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m r TotSAVT' 1 di ;anicd last night Iril I bud died My soul Jiad foumi released ; I lay with -weary hands r?; rest, With troubled hearts at peace. And yet, my spirit hovered near-1 seemed to "feel, I seemed to hear. I dr *amed?ah! 'twas a gracious dream That, lying so at rest,' You came, and knelt beside me there, ~~ A'id loving kisses pressed Upon my brow so white and chill. Upon my lips so dumb and still. You called me each endearing name Our happy love had known: For all the anguish of the pa>: Your sorrow did atone: Yet, though your tears rained oYr my face, I could not break from Death's embrace. Oh, bitter-sweet! The boon I craved While living came too late! To know it mine, yet give no sign? \_/u, ui imc. Almost 1 seemed Death's spell to break, And thrill with life for your dear sake. i fe't my happy pulses throb, My heart with tumult beat; Sly pallid cheeks grow warm and red Beneath your kisses sweet; Ami then?ah me, how real it seemed!? I woke to find 1 had but dreamed. Tfiwfiar L. A STORY OF WESTERN LIFE ! ?BY? THOMAS 1\ MAXFORT. Mr. Serag<rs' countenance fell, and he looked down rather sheepishly. For onee in his life he had made a mistake, and by his precipitancy hud got himself iuto a trap. Rut lie w as not the sort of man to allow himself to be cast down, and real iaing that the best way out of the difiienlty was to put a bold face on it, he quickly rallied and looking up with a hearty laugh said: Well, we're all in a bad boat here, mi* tV5??n/l nnr? tv.? unflerstnnd each other, so there's no harm done. A man can't afford to be too particular about his assertions in this country, you know. Ha, hu! you were rather surprised that anything1 like that corn should grow -here, and I don't wonder at it. That was shipped in from back cast. But about that loan. How \v;is that?" "I sec you advertise eastern money to , loan, and I wanted to borrow two or three hundred dollars on my farm." "You have just one claim?*' "Yes. one hundred and sixty acres." "And how much did you want on it.'"' * "Three hundred dollars will do." "Three hundred, llumph, I'm afraid " it's a little more than I could advance ?- my friend." "Why. it's less than two dollars per ' ac're. Mr. Seraggs." "Yes. 1 know: but you see this land is not very valuable at present, and the chances are that it will get to be worth less. Lands thai don't produce anything won't sell. You know that.'* "I thought fifteen dollars an acre was cheap, and that next year the price would be twenty or twenty-five." John was not in any good humor, but the chance to poke the agent this once was too good to be lost. "Sir.fr! stuff:" Seraggs replied. "You know what that sort ot taiK is worm. I'll let yon have two hundred on the land, but I can't go a cent move.'' John held off for more, but finding1 that Scraggs was firm he finally accepted the offer. Scraps got out his , papers and began making out the notes and mortgage. "Hold on-a minute," said John. "Let us know something' about the terms. I see you advertised them as easy." "Yes. long time and easy terms,'" Scratrgs repeated. "Well," said John, "what are they?*' Why. as to time, you can have three to live years. We don't loan on less than three years." ^ "And I've jrot to pay interest on the money that long whether I need it so Jong or not?" "Yes. that's our rule." "And as to terms?" "Well, we make that easy, I assure you. Only nine per cent."' "That's not bad." "Then there's a little matter of commissions, you know, to be added in. Let's see: it will amount to about four per eent., I reckon, making eighteen dollars for interest and eight dollars per year for commissions?twenty-six dollars in all. Tl^en you give us your note for two hundred and we pay you one hundred and lift}*." "One hundred and fifty?'' John repeated. "What becomes of the other fifty?" "That is kept back as a premium." "Great God. man. do you v. ant me to take one hundred and fifty dollars and - pay you seventy-eight dollars for the use of it three years, and then at the end of three years pay you two hundred? Is that what you mean?" "Yes, if you wish to put it in that "? way." "And you call that easy terms?"' "Can you get any that are easier?" Scruggs answered, with provoking calmness. Green made no reply "but sank back in iiis chair perfectly dumfounded, and sat there staring at the agent in blank wonder. Scruggs waited some time, then turning about said, carelessly: 1 )o you want the loan?" "Xo, 1 don't want to be robbed," Green replied, "and you oiler to do nothing else." Scraggs drew out the drawer and be gan replacing me papers m m> uesK. "It don't matter to me," he said, "whether yon accept the accommodation or not. There's plontv of calls for tlie money, m) \vc are none the worse off if you don't take it." "Accommodation." (J re en repeated, "is that what vou call it?"' "Yes." "11;ave heard robborv called a good many things in my time, but I never heard it called that before." Scraggs smiled complacently as he finished placing the patX'rs and closed and locked the drawer. He was in the position of a man having all the adv:u .aires, for he had the only money there was to loan i:: all that section and lie knew the people were compelled to have it. and. let them grumble and talk as they would, they must sooner cr later come to his terms and accept them as a favor. So he could afford to smile with the [ complacency of an angel as he listened to i.rven's words. He knew well ! enough that Green would be glad to j <**,. t h,? yyn finv " nw ca u^c i ii- >l necessary for him to use any arjru- | rnent or waste time or brea'.h in the | matter. With calm indifference he j turned his attention to some other uffair. totally ignoring John Green's presence. John and Mary left the otiiee and on the outside they talked the matter over for several minutes. They ajrreed that it was an outrage to be forced to submit to such highhanded, heartless theft, but they eouid see no way to avoid it. It was simply that or starvation. "We'll have to accept his terms, John." Mary said, "for we're in his toils and he knows ii. "We'll have to L subiait, ana i piay ine i>oru ^.o iiejp us.