Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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le {.amblers ro ^been heavy and he was more secure Su his un- at alessexpense. The bitter. Heisley was Ihe Board of Trustees ^resident, which is the Mayor, as he is called. Rv MAYOIt’S HTKOXO STAND. £d that Daly f hen sought to fe usual bargain for the pres ent 'Cbsslon and was astonished by Heisley’s reply that there were no terms on which he could keep his Pennsylvania Club open. Phil Daly is wealthy beyond any ether gambler iu the United States, and all his for tune has been made out of the sum mer residents at Dong Branch within ten years. lie owns not only the beautiful gaming house and grounds, ' on jtho most conspicuous corner along the beach, but bis private residence, with its famous chapel attached, is one of the wonders of the place." He lives thcrethe year round **$4 »P e “ d *» moneyYreely, being cartful that every stroke of work done for him is by a citizen of Branch. By that shrewd fevstuin he has made himself popular r tl/olr villagers, and a majority of cm are on his side. Against him are the summer cottagers, who regard the club as a disgrace to the resort and in hi:; d victiou. sued out a writ ^TUorari, taking the case to the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Just as the defendant was leaving the court room he was arrested upon a charge of assault and battery, made by one of the officers who took i>art in tiie last raid on his house. Daly rode back to the Pennsylvania Club in state this evening. His games are open to those whose gambling in stincts are stronger than their fear of being caught in a raid. wit! tfrei .’ement is against all the r ~ells, from the fine Pennsylvania and cean Clubs to the meanest keno den for negro-waiters, hut Daly, as king of the gamesters, stands the brunt of the t assault. It is in his place that three ^ different sets of heavy players leave ’.heir money in immense quantitieodu- jing the season—the turfmen, who are tmerous at the Branch during the ^lonmouth ParjLTaces; the Vfall street Jre. wHobring down from town very night an appetite for taking the hances which has not been satiated the day’s stock operating, and the .Altitude of prosperous Hebrews, 9 are iu a majority at the tables in Pennsylvania’s gaudy balls. The curious figure in the warfare |n evangelist, Win. G. Wimpfeimer, zealous religionist, who is spending 1 he summer at Ocean Grove, the great I osort of the Methodists. He is a heological student, has labored at ime» with the Salvation Army and Jji not suspected 0 f any selfish motive ■ stripling, with a mild face nwr ibwbeariug, but in a midnight raid by the police on the Peunsylva- nia Club he fiercely waved a revolver as he dashed in among a hundred players and cried: “Surrender, sin ners, surrender!” like any valoious > leader of a forlorn hope on a battle field. He and his band were beaten then by the gamblers, professional and amateur, and they made no prisoners at the time, but Daly was next day arreste^jbr assaulting an officer, and thatwris one of the charges to be dealt rtli in court to-day. Wimpfheimer was an authorized kgent of Mayor Heisley, who had llaced the police offices 'under his cVmpiand. The consequence of the raid was that the Pennsylvania Club h»s been lonesome of nights during tie last week, for the accustomed jiayera feared another incursion and aayed away. As they are said to tsusally lose fully $2,000 a day more fan they win during the short two tenths’ season, the loss to Daly is :y. Cajolery and intimidation * alike been tried onWimpfheimer uake him desist in his crusade, ho has remained firm. Mayor y, too, has steadfastly refused up. KOW DALY WENT TO TKIAL. Phil Daly disports in the only four- i-hand drag now seen at the shoi-e, he coachman is a marvel in uniform fnd a bugler blows his horn high on he rear scat. It was in this equip |ge that lie rode from the dazzling chitecture of the Pennsylvania Club [ifteruoon to the mere little chai- ,il over which Police Justice sits in a dingy chamber. The Fm was already jammed with peo ple, mostly partisans of the gambler, [amblers then began to cheer their lief, but were quieted quickly by the dice. On Justice Morris’ desk lay envelope containing $250 and Jross it was written by him “handei me by a messenger.” Themesseii- Ir would not tell from whom it came ^is money will be handed over to the pyor, who will keep it for any pos- |le claimant and eventually turn ii the jiubli.c :reusury. [•NCt W'iAif’EJIXI.ViKn’tt TESTIMONY iwyors discussed technical legal for thrcj^bouw, but at length Almost -Lynched Though Inno cent. Savannah hews. Attention has frequently been call ed to the danger of innocent personl falling victims to the misdirected indii dation of the populace in cases ofsui marv executions. Circumstam quently seem to point to personi ingguiltyfof terrible criipes.wh] the mqfct patient investigi Jest judg ceuce. bo rire excited and indignant