Horry news. (Conwayboro, S.C.) 1869-1877, February 10, 1877, Image 1

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at THE 11 OH It Y NEWS. PUUM81IRD Kvcrv 8a(iir<l:iy ITIoriiiBitf. T W. BEATY, Editor. OHK YKAK, 92.00 Six Months, $1.00 AH romnumlonllonN tending <o ho u vc private JnlrrrM, will b?? rliurgeil lor (is Hilvorllsl'llll'lllH. ) Professional & Business Cards fr. I). JOHNSON. J. M. JOHNSON C. I?. (JVATTLEUAUM. JOHNS^S* QUATTLEBAUM ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LAW Conwayboro, S, C. J OS. T. WALSH, Attorney at Law and SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, ^ ill practice in the court* of Marten, Horry and Georgetown. Om,.? at CON WAYliOllU.S. U. Not 13. 1370-tf. T GILLES1,IE? Attorney and Counsellor at Law Will glvt4prompt attention to all busincs entrusted tiThis cave. CONWAYBORO, S. C. Juae, 2 rjtOLAU * IIAUT, Commission Merchants, 1MTRONT BTUEKT, NEW Y< IlK. Liberal advances made on consignments Naval Stores, Cotton. &c. Orders receivo Prowot Attention. Unerceptionablc references given North and South. J. R. Tolar J. II. HART. ofN.C. of 6. C T P. W?*LIAMS, J. PKALRUH IN GENERAL MKRC1IAN DIZE, MANUFACTURER OF NAVAL STORES COMMISSION MERCHANT. FOBWABDING AGENT. 07" Speeial attention given to the buying Mid selling of Ton " imbcr. HULL CHEEK, 8. C. J. C. BOOZER edmonst" brown. WUOMCSAI.K 1)KA I.Kit IN MEN AND BOYS' Uatti, Cap* A Straw (?oo<l?, ai.so Ladies Misses and Children's Hats, No. 43 Uaykk St. CHARLESTON, S. C. Opposite Charleston lJotel. nov 13. tf. Money. We pay cash for old Bonnt.v Land "Warrants, tlicy arc scattered all over the South; send them bj registered letter toGlLMORE <V CO., F. St., Washington, I). C. pEoriJi'H Savings Rank, Washington, 1). CM Not. HO, 1810. Knowing Messrs. GILMORE 6c CO., I lake |f.e.asure in recommending them as reliable and trustworthy agents and attorneys. VV. i/. VanDkhj.jp, Cashier. nov 25THE Columbia Register, PUBLISHED Daily, Tri-Weckly and Weekly. Tna ONLT EEU00BATI0 PAIIE AMHE CAPITOL. o TERMS, IN ADVANCE: Daii.v, six months $0 50 Tim-Wekki.y, six months 2 50 Wkkkly, six months 1 00 C II E A PEST EBook and Job Printing Office IN THE ST A 'IK * 07" Address all communications, of what?vcr character, to Manager Keg is tor Publishing Company, COLUMBIA, S. C. may 13-tf. ^ UOOrilTS! FOB STEEP OB FLAT Tl O. ./ \ ' . '4 % \ % ' <. Quality Improved. Trick Reduced 1M ROLLS READY FOE APLPICATIOX. Tan lid'applied^ ordinary workmen. Twen ty years' expcrienco enables us to inamitacture the most durable Heady Hoofing known. Sample* and Circulars Mailed Free. READY IiOOKJNG CO. N. Y., 64 Couitl&udt St., oet WU1 jr. JSiVr Yoik l " I 1 . Ill" IIOI VOL. 8. CONWA TIII: DUBL. In Brenford town, of old renown, There lived a M ster Bray, Who fell in love with Lucy Bell, And so did Mr. ('lay. To see her ride from Hammersmith By all it was allowed, Such lair outsides are seldom seen, Such angels on a cloud. Said Mr. Bray to Mr. Clay: "You choose to rival mo And court Miss Bell, hut there your court No thoroughfare shall lie. "Unless you now give tip your suit, You may repent your love; 1 who have shot a pigeon mulch, Can shoot a turtle dove. "So pray, before you woo her moore, Consider what you do; Iff/Al. IU... Ia 1 n.?ll *a jwit I^?j? ?%???iav w MVII, I'll pop it into you." Said Mr. t lay to Mr. Mi ay: "Your tlucats I quite explode; One who has been a volunteer Knows how to pi line and load. "And so I say to you, unless Your passion quiet keeps, I, who have shot and hit bullVeyes May chance to hit a sheep's." Now, gold is oft for silver changed, And that for copper red; Mut these two went away to give Each other change for lead. tlrey sought a friend apiece, This pleasant thought to give? When they were dead they thus should have Two seconds still to live. To measure out the ground not long The seconds then li reborn, And having taken one rash step, They took a dozen more. They next prepared each pistol'pafi Against the deadly strip?, My putting in the prime