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its official duties.
Tuesday.-Jerry Jackson, color
ed, assaulting and fighting; fined
S. and trimmings.
E. B. MCGOWAN, assau ting and
fighting; taken under Amusement.
W. 2. Allen, carrying pistol,
continued.
Wednesnay.-W. P. Allen, car
rying a pistol, fined s25 and trim
mings.
E. B. McGowen, assaulting and
fighting, fined s5..and trimmings.
District Court.
Thursday.-Stato VS.. Jim Gray,
colored, burglary; guilty; two
years in the penitentiary.
State VS.. Bill Norris, colored,
robbery; not guilty.
State VS.. Ed. W. Wilder, colored,
attempted rape indictment quash-
ed. Prisoner held over by court ;
new complaint made; preliminary
examination will take place before
Judge Rogers.
State VS.. Robert Shepard, color
ed. assault with intent to murder ;
not guilty. Shepard was charged
with trying to kill Chinaman at
Burton about a year ago, but
somehow the witnesses could never
be got together when wanted.
Friday-State VS.. Levi Rogers,
colored, assault with intent to
murder; guilty of aggravated as
sault; fined $50 and costs.
Saturday. - Jim Hughes VS..
Manda Hughes; divorce; decree
granted,
State VS.. Matt Williams, colored :,
murder; not guilty.
Matt was indicted for killing a
negro named Walter Rhodes, near
the Santa Fe depot last summer.
1t seems that Rhodes was drunk
and went into a house where Matt
was engaged IN game of monte,
and raised q row with him. Matt
soon after left the monte bank and
started home. Rhodes followed
him; a short distance south of the
union depot Rhodes attacked him
again when Matt picked up coup
ling pin and hit him on the head.
Some weeks afterward Rhodes
died of the wounds. A case of
selfdefense was proved up with
the above result.
Monday-State VS.. Jim Avans,
rape; not guilty. The parties are
all colored.
State VS.. Monroe Carothers,
colored, theft of horse ; not guilty.
Monroe proved that he was in Ma
vasota, Grimes county, at the time
the horse was alleged to have been
stolen in the Greenvine neighbor-
hood, in this county.
State VS.. Grant Montgomery,
colored, aged about Is years, theft
stealing $40 in money out of
Fisher Il Weis' cash drawer last
fall, guilty two years in the peni
Tertiary.
State VS.. Lee Dawson; colored,
MURDER verdict, guilty of man
slaughter; fifteen years in the
penitentiary.
1t will be remembered that in
the latter part OF February Daw-
son shot and killed a negro named
Thad Cooper, in the Pennington
neighborhood, the full particulars
of which were published at the
time, The trial occnpied the en-
tire day and tho courthouse was
crowded with colored people.
Messrs. Muse i Muse appeared for
the defendant, and Mr.. Lafayette
Kirk, acting. county attorney, for
the State. The case wos submitted
to the jury ct 5 o'clock, and in
less than ten minutes they agreed
upon verdict. The general opin-
ion is that he Dawson was lucky
in saving his neck. He is only
about 25 years old, and Cooper is
the second man he has killed.
About two or three years ago he
killed a bad negro named Fergu-
SOP, in self defense, and was of
course acquitted,
Wednesday State VS.. Frank
Smith. coiored, murder, Trial pro-
crossing.
Frank Smith is a bright mulatto
about 80 years of age. Heis charg-
ed with the murder of R. F. lamp
lin, a prominent planter in the
Gay Hill neighborhood about one
year ago. He was tried atthe last
term of the district conrt, found
guilty Of manslaughter and given
ten years in the penitentiaryJ he
appealed and his case was reversed
and remanded. The jury now try
ing the case is composed of six
white and six colored men. c. r.
Breedlove, Esq. is conducting the
prosecution. and Messrs Kirk and
Muse the defence.
The negroes of northern Georgia
are in q great connection over the
presence among them of female
tramp named Mrs. Glauter. She
pretends to have visions and to tell
fortunes. She is treated with great