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ESTABLISHED IN 18< ALIVE IX HIS COFFIN. THE ASTONISHING EXPERIENCE OF GEORGE WELLINGTON. He Narrowly K scapes Being BnHed Alive ?Could Hear Bnt Could Not Talk?The Story as Told l>y IIIiiiKelf After Being Keitcued. On the evening of June IS. 18SG, George Wellington, an Indiana farmer, had a gathering of friends at his house. He was a man forty-two years of age, aud of robust health, and on this even ing it was noticed that lie was in partic ularly good spirits. After the guests had departed he remarked to his wife that he felt more like singmg and danc ing than goiug to bed. They retired about half-past 11 o'clock, and she was asleep before midnight. * 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 bad beeu dead three hours when the wife awoke. The undertaker came aud prepared the body for burial. It was remarked that the corpse retained a life-like appearance, and that none 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 deflth had not really come to him, and the funeral was put two days ahead. During the inter val the corpse, was constantly watched for sigus of returning animation, but nothing occured to delay the funeral ar rangements. The burial was to lake place iu a coun try graveyard, and most ol tiie vehicles gathered at the house belonged to farm ers. The usual ceremonies look place over the dead, and tue coflin was brought out and placed in the hearse. U bile the procession was forming, a team attached to an empty wagon came down the mad, running awav. The wagon collided with the hearse, and the latter vehicle was I upset and the coflin filing out. Four or five men ran to picked it up, but before a baud had touched it a voice was heard, saying: "For God's sake let mc out of this!" The people at lirst moved back in af fright, but as the voice continued to ad dress them the cotlin was righted and 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 and sat down id jt chair. In half an hour he had his clothes on aud was moving around amo'n?; the amazed neoplf? to whom be ? related this experience: ??1 did not fall asleep until some lime ' alter midnight. When I awoke the j clock was striking live. J made a move to get out of bed. but to my great amazement. I could stir neither hand nor foot. 1 had the full use of my ears, I but I could not open my eyes. I argued at lirst that I was not yet wide awake, but when my wife shook mc and called mc by unmc,*and I could not respond by oven moving an eyelid, I became satis lied 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 mc down, but I could not bend a toe or crook a linger. However, it was only after the doctOJ j bad pronouued mc dead that I felt any ' alarm. Up to that time it had seemed j to mc that 1 could soon manage to get rid of the weight. Had a pistol 'been lircd 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 1' All of a sudden this query flushed across my brain, and I was troubled more than I can tell you. As I had never died be- j fore, how was I to know the sensations*. Could the dead hoar and think't Was the mind of a corpse in active operation-. | It was a problem I could not solve. ??Notaword was spoken near me which ! I did not catch and fully understand, j There was a great deal of weeping, and ; I failed to satisfy myself as to the cause.; 1 bad died, but it did not seem as if this ' was asuflieicnt excuse. When mv wife ben! over the coffin and sobbed and grieved, and refused to be comforted, I tlid not feel bad with her. On the con trary, her action surprised me. When the two other doctors pronounced mc lead I made up my mind that 1 was dead and that the cud had come. 1 had been taught to believe that Ihc spirit of the dead ascended to heaven, and that the dead were dead m mind as well as body. It was a oa.-e deception. 