of death Against the prime of life. Now all was ready for the foes; Mut when they took their stands, Fear made them tremble, so they found They both were sinking hands. Said Mr. C. to Mr. It.. "Here one of us may fall, And like St. Paul's Catherid now He doomed to have a ball. ''I do confess 1 did attach Misconduct to your name, If 1 withdraw the. charge, will then Tour ramrod do the same?' Said Mr. B.: "I do agrco; But think of Honor's Courts! If we. go off without a shot There will be tdranye rvsports. "Hut look, the morning now is bright, Though cloudy it begun; Why can't we aim above, as if We bad called out the sun?" So up into the harmless air Their bulletts th?*y did send; Ami may all other duels have That upshot in the end! A Strange Story. o In the autumn ol 1817, while the woods were bright with the variegated linen which follow the light touches of early frost, a mounted traveler was pursuing his way through a dark, broad, lonely forest, in tho western part of New Yoik. lie had ridden threo miles since seeing a human if 1AI\ o%i/4 !*-/ ? Krt.l 4 4 " ^ iv/ii) aim 11Vy |jc?ll IWU IU i;U UU* love he could gel sight of another. He was descending a hill into a gloomy-looking valley, through which flowed a shallow, but swift running stream; and on reaching the water he permitted his thirsty beast to stop and drink. At that moment a man came out from a cluster of hushes into the road, or horse path, on the other side of the stream. This man was dressed like a hunter, and carried a riflo on his shoulder. In his appearance there was nothing that indicated hostility or a wicked design. Ho was of medium size, compactly built, with intellectual features and a certain air ol gentility?seeming rather as ono abroad from Rome settlement for a day% sport than a professional hunter. All this the mounted traveler carefully nnt A/1 AO tlA /IVAUOA/I 4 1?A o4 KAAttt A aam iiuiuvi nn HV) v> vhovm uuu niivaiu iu uuir tinue bin journey, and when they came together a pleasant salutation was exchanged. "Fine weather for traveling, sir!" replied the man with the gun. "And for hunting, also, I should Mipose," smiled the other on the horse. "Yes, there is gamo enough," re! turned the other, "but I am not n good hunter, and can only show one bear for my days'* work thus lar, and that is almost useless to me, because 1 have no means to take it away. 1 . would willingly give a dollar for the ~y * / ? ^KLY An Indopai YBOBO, S. C., SATU use of a horse liko yours for a couple ol hours. If you could spare five minutes or so I would like you to see the hear; it is only hack behind the hushes, some two hundred yards lrom here." "1 will not only look at it," replied the traveler, dismounting and fastening his horse, "hut it not too heavy, I will take it along tor you, seeing I am going your way." The hunter thanked him in a most cordial manner, and then, as i( to make himself agreeable, and keeping np the conversation, inquired where the other was lrom, whither journeying, etc., and learned in reply that the latter resided in Albany, was a merchant in good business, and was traveling partly for his health and :?i. ........ .... |>.ii ii > witu * ui uhiMii;; *u t*A U*n8ivc land purchase lor future speculation. "Well, here we are," exclaimed the hunter, as the two emerged from the dense thicket, through which they had slowly forced their way into the open wood: "and now I'll show you an tat and as fine a beast as you ever saw. Observe where I point with my ritle. lie stepped back some eight or ten feet, deliberately raised the piece to his eye and pointed the mu/./dc direct ly at the head of the traveler. There was a flush and a loud report, and the victim fell like a log, his face covered with blood. This might or might not have been n n the first crime committed by the man with the rifle. Hut as the traveler fell the title slipped through his bauds, and lie shook violently from head to foot; yet he ran to his victim and hurriedly robbed him ol his purse, hiti