ESTABLISHED IST 18<
ALIVE m HIS COFFIN.
THE ASTONISHING EXPERIENCE OF
GEORGE WELLINGTON.
He Narrowly Escapes Being Buried Alive
?Could Hear Bnt Could Not Talk?The
.Story as Told by Himself After Being
K evened.
On tlic evening of June 18, 1880,
lieorge Wellington, an Indiana farmer,
had a gathering of friends at his house.
He was a man forty-two years of age,
and of robust health, and on this even
ing it was noticed that he was in partic
ularly good spirits. After the guests
had departed he remarked to his wife
tliat he felt more like singing and danc
ing than going to bed. They retired
about half-past 11 o'clock, and she was
asleep before miduight. *
The farmer was always out of bed at
live o'clock, but on the morning follow
ing the party the wife awoke at six and
found him still sleeping. When she at
tempted to arouse him she ? discovered
that he was dead. A doctor was sent
for, and he arrived in the course of an
liour to pronounce it a case of heart
disease. He said the man had beeu dead
three hours when the wife awoke. The
undertaker came and prepared the body
for burial. It was remarked that the
corpse retained a life-like appearance,
and that noue of the limbs grew rigid,
but the two other physicians called in
vigorously combated the idea that he
was in a trance and might be restored to
life. Nevertheless, the wife and sous
had a secret hope that deftth had not
really come to him, and the funeral was
put two days ahead. During the inter
val the corpse. w*as constantly watched
for signs of returning animation, but
nothing occured to delay the funeral ar
rangements.
The burial was to take place in a coun
try graveyard, and most ot the vehicles
gathered at the house belonged to farm
ers. The usual ceremonies took place
over the dead, and the cotliu was brought
out and placed in the hearse. S\ bile the
procession was forming, a team attached
to au empty wagon came down the load,
running awav. The wagou collided with
the hearse, and the latter vehicle was
upset and the coffin Hung out. Four or
live men ran to picked it up, but before a
liand had touched it a voice was heard,
saying:
?Tor God's sake let me out of this!"
The-people at first moved back in af
fright, but as the voice continued to ad
dress them the coltin was righted aud
opened, and Wellington was found
struggling to get out. With a little as
sistance he pulled himself out of the box
and. walked into the house aud sat down
:.. iifjt chair. In half an hour ho had his
^clothes on aud was moving around
amoriir the amazed neor/h* to whom be <
related this experience:
?'I did not fail asleep until some time
after midnight. When I awoke the
clock was striking live. J made a move
to get out of bed, but to my great
amazement, I could stir neither baud
nor foot. I had the full use of my cars,
but I could not open my eyes. I argued
at first that I was not yet wide awake,
but when my wife shook mc and called
tue by uame,?aud I could not respond by
even moving an eyelid, I became satis
fied that I was in a trance. My mind
was never clearer, and my hearing was
painfully acute. I made effort after ef
fort to throw off the great weight which
seemed to be holding me down, but I
could not bend a toe or crook a linger.
However, it was ouly after the doctoa
had pronouned me dead that I felt any
alarm. Up to that time it had seemed
to me that I could soon manage to get j
rid of the weight. Had a pistol been
fired in the room I am sure the spell
would have been broken. After the doc
tor's ultimatum I felt that I should be
buried alive. But was I alive? All of
a sudden this query Hashed across my
brain, and I was troubled more than 1
cau tell you. As I had never died be
fore, how was I to know the sensations ?
Could the dead hear and think ? Was
the mind of a corpse in active operation?
It was a problem I could not solve.
'?Xotaword was spoken near me which
I did not catch and fully understand.
There was a great deal of weeping, and
I failed to satisfy myself as to the cause.
I had died, but it did not seem as if this !
was asufllcicnt excuse. When my wife j
bent over the coffin and sobbed and j
grieved, aud refused to be comforted, I
did not feel bad with her. On the con-'
trary, her action surprised me. When J
the two other doctors pronounced mc '
dead 1 made up my mind that 1 was dead ;
aud that the end had conic. 1 had been j
taught to believe that the sprit of the'
dead ascended to heaven, and that the
dead were dead in mind as well as body.!
it was abase deception, I felt indig-,
nant that it was so.
