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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1901. VOTJTMR Y*YVTi___i?n ?
"Honest
Injim
Cross
my
Heart !"
-,i>?8#-3@?#?ftB<^-" -
That's what the little boys say when they want to im
press yon with the fact they are telling the truth.
When we talk to yon about this Store-its methods of
buying and selling, the saving of money for you on good
Clothing--we fe?l that we want to impress upon you the
fact more strongly, and like the little boys we feel like say
ing, "Honest Injun Cross my Heart !" We sell the kind of~
Clothing,
Hats,
Shoes and
Furnishigs,
That give satisfaction every time.
When the Goods are not found as represented we cheer
fully refund your money.
B. 0. Evans & Co,
ANDERSON, S. C.,
The Spot Cash Clothiers
Why not Enjoy Riding When You Go ?
/i|fp8 4k /? BSft^L r ugh-riding Boggy, but you can enjoy
/ \ \ ) j j. l? ^nen y?u ri?e^on the winga of the
TI?E5/JES.
Why not join the many who now enjoy the pleasure given them by using the
Rubber Tires. Gall on us and let us show you the advantage of using them
Church Street. Opposite Jail. FRANK JOHNSON & CO.
Deering Light Draft Ideal Mowers.
THE ONLY MOWER made with only two-piece
pitman. Has adjustable drag bar and light draft
We have the genuine thick centre Ter-ll Heel
Sweep that has just the right set. Also, all sizes of
the Victor Sweep Wings.
If you will come to see as will make it interesting
to you and will save you some money.
BROCK HARDWARE CO.
Anderson, 8. C.
E. ?! EVANS/
P?ft&LETO!*, S. C.
FULL LINE OF
Buist'a Garden Sc??a-r
Faints, Oil, Varnishes, Gasoline,
Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals,
Fancy and Toilet Articles,
Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, Sponges, etc.
A. supply of Perana, Hanoi in and Laeupia on band
ai?" Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded,
FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8,1901.
The Pension Commissionership scan
dal is the event of the week in Wash -
iugton. On all sides, denunciations,
vigorous or mild, are heard of General
Sickles' course in the matter, some of
the most severo being uttered hy his
comrades of the G. A. R., who seem to
be moved rather by the painful ama
tenrness of General Sickles in giving
tbeni away, than by any regret or dis
approbation of the bargain and salo
methods which he and the G. A. R.
generally-according to the General
adopted. One thing is certain as a re
sult of the scandal: Thot whether the
President did agree to remove Com
missioner Evans in return for G. A. R.
support; or whether Senator Scott, of
West Virginia, made a promise that he
would do so without authority from
the President; or whether General
Sickles does not tell the truth about
Senator Scott's assertion (as the latter
declares); in any case, President Mc
Kinley will not dare to remove Mr.
Evans for months or years to come,
whatever.he may have intended to do
before General Sickles sprang into the
arena. As General Sickles was once a
warm supporter of Commissioner
Evans, some curiosity as to the quarrel
between them has Deon aroused. It
seems that this resulted over the mean
ing of a law on which Mr. Evans and
General Sickles were unable to agree
and which was referred to Attorney
General Griggs for construction. Mr.
Griggs decided in favor of Mr. Evans'
contention: hence, the quarrel.
A letter has been received from Mr.
Babcock, of Wisconsin, who is now in.
Austria, setting forth his position in
the tariff' question. He says: "Many
papers have- misrepresented me, and
vrithout ground or reason. I have
started my idea through the press, and
it is this: Where articles can be made
cheaper in this country than in any
other, and where they have in fact be
come articles of export, they should go
on the free list if we are to be consist
ent with our Republican ideas of pro
tection . It makes no difference wheth
er they be made by an individnl or a
trust. If our tarin is used solely to
make prices higher at home than
abroad, then there is all tho more rea
son why the tariff' should come off'.
