Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NO- 38; TMikliff ?f Then. Thinking of tb? sunny day*. when lavender wa* blowing In blooming fragranoe 'neath the wail; and o'er th? rectory lawn The standard roeee, steeped in dev, their dying flowers were strewing? Their latest rammer flowers, that ne'er should see another dawn. Thinking of the hazel lanee. o'erbanked with sloe and brier; The rippling laughter of sweet maids, the deeper tonee of men ; . When but to breathe, to lire, and lore was all our youth's desire, And all the world seemed bounded by that lonely, lovely glen; When our sun had known no shadow, our short lives had known no sorrow, And we paired in loving oooplee, strolling 'neath the nutty boughs. And thought that present rapture from the future we would borrow, And ne'er dreamed of slighted friendship, nor of love's forgotten vows. t Thinking?well, 'tis vain to ponder, now that on our brown are falling The snews of Life's chill winter, on thoee dreams too bright to last ; Yet perchanoe within our boeoma some sweet voice is still recalling, And making green again, friends, the memo ries of the past. THE HANGED MAN. BY ALEX. DUMAS. niy ment -when the tale I am about to tell oommences, it is noon, that the month is Mar, that the road on whioh we are entering is bounded to the right by heath and broom, to the left by the aea, and you know at onoe what I do not tell you?namely, that the broom is green, that the sea is Mastering, that the aky is bine, that the sun is hot, and that the road is dusty. I hare only to add. that this same ?p roai, wHioh winds along the ooaat of f * Brittany, goes from La Poterie to L* Piroehe; that La Piroohe is a Tillage I hare never seen, but ^Fhioh must be just like every other Tillage ; that we arc fairly afloat in the fifteenth oentury, in in 1418; and that two men, one older than the other, one the father and the other the son. both peasants, are jog ging along tWwToad, mounted on ponies, whioh trot at a pace sufficiently agree able, considering they are onJy ponies bestrodden by peasants. " Shall we get thete in time ?" asked the son. " Yes ; it won't take plaoe before two o'olook," answered the father, " and it is only a quarter past noon, by the sun." "It is whst I am - very curious to see." "I haTe no doubt you are." " And so he is to be hanged in the armor he stole ?" "Yea." '' And he was oaught as he was ma kingeway with Uf* "Yes : you ofcn oomprehand that the armor was not to be carried off Without making a horrible el an king and rat tling -it had no ineUaatfcm to leare its & it was made of iron.'* . " The people in the ehateau were awakened by the noise they heard." " And they arreeUd the fellow ?" " Not immedtetely; they were in a fright at first. V " Naturally enough; it is always the oase at first With people who are rob bed whon they find tluMneelTea in the presence of robbers; otherwise there would be n6 advantage in being a rob ber." ?VBut afraid of who?f" " Of a ghost. This wretched tl*ei, of snoommon ntr^ngth. held the armor in front of him in sueh a way that his - head was at about the lerel af the waist of the said armor, so that it appeared to bo of gigantic proportions in the oor ridor along whieh he passed. Add to that a harsh noise whioh the cunning raeeal made behind him, and you can fancy what a terror the Talete were in. Unfortunately for him. they went and roused the Seigneur uf La Piroohe. who oaree a straw for no Iftan. either liTing or deed, who aim ply, and without any one's assistance, stopped the thief, and delivered him up, bound hand and foot, to his ownjMoosr justtee." 40 And hfTSIIfrroperjustioc V *'Wherefo5\hat olauae in the sen tenoe t* * Piroehe le not of MM . from ^PHfcmnatioa both an _ for himeelfif whatever \ V journey, chatting as they went, and half an hour afterwards they reached La Pi roche. ? As the father had said, they arrived in time. There was an immense concourse of peeple in the grand square in front of the chateau, for theie the scaffold was erected. The two coaupaniona got as near aa possible to theweaffold, in order to lose nothing of the events that were about to take place ; and like everybody else, they awaited the spectaole, with tue advantage of being mounted on pony back, and of . seeing better, with less fatigue. Their suspense was not of long duration. At a quarter to two the gate of the chateau was opened, and the condemn ed man appeared, preceded by the guards of the Seigneur of La Pi roche, and followed by the executioner. The thief was olad in the armor he had stol en, and was riding backwards on an ass withont a saddle. His visor was down, and he hung his head. His hands were tied behind his baok; and if von wish to know our oonviotion respecting him, we declare, withont hesitation, that, judging by his mannertnd