The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, April 12, 1887, Image 1
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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. Smith
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
- VAUGLV.SE,
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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
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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.
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