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ESTABLISHED IN ISC A TRAGEDY OF LOVE. SAD STORY OF ONE OF THE SUMMER RESORTS. A Young Girl's Rejected Lover Commits Suicide?His Friend's Villainous Plot for Avenging the Dead?A Beautiful Girl Driven Insane From Grief and Fright. A fctronge, sad story comes from some of t!ic returned Summer wanderers nboul a popular society young lady of a neigh boring' State. It was at a small place in Tennessee, and toward the latter end of the season. Only a few remained of the large number who a few weeks before had made the place lively. Everything was rapidly assuming tfie forlorn Au tumn look of a Summer re sort, and those few were making plans to depart when a young man hit on something which above all thing* is calculated to produce excitement and fuu?spirit rapping*. A man whose appearencc gave one Jie impression that he was not of the ordi nary run of mortals arrived one day. and iu accidental conversation with him this young man discovered he wa9 a ventriloquist, broken down in health, seeking a place of rest. Immediately de vising a plot the voungman told it to the ventriloquist and enjoined secrecy. The plot was that a crowd should he gather ed together to have spirit rappings, and that the ventriloquist, who was to be , hidden in the room and make the rapping sounds and then afterward to speak, throwing his voice in different parts of the room. Everybody gladly entered into the plot except one young lady, a beautiful, accomplished girl, who was always the leader in everything she undertook, ordinarily fearless aud im petuous ami independent, and was popular with everybody. Xot a coun tryman or "woman for mile? around had'nt heard of Miss Hose, and none would have refused to do almost any thing for her. The little boys watched for her in her daily horseback ride, iu order to open tiic gate to let her pass, carrying the rcmcmberancc of her kind words and smile proudly in their minds for many a day. She was from Ala bama, aud had been at this place all Summer. When slic first came, two months previous, she had a subdued, unnatural look, aud had very little to do with anybody except her mother and her younger brother : hut gradually this wore off, and the gay. strong-spirited nature, asserted itself, showing her good, generous qualities, und she became the favorite of all who met with her. The cause oi her depression when she first came was the supposed suicide of a young man who. was generally known io be her lover, and whom every one thought she would marry, considering I """"them so well suited. She was beautiful wealthy and highly educated ; he a bril liant, promising young man, who had risen, at the age of twenty-three, to a distinction rarely attained by one of so few years. Ever since tlicy had met. half a decade before, he had loved her with an ardor known only to a passion ? ate, ambitious nature like his. She. since it is woman's fate to love desper ately only when there is not much love on the other side, returned his affection with u half indifference, and finally, de ciding she would never marry him, broke the engagement between them. His most intimate friend, into whose room he staggered after he had been toid Iiis fate, said the most terrible mental anguish he ever saw depicted on a human face was on the one bowed before him that night, and when the half-crazed lover left him Ids friend swore he would have reveege on the girl who had thus, lie thought, ruthlessly destroyed a noble life's happiness. The rwftct morning, as the young iady started out for a drive, the news which was exciting the whole town reached her; the man whom she had discarded was dead. He had been found that morning hinu across his bed. and in his room a bottle containing morphine. Examina tion showed that lie had taken a large amount. She fell back insensible, and remained so for nearly three days, when she was well enough to travel. Her mother brought her to this quiet resort, and. as told before, with the good effect of apparently restoring the daughter's health and spirits. The young man who first hit on the | idea of having spirits rappings was the friend of the dead lover whom he had vowed to avenge. He had only been in thr little village a few days, and was shocked to sec the joyousncss and light henrtedness of the woman who had brought about so much ruin and irrief. It w:is therefore with a view to carrying out his oath that he proposed his plan. As said before all except this young i lady entered at once into it. She at first1 refused, but afterwards was persuaded I to join the party. While dressing that evening she seemed strangely despond- I cut. and. when asked the cause by her companion, said: "1 don't know what is the matter with me: 1 feel just as 1 felt when I saw (Jcorge leaving the house the uight before that awful day. Some thing