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BT E. B. MURRAY & CO. ~ ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1885._VOLUME XXL?NO- 13. FALL AND WINTER ANNOUNCEMENT. -O? J. P. SULLIVAN * CO. ENCOURAGED by our success in the past, we come to the front again with the best offers we have ever before been able to make. THE LARGEST STOCK, And Prices as Low as is consistent for honest Goods. JEANS)?We can sell yon Joans from 10c a yard to 40c a yard. Come and see our VIRGINIA CASSIMERES. WOOLEN GOODS are cheap. All-wool Red Flannel for only 10c a yard. Ladies' Dress Goods, Shawls and Cloaks. Jersey Jackets are very fashionable, and cost a great deal less than ever before. We can sell a nice fitting Jersey for 65c. Wo have them in Blacks, Navy Blues and Cardinals. -: . . Ladies' and Misses' Underwear, Youths' and Mens' Clothing. We have bought a large Stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING from first hands, .(And can offer bargains in full Suits, or in extra Coats and Pants. An Immense Stock of Boots and Shoes. Mens' all-solid leather Boots for $1.50 a pair. Womens' all-solid leather Shoes for 75c a pair. QBOCEE/IES, We have had oar Cellar enlarged, and are prepared to exhibit a larger and more . complete Stock of Groceries than heretofore. We have a large COFFEE TRADE, and intend to hold it by keeping the BEST GRADES. We vml sell you the best Rio Cofiee 8 lbs. for one dollar. SUGARS have within the last few months advanced, but we will sell a pure Brown ~JbmJ4Jt&>M&Sf>'.?. ??**???? ?? - - Very respectfully, , !8?K J. P; SULLIVAN & CO. , SeptlOi??- ???? :,. : ? ? in 9 for Farmers. j for Carpenters. SAWS ? for Builders. HAND SAWS, . : w cross: cut saws, one man's cross cut saws. ; OlJft ;$0BOW SAW for general use, ? ( . j ? ] I' )At f*i?0, and fully wax-ranted. A special dri^e.oDTQiese Goods now at % theMaMwaee store '. .. -- OF We now occupy our New and Commodious Store-Booms, second door from the National Bank, on the Public Square, where we shall be pleased to show our immense stock of GENERAL. hardware. Sullivan & Bro. gept 17,1885_10 BLECKLEY, BROWN & FRETWELL. $30,000.00 WORTH OF GOODS! Larpst id Ever OH for Sale ii is Market! ThESE GOODS are bought direct from Manufacturers, at special prices, thus placing us on the same footing with Jobbers, always baying in large lots, and taking advantage of all discounts for net Cash, thus enabling us to buy cheap and sell at low prices, as the following will prove: 100 Cases of Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes, At prices that cannot be duplicated. We quote Women's Polka Shoes at 75c, worth $1.00. Children's Shoes at ";0?, worth 75c. Men's Brogans at $1.00, worth $1.2*'. Men's Boots, all siz s, at $2.00, worth $3.00. Boys' Boots, 4's to 6's, et $1.50, vorth $2.00. Our Leader $3.00 Shoe, Bal., Button or Congress, made of best Calf Skin, Box Toe, Leather Tip, worth $4.00 anywhere, and to which we call the especial attention of young men. Our Leaders in Ladies' and Misses' Shoes, cus? tom made, Opera'Toe, handworked button holes, ladies size at $2.00, worth $2.75. Misses' at $1:85, worth $2.50, excel in beauty, style and fit. Every pair guaranteed. We have the exclusive control here of EVITT BROS. Ladiss', Misses' and Children's FINE SHOES, formerly sold here by Mr. J. D. Maxwell. These goods are made of very best material, fit perfectly,'and every pair is warranted. We can Save you Money on Shoes. Large Lot of Ladies' and Children's Cloaks, At one-half of their real value, bought at a closing out sale. If you need these Goods, we advise you to buy them before they are sold out, as they are bargains not picked up every day. Elegant and complete lines of BLACK : CROW CASHMERES, SILK and BROCADED VELVETS. WORSTEDS at 10c, worth 15c. 10,000 yards Jeans at strictly Jobbers Prices, ? Bought 10 per cent less than they can be bought for in smaller quantities. We invite the attention of merchants to this lot of Goods before placing their orders elsewhere, as we are in a position to sell them advantageously, and are determined to close them out at an early day. Georgia Jeans at 20c, worth 25c Large lot of CORSETS at 50c. You* will find in this assortment Corsets worth 75c, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50. We place them on our counters at one price. Select for yourselves. We have a lot ?f REMNANT CALICO^ from one and a half to seven yards, which you can buy at half their value. All-wool, red twilled FLANNELS at 20c, worth 30c. A first class, new patent, reinforced, linen front SHIRT at $4.50 per half doz. Gents' UNDEBVESTS at 25c, worth 40c. Ladies' Undervests at 50c, worth 65 cents. A large assortment of Gents' and Boys' HATS at prices to suit the times. Elegant line of Heady-Made Clothing Cheap." Fine double-barrel, breech-loading SHOT GUNS at $12.50. Extra quality $16.00, worth $16.00 and $20.00 respectively. We are prepared to meet all competition on BELTING, PRESS ROPE, BAGGING and TIES, qualitv always considered. We keep these goods constant? ly on hand, as well as WAGONS and WAGON HARNESS, BUGGIES and BUGGY HARNESS. These are a few of the many bargains we have secured this season, to which we invite your attention. All we ask of you is. to call in and examine our Goods and prices, and we can and will make it to your interest to buy from us. We keep for sale nearly everything? fro?r z Needle up to a hogshead of Mo? lasses or ii good Wagon. We are always in the COTTON MAR? KET, at highest Cash prices, and our Mr. E. W. Brown, with an experience of thirty years in the Cotton Business, is giving this Abrunch his exclusive attention. Be nitre and call on Mr. Brown, Be/ore selling your Cotton in Town ! WE ARE AGENTS FOR Piedmont and Pelzer Shirtings and Drills, Hazard Rifle and Blasting- Powder, And Wando Fertilizer. BLECKLEY, BROWN & FRETWELL. Anderson, 8. C, Sept. 17, 1885, ' WILHITE'S EYE WATER IS A SURE CURE for SORE EYES, or any COMMON FORM ; ~ ;.