' -Vol. I. ORANGEBURG, S. C, FRIDAY, tyfAY 30, 1879, SHERIDAN & SIMS, Propriotore. Subscription. One Year...81,50 Six Months..;.;,..v....,1.00 Ministers of the Gospel......,,?.,,...00 Advertisements. * First Instertlon......,.',.,,,..:,tt,...91.00 Each Subsequent Insertion..,.60 Liberal contracts made fur 3 month and over. 18 PREPAREDVEft DQ ALT. KIKDSOP r;~ ; ..;.,,:?,v f .* Job !Pi?iT3dttiiig "'?'?^anob?M'.thb^in. I execution of THJB'OflAPEL hill BUR GLARS. Hillsboro, jN. C., May 16.?The Chapel Hill burglars, Henry A. Da vis end Henry F. Andrews, white, and Lewis Carlton, colored, were bung* nere to-day, according to sen fence. At half.past 12 o'clock the criminals, seated in a vehicle and 'auarded'by the Orange Guards, in Kill force, left tbe jail and were con ducted to the gallows, located on the commons in the west end of the town. There was a crowd of at least ten thousand person present. At ten minutes past one the criminals as cended the scaffold, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Wheeler, and' also, by a sister of Andrews, who sat by his side till the black cap was drawn over his face. TJie prisoners were all composed. 'Each made a state ment, both verbally and in writing, denying the crime charged to them. All professed deep penitence. After their statement, the Rev. Mr. Dixon followed in a few Very elo quent remarks, interrupted, however, by the crashing of thunder and the noise of the heavy rain which prevail ed through nearly the whole scene. Then Mr. Wheeler offered up a fer vent prayer, and a hymn was sung,1 in,which Carlton joined heartily, the others not singing. Farewells were permitted and very many were passed through the lines for a last hand shake. At fifteen minutes past two the drop fell, Andrews swingiug clear, but the ropes of the other two were too long and their feet touched the ground, so they had to be lifted until the ropes were shortened. No neck was broken, and they died by strangulation. In twelve minutes Andrews was pro nounced dead, Carlton in fourteen minutes, and Davis in fifteen minutes. Their bodies were delivered to their friends and taken home fcr interment. HISTOBy OF THE CASE. The crime for which these men suf ferd the extreme penalty of the law, For several months previous, the vil lage and vicinity of Chapel Hill had been kept in a state of terror by at tempts at burglary, and worse still, by evident attempts at the violation of respectable females. Rooms had been entered at night and females seized, but alarm was given before the atrocious purpose was consum mated. But the terror was extreme, for no one felt safe ; for no one could fix suspicion upon any guilty party. Some time during the month of July, as before mentioned, the house of Mrs. Hendon, a highly respectable widow lady, living in the eastern part of the village, with her two daughters, was entered, soon after midnight, with a view of robbery. Mrr. H. had, a few days previous, received by ex press a package of money from Ala bama, where most of her property is invested. Doubtless it was a well known circumstance ; and hence the ? determination to gain possession of it. fjjne or more of the burglars', af ter making an entry of"the jiousc,*"pro ceeded to Mrs. h.'s room.' Sne was awake, and when they entered the room, she rushed to the window to endeavor to give an alarm. To si lence her she was struck on the head with an axe and severely cut ancl otherwise injured. One of her daugh ters and a servant gave the alarm. Dr. Mallet, who lives nearly opposite, promptly responded, and the miscre ants fled. Mrs. Hendon was found, bleeding and senseless, upon the floor, Most active efforts were at once put on foot to ferret out the crime. Two young negro men, living on the premises, were arrested, but dis charged, as there was not sufficient evidence to detain them; and for somo time the diabolical crime was wrapped in mystery, the excited peo ple, meanwhile, being lashed almost to frenzy. At length, one night ear ly in August, tho house of Rev. G. W. Purefoy, living a mile from the village, was entered with tho purpose to rob; but the purpose was frustra ted, but not before a glimpse of one of the parties was caught, sufficient to identify him, and next day, Albert Atwater, a young negro man, was ar rested, charged with the crime. Upon his examination, finding the proof conclusive against him, it appears that he made a proposition that if his life was secured to him, as State's evidence, he could unfold much of tho mystery which had onvoloped tho long scries of hidden crime. Upon this assurance ho told of tho Hendon outrage and implicated H. Alphonso Davis and Henry Andrews, two young white men