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V VOL. III, MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER3I188 O 3 GOD'S LIGHT UF" CMFORT. REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE'S SUNDAE SERMON AT THE TABERNACLE. The Seven Stars, the Seven Seals and the .8egen' Thunders-The Best Houses in Azy City Ought to Be the' churches 'htander Bolts as Modiern Refornyers. At the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday Rev. T. 'De Witt Talmage, D. D., in his sermon, gave a running commentary on the twentieth chapter of Revelations concerning the chaining of the old dragon. The sermon was on "Seven in the Bible," and, his text, Gen. v., 22: "God blessed the seventh day." Having spoken of the many times the word ."asven" occurs in the Bible, and each event a wondrous work of God, he said that the numeral seven was a favorite with the Divine mind outside as well as inside the Bible. "When God would make the most in telligent thing on earth, the human countenance," he said, "He fashions it with seven features-the two ears, the two eyes, the two nostrils and the mouth. Yea, our body only lasts seven years, and we gradually shed it for another body after seven years, and so on, for we are, as to our bodies, septennial animals. So the numeral seven ranges through nature and through Revelation. Itis the number of perfection, and so I use it while I speak of the seven candlesticks, the seven stars, the seven seals and the seven thunders. "The seven golden candlesticks were and are the churches. Mark you, the churches never were, and never can be, candles. They are only candlesticks. They are not the light, but they are to hold the light. A room in the night might have in it 500 candlesticks, and yet you could not see your hand before your face. The only use of a candlestick, and the only use of a church, is to hold up the light. You see it is a dark world, the night of sin, the night of trouble, the night of superstition, the night of pese cution, the night of poverty, the night of sickness, the night of death; aye about fifty nights have interlocked their shadows. "The whole race goes stumbling over prostrated hopes and fallen fortunes, and empty flour barrels, and desolated cradles, and death-beds. Oh, how much we have use for all the seven candle sticks, with lights blazing from the top of each one of them! Light of pardon for all sin! Light of comfort for all trouble! Light of encouragement for all despondency! Light of eternal riches for all poverty! Light of rescue for all persecution! Light of reunion for all the bereft! Light of Heaven for all the dying! And that light is Christ, who is the Light that shall yet irradiate the hemispheres. "But mark you, when I say churches are not candles, but candlesticks, I cast no slur on candlesticks. I believe in beautiful candlesticks. The candlesticks that God ordered for the ancient taber nacle were something exquisite. They were a dream of beautj carved out of loveliness. They wereiadeof hammered gold, stood in a foot of goid and had six branches of gold blooming all along in six lillies of gold each, and lips of gold from which the candles difted tibeir'holy fire. And the best houses in any Tity ought to be the churches-the lest built, the best ventilated, the best swept, the best windowed and the best chande liged- Log ztina3ydo inueighzbor hooas where most of the people live in log cabins, but let there be palatial churohes for regions where many efthe~ people live in palaces. Do not have a ihan dor -your Lord and King. . ,ot live in a parlor aug uechist ak hiqen. speak were not mae out of pewter or iron-they were golden candlesticks, and gold is not only a valuable bat a bright metaL.- Have everything ..about your chrhrgtyu'hr with anuiling faces;-our muic~ au an$, jour hands shakingcordia,'Xo~rOentiO gert'io) at trgti R any paple -feel that in church they must look dull in order to be reverential, and pnany whose faces in other kinds of assemblage show all the different phases of emotion have in church no more expression than the back wheel of a hearse. Brsighten upand be responsive. 1[ you feel like weeping weep; if y ou feel like smiling smile; it you feel indignant at some wrong assailed from the pulpit frown. D)o not leave your naturalness and resiliency home because it is Sunday morning. If, as oflicers of, a chmoch, you meet peopl~e at the church door with a blac'k loot', and have the music black, and -the .nunister in black preach a black sermon, and from invocation to benediction have the impression black, few will come, and those who do come will wish they had not come at all. "Turn now in your Bible to the seven stars," continued Dr. Talmiage. "We are distinctly told that they are the min isters of zehigi' on.' Somec of them are large stars; some -of- them small sta'rs, some of them sweep a wide circuit and some of them a small circuit, but so far as they are genuine they get their light from the great central sun around whom they make revolution. Let each one keep in his own orbit. The solar system would soon be wrecked if the stars, in stead of keeping their own orbit, should go tohunting down other trP. Ministers of religion should never clash. Bat in all the centuries of the Christian church some of thebe stars have been hunting ant Edward Irving or a Horace Bushnell or an Albert Barnes; and the stars that were in pursuit of the other stars lost their own orbit, and some of them could neveragain find it. "Alas for the heresy hunters! The best way to destroy error is to preach the truth. The best way to scatter darkness isto strike alight. There is in immensity room enough for all the stars, and in the church room enough for all the ministers. The ministers who give- of righteous ness and the truth will get punishment enough anyhow, for they are 'the wan dering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.' But]I shoul like as a minister, when I2 an dying to be able truthfully to say what a captain of the English army, fallen at the head of