~of INFLAMED EYES. WE SELL IT With the understanding that if it does not prove bene? ficial or effect a Cure, after directions have been carefully fol? lowed, the sum paid for it WILL BE REFUNDED. It has been sold on these conditions for the past FIVE YEARS, and as yet we have NEVER HAD A COMPLAINT CP IT, OR HEARD OF A CASE IT DID NOT CURE! IT IS NOT A NEW PREPARATION, AND HAS BEEN USED FOR THIRTY YEARS, But has been only four or five years on the market as a PROPRIETARY MEDICINE. If you have never used it, or know nothing of its effects on SORB EYES, Ask your neighbor, or some one who has seen it tried. IT HAS CURED SEVERE CASES IN FROM SIX TO TWENTY-FOUR HOURS I Price, 25 Gents pr Bottle. WILHITE & WILHITE-, PROPRIETORS, Aug. 20,1885 6 THE SORREL HAIR; -OR? What Became of the Old Leather Trunk. Bill Arp in the Atlanta Constitution. Benson was his name?Tom Benson. He moved to our County and purchased a snug little farm in the valley about eight miles from town. He had a wife t?? shiYfcfc tisfiAren ht& a negro man name Dick. When Benson came into the settlement there was a little cloud over his reputation for honesty. It was whispered around that his nabors who lived near his old home were willing for him to go, for they said that his hogs and his sheep increased faster than was natural and their's decreased in some mysterious manner. But still Benson was a member of the church and being gifted with language would sometimes talk and exhort in meeting and lead in prayer. He was emotional and fervent and soon made friends in his new home, and the cloud for a time dispersed ; Mrs. Benson was a woman of good family, she was well mannered and industrious, but had a kind of pleading pitiful expression as though she was living under apprehen? sion of trouble. Benson had family prayer night and morning, and always prayed loud and a good long time; his negro man Dick came regularly to prayer and. said ameu and amen in good Methodist fashion, but Dick soon got ander a cloud and it got larger and blacker as time rolled on, for the nabors said there was a rogue in the settlement. Chickens were missing and the mill had been broken open, and Dick had carried chickens to sell one Saturday night. The relations between Dick and his master were very confiding-much more so than was usual between master and slave. They were companions and consulted with each other, and this was after while talked about to Benson's prejudice. If Dick stole chickens and sold them who had the money ? that was the question. Some little debts had followed Benson from his home, and he had been sued in the magistrate's court and had paid them little by little and it was a mystery where he got the money for his crop was not harvested and he had nothing to' sell. But still Benson got along and met the brethren on the Sabbath with a cheerful face and prayed and exhorted as usual. There is one other fact, an important fact that must be mentioned. Benson owed a balance of five hundred dollars of purchase money upon his place and had been sued for it in the circuit court. Three miles below him farther down in the valley lived a respectable old: gentleman whose name was Montague. He had raised a numerous family, but five of his sons and as many daughters were all married and most of them bad settled in the naborhood and were estab? lished and comfortable upon farms tho old gentleman had give them, for he was quite wealthy. He was a solid man of primitive habits, a member of the Presbyterian church and exemplary in all his conduct saving the suspicion that he was a little too fond of gold, and I when he loaned it exacted ton high a rate of interest. He lived off of his "intrust," as he called it, and he firmly believed that his gold was his. His loans were general made to thrifty, prosperous mea, ut the poor and the distressed were turned away with the assertion that he did not have a cent in the world. Ho called his pocket the world but his money was kept in an old hair trunk. The weight of many years had dimmed the old man's sight and almost stopped up his ears. His aged wife was also deaf, but otherwise they were in good health and almost every Sunday there was a gathering there of children and grand children and ibe old couple were going down to the grave most happily, consid? ering their wants and their ambition. Sometimes they had one or more of their numerous posterity to stay over night with them, but most generally they were alone in the great big house, and the old man's gold was in the old hair trunk under his bed. His numerous slaves and domestic servants occupied the cabins close by. They were faithful and obedi? ent, for most of thorn had been born in his household' and knew no king but "master" and no queen but "old mistis," and they were proud of his wealth 'and his dignity. One rainy morning in the Spring of the year there was a wild alarm in the Montague household. The old hair trunk was gone. Mr. Montague never failed to give a glance that way when he arose. It was his habit as fixed as putting on his garments. He thought at first' that his old eyes deceived him and he stooped down and felt for it with out? stretched hand. Hastily dressing himself he looked the room again and discovered a window up?a back window that looked upon the garden. It had not been raised for months. His wife had noticed his unusual manner and got up hastily and heard his excited voice and saw his misery as he exclaimed "gone?it's gone?the trunk, look at the window," and he sank down in pitiful despair. The old lady hurried to' the open window and looked upon the ground and saw nothing but a box?an old box that the robber had stood upon. Tottering to the door she screamed lor the servants and Ihey came and they screamed too and sounded the alarm; then came tho negroes generally from out their cabins, for it was not yet sunrise, and the wild panic began. The ball was opened, "Fore God deys stole old master's trunk, fore God dey is?tuk it outen de winder?fore God dey did." Run Bob, run Jesse, run Jake, run children, run for mas John and mas Tom and mass George?run for everybody and tell 'em come quick?run honey, don't stop nary minit." And they did run. In less than an hour the children and many nabors came in hot haste; some on foot and some on horseback, and all wild with desperate energy to catch the robbers. It did not take long to track them through the garden and over the garden fence and through the cotton patch to the woods that bordered the clearing. And there in the undergrowth of oak and pine bushes was the trunk? the old hair trunk. It was wide open and there was no more money iu it than there was in the old man's "world." His seven thousand dollars iu gold was gone. He had counted it all the day before and the week before and knew the amount. The old man tottered feebly to the