1 tell indig nant Ilia! i; was so. "As an instance of the ucutcness ol my hearing, let me explain that alter l tfas placed iu the cHiii tin1 receptacle was moved over to an open window in lln parlor, where it wa- supported on -tfkV h< m -. Two of my neighbor-: lock seals op a wagon box iu the barnyard, iitilv twn hundred b i t awav. ami lor an hour c<uivor>cd ofnn death in ordi nary lorn - o| voive. I did lu'l miss otic ?dm le word ol llu conversation. a> both alb rvt ards admitted. I could hear evcrv Lick of the kitchen clock and much of ;!m conversation of lhe women iti the up-tnirs r??oms. On the uighi previous '.. the Itun-ral. aboul hnlf-pi:<( l" o'clock, and while the hv?i men sitting up with [hecorpM were reading, i laardtwoincii ?limb th< lemv inb* the barnyard. cru? tin yard and enter the barn. ?After a ev. minutes the) came out and 1 heard ?hi jiugh of something carried h\ ..sa id lite pair, i could not mal > out what .v:.- going on, but learned afterward, i'he two :,...n stole a horse from a lie id qij.oshc in) bam. au.l they entered my promise? in search of a bridle. ??i heard I he jieople assemble for the funeral, and as I caught a word from (JO. Col M Glover Jau 1. qv{ this one or that one I identified them by name to myselt. I listened closely to the sermon, but when the minister spoke of mc 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 same fear of j being hurt that any live man does. I 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 j collision came my eyes opened and my j speech was restored, and from that mo J ment I was all right."?Xew York Sun. ALABAMA'S NEW PROPHET. i Worv.hiplni; -.a the feel of a Child Ketitrn ed from Heaven Vkkxo.v. Aj.a.. July 2s.?Early in j the spring Mollic Penuiugton, a dnught ! er of George Panington, a farmer,*was j taken violently ill. Physicians pro nounced her case hydrophobia. She i presented every symptom of rabies, at tempting to bite those around her. She soon rallied from this conditon and lay in bed in a comatose condition for three J days. On the morning of the third she I 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 tier eves and jumped nimbly from the bed. She as j sorts that she died and went to heaven ! where God cured her and sent her back J to the world to proclaim bis word. Tbc ; j news spread rapidly over the Bed Iliils j I until the whole country was wild with I excitement, and crowds began flocking i I around to hear and see her. A World I I correspondent who went to see her yes-1 I terday found her expounding Scripture : intelligently, and with a quickness that, was surprising. She described her transition from earth to heaven, and her 1 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 j neighborhood. Two sick children, who 1 had bullied the skill of physicians, were carried to her, and simply rubbing her i hands upon them they were cured. She ; ! asserts that she holds converse with j Ci'od daily. The girl is only thirteen years old and docs not know her letters.! The Key. Mr. Springfield, who dc-' clarcs that she never heard but three sermons in her life, says that he has j questioned her upon passages in the Bible which were inexplicable to him, nud'She has answered them satisfactori ly. Her parents arc poorest.of farmers and very illiterate. Men of sdnmg minds declare that she has inspired them out' others j'ock ..ion:-' her eager to j catch any word that she may'ntteTP" Horscwlo u|n-?i Uj <?.. ??" APetroha, Uutlei cooou. Pa., spec ial says : a very sensational horsewhip ping occurred at Millerstown about s o'clock last eveuing, in which Peter A. Kattigan, editor and proprietor of the Herald, and also the present postmaster, figured as the victim. Battigan, under the head of Butler items, has been re- j hVcting quite severely on the members , of the W omens Christian Temperance j Union, and those who arc identified I .with the prohibition or temperance clc- j ment in this county. Last week seven coach loads pf the temperance people, j among whom were some prominent and ; inllucntial citizens, visited Kocstcr's' park, at Slippery Kock, 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 Battigaii's production. The ladies were particularly selected as targets and yes-' terday evening, just prior to the hour of j closing the postolliee, twelve or fifteen ' women, armed with whips, planted i themselves near the entrance and await-1 cd their victim's appearance. As soon as Battigan stepped outside of the door. they began belaboring him, and only desisted through exhaustion. Battigan quietly