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- f traps ami J arts. ! ? Honest John Patterson once boasted that there were five years of good stealing in South Carolina. Colonel Francis Hatton, ; late of the Postoffice Department, observes ! "the more we read of the Ohio election I the more firmly convinced are we that! the bloody shirt is good for another decade." ? Wisconsin and Alabama have the same | density of population, yet the value of tend averages $28.30 in Wisconsin and $4.19 in Alabama. Commenting on this discrepancy, Professor Dodge says: "It is not merely population, but a harmonious development of industry, that makes the difference." -Ex-First Assistant Postmaster General Malcom Hay, appointed under President Plovolan^ of his rocirlonno in Allorrhn tv?muu) v?4vv4 ?.? v illu avut^tvuvv 1u aa44v^*1m i ny City, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. His tenure of office was comparatively short, j owing to ill health, but he managed to win the good will of all who knew him in Washington, Democrats and Republicans alike. ? The Democratic majority in the next House of Representatives will be forty three. The majority in the last Congress was seventy five. Forty-three is sufficiently large for all practical purposes, and will result, perhaps in more careful and thoughtful legislation than a larger marjority would. Big majorities in legislative bodies are not always good things. ? From six to twenty bridal couples visit the White House daily. The President has resolved to revive a custom once prevalent there, and to present a few choice flowers to each bride that calls upon him. The necessary orders have been given at the conservatory, but it is not known how the custom will be carried out. In former times the brides had to inform the President that they were brides. ? The Democratic papers of Virginia say that Mahone is making the biggest effort of his life in this campaign to carry the legislature and secure his re-election to the Senate, and warn the Democrats, that if they would beat him they must work and poll a big vote on election day. Billy is small in stature, but there is a good deal of him when it comes to work and push and devilment on general principles. ? About 4,000 immigrants entered the State of California during the month of rv> Ka?? rtf fV?acjq lirKl a ocpiciiiuci. i lie uuuiuci ui iiiu^e nuu came to purchase land was nearly equal to those who settled on Government land. It is asingular'and somewhat unexpected occurrence that the present depressed condition of business and agriculture in New Zealand has induced many people from that colony to immigrate to California. The majority want small farms and have means for a start od a moderate scale. ? Dan May, the 12-year-old son of the Rev. D. May, of the North Carolina Conference, and Herbert Clark, the 11-year-old son of Robert Clark, of Laurenburg, N. C., went hunting near that town last Friday. On their return home Clark, in a playful mood, pointed his gun at May and threat ened to shoot. The gun went off accidentally and the contents lodged in May's face, inflicting terrible wounas. One eye was shot out and part of his cheek-bone was torn off. May is in a critical condition, but may recover. ? A lovely Creole girl, only sixteen years old, is on trial at Emporia, Kansas, for murdering her husband, a man much older than herself, who had been married twice before. She is believed to be innocent and is thus described: "Tall, of slender, but well developed build, and graceful carriage. Her hair is black, long and wavy, clustering around the temples in knots and rings. Her eyes large, black and expressive, with long, sweeping lashes, delicate nose and rather pouting lips of perfect cut. Her complexion is phenomenal, of waxen whiteness, and perfect rose-blush on her cheeks." She will be acquitted. Jurors are but men. ? J. Herbert Blake died at San Antonio, Texas last Sunday afternoon. The dceased had been living there since September last, having left Ireland on account of threats made against his life. He was a barrister of high standing in Dublin and a member of the Irish land commission. It was on account of his action while one of the commission that his life was endangered, he kovtfnfv rlnnrn nnnn Kimoolf tho turofh un V lug VOrlltU uvnu U J/V/U UIUJUVH W?v 11 <MVH of the Irish dynamiters. He was a first cousin of Thomas Burke; who was assassi nated, together with Lord Cavendish, in Phoenix Park by the Irish Invineibles. ? A Fort Worth, Texas, dispatch of Saturday says: Reports reached here last night from Clarendon, Donely county, and other points in the upper Pan Handle, of the most devastating prairie fires ever known in this State. It is believed that the number of acres burned over will approach 500,000. The country in which the fires are | raging extends from the Canadian River 1 100 miles south. It is impossible as yet to give an idea of individual losses. In some places cowboys were obliged to ride into the lakes to save themselves. Judge Brown, of Clarendon, was severely burned while endeavoring to save his summer crop of millet, which was destroyed. Fully one- : fourth of his range was also destroyed. ? The problem of steering a balloon has at length been solved. Two French teronauts MM. Renaud and Krebs, ascended from Paris recently( in the presence of the minister of war and a large concourse of people. They guided a balloon toward indicated land-marks, made head against the wind, and, after these evolutions, returned to the place whence they started. We are not told whether any special conditions of air attended the trial; but if aerial travel can be organized and the balloon guided, it ushers in great probabilities. New countries can be explored from above, many now impassable tracts surveyed, and possibly even the north pole itself investigated. ? An Ottawa dispatch of Friday says: At a Cabinet meeting yesterday afternoon it was decided to postpone Riel's execution till November 11th. The French Canadians still express confidence that Riel will not be hanged. They base their hopes on the recommendation to mercy of the Regina jury. Referring to the decision of the Privy Council in the Riel appeal case, the Toronto Mail says: "The only plea now left to Riel's friends is one of insanity, but as the jury, which is the sole judge of such questions, could not be convinced that Kiel did not know that he was doing wrong, it follows that the verdict cannot now be charged on the ground of prisoner's insanity, unless new evidence has in the meantime come to light. Such a thing it is not pretended has happened, and we presume the sentence of the court will be duly carried out, and Riel will be executed for his crime." ? The skies of south-eastern Enrope again look ominous and war seems not far distant. Information from the seat of the trouble is indefinite, but the best authorities declare that the Servian troops are massing at Nissa, a city near the Bulgarian frontier, and that the Turks are advancing to meet them. Serviacau hardly be opposed to the union of Bulgaria and ltoumelia, but is probably ready to assist the Bulgarians against the opposition of the Turks to the union. In this event, she will, of course, ; receive a benefit in the shape of an addition | to