Hcenc and cried. The shock was too much for him. His daughters led him back sor? rowfully to the house, and as he bowed along be shook his head and exclaimed "Benson ! Tom Benson did it," and he kept up the refrain, and as tho crowd passed to and fro Benson was in every tongue and the darkeys took it up and cried "BenBon" on the run. Old Mr. Montague had a reason for suspecting Benson. About two weeks before the robbery Benson called one morning and requented a loan of five hundred dollars, wherewith to lift that mortgage on" of Iiis land and save it from sale under the shcrifi's hammer. He pleaded his great necessity in touching language, and when the old man declared he did not have a ceut in the "world" he grew desperate with disappointment, and as he rose to go pointed his finger at him and said : "I know you have got it und ton times over and God Almighty will curse you with it yet before you die," and he left him greatly irritated. The old man had known somewhat of Benson long years before when they both lived in the same County, and he did not. like him. Benson had served on a jury once when the old man had a case in court and the jury found against him on a plea of usury and the old man lost his "intrust." He did not like his methods nor his Methodism. He could not think of any other man in all his acquaintance who was mean enough and smart enough to commit the robbery, and outside of this acquaintance it was not possible for any one to know he had any money or where the trunk was kept. And Dick, the black rascal, Dick had visited Mr. Montague's premises more than once on Sundays, and had come up to the old lady's door and saluted her and he could J Ttwve seen Che trunk under the bed and toid his master where it was. Thus the account stood, and while the more thoughtful nabors were looking around the trunk in the woods, they sud? denly discovered tracks?tracks of a horse and a mule. They found where the animals had been hitched while the robbers went after the trunk, and very near by where the mule was tied, there was a small hickory sapling cut off about knee high with a slanting stroke of an axe. It had been long done and the top edge was hard and dry and sharpe and there on the point of it was a little patch of Borrel hair. The mule had skinned his leg and left the mark behind. This discovery settled it and removed all doubts, for Benson bad a bay horse and a sorrel mule. Benson and 'Dick were the robbers. With hurried haste and fierce determi? nation the male members of the Mon? tague household and their resolute nabors mounted their steeds and went galloping up the valley road to Benson's house. Without ceremony of invitation they entered the stable lot and brought out the sorrel mule, and on close inspection found a skinned place on his knee, and the sorrel hair was all of a color. Ben? son aud Dick were there and looked on with amazement, either feigned or real. Poor Mrs. Benson stood in her door with clasped hands, and looked the picture ot alarm and despair. The children stood by their mother and clung to her gar? ments as they looked in her face and then at the crowd of desperate men, who had invaded the sacred precincts of their home. The leader of the crowd made a mo? tion to his companions. and uttered between his teeth "take them." Benson and Dick were seized and tied and carried hastily away. They were mount? ed upon the mule and the bay, and the party were soon far beyond the cries and shrieks of mother and children. An hour's ride found them in a lonely dell back of the Montague farm, and they dismounted and prepared their victims for confession and resituation, or other-' wise for the scourge. It was in vain that Benson and Dick protested their inno? cence and plead for mercy.- They were stripped and pinioned to two trees not far from eath other, and as stroke after stroke brought the warm blood spurting from their veins they called upon God for mercy, for man had none. "Ob, my God," groaned Benson as the tears ran down his face. "Oh, Mas Tom, dey is killin' of me," screamed Dick. "Be a man, Dick, for Jesus sako," replied Benson ; and so the scourge went on until the avengers began to fear for the lives of their victims and held a whisper? ed consultation. One of the more con? siderate walked away quietly and care? lessly and took another look at the mule. Beturning he talked to Benson and told him how much better it would be for him to give up the gold, and promised that he should not be prosecuted if he would do so, but Benson maintained his innocence with prayers and tears, and the avengers were outdone. Salt and water had been brought to garnish their wounds, and half dead with pain the victims were remounted and allowed to go home. It was a sad return to a sadder hearthstone. During the next few weeks while Benson and Dick were being ten? derly nursed and were slowly recovering, this bold and daring robbery was the all absorbing topic of the country and' the town. There were not a few'who doubt? ed Benson's guilt, and who openly de? nounced the brutal whipping, but the Montague family were influential in church and state, and Benson's nabor hood was aimost solid against him. They believed in his guilt. As soon as he was able to ride in a buggy he went to town with his wife and there sent for the sherill* and paid off that mortgage with five hundred dollars in gold. This capped the climax. This made the Montagues desperate. The night after? wards fifteen masked and mounted men visited hia house aga'n, and seizing Benson and Dick gagged and tied and blindfolded them and'took them awav to parts unknown. They were kept hidden for a week, and were alternately whipped and starved, aud every day brought new horrors. Benson endured it all with heroism, but Dick gave up repeatedly, and when under the excrutiating lash would promise to tell it all if they would stop. Then he would confess his guilt and declare that Mas Tom made him go, and Mas Tom had de money, but he didn't know whar he hid it. "Now Dick?now Dick," Bimson would 6ay, "speak the truth if they kill you?you know that aint so, is it Dick? would you tell a lie on your best friend, Dick?" And Dick would reply: "Oh,'Mas Tom dey will kill me if I don't tell sumfin." As a last resort they built up a brushheap and laid their victims on it and set it on fire. The flames leaped quickiy through the dry fagote and licked