Newton County GaArchives News.....WISE AND OTHERWISE June 15, 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: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 April 13, 2005, 2:45 pm The Georgia Enterprise June 15, 1883 ~Mrs. R. W. Bagby has a night blooming cerius which had eight blooms on it Friday night. ~Robert Bower, of Newnan, spent a portion of this week with his friends, relatives and sweethearts in this county. Bob was looking fat and fine. ~Miller Brooks, Jackson's active and popular Druggist, spent a portion of Sunday with friends and relatives here. He is a live man and watches the interest of Clark, Brooks & Co., with a zealous eye. ~It is fact worthy of note that Covington has more handsome middle-aged and old men than any city of its size in Georgia. As to the old ladies, they are all good looking. Now, who wonders at the multitude of beautiful and healthy Misses who make their home in this community. ~Davis Harvey takes delight in telling of the prosperity of Walton County farmers. A few Sundays ago he dined in that county and fell about as deep in love with the old fellow's daughter as he did with the fine dinner set before him. Davis is an industrious young man and popular wherever known. ~Mr. Iverson A. Jones, of Little Rock, Ark., so well and favorably known to the people of this section, will be with us in a few days. Himself and interesting family are now in Dalton visiting relatives. A warm welcome awaits him by friends here. Ive is one of Emory's most brilliant graduates and the fates have been kind to him since he made his home in the west. ~Rev. Mr. Smith, of Madison, delivered a lecture in the form of a sermon at the Methodist Church, Sunday night, that kept most of his congregation wide awake. He denounced the many evils of the day in unmeasured terms. He paid his respects to those members of the Church who enjoy a social glass and who are participants in the merry dance and who delight to pass a pleasant hour around the card table. From the manifestation exhibited around the holy altar the supposition is that the remarks of the minister went home to many hearts. ~Stephenson, the murderer of his aunt, paid the penalty of his crime on the gallows in Lawrenceville, Friday last. It is estimated that 8,000 people were present to witness the sickening scene, among them many respectable looking white women. Eight gentlemen from Covington were on hand, who report that the day was filled with disgusting sights. Stephenson lived the life of a mangy cur and met death like a foolish idiot and particuliars of his crime is too loathsome for publication. He made no confession, but expressed a belief that he would go to glory. We would not withhold from a dying murderer the benefit of clergy, or rob him of Christian hope in his last hour, but we must decline to believe that every whelp who swings for his bloody crime wings his way to that bright shore and finds the door of Heaven ajar to receive him. A few more public hangings will have the effect of making every fanatic and ignoramus in the country believe that the surest road to Paradise is by way of the gallows. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/wiseando2066nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb