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! 'i.'r rt r^Hl r RECORDER CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 12, I8S7. Professional Advertisements. CHEATING THE GALLOWS. Haviland Stevenson, Attorney' at Law', Aikex, S. i Dan im flr.tt with the rock Hrst K°t hold of the boy. saw the boy first. Dan said: A USICLd^S C. Special attention given to Collec tion. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Daw, Aikkx, 8. C. James Aldrich. Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practice in the State and Unitod States Courts for South Carolina. II. 8. Henderson. E. P. Henderson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. LY.NCHIXO COUNTY. IX Y'OKK . “Hoys, yonder is Lee.” Hailey hit ; him first and Dan next, Mose jumped on liis bowels. Five of the Murderers of Johnnie! Such was the material portion of Goode Suspended lo Trees One Mile j p ri ndley»H confession, the wounds on the dead body of the boy corroborating his statement as to the manner of in- Aequiual of One Xcgro for the Mur* fliction - Afu ‘ r U,is C'.nfpHsion was der or Another. ! made and became known, it being Kcich apd Courier. j reasonably certain of the positive guilt of Prindley, Hattey,* Dan and OHKAiLi.L. ^ pn ■>. . t m i-past , ^j ogej tiie pent-up feeling of Hie west- 40 clock this morning a parly of about |ern8ido of the eountv found vent in sixty undisguised men forcibly en- tlireat , of lyn( . h - * aml tl>e tered the jail at this place and de- f our narae(Uhe l(lood of 6 iles Good, manded the keys of ti:e door leading trom the Court House—The niainins; Meinl>ers of Hie ••Hlaok itamlitti" liikvdy to he lleloased- to the prisoners’ cells. These being the supposed Instigator of the crime . mid accessory, was also demanded, refused by the .Sheriff, they proceeled j vj . iliWU for the s;rft ., to force an entrance by forcing the j of hili , )ri8onerSi becoUlU ^ satisfied door and break.ng the locks of the t |, at t lle threat of lynching would he Edw.J. Dickerson, Attorney-at-Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts oi this State W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of thif< iron grating of the cells. They their took from*the jail Giles Goode, Hailey Dawdle,Prindley* Thompson and Mose 1 ipscomh, the negroes charged with the murder of John Lee Goode, and leading them to u spot one mile north attempted on the evening of December 14, procured an order from Judge Witherspoon transferring them for safe keeping to the jail at Columbia, and on that night they were spirited away. True to his expectations, about of town, banged them to the limbs of 7 oVlock on the following morning a trees. All hut Dan Roberts were crowd of about seventy-five mounted Circuit." Specia collections. attention given to John Gary Evans, Attor x ey-at-La w. Will Aiken I practice in the Counties , Edgefield and Barnwell. o: Dr. W B Courtney, Dentist. -OFFICE — KichLnd Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Next door to Henry Busch & Co. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. -OFFICE on- Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. -OFEICE AT- hanged to the same tree. The excitement incident to the mur der of Goode had about subsided, but public iiulignation was rekindled yes terday when it became generally known that the futherof the murdered boy had become deranged in eonse- ■jiience of the brutal deed. The details of Hie lynching, as far as they can be gathered in addition to the above brief statement, are as fol lows: The crowd approached the jail, which is on the west .fide of town and ! the last men, undisguised, approached the jail, prepared with axes and sledge hammers, and some armed with shot guns; and a number of them, securing an entrance through the corridor, proceeded to the third floor and com menced battering the wooden shutter covering the iron door u whieh leads to the cells. By the time the Sheriff was aroused by the noise and had run up to the landing on the third floor, one panel of the wooden shutter was knocked out, and the crowd were mov ing on the works as though they house on the street, in an me ant business. When the Sheriff orderly manner. The Sheriff was , , interposed the crowd resisted until he soon roused, and, refusing to surrender col , V j 1It . ed theni that the men xvuuted Graniteville, Aiken County, S. C. Dr. Z. A. 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William Turnbull JBnuren» Strict, .1 //.<», S. C. fimE public are invited to inspect JL mv stock of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, which 1 am selling at rook bottom prices- t 1 buy none but the best and sell as cheap as the cheapest. Canned Goods in great variety ami from the beet houses. WM L TU UN BU LL. TO IRIEItTT. A Farm containing about fift.\ acres, pretty cottage of six room.