Can anyone deny this proposition! In
order to say something, some of the
papers try to make me out a free trader,
and claim that I endorse the Demo
cratic idea that all trust-made poods
should go on the free list. This is
simply 'rot,' and 1 write this that you
may Know just what my views are."
Mr. Babcock would have done better
had he explained jost why this is "rot"
and in what vay his ideas differ from
those that have been urged by the
Democrats in the last two Congresses.
Even if the Pan-American Congress
is partly a failure, owing to the dis
pute over arbitration, it is thought
probable that be meeting will result
m the formation of a permanent court,
something like that of The Hague, for
the settlement of such international
disputes as may be submitted to it
with the consent of both parties. Each
nation, it is proposed, shall be given
the right to nominate a certain number
of delegates, who should be jurists of
high standing. From the list of all
delegates the two nations having
claims whioh they desire disposed of
will select a court of three or live
members. This court will receive the
arguments of the two countries and
give each an opportunity to makp an
swer to the contention of the other.
Its decision will be binding. In order
to remove any other objection that
might exist to the organization of such
a court it will be expressly announced
at the time the plan is proposed that
its acceptance will not compel nations
to refer all claims to arbitration,
ci al s here believe the organization of
such a court wonld be of great Pan
American advantage. The United
States does not care to force in the
matter countries to pay claims, as such
action is apt to cause enmity and in
the end be embarrassing to the North
American Republic, yet it is often ne
cessary for it to take strong measures
to obtain reparation for outrages suf
fered by American citizens because of
their nationality.
South Carolina purposes to test the
constitutionality of the exactions of
tho law requiring the State to take ont
special licenses both as wholesale and
retail liquor dealers on account of its
dispensary system. Briefs have been
Hied by the Governor and Attorney
General of the State with the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue, asking a
a refund of taxes previously paid and
the remission of all others in the
future, it is contended that the prop
erty of a State and the means and in
strumentalities employed by it to car
ry its laws into operation cannot be
taxed by the Federal Government, and
an opinion of the late Judge Cooley on
this question is qnoted. If the claim is
rejected, as it probably will be, the
matter will be appealed to the courts.
Secretary Long has been interviewed
at his home in Boston and has asserted
that Secretary Hay is not opposed to
Senator Lodge in his candidacy for
Chairman of tho Senate .Foreign Re
lations Committee, despite the fact
that Mr. Lodge has publicly announced
that he is opposed to Mr. Hay's hand
ling of the canal matter, and that be
will, if selected, take immediate steps
to bring about the abrogation of the
Clay ton-Bn! wer treaty which Mr. Hay
so.warmly supports and generally undo
all that Mr. Hay is seeking to do in the
matter. Mr. Long says: "I should
say that Secretary Hay would be one
of the last men to interfere in such a
matter. I do not believe there is any
troth in the report whatever. Secre
tary Hay is a man who minds his own
business on all occasions.. He and
Senator Lodge may not agree on all
public quoBtiono. They may not have
agreed about the terms of the Hay
Pauncefoto Treaty, but I do not think
for a moment that Mr: Hay would try
and prevent Mr. Lodge from getting
this y 11*00 i? Mr. lvodgo really wants it.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding, as
Senator Vest nsed to say, there is little
doubt here that the Administration
and particularly Secretary Hay, will
move heaven and earth to keep Mr.
Lodge from attaining his ambition, by
inducing either Senator Ca??cm o?
Senator Frye, who have the first call
in the matter, to insist on receiving the
poet.
Mrs. Harris Has Another Woman's Boy.
Mrs. L. WV Horrie, of Fairtleal, An
derson County, had a peculiar expe
rience aboard the southbound fast mail
Sunday morning.
Shortly after the train iofi Char
lotte, a strange woman asked her to
care for her boby a few minutes. Tho
woman never returned.