is going to happen, certain." In a room in which the lamps were turned clown to a low, ghostly dicker were gathered, a little later, eight or ten gentlemen and ladies, who sat with bands on a large round table, making a circle. After five or ten minutes silence oue bv one began to ask: "Am I a medium 'i If so, rap." Xo response came till this Alabama youna lady was reached, when, in response to her ques tion, a distinct "rap" was heard. Shu turned pale, but went on with the next question : "Will you tell your name r" Again a ??rap" came. She commenced at the beginning of the alphabet, starting over when a knock conic, and turned is pale as a sheet as the word "(Jeorjc" was spelled. She paused a minute, then went on till the whole was spelled. ??Do you wish to talk ?" Once more a willingness was signified. Each one bowed his or her head on the table, then Col 31 Glover jan ]( 'S(; 59. OBAS seemingly now from the ceiling, now from the side of the room, these words came in ghostly, unnatural whispers: ''There is in the number of mortals be t?re me one who has known me in my life : one who is the cause of my death, but for whom I did not leave before I died one thought of blame, and the rea son of my coming to-night is to assure her of this, and let her know [ had .10 intention of committing suicide, but took the morphine to be relieved of my suf fering und to keep from going insane. I know now it is better as it is. tor had i I lived my life would have been a failure after I found her false." The sounds ceased : with seared, pale faces, the hearers looked up and saw j the girl who bad been the medium, lying back in her chair unconscious. They tried to restore her. but in vain. For, days she remained thus limp and un conscious, hovering between life and death. When she recovered she was pronounced hopelessly insane. It was pitiful to hear her calliuir George, telling him to come back, that ?hc did love him and it was untrue when she tol l him she didn't The family took her back home, where j everything that can be done for tier is : done, and where occasionally she shows lights of reason, but only* lor a very! short time. 9 The scoundrel who was responsible ! for the outrage is said to be overcome by remorse, now that he sees the effect of his villainy, and it is said that his j curses on himself were terrible to hear.1 He has gone to a Western State. "Never." said the young lady who told the story lo nil American reporter, "can I or any of those present forget what we saw and the awful {feelings we had that night/'?Nashville American. The Taylor Brothers Angry. Nashville. Texx., September 22.-j Bob und Alf Taylor, the Democrat and j Republican nominees, respectively, for j the Governorship, have had their first difference. 'The reception given Bob in the Democratic County of Williamson was in marked contrast with the recep tion tendered Alf, and made a line of separation between the brothers which perhaps was widened by their speeches. In the course of the discussion the first exhibition of passion was made during j the canvass. It was afterward much regretted by both of the brothers and their friends. When Bob likened Alf to a tomi.it which had bei u riding on the back ol the Republican party, which was refcred to under the similitude of an eagle. Alf showed a little temper. Bob also said that the only reputable thing in Alfs political career was when he once voted for a Democrat. Alt'retort ed that only once had lie voted for a Democrat in preference to a Republican, that was when he voied for his brother^ on personal grounds, and it was in very bad taste as well as a breach of confi dence for that brother to refer to that fact for the purpose of injuring his (AlPs) political prospects. Alf also said that had B )b been nominated first he would uot have accepted the nomination of the Republican party. Bob kept his temper much better than his brother aud did not afterward severely retort. Both very much regretted that any harsh words had been said, and arc now as fraternal and courteous as ever, and re solved to refrain from any personalities hereafter. Death Follow-, a IVllger. Coatesville, Pa., September 21.? The small settlement of KockvlUc had a sensation last night in the village store, when Frank Rali'. aged eighteen, sud denly dropped dead. He was known far and wide as a young man who on sever al occasions had eaten various articles quickly on a wager. Some one in the company of voting men challegcd him to cat a plate of icecream on time. If he I succeeded in swallow ?? the plate of frozen cream iu one and a half minutes he was not to pay fot it. The cream was brought out and the crowd stood around watching the feat. In less than the stipulated time the ice cream had disappeared aud the young man thought he could stiil further lower his rcoord. It was noticed that he looked