pocket-book, a gold wuteb and chain, some curious seals, a diamond breastpin and a diamond ting, which he fairly tore from his finger. Then lie dragged lite body into the thicket, picked up his rifle, pluttged madly through the bushes to tlio road, mounted the traveler's horse, and dashed away from the awful scene. We must now suppose a lapse ol twenty years. In the spring of 1837 there lived in the city of New York a hanker and millionaire, whom we shall call Stephen Ed wards, lie owned a palatial mansion, splendidly lurnished, in the very heart of the town, and he and It is wile wero among the lenders o( the fashionable world. They had a beau til 111 daughter, just turned to sweet sixteen, who was about to be married to a foreign nobleman, and great preparations were making for the hap py event. One day about this period, as tin great banker was conversing with a gentleman from another city, wlic called to see him on business, he oh served the latter turn suddenly very pale and begin to tremble. "My dear sir," he said, in his usual tone of oft'hand sympathy, "what if the mallor? Are you ill ?' "A little faint, sir, but nothing to cause alarm," replied the other, hur riedly. I am subject to similar spells It you would be kind enough to ex cuse me for ten minutes or so, I wil take a short walk and return in bettei condition." In ten minutes he did return, report' ing himself quite well, calmly pro ceeded to finish his business with tin hanker, and then respectfully took his , leave. It was perhaps a week after this that, one night, the banker was sitting , before the fire in bis library, when i i servant came in and presented him f letter. lie took it with a yawn . opened it in the most in.lolent and in I different manner possible; but had not road a dozen linen before be rose uj with a start, turned pale, and trembled so that the paper rattled. He finished the note?for it was rather a nott than a letter?worked one hand ner vously at hie throat, and with tin other clasped his forehead and icm pies. For a minute or two he seemed to have choked into calmness, by ai i iron will, some terrible emotions, and ! he so far succeeded aa to address tlx wailing servant in an ordinary tone. "James," he said, "who gave you i this letter ?" ! "A man, sir; he said ho would wail I for an answer." i "Then I suppose lie is waiting?" [ "Yes, sir." i Soon there was a light tap at tlx .N1*-. v*?~?-?? ?_X idont J ournal. RDAY, FEBRUARY 1 door, and tho banker Haid "come in," in an ordinary tone. The servant open the door, ushered in the stranger and immediately with drew. The latter was verging on sixty, of rough appearance and coarse attire. Ho wore un old gray overcoat, buttoned to the throat, ni.d a pair of green goggles, and his whole dress was saturated with rain. "Take a seat,1 said tho banker, pointing to a chair near the fire. "No, thank you, I'll stand,* was the gruff reply. "You got my letter, and of course you know my business,1 he added. "You alluded to this, I suppose,1 returned ttic banker, producing the letter that caused him so much perlurba lion. "Yes.1 "I do not understand it, you must have mado a mistake.1 "No; no mistake at all. I wis present twenty years ago, come the 10th of October and saw yon, you Steven Edwards, shoot the man, and if you go to deny it Til have you in prison betore morning. I laid my plans and got everything sure, and if you go to playing innocent and refusing my terms I'll lake care to see that you die slrealching lietnp.* The banker, in spite of himself, turned pale, shuddered and staggered to .1 seat. "What do you want?' ho groaned. "A hundred thousand dollars?not one cent lens.' "I cannot give it?it would ruin i me.' "Just oa you say,* rejoined the i other, going towards the door. "You know what shall follow it I go away , this way.' , "Oh, stay; you must uot go yet,' . rejoined the man of crime in terrible alarm. lie argued, urged, pleaded, implored for mercy at a less fearful cost. In I vain. At last the banker, seeing ruin, disgrace and death before him it he [ ret used, agreed to the terms, lie also agreed to meet the stranger, with the i required sum, on the following night | in trout of St. Paul's church. Both were . punctual to thu tixed time, and bills and checks to the amount ol ^$100,000 . changed hands. i A month later there was a trcmen. > duous run upon the bank of which *st oiiKnn ?? o ivlu nioii %j vw I'liv A 4\? n M pn |M I I 11. 