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ESTABLISHED IN ISC THE NATIONAL WEDDING. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND MISS FOLSOM MADE ONE. ?Graphic Description of the Ceremoney? The Exquisite Costumes of the- Bride Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Leave Immerii- ; ately on a Wedding Tour. Washington*. Juue 2.?"President Cleveland was married to Miss Folsoin at 7.25 this evening. About half-past G o'clock the wedding guests began to arrive, their carriages rolling up to the main door of the mansion through the great iron gates on Pennsylvania Avenue. The first arrival was Secretary Lamar, at 6.27. He was closely followed by j the Rev. Dr. Sunderland and wife, and J during the next few minutes there came In quick succession Postmaster General! Vil?s and wife, and Wilson S. Bissel, Esq., (Mr. Cleveland's former law part ner* in Buffalo), Secretary and Mrs. Whitney and Secreta}* Manning and wife. Removing their wraps in the state dining room all the guests proceeded to the Blue Room where they were receiv ed by Miss Rose Cleveland. For a few minutes the guests chatted gaily, but the conversation was quickly suspended at 7.15, when the. selected orchestra from the Marine Band, stationed in the cor ridor, struck up the familiar strains of the Wedding March from Mendelssohns' "Midsummer Night's Dream," and All eyes were turned to the doorway to catch the first glimpse of the coming bride and groom. . Starting from the Western corridor on the upper floor, the President came slowly down the Western staircase with his bride leaning on his arm. They were unaccompanied, even the bride's mother awaiting her with the other guests. Passing through the central corridor, the bride and groom entered the Blue Room and took their position ncar'its Southern wall, which was com pletely hidden from sight by a mass of nodding palms, tropical grasses and an endless variety of choice flowers. The . crystal chaudcliers poured a flood of mellow radiance upon the scene, and the colors of massive banks of scarlet be gonias and royal Jaqueminot roses ming ling with the blue and silver tints of the ? frescoed walls and ceiling gave a warm ; and glowing tone to the whole brilliant " interior. The delicate ivory shades of the bride's wedding gown found an ex quisite -setting in the mass of crimson roses immediately beyond. The President was in full eveningj dress with a turndown collar, white lawn necktie and enamelled studs. A hush fell upon the assemblage as Doctor Sunderland stepped forward to his posi tion fronting the wedding couple, with I the Ucv. William Cleveland, the P/esi- \ ?dent-s brother, at his left hand', iual distict tone of voice and with deliberate utterance the Doctor began the simple and beautiful wedding service, as fol lows : "For as much as we are assembled to j observe the holy rite of marriage, it is needful that we should seek the blessing j of the Great God Our Father whose I institution it is. and therefore I beseech \ you now to follow m<$ with reverent j hearts in prayer to Him. Almighty and Everlasting God, Father of our spirits, j Framer of our bodies, Giver of every good and perfect gift. Thou who canst see the end from the beginning, who knowest what is best for us Thy chil dren, aud has appointed the holy rite of! marriage to be sacredly observed through- ! out all generations, regard now wc be seech Thee Thy servant our Chief Magistrate. Endow him pleuteously i with Thy grace and fill him with wis- J dorn to walk in Thy ordinances. Be j very nigh to him in the midst of his many cares and grave responsibilities I day l)y day. May Thy law direct him j aud Thy strength uphold htm, and be | Thou lorever his sun and shield; and bo graciously pleased to look down upon ! this Thy daughter, even as Theugh didst favor the choseu Rebecca and the many noble women that have adorned the world. May she indeed be a pre cious boon of God to het^husband, to cheer and help him continually; a wo man gifted with the beauty of the Lord and shedding the sweet influence ol Christian life upon the Nation in whose sight she is to dwell. Wilt Thou ap prove what wc Thy servants come to do in Thy name, by Thine authority and under the laws of the land in which wc live, and graciously assist them?this man aud this woman?who are here to j be united in the bonds of holy wedlock, according to the institution of Thy Word. Mercifully be pleased, Almighty God, to vouchsafe to each of them Thy grace, that they may well and truly j weigh the unfading vows which they are now about to make to each other in the presence of* this company and before Thee: and that they may be enabled | hereafter at all times so to live together as to rejoice in the solemnization of this union with joy unspeakable and full of glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, j Amen." Addressing the company, he said: ??Marriage is honorable among all men. in that man shall leave his lather and mother and shall cleave unto his wife and th>- twain shall be one licsh. It was instituted by our Creator in (be first Paradise. It was confessed by patri arch and priest, prophet and apostle. It was confirmed by the teaching and! adorned with the presence of the lie-' decmer, and has been honored by the faithful keeping of all good men and women since the world began. It i.