-, good cotton land. Located on S. C. Railway two miles east of Aiken. ALSO Cottage on Park Avenue, near It. It. depot. Four rooms and garden. Apply to E. J. "C. WOOD. G. Bart & Go. Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruitf. Apples, Oranges, Bananas, Cocoa nuts. Lemons, Peanuts. Pine Apples, Potatoes, Onions, Cabbage. &c. 5o. 57. 59 Market St. Charles the keys, a party proceeded to the third story, battering down such doors as obstructed them, and by the aid of a dark lantern, with which they were provided, some of them went into the cells and selected their victims, whom they led out. They were provided with padlocks, which they substituted on I he grated door opening to the cells, leaving the jail reasonably secure. In the meantime the Sheriff, tin a Vied, finding resistance useless, atlempml to raise an alarm by firing his pistol several times rapidly in succession. By this means attention was directed to the jail, but before any one could arrive there the lynchers had secured their men and were on their way to the spot selected for the final scene in this fearful drama, a kuoll just one mile from the court house. Hereon the east side of the public road, to one tree, four of (be wretches were hanged, and on'the opposite sWeflieTifneK The doomed .men seemed to make no outcry and offered no resistance. Death resulted from strangulation. A Coroner’s inquest was held to day, the verdict being that the death of the meu was produced by hanging and by persons unknown to t he jury. On the opening of court tins morn ing the Solicitor called the attention of the presiding Judge to the occur- reu.ee, hut in directing the grand jury to inquire into the matter, the Judgv said that in the present state of public feeling in such cases which seemed to have seized the people, not only of our own but of the States of the North and West, he deemed an investigation of the attempt to bring the perpetra tors to the bar of justice hut a useless expense to the county In support of this view he cited the case of the Cul- breath lynchers in Edgefield, in which the whole power of the State lias been neffectual to bring them to trial. There is very little excitement here over the affair, and there are but few people in town to-day. In the Sessions Court to-day Sam Wiiite, colored, was tried fur the mur- ler of George Mobley, colored, the fatal round having been intlict:d last September, fiom which death resulted last February. He was acquitted by i white jury on the plea of self I e fen so. No action lias been had in court in reference to the alleged accessories to the murder of Johnnie Goode, some thiity in number, hut it is probable they will lie released, row that the principals have been summarily dealt with. rilF, YORKVILLK F-NqUi It Kit’s AO rotxr. Yesterday morning opened on the closing scene of one of the most fearful tragedies ever enacted in York county. With the brutai murder of the l.ttle innocent boy, Johnnie Lee Goode, on the evening of the o9th of last No vember. our readers are familiar. On that evening, as the investigations of tlie jury of inquest and the subsequent confessions developed. the murderers proved to be Prindley Thompson, Bailey Dawdle, Dan Roberts and Mose Lipscomb, with a number of supposed accessories before the fact, it being believed that a combination for the were not in the jail. The whole party, which, aside from their demonstration on the jail, had been quiet and orderly, then peaceably rode out of town. The Sheriff foiled the would-be lynchers and saved his prisoners,who, about the hour of the demonstration, were in North Carolina on their way to Columbia, where they remained until last Saturday, when the Sheriff deputized Dr. A. H. Cartwright and Mr. James H. Riddle, two men in whose courage under contingent dilli- cultics he had full confidence, to con duct the prisoners from Columbia to Yorkville. The transfer wtfk accom plished without incident, and on Sat urday evening they were returned to their old quarters in the Yorkville jail. It was supposed fhat Jhe excite ment and indignation incident to tile murder hud subaided, and certainly all fig-ting vengeance was slumbering until Monday mor ’ ing, when the unmistakable lunacy of the father of the murdered boy re- kindlid the anger of all who witnessed the unfortunate man on tiie way to the asylum. No cautious inquiry, however, could discover any undue feeling in the general current of public sentiment. The inquisitive newspaper man, in his suggestive* way, endeav ored here and there to gain a clue, hut every person approached upon the subject expressed the opinion that the law would ta’.