his column and dying on the Egyptian battlefield, said to General Wolseley, who came to condole with him: 'Iled them straight; didn't I lead them straight, -General?" God has put- us ministers as captains in this battlefield of truth against error. Great at last will be our chagrin if we fail leading the people the wrong way; but great will be our gladness if, when the battle is over, we can hand our sword back to our great Commander, saying: 'Lord Jesus! We led the people straight; did'nt we lead them straight?" "Those ministers who go off at a tan gent and preach some other gospel are not stars, but comets, and they flash across the heavensa little while and make peoplestare, and throw down a few mete oric stones, and then go out of sight, if not out of existence. Oh, brethren in the ministry, let us remember that God calls as stars, and our businessis to shine aid to keep our own :sphere, and then when we get done trying to light up the darkness of this world, we will wheel in to higher spheres, and in us shall be ful filled the promise: 'They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.' "Ah! the ministers are not all Peck sniffs and canting hypocrites, as some would would have you think! Forgive me, if having in your presence at other times glorified the medical profession and the literary profession and the literary profession, I glorify my own. I have seen them in their homes and heard themintheir pulpits, and a grander array of men never breathed, and the Bible figure is not strained when it calls them stars: and whole constellations of glorious ministers have already taken their places on high, where they shine even brighter than they shone on earth; Edward N. Kirk of the Congregational Church, Stephen H. Tyng of the Episcopal Church, Matthew Simpson of the Metho dist Church, John Dowling of the Batpist Church, Samuel K. Talmage of the Presbyterian Church, Dr. De Witt Talmage of the Reformed Church, John Chambers of the Independent Church; and there I stop, for it so happens that 1 have mentioned the seven stars of the seven churches. "The future of all of us is a sealed scroll," said the preacher, in speaking of the seven seals, "and I am glad that no one but can open it. Do not let us join that class of Chistians in our day who are trying to break the sevenseals of the future. They are trying to peep into things they have no business with. They try to foretell what is going to come to them and what is going to come on the earth. They know nothing about it. Christ is the only one who can break the seal of the future. Bible prophecy war not written to help us to tell things in the'future, but to have us, when the things actually do come to pass, compare them with prophecy and so learn God's fore-knowledge and the inspiration of the Scriptures. But you go into the study of the prophecies in order to find out what is going to happen a year from now, or twenty years from now, or one thousand years from now, and I will make a prophecy of my own, and that is thatryou will have your brain addled if you do not positively get into a public or private insane asylum, where the greatest of expounders and preachers of prophecy'ended his life a few years-since, a..d where you may regale the visitors of the institution by incoherent mumbings over something Daniel or Revelation about the leopard which means Greece and the bear which means Medo-Persia. "I would not give two cents to know drew long Ilam going to live, or in what dy of what year the world is going to be demolished. I would rather give a thousand dollars not to know. Suppose some one could break the next seal in the scroll of your personal history and should tell you that on the 4th of Jtuly, 890, you were to die-the summer after the next-~how miuch would you be good for betweeni this and that? It would from now until- then ba a prolonged funeral. You would be ecunting the .nths and the days, and . your family ~d friends wbuld count them, and next th of July yoli would rub your hands together and whine: 'One year from to day I am to go. Dear me! I wish no one had told meso long before. I wish that necromancer had not broken the seal of ~the future.' And meeting some under taker you would say: 'I hope you will keep yourself free for. an engagement July 4, 1890. That day you will be need ed at my house. To save time, you might as well take my measure now, tive feet eleven inches.' .1 am glad that Christ dropped, a thick veil over the hour of our de~mise and the hour of the world's destruction when He said: 'Of that day and hour knoweth ne' man; no, not the angels; but My Father only.' Keep your hands off the seven seals. Dr. Talmage then spoke of the seven thunders. "WVhat is needed," he said, 'isthunderbolts, and at least seven of them. There is the long line of frandulent commercial establishments; every stone in the foundation, and every brick in the wall, and every- nail in the rafter made out of dishonesty skeletonsof poorly paid sewing girls' arms in every beam of that estabshment; human nei ves work imto every figure of that embroidery; blood in the deep dye of that proffered upholstery; billions of dollars of accumulated fraud intrencied in massve storehouses and stock companies manipulated by unscrupulous men until the monopoly is deiant of all earth and all heaven. How shall the evil be overcome? By treatises on the maxim: Honesty is the best policy? Or by soft repetition of the golden rule that we must 'Do to others as we would have them do to us'? No, it will not be done that way. "What is needed, and what will come. is seven thunders. There is drunkenness backed up by a capital mightier than in any other business. Intoxicating liquors enough in this country to float a navy. Good grain to the amount of $67, 950,000 bushels annually destroyed to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, dis tilleries, gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associations, our nation spending annually $740,000,000 for rum, resulting in bankruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth. maanation, death, illimitable woe, What will stop them? High license? No. Prohibition laws? No. Churches? No. Moral suasion? No. Thunderbolts will do it; nothing else will. Seven thunders! "Yonder are intrenched infidelity and atheism,with their magazines of hterature scoffing at our Christianity; their Hoe pritin presses bn'y ay and night. There are their blaspheming apostles, their drunken Tom P'aines and libertine Voltaires of the present, as well as the past, reinforced by all the powers of darkness from highest demon to lowest imp. What will extirpate those monsters of infidelity and atheism? John Brown's shorter catechism about 'Who made you?' or Westminister catechism about 'What is the chief end of man?' No, thunderbolts! The seven thunders!" BECAUSE IT WAS LEAP YEAR. A Wealthy Young Woman Pops the Ques tion to a Poor Young Man. An Ansonia lawyer was sitting on the steps of the Central House, in Newtown, Couu., on Saturday, when a pretty young lady passed out of the hotel and up the street. "There goes a remarkably pretty girl," exclaimed a gentleman conversing with him, "and there's quite a little ro mance connected with her, too." The legal gentleman was all attention at once as his friend "-ntinued: "She )elongs down in Baltimore and her father is a wealthy liquor distiller of that city. She's got a cool $200,000 in her own right and a decisiveness about her that means business. She located at the George Hotel, Black Rock, this summer, coming there all alone. A young man sitting at her table attracted her attention. She spoke to him one evening after he had met her but three times and she broke him all up by asking him if he was married. He replied that he was too poorly situated for marriage just then; he hadn't much money and had to support his father. 'Well, I've plenty of money," she said; 'why don't you marry met' The young man em braced both the proposition and the young lady. She returned to her home in Balti more, told her father about the circum stance, got his consent and returned to Black Rock with her father, was married in Bridgeport, and she and her husband are passing the remainder of the season in Newtown as happy as turtle doves." The lawyer has been thinking ever since what chances there are for young men in this country.-Ansonia Sentinel. Mrs. Blaine Denies a Scandalous story. Mrs. James G. Blain, Jr., who is in New York with her baby and maid, de sires the Associated Press to state in her behalf that there is no existing cause for the telegraphed statements that she has seaprated from her husband. Mrs. Blaine authorizes a positive danial of the state ment that she has begun a suit for sepa ration, or that any such suit is contemp lated. The lady expresses herself morti fied that a visit to her mother, Mrs. Nevins, who resides at the New York Hotel, shonld have been construed as the beginning of the alleged separation between herself and her husband. Mrs. Blaine left her husband in good health and spirits, and has the same cordial re lations to-day with James G. Blaine, Sr., she has always had. Mr. Blaine feels aggrieved that a few trivialcircumstances should have been exaggerated into a story tending to show that a separation was ever contemplated. Fratricide at Hodges. GREEysILLE, October 20.-News of the killing of John Glymph by his bro ther Mac Glymph, about three miles :rom Hodges, in Abbeville county, reached this city to-day. The two men had quarreled, and John had been for bidden to come to his brother's house. He went, however, and as the two men were talking peaceably Mac went into the yard and was followed by his brother, who presented a pistol and said he thought they had better settle the matter. Mac got his gun from the house and shot his brother in the head, killing him. The coroner's jury returned a verdict in acordance with these facts.-Special to he Sunday Badget. FRoM A DRLGGI6T. PAATiEA, Fra., May 31, 1887. The demand for Botanic Blood Balm B. B. B.) is such that I now buy in alf gross lots, and I unhesitatingly say hat my customers are well pleased. B.'KzsTINa. TESN VEAlta WITH KiHEUMltATISM. NEWTON, N. C., Jane 25, 1887. GENTLEMEN: I am pleasured in saying [ have been a great sufferer of rheuma tism for 10 years, and I have exhausted lmest every known remedy without re lief. I was told to try B. B. B. which If :id after long procrastination, and with the experience of three bottles, I am amost a healthy man. I take it as a part of my duty to make known your wonderful Blood Purifer to suffering humanity, and respectfully ask you to mail me one of your books of wonders. Respectfully, W. I. MOREHEAD. The Shar pahooters of Mctowan's Brigade. A number of the survivors of the Bat talion of Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade have concluded to hold a reunion in Columbia during Fair Week. It is therefore requested that all surviving soldiers of that Battalion meet in the Richand Court House on Wednesday. the 14th November, at 10 o'clock A. M. It is the desire of those who are arrang ing for this reunion to perfect a perma nent arganization of the survivors of the Battalion, and it is hoped, therefore, that there will be a full attendance. A telegram has been received from Capt. W. 8. Dunlop, saying that he will surely be present at the meeting during Fair week. A Bloody Affray. Mr. James Cook, who lives near Jack sonhamn, Lancaster county, was seriously cut by Mr. Rteece Steele on Sunday night last. The particulars, as we hear them, are about ats follows: James Cook, Reece Steele, .J. M. McMurray and Barber Mont ouery were returning from North Caro lina in a back. and were within about a mile of home when Cook and Montgomery got into a difficulty. MeMurray interfered in behalf of peace, when Cook turned on him. Steele, who was driving the hack, begged themi to stop fussing and get back into the hack, when Cook grabbed him jerked him out over the wheel of the vehi cle and jumped on him. It was then the cutting occurred. Mr. Cook is cut in six