->' not, therefore, to be undertaken lightly i or unadvisedly, but soberly, discreetly and in the fear of God. Into this holy} estate this man and this woman come now to enter. 11 any now can show just cause why they may not be lawfully ! united in marriage, let him now speak or else hereafter forever hold his I peace." To the bride and the groom lie said: I p IS _Col N Gloter ftgn 1. '** 1 0. o ?'If you desire to to be united in marri age you will signify the same by joining your right bands." [The groom and the bride joined bands.] -'Grover," said the minister, ''do you take this woman, whom you hold by the hand, to be your lawful wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of wedlock ? Do you prom ise to love her, cherish, comfort and keep her in sickness and in health, m joy and in sorrow, and forsaking all others keep you only unto her so long as you both shall live?" The groom (firmly)?"I do." Dr. Suuderland???Frances, do you take this man, whom you hold by the band, to be your lawful wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of wedlock ? Do you promise to love him, honor, comfort and keep him iu sickness and in health, in joy and iu sorrow, aud forsaking all others keep you only unto him so long as you both shall live?" The bride responded in a low but clear voice, "I do." Dr. Sundcrland (solemnly)??'Foras much as Grover and Frances have here agreed aud covenanted to live together alter God's ordinance in the holy estate of wedlock, and have confirmed the same by giving and taking the wedding ring; now. therefore, in the presence ol this company, in the name of the Father and ot the Son and of the Holy Ghost I pronounce and declare that they are husband and wire ; and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder." Rev. Mr. Cleveland the pronounced the following benediction: ??God the Father, God the Son, and Gcd the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve aud keep you. The Lord mercifully lill you with all temporal and all spiritual blessings andsrant that you may so live together in this world that m the world to come you may have life everlasting. Amen " At the conclusion of the cercmonv Mrs. Folsom, showing traces of deep emotion, was the first to tender her con gratulations to the newly married pair. She was followed by Miss Cleveland. Rev. Mr. Cleveland, and the other rela tives aud friends in turn. While the congratulations were in progress the band, under the leadership of Professor Sousa, performed the bride chorus and march from Lohengrin, and to this mu sic the President aud his wife led the way into the stately ICast Room. The adornments of this noble hall were in keeping with its majestic proportions, and its ample space and brilliant illumi nation afforded an opportunity for a fit tin:,- display of the ladies' toilettes. The bride wore an enchanting wed ding dress of ivory satin, simply gar nished on a high corsage with India muslin, crossed^ ju Grecian folds and carried iu exquisite falls of simplicity over the petticoat. Orange blossom garniture, commencing upon the veil in a superb coronet, is continued through out the costume with artistic skill. Her veil oi tulle, about five yards in length, completely enveloped her. falling to the edge of the petticoat In front and exten ding the entire length of her full court train. She carried no llowcrs aud wore no jewelry except an engagement ring containing a sapphire.ami two diamonds, and a plain gold wedding ring which had been placed on her linger before she descended the staircase. The couple departed at 9 o'clock to night for Deer Park, Maryland, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on a brie! wedding tour. South Carolinians Divorced in Atlanta. The Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday says: ?'Yesterday was divorce day in the Superior Court. "Seven suits were disposed of, total divorce being granted iu each case. "Judge Marshal J. Clark had stricken from the docket about twenty-live suits for want of prosecution. There still re mains a good number for his and the jury's consideration. "From the number of suits it looks like that Atlanta is really the Chicago of the South. "Ida M. Davis was grantad a total di vorce from her husband, Robert T. Da vis. They were married in Clintou. South Carolina, in 187G. She alleges that he was very unkind to her and was an habitual