-.e its course. Late Monday evening the Sheriff felt a sense of perfect security, and Yorkville retired Mondav'night little expecting to wake up next morning to find five dead bodies dangling from the limbs of trees almost within the corporate limits. The men chose foi tin* time of their work the wee smal hours, and at half-i ast 4 the Sheriff who is also jailer, was awakened by a noise at the door. He rushed up to the crowd in Ins night dress, and on refusing to surrender the key» his visitors proceeded to the third floor and commenced on t lie same door that had partly yielded to similar treat ment only a few weeks before. The Sheriff was powerless to olier resist- »nee, and endeavored to attract atten tion to the Jail by rapid and successive firing of his gun. This had the effect to bring to the scene a few persons, but by the time they arrived the lynching party had gained entrance, secured the men they wanted and left, file wooden door before alluded to was opened by cutting out the large plate h>2k with an axe. The padlocks securing the doors to be subsequently opened were broken, hut these wen replaced by now ones, and the cells were left com parat ively safely locked. Fi re prisoners were wanted, it seems, instead of six, as on the former occa sion, and those taken were (files Good, Bailey I) iwdle, Prindley Tnompson, Dan Roberts and Mose Lipscomb Their identity was insured by means of a dirk lantern with which the part\ was provided. As far as can be known no resistance or even outcry was madi by any of the doomed men. A man whose business required him to pass near the locality of the hanging saw the crowd approaching, and stepping was then compelled to tie the knot of his own noose. To this last require ment he is said to have demurred, ejaculating: “How the devil do you expect a man to hang himself.” Again, it is said that no words were littered by any one during the enact ing of the final scene further than one of them expressed his desire of the manner of adjusting die rope around ills neck. The ropes used were ordin ary cotton, v Inch appear to have been used as plough lines. As soon as it was |N>s*tt>Te foT the Sheriff to do so he went lo the spot, of the execution, taking with him two physicians, but they arrived too late lo render any assistance to tjie five limp bodies they found dangling from the trees; four from one tree on the east side of the road, ami the other from the limb of a stout oak hard by mt tlie opposite side. Life was found to be extinct. The SherifI caused the bodies to be. cut down immediately, and on blan kets spread upon the ground laid them side by side under the branches of the tree on which four were hanged. Here the bodies remained until late yesterday afternoon, when they were removed for burial. Prindley Thompsn i’h relatives took possession of his body, and the body of Bailey Dowdle was taken posses sion of by his father. The other bodies were buried at the expense of the county. THE HISTORY OF THE CRIME. The crime for which the lynching was perpetrated was about as follows: On the night of November-30, 1886, John Lee Goode, a little son of Mr. W. E. Goode, who lives in the west ern part of this county, was brutally murdered in York county. On the evening of that day little Goode was beaten todeath near Hopewell Church, in Y ork county, by a. society of negroes who were banded together for the pur poses of robbery and murder. Imme- •liately upon the report of the child’s murder having become current, Trial Justice J. P. Blair, acting as Coroner, summoned a jury of very discreet men of the neighborhood, and brought to light the astounding facts which placed (he Broad river section in a state of terror and spread alarm throughout the county. Circumstances pointed almost con clusively to Mose Lipscomb, Dan Roberts and Bailey Dowdle as the perpetrators of the deed, with perhaps another accomplice; and after the close of the first day’s session they Toman rode near to where I was his horse si^ggenly gave a jump and start ed off in a trot. He soop eatne to a bend in the road and wni out of sight. TUey were a great mind to kill me lor not giving the signal when Mr. luman came up. They told me lo go along that they did not want to see me •*ny more. ^Subsequent to the above story, t$hich was a practical conviction of ($U? gang, Prindly Thompson made ^e following confession in jail in re lation to the murder of the little ild: He said that the other itiem- of the club had told him in jail that if he said anything ut this murder they were going to hill biau Ho then continued: I went >YUh them (to Mr. Goode’s field) after LUe cotton, ami left them there, ^iley had the little_boy by the waist. I had him by the legs. 