Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-08

not allow a negro b treat him in any such man.
ner without resenting the insult. Johnson
overheard the remark and made some insolent
reply that Mr.. r. allowed to pass unnoticed, as
he was not then prepared for difficulty.
After that this negro appeared to make it his
business 20 provoke quarrel from Mr.. Roun-
tree, and only a few days ago, meeting his
brother Barlow on the street. actually pushed
that gentleman from the sidewalk. The evil
.dence goes 70 show that beth the deceased and
mis- brother did all in their power to avoid
strife. and actually brOOked insults that would
not have for amOment been tolerated from a
white man. On the evening Of the murder,
while Messrs. Rountree, Twiggs and Ripley
were opposite DIR. Hamilton's residence, sit
ting on the rock steps, Frank johnson, Enoch
EchOls and another negro "a mulatto
and name not known passed the party
without speaking. Shortly after Mr..
RounIree and his friends started down
Mlledge avenue, and while nearly opposite
DR.. Hunnicutt's the three negroes overlook
them again, but passed on without Interrupt
ton. Passing oy the Home School the party
saw five or six blacks, including johnson and
Echols. ranged in a row on the sidewalk, near
tree, and as the students passed some re-
mark was made by the negroes about giving
an inch Of the sidewalk, but the exact words
were not caught. The young men, not wish
ing difficulty, passed on without replying to
language that was evidently intended
as threat and taunt. The
party had reached the point where
Hill street intersects Prince avenue,
when they were met by Mr.. Barlow Roun-
ton was made of the fact that they were fol-
lowed, as the students were under the impress
sion that the negroes had gone in another
direction But ere they had proceeded many
steps Frank johnson, Echols and the mulatto
first seen with them, overlook the party and
were In the act of passing in a manner calcu-
lated to provoke an assault. when somehow a
| dispute arose and Rountree gave johnson the
id lie. At this instant his brother Barlow,
| seeing them stopped by the negroes, returned.
Upon his approach, Walter asked if he had
Nw~f-
In the meantime johnson had placed
/ his hand on the handle of a pistol
that was plainly seen by those
and turned around, facing his brother. At this
instant Barlow drew his weapon but before
/ he could shoot johnson took deliberate aim at
/ the former gentleman and fired-and this ball
/ evidently did the fatal work. Mr. Ripley was
/ standing near EchOls, who held in his hand
rock, and was in the act OF hurting it at the
head OF Mr.. Barlow Rountree when Ripley
caught his hand" The same journal states
that the negroes of Athens are so habitually in
solent to the students that only the forbearance
OF the latter had, up to the recent tragedy,
prevented bloOdshed. Mayor Rucker tele-
graphs that the reports Of the excitement in
Athens are greatly exaggerated, and that the
disposition Of the citizens is to let the law take
its course.
Macon Telegraph: mot many miles from
Mecon. within stones throw Of a very popu
/ lar mineral spring, lives farmer whose
| worldly possessions amounted to much more
| than the average wealth Of the well-to-dO. To
/ tell the truth he is quite wealthy, and his
| daughters have been given learning under the
| shadows OF even more stylish and aristocratic
| seminaries than our old Wesleyan These
/ daughters, with their accomplishments and
education. were sought after by not few OF
/ the young men of the section in which they
| lived, and the youngest OF the girls was not
| averse to the attentions Of a young doctor
| whose sheepskin was yet fresh from the medi-
| cal college in Atlanta The farmer. whose love
/ for his daughters was strong favored the suit
i of the doctor, and smilingly approved his
union with his fifteen year-Old darling This
young lady found place in her heart for the
/ young lEsculapiuS, but she was under spell.
| The far Ter had a man on his farm
| TO transact and look after his business This
/ man was gray in years, but he had a banker
/ her to dog her footsteps. and never let slip an
/ opportunity 70 beg for her hand. Under or
binary circumstances she would have repelled
| his advances and given him to understand at
/ once that he was wasting his sweetness on the
/ desert air, but some how or other he had her
/ under a spell. She could no more refuse his
wishes than she could take wings and fly.
| She seemed 10 be compelled to obey, by some
| irresistible power, every slight wish he
| might m axe. and last Friday night vixen he
| bade her leave her home with him she
crept away IN the darkness with her gray
| haired lover and hied to MscOn. The
/ farmer, whose eyes had not failed to see
| the influence his overseer exerted over
Il his child, but who nevec dreamed that it
Il would 90 so far as u elope with him suspected
| the aged lover as soon as his child's absence
/ was discovered He boarded freight train
bound for Macon and arrived here Saturday
/ mOrniHg, about eight or ten hours behind the
| fugitives. In Macon he bethnuRht himself of a
/ friend on the police force, Officer Frank Nose
IL, and soon he and that offlcer were in consul
| tatiOn Matters were explained and the search
| commenced. The hotel registers were exam
| ined. but no trace OF the couple was found At
| the Southern Hotel it was found that en- old
man and young lady had applied for lodgings,
but the house being full they could not be ac-
/ comm odated. Officer Mosely. being off duty,
| went I'D town and began to peer into the faces
Of young ladies as they fitted in and out of the
stores. hoping to see on the street the young
i girl, whom he knew by sight When on 1ri-
/ angular block, he saw the young lady for
/ whom he was searching came out of Julian's
/ and enter q hack The officer went no and
/ made himself known as an old friend, but re-
i serving the fact that he was a minon of the
| law She was glad to see him and said she was
| on her way to the park. The officer gallantly
/ asked permission TO chaperone her, and she
/ consented. Once inside the hack the officer
told her Of the arrival Of her father, and
/ ordered the driver not to go to the Tark
/ but to the point of meeting agreed upon
/ by himself and the girls father The young
/ lady very sensibly admitted doing wrong in
/ leaving and was glad to be able TO go back
1 to her father She said she was under the
| spell of the old man with whom she
had ran away, and while she did not
/ love him. was compelled to obey his
/ commands. She was to be married that eve
| ning and they were TO go to Florida to live
| She also stated that beyond coming away with
/ him she had not acted in the least unladylike
i and could go to her father without blush.
/ She said her old lover was at the hotel, await
/ ing her return from shopping. 1t was not long
| before she wss sobbing in her fathers arms,
/ freely forgiven. The parent, in his joy at re-
/ ceiving his daughter, pressed large gold piece
/ into the hands of the officer. That night the
/ two left for home, and now the man who put
her under spell with his ewes has lost his stu
alton, for he dare not show himself in that sec
/ tiOn again"