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' ?' two dollars 1'eb annum. <? GOO OUR COUNTRY. always in advance VOLUME 11._ SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 19, L8TT. NUMjS1"1B' Knowlton & Wannamaker, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Orangeburg C. II., S. ?? Ang. B. Knowlton, P. M. Wannamaker, Orangeburg C. If. St. Matthews, may 5 1877 tf ABIAL LATIIROP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Orangebirrg, S3- O. Ollicc in rear of Masonic Hall. March 3 1 v. According to the latest improvements in the art. I. S. WOLFE 'Over Ezckicl's Store, is prepared to execute anything in his line. Guaranteeing :i faithful attendance to business, he respectfully ask a continu ance of the patronage, which has hereto fore been extended to the old firm of ?Snidtr, Wolfe & Culvert. XQV" All Work Guaranteed. FOR RENT The. Two Story building in the Town of Lcwisvillc. The first Story fitted up as a "Store, complete in all respects. The second Story arranged foi a Residence; For particulars applv to GEORGE BOLIVKli. nug. 5 tf J O 11 N 0 G R E X 8C?CKSHOK UK llOHEliT JENNY. Imoorter and Manufacturer OF HARNESS & SADDLES. TTas the pleasure to inform the Public that he has Received a heavy Stixdt from the North of every description what belong* to a first class Saddlery Establishment. Also wish to draw particular attention to Iiis Stock of LA Dl KS HI D1 NO SADDLES and his assortment of SHOES. Trices lower tben ever, t-'ood Saddles at S3.?U. VOCAL, AND INSTRU MENTAL. 1 mn prepared to receive a few Pupils luiife in Vocal and Instrumental Music. Apply to ANTON BERG, sop 30 tf DENTTTRY. DU. B. F. MUCK EN FUSS Dentist Rooms over Stove of Mr. Goo. II. t.'ornelson's. S'^y- Charges Reasonable. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIN A Cl'STV OK OjRAKOKltVROi * In tub Common Pi.kas-. George Bolivcr, us Adni'r. Cum ttvtc ?nnex? of Daivd Fi Zcigler deceased, v? Emma Zciglcr and others. In pursuance of an order of reference herein, made by bis Honor, Jacob P. Riecd, Circuit Judge, and dated 20th May, 1870, it is ordered, that the Creditors of ibe Estate of the late David F. Zoiglcr do presnutand establish their several and ivs|vevtive ile tiands before the Referee at OraoRoburg, roulli Cnrolinn, on or before thethird day of j May, 1877, or be debarred any participation in the benefits of the decree herein. W. F: llUTSON.ltef. March 27th 1877. mar 31 8t liEQElVEli'S NOTICE. All persons indebted to the bite firm of Smith, Kettle tfcCo. will make immediate payment to the. undersigned; and all per Hons having demands against said firm will present the same duly attested on or before the first day of June 1877, or they will be debarred payment. * J. WALLACE CANNON, Receiver. nprM 21 . 4t THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA By AUG. B. KNOWLTON, Esquire, J P. Whereas, Geo. Roliver, C. C. P. and G. S. hath made suit to me, to grant to him letters of Administration de bonis non of | the Estate and effects of Joseph Johnson, late of said County deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish ?11 and singular the kindred and Creditors of the said Joseph Johnson dee'd. that they ? bo and appear, before me, in the Court of | Probate, to be held at Orangeburg, C. If., on 18th of Juno next, ufter publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, toshow caiiRC, if any they have, why the said Aministration should not be granted. Givcti under my Hand, this 4th day of ] May Anno Domini 1877. AUG, B. KNOWLTON, [l,.B.] Judge of Probate. may 5 3t:i No ce oT JMsmisstxl. Notice .. hereby given that I shall one month from date file my final account with the Honorable Judge, of Probate for Orange burg County, and ask for letters of Dismissal as Guardain of ihnm n Braddy. W. W. BRADDY, Guardian AprT 21 I in. THE HANGING IN ABBEVILLE. A More Retailed Account of the Solemn Scene. The Last Speeches of the Doomed Men. AniJEVirxn, S. ('., Mny 4.?the day whereon such of the Lowndesvillo prisoners as had not had their senten ces commuted were to sutler the death penalty, was ushered in calm and peaceful as "gentle Spring" herself. The leaden colored sky seemed to be in sympathy with the sombre feelings of the unfortunate prisoners, nnd the general stillness seemed the precursor of that awful silence which fell upon the crowd ns the drop fell and the three bodies swayed to and fro in the death struggle. On yesterday seven of the condemned were transported to the Penitentiary, by order jf the Governor, leaving three, Wightmah Allen, John Allen