The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-22
GEORGIA NEWS.
EVENTS OF n WEEK IN THE EN-
PIRE STATE.
Tersely Telling of Passing Events Calculated
to Catch the Eye and Interest the
Reader-Other Matters.

James +. Williams brought quite feHiafha-
BILE cotton boil to town this morning 1t had
twenty-six pods, all in one boil, while four
is usual and sometimes five.
DIR. Ca,nak Dead.
Athens, Ga, August IA. Especial. DIR.
James w. Camak is dead. This SAD news
will bring sorrow to the hearts OF many
Georgians, for DIR. Camak was well known
and beloved in almost every SEXTON Oh the
state.
Waylaid by Negro.
Carrollton. Ga, August 14.-(Special. MIR
John w. Worthy. HARRISON county farmer,
had narrow escape Satu p his n r6ad home
from work and hit with Il biiie no, OF woou by u, a
big negro named Alex Rash; The negro says say,
Mr.. Worthy had been talking about MN
and he got on the roadside and when worthy
had passed him the negro hit him. me OF.
ficers are after the negro win IL WARRANT
for assault with intent to murder.
A Sensational story from Heard
Carrollton, Ga, August 17.-(Special.)-
A terrible cutting affray took place at
Bueshin court ground, Heard county. yes
terday evening. J. Cook Barr and FRANK
Hightower were the participants, and both
men were terribly cut.
Hightower was abusing Barr and later
ne ran at him with a knife. Barr, VINO
also had a knife open went to work on
HightOwer, and it was terrible hsht LOT
a while. The men Were parted, or both
would have been cut to pieces
Carrollton, Ga, August 1S.--(Special.i,-
Much excitement has been created here
over the announcement that Colonel }. M;
T.. Kelley citizen of Tl,!S town. mao
been away from home Tor foul months, ana
family and his employers until July ISL
Mr. Kelley left here the irsc of May to
canvass Alabama for !oca. patent .iSnt'
and he was heard from resular;:- by Ia
family and his employers until July Isl,
but since that time nothing has been htaf1
of him, and there are serious appfcn"ilS!oh'
here that he has been fou!iv ieait WIN.
Mr. Seifert Has bought the Telegraph
Macon, Ga, August 1S.-tSpeclal. %.
f. Seifert. of New York. Is NOW sole pro-
prietor of The Macon Telegraph. L. j.
CARING. of Macon, having sold his interest
TO Seifert. CARING and Seitert bought
The Telegraph at receivers sale about SIX
months ago for $1,000. The paper was
made Il stock company and capitalized ut
$4,000, or 80 shares at SOD per share.
Seifert owned 154 shares and CARING
owned ninety-six shares.
Seifert arrived from New York several
days ago and conSummated the trade by
which he has become sole owner. 1t is
not probable there will be any changes in
the business and editorial management.
Mr.. Seifert will continue to reside in New
York for the present. at least. He was
formerly assistant postmaster at Macon
a Pardon Granted.
John D. Plimmons one of the Carroll
county white caps, was pardoned yesterday
by Governor Northern.
April term of the superior court of Carroll
Soon after being sent to the Fulton county
jail for Imprisonment he had Il case of
pneumonia and II went hard with him. he
Is still suffering from the effects and the
physicians in at attendance stated that of
the was kept in Jail he would not live
to let him, 70 nome to his family, anl II is
said that ne deeply pentent and sorry
that he got into the affair He mentioned
do not cut any figure when it comes let
ting man out Of a scrape of this kind:
it was the prisoners condition that moved
the governor to clemcncE, and he signed
the order turning Plimmons out,
A petition with 1000 names will soon he
Of Of all the White caps They have served
four months. The term of sentence was
twelve months.
rhodes Danforth is Free.
Macon. Ga August 1S.-(Special)-
Washington Dessau received a telegram
today that Governor Northen has pardon
ed Rhodes DanfOrth.
About ten years. ago Danforth killed
William LandSberg i'll the Office of AuSs-
baum X DannenbergS store. LandSDerG
was Il brother-in-lanw of Mr.. Nussbaum
who was for years one of Macons wealth
lest merchants and is today one of her
best known. citizens. Danforth was
Wei known young man, twenty-one Years
old. He worked ut Nussbaum X Dann2n-
berg's and Landsbcrg, who was i'll author
ity over Danf0rth, was said to have been
very oyerbearing towards Danforth. and
il was for this that Danforh shot and
killed LandSberg one night While Lands
berg was at his desk.
When Danforth was put on trial. III
macy was plead in his defense, several
members of his family having been i'll the
insane asylum. die was defended by
large and able array of attorneys. Bacon
& Rutherford prosecuted. Danf0rth was
sentenced to the penitcntlary Tor lie and
ever since imprisonment. about nine years,
he has been bookkeeper and checker ~
the Gress lumber mills on the East Ten
ueSSee road.
For years efforts have been made TO oh
tain his pardon and to secure this petitions
have been signed by nearly 5000 people,
including the solicitor general who pros
ecuted him and the jury which tried him
and other officers of court. For years.
while Danforth was in the penitentiary. he
did not wear the prison garb. but com
plaint being made about this. he was ut
last REQUIRED to put on the regula ton suit.
His pardon viii awaken great interest in
Macon when known. He has been model
prisoner.
Trouble Ahead in Wilkes.
Washington. Ga, August 14.-(Specal)-
Serious trouble will doubtless be the outcome
of the cards published by Captain Charles r.
Irwin and Judge T.. NJ. Anthony, with ref
erence to the recent visit of Tom Watson to
Wilkes.
Judge Anthony. the recognized leader of the
third party III Wilkes, wrote Il card to The
Constitution Immediately after the great cX-
element in Washington, denOuncing The dem
Ocratic presidential committee, of which Cap
tain Irwin was Il member, and claiming that
the pUpuliStS came to Washington with no in
tentiOn of trouble. The card was lengthy,
bitter and denunciatorY.
In the answer to this Captain irwin publish
ed iii Il Washington paper and The Cnnstitu-
tion Il reply which dealt with Judge Anthony
and his card in uncertain terms.
The cards were bitter. Captain Irwin is one
of the stancheSt democrats in tie county and
dealt with the populists and Judge Anthony
with such severity that the latter decided
that to demand personal satisfaction was his
proper course.
Within the past few days letters have pass
ed between the two gentlemen.
Tomorrow morning the whole c0rreSDon-
Hence with a final card from Judge Anthony
will be published in The Washington Chroni-
Gle. OF course he will state that Captain
Irwin has refused II meet him and that be is
satisfied. etc.
But that Will not he the end. II is pro
personal difficulty and ii will be looked for
Hshed. Certlily Captain Irwin will rest IN
der no Opprobium. 1t is equally certain that
Judge Anthony viii denounce him as i cow
ard. When that is done the first time the
gentlemen meet the streets fight Will
cnsue and it will be fight to the death.
Trouble will follow.