*' "Yes, we'll have to submit," John repeated. "We have no ehoitle in the matter. Come on and let's get the thing done." John led the way back to the office. Scruggs was busily writing at his desk, bui glanced up as they entered. "We'll have to take that money, Mr. Scraggs," John said. "So you've concluded to accept the accommodation, eh'.'" Scraggs replied as lu- again brought forth the papers. John said, "we have only coneluded to get mbbed." "Well, call it what you please, Mr. > Ireen," said Scraggs, "but it is an accommodation, just the same. If we iiiin't let vou have the money you'd iiiilVr, for you can't get it anywhere else on <ihy terras." John had no inclination to argue the matter, so he made no reply, and Scraggs proceeded to draw up the papers. In a few minutes the writings were completed, signed and delivered, and John received his money. lie and Mary immediately left the office, and with sorrowful hearts walked down the street, and after making some purchases at the store drove home. CHAPTER IV. THE II LATCH FORDS. When old Farmer Green announced to the world that he had disowned and disinherited his son he felt he had put the finishing stroke to his duty. When he thundered forth the awful edict he ended his connection with this story, so we gently drop him out of its pages feeling that his absence can well be spared. JJIatehford, however, cannot 60 readily be disposed of, since he figures in the narrative, to the end, therefore it is necessary to go back and give a little further account of him. At the time John and Mary married, Hiram Klatehford had been a widower for two rears, and he remained so until after hi* daughter removed to Kansas. S.xm after that event, though, he met Miss Sarah Spickler, an elderly spinster, and asked her to share his home. Miss Spickler having1 been on the matrimonial market for a good many years with no bidders for her hand, was desperate enough to accept any sort of offer, and accordingly she snapped I51atchford up in short order. Miss Spickler was anything but pretty, and her temper was soured and her intellect none of the strongest, yet she had not been in the Blatchford home a week, a.s Mrs. Blatchford, before she had her husband under her thumb, and held complete sway over everything and everybody about the place. Blatchford was her slave from the first, and with him her word was law. Whatever she wished she had. andj whatever she commanded to be done was done without delay. She married Blatchford for his money, and she was determined from the first to have it. A month or so after his marriage Blatchford began to study about his daughter, and the more he thought of her the more he became convinced that he had ill treated her. In short, after so long a time he came to the conclusion that he was as much to blame as Mary, and, knowing that she must be suffering privations, he decided to extend to her the hand of friendship and offer to her and John some pecuniary assistance. Having come to this conclusion, he hastened to mention the matter to his wife for her sanction. Sarah listened until he had unfolded his plans, then with uplifted hands and staring eyes exclaimed: "Well, did I ever hear of such a thing as that; Hiram Blatchford, have you i?* ..11 I<J> L <Jkll j . 4 'Why, Sarah," Hiram replied, takeD Laelc, "what's the matter?" "Matter?" Sarah repeated. "Well, I'd a never a believed it. never." "Never believed what?" Hiram asked. "Why, that you could ever have been taken with such fool notions, Hiram. Whoever heard of the like of it?" . "Why, I?" Hiram stammered and stopped. "Why, you." Sarah put in. "want to be a fool, Hiram Watchword, a regular out and out fool, you do. That's all there is of it. The idea of you making the first step towards a reconciliation between you and your daughter, when she threw you away for the sake of John Green. Yes, if I was you I would. I'd go and get down on my knees to her, and own that I was in the wrong. Yes, I'd do all that, and K*g her with tears in my eyes to come back to my arms." "Sarah. I?" "Yes, I know what you thought, Iliram. I know that your soft, silly heart prompts you to make a fool of yourself. Hut before you do it, ask yourself if it would be right. Wasn't i j you anv;iy^ kiuu aim iuuui^hh,^ .uai^ , and didn't you do everything for her that a father could do?" "Yes. that's true.*' Ilirara replied with no little inward satisfaction, and with a growing1 feeling that he was a much abused parent. "Then you have done your duty, Hiram, more than your duty, and if anybodv is to bend the lenee let it be the one who has done wrong. I don't bolie ve in a father being made & slave to the whim and wishes of an ungrateful child. If I had ever had such a father as V' >11. and had ever crossed him in one wish even, I never would have forgiven myself. I couldn't ever looked the world in the face after being so heartless and ungrateful. Oh! Iliram, what a noble, loving, forgiving nature you have, and how unfeeling must have been the child who could so ruthlessly trample upon it." At this point the good Sarah, who all along had shown strong symptoms of weeping, was so overcome that she could restrain her tears no longer, and broke down and poured forth in a perfect Hood on her husband's shoulder. Hiram was deeply touched, and he was forced to exert himself to keep back the tears of self pity that welled up in his own eyes. He had never before realized how deeply he had been wronged, and never before had he understood how much he had been martyred. His heart went out to himself, and he pitied himst-lf from the bottom of his soul. "There, there. Sarah," he said, "don't let the tenderness of your heart cause you to grieve too sorely for what I have been made, to suffer. I promise you that I shall not forget rny wrongs again soon, since the weakness that possessed me for. a short time is gone. No, I'll never make any advances to a child who > ! far forgot her duty to me and ! treated ine with such cruelty, aa? I %aa glad that you recalled mc to myself in ' time to save me from taking the step I ha?". anticipated." Sarah checked her tears and by de- ! gre> * her sobbing ceased. The effort j she had made had been a great one, and her soul was terribly sore from the effects of it. but she had saved her husband from abusing himself and sinking his dignity, and she was satisfied. Of course she had saved him from all expense on Mary's account and kept that much more money for herself, but that would not count for anything %vith such a noble soul as that of the angelic Sarah. ' iliram," sho said when she had got her feelings sufficiently under control to be able to cease her tears and sobs, "I hope I have not said too much. I an) sorry that your daughter cannot occupy the place in your heart that a child -v "iitw bc-.ri r. - -> ? - . . _.r - ! vnur so Ht hp?rt l.hyt, Jf Cduljut U'ilp iijiL'i \r&ii f. JiO .H irs" all for the sake <?