her territory. Should there be an actual war, the consequences to the world in gen- ; eral would be inconsiderable, could the fighting be confined to the states immedi- i ately interested. But the relations among the states of Europe brought about by the eastern question are so delicate that a war at this time in the Balkan states might result in a general conflict. ? In Atlanta, last week, Charles Rose was convicted of burglary for which he has been sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. Rose has had a singular history. Eighteen months ago his wife, Jennie, was found shot to death in her home. Nancy Frazer, a cousin, was the only inmate of the house with her. Suspicion fell on Charley who was known to be intimate with Miss Frazer and Miss Clara Suggs. The women were arrested also, but sufficient evidence could not be found against them, i Four months later Miss Frazer died, alleging that Rose was guilty of the murder of his wife. A week later Miss Suggs took morphine and before death told her companions that Rose killed his wife and that she helped him. The robbery of the | Richmond & Danville pay car followed, of which Rose was undoubtedly the hero, ; but sufficient evidence could not be secur- j ed. He followed this by the burglary of1 a railroad freight car. The last offence was the burglary of Bieser's saloon, and he was only convicted because he was found in possession of the goods. His career is now ended. She ?oehviUe (Sjnquim. YORK VI I.LE. S. C. : THURSDAY HORNING, OCTOBER 29,;i885. THE EDGEFIELD LYNCHING. The two men, Elam and Burnett, implicated in the Culbreath lynching, who escaped from Edgefield jail soon after their incarceration, were re-arrested last week by Sheriff Ouzts in Lincoln county, Ga., and have been again lodged in jail. Seven additional arrests have been made in Edgefield, making thirty-four now in jail charged with participation in the crime. On Thursday the Sheriff of the county was arrested by Coroner Johnson under a warrant charging him with official misconduct in permitting and ah owing prisoners to escape. The sheriff gave bond for his appearance at Court. Two prisoners, Collier Hammond and Reuben Johnson, were granted permission on Weduesday night to go to their respective homes under charge of a constable, the party to return on Thursday. For this offence another warrant was issued against the sheriff, charging him with maliciously permitting prisoners to escape. He was again arrested and again promptly gave bail. In reference to the wholesale arrests in Edgefield in connection with this affair, the Augusta (Ga.) correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier says: It is easy to obtain here the gossip con cerning Edgefield affairs which rarely finds its way into print. The all-absorbing topic in Edgefield at this time is the lynching of Culbreath, and it must be admitted that the statements which are made, in Augusta, upon the subject change materially the aspect of the deplorable affair. It is asserted that Mr. Culbreath treated his wife with the utmost brutality after her father's death, and that his conduct was so offensive to the people of the county that it is surprising that he was not lynched at an earlier day. Among his other, offences, it is said, that in a drunken fit, he lashed his wife severely with a buggy whip, and when remonstrated with by her mother lashed that lady in the same way. As a consequence of his behavior, a separation took place. Mr. Culbreath, however, continued a surveillance over his wife's actions and without any reason whatever was furiously jealous. As is known, Mr. Hammond was assasinated in the yard of Mrs. Culbreath's house where he had gone at the request of her son to remain for the night. One of my informants says that he knows it to be a fact that Mr. Culbreath caused Hammond to be assassinated, and that he was as much the assassin as though he had actually pulled the trigger. This at all events, was believed in the county and was the immediate cause of the lynching. The people of the county felt that such conduct should be tolerated no longer, and they unwisely took the law into their own hands. An Edgefield man whom I talked with said, with great emphasis, that he held that lynching was never justifiable, but if ever it was to be justifiable it was so in Culbreath's case. There are now in Edgefield jail more than thirty persons who are accused of participation in the lynching. The accommodations are altogether insufficient, and the prisoners are threatened with disease by reason of the condition of the buildings in which they are confined. They did not apply for bail, but have suffered severely already, and their suffering is not in their confinement alone. The accused form the bulk of the adult male population of two or more townships in Edgefield county. They are taken away from their plantations at a busy season of the year, and in their absence it is impracticable to control the colored laborers, who are filching the cotton from the fields right and left. It is asserted in all seriousness that many families will be deprived of bread and meat by the arrest of the accused, all of whom, it is said, are ready to give bail to any amount that may be required. I give these statements in order that the public may know what is said by those who are acquainted with the lynchers, and who feel that the act was so nearly justifiable that there is no reason to keep' the accused in jail, and who maintain, further, that the facts to be developed before the grand jury or in open Court will satisfy the public mind that no great wrong had been done. When it is urged that the Courts should have been resorted to. it is shown that the original offences of Culbreath could not have been made the subject of a judicial investigation without a public scandal. As regards the assassination of Hammond there is a feeling, I am sorry to say, that whatever the evidence, Culbreath would not have been convicted, and that lynch law was the only law that would meet his case. The accused are said to be highly respectable, iudustrious and well-behaved citizens, who would never, save as a last resort, be guilty of an act of violence of any kind. All this is given to the public without comment, and in order that they may know what is the opinion held by those who claim to be familiar with the facts of the case. Senator But leu Speaks in Connecticut.?The exercises of the Delta Kappa exposition convention were held in Middleton, Connecticut, on Thursday evening. Ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts, deln'orn/1 flia npociilcmf cwlrlroce i'nlfntl Ji ? vi^Vi HIV ^ivouivut iy uvtuivwigi vu>t\.u States Senator Butler, of South Carolina, was the orator. He said he had no conception until within six or seven months of what it was to be in accord with the Federal government, and one result was that he had had no time to prepare an address, because he had been hounded by officeseekers. lie had two things to say, though. One was what was illustrated by the same platform?that the star of freedom had risen for this country. He alluded to the institutation of slavery, which until a few years ago held the North and South apart and made a dividing line for men who mijfht agree on all other matters. It is the mission of such a society as this, he said, to develop the kind of fellow feeling which knits the country together. "Slavery is gone, and I am glad of it. 1 feel that I am myself liberated. This country is too great; there are too many interests bound up in it for it to be despaired of. It is far in advance of all other countries in all that relates to real, genuine liberty. Whatever danger exists can only be dispelled by universal education." A Proposed Ticket.?The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle writes: "The temporary suspension of the 'new deal' cry does not prevent political I predictions of future results. The following ticket is said to be among the possibilities: Governor, Hon. John Peter Richardson; Lieutenant-Uovernor, Hon. 1). S. Ilender-1 son; Secretary of State, Hon. J. X. Lipscomb; State Treasurur, Hon. W. C. Coker; i comptroller uenerai, non. w . i\. otoiiey ; Attorney General, Hon. Stanyarne Wilson; | Adjutant and Inspector General, A. M. Manigault; Superintendent of Education, J Hon. A. Coward. On the subject of the approaching campaign in this State the Augusta A'reniw/ j Aewwsays: Politics in South Carolina seem ! at a very low ebb just now. There is very [ little talk in the newspapers about the "new j deal" of which so much was said a short time since. The idea appears to be that Governor Thompson will be his own successor and that most of the State officials will be retained in office. ! Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, October 2G.?The Circuit Court re-convened at this place on last Tuesday. The first case tried was that of Mrs. George Wilks, vs. J. J. and J. B. Stringfellow. The issue involved embraced the claim by the plaintiff for the recovery of the value of four bales of cotton which the defendants bought at a Sheriffs sale. The plaintiff was represented by Hon. G. J. Patterson, the defendants by W. A.Sanders, Esq. The jury found in favor of the defendant. The next case was that of Wheedbee and Dickerson, of Baltimore, vs. Donald Mc Cauley. Tiie piaintins were representeu by Mr. G. W. Gage, the defendants by Messrs. McLure &McLure. The suit sprung out of soine shipments of cotton made by the defendants to the plaintiffs. A verdict was rendered in favor of the defendant. On Wednesday morning the first case tried was that of Elizabeth Aiken, colored, vs. James Johnson. The plaintiff was represented by W. A. Sanders, Esq., the|defendants by Messrs. Hemphills & Brice. A difference of opinion in regard to the ownership of a small piece of ground led to the lawsuit. The land in dispute is said to be of very poor quality and hardly worth the cost of litigation. The jury found in favor of the defendant. The case of Cynthia Agurs vs. J. M. Ilobinson tfc Bro. was then tried. This was a suit for the recovery of damages which the plaintiff alleged to have sustained in the forcible taking by the defendant on the public highway of goods, to satisfy a debt of the plaintiff's husband. The plaintiff was represented by Mr. J. J. Heiripell, the defendant by Mr. W. B. Wilson, Jr. The jury found for the plaintiff, the verdict being$410 in the way of damages, and $90 for the payment of the goods taken. On Thursday morning the case of Walker vs. T. C. Worthy, was tried. This was a suit to recover a balance alleged to be due to plaintiff by the defendant for painting a house. Messrs. McXeel & Henry, were the attorneys for the plaintiff, and Messrs Hemphills and Brice the attorneys for the defendant. A verdict was rendered in favor of plaintiff. All the jurymen were then discharged. The rest of the time of the Court was spent in giving orders, and transacting such business as could be done with out a jury. The South Carolina Synod met in the Presbyterian Church at this place on Wednesday evening. The retiring Moderator, Rev. J. S. White, preached the opening sermon, and it was a splendid effort. At the close of the religious exercises the Synod was organized by the election of Rev. W. W. Mills Moderator, and Rev. W. A Gregg, Assistant Clerk. At the meeting on Thursday morning committees were appointed. A communication was received from Rev. Dr. Woodrow asking that Synod do not concur in the late action of the directors of the Theological Seminary was read. It was referred to the committee on Seminary. Rev. J. K. Hazen, D. D., of Richmond, Secretary of the Board of Publication and Rev. M. H. Houston, D. D., Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, then delivered addresses. The Synod, through the Moderator, then took leave of Rev. R. E. McAlpine, missionary to Japan. On Thursday night the reports of the different presbyteries were read to the Synod. The report of Bethel Presbytery did not show a good condition of the different churches. The members were charged with not coming up with the required standard of spirituality. The sessions of the Synod on Friday morning, afternoon and evening, were devoted to the Woodrow matter. At a late hour on Friday evening a vote was taken on the majority report of the Committee on Seminary, which disapproved of the action of the Board of Directors of that institution in removing Dr. Woodrow. The majority report was sustained by a vote of 59 to 80. Dr. Woodrow's friends were greatly pleased at the result of of the vote. Drs. Adger and Morris led the debate for, and Drs. Giradeau and Mack against Dr. Woodrow*. The Synod spent Saturday morning in observing the centennial exercises of the establishment of organized Presbyterianism in South Carolina. An ode commemorative of the occasion and composed by the Rev. Dr. Vedden, pastor of the Huguenot Presbyterian Church, of Charleston, was read with fine effect by that distinguished gentleman. An address was then delivered by the Rev. Dr. Thompson, giving the history of the First Presbyterian Church of Charleston. Rev. J. H. Saye commenced an address in reference to the origin and subsequent history of the Waxhay Presbyterian Church, but for want of time, the address was not Concluded. For the same reason a proposed address by the Rev. George Summey in regard to the founding of Puritv Church, in this county, was indefinitely postponed. Rev. Dr. Giradeau delivered portions of an address that he had prepared for the centennial celebration. On Saturday afternoon the question as to the approval of the action of the Board of Directors of the Seminary in witholding a balance of $300 of the salary of Rev. Dr. Boggs was discussed. The action of the Board was not sustained. Rev. Dr. Mack spoke in behalf .of the Board. Rev. Mr. Law spoke in opposition to their action. At the session of the Synod Saturday evening matters in relation to the Columbia Theological Seminary were discussed. Rev. Dr. Morris was elected a director of that institution in place of Rev. Dr. Mack, and Hon. Adger Smythe was elected a director in place of Rev. Dr. Frierson. The Synod adjourned siue die Saturday night. On Sunday ministers of that body preached at the different churches of our town. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cousar, of our town were afflicted last week in the loss of an infant child. Mrs. Rachel Fudge, of the neighborhood of Richburg, died suddenly last week. The Clerk of the Court of this county will sell a considerable amount of land on the first Monday of next month. Persons desiring to purchase land will have a good opportunity at that time. The town clock is completed. The bell strikes the hours with regularity. The Chester Luminaries, assisted by Miss Esther Gunhouse, of Chester, and Miss Zoraida Ingold, and Mr. R. J. llerndon, of Yorkville, will give a vocal and musical entertainment at this place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings of Fair week. The entertainment will be splendid and will please all who attend. .m. A Growing Sentiment.?TheXew Orleans Times thus discourses on the progress of Southern industries and the recognition they are now gnding elsewhere: "There is a growing unanimity of sentiment in regard to Southern progress that is having a wonderful effect already upon material movements and prospects. The leading literary journal of Illinois contains in a late issue a long and careful statistical paper devoted to Southern progress, and the truth of the situation is being laid before the whole American people as it has been never before. If anything there is a sentiment even approaching credulity as to the wealth and availability of Southern resources that might perhaps afford danger of a "boom" were it not for the extreme sobermindedness of the people at the present time?as one result of the recent depression. When one remembers the complete disbelief that met early statements of the cost of Southern pig iron, it seems rather refreshing to read the investigation of a Western editor who claims to have visited the section for that purpose, and who ' i - i* .1 asserts that iron can oe inane lor seven uuilars per ton. That figure is even more of a cut to the feelings of our Pennsylvania friends than we had yet had the heart to administer, but it is not far from the truth, perhaps. With steady and ceaseless movement the industries of the South are gliding on to that point where the centre of each must be located South of Mason and Dixon. As the great interests of iron and cotton, the change bids fair to come wihtin a few years." A Clock Peddler Tied Up and Whipped.?A short distance from Lancaster, last Tuesday, says the Charlotte Observer of the 23rd, a white man who had been peddling clocks was tied up and severely whipped by two young men for an insult given to a | young lady. It seems that the peddler had visited Lancaster county a few months ago, selling clocks at exorbitant prices. His customers being mostly negroes, he took what money they could give him and then made them secure the balance by mortgage on cows, hogs or anything else that the poor negroes had. Last week he returned to Lancaster to collect these mortgages, and while riding through the country stopped at a house where he found a young lady alone. He was very forward in his conduct and unblushingly offered her an insult, whereupon she ran from the house to a lield where her two brothers were at work and told them of what had occurred. They hurried to the house, but finding the man gone they mounted their horses and put out in pursuit of him. It was not long until they came up with him, when they pulled him from his buggy, tied him with a line, and throwing the line over the limb ^ - x xi ?n?i i ?? 4-11 m u irvu inuy puucu imn up unui jic hj>toed the ground, pulled off his coat and then larruped him soundly. The clock peddler begged pitifully, offered to give them one hundred dollars, beside his horse and buggy, if they would not whip him, but the inducements did no good. They gave him one hundred lashes, and he was then permitted to move on?a sorer if not a wiser peddler. The Railroad.?From the Shelby New Era of last Friday we learn that the engineers of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company last week finished the plans, profiles and estimates for the section of the Atlantic and North Western Railroad between Forest City and Shelby. On Monday they laid off a preliminary line to connect the northern end of the line from Black's which terminates in the Jennings land, to the eastern end of the line to Rutherfordton which ends near Mr. Chapel Hendrick's residence. The line crosses Warren street east of Mrs. Ware's residence. To-day the corps was engaged in running a preliminary line from Chanel Ilendrick's through Hopper's Park. This line will be used in the event of the road's going to King's MoKrntain. Work upon the grading between Rutherfordton and Forest City is progressing finely. Col. R. A. Johnson, general manager of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company, arrived in Shelby on Friday, after visiting Charleston, Sumter ana unester. His cheerful face was heartily greeted by the citizens of Shelby, who expect news whenever he arrives. On Friday Col. Johnson left via Grover for Washington where he hafl appointments. From there he goes north to attend the annual meeting of his company on the 21st instant. He will return about November 1st. Col. Johnson has been indefatigable in his efforts in the South where he has met with great success. On Saturday Major Jones left Shelby for Washington where he was to meet Col. Johnson when both were to attend the meeting mentioned above. He is expected to be back on Sunday. His return is eagerly looked for here, as it is known that he will then push forward work very rapidly. On Sunday, sixteen mules and carts arrived in Shelby from the North via Grover. They are intended for use on the Carolina Central Railroad. Work upon the extension of this road to Piney Ridge has been going on steadily. Migration of Squirrels.?A Memphis, Tenn., letter says: Where the million of squirrels ever came from, or what extent of country could ever produce so many, is the question now being discussed by the citizens of the upper end of De Sota county, Mississippi, and those living in the lower edge of Crittenden county and the northern part of Lee county, Arkansas. They are emigrating, but for what purpose has not yet been decided, for the country they are leaving, which is on the east bank of the Mississippi river, seems to be well supplied with the nuts they most delight to crack. Perhaps they are hunting higher land, as the direction they are taking would seem to indicate such a purpose. The memory of past overflows of the Mississippi bottoms and the trouble of subsisting during high water must be anything but pleasant, even to squirrels. They seem to have crossed and are still crossing the Mississippi river between Norfolk Landing, about twentyfive miles below Memphis, and DeSoto P'ront, Miss., which is only five miles south of this city. They are all going over to the Arkansas side of the river, and making for Crowley's Ridge. The inhabitants of that section are killing them by the hundred with sticks, aS the squirrels have lost all fear of man. A gun is not needed and would be in the way. In several instances they have attacked hunters. Their number is far beyond all calcution, and pot hunters are traveling with them in wagons, slaughtering and then driving to the nearest depot, and shipping them to Memphis and other markets. Last Saturday I)r. Peters, who resides in Lee county, Arkansas, killed thirty-eight around his wood pile with a stick. A similar emigration of squirrels occurred in 1872. They crossed