1 | ?<? I WT> I IUI ? It was soon broken ami closed. Then | lh? SherilV was art to work by eager creditors, ami all tho real estate ami personal property of the late millionaire was seized and sold, leaving him a beggar and the just claims unsalis. tied. Fashionable friends deserted the family, and the proud nobleman refused the hand of a ruined banker's daughter. In the very midst of his disgrace and tribulation Stephen Edwards eni countered the man who hid turned ro pale and beoonto so agitated in his , presence a shoit time hetoro. "I rather think you do not know me, , sir,' said the gentleman, with a formal bow. I "Your face scorns somewhat familiar, but yet I can not place you,' returned Edwards, 'Permit me to bring myself to ynur . recollection, as I wish you to know ? mo. A little more than six weeks ago I was talking to you on business, and you observed that I turned deadly * j?ale, and became agitated?' t "Ab, yes, I remember you now.' i "Let me tell yon why I was thnu i afflicted. My eyes bad just chanced , upon a curious watch-seal which had belonged to a merchant named 1'hiliji ? Sydney, who was snot in the western > pert of the State some twenty years I ago, and, looking at your features 1 closely, 1 knew you to he the villain ? who perpetrated the foul deed," "Merciful God!' exclaimed the bank t ?r, with a blanched face and quaking form. | " V?? T km v ?aii " t. ?/l !>< ? v?| A Piiivrr ^'IlTnUfJU b 11? i other, "and a week later I disguised I myself and had an interview with you ? in your own mansion. You remembei that, of course?' i "Hut,' gasped the trembling wretch "did not I pay you your own price tc l, keep my latal secret?' "Yes, and with that very money, and what other I could command, 1 was enabled to buy up enough ol 3 your own bills to mako that run upon rww ii r- r-T ? t^? * ?rrr^? / " ?J ^ H> *v' * A 0. 1877. NO. .">!'. ' your bunk which broke it ami forced ruin upon you.' "And what would you, now that I am ruined?' inquired llie other, with the deadly calmness ol desperation. "Now that I have had my revenge, I want you to know that I myself am tho man you attempted to murder and did rob. 1 am Philip Sydney. Heboid the scar where the ball struck and glanced," and ho lifted his hat and showed it. "(*od be praised!' ejaculated the Other, "(iod be praised that you are still living!" and unable to restrain his emotion he buisl into tears. "Oh. sir,' ho continued, you have taken a load ofl my conscience?a weight from my soul. Though poverty, beggary, disgrace and death are staring mo in the lace, I am happy in tho knowledge that I am not guilty of murder?hap pier than I have been lor twenty years with all the luxurious surroundings of Wealth. It was my first aod last crime, and I have never been able to tell bow I was tempted on tbot fearful ! occasion. Now, sir, do with me as you w ill ? only, 1 pray you, bo ineroij.. ? . : ... . r ; ii iui iu my iiuiuocm. lainiiy. "I forgive you,' returned the other, extending his hand. "I forgive you. You have been fearfully punished already. As God has seen proper to w*ervc us hot It together, U't us hope it is for our present and future salvation, and let us endeavor so to live as to deserve the blessings we receive. 