dazed just after the cream had been swallowed. Thcu he offered to wager that he could eat three large ginger cakes in a minute 1 ami a half. This was promptly taken [ and the cakes brought on. The gour mand squared himself and began eating ! and swallowing. Two cakes quickly disappeared and the the third was nearly disposed of when the cater suddenly] ' stopped, his eyes closed, hands dropped 1 I to his side and he fell to the store lloor ' stone dead. Hi- body was carried home ; i from where be bad come hut a Imlfbottrl I before in the best <>t health. -?? soiiuii (til t it to Death Middletowx, Coxx., September [21.?Great excitement reigns atPort j laud, a town located one mile from tili? i place, over the circumstances attending 1 the recent death of a lady there. Un I Thursday. September John Golf, a ! notorious character of that place, made I jan assault on Mrs. William Shcppard. Golf was arrested ami brought before ?Justice Ingersoll and lined 81 on for the assault. Sirs. Golf, who was au uiiusu-! ally healthy and robust lady, was heart broken over the crime of her husband, i The mental agony which she sutlcred was intense, and was soon followed by \ physical suilcrilig. She was unable to : take nourishment, aud last Friday she 1 died from grief. The physicians say there can be 110 doubt about the cans* of her death. The, sad circumstance naturally excites much comment throughout the town. Earthquake Shock* in Iowa. Feohia. III.. September 24.?A dis-1 patch ii'om kVtuiictd, Iowa, asserts thai live distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at that place ar about 11 o'clock last night. No specific damage was done, bill considerable alarm was felt. Fresh Mackicl at Peter Brunsons. GEBURG, S. C, THI7ILC THE CENTRE OF THE SHAKE. Sonic Speculations us to tlie Direction of the Kurth Waves. There is a very wide divergence of opinion in Summerville at the present time as to the direction from which the muttering* oi the earthquake thunder have come for the past twenty-live nays. The subject is very much discussed, now that they are no longer dreaded its intimations of shocks to come, and is only next in importance to the question as to who shall be the next member of the House oflieprcsenlutivcs from Sum merville. There is a very general belie! in the town that Summerville is very near the centre of the disturbance. This opluion is the result of the fact that the first shock was feit at Summerville at half-past 8 o' -lock on the Friday morn ing preceding the 31st of August; aud also from the fact that numerous shocks and detonations felt and heard in Sum merville are not felt in Charleston ami, elsewhere. A tiny or two ago a Repor ter for The News and Courier got the opinion of- a .number of gentlemen in Summerville as to the direction of the shocks, and nearly all of them who had paid intelligent attention to the matter declared that the sounds, which were ac companied by shocks, and those not so followed, were from the northeast. Dr. II. C. Gucrin said that all the. shocks, except the first one on Friday morning, were from Hint direction. The prelimi nary shock, he was positive, came from a point a little to the. west of north. He paid particular attention lo this first shock, aud is positive that it was accom panied by a "whizzing sound." high up in the air, which pretty well marked out the line of the subterranean motion. Dr. Gucrm noticed immediately after this shock that his fence on Main street.' which runs X. 310 F., had been pushed forward and had recoile 1. leaving a cre vice to ind: dc the direction and extent to which it had been thrust out. This perhaps, was tiic only effect of the first shock noticed in Summerville. 0:i the following morning Dr. Gucrin was up at 3 o'clock, and was in position to notice intelligently the next shock, which occured on that morning at 4.45 o'clock, and which was also felt in Char leston at the same hour. The point from which the Saturday shock emana ted was from the northeast, and from that direction, with slight variations, the sounds have, come ever s'nee. There are. of courc, plenty of observers who locate the sounds at nearly every point of the compass. There is. however, one thing very strange ahmt the northeast point as the origin of the shocks. There have come to Summerville huudreds of people from St, Paul's Parish, sooth ami west of Summerville., aud they in great proportion say that thcsIoimcls.cTralBi'^a, them at home from a point still more southerly and westwardly, or from the direction of the coast. There is uo doubt about one thing, aud that is if the effects of the earthquake may be taken to indi cate the location of the centre of dis turbance, that this centre should be at a point west of the South Corollna Rail way track and between Summerville and the Ten-mile Hill. The country along tliis line, and especially