of respectable pa rentage and connection, and Lewis Carlton, a colored man about thirty years of age, as his accomplices. They were all arrested and examined before a magistrate, and the evidence v? as deemed sufficient to justify their committal without bail to Orange County jail. They had .their trial before Judge Korr at the fa, 11 term of the court, the trial consuming four days of tho term. They wero well defended, and us ably prosecuted, and on Saturday even ing of the court tho jury took the case, and in a very few minutes returned with a verdict of guilty, as charged in tho bill of indictment. Mr. C. E. Parrish, of counsel for defence, mov ed in arrest of judgment, that after the jury had retired, it had come to his knowledge that ouo of the jury was an infidel. Tho judge overruled the motion, whereupon an appeal was taken to tho Supreme Court. The case was heard in Januar}', the judg ment of the court below was affirmed, and at the spring term of Orange Su perior Court they were sentenced to bo (banged on the 2d day of May. A respite was subsequently granted un til yesterday, when they Buffered the penalty of a violated law, as above set forth.?Charlotte Observer. 1 ? I I r' ' "','" Driven Mad Jby His Wife's Infldeliry. A terrible tragedy is reported from New York, as the outgrowth of a wife's affections being alienated from her husband, causing frequent quar rclls between the couple,'and finally the murder of one of their children and the death of the father by by his own crazy act. For a year or two past a Frenchman named Deffarge, who bad a fair business as a druggist, has been jealous of the attentions his wife received from other men, and frequently expostulated with her, but In vain. Recently their relations have been so ^unpleasant that he concluded to take his abode apart, leaving their two children with the mother. On the day of the crime he visited his former home, appearing quite cheer ful, and there was nothing unusual about his manner. He asked the ser vant to go up-stairs and bring down the little girl, nnd she complied. He seated himself in a chair and received the child in a most affectionate man ner, fondling and kissing her. He told the servant to return up stairs and bring down his little boy. She dressed the child and brought him down, when he was received by tho father with marks of affection. Once again Deffarge requested the servant to go up-stairs this time to tell his wife that he wanted very much to see her. His wife was in bed, and said she did not want to get up then, and, moreover, would not see him anyway. After about fifteen minutes the servant returned down stairs with this message, and wa9 horrified to find the father and his two chil dren stretched out on the floor of the kitchen, the children in convulsions and foaming at the mouth and Def farge dead. One of tho children was saved by means of an emetic, but the other little innocent died in great agony. Cotton. Says a correspondent of the Rich mond State: The South has just marketed the largest and cheapest cotton crop ever made in that sec tion, and just as Western grain i9 driving every other grain out of the markets of the wotitd, 80 will South ern cotton drive every other kind of cotton in time out of the same market, and in a little while longer we shall hear of Southern beet root sugar and in a littlo while longer of Sonthorn I wine shutting out from tho American markets all other kinds of sugar and wine. It is a mere question, all this, of hands to till the soil of that favor ed region and of skill to turn its bounties to acconnt. New York's "Business Men's So ciety for the Encouragement of M?d erau on," proposes tho following four pledges to its members, any or all of which they may take: First, to re form all intoxicating drinks for twelve months ; second, not to drink during business hours; third, not to ask any other person to drink, or, in other words, not to "treat;" and fourth, not to drink anything stronger than wine or beer. A Mysterious Spring. In the summer of 1838 tho Third j United States Artillery, commended by Colonel Gates, was encamped at tho foot of tho Missionary Ridge, en gaged in the removal of tho Cherokee Indians. Ono day the colonel order ed out a fatigue party to clean.tlm spring, a beautiful fountain at the foot of.the Itidgo. Shortly after, the sergeant reported to the headquarters that Iiis men woro all drunk. Says tho Colonef: "You shou'd not hare let the men drink whiskey." "I did not," replied the sergoant' "they drank nothing but tho water from the spring." Tho sergeant and the men were ordered into the guard-house a new detail sent' out, a lieutenant placed in command with orders