{ ; c'iir IcVitsg, gsnefO'us self." "I know that, Sarah. I do not misunderstand you. I know hew it pains you to hfivc to say such things, but you feel it to be* your duty, and you do it. I thank you; mv dear wife, with all my is :v- ; 't i;in A I f . i' /v v H U I /s? !!> & J0ir .L'? "I HOPE I HAVE NOT SAID TOO MUCH?'" heart, for your disinterested mindfulness of me. Let us now drop the subject and try to forget it. It is not right that you should afflict yourself with thoughts of one who is so far beneath you in point of goodness, and I will try and think of her with as much charity as possible. It is a sad thing to feel the ingratitude of one's own flesh and blood?a sad thing to be a parent spurned by the child for whom I have done so much. liut I can live over it, - Sarah, and perhaps in time forget. There, we will say no more about it." Hie g<Kvl Sarah was guito willing to let the subject rest, since she had gained her point. Dinner being at that moment announced, she went out and took her place at the head of the table, from which position she beamed smiles of love and tender sympathy on the old fool, her husband, who sat opposite her nursing his martyred soul. Not once, as he sat at that board laden with a superabundance of the choicest viands, did old Llatchford feol a tinge of pity for his poor daughter, who was an outcast from home, a 1 stranger in a strange land, denied even the food necessary to stay the pangs of hunger. And yet he condoled himself and imagined that he had a wounded heart; he, a man who was as oid of heart as the veriest flint. A week or so after the incident described Sarah came to Hiram with a Setter from an adjoining state, in wmcn letter she was informed of the death of a married sister. Her sister had left three children, and Sarah's tender , heart prompted her to take them and care for them if Hiram wasn't averse to it. "IJring them right along1," Hiram said; "we have plenty and they mxist not suffer. Send for them at once." Ah! old man, where was your conscience, your sense of right, that it did not prick you when you thus opened your home to a horde of strangers, and admitted them to the place that belonged to one who needed it more? Where was your good angel that it did not whisper to you of the sorrow and trouble, the foundation of which you that moment laid with your own hand. Bitter, bitter will be the regrets following that act, old man, and though they may follow at a long distance, they will surely follow, and terrible will be their weight when at last they come. The orphans were duly installed in Blatchford's house, and by him were educated and supported. The eldest, a boy named Harry, was taken into the bank, and of him we shall hear more later on, as he figures quite extensively in this history, which would probably be less sad if it were less true. CHAPTER V. JiOTHEK .AND DAUGHTER. With their dearly secured "accommodation" John Green's family managed to get through the winter without suffering anything beyond severe privairnc a/ llUUb. .Lill'll v;iwmiftliu ?? cw, WA course, common and limited, but that was nothing so long1 as it kept them from starving and freezing. It was a long, dreary winter, especially to Louise, off on the prairie, with no friends or companions, and no books or papers, and with nothing to do but to drag idly through the days. The nearest neighbor lived two miles away, and, that being: Markbam's, they might as well have been forty miles away for all the good they were to Green's, for since that night when Markham talked so abusively to Louise there had been no intercourse between the two families. Louise grew pensive and melancholy, and it was plain that she longed for a different life, though she never uttered & complaining word. Once shortly after Christmas she and her mother were alone in the cabin, and after they had sat a long time silent Louise suddenly said: "Mother, I wish I could manage some way to go on with ray education." "So do I, Louise," Mary answered; "but I can't think of any way that it can be managed. If wc had the books I could help yoa with your studies, but we haven't the money to buy books." "I know that, mother, but I was thinking that I might borrow some." "I don't know who you could borrow them from, Louise. I don't suppose anyone about here has them." "I know who has them," Louise replied, "but I don't know whether you would want me to get them of him. Paul has lots of books that he brought from school with him, and he has often proposed to let me have them." "Paul Markham?" Mary asked. "Yes," said Louise; "he has the books I need, and he haa begged me to take them." "Louise," Mary said after awhile, "you know how old Markham talked to you that night you went to the store, and you know we have had nothing to do with them since, and you know that we can't accept any favors from Paul." Louise arose and going to the window stood for a minute or so looking out into the snow-covered prairie. Unconsciously she let a sigh escape her, and, though it was soft and low, the quick ears of her mother caught it. "Louise," Mary called, "don't fret about the books, for we shall try to get them soon." "It is not the books, mother." Louise replied as she caine and put her arms about her mother's neck and laid her face on her bosom. "I can wait for them." "Then what makes you sad, my child?" and Mary stroked her daughter's hair and tried to lift the bowed head. "What is it you sigh for?" "I?rm afraid you and pa do not like Paul," and Louise buried her face deeper on her mother's breast. "He is so good and generous, <uid is all the friend I have in the world asido from j-ou two, and I'm afraid you do not like aim." "Why, I'm sure I hare nothing against him, child. He is a quiet, hon! est, industrious young man, and if it | wasr't that he is Markham I couldn't I say a word against him." "He is a Markham. mother, but he is i not like his father. He is as generous | and kind p.s he can be, and I do wish you and pa would be friendly with him." Mary be^an to hare a suspicion of .. mi II 1 >? ??