Mis. Harria had been on a visit to re
latives in Rock Hill and was on her re
turn homo in Anderson county. She
said to a News reporter that ofter leav
ing Charlotte about 11 o'clock Saturday
night she was rather tired and sleepy
and paid little attention to wlm was cs
tho train. She noticed, however, ns
she first took her sent a handsome
young woman with a small baby in her
arms occupying a scat j hst in the rear
of her.
Refore the train had gone very far,
Mrs. Hr vris said that this woman came
to her and asked her to watch her
baby for a few minutes until she re
turned. This, Mrs. Karris very kindly
consented to do, thinking, of course,
the woman would return for the child
in a short time.
The baby waa then asleep and was
noticed until it awoke about a half
hour afterwards and began crying.
Mrs. Harria quieted the child and wait
ed patiently for the return of thc wo
man who had left the baby in her
charge.
Upon reaching Greenville Mrs. Har
ris says that the woman had not yet
put in hor appearance. She took the
baby in her arms together with a grip
that had been left on the seat and got
oft' the train to spend the remainder of
the night here, before leaving for her
home on the 0:40 C. & G. train. She
was met at the depot by her husband
who had come over from Anderson tho
afternoon before.
Mr. Harris notified the policemen of
th?5 lost baby. He said Sunday morn
ing just before leaving the city that he
had a number of applicants for tho
child but that he didn't care to give
him up.
The little boy was about a year old,
with brown eyes, dimples in his cheeks
and apparently possessed a very sweet
disposition. The valise which Mrs.
Harris brought from thc train with her
was found to contain a number of tine
baby dresses, a milk bottle and every
thing necessary for a baby's toilet.
Greenville News, 0th inst.
Friendship News.
Well, Mr. Editor, as we have not
seen anything from our thriving little
burg lately we will attempt to give
you a few dots to let you know that
we are alive and fighting "General
Green" with all onr might, and think
wo will conquer him yet if we can get
two or three weeks more of fair weath
er.
Quite a number of our people attend
ed the Union Meeting at Mt. Pisgah
laat Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gaillard visited
the latter's sister, Mrs. J. P. Mauldin,
recently. .
Mr. Juy Wilson aud sister, Miss Ma
tilda, and cousin, Miss Lucinda Mar
tin, visited the family of Mr. A. W.
Pickens fourth Sunday. They report a
very nice tim?.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hammond visit
ed relntives in Hickory Flat last
week.
Mr. Luther Owen visited in Piedmont
last Saturday.
Miss Mary Wilson is very sick at this
writing.
The hum of the thrasher can be
heard as it frails out the golden grain,
which promises on abundant yield.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Guyton visited
the family of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Mul
likin recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rogers visited
the fa Hy of Mr. Shaw Elrod recent
ly.
News is scarce.
BONN IK RESS.
Whitefield News.
Bessie, the little blind daughter of
Mr. R. H. Breazeale, is at home from
Cedar Springs, S. C., where oho has
been attending school for ten months.
She has learned nearly as much as the
average child that can see would have
learned in the same time.
Mrs. W. H. Vaden is visiting her
son, Mr. Charley Vaden, who has a very
sick child..
Mr. D. R. Mayfield was thc guest of
Mr. W. O. Singleton and family Inst
Wednesday.
Mad dogs arc plentiful in this sec
tion. The young ladies arc not trou
bled with young men staying late at
night, and som J will not even sleep up
stairs with the windows raised, they
are so afraid of being kidnapped by a
mad dog.
Mr. John Lockaby, near William
ston, had the misfortune to get bis
house burned down last Sunday after
noon.
Mr. W. A. Watson ia preparing to re
plant his bottoms, which have been
drowned by the extreme wet weather.
We are expecting a largo corn shuck
ing nt hia ho nee next february.
Some ot tho papers have been giving
Senator Tillman some heavy blows,
bnt ho seems to be Rke a post-tho
harder yon hit the steadier he stands.
Crops and health are very good at
this date-July ?. BLUE JA V.
