Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-05

A4AiC1 run lOHHs
OF 2[ouent In q bale Of cotton TO pay his rent
Inc cotton was sold to wilkins & Co, but Mr.
X Z. Neely, noticing that II was a small hale
and seemed loosely packed. 'hought IL weighed
too much ana commenced Investigating Asa
result pile of sand that would probably
Neign two hundred pounds was found CON
eealeG IN the centre OF tie cotton. Henry
owned un 70 the charge, and could only urge
In extenuatiOn that the man who ginned the
cotton had suggested the trick to him The
iatter Individual. another colored man. indig-
nantlly denies any knowledge Of the transac-
ton"
Macon Telegraph and Messenger: "On Satur-
CAV evening a singular ACCIDENT happened
Just beyond Sandy Bottom one Of Macon's sII-
nuroan localities, in which an old and well
known negro met his death. Sam Anderson
mas been known to Macon people for forty
wears For some time past he has been selling
peanuts and fruit in Sandy Bottom. and by his
frugal living had saved up whar would be a
competency for an o man OF his race He
had recently bought him mule and on sat
urdsy took his two grandchildren out for a
ride In going down little hill he shaft-band
broke, and as il did so the wheel ran over a
stump. throwing the occupants of the wagon
out on the ground The children ESCAPED uu-
hurt, but Sam fell upon his head. bresking his
buried on MOnGay"
Mr.. ] r Daniel, of Smyrna, sends the Ma
rietta Journal. the following account of "a
pig generation" with which he is familiar:
susan H MalcOm, Of Walton county ninety
years or age, is the mother, grandmother
great grandmother, great great grandmother
and great great great grandmother of six hun
Daniell, Of Cob6 county, the widow Of Atlas
A Daniel is her next eldest daughter. is sixty
one years OF age, AID is the mother and grand
mother and great grandmother of eighty-two
children. George ~. Malcolm. the father OF
this seneratiOn, was seventy-six years OF age
At his dea h. He a minister of the old
school Baptists, AID was highly esteemed by all
NhO knew him"
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the Mari tia Journal says: "On Wednesday OF
last week tOlerabiy well dressed white man,
about forty yea old, was seen reclining on the
side OF road above Marietta, nrar Harris OF
Green's station. All entrea les Of persons liv-
ing near by o take shelter or be removed from
the exposure of the weather he rejected He
lay out In the woods night and day, took the
rain or sun, and on Saturday afternoon he died
He evidently must have heen deranged or his
mind distracted by fever. Our county Ordinary
upon notific atiOn. furnished a coffin, and the
strang was buried in a cemetery near by In
hi pocket was I una three or four dollars in
none and license as a Methodist preacher.
He said his home in Canada and tha' his
name was Simon H. Stone. More than this we
could not learn"
DeKaLb COUNTY NstCs: s'SIr James Virgins
Of this county. mil er at Terry's mill. about six
miles from Deca ur. was accidentally killed
last Sarufd y afternoon, while coming from
Atlanta He ha taken load OF meal Tn At
lAnta and was returning with load of corn,
by the Flat Shoals road. Late in the afternoon
the team came walking up Tn the house, with
no driver and this caused Mrs Wiggins, the
wife OF the deceased. 10 start up the road
looking for her husband When about two
hundred yards from the house an within
short distance % where Jack Moore was killed
on Tue-day. she found her husband living in
the road dead with mis- neck broken. A COro-
ner's inquest on Sunday develOped the above
acts aud verdict OF accidental death was
rendered by the jury Il IS supposed that the
old man. who was about sIXty-fiv years old,
fell head f0rmOst from the wagon breaking
his neck This is the only reasonable surmise
as to his death. He was not drinking
'-Pomp Brasweu. a fes i've colored trooper"
says the Ssndersville Herald, who seeks to
get a livelihood by his wits rather than his
muscle. entered the Georgia bar by the front
window some three weeks ago, and ppro-
p-i ting some WHISKY. cigars and g p in cash,
retired, he hoped. in good oruer, out of the
rear window. POmp. however, was seen max
ing his exit. and hos pursuit was given t. the
nimble fugitive. ending at last IN his capture
ia Mr. 7. E BrOwn's barn. Being lodged in
Jail POmp st his wits to work to get out, and
hnRllV succeeded in cuttirg away the wood
from the bars. 50 AS TO enable him to remove
the CRATE aud then by means OF ropes made
r m b ankets he glided down and lefC for
parts unknOwn The tilOr, Mr. R Nayn, Of
fers reward of so for his arrest. II is to be
hoped the willy thief will soon he again arrest
ed and made 70 ,ay the penaltg of his CRIME.