to not let the men have access to any spirits. Not long after, the lieuten ant reported the men all drunk. The men were ordered to tho guard-house and the lieutenant.under arrest. An other party was ordered out, of which Colonel Gates himself took command. He took a seat on a stump so he could overlook tho whole ground, de termined there should be no getting drunk this time. Rut behold in a short time his men were all drunk. Ho was certain they had drank noth ing but water which they frequently did, getting down on their knees and driuking from the branch just below the spring. The Colonel was at bis wit's end. The men were ordered to the guard house, and he repaired to his tent to think. After weighing the matter pro and con he had to give it up, and repairing to the guard house he told tho men if they would show him how it was done he would re lease them, otherwise lie would punish them severely. To this they agreed and taking him to the spring, just below the spring in the branch they unearth ed a'five gallon jug partly filled with whiskey. The mouth of which was stopped with a cork, in which wa3 in serted a quill that reached to the bot tom, "jyben buried in the sand the top of tho cpiill was just above the s.urface of tbo water, and when they wanted to drink they stooped down, inserted the quill in their mouths and while apparently drinking pure water were drinking pure whiskey, and the Colonel sitting" en the stump in plain view none the wiser for it. ? ?I Ingenious Teacher, A Massachusetts teacher writes de scribing an experiment in tho school room which seems to be successful. Instead of facing bis pupils he has bis desk behind them, and thus over looks them to greaf; advantage. Tdie; naughty little ones not knowing when j his eye is on them, dnre not> whisper and play. "T/b,ey have," he says, "so frequently come to grief in at I tempting to calculate chances, that they have concluded to make a virtue of necessity, and give up play in the school-room as unprofitable, costing more than it comes to." Another decided advantage of this system is that it completely isolates classes re citing from tho rest of the school; the the recitation benches being in front of the teacher's desk, between him and the school, and the backs of the pupils toward each other, communi cation by look or signs is out of the question. Tho only special rule made is that pupils shall not look around. Next. Miss Bass, of Lebanon, has a tur key gobbler just a lit tle ahead of any thing in the turkey line in history or tradition. Last week the turkey was a gobler in all the pride of his gobbler hood ; now he is a turkey hen, and as a proof his change of sex laid three eggs on the day succeeding this mon strous mctamorphorsis. This tale will seem almost' incredible, but the owner has the eggs to show for them selves. How can such an unheard of, change bo accounted for? What do the scienists say ? And what's to be come of us when turkey gobblers turn against their own sex in this way and settle dowu into laying hens? Ob, it is aw/ul.?Abbeville Medium. It is the Boston Transcript which tells tliia story of a moon-eyed leper : It was sug gested to a '/heathen Chin e8o". the other day that the papers said that there was an opening for h is race in tho South. Ho an swered, "Papers tolls belly mucheo big stolee. Chinaman go where ho dam please. Washington boss say so. No likeo mocsin snake. No I likee al gatol." KILLED THEMSELVES. ?o? AMERICAN' CONGRESSMEN WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. The Chicago Tribune says: Rid dle's suicide is simply Ihe last of a list which begins with the foundation of the government. His is similar, ?in sonic respects, to that of James Blair, a Representative from South Carolina, in Urn JTwentyrflrst, Twen ty-second and 'iTwenty^^ird Congress es. During the first .session of the Twenty-third .Congress, .Blair amend ed the Washington Theatre qpe night, and, being displeased with tho actors, fired a loaded pistol at them, |qr which he was arrested arid fined $5. Physicians testified that ho was under tho influence of brandy and opium, taken to alleviate pain from chronic rheumatism. Three weeks afterward, April 1, 1834, ho blew out his brains with a pistol at his hoarding house, on Capital Hill. [ Similar in many points of Ihe case, was that of Felis G. McConuell, a Representative from Alabama, in tho Twenty-eighth and Twepty-ninth Congresses, who committed suicide in I a fit of delirium, in the St. .Charles Hotel, Washington, by stubbing him self in the abdomen and then cutting his throat, September 0,0, 184G. I Elijah Ilise, a Representative ,in tho Thirty-ninth nnd Fortieth Con gresses, committed