The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-17

water. None Of them could swim One OF
them chung to the horses neck, but in its
frantic efforts to escape from the wagon, it
threw tie boy Of and tIampled upon him
Two negro women living on the lot saw the
boys drowning, and screamed for help. Two
co.ored men arrived in time 70 see one boy, a
negro, sink twice, and recognizing them,
screamed to them for help before sinking for
ever. They plunged in and saved him. Three
boys were drowned. Charles Asbury Thomas,
aged thirteen years, and two colored boys aged
from eleven to thirteen. All Of the bodies have
been recovered. The pond has lime sink in
its center said to be forty feet deep The
horse was cut from the harness and saved.
A movement is said to DO on foot to run
wet" candidates for the legislature i'll
Houston this year. This county has been dr.
since January list, 1882, being one Of the first
counties in the state to adopt prohibition. The
election was held under a local option act in
Whlch there is no provision Tor subsequent
elections at all, and there is no way to change
the existing status except by legislative enact
meat. The prohibition law has been generally
enforced, and has given general satisfaction in
its results. The peace and good order of
society has no doubt been greatly promoted,
tho general prosperity enhanced There is a
sentiment, hO9 ever, in favor Of the sale Of
Liquor which may Or may not grow, depending
on whether the contiguous counties, Crawford,
Macon, Dolly and Pulaski shall change from
"dry" TO wet"
The presence in HawI,insville ofMr Rasdale
WillcoX, travelling for Keiscr & Sterne, Sayan-
nah, recalls to the mind Of your correspondent
an important unpublished chapter in his life.
fle Is tile popular young son Of Hon. t. ID.
Wilcox, Of Crisp, Ga, and ex-senator of the
10Th district. About the 18th of last Deem
Der he was married to Miss jamie Clarke, at
which time mutual agreement was entered
into between the Young couple that in order
for the bride to complete her education, they
would not live together, as man and wife, until
four years should have elapsed. He accom-
panied her to college, and stopping over night
ut Macon, registered at the hotel as man and
wife but occupied separate apartments.
Farmers around Athens have commenced
drawing off their carp ponds, declaring that they
arc no good. They say the fish do well
for the first year, but after that time
they stop growing, and DO not breed as fast as
other fish The people do not consider carp rs
fine table dish as those that are caught out
OF the OConee river.
TENNESSEE.
A terrible tragedy occurred in Chattanooga
last Tuesday morning, which resulted
in fatal Injuries to Lew Owen, one Of the
woalthiest men of Chattanooga. Last summer
Harry Newman x CO., of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
sold out their boot and shoe store on Market
street, to Barnes & Nix. Six'weeks ago j. ID.
Barnes disposed Of his half interest to Lew
Owen. Tuesday morning about five minutes be-
fore II o'clock, Owen and Barnes met in the
shoe store and began disputing over a bed
tho stock, which he had purchased. Barnes
called owen a liar, when the latter struck the
former III the face with his left hand A dia-
mond ring on ono of his fingers cut big cash
in Barnes face. Barnes drew double-action
Smith q Wosson revolver, and fred
four shots, one of which took eff
feet in Ovens neck, and another
in lis breast The ball which entered the
neck just under the right ear, fractured the
spinal column, paralyzing the entire body be-
If,N,f n M net INIT etr
the city were called in, but could do nothing
for the wounded man. Barnes was arrested
and locked up He came here from Thomson
Vile about three months ago. Lew Owen
came to Chattanooga from Lebanon, Ohio, Just
after the war. He is q large property owner,
and las made nearly quarter OF a million dol
lars since he located i'll ChattanOOgaIle married
into a leading,s0uthem family, has an elegant
home, and has always been noted rs great
sportsman and successful gambler. Barnes
claims to have acted in self-defonse. The
affair caused so much excitement that it re-
suited IN almost a total suspension of business
after the shooting occurred until night.
The supreme court has decided an extremely
Sensational case, that of john Bolleyiack, con-
Yieted OF burning The house of Mrs. Hamlet
in the 9th district OF Davidson county, in the at
tempt to burn to death young lady who was
spending the night there. Judge Lurton, in
reviewing the case Wednesday, said that the
case rests upon the testimony of one Grlggs
sum of two dollars. The court held that his
testimony was unworthy of belief. The court
below restricted the investigation of the jury
as to the sanity or insanity of the defendant to
the instant of the commission Z the crime,
and that it would make no difference what the
condition of his,mind was at any other time.
Since there was no proof offered of the insanity
of the defendant after the crime was COM
mitted, and that the defendant laid out
in thicket in February, in the rain
and snow upfed and unprotected for nearly
week, and returned. as the defendant says,
when his mind came back" to his home,
where two physicians and many witnesses tes-
titled before magistrate that he was insane,
and since this laying out in the thicket was
used by the state to corroborate the defend
unreliable, and the court said that in view OF
these facts, md that the defendant had court
ed and importuncd Miss O2ment to marry
him for thirteen or fourteen years, and chat he
overheard n Mr. Bryley ask Mr.. Ozment for
his daughter the evening before the house was
burned; that such Information, under the
circumstances was calculated to dethrone his
reason, at least for the time tho courts charge
was calculated to miSlead the Jury, and
that he should have charged that they
should look into the condition
81 the defendants mind, other before or after the
act, or both to ascertain the state Of his mind at
the instant ofthe act, That although the Jury con
ricted him that under the Circumstances in this
the court fell constrained t. give the defend
ant the benefit Of the doubt, and reverse the judg
meut. Miss Oznent, BoevjGcks inamo'iia was
married to his rival few days after the attempt TO
burn her UP.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Recently Ellen Few, a young white girl