There ere many young negroes about town
that arr like POmp. in training for the chain
gang and penitentiary."
On last sunday an appalling tragedy was
enacted at Red Cay, little village on the
/ E tst tennessee. Virginia and Georgia Raj e
| ruad, and some ten or twelve miles north OF
Dalton The North Georgia Citizen gives the
partiC ulars as far as il has been able to gather
/ Them from a ident Of the place. as follow S:
| "a man named York and his stepSOn had
/ farmei together on the same land this year.
and on Saturdsy disputed over the division
/ between them of some corn York became so
| incen> ed over the matter that. through revenge
We suppose. he threate ed TO kill his stepsOns
| wife, and proceeded with q gun 70 the latters
/ house, Sunday morning, to carry out his
threat. He was met st the door by his step
| son. who renewed the quarrel, and told York IL
/ he wished 10 shoot any ne to boot him. where
| upon York raised his qua hred. heavy
/ charge Of uckshOt entering the young mans
| breast causing death in ten or tiftee minutes
After committing the brutal acc York Il d AS
| as the affair became known posse OF
| men started in pu. uit Of the fugitive He was
| captured SUI day night ONLY few miles from
/ Red Clay, on the bank Of COanullah creek,
| having lost his way among the thick lungles
i and cane brak-s along the creek bank Mon
i day evening he was brought to this place on
| The four O'Clock train, and incarcerated in
| Whitfield county Jail, there TO await the JUS
| tice which will surely overtake him. aud brood
| over his terrible deed. The murderer is low.
/ rather heavy set man, past the meridian of
life. and has an evil cOuntenance. The usually
quiet neighbOrhoOd or Red Clay Is terribly
| shocked over the sad calamity
| A horrible affair which for fiendish atrocity
| is almost without parallel. occurred this week
| in Lexington, OgleJhOrDe cOunty. The Echo
/ 4 that place, thus details il; "On Tuesday
morning LIST our town was shocked by the re-
/ port that a man had been killed and after
| wards burned up in the lower part of this
| county. The Coroner Immediately set out for
| the place or the killing, and found the report
| { be only too true. he facts as we Can get
them are a. follows: 1t was show by the testi-
mony that a man by the name Of Dunsen pass
ed through q field where the wife Of Wesley
Kidd was engaged in picking worms from her
cabbage; after using some bad language TO her
he went on TO Kidd's house. where he was fol-
lowed by Kidi's wire: when he reached the
house he began cursing and quarreliug until
she TOOK her child and left. When sh left.
Kidd aud Dunsen were sitting facing each Other
in the house. and here the testimony stops.
Soon afterwards the house was discovered
to be in a 4mes fteF burning down. the re-
mains uf a man was discovered in the ruins
on examination it W found that his legs and
arms were burned of, and his body and head
burned to a crisp. It was impO sible to recOg-
uize him but by some papers in his coat pocA ct,
which had been somewhat protected by his
arm il was proved cOnclusiveiy that the dead
man Sas DunSen- lt seems that his skuh had
been fractured, proving that he haf been
killed and then burned. The evidence shOw-d
that Duusen had been drinking, and sn empty
flask was found by him Que mans soul hur-
ri,d upprepared into eternity. and one man
fugitive with the blood of his fellOwman- JUS
fifasIe or uot-on his hands, all eau ed by
whisky. the m st active and efficient tool OF
the DEVIL and the greatest curse OF this coun-