near Lildsou's Road, is literally torn up with fissures, and some of them of remarkable length. The conclusion is not a good one that the centre of disturbance must be in that neighborhood. The nature of the soil there and its sandy, yielding nature al lowed <'i force to crop out. which would have been repressed, as it was at other places, by firmer and better packed strata of earth.?News and Courier. Disastrous Kuilroml Accident. A special from Silver Creek. N. Y.. says: A serious accident occurred this morning on the Nicki?? Plate railroad near this place. The west bound ex pros ran into an excursion traiu from Erie. Twelve persons are reported killed and fourteen wounded. The acci dent seems to have becu caused by a misunderstanding of telepraphiu orders. The collision was between a Niagara Falls excursion train on the Nickle Plate road from Erie, under the management of J. W. Butler, excursion agent, and a local freight train. It occurred in a curve of the cut just east of Silver Creek. X. Y. Doth engineers and firemen saved themselves by jumping. The ex cursion train consisted of one baggage car. one smoker aud eleven coaches. Only those iu the smoker were hurl. ;L being completely telescoped by the bag gage car. Only a partial list of the killed call be made at present. Thirteen are dea '. and two of I he bodies are un reeonnizable. All of the killed and in jured are from Erie, ur places in its viuiuit.v in Western Pennsylvania ami New York. Thirty are injured?nearly even one seriously. Lightning's Wild Work. LIMA. <>.. September 23.?This morning, at 7 o'clock, this eitv was startled by a terrific clap of. tirmder. In a few moments black clouds of smoke were seen rolling up from one of the oil wells on the Brotherton hind. The lire at once communicated with a tank, and :n a few minutes all was on fire. AI the same time the gas in a lank, three hundred yards west, ignited. The wells, all the machinery, the tanks and about 2.400 barrels oil, were consumed. At 1 o'clock a derrick ai the gas works oil well was struck, con suming the entire structure, machinery and tanks, and 1,200 barrels of oil. About that time high columns of black smoke were seen southeast from the city. Five wells are reported struck by lightning and destroyed. The thunder and lightniu!! have exceeded anything of the kiud known here. Got vour pictures framed at Jos. Eros' Ba/.aar. from the cheapest lo Lhe most gorgeous plush and bronze. Albuins from 15 cents to 15 dollars, Wagons. Bicycles, Baby Carriages Dolls, Toys, no other place iti Orange burg has the variety ami sells at prices such goods, like ai Eros*. ?DAlV SEFTEMI3ER 30, \ mmui most foui m THE K?UNG OF MRS. DAVIS, OF ANDERSON, BY HER HUSBAND. T% -1 A IX'fcnefcleKM Woman Shot Dead In the Mldflt A her children?A Hamming Taleot^Kiel Wrong, Culminating hi a lieiKllfBcrime. Anderson, S. C. September ?11.? Early Saturday morning Jasper Davis brutally.murdered bis wife. The scene, of the tragedy is near Slabtown. seven teen miles north of Auderson. and not near Pjercelown. as reported in the telegrangbf Saturday.' Davis aud his .wife have not lived inj i harmony for several years.. About two \ years ./go .they separated, the wile keep- \ \ ing the five children and supporting I them by the sweat of her brow. During ; the time they have been apart Davis 1 j has made repeated efforts to induce his ! , wife to live with him. On account of j his worthless character, indolent habits and uaift ill-treatment of her and her ! children the plucky little woman obstin ately, refused to Jive with him again I under auy circumstances. In his cu | treaties Davis has persisted withcharac ; terislie doggeduces. Finding all his ef i forts in this direction futile, he has j recently several times threatened to ' lake, her life. Kuowing the man so well, and fear j mg lest he might execute his threat J under the cover of darkness, the detenu I iued and praiseworthy woman has for , some time oast, as a precautionary mea ! sure, been spending the nights at her ! brother's, near whose house she lived, j Friday uight of last week Davis went to Mr Moore's, with whom Mrs Davis ! was spending the night, as has been her ; custom, (Mr. Moore is the brother of j the deceased.) and reuewed bis pleadings [for her consent to live with him, She ; steadily refused, and some time during j the night the fiendish murderer left the ; house with v.cii-Imd plans for Hie execu tion of liia diabolical threat, i Early Saturday morning the troubled j woman, with her children by her side, j and little dreaming of the terrible liitc I that awaited her. or the fiendish purpose j of the villain that had so sullenly left j her, left her brother's and started for j her home and daily work. They had uot proceeded very far before a clear shot from a well-loaded gun broke the stlllucss of the morning. The poor woman threw up her hands, uttered one shriek, retreated a tew feet and tell to the ground. She was a corpse at the feet of her children. Mr. Stbbire heard the report of the gun, aJjiL^xememberiiiLr -the threat of J)avis. mSks^^?fl^voni^ He ran to ?ter.. lie was too hue. as dead. - Davis had' secreted himself in the woods by the roadside and fired the fatal shot without a moment's warning to his ? iunoccn. victim. He used a double-barrelled shotgun. It was loaded with squirrel shot Tim shot took effect in the face and .'