and Jeuk Whit ner, still in jail. The gallows which bad been pre pared after the model oftbat upon which the Hausmann murderers had hanged at Aikcn, stood in the jail yard, solemn, mournful, awful. From their windows the condemned men had a full \ iew of the frightful object, and no doubt many times during the day as their eyes fell upon it they tur ned away with a sickening shudder of apprehension. Their \yi/e-? were a?L milted to see them, an 1 in the altcr noon was seen a touching spectacle. Whitehian Allen lay on the floor of his cell wrapped in his blanket. At his side pat his wife, apparently crush ed by the near approach of her bus blind's death, while about the floor their little child, all unconscious of the impending horror, playi d its infant games. In the next cell lay Jenk Whituer, attended by bis wife, whose excitement u-i*? frequent religious hysterics and cries of "glory halleluiah." Night drew on apace, and soon the miserable creatures betook themselves to their pallets and addicssed them selves to sleep?"sleep that knits up the ravel'd sleeve of care.*' One only found repose. John Allen slept as if no crime rested upon his so il, but the others, \V. Allen and Whituer, spent the night in alternate tossings and prayers. Early in the day, the Lev. Messrs. Pratt (Baptist,) Whit man (Methodist,) ami Maxcy (A M. E?) were admitted to the jail, and administered to the condemned men the communion. After some time spent with them, the sheriIf notified them that the hour was come, where upon they accompanied tlioth to th*e foot of (he gallows, shook their ban Is and bade them farewell. Meanwhile the crowd had collected in and about the jail enclosure, numbering from 1,600 to l,500,n large majority being white men. The lower part of the scaffold had been covered with bag ging so that after the drop fell the men could not be seen. In front of the scaffold was the reporter's dusk, and at it were seated representatives of the press. On the scaffold were three chairs, which the condemned men occupied ns they ascended it. They were all dressed in black, with white glove s, and tin y came out of the jail in their stocking feet, with the caps for their faces upon their heads. They were neatly shaved yesterday. As they aeccnded tho steps, Jenk Whituer, exclaimed aloud thnt he had made his peace with God; that all had to die, and that Jesus was in his soul. He then cried "glory." He scorned excited but not unpleasantly so, while the others were quiet and undemonstrative. A line of armed sentinels surround ed tho scaffold, from the Abbeville Rifle Club, and just in front, in full view of the condemned, were placed three pine coffins stained black. All beiug ready, tho sheriff, Mr. Joshua Y. Jones, got up nud addressing tho crowd, said he did not think it necess ary to nsk lor the prisoners a respect ful hearing. Ho then introduced Wightninn Allen, who said : "I thank God that ho lias allowed mo to come to Him, and that whosoever cotneth to Him he will not cast out. I want nil of you to take warning from this scene. Be ready to meet Christ; keep your feet in the path that leads from earth to heaven. Do not think too much of your friends. This is what brought me here. I am hero to be crucified like my Saviour, for a crime I never did. I don't know what I am here for, and 1 warn you this thing will stare you in the face when you don't expect it. May God havo mercy on me." lie then resumed his seat, and Jeuk Whitncr arose and spoke : "I thank God I am able to stand before you through His mercy. I thank Him that He ha3 euabled me to flee from the wrath to come. Many id you may rejoice at the death of one poor servant; but all of you must come to this. 'The high, the proud, the reverend head Must iie tw low an ours.' Here is me. See me holding on to these last solemn wordg. I am inno cent of this. 1 have not the blood of auy man on my hands. I thank God when 1 lie down there is no blood on my bauds. I hope, my friends, you will all take warning, realize your true condition and flee to God from His coming wratti. I give my re spects to Shei iff Jones and*family. They have been kind to us all. My Redeemer wou't charge any of this to I am innocent of it also. Remember these words. Pray, all of you, that God may save your souls. God bless you all and save you in His King dom." John Alle:* then spoke, He said: "I am here in the hands ol God. I am going to tell the truth, because I have to stand before the judgment bar of God. I was with the crowd that killed Allen. I fired and ran, but whether I hit or not I don't know. I thank God I feel clear of that. Try, my friends, to meet me in heaven. I i- .... .. .. .