Pot Planta and Cat Flowers for ?ale.
Large and small Pa!mn n npcolalty. Mi s.
J. F. CllnkBCalea, 242 North Main St.
STATE NEWS.
- Tho supremo court bas rendered
a decision authorizing a dispensary to
be established at Prosperity.
- Cotton mills, banks and other
corporations in Spartanburg county
paid $238,438 in semi-annual divi
dends the 1st.
- Tho first prize for South Caro
lina for embroidery work at the Pan
American Exposition was awarded to
Mrs. C. F. Pechtnan of Johnston.
- Congressman J. Wm. Stok?? died
at his Lowe near Orangeburg las?. Sat
urday morning, after a brief illness,
agfd 4^ yssrs.
- Arthur J. Knight of Bcnnotts
ville has been appointed post?nico in
spector for rural mail routes with a
salary of $1,200 and $2 a day for ex
penses.
- Jones Fuller, of Ninety-Six, a
graduate of Wofford and Vanderbilt,
has been eleotcd professor of English
and French in Hendrix college, Con
way, Arkansas.
- Tillman and MoLaurin will be
invited to spoak at Saluda on July,
28th, at the fifth anniversary of the
laying of the corner stone of thc Court
House.
- It is reported that the Hon. W.
F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, the present
speaker of thc HOUBC of Representa
tives, will bo a candidate for attorney
general.
- Revenue officers destroyed five
illicit distilleries and thousands of
gallons of beer in tho dark corner of
Greenville oounty last week.
- H. P. Oalpin, of Ninety-Six, made
920 bushels of wheat on 30 aerea.
His tenants made GOO bushels. His
oat crop will turn out 1200 to 1500
bushels.
- The report of the State dispen
sary shows that for the months of
March, April and May there was $400}
000 worth of liquor sold lo the citi
zens by the State.
- Six railroads controlled by the
Plant system wero consolidated at
Charleston on July 1 into one road,
to be known as the Sv.annah, Florida
& Western.
- Rev. J. W. Tarboux, missonary
to Brazil, who is on a visit to his old
home in Georgetown, will preach the
sermon for the Woman's Missionary
oonvention of the Methodist church
in Net berry the 17th.
- Dr. C. S. Gardner, pastor of tho
First Baptist church rf Greenville,
has received a call from Graoe church,
Riohmond, Va., which he will prob
ably accept. His leaving Greenville
would be a big loss to that city.
- Florence, Darlington and Ches
terfield counties have decided *.o bring
suit against the Atlantie Coast Line
railroad for baok taxes on the Cheraw
and Darlington road from 1888 to 1898.
The Coast Lice claims the road was
exempt.
- Eliphas Dawkins, a negro preach
er and politician who poured kerosene
oil on his wife and held her in the
fire until she was burned to death,
was tried for the offense at Gaffney
and found guilty of murder with a
recommendation ti mercy. Just
whe.e the element of mercy comes in.
is hard to see.
- An attempt to wreck the south
bound Seaboard Air Line train was
mmie last Thursday morning near
Abbeville. Tho fish plates of one rail
were removed. It remained in place
till struck by the sleeper, which was
derailed. No one was seriously in
jured. The authorities believe re
cently discharged employ?es from the
Abbeville shops did the work.
- Last Friday afternoon in Spar
tanburg John D. Collins, proprietor
of the Bee Hive store, was mortally
wounded by Clifton Gbolston, a boy
nineteen years of age. Gbolston
went to the store for settlement. Ho
had been working for Collins. A row
ensued and Collins tried to put him
out. GholstOD fired once, the ball
striking Collins just below the breast,
making a fatal wound.
- G. Frank Bamberg has a curios
ity at his stable. It is a mare colt
whose mother is? mule. This isa
freak of n?inre which is very rare.