'fmc choked hin\, I>au carried the Stones who which he was beaten. then all went away by the pasture field. Bailey first struck the boy with a. rock ns soon as we got hold of him. Dan was the first to see the boj-, and be said :*‘Boys, yonder is Lee.” Bail ey hit him first, and Dan next. Mose jumped on his bowels. The boys in tail told me that in making a confes sion I had broken my neck. I said: “Boys, I am going to tell the truth.” They replied: “You and Dan have jk>ne told everything.” They said to ineand Buily: “Dont tell anything.” If any one belonged to the club and was to reveal anything, lie was to be murdered or run out of the country. When we got caught in a stealing scrape the balance were to swear him The Duello. Marion Star. A discourse on this subject just now, may seem somewhat out of date, but recent events revive some thoughts in this connection that lend it a new in terest. It brings to mind the remark of one of the ablest and shrewdest observers of men and tilings, to the eflTect that duelling is an evil that it would be, extremely hard to eradicate, because it would require a society composed of such materials as are not he found without admixture; a society where ail who are not Christians, must, at least, he gentlemen, or, if neither— philosophers. It is also true, that those who regard this (now obsolete) custom as a rem nant of barbarism, likewise admit the fact, that as it was, it was to a very great extent a triumph over the natur al expression of the angry passions; and, as an improvement on those bru-. tal exhibitions of violence, such as fis ticuffs, street brawls, «&., quite a stop in refinement, and a decided advance in civilization. It certainly had a most wonderful effect in curbing the malicious tongue of slander, in subdueing the rude in* speech and act. and in placing a salu tary check on the arrogance and inso lence of the empty huggadocio; and these are they who mostly bless its desuT tude. No doubt, this custom was morally wron*. So also is all violence: hut ns long as society retains its present het erogeneity, as long as men have pas sions, and until tiie Mellcnnimn nr- Dcatli of Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken. Washington, April «.—Hon. D, Wyatt Aiken, late Representative in Congress from the Thinl South Caro lina district, died at htshomc in Cokes bury, S. C., this morning, aged 59. He put. We were to take the cotton to ! rive8 ’ 8:1 ' vil1 ^ exhibitions 'be stolen from Mr.Goode’s field to Levi Wood, who was to bale and sell were to divide the purposes of robbery and mur ler ex- | to one side of the road permitted tin isted among the negroes of that neigh borhood in Bullock's Creek township and adjacent to Broad river. Several of '■ hr accessories or accomplices whose names were divulged by tiie investi gation were lodged in jail, where thev now are. Excitement ran high in the migliborhood of the murder, as indig nation was also manifesicd through out the coijnty. The victim was an unofleiiding b >y Ioj-s than 14 y*n:s old, the son of well lo do and worthy . parents, by whom he was idolized. entire procession to pass u ithout offer ing any molestation. He gives the opinion that llie victims were mount ed He could see no one on foot ami all were proceeding along hisurely and quietly. He saw tiie party not far trom the spot selected for the exe eiuion or the deed—a knoll in the road leading northwest fro , n the jail, and only a short distance from the stone maruiug the first mile from the court house. The most interesting scene in an cembeiyafter taking testimony, tfir- cumstances and statements of so; of the witift*sses pointed to Prindley >c *fThompson as also coiicernetf in tlu 11 murder, and he was committed. In the examination of so many wit nesses vague references by first one and another to “the club,” “the clan,’' “the society,” the witnesses’ member ship and similar expressions gave a clue which was successfully worked up, and the result was that twenty-six negroes, ranging in age from 10 to 50, were committed to jail, their offense being murder or aiding therein. Thcst prisoners were Mose Lipscomb, Dan Roberts, Bailey Dowdle and Print! Thompson, principals, and the follow ing as accessories: Giles Good, John Good, Los Wood, Dick Thompson. Wm. Craig, George Jamieson, Scott Thompson, Wadis Bankhead, Davin Wilkes, Moses Roberts, Will MeClu ney, Wallace Reid, Sam Thompson Owens Moore, Allen Good, BobSmarr Squire Thompson, Brown Robins, Jack McCluney, Sam Good and Win Washington. Of this dark cloud of prisoners Giles Good and Wallace Reid figured prominently in the luur- ler for which Columbus Crawford was hanged about two \ears ago. The testimony subsequently devel oped the existence in the Broad rivei section of a clan called the Rising Star Lodge, No. 24, of the Grand United Order of the National Labor ers’ Aid Protective Society of North America. The piinted Jaws of this order and the charter of this lodge were produced. The charter emanated from Charlotte. N. C\, bears date De aember, 1884, and is signed by S. M. Pharr, supreme scribe. These docu ments reveal only benevolent and fra ternal features of the or ler, and sev •?rai witnesses were examined, theii e.