their clothes, and next their skin, and they were hasti? ly pulled off the heap and their burning garments drenched with water, and still they gave no sign. This was tho last, aud the victims were still alive. They were kept two more days to recover the life that was nearly gone, and then during the darkness of the following night were returned to their home. Some two months after this the circuit court convened in the County town, and certain members of the Montague family attended and went before the grand jury. They exhibited the patch of sorrel hair and recited the other evidences of guilt, and procured a true bill for robbery and burglary in tho night time. Benson and Dick were arrested, and for lack of friends were put in jail. In due time Benson was put on trial. An able coun? selor and eloquent advocate was employ? ed by him?a lawyer who had doubts of his guilt and sympathized with his mis? fortune. The prosecution was vigorous? ly defended, and resulted in a verdict of guilty, for the patch of sorrel hair was in the way and proved fatal to liberty. The case was carried to the supreme court of the State, and the verdict affirmed and Benson was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. Alas, for the broken-hearted wife and weeping children. The little farm was seized and sold for costs of the prosecution. The father went off in chains one way aud his wife and children another. They removed to Mississippi where Mrs. Ben? son had kindred, who though they were poor gave her a kind and welcomed home. Benson had served three years of his term. He was growing old and premature? ly 6rayi and waa known among the con? victs as Jeremiah, for his lamentations were sad and frequent. He grieved most of all because of the taint that his conviction entailed upon his children, and never failed to assert his innocence to visitors. One day about this time hU counsel received a letter?a very remark? able letter, written aud sigued by a man whose name is Robinson. It was written in a dungeon?the dungeon of a jail in a distant County in this State. It was well written and was scholarly in language, and said in substance that the writer was charged with robbery and burglary, and the evidence was conclusive and he was only waiting the setting of the court to plead guilty and begin the term of his service of twenty years in the peniten? tiary. But there wan a man there by the name of Benson whom he did not want to meet, for Bensou was serving and suf? fering for a crime he did not commit, and if his counsel would visit the writer sufficient evidence would he furnished to establish his innocence. The letter was of such a character as to merit confi? dence and demand immediate attention. The counsel lost no time in making the journey; when he arrived aud was admit? ted to the prisoner's cell he found a gentleman of culture and impressive manner?a man who looked mote like a. poet than a felon. He was surrounded by many evidences of refinement, Shak speare and Byron and various novels were upon his table. His clothing was of fine quality and sat well upon his well formed person. The counsel was not long in receiving his confession, for it was a confession of his own guilt in committing the Montague robbery. He was educated a physician he said and received his diploma from a Virginia college. In his youth he had became fascinated with the romances that por? trayed a brigand's life, and after removing to St. Louis he was induced by some fellows of kindred minds to join in a series of adventures, whereby the rich and miserly could be made to disgorge, and Lbj poor and needy be lifted up. "We have," said he, "distributed thou? sands and thousands of dollars in this way and saved but little for ourselves, for we enjoyed the excitement and peril of our calling more than we enjoyed the booty. A. few years ago our line of ser? vice was from St. Louis to Pensacola, and the old man Montague was directly on the route. We learned that he was a miser and that he hoarded his gold. The week before he was robbed my pal and I stayed over night with him, for he was accustomed to entertaining travelers. I was riding a blooded Kentucky mare and my companion was well mounted on a fine large Borrel mule. That night we made observations of the plan of the house and the surroundings. The next morning after breakfast I gave the old man a twenty dollar gold piece to pay our bill, and I saw he was pleased to handle it. I saw him go to bis bed-room and unlock the old hair trunk and get the change, and he had to untie a bag of coin to get it; then he procured a small old leather bound book which he said was his travelers book. Indeed it had its name rudely written upon the cover. He asked our name3, and I gave mine as William Thompson, of Kentucky. He wrote it down with a peucil at the top of a page, and spelled my namo without an "h" or a "p" and marked it "paid" and left out the "i" in that word. I remem? ber these things distinctly. We traveled on to a little village a few miles away and remained there until the dark of tho room. We left ono evening under pre? tence of visiting some friends in the couutry and then continued our journey Southward, but by the time it was dark we reversed our course, and by ten o'clock had passed old Montague's house, and secreted ourselves in the woods a quarter of a mile back. There we waited until the hour when deep sleep falleth upou man. With our dark lantern it was easy to find our way to the house and the window, and still easier in our stockings to take the trunk from under the bed where two old deaf persons were sleeping. Now iu that trunk we found the two left hands halves of two one hundred dollar bills on the Bank of the State of Georgia. These two halves I have kept and they will be sent you in a few days. They are marked letter A, and one is numbered 2096, and the other 2097. I have here the supreme court reports of this State that contains the sworn testimony of old man Montague, and he does not mention these bills. He says he lost nothing but gold ; but he did, and he knew he did, and no doubt put the officers of the bank upon notice. I Bupposo he had sent off the other halves in a letter and was waiting to hear from them before he sent these. Now, my dear sir, what more do you want? is this not enough to release Benson ?" It surely is, said the counsel. He sent the jailer for a