suicide at Russoll ville, May 8, 1876. Hiso was the Democratic candidate for Lientenant Governor of Kentucky in 1836, but was defeated ; was Charge d'Affaires at Guatemala from March 81, 1848, to June 30, 1849 ; was Presidential Elector on the Buchanan and Breck enridge ticket in 1856, and served in Congress from December 3^ 1866, to March 3, 1869. John Whi'o is to he added to the list. He was born in 1805 ; received an academic education ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and prac ticed at Richmond, Ky.j was elected a Representative from Kentucky in the Twenty-fourth Congress, as a Whig, without opposition',, and was successfully re-elected to ttie Twenty* I fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twentyrseventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses with out opposition, serving from Decem ber 7, 1835, to March 3, 1845 ; was Speaker of the House during the Twenty-seventh Congress ; was Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Kentucky ; committed suicide at Rich mond, Kentucky, September 22, 1845. James G. Wilson, United States Senator from Now Jersey, from De cember 4, 1815, to 1821, wos severe ly injured in 1332, by imagining in a fit of delirium lhat hie- house was on fire and throwing himself from a second-story window. He had been editor of the True American ; clerk for many years of the State House of Representatives *, was appointed by President Monroe postmaster at Trenton, nnd at t|io f-iqio pf hip fit .of delirium was a member of the State House. William Ramsey, of Pennsylvania, is another Congressman wjio died by his own hand. Born in 1810 ho wns attached to the American Legation at London, under Minister ^teypn son; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty sixth Congress as a Van Buren pem ocrnt, serving from December 2, 1839, to October 7, 1840, and re elected to tho Twenty-seventh Con gress. A few weeks after he com mitted suicide at Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, by shooting himself iu the right cj'e. John Ewing, of Indiana, was found dead in his room at Vincenncs, Indi ana, in December, 1857. He had been Representative iu the Twenty third nnd Twenty-fifth Congresses, serving until 1839, and had served in tho State Senate. On his tablo was found the following epitaph, appa rently just written by himself: "Here lies a man who loved his friends, Iltfl God, his country and Yhicennca." A mournful and tragic suicide was that of Alfred P, While, of Ohio. White had been a member, of the Twenty-eighth Congress, and State Treasurer, appointed to. fill a vacan cy caused by tho removal of Treastv rer Gibbs, for fraud. In 1862, he was appointed by Secretary Chase, Collector Internal Revenue for tho Columbus district, was subsequently dotectcd in contraband cotton specu lations, was found to bo a defaulter, and committed suicide by taking poi son on tho grave of his two children, at Columbus, Ohio, August 1, 1865. James Henry L?ne, twico United States {Senator from Kansas, serving up to 18GG, committed suicide by shooting himself near Fort Leaven worth, at tiio end of his term of ofllce. James S. Johnson,, .Representative from Kentucky in tho Thirty-first Congress, committed suicide, while suffering under mental depression caused by ill-hcaltb, at Owensboro, Ky., Feb. 12, 1878. Tho Seven VViso.fVjpp. Most people have heard of the "Seven Wise Men of Greece," but veiy few know who they were or how they came to be.called so. Hero is ?the 9tory, and t|ie .moral of it is worth remembering, if their names are not; tho seven wise men of Greece are supposed to have lived in tho fifth century before Christ. 'Thejr names are Fittacus, Bias., Solon, Thaies, Chilon, Cleobulus and Per iander. The reason of their being called wise is given differently by various writers ; but the most approv ed accounts slate that as some Coans were fiohing, certain strangers from Melitus bought whatever should bo in the nets without seeing it. When the nets were brought in they were found to contain a golden -tripod which Helen, as she sailed from Troy (is supposed to have .thrown there. A dispute arose among the fishermen and the strangers as to whom it be longed, aud, as they.qould not Agree, .they .took it to vhu temple of Appolo and consulted the priestess as to what should be done with it. She said it must be given to the wisest man in Greece, and it was accordingly sent to Bias, he declared that Thales was wiser, and sent it to him; Thales sent it to another one, and so on, un til it had passed through the hands of all the men, distinguished after wards as the 'Seven Wise Men," and as each one claimed that the other was wiser