?'As an instance of the acutCtlCSS of
my hearing, let me explain that after I 1
was placed in the cofliu the receptacle
was moved over to an opeu whitlow in
the parlor, where it was supported on
saw horses. Two of my neighbors took ;
seals ou a wagon box in the barnyard, i
fully two hundred feet away, and for
an hour conversed of my death in ordi-j
uary tones of voive. I did not mis- one i
-ingle word ol the conversation, as both i
afterwards admitted. I could hear every [
tick of the kitchen clock ami much of I
the conversation of the womcu in the
upstairs rooms, fin the night previous'
to thef'uiier:'.!. about half-past in o'clock,;
and while the two men sitting up with
Lhe corpse were reading, I Ik ard two men
climb the fence iiitu tbu barnyard, cross
the yard and enter the barn. ?Aller a
lew minutes they came out and I heard
:.!>( jingle of something carried by one
oi the pmr. i could not make: <.>u: what
aas goimj on, but learned afterward.
The two :u*.!i stole a horse from a field
opposite my barn, and they entered my
premises in search of a bridle.
"I heard the |>coplc assemble for the
funeral, and as 1 caught a word from
39. Col M Glover Jau 1. 'S6 qj
this one or that one I identified them by
name to myself. I listened closely to
the sermon, but when the ministerspoke
of me I could not take it as personal.
It was as if the name and person be
longed to some one I had known years
before. I knew when I was carried out
and placed in the hearse, and I am cer
tain that I heard the clatter of the team
running away before anybody sighted
them. When the people began to call
out in a fright I felt that snme fear of
beiug hurt that any live man does. I
heard them trying to back the hearse out
of the way to let the team go by, but
they were not -quick enough. As the
collision came my eyes opened and ray
speech was restored, and from that mo
ment I was all right."?Xew York Sun.
ALABAMA'S NEW PROPHET
Worshiping at the feet of a Child lie turn
ed from Heaven
Vekxox, Ala., July 28.?Early in
the spring Mollie Penuington, a daught
er of George Poniugton, a farmer.* was
taken violently ill. Physicians pro
nounced her case hydrophobia. She
presented every symptom of rabies, at
tempting to bite those around her. She
soon rallied from tins conditou and lay
in bed in a comatose condition for three
days. On the morning of the third she
predicted that she would die in one hour
and that at the expiration of another
hour she would come back to life again.
Sixty minutes exactly after the time she
swooned away, she opened her eyes and
jumped nimbly from the bed. She as
serts that she died and weut to heaven
where God cured her and sent her back
to the world to proclaim Iiis word. The
news spread rapidly over the Red Hills
until the whole country was wild with
excitement, and crowds began docking
around to hear and see her. A World
correspondent who went to sec her yes
terday found her expounding Scripture
intelligently, and with n quickness that
was surprising. She described her
transition from earth to heaven, and her
entrance into the gates of heaven le'd by
Jesus. She says that she is a disciple
and a prophet, and has been preaching
to multitudes at revival meetings in "her
neighborhood. Two sick children, who
had baffled the skill of physicians, were
carried to her, and simply rubbing her
hands upon them they were cured. She
asserts that she holds converse with
(Jod daily. The girl is only thirteen
years old and does not know her letters.
The Rev. Mr. Springfield, who de
clares that she never heard but three
sermons in her life, says that he has
questioned her upon passages in the
Bible which were inexplicable to him,
aud-she has answered them satisfactori
ly. Her parents arc ^ooxost^df farm crs
and very illiterate. Men of strong
minds declare that she has inspired them |
?tuffoihers'-i'dck ..roufd her eagerjo?
catch aily word that she rifcAy tiWeW "
Honwvrhl|i|tefl i>y Women
APetroha, Butler county. Pu., spee
ial says: a very sensational horsewhip
ping occurred at Millerstown about 8
o'clock last evening, in which Peter A.
