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XLV. WINNSBORO, S C.^ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1888. NO. 14, " 7 ' - V - ; f . - GOD'S LIGHT OF COMFORT. KEY. T. DE WITT TALMAGE'S SUNDAY I SEKMOS AT THE TABERNACLE. Seven Stars, the Seven Seals and the IK Seven Thnnders?The Best Houses In WtF Any City Ought to Be tbe Churches? , Thunder Bolts as Modern Reformers. ? D ToVumiaf>1o SnndftT r?Lb UW JL>IUUJUJ>U J.t?UUIMUVV . v Bev. T. De Witt Tahnage, D. D., in his sermon, gave a running commentary on the twentieth chapter of Revelations I - concerning the chaining of the old L dragon. The sermon was on "Seven in the Bible," and, his text, Gen. v., 22: "God blessed the seventh day." Having . spoken of the many times the word "seven" occurs in the Bible, and* each event a wondrous work of God, se said l that the numeral seven was a favorite with the Divine mind outside as well as inside the Bible. "When God would make the most inP tdligent thing on earth, the human countenance," he said, "He fashions it i ^ with seven features?the two ears, the j ' hsA T>/\o4nn1c anil t.hfi month. I V ?WV OJCO) ouo tfVTV UVUMMW ~ Yea, our body only lasts seven years, and we gradually shed it for another body after seven years, and so on, for we are, as to our bodies, septennial animals. So f the numeral seven ranges through nature and through Revelation. It is the number of perfection, and so I us6 it while I k speak of the seven candlesticks, the seven . stars, the seven seals and the seven gL-^^banders. K "The seven golden candlesticks were m and. are the churches. Mark you, the E , -ftfaurehea never were, and never can be, candles. They are only candlesticks. * They are not the light, but they are to bold the light. A room m me nigai - might have in it 500 candlesticks, and yet you could not see your hand before your face. The only use of a candlestick, and the only use of a church, is to hold r up the light. You see it is a dark world, the night of sin, the night of trouble, the P night of superstition, the night of pesecution, the night of poverty, the night of sickness, the night of death; aye about fifty nights have interlocked their , shadows. "The whole race goes stumbling over prostrated hopes and fallen fortunes, and empty flour barrels, and desolated cradles, and death-beds. Oh, how much we have use for all the seven candlesticks, with lights blazing irom the top of each one of them! Light of pardon 1^ for all sin! Light of comfort for ali trouble! Light of encouragement for all despondency! Light of eternal richesfor all poverty! Light of rescue for all persecution! Light of reunion for ail the bereft! Light of Heaven for all the V- dying! And that light is Christ, who is . the Light that shail yet irradiate the H~ hemispheres, W "But mark you, when I say churches " are not candles, but candlesticks^I cast I~l>elieve~in Beautiful candlesticks. The candlesticks ^^^that God ordered for the ancient taber nacle were something exquisite. They V were a dream of beauty carved out of loveliness. They were made of hammered V gold, stood in a foot of gold and had six branches of gold blooming all along in HH six lillies of gold each, and lips of gold from which the candles lifted their holy fire. And the best houses in any city H| ought to be the churches?the best built, the best ventilated, the best swept, the 9| R best windowed and the best chandeB liered. Log cabins may do in neighborSB m hoods where most of the people live in ' log cabins, but let there be palatial churches for regions where many of the people live in palaces. Do not* have a H better place ior yourseu man lor your K Lord and King. Do not live in a parlor B . and put your Christ in a kitchen. fig Wf "These seven candlesticks of which I flf speak were not made out of pewter or fH By iron?they were golden candlesticks, and V gold is not only a valuable but a bright V metal. Have everything about your; HF church bright?ycur ushers with smiling faces, your music jubilant, your handfbaking cordial, your entire service atHHR^tractive. Many people feel that in ^P^fcirarcirtiiey must look dali in order to j wj be reverential, and many whose faces in gT other kinds of assemblage show all the1 different phases of emotion have in j church no mors expression than the L back wheel of a hearse. Brighten up and be responsive. If you feel like weeping if mn like smilimr smile: if K? ?.J o , ? ? joufeel indignant at aome wrong assailed |r w from the pulpit frown. Do not leave jour naturalness and resiliency home because it is Sunday morning. If, as officers of a church, you meet people at L the church door with a black look, and have the music black, and the minister P in black preach a black sermon, and V from invocation to benediction have the impression black, few will come, and Bk those who do come will wish they had WL/- not oome at alL Wr " "Tnrn now in your Bible to the seven stars," continued Dr. Talmage. "We are distinctly told that they are the min isters of religion. Some of them are Hg large stars, some of them small stars, P .some of thexo sweep a wide circuit and | jsome of them a small circuit, but so far as thev are genuine they get their light Jrom the great central sun around whom IflB they make revolution. Let each one Mr keep in his own orbit. The solar system would soon be wrecked if the star>v, in F stead of keeping their own orbit, should go to hunting down other star?. Ministers HL .. of religion should never clash. Bat in H ; -sfcll the centuries of the Christian church K ~ some of these stars have been hunting an Edward Irving or a Horace Bushseii Ifr ? or an Albeit Barnes.; and the stars that M -were in pursuit of the other stars lost F" their own orbit, and some of them could B^^^^iever again find it * * 1 ?i 1?. t mi. . i x or tne neresy uunters: jl ne west fetaoy error is to preach the H best way to scatter darknets Wight. There is in immensity B^or all the stars, and in the ftgragh for all the ministers, ^rarho give of righteously^ will get punishment fmr they are 'the wanAom is reserved the &s forever.' But 1 Hater, when I am Mhathfully to say Hkhaharmy, falw u Cm. and dviu^ou Hkid to Genera! Bjble with him lead their ftos put ns ^kattlefiolc jfciast wil Wg th? jgciil bi B^ver HL IKv < not stars, but comets, and they flash across the heavens a little while and make people stare, and throw down a Sew meteoric stones, and then go out of sight, if not out of existence. Oh, brethren in the ministry, let us remember that God calls ns stare, and our business is to shine and to keep our o\?