The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-28
THROUGH DIXIE.
Events of a Week in the SUNNY
Southland.
GEORGIA..

county colored murderer yesterday, He
passed the following order:
February Goth, 1SSS-Afler examination of tbo
syldenee IN the case Of the state vs. Lewis Moore,
Rnd consideration of the same, do not find any,
reason Whlch would authorize me to disturb the
fore "--O ~ - 'iele-
Ordered, That the sheriff of Quitman county be
ana ne Is hereby directed to execute the sentence
ipt the court upon the said Lewis Moore as directed
by the court, on Thursday the 23d day of February
'~oq %. +,o ,ro,,,-,,ox J. B. GORDON,
SAMEs I; NIsBET, Sec: Elk. Department
1t will be remembered that on the second of
sShis month Governor Gordon granted Lewis
Moore respite for twenty dayS-the telegram
getting to the sheriff onlya few minutes before
the hour fixed for the hanging
One night during the month of last October,
negro named Ransom Wright attended n
party with his wife at the plantation of Mr.
pohn Guilford, in Quitnlan county. Lewis
Moore, who is single man, accompanied a
good looking negro girl to the same party
After the frolic, Ransom Wright started home
with this girl. When Lewis Moore heard of
this he became very angry, and started in pur-
suit of the couple. He overlook them on a Hill
about half mile from the house at which the
party was given. Moore at once began quar-
telling with Wright. The girl, fearing
Grouble, ran across cotton field to tell her
rather about the quarrel. In a few moments
after the girl left the men, three negro men who
We're IN the road about one hundred and fifty
yards beyond the hill heard two pistol shots
a short time thereafter Ransom Wright rush
ed down the hill to the negroes and told them
that Moore had cut him in three places
Moore was close on the heels of the wouned
man, and when he reached the crowd WRIGHT
cried out: Don't put your knife on me
again!'' Moore said: "What did YOU hit me
for" and with an oath fired upon Wright,
the ball striking him in the face and piercing
his brain. The man did not speak after he
was shot and in few moments he was dead
TIE defense tried to prove at the trial that
Wright struck Moore, but failed
One of our young and talented attorneys
bought q 'possum from an old darlkv a few
days ago and told the old man to go to a GER
tain store and the merchant would settle with
him. Here is what the attorney had left for
him; Received from Uncle Ike, one d-n
poor little riney-Woods 'posSum, in settlement
of an account amounting to four dollars held
by myself against the said uncle Ike, which
account tho said uncle Ike never, no never
expected TO pay"
A terrible tragedy took place on the
baseball grounds of the Chattanooga university
this afternoon. While game of bail was in
progress between the students, j. G. Johnston
of Soddy, Tenn, spectator, and also stu
dent, took exception to a ruling of the umpire,
Ben Maglll, who resides at Half-DIoon island
Tenn, when Magill picked up q baseball BAT
and nit Johnston terrible blow on the left
side Of the head, fracturing his skull from the
temple to the back part Of the head. Johnston
is barely alive, but the doctors say he will die
before midnight. The killing has caused the
most intense excitement, and Deputy Sheriff
Raser Immediately started in pursuit Of llagill,
who fed to Georgia, which is only four miles
distant from the city.
Johnston died this evening at o'clock. He
never regained consciousness. His parents
were telegraphed for, but cannot arrive before
morning. Magill, his murderer, is still at
large, having left the city on foot. lie is only
about Is years Of age. 1t is thought he will
make his way to Soddy, his home, and officers
have gone to that point to watch for him.
do not believe that animals have reasoning
power but their instinct is some times remark
ably xhibited," said an elderly member of the
ALBANY bar the other day. 'Many years ago,
before the railroads had penetrated the then
dense woods east OF this place, wanted to go
80 the old Brisbone place, then about where
tsAlapaha now stands, and long distance away.
Il borrowed a horse, which had just been
brought from Macon by Mr.. Hines then
prominent lawyer, father of Mr.. r. K Hines,
now residing in Macon. The Brisbone road
was then being worked, and there were GUAM
titles of short roads branching out from the
main road and used by the carts in hauling
Idirt and timber. By some mistake L took one
sof these, and when night came on found that
I had passed the end of the road, and was in
The woods, and had lost my way 1 tried to
proceed, but found that l only drove against
the trees in whatever direction took. Imade
up my mind that would have to stay there
all night 1t was bitter cold and unhitched
the horse. had no matches, and tried to g-
mite fire by the Indian method of rubbing
two sticks together. | made several attempts
in vain. No fire would come. 1 feared that
would freeze to death, unless could succeed
in obtaining blaze, but it was hopeless.
Suddenly the horse Whinnied two three
times in peculiar manner, and [ determined
that, though the horse strange to those
woods as l, still would trust to his instinctto
guide me out of them, knowing that death
upon his back would be none the worse.
Throwing the halter loosely upon him, with
the reins upon his neck, | mounted upon him
and turned him loose. He at once started off,
md flor llyit fO,,C how Io
idirectly back of John Fletcher's farm house,
where were Hospitality received, and man
and beast provided with good provender and
.shelter. l found that the horse, by some un-
accountable instinct, had gone over seven
miles directly to this farm where neither of
gus had ever been before. How he found the
Eplace, whether he, with the acute hearing of
Ithe brute, had heard through all those miles
iOf piney woods the crow of q cock or other
Sound Of life upon farm, or smelt the fodder
ian the stable, has always remained q mystery
ITO me,
Nearly half century ago Thomas Jones
Chambers killed man named Kemp in
lGwinnett county and fed the country In
straveling west he found himself in Texas at
,the time the lone star state was fighting for
independence. He joined the army and
served CALAMITY until the close of the war.
He was afterWard arrested, tried, convicted
land hung for the murder. While in the Texas
larmy he dropped the Chambers from his name
land was known as Thomas Jones'. 1t is now
believed that his heirs are entitled to several
sections of fine land in Texas as bounty from
the state if they can identify the soldier
Thomas Jones as the citizen Thomas Jones
Chambers.
1.-THE Oconee bridge, at NIilledgeville was
the scene of another fatal accident Tuesday.
The recent rains had caused the river to
rise about sixteen feet, and logs and rafters
were being swept rapidly down the stream.
Mr.. Bud Moran went out on the scaffold and
with long pole was trying TO keep the rafters
from the bridge. In some way he lost his bal
,ance and fell in the stream He was an old
IMAM and could swim but very little, but the
pole he had foated and kept him above the
water for about two hundred yards. Every
effort was made to reach him, but the only
boat near was chained and locked, and the old
man was allowed to fill a watery grave. When
last seen he was piteously praying for help.
There seems to be a strange fatality about the
OcoHee bridges at this place, In the course Of
construction several men have lost their lives
aud half dozen have been seriously injured.
Interest in the hanging Of Lewis Moore, all
about HON and whose crime has been re-
ipeatedly published, hid about petered out
Friday when the execution took place over in
.Georgetown, and only n few of the thous-
taudg rtrnepnk when he Was recrited tNpantv