~ ...j ~.H election sure, and I feel that f need not dread death." No confessions other than those above given were made, and having said what they had to say, the men sat awaiting the crith al moment. The ropes were adjusted, the caps fitted, and everything being in reudiues?s, the trap was sprung at exactly 11 27 o'clock. As the drop fell the cap over John Allen's face became dU placed, and he presented a ghastly sight. He and Wightman Allen died almost without a struggle, but Jenk Whitncr was strangled to death, the knot having slipped. The fall was about six feet. At 11.57 o'clock the bodies were cut down and examined by Drs. Parker, Hawthorn and Johnson, who pro nounced them dead. They were then placed in their respective colli us and delivered to their friends. The crowd then dispersed about the town seem ingly quiet and subdued. The preservation of society secnia to demand that the executions should occur, and yet, as we look upon so terrible a scene, how strikingly are we made aware ofthat dark power which makes all this a necessity. You ic nieni herin Ilawtb rue's "M osscj from an Old Manse," the fanciful paper entitled "The New Adam and Eve," in which he sketches tho doings and sayings of a supposed new-created and and Unf?llen pair ushered into the world as it now stands, only without liny nilimill life remaining. They go to a prison. It is the day after the .summons, had gone forth which took away earth's inhabitants. They see no inmates. To them "a new trial has beon granted in a higher court, which may set judge, jury and prison er at its bar all in a rtw, and perhaps find one no less gulity than another." They see the narrow cells in which "the immortal spirit was buried wi h [the living body." Inscriptions appear on tho walls, scribbled with a pencil or scratched with a rusty nail; brief [ words of agony, perhaps, or guilt's desperate defiaucc to the world. The t wo were at a loss to know what it all meant. But they could not discover that this edifice was a hospital for the direst disease which could affect their predecessors. Its patients bore the outward marks of that leprosy with | which all uro more or less infected. They were sick?and so were tho pur est of their brethren?with the plague of sin. Feeling its symptoms within the breast, men concealed it with fear and shame, and were only the more cruel to those unfortunates whoso pestiferous sores were ilugrant to the common eye. Nothing savo a rich garment could ever hide the "plague spot." Then Adam and Kvc go into the yard jind sec a scaffold, ?t which they shudder. "Well might Adam shudder and poor Eve he sick at heart; for lids mysterious object was the type of mankind's whole system in regard to tho great difficulties which God had given to be solved, a system of fear and vengence, never suc cessful yet followed to the lust. The two pilgrim* now hurry from the prison. Had they known how the furnier inhabitants of earth were shut I up in artificial error, and cramped and chained by their perversions, they might have compared the who'c moral world to a prison house, and have deemed the removal of the race j a general jail delivery." Thus Hawthorne moralised. The moral is j a pointed one. But we will not apply it, I fear. "Man has ncccr attempted to euro sin by Jove, the flower that grew in heaven and was sovereign for all the miseries of earth." "Senti mental trash," no dj?bt many will I say wlun they read it, but this is prejudice, seeing the experiment has never been made. "Folly" or "stu pidity" they will call it, but still, judging by tho pasf, the old methods must be pronounced failures, they have never prevented or cured crime, though fully tried. Perhaps this would be oh'y another failure, and perhaps not, for it never has been tried. ?