Rattigan, editor and proprietor of the
Herald, and also the present postmaster,
figured as' the victim. Rattigan, under
the head of Butler items, has been re
flecting quite severely on the members
ot the Womens Christian Temperance
Union, and those who arc identified
.with the prohibition or temperance cle
ment in this county. Last week seven
coach loads of the temperance people,
among whom were some prominent and
influential citizens, visited Koester's
park, at Slippery Bock, and spent the
day very pleasantly. An article ap
peared in the Herald Saturday giving a
very uncomplimentary description of
the people composing the party, and
although dated at Butler it is claimed as
Rattigau's production. The ladies were
particularly selected as targets and yes
terday evening, just prior to the hour of
closing the postoilice, twelve or fifteen
women, armed with whips, planted
themselves near the cntraucc and await
ed their victim's appearance. As soon
as Battigau stepped outside of the door
they began belaboring him. and only
desisted through exhaustion. Rattigan
quietly stood it and offered no resistance.
The friends of Battigau claim that the
women were instigated by their hus
bands and masculine friends.
mowing up a Church.
Potts vi i.i.e. Pa., July 3t.?At 3.15
o'clock this morning a tremendous ex
plosion, the shock of which was distinct'
ly felt in the fity. occurred at St. ('lair,
two miles distant. Dynamite bud been
I placed under the Baptist Church and
exploded, wrecking the building and
entailing damage to the amount of sev
eral hundred thousand dollars. The
perpetrators of the outrage tire unknown,
but the act is universally regarded a> a
Result of the crusade of the Law and
Order Society, through wlio.-e ellbrts
Daniel Walter, an old and respected
citizen was recently imprisoned for a
technical violation of.the liquor law. and
who died in a short time, his death being
generally attributed to his imprisonment.
Some : 'X mouths ago the store of an
active member ?>l the society was burned,
and the excitement and bail blood occa
sioned by that ile'jioirstration has been
raised lu fi ver heat by subsequent events
resulting in this morning's outrage.
The Waste* ?f'.in.
Macox. JiiI\ ol>. - Mrs. Jennie String
fellow, a young while woman aired 2o.
attempted suicide ihis morning, at 10
o'clock, al her home on Wharl street,
in thi- city, by lakiuy twenty-live
grams of morphine. Shu is >iil! living,
with no hope for her recovery. She has
! cen separated from her hu.-J.?and for
seven mouths, and \\u< been living in
intimate relations with a youus mer
chant lure, named James Morris,
whose recent conduct toward Ii< r. it :.
supposed, inllucnced her to commit Ihe
deed. She has made no .statement ol
the reasons.
tANGOEBURG-, S. C, THT
SAVED BY A HACK DRIVER.
A -FAIR YOUNG ORPHAN RESCUED
FROM A LIFE OF SIN.
IHer Escape from41 Now Orleans Convent
?Flight to New York and Desperate De
termination?Disgusted with Her Guar
dian, Wealthy by Inheritance, hut a
Fugitive in the Metropolis?Her Own
Story.
John Conlin is a hackmau by calling
but a nobleman by nat ure. He has seen
considerable of both the dark and sunuv
sides of life since he first handled the
I ribbons, some twentv-odd years ago, but
! upou Tuesday. July 20, he had an ex*
jperlence which, with him, will form an
i epoch in his career. He had left his
home in Jersey early in the morning in
question and crossed over the New York
side to .catch what stray passengers he
could.- jpresently a pretty girl ofseven
j teen or thereabouts, of distinguished
: mien aud the sweet air of innocence,
! approached him at the foot of Des
bros<;s street aud asked him vocation,
He informed her that he was a hackman.
; This seemed to relieve the fair inquirer
j of some doubt she seemed to entertain,
land, with much dUIidence and many
j blushes, she asked him to take her
to one of the many gilded palaces
of sin uptown. The" honest fellow
i stood transfixed. Many requests of a
j similar nature had been made to him
i before, but his keen eye told him tiiat
! this was no ordinary case, aud that the
girl who stood before him had not yet
fallen.