The mother of the colt was bought in
the west by Mr. Bamberg last winter
a year ago, and the following April
gave birth to the colt. The colt is a
sorrel marc and can be seen at the
stables any time.-Bamberg Herald.
- The State reformatory for youth
ful convicts has been completed and
oooupied. The new institution is
located upon the State's Lexington
farm, about five miles from Columbia
in the "Dutch Fork," near the banks
of tho Broad river. While the build
ing is not a costly one it is most con
veniently arranged, and thc boys are
more comfortable than they would be
j in the State pi ison itself. The sur
roundings are far more conducive of
real reformation.
- A few nights ago W. D. Flani
gan, a merchant at Bowling Green, in
York county, heard an explosion in
his store, not far away, and upon
going to the store and attempting to
I enter a revolver was thrust ioto his
\ face and he was commanded to take
I his head away. He left tue store and
returned to his home and called for
help. Several neighbors promptly re
sponded and appeared with guns. The
party hastened to the store, but thc
burglars ?gd gone. The interior of
the building was wrecked and in great
confusion," the money in the safe,
about $250, being scattered over the
floor, whore it was gathered np by the
party, who had struck a light after
entering tho building. The explosive
had been introduced into the safe
through a hole in its top and the door
had been blown 12 or 50 feet. The
burglars did not get anything.
iii:NIERAL NEWS.
- Baltimore celebrated the Fourth
with a $000,000 fire.
- Another gusher has burst forth
in Texas, making 13 in all.
- A bolt of lightning killed twelve
men and a boy in Chicago.
- Th ? apple crop in the North and
West promises to bc only moderately
large.
- A $10,000,000 oil cloth combino
is being arranged at. Youngstown,
Ohio.
- It is said that the wheat crop of
the NcrthwcBt wilt break the record
this year.
- President and Mrs. McKinley
have left Washington for their homo
in Canton.
- In Montana three robbers held
up a train and scoured $83,000 from
the express our.
- Civil government in thc Fhilip
piues was auspiciously inaugurated
on the 4th inst.
- A kangaro > ranoh is being plan
ned in Ai kaunas-to raise thc animals
for their hides.
- An 88 year old wife in Paterson,
N. J., wants a divorce from her hus
band for desertion.
- A young school boy of Albany
N. Y., got in a temper and shot a
companion, then hung himself.
- A nogro named Jim Bailey was
lynched noar Smithfield, N. C., for
assaulting a 14-year-old white girl.
- The white and negro miners in
Campbell county, Toon., have been
rioting and many fatalities are re
ported.
- Bags of gold, aggregating $30,
000, are missing from tho mint in San
Francisco. The robbery is being in
vestigated.
- Comptroller of the Currency
Chas. D. Dawes has resigned. Ile
will make the canvass for United
States senator in Illinois.
- Mrs. W. H. Burnett, of Jasper,
Tenn., gave birth to four children
June 28th-all doing well. Mrs. Bur
nett is also the mother of triplets and
twins.
- The legislature of Porto Rico
has been called in extra session on
July 4, to fix the date after whioh
free trade will exist with the United
States.
- The town of Williams, Ariz.,
was for the third time destroyod by
fire last week. It is a railway and
lumbering town, and bas about 2,000
inhabitants.
- The Homestead hotel at Hot
i Springy, Va., was destroyed by fire,
entailing a loss of about $300,000.
I There were many narrow esoapes from
death of the inmates.
? - Mr. Louis Lewark, of Currituck
county, N. C., has the distinction of
being the biggest man in North Caro
lina. Louis is only 17 years old and
tipsjtho scales at 690.
- People are securing oil options -
about Elberton, Ga. It is said that oil
has been discovered in the Broad river
section of that county and that a com
pany will soon begin to sink a woll.
- On the 14th inst., at Muskegon,
Mich., Frank Tazelow was killed while
making a parachute drop. Ho foll
1,000 feet, dropping into Muskegon
lake. Thousands saw tho accident.