than he, it was final ly sent to the temple of Appolo, where it long remained to teach the lesson that the wisest are the most distrustful of their wisdom. Whipping Post. While editors and .correspondents Iarc wasting words jn discussing the question of the expediency of bring ing back the whipping post for the benefit of law-breakers, a Justice of Aiken County lias solved it by prac tical work. W^jen offenders under twenty-one years of age are up be fore him for stealing, he investigates the case in tho presence of the rogues' parents, and if guilty explains the law ami punishment to them and gives them tjip .plipjco of tho law or the privileges of giving the son thjrr j ty-nine lashes in the usual legal way, or the way that was usual in days past. The parents almost invariably choose the latter mode of settlement and thrash the young scamp soundly. Tho result Qf this method is that whereas formerly this class of male factors monopolized tho Courts, now one is seldom arraigned, and petty stealing has almost entirely ceased |n that town nnd y\o\n\ty.-r=A*?cy Courier-Journal. Hold Him Back. "Caltjmorc Gazette says; Some thing should be done to compel Grant to slacken his movements. He 13 circumnavigating the globe too fast. He is no.w in China, and there is nothing between him and the California const, but the insignificant island of Japan. He is at least four months ahead of schedule time, and unless something is done, to chock him ho will be at liomp before the politicians who have, the "boom" in charge are ready for him. Boric is said to bo home sick, and it is. his uneasiness which is said to be hurry ing up Ulysses. The General might bo pocked in ice at Hong Kang to await the arrival of the swift-sailing man-of-war Richmond. If he gets on board the Richmond he will have time to pickle himself. A White Wild Turkey. One of our young friends, tho Nim rod of this section of the county, kill ed, a wild turkey gobbler some time since that was remarkable for the color of his plumage, being perfectly white, \v\tl.\ th,e exception of a black streak across tho outer edge of the tail. Ho weighed over twenty-seven pounds. The gentleman in question first saw this feathery rnonach sever al years ago, but has never been able to get a shot at him until during the past season, when he succeeded in bagging lu^m.?Capnden Journal. A Book Agent Explains. After Mr. Moody's meeting nt.Uie Maryland Institute, Baltimore, ta brief inquiry class was held, and many persons who remained were in structed in the great truths of relig ion. Among those present were sev eral young men whose object was other than that of seeking salvation, in fact, they waited for the hall to be cleared that they might lay the track ,fqr tjie telegraph boys' walking con test. This, however, was not known to the gentle Christian helpers, and one of them, a young lady decidedly prepossessing, approaching a group of the degenerate worldlings, singled out one of their number and asked him i( he was a Christian. "Well,''" said he, "I don't know that I am." 'The young lady was a trifle shock ed, but layipv.a .dainty hand upon the coat-sleeve qf the.unregeneratsd, she looked him in the face, and, SiXui\ug hcavep iike, enquired in a sweet .voice if -he wpuld not like to become one. He, of tho world world ly, hesitated a moment and replied : "It wouldn't do miss ; for me to be come a Christian would be ruin to my busiues." The angel (helper was surprised, and asked him .what business was his, so inconsistent .with religion. "I'm a book agent, and if I were to .become a Christian I should be like Othello, my occupation would be gone. You see miss, Ibis world is a very wicked place; full of deceipts and humbugs j and what i? more the i people kind a tackle on that sort of thing. Now, he,r.e'.s a .book that ain't j worth the paper it's printed on, let nlone the binding. If I came to you and told you the truth about that book you wouldn't buy it, would you. But if you were once to bear me dis course on the beauties of that work, and expatiate on the virtues and merits which it doesn't contain, you couldn't help buy it, no, not if yip went without caramels for a week. I'm sorry, miss, I'd like to, but you see I can't." An Enraged Female. "Household Departments" are very good adjuncts to a newspaper in their way, when.edited by a woman, but the male journalists who dabbles with the heaven-inspiring mysteries of cooking runs a frightful risk. The editor oi the Weekly Petaluma Pen vine started a column of that kind lecectly, and in a few days afterward a fierce looking female came into the office, carefully concealing Borno ob ject behind her apron. "Are you tho man that