Whittier says that yellow ia bis fa
vorite color, because be can always distin-
(iiish it, while the red apples and green
eaves on a tree all look alike to him, as far
color ia concerned.
A divorce suit recently tried at Frank-
fort-on-the-Muin waa settled in an ingeni
ous manner. Incompatibility of tempeT
waa the declared gronud on which dissolu
tion waa asked. The tribunal ordered a
separation of the couple for two years, nt
the end ot which time they are to come to
gether and begin their married life anew;
if, after a few months, the experiment is a
failure, ths conrt will renew consideration
of the matter.
A COOL SCOUNDREL.
liUmarriago be went to bis fsther’s house
in Virginia, where he studied law, anil
returning to Macon, was admitted to
the bar in 1844. Soon afterwards
be formed a copartnership with
hia brother-in-law, Abner P. Powers, which
continued nntil Mr. Powers won elevated
to the bench, being elected the flrat judge
ot the Macon circuit He afterward* prac
ticed alone, until a year or two before the
war be associated hia brother, Powhatan 11.
Whittle, with him. That copartnership
was dissolved by the election of bis brother
ns judgo of the Connty Conrt, and in 1866
he formed a copartnership with George W.
Gnstin, Esq., which continued littlo more
than ten years.
Abner P. Whittle, his son, wss admitted
into the firm in 1873 and continued with
his father until hia death in 1883.
Col. Whittle, though not olahomtely edu
cated in hia profession as otherwise, and
with none of the talents of an orator, was
nn eminently successful practitioner of the
law, ntul enjoyed a larger professional in
come than the great majority of hit brethren.
He was not permanently connected with
the movements of political parties in ths
connty or in the State, thst he was elected
to the Legislature in 1863 and again in 1876.
At tho time of his death he wss president
of the board of trustees of the State Luna
tic Aaylnm, of the Academy for the Blind,
of the Board of l’ablio Education and Or-
thanage, and of thc(Mscon Free School; a
rustee of the University of the South, st
Suwanee, Tenn.; a trustee of the Alexander
Free School; Senior Warden ot Christ
Chnrcb, in this eity, and ono of the most
zeslone and perhaps the most prominent
laymen of the Episcopal church in Georgia.
He wss a director in the Maoon and West
ern railroad and in the Macon snd Bruns
wick railroad, and attorney for both ot tbnae
corporations, and was, before his health
fsiled, more or leaa intimately connected
with overy enterprise which had for its ob
ject the advancement of the interest* of
Macon and of it* people. In reference to
all snch enterprise, we conld have truthful
ly said, "Quorum magna pars fni.”
He leaves one son, Jo*. Murray; two
grand-daughters—the children of his
daughter who died on the 14th inst., and
four brothers, Janie* Murray, •diatic"'!! < ‘h-
ed lawyer of Danville, Va.; Conway Davies,
a physician of Mecklenlmrg County, Va.;
Frank M. of Richmond, Va., the Episcopal
Bishop of that State and I’owbatan B. a
lawyer of Valdosta, Ga., and formerly Judge
ot the Connty Court of Bibb.
At 3:31) o'clock yesterday afternoon tho
members of the bar held a meeting in the
judge's room in the Court-house, to take
suitable action regarding Colonel Whittle'
death.
The report following wu made by the
secretary:
Wednesday, February 17,1888.—A meet
ing of the Macon bar having been called for
the purpose of taking action relative to the
death of Colonel L. N. Whittle, the ber as
sembled at the Judge's Chambers, Bibb
Superior Conrt, this afternoon at 330
o’clock.
On motion, Jndge Simmons wu invited
to the chair and Mr. Clifford L. Andcram
-equated to act u secretary.
On motion of Judge Manet the following
resolution* were unanimously adopted:
1st That the bar attend the funeral of
Col. Whittle in a holy.
2d. That a committee of five be appointed
by the chair, at hia leisure, to draft a me
morial and suitable resolution relating tn
the desth of CoL Whittle, to be submitted
in open court at the next term of the llibb
Superior Court
It wu agreed that the bar should assent
Ide in a body st tbs late residence of Col.
