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The Dude County Weekly Times.
SAM HILL’S WIFE DEAD.
A SAD STORY OF A WRECKED
UFE.
How She Met Hill •'Hill eta Escaped
Lunatic—He Killed HU Mao and
Sent Up for Life—Buried Be*
aide Her Twia Sister.
Atlanta, Oct. la-Mr-. Son Hill
died lent flight at the residence of
bar father, Mr. L- 8, ink*, 80 H owell
street It will ho remembered th.o
Hill shot and killed a man named
S'tntoooK several years ago in the Na
tional hotel aaloon on account of hi*
wife, for which he warn arreted
tried, convicted and sentenced («• the
penitentiary for life, hut wac after
wards eent to the asylum, from which
he escaped aud ha* never returned
to Atlanta,
The history of this woman, whose
body la lying today in the habili
ments of the grave, is one full of ro
mance. Her marriage bu caused
tier t* shed many bitter tears, and no
doubt, htstened her death. Jo the
summer of 1874 Mr, Spinks, her
father, lived at £77 Hunter street.
C»ra, bis youngest daughter, was
then fifteen years old, and was con
sidered quite a he*«tirul girl, giving
promise of still greeter beamy when
site had reached the age of woniau
hood.
Mr. Spink* about th a aittie let out
the coutract for having his home re
painted. The cwntraetor came t<
work, bringing with him Sam Hilt,
a handsome, dashing young man ol
thirty. £aiu waa enmething of an
artiet end wee euiployed iu putting
(he fancy touches to, the different
parts of the building. While thus
engaged he say the face of pretty lit
tle Cora end at once lost bis hear ,
Every day after that, until the job
waa finished, Sam saw Cora, and he
ft «u he left he mar**cd to become
acquainted with her. He b«g«u vis*
ltiog her, and it was not long before
It was announced that they aero en
gaged.
Qq the 23d of September, 1876, the
two were married, K*v. A. T. Spald
iug, then pastor of the Second B p
tiat church, performed the ceremony.
Hill wa a hands mir, dashing
young .man, and (he girl he bad won
trusted him implicitly, They went
to housekeeping, but lived in tbia
way only a month, when they took
up their abode witii Cora's father.
Hill contributed little or nottiing
toward the eupp r> <>f himself and
wife, and Mr. fipmks and his wife
often wondered what business he
was engaged in, as he had uever vol*
m>Ur.red any information upon the
subject. They found uut his busi
ness in a remarkable and unusual
manner.
There was a lot of baggage and
ether things eft at the National ho
tel being sold at auqtion. A brother
of Mr. Spinks bought a trunk at the
sale, paying $1 for it.
On opening it lie found that It
contained, besides a few clothes, a
picture of Sam Hill, the man who
had mart led bia brother's dough ter'
TRENTO'-', GA., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 19 188©.
<nd a number of letters and othei
photographs.
Wueti Corn's mother went to bis
muse, he show**'! Uer the letter*
They wt-re directed to Sam and were
In to his aister and his broths ’-,
legging him to give up the life of w
gambler and settle down to w >rk
1 tie letters showed that S»m had al
i says led a reckless life and had been
1 driven from a Tet nesses home home
i by an irate father, which caused his
[ old mother to lose her mind and to
1 ne placed in an asylum.
When stone of the letter where
shown to Sana he did not lik* it, for
ho ha had told Mr. and Mra. Spinks
-bat his father and mother were both
dead.
Soon after the billing of Simmons
occurred. £.• January Sam Hlli wa*
pUced iu the Fui'oii couuty jail,
when he waa sent to the lunatic asy
lum.
During the time he was in jail he
employed him.-t lf in painting fancy
pictures upon the wails of his oell,
wtiiah have been pies-rved until
this day.
On hit arrival at Millsdgeville be
.via ted numerous picture* o/u the
wada o| *is room.
In September h« escaped from
Miiladgcviile aad returned to Atlan
ta.
His wife wa* eight wiles In the
country, and after visaing her he
went west before the newspapers
learned of M* escape. Hu ha* naver
returned to Atlanta since then.
Mra. Hill was taken with a severe
cold test November. Shu was nurs
ing her dead sister’s .wo little boys
and her brother who were suffering
aiih pneumonia, which sealed me
cod on her lungs and turned it Into
consumption which caused her
death.
Since her Bine** her band’s
hi other has called to sea her, and
then several letters from San from
different parts of T xas, and only on
Saturday ,he telegraphed a friend
here asking the loan of aorae money
to enable him to see bis wife before
ah« died.
VVuhii Q»ra was only fourteen
years old eho requested Key. J. P.
Eden, a Bwptiet minister, to preach,
her funeral sermon if tiu should out
live bar. She has often referred to
this since bar Illness, and, Mr. Eden,
who is located at Social Circle, baa
been telegraphed for »nd will prob
ally arrive this evening to keep Che
promise he made so many years ago.
