Carroll County GaArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEBRUARY 1881 February 1881 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 March 28, 2007, 1:10 pm The Carroll County Times February 1881 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia for FEBRUARY 1881 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 18, 1881 STATE News T.J. Blanchard, an old and well known citizen of Douglas county is dead. ---- The residence of Maj. A.P. Norwood near Hogansville was destroyed by fire on Sunday the 6th. ---- Mr. James M. Sparks of Griffin is lying critically low with consumption. ---- From the West Point Press, we learn that Mrs. R.A.S. Freeman of that place has an aunt (Miss Ellis), an accomplished and wealthy lady who is an inmate of the family of Lord and Lady Mandeville of England, being a friend of the latter, who was of a wealthy New York family. Her letters to her niece are very interesting, giving glimpses of the titled aristocracy of the old world. Her last one gives an account of the Princess of Wales and Duke and Duchess of Manchester to the Mandeville castle. Young Lord Mandeville, a scion of a few years, bade the lady convey his love to her little nephew in Greenville. ------ From the Marietta Journal "Death lurks in every flower" it is said, but one would hardly suppose that death was concealed in a brass lamp, where there was no explosion. But such was the case recently at Roswell, in this county, as we learn from our correspondent. Mr. James Mahaffey, a well known citizen, had cut one of his fingers. The gash gave him no trouble and he handled articles as well as usual. A few night ago, Mr. Mahaffey was holding a brass lamp. The lamp had not been kept as clean externally as it should have been, and the brass parts had cankered and some of the oil from the lamp became mixed with the canker and the combination created a green poisonous matter. Some of this matter got into the flesh cut on Mr. Mahaffey's finger. The virus penetrated his fingers, hand and arm and the arm became inflamed and swollen and much feverish pain ensued. Medical attention was given but no antidote was sufficient to conteract the deadly poison, and Mr. Mahaffey died an agonizing death. ------ COWETA County News Three of our oldest and best male citizens are at the point where there is but one step between them and Death, viz: Uncle Tonie Lang; Zeptha Davis and Rez. Mobley. Uncle Tonie Lang's death is hourly looked for by his friends. Uncle Zeptha Davis was paralyzed about a week ago and is very old and there is little hope for his recovery. Uncle Rez. Mobley has been confined to his bed about four years and during this long period, he has lived alone upon sweet milk. His age is against recovery. ----- There is a widow lady in the neighborhood who has been confined to her bed for the last fifteen years now and has lay in one position all that time. She is now 51 years of age and the widow of Joseph B. Mosely, deceased. ----- LOCAL News Mr. W.M. Echols, a well known citizen of this county, was tried last Monday before Judge Richards, charged with lunacy and after a proper hearing of the case by the jury, he was found guilty. Mr. Echols is perfectly harmless in his hallucinations. ----- NEIGHBORHOOD News Mrs. Davis, wife of W.S. Davis of Cedartown, is dead. ---- At the residence of Capt. thomas Leigh of Newnan, on the 10th inst., Mr. Joseph Camp and Miss Alice Leigh were married. ---- OBITUARY OF MARTIN CRIDER We are pained to record the death of another good citizen of Carroll county, and we believe, a faithful soldier of the cross. Died at his residence in Carrollton on the 3rd of January last, Martin Crider, who was born in the state of N.C. in the year 1803, but who spent the greater part of his life in Georgia. He was married to Mary W. Stallings in the year 1823. He joined the Primitive Baptist church in 1829 and lived a devoted, consistent member of the same. During his last ilness, among other appropriate scriptures, he frequently repeated "The Lord is good and a strong hold in the day of trouble". We have never witnessed such patience and fortitude as he exercised in his last days on earth. His sickness was short but very severe. He was always a great lover of plainness, honesty and truth. His word was his bond. He was a kind husband, a patient father and an obliging neighbor. He leaves an aged widow, the last of her family, and many friends and relatives to mourn his loss. The Lord grant that our lives and deaths may be like his, full of peace and love and faith. ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 25, 1881 STATE News Henry May, an Englishman who has lived at Cedartown since the war and has followed shoemaking, was arrested there on the 10th inst. for counterfeiting silver coin. ---- On the night of the 17th inst., a train hand on the A. & W.P. railroad, while coupling some cars at Hogansville, stepped into a stock gap when he fell on the track, the train passing over his right arm and tearing it off. His name is W.H. Malone and he is not expected to live. ----- D.T. Dansby, the new sheriff of Heard county, has moved to Franklin. ---- The Randolph, Alabama News says that Mrs. Burton, mother of Mr. R.R. Burton is dangerously ill. ----- COWETA County News The death of Judge John M. Redwine has cast a sad gloom over this entire community. He breathed his last at 11 o'clock Saturday night last, at his residence on the line of Coweta and Campbell counties. He was only sick about ten days. As we pen these lines our heart swells with sadness for the loss of this good man. He was a christian gentleman. The church has lost a beacon light, the county a worthy citizen, his wife a devoted husband, his children a kind father. We tender our condolences to the grief stricken family and relatives and would say, let us all imitate his walk and life if we wish to meet him in that world where there is no more death, where friends and kindred will meet, to part no more. His remains were interred at Andrew Chapel cemetery in this county at ten o'clock Monday, Feb. 21, followed by a large concourse of people which showed the high regard in which he was held by his many friends. ----- Mrs. Hardy Duke of Eastling county, Texas is on a visit to see relatives and friends in this community. ---- LOCAL News ACCIDENTALLY KILLED From a note from Mr. T.M. Roop we learn that a young negro man by the name of Jake Arnold was accidentally killed in a shocking manner last Tuesday morning at the saw mill of S.K. Roop, 9 miles south of Carrollton. He was steadying a log at the time and his hand slipping, he lost his balance, his head being thrown foward under the saw by which it was terribly mangled, resulting in immediate death. The young man was about 18 or 20 years of age. He came into that neighborhood from Douglas county where his people reside. ----- At the time we go to press, Mrs. Edgar Long, who has been sick for some time, is reported in a critical condition. Though her friends hope for the best, the chances are against her ultimate recovery. ---- Married, at Sand Hill on Sunday the 20th inst. at 7 o'clock p.m. at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. W.N. Carson, Mr. A.J. Camp to Miss Mary E. Hamrick. ------- WHITESBURG News Mrs. Cary who has been visiting her sister Mrs. J.M. Kendrick, has returned home. ---- Mr. Jasper M. Newton, one among the purest and noblest young men of our town or county, died this morning about 10 o'clock. He was loved and respected by all. He leaves an aged father and an affectionate sister at home with the other brothers and sisters who are scattered abroad, to mourn his decease. They have our sympathy. ------ STRIPLING'S CHAPEL News Mr. George Rennix and wife of Chattanooga, Tennessee are visiting relatives in this community. We hope their visit may be a pleasant one. ----- We we write, we learn of the death of Prof. Newton of Whitesburg, who had been up to the time of his illness, teaching school at Mt. Pleasant near here. He died last Tuesday morning. He was a young man and was highly esteemed by everyone. ------ OBITUARY OF MRS. ELIZA ANN MUSE Died of paralysis on the 3rd inst., Mrs. Eliza Ann Muse, wife of Jesse W. Muse. The deceased was the daughter of Henry and Mary F. Thredgill. Her father was born in Anson County, N.C. and her mother in Milledgeville, Ga. Eliza Ann, the subject of this notice, was born in Houston county, Ga., on Oct. 19, 1836; was married to J.W. Muse on Oct. 19, 1854. She united with the M.E. church at Hopewell, Chambers county, Ala. in 1852. She became a member of the Baptist church at Aberline in August of 1876 of which she remained a constant member till her death. She was a devoted wife and an affectionate mother. As a christian she lived according to her profession, a quiet, meek and humble servant of the Lord. More cannot be said of anyone. Death to her was but "the gate to endless glory." She leaves a husband and thirteen children, the youngest an infant of four months, to mourn her loss. The bereaved, in their affliction, have the sympathies of many friends, and the Divine assurance that she yet lives. Carrollton, Feb. 21, 1881. ------- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/newspapers/newspape2123gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 9.8 Kb