the Mississippi river from the east bank of the Mississippi side over to the Arkansas side, at or about the same point. SkifTmen at that time killed thousands of them while swimming the river. The emigration this year exceeds all previous ones, and is almost beyond computation. + -? A Murder at a Marriage.?A terrible tragedy was enacted at a wedding which took place at the house of Thomas Stone, an old resident of upper Richland, who lives about fourteen miles from Columbia, not far from the Mount Pleasant campground. A large company had assembled to witness the marriage of Ed. Hartin, a young man of about 22 years, who was raised in the neighborhood, and Miss Eugenia P'etner. Among the guests was Thomas Wade Hampton Stone, Jr., a son of the old man at whose house the wedding was celebrated and who had invited his son to be present. Between young Stone and Hartin, it is said, bad blood existed for some time past, and threats had been made by the Latter that he would kill Stone. After the wedding, and probably before, according to immemorial custom in that section, whisky was freely imbibed by most of the company and Hartin became involved first in a fight with two of the guests and afterwards in a dispute with another, when young Stone I came forward to prevent a difficulty. Hart in drew his pistol ana snot rscone, me mm entering the left cheek, just under the eye, and coming out at the back of the head. Hartin then emptied his pistol at another of the guests. Stone fell dead, the company who witnessed the murder scattered in consternation, and in the confusion Hartin mounted a horse and escaped. It is said that the shot was intended by Hartin for the man with whom he was disputing at the time of Stone's interference, and that the killing of the latter was an accident. Stone was a young "rrian about 32 years of age and leaves a wife and three children.? Columbia licyisfcr, Friday. Work for Democrats.?In a few weeks England, for the first time in her history, will have a Democratic suffrage. The questions with which the English Democrats have to grapple are free education, land law reform, England's foreign policy in Asia and Egypt, and last, and chief, Ireland. The questions with which our American Democracy have to grapple are the rights of the individual, now overriden by corporations; the claims of labor, now making themselves heard on every side; the simplification of legal procedure, that shall reopen the gates of justice to the people; the rights of farmers, now the prey of a cruel tariff; the claim of every American citizen to his share of the public domain ; the relaunching of the American navy, and, lastly, those legacies of Kepublican misrule, the huge monopolists who have used the tariff to kill off competitors; the railroad kings with their feudal land grants; the I cattle lords, who have walled up our West! ern water fronts and turned States into private pastures. The gulf between our two great parties I that recently came so close together has alj ready begun to grow broad and deep. The hopes of the people gather round the DemI / /l -\t -1 r . T. CO,.,. j ocratic nag.?nnv j one nun . Important Decision.?In the Richland ; Court of Common Pleas, last week, Judge j Hudson decided that under Section 2,037, General Statutes, a married woman cannot bind herself in law unless the contract concerns her seperate estate, or unless, in making it, she intended to charge the payment upon her separate estate, and that the mere fact of her signing the note is not evidence of such intention. When a married woman becomes surety for any one, especially her husband, she miist expressly declare, either orally or in writing, or it must be clearly proven, that she intended to bind her separate estate, otherwise her contract is void. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. A. Darwin?A Plantation for Sale or Lease. J. A. Watson, Clover, S. 0.?For Rent for 188(>. J. \V. Dobson?Notice. C'oinc and See M. Strauss. Riddle & Pegram?General Supplies. J. W. Dobson?Hardware. MeElwee tfc Darwin?A large Supply of Tallow. Hunter A Dates?October U9th. T. B. McClnin A* Co.?Mountain Cabbage. Withers Adickes?Will This Tiling Never Cease. H. F. Adickes?Oram! Central, etc. UNTIL JANUARY 1ST, 1880. We will furnish the Yorkvillk Enquirer from iliis date until January 1st, lS8f>, for 35 cents, the cash, in all cases, to accompany the subscription. BETHEL PRESBYTERY. The Presbytery of Bethel adjourned to meet at Allison Creeek Church on Thursday, November 12th, to receive and install Rev. Roger Martin pastor of Allison Creek and Beth-Slnloh Churches, and to dismiss Rev. .J. Lowrie Wilson, pastor of Bethesda Church, to Abbeville, S. C. DEARTH OF POSTAL CARDS. A scarcity of postal cards is reported from all the smaller towns of the country. It seems that a new contractor undertook to supply the department, which, with the new design adopted at the same time, delayed work until the supply on hand was exhausted, and the contractors cannot catch up. The Yorkvillepostoffiee has.been unable to supply postal cards for several days. INSTALLATION OF A PASTOR. The installation of Rev. J. C. Galloway as pastor of the Yorkvillo and Tirzah Associate Reformed Presbyterian churches, will take place at Tirzah church, 011 Saturday, the 7th of November. Rev. R. A. Ross, D. I)., will preach the installation sermon, propound the constitutional questions and address the pastor. Rev. Mason W. Pressley, of Chester, will address the people. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered on the following Sabbath. RAILROAD ELECTION. The following is the result of the election held in Bullock's Creek township on Saturday last, on the question of subscribing $32,000 by the township to the capital stock of the Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company: For. Agninta. Blairsville, 100 05 Bullock's Creek, 120 10 2fl"> SI 81 Majority for subscription, 214 CHURCH NOTICES. King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. Johnson, Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., next Sunday, at the Shannon-Wallace School House. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M.,and 7.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting at 7.30 P. M., on Thursday. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Preaching at Tenipleton's School House at 3 P. M. Sunday. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate, ' Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., and at 7.30 P. M., on Sunday next, Prayer-meeting on Wednesday at 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at the usual hour. Episcopal?Rev. G. A. Ottmann. Morning service, with the holy communion, on next Sunday at 10.4") A. M. Sunday-school at 3.45 P. M. Evening service at quarter to eight. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services in the church at Yorkvile next Sunday at 11 A. M. Baptist.?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Services at 11 A.M., next Sunday, at Union, and at 7 P. M., in the church at Yorkville. Sundayschool at 3.