-timony bearing out this stale o facts, though the jury, in their verdict •vgard the lodge as a nuisance to theii neighborhood. At the inquest Adam Thompson gave the history of the attempted waylaying and murdering of Mr Elias Inman, a white vitizen of York Coun ty, which led to the revelation of the facts which fastened the crime <>f the murder of little Goode. Adam Thompson said: “Prind Thompson made arrangements to waylay Mr. Elias Inman, which was to take place after dark, about 8 o’clock, on a Friday* night. Those who waylaid him were Prind Thompson, myself, Giles Good, John Good, Wallace Reid, and Bailey and then we ouey t ie thrqugh a preliminary trial, and >ld me that I would never come out -except to be hung. I am nineteen years old. He then gave names of members of the club as follows: Giles -Good, head man; John Good, Sam Good, Bud Darby, Owens Moore,.Geo. Jamieson. Other prisoners were given an oppor tunity to speak, but they would make sio confession. weietommitled to jail. On the second * nm ,{ a | derangement, superinduced . raeC !"‘ K0 i" ,t '. J " r . V ' 0 “‘ l :f 3,1 o'Ha* th.- fear thatue wi. all.ut to ho- come completely of violence, and whether, as a choice ofevils, thu ‘Code’ had survived its use and society was ripe for its disuse is a Since in jail they have put question of perhaps some doubt and may afford serious debate to those who care to impartially weigh the matter. But whether in keeping with ad vanced civilization or not. this was, once upon a time,quite an institution in this State, and while we apprehend that the proportion of Christiana, ot gentlemen, or, even of philosophers, was quite as great then as now and despite its otherwise baleful influence, it will scarcely be assumed that the so ciety of those days will suffer by com parison with that of to-day. It is al so a fact worthy of note, that they who in those days, called themselves gentlemen regarded the carrying of of concealed weapons us the distin guishing mark ol a bluck-guaru, shrank with horror from a street brawl and who if they wanted to shoot each other, elected to do it nc- Suicide of Thomas C. Reynolds. Hon. Thomas C. Reynolds commit ted suicide at the custom house in •St. Touis.Mo., on the 30th. He fell A distance of eighty feet and crushed ills skull. The cause of the act was B g that two years ago hecontract- la at Abpinwull, and jver, the dTse.ise SenTffflV m - spine. Recently he had been troubled by insomnia and frequent nervous ness. Visions invited him to join his dead friends, and fearing lest he should be a burden to his wife by .be coming a lunatic, having twice before been troubled with dementia, and his estate of $25,000 being in order, unim paired and productive, be determined to end bis life. Thomas C* Reynolds was born in Charleston, S. C. In 1831 be studied u the University of Virginia, and continued bis education in Germany graduating at Heidelberg in 1842 He spent one year in the University of Paris, and was admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1844. He was see ret ur, of the United States legation to Spain in 1846 and 1848. In 1850 lie located »t St. Louis. In I860 he was elected lieutepant-governor of Missouri on the same ticket with Gov. Claih. Jackson, and in the civil war sided with the Confederacy. At the close of the war he went to Mexico. In 186f- ha returned to St. Louis. He was a member of the commission sent tr South America two years ago in the nterest of commerce with tho United State*. In 1854 lie fought a duel with B. Gratz Brown with rifles at 30 paces, on the island opposite that city, over a political discussion. Mr. Brown was hit in the knee, but Mr. Reynolds was not touched. It is be lieved that Gov. Reynolds only inton ed to maim Mr. Brown. i file. Affidavits Kiihniittrd 1»3' Col. lie.> Johnstone in His Application loi Hail. Union, April 5.—The affidavits sub mitted to Judge* Wallace in support of fie application for bailing Col. Geo. Johnstone clearly established the fact that he was fired upon twice by Col. Jones before fired in return, and left no room to doubt that he would have been slain outright without any opportunity to defend himself had it not been for the defective weapon used by Col. Jones. And further that Col. Johnstone suggested to his an tagonist the propriety of settling the difficulty outside the court room be fore the fight began. These statements were made upon oath by gentlemen of the highest standing. In common elected. ... u s f Mr. Aiken was born in South Caro lina in 1828, and, after graduating from the South Carolina College at Columbia, began farntiiigan*'. cot Jinr* tied in that occupation till thMim^iVf his last illness. In ISO! lid entered the Confederate volunteer service as a private and roso lo the rank ofeol- o iel. At the battle of. Antidtam Ue was shot through the lungs and had to resign in 1864. Ho served two terms in the State Legislature, was master of the State Grange for two