The Sumter watchman. (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, January 19, 1870, The Sumter Watchman Supplement, Image 5
FOILED Bf A WOMAN.
A Leaf from The Diary of a Detective
"Madame, it is my duty to arrest
you." '
"You dare not I"
The lips wore white- with passion
rather thiia fear, and the lady stood be
Sore me like a lioness at bay. Even
then I could not but note the splendid
beauty of this grand lady. Tali and
slender, eyes black and flashing-almost
lurid now, tho spectacle she presente i,
standing there io tho middle of the
apartment, was moro Iho appearance
of a queen than a hunted criminal.
"I must," I replied, "I do not doubt
your innoeonee. Looking into your face
it is strange that any ono could couple
it with guilt; but I am constrain-d to
do my duty, however inimical it may bo
to my feelings."
"Will you allow me to change my
dross ?" she said, in a tono almost pleas?
ant. The hard lines around her mouth
hud relaxed, and the passionate glow on
the face gave way to a pleasant
smile
"Certainly, I will wait for you
hore."
"I wish also to send a messenger
for a friend ; will you pormit him to
pass ?"
"Certainly."
"This was my first interview with
Eugenia Cornill. I had seen her hero
for months, the leader of our gayest and
most fashionable society. lu her
splendid mansion she dispensed with
tho most profuse and elegant hospital?
ity
A Spanish lady-a widow sh o had
represented herself, and had been u res?
ident hore almost n your. No ono ever
suspected hor of boing nullit than what
she seemed, until one day I was ordered
to arrest her as a murderess.
It was now alleged, said Mr. F., that
this young beauly was no other than
tho woman who had poisoned her hus?
band in Havana, and fled with all his
wealth. An immense reward was o Her?
od for hor apprehension, and thc cir?
cumstances that had come to our knowl?
edge poiutcd her out beyond all doubt
as the person we were in search of -
Yet tho person who recognized her tho
evening before at tho theatre advised
us to bo careful lest she should escape
us. I laughed at thc ?dca. ?Ur, I, and
myself wiro surely sufficient to arrest a
lady. We were old enough in tho ways
ol cunning to defeat any such attempt.
When the lady loft me, t stopped to thc
window, and said to Mr I who was wail?
ing at tito door.
"Tho lady desires to ?.end a messen?
ger for a friend, suffer him to pass."
Almost ut the same instant the door
of tho apartment tho lady had entered
opened, and a youth-apparently a mu?
latto boy-came out and passed hurried?
ly through the room into thu hall, and
from thence into thc street, lt was no
doubt, thc messenger, I thought, and I
pioked up a book und commenced read?
ing. Nearly an hour passed, and still
tho lady did not make her appearance,
nor did tho boy roturn. The friend she
had scut for must live nt some dis?
tance, I thought, or thc lady is unusu?
ally careful about her toilet, and so an?
other hour went by. At last I be?
came impatient, and kuuoked at thc
door.
"Madame, I can wait no longer."
Thero was no reply. I knocked re?
peatedly, and at last determined to force
* an cntcranoo. Strange fears harrasscd
me. I began to suspect I know not what.
It took but a moment to drive in thc
door, and, once in thc room, tho mys?
tery wns revealed. Tho robes of tho
lady lay upon tho floor, scattered ovor
tho room woro suits of boy's wearing ap
paroi, similar to that worn by thc mulatto
boy. Un the table was a cosmetic that
would stain tho skin to a light delicate
brown.
I was.foiled, for a surety; the lady
had escaped in thc disguise of thc mes?
senger. J should have detected the ruse ;
I felt humiliated, and determined to
redress my error. I knew she would
i.ut remain in thc city an instant longer
than she could getaway. I hurried to
her bankers, but found that she had
drawn the amount duo her au hour
before.
"Who presented thc chock ?" I asked
of the olerk.
?A mulatto boy. It was made payable I
to bear or." j
There was yet a chance. Thc French ,
steamer left within an hour. lt. was .
possible sho would seek that means of
escapo. I jumped into a cab and arriv?
ed thcro ton minutes before she. left
tho wharf-just in time to assisi an aged
decrepit gentleman into tho cabin.