- The biggest chunk of granite ever
quarried in this country has just been
split from the ledge in a Bockland,
Me., quarry. It is 325 feet long, 50
feet wide, 38 feet thiok, and is esti
mated to weigh 52,000 tons.
- The trustees of the first Metho
dist churoh at Omaha have passed a
resolution forbidding women to wear
hats during the hour of service, decry
ing fancy headgear as an impediment
to the attainment of Godliness.
- America's wheat crop this year
is estimated at 700,000,000 bushels.
The average for former years has been
500,000,000, the average yearly ex
portation has been 200.000,000 the
average yearly price per bushel 72cts.
- A young lady of Indian Terri
tory who was reproved by a minister
from the pulpit for speaking to her
escort during a long sermon was so
depressed by the unpleasant notoriety
that she took a dose of carbolio acid
and killed herself.
- Tho intense heat that has pre
vailed in New York and other North
ern cities and that has been so de
structive to human life has abated
somewhat because of rain. In New
York there were 600 deaths from the
heat in six days.
- Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland died
in Washington on Sunday aged 8G.
He was pastor of the First Presby
terian church for 48 yoars and retired
in 1808 on account of his agc. It
was he who married President and
Mrs. Cleveland in 1885.
- There is no yellow fever in Ha
vana this year. Science has found
that tho female mosquito transmits
this disease, and by sprinkling all
drains, sewers &c, with kerosene a
plague of mosquitoes has been pre
vented, and, consequently, yellow
fever was stamped out.
- At Eau Claire, Wisconsin, light
ning struck tho menagerie te'jt at
Wafiaoe Brothers1 circus. 0:<e ele
phant was killed and two others
severely sbooked. The surviving ele
phants endeavored touring the dead
ono round by striking her with their
trunks and putting hay in her mouth.
- At Lynn, Mass., two weddings
were in progress in tho samo churoh.
The building was crowded. While
the two orienta were performing the
ceremony the building was struck by
lightning and stones and timber were
hurled around in a general way. A
panic followed and the marriages were
interrupted.
JL1 VI X?t
Another Story of an Old Greenville
Tragedy.
.EDITORS INTBLMOENCER: The ?tory
of the Yancey-Karie tragedy in G roon ville
many years ago, which appeared in the
Birmingham Age Herald recently and
which TUB INTELLIGENCES copied last
week,.does not tally with the Hcconnt
contained in DUI?OHO'H "Life and Times
of William L. Yancey" ia several very
important particulars. Du Bose got ht*
fdcte rclati?K tu the homicide and the
trial of Yancey from the tile? of the
Greenville Mountaineer. ;'.on i a in m V,
Perry was in charge of the paper at the
time, and he doubtlese wrote the ac
count* from which DuBosedrew. The
record an it appear? in the "The Life and
Times of William L. Yancey," a highly
valuable contribution to the history of
the country, by the way, may, therefore,
be accopted as authentic.
Yancey was scholarly, talented, one of
the finest orators our country has pro
duced, prolific as she has been of these,
and I believe he was thoroughly patri
otic. He has been much misrepresented
and consequently much misunderstood*
It hAB been bruited all the years, the cur
ren i not in motion by unfriendly tongues,
that Yancey ian off to Alabama imme
diately after the tragedy, as if to escape
the frowns of an outraged public, bat the
facts are that he had been a resident of
Alabama for full two year" prior tn the
unfortunate affair.
Below ia what Mr. Du Bone says, and
the reader ls asked to compare it with tho
version which appeared last week.
W. A. DICKSON?
Broylee, S. C., .Inly 8,1901.
"Mr. Yanoey removed his family and
his slaves to Alabama the year after his
marriage, spent the winters there in the
oversight of his cotton plantation and re
turned with bis family to spend the Bum
mers Dear Greenville for the sake of
health.