The funeral aervioes will take
place to-morrow at 2 o’cl<»ck, from
Iho residence on Howell street, aitei
which the body of this unfortunate
woman will be laid to rest in 0»K
--iand ceinetary, beside the body ol
her twin sister, who died twenty
nine year* «gi. when she was oily
one day old.
It is certainly a lucky thing that
the C*anna-Gael secret society is
partially composed of pers >; e who
cannot keep it* secrets. The expos
ures recently made at Chicago may
lead to the punishment of other
scoundrels quite as deserving of
what they may gat au wilt be the
murderers of Cronin.
TRENTON, 6A.
ADMIRABLY SITUATED for man
rFACTI'RING PCKPOSKfI.
Plenty of Coal, Iron, Timber, Clay
and Water, and Building Staae
in Close Proximity to
Trenton,
i
In no other place in the whole
(Southern State* can ha fruod a*,
many advantages for the profitable
manufacture of iron and it* kindred
Indus! lies.
The coal of Hand mountain has
been used foi the past twenty years,
and one mine at Cole City employ*
•00 mintrs on the famous Dade vein
of coal. This coal is of a superior
quality a* a coking eon I and m»k«* a
good grate coal. Three workable
veins of coal are found in Sand
mountain and within two uiileu of
Tfeuton.
Just west of Trenton is White
0«k Gap, through whieh a railroad
can be hutit with an easy grade ■«>
the top of Hand mountain, tapping
theenai flMd.
A naturd outlet through Lookout
mountain to the east and anuuiheaat
and the only ope between Chatta
nooga and Attatlu, a dhUanee of fit
utiles.
Abundance of pure frc**toue water
for all drinking pwpnee*.
A m tgnlflcent creek to earry off all
sewerage and furnish water power to
turn thousands of spindles.
Pudding ridge, next io Red moun
tain, the richest ore field in the
South, lies right at our door.
Limestone of the highest grad* in
the midst of the town and aii around
it.
One thousaod feet elevation above
sea level givea 44. pure air, cool
breezes and good heakn.
The best potten clay yet found in
the South for .Asking quaenaware.
Timber in abundance is found in
this section, and of every variety,
and all that i* necessary to make it
valuable is the proper industries tc
work up into manufactured articles.
There are millions of dollar* seeking
Investment and the timber of this
section will come into good play in
the near future.
mROfiCTBRINgSITES.
For location of furnaces or other
manufacturing enterprises, Tr*n
ton shows supreior advantage?.
The valley to the North is di
vided by two main ridges running
parallel to and southwardly with
the Alabama Great Southern Hail
road. The ridge on the East of
the railroad ceases within two
miles of Trenton, and the country
is comparatively level and un
broken from the railroad to Look
out creek, whieh at this point is
only one-half mile distant from
the railroad. All other points on
Uif railroad to tbs North of Tien
tow being from one to two m ies
distant, with high intervening
ridges only broken by narrow pla
ces where small creeks running
eastward have broken through to
Lookout creek the principal stream
of the valley.
1 he belt of country, one and one
half miles in extent, lying imme
diately to the North of
furnishes natural sites for furnaces
*»d ail mauufatturir g enterprises,
b*i»g easily aeceoa.Ue to the rali
rmd on a fine stream of water, ap.U
owing to the Ivvel nature of the
land, requir:ng little or no grad
ing for spur racks from the Ala
bama Great Southern railroad to
the creek frontage.
In no other portion of this val
ley, and it may be said in the eu-
I tire South, has nature contributed
(•« »aay advantages for iron mak
lug as at this little town of Tren
tau; and it is easy to understand
erhy this place was selected for a
town site by fcr-weeing aud shrewd
capitalists. With nearly three
miles of creek frontage and the
great inducement of cheap coal,
iron and other raw materials, the
question is easily answered why
this Trenton village is attracting
so much attention and capita).
The quiet of this corner of the
grand old State of Geogia is for
ever broken.
LOCAI_AFFAIBS. ?
Fort Payne parties aeem to take as
muth interest in Trenton as in their
own town, A large natnher of the
•ales reported are to Fort Payne par
ties. They are clever gentlemen,
understand their baa I nets aud made
of the right wirt of timtwr to build
up towns. We welcome them hear -
ily.
The Title property is being sur
vey ed.
The surveyors are still at work
laying out and plotting ground.
The attorney for the street railroad
company has tuMfllsick for several
days ami hat been unable to get the
charter ready.
Prospectors have been out looking
at the spring ouatne side of Sand
mountain, the proposed water work*,
and find it large enough toifjl pur
poses.
An exploring crowd visit*d bet
saltpeter cave yesterday. There ere
some fine scenery to be found in it.
Besides the 700 convict* worked by
the Georgia Manufacturing and In
vent mcnr Company. sl4 000 are rr<i>t
out for labor each mwith to miner*
and hands employe tai the fnrn**cy.
at Rising Fawn. Most of thi* »h
paid out for iriiuinv and
employed in the e>»*l me-.-nirea tow*,
eroy out on the east ' : d • f Sand
mom tain at Trenton. T »i« snow a
conclusively that there la no lick of
coal for (he D«de mine- will last fur
centuries to com*.