Frightful Runaway

A Smith Mill correspondent of the Macon Telegraph says:

Dr. Alfred White of this county met with a singular accident on the night of Nov. 12th, while coming from Flovilla.  The doctor had lately purchased a fine horse that he prized very highly, thinking his qualities all right.   When near the ferry of T. J. Goodman, he stopped and slipped the bridle from the horse´s head for him to drink.  The horse took fright and ran over the doctor, throwing his wife from the buggy, breaking one arm and three ribs and otherwise bruising her up.  She had not spoken when last heard from.  The horse, in his fright, ran headlong into the river, carrying the buggy and a new set of harness, none of which have been recovered

Middle Ga Argus – Week of November 20, 1888

Submitted by Don Bankston