"It wonld be taneceassry to relate
here with particularity a deplorable acci
dent which befell bim, save that, in the
heat of political conflict in after years,
bitter speech was made and mueh error
waa written ot it. Early in September,
1838, he rode to the muster of a militia
company twelve miles from Greenville,
where, after the military exercises, it was
expected a debate would be held between
General Waddy Thompson and Judge
Joseph N. Whltner, candidates for the
lower House of Congress. After the
debate ended gentlemen, In coteries,
standing' on the ground discussed the
prospects of the candidates, Yancey's re?
marks so displeased a youth of seventeen,
a nephew of General Thompson, and ?
oonsln of Mrs. Yancy, Elias Earle, that
he replied in a rude speech, for which
offence Yancey boxed his face. Elias re
turned the single blow with one or more
strokes of his riding whip. Bystanders
at once stopped the difficulty. Ellas be
came pacified and Yancey then spoke to
him kindly, advising him to tell his uncle
what had been said, adding : 'I did not
Intend to fight you, Elias, but only to
chastise your impudence; I wonld rather
give you Salvador (a favorite saddle
horse) than to have a personal difficulty
with you.' Dr. Robinson M. Earle,
father of Ellas, and uncle of Mrs. Yan
cey, several dayB after tho occurrence, and
sf tor he bad assured Yancey that If his
son had acted with spirit In tho affair be
was content, attacked Ysncey on the
porch of a store at Greenville with a sec
tion of the handle of a grain oradle as a
weapon. Yancey, at the outset, began to
rotreat, step by step, still facing his an
tagonist and warning him repeatedly, as
if reluctant to defend himself by the use
of the weapon he carried. His hat had
been knocked off, his shirt bosom torn
open and he had been forced to the ex
treme edge of the porch, some two cr
three feet above the Rround. He then
fired and mortally wounded his antag
onist in the lea side. Dr. Earle was six
feet high and weighed two hundred
pounds, and deolared on tho upot, 'Had
Yancey not fired I would have easily
whipped him.'
"The casa was put on trial at the term
of the Circuit Court nt Greenville. The
jury brought lu a verdict of manslaugh
ter. During the seventeen oonseoativa
hours in which the trial progressed tb
prisoner retained perfect repote, nelthb.
e la ted when the evidence was in hm
favor nor cast dows t/hon it appeared to
go against him. The universal testimony
was that Yanoey had never before been
In any personal difficulty in O roon vi) lo;
that he was uniformly polite and quiet;
that he had a very high aenBe of personal
honor; that he had not provoked the
trouble with Dr. Earle; that the knife
and bludgeon that Earle carried when the
attack waa made were in the hands of the
deceased threateningly presented when
the shot waa fired from Yancey's pistol.
"October 20, following, the prisoner was
brought before the Court, Joalah J.
Erans presiding, for sentence. The
J udge Bald tho crowded state of the house
indicated an unusual interest in the duty
before him, and he would depart from
his ordinary rulo of brevity in such cases
to explain his mind. The prisoner's de
portment, he said, since the affray ou the
muster ground up to the moment of the
difficulty with Dr. Earle, wassuoh as was
to be expected from one in his station of
life. No ope could believe that he had
Ene to that piazza with any hostile feel
g toward Dr. Earle, or that he carried
there the pistol that was in his bosom for
the purpose of shooting the unfortunate
deceased. The Court could impute to
him sc moral gail*, what happened
there seamed to be entirely accidental
and to be attributed to tho angry and ex
oited deportment of Dr. Earle. The
Judge explained further that Mr. Yanoey
seemed to have worn his pistol in Green
ville, because of habit acquired in carry
ing lt while passing through the indian
country of tho West. Ia consideration of
this practice tho Court had made up Ita
judgment. The sentence was?21,500 fino
andi twelve months imprisonment in jail.
"Governor Patrick Noble remitted two
thirds of the fino and released the pris
oner. -Mr. Yanoey then returned with
his lani My to Alabama."