Th oro was a few passengers ; none of
thora answered thc description of tho
person I sought. I stood on tho wharf
watching tho receding vessel until it
disappeared, f. was in tho act of turning
away, whoo a hack mau approached mo
with the remark :
"Mr. E.? did you see that old mau
OD board? Ho had a long white
beard, and hair that fell on his shoul?
ders?"
"Yes."
"Well there's somothing curious about
Mm."
"Why?"
"Why, ?ir, when he pot inlo my car?
riage he was a mulatto boy, and when
he got out he was an old man I"
I will not repeat tho expression I
used then--it was neither relined nor
Eolito-l'or I knew tho vossel would
o far out to sea beforo sh o could bo
overtaken. 1 was foiled by a wotunn.
Nor could I help rejoicing, nos* that
tho chuso was over, that sho had es?
caped.
Innocent or guilty, thcro was a charm
about hor none could resist. Tho
spell of her wondrous beauty affected
all who approached hor. It lingers in
my memory yet, and I could not havo
tho sin of hor blood upon my cou
KING'S MO UNTAIN
Military School.
YORK VILM?, S. C.
rpjIR First Session ortho School your of 1870,
JL will liouin on tlio 1ST OF FEBRUARY,
Tr.iiMH.- For School Expense?, .'. c., Tnflion,
Hook*, Stationery, Ac., Hoarding, Fuel, Lights
mu) Washing, $136 in curtotroy, ?er session ol'
fl vu months.
For circulars containing Tull particulars, apply
to COL. A. CO WA KU,
Principal and Proprietor.
Dec 15_\ Ot
31A Y ES Vr 1I.. LE
mum\ ACADEMY.
\ run IST OF OOTOUER NEXT, THU
undcrsignod will open a
O
High School, at Macsville,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Hoping, from his lon? experience tn Tcirchlng,
to givo cr.Uro satisfaction, mid to merit tho eon
tidenco lind pulrunugo of tho comtntinttv nt largo,
ho is DETERMINED timi this Keim?l ?hull ho of
(ho highiet grade, nnd tccond to nono in tho
country.
HOYS will bc prepared for College or Kusinc.s.
The Principal retors with pride und gm I Men?
tion to his former pupils, who havo taken high
positions in College or (Justness,
TUB FI lt ST SESSION begins Octohor 1st,
und olosus February 16th,
THU SECOND SESSION begins Fobrunry Kith,
und closes .Inno 'Kuli.
TKKMS: ?i'll? per Sossion for Hoard and
Tuition, invariably in nd vu nco.
French, Herman und Drawing extra,
Pupils will ho ch urged from tho first of Ibo
Session, mid will not ho tnkcn Inter thnn sir
week? from the opening.
OA FT. WILLIAM II. COIT.
REFEREES!
Rev. J. Leighton Wilson. I). I)., Ur. J. A.
Moyes, Mnyenv'llo, So, Cu.; (Jen, W. L. T.
Prince, Chcraw, S. C.: Kev J. ll. Muck, Chindes,
ton, S. C.; Kev. (1. W. Petrie, I). 1)., M-mlgom
cry, Alu ; Messrs. Uliuidiug & Richardson,
Sumter, S. C.
July 7_Ty
St. Joseph's Academy.
COX ll l! CT HU UV THU
S Isl ors of Our Lady of Mercy,
SUMTER, S. C.
rffis. TUB Colh'glnlo Exorcises, of this
VLTMra - ''"'''.sl Class Instituto, will be resumed
TTB&?II the 1st ?d' September. A prnni|it
^attendance is requested in urdir In
Iii ci 1 i tn I u thc progress ntul urra ugo
ment of tho classes. Tho new buildings uri;
spurious nml elegantly llnished, furnishing no
cotnirindtitlon*. for ono hundred bonrdors. Thu
oxtensivo grounds und pi:i/./;ts MC umple for open
nir exercise, mid young Indies ure thoroughly
inslructod in lingiIsh Mnlhctuiittcs, Fleuch, Ila.
linn, Music, llruiving, Painting, &v.,Ao. Loen timi
healthy, n'r pure, wa or good, um) linns reason
nblo. For purlieulur.:< apply lo tho Superioress itt
St. Joseph's Actidomy, Sumter, or lo the Supo
rioress ot* Ibo Sister- of Mercy, Chnrleston, who
will endeavor lo meet thu pressure oi'tbo times.
Nov. 10
W0FF0SD C??LEG?7
SPAHTANIttlltU C. II.,
SO, CA.