As soon as he recovered from his as
tonishment he asked her why she wished
to enter upon such a life. She was
reticent at first, but by adroit manage
ment he learned that, she had run away
troin a convent in New Orleans the Sun
I day before and had taken this step be
cause life had become unendurable there.
She said her father, who had been a dry
goods man in Xcw Orleans, died eight
years ago. Her mother, too, was dead,
and as her guardian wished to be rid of
the trouble of personally caring for her
he placed her in the Sacred Heart Con
vent in the French quarter at Xcw
Orleaus. There, she said, she had been
virtually imprisoned, 'deprived of all
social enjoyment and even debarred from
seeing Friends of earlier days. v This
state of things she could not bear and
she determined to run away from the
convent, come to Xew York and, as,she
was without money and friends and
unable to make a living in any other
way, she had resolved to try her fortunes
in the path which many before her have
entered only to terminate their carces
in Potter's Field.
The hackmau thoughlof his own hap-'
py family across the river, of his daugh
ter? the pride ;of his life?just buddkjtf
save the girl, with or without her con
sent. First he endeavored to dissuade
her. but as she proved obdurate he
placed her in his hack, and after giving
some instructions to two of his employ
ees he drove oil' with the young lady
and placed her in charge of a lady he
knew in the upper part of the city.
The lady is a Samaritan, noted for bet
good deeds in the saving of misguided
young women. The hackmau had no
trouble in persuading her to shelter the
girl. The latter at first objected to the ar
rangement, but when the driver proved
firm in the stand he had taken she
t acquiesced, and is now in safe custody
until her guardian, who has been notified
of her whereabouts, shall put in an ap
pearance and take her to her Southern
home.
To a reporter who called upon her at
her present abode the lady admitted
that she came of a distinguished He
i brew J'amily of Xew Orleans. Her name
? was May Marshall, and her father, the
llatc Thomas II. Marshall, of the well
i known dry goods firm of Marshall-It
' Kerns. He, she said, was a descend
I ant of the famous Tom Marshall of
! Kentucky, and very proud he was of
his descent. His mother was a Jewess
and his father an American. Her
mother, too, came from a wealthy fami
ly, half Italian, half Jewish. Her
father died when she was but ten years
old and her mother two years prior to
that time. She was then placed in the
charge of James H. Kerns, her father's
partner in buisncss, who was made sole j
executor of his will'and guardian of the
daughter. Pour years later she met fori
the first time Louis Pciblcmnn, a youth I
eighteen years of age, the sou of Leo
Pciblcmnn, the head of a well known
dry-goods linn in Xcw Orleans. The
young couple loved each other, and her
guardian, tearing that his ward would]
acl with that promptness characteristic j
to the Southern temperament and marry i
young Fciblcman, packed her oil'to the'
convent. He was opposed to the union j
because of the exlrc-iU! youth of the i
twain, and because young Pciblcmnn did
UOl occupy as high a social position as
his ward.
. The young couple remained devoted'
to each other for two years, exchanging
love epistles whenever opportunity
oii'ered and the negus like vigilance of
the convent authorities relaxed the least
bit. At the expiration of thai time
Fieleman was scut to Shrevcport, La.,
by his lather, to open a branch store in
that place Then the vomit! lady be
iran to lind life al Ilm eonvciii irksome,
and ils "iriflip-ss unendurable. She be
came love-sick, home-sick, wretchedly
unhappy and determined to lice from
the good Sisters. She bribed the negro
porter, induced him to pawn her diamond
rinu for vV"i -of which lie retained ijl?
and leave the great gateway leading oul
to the s!'v< i oprn al d o'clock Saturday
evening. Jul\ 17. when the students of
the convent would ho in tin; chapel at
prayers. She then slip]?ed away from
her comrades, gaining the playground
and escaped through the open '.rate. She
then went direct to the depot of the
Nashville and Louisville road and
ttlSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1J
bought a ticket to New York for $32.
having thus i2S left. Her trunk had
been sent on by her sable accomplice,
and she took the 8 P. M. tram for
New York, arriving here at 6 o'cIock,
where she fortunately fell into the hands
of llackman Conlm.