attitude, if not by his face which oouldnot be seen, he was very ill at ease', and was occu pied at that moment by the most mel ancholy reflections. The hangman had just set his ladder leaning against the gallows, and the chaplain of the Seigneur of La Piroohe, mounted on a platform purposely pre pared, was reading the sen tenoe. The condemned man did not stir. They called out to him to get off his ass, and give himself up to the hang man. He did not budge an inch. We ean understand his hesitation. -A Then tha hangman seised him by the elbows, lilted him off the ass's back, and set him down upright on the ground. During the change of attitude, the chaplain finished reading the sentence. "Have you any request to make?" he inquired ol the patient. u Yes," replied the wretched man, in a sui row fa voioe. " What is it?" " I request my pardon l" The Seignour of La Piroehe shrugged his shoulders, and ordered the haag man to do his offioe. That official personage prepared to monnt the ladder, leaning against the gibbet, which, impassable, with out stretched arms, was about to tear a soul out of a living body, and he tried to make the criminal mount before him, but the tlfing wss not easy. The hangman, to make him mount the ladder, had recourse to the same means whioh he had employed to make him get off the' ass ; he took him by the waist, set him on the third stave of the ladder, and then pushed him up be hind. ' - " Bravo !" shouted the crowd. There was no help for it, exoept to mount. Then the exeoutioner adroitly slipped round the patient's neck the running noose whioh ornamented the end of the rope, and. giving him a violent kiok in the back, sent nim swinging into open space. An immense clamor followed this expected denouement, and a shudder ran thronghont the crowd. Ol what ever crime he may be guilty, a dying man is always, for an instaat,' greater than those who oome to see him die. The hanged man swung two or three minutes at the end of his rope, kioked, writhed, and then remained motionless and stiff, i * * They stared a few minutes longer at the sufferer, whose gilded srmor glit tered in the sunshine the spectators gradually formed into groups, and then went their several ways homewards, discoursing on the late event. ? ? * ? - The next morning, at break of day. ? oonple of guards walked ont of the chateau of La Piroohe to take down the body of the criminal, and to strip it of tbe armor belonging to tlieir lord ; but they fonnd whet th?r were rery far from expecting?namely, thai the gal Iowa and the rope atill remained in their plaoe*, but that the hanged man waa nowhere to be aeen. The two auarda robbed their eyea, in doubt whether they were dreaming or not; ont eueh waa the fact. No body, and, aa a natural oonaequenoe, no ar mor. Tbe moat extraordinary oiroumatanoe waa, that the rope waa neither broken nor eat, but exaotly in the atate in whioh it waa before receiving the orimi aaL The guarda at enoe went toannounce the aewa to the Seigneur of La Pi roohe* ^ had b?&>e of tWdead man ? lend thief Waa certainly Mom. aa the whole popu " kid with their eyoe. thief taken advantage of ? obwji poeaeaaion of Mm oore^ffcebodyt ? ; but,* while taking I would ?rtdes% hare Ml km wkM >e mk .wo ooea golden crowns to whoever would deliver up the criminal, attired as he was at the time of his death. They searched the house; nothing was found. Nobody came to claim the reward. A month was spent in fruitless search. The gallows still remained in its plaoe, humiliated, downcast, and de spised. Never had a gibbet oommit ted so d ibgraceful a breach of oonfl denoe. The Seigneur of La Pirocbe continued to demand the restitution of his ar mor. Nothing came of it. At last ne was doubtless on the point of making up his mind to this strange event, and the loss resulting from it, when one morning, on awakening, he heard a great noise in the square where the execution had taken place. He was going to inquire whst was the matter, when nis chaplain entered his chamber. " Monseigneur," he said, "do you know what has happened ?" " No ; but I will inquire directly." " I can tell you. I " " What is it, then ?" " A miracle !" " Really ?" "The man who was hanged " Well?" "Is there." . " Where ?" " On the gallows." " Hanging ?" "Yea, Monseigneur." " With his armor ?" " With your armor." " Exactly so ; because it belongs to me. And he is dead ?" " Perfeotly dead. Only " " Only what ?" " Had he spurs on when he was hanged ?" "No." " Well, monseigneur, he has spurs on now; and instead of wearing the helmet on his head, he oarefnlly laid it at the foot of the gallows, so as to be found hanging unooversd." " Let us go and see, Messire Chap ?hrfn; letus go and see at otto?.