F A C iJI/FY:
REV. A. M. SKIPP, U; I).. President, an
Professor Menial and M urn I Sei nee.
DA VII) DUNCAN, A. M.. Professor Ancient
Languages nod Literature. '
KEV. WHITEFOORD SMITH, U. 1)., Professor
English Literature.
WARREN Uti PRE, A. M., Professor Natural
Science.
JAS. il. CARLISLE, A. M., Professor Mathe
mattes.
REV. A. II. LESTER, A. M., Professor History
nnd Kiblieul l.itornttiro.
Tho Proparutnry Se.li'?o), under tho immedinto
supervision of tho Faculty, Jim. W. SKIPP,
A. iL, Principal.
Divinity School-Rev. A. M. Slilpp, I>. D.
Rov. Whitefoord Smith, U. D. ; Rev. A. II
Lester, A. M.
Tho llrst Session of tho Sixteenth Cnllc?into
Year begins on tho firs! Monday in Oetobor,
l8tV.>, tho second Session begins on thc first Mon
day in January, 1870,
The course of studies ind I li o standard of
scholarship romain unchanged, but tho Faculty
now admit Irregular students or those who wi.-li
to pursue particular sludics ?inly.
Tho Schools also opun ut tlio sumo lime.
Tuition per yenr, in College (Masses, including
contingent fee, $?1 in Specie, or ils equivalent ii
Currency.
Tuition poryotr,In Proparntnrj School, ?ncluii
ing contingent fee, $-11 in currency.
Kills payable om: half in udviinoo. Hoard, pc
Month, from $10 io $10 in currency.
For further particulars address
A. M. SKIPP, President.
Mnv 10 _ Iv
W ilt ll
Especially designed lor thc use ol'thc Medical
Profession lind tim r'utnlly, pn.sesslng Kins?11
trinsie inedlelnnl properties which bolong lo an
Old nod Pure tiin.
Indispensable lo Fournie*. Cond ror Kidney
Complaints. A delicious Tonic Pul np in
cilios, containing ono dny.cn lu liles ouch, and
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A. M. HI NI NC Kit .1 CO..
Established l?'.'S, No. IA Heiner St., N. V
Iunc2:i l\
FIRE A?
I NSU "R
CHAS. H. MOISE
&TJMTE?
LIVERPOOL AND LONDON
AND GLOBE
Insurance Company.
Capitol, Surplus and Reserved Funds,
in G?hl, 817,700,000.
Seventeen Million (ind Seven Hundred
Thousand Dollars-IN GOLD.
Invested in thc United States, Two Mil-1
lions of Dollars. 82,000,000.
Risks in Sumter, taken nt Charleston
rates.
Residences in the Country Insur?
ed at LOW hates.
Losses paid promptly in Charles?
ton.
On the payment of Ten Years
premiums in CASH, a perpet?
ual policy will bc issued. |
? ?Til I SM I III Billi "ll I .MU II ? - ? i
ANCE.
, Insurance Agent,
?, S. G.
Brooklyn Mutual Life Insu?
rance Co., of New York,
Annual Income nearly Half a
Million of Dollars.
Character well known in Sum?
ter.
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Hartford.
Assets at Market value, Four Million
Tinco Mundt od Thousand
Dollars. 84,300,000.
Losses poterin Gush, Seven Huudrcd
und Sixtv^ight Thousand
Dollurs. " 8708,000.
This Company Iras never contested a
ulai m.
; .v
TERMS-II ALF CASH; HALF NOTE.
Nov 1?
CHAS. II. MOISE,
Insurance Agent,
Si:niter, S. (?.
.3 m
Piedmont and Arlington
LIFE mSURAMCE COMPANY.
THOSE TWO STAUNCH COMPANIES, TnE PIEDMONT
AND "ARLINGTON" HAYE COMBINED UNDER
THE ABOVE NAME, AND PRES IO NT, IN THE
SHORT TIME OF TWO YEARS, A
LIST OF OVER
23?gnt Thousand Ensurers and a Capital
and Assets of o ver ?no Skillion and
a Half of 32 lars,
ATTAINING TO A POSITION ND IMPORTANCE AMONG
Life Insurance Companies
never before reached in KO short a time.
Rights of Policy Holders in both thc "Piedmont" and ''Arlington"
will remain unchanged, and tho same as before.