The young lady expresses remorse for
her .wild action, but is decidedly
averse to going back to New Orleans",
where she says she will be treated with
greater rigor than ever. She is wealthy
in her own right?how much she does
not 'know?and thinks her guardian
should allot her enough to live here in
the'metropolis under the care of some
responsible person. She has\a dread of
returning, and says sbc would seek em
ployment here in the city before taking
that- step, let her inheritance go where
it may. There can be no doubt that
Miss Marshall has a fortune of her own,
as the lirni, of which her father was the
head, was one of the wealthiest in the
South aud at the time of his death was
enjoying a splendid season of prosperity.
How large her fortune is it is impossible
to say, but, as she was the only child
and heir-at-law, it must be considerable.
Ever since her father's death she has
becu maintained in sumptuous style by
her guardian at various schools, includ
ing that from which she ran away.
Miss Marshall is a handsome blonde,
with a lithe, willowy figure, and lan
guid, dreamy, hazel eyes of an Italian
,huc, which form a strong contrast to
her bright, clear complexion, and light,
chestnut hair. When- lighted up" by
interest In any subject under discussion,
they become postively beautiful. A
modest, half-timid air, which has the
charm of innocence about it, makes up
the, tout cusemtdc of Miss Marshall's
appearance. With this picture before
the. eye, how much greater should be the
meed of praise awarded to honest John
Conlin for his manly, noble action?all
the more noble by reason of its rarity?
in saving this lovely creature frqni per
dition.?New York \\ orld.
LYNCHERS AFTER A BRIDEGROOM.
Shocking Account of tin- Marriage of a
Old Man to a Seven-Year-Old Child.
??A dispatch from Grceensburg. Ky.,
gives the following account of a most
remarkable marriage in that State re
cently: 'The child bride was brought to
town last uighland lodged at Toomcy's
Hotel. This morning she was taken
before the grand jury. Before that body
sli? appeared abashed, never having
faced so many men before. Her testi
mony was not of auy importance, and
her answers were altogether childish.
Deputy Coroner Bentou was sent for
her, and found her in Hart County, near
C' nmer, where she had been taken by
oilman Bishop. The old scoundrel
b^pfly^c^^
bad been undoubtedly tampered with.
To the doctors the child admitted the
attempted approaches ot Bishop. These
sickening details cannot be given. Suf
fice it to say that Bishop, a man seventy
years of age married under false preten
ses this child, known to be only seven
years, four months and fifteen days old,
for the most fiendish purposes. Betta
Boston, or Bishop, as she calls herself,
is slight built, small for her age. with
dark eyes. Intellectually, she is very
bright. She is forty-live niches in height.
Intense excitement was created when
the facts in the case were lcarucd, and
had Bishop been in reach no doubt he
would have been speedily hung. None
of his acquaintances or friends can oiler
any palliating circumstances for bis
strange freak. Not even insanity or
second childhood is entertained. A ru
mor reached here to-day that a crowd
from the Russell Creek country was on
old Bishop's track, and if overtaken his
trial will be very speedy. An indictment
has been issued against bun. David
Judd. the old preacher who solemnized
the rites of matrimony, was brought in
on a bench warrant to-uight, and will
testify before the grand jury to-morrow.
He is"a very old man, and very feeble.
Be says, he married them according to
law. except filling up the marriage
certificate. He will be indicted for mar
rying a girl under lawful age. The limit
of llic law is twelve months in jail and
$1,000 line in such cases. An attempt
will be made to place the unfortunate
little yirl in an orphan asylum. Bentou
found the record of her birth, and her
age, as giving above., is entirely correct.
Not to l?? Outdone.
The colored population of Uarnwcll
County do not propose to be outdone by
the white folks in any thing, as the fol
lowing from the Uarnwcll People will
show. No doubt the colored woman
took her cue from .Miss Councily:
?'There was some excitement at St.