>:Iji'- Mi--^j italcivsi jteii bj Louise ?ii l .-iu'. feud fc?j ' several nnmuei ?sl 10 ;vas undee'ded i-o^ ! to proceed. Finally she took the girl's ; head in hcv iixnds and lifted it up untii i the face was opposite her own, and if j she ha<l wanted any further evidence to | confirm the truth <>f her surmises, she j would have found it in the telltale blushes that swept over the fair young I cheeks. "Louise." she said, "don't keep any secrets from me. but tell ine why you take such a deep interest in Paul." "Because?d^n't think me silly, mother. for I can't help it. I love him." These last words were spoken in a faint whisper, but Mary understood them, and drawing her child to her, pressed her close to her bosom, and thus they remained for a long time. Mary was the first to break the silence. "Paul shall never receive anything but the kindest treatment from me." she said, "and 1 know John will treat him as a gentleman. Paul is a good man, and if you love him lie shall have my love, too." "Thank you, mamma, I knew you would like him, for my sake, and you will like him better w'.en you know how good and noble lie is." Then another long silence followed, after which Mary said: "lias Paul spoken to you of love, Louise?" "No, he never has. That is, not exi actly." "And are you sure you love him?" "I know I love him. mamma, he is so good and kind, and is all the friend I have aside from you and pa." j The mother smiled faintly at the girl's earnestness and stroking the soft, : brown hair gently, said: "Louise, you are young yet, a mere child, and I'm afraid you do not know your heart as well as you think. You have a great liking for l'aul as one is apt to have for a good friend when friends are few. You admire his kindness of heart, for, poor child, you have I AnHiirMj II j flrrri k\ it' <* * Kt . V j ; j\ tor . # ! 11 li-rJ = ^r-r:~'r fj f. ?prT<, -/ .';% 'U".V ;i ''I ';!!$ | ' | I | ' j \ Y*~ ^Sb: ''' | "LOUISE, YOU ARE YOUNG YET, A MERE | . . cnir.n." r known little enough of such in your life. You like and esteem Paul above all others, but perhaps you may not love him. Love is a broad and a deep thing1, and you are too vouny to understand what it really is. Go on thinking of him as you do, if you wish, and always treat him with the kindnest consideration, but do not go beyond that. I If he speaks to you of love do not en courage mm, auu iuukc wm uv jn uuiises. Tell him that you are young anil that I wish you to wait a year or two longer before you enter into any compact affecting your whole future life. But perhaps this is all unnecessary prej caution, lie has said nothing, and perhaps he may not say anything for a long time. It may be?are you ?ure ho loves you, Louise?" | _ "I know he docs, mamma. I?I can't I tell you how I know it, but I do know he loves mi-; and some day he means to ask me to be his wife- I am sixteen now, and in a year or two I shall be a woman, and then he will speak and you will not object. Will you?" ! f "2so, not unless I have better rea| sons than I know at present. But a year or two is a long time, Louise, and we need not consider now what we | will do then. It may not be necessary I for me to say aye or nay to Paul, for you may see him differently then. You may see some one else that may supplant him in your heart." "Oh, mother, that is impossible! No one can be to me what Paul is. I c >uld not be so ungrateful as to give him a second place in my heart, when he has been so good to me." The mother smiled again. She was assured from these last words of her ' daughter, that Louise had mistaken her 1 ^ ~ J -1.-4 ~-U . X^l4. 4 ^ L,. j nCSTL, ZVUU LIliiL Wlliit aiiu it'll iaj uc ikjms* was only gratitvde and friendship. She understood .ow easily one of Louise's age, and one placcd as she was, 1 could deceive herself, and she could not | believe that the child knew her own heart. For a long time she was silent, and for a time doubts, fears and misgivings possessed her She realized how easily one of the girl's age and tcmperI ameut could be deceived. She was inI experienced, and knowing nothing of human nature, judged all mankind by her own standard, and reckoned all hearts liko hers, pure, innocent and honest. Whether she really loved Paul or not, he was her idol, and she looked up to him as a paragon of perfection, and was that confident and trustful that she would not, and could not, doubt him in anything. i Such thoughts as these ran through the mother's mind, and she trembled for the safety of her child. Then she recalled all she knew of Paul. lie was a man of pcrfect character, and in all the years she had known him he had not been guilty of an ungentlemanly act. This review of the vonng man's past somewhat reassured her, and she felt thankful that it was Paul who held such an influence over her daughter. She was far safer with him than with most men. So after considering the matter well, Mary decided to say nor do nothing to antagonize her daughter's sentiments. She remembered only too vividly what the result of such nction had been in her own case, and-slie knew that young lovers eoxild not be driven. She realized that harsh measures would onlj- bring the lovers closer together, and result in the very thing she was anxious to av:>rt?a premature marriage. So at last, taking Louise's hand in her own, she said: "Do as I have told you, Louise; treat Paul *s kindly as you can, and remember him as your best friend, but do not make him any promises. Re knows you are too young to think of marriage, and he will not think it bard to leave you free for a year or two longer. You are free to keep company with him and to love hiin, and when you are a year older, if you want to promise to be his wife you can do so with my consent. I think I have offered fair terms, Louise, and I hope you will consider them such." "I do, mamma, I do, and I am willing to do as vou sav. and I know Paul will be, too. I will never have any secrets from you. and never go contrary to your wishes, l'aul an<l I will wait, and neither of us will think it hard, since you wish it, but nothing, mother, can partus. Nothing, nothing.'