** ' ^ The Seigneur of La Piroohe ran into the square, which was crowded with in quisitive spectators. Tne neck of the' hanged man was replaced in the run ning noose, the body was really at the end of the rope, and the armor was really on the body. It was prodigious. So they shouted, " A miracle !" " He has repented," said one, "and has oome back to re-hang himself." - "He has been here all the time," said another, " only we oould not see him." " But why has he put on spurs ?" inquired a third. "Doubtless booausehe has oome from a distance, and was anxious to get back quiok." * V, 4m " For my part, whether far or near, I should have had no occasion whatever for spurs, because I would have taken good oare to remain where I was." * And then they laughed, and then th?> looked at the ugly grimace on the amd man's oountenanoe. As for the Seigheur of La Piroohe, his only thought was to make sure that the thief inn really dead, and to take suit of armor. >wn the body and strip then, when- stripped, they ' 1, and the crows set to effeot that in a oouple of tiripped to the bone, in a it was Hke a taterdemalion, in a fortnight it 1 had the appearanoe of a this hanged man em time during nis month of How was it that having been hung he eontrived to ewcap?, 1 nd that having escaped he rehung him self? unr two peasants, returning torn* by night, and passing close to the gibbet, heard moans, gaspings, and something like a prayer ; that thej devoutly cross ed themselves, and asked what could be ; that nobodj replied, bntj the moans odntinned, ap] come from the body that was overhead. They then took the li??w, i which the hangman had left at the foot of the gibbet, set it against the side of the gallows, and the son, monntin* as far as where the orithinal hong, said t6 him, " la it yon who are making these complaints, my flfeor fellow K , The condemned man, collecting his strength, answered. " I?LN^ J " Yon are still alive, ~ " Yea.'* " Do yott "Yes. ? "Then I and, as the { oor those w! ns to suffer, yon to life, tfcKi good, Heaven pents of Its f~" es tfcem.r" The fi the dying man, it hanpetoed tl wm jm upended, bufci that catching with he hsd brought worn La Poterie did not belong to him These two things were his hone sal his daughter, s fair haired girl of sixmen jeers of age. The ex-hung eokninal determined to ?teal both; for tip coveted the horse, and was smitten with a passion for the daughter. M One night, thgmfore, he saddled the horse, put on ?nrs in order to travel more quickly, Mi seised the girl as she was fast asleep, to carry her off behind Bnt the girl woko up, and cried for help. .. The father and no a came to her res cue. The thief tried to eeoape, bnt it was too late. Tift dsnghter told them of the violent attempt that had been made ; and her father and her brother seeing dearly that no real repentance was to b? expected from such a man, resolved to take fasti oe into their own hands, bnt mors effectually than the Seigneur of I*a PIroohe had done. They fastened the eoanndrel to the horae which he had padiled himself, conduct ed him to the egnare of La Piroohe, and hung him -aocactly where he was hung before ;? onk they took oare to re move hia helmet and lay it on the ground, to make' sure that He should not eeospe this time ; and they qnietly returned home. ? As to the Beigpeur of La Piroohe. sinoe he was in possession of a sure and certain talisman, he joyfully set out for the wars, where he waa the very first to getknosMp on the head. i"~ # ' Do I believe in advertising ? asks M. Qaad. Oertsftfy I do ; I have seen its beneQtsnbR^^Hl to donbt that it pays big. I remftmber the oase of Cushman right hiTS. He saw%n ad vertisement of "A dog wanted," and while orairMnkjtakUr the bed to get hold of one Or^Sfe numerous canines always to be fo^^Bmthe premises, he found hia ne^^^HHch had been loet for three montiraBftf a keg of nails, and eaoaf^^H^MMl Jtim a ^ week. thred .IB. ,1V nighty and re-sold him to a stranger for twelve ahilBnga. A neighbor of mine onoe asked my advioe about advertising for boarders, and I told him by sQ means to advertise. He inserted thre* or four lines ins daily paper, costing thirty of forty cents, ana in two days after ids house was jam full of boarders. The'erowd was com posed of his brother's wifei and nine ohildreo, who learned his address through the advertisement, and if that man waan't satisfied of the -benefits of advertising before he got- that family off his hands, then hit oountenano# lied. There was Dunneback. He inserted a two-line advertisement sayin^fhat he had aome choioe grapes to sstL The Kper was published at fiver o'clock in a evening, and ,before daylight next morning every pound of grapes was gone. I understood thst they went off In bags during the night, bnt that makes no difference?I am shaping that people read and heed advertisements. I now remember a young man who advertiaed for an easy situation where a young man could render himself uaeful and reoeive a small salary. Borne peo ple laughed at him, but I advised him to stick to his fsith in advertising. It waan't long before he secured such s situation.