New and advantageous features in the new
Company, will be allowed the old Insurers co-equal
with the new ones
There ure JJ rm ich Offices ineach State, where funds accruing aro
invested, and aol taken beyond State limits.
-o
Brandi Oi?ico in this State at Columbia,
LEA I'll ART, J IO MERSON AND RANSOM, Manarra.
H, H, MOSES, Agent.
Office nt J. T. SOLOMONS' Store.
RRFBRRNOKS:
Capt. A. A. Gilbert, Cnpt. E. W. Moise, Cnpt. Jno. S. Richardson
Oct 0
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WANDO FERTILIZER.
Manufactured at the Wando Works,
. IN CHARLESTON, S. C.
It is a liotno made article, and proven to bo tho best FERTILIZER now in
uso. ' _
CAN hu li,ul ut, all limos nttU hi liny ?lunntHy, by iijuitylng to tho Subscriber, In SUMTER.
ELISHA CARSON, Agent,
For Suinter County.
< )ci :!7 Jim
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WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL DEALER IN SUMTER, s. c.
UNDERWRITEHS, AGENCY, N. Y.
Boots, Shoes, Hats, SECURITY INSURANCE CO., N. Y
?nPl^UKXlSL? ?L&50., ENTERPRISE ?< ? Cinn.
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SOUTH HUN LIFE I N> UH AN (MC CO.
Sum 1er, SO. Ca. [Memphis und Al finita.
<)i i<. * ly Vti?iiU? lttiwsitiled, 812.000,000.
.THE
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WINNERS OF TD? ,.
PAItlS lix POSITION TIUDAI,
nuu HWB UNirottMiv UK KN AWARUKD
HIGHEST HONORS
At Industrial ?exhibition?lu Hil? Coun?
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80 that their work is tho ACKNOWLEDGED
STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE in Its dopart.
mont, respectfully nnnvuuce that with extended
und perfected facilities, and by the oxclusiro use
et receut improvements, thoy uro now producing
yet moro perfect organ* thnn ever beforo, in
great variety ns to stylo and price, adiptod to all
publie and private uses; for Drawing Rooms, Li?
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Church*?. Schools, .tc, in plum and elegant cases
all of which they aro enabled by their unequaled
facilities for oinnufuoiuro to sell al prices of in?
ferior work.
Therocont improvements iu tboso Organs have
so increased (heir usefulness and popularity that
they aro unqi ostiouubiy tho most desirable in?
strumenta obtuinublu for family uso, as woll as
Churches, Schools, Ac, whilo tho prices at which
they cnn be afforded ($00 to $1000 each) adapt
them to the menus and requirements of all elasoso
They aro equally adapted to secular and sacred,
muslo, nro ologunt ns furn i tu rc, occupy lit 1 lo
sp ice, ure not liable lo got out of order, (not re j
quiring tuning ouro where a pianoforte is tuned
twenty times), uro very durable, nnd easy to lon rn
to piny upon.
The M. A II. Orgnu Co. arc now soiling FOUR
OCTAVE ORGANS for $50 each; FIVE OC?
TAVE ORGANS. FIVE STOPS, with two sets
^f VIBRATORS for $125, aud othor styles ut
roporttounto rates.
For testimony to tho superiority of their Or?
gans, the .Mason A Hamlin Organ Co. respect?
fully refer to tho musical profession general Iv; a
majority of tho most prominent musicians in tho
country, - iib many of omiuonoo in Europe, Itav?
ing given public testimony that tho Mason A
Hamlin Organs oxeel all others.
A circular containing this testimony in full
will bo sent freo to any ono desiring it, also a do
scrptivo circular, containing full particulars res?
pecting these instruments, with correct drawings,
of the diff?rent styles and tho lowest prices,
which tiru ftxed and invnrinblo.
J. H. F. DOONE, Agent,
Sumter, S. C.
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VBBT BAD.