drunkard, lie frequently beat her with sticks and in every way imaginable made life for her as miserable as possible. In- 1879 she quit him, finding that it was dangerous to longer live with him. The evidence sustained the charges and a total divorce was granted." Woman's Charm. Every woman has sonic special charm, which she should find out and cultivate. It may be he:' eyes, her mouth, her hair, her brow, her form, her hand or her foot. Tt may consist of some trick oi smiling, or of a drooping lid; some grace of speech or of silence, of laughter or of motion. There are ugly beauties?the Xew York stage has one?and Fifth avenue another?as ugly and as irresis tible as that famous Countess of Berlin of whom Lola Monte/ used to tell. Slut had a dull rough skin, a dumpy form and a pug nose. Rut she had an exquisite voice and she understood the difficult art of conversation. She Knew iu what her strength lay. and she had cultivated her two gifts to the highest point. ??Had I a" daughter," Lolo Montez said, "the first tiling I would leacll her should be that to converse charmingly is a far greater accomplishment than to play, sing or*dance well.?Fashion Raxanr. Re careful where voll drink vour Soda Water. While it is the most health ful ami refreshing drink for the Sum mer, it is only so when made by re liable parties, from pure material.*dis pensed from a sound fountain in su licient quantity to he always fresh ami pure; otherwise its.only sweet poison; a safe place to drink" is at Jos. Eros' fount. RANGtEBTTRG, s. c, th HURKIED INTO ETERNITY. AN APPALLING ACCIDENT ON THE NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. Six Young People Killed ami Thirteen In jured? A Train Thrown inte? the San tee Swainp?Lint of the Dead and Wounded? Heartrendeing Seenes. St. Stephen's, June 7.? The north' bound passenger tram "No. 43 on the Northeastern Railroad met with a terri ble accident at 2.22 this evening while ?it was crossing the Sanlee River trestle at a point two and half miles from this place. The trestle suddenly gave ?way and the train, with the exception of the. engine aud the last sleeper, plunged headlong into the caual below. The scene that followed batlles description. Hours were spent in extricating the dead and wounded from the wreck. Dr. G. G. Kinloch. Win. inglesby, Capt. J. L. Cole, Miss Hannah Wilson, Miss Flora Mclver, of Charleston, and Miss Neha McWhitc. of Marion, were instantly killed. The list of wounded comprises thir teen and is as follows : B. G. Mazyck, : conductor, seriously injured; F. W. : Renoecker, mail agent, dangerously in* ; jured; Henry Husbands, baggage master; seriously injured; Warren Burges. color ' cd wood passer, painfully injured; James > Gouldman, news agent, slightly injured; ; W. C. Chandler, of Sumtcr, slightly in jured: Miss Marion McWhitc, of Marion County, slightly injured: W. B. Dames, I Lynchburg, Yn., painfully but not dan I gcrously injured; Henry Henry, colored, I j slightly injured; Express Messengers ? I West aud i'rice, both seriously injured; ' R. Smith, sleeping-car porter, seriously I injured; John Writ-lit, Wilmington, X. ! C, seriously in jured. I The cause of the accident is partly ascribed to the recent freshet, which has materially injured the trestle, the high water thus far having precluded a 1 thorough examination of. the same. It was impossible owing to the late hour at which the relief train bearing the dead and wouuded arrived in the city, to obtain anything like a detailed statc 1 inent of the wreck or its causeor causes. Most of those who survived the disaster were of course, after the fatigue aud terrible experiences of the day, unwilling and unable to relate their experiences : and made all possible haste to return to ; their hotels or homes in the city. By far the greater number of those who were seriously injured were absolutely iusuch condition as to need all their at ? tention and that of their immediate friends. One of the unfortunates, how ever, made a satement last night to a Reporter who accompanied him in the carriage in which he was taken lrom the station to his boarding-house in Society street. Thbvgentjemcir 7s namciT^VIrT W. E. Chandier. and is a clerk at Ho Gtlirc's furniture establishment on King street. He took the train yesterday at 12 on his way to Sumtcr, whither he bad been summoned by telegraph to be pre sent at the bedside of his dying mother. ' He made his statement with the utmost I difficulty, as ho was suffering from a contusion on the right side of Iiis head. His right foot had also been badly bruised. His escape was a most I miraculous one. In answer to a ques tion as to the cause of the disaster and the manner in which it had occurred, he said: "1 don't know how I am alive to ? tell about my escape, and even now nearly everybody is disagreed as to what caused the crash. The fact is that