Newton County GaArchives News.....SOMEWHAT PERSONAL October 31, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise October 31, 1889
~Tax Collector A. H. S. Davis, was called to Henry County Superior Court the 
first of this week, and therefore could not fill his advertised appointments. 
However, he will be on hand and make the required visits in plenty of time for 
all to pay their taxes.

~Mr. Homer Barnes, of Eudora, Jasper County, has make 600 bushels of measured 
corn on 22 acres of upland corn and will make 100 bushels of peas on the same 
land. This is what we call good farming a fine corn and pea crop. Who can beat 
it on upland.

~Col. Middlebrook spent several days of this week again in Henry County. A good 
many folks are anxious to know what official position the Colonel is looking 
after. At present he is not an office seeker, but is trying to make an honest 
living for himself and family. As to the future we know not. He may run for 
congress and again he may not.

~”Is Livingston running the Constitution? It is hard to tell how these things 
are getting mixed.” Conyers Solid South. Not “hard” at all, for Livingston, 
Grady and the Constitution are doing all in their power to build up the waste 
places of our dear old State, to unite the people, to encourage the despondent, 
to help the weak and to bring peace and plenty, joy and happiness to every 
heart and home in Georgia. It would be well for more of us to engage in the 
same glorious cause.

~Mr. Wm. Simpson, charged with killing Mr. Isham Kelly, and sentenced to 10 
years in the penitentiary, became dissatisfied when he heard the Judge had over 
ruled his motion for a new trial, and left his quiet quarters in the county 
jail, last Thursday night, without telling the court officers good-bye. He 
secured a saw or two with which he cut the end from the bar of his cell, then 
sawed four iron bars from one of the windows, cut the lock from the iron cage 
and released a “cullud gentleman” charged with, “pinting a pistol” at another 
son of Ham, then used his blanket for a ladder and bid an affectionate farewell 
to the old hull that knew him once, but in all probability will not get on 
intimate terms with him again soon, for in our opinion William has gone a 
glimmering “like the baseless fabric of a summer’s dream, of a school boy’s 
thought of an hour. Or else he had outside assistance and fine tools and could 
have escaped from the best jail in the state, unless the same had been guarded 
or the jailer resided therein. No blame can or should be attached to the 
officers for the escape of Wm. Simpson, or the negro, Andrew Brady. Sheriff 
Anderson offers $100 for the arrest of Simpson.


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