Paul's church, colored. I?ed Oak town
ship. Sunday. While Ifev. Jordon
Whiltaker was preaching the funeral
sermon of uncle Johnnie Barley, an old
colored man. who died a mouth or so
ago. Kdic Herman entered the church,
with hatred in !"?!? heart, murder in her
eve .mi! a pistol in her hand, and began
to bun! another colored woman, Kannic
-. in r purpose being to kill her. 15c
forc any bann was done Kdic Herman's
brother knocked her down with a board,
placed her in a wagon and hauled bei
away. Parson Whilaker continued the
services and look up his invariable col
lection."
.\ Snow St??i*m.
MurxT Wash i vi ox. N. IE. Augusi
3.?A N'orihwest wind, blowing at tin
rale uf sixty miles an hour, set in at night
liiil yesterday. Snow began i" fall ai
2..'iU tins morning, and at the grouin
\va- . overed tu the depth of one am
one-ball' inches. The wind i.- Mowim
eighty miles an hour, ami the window.'
aie thickB covered with irosi. Th<
iheruiotiii icr yesterday registered >n ii
the valley, but now marks 2.- here.
Now is the time to Advertise.
386.
PEIC
SHOWERS OF STONES.
*. Kentucky Hamlet Agitated Over the
Strange Mutter.
I Louisville, Kv.. July 28.?The in
habitants ofMundy's Landing, on the
; Kentucky River, Woddford County, are
. considerably worked up over showers
j of stones which have desccuded iu their
j midst. Several persons have been se
\ verely hurt and roofs of houses made to
j rattle like musketry. The scene and
location of these mysterious visitations
are at aud near the house of Mrs. Lucrc
i tin Mundy, widow of Lowry ^lundy, who
! died from the effects of poison adminis
I tercd, as charged, by his wife and Dr.
I Davis, the latter now serving a life sen
tence m the peniteniary for being guilty
of poisoning, and Mrs. Mundy being un
der indictment as accessory to the mur
der. The first notice taken of the fall
ing stones was on Monday last, when
parties picking blackberries in a patch
some distance from the Mundy mansion
were surprised at the drooping of small
stones in their midst and continuing to
drop at intervals. Their surprise changed
to alarm, and with buckets and berries
they beat a hasty retreat from the patch.
I The next day Mrs. Dr, Davis, when
! about 100 yards from her house, was
' struck severely on the arm by a stone
j from some unknown direction. Miss
I Annie Mundy was also hurt, and very
severely, by a deecuding stone upon her
head. Miss Kva Mundy the next day
was hit and slightly hurt. A" negro.
Henry, was struck and knocked over a
cliff, which came near ending his career.
Saturday and Sunday several negroes
were struck, one or two of them being
severely injured. The people of the
neighborhood of course arc stirred up.
Some think it the work of some mall
i cious individual or individuals who arc
'creating the scusation. Others think it
of the supernatural order. But whether
from natural or unnatural causes all arc
of the opinion that it is a very strange
affair. Several houses besides the Davis
Mundy mansion have been struck and
the stones descend perpendicularly and
not horizontally as if thrown by the
hand of an individual.
EATING HUMAN BODIES.
Terrihle Talen of Suffering in Labrador
?Twenty Vodlea Eaten.
Boston, July 30.?A St. John's, X.,
F. special to the Advertiser says : Her
genatis Ter. one one of the Esqumaux
who arrived here on the. Nancy Barrett
from Okkok, Labrador, says that out of
the population of that settlement of 130,
not a soul remains. Early in March
the food irnve out. every drop of oil aud
every bit of seal skin was utilized, and
at rare intervals a bear was killed, but
finally the supplies were-quite exhausted.