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. CIRCUIT COURT. Promptly at 10 o'clock last Monday morning the Court of General Sessions for York county was convened, his Honor Judge Kershaw on the bench and Mr. Solicitor McDonald and the other officials of the tribunal at their respective posts of duty. The grand jurors answered promptly to the call of their names as follows: It. T. Riggins, Foreman; W. E. Campbell, J. R. Davidson, J. A. Gill, W. It. Hayes, Andrew Jackson, Joseph F. Love, T. II. Lcsslev, W. C. Latimer, J. G. Minter, J. C. McGill, Felix Quinn, J. J. J. Robinson, W. D. Sherer, S. T. Moore, L. K. Armstrong. The following petit jurors answered to the call of their names : W. F. Patterson, W. D. Gaston, J. T. Spencer, T. M. Whisonant, W. A. Moore, T. H. Allen, Stephen White, W. J. Stephenson, J. C. Blair, R. B. Adams, J. S. Poag, W. X. Elder, J. S. Gourley, W. M. Lucas, W. S. Wilson, F. E. Smith, T. S. Jefferys, F. C. Alexander, C. G. Parish, Giles Crawford, Ben. McCaw, W. S. Barnwell, William Ross, Septimus Massey, J. W. Boyd, A. M. Black, P. B. Xeal, Ben Nance, I). J. Jackson, R. W. Roach, J. B. Ross, J. M. Thomasson, W. R. Lipscomb, J. F. Whisonant. .Mr. uasion was excused, on ms own peuumi, on account of sickness in his family. His Honor declined making any formal charge to the grand jury, inasmuch as they have been charged heretofore as to their general duties, and also because, he said, York is free front the troubles that have recently existed in some of the counties of the State. He said York, is singularly exempt from crime and turmoil of a serious nature, as compared with some other counties, and on this state of atfairs he congratulated the grand ju.y and the citizens of the county generally. The Solicitor handed out a number of indictments, and pending the absence of the grand jury tho cases continued from last term, and the Contingent docket were called. The following cases were disposed of on Monday : State vs. Tom Hill, colored; malicious mischief. Transferred to Contingent docket. State vs. Rufus Rattaree, colored; burglary and larceny. 1Vol pros, entered. State vs. Robert E. Jackson; carrying a concealed pistol. Verdict, not guilty. State vs. Quittman llyers, colored; assault with intent to kill. JVolpros, entered. State vs. John T. Clark; carrying concealed pistol. Transferred to Contingent docket. State vs. William Jackson; carrying concealed pistol. Nolpros. entered. State vs. Jl. O. Jenkins and S. A. Jenkins ; selling liquor without a license ; four cases. Transferred to contingent docket. State vs. George Reckham, colored; murder. Continued, pending appeal to Supreme Court. State vs. David Jackson. Assault and battery of high and aggravated nature. Verdict, guiity. State vs. Calvin Lawrence, colored ; burglary and larceny. Verdict, guilty. State vs. Caff. Hardin, colored ; larceny of live stock Verdict, not guilty. On Tuesday the first case called was that of the State vs. i)avid A. Long, charging him with bigamy. The State was assisted by M r. Spencer and Wilson it Wilson appeared for the defence. The State produced a record consisting of a marriage license and certificate of the marriage of David A.Long, the defendant, to Mary Ann llovis, in Gaston county, X. C., by Jacob Riser, a justice of the peace of that couniv, on the 28th of August, lSTii: and a certificate from the Governor of North Carolina as to Mr. Riser's official relations. Mr. Riser was the first witness called. He ( testified that in August, 1S7G, he held the ollice , of justice of the peace in Gaston county, X. C. He knew David Long, and had known him for four, live or six years previous to 1S7U. On the i 28th of August, 1N7H, witness at his own resi- j deiiee, solemnized the rites of matrimony be- 1 tween David A. Long and Mary Ann no vis. There were several persons present, some of 1 whom witness named. Mary Ann Hovis was a < grown woman, and witness thought that Long ! was eighteen years old?of legal age to marry. License for the ceremony was properly obtained and witness returned it and certificate of marriage to the register of deeds for Gaston conn- ' tv within two months after. Witness had known Mary Ann Ilovis two years before the marriage. ! To his knowledge she was living on the 5th of Juno, 1885. On cross-examination, witness had no reeol- I lection of having told the parties about a year I subsequent to the marriage that the ceremony j was illegal and the marriage void; nor did he give each party a written certificate to that effect. ( W. P. Evans testified that ho lives in York county. In March, 1885, he lived in Rock Hill. He knows David Long, who married Alice Evans, his daughter, in 1885. The ceremony , was performed at his homo by Rev. J. 11. Travwick, oi the M. E. Church, in presence of a lium- ' her of persons. Witness knew Long five months 1 previous to the marriage. Alice Evans is my ] own daughter, and not my step-daughter. ( A. J. Evans testified that he is a brother of Alice Evans, and witnessed the marriage ceremony between her and David A. Long, perforin- . ed by Rev J. B. Tray wick, on the 12th of March, i ISSf..' The State then submitted a memorandum, < agreed upon by counsel, as to what constitutes j legal marriage in North Carolina, under the Stat- . utes of that State and United States Statutes, as follows, viz. : It is admitted that the following ( is the law in North Carolina applicable to this j case: L That a marriage ceremony performed | before a justice of the peace (the contracting parties being eighteen years of age or upwards) | is legal, and if under such age, illegal. 2. That a license is not necessary to the validity of the > marriage, but only subjects the party performing the ceremony to a penalty. The State then rested. David A. Long, the defendant, was first put upon the witness-stand by the defence. He tcs- < Hfiprl that mi flip Sri' nf KpntptniiPr ISTli. lie ran away from his father and went to the house of Michael Pelliuger, in Oaston county. They told him that if he should marry Mary llovis lie would then be free from his father's control. lie < objected, giving as a reason that he was under proper marriageable age. Afterwards he consented and went to the register of deeds for license, which that officer refused to grant. Michael Dellinger, his brother, Mary Ann Hovis : and himself then went to Mr. Riser's, a justice of tho peace, for the purpose of having the marriage ceremony performed. Riser asked for a marriage license, but none was produced to the : knowledge of witness. Witness remained in the neighborhood until 1N80, when he left the State. Mary Ann Hovis was older than he. He returned to North Carolina in 1S81. In the meantime a child was born to Mary Ann Hovis, of which ho thinks he is tho father. Sometime .subsequent to the marriage at Riser's house, Mary Ann Hovis asked Riser if the marriage was legal, and he told her it was not, and gave both he and Mary certificates to that effect. Am a carpenter by trade, and worked at that trade in Rock Hill, from November, of last year, to March of this year. Did not conceal the facts of my marriage with Mary Ann Hovis from the people of Rock Hill with whom I associated. His arrest, after his marriage to Miss Evans, was made upon his own statements. He had told Miss Evans before his marriage to her that he had ran away with Mary Ann Hovis to get married ; but the marriage was not legal. On cross examination he said he told Dr. I Glenn, of Rock Hill, that he thought