stood it and offered no resistance. The friends of Battigan claim thai the women were instigated by their hus bands and masculine friends. ((lowing 111> u Church. Pivttsvii.i.k, Pa., July :*!.?At :;.l"> o'clock ibis morning a tremendous ex plosion, the shock of which was distinct' ly fell in the rity, occurred a I St. (lair, two miles distant. Dynamite bad been placed under the IlnplNl ( hurch and exploded, wrecking i he building and en tailing damage io the aniotiiil of sev eral hundred thousand dollars. The perpetrators of the outrage are unknown, but the act is universally regard* il as a ,o til! of the crusade ol ll: ? Law am! Order Society, through whose eiiorts Daniel Walter, an old and respected citizen was reo idly imprisoned for a technical violation of the liotti r law. ami who died in a short t'nm . his death being generally attributed to Ins iuipri.-onnu m. Sonic >ix months ago [he stove of an active memberoi ;!;:->or:e!\ wn* burned, and the exeili meni and bad blood ocen sicned by thai demons-! rat ion has been raised to fever heal ; \ siibseqf." til events resulting iu Ibis mornings uidrage. ???he W:ige> ..| --i:i. Mai ox. JnB Mrs. j? miie Striim li llow. a young while woman aged 'Jo. illemptcd siiieidi morning, a! !:t ?'clock, al her !:.-':n- "U Wbar; sir.-et. iu Ibis city. b\ taking iwi nsy-live :ra:u> ol morphine. She i- -iiii living. ??? '.ill i.o hope i"i her recovery. She has ceil >eparated from ?:? bt.'sbam! for ev. ii luoiii!.-. ami ha* i ? ? u !:'. ing in utittiat' relation? wiih a young Hier hin i In re. uaim ?! .'ana s M? -ris. ivhosc i ce. iij coti'iiuci toward her.il Is Upposcd. iiilllleticed hel k? eoiiiinii ila ?<?.!. She i as made no statement of IICS ft AKCrEBUKG, S. C, Till SAVED BY A HACK DRIVER. A -FAIR YOUNG ORPHAN RESCUED FROM A LIFE OF SIN. Her Kscape from41 New Orleans Convent ?Flight ti? New fork mill Desperate I>?t termltiation?Disgusted with Her Guar dian, Wealthy by Inheritance, but a Fugitive in the Metropolis?Her Own Story. .lohn Conlin is 11 Imckmau by calling but a nobleman by nature. lie has seen considerable ol* both the dark and sunny sides of life since he first handled the ribbons, sonic twcutv.odd years ago, but upon Tuesday. July 2U, he had an ex perience which, with him, will form an epoch in bis career. He had left his home iu Jersey early in the morning in question and crossed over the New York side to catch what stray passengers he could. Presently a pretty girl of seven teen or thereabouts, of distinguished mien and the sweet air of innocence, approached him at the foot of Des bros'iS street and asked him vocation, lie informed her that he was :i backman. This seemed to relieve the fair inquirer of some doubt she seemed to entertain, and, with much diffidence and many blushes, she asked him to take her to one of the many gilded palaces of sin uptown. The honest fellow stood transfixed. Many requests of a similar nature had been made to him before, but his keen eye told him that this was no ordinary case, and that the girl who stood before him had not vet fallen. As soon as lie recovered from bis as tonishment he asked her why she wished to enter upon such a life. She was reticent at first, but by adroit manage ment be learned that, she bad run away Irom a convent in New Orleans the Sun 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 New Orleans, died eight years ago. Her mother, too. was dead, ami 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 ^rench quarter at Xew Orleans. There, she said, she bad been virtually imprisoned, deprived of all social enjoyment and even debarred from seeing i'riends of earlier days. This state of thiugs 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 iu Potter's Field. The backman thought of his own hap py family across the river, of his daugh ter?the pride of bis life?just buridhjj save iho girl, with or without hercoi,-, sent. First he endeavored to dissuade) her. but as she proved obdurate he placed her in his hack, and after giving I some instructions to two cl' his employ ees he drove off with the young lady and placed her in charge of a lady he knew iu the upper part of the city. The lady is a Samaritan, noted for