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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1885
Page
7
The Herald notes oddities such as a girl’s old pins and a carrier dog following a stage line, plus subterranean curiosities from 1250 feet deep including petrified wood and a resin lump. Reports cover local notices, a physician’s death, a restaurant opening, railroad iron mishaps, and school attendance gains over two years.
Early Thursday a rumor spread that Col Geo W Davenport of Webster county killed his wife and attempted suicide. Details from Webster respected circles say he acted in a frenzy, the wife was wounded but not fatally, and relatives in Preston went to assist. The piece also notes warm tributes to various Georgia legislators and mentions Jackson innocence claims in a separate crime story.
Col. Geo. WN Davenport died at his Preston area residence Saturday morning at 11 o clock from a self inflicted wound during a sudden fit of insanity. He was esteemed as a capable gentleman of the old Virginia regime and long served Webster county as Ordinary. Mrs Davenport remains critically ill with slim chances of recovery.
In the Superior Court on Thursday Laura Johnson was convicted of perjury and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. Anthony Williams faced a new trial for rape but the jury returned not guilty on the same day. Court adjourned until the third Monday in January with many civil cases carried over. The court let the bar attend Supreme Court sessions this week and the grand jury was excused after reading presentments. Several true bills were found yesterday.
Mr. B A Strange, treasurer of the Buena Vista and Ellaville Railroad, reports receipts and expenditures for its first year ending Sept. The road reached Ellaville with the first trains running to that point on February 7, 1885, and the line to Ellaville completed by February 20, 1887. A special payment associated with a new road is noted. The Farmora Restaurant will open on site 1 in connection with Wiggins.
Court hears state against R O Dieuis for bigamy with Cols Simmons and Hinton defending. Witnesses describe the marriages to Mrs Hitchcock and later to Mrs Dieuis. Dieuis admits two marriages and asserts a prior divorce. Trial ends in a mistrial after jury is unable to reach verdict.
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