* Alas that Louisa's fond hope was doomed to be blasted, and that one undreamed of should come between her and Paul?coine in a way, too, to bring her the trying ordeal of her life. [To he continued.] - i'r.ii itfpliit oi Ill's ijbSZ! ;;;> :<i , tirv ns. J.aukkn*. Sept. 25.?The: tu'-sit doHlii-uoaiiii^' set-uni-^ in the Ii'ir anuals ot th s Mali*. except ;u o; insurrection, was passed at 1 .aureus today. ten nc^ro men bcinir senleuctd to ; be handed t->r the murder <>;' another I ti i .1 I i i HJ tlUU^v ??1~> ^ i cSll"! j murder. Some months ago .Jim Vounj-. ! Monroe Y< milt. Ikiuier.-on i'??un_r, j Alien Young. Tom Atkinson, John At- ! kiuson. Lice Atkinson, -! ?lm Adams. j IVrry A<lams and Jack Williams, all colored, haviuir some cause <>f qiuinvl ; against, I'hornton Nance, also colored, j arranged u plan to take his life and car- j ried it out successfully. At this term j of the Laurens Court they were jll tried j together tor the crime, anil all convicted, j A motion was made lor a new trial and refused, and Judge Hutson sentenced the whole tea to be hanged ou October 23 next. At the same term of (,'ourt Ike Kinarcl, colored, was convicted of the murder of Samuel G. Oxner, a white man. and was sentenced to be handed on October 10, this making eleven negroes sentened to death at these bloody assizes. The Court of General Sessions has adjourned. The State gained every case. Six negroes were sentenced to the Penitentiary or to pay lines. THE CKIMK AND THE TKIAr.. The murder of Thornton Naucc. lor which the ten negroes were sentenced to-day t > be hanged, occurred on the 5th day of August last at a negro church near Mountville, a station ou the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Iiaiiroad, about eleven miles from this city. From the testimony it appears that .John Nance hail written ?. letter to the wife of John Atkinson and that this baud of negroes went to the church for the purpose ot having a row with John Nance and made a threat that they would kill the negro that uight. This lmnil nl "diiiho!i?*;i! dr;rnons? *' :i<i the solicitor termed tliem, proceeded to the nc^ro church to execute this design. They did not attend the devices. but lay in wa.it around the. church until the services were over. The night was a dark one, but the baud was clearly recognized !>y a torch which Edmund Nance, father of the deceased, held for his wife and little children to see the road home. After a lit' tie the quarrel grew warmer, aud bullets were Hying in all directions. Sam Nance was shot through the lungs, another negro was shot through the hat and Thornton Naive was killed. The trial was begun on Tuesday last at noon and was ended last night about 11 o'clock. The State was represented by Lewis W. Simkins and Solicitor Schumpert, aud the murderers by Johnson & Itichey. The detecce argued ably for the band. For seven they tried to prove an alibi, tor the remaining throe they claimed that the evideuee showed that Thorntou Nance was killed by Ilenry Suher, one of the negtocs who lied and had never been arrested. The jury remained oit about three hours and returi ed a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy ot the Court. The prisoners were brought into (he ('nurt room about 11 o'clock 1 this morning to receive the sentence. A motion was make by Mr. Johnson for a new trial on the ground that his I'onor had erred in the charge to the jury. The motion, however, was ovenruled. The negroes appeared to he little concerned during the whole of the trial, but there was a sad scene in the Court room as the Judge pronounced tho sentence of death. The wives and relatives of the prisoners were present and could not rcstrai.i their feeling, and broke lorth in bit'-iC wails, and ->ere ordered by the Court to be carried out.?News and Courier. LIntleMrt Cotton Seed. It looks as if there Is really somethine in the claim made by Mr. II. T. Ferguson, of Spartanburg, that there is such a thin# as lintless cotton seed. Not long since we saw a boll of it which came out of ihe field of Mr. L. W. Weeks in the Fork, and last week we saw a statement in the Marion Star that a gentleman of that ounty had a few stalks of it in his Held. We iearn from tfce Greenville News that 2SIr. Cureton, the manager of the cotton seed oil mill in that city is experimenting with the lintless cotton of II. T. Ferguson, living near Woodruff, in Spartanburg county. In speaking of the matt-r the News sajs: The object ot Mr. Cureton's experiments is to lind what value the seed has as an oil product-r and as a fertilizer. A News reporter saw several stalks of the cotton at the oil mill. They were not unlike the ordinary stalks m appearance and no difference can be seen in the green bolls until they are opened. Then the observer is astonished. He sees nothing but a boil full of green seed such as he would lind on opening a pea pod. The merest trace of lint is found. The stalks :n the possession of Mr. Cureton contain one or two open bolls ann when a close inspection is made there is a<?ain surprise. The seeds stick in the boils until they are wr.ll matured and if not picked drop out. When lioe they are intensely black in color and resemble the seed* of the famous l'eterkin cotton. They are larger than the ordinary seed. Mr. Cureton has not fully completed his ex peri m< rits. but lie has "made a few simple tests, lie, says the seed has much more oil than the ordinary setd and far more meal, lie believes the cotton can be easily cultivated and will vield trom 300 to 400 bushels on the acre. He believes, from what he now sees, that there is a great future for the cotton as an oil producer