her good deeds in the saving of misguided young women. The hnckman 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 bad taken she acquiesced, and is now in sale 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 brew .family of New Orleans. Her name was May Marshall, and her father, the late Thomas II. Marshall, of the well known dry goods firm of Marshall Kerns. He, she said, was a descend ant of the famous Tom Marshall of Kentucky, and very proud he was of his descent. Iiis mother was a Jewess and bis father an American, ller 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 If. Kerns, her father's partner ill buisness. who was made sole executor of his will'and guardian ol the daughter. Four years later she met for (he first lime I.?mis Feibleman, a youth eighteen year- of age, the son of Leo Feibleman. the head of a well known dry-goods firm in New Orleans. The young couple loved each other, and her guardian, tearing that Iiis ward would tet with thai promptness characteristic In I he Southern temperament and marry young Feihlemnu. packed her o|f to the ?onveni.. lie was opposed i>< the union because ol the cxtiv ne yoiuh of the twain, and because Voting Ft iblemail did no I occup\ as high a social i ?< >.-it I? >n as his ward." , Thu young cotipi?: remained devoted to each other for two years, exchanging low epistles whenever opportunity >iiVn tl and argils iii-- vigilance of Jn: enliven- authorities relaxt d fhe leas! bit. AI the expiration of thai lime Fielcmau was sen; !o ShrcYcport. I .a.. <\ his lathee. ia open a branch -tore iu bat place. Then tie \oiuig lnd\ be fall to lind lilt- ill ihr con-1 hi irksome, lilt! its In- - un. mliiniblr. She '" ?aim: love-sick, homc?ie.;. wretchedly llihapp;. and <h icrniiui I |o dee from In- ?_?!?<'d Sister-, s-is V '.]?..- neern orier. induced him t" u in ?? diamond ?ing lor .-'.:. ,,! which he rt taint >! - I *? mil leavi Ihc greai gateway leading otil ?Vi liiii:*. .lul; 17. when the students o! he convent wouM m the chapel al ?rayer?. >!.- '".'slipped away from i< r c< mrades. gaining tl.- playground Hid rsvnpvd through ihe open ?nie. She hen vvt ui din cl !<? the ilcjiot of the /.ishvilie and |>ussvillc road and JBSDAY, A UG VST ?, 1 bocghl a ticket to Xcw York for ?32. having thus ?2$ left. Her trunk had been sent on by her sable accomplice, and she look the S P. M. tram for Xcw York, arriving here at 0 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 Xcw Orleans', where she says she will he 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 she would seek em ployment here in the city before taking thai step, let her inheritance go where it may. There can be no doubt that Miss Marshall has a fortune of her own, as ihc lirm. of which her father was the head, was one of the wealthiest in the South and at the time oi 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 beeu 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 tin Italian ,hue, which form a strong contrast to her bright, (dear complexion, and light, chestnut hair. When lighted up by interest, in any subject under discussion, j they become positively beautiful. A j modest, half-timid air, which has the I charm of innocence about if. makes up the tout ensemble of Miss Marshall's appearance. With this picture before the eye, how much greater should be the meed of praise awarded to honest .lohn Uonlin for his manly, noble action?all the more noble by reason of its rarity? in saving Ibis lovely creature fnyii per dition.?Xcw York W orb I. luYNCHERS AFTER A~BRIDEGROOM. Shocking Account of the Marriage of a Ohl Man tu a Seven-Year-old Child. A dispatch from CIreccnsburg, Ky., gives the following account of a most remarkable marriage in that State re cently: 'The child bride was brought to tof'n last night, and lodged at Toomcy's Hotel. This morning she was taken before the grand jury, liefere that body fibt appeared abashed, never having faced so many men before. Her testi mony was not of any importance, and her answers were altogether childish. Deputy Coroner Ecutou was sent for her, and found her in Hart County, near C'uimer, where she had been taken by ohfjihan Bishop. The old scoundrel JTjSj inkier! her