years, was a member tf the executive committee of the National Grange tor fourteen years, was a delegate to the Tihlen and Hendricks National Convention and was a Representative in Congress to the 45th, 46th, 47th, 4Slh, and 49lh Congresses, serving as chairman of the committee on Education in the last Congress. Trial ’Justice* Uailing.toQiialifv. The following Trial Justices have failed to qualify within the time pro- s ribed by law, and the offices to which they were appointed have accordingly become vacant: Aiken County—Monroe Gantt, post o lice Ridge Spring, Edgefield county; J. H. Getzen, Hamburg. Beaufort County—H. D. Burnet, Grahamville; R. W. Relof, Ilardce- ville. Berckley County—W. W. Williams, Bonneau’s. Lexington County—J. G. Brown, Sandy Run. Oconee County—T. I). Rothcl, Wal- halla. Spartanburg County—T. P. Gaston, Vernonsville. i Williamsburg County—D. Z. Mar tin, Harper’s; C. S. Lesesne, Greeley- ville; B. L. Bryan, Black Mingo. had been in IM health for a Ibng tiipo JuiUHn'PIT!lHU»n!Pll IftfHWTWWCTIff insane. In his oket was found a letter to his wife, '? ordl ?* t<>n V e ’ ";itl»>uUerrorizing the The South Carolina Railway. The April coupons of,the South Carolina Railway bonds have been promptly paid both in New York and Charleston, in consequence of which the company’s securities have ad vanced. Tiie first mortgage bonds, •which had been below par, have ad vanced to 102 and 103. The income oommuiiHy «•»«« * » ' h ^ lOT ? “ others than tluptr qtvity teants on the ttollar, advanced in New roCif r^: u« V> ***** $1, was quoted oh (So turd ay at $15. Altogether tiie company seems to be i i the enjoy meat of something like n 4>oom. , with the whole State this community Dowdle. 1 he reason for w ay laying j c| rf pi ()reS (,|, e occurrence os a very sad him was because the; - did not, like ; 0;iei al|d j s j,, full accord with all that him and because tlu*^ thought lie had j| ie Xcich and Courier has said in de money. I do not know w hen Prind first spoke to me about waylaying Mr. Inman. The hut time he spoke to me about it he said if [ did not go with him they would kill me. Giles nouncing it. There is a regular temperance boom in our town ami bravely the good work goes on. The Sons and Daugh ters will soon number 100 members, had a club oi oigauizution formed of. 'pi,erc is no clap-irap about the move- men w horn lie controlled and who i nen t ( but all is done quietly and were logo when he gave word. T.iey j steadfastly, Worlii Classes: ATTENTION? Wo are in»\r prepared to furnish all classes with employment at home, the whole ofYlie time, or their spare momevts. Business new, light and profita ble. P< rsons of either sex easily earn from 50 cents to $5.00 ]K:r evening, and a propor tional sum by devoting.Hll tlieir time to the busine-s. Bovs and girlsa^wn fls much as men. That all who sec tn^Bjiy rend their address and- test the business we make this ott.-r: To such as :.rc;.<>Mpli snnistied we will send oud dcllar to^n% for t.i- icotthlc of writing. Full purWulars and out fit free. Address George .Stinson Y Co. Portland M„mc. ; In an unfortunate moment, as Prind- affair of this kind is supposed to he lid not suv what they would do with Mr. 1 nmun alter killing him. I was as your quietly correspondent iey Thompson coutes-cd in the jail, j the bearing amt demeanor of the fated posted nearest the road, and the others the little hoy detected him, Mose, Dan . wretch, but just here our account ol j were secreted in the woods at di Fcreti! and Bailey in the act ol stealing cot- this one must be at fault. Wu have 1 places about thirty steps from tin- ton from hi* father's field. To prevent | not seen any one who said he was exposure the cotton thieves brutally there, uor do we know whether or not murdered h.m. Prindley made this; the meu wore up bravely, or whether confession: I went with them after any words of confession escaped their the cotton in Mr. Goode’* field and lips. ■•t them there B tiloy had tho boy; 1; is vaguely whispered, hut with > li'i, I had i.U lc„., -1 j.-o v\a 3 ch k- how mudi truth we taui.ot tell, that iiig h.m ui..» »/.i.i car.rea L.re roe.is. j G.l'Jj UjoJ \v:u> requrteu to act us the \\ c v.i n. iw. -.r '■ y l..c pastille ii-’d. cx.vu'.iju.t of Lis four comrade*, u::u road. It was not long from tue time w r e were posted until Mr. Inman came along. I was lying down on the side of the road and saw him ride y. Tue m.Miu was shining but I lid not see hi.r.i Until lie h_ul passed Unrfr qtvn.' the fashion to (leiiouiieo till* msl tion, to make it, in popular estimation a disgracefully criminal practice mer iting “a prodigious ban of ex-co n- •'munication,” socially, morally and politically; and, at the same time, to justify, nay, even laud as a hero, the poltroon who takes license from the prevailing sentiment. Would it he just to conclude that so’lie recent tragic