and fertilize: maker. The seed are gathered much like peas and the cotton is harvested nmch likr oilier cotton. Mr. Ferguson hits an acre in cultivati m this year. Hard Timen in Oklahoma. CUTIIUIK, O. T. Sept. 2.").?A courier just in from Chandler says the situation there is a terrible one, and that h undreds of people are leaving. Muddy, nausvatn*otur ci.lle fnv >." /v.?nts :i crlasS }[!);] horses are dying" by the score. On the road no water is to be had for twenty miles, and thendesol the road are lined with exhausted teams. Unless the town site is opened soon, riot and bloodshed will follow. Uread is ">U cents a loaf, and other tilings in proportion. A coLoni:i> politician of Xorth Caro iina proposes to run for congress next j fall on a unique platform. lie promises in event of an election to endeavor to have Congress provide for the payment, at the rate of S.'WO per head, of the 4,(XX>,U00 slaves set free by the late war, $200 of this amount to be paid to the owner of such slave or his heir and slUO to each freed man or his heirs. It will take 1.2?X),0?J0.(KJC to do this, and j he proposes to supply the funds by is- ! suing 2 percent, lifty year bonds to that j amount. j Skxatoi: IiANsom, of .North Caro* j Una. says the Farmers' Alliance does not threaten the Democratic party in his state, the light being merely between two factions ot the party forsuprema-y.! The Alliance faction wish to get con-1 trol of the party, not to destroy it. He j does not see that there is any third par- j * '? Tkf. io avii^flv fhn f?nn. 1} m iu Jiir .u-u.v v.??vv.j , dition of affairs in .South Carolina. A white man was found rlea<l in Lexington County the other day. and the following original verdict was rendered by the jury of inquest: "We lind that the deceased came to his death j > from what was the matter with him before he died." ! ?\tv.%vnm OF M lVon ' jjrl ' i ifv! ? Si. D'XCK BY A BRUTAL : WIFE-B?AT?;\ Major lienn<Mi>:u) of .Sji.trtanlMirc, \Visil?? J) njj His Duty :is ;in Oilacur of' tlif Ui'ccivcs liis !>r;uh Wound ! ;it the .l.ihn Williams. Colorcil. ' ! SlWUTANP.rKC. S. C . Sept. 27.? ! J. A. ileum mail, ina\or of Spa: taiiburg,; was j-iio'v and killed liiis ewuiugat i?:20 i ./clock by .J:>hn Williams, color-d. 11 i breathni ;ibout lialt" an hour In-fore life j was extinct. Williams and his wi'e weiv quarrel ing in their house, bc-yond the (Ireenville branch. Mr. Jlenueman was passing l?y, and went in to command thr j peace. About t!ie time he got in the ! yard. Tom L'ltce, a wide man, cameup.1 lie says Williams was sianuing on the ! steps and his wile was inside the house j abusing the mayor, 1'lace asked Mayor i Ilenneman if lie needed anv help to ar-1 rest the negro. lie said: ''Xo, I have j sent for th* police, and they will make j the arrest." William * then cursed the mayor and ; told him to gf-t out of his yard, or lie would lix hiin.and then he Went into the house. The mayor said:" You are going after your pistoi, aie you ?" And theu he drew out his pistul and followed the negro in the house. A scull'e ensued, in which i'lace thought the woman was taking a prominent part, and soon he heard a pistol lire. In a short time Mr. Ilenoeman and the negro both came rolling out of the door and fell to the ground, tne negro having th<; mayor's pistoi. They scul'led und rolled several feet, when the ne^ro shot the mayor while lie was in a recumbent, posit ion, on his aide. The ball entered just above the hip and penetrated the cavitv. Williams made no elTort to tscape, and proposed to surrender t he pistol lo l'iace and go to jail with him. Williams's wits* says that Mr. Ilermeman lired at her husband in Hi.: house, and she shows the place where the hall entered the wall. When arrested the negro said t hat the mayor ordered hiin to hold up his hands when he came in the house. So fur as is known at present, J'Jace and Williams's wife are the only witnesses to the shooting. .V bo lit o'clock the body was moved to Mr. ilenneinan's house, where the inquest wiil be held tonight. Williams' wife has been arrested, and she says that Williams was beating her and abusing her when the mayor came in to ston the quarrel. She says he lired his pistol to make her husband surrender when the scutlle began, and they both rolled out of the door. She did not witness the shooting from the out(side. The negro, m his talk to Place, and after hu was carried to jail, showed a vindictive spirit and seemed to exult in : his deed. The re-rroes of the city are I considerably excited, and they think the killing a great outrage. One said he i was willing to join in a crowd to lynch , Williams. The town is considerably j excited, (croups of people are on the i square, and there is the usual talk of i lynching. Sheriff N icholls is in the jail and will remain there tonight. I The sympathy of the whole community goes out the stricken family in this hour of ailliction. Mayor Henneuian i came here from ^Norfolk about the} ear lbo'J, and s'.arted the jewelry business. In that he has been quite successful. | Two years ago ha was elected mayor ot the city, lie leaves a wife, two daug'u Lcis rtiiu uio r?v/ii vicvigc <\u iiumr. ltutliuge Ilenneinan. the oldest soli, is ;it Green wood, and lir. John 1). Henneman is a professor at Ilampden Sydney College. Th-j coroner empanciied a jury, wnicli viewed th- body and then ad-j journal to meet tomorrow at'.t o'clock to hear the evidence.?The .State. K;imliieti Awful 1'acc. St. I'ktkuskuik', .'Sept. 2-1.?Reports received iiere from Tambolf and its adjacent provinces announce that the Zemstvos have provided for the resowiug 01 laud ana to furnish supplies of grain until January next. Alter that l there will be the greatest difficulty to I ensure l'vod for the people. As tliecoi j lection of taxes is impossible, the salaries of local administrative bodies have been suspended. Kven i: funds to supply grain are obtained the distribution, wnich will be over wide famine tracts, will be dillicult, and the maintenance of hospitals, schools and asylums is doubtful. The scarcity of oats and hay is compelling farmers to sell live stock at mock prices. Tor instance, a horse for 2 roubles, a cow ior Ci roubles ana colts from 2D to oO copecks. After a rcCt-nt county fair in one district- the skeletons of tony horses were found bv U:e roadside. fhe animals had beeu kiikd for their skins. Destitution is also staring ia the face large number ot ptopie who have been emp'o\ed on tin* public works. as the work oa the latter must stop v. hen frost set in. The ma-s. s of the people rely entirely on the Government to help them. This bring thestute of affairs in the psesen- mild weather, The gloomy prospects' held out by coming wjircr can b;.