^LMOST "A* TRAG ED'/. theological Students ami Their Uses?A Row anil l?s Results?The Peril of a Lovely Female -Sinking for (lie Third Tiiae-N t In He Ihdlilozctl lata Matrimony. Though as a rule the thological student plays a very weak game of whist?owing to his holding on to his trumps to t^c very last moment? be nevertheless has bis uses. Landladies finds him extremely handy to have in '.he house, since he can always be coerced into lending his assistance in moving furniture during the house cleaning season. Moreover, for the purpose of escorting middle aged single ladies home from evening meet iiigs, he is easily without a rival. Generally speaking, and, of course, excepting his unwillingness to lead trumps, he is an inoffensive young man, containing no deleterious in gredients, and contributing in verious ways to the benefit of his fellow man. Like the f?ll-? rown clergyman, the theological student is by no means aquatic in bis habits. Both clergy men and theological students oc casionally attempt to manage sail boats, but such exploits tend to di rectly to diminish the population that they arc sternly frowned down I by all persons wlui are not siucore j Mnltbnsinns. Rowing is regarded as less objectionable, and many parishes I allow their clergymen to row, on con dition that no citizens of any real i value arc allowed to enter the clerical row boat. The theological student, very natu rally more leclcss and dea con-defying than tho clergyman, is sometimes an habitual oarsman, and as a rule he drowns only a small pro portion of his acquaintances. The recent accidentwliich befell a theological student at Waukcgan ought to be a terrible warning to hi in, and to osbcrs of bis kind. Ouo after noon he invited a young lady, only fifteen years Iiis senior in ugc, to brave in bis row boat tho tempests and reef of the local mill pond* Re marking, in tho words of the poet, that his hi at was in the shore house, and that several barks were pre sumably at sea, and further asserting [ that if she would come with him, he would bring her homo before tea, ho won her consent, and in course of time gayly pushed from shore, troll ing a wild chorus from his favorite hymn book, und handling his oars with the air of udetermined and ruth less pirate. The water was fully ten feet deep?which was enough for all useful purposes, since objectionable peoplo never grow to the height of ten feet. The boat was a light and u n usual I crank craft, the lady had the usual middle aged lovo for lilies. Of course she leaned over to pick a lily, and of course the hoat capsized, the lady instantly disappearing under the surface. In these circumstances, a man of merely ordinary courage and integrity would have swa n quietly ashore, and, alter changing his clothes and finish ed his supper, would have notified the coroner that there was a j jb wailing for him at the null-pond. The theo logical student was, however, as bravo as a combined African lion and Jul ius Cicsar. Being a giod swiminer, ho amused himself by various aquatic feats until the lady reappeared, when he grasped her tightly in his left hand and struck out for the shore. He made blieb rapid progress that he glanced around to sec bow it was pos sible that a woman weighing seventy one pounds could bo dragged so easily, when, to his great surprise, he found that she had separated from her hat, and had sunk for the second time. Hastily thrusting tho hat in to his bosom, careless of the pain inili cted by innumerable hair pins, he wailed for the reappearance of the lady, and determined that this time he would secure a firm hold. In a few minutes she rose to the surface ... a reversed position, and the engcr young man, seizing one of her feel, resolved to tow her ashore before attempting to place her on an even keel?so to speak. However, the lady's rubber overshoe parted from her foot almost as ,?(ipn Jjn'lunl .*MMv?'il,i|\ nml cU.? sunk for the third tune. Once more she rose t.i the surface, and the theo logical student, grasping her by tier hair, said to himself softly but Joyful, '?This time I've i^ot a sure thing." Hardly had In: spuken when the hair gave way, and he indignantly threw it from hi tili and begun to despair of savirg his coinpitnioa from a watery grave. Nevertheless, that able wo man was determined not to drawn without making one more farewell appearance at the surface of the water. The theological student met her views half-way by diving for her, and giasping one of her ears. Fortu nately, the ear did not give way,and the lady arrived on shore greatly ex hausted, but still with sufficient pre sence of mind to clasp I.or arms around her rescuer's ueck.and to call him her "dear, dear preserver." "j* ml afterwards, of course, he mar ried her," gratuitously remark* the reader at this point of the narrative. .Strange as it may seem, that theologi cal student, when visite.l by the lady's father, and urged to minis an early day for the wedding, stoutly declined. He said that he did not regard priest ly celibacy as an orthodox doctrine, and that it was possible that ho might marry at. some future day. Me ad mitted that he held the lady whom he bad rescued in high respect and es teem, but he felt compelled to sny that she came