commission of crime are not proper persons to be the judges ancUexecutioners. .S^mo two years ago a man accused of a Shocking assault was lynched at Jaclfsoiiville, 111., circumstances poh^Mkto him as the guilty party. day the rent culprit died, confessing the deed and exculpating the victim that had been murdered by his well-meaning neighbors in their unlawful and almost insane zeal to punish crime. A ease occurred in Texas the other day that should impress the above truths on the minds of the people all over the country. A worthy old citi- zpn of Collin was found in a d3'ing condition and circumstances indicat ed that he was the victim of a brutal murder. He made a dying declara tion in which ho accused a neighbor of having assaulted him. Public opin ion was excited and the people were terribly aroused, and several times a mob was on the eve of lynching the occused. He was arrested, and fortu- tunately wise counsels at length pre vailed, and the law was allowed to taH^>Jt3 course. Tho accused was held the Coroner’s inquest, and it'^—^e e m e d for a while that there a^ould be no trouble to fasten the guilt Whim. Finally evidence was obtained wHicb showed beyond question that the prisoner I* u * rlanw r Xm . J, . , m .Am the deceased had committed he 'ed him e vent to his borhood meeting by abusing King, whom the "sices had employed to teach the school. King heard of the accusa tions that he had made, and on meet ing him Saturday evening asked for an explanation. Williams denied saj'iug that he intended to make him (King) leave the county and explained other matters to the satisfaction of King. On Sunday morning, however, Mari on Gay and Wash Kittrell waited on King and presented him with a writ ten challenge from Williams, asking that the “Kingparty” (meaning King and the patrons of his school) arm themselves, and be prepared to meet him and his friends Monday morning at 8 o’clock to settle the difficulty of Saturday evening. King showed this note to several of his friends, and a few’ of them decided ) accompany him to the schoolhouse onday morning. "While on their ,y, and when near the residence of illiams, they came upon Williams, his three sons and seven others stand ing near the edge of the road. King d the party when he reached it, as about passing by when Wil- irdecm^iim to stop, and told suicide. It was only in the delirium of the dy ing agony that the victim conceived the idea that the accused had assault ed him. Scarcely a day passes in which there is not a lynching in some part of the country. People have got to resort ing to lynch law even in cases of theft and common assault. It is time to call halt iu the matter. Good citizens should be law-abiding, and they should see to it that the law is enforc ed in a lawful manner. There is lardly room to doubt that many in nocent people are lynched every year and that very frequently what is call ed mob justice is only mob murder. dh le was now ready to settle their King slid he was satisfied, ^“^^^matter was already set- t'ed, when W jjj s SOIig a p_ broached the buggy7^h^ Kin{? and pulled him out. On striking the ground King im?¥* aged to lay hands on his pistol and shot, inflicting a wound in the abdo men of Thomas N. Williams, his as sailant, v-'Kieb proved fete I, viuLud above. II. A. Williams, eon of the deceased, seized a double-barrelled shotgun and was in the act of shoot ing King when bystanders seized it, wrenched it from his hands and pre vented further shedding of blood. The wonder is that more shooting was not done, for it is said that the whole party was well armed. A coroner’s inquest will be bold to-day. King has made charges against the Williams party for assaultand battery with intent to kill, and has been at tending to his duties of ins school since the shooting. He acted in self- defence, and has the sympathy of al most the entire Cbmmunity. Death of a Patricide. A Telegram received in this city on Saturday announced the death in tho insane Assylnm at Columbia, of W. H Pries- ter, the man whoso arrest in this city for the murder of his father in Barn well County, several years ago, pro duced intense excitement at the time. The case was rendered the more nota ble from the fact that Preister was tried for the crime and w’as adjudged insane by the jury, whereupon the presiding judge sentenced him to the State asylum for life. Priester mar ried an elegant and accomplished la dy of this countj’. Sha was a daugh ter of W. T. Long and is now living at tho home of her parents. Prester was once a student at the military in stitute here and was then noted for his fiery temper and fits of almost insane anger. work makes him a commonplace man. trates in petty political affairs of the whole country so far as they re late to Federal offices, and this re quires contact with all classes of people. Some irate Congressmen were talk ing about centralization of power in connection with Mr. Cleveland’s re cent vigorous exercise of his veto pow