Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
Killed by a Dog.
A Singular and Fearful
Tragedy in Georgia.

From the Augusta kOa-) Cnronicie.
On yesterday we came Into pos
session of the particulars of most
singular and fearful tragedy, which
recently occurred in one of the
mountain counties of this State,
The gentleman from whom we re-
ceived our information, has re-
quested Us to give neither the
name of the county in which the
horrible scene took place, nor the
actors in tin the -Grst place, be-
cause the families of the parties
are among the best and most re-
spectacle in the country, and
should not be subjected to this ad-
ditional modification for an act
which they can in no manner be
held responsible; and, in the sec
ond place, publicity would now in
no way subserve the ends OF JUS
tice, as the guilty party has al
ready expiated his crime by SO
fearful a punishment. We will
only preface our account of the
matter by stating that our inform
alton was derived from q well
known and highly esteemed gen.
tleman of this city, aud may be
safely relied upon as perfectly
correct in every particular,
In one of the mountain counties
of Georgia there live two families,
each before the war noted for its
wealth and refinement. Since
the war the families whom we
shall call respectively &. and LID
though they had. ike nearly every
one else, lost everything by the
conflict, still retained the high po-
sition in society which they had
for SO long time filled. One of
them, the LIS, lost several OF its
members, as well as its fortune,
by the war, and at the commence
ment of our story consisted Of Mr..
L., gentleman 6fty-ive years of
age, his wife, nearly the same age,
and an unmarried daughter, of a.
bout twenty-five. In about
quarter Of a mile of their house
lived one of the Rs, young man
who had recently married a very
beautiful young lady of the coun-
ty, apd having left the paternal
was farming by himself
On a small tract of ground. The
family lived some distance from
the county town, in a sparsely In
habited section of country, and, be-
ing each the nearest neighbor of
the other, were, of course, on terms
IF great intimacy. Between the
young wife and the daughter OF
Mr.. L. fast friendship was soon
formed-both being nearly the
same age and of similar tastes and
disposition, and relying upon each
other for company in the daily abb
sence Of the two gentlemen, who
were engaged in experimenting
The business Of their farms.
A few days since Mr.. R. in
formed his wife that he had re-
ceived letter, which would COM
pei his immediate attendance in
Atlanta, where he would have to
remain for several days, and as it
would be inconvenient for him to
take her with him to that city, ad-
vised that she should ask her
young neighber to stay with her
during his absence. The next
morning be set out in bis buggy
for Atlanta, and his wife during
the morning went over to Is
house for the purpose of inviting
her young friend to stay with her.
When she arrived there she told
the young lady Of the absence Of
her husband, representing how
lonely she would find her house
at night, from the fact that she EN-.
ployed no house servant, and her
cook, together with the few labor
ers employed on the farm, slept at
the "negro quarter nearly half a
mile from the dwelling house, and