Whittle, at the proper time, to escort tho
fnneral procession from there to the church
and thence to tho cemetery. There being
no farther bnsiness, the meeting wu ad-
joorued. Curroan L. Anukiison,
Secretary,
At a meeting of the board of public nln
cation, the following action wu taken:
By order ot the board of pnblie education
and orphanage, the exercises in the city
school* and in the suburban schools of
Vineville, East Macon and Uilesvilte will be
suspended for this day in respect to the
memory of L. N. Whittle, tho late president
of the board.
The members of the board are requested
to eaumble at the Lanier House at 3 o'clock
p. m. to attend the funeral of Mr. Whittle
Jas. T. Nisbet, Secretary.
Colonel Whittle's funeral will take place
at Christ Cbnrcb st 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The services will be conducted by Bishop
Beckwith, ltev. J. R. Winchester, and Rev.
C. C. Williams.
The remains will be Interred In Bou Hill
cemetery.
lie llutctiersa Young Man amt Dines With
Ills Victim's Mother.
Coi.iTMuns, February 18.—George Davis
brutally murdered Arch Reams in Russell
county, Ala., yesterday. Both wero white
and lived ou the Fitzgerald plantation
Davis, who was an overseer, sent Reams to
look for cows, then followed him and shot
him twice in the back of the bead and the
shoulder anil stabbed bim in tbe throat anil
broke hia skull with tbe butt of his gnn.
After committing this brutal murder
lie told persons on the place nliont it
and then left for parts unknown,
without giving any reason for committing
the deed. Davis is married and it ia said
bad been too intimate with lteama's sister.
After Davis hud murdered McClellan, better
known as lteums, be told tho negroes on
tbe place and Mr. Fitzgerald what he had
done. Davia then w, nt on to tbe house of
Mrs. McClellan, the mother of his victim,
where he boarded, aud atediunor. He told
hor that Arch was sick and would not conic
tt e house aud if she would fix
his dinner, he would carry it to him. Mrs.
McClellan prepared the dinner in a bucket,
and Davis carried it down to the field whero
the negroes were nt work. Afterward he
returned to the bouae of Mrs. McClellan,
who was still in ignorance of the awful fate
of her son, and told her that be had killed
one of the negroes nml would have to leave.
He asked her to loan hint Arch's valise. She
not only consented, hut helped him
to pock his clothes, snd he
left. It is said by some that Davis had
stolen corn and oats from Mr. Fitzgerald,
snd endeavored to indues Reams to dispose
of it. Reams refused to do m requested and
Davis, fearing that he would give him away,
decided that dead men tell no tale*. An
other report say* that Davis and Reams had
a difficulty some time last year on acoonnt
of Davis's attention to lteama’s sister, in
consequence of which Davie snd his wife
separated. It it thought that both or one
ot these circumstances prompted him to
murder tho yonng man.
t'ulaskl 11 os, Drjr.
ITawkinsvili.z, February 18.—The pro
hibition election came off to-day, All tho
principal bnsiness honses wero closed all
day. The poles opened st 6 o'clock this
morning and closed at C o'clock this even
ing. Hawkinsville goes dry by one hun
dred and ninety majority. No official re
turns are yet in from tbe connty, but it con
be safely put down that the connty goes
dry by at least three hundred an I flftv ma-
. ority. Col. P. W. Edge and Ur. W. U.
>IiU, of Macon are here.
Funeral of Col. L. N. Whittle.
Ths fnnsrs) of Col. I- X. Whittle occurred .
• hrtet church at s o'clock j—lsrOsr eirnmoon.
The odtetatlBE clcffiy were Bishop J - - -
with and Her. Mown. J. R. Winch*
■Rta W. I. Pmtm end C. C. WtUlsms.
she servRoo wen Impnsolso. Tho church wss
filled with a lew coasrcffsUoa. The ratty
Chrtotcharth. the board ot eabile
orabsssco. tho trustees of tho
school, |h* trustoco of ths os;
tho tratose of tho IsssUc so)L
hen of tho Macon bar. o. cooled souls io*etbrr.