1 Story of a Governess in England.
A cor respond?n t of tho London Tele
graph vouohes for the following ts a
true ?torj?:
"A tow days ago I stood by the sido
of a dying girl, her age- was aove ut eon,
aud this is her history : She was tho
youngest ohild In a largo family. Her
mother was tho widow of a clerk in a
city bank, who died suddonly, loading
bis wife and children destitute. Her
sistors wont out ns governossos ; she re
unlined at home until increasing want
rondcrod it necessary for her, too, to
moko her own living. She found em?
ployment as a daily governess. Sho
walked oooh day four milos to and from
hor work, and received a few shillings
a week. All day long sho toiled, get?
ting no food until she reached homo in
thc evening. Who docs not remember
tho hot Summer of last year ? Through
tho glare ot that cloudless season this
poor ohild slnrvod on. Tho sun with?
crcd up (lower and shrub aud also with?
crcd tho bruin of tho daily govorucss.
"Day by duy ber strength melted
away;*at last sho broko down. She
could go no moro to tho daily lesson ;
it was. too lato now to give her food,
kindly smiles, or moro wages. Her cry
from morn to night, ns sho rocked to
and fro, pressing her bauds on her burn?
ing forehead, was, 'Mother, mother, my
bruin is gone' Ouo day sho was found
with ouo baud copying verses from thc
Hible, uud with tho other had gashed
herself with a knife. It was thon I first
heard of the caso. I advised her moth?
er to send her to the hospital for tho
insane. My advice was taken. Toften
weut to inquire after her. I fouud tho
place full ol'governesses, and all tho kind
ness could do seemed to bo dono for
them. She soon became a raving luna?
tic.
"Ono day T took two of hor sistors to
sec her. It was their first visit to tho
hospital, and they brought somo flowers
to give the patient. They were just in
time to see her dio. In hor coll, with
an angol smile on ber young face, lay
thc little governess. Sho had fought
the fight of lifo to its bitter end, and
all was over now j and with a look as
though sho blessed tho world which
killed her, her young spirit passed awuy
fo God.
"Th oro was a post mortem examina?
tion. Congestion of thc brain was thc
cause, of ber death-bard work, they
said, the cause of tho congestion. A
little food, n littlo kind thoughtfulness
on thc part of those who employed her
migh have saved ber life and thc broken
heart of her widowed mother.
The birds were singing gayly, thc sun
was shining brightly, as they laid her by
ber father's side in n quiet country
grave. There were few mourners, but
sonic poor childron and an old oripplc,
whom sho taught and to whom she
read thc Diblo on Sundays-her only
holidays-cunio some miles to seo tho
last of the little teacher.
"Sir, in telling this story, I do not
cast blame on any ono, but I hopo those
who road it, if they employ governesses,
will remember that human creatures are
not mere machines; and if they see
thom fagged and worn, will think of
the story of this poor child, whose soul
now rests in a kindler world than this."
TWO MIS A LS A DAY.
If any man or woman of forty-five
or over, not engaged in hard manual
labor, especially tho studious, sedentary
and indoor livers, would take but two
meals a'dny for ono month, tho second
not being latter than three in tho after*
noon, anti absolutely nothing afterwards,
except it might bo in some cases an or?
ange or lemon, or a cup of warm drink,
Buob as tea, bro mt, sugar water, or ico
cream, there would bo such a change for
tho better in thc way of souud sleep, a
fecliug, on waking of having reeled, an
nppctitc for breakfast, a buoyancy of
disposition during tho day, with a ge?
niality of tempo) and manner that few,
except thc animal and the glut ton, would
bc willing to go back to tho flesh pots
of Egypt.
"Den. Wudo," as he is frequently
called, one of thc, political lions of thc
west, lins taken but two meals a day for
twenty yours, and if all sedentary per?
sons, those who are in doors a greater
part of their timo would after tho agc of
forty-five, observe tho santo inflexible
rule, there can bc no doubt, other things
being equal, that long years of happy
exemption from thc ordinary ills of life
would bc thc result. Tho reason is that
thc stomach would have time to rest,
for recuperation, and would thus bc
able to perform its part moro thorough?
ly, making pmer blood, giving better
sleep and securing good appetite for
breakfast. Let any man try it for ton
days, taking tho second meal seven
hours after tho first, and abandon (bc
prncticc if bc oan.- Huff's Journal of'
Health.
-The problem of directing thc course
ol balloons at will has apparently boon
solved by A Kreuch man. His invention
consists of a powerful exhauster, by
winch a partial vacuin i.-. formed before
thc balloon, which is consequently dri?
ven forward. Tho emperor of the
French takes much interest in the idea,
ind bas contributed funds towards carry?
ing it out on a largo seale.