could not be found, bill by physicians and they found that one had been undoubtedly tampered with. To the doctors the child admitted the attempted approaches ol 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 liftccn days old, for the most fiendish purposes. Kella 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 inches in height. Intense excitement was created when the facts in the case were learned, and had Bishop been in reach no doubt he would have been speedily bung. None of his acquaintances or friends can offer any palliating circumstances for his strange freak. Not even insanity or second childhood is entertained. ? ru mor reached hero to-day that a crowd from the Kussel I Creek country was on old Bishop's track, and if overtaken bis trial will be very speedy. An indictment has been issued against him. David Judd. the old preacher who solemnized the rites of matrimony, was brought ill on a bench warrant lo-mghl, and will testify before the grand jury to-morrow. He is a very old man. and very feeble. He 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 the law is twelvemonths in jail and s|.(Hi(i line in such eases. An attempt will be made to place, the unfortunate little girl in an orphan asylum. Benlon found Ihc record of her birth, and her age. as -riving above, is entirely correct. No) t<> Ik- Outdone. Tim; colored population of Uarnwell County do not propose t-> he outdone by the white folks in any thing, as the bil lowing from the Uarnwell People will show. No doubl the colored woman look her cue from Miss Councllv: "There was -"tue excitement al St. I'nu!'- i hureh. colored. Bod ?>ai: town ship. Sunday. While Kev. .lordou Whit(akvr wa.? preaching i!.?- funeral sermon of mich .lohiinie llarh'.y. an old color* il man. w ho died a month <>v - > ?j -o. i.ihe I .'? rinan entered the church. M ith bain d ;:. her hearl. murder in hi r eve and a pi; I ?' in hi ;' baud, and began :?.!;? ullotia*:' i ..;? ??>?. 1 woman. Palillie ;.. r purpose heim: t" kill her. Be fore aiiv harm was doix Kdie i leninm'; brothi r khoeked her down vvlih a board, placed bei in a wagon and ban!.-.I In i away. Parson Whitnkcr eoiitiiuied the scrvii ? < and :??"!. up his invariable ol leclion." \ ??um. Morill. M?u \ i Wasiiin iox. N. II.. Atigu-I ...... A :?: -nbn.-i rtind. !>Io.;iiig .:? :!:? rate of -; ..t\ miles an hour, .set in at uighi' lall '.e.sierdnv. Snow began to fallal J..:-- ibis morning, and ai ',.::u ihr gr-'iuii was . ov? :?-.! to t\v depth of or.e am om-half inches. The wind i? Muwiii < ightv ?:::?- an hour, and Ihc window; ate !hi.k!' covered with fiosi. Tin ihtrmoiiu ier yesterday registered - ?"> a the valley, bul now marks 2- h< n . Now is the time to Advertise. s\S<>. PUIC SHOWERS OF STONES. A Kentucky Hamlet Agitated Over the Strange Matter. Lorisvti.i.u, Kv.. July 28.?The in habitants ofMimdy's Landing, on the Kentucky liiver. Woodford County, arc t considerably worked up over showers . of stones which have desccuded iu their ; midst. Several persons have been se verely hurt and roofs of houses made to rattle like musketry. The scene and location of these mysterious visitations are at and near the house of Mrs. Lucre ; tia Mundy. widow of Lowry Mundy, who died from the effects of poison adminis ! tered, as charged, by his wife and Dr. \ Davis, the latter now serving a life sen ? tence in the penitcniury for being guilty i of poisoning, and Mrs. Mundy being uu | der indictment as accessory to the mur 1 der. The first notice taken of the fall i mg stones was on Monday last, when ' parties picking blackberries in a patch I some distance from the Mundy mansion I were surprised at the drooping of small stones in then- 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 3Irs. Dr. Davis, when 'about 100 yards from her bouse, was struck severely on the. arm by a stone i from some unknown direction. Miss ? Annie Mundy was also hurl, and very ; severely, by a deccuding stone upon her ! bead. Miss Eva Mundy the next day I was hit and slightly hurt. A" negro, j Henry, was struck and knocked over a t cliff, which came near ending his career. Saturday and Sunday several negroes j were struck, one or two of them being ! severely in jured. The people of the ; neighborhood of course arc stirred up. ; Some think it the work of some mali cious individual oi individuals who are ' creating the sensation. Others think it ' of the supernatural order. Hut whether > from natural or unnatural causes all arc of the opinion that it is a very strange ; affair. Several houses besides the Davis j Mundy mansion have been struck and i the stones descend perpendicularly ami j net horizontally as if thrown hy the i hand of an individual. EATING HUMAN BODIES. I Terrible Tales of Suffering in Labrador ?Twenty Itodiex Buten. IJoston, July 30.?A St. John's, X.. i F. special to the Advertiser says : Her I genatis Ter. one one of the Esquimaux | who arrived here on the Xaney Barrett ; from Okkok, Labrador, says that out of ' the population of that settlement of 130. j not a soul remains. Early in March j the food gave out. every drop of oil and ; every bit of seal skin was utilized, and at rare intervals a hear was killed, but finally the supplies were quite exhausted. On June .'1 they bad eaten nothing for Mnv^. and goaded by hunger they fflPw??? ^JcflSqtKft of, several whites J by the cold. "When one of iHeTr*j?W" parly died the body was cut open, ihe entrails taken oul and the remainder was frozen up lor use. From this food terrible dysentery sei in among the sur vivors, and on July I there were but sixteen persons left alive, the bodies of over twenty having been eaten. 'The sixteen survivors skirted down the coast iu a pledge drawn by four dogs, the only living creatitrers left them, their ponies being sacrificed to appease their hunger long before. When about "2-1 miles from Cape Mugford a heavy snow storm set ill. While the party were endeavoring to lind their way they were attacked by while bears to the number of twenty live or thirty which killed all ot the par ly but Iwo. the survivors being among the number at Cape Mugford. The Grand Division Sen-, of Temperance, This body asscml led at Columbia last week, all the grand officers being in their places. Aftir the transaction of matters pertaining to the private business of the ordc:*, an election ol officers for the ensuing term was held, resulting as follows:' C. K. 11. Dray ton. Aikcu. ti. W. I'.: John Alexander. Columbia. 0. W. A.: F. S. Dibble. Oraugeburg, <L s.: L. P.Smith, Ander son, fi. T.: ('. D. Stanley. Columbia, ti. Chaplain: M. ?. Ounlap, Honen Path, fi". Conductor; Benjamin Busbcc, fircen vilie. (.'. Sentinel. Anderson was se lected as the place of the next annual session of the (.'rand Division, lobe held on the fourth Wednesday iu July. ISS7. A resolution was adoped which contemplate- arrangements for putting an experienced organizer in the field for the advanccnienl of the order in Ibis Male. Al Ihe session Thursday night the grand otliccrs elected al the morn ing session were installed in the pre sence of a number ol visiting members ?f subordinate Division-, after which there was a general interchange o| i-iitim til in shorl speeches ol an ell ;E $1.50 PER ANKTTM. BURNED AT THE STAKE. A vVOMAN WHO KILLED A CHILD AND COOKED IT FOR FOOD. A Portion iif tin* Hody Served to a Picnic Party and the Uest Sal toil Away Like j rish in a Hurrel?A Terrible Vengeance j Visited on the Accused. I Savannah, Ga., July 27.?In Tatt uall County last week a negro named i Samuel Frick left his daughter, aged 4 years, with a ncgrcss named Mary 'Hallenbeck to be cared lor during his j absence at his employment at a turpeu : tine still in a neighboring County. I Yesterday Frick returned, and upon de I nianding bis child was met with so j many evasive, and contradictory replies i as to arouse a suspicion that some J thing was wrong. I A search of the premises resulted in 1 finding one-halt* of the child's body j hidden in a barrel which had originally ! contained salt pork. The pickle had j not sufficed to prevent decomposition, ' and the father was attracted to the ! barrel by the unnatural stench arising (from it. Other negroes m the neigh borhood now joined in the search, and when the discovery was made there ' were fifteen or twenty blacks about the premises. The enraged father was on (the point of braining Ihe