er. There can be but little danger, how ever, of imperilism, or the drifting away of the Executive from the masses, so long as the functions of the Presidency are administered as at preseut. Notwithstanding this com pulsory contact with all kinds of peo ple, tho present Executive committs himself to his business callers only to the extent he thinks proper. It is really amusing sometimes to see how lie manages to evade the direct ques tions and requests of office-seekers and politicians. For Instance, when the Virginia Congressional delegation called upon him in behalf of Mr. Goode, whom the Senate rejected for Solicitor Gen eral, although each one took occasion to express the hope that he would renominate this gentleman, nothing could be extracted from Mr. Cleve land as to what he would do in the matter. He was sorry the Senate had rejected Mr. Goode, he hoped it would reconsider its action, he liked Mr. Goode very much, etc; but that was the only encouragement given the delegation. The President long since learned, as all Presidents must, to act before he speaks. In regard to Mr. Goode’s disappointment, it may be said that he need not yet iDose A former candidate for the So- lieito^*fcy£rai s i 1 jp j whose nomina tion tho SCTl^^^gjected, arose, after wards, to be Secre^K^ of the Navy. Comedown times a vffe people who are honor into the east J, The Cumberland Gap Edgefield Advertiser. President Bowen, of the Cumber land Gap, has called a meeting of the stockholders and directors of his road, to meet at Abbeville, C* H* on Tues day the 27lh instant. The purpose of such meeting is to confirm th< con tract wi^i the South Carolina road, and fof-the transaction of other im portant business. After tlds meeting President JJowen proposes to travel dver the line— will be at Tr&y“oa*the 28th, Edj^fied on the Tniptou on the 30th and Aiken on IheeSlst^nid el each point 1 Evils of Solitude. Said a physician noted for his skill iu curing nerve diseases, “there is a certain healthy, helpful influence which naturally comes from human beings to each other. One of my pa tients drained all of which her friends had to give years ago. We need oc casionally a fresh moral and mental Another physician, visiting in a country house where the mother, a delicate, affectionate, self-sacrificing woman, who lived but for her hus band and children, lay ill with no di sease, apparently, bat extreme weak ness and weariness, ordered her logo to the city alone spend a month in ab solute idleness,mixing as often aspossi bio with crowds of people who were in terested and excited, at church, at concerts, oven iu public meetings. The patient, a shy, diffide«4woman, obeyed, and came home new color iivijetelnfeks and new lift heart, i I once asked,” ^aid a we, law’yer, the “famoi&i preachy ^ what whs the secret of his po an orator; how he contrived^) s large numbers of men to his will.” “ ‘First,’ he unswerd, ‘I bring the close to me and to each other. LeaV no empty benches between you an your audience. The electric spar, will not cross a gap from one man to the other.’ ” These ideas may seem fanciful to some of our practical readers, but there is a solid basis of truth under them all. Physicians usually bring all their skill to bear in curing the ailments of the body. Their is a human magnetism which vve are all apt to overlook in our marterial medi ca. Hard-working women in the lated villages of the conn try often find themselves growing irritable and ner vous. They do not need tonics or moral discipline. They need friction with unfamiliar minds, new ideas, novel scenes, just as their lungs, after using up all the oxygen in a close room, need the air of out doors. Young girls are too apt, voluntari ly, to force themselves into this state; disappointed iu their natural longings for a genial companion they resolved to live alone, and shut themselves in their own souls. The resources are not sufficient to keep offifamiue. “Only a God or a brute can dwell in solitude,” says the wise old German. room three jththe there Yesterday he was confronted with about two hundred cullers, most of whom were excursionists fromNew Orleans. There were also a number of colored people in the party, and their pleasure at shaking hands with areal live President was plainly man ifest. One old auntie shaped like a balloon, waddled up to Mr. Cleveland and drew off her white cotton glove iu order to “take a grip with ray bar hand,” as she expressed it. Several of the excursionists took occasion to say to the incumbent of the White House that he might rely on their votes when another election day roil ed around. Government clerks are no longer backward about taking vacations. At this time last year they were rather timid about asking for their month’s leave. They probably feared that the new Administration might find out that their services ceuid be de- Tmporta nt issues of the day. You well say, and we agree with you In toto, that: “There is no. good reason why the