those who got off with their lives were loo much concern ed in thinking of other things, and those who were entirely saved found too much work in helping the helpless to waste I any useless time iu investigating Cue causes of the wreck. All I know isthat I was sitting in the second-class car near ' the end next to the first-class passenger coach. Ahead of me were the mail car , and the baggage car. The only oceu ' I pants of the car in which I was were , two persons, a colored man and a color \ I ed bo-,, whose names I have forgotten. ' I remember distincly that we had enter ed upon the trestle, and were, limning. I should judge, at the rate ol between tweuty-five and thirty miles an hour. I don't know how far we had gone on the trestle, possibly a half mile, when the crash came. It is, of couse, impos sible to describe one's sensations under the frightful circumstances, but I am sure that every one ou the car who knows any thing about impending dan ger must have felt a premonition that j there was something -wrong just an in ! slant or so before wc were sent whirling J through the air to the ground below, j The first intimation I received of the ' coining disaster was the ominous sound j of the brakes being instantaneously and ; forcibly put down. At such a place, on ; a trestle so elevated above the ground, I or rather the water below, I felt that j the danger, if dnugcr it was. would be i notiiing less than a fatal one. 1 thcrc j lore almost insensibly threw myself ; forward and clung tiuhtly to the lorward I seat, and at the same instant I could j hear above the rush and roar of the ; train the noise id' the ears ahead, which i were plunging down the trestle. Just then, glancing through llie for ward door. 1 saw the next ear pilch from the rails and vanish from sight. J knew then thai our time h id come. Quicker than thought the front end of . our car dipped down ami I then thought that all was over. I could distinctly hear the crashing nf the timber under j the ear as we went down, 1 only knew Ibis, that the fearful wrenching which tlie ear experienced as we left Hie rails lil ted me from my. seat, regardless of all the strength ofasony and despair that 1 was exerting, and shul me forcibly down towards the front end of [lie ear. i re member at one time the ear was nearly perpendicular, and having been cut loose from my support I fell almost by the force of gravity along the whole hue ol seats to the bottom. 1 have number less bruises which 1 do not feel just ; ;. g ? ... now, on account of the" greater pain of my. .principal-wounds, and I im confi dent that I struck every Seat on my way down t^the forward door." Jn fact, my reniemb/ance is( that the ...wound on my head .was caused by' srrikipg the sharp edge af,pne.ot the seats as' I was being hurleiyas I thetitthought, into eternity. Stratege to.' saiy after "Teaching the bot tom o?;iUie-cai\ I esperi^^ but little injur^^'I preached' the last possible places"tjle-.end'ot the car. just as it strucl^the'!gjound.'' Through the win dows I saw: the water,xlashed into foam, rise high ahoye?the car, but all of a sud den it subsided, and\thc fear of drown ing, 2?^ch was my'first sensation on geeing^fte*'. water,- disappeared. Then for anjustant aj], was still. I was dazed and dhfn't fipow what to do or to think. Both the cplored persons were out of sight,vi^>ossjblw^ndcr the seats. I tbougm ,at"first that the car was then, tue sl^kplace, but I changed my mind and dragged myself through one of the windajys. It was only then that I lound that rVas.seriously hurt. The wound on .ray Tread'J>Ied profusely and I was half--.bonded %y ".'flic stream of blood which ^iat|*flowed all over my face. WhenJT, ?ached the outside world again I was absolutely appalled by the extent of the. damage. 'Just'ahead of me were thb mailyind baggage trains smaslied 1 literacy to pieces. The first-class pas [ sengfjL.coach, which was immediately behir^luS* had toppicd over with trc mend?us force and was lying.half on its ! side jiiat to the right. Behind that was one. of the two sleepers which had fallen,after the passenger coach. On the mrt% still was the rear Pullman car just a short distance from the break 'through which we had all come in such inextricable concision. It was some time before, any sound was heard save that of the engine, which was ahead of us, and wluclwhad not left the track. It was ^t as if I was the sole survivor of a ^enpjal -death mid destruction. In a few itffintes^ howeycr, people recovered froiniBetr frigutandvattcntion was im I mediately turned to the relief of the suf fering. Tan officers o$&& train worked hero ically'-and in a ?aorj; time, considering the riisfjumstances-- an arraugeftient was made bj* wlutn we" "were taken from our variotifc positions up to the track. The bench of the track which had given way was. utilized, and with the help of ropes and the belt lines we were lifted out of our uncomfortable places. The reports as to.the number killed were much ex aggc?fed,'. the first being that nearly cveiM^dy on the train had been either killejiivutrighl or fatally wounded. We learnfdi as you know, that this was nottrue^ When we were made as com fortable as possible, the ladies volun teorc; Their services, on behalf' r>f the -i57'!