magistrate and had Dr. Robinson sworn to his confession, and was preparing to leave when the doctor arose, and said: "One thing more, my dear sir. I have been here long enough to review my life and consider my great mistake. I havo not done bodily harm to any one in pursuing my unlawful avocation but I have brought dishonor upon my only child. She has no mother, and is living with her grandmother, and they know nothing of my manner of life. It has been two years since I saw them, but they have not suffered for j anything. My gold watch and chain is very valuable, and I will haveitseut yon so that you may send it to her, I- shall never see her again," and his voice trem? bled and fell as he uttered the last sentence. The counsel learned that Robinson had lately robbed an old man in that naborhood of four* thousand dollars and ' had blundered in his boldness, for he was pursued, Burrounded and caught with the money on his person. The twenty years sentence would about wind up his life, and he knew it and was resigned to his fato. He bad taken his chances and lost. In a few days after the attorney re* turned to his home he received a letter enclosing the half bills. The letter was mailed in Louisville, Ky., and said this only: "by direction of my friend I enclose you these half bills." There was no signature. He immediately interviewed Montague's attorneys and submitted everything to them. They began the perusal of the long confession with a careless incredulity, but 03 they read along o chance came over tbem?a change from doubt to conviction, and when the half bills were exhibited the elder attorney said with emotion : "He is innocent?no man knew of those half bills but Mr. Montague and myself?I charged him to keep it a secret, for I thought the robber would seek to collect them from the bank and it would give us a clue to the gold." Let it be mentioned here that on the trial of Benson he was unable to prove the fact that Mrs. Ben? son's father had sent her the five hundred dollars that saved the farm from sale. He was old and bed-ridden and could not attend court, for be lived a hundred miles away and the frieud who brought tbe money was on his way to the West and could not be heard from iu time. So the gold that he paid the sheriff re? mained unaccounted for and was a weight in scale of evidence?a weight not as heavy as the little patch of sorrel hair, but with both together his convic? tion was sealed. Next morning, which was Sunday, the counsel on both sides went down to Montague's. Sons and sons-in-law bad gathered there as usual to spend the day and comfort the aged aucestors. In due time the lawyers made known their mission and exhibited all their proofs. The travelers book was called for, and there at the top of a page was Win. Thompson's name, aud the spoiling was just as it was sworn to and the date was correct, and the half bills were identified, for the old man had made a cross mark upon the corner of each. The children were all reluctantly conviuced, but the old man shook his bead solemnly and declared it all a lawyer's trick. "If the travelers took my money,''said he, "Ben? son told them where it was, and Beuson helped them." He refused utterly to sign a petition to the governor for Ben? son's release, but the sons and sous in law all signed it after an assurance that Bcnsons's counsel would not advise or take a fee to sue or prosecute them for damages, for by this time it was pretty well known who the masked tueu were. Benson's attorney proceeded next to Millodgeville, which was then the State capital. Howell Cobb was the governor ?a man of great tenderness of heart, aud when (he whole case was made fully known to him he said with much feel? ing: "The poor old man ; what suffer? ings of mind and body he has endured. I have noticed him every time I have visited the convicts, and wondered if there was not possibly some mistake. He had a pleading and heart-broken look. Let us go there at once and release him." When the warden called Benson to them, it was with a choking utterance uhat the c;avetu.at uuido. kl<3A<K<\ Owtv: mission. It came upon the poor man with a shock of surprise and joy that sunk him to his knees, and he wept like f. child. "The Lord be praised," he ex? claimed. "I said that though He slay roe j . would I trust in Him. Oh, my wife and my children?thank God, thank God, for His mercy endureth.forever." His rhapsody I \ew no bounds, and his fellow prisoners stopped their work to listen and to wonder. Benson's striped garments were soon discarded and he was clothed in a decent citizen's dress ; with glad emotion he bade good bye to all, taking each by the hand and telling them to trust in God and do right. On arriving at his county town where he was tried and convicted he spent a day in meeting the few friends he had there, and then with the means furnished by the governor and his counsel continued his journey to Mississippi in search of his family. Some six month* afterwards his coun? sel were surprised by an unexpected visit from him. He looked once more like a man, and was clean shaved and well dressed and had less stoop in bis broad shoulders than when they saw him last. It did not take him long to disclose his business. He had a letter from an eminent lawyer of Mississippi, advising a nuit to be brought in the United States Court against his lynchers, the Monta? gues and their clan for damages. His former counsel, of course, declined his ca<e which was no more than he expect? ed, and he went to Marietta where the federal court was held, and there pro? cured the services of an able jurist who at once filed fifteen separate actions against fifteen men, and in each action had the other fourteen summoned as witnesses by the United States marshal. Each man was sued for ten thousand dollars damages for his arrest and im? prisonment and mal treatment while their wisouer. W) at a consternation was (here in the Montague settlement when the marshal served these writs 1 What a shaking and quaking of dry bones ! With what haste and alarm did they hurry to town aud seek conference with their lawyers 1 But they found little comfort. The law? yers seemed helpless, for they knew the power and the rigor of the federal court. Thuy knew the inflexible integrity and the stern justice of the old judge who .presided, and they knew the ability and vigor of Benson's counsel. After much