On June 3 they had caton nothing for
and goaded by hungpr they
old. When one of 1^^*^!'!'^
I party died the body was-cut open, the
j entrails taken out and the remainder,
j was frozen up lot use. From this food j
! terrible dysentery set in among the stir- j
vivors. and on July 1 there were but
sixteen persons left alive, the bodies of
over twenty having been eaten. The
sixteen survivors skirted down the coast
in a sledge drawn by four dogs, the only
living creaturers left them, their ponies
being sacriliccd to appease their hunger
long before. When about 24 miles from
Cape Mugford a heavy snow storm set
iu. While the party were endeavoring to
find their way they were attacked by
while bears to the number of twenty
five or thirty which killed all of the par
ty but two, the survivors being among
the number at Cape Mugford.
[ The Grand Division Sons of Temperance.
This body assembled at Columbia
last week, all the grand officers being
in their places. After the transaction
of matters pertaining to the private
business of the order, an election of
officers for the ensuing term was held,
resulting as follows:' C. E.R. Dray
ton. Aikcn. Or. W. 1'.; John Alexander.
Columbia, G. W. A.: F. S. Dibble,
Oraiigcburg, Cf. S.; L. P. Smith. Ander
son. G. T.; ('. D. Stanley, Columbia. G.
Chaplain: M. ?. Dlilllap, llonca Path,
G. Conductor;Benjamin Uusbee, Orecn
villc, C Sentinel. Anderson was se
lected as the place of the next annual
session of the Grand Division, to In;
held on the fourth Wednesday iu July,
I8S7. A resolution was adoped which
contemplates arrangements for putting
an experienced organizer iu the field for
the advancement of the order in this
Slate. At the session Thursday night
the grand officers elected at the morn
ing session were installed in the pre
sence of a number of visiting members
iif subordinate Divisions, alter which
there was a general interchange of
sentiment iu shorl speeches of an un
eotira'_TiiiL: and edifying nature, and the
session was rinsed at about 11 o'clock.
-??-.en IVople l>rowned.
IIioiu.ANi.s. \. I.. .Inly 31. Intel
ligence has been received here that the
schooner yachl Sarah Craig. from Phila
delphia with n pleasure party, upscl near
Hie fI'overiimenl duck at Sandy Hook
during a .-form la-! evening. Six larih -
and a young man wen: drowned. The
body of om: perso.: was recovered. The
other- arc supposed to lie iu the cabin ol
the yacht. Nine men were found cling
iiu? io the rigging alter she capsized and
were rescued by a The names o!
tho.-" iosl were Mi's. T. II. Steven- and
her two daughters. Miss M. Stcvcnsand
Mr-. A-kiti-. two -isiers. Mi? Kmma
ami Miss ll.-s.sic Mcrrifr. Mi- Maud K.
Ilettan and Mr. I la sier ( lark.
Ki?l?l?iiig .i Miser.
!u M'?nlgomer\ county. 'Ja., mi
Wednesday night a party of disgtiisei
mi a rode up to the house <>!'( 'lern. Mose
ly. an old miser. dn?v< the family ink
a" room with revolvers, put Mr. Moscly'?
sale containing SG.ooi) into a wagon an?
drove away with it. The robber- hn<
not been cupturcdat last accounts,
!E S1.50 PER ANNUM.
BURNED AT THE STAKE.
A WOMAN WHO KILLED A CHILD
AND COOKED IT FOR FOOD.
A Portion of the liody Served to it Picnic
Party mid the liest Salted Away Like
Fifth in a Hurrel?A Terrible Vengeance
Visited ??n the Accused.
Savannah, Ga., July 27.?In Tatt
nall County last week a negro named
.Samuel Fnck left his daughter, aged
4 years, with a negress named Mary
Hallenbeek to be cared for during his
absence at bis employment at a turpen
tine still in a neighboring County.
Yesterday Frick returned, and upon de
manding bis child was met with so
many evasive and contradictory replies
as t? arouse a suspicion that some
thing was wrong.
A search of the premises resulted in
finding one-half of the child's body
hidden in a barrel which had originally
contained salt pork. The pickle had
not sufliced to prevent decomposition,
and the father was attracted to the
! barrel by the unnatural stench arising
I from it. Other negroes in the neigh
1 borhood now joined in the search, and
: when the discovery was made there
I were fifteen or twenty blacks about the
,' premises. The enraged father was on
I the point of braining the woman with
i an ax when she fell on her knees and
said she would confess every thing it he
would spare her life. 11 was decided to
bear the story, but. as the sequel prov
ed, she would have fared better bad she
maintained silence.