-^*^C*t^^ day's Avdr5rC ?&y 's' work which certainly none '-f us will ever forget. 1 remember ' one lady, a Miss Campbell, from gum j nicrvillc, who was every place allcvia-1 ' ting the pain of the sullercrs. There j ! was also a lady, a Miss Bailey, I think.' [ was her name, who rendered me and ; many others timely and much-needed' i assistance. .She said that she was on ! her way Xorlh, with her mother and , j forr-brothers aud sisters, all children. I Not one of them was in the slightest: degree injured. r,Tlic saddest death ofall, in my opin- J ion, was that of a Miss White, I think ! was her name, who took the train at St. : Stephen's Depot. As we rolled up to | ! that place she was standing on the plat | form eagerly expecting the train which j was to take her to her home in the up per part of the State, I helped her on j the car with her baggage, little thinking i that within less than live minutes she I would be one of the number who would 'never reach their homes again. After she got on the car I never saw her again until I saw her through a window of the passenger coach as it lay enclosing its other victims some fifteen or twenty feet below the track. She was dead; and must have been killed almost instantly." I We remained in the sleeper until the I arrival of the train which was sent up i from Charleston to relieve us. The physicians who came with it immediate set to work, and in an excecdly short time they had done all that human aid could do to help the unfortunate suffer ers. 1 half wished at times that I was not j able to look around, as I did, on all the I sorrow and physical anguish that I saw j and heard. Many of the wounded were i in intense agony, and even the bravest : man alive would not repress a cry or a '. groan under such torture as many of the j men endured. Mangled legs, contorted arms and bruised and battered bodies . were here, there and everywhere. It I was sickening, and from time to time I I had to close my eyes to relieve my own sufferings, so much intensified were : they by the! agonized expression on ! every face I saw. As I told you I shall never forget the circumstances. Wc were brought into the city about I 'o'clock last night. The rest you know.?News and Courier. A Warning. Mauniug Enterprise, June 3: On last Tuesday Mr. John Sauls of Cade's De pot, who is engaged in the turpentine . business, sen! Iiis wagon in "New Zion Township after a load of gum. In ?40111g if had to cross Pudding Swamp at Johnson's crossing, (hi its return load ed, when crossing one of the bridges ov< r the deepest stream, a span gave way, throwing tin.- team and driver in the water fifteen feet deep. The driver hardy escaped drowning. Both of the 1 mules were drowned. The County will have m foot this hill, as those bridges were very much out of order, although the Comity Commissioners had made efforts to repair them. T. C. Iluhbeil will send for all Illus trated and Daily Tapers, also hasthcChar . leston Daily Papers which persons can be : supplied who live in the city at L'O cents per ' week. PKIC] PLOTTING WITH POISON. Two Minnesota Lovers Use Arsenic Fatal ly in Their Lawless Intrigues. Milwaukee, Wis., June 3.?On the 10th of last mouth Henry Wright died suddenly at hirs residence, near Loyal, Clark County, in this State. The only persons present at his deathbed were his wife and Daniel Allen, a neighbor, both of whom were soon after arrested and lodged in the County Jail. At the tune of this arrest the Loyal authorities also caused the stomach of the dead man to be sent to a Chicago chemist for aualy sis. The report of this chemist, just returned, states that the stomach con tained a very large quamty ofarsenic and that poison had been given Wright but a short time before death, as it was still undissolved. This report is substan tiated by Mrs. Wright, who makes a confession of the whole affair. She states that she had, at the instance of Allen, given her husband arsenic in cookies, but the quantity was too large and would not stay on his stomach ; that Allen then wanted her to give her bus band another dose, but she refused, whereupon Allen, who was waiting ? upou Wright In his sickness, administcr | ed arsenic in his medicine, which caused i his death. Allen, who is a prominent i farmer of the neighborhood, had been I intimate with Mrs. Wright for about a j year. He told her to poison her hus i band and he (Allen) would poison Ins ' wife, and 'then he would