/vsphere, and then when we get done trpiL/Ato light up the darkness of this world, we will wheel into higher spheres, and in us shall be fulfilled the promise:* 'They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.' "Ah! the ministers are not all Pecksniffs and canting hypocrites, as some would would have you think! Forgive me, if having in your presence at other times glorified the medical profession and the literary profession and the literary profession, I glorify my own. I have seen them in their homes and heard them in their pulpits, and a grander array of men never breathed, and the Bible figure is not strained when it calls them stars: and whole constellations of glorious ministers have already taken their places on high, where they shine even brighter than they shone on earth; Edward N. Kirk of the Congregational Chnrch, Stephen H. Tyng of the Episcopal Church, Matthew Simpson of the Methodist Church, John Dowling of the Batpist Church, Samuel K. Talmage of the Presbyterian Church, Dr. De Witt Talmage of the Reformed Church, John Chambers of the Independent Church; and there I stop, for it so happens that I have mentioned the seven stars of the seven churches. "The future of all of us is a sealed scroll," said the preacher, in speaking of the seven seals, "and I am glad that no one bat can open it. Do not let us join that class of Chistians in our day who are trying to break the seven seals of the future. They are trying to peep into things they have no business with. They try to foretell wiiat is going to come to them and wloat is going to come on the earth. They know nothing about it. Christ is the only one who can break the seal of the future. Bible prophecy was not written to help us to tell things in the future, but to have us, when the things actually do come to pass, compare them with prophecy and so learn God's fore-knowledge and the inspiration of the Scriptures. But you go into the study of the prophecies in order to find out what is going to happen a year from now, or twenty years from now. or one thousand years from now, and I will make a prophecy of my own, an! that is that you wxli have your brain addled if you do not positively get into a public or private insane asylum, where the greatest of expounders and preachers of i prophecy ended his life a few years since, a id where you may regale the visitors of the institution by incoherent mnmblngs over something Daniel or Kevelation about the leopard which means Greece and the bear which means Medo-Persia. "I would not give two cents to know how long I am going to live, or in what day of what year the world is going to be demolished. I would rather give a thousand dollars not to know. Suppose some one could break the next seal in the scroll of your personal history and should tell you that on the 4th of July, 1890, you were to die?the summer after tha-next?how much would you be good ior between this and that? It would from now until then be a prolonged funeral. You would be counting the months ana tne aays, ana your lamuy i and friends would count them, and next J 4th of July you would rub your hands j j together and whine: 'One year from to-, I day I am to go. Dear me! I wish no one had told me so long beforo. I wish that necromancer had not broken the seal of the future.' And meeting some undertaker you would say: *1 hope you will keep yourself free for an engagement July 4, 1890. That day you will be need- j ed at my house. To save time, you might as well take my measure now, live i feet eleven inches.' Iam glad that Christ dropped, a thick veil over the hour of our demise and the hour of the world's IT-Jlfln TIa Cftil?* 'OF t.hftfe flftV UCOlliUUUVU TVMVU MV w. J and hour kneweth no man; no, not the angels; but My Father only,' Keep your hands off the seven seals. Dr. Talmage then spoke of the seven thunders. "What is needed," he said, "is thunderbolts, and at least seven of them. There is the long line of fraudulent commercial establishments; every stone in the foundation, and every brick in the wall, and every nail in the rafter made out of dishonesty skeletons of poorly paid sewing girls' arms in every beam of that establishment; human nerves work into every figure of that embroidery; blood in the deep dye of that proffered upholstery; billions of dollars of accumulated fraud intrenched in massive storehouses and stock companies manipulated by unscrupulous men until the monopoly is defiant of all earth and all heaven. How shall tie evil be overcome/ isy treatises on the masim: Honesty is the best policy? Or by soft repetition of the golden role that we must 'Do to others as we would have them do to us'? No, it will not be done that way. "What is needed, and what will come, is seven thunders. There is drunkenness backed up by a capital mightier than in any other business. Intoxicating liquors enough in this country to float a navy. Good grain to the amount of $67,950,000 bushels annually destroyed to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries, gin ahops, rum palaces, liquor associations, our nation spending annually $740,000,000 for rum, resulting in Kanbmrktf?v r-antierism. filth. assassination, death, illimitable woe, What will stop them? High license? No. Prohibition laws? No. Churches? No. Moral suasion? No. Thunderbolts will do it; nothing else will. Seven thunders! "Yonder are intrenched infidelity and atheism, with their magazines of literature scoffing at our Christianity; their Hoe piiatiog presses busy day and night. There are their blaspheming apostles, their dranken Tom L'umes and libertine Voltaires of the present, as well as the past, reinforced by all the powers of darkness from highest demon to lowest imp. What will extirpate those monsters of infidelity and atheism? John Brown's -1- - -A. ?\T71 1 shorter catecmsm aoout vr no m?uc yon?' or Westminister catechism about 'What is the chief eDd of man?' No, thunderbolts! The seven thunders!" Fratricide at Hodges. Greenville, October 20.?News of the killing of John Glymph by his brother Mac Glymph, about three miles trom Hodges, in Abbeville county, reached this city to-day. The two meu t:u ; <1 mrreltfd, mid Juhu lud been forb:-.kku to come to his brother's house. He went, however, and as the two men " * * * - i : were taiKmg peaceauiy juau wem. mu. i the yard and was followed by his brother. > who presented a pistol and said he 1 thought they had bettor settle the matter I Mac got his gun from the house and sho' i his brother in the head, killing him i The coroner's jury returned a verdict ii , accordance with these facts.?Special t< fc The Sunday Budget. [ bkadfield's female regulator wil I core all irregularities or derangement [peculiar to women. Those suffering Should use it Sold by all druggist. BECAUSE IT WAS LEAP YEAR. A Wealthy Young Woman Pops the Question to a Poor Young 3Ian. An Ansonia lawyer was sitting on the steps of the Central House, in Newtown, Conn., on Saturday, when a pretty young iaay passea out 01 me noiei anu up uie street. "There goes a remarkably pretty girl," exclaimed a gentleman conversing with him, "and there's quite a little romance connected with her, too." The legal gentleman was all attention at once as his friend continued: "She belongs down in Baltimore and her father is a wealthy liquor distiller of that city. She's got a cool $200,000 in her own right and a decisiveness about her that means business. She located at the George Hotel, Black Rock, this summer, coming there all alone. A young man sitting at her table attracted her attention. She spoke to him one evening after he had met her but three limes and she broke him all up by asking him if he was married. Pie replied that he was too poorly situated for marriage just then; he hadn't much money and had to support his father. 