apart altogether too easily. He did not mean to dispar age her, or to cast any reflection upon her parents, but a woman who was so insecurely constructed that she could not be touched without falling apart was manifestly unfitted for the duties of a pastor's wife. It is pleasant to add that the father listened to these candid words in a friendly spirit, and returned homo with a determination to have his daughter put in complete repair, no matter what the cost might be. This story teaches that a theologi cal student may be tho bravest of the brave, and that a woman who is ap parently firmly put together may bo prone to come apart ns uan article of cheap furniture manufactured ex pressly to be sold auction as part of tho properly of a lending citizen about to visit Europe.?AVio York Times. - ??n ? Judgo Virgin belongs to the Supreme Court of Maine. Ho should hold only maiden assizes. A Finished. Village. ?Sag Harbor, near the .eastern cud of liong Island, .says a newspaper writer, is a finished village; It slop ped growing a quarter of a ecu tury ago. The more enterprising young men go West, The girls stay ."'at, home and grow into old maid.;. A glance on Sunday at the congregations iri the village reveals only a male head'hi ? ?? and there in a forest of bonnets. Well to-do widows are numerous, buU,lhoy arc * Id. The principal ripple on the surface of every day life is ail occa sional lire. The burning of some old barn or shed is a fortunate event. Then they haul out the same three old engines used forty years ;ago. Generations in turn have manned those brakes. Generally all three break down after hall' an hour's pumping. Ephraim By rain, the skilled and wonderful village me chanic, who once made a planetarium and r.-?y number of clocks, including the one now over the New York city ' ha'l, has been half .supported by work done from decade to decade on thoso I three engines. Everybody goes to a lire in .Sag 11 arbor. People meet and ! shake hands at the lire who haven't seen each other before for months. If it is a big barn and promises a big blaze, the women rush to their dress ing-rooms to give their dresses, bon nets and hair a becoming scfc before they venture in the glare. Next day the universal inquiry;is : "Hid you go to the fire lastnightV' Fora week afterward they tell each other where they were and what liiey.'wero doing when the lire broke out. ? |J Things to talk about do not dio quickly out of people's rcmemberanco in Sag Harbor as in a great city. Gossip keeps there a long time. Thojn^ ten years ago, a Methodist nimbler was stationed there, who had a mania for moving churches. Ho moved the church wherever he was settled. If he could do no belter he slowed it around and made it frot some other way. If there was a steeple he'd take it down. 1/ there was no steeple he'd put one up. He was a favorite with Methodist carpenters and masons. The Sag Harbor Methodist church stood on a hill commanding a beauti ful view of the harbor All thoso wooded binds, promontories, inlets hud islands?Hognckj Shelter island, Moshamuck, Big Gull and Little Gull islands, Barcelona point, and in the far distanca Gardiner's bay an I Gardiner's island were in full view. But this locomotive minister had not been settled long ere he slid the church down the hill iuto the center of the village. This made trouble in the congregation. It was split iuto church movers and astt-ohurch movers. The anti-church m ?vors seceded nun joined the Presbyterians. And to-day they arc talking over UVat moving in as spirited a way as ever. The topic is just as good as new. They know how to economize and husband their quarrels in ' Sag lid rbor. A few years ago another minister, of musical and operatic tastes, went there. He drilled ids choir in the oratorio of "The Creation," and put it oil the ecclesiastical stage. They do say he borrowed the church vestments of the Episcopal minister to eke out the costumes necessary, and the Epis copal minister lent theni; It made a great deal of talk, and at length tho trustees and de icons of the society intimated that the salary was for ser mons?not foi oratorios?and opera languished. This topic is as fresh and good as ever in Sag Harbor. \\ hat i3 the dillerenee between a hill and npill? One is hard to got up, and the otherIs hard to get down. - ? ogp. ? ? ? -a I mmm ? "Astonishing cure for consumption," ns the old lady said when she sprink led snuff on tho victuals of her board ers. An Irish editor says ho can see no earthly reason why women should not be allowed to become medical men.