Carroll County GaArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for NOV. & DEC. 1883 1883 ************************************************ 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 April 16, 2007, 11:14 pm The Carroll County Times 1883 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia for NOVEMBER 1883 & DECEMBER 1883 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 2, 1883 LOCAL News Married at the residence of the bride's father John Shadinger on the morn of the 28th, by the Rev. W.N. Carson, Mr. B.G. Higgins to Miss Ella Shadinger. ---- The difficulty in town last Saturday does not now appear to be as serious as at first feared. It occurred between Mr. Gaddy of Heard county and Mr. B.R. Morrow and it resulted in the knocking down of the former by the latter, rocks being the weapons used. Mr. Gaddy was carried home and when last heard from was doing well. His wounds were dressed by Drs. Hallum and W.L. Fitts who gave him very skillful attention, until they decided it was safe to carry him home. The only known cause of the difficulty were idleness and liquor, the devil's workshop, and his most powerful weapon. Mr. Morrow claims to have acted entirely on the defense and at once surrendered himself to the officers and gave bond for his appearance at the Superior Court. ----- WHITESBURG News Married at the residence of William Lassiter on Oct. 24th by Rev. W.H. Speer, Mr. Charlie H. Roberson of Coweta county, Ga. to Miss Mary A. Brown of Carroll county. The couple passed through this place on the evening of the day mentioned above, accompanied by friends on their way to their new home in Coweta. May they live long and be happy. ---- Married at the residence of I.N. Payton of this place on Oct. 25th by R. Benton, Esq., Mr. J.T. Storey of Coweta county to Miss Mattie Whitehorn of Carrollton. ----- Died on October 25th, Isadore C. Hogan, aged about 11 years, daughter of Hon. H. Hogan. Her remains were buried at Paul's church on the 25th inst., W.H. Speer performing the burial service. ---- LOCAL News A six year old boy of Mr. Wordlaw McBurnett of Flint corner community was killed in the gin the other day. ---- The funeral of Dr. J.T. Robinson who died October 3rd at his home at Abernathy, Ala. will be preached at Shiloh camp ground next Sunday by Rev. John Thurman, assisted by the pastsor, Rev. M.W. Arnold. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 9, 1883 LOCAL News Mr. C.C. York left on Monday last on a visit to his relatives in Meriwether. ---- Married at the residence of W.L. Craven, Esq. and by the same, on the 4th inst., Mr. M.A. Stallings and Miss Dora Wood. ---- John Shadinger Jr. who resides about five miles south of this place, was taken with erysipelas on Thursday evening last and died on Monday morning following. He was 24 or 25 years of age. We sympathize with his parents and relations in their sad bereavement. ---- MEMORIAL TO JOSEPHUS MUSE It becomes our sad duty to chronicle the death of Josephus Muse, the eldest son of J.M. Muse who resides about six miles north of Carrollton. On Thursday evening, Oct. 11th, the gin house on the premises of J.M. Muse burned and the unfortunate Josephus was just in the act of getting in the box of the press when it took fire, and before he could make his escape, his clothes caught on fire and he was fatally burned. He was a young man just starting in life, age 20 years, 10 months and 25 days. He was an energetic, industrious, honorable young man and stood fair in the estimation of the people with whom he associated. He lived about thirteen hours after being burned and though he doubtless suffered the most excruciating pain, yet not a mumur from him was heard. Just before he expired, he called his mother and told her to wake up the young children and bring them to his bedside, for he would soon be gone and he wanted to tell them goodbye. He then requested them to sing a parting song and suggested "Home Sweet Home" but as they were all overcome with emotion and could not sing, he sang a verse by himself. He was perfectly resigned and said he did not fear death for God would take care of him. The bereaved family have the sympathies of their many friends in this, their time of trouble, and we commend them to Him alone, who is able to sustain them in all their tribulations. ----- Mr. Park Shell, who was badly burned at the same time as Mr. Muse, we are glad to state is convalescing. ------ WHITESBURG News Married near Plowshare, Ga. on Nov. 1st by Rev. R.J. Miller, Mr. George Kempson of the vicinity of Whitesburg to Miss Rebecca Nixon. We wish them all the peace and happiness which the domestic circle can bring. ---- VILLA RICA News John J. Edge who lay sick at M.A. Luther's boarding house twelve days, died last Thursday morning at 2 o'clock. He was a stranger in this county and friends had to pay the expenses of his sickness and burial, amounting in all to about sixty dollars, forty of which was paid by the county, the balance by private donations. The above includes the expenses of his wife coming and returning from her home in Alabama, some 200 miles distant. She did not arrive until after his death. ----- IN