'Well, I've plenty of money," she said; 'why don't you marry me?' The young man embraced f>oth the proposition and the young . lady. She returned to her home in Balli wore, tuiu jult iaujci auuui> iu? tuvuiustance, got his consent and returned to Black Rock with her father, was married in Bridgeport, and she and her husband are passing the remainder of the season in Newtown as happy as turtle doves." The lawyer has been thinking ever since what chances there are for young men in this country.?Ansonia Sentinel/ Mrs. lilaine Denies a Scandalous Story. Mrs. James G. Blain, Jr., who is in New York with her baby and maid, desires the Associated Press to state in her behalf that there ia no existing cause for the telegraphed statements that she has seaprated from her husband. Mrs. Blaine authorizes a positive danial of the statement that she has begun a suit for separation, or that any such suit is contemplated. The lady expresses herself mortified that a visit to her mother, Mrs. Nevins, who resides at the New York Hotel, shonld have beeu construed as the beginning of the alleged separation between herself and her husband. Mrs. Blaine left her husband in good health and spirits, and has the same cordial relations to-day with James G. Blaine, Sr., ! she has always had. Mr. Blaine feels ! aggrieved that a few trivial circumstances should have been exaggerated into a j story tondirig to show that a separation ; was ever contemplated. Mrs. Cleveland to the Kescue. While Mrs. Cleveland aau Col. John RL Wilson, Commissioner of Public Build ings, were inspecting the alterations that are being made in the upper floors of the White House, a day or two since, they came upon a room where a new floor was being put in. They had nothing but the joists to walk upon, and as Mrs. Cleveland, holding the Colonel's guiding hand, stepped across from joist to joist her foot slipped. In trying to save Mrs. Cleveland from falling, the gallant Colonel missed his own footing and stumbled from the joists on to the lath and plaster. This frail support gave way and he dropped through the hole until the parallel joists caught him by the arms and held him suspended. There were several workmen on hand, but before any of them could reach the spot where the Colonel fell he had raised himself up and was again above board. Quick as bis action was, however, it was not so quick but tbat Mrs. Cleveland, with the promptness and energy for which she is distinguished, had time to step across to the sunken Colonel, and, catching him by tbe arm, helped him to the surface again. Those who were present say Mrs. Cleveland did not scream, as most women would have done, but was as prompt and coolheaded :i3 if tbe accident and rescue had been all carefully rehearsed. FKOt>I A DRIUGI8T. Palatka, Fla., May 31, 1887. The demand for Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) is such that I now bny in half gross lots, and I unhesitatingly say that my customers are well pleased. B. Kersting. TEN YEAK* WITH RHEUMATISM. Newton, N. C., June 25, 1887. Gentlemen: I am pleasured in saying I have been a great sufferer of rheumatism for 10 years, and I have exhausted almost every known remedy without relief. I was told to try B. B. B. which I did after long procrastination, and with the experience of three bottles, I am oi?v?/-wet n Vioa.lf.hv man. I take it as ? part of my duty to make known your wonderful Blood Purifier to suffering humanity, and respectfully ask you to mail me one of your book's of wonders. Respectfully, W. I. Morehead. mt ? The Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade. A number of the survivors of the Battalion of Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade have concluded to hold a reunion in Columbia during Fair Week. It is therefore requested that all surviving soldiers of that Battalion meet in the Richland Court House on Wednesday, the 14th November, at 10 o'clock A. M. It is the desire of those who are arranging for this reunion to perfect a permanent, arcanization of the survivors of the Battalion, and it is hoped, therefore, that there will be a full attendance. A telegram lias been received from Capt. W. S. Danlop, saying that lie will surely be present at the meeting during Fair week. A Bloody Affray. Mr. James Cook, who lives near Jacksonhatu, Lancaster county, was seriously cut by Mr. lieuce Steele on Sunday night last. The particulars, as we hear them, are about as follows: James Cook, Recce Steele, J. M. McMurray and Barber Montgomery were ieturniug from North Carolina in a hack, and were wilhiu about a mile of home when Cook and Montgomery got into a difficulty. MeMurray interfered in behalf of peace, when Cook turned on him. Steele, who was driving me naca, b?gged them to stop fussing and get back into the hack, when Cook grabbed him jerked him out over the wheel of the vehi cle aud jumped on him. It was then the cutting occurred. Mr. Cook is cut in six places anc several of the wounds are pro nounced serious.?Ledger. K1A&08 AM) OK?A\8. One thousand Pianos and Organs to close out by October 1. All Organs and Pianos sold at cash price, payable November 1?no interest?delivered to jour nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. Organs from $24 up; Pianos from ?150 up. All instruments warranted. Send ) for circulars. Buy now and have the use of the instrument. Remember we ' inofrnm^ni J pay irtJIgUb WULL tl?JO u uuu imovj. ' don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than L New York. b N. W. TRUMP, j * Columbia, S. C. * It is said that an examination of old furniture hills shows that the prices for "colonial" tables and chairs are no higher than 1 those for which they were originally s bought, which shows that furniture