The Daily Herald

Homicide.-The partisan celebration of the 4th has not been permitted to pass here this year without the loss of life. A quarrel and then a fight took place in town in the evening, between Martin Smith and Dickson Mahon, both residents of the town or county.- While they were thus engaged, a large pistol was procured, it is said, by Jackson, a brother of Dickson Mahon, with which Smith was shot in the loins, and almost immediately expired. Mahon attempted to escape, but was pursued and taken and lodged in jail. The verdict of the Jury of inquest was in substance that the deceased was shot, and presumptively, by the hand of Jackson Mahon.

The quarrel was as sudden as it was violent. All the parties were no doubt under the influence of liquor. as all of them we are told were recently from the dinner on the State House square, where the ardent had been liberally dispensed. What was the precise degree of their intoxication is not very material. Staggering drunkenness generally does less mischief than that which inflames the passions without paralizing the bodily energies. Their blood was doubtless much heated by the spirits they had been tempted to swallow; and Smith, now in his grave, is one more victim to that same curse of the country, which has sent hundreds of thousands before him.—Milledgeville Journal.