Dooly County GaArchives News.....Dooly Courthouse Fire May 12 1847
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Georgia Journal and Messenger 12 May 1847

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
			DOOLY COUNTY, May 8th, 1847.
MESSRS. EDITORS—I have only time to say that our Court House, together with all 
the Records of the Superior and Inferior Courts and Court of Ordinary, was 
destroyed yesterday by fire.  Only two books, I think, were saved, and they not 
of much value.  It is also alledged that some $11,000 deposited in the Clerk’s 
office a day or two before was likewise consumed—in a horn.  There is much 
mystery about the whole matter.  The general belief here is that it was the 
work of an incendiary, and suspicions are rife.  Only a few however, are 
suspected, and the citizens seem resolved to ferret out the rascals.  I am 
truly sorry for the occurrence, as it will in the eyes of many, be a stain upon 
the county.  Dooly is improving—we are getting a wealthy, industrious, and 
respectable population in some parts of the county, in place of the men who are 
fast taking refuge in the dark corners of Dale, Henry and other counties of 
Alabama.  We are pleased with your paper, and as it gives us much the latest 
news, its circulation must greatly increase in this county.                
Yours, 				D.


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