.de of the head, one entering the j eye and penetrating the brain. Before the arrival of Coroner Nance, j Trial Justice W. J. Sitton, held an m ! quest over the dead body, and the jury I rendered a verdict in accordance with the ? above facts. The gun the murderer : used was stolen from Ius brother-in-law. I Mr. Owens. Davis is still at large. ! The shocking tragedy for a time, appar 1 cntly paralyzed the community. The j murderer had time to make, his escape, j but was hotly pursued by a determined ' posse. Late Saturdayafternoon he was at oue time almost surrounded, but under : the cover of night made good Iiis escape ? into an almost impenetrable swamp. The indignation of the entire commuili ty finds its full expression in the deter mined ami unceasing efforts of old and young Lo capture the murderer. Threats of lynching are boldly made. I but it is hoped that the sober second thought ol the ohler cili/eiis will check that spirit, and that the miserable wretch, if caught, may have a fair trial before the Courts of his country. It is stated that Davis was atone time in the Asylum. Jf that is true and he be brought to trial, whatever facts may be developed the public mav be assured that there will not be in Anderson County a repetition ofthc famous Fer guson case in Abbeville. The insanity dodge can't save Davis. The murderer has been captured. CHARLESTON SHAKEN AGAIN. 1 No Damage Done Devond the Falling ol' Loom; I'ta.stitriug. Cll.\i<i.r.sT<>\. S. ('.. September .'7. A slight earthquake shock was felt here at two minutes past ?"> o'clock this after noon, accompanied by a loud rumbling SOUIld. The wave moved from North to South. The shock lasted about two seconds. Houses were shaken percepti bly and a number of persons rushed into the street.-. No damage rt'as done be yond the falling of loose plastering. The same shock was fell at Savannah. du.. SummervlUe, Orangeburg, Cam den. (iraniteville. Hopkins, Kiugsvillc. and Ten Mile Hill. CilAiil.KSToN. September 2s.--A se vere enrthquke shock, accompanied by detonations, was felt here at eight min utes past 1 o'clock this afternoon. It lasted about one and a half seconds. It was from North to South ami shook nearly all the houses in the city, the vi brations being very perceptible in wood en houses. No injury was done to per son or property, but the shock had the effect of making people more nervous. a Shook. IjAKCASTEK, Sept. 28.?Reliable citi zens of Washington Borough, on the Sn?quehanna. in this county, slate that a shock of earthquake was plainly felt there last evening at 7:21 p. m. In several instances the residents ran out of their buildings. The shock has not been reported from any other part of ' the county. 1886. PRIC1 ANOTHER THEORY. Interesting Conclusions of a Scientist Kc gnriling the Earthquake. Touching the Charleston earthquake. The Current of last week prints the fol lowing interesting communication from Professor Herbert Bartlett. ofCliariton. Iowa: ??Just alter the close ol our civil war, and when the South had tacitly consented to accept the situation, [. with a number of others, -was detail ed from the Coast Survey Department for the purpose of making a thorough inspection of the Atlantic coast from the month of the James River to Pcnsa cola. lila. We. found, alter leaving the 1 reefs of Ilatteras. that there were coral deposits lappiug on the granite iu the shape of a mitre joint, and, upon further: investigation, that uearly the entire. J States ol North Carolina, of South Caro lina, the State of Georgia as far as Augusta, and the entire State of Florida were resting on a foundation of coral, which wtis a part of the same immense body that extended as far into the ocean as the Gulf stream and South far below Pcnsacola in the Carribean Sea. This body of coral had an immense sag. the centre of which was about two miles j from the shore. This sag was what I made the deep water of the channel that was marked out for vessels running from 1 ( all Northern ports to Charlestom Port Royal. Savannah, Key West, aud, iu fact, all ports along the Southern States J and islands. The Fast and West ends of this great body wore cither tilted up, or the hotly sprung or bent, and. if bent, the tipper or bowed side was subjected to the terrible strain of the weight of water*as well as of the body itself. Con