Carroll County GaArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for AUGUST 1881 August 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 30, 2007, 11:07 pm The Carroll County Times August 1881 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia for AUGUST 1881 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, AUGUST 5, 1881 COWETA County News Miss Arminda Morgan, sister of Col. J.D. Morgan of Carroll county, is quite sick and has no one to wait on her, as her mother and self lives alone, the mother is old and helpless. Kinfolks ought to look after them. ---- Mrs. Harvey Sewell is quite sick with inflammation of the stomach and brain. ------ The widow King, an aged lady, the widow of Thos. G. King of this vicinity is quite sick. ---- OBITUARY OF SAMMIE H. HUEY Sammie H. Huey, son of J.H. and W.A. Huey, died of typhoid pneumonia in Carroll county, after a short life of nineteen years, eight months and seventeen days, on July 24, 1881. Life is not a failure, though short, if it be filled with great acts or with goodness. He lived his nineteen years without causing his parents to shed a tear of sorrow. Kindness and love marked his acts and molded his spirit in the whole of his life, to his brothers and sisters. He was of a jovial, cheerful, sun-shiny temperament, with unstained morals. He was a pleasant and profitable associate. Early in life he learned that the one thing needful was to be saved from sin. He was a devoted church member and attentive sunday school pupil, and his life was full of good acts; he went about doing good. No murmuring or complaining words escaped his lips during his sickness. Not having prepared to die, but to live where there is no pain, sorrow, sickness or death, he has entered into bliss with life eternal. W.H. Speer -------- LOCAL News Married at the residence of the bride's father on July 21, 1881 by Rev. W.H. Speer, Mr. J.D. Duke of Broxville, Ala. and Miss Anna C. Coker of Carroll county. ----- Mr. James M. Baker of Hollins county, Texas was in town the other day. He is here to look after mining interests in Haralson county. ---- Mrs. S.T. Kingsbery of Quitman, Ga. is visiting relatives in this place. Her husband who was here a short time last week, left Monday. ---- Mr. J.A. Reeves of Calhoun, Ga. is visiting his brother Mr. George Reeves of this county. ---- BUFFALO Community News We learn that some evil minded person, stole from the pasture, a horse belonging to Reuben Baxter of the eleventh district on the 22nd ult. ---- A few days ago, Dean Nixon found a purse containing $5. and papers to identify it, near W.T. Nix's residence on the new Bowdon and Carrollton road. The loser can get said property by calling on Dean and paying for this notice. ----- STRIPLING'S CHAPEL News Mr. C.E. Benton's wife and children are on a visit to their old home in Harris county. We wish them a pleasant trip and return. --- Mr. Sammie H. Huey of whom we made mention in our last correspondence as being very sick, died Sunday morning the 24th inst. at 4 o'clock after a severe and painful illness of two weeks. He was a christian man and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. In the death of Sammie, the community in which he lived sustained the loss of a kind and obliging young man and one whose quiet and peaceful life had made for him many warm friends. He was buried Sunday evening at Stripling's Chapel. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W.H. Speer and attended by a large concourse of sympathizing friends and mourning relatives. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, AUGUST 12, 1881 DRAKETOWN Community News The family of William McDowell held a family reunion at the house of Mr. Jas. J. McDowell just over the Carroll line some days ago. Besides the McDowell family, numbering forty-two, there were about two hundred invited guests, friends and neighbors. About 11 o'clock the crowd assembled in a grove near the house where the Rev. Seaborn Lewis delivered a very able and timely discourse suited to the occasion. It was interesting in the extreme to hear him, standing in our midst, telling of the journey of life from childhood, to a numerous progeny as they were there presented. The trials, troubles and anxieties, the hopes, joys and pleasures; man's responsibility to man, and to God, were beautifully and touchingly portrayed. Immediately after the address, we were invited to repair to the table which was long enough to accommodate everyone present. It is needless to say that we did full justice to a first class barbecue. Grandpa and Grandma McDowell have had eight children born to them. They all, including their wives and husbands were living and