Governor of South Carolina should be taken on credit. There is no good rea son why it should be taken for grant ed that a candidate for a nomination is in accord with the people on all im portant questions. There is no good reason why the principles and opin ions of the next Governor of South Carolina bo hidden, shall or remain unrevealed, until the nomi nation has been made, and, for better or for worse, the candidate of the De mocracy has been chosen.” True, our County Convention has recommended that our distinguished fellow-citizen Governor J. C. Shep hard be nominated by the State Con vention for Governor for the ensuing term, but in doing so we were aware of his views on many of the most im portant matters before the people. We knew that he was opposed to any interference with the South Car olina University, although he thinks that it would probably be well to have a reasonable tuition fee for those able to pay. That he favors keeping up and maintaining the Citadel Academy as heretofore. That whilst he is utterly opposed to “tearing down” those two popular in stitutions of learning, yet ho is iu full accord with the “Farmers’ move ment” in the establishment of an agri cultural or farmers’ college, and would support a liberal appropriation for that purpose. That lie is opposed to calling a Con stitutional Convention, and is of the opinion that the evils complained of iu the preseut Constitution can the better be remedied by amendments to that instrument. That he is in favor of preserving in tact the present homestead law. —-indifferent as to the re peal of the lien law, not seeiiitr~~a particular of the two was male attire was pected party conf but denouncing her ar rage. The parties we takeu before Justice! woman on a charge clothes in violation o{ To the Justice she sq was Minnie Avery, j she was the wife She further stated in Tunkhanuocki mother lived and ] maker bj* occupa] ed to the Justice W. L Avery, tl Boulder, Col., aj the husband years. “Why do yc around in su^ the Judge. “Well, yoi “my wife is then I havej it ain’t rigt to the deal| The mail had been; ton, Chei| their waj obtained pendinj reply mother woniai; reled Thel Thl On these and other issues Govj^ Sheppard has been outspoken, you perceive that in recomme him to the State Convention for Gov-] ernor wo were taking “no leaps in the dark.” But you are right as (.o'! propriety of the Gubernatorial asj ants promulgating their views g| important questions before tliQj and we second your motion tl worthy gentlemen be reqn^ “rise and explain,” Rosecrans a Fa # ali San Francisca C< “Gen. Rosecrans was the less as well as the most pecu the powder business that Some years ago he was ingwilh nitro-glycerine qj potash. He was alsj make a new kind of p Every afternoon he w the oldstono qparrv-a ape need with if they were absent, and I ments with*dynamltetj TjtTXULTjryrSWITCH W7 ^mi rw! desks. At any rate that was the prac tical result until quite late in the summer, and the departments had their full quoto through the torrid weathar. “Now the leaves are falling quite rapidly in all the departments,” said an appointed clerk. The feeling that a Democrat would slip into his place if left vacant for even one day, does not haunt the clerk as it once did. Of course all apprehension on this score has not died out, but it is no worse than the chronic condition of mind of nearly every one in tho Gov- .ernment service. The thirty days ^ve, however, is not so common now rmerly, because under the new the time that a clerk is ab- 4*ecouut of sickness or from pause is detracted from the riod. little chance of posision in^the e n so. -tie iu*J a me, and he’d come arouna me out there with him. I never sa\v j a man experiment with explosives aal carelessly as he dig, and as I did not" care to be blown to pieces myself, I kept warning him of the risks he kept incurring. His only reply was. “when a man’s time comes it comes.” He appeard to be a fatalist, and would pot believe that a person could be ki before it was allotted for him tod: One day he had somo uitro-glycerin in a pan and was doing somethin with it. I knew that it would e; plode in tho hot sun and said, “Gi eral, look out. That’s going to plode.” He did not seem to can I warned him again, but lie k with hisex^riraouts, repeatiJ phrase orh^ifCout a man’s ty ig only vypen it was appoj tool that thel moi thing^ Buref tent w( blesoj iuc qis somo other offleerhasan iu? fman in his office who is! and he is unwilling tel another. Then there is a feeling a woman is harder to get ri^of if^h< is incompetant than a man.^t is harj to tell a woman that she is unsatisfa^ tory. The chiefs feel that a man wj take such information like a m* but they fear the women will mak^j fuss about it and shed tears. PaiatettI “Why do tlioy ea,Il a drinking a bar?” asked Rojio. “Because,”^, said George, “watqr js lug else is b alee Cheaper Money Qmiersj On Monday July 20. the /ate clj on money orders for the Oum nj ill be reduood to