- I don't axaetly remember where it waa, bnt l^think they called the place Sing Singer some such name. At any rate, all henas to do is to ait on a bench and drive pegs into ahoee, and they think so muon of him that they are going to keep him there for ten years. There was the qaee of Taylor. He advertised for information eonoerning his long-lost brother, whom he ho? seen for twenty-one yeerS, and vigilance committee seat him* psattiest ropee yon ever aot worth ten times the coot of tieement. They said it wae all that waa left of the long^ost. Pont th?j dot MM to bo I edaotjad ?" Imt I oommon iru^SfeMfcit ofl THE DELIGHTS OF A HAREM. Wh?t an Amerkan La4f Saw Am&? the Fkutitlti ot ConiUBtlBopI*. ^ Olive Harper, writing from Oonstam tinople, deecribes a visit to a harem of odj of the wealthiest Turks in khesity. She says : "After the tiresome dinner was done, we all adjourned to the saloon, and girls came in to sing and danoe. They brought their awkward lutes, and thrummed ajray at them and sung interminable songs in a monoto nous manner that almost set me to sleep in spite of myself. Then four of them rose, and, throwing aside their jerid gees, began to danoe, if danei|>g it oan be called. They all wore trousers aMh slippers, snd for bodioes only a little sort of Spanish jaoket that left nearly all the bust and stomach exposed down to the belt, being only held together bj s button snd loop. Their hair was braided and hanging down their backs and full of little jingling ooins. Their motions and aotions generally were to my way of thinking very indeoorous, and I was glad when they had finished and took their leare, panting and flush ed with their lascivious poaftspes and oontortions. Then the Pasllr clapped^ his hands and four slaves came in and set up a large white screen, and another came in with a little table, on whioh was a large-sized magic lantern, to make what they call ombres Chinoxae*. I V^flhod this with some curiosity, for heard that this was a favorite 'tMJStiement with the Turkish women. This was a pictorial drama. It repre sented* woman and her many intrigues in due rotation, some of them being of s oomio and some ef a very ssrious character, wherein she seemed to be in great danger of discovery until the final result took, plaoe. She lost her head at last. Some of the pictures were the moet indecent possible to im agine ; but these women seemed to take the greatest delight in them, and to laugh with the most ianooent pleas 1 did not dare to Say a wo^d the exhibition there; but I at them?except from be proposed to _ _ t _ then rose and reminded ma that I must make s choioe of some article in (he house totaJte with ms by way of a Sou venir. I objected, told hun my memory of this day wottd serve to recall his family to mind, and mush mote of the same sort; but be told me if I had been well reoeived there and had no seoret grievance against any af his family I must take sometiiing, or that misfor tune would r mwmky attend him and his. The women offered by dumb signs their jewels, but I was too Rood natured to take that advantage. I looked about ms in despair for tome trifle, snd at last I saw an odd-shaped blacX inkstand and stand-holder. I told the Paaha that, if he wopld permit, I would take that, as by that means I should always haws his gift before my eyes. I bed no sooner stopped speaking than I saw I had made a mistake. JTbelieve I never opened my month yet Vithont ' putting my foot in it.' The women all looked blank, and for a moment the Pasha waa staggered. hastened to retract, but it was too late, and I have the inkstand now. Going home, the Pssha sent his seofetary and female slave with me, and from them I found out the value of the things. They are of blsok stone, seMrtth coral and turquoise, and were .made to order out of a pieoe of the Prophet's tomb at Meooa, whioh the Paana had obtained at a great price on his pilgrimage. I might better bare ask ed for ose of his most oostly jewels, one of his horses, or his Damasous sword." Devotion ft a Chief. ** , -J Httooan nature at its lowest stage, 4Mb among savages and cannibals, is ifot Vithout impulses that partake of the nature of aelf-saorifioiDg devotion, ?S the following aoooant testifies r Tui Levnka, of Fiji, was upset in his larga eaiibe when about half waj be tween Wftkaia and Ovalan, seven miles. ftomf land. lUr had with hka at the time" some forty-six dependents. As tM oerfo* Bank those man made a eirole f sank these man mi ?~a!