MEMORIAM OF LARRY GRICE Departed this life on the morning of the 30th of October, Mr. Larry Grice, an aged and highly esteemed citizen of the 11th district of this county. Mr. Grice was one of the early settlers of Carroll, having resided here for about forty years, being all this time identified with all the interests of the county. In the death of Mr. Grice, the community sustains the loss of a kind and obliging neighbor, the county a quiet and good citizen. The family of the deceased, have the sympathy of their many friends in this their sad bereavement, and the consolation of hope, having evidence that the departed passed away in hope of the rest which remains for the people of God. R. ------ NOTICE I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, my plantation lying some four miles west of Carrollton on both sides of the Bowdon road in the tenth district of Carroll county. Said plantation contains 150 acres more or less, about seventy- five acres in the woods. The entire premises under fence; buildings in tolerable condition. There are some cane and bottom land next to the river on the west side. Will be sold before the courthouse door in the town of Carrollton the first Tuesday in December next. Owen O'Conner. Nov. 4th, 1883 ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 16, 1883 LOCAL News Married at the residence of Swan Harris, the bride's father, on Sunday the 11th inst., Mr. G.W. Tumlin to Miss Mattie Harris, Judge S.W. Harris officiating. We wish them happiness. ---- TEMPLE Community News Mr. James Garrison died very suddenly at Griffin & Entrekin's store on the 2nd inst. He and his wife had started to visit a relative, and arriving at Temple just before the train was due, stopped to wait until it passed, as he would come in contact with it before he reached his destination if he proceeded further. He left home feeling as well as usual, so far as anyone knew, and talked to Mr. Griffin about his trip to Carrollton the day before, while in the store. Not more than twenty minutes elapsed from the time he stopped until he was dead. The cause of his death is unknown. Mr. Garrison was a consistent member of the Methodist church and honorable in all his dealings. ----- Mr. William Brooks died at his home here the 6th inst. He suffered severely for several months with Consumption. He was perfectly resigned and said his way was clear. He was a son of Rev. William Brooks and was about forty years old. His remains were buried at Asbury cemetery with Masonic honors. The large crowd that attended his burial testifies to the truth that he was a gentleman of good standing and had many friends. The bereaved family have the sympathy of their many friends in this, their trying hour. ---- VILLA RICA News John S. Floyd, formerly of Carrollton, has married a wife and will move to Villa Rica and keep house. ---- W.W. McLarty was married last week to Miss Belle Prichard. He too will go to keeping house soon. ---- Ella, the wife of F.E. Sheats ( second son of W.H. Sheets), died yesterday at her home in Fulton county. She will be buried tomorrow morning at Chamber's graveyard three fourths of a mile from town. This is a great calamity for young Felix. He will have the entire sympathy of a large circle of friends and relatives, but he can only find consolation for his irreparable loss in the hope of meeting his lost and loved oned in the great beyond, where the misfortunes of this world can never come. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 23, 1883 LOCAL News Mr. W.C. Mobley of our county left with his family for Bastrop county, Texas on Nov. 20th. ---- Mrs. Thompson, formerly Miss Eva Cobb, who has many friends here, died at her father's in Cedartown on the 15th inst. of brain fever. ---- Last week, Mrs. Latimer, wife of Uncle Jimmie Latimer, 6 miles from town, fell in the fire and was burned to death, during the temporary absence of her husband who was in the yard cutting wood at the time. She had been subject to fits for the last eight years and it is supposed that she fell into the fire while thus attacked. She was about 76 years old and had been a member of the Primitive Baptist church for fifty years. Uncle Jimmie, her husband, survives her. ----- VILLA RICA News Miss Georgia Bevel from Florida is visiting her sister Mrs. S.C. Candler. --- Miss Sudie Aklin has returned after a prolonged stay to her sister's Mrs. C.N. Bagwell. ---- LOCAL News Married at Victory, Ga. at the residence of Mr. George McDaniel the bride's father, on the evening of the 20th inst., Prof. N.A. Horton of Hiram, Ga. to Miss Mary M. McDaniel, the Rev. John Thurman officiating. They go from here to the home of the groom at Hiram. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 30, 1883 LOCAL News Died on the morning of the 29th inst. at 5 o'clock at his residence 4 miles west of Carrollton, Mr. James Lambert, of typhoid fever. The deceased leaves a wife and two children. ---- Mr. C.A. Jones who has been doing carpenter's work in our town for the last three months, returned to his home in Tallapoosa last Saturday. Mr. Jones is one of our master carpenters. A specimen of his workmanship can be seen at Col. J.P. Moore's. ---- Mr. Garrett from St. Clair county and Mrs. Sallie Almon from Carroll county were married the 22nd inst. at Carrollton. ---- DEATH OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN OF HEARD COUNTY On Monday morning last, as we passed along a street in Franklin, we were told that Mr. Jonathan Lane, proprietor of the Fish House, had been taken suddenly very ill and that Dr. Peddy of Newnan had been sent for. Yesterday we heard the sad news of his death on Monday night. The deceased was widely known as a prominent and useful citizen, a worthy Mason and an upright man. T.C. Lane of the firm of Askew & Lane, L.T. Lane, Postmaster of Franklin, and H.A. Lane, an intelligent and successful farmer, are his sons. Besides them he leaves a wife and several daughters and minor children. We deeply sympathize with them in their great sorrow. The deceased was one of the first to give us a fraternal greeting when we went to Franklin, a stranger, thirteen years ago. ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 7, 1883 NEIGHBORHOOD News Miss Lula Howell, a daughter of Posey Howell of Salt Springs, Douglas county, attempting to cross the pond at her father's mill on the 24th ult., with a younger sister and another little girl in a batteau, was carried over the dam and drowned. Her sister was rescued by her father when she had sunk and risen the third time. The other little girl was saved by clinging to the boat. ---- W.T. Lovvorn was badly hurt at Bremen by the falling of a lumber kiln. ---- J.D. Boyd, a highly respected citizen of Fairburn, was killed at that place on the 26th by the fast mail train. He was 65 years old and somewhat deaf. ----- COWETA County News The widow Marthalynn Hyde, Uncle John Hyde, the widow Skinner of Coweta and Judge Marion Hyde of Carroll county, are likely to fall heir to three million dollars by the death of an uncle by the name of Hyde. One of the parties came to me on the subject and said it would be but a short time before they would have their fortune in hand. I hope it may be true. ------ LOCAL News Married at the residence of the bride's mother on Nov. 29th, J.Ben Boatright to Miss Susie Williams, J.T. Norman, J.P., officiating. ----- On the 26th ult. near Lowell, Mr. F. Huckeba was thrown from a buggy, and his head striking a rock, received a severe cut. Mr. Huckeba was badly bruised and there are fears that his skull was fractured. ---- Mr. Wm. L. Bell, an old citizen of the 11th district of this county, died on the first day of December. The deceased had been much afflicted for about two years and was very feeble for six months prior to his death, which was therefore not unexpected by his family and friends. We extend to the bereaved widow and family our sincere condolence. ----- Died at the residence of Mr. E.R. Sharp on Tuesday evening, a few minutes before 9 o'clock, Mr. Robert R. Burton of Edwardsville, Ala. in the 32nd year of his age. The deceased was a printer and probably set the first matter over print in type for this Journal. Up to a recent date he was employed on the Edwardsville Standard at local editor. About a month ago, in response to a request of his friend Mr. Sharp, he came over to assist in starting the Carroll Free Press. He had just arisen from an attack of fever and the exposure of the journey in his enfeebled condition brought on an attack of congestion of the lungs, which ended in his death. Mr. Burton was a son of Rev. Thos. W. Burton, a Baptist minister, once well known and much esteemed in this county. Rev. Wm. H. Burton of Cherokee, Ala. and Hon. T.J. Burton, Probate Judge of Cleburne county, Ala. are his brothers. He leaves a wife and child, who arrived on the day before his death, to receive his last blessing. Rev. E.B. Barrett who visited him two days before the end came, informs us that the deceased had no fears about death and gave bright assurance of his confidence and trust in the goodness of God. This will be a greater consolation to his bereaved ones than any that friends can offer. Yet is is our sad privilege to tender our sincere sympathies and to share in some degree, their sorrow. ------ IN MEMORY OF W.L. BELL Departed this life on the morning of the 1st inst., Mr. W.L. Bell, a highly esteemed citizen of the 11th district of this county. The deceased was in his 60th year of his age; had been a member of the Baptist church for nearly forty years. While living he gave testimony of his devotion to the Savior and in death found comfort in the exercise of his faith. The bereaved family tender their heart felt thanks to the many friends and neighbors for the kindnesses bestowed upon the departed during his serious and protracted illness. "Friend after friend departs; who has not lost a friend." ------ BOWDON News It is with sorrow that we announce the serious illness of Mr. O.D. Blunt, one of our most energetic young farmers. He is a young man of fine social and moral character and our sincere wish is that he may soon regain his wanted health. ---- KANSAS District News Mr. William Rowe is quite ill with typhoid pneumonia fever. ---- Mr. Daniel Jones is still helpless with paralysis. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 14, 1883 A GOOD MAN DIES Dr. Daniel Bordeau Juhan passed away about 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening. The annoucement, although not unexpected, will touch many hearts with sorrow, for he was a man who had a remarkable strong hold in the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. The deceased was of French descent. His parents moved from Spartenburg, S.C. to Jones county, Georgia where he was born Dec. 22nd, 1820 and lived to manhood, moving then to Stone Mountain. He came from that place to Carrollton in 1857. His parents having died, leaving him at a tender age, without means, he worked for his living from the time he was able to work. After his marriage, he graduated at the medical college of Augusta, Ga. Entering the practice of medicine he very soon began to show an aptness for the profession that commanded the respect of his brother physicians. He was also a successful farmer and merchant. But it is through his services of an officer that he is best known. In 1867 he was called by the choice of the people to fill the office of Ordinary, vacated by the retirement of Hon. Jas. M. Blalock, under the odious provisions of the Reconstruction Act. To his faithful administration of the affairs of that office for a period of thirteen years, Carroll county doubltless owes a large measure of her present prosperity. Very early in his public services in the exercise of the discretion given him by law, he stopped the retail of spiritous liquors, outside of incorporated towns, throughout the county, by refusing to issue license, thus removing an incubus that had hitherto clogged the wheels of moral and material progress. For this one act of devotion to the public good, his memory deserved to be embalmed in the hearts of his fellow citizens. The deceased was a physician, whose skill was already well recognized by the eminent of his profession, when the encroachment of the malady, to which is wife at last succumbed, warned him that he must retire from practice. He knew that he had Consumption. Building a residence ten or eleven years ago, he planned it and arranged the ventilation with a view to his final struggle with the disease. For twelve weeks he had been confined to his room. The end came as he expected. He was prepared for it. For many years, we know not how long, he had been a consistent and orderly communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church. May his loved ones, who so tenderly watched by his couch, take consolation in the thought that the freed spirit rests where no sorrow can ever come, and God shall wipe away all tears. ----- IN MEMORY OF SARAH A. MUSE Departed this life, November 27th, 1883, Miss Sarah A. Muse, daughter of Jesse Muse. The deceased was born July the 10th, 1857; joined the Protestant Methodist church in 1878 and from that date until her death, lived a christian life. The writer was well acquainted with her; we have that faith to believe that her spirit rests at home. We commend the bereaved family to the mercy of an allwise God who doeth all things well. May the Lord bless the bereaved family, is the prayer of the writer. J.M.D.S. ----- LOCAL News Married on the evening of the 9th inst. at the residence of the bride's father, Miss Fannie Wiggins to Mr. H.K. Baxter, W.W. Roop officiating. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 21, 1883 LOCAL News Judge V.B. McClure left yesterday for Prescott, Nevada county, Arkansas. Judge McClure is a native of Coweta, a county which, by the way, has given Carroll many excellent citizens. He moved here thirty-three years ago and is widely known as a worthy and substantial citizen, having once held the office of Justice of the Inferior Court. We wish him prosperity in his new home but would not be surprised if, like the writer, he should return to his early love. Carroll has a way of getting a hold of her children that they find it hard to shake off. ------ Married on Thursday evening, Dec. 13th at the residence of Mr. T.S. Greene, the bride's foster father, Mr. J.B. Childers and Miss Jennie Greene. Rev. J.M. McCalman officiated. ----- ROOPVILLE Community News Miss Ada Veal, a daughter of John L. Veal, is very sick with typhoid fever. Miss Ada has the hearty wishes of her many friends for her speedy recovery. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 28, 1883 CHRISTMAS CASUALTIES Thos. Priest Jr., hunting with a double barrel gun on Christmas day, accidentally shot himself in the left hand, tearing it to pieces. Dr. Lee Fitts was called in and amputed the hand above the wrist joint. Mr. Priest is a young man with a wife and one child. A precisely similar accident is reported by the Coweta Advertiser. Mr. Clint Gaston was the victim. He was shot in the wrist joint and his arm was amputed half way between the wrist and elbow. His occurred on the 20th inst. ----- NOTE: there was only one page scanned of the Dec. 28th 1883 newspaper for this microfilm roll. ----------- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/newspapers/newspape2216gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 21.2 Kb