Tho papUa of tho Aloundcr fra school ead the
■ of IRC Appleton Church .Ibmio
' (onl effortngo (
Atesuodor fra
of lbs as)turn fur the blind,
»}»■,
the cuacturtnu of the
i hocus to Romm Blit ton
(uuMtuty, wturs they t
(uU-buMutu were Boa. O. .
«. n. WLUInma. Cot- EA. N Is hot, Judes Sues* T.
Klsbot. cot JoAaO. Dstts. Hue. Vn*U rower*
Hu*. A. o. Bucua uud Dr. T. O. FuwsIL
Monument to Col. Whlttla.
fit* a wott-tuswu Illlra of Become
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LETTERS OK GEN. IL E. LEE.
Interesting Documents Hhnwlog Ilia Pur
pose to Free 8lures.
Tho originals of the following readable
tapers are the proper y of 0. F. Johnston,
£sq., of this city, who has also the envel
op* in which they were mailed. Onthenp-
rnr right-hand corner was written "R. E.
see, General,” which was a frank that
would have carried the letter through the
mailo, hut Gen. Lee, aa if seeming to re
member that it was ou pnrateandnot pub
lic business, and with that conscientious
ness which distinguished hi* life, attached
beneath the frank two five-cent Confedrate
rastage stamps, which wars duly cancelled
jy the postmaster.
“Camp Frzdksicxhsubo, January 3, 1883
—My Dear Sir; Mr. Charles Scott tula-
’replied me from Lynchburg yesterday thst
te had there ail of the men btlcnging to
the estate of G. W. I’. Custis. 1 have re
quested bim to send them to you. Will
yo* be kind enough to send ms their name*
and eudeavnr to uid them in getting em
pluyiuent fur their support? It is my in
tentiun to liberate them a* soon a« the pa
pers can be prepared. Their wages are for
their use. Will yon inform them and give
them such advice as may tend to their ben
eat?
1 have written also to Mr. James K.
Caskie to rid me in this matter, end will b«
obliged to yon for any suggestions you can
give me. I have sent to Ur. Caskie an
emancipation deed to have properly re
corded un which are the names of all these
men as well aa the women hired in Rich
mond. I believe my son. Colonel Custis
Lee. spoke to yon on this subject, snd he
may have given you their names and the
bonds of those to whom they were hired.
"Very respectfully, your obedieot servant,
'•R. E. Lex,
“Executor O. W. P. Custis.'
‘Mr. V. D. Eaeho."
“Spotsylvania Couktt, Va.—Know all
men by these presents, that I, Robert E.
Leo, executor of O. W. P. Custis, do here
by constitute and appoint Mr. E. D. Eaeho
my true and lawful attorney to collect for
toe and in my behalf tbe ainnnnt* due for
the hire of the negroes of the estate, and to
give receipts for the same; anil I hereby
ratify and confirm his legal acta in tb*
premise* as full as if done by myself. Given
under my band and seal this twenty-seventh
day of January, in the year eighteen hun
dred and siity-three.
"R- E. Lie, [Ssall
"Executor ot G. W. P. Custis. 1
Mr. E. D. Eaciio, Richmond. Vs.—Dear
Sif—I send yon a power of attorney to col
lect the hire of negroes belonging to the es
tate of U. W. P. Cu.tis, which, as stated by
my son, yon bar* been kind enough to ex
press your willingness to undertake. Throe
of the men—Harris n, Reuben and Parka-
have not jet been returned to Richmond sa
far *a I know. Will you endeavor tor
lain where they ate, and g*t them to Rich
mond and procure them their free-papers'
Pleas* uUce amount collected to my credit
in tb* Bank of Virginia. Very respectfully,
your obedient servant, IL E. Lex.”
Two carload* of colored Uborers recently
arrived at a rand near Los Angsts*. Celt
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