occurrences in this State are the legitimate fruit of the present state of public opinion on this matter? If abhorrence of the duel is a social evolution and such the results, it certainly is evolutiug in the wrong direction. Only a short time ago two citizens of Anderson County, one of whom then occupied, and the other now oc-. eupies, the highest political office in tiie gift «f the people of that county, •engaged in a fusilade at each other with pistols in broad day, on one of • he principal streets of the thriving .ind populous tow’ii of Anderson that would have done credit to some Ari zona Mining Camp, to tiie imminent lunger of peaceable citizens on busi- -less intent and the women and ehil- Ireu who might have been upon the •treet. On last Saturday in the progressive town of Newbe.ry, two prominent lawyers, of distinguished birth and connection and eminent in State pol itics, fell out over a trilling affair in a Court of Justice, recourse is immedi ately had to the ever ready pistol, re peated shots are tired into each other, and one is seriously and the other fa tally wounded, while other parties, not in the row, barely escaped witii their lives. Other instances might bo mentioned but these are the most conspicuous. In botii of these instances there was no opportunity’ to arm, the nimble pistol was already at. hand, yet, there is astringent law in this State against carrying concealed weapons. Again, iu the first instance as the majesty of the law was not vindicated it will be equally consistent to allow his latter esjapade logo unpunish ed. Surely, we are not to conclude tba: men are to he social’y xcom nun!< a ed and politically disfranchised when they fight like gentlemen, and he re warded with high p< s tion and go un- whipped of justice, when they fight | s b<»u!dn’t strap as sim like rowdies and desperados and enact ! net,knife. scenes in public streets and courts of I ’ -—; —na — law that would disgrace tlu* gambling | Enjoy Life. hull of some frontier town? ! What a tiu!y beautiful world wi 1 he law of the land ought to be able . |j vt . j u i Nature gives us grandeur ol to deal w ith these tnatfers, and it be-j , noiln ( n j ll j, t glens and oceans, and gins to he about time for it to demon- thousands of means of enjoyment, strate its ability in that direction. \y 0 cun desire no better when in per- Tiie duello has abundantly proved feet health, but how often do the ma- tliat it can, at least, modify this evil jority of people feel like giving it up lug my remark's to the ootiii. Mr. Jones: "WRl Uiec J argument ?*’ stone.” , * Mf-Jonw: “Ol. tSf e; I don’t notice nrything that, comes from such a source.” , Mr. Johnstone (rising): solent puppy will repeat t))^ f 4 r ‘ At that Jones drew ins pistol and began firing at Johnstone. Almost at ti e same time Johnstone drew Iii* pistol and begun firing at Jones. Af ter Johnstone had exhausted his firsfc^ pistol he drew a second, but did no$ d use it when he tounrj Jozies had cx- hausted hi* nnmiunicatiofy. [. * t[ V Mr. EdwMd Carswell,' ilfo gnished temperance advocate, deliv ered a lecture In DtudlngtoU on tho evening of the 28tli of'MalWTf. At the conclusion ol the I^cttjfe W* l)ivl>i1on. oftheOrdef of Sons bfr ^f|Hil]4oran3ft?* was organized with thirty-two meVn-' hers. Col. J: JL AVtiW" Was elecL** ted Wort by Fit t'toi’ch!—JW Dec Th- -t: ; >di #« itolaw.«wai ' ' —i ' oxtuino : t u* General 74»lmne, hc^rtMhfrg'tivflftv* Norfolk Virginian, notwithstatHlltlJS ^ the fact that, his'• Kcmatwtitrl' rtbdUUM* otT, retain* poateesoMrt <if tlwrrtcfihs of f the Senate - committee’ on f fmMlo ouihlings and grounds In tiie capital, 1 and lias type writer* At wortt th<W‘ ' doing a large mnouHt 1 at ©OYrwprtrtH* cnee relating to the campaign ginkt. * ■’ *•*? • I'Mimnl Irttlff oul oil I I i. ' w -" : * Jone* Still in Jail. Jones, the slayer of the Pressleys— we are heartily sick of the name, and of the man, and of (he thought, and of the subject!—is still in our jail. His application for hail before Judge Nor ton, iu Columbia, last week was with drawn, “without prejudice,” ns they siy iu law, to be renewed at some fu ture day before the Supreme Court. The name and date of this day rest in the bosoms of his never-flagging and frantically faithful attorneys.—Edge field Chronicle. A Chinese business firm has offered five thousand dollars for the head of King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands. It is alleged that the Celes tials paid one of the King’s officers a large bribe in order to secure for them a monopoly of the opium trade in the Idands. The shrewd official pocketed the financial insult after the compla- C.