is nol 2 so good an investment as china?if one con sider the good of posterity * HOW "SPIRITS" WORKs ,, A REMARKABLE EXPOSURE OF MYSTERIOUS P|S|?EK DINGS. What a New York Atulience Saw?The Writing on the Slate and the Process of Production?It's K;isy Enough 'When You Know How It is Done. l~{Fvom the New York Sun.) An audience of 2,000 persons in the Academy of Music last night saw Dr. C. M. Richmond, the dentist, pnU the faDgs of spiritualism with his little tricks and with the exhibition of Margaret Fox, the once-famous producer of spirit rappinge. The audience was an enthusiastic one wl^, the Doctor did his tricks, and a ensgusted one when he showed how simply he had done them. All the pleasure of being fooled vanished when the method of the . fooling was exposed. The Doctor, looking particularly jovial in a dress suit, came upon the stage, which contained no furniture but a small table, with an ordinary looking two fold slate in his hand. . He laid the slate on the table and advancing to the footlights remarked in a casual sort of a way that he saw so many familiar faces in the audience that a regular introduction seemed unnecessary, and perhaps it was juBt as well that he had forgotten at his office a 1 lifctle speech with which he had proposed to open the entertainment. The audience thought that was pretty bright, and applauded. He smiled and remarked that maybe the spirits would say something appropriate lor him. He picked up the slate which he had previously held open so that all could see that it was blank, aad opening it there was seen on it writing which he read. It was a brief expression of a desire that fraud and falsehood be exposed. A committee of sixteen men from the audience was then called to the stage. The Doctor tore a piece of paper into slips, which he laid upon the table, and asked the committee while he retired to select the name of some recently deceased person of note, and to delegate one of their number to write the name upon one slip of paper. The committee had a long discussion among themselves, while the audience cailed out encouraging remarks, such as "Play ball!" "Write Harrison; he's as dead as any one!" "Time!" and "Take yonr base!" When the Doctor returned with an ordinary looking high hat in his hand, he asked some one to throw into it all the slips of paper, and he picked out one without locking at it and enclosed it in an envelope, which he laid out in ; plain view on the table. Then an ordi- \ nary slate was examined by the com mittee, and passed around among the j audience. The envelope containing the slip of paper was opened by one of the committee and the paper placed in a little round bra?s box which the Doctor held out in his hand. Then he announced that upon the slate he would produce a communication signed by the person whose name had been written upon the slip of paper, and furthermore, would produce from the box the identical slip of paper with the name the name written upon it by J direction of the committee. While a , small table was -being brought in Dr. Richmond said: "I am not attacking the theory of spiritualism which is a very pretty one indeed, as any one who has ever read ' Swendenborg knows, but the thing I at teck is tae iraud. ana numDug to at is called Spiritualism." 1 Somebody misunderstood this, and he said afterward: "I am told that some 1 in the audience think I am a Spiritualist. There is no such thing as actual spiritualism. (Applause.) Anything done contrary to natural law is a miracle, but there hasn't been such a thing as a miracle for at least 1,800 years." The table being set down in the centre, the Doctor called for a piece of chalk, which, being passed around among the committee, he placed under the slate. Then he stepped back and said: "The name on the paper was Frederick William. Is tiiat riglit?" It was, and tLe committee was astounded. Lifting the slate he showed it covered with writing, which he read: "I would not come back to live in a world where one smile must balance a thousand tears, for in this world of bliss there is nought but eternal happiness. "Frederick William." The Doctor opened the brass box, and handed to the committee the slip of paper upon which the name was written. "Now if anybody asks how I know that the spirits didn't, after all," he said "write that communication, I'll say that I know they didn't because I wrote it myself at my office this afternoon. This is a trick, which up to this time, no medium in this country has been able to do. Any spiritualist who has paid a dollar to "get in here will find out how to make a thous md when I show how tho thing is done." It was simple enough. The hat had a false piece, which he slipped in over the original slips of paper, dropping in a lot of blank slips from his hand at the same time. It was one of these blank slips that he took from the hat and that was put in the box. A confederate behind the scenes meantime took the original slips from the hat and obtained that with the name upon it. The box was a double one, so cleverly made that tho deception defied detection to one who did not know its trick. The slip with the name in it was put in one compartment and the committee put the other slip in the other compartment. This accounted for the slip of paper, and the audience looked cheap, but cried hopefully for the explanation of the slate writing. That was simpler yet. The slate, which had been lying in plain view all the time, was picked up, and by a careless twist of the wrist the doctor shook out the side on which the writing was. This was a thin bit of cardboard with a slate surface, which fitted exactly into the frame on one side of the slate and was held tight by a clever invisible arrangement, so that the addition of the piece to the slate previously passed abont the audience was not noticeable to the eye3 of the committee. The prepared piece, with the writing on it, was v*. +lio toWo a thaaa r>f UrUUgllli m niWA vuu vw.'w, ? x newspaper pasted over the back, making it indistinguishable from the reiJ newspaper that also lay on the table. While placing the chalk under the slate the Doctor fitted the loose piece with the slate frame, and that was all there was about it. The audience was too chagrined at the way it had been taken in to applaud very heartily at this, and their taste was spoiled for the tricks that followed. Dr. Richmond then produced "Washt ington Irving Bishop's bank note trick," nnmW r?f ft note bv means IllOXLiAlg v of secret signs from a confederate, and produced some spirit pictures a la Diss Debar. "There is no such thing as spirit manifestations," said the Doctor, "'and any one who claims they can do things like this ought to be in