consultation it was agreed that the Mon? tague lawyers should visit Marietta, and if possible, effect a compromise and take the cases out of court. Ia this they succeeded. Fifteen thou? sand dollars was paid over to Benson's I counsel without delay. He took one third of it for his fee and Benson re? turned to bis family with ten thousand dollars in his pocket. With this sum he purchased another farm and was liv? ing happily with his wife and children when last heard from. And Dick was thers?Dick, who was released without trial, bad followed his mistress and was her faithful and trustly friend during his mas:er's imprisonment. We do not know but can only imagine how he re? joiced with her and her children when Benion surprised the long bereaved household with his presence. ! But what of Dr. Bobinson, the bold and dashing brigand?the dupe of such romances as Jack Sheppberd and the Bobber Clifton and the Italian bandit. In due time he was sent to the peniten? tiary for twenty years. His culture and his bearing and good conduct soon gave him prominence and favor with the warden. He gave the convicts good ad? vice md set them a good example. He organized a Sabbath school and became fond of the scriptures. He sought to make amends for his past conduct by re? claiming the bad men withiu the prison walls. Time and again he had opportu? nities to escape but he would not use them. He was urged to ask for a pardon from the governor but he refused, aud even intimated that he would not accept it if offered to him, for be declared he had a mission to accomplish aid there was work for him to do that nobody else would do. Time rolled on?Robinson had been in service about three years. He had ministered like a good Samaritan among his fellow prisoners. He nursed them when sick, and though there was a nom? inal physician who was paid by the government, Dr. Robinson was the real one who used his professional skill and knowedge among them. About this time the war broke out be? tween the States, and when a few years after Sherman made his march to the sea and was fast approaching Milledgeville, Governor Brown went down to the peni? tentiary and made the convicts a speech. He told them of the wrongs our people had suffered, and of the invasion of our State by armed forces, who were burning and destroying everything in their path. He pictured to them the utter desolation of those whom Sherman left behind him, 1 and how helpless women and children were fleeing for their lives to escape the brutality of foreign hirelings. He told them he* was going to discharge them all and turn them out, and that it did not follow that tbey were not patriots be? cause they were couvicts. And he hoped and believed they would stand up, fight for and defend their State aud their peo? ple and kiudred. With a wild hurrah Dr. Robiuson threw up his hat and ihouted: "To arms, to arms ye brave." He had the kettle drum beat for volunteers, and or? ganized a company of 1G0 men and was unanimously elected captain. Their stripes were discarded and soldiers' clothes were furuished and guns placed in their hands, and they marched forth freemen and patriots, and joined the State troops aud fought manfully and ?well, but their efforts were all in vain to arrest the onward march of the foe. When Governor Brown resumed the oc? cupation of the State capital, and tho war was over Dr. Robinson returned singly and alone to serve out his seu leuce, but was refused admittance. "No sir," said the governor with much feel? ing. "No, sir, you have no business there, doctor, for your patients are all gone." A few years ago the writer of this re? miniscence had a letter from a friend in St. Louis. "My oflice," said he, "is next door to that of Dr. Robiuson, well known to you .13 Montague's robber. He is practicing his profession with success in I he city. H is daughter is happily married, and he lives with her and is highly esteemed." ? A boy in a Californiasohool remarked that the teacher bad red hair. He was whipped to make him retract; but he insisted that he could not tell a lie; and hu had the utmost confidence in his judgment of color. The woman declared that she would beat him to death unless lie changed tho word from red to auburn, and he abused his conscience to that ex? tent but afterwards took the case to the trustees, who sustained him and dismissed the bright-headed puuisher. ? A thoughtful mind can find fodder for much rui lination in the announce? ment that seventy-two per cent, of the , baldheaded mew of this country are married. ! DEATH-DEALING TYPHOID FEVER. It !h Fre-Eminently ? Filthy I)I?cas? ami the Result of Specific Foison. D. N. Patterson, M. D., in New England Farmer. The remark made by a medical gen? tlemen a short time since, that lie had "had more cases of typhoid fever in a country town in New Hampshire during one season, than he had had since he came to the city^" has sue.eested this sub? ject for consideration. That tho remark was not a "random shot," it may be stated that his practice extended over thirty five years in the country and twelve in the city, and that the season he referred to, he attended sixty-five cases of dis? ease. Conversation and inquiry among physicians who have practiced both in the country and city, confirm in sub? stance this remark. The question natu? rally arises, why is it that typhoid exists more generally in the country than in the city? Considering the natural con? ditions and advantages of the country, one would suppose that this would be reversed. Our highest medical authorities now generally agree that typhoid fever origna tes from a specific jwison, or in other words it is now classed among the germ diseases. That this disease is infectious, is now clearly established. In regard to the age when persons are most liable to take the disease, it may be stated that as a rule, the majority of cases occur uuder thirty years of age, from eighteen to thirty is the most common. No age, however, is exempt, and it may occur in children as young as five. It is not thought that sex makes any noticeable difference, as statistics show about an equal division. It attacks the strong man as readily and often with more fatal result than it does the weak. To use a I common expression, it goes harder with a fleshy person than it does with those who are lean, probably on the principle that there is more substance for the fever