* readily imagined. An analysis of the bread sold in many places bv unscrupulous merchants revealed the fact that, absolutely poisonus mixtures are sold. Several merchants Lave been anvstt dat. Morshatiek, and will he summarily tried, Many specimens of such bread consist ot 7U per cent i-I earth and sand and IJUprr cent of refuse farinaceous products. Among many conjectures regarding the causes of the failure of the crops it is suggested that the drainage of hundreds of verst of the vast swamp of l'insk resulted in Hooding the Dnieper m the spring and in the iowncss of the water late In summer, thus causing a diminution in the rainfall in the eastern provinces. Almost ali of the Government ollieials have voluntarily contributed a portion of their salarn s to the famine fund. T.-.e public talk of bringing bread Iroin America and Egypt. Mitt Mot H?sr I)i*ulh. I'r.AiXriELD. X. J., Sept. 23 ?Peter T '..>..1 ..In /vf* I ' i... i > 11 l?\*1 ;rMO i-i ? ! . V rtllrtlDUtliC, VI :oiuuv.iu, ?><?.-? uLib uuing with his wife hist night near r-omerville, when his team of ponies began to run away, lie told his s-jfe to jump, which she ciui. I :i a moment ne regained control of the .horses and drove b.ick.to where his wife was lying in the road. Lining her up he was horrified to lind that sne was dying, and in live miuutrsshe w as dead. As she struck the earth Mis. Vanarsdale's head was crushed in by a stone, breaking her neck. She leaves a family of little ones. Sh? I><u:ne<l .Vale Attire. C i. i-: v j :l a n i >, Sep t. 21Ea ward J,e w i s, ot 14 High street, quarreled with his wife and left her a few days ago. This morning while going to his work a strange man thrust a pistol into his lace and shot at him, but miraculously missed him. Two more shots were liired heforte he w:as disarmed. At the police siationthe gunner proved to be none other tiiat; Lewis' * ife m m?'.e atlire. Kheumatism.?.James i'axton, of Savaunah, (la., says he had I'neuuutism so bad that he con id not move from il-p ti'i! nr dr-.-s-s without helt). and that !m! tried many remedies, but rec-ivwi n;i relief until he began the use o: P. I'. P. (I'rickiy Ash. Pokn iloot and Potassium;, aui! two bottles rest-.-r-d him t-.> he;iith. The importaucv of piir:r*\ iiiff the bi'.jod cannot be over-estimatrii, for without- pure blo^d you cauenjoy i good healn. P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, t Poke lioot and Poitassiuiu; is a miraculous Mood puriiier. performing more | cures iu six months than aii the saraaparilias and so-called blco.i purifier* i put tosjetner. ifij ?nif\ u: cosl'cfs ;t tS.Ui... tM.r . La:ii | hsctl lifi'-.ii-' ft: ei'i-i.-'- i?t?l It has {Hirsueil i.;ni t':tr It :;?; ! :.>ri of the ci'iilin. iiL. At Mlnia- .po!:.; !.c has ci-u'er--*."! ;"-i":al?uuViit t-l I'olico "'tl. There is one msm n i-o.-e hcait will sfivc aiiroa'. bound til j<>'. when !c hoars ?.f the co;ifcs>ii>i!. lit- is (.ray. a Jiier" in ihc ::cri:itiiiiarv <i CliesttT. 111. Grav li:i> t 'st t!:e uiurderer hr-tead < ! JI: >?*. 11. 11 was muvicied at Sai-m. ill. Brown's oiufosijij wilJ set l>nu free. Brown's .si-.ry was so strange that the chief at lirst Set him do-vn ;!s a * rank. The man was so earnest im a over. it:al th<: ehiirf ordered him locked up. aud sent a telegram lo Chester. 111. This morning tin; answer come: * * 11??1?! Ih?; man: will s?ud for him." The story ofihe murder is a slnui^c out*. I.rowu was tramping aud jiotinto a box car. He stumbled over a man in the dark and a tinht eiwied. Brown hit the man with a coupling pin and lied. Not long after Cirav, another tramp came alomr and went to sleep in the fame car. not knowing he had a '.lead man for company. The uext morning when lie arose he found that his arm had lain in a pool of hlood. He tore orf -> 11 -i i .i .i U1C OlO'-'CJ 5iei:\C IU1U lieu. JL ;uix oiwt c caused his arrest, conviction au.l sentence to lite imprisonment. lie does not even know who ihe real murderer was. Jirowu claims to come !'r >m a well-to-do Southern family, hut will n a give his real name. i'iauos ami <)r<arj3. i\. w. Ti:l*mi\ 134 Main tjireet Cclumbia, S. sells i'ianos and Organs, direct irom factory. No agents'commissions. The celebrated Chickering Piano. Mathushek 1'iano, celebrated for its clearness or tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Hamlin Upright 1'iano. Sterlirg Upright i'ianos, irom ?225 up. Mison & Hamlin Oiyans surpassed by no; e..Slerlintr Organ-;, S50 up. Every Inst' ummt guaranteed for six years. Eiftee.j days' trial, expense* both W:?>S, if tint satist.-iCtorv. Sold on li:sl;:it:t^rjt.s. Rheumatism is cured bv P. I\ 2\ I'aitiS and aches m the back, shoulders, knees, ank-es, hips, and wrists are all attacked and conquered by P. P. 1'. This ijreat medicine, by its bloodi cleansing properties, builds i*p ;ind ' strengthens the wboi?3 body DO YOU WISH TO , 855: OF VOS'i! OV? \ l.\ UOl>K. THEN BUT THE THOMAS STEAM PRESS AND SEED COTTON | ELEVATOR. It is the most perfect system in use, unloading cotton from wagons, cleaning and delivering it into gins or stalls. (Jotton does not pass through fan and press requires no pulley nor belts. It saves t:;ne and moD'-y. I TALBOTT & SONS' ENGINES AN!) 130ILERS, STATION ARY AND PORTABLE. OLD DOTALBOi'TS SAW MILLS, IMPROVED FRICTION AND ROBE FEED ?200 TO ?t500 LUMMUS AND VAN WINKLE COTI TON GINS AND COTTON PRESSES. We oler Saw Mill Men and Glnncrs the most complete outfits that can be bought a:.d at bottom prices. V. G. BADHAM, GENERAL AGKNT, (.'OLUMHIA, S. C. ! THE TALBOTT ENGINE IS i'HK BEST j Feb 10-1 v. THE LARGEST S'iOCK, MOST SKILLED WORKMEN, i LOWEST T RICKS Ml Carolina larWe Work F. 3. HYATT, rKOPi&xnr^tt. Is the best place in South Carolina oi Southern States to secure satisfaction in American and Italian Marble Woik. All | kiijus of Cemetery Work a speciality. TARLKTS, H KADSTON Kb, MONUMENTS, &< . Seiul for prices ami fall information. F. H. HYATT April8ly COLUMBIA. S. C. Leesville College, j CO-EDUCATIONAL. PRIMARY, ACADEMIC, COLLEG1-! I ATE ami COMMERCIAL COURSE.1*;" Vocal and Instrumental Music, Art. EIocu-1 tion, Physical Culture, Cooking, Dress Cut- j ting, Domestic Economy, Weekly I3ible Studies. Nine teachers." Enrollment, last year 180. Pupils Irom thirreen counties. Strong moial and religous inlluence. No bar room nearer than seven miles, i Healthful location. 