the penitentiary." "You ought to be there, too!" called out an angry Spiritualist. "Oh, 110, I'm turning State's evidence; I'm all right!" said the Doctor, and the audience wanted to put the Spiritualist out. On behalf of a Philadelphia man who, he said, was in the audience, the Doctor offered $5,000 to any one who could produce a mark an inch long on a slate by any power, except a natural one. The Margaret Fox part of the show j narrowly escaped being ridiculous owiug to the stage fright or other affection which made her unable to speak her piece, and prevented her from readiDg it except in the most halting fashion. What she fioally read was a few sentences expwjssive-of her regret at having been so greatly instrumental in perpetuating the fraud of Spiritualism upon a too confiding public. She solemnly asserted that now she was telling the wJiole trutn, ana asKea uoa to iorgive her as she hoped He would forgive those who believed1 in "this silly, nonsensical^ wicked thing." Doctors from the audience went npon the stage and felt the woman's foot as she made the motions by which she used to do the rapping. Then she stood in her stocking feet on a little pine platform six inches from the floor, and without the slightest perceptible movement of the person made raps audible all over the theatre. She went down into the audience, ana there, resting her foot on another person's, she showed how by the motion of the great toe the sound was produced.' Newspaper ">'ig]it Ovr!s." There is always the proportion of night owls, men who work when others sleep. They have an air about them which is unmistakable, for while they look tired from the toil they have just left, it is a am erent Kina ox iangue iroin mat wmca one notices among those who are "up late." Mangr, in fact the majority, of these are f^om the newspaper offices, and they caii always be known from the shop talk they indulge in. Curiously enough newspaper men do not talk very mucli about their business in the day time, not more, at least, than does any other class of men. But at night it would, seem as though their brains are so full of- the subjects they have just left that their chat becomes of the shop, shoppy style. It is as though surgeons had come from the scene of some operation and were constrained to speak of the flap and the drainage. Their talk is "caviare to the central.'' oOnveviner as it does an odd impression of inside information among the speakers. Then, too, it is mostly in the future; they constantly talk of that which others do net know yet. Theiz discussion, is of what the papers will speak to-morrow morning; the news of the afternoon has already become ancient history-to them. That they deal in news is recognized practically by others, for nothing is more common than to have some gentle-nu n apply for information.? New York Press. One Negro Murders Another. Elt/enton, Oct. 2.1?Nelson Enbanks, colored, was shot and killed iu his house on Monday eight by some unknown person. The murder occurred at the Bush place, in Barnwell county Eubanks had " 1 * ? j J? i just nmsneu supper situ whs uriuKiug water at tbe bucket Dear the door when he was shot by ft person outside in the dark. The gun was loaded with si tigs, and the whole charge entered bis breast and shoulder, killing him instantly. Suspicion fastens upon Joe Mixson, a young colored preacher and school teacher, as the rnurderer, as lie was seen near the house with a guu a ?hort time before the killing. It appears that some weeks ago Dave Mixson, father of the supposed murderer, had procured the arrest and imprisonment of Eu banks on some pretext, but he was bailed by Mr. Alex. Bush and another gentleman. Soon after his return home he declared that he intended to tell who it was burned a certain barn a year or two ago. His statement implicated Dave Mixson and some of his family, but not the one who is supposed to have done the killing. A warrant is out for the arrest of Joe Mixson. Broke His Leg Pulling Off His Boot. Avery peculiar accident befell George W. Susong, of the Georgia Construction Company, at Asheville, N. C., on Sunday night. While undressing in his room preparatory to going to bed he broke his right leg. The accident happened in a most peculiar manner. Mr. Susong had already removed one of his boots, and finding the other tight, he put the foot encased by the contrary boot behind his other leg, and in straining in that position to pull the boot off, the thigh bone of his right leg was fractured. Immediate medical altention was given the broken limb, but Mr. Susong could not l>e moved, and was left at A?he ville. He had just recovered from a long attack of typhoid fever, and Lad frequently complained of rheumatism in the thigh where the fracture occurred, aud it it. thought likely the bone there was diseased. Killed on the Railroad. On Monday evening, as the Laurens train was coming up to Jalap pa, Newberry county, it ran over two little negroes. One was killed. The other?larger one?lmd presence of mind to lie down in the centre of the track, and was not hurt. The mother of the children, who was picking cotton near by, missed them, and ran when she heard the train and tried to stop it, but she was too late. She and the train reached the children at the same lime. The child killed was a boy 4 years old. The eugine struck him ou the back of his head aud '"ie el--1111 T( llmmdlt little fellow was lying down and raised his head just as the engine reached hi;n. The engineer did his best to stop the lrain. The accident occurred juyt below Vance's Crossing.? Prosperity Reporter. The Post Office Site Te?ta Concluded. The work of examination, boring and testing, by pressure, the several strata un(iprlvinfr the soil on the site of the new ?V?o ? post office has been completed. The work has been clone under the direction of Government Architect Devereux, who, although interviewed on the subject, declined to give tue results of the tests in advance of his official report to the supervising architect at Washington.?News and Courier. The street car of the future may lie run atter more scientific principles; but the street car of the passed is run after more eagerly now. We seem to have three kinds of people ?those who are moving forward, those I who are standing still, and those who are going to start in some direction soon. Make sure what suits you best before you adopt the fashion. Never adopt a fashion anyhow?adapt it. t 't mt_ - ATI T 1 * O fn tlwi J. liC glCttL UVJCiVblVU JL un.v, WW tuv, house," said the new tenant, "is that I can always hear vague murmurings caused by the people talking next door." "Well, ma'am," said the agent, "we can have the walls inade thicker"for you." "Thicker!", she exclaimed;- "why, then I couldn't hear a tbinj^*" i m A PECULIAR MURDER CASE. THE VERDICT IN THE SE.