&. around their ehief, jffasiog hands and ?i ' One by onfr the sharks, who qnioklr gathtfhd*o the T^Jlkjir attendants duwn. ftt luV joined haada afrM from the gaps thua oaused. and Tni 'Levuka eonMnued to swim'anoftt peaoeebly in the m id?t of the 1 rafted, and his maatar at frmsidnrabU n convenience raised Hm 91,000 and ktaa out. Bill went home, but thai day ha was miaafng. Ooingto look him who snonld the B^nator see but his favorite servant revelling in a new uaifoarm and wheeling into oolmni^ with a company of rasrnits, who bain* actively put through the u 11 Bill had gone hack to offloe# N " Items of Interest. Paul Xcvphy has not played cheqa for teft years, nor sren seen a ohess board. He hu taken an antipathy IflCrC CO4* <aune? in Oflifonrta an1 oonverted t^TJhriatianity. At a prayer meeting in San Francisco many aa eighty were present, and w very devotional. Very little jewelry is now worn Paris: the slender porte bonhevr I let, a little broader than a good. thread, is the only ornament thatJ cidedfy fashionable. * ^ Three yoong ladies' by the name <fl ,Welsh? whose ages range frottr sixteen^ to niifllleen, have purchased a fiieoe of land eight m iles weet of Dallas, Texas, and intend onl tivating it themselves. Mr. Throckmorton, one of the Cali fornia Fish Commissioners, declares that the experiment of transplanting Eastern oysters on the Paeiflo coast has proved a failure. The oysters become Tery fat and die in about a year. A correspondent of the Praotioal Farmer advises the use of oelery-asa enre for nervousneaa, and avers he has known capes whejre s cure of palpitation of theliearf nad been effected by a plentmETfifefe-of this delicious salad. In answer to a correspondent who de sired to know whether it was true tkat Lindley Murray, the distinguished grammarian was born to,' Lebanon county, Pa, the I^banon Courier says :. We believe he was born in Hanover, in what was then Lancaster oounty, in the year 1745. The San Joaquiif valley in California haa been transformed by irrigation from a desert into a f^Htle district. The fall of rain there during the summer is so slight tkat crops wither and come to nothing, and the farmers had become discouraged and nearly ruined. Lost year they oombined to build canals for a supply of water, und now farm after farm is beginning to yield n profit. , Slightly strcastio was the clergyman who paused and addressed a man com ing into ohvroh after the sermon had with jfche remark:?" (jlad to see those here late who o*n't oome early and decidedly self-possessed was the man thus adareased in the- presence of an astonished congregation as he re sponded :?" Thank - you ; would you favor me withwe text?" * A circular haa been issned in London appealing for contributions fo? the aup ? port of tne wife and family of the Tioh oorne claimant. The pro mo tell of the project promise that the money receiv ed shall be devoted exolnaively to the support of the family and th? education of the ohildren, "except a portion whioh .the oommittee intend to apply to the assistance of Andrew Bogle." An an inducement, all subrfbfibers of half aorown and upward are promised gratu itously "a photograph of the clamont's wife and ohildren." The Lore of Gambling. A story of lore of gambling, perhaps exaggerated, it told in a Frenoh paper. on aooount of the non-payment of Ms wages, patting his head throngn the window at the?baok of the ooaoh, bears*-., his master not to foMst to pay him his dues. ?? Bow much is It, La Flenr ?" asl#^ the master. " One hundred and twenty-fire livrss, may it please Monsieur." " All right; here it is," and the mas ter BDreaa the paper oorrenoy of the period the enshions of the carriage. '? Now, La Flenr, hare yo?ra pack of oards with yon V* w ' * + Certainly/' replied the obseqnions laokey, prodnoing the oards at onoe. "lL*rj good. Novr, I will be banker, and^ra shall pl^r 'gainst me. I shall tak* ?he front seat thebaok one will eerre .for onr table; yon oan look tkfongh the back window, and we nan hAtre aooay game and so the playing tnrned for the master ; lit >tle the footman's hundred and ire livree went, until they were to flrfe {'thenoapWeiou* fortune took the opposite ooarse, and La Flenr ail his mastert^oney. Piqued at TSla losses, the maW now wagered a horse? whleh the laokey won ; then the .pair of"horses, next the harness, and lastly the carriage. The footman won everything. " My WStoh now, if yon say so,% naid the paster, 11 against at horse in the home ; or if I lose, yon shall 'tee innide the carriage, and* np behind. Agreed ? The me?the dueen for yon. I lost, (let in, La,F[?ur. Yon ride, and I will g? np behind and the mrnfrjfi'g" of pTaees was accord ingly made. m They Left. An Indianapolis man who went to at md the ppei ra at Oineinnati tells a ?Mky story aboat the mnsioal andi of that njlsaai The pieoe was A " and fM the eurtaln fell on eloaing with the death ie audience applauded, one%jmahed ofl inter-act 4iink. ehat