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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*.