*nt style of Pooh-Bah, but failed to secure what was stipulated. Then followed a demand for the return o! the bribe, which was refused. Ik re- t illation for such a loose way of doing business tho defrauded Chinamen have offered a reward of five thousand dollars for the head of King Kalakaua, and have caused hand-bills to be post ed on the houses of Honolulu, con- t lin’ng a formal announcement of the enticing oiler. It would indeed be iteresting to in quire how far the numder of shootinu scrapes in this State, conducted with the*dnforinality of the Texas cowboy, lias been diminished by the anti-duell ing law Certain it is that there have been many quarrels which, like the J unfortunate one reported from New- ! berry, led to bloodshed, and which, under the much abused “code ot honor,” would have been settled at once peaceable and honorably.— Co- lumliia Record. Of the whisky sold at Fall River, Mass., It is said, “a man can sharpen his penknife upon the smell of it.” Well, whisky often straps a man, and there is no reason why the smell small a thing as field, and I had to fetch heel peace in the family. Being a married man. you know l*o^v'•it**s-y0unBe^fl ,, fi——* 11 I— Tiie Prohibitionist* parried tb« elec tion in Rankin gpupty Mins- Th|* shuts out the, wbmky men of Jackson . who intended, if‘Rankin county went against prohibition, to establish Uieuv- : selves iu that county id tbe vicinity of Jackson. t. i <■( • After the accident: She—Were you hurt much, Mr. de Ooode? Mr. de D.—‘AWlM-OA CIMSla* I Was, aw, knocked senseless, dtu’t you know. Siie—Oil, I’m so glad you escaped. They t dd me you had been injured. Mr. de D. wonders what she means. — Washington Critic. -Vv A notice po^ed in a certain town reads: “Cash paid for butchers’ bides.” This shows the accommodating spirit o! the age. A bene factory announce* that “farmers can have their bones g.’ound and returned the Same day.” — Xew Orleans Picayune. A Philadelphia paper asked: “Is there a wife in the city to-day who makctf' her husband’s shirts?” Tiie following answer was received by re turn mail: “1 do, but be won’t wear ’em.”—Burlington b'rtv Press. Tiie Walhalla Courier says:—“We*' understand that the Division of Sons of Temperance in this place is grow ing iu interest and iu numbers week ly. “Let the good work roll ou iu spite of all opposing forces.” '/< George Gould ins sett.'e l into tuch a retired stale of domesticity since his marriage that all his former frieuds are growling at his so called neglep-L His one aim now is said to be to {ipral his father’s success. A Minu^apolis man advertises for a house-keeper of comimv^big height. Lot him get a wife; sJUo will be com manding enough to suit him, aud he will not have time to worry about the matter of height. J. JT- Corueilson has been arrested and placed in jail at Mount Sterling, 11 Ky., to serve out a tlired 1 years sen- a fteinee for having horsewhiped Judge Reid, who subsequently commiltyd suicide. Oue New York man .s Auingauotlier citizen there, claiming $10,000 dama ges for liis refusal to let the plaintiff marry his daughter. It is stated to tie the first action y£tho sort ou rec ord. hopes ami believes.—Xews and Cou rier. j and restrain it within certain bound*, disheartened, discouraged and worn — — If the present nrev. iling sentiment oU t will) disease, when there is nooc- Selfishness, that exclusive regard to aided by the string arm of the law is 1 V il8 ' 011 ti>r a8 »uf- one’s self, is one of the greatest curses . unable to accomplish this much, and tj,a! Circen's .\uyu»t Flower will ou humanity. It withers, blights,de- j ifthes^*instances luruish illustrations! make them free Iron! disease sis when stroys everything it touches. It de- of the fact, then for the security of the ffurii. Dyspepsia and liver complaint thrones true manhood, destroys all! public peace aud the sake of common ’ uru t ‘ ie direct causes of .seventy-live . , . i .. I . . . per cent, of s ich maladies us bihous- geuerous, noble feelings, closes the; decency, the sooner we set about re- indigestion sick headache cos- heart against those warm, God-like ; ve..ing this sentiment the better, impulse* for doing good, ibills all The Woman’s Christian Temper ance Union of Anderson ha* passed a resolution that it lum no smypatiiy with the woman auffrage movement. Col. George Johnstone charged with the murder of John D. Jones at New- »y. I was placed near the road to ' s'/aipathy for sull'eriug humau.ty, at U Blaine is olfoetLiiigSherman’aStur- wutcli for him and was to uhistlu a* shuts up the »oul to the lit.le v. rid oi ring tour in the a sLml of his approach- When Mr. ‘inj-r, injuu, adored self. ^t«irjugh the west. kj M't. to U with a trip ; tiveiie*s, nervou* prostration, dizzi- j net* of the head, palpitation of th: heart .and other dial ressiim symptom* Three doses of Auguit Flower will piove its wonder>*ul^Sect. S-tuole • bottles 10 cents. IrjSWfc berry, has been admit slim of $1,5<XK). >. Join led to bail in the Admii-LterShriner’sIndian Vermi fuge according to the direction?. In the morning is the Lea time to take it. ■