\N CASE NOT A SURPRISE. Senn and Miss Helena Roland Fonnd Guilty, but "Strongly Recommended to Mercy'.'?A History of the Crime for Which They Were Tried. (Special to the News and Courier.) Spabtanbubg, October 22.?Tlie verdict in the Senn case was not a surprise to our people yesterday morning, nor would they have been surprised if they had been acquitted. The evidence was all circumstantial, and it was . bc evenly balanced that it was a most difficult case to decide. One of the peculiarities of the trial was that Helena Boland was out i on a straw bond almost, and that she did not escape from the county, but awaited trial, and on that trial was convicted. The verdict itself was unusual, and it is Jthe first instance in the history of the county, or perhaps in the State, when a verdict bore the expression "strongly recommended to mercy." this snows that the jary were not only divided, but that doubts prevailed as to the chain of evidence being complete. If their minds had not been tinged with doubt the verdict would have teen "guilty," without any reservation. Our people hope that the county is now rid of this case, which Koe lwin nn -?s\f flion f.wn and they would be pleased if the Governor w,onld exercise his clemency .and conHogte the sentences. Sgsn is a stalwart, healthy man, with large frame and great physical strength. He looks as if he was.about 33 years old. He has marked features that indicate a domineering spirit and a strong will. While he does net look like a typical villain and murderer, there is an absolute want of gentleness and kindness in his appearance. During the trial he manifested great interest in all the details of the case, but never, at any time, was there any breaking down or evidence of guilt. His mother was present during the trial and showed great interest ia every detail. Helena By land is a frail, delicate woman, apparently about 35 years old, thin in flesh, and with a nose that would attract attention any where. It is a combination of the pug and club-end, with magnified proportions of each. She is evidently fascinated with Senn. While in jail she manifested the greatest solicitade about his welfare. At one time when he was quite sick and medicine bad to be administered during the night, she called to the watcher when tne hour would strike and reminded him that it was time to give Mr. fcSenn's medicine. She never failed and seemed to be sleepless. In various other ways she manifested the tenderest regard for him. The testimony was very long and tedious and much of it irrelevant. The main links in ike chain are about as follows: Senn and Uosella Stevens had been married about six years. Senn * " ' "? ?a -i. u I was tULKina to ner ana at times gave ucx brutal treatment. For a time they were separated. She was brought back, not by him, but by some of his people, and placed in a little cabin on his mother's land. Their only child was taken care of for a time by Helena Boland. Senn was very familiar with Helena and their relations were such as to show that they exceeded all the bounds of propriety. Owing to certain abusive treatment, Mrs. Senn swore out a peace warrant against her husband. About ten days alter that he concluded to come to Spartanburg county and rent a piece of land where his wife might have better health. JtLe nitcnea up a iwo-norse wagon, piaceu an old paralytic aunt in it, who has died since then, and brought his wile and Helena Boland alor > The team was a unique one. It co wisted of a male ana an old club-footed mare that would balk any and everywhere. With this team and party Senn started on his mission. They camped the first night near Clinton, his delicate, sickly wife sleeping on the ground, or in the wagon. Sunday morning they left Cliton and set out towards the Jtinoree, the objective point seeming to be John Sean's in this county. At midday, Sunday, they stopped several hours. They started again, and instead of going to John Senn'sthey camped on the roadside about a mile and a half from Senn's house. Senn stated that his wife had to walk, as his team was weak and balky; that she had to help push the wagon when the old mare balked; that sue ate aooai a pecs 01 green peapuuu uu the road. Going into camp they had their supper, after which ahe was taken sick and died about midnight. There were several families liviDg a few minutes' walk from where they were camped, but no one was sent for until the woman was dead. Senn had no medicine, except laudanum, for this sickly wife. There was no light by which they might mioister to her wants. The body bore marks of violence. On the left side of the throat were two blue places and on the right side one. The nose, about the middle, showed signs of pressure, or speedy decomposition. Just alx>ve the left eye the skin was abraded. The eyes protruded and had a frightened look. Such was her appearance after death. Her back hair showed signs of a struggle, or great restlessness. Pine straw wan fnnnH in it. Next dav Senn and Helena Boland were indifferent and showed no signs of grief. No inquest was lield in the county. The body was carried back to Newberry, where two inquests were held. The above is the case as made out by the State. On the other hand counsel for the defence showed by physicians that the external appearance of the neck and nose might have resulted from sudden death from natural causes. The expert testimony was most evenly divided. It was shown by witnesses who knew the Ssnns that they never heard of any cruel treatment. Johnstone & Cromer, attorneys for the defence, handled their side of the case in an able manner and defended it at every point. From the arraignment of the prisoners to the reading out of the verdict nearly two days elapsed. The jurors deserve special commendation for their intelligence, and their patience and their conscien nous cuuaiueittiduu ui me caoc. Such is a short outline of tlie main points in the evidence. The public who listened to the trial throughout believe the verdict was right. Hardly any one believes that Mrs. Senn cam a to her death from natural causes. This trial has been a very important one and attracted attention on account of its peculiarities and not bccause any of the parties were known here. Counsel for the State and defence acquitted themselves well and made the impression that four of the first lawers of the circuit were doing their best. senn and bo land sentenced to hang. Spabtanbubg, October 23.?Judge Kershaw refused to grant Mr. Johnson's motion for a new trial in the Senn case to-day, and he then sentenced David N. Senn and Helena