sulting some short-hand notes made at that time, wc find our impressions cx I pressed there : ??There is every reason [ to believe that this rock (coral) of the bottom of this sag is continually cither I wasting away or sinking lower, and' J consequently deepening the channel, as the measurements made twenty years ago record the depth to be twelve feet less than now; and if this increased deepening continues, a catastophe will occur sometime that will be prolific in the destruction of lile and property." And now, as the reading and scientific people are discussing the great disaster that has overtaken Charleston, and ex pressing their wonder and surprise why a so-called earthquake should have oc curred at that point, where, as thej'say, there is no volcano near, J, as an engi neer and a lover of science, as well as a believer of and in natural law, cannot, sec anything in this occurrence but the natural res'Us that sooner or later j would incvi .bly follow the conditions natu? '?cither the breaking of this for- I mat. or its sudden sinking to a nnich ; greater depth. In cither case, thcTc-l suits would be the same. I am now of J the opinion that it has broken, and at more than one point, as a farther bend ing would have hardly produced such a widespread devastation, while a break would tilt up the West side of the mass, which I am inclined to believe reached as far back as the French Broad River, bending thence Southwest and ending with the West line at the base of the mountains that form the boundary line ! between the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia. From the weight of the body j ! resting upon it. I am inclined to believe that, at the junction ol the Ashley aud Cooper Rivers (which is the situ ofl Charleston) another break or crack oc curred on account of the thinness of the j coral, as the phosphate rock came ! through it at several points. If this should be so. it would account for the destruction of Utc city and consequent loss of life. Let it be borne in mind that this coral deposit, and the islands that compose a part of it, arc composed chielly of carbonate of lime, and have all been formed from lime once contain ed in salution in the waters of the ocean,and which was long since prcciphed ' and deposited where wc find it. I sec notli ing to prevent us trom believing that the j action of the ocean-water could dissolve this lime deposit: when it could no j longer bear the weight placed upon U, it must perforce be sundered in twain, and the natural result would be just j what wc sec. This formation, reaching j farther South after reaching Port Royal I Island, is less cupped or sagged. The ' West side, terminating just at the city of 1 Augusta, was lapped oil the sandy, hillocky portion of the city where the I elite of* the city had their elegant subur ban homes. These sand deposists simply indicate that there had been an j ocean's shore in the days when the earth was young. II the edge ol the coral tilted up at. this point, many of the hilly I undulations of this part of the city would disappear, sis they are Ibnnetl like 1 wrinkles from being pushed by the coral, and this part ol the city would bo much leveler than formerly. I do not know whether Ibis ha< really been (he case. I was out <d" the reach of newspapers at the time, and so do not know how the country far removed from Charleston j fared. Nor have L seen any scientist's explanation of the event." Shooting ?COlie Negro l>.v Another. Bauxweli. C. II.. September 21.? On Saturday afternoon last-lohn Ryans, II. Brown and another man. all colored, were going along a roa 1 about a mile and a half from the village talking and apparently playing, when suddenly Brown ran ahead a short piece, drew a pistol, tired one. .shot into a swamp, then turned and tired baek at his com rades, one of the. bullets taking effect in the side oi' Ryaus. lroin which he died Sunday afternoon. An inquest was held over the body yesterday and a ver dict found in accordance with above facts. Brown has been lodged in jail to he tried for murder at the next Court. He claims (hat the killiiu: was an ac cident, that he had no thought of killing his comrade. Cornelson's new and beautiful goods are in and cheap. EXPIATING HIS CRIME. PAYS THE DEATH PENALTY FOR A HORRIBLE MURDER. A History ofthr Terrible Crime Commit ted in Baldwin Cow lily, Ga., I?y Frank IIum|iliriCH| in March La.