The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-05-22
THE STATE SKETCHED.
Sensational Developments from
All Quarters.
Suicide in Wilkes County-Two Boys XIII
Their Brothers-an Old Indian
Burying Ground.

gro woman living on the plantation of Mr..
James a. Moss, in Wilkes county, became
tired OF this life, and without notifying any,
one OF her purpose put an end to her existence.
She went down to the spring where the wash
ing was done, took bed spread tied one end
around a limb OF tree and the other around
her neck. When found she was dead and had
evidently been so for some time. No cause is
assigned or known, which will account for the
suicide.
Mr.. Ashley Roberts, OF Early county, was
seriously, if not fatally stabbed in the side by
Mr. Rainford Houston one evening last week
near Howard's mill. The difficulty grew ont of
some trivial offense given Mr.. Houston by
Roberts.
The family of Colonel John r. Williamson,
living across the river from Brunswick in the
Fancy Bluff neghborhood, returned home from
church, and the little six-year-old boy was
placed on bed to take q noon-day nap, while
waiting the preparation of dinner. Another
of the children is a boy nine years old,
who shows unmistakable signs
of mental Weakness The report of
gun was suddenly heard in the room where the
little fellow was sleeping, and the family rush
ed thither in alarm. A sister was the first to
reach the door, and upon the threshold she
met the half-witted boy, who said, in apparent
unconcen, "Oh, it's all right-nobody hurt"
But her eyes told her better. On the bed lay
the lifelesS body of her little brother, with his
head literally blown to pieces, and the bed
saturated with his blood and brains. On closer
examination, however, the youthful fratricide
admitted that he had shot his brother, but
didn't go to do it," The family are, of course,
almost crazy with grief over the terrible oc-
currence.
A homicide occurred in the Ardock
settlement, in Mcintosh county, early in the
last week, but was not discovered until the
middle of this week. Two small colored boys,
Cain Caters and his brother, went into the
woods with a gun and hoe, and Cain came
back without the gun and hoe, and without his
brother, for whom he could not account, say
ing his brother had gone to a neighbours house.
His father sent him for the hoe and gun,
which he brought, saying he had seen
nothing Of his brother but had seen
his tracks. Several days after this he
and his father were going through the woods,
when Cain acted queerlY at a certain point,
and being sent to a point at which he had
been seen shying around, the buZZards rose up
and the father went up and found the other
boy shot through the head and covered behind
a log with bushes. The boy, Cain, admitted
he had killed his brother, and says it was an
accident, but the circumstances upon the coro-
ner's inquest was such that the boy was COM
mitted by the coroner to await the action of
the grand jury. Cain seems to be about eleven
or twelve years old.
Mr.. Thomas Brigham shot and killed Henry
A. Pitts, at Brigham's turpentine distillery,
some five miles above McKea last Thursday
morning. Coroner Morrison held an inquest
over the remains of Pitts on Friday, and the
jury returned verdict of voluntary man.
slaughter on the part of Brigham, who imme-
diately went before Esquire M. G. Adams and
gave bond in the sum of five hundred dol
lars for his appearance at court, to answer the
charge.
George w. Mitchell, the foreman of the
Palatka, Fla, Daily News, was thrown into a
contemplative mood the other day by strange
occurrence. About seven years sgo he was
travelling in Mexico, and while out walking
one day he saw something on the
ground to excite his curiosity, and
stopped down to pick it up. While
thus STOPPING, or sitting on one knee, he lost
his balance and fell over against cactus, run
ming one of the thorns into the calf of his leg.
He tried to pull it out, but did not succeed,
and when he got up, as it had stuck into a
muscle it had firm hold, and was drawn in
through the skin and disappeared. For week
after that the only inconvenience was n little
soreness in the wound, and two or three years
after, Mr.. Mitchell said, he felt as if he had
rheumatism in that leg. Last Saturday a sore
place was felt on his chin-something like
boil, though not quite so painful. Still it was
enough to annoy him, and he kept working at
the place, as one will, until he felt a sharp
point protrudng. He tried several ways of
ascertaining what it was, and finally resorted
to the old fashioned way OF squeezing the
place until the point came out and about three
quarters of an inch of the old cactus thorn.
After seven years of travel over his body, en-
terng the calf of his leg, it finally finished its
journey on the end of his chin.
Mrs. j. A. Ansley, of Decatur, has pair
of Indian moccasins, donated to her grand
father by General Andrew jackson, who OBJ
tanned them in Florida during some of the
earlier conflicts of the government with the
Seminole Indians.
Griffin liquor continues to make it's record.
The latest feat is recorded by the liquor organ
of that place, as follows and Pike man was
the victim: j. b. Hawkins, who lives a couple
of miles from Zebulon, some n years ago was
on spree in Griffin and broke rib or SO. A
few days ago he coughed up the pieces of rib
and a cork still encircled with the neck of
a bottle, which had evidently been
broken off, showing that he had bitten it off
and swallowed it.
On Monday evening the body of an unknown
negro was found lying in gully four miles
from Griffin. He was short man, weighing
40 pounds, and wearing striped pants, the
rest OF his clothing and hands and body being
burned away by fire that was made after his
death, evidently to conceal the crime. The de-
ceased was seen on Monday morning coming
from McDonough to Griffin in company with
a much larger negro, with whom he seems to
have been quarreling. About 10 o'clock re-
port was heard in the neghboThOod Of where
the body was found, and the large negro, in
his long-tailed coat, was seen hurrying from
the scene toward Griffin lie was accosted by
knowledge of the matter. From Griffin he is
said to have gone to Atlanta. 1t is thought
that they were two railroad laborers who be-
came involved in some quarrel. The dead
negro had ball through his heart and another
wound in his chest. The coroners jury found
that he came to his death from a gun shot
wound inflicted by some unknown colored
man.
The oldest colored employee of a railroad
in Georgia, if not in the entire country, is
Moscow jackson, a sleeping-car porter in the
employ of the Central railroad. Moscow's ex-
pcrience began almost with the invention Of
railroads. His first experience was that Of
track walker" an office now unknown in
railroad official circles. That was in 1888,
when Moscow was quite small boy. His
master, Mr.. Garter, hired him to the old
Monroe railroad company, alterward known
as the Macon and Western railroad. In those
days railroads used strap" or fiat iron, laid in
wooden strips; these strips had way of curl
ing up at their ends, and frequent accidents
were caused By them. 1t was Moscow's duty
to nail down such refractory ends, or "anake
heads" as they were called Occasionally
"snake head" would cause serious damage by
tearing Though the car floors and taking Off
the legs Of unexpectantant passengers. Mos
COW was promoted IN due course Of time
through the various grades Of track hand,
train-hand, fireman, at at last to the important
and lucrative position Of porter OF sleeping