Boland to be hanged on the 14th of December next. Sens t seemed somewhat affected while the Judge was passing sentence, but Mias Bo land was cool and self-possessed. Fred. Douglass on the Situation. New York, Oct 25 ?Fred. Douglass, the great negro leader, seems to have little confidence in Harrison's chances of election. In conversation with Charles T. Davis, of the Grand Central Pepot, he said concerning the situation in Indiana: "I have recently returned from a thorI oueh canvass of the Hooker State aod 1 am satisfied in my own mind that il will be impossible to carry the State for Harrison in the coming election. Harrisons position on the labor question while in the Senate and his utterance that a dollar a day is enough for any laboring man has antagonized all organized labor in Indiana." In regard to the State of New York, Mr. Douglass said: "We have made strenuous efforts in the western part of the State and we are talking of coming to the Harlem with 70,000 majority foi Harrison, but in my opinion we shall not reach the Harlem with 45,000, and I see no hope of carrying the State of New York. I, individually, have abandoned the hope of carrying tLe State." __Mr. Douglass said he would not weep if Harrison was defeated, nor would ne re joice if the Democrats were successful. A Travelling Jewelry Shop. The tour of the Emperor of Germany, in Austria and Italy, will cost not lees than $200,000. When he left Berlin he took with him for presents eighty diamond rings, one hundred and fifty silver stars, fifty scarf-pins, ail richly jewled, thirty diamond bracelets, six splendid presentation swords, thirty large photographs of himself, with the Empress and their children, all in gold frames; thirty gold watches, with chains, one hundred cigar /IAO/V3 *TT? 4-Vs 4UA imnAMIll n an/3 TTtAtli. . nibu buc iiupsiiai tumo auu xmv/uis gram in gold, and thirty stars in diamonds of tbe Order of the Black and Bed Eagles. Cheering Hill. Mr. Blaine's tour iu Indiana is more thau counteracted. The visit of Governor Hill to that State was unquestionably one ot the strongest cards that has been put out by the Democratic management, Hill helped the Democrats of Indiana aud helped the Democrats of New York more, tie placed himself iu liue with the Atiuuuistration. He knocked dowu the barrier which the enemy sought to raise between him and Mr. Cleveland. If the dignities and proprieties of his great office preveuted the President from formally declaring hiiu self fiir the Governor of New York. Hill generously aud unequivocally declared himself for the President of the Uniteu States, and now ail of us are nappy. 'Kab for Hill!?Cincinnati Enquirer. Very Sad. According to all reports, most of the letting money that is being put up on tne chances ot Republican success In this cam paign comes from Philadelphia. As soon as-aoy Democratic money is displayed it is promptly covered by funds trom tliat city. This is a queer sort of business for the Quakers to indulge in. It looks as if the drab coat and broad-brimmed hat were destined to become the outward tign oi the sporting man, rather than of the meek aud pious Quaker. The only safe conclusion to draw from this condition of thi.-.gs is that the Philadelpiiians are red-hos protectionists first and moderate Quakert afterward.?Boston Herald. Killed by a Fall. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of George Hoque, colored, who is supposed to have fallen on Tuesday morning from a gangway between the bulkheads at the iitiwan rhospnate Worss and was killed. The body was found yesterday. Hoque was subject to epileptic fits. Tue distance fallen was aboat twenty feet. The verdict was in accordance with the facts as above stated.?News and Courier, Oct. 25. As Good as the Tropics. One of the banana trees in the garden of Mr. K. C. Barkley has borne five bunches of delicious fruit this season. The size, quality and flavor of the bananas indicate tnat with proper cultivation and immunity from early frosts in the fall apd laie frosts in the spring, Charleston's soil and climate are quite as tropical as some other places that Dride themselves on their botanical wonders.?News and Courier. A Shooting Affray on a Train. Darlington, Oct. 24.?On board the afternoon mail train on the Chcraw and Darlington Railroad, between Florence and Darlington this afternoon, 0. Ellis, shot a negro named Lemuel W. Gadsden. The wound was a liesh one in the left arm. Gadsden is a negro of unsavory reputation. The origin of the difficulty is supposed to be about a lawsuit now being tried at the court of sessions in which they are interested.?Special to Charleston World. a snoozer. I love to wake at early dawn, When sparrows "cheep," And then turn over with a jawa And go to sleep. I love to see tlie rising sun In picture books; In nature I don't care a bun How Phcebus looks. I I love to lie abed each morn In dreamy doze, . And make the neighborhood forlorn With tuneful nose. I love to draw tbe cover well Up around my chin; I hate to hear the breakfast bellConfound its din! In short, I love the sweet embrace Of slumber deep; And Heaven, to me, will be a place ' Where I can sleep. ?>no was me uury uiau wiju ever neut to sea for fear of being drowned? Noah. Ice skates will be cheap this coming winter, as several of the patents have run out. It is better to have the bottom fall out of the flour boom than out of the family barrel. By adding a little soda to sour fruit for pies less sugar will be required for sweetening. In Paris stripes are still in great favor for dresses and cloaks. They make people look taller. I Black velvet and chinchilla are to form one of the fashionable combinations in outdoor costumes the coming winter. "What are you doing now?" inquired one tramp of another, when they met in a country road. "Taking part in a political campaign," said the second tramp. "Well, you're a sweet looking politician. Do you make speeches?" "No; 1 travel from barbecue to barbecue." A celebrated physician is of the opinion that many headaches are due to absorption of the lead used in finishing hat bands Analysis of a black japanned band worn by a patient suffering from headache was found to contain three grains of-lead salts. As the new smokeless powder to be used by the French army makes no detonation, war will have added horror when it come* to be generally adopted, Deatn win stride in silence, and much of the picturesqueness that has veiled the horrible will disap pear. The longest through car service of anj railroad line in the world is said to be on the Southern Pacific road, between New Orleans and San Francisco?2,495 milrs The fastest through train on this road is [timed at 113 hours and 25 minu.e;, or 