Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
Black, Y. R. Wright. J. 0. Matthewson. John
Dawson, A. Mullarky, Augusta; 0. H. Samp-
SON. Rnston. r. d. Richards Atlanta

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/ sion at Waynesboro, his Honor. Judge H.
/ Q. ROney, presiding The civil docket is
being disposed Of with the usual Dispatch
! The criminal docket, it is thought viii not be
+ reached until next Monday. - A
/ negro, Celeborne Barnes, used some in
sulting language to Deputy Sheriff W. +.
/ Lorn saturday evening, and ran away upon
I doing so. Mr.. LOrn followed him down the
street, and finding he could not overtaKe him,
/ he drew his pistol and shot at the neelng negro
+ four times. but failed TO hit him either time.
( ". 5. GOdbee followed on his horse aud over
/ tool, the negro and brought him back. They
/ were taken before Mayor W. A. wilkins and
/ tried The negro was released to the gratf-
I cation Of q large crowd Of colored men, and
+ ". T. LOrn was bound over to the Superior
+ Court for the Oftense Of shooting at another.
/ The Greeuville Vindicator saws: ''We saw
I the other dav the contract for building the
court house in Greenvile. The contractor
was William Hitchcock, of Jasper the con-
tracing Justices Of the Inferior Court being
I John W. Allen, Matthew Everett. Wiley B.
I EctOr, Alfred Wellron and James 4. Perdue.
/ The contractor was TO receive $4,000 for the
/ work, the house 10 be built precisely on the
same plan as the court house in the town Of
{ Forsyth. Monroe county, except that the
{ walls are to be two feet higher. The contract
/ is dated the llth day Of May. 1880. and the
| work was to be completed by the 18th Of Sep
tember, 1881. on the 18th of January 1882,
the house was received. Wiley b. EctOr
Matthew Leverett, Samuel Darden and
George Crane being Justices Of the Inferior
/ Court. aud r. W. lIussey clerk. The court
/ house referred to in this document is our
present building, and 1t has been In use fifty
TWO years. Scarcely any who saw its walls
90 up are alive to-day. II any live in the
county to-day we would be pleased to hear
from them.
The Athens Runner Watchaan Of Wednes-
/ day says: There Is good deal of excite
neut in our city over several attempts to
work up material for blackmaiing purposes.
Several gentlemen, both married and single,
( have lately received anonymous notes asking
( that they meet in some given place, or at a
house of questionable fame, young lady who
has fallen in love with them. SO far as We
1 have heard, no attention was paid to the mis-
! sivcs. which are AL written in one hand But
the schemer, not to be thwarted, after send
ing several of these letters. begins
to she'll the victim with pos
tai cards sent through the Athens
/ Office. in which is limited the love they bear
/ each other, and matters touched on that would
I lead one 10 believe that the most intimate
relations existed between the writer and
recipient. They are signed fictitious names
+ no such parties living in Athens. We We're
/ shown several patches of these letters yester-
/ day. IL is undoubtedly an attempt to entrap
! some gentleman into a c0mmlttal by which he
can be blackmailed out of some hush money.
/ Fortunately the schemer has thus far been
fOiied. a. no attention IS paid to the notes.
Officers, however, are now working up the
case, and there Is good prospect Of the
scOuudrel or scoundrels being brought to
/ Justice
! The Marietta Journal says: son Wednes-
| day morning it was reported that a white
man had been killed above town by the
I O'Clock through freight train. We visited the
scene OF the accident, and found seated and
/ standing around fire, on the side of the
\ track, party Of tramps numbering six men
/ and one woman. all white About one bun
/ dred yards further on was the dead body Of
I the young man. We inquired of the tramps
/ if they knew the deceased young man and any
/ OF The particulars connected with his death.
/ One of them replied, while the tears filled his
/ eyes, Il am a brother Of the dead young man.
/ Ills name is Frank Leroy. and he is l6 years
/ old. Ny name is VIM. Leroy. / am q sailor,
and on going 30 my home in Liberty, Virginia
] found my father and mother both dead, and
] took Frank and went to New Orleans to ship
I ON a vessel Failing to get employment, we
4 started back and had gotten this far. Beng
/ out of funds we had to travel the best way we
| could. rs the freight train passed this morn
I ing ! boarded it. and my brother Frank at
/ tempted to do the same thing. l looked back
I and saw that as he caught the ladder on the
car box. he at the same time struck his feet
/ against high cinder bank the side Of the
/ track, which threw him under the car wheels.
l jumped on and went back and found the life
crushed out of him. We walked along the
od-hesmeared track, and il was evident
/ the unfortunate yOungman had been DRAGGED
l00 yards before the pOnderOus wheels had
/ turned hlm IOoSe. Chunks OF flesh, pieces Of
/ bones and eutrdlls We're scattered along the
! entire distance. His skull was fractured. face
gashed, neck broken, and entire body horribly
maugled.n
James McMin was employed by the officers
/ TO go into Gimer county and locate Illicit dis
/ tieries. McMin has cousin named Laza-
rus Shadwick, who lives four miles from Eli
jay, 10 his house McMin went, carrying
along his little boy, who was left at the house
of Shadwick, while he went down the line of
the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad to
cut crOss-tles, as he SAID, but really
to locate illicit distilleries. \ few
days after McMin appeared in the
neghhorhood he reported to the officers. and
the result was the seizure by Deputy Marshal
Castor of three illicit dIstilleries and the cap
ture of seven men. Shadwick had two sons,
James and Ed, aged respectively l3 ana 10
years. As soon as the work OF the scout AIcMn
began to show itself, suspicion was directed
TO the two sons of ShadWick, but for what
cause Is not known, as McMin was living IN
little hut four or five miles away. An old
woman who sympathlZed strongly with
Che mOOnshiners went to the house of Shad-
wick and stated that his two sons
| had reported the distlllers, and, after abusing
/ them for some time, said that persons who
would do such thing would not be allowed
/ to live in that neighborhood, and she would
/ kill them first. On Tuesday week ago the
I two boys were started oil to mill, mile and
I a half away. They left on foot about day
( light. and were expected to return at dinner
/ time. They did not ito 50, however, but no
/ Uueasiuess was felt as il Was supposed they
/ had found the mall unable to grind, and thev
had to wait. Night came, however, and
they failed to appear. Mr.. and Mrs.
ShadWlck became uneasy and began
a search. The next dry two sacks
were seen on the roadside that were
identified as the property of the boys, but the
missing ones could be traced no further. The
excitement ran very high, and numbers of
people turned out to look for the boys The
rivers and creeks in the neighbOrhOod were
dragged. and every effort made to unravel the
mystery. The distressed mother firmly be-
lievCs that her boys have been murdered and
sunk in the Ellijay river. She is in a frenzy
of grief. and continually asserts that her BOYS
nave been "drapped, which Is mO0nshlner
word for put out of the way. After the reve-
nue. men had made their seizures they got
McMiu and his boy and safely escorted them
out of the neighbOrhoOd.
FLORIDA