present, together with their grandchildren, at the barbecue. After dinner two appropriate addressed were delivered by Mr. J.W. Biggers and Mr. E.B. Hutcherson. Mack ------ SUCCESSFUL GOLD MINING Early last Spring, Mr. Jas. P. Moore of this place, leased the mining interest of the Clopton gold mining property near Villa Rica from Mr. Willis Bagwell, and since then has been engaged in trying to find a richer vein of ore on it. After a long search and much hard labor, he has succeeded and it is now working a very rich vein. It turns out from one to two pennyweights of gold per 100 pounds of quartz washed out. The main lead is four or five feet wide with several lesser ones and gets richer as it is dug deeper; is only fifteen or twenty feet from the surface as of yet. Mr. Moore is working a five stamp quartz mill at present and is making it pay. We saw some specimens of quartz rock from the mine the other day and could see the gold shining in it with the naked eye. The mine has not been actively worked for seven or eight years, until Mr. Moore leased it. We wish him success. ------- NEW RESTAURANT Willis Lepard has just opened a new restaurant at his store in southeast corner of Public Square. If you want a good square meal or luncheon at any hour of the day, call and he can give it to you. Square meal, 25 cents; luncheon, 10 cents. He also keeps on hand a full line of confectionaries. ----- LOCAL News Mr. C.H. Hyde, long an estimable citizen of Carrollton, went over to Newnan on Wednesday and will probably remain, working in Cole's wood shop. We regret to lose such a citizen as Mr. Hyde but our loss is Newnan's gain. ---- SAND HILL News Col. John Bonner was married last Sunday evening to Miss Lucy J. Woods, near Atlanta. We had the pleasure of receiving him and his bride last night. We wish them great success in life. She is a charming lady of about 35 summers while the Colonel is as spry as a boy. ----- Death has again visited our community which we are pained to chronicle. James Dewberry's wife died this morning at the residence of T.A. Jourdin's. She leaves one child and a kind husband to mourn her loss. She will be carried to Haralson county to his father's for interment. ---- WHITESBURG News Mr. H.G. Almon is having his eyes treated by Dr. Calhoun of Atlanta for iretus. ---- COWETA County News We are called upon to chronicle the sudden death of Mrs. Mary Sewell, wife of Marion Sewell of Cedar Creek district of this county, which took place on Tuesday, August the 2nd. Mrs. Sewell was apparently in good health attending to her household duties as usual and more cheerful than common, conversing freely with her family and some of her connections until 6 o'clock in the evening, when she went to fix her churn, and turned sick. Mrs. Moore, the only person present, assisted her to the bed. Dr. Starr was summoned and arrived at 8 o'clock but never could get anything to set upon her system, and at nine o'clock, she died. Her death has cast a gloom over the entire community. She leaves a husband and several little children and a little babe 4 months old, and many relatives to mourn her loss. Her hope in christ was strong for she had long since chosen that good part like many of old. We say to one and all, "watch for at such time as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh." ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, AUGUST 19, 1881 STATE News Mr. John W. Sledge, a prominent citizen of Troup county and clerk of the Superior Court, died suddenly at his office on the 11th inst. ----- A meeting was held at Wesobulga, Alabama lately and steps taken to raise funds to erect a monument over the grave of Mrs. S.E. Mitchell, who was murded by Waldrop, not long since. ----- From a special dispatch to the Rome Bulletin, dated the 8th inst., we learn that on that day that Otis Matterson, his brother and father, while building a house, one mile from Oxford, Alabama, were struck by lightning. Otis was instantly killed and the recovery of the father and brother is doubtful. ----- COWETA County News Mr. J.A.O. Gentry died rather suddenly last Friday night. ----- We are sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Benjamin Linderman of Carroll county. He was raised in this community and was beloved by all. We tender our sympathies to his widow and little orphan and to his aged parents. ----- LOCAL News Mr. Joseph Morris, living near Bowdon, has sold his place to a gentleman from Campbell county and has gone out to the Sand Mountain in Alabama, prospecting. ---- The news from the Clopton Gold Mines on the place of Mr. Willis Bagwell near Villa Rica, at present worked by Mr. Jas. P. Moore of this place, continues to be good. From all accounts, Mr. Moore has struck a bonanza. A reliable and trustworthy young man from this place who was up there last Saturday, says he is informed that the mine was yielding about $100. worth of gold per day. We hope Mr. Moore will make a good thing out of it. He worked a long time on faith, but we trust he will be rewarded for his perseverance in the yellow stuff itself. ------ Squire H.A. Ragan is quite sick with asthma. --- WHITESBURG News W. M. Craig has returned from his prospecting trip to Texas and is satisfied to remain in Carroll county, or at least he is not going to move to Texas. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, AUGUST 26, 1881 NEIGHBORHOOD News Mr. Joseph L. Braswell of Heard county is dead. ---- From The Franklin News, we learn that Messrs. Wood and Buttrill, contractors for the Franklin bridge, have employed Horace King to superintend the work and have contracted with our enterprising townsman, W.S. Askew for the lumber. ----- The LaGrange Reporter gives the following account of a family of dwarfs in Troup county: Troup county has a family within her limits, several of whom are dwarfs. Mr. F.M. Darnell, who lives a few miles above West Point, on the river, is forty- nine years of age, and is only four feet and four inches high. He has four children, two boys of whom inherit their father's imperfect stature. One is twelve years old and his stature is thirty-one inches; the other, age nine, measures thirty-three inches in height. The eldest of these two children is afflicted with malformation and disease of the spine. The mother is five feet high and the other children are of ordinary height. ------ IN MEMORY OF S.M. BROWN We, the committee appointed at the Tallapoosa musical convention, submit the following: Since our last meeting, Death has visited our musical family. Bro. S.M. Brown was born in South Carolina in 1811 and moved to Georgia in 1834 and in 1836 was married to Miss Lucy Chandler. He never made any public profession of religion, but his walk and conversation imitated that of a christian. He was a dear lover of music. Just before his death he raised his hands toward heaven and said "I want to go up yonder." He breathed his last on March 29th, 1881. He was a kind father and an affectionate husband. He has left a kind wife, eight children and many friends to mourn his loss. 1. Resolved, that in the death of Brother Brown, the convention has lost one its best standards. 2. Resolved, that we would say to the children to try and imitate the steps of their father. 3. Resolved, that our prayer is that when we leave this land of toll we may strike hands with him beyond the river of Jordan. 4. Resolved, that we sing the tune "Span of Life" led by Bro. C.J. Cook and engage in prayer, led by Bro. T.L. Lassiter. 5. Resolved, that the proceedings be recorded on the convention book and a copy sent to the Carroll County Times for publication and request that the Cedartown paper to copy, and a copy be sent to the family of the deceased Brother. J.M. Hamrick B.O. Monroe S. Edwards, Committee August 14, 1881 -------- ARRESTED Just as we go to press, Sheriff Hewitt has arrived in town with Geo. Cook, charged with the murder of Joe Williams in the sixth district of this county some five or six years ago. The Sheriff arrested Cook at Truss Ferry in Talladega county, Alabama. Full particulars in next issue. ---- LOCAL News Mr. Ezra Martin returned from Arkansas the latter part of last week, sick with a billious attack. ----- Jack Carr, living 5 miles west of Carrollton, while cutting off the end of a gate post, had the axe to glance and cut nearly off his first and second toe on his left foot. ----- WHITESBURG News Mrs. M.A. Hodnett of Haralson in Coweta county, with her blind son, spent last Sunday in town, the guest of Mr. N.E. Allen. She was in route to Douglasville where she goes to visit a daughter who is teaching a music class in that town. ----- Rev. J.B. Hollinshead is still confined to his bed with the fever. We sincerely hope he may shortly be restored to his wanted health and ministerial duties. ----- LOCAL News Jim Abercrombie, colored, who broke jail at Douglasville some time ago, was recognized here last week by John P. Boatright who had his arrested by Marshall Glass and carried to Douglasville. He was accused of burning Mrs. Sallie McLarty's house in Dark Corner, Douglas county. ----- Mr. W.G. Jinkins and Miss Mary Taylor were married at 7 p.m. last Monday evening at Shelnutt's Hall, Rev. W.S. Twedell officiating. ----- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/newspapers/newspape2127gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 14.6 Kb