22 l 1 miles an hour. BAD SKWS FROM CHARLESTON. Rnmors of an Independent Democratic Ticket te be Placed Before the Voter* of a. that City. (From the Sunday Budget) There is some talk of an Independent ticket being placed in the field for county officers, in opposition to that which was nominated by the recent Democratic county convention. Some of the most nrnmiTiftnfc citizens nf the Annntv ow> spoken of in connection with the ticket. A-Jarge number of the voters express themselves as being in sympathy with the independent movement) and avow their intention to sapport the tioket,' if one is pat in the field. The following is a list ?f the gentlemen spoken of as candidates: Capt. Alex. Melohets, for sheriff; Dr. B. M. Bebby, for coroner; Hon. (i. W. Dingle, for probate judge; Mr. S. J. L. Matthews and Mr. J. D. Murphy for county commissioners. There are conflicting rumors afloat aa to the candidates for the other officee. It is said that the nominee of the convention for the position of school commissioner will be indorsed. Mr. F. L. M ;Hnch's name been mentioned tar the portion, while others say that bo would decline to ran for the place, as be is a candidate for the House of Representatives on the ticket nominated at the county conventi in. There are numerous young men spoken of for Representatives to the Legislature, some of them the shrewdest business men in this city. CAPTAIN* MELCHEBS INTERVIEWED. A Budget reporter called on Captain Melchers yesterday to learn sometbin#^ ' about tne report of Jus leading -r- ' ticket \x { ml?' "Honestly I don't know anythc^""^ about it." "Haven't you been asked to go on the ticket?" "I have beard a rumor of an Independent ticket being plac. d in the field, bat I know nothing definite about it." "If you were asked to go upo? the ticket, would you consent to do so?" "I would certainly decline. But if a sufficient number of the substantial citizens of Charleston were to come out in one of the paptrs of this city and pledge their support to an independent ticket and I were requested to go npog it, I would then, perhaps, consider tha question favorably." WHAT ME. DINGLE SATS. The reporter tried to enter into a discussion with Mr. G. W. Dingle on the subject of the Independent ticket. Mr. Dingle was not much inclined to talk. "Well, jes, I have heard something of the sort, but can't say anything in regard to the matter positively." "You will be on it if there is such $ ticket, will you not?" asked the reporter. "Yes; I suppose so. I don't know exactly who will be on the ticket. I have u 1 ;i ? licaxru jLw U1J&.CU auuuu wvu And there the information stope. There is Something in the wind." All future developments, if there be any. will be dtxly chronicled by this office. DANIEL HAND'S NOBLE GIFT. One Million Dollars tor the Education of Southern Negroes. . Daniel Hand, a prominent and wealthy resident of Guilford, near New Haven, has given to the American Missionary Society of New York City one million dollars to be held in trust by the association and the interest to be devoted to the - ' ~ ~ y\ f Aftl/WAi) rwvN*\lA in +Ka CuUUIbtt/U SJX W1V/1CU ^W^AC XU VUO V1U slave States of the South. The association is to have unrestricted charge of the expenditure of the in treat, except that it must be devoted to the education of such colored people as are needy and indigeut, and such as by their health, strength and vigor of body and mind give indications of efficiency and usefulness in after life. Daniel Hand, the .donor of thjs noble gift, was a grocer in, Charleston, S. (X, before the war, and being of Northern sentiments, was forced to fly to the Iforth when the war broke out, leaving ail his property, about $130,000, in charge of Georee W. Williams, his con fidental clerk and a Southerner. Williams used the property profitably during the war, and by investment in Southern pine lands became very rich. Six years ago, Judge Luzon B. Morris, of New Haven, counsel for Mr. Hand advised the latter to seek a settlement with Williams. Mr. Williams came to New Haven and honorably paid np the original sum and interest, amounting to $648,000, sending on the last payment two years ago. This amount, with accrued interest, forms the great bulk of the sum now returned to the South by Mr. Hand. Under the terms of the trust, not more than $100 is to be expended for the education of anv sin trie colored person. A New Beacon Light to be Erected. The United States Light House Department have decided lo place another range light on Sullivan's Island in addition to the two red beacons which have done duty there for so many years in guiding the carriers of our commerce in and out of the harbor at night. The erection of the new beacon will soon be commenced. It will be a small stake light, white in color, so that it can be easily distinguished from the lisrhfo on^ will Ko nlo/ioH Q ilUJUlUlUg iCU 4&?UM>, <*uiva niu wv ftwi.wv* little to the westward of tbe present front beacon, which will also be moved more to the eastward, so as to briDg it ic front of Fort Moultrie, thus making a double range. The east raDge will intersect with'the Morris Island range in coming across the bar, while the west range will serve as a guide through the opening In the south jetty.? News and Courier. A Grim and Ghastly Joke. A very grim and ghastly joke was played on a young man in Spartanburg on-Monday. He came into town and soon became very tired. Iu fact bis physical energies were so overloaded that he dropped down in a store in a very relaxed condition. Some wag of a fellow went to a neighboring undertaker's and procured a cheap coffin and lifted the tired man into it. By way of setting him off, some white cloth was tied around his neck and jaws and the lid was laid on the coffin. After resting several hours he began to kick, and he kicked out of the coffin and wanted to kick the perpetrator of the joke out of town. But as that person couia noi oe iounu ae look u out, in kicking generally. The Augusta Exposition. The Augusta Chronicle has the following: "The Carolina wing of the Exposition building well worth study. It is a majestic work. The great pyramid will be etched along its basic columns with different colored stones and minerals. The sides will be panelled in fine wood and polished cabinet work. Surmounting the pavilion is a cap piece in grain, crowning the position like benediction. The Carolina men have gotten their exhibit nearer completion than any other department in the hall. The Rev. C. A. Johnson figures that in just thirty-two years from now the electricity stored in the earth will come in contact with the heat inside and blow the world up. Mr. Johnson may be considered a lightning calculator.