to feed upon. But it is the manner of the convey? ance of this germ poison, that we wish particularly to speak. The two most important elements by which this germ is carried are water and air. Water is considered the most serious of the two, for by it the poison is taken directly into the stomach and thus absorbed at once into the system. It is uot yet definitely established just how this germ orginates, although the idea generally adopted at the present time is, that it is a product of decomposed vegetable and animal matter. If this be L.ie, here jomes in the im? portant part which water sustains in the communication of this poison. It has becu demonstrated that a well is liable to drain a cone of earth, the diameter of the base of which, at tho surface of the earth, is three times the depth of the well. Now for convenience, the well is situated near the house, barn, pigsty, and other buildings, and it will be seen at once how easy it is for the well to drain the surface of the earth, including all of these buildings. If not too much trouble, look where the sink pipe empties at the rear of the kitchen window, and measure from its outlet to tho curb of the well. In too many of the farm houses the drain water from the sink is allowed to flow out upon the surface of the ground by the back door; there it is allowed to gather until, the ground is soaked with water, in which cabbage, beans, pork, and nearly every article of food has been cooked. Certainly no more favorable condition could be devised to propagate germs of poison. Before leaving the subject of water as a source of commu? nicating this disease, one word may ap? propriately bo said in regard to milk. The peculiar atid susceptible powers of absorption which milk possesses have been considered in a previous paper. But especially is this true in this con? nection. If milk is kept in the cellar it should not be allowed to stand in open pans near decaying vegetables, but it 3hould be kept in an apartment by itself. This also applies equaly true when we nay that the buttery or" dairy window mould not open out in the direction of the ground which is drained by the sink water. Again, if there are cases of typhoid fever in the house, milk should not be kept in the well, no matter how tight the cans may be. Right here affords a good opportunity to clearly state an important warning. When typhoid fever occurs in a family it is important to know how it is con? veyed from one to another. In a word, it may be said that it is the passage from the bowels that contain the germs of poison. It is not a disease communica? ted, like scarlet fever or diphtheria, by the skin or breath, therefore there is not that danger in entering the room that there is with these other diseases. But scrupulous care must be used in the dis? posing of the fecal matter. It should not bo deposited in tue privy, as it is liable to contamiuate the air, and not unfrequently finds its way into the well. The vessel which is used should contain all the time a disinfectant, and as soou as used it should be covered tightly, and removed a loug distance from the house, and buried deep iu the earth, some one of the disinfectants such as carbolic acid, solution of copperas or chloride of lime being used freely. This is of special importance, and should not be forgotteu or neglected. In regard to the communication of this iufectiou, unfortunately, we have not the means of preventing so completely as we could wish. We cannot at all" times govern the condition of a distant swamp or low marsh land. But this we can do, and if it is faithfully carried out it will largely diminish the dauger of infection, viz: Carefully removing decomposing mat? ter of whatever kind which gathers around the house and out-buildiugs will help to prevent its invasion ; this should be clone three or four times a year either by gathering it into ? large pile and burning it, or by burying it iu a large excavation. The former is the best method, as the ashes, purified of any poison, are serviceable in many ways, or can be added to compost heap for future use as fertilizers. By attention to those things the liability to the statement made in the opening sentence of this paper might be largely obviated. Bloody Work in Virginia. Lynchb?rg, Va., September 2S.~ The Daily Advance special from Abing don says: Judge.George W. Ward, edkor of the Examiner, and Commonwealth's attorney for Washington County, while about to enter the Colonnade Hotel yes? terday about 4 p. m., was fired upon by Dr. William White, independent candi? date for State Senator, who had been concealed in a storeroom nearly opposite ;.he hotel. White stepped out of the door and discharged cue barrel of a shot? gun loaded with buckshot at Ward, who fell face foremost, but recovering, and getting up on his knees, drew his pistol aud fired three shots at a young relative of White's who was oa the opposite side of the street behind a tree. White in the meantime had stepped inside the store, and, hearing the firing, came out again and fired the second barrel at Ward, who fell. While he was lying on the ground two of White's rela? tives (one of whom Ward had already fjhot at and who, he thought, had shot a! liim,) walked up and fired seven shots at him (Ward,) all of which took effect. Judge Ward is in a very critical con? dition, and it is thought he cannot live. Dr. White and his two relatives have been arrested and bailed in the sum of ?7,000 each. Great excitement exists in Abingdon and vicinity, but no fear of further violence is entertained. The affair lias produced considerable excitement in political circles all over the Stale. Ward is one of the most prominent Democratic leaden*. He was at one time one of the original Readjust ers, but left Mahone before the latter joined the Republican party. He has been pretty severe in his denunciation of Mabonc and all connected with him. Judge Ward resigned his place as Jude of Washington "County four or five years ago to fight a duel. In 1SS2 he was I wsn?