woman with an ax when she fell on her knees and said she would confess everything il he I would spare her life. It was decided to ! hear the story, but. as the sequel prov ; cd. she would have fared better had she . maintained silence. ! Two days after the child was placed ; iu her care a negro picnic was given in i the vicinity, and she was called on to prepare the dinner. Having no meat, i and knowing she would get no money j unless she served some, she determined j to kill the child and cook its llesh. Bo ing somewhat under Ihe influence of liquor, the licudishncss of the idea had ? no horrors for her. and she deliberately brained the child with an ax. dismem bered and boiled the limbs down into a stew with a heterogeneous collection of ? vegetables. When it was served the . negroes remarked upon the peculiarity of Its flavor, but nevertheless ate hearti ly. Several of the negroes now allege that they were nauseated by the mess. j but none ol them were made seriously. [ill. At the conclusion of the revolting re I cital the fury of the hearers was un governable, and 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 pine saturated with , kerosene. When the match was applied ' the. flames leaped high into the air, and j the wretch was. soon enveloped in I flames. In fifteen minutes she fell i among the blazing knots aud was burn I ed . to a- crisi). nothing .remaining after "TraT^nTnfT 11 i cl i TiTuTTflW?H?BflfcU?n^ fingers. ! No attempt has been made to arrest those implicated in the affair, butau j investigation by the Coroner and Sherifi' of Tattnall Couuty will probably ho , begun to-morrow. "ONLY A FARMER" Ken Till in an Hake* ? Speech llel'orc an Abbeville Concourse. 1 AlJUKVlbLK, S. C. Aug. 2.?There , was an immense crowd here to-day to listen to the address of D. 1!. Tillnian. the farmer-politician of South Carolina, lie classed himself as only a farmer?a i wool hat man and. it necessary, he could be called, he said, a one-callus num. ; He did not oppose the South Carolina University, but favored it. What he desired was an Agricultural College, ' distinct from the University, and taught : not in a city, but in the country. The necessity- for such a college formed the main portion of his argument, tlis ad dress was very disconnected, but pleas ed the majority of the farmers present. He handled the lawyers hi a very un kind manner, and plainly showed lie knew nothing about them as profession al men. lie said thai the farmers were yearly sinking lower iu finance, and that they must now cither change their mode oi farming or face starvation. He claims thai he had been lied upon and misrepresented, but that he had within him all the devil there was in Fdgclield. and that lie would light out the battle without any compromise, lie would go down feel foremost and conn: up on his shield. The object, he slated, of the South Carolina University, was to train up men to make a living at the expense of the sweat of the brow of somebody else. !!<? gave many reasons why there should he a separate Agricultural Col leg.'. Ii.Kulcrs. Clin .\i:o. .Inly loscph lluldevk. a robust-looking Bohemian, was befbre a iiinticc ibis morning, charged wii: keeping nine d.>?.:-. Wh- n a la d v. aal lie did with so many ih? m. In canst <! grcal coinnioti'iii by ????>!;.' remarking ihal he faltt lied them in the r nmmc! ?nid killt tl ami ate then: in ihn winter. Ii.- added: ??! Iiaf twenty a [roths vilt ago. ami v< eai fourteen of dem. Times i- bad. am! mv woman and d. r kinder hke d. n. veil/' lit was ordered b. kill ?: procure license'* for his dog-. IU' aitl !!.'< y would < at -even of them am! >el licenses for the olher two. II-., Ill-ll l |l. A blank crop r. porl was -? ui mil by i ("levelanil paper for }In lanners to !'". ...ti!. and !';?? ??;'.?:? day ? ue "! them ?amn back with (':? following written hi !!?. blank -Me in pencil: "All we've :..| m i'.is neighbor!).I i- ihree wid i.. .. ?,.||oo| m i'ms a J- itch ol wheat. I In hog cholera, foo much rain, uboi:: lift ? acr< - of 'tab r>. and a durn f..ol who married a cr?>>--evcd gal bc ::i?.-c she own- eighty -'?<?? panda mule, which tin same '- me. ami no more al nreseui."?Tl'.e Independent.