1 will restore you enough to place you and your family above want; ami for the rest, I trust we shall both retneiu her we shall soon have to rentier an account of our stewardship iu another world.' Philip Sydney kept his word, and with a fresh start in the world, and now an easy conscience, the still enterprising Stephe n lvlwaids accumulated another respectable fortune, much o! which lie spent in charity. Philip Sydney died in 1848, and Stephen Kdwards in 1851. Ih not truth indeed stranger?stranger than fiction? D - - - i. - - - - ??? A SUA IIP SFA CAIM'AIN. How the Schooner Bniacoa Han Away from an Unreasonable Fine Imposed In a SpunIsh Harbor?Inefficiency of the Uunboal S)st4?ni?A Courteous Salute at Parting. The Secratary of Stale liaa received a disiiateli from the I'nileH Stun* Conaul hL San Juan, Porto Rico, stating that. on 10th of November the Hchooner Haracoa, ol Boolltbay, Maine, mailed from the port of Ponce, Porto Rieo, without, clearance paper*, and while being guarded hy a Spanish gunbwad to secure the payment of a fine imposed on her by the Spanish authorities lor an alleged error in his manifest. It seems that the captain of the schooner, Mr. MoClinlock, had been fined bj the Collector ?f Custom* at Ponce in the sum of $1,300, Spanish coin, for having on Ins muni, lest only one-half weight ol 100 barrels of flour, and one-half weight also of 100 Vnrrel* of corn meal. The number of paekiges was plainly put doww in the manifest in figures and writing and the cargo all discharged and delivered in strict conformity with the hills of laden, plainly showing that no fraud had been premeditated. . A PKRKMTTORY I>FCMAN7>. There was no moie of settling the unfortunate mistake except by paying the Hue iinposen, alter winch the oiticials stated I hut the captain and consignee* could petition for the money to bu reimbursed as much as tluy The marine cable being cot by order dnring the time, tho captain could not receive any answer to three messages that he had sent to the owners in lhe United States asking for the necessary funds or security to 1 liberate his trssel and enable him to t clear his schooner no as to proceed on hia voyage. Ho requested the custom house officials to he patient, as he intended to pay the tine. On Saturday, the 15th of November, the authorities requested that the schooner be hauled uo alongside tha Hnanish is uu bout. ? t n ; r nt 1 which was done. TilK OFFICIALS IMPAlUtNT, , It appeared that on that day the custom-house officers got impatient and hungry to touch their share (one 1 halt) of the proceeds of the tine, and intimidated that an immediate demand would be made for the payment, hfhI in case said demand wan not complied with they would take the schoonot * and have her sold. Mr. Preston, the Consular Agent at Ponce, on being , { informed ol the threat, wrote to ilu [ | Consul at Porto Kico, staling that lit I could not believe such a proceeding , would be undertaken, but that ot \ I ^ \ liit i 1 s l'j S1 i'j i, . ; In*, iw-d at tI,CK> per Mjuaro for ti ?t, un I II) ? nt? lot ?-acli >?il??'<j'U'iit Insertion. One Jt'? li sj a> s u|il coiLStltllte A *yii?' \ hot lid* iii Om*iit?i .lispla> lc.? lhau in hu ll will be *"Ik??u* ?J t??r a* a squate. Marriiigc notices lice. Dentin* and l-'tuiflHl notices free, ltclighms notices of one square free. A liberal discount will be nnu'e to Mioss ivkoso advertisements aie to bo kept in toi brcn months 01 longer. meeting tho collector lie was given i<? utidemand that tho schooner aoiiM ho wold, and it was suggested that a good way would be to give the vessel up without titty trouble. Tho Consular Agent replied tl?at tho collector could take the vessel whenever he wished, as he had force enough (th?i gunboat lying alongside^ilie schooner) to go on beard, hut the agent Milled to the ollicer that he won 1.1 never ? asent to have tho .schooner given up without strongly piuli sling, and tirg I that lime should he given the tno?.?>c In eotninu nicale with the owiu-ia. The t\.