\o So'mi'S?. *f?"i?e 'va "iris ?ue"! w'rfa Crockett iu Montgomery County. The fight at Abingdon does not surprise many people in the State, as the contest in the southwest has assumed such a bitter tone that bloodshed might be expected at any moment. UP THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. The Elevator Man Teil? or People Who-^. are Terrified In Ascending. Washington, September 22.?Ed? ward Wayson is the man who has con? ducted the Washington Monument elevator from the first day work was resumed upon it until its completion. With his many loads of visitors Wayson has had a variety of experiences, aud had opportunities of seeing different phases of human nature. Iu answer to a ques? tion by a reporter for the Evening Star of this city he said: "The majority of my passengers have been ladies, and what impressed me most was that they showded less timidity in making the ascent than men. You wouldn't think that. It's a fact though. Of course as soon as a passenger showed fear the elevator was at once lowered to the bottom. Those were the orders. But, as I said, we have had to return oftener for men than for ladies. One day when I had Congressman Reid of Maine as a passenger he said he thought he would rather go back. He had seen all of the top of the monument that he wanted to. The elevator was open, you know, and the well was very dark, mak? ing it rather uncomfortable for a person with unsteady nerves. "No one ever tried to jump off," con? tinued Mr. Wayson, "although one man did step off at one end of the platforms just for fun. I waited for him at the top and, and when he arrived, puffing and blow? ing, he had to get right aboard and be taken back. You see we couldn't allow anything of that kind. If nothing had been done or said about it, he would have told his friends about his experi? ence, and pretty soon everybody would be trying it. "There were busy times at the monu? ment about Washington's birthday and inauguration times," continued Mr. Wayson. "We couldn't handle the vis? itors at all. They would swarm through the door by hundreds and all want to go up at once. One time they pushed me off the elevator, clear to tbe other side of the well, and crowded so that those who were next to the elevator were unable to raise their feet to take the one step nec? essary to get on the elevator. I told them I could not possibly start until they cleared the place, and then I was able to take up a proper load. Another time, when they crowded so, I walked up to the first landing and from there started the elevator. Men and women were crowded on it like sardines in a box. It only ascended a few feet before those on the outside realized their position and dropped off. It was very comical to see them jump. Of course I only raised a little way. When the crowd had suffi? ciently thinned I started it again, and when it reached me I got aboard and took them to the top all right. "One day when I was coming down, an empty barrel fell from the top land? ing. I heard the cry from above, and know that something was coming. I directed my passengers to crowd into the middle, where the elevator was most pro? tected from above, and when the barrel struck the top nobody said a word. There were several ladies aboard, but they didn't seem a bit frightened. At another time, when the elevator was at the top and the men were unloading a stone, a crowbar was twisted from the hands of the man who was using it and dropped down the well. We gave the signal, and when the bar reached bottom there was nobody there to catch it. It went down like a shot, and a plummet could not have swung straighter. It went clear through the platform at the base and made a hole about six inches deep in the asphalt at the foundation. Once an iron sleeve weighing 70 or 80 pounds fell while the elevator was at the top. The cry of warning chared out those at the bottom of the well, and it struck on a board upon which some pas? sengers had been standing only a few moments before. Only two men were hurt during the entire time that the monument wa3 being built. I don't be? lieve there was ever a structure built calling for such dangerous work with such an uninteresting chapter of acci? dents. Everybody connected with the work knew just how things were being done and what care was being taken by those in charge, and that if oiders were obeyed everything would be all right. I have run the elevator when the keystone was suspended directly over me. Had it fallen it would have been the cud of me and the monument too." An Incident at Gettysburg. "I went to see the panorama in Chi? cago," said an elderly passenger on a Rock Island train the other day; "I've seen it dozens of times, but I never go to the city without looking in on it, if only for a few minutes. It has a fascination for me which I cannot shake off. I was at the battle of Gettysburg myself, aud an incident occurred there which largely changed my views of the Southern people. I had been a most bitter anti South man, and fought and cursed them desperately. I could see nothing good in any of them. The last day of the fight I was badly wounded. A ball shattered my left*3^;. I lay on the ground not far from the cemetery ridge, and as Gen. Lee ordered his last retreat he and his officers rode near me. As they came along I recoguized him, aud, though faint from exposure and loss of blood, I raised up on my hands, looked Gen. Lee in the face and shouted as loud as I could, 'Hurrah for the Union!' The General heard me, looked, stopped his horse, dismounted, and came toward me. I confess that I at first thought he meant to kill inc. But as he came up he looked down on me with such a sad expression upon his face that all fear left me, and I wondered what be was about. He ex? tended his hand to me, and grasping mine firmly, and looking right into my I eyes, said: ""My son, I hope you will soon be I well." "If I live a thousand years I shall : nevei forget the expression on Gen. ; Lee's face. There he was, ? defeated, i retiring from a field that had cost him ; and his cause almost their last hope, and I yet he stopped to say words like those to I a woundca soldier of the opposition who j had taunted him as he passed by. As , soon as the General had left me I cried ? myself to sleep there upon the bloody , ground."?Chicago Herald. , ? A western clergyman says that if men and women are to dance they ought , no dance in separate rooms. If the cler i gyman means a room for each couple, he ! is evidently making arrangements to run for president. On that issue he could be unanimously elected so far as the young I people are concerned. ? He: "I see the latest idiocy of women is to have a money for a pet." She: "That is not new. It was so when we got married."