Two days after the child was placed
in her care a negro picnic was given in
the vicinity, and she was called on to
prepare the dinner. Having no meat,
and knowing she would get no money
unless she served some, she determined
to kill the child and cook its llesh. Be
ing somewhat under the influence of
liquor, the fiendishness of the idea had
no horrors for her. and she deliberately
I brained the child with an :ix. dismeni
i bored and boiled the limbs down iuto a
i stew with a heterogeneous collection of
i vegetables. When it was served the
? negroes remarked upon the peculiarity
of its flavor, but nevertheless ate hcarti
J ly. Several of the negroes now allege
i that they were nauseated by the mess.
I but none ol them were made seriously,
ill.
At the conclusion of the revolting re
cital the fury of the hearers was un
governable, ami it was quickly decided
to burn her alive at the stake. She was
taken into a field and chained to a post
fixed in the ground in the midst of a
pile of inflammable pmc saturated with
kerosene. 'When the match was applied
the ilames leaped high into the air, and
the wretch was, s?on enveloped in
flames. Iu fifteen minutes she fell
among the blazing knots and was burn
ed, to a- crisp, uothingj;emainiug after
m^dixnng*w 1) iah~hc !4?HBri0R9B??g^
fingers.
No attempt has been made to arrest
those implicated in the affair, but an
investigation by the Coroner and Sheriff
of Tattnall County will probably be
begun to-morrow._
"ONLY A FARMER"
I lien Tillmaii lilakcs a Speech lie fore an
Abbeville Concourse.
Abhkvili k, S. C. Aug. 2.?There
j was an immense crowd here to-day to
I listcu to the address of B. 11. Tilhnau.
I the farmer-politician of South Carolina.
I lie classed himself as only a farmer?a
wool bat man and, if necessary, be could
be called, he said, a one-galius num.
lie did not oppose the South Carolina
University, but favored it. What he
desired was an Agricultural College,
distinct from the University, and taught
not iu a city, but in the country. The
necessity- for such a college formed the
main portion of his argument. His ad
dress was very disconnected, but pleas
ed the majority of the farmers present.
He handled the lawyers in a very un
kind manner, and plainly showed he
knew nothing about them as profession
al men. He said that the farmers were
I yearly sinking lower in finance, and that
they must now either change their mode
ol farming or lace starvation, lie
claims that he bad been lied upon and
misrepresented, but that he had within
him nil the devil there was in Kdgelield.
and that be would light out the battle
without any compromise. He would go
down feet foremost and come up on his
shield. The object, be stated, of the
South Carolina University, was to train
ti]) men to make a living at the expense
of the sweat of the brow of somebody
else, lb.: gsivc many reasons why there
should he a separate Agricultural Col
lege'.
Don Ksiler*.
Chicago. July .11. Joseph Hoideek.
a robust-looking Bohemian, was before
a justice this morning, charged with
keeping nine dogs. When asked what
he did with >n many of them, he caused
great commotion by cooly remarking
thai he fattened them in the summer
ami killed and ate them in the winter,
lie added: hat'twenty :i lectle vilt
ago. and veeal fourteenoi'dem. Times
is bad. and mv woman and der kinder
like dem veil." He was ordered in kill
or procure licenses for his dog.-.
said ih'ey would oal seven of them and
go| licenses for the other two.
OU lMMl I ]>.
A blank crop report was senl oiil by
a Cleveland paper l??r the farmers to
Iii! out. -.im! the olle r day ' lie of them
came back with the following written
on the blank side in pencil: "All we've
?_'oi ut this neighborhood is three Wid
ders, two school ma'ms. si patch ot
wheat. Ihc hog cholera, too much rain,
abou! lifh acres of Haters, and a darn
fool who married i cross-eved gal be
cause she own- eighty sheep and a mule,
which the same is me. and no more at
present."?The Independent.