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SOME FACTS ABOUT THE OLD SUM
TER COUNTY COURT HOUSE.
When It Wao Built-Some of tho Judges
ana Some of the Famous Attorney*
Who Attended Its Court.
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■ The old court houeo, which stands
in the center of the city like a soli-
tary relic of the by gone, is soou to
be torn down.
A story of long years or useful-
ness clings around the old building.
For nearly half a century It ha.
stood a distinctive land mark in the
center of the great old fashioned
square.
The gilded hands on the little
clock face which rises abovo the
great square roof have long sluce
ceased to perform their circuits
around the dials. They now stand
immovable on tbe same hour as if
tbefr journey of lifebad been com
pleted and time itself had goue out
forever.
There was a lime when the court
house was the pride of all the sur
rounding country. When It was
built away back in the pnirny days
of the ante bellum period, exclama
tions of admiration went up all
over tbe great Southwestern circuit
for “the brail uew brick court bou.e
over in Sumter county."
But as tbe years have continued
to weave tbe worp and woof of a
nobler and higher destiny for the
sectiou of which the little square
brick house was tbe center, a change
lias developed.
Tbe march of the years has ac
complished many thiDgs uuthougbt
or and left undone many that
w ere hoped for. The hands which
made the bricks in tbe low, brown
walls have long sluce mingled with
their mother dust. The judges
who perslded with dignity held in
their bauds the scales of justice dur
ing its fir»t court, have passed to
where there are uo uncertainties
of testimony; the voices which rang
through its newly painted corldors
in eloquent appeal for justice or
learned expositions of the law have
become silent; and the client
Whether lie received justice or not,
i gone from its bar foreuer.
I'll, great open square, whicli
-t il to be tbe leading feature of
fery town, lias been invaded by
the rapid growth of Americus, aud
in one corner a magnificent hotel
. being erected, and another
iibstautial brick structure alroaly
tarted, and it will not be long be
fore the whole space will be covered
witli houses of a great city’s busi
ness.
There is much interesting history
connected with tlie old court house
Much more than can be recounted
here. .But in the brief summary
which follows may be found mauy
interesting recollections.
The bricks for the old house were
made by Mr. Jesse Hardy, uncle of
the present clerk of the superior
court for this county, J. H. Allen
The house was commenced in tho
same year, but not completed until
in tbe spring of tbe year following
III those days Americus was a
small country town of a few hun
dred inhabitants, with uo business
houses except those which faced
tbe open square.
Most of the business houses,
which consisted of a row of
woedeu buildings, extended from
the corner of Lamar and Lee streets
down to where SI Hawkins beef
market now stands, at which place
there was a large wooden building
UBed as a . hotel. There was
also another boarding' bouse, itself
a large frame wooden structure, at
the corner of Lee and Forsyth
streets, where the Bagloy Block
now stands.
All .around Americus was not
what might be considered in this
day a leading metropolis.
The flrBt courts ever held iu Sum
ter county were held under one of
the large oak trees which still stands
in the court house square. That
was awa^, back in the forties. The
first court house was a large ram
bling wooden structure, and in It
justice was dispensed for several
years until Amerlous commenced to
feel its importance aud the brick
oue was built.
The Judges who hi\ye presided
over the courts which have been
held iu tbe old building since the
erection, embrace a number of the
ablest jurists this section of the
State has produced.
The first one was Judge W. C.
Perkins, and ho was succeeded by
Judge Alexander A. Allen, of Bain-
bridge.
Following Judge Allen came
Judge R. H. Clarke, who was Its
first Judge after the war.
The next on the bench was Judge
1). A. Vason, of Dawson, who was
followed by Judge James W. Clark.
Hon. Charles F. Crisp, who was
at the time solicitor-general, suc
ceeded Judge Clark on the bench,
and he dispensed justice in the old
bnlldlng until the autumn of 1882,
when he resigned to serve his dis
trict in Congress.
Judge Ansley was appointed to
fill outtbe unexplredtennof Judge
Crisp, and on the first of January
<>r the next year he was succeded by
the present Incumbent, aud most
popular Hon. Allen Fort.
Tlie term of Judge Fort forms tbe
connecting link in the history
which covers the transmission from
the old court house tb the maguifi-
cent temple of Justice which is the
pride of the people of Sumter aud
the admiratiou of people from
abroad.
At the time the old house was
dedicated 10 the cause of justice
there were several names amoug
the members of the local bar which
acquired considerable emiuence.
Among the leaders of the profes
sion here at that time, might be
mentioned tbe names of Willis
Hawkins, H. K. McCay, G. M
Dudley aud E. R. Brown.
Among the younger members
were Col. 8. H. Hawkins, J. M. B,
Klug, who was killed in the war,
Judge Ansley, N. A. Smith, John
Carr Brown, Capt. J. L. Adderton
AdamR. Browu, Adam Robertson.
W. J. Patterson and others who
since then have made fortunes aud
acquired distinction.
During the long period iu wbloh
the Superior court of Sumter has
beeu held iu the building mauy Im
imrtant cases were disposed of, and
mauy distinguished attorneys have
conducted cases there. Probably
tlie most distinguished lawyer that
ever conducted a case in the 8upe
rior court here was Robert Toombs.
He was interested iu a great land
caee, aud was confronted by some
of the ablest legal talent in Georgia
Iu those early days when the su
preme court of Georgia bad uo fixed
abiding place as It now has, but
took the round of all the circuits iu
the State something after tbe style
of life insurance ageuts, that legal
head of tbe State fixed its abode iu
tbe Sumtor court house.
Tlie meeting of this body brought
to Americus distinguished lawyers
from all over Southern and Middle
Georgia. Among them came Alex
ander H. Stephens, Robert Toombs,
Seab. Jones, Howell Cobb aud
Charles Dougherty. Thos. R. R.
Cobb was at that time oue of the re
porters of tbe Supreme Court aud
attended the court here.
The judges were Warner, Nesbit
aud Starn.
There is much that might be said
about the old house aud the inci
dents whicli cliug around it, but it
caunot be said here. The chapter
of its usefulness is out, aud hence
forth it will be devoted to less dig
nified purposes, while the balances
which weighs tbe rights aud
wrongs of the people will be poisod
iu the new temple.
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A JUMPING ALIGAT0R.
Coffee county is a great county.
It is great In tbe wealth of the
soli and forest and greater in the
wonderful accurrences that make
their appearance there.
Yesterday Simon Wise, one of
the most truthful and matter
fact negroes in that great county
was iu tbe city aud he related the
story of an iuoident which came
under his observation only a few
days ago. Here it is just as he re
luted it:
I’se er stanin elder der mud
crick watchln fer ducks. I hed my
ole musket filled huff full er buck
shot.
I waited an' waited, an no duck
come y t. I got kinder reBslesB like
ap’ uz jess flxln ter bo gwlue when
I heerd er terrubble scramblln in de
trees an’fust thing I know’d down
come big red fox squlrrul. He run'
ned down 'bout ten foot frum de
groun an Btop an bark an bark.
Atter while I seed er big rusty
yallergater poke up he hed outer de
crick and Uasen.
De squlrrul keep barkln loud ez be
cud, an looktn de yallergater right
indeeye. De ’gaitor walled he eye
at de squlrrul an den he tuck down
he hed, an be back back twel he tall
stlok out on de dry groun. Den all
of a suddent tint gator fotch er
jump an went clar light er cross de
crick and cotch dat squlrrul In he
mout.
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