marry Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Allen had been sickly ? for several months, and since Allen's : arrest a bottle of morphine cotaining1 ' arsenic has been found m his house. As j evidence that Alleu had already been administering poison to bis wife, it is : stated that since his arrest she is getting i better and is able to be up and about the house?something she has not been able to do for several months. The murder ers are confined in the jail at Xcillsville awaiting trial at the. Circuit Court in September. The people around Loyal arc so incensed over the murder that Allen Is only safe in the steel cells of solidly built jail. Mrs. Allen has com menced suit for divorce to prevent her husband from squandering the estate in trying to clear himself from the charge of murder. OLEOMARGARINE DEFINED. The Hill Passed by the House to Regulate the Sale of Bogus Butter. Washington, June 3.?The oleo margarine bill, as it passed the House to-day. contains the following features: Butler is defined to bo a food product made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without addition al coloring matter. Oleomargarine, is .defined us follows :_ AllsubsCances madeof oleomargarine, ok-o, oleomargarine oil-, butterine, lard ine, siiiiie and neutral; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleo margarine oil, butterine. lardinc, sulne ? and neutral; all lard extracts and (al- j low extracts; and all mixtures and! compounds of tallow, beef fat suet, lard j oil, vegetable oil, annctto and other; eolloriug matter, intestinal fat and oll'al fat made in imitation or semblance of butter, or, when so made, calculated or' intended to be sold as butter or for but- j ter. Special taxes arc imposed as fol lows : Uu manufacturers. .^000: on wholesale dealers. :?4.SU; on retail dealers. $-18. The existing internal revenue laws, so far as applicable, are j : made to apply to these special taxes. , imposed on any person who shall deal j in oleomargarine without paying the special tax. Provision is made for the proper stamping and labeling of every I package of oleomargarine. A tax of 5 j cents a pound is imposed on all oieo- j margarine manufactured and sold, and a penalty is prescribed for the purchase or reception for sale of oleomargarine not branded or stamped according to law. .A number of sections of the bill j arc devoted to providing machinery to j carry the law into effect. WONDERFUL ESCAPE. ] a Fugitive Leaps into the Sea Eleven Miles Out and is Recaptured. j Calveston, Texas, June 3, 18SG.? ; The police last night rearrcsled Dick Lacousc at a point eight miles down the ] island. Lacousc is a fugitive from : Gloucester, Mass., where he is wanted i for au attempt to kill Maud Edson. his i mistress. He was arrested on this j charge and was admitted to bail in the sum of $1,400. As soon as he gaiucd 1 his liberty he disappeared. His bonds j men traced him to this city a mouth j ago, and he was arrested by W. J. Ilcaly, a Pinkerton detective. Thedc i lective and Lacousc started for Xcw ; V/ork on the steamship San Marcos. When eleven miles oil' Newport News, , on the night of May 8, Lacousc sudden 1 ly disappeared from the vessel, A most thorough search failed to lind the fugi live, and it was concluded that Lacousc had jumped overboard in an attempt to escape, and. as the night was dark and the sea rough, it was believed he was drowned, il now appears that Lacousc i swam ashore and made his way back to 'Texas, where he was followed by the I'dsou woman. Last night, to the astonishment of the police, she appeared and swore out a warrant, charging that Lacausc had again attempted to kill her. She divulged his hiding place, and the police were Ihus cuubled to capture him. Lacousc says it look him live hours to reach the laud after he jumped from iho steamer. A Man shot to Death in Clarendon. Cn.vuLi-STDN. S. i .. May 27.?In Clarendon County yesterday Wm. w. Harrow was shot and killed by Thomas K. Shannon. Shannon surrendered to the Sheriff to-.lav. The cause of the shooting was a dillcrcnc of opinion about the opening of a public road. If you want line Patent Flour, called (J veil Litter, call at Cornelson's. 5 ?1.50 PER ANNUM. CHARLESTON GHOSTS. STRANGE BEINGS USED TO WALK IN SILENT PLACES. Dbtappearanc of the Meeting Street Ghost ?The Gho.st of the Jewish Cemetery?Of St. Philip's Church Yard?The Woman in White?Six Little Ghosts Sitting in a Kovr. The Meeting .street ghost disappeared during the early part of the week and will not frighten the good people in that vicinity any longer. This is not the first ghost that has ap peard in Charleston. Many of them have visited and re-visited us under the glimpses of the moon, making night hideous with their weired-likc move ments and terrifying the spectators with their grim aud ghastly countenances. All of the midnigh t marauders, of course, were