-t?He Confes ses His (iuilt to the SherifT. Mji.ledgevillk. Sept. 24.?On the evening of March 5th last, one ol the most brutal aud hellish murders ever chronicled in the history of crime, was committed in Baldwin county near this cit\. On the evening ill question, about sdudowo. Frank Humphreys was at his brother's. Elijah Humphreys', and under the influence of whiskey. Ella, the daughter of Elijah, was to go to her uncle Frank's, distant about three miles. She objected to going, as Frank was drinking and had his shot gun with him. Miss Carrie Rains, visiting at Elijah Humphreys', volunteered to go with Ella. The three started, and the next thing heard of them was Frank Hum phreys coming home next morning and stating that they had been attacked by a party of four masked men (be was bruised up a little and his clothes were cut in various places.) aud that they knocked him Insensible and he was .afraid they had- killed the girls. A I search :ioon found the two young ladies. They were killed about half way be tween the two Humphreys' homesteads. Ella Humphreys was shot through the ueck and Carrie Rams was shot through the heart?both shots causing Instant death. They were dragged some 200 I yards from the road and left lying side j by side. All night long the dead lay by ! tiie dead, without covering or shroud, with Unclosed eyes rellccting back the ! stars, ;hc only vigil keepers they had. I The evidence showed that both barrels I of F rank Humphreys' gun had been dis ! charged, aud that all the injuries which lie had received were inflicted by him I self, so as to mislead The evidence I further showed that the girls had been I outraged. It Is evident that lie (Frank Humphreys) made improper advances to them, and, failing, shot both of them - to prevent his exposure and to accomp lish his purpose. A close examination of the bodies of Miss Rains and Miss Humphreys revealed that some of the wads from the murderer's gun adhered to the Hush. They were compared with others Lund iu'IIuniphreys's house, and were discovered to bear a close re semblance to liiem. They were evi dently home-made. They fitted Hum phreys' gun. Further investigation at the scone of the murders suggested that Miss Rains was killed first, and that afterwards a desperate struggle took place between Humphreys, and Miss Humphreys. It i3 believed that the murderer spent the greater part ot the night at the scene, of his horrible double crime. Humphreys was immediately arrested and lodged in jail at Millodge ville. but when it was generally known that he was the murderer threats of lynching were freely made, and, in fact, it was decided to lynch him on the night following the murder. To prevent that Sheriff Enns immediately aud secretly removed him to the Macon jail lo await bis trial, which took place at the Au gust term of Baldwin Superior Court, aud resulted m his conviction. He was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, the 24Lh of September, and to-day expiated his crime on the scaffold. He made, no statement to-day, but confessed his guill to the Sheriff last night. I A SNARE FOR YOUNG GIRLS. I Arrest of u Woman in Canada for a Crime Against Society. Ottawa. Ost., September 22.?For j some months past the weekly country j papers throughout the province of (Quebec, both French anil English, have ' contained the following notice: "Two j girls, from 17 to 23 years of age. must be good looking and intelligent, to ac company an elderly lady on a tour : through the Slates. Address with pho ! lograph, in own handwriting. Mrs. ' Louis." The place was iiivcn as Montreal, Quebec; Three Rivers or I Shorhrookc. the Montreal address being 1 a notorious house, while at Quebec it was an equally disreputable resort. The . attention of the authorities being called j lo liie matter, they have been investi ; gating and lind that Mi's. Louis is but a procuress acting for New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Chicago. Some lime ago a warrant tor her arrest was issued, and last night she was arrested at Point Levis. Quebec. Upon being taken into custody she broke down and confessed the winde plot. She said she was engaged by a former Keeper of the Buckingham saloon in Chicago and was paid by him for these girls. For every one thai she imported he paid her from $20 to s:;.*>, as well as what expense in the way of hotel bills and railway fare she hail pa'd out in getling iheiu across the line, she gave I be names and ad dresses of over loll girls whom she had enticed awav since .January last. She hail been in the business for nearly two years, but had found the last ten months the most successful. She oU'crcd to leave Canada for England il permitted, bill the authorities will prosecute her to the fullest cxteiil of the law. Iiunierrtioii Extraordinary. Savannah. September 2o\?A vast concourse of people attended the bap tismal services at the 0-scec'lcC Canal this morning. The Ilov. Mr. Houston, of the Brvau Street Colored Baptist Church, with the assistance of one other minister and two deacons, immersed one hundred and thirty-eight convents in less than fifty minutes, the average time being twenty second.- to ?acli sub ject. T. C. Hubbell will be supplied with the finest Fruit and Candies in the market for the holidays. Call and see for yourself.