published that new and improved way to make currant cake?" He said he was. "You said to mix washing soda with the flour, und stir in a little corn meal and sweet oil to give it consis tency 1" "I?I?believe so." "And to add fifteen eggs and some molasses, qpd two ounces of gum arabic, and set in a cool place to bake?" " I believe that was it." "Well, take that then I" and the indignant housewife knocked him down with a weapon that (e\l ,!ike a sand club, but which he felt in (his heart must have been a half-baked hunk of cafte, constructed on (the Pcayinp paUprij. Hqrse Story. At Ward's Comers, D^la.jya.re Co., Iowa, Alfred Bush owns a French stallion. Since he purchased the animal, the latf er hss sbjpwn a inost vicious temper, and is unsafe and dangerous to manage. Mr. Bush has a son. abftut twq years old, for whom the horse has formed a g?eat attach ment, and tho two iVoUo together strangely. Tho boy will put his lit tle hands in the horse's mouth, pull out his tongue, seize his tail and swing with it, climb up his legs?in fact, do whatever his childish freaks prompt. For hours they thus play together, the horse apparently enjoying it as wefl as tho boy. Nextl A Colorado lawyer didn't admire the Judge beforo whom he was trying a case the other day, and referred to him as an "ass trying to munch hay." Tho court fined him five dol lars tor contempt, but remarked at the same time that he would remit the fine provided tho attorney would apologize. The lawyer went through bis pockets, and finding but half tho amount require^,'said; "Ahem 1 Pll take. 4o.wn Ihe bay, but will copper tho assi Here ia*fr?.5pt Judge." ..OLD HICKORY'S THANKS. -TilE ? arc as.tic letter he wrote a ,wi|ia firm. }T4jo r Boston .Transcript says Wit (. not? long after Geperal Jackson's re tirement ,.from. turned protested,, has been received ; and, as you have been imposed upon by the vile falsehoods that are'* daily circulated by the Wbigga, your ; kind charity is herewith reamed to ! you, that you may dispose* of it, in charity, to such of tho W biggs ^ that that may have been.employed in trading In stocks oud land, and in swindling the poor. Have tho good* * u28s lo hjform all your friends that ! . have joot drawn a draft jQr .Any sum, on any one, for twenty years, nor ' have (I any use for your kind charity, ' havjpg long since learned to llveiJ within my own means, -^"our chari ty is, therefore, returned to you in the same envelope you sent it, sup- , posing, from tho material and great care taken, it is your only^cha:ity rt*'i> pository, and the objects of charity in your city would b? much injured i i? n not returned to you. Your mo. obt. , servt., till death. , Andrew Jackson. Up to Snuff. An exchange says: "A genial ob server of public men in the United States is amused at the public dexte rity of those anxious to serve as^" Presidential candidates. If beW yeteran, as well as a genial oha^rverl he smiles as he compares these*breh tice hands with the master of politi cal adroitness, Martin Vom Buren. Looking .upon politics as a game, Mr. Van Buren friayed It' $?Kb/ fo?&'l> caste and sagacity, and with the : most good nature. No excitement quickened his moderation. Even the ' most biting of personal sarcasm fnij ed to ruflle a temper that seemed in? * capable of bel?g disturbed. Once whilo Mr. Van Buren, being ' the Vice-Presldent, was presiding over the Senate, Henry Clay attack ed him in a speech freighted with sarcasm and invective. Mr. Van Bnrea sat in the chair, w.it^ a jquiet smile upon fece..^ placidly as though he was listening ' to the complimentary remarks of a friend. 1 1 17 ^ The moment Mr..iCJuy resumed tjla * seat, a page handed him Mr. Van Burcn's snuff-box with the remark : "The Vice-president tenaV^hfe** compliments to you, sir." ? The Senate laughed at the cojoinessl '** of the rnan Wjho was *iup to snuff." The great orator, seeing that bis ef1 forts had been &j vain, shook his flfy5.1 ger goodrnatnre^ly at Ids ImperturW* bio opponent, aud taking alargp pinch of snuff, returned the box' W ' the hoy, saying: "Give my compliments to iho Vice-President, and say' that .f his snuff much better than his poiic-W tics." ' ' Wili, somebody bo kind enough to c?t a Qotph in tho door-facing? In tho midst of o,U thbi confusion.ond J while the nation is still in dfeadfy . peril, the New Yorfc Tribune 'his found time to acknowledge that at' least a few of the negroes who have' been provided, upon to join Ae in-*1 sano moyomen.; to Kansas have left comfortable homes to face starvation1.*J We cqntend, that every industrious negro who has loft his homo io tho Victim of Republican swindlers, and this fa.pt/ will bo maflo apparent in the end.