not ghost; some of them were real flesh and blood. It is well known that there are persons who. like the hyena, have an insane desire to prowl around grave yards and cemeteries at night. For instance, about thirty years ago what was thought to be a ?iiiost, used to appear in St. Philip's Church yard, sometimes seated upou the tomb of the Meacher family, and sometimes moving with cat-like tread among the * trees aud monuments. The excitement at the time was so great that women and children in the vicinity could not be induced to remain in a room at night alone* If a door opened suddenly they expected to see a grinning raw-head and bloody bones 011001*. The moaning of the wind out side or the howling of a dog in a yard were signs that the gho.st was somewhere in the vicinity. The ghost was at last captured and proved to be a negro by the name of Charles who belonged to the Mcnchers. Many years before the war a watch maker by the name of Lyons was mur dered at his residence on East Bay. The assassin entered the house through the street window and cut Lyons' throat while lie was quietly sleeping in his bed. Scarcely were the remains of Lyons laid away in the tomd before a ghost appear ed in the old Jewish burying ground in Coming street. The ghost appcard in a white shroud, and when not walking among the graves, could be seen seated upon the hearse house shed. The ex citement oceanic so great and rumors so much exaggerated that some people declared they saw the ghost at night climbing St. Michael's steeple. The negroes became so alarmed that many of them were afraid to walK the streets at uight. Filially several persons star ted for the Jewish burying-ground with the intention of shooting the ghost. Ghosts, like crows can smell gun-pow ilexJ^off, atul you can never get within gun-sfi?Tr"TarjgCw ot ? them. Vvinle the ghost hunters were marching around the gravc-j-.ird, deiermii^H to make firrhost's. ghost out of the ghost if the ghost would let them, the ghost of the cemetery was in their midst following them around. It was one. John MoCtllhim, a wild young man of the city who used to ap pear in the grave yard at night covered with a sheet, and amuse himself by frightening people and creating a sen sation If there is a place in Charleston that seems inviting to ghostly visitors that place is St. Philip's church-yard. Its recessed position, its weeping willows with their branches nearly trailing over the tombs, and intensifying the dark ness of the night, the numerous graves in such close promoxrty to each other, all oiler as delightful a home to the restless spirits as the Yale of Tempo oflcrcd to the dreamy child of song. About a half of a century ago, midnight pctlestriaus along Church street were startled by the appearance of a woman in white who was frequently seen walk ing solemnly but majestically near the fence railing. After making her rounds of the grave-yard she would disappear in the darkness of the trees aud be seen no more until the next uight. One night a well known sporting man of the city in passing the Church saw the ghost standing near the railing*. Her right hand was thrust out. and she was as motion less as a statue. He seized her hand and squeezed it in his vice-like grip. A piercciug shriek caused him to release her and she turned and tied, passing into a window of a small house which bordered on the grave-yard. She was a somuambulist aud lived in the house mentioned. The window was low and she had no difficulty in passing in and out of it. This was the last time, how ever, she was seen walking in the church yard. A young man of this city whose word is beyond question stated to a represen tative of the Dispatch that not long ago he was returning to the city on foot along the meeting street mad. When Payne's bridge was reached he ??distinct ly'' saw six litlle ghosts silling down bobbing, nobbing ami bobbing to each other. They were dressed all in white and jcsticulatcd like clowns in paiitom iue.' He held his breath to pass them, hut hail not gone far before he felt that they were following him. Looking back he saw that all six were in pursuit. He could not stau I it any longer and star ted on a full run for the city. When Line street was reached he stopped to Mow and to lind thai Hie ^liosl had vanished.?! Charleston Dispatch. Murdered and Iturned. Charlotte, X. C, June ;>.?Xear Tyro Shops. Davidson County, last night, while A. -I. McDride and wife were eating supper they were murdered in their scat.-, and the. house robbed aud burned together with their bodies. Mc Uridu gave in Iii- taxes yesterday, and staled that he bad two hu.idred dollars I on baud, which is supposed t'> have been the cause of the murder. Alfred Long aud Walter Womaek, his brother in-law, both colored, have been arrested on suspicion. Much excitement and I indignation prevails here over the affair.