700 feet above the level of the sea, 4oo feet above Columbia, 128 feet above Aiken. Elegant building. Young ladies can board with the "resident. Only College in the State that makes pro- j vision for young ladies to reduce expenses by doing domestic work. Seventeen young ladies aided this way last year. Expenses for literary course and board for ten months. ?ioo to 5130; nmsic, ?:;0; bookkeeping, ?20. Next session opens September 2od. For catalogue address L. I). HAYNES, A. M., I'resident. Sep 9-.x?:os Eeesville, S. C. Advice to Wokest If you would protect yourself ! from Painful. Profuse, Scanty, j Suppressed or Irregular Men- j f struation you must use ! RtfAHFiF! JVS d ! | | FEMALE | ! j REGULATOR j C'.MJTFr.svrr.r.K, April This will oortlfy that two tnerafcon of my Immediate-family. alVr having sutiVwl for ; vears I'ru:a ??2.<'nstri;;il Irregularity, brin^ treated without benefit by pkysiciajis, ! wire at length comyiielfly curedbv oue bottle of Brsidflold** Vomale lle^ulator. Its eifect i? truly woBderfuL J. . JrTitA>'GE. j Book to " W OMAN" " mailed I-'IiEF., which contains I valuable luf.jriaatloa oa all female diseases. < I BRADr I ELD REGULATOR CO.. f ATLANTA, GA. I FOR SALE SY ALL DRUGGISTS i vru.s&u inJs ' ?i\ ' ; r.: jVivh',' J...It t ?' ; :: 5 . >? ; ? .ii:m ~>i:;r t,>5?i. .1'.: . < I I via nr. --i pt?$-H>:e I.!-.-. .. ! {wipe out . A l'\b'i:il lyt . ^ ' iiioii j' ul ware. | ^:i ? >! ; . i ouiy i '.>? ;'? ** i ' 'Ii" . m ... . .. :dl> I j 'Ki'.njrc i.j\13 >> i.'-is flV I itcli S'.iiil OifcCtn t ' V i *-? I 1'iMii.N ?v.y ti<? sv^JtWS, | V syeur depm. |v s a |DO NOT i'AY TV. / fO? V fl S l'OUK r ij 1 will send u?u a ak>. p.n>; t'.uUn" S'U^R fwalnut frame, either n> con.; .natiuu < :g |banded, tliv m?>st >'-y !?sa co'.va i"r |to yuur lailroat stalion. y-ei-'nl p;uti. 5} ^ i W!ii aLsii.seh \<>a a i,ivC y Scons'stiii# of bureau ".villi via-*, i 5 glieaa i5edsteaii, i ;V;-5t?wi t, ; v.-uu- 3 Stable, 4 cane ser.t i cam; a ut -no? gouex n.v*ei alitor ;--o i u -. [j sco you: dcj>oL. is} | Or i Wiil yuu u<. nctiKW.'ig Sauit witji s'nt>>, tun u*iox lot 8 wJoO, aziw payireixnt. ? l-Sicc window sliatle on si<r:un ioK?*r r el's , J?ie>;ant Jari^c waii-ut t d;ii uio. ' * ' '5 ?\Valnut lounge, 7.^9 ?La?e curtainj per window, l.OL-fi i cannot describe every tinny. inastcAiig ^advertisement. but buvcan iui'wns^ storti containing 22,d0u i'eet >?l iwi wittp ware houses and factory cuiiaii;^ m otuei jj parts of Augusta, ujhK.uk i~ Hi; iiit5 5gest business of tins kind untie r oso man a ? '. M agement in tlw rsoutiiern Siaw?. iue^a *M storttsand warehousos arc erowuoa wit) a .A cne cheicesi productions ot il>v ia-jwi-Jj AS ries. My cataloguecental um* ?i.u>trat:ote ? y] jjWUs Wiii Oc u y*.u "v;.. Aiuu:,,j Isaj sMie* v }ou suv? .iiis^-Lvci ti-w iMv'-i'.. -j; pa> ir-.ku'u Aiiaus*.. jf 1 L ?. PAUfcTTi SF?>}.-r:eU'r i'a?lf.:etl's ? ui^ I uiiu I.... i??< SUH'O, 2 gtiiC-lii'i T.>UA* '* iiaiEBBKSSsaxsBxzsssssszBSBBaBSscz&zvt ! ?1P!^ SPS^. 1 ? 5/-^' rjsp-s* \ 'l&f " ; - > ?!'',: ?t4' / ?-> j O- '<!&. -<3 &S&: & ' J > i : '"J ? i i*TJ r 5 J '. ? . * .'""i Tj-. scJ a 'ui'j I \^n f I ; t HI if iV"f*? I <'* ( i ?k- in. tsf WN ^ ': i ." " ?: .atui.:' a V.TVL*^'*^ "-ii :- r.. ? ? V .-v. >.??.!:.-? - ! V.r: vv r- v TV' V. **. #, , . **?T . -'V'-. . :*< . .; w >;*2| ^ ,Vi^ '-T-i'SC. rtiSWeiuniSl Ff f taMlj || m 'V i5 <5 ?3 (3 .' islUi#5:i: I I '.-:o?, i.cr.-::.-,. O a:.: I'eaalo f.Jjiiilw, iitr s?jfc L::tI'?:S ' t v fV?;-rtJ9 :irc [.oi - .I' d Cr.i !j;G<"?d Is li * : c :: :i:i.>r.. A:?# to : r/.fs^l irr^^L-.riUc^. -rfrpSTIr eulii I \&?P fc/fai mu 1 Ve r?. ?? ^3 r 8 I: 5; l? J Pi 5 5^1 3 J -4. "N fi t- au Av ?\?LJc>&*Ji i2l?. It A i A * ' . v ..' ? I*." tr *j UVSiisSflil Vf**C UT.ii i>if <1 ! i . .'. . -., "ilciJy A?h, r?i? ItviS l^.iv.'.. *! ' v. WJi'ZXJ HZQj., 2rcr tistsrs, -X . :. a'a :r.o-J:, ciVAEHAHj Si. COTTON SAMPLE IIPRQYED ! o^j: <*a:.vr s?2:2J 2?os .^s> *sy A< T3 A3. '1'EKT. :o: A (I,.. /,i?.,f V. V ! I i.i TM,.1? land County. ju>t before strutinsr Ids S;ii!.?r Elevator one i?:\!e had been ginned by the j old method. Just after starting tiie Eiev.v j tor another buie was ginned from the satn? i pile. Without knowing 'lib fact the cotton | buyer offered one cent per pound more l<>r thebaic ginned with the use of tif Kiev itor. Read the statements of the hii\er and seller: corv. This will certifv that or two sample of cotton offered us today by >ir ''owan Jh. e the market value of one exrp?... i iluij. ?.f the other bv one cent pei pou:?-!. [Signed.) D. CliA'ATOIii) & S< >NS. COPY. I Tliiss will eertifj* that tlie two ba!;\- of j cotton offered ;;sabove w? re both from the j same pile of seed cott? n, and ginned in ;:>< | same gin. One was carried to Uio uin ::i j baskets and one through the bailor hV;-d ! Cotton Elevator. : (s'gned.) .]. k. iios::. i'ae irst ('<;?:?. l'r si --, F. -v '?> I Kngiiu-S s-U'i tho 'nest in::-!: iie'js <>'. : 1 kinds, for s::k i>y vV. K. GiBiJKS, Jit. .v CO.. ( COLCMUIA First. Glass Work.. V ery Low Prices. Buj'gies. Ca:r?.xt;?;s, -load C:'. W.-ur-.n , J jTc.. w ;:rr;i;iu\: ;vcoa?i u> . ia?jiiir?' >*f M'aiest <!<. hi jju:*::*, i?r $* ??! i>r <;at i |K?j>trr. H 0 i. L l K < ' 1 < < l 1 i ; ,v -fgipJ&s -.-v? ?; ; ?! r ! r^r? ;\ ,r 4 : ; f rrf* * w*3i & w ?-* ? * % V ' J ! 3 3^? ? / 'f** > V' ' * '? '? J >'.-*** i * S I I ^ J /o *',> 3 A </ A . ,v. ; _' n I r >: * - _ ">' *-' -* j J.J >- ;"-"A THSfr&rfSis * "-> ; I | f I LIPPKJKI SJOS.. Pwrric'cr:, f Druggists, tippr.a.rs S'scu. rv.. ~<