|lector said that it was now hot set down what time s iould l?e given, and that the Consular Agent would bo abusing his position as a r? prcscntulive ol his nation by putting any hindrance to their intended proceedings. Ho then, ^consented to give three days more, T1IIS HCIIOON Kit HU.NH AWAT. On the 27th the Consul received an oflicial communication trom Mr. I'rc*lou advising him ot the tact ot lh? sailing ot' the schooner. In a private letter Mr. Preston informed the Consul that the scho ?ner inust Bhave slipped her chains at half past eleven o'clock a. in., weni ot! like a bird, and before the astounded and dumslruck olVicials on the gunboat could collect their sense. She gotgull sail set, and was thryc unleajaway in the briefest possible time. As she went of!" she I sprung her lull and saluted the port I vl'itli linr i. j i i.. ........ . ' ? .vii iiv.% * v/iiw? i mi vv viuicn inicr, The gunboat wan tnil in chase h? noon ah slie^oouldjget up steam, .but the schooner wua out ol sight in a very short time. A IIAKD CASK. The Consul states that t he case o( the liaraooa is a particularly hard one, the cargo having been delivered ,'ui strict accordance wiih tlic bills o( lading, the mistake in the maniiest having been made by the broker or the shipper, and.tlie vessel should not have, been lined. Tuo captain, being port owner of the schooner, which was a new vessel, and not being able to stand her loss, probably determined to take the respoinobil ty and.clear oil* with her to save her Hum being seized. In a subsequent correspondence with the Governor-General the United Slates Consul slated that in no manner was theJUnited & lie* responsible lor the action ol the oapiain, as there was not the slightest suspicion that he intended running away, and now having done so he is alone responsible. The Governor-General intnuaied that bad tailh had been manifested in the proceedings toward the government, which the United States ^Consul din* claimed"iii a lilting manner.?New York lit raid, A Thrilling Scene. [San Franei.vo Chronicle.) "Not lar from thirty thousand cavalry were in hue. A little child?a little trirl?ol no ffitil'l* I Itltn fAii* I years, standing iujthu Iront row of , spectators,? either iroui Iright or hoini j oiher cftnnL', rushed out into the ope* field just an a tqoudrou ot hussars I came sweeping around tro.u^tho main body. They had mud. l ie detour tor the purpose ol saluting ilie Kinpress wmo*d carriage was diawn up in thai part <?i the parade ground. Down came the tlying squadron, charging at a mad gallop ?down dire Hy upon too chiiu. The mother was pa rat y /.ed, as were others, tor there coul I be no reseu > ! froin the Line^ol'sp -eiaiors. 1'lie 10m; press uttered a|ci'j ot horror, lor im I child's instruction seem uievitahU? aud such terribl destrunion?the . trampling to death '>y a thousand iron boots. Directly nil lor the loot ol the horses was the little one ?another instant must seal its loom?when a stalwart hussar, who was in the Iront line, ! w ithout Jilackenrisg ins speed, or ioos' citing fiirt hold, Ihivw himself over hr J the side ot Ins horse's neck, sei/.cil and ; lilted the ohiI i, an I placed it in sale ! upon t>is saddle-biw; and litis lie did without changing his pace or breaking | the correct alignment ot the squadron. ! Ten thousand voices hailed with rap uuuun i?ppi>IU?e IIIH g M'rtlll/ U?e<7, Uml , other thousands applauded when they kuew. I wo women thmo were w!io con hi t sob Jforth their grant.il in bn>k ii accents?the mothor and anil the Empress. And a proud and a i a happy moment must it have been b>r | the hnaaar when hi* Emperor, taking : Irorn hie own breast the richly enameled cross oi the Order ol Maria There, aa, hung it upon the breast ol his brave 1 | and gallant trooper." i A blacksmith was summoned to a 1 p.rnntrv ennrt. n? * nitnutu in a /Ii* . m j bat ween two of his workmen. the i Judge after hearing the lenitnony, a*kI 1 ed linn why he did not a<J viae them to nettle, a* the costs had already atnnunI ted to three times the disputed miiu. I lie replied, "I told lha foole to nettle; * tor I waid the clerk would take thair 1 coma, lawyers thair nhirte and if they [ got into ifour'a conn you'd akin 'eiu," ? Tocelebale Queen Victoria's aeaump; lion ot new title, i5,U88 good-oaduct i prisoocirt were liberated