The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-03
THROUGH DIXIE.
Whe Week in the Sunny South
land.
'Ane Death OF an Old Nyiner-Ansry Gamb.
iers Get the Worst of a Row Started
4 by Themselves.
GEORGIA.

Hetig very OLD ne was unable to pull through,
and Tuesday he was attacked with cholera
Hhorbus which terminated in death.
"Unole Dick" as he was commonly called
t@as an extraordinary man physically. He was
fnear eighty years of age and never had a spell
et sickness before. Has been on the mines
around old Villa Rica for about fifty years. and
the accident that befell him lately was the first
&hat ever happened to him.
ne leaves wife and a large family of bows
@nd girls to mourn his death, but fortunately
Me llVeo 10 see them all grown, his youngest a
Fon now about eighteen years of age.
party negro gamblers both sexes, who have
peen plying their trade at Glenmore, was re
ported to the authorities of Ware county by two re-
spectacle colored men named Grant and Parker.
This incensed them to such degree as that they
armed themselves and swore vengeance SHkainst
these men.
Monday night with guns and pistols they collected
outside of store in which Grant was setting and
sent one oftheir number in to assault him. The
white men interfered in his behalf, and saved him
from their clutches Tuesday morning Constable Nc
donald attempted to arrest the rngleader of mob
that had collected and menaced the peaee of the
town, when the negro reached for his hip pocket
fWhereupon the constable sent O bullet crashing
through his shoulder, disabling him Three more
&nos from the constabes trusty pistol succeeded in
Rrrestng the intended depredators Of the mob and
eight OF the leaders were arrested by Sheriff Hen
uerson and deputy, and safely lodged in Ware
county jail at Waycross. All is now quiet at Glen
more.
u, News ereaohed here of the lynching Of Ned
CLARK, colored, in Worth county. Clark was
charged with attemptiDg to commit q raDe llnon
p young white girl thirteen years Of age. His
sapturers were conveying him to Irwin county,
the scene OF his crime. They returned with
put him, stating that he had attempted to es-
cape WINE IN the woods and was shot down.
- iis o9uy was iounu WIN nlneteen pulletS IN
hn, anu 'no o"Shes afouno IL were rldoled with
n special from Roswell junction says:
Our usual quiet community is somewhat
aroused, by an attempt of rape, by negro boy
about Is years old, known as Tom Cobb, who is
working with Mr.. Dave Fucher q farmer, living
about two miles west Of the place on the Roswell
road
Sunday night about 10 O'Clock. Mr. Fu1cbar ,vas
awakened by the screaming ofone of his daughters
sleeping in adjoining room with her sister and
ueiebbor girl. She called her father to1Iine bi,n
some one was in the room. He thought that thew
were only frightened probably from dream and told
them to go to Sleep but they insisted and finally tn
pacfy them, visited the room with o lipht and mn
der the bed. law the negro Tom Cobb
Mr. Fucher Offered no net of violence t,,t with do
Sermined coolness arrested him and Sen+ ror M
Marion Adams o near ,3niahhor ,rbo nssiIo 49, -
guarding him until morning. They brought him
to this place and was tried before Justice Elliott and
committed to Decatur Jail in defiant of bond 10
await his trial in AUGUST.
The neoro offers no excuse for the oct b,4 claim,
snp il to he sonno,,,bulis,n 1lnon bis t ,,oat
less he was wide awake when discoveraS nnder
the bcd w. ''DAoi
Mic E,,1obor cove che ,,,os ,,,oi,,,,z l.,
novinc hold If bcr b@1 No,"+o,t W 1uI 1c
or violence has been snoken of whatever and
doubtless the matter will rest oet and alln,y the
law To take tbe nroner course
terrible railrood v,roob ooo,,uuo, rr,,,,,.,o..
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garn,1s -~'"1' "io u''n-
49,
"a opeois'l "t'sili Iloni IllolaSVille was sent
" e,l9 mreon s's ~ SUN as possible carrying
ply 'L az e?es.lS neIp. Inc TWO IN
Juieu men men "GTG carIl9u 10 ihomasVlLe and are
S2oihs wei: ~ me cause OF the accident IS not
nlon Il, puU Saie company Is dolllg everything
III Ios power for inc men Vha6 were hurt. The
cars are oIoAeh lhIo SpllhCefs'
Amos Miller, the negro who raped Mrs Scad
In Maury county, has been caught and lodged
in jail at Columbia. In an interview he adj
mitted the deed, and told Just how he accom-
plished it. He said that he had returned to
see the daughter who had in the meantime
gone to the field with her father He was dis
appointed in not finding her, but substituted
the mother. There is great excitement. and it
is not improbable that Miller viii be lynched.
Ten years aoo y man woo found ,,,,-rdorod
close IN the railroad a half ,,iIo ~, TSit
and near the residence Of MS T Bel 90 81
had been seen in the 1o0,n several tionov o,J
had the annearance nf beino vall $1,000 'ti,d
and refined gentleman He was found muir
dered and stripped OF his clothes. An INQUEST
was held, and the jury agreed that the man
met his death at the hands of some person
unknown. No clew as to the identity of the
man, nor any trace Of themurderer, was ever
found. An old negro man and woman tosti-
fed that, coming up the railroad lust after
dark the night before the man was found muir
dercd next day, they saw three men sitting
around camp fire. near the place of the
murder. Several months-possiblv a wear
afterwards, a conyiets suit of clothes was
found hid away under some brush near bv
The circumstances suggest that one Of the
men camping was an escaped convict and
murdered the man for his clothes in order to
avoid detection by his stripes. The BODY of
the murdered man Yves buried there and moth
ing moro was ever heard of the circumstance
until last week lawyer from Greenyille, s.
c., was there tracing up the murder.
A fortune of 5000 pounds was recently left
by relative in England to the only son of