his mar- , riage to Mary Hovis was performed by a Bap- , tist minister. The reason he attempted to evade arrest in Rock Hill was that he feared the people of the town would do him violence. He got ; out of town, about half a mile from the central part, and wrote a note to Miss Evans, telling ner wnere no was, ana asKing nor 10 come ana see him and he would explain all. The note fell into other hands, which betrayed his whereabouts, and a party come up and arrested him. He-direct?Soon after my arrest I gave bond, and after going to North Carolina for a few days returned to Rock Hill and resumed work at mv trade. A short while after that my bondsman surrendered me, and I have been in jail eyer since. William Long testified that he is the father of David Long. David was born in February, 1801, and left him in August or September, 187(1. Witness knows Mary Ann Hovis. She is older than his son David. Amos Long, a brother of defendant, testified 1 that in 1877 he was at the house of Justiee-of-thePeace Kiser and heard Mary Ann Hovis ask Kiser. if she was legally married to David Long, and Kiser replied that she not lawfully married, and gave both Mary and David a certificate to that effect The defence closed. 1 In reply the State recalled Mr. Kiser, who testified that on last Monday Long's father said to . him that David was about seventeen years old 1 when he was married to Mary Ann Hovis. Miss Alice Evans testified: I know David i Long; was married to him. Previous to our marriage he never said anything about having < ran away with a woman. He never told me \ anything of the kind. He boarded at our house j five months previous to the marriage. After < his escape from town he wrote a note to me, which I sent to Mr. Bona. Johnson, and it led to his capture. After we were married he told me that he came very near being married once be- j fore. We were married on the 12th of March , and he was arrested about the 23rd. Tho State here closed, and after argument < and the charge of the Judge, the jury retired and ( returned a verdict of not guilty. < ??| Correspondence ol" the Yorkville Enquirer. | ? 1 LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, S. C., October 2G.?Mr. B. * M. Fewell, one of Rock Hill's most popular < young men, was married at Greensboro, \ xt r\ rnu ,l?., Af! i> . l^., Uli iiiuiouaj uigiib jam,, ivj xiajoo Anna Caldwell, a beautiful and accomplish- : ed young lady, formerly of Jackson, Ten- < nessee. The ceremony was performed by < Dr. Smith, in the Presbyterian church, which was handsomely decorated. The at- ] tendants were Messrs. E. It. Avery, Frel ( Mobley, Ed. Fewell, T. J. Cornwell, of Rock 1 Hill, and Mr. Percey Grey, of Greensboro, * with Misses Minnie Caldwell, Daisy Don- ] nell, Carrie Caldwell, of Greensboro, and Misses Carrie Hutchison and Minnie Few- * ell, of Rock Hill. Mr. Fewell and his bride s returned to this place on Friday afternoon. * On Friday night they were given an ele- 1 gant reception at the residence of Mr. A. t F. Fewell, where they met their many } friends, who wished them all the happiness * that this world can give. They were the c recipients of many handsome and costly j presents. To-night the young men of Rock J Hill will give a hop in Roddey's Hall, e complimentary to them. c Trial Justice Fewell had several cases 1 before him last week. The first case was ? against Wylie Cureton, colored, for assault ? and battery with intent to kill. The party * assaulted being Green Smith, colored. For c want of evidence the case was dismissed. I Smith at once procured a warrant for Cure- e ton, charged with the same offence, but up a to this time Cureton has evaded arrest. The next case was against John Williams and Wm. Perkins, for breach of trust with rJ fraudulent intent. John Williams failed i: to appear, but Perkins was sent to jail for e thirty days. t The case which attracted the most atten- v tion was that of Geo. Deas vs. R. T. Ratteree. c It seems that ltatterree traded horses with a Deas, and misrepresented the horse. Deas i brought action for $75 damages. lie was t awarded $30 by the jury. t A negro woman who lives on Mr. e G. M. Gulp's plantation, six miles south of t this place, on Saturday last, locked her e three children (the oldest about six years) 1 in her house, and went into the field to s pick cotton. During her absence the house i caught on fire, and when the mother re- l turned she found her children burnt to a [ crisp. This is becoming too common, and it should be made a criminal offence to lock t children in a house alone. 1< Rev. A. P. Pugh, pastor of the Baptist C church at this place, returued from Missis- c sippi on Friday last and preached to his t congregation on yesterday. ? Miss Kitty C. Hall, daughter of Dr. R. T. n 31. Hall, died on Saturday last in the 12th 1 year of her age, and was buried yesterday n in Ebenezer church yard. She was follow- ti ed to her last resting place by a large con- e course of sympathizing friends and a nume- c her of her late school mates. ' t< The cotton crop in this section will not a turn out as well a expected. I heard j \ * fK.if V>rv luul cntron I /? .1 liUIUUl Ull oaiuillilj LIKU lit IKIU i3tiv 11 V tenants, who last year made from ten to ti twelve bales to the horse who would only a make four bales this year. This is to be deplored, considering the low price of the staple. IIal. i - ti ? In the Sessions Court of Spartanburg, last week, David J. Telfair, white, was I convicted of horse stealing and sentenced o to the penitentiary for five years. He con- s: ducted his own defence, and seeming famil- I iar with the usages of courts, attempted fi to quash the indictment by a legal techni- n cality, but the court overruled his motion, tl Before the sentence was announced he j tl stated he was recently from Augusta, but, n had formerly been a'real estate agent in J h Xew York City, and at one time a member j c 3f the bar. | cl - ? ?* id ? In the Abbeville Sessions Court, last1 tl week, a mistrial was ordered in the 'case of; I John C. Ferguson, charged with killing t< Arthur Benedict last Christmas morning, j v rhe jury stood seven for conviction and ji five for acquittal. W. L. Woods was found h lot guilty of the murder of Charlie Carter, h olored, on the plea of accidental shooting, a' SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? It is reported that Col. .las. E. Calhoun, i 90-year-old citizen of Abbeville county, who is a bachelor, is to be married soon. ? The tight rope performer who fell at spartanburg and was reported killed, did not die, but has recovered from his injuries ind is at it again. ? Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, the prima lonna, is a native of South Carolina, having been born in Sumter while her father tiad charge of the academy at that place. ? The Citizen's ticket was elected in Spartanburg over the regular Democratic ticket: Mayor, Joseph Walker; Aldermen, F. M. Trimmier, L. A. Mills, George Lethco, H. A. Ligon, T. A. Irwin, John Boyden. ? Mrs. Nancy King, of Anderson county, has 011 her place a Madeira grape vine which covers an eighth of an acre. Its stalk is about the size of.an ordinary man's body. One year Mrs. King made 73 galI ~ L ' r ? f fKi'o dn/1-ln IOUS UI WllJtt 1IUII1 111U yitriu Ui UllO OIU^IV, vine. It is 40 or 50 years old. ? AV. B. Sapp, of Lancaster county, while on his way home from a corn shucking at J. It. Knight's on Friday night, October 1G, was waylaid by unknown persons, knocked down and 'severely cut with a knife. He received two cuts, one on the arm and one across the breast. ? At the house of a man named Snipes in the lower part of Lancaster county, a few nights ago, a difficulty arose between several parties out of an old grudge, in which Alexander Whittaker snot B. Hancock with a shotgun, inflicting severe wounds in his face and breast. In a subsequent difficulty at the same place John Hane was badly cut in his right arm by some party whose name is not given. ? Hector Mosely has been lodged in Spartanburg jail for the killing of Bert Moss, colored, near Gafl'ney City on the 21st instant. It is claimed that Moss had attacked Mosely several times before, and on the occasion of the killing ad'vanced knife in hand upon Mosely, who was riding a mule. Mosely quickly dismounted 011 the "off" side of the mule and shot Moss through the heart as he approached. ? On the 20th instant, thirteen miles south of Laurens C. H., Wm. Bryson fatally shot J. Kd Crisp with a pistol. Crisp died during the night. The report is that in a dispute about a hog, Bryson called Crisp a liar, and that C'risp took hold of Bryson and was shaking or kicking him, when the latter drew a pistol and fired three times. They were first cousins and of respectable families. Bryson surrendered to the sheriff, and was subsequently admitted to bail by Judge Witherspoon in a bond of $2,000. ? In Spartanburg, last Thursday afternoon, Joe Whitesides, a negro of about 25 years of age, was lodged in jail on the charge of assault and battery upon the nine year old son of Sheriff L. M. Gentry. The prisoner was driving a pair of mules and through great carelessness allowed the wag on to knock the boy down and both wheels pass over his body. There were many witnesses to the dastardly deed and it is confidently expected that it will go hard with the accused. ? In the Spartanburg Court of Sessions last week, before Judge Witherspoon, the case of the State vs. Edward Lipscomb, charged with forgery was hotly contested. The social standing of the parties and the fact that Lipscomb's own sister prosecuted him rendered the case rather a noted one. In 1874 when Mrs. Poole, nee Lipscomb, was quite ill, certain funds under ner control as administratrix were drawn from the Probate Judge's ottice by Edward Lipscomb and receipted for apparently by Mrs. Poole. Edward Lipscomb paid a portion of this money to Mrs. Poole and gave a note for the remainder. Now, ten years afterwards, he is prosecuted for having forged Mrs. Poole's name to the receipt, he having in the meantime failed in business. Mrs. Poole denied having signed the receipt, but several experts on handwriting testified that in their opinion the alleged forged signature was genuine, and an acquittal was secured. MERE-MEXTION. Sheep raising in South Mississippi is said :o have paid about fifty per cent, this season. Paris, Maine, and Stony Point, in Alexander county, North Carolina, are said to be the only two places in this country where mining for gems is systemitically carried on. Salisbury, North Carolina is macademizing its streets with Sold quartz, said to be worth $15 per ton. So faint is the vanishing star in Andromeda that it can now barely be seen. A footing of the official returns Df the Ohio election shows that Foraker has a plurality of 18,1(58 for Governor. Leonard, the Prohibition candidate, polled 28,0(54 votes, and Northrop, the Greenback candidate, 2,963. Bartholdi is coming )ver to superintend the erection of his statue of "Liberty." The mania now in Washington is for bridal couples to call in the President. John Chatham, of Pine Station, Penn., had been on a pro:racted drunk, and being given a pint of i;hiaL-*r rlrnnL- it nflf <1 f > mi In -lnrl foil rlpiwl mmediately afterwards. Some sensa;ion was created in San Francisco by the strike of Chinese workmen in a cigar fac:ory because white men were employed n it. A miner with a naked lamp enered an abandoned portion of a mine in Plymouth, Pa., causing an explosion of gas )y which one man was killed and fourteen )thers frightfully wounded, some fataly. War is now almost certain between England and Burmah. A woman scor:d the highest percentage ever reached in a > :ivil service examination in this country. ;t was 97. While a farmer named Lanier, with his wife, two children and Mrs. >teck, were riding in a wagon in which was en pounds of powder, a spark from a pipe aused an explosion, which killed Airs, zander and mortally wounded all the others. Business failures last week 177 gainst 196 the previous week. The Last of the October States.? [ he adoption of the Constitutional Amendnent changing the time of holding all State lections in Ohio from October to Novemler strips from that State the influence vhich it has exercised by reason of its loal elections, in Presidential years, but is i vast change for the better notwithstandng. No more demoralizing influence has >een felt in American politics, perhaps, hati that which has been exerted by the ilections in the "October States," and by he means employed to carry them. Vottrs have been bought and sold in them, ike sheep in theopen market, until the xeult of the election in one of these States n any Presidential year had to depend alnost entirely upon the size of the cam?aign fund. Ohio is the last State to come down from he auction block where it has stood so ' ong. Pennsylvania made the change from )ctober to November in 1873. Indiana deided upon the change at the spring elecion of 1880, but the Supreme Court of that Itate decided that the amendment had t iot been legally adopted. The election of 880 in that State proved to be one of the lost corrupt in the history of the counry, and the word "soap" then lirst acquird its political meaning. The Legislature hosen that year resubmitted the question d ihe people, and the amendment was dopted by a large majority. Iowa and Vest Virginia have since made the same hange. The corrupt and corrupting Oc:>ber elections are abandoned altogether, nd it is hoped finally.?News and Courier. The Bellixger-Kilev Homicide.? 'lie Charleston correspondent of the Augusi Chronicle, writing last Thursday, says : There are no new developments in the tellinger-Kiley homicide, but any number f rumors. Dr. Bellinger has been very ick since his incarceration, but is better, t is said that he consulted several intimate riends as to whether he must kill Hi ley or ot, and they told him they would do 'it if hey were in his place. This only deepens lie mystery as to the cause, and leaves the atural inference that the offence was a orrible one. Dr. Bellinger, when your orrespondent put the question directly, delined to claim that he killed Riley in selfefence, but simply said,44 You'd have done lie same thing; and any jury will clear me." t is very evident that the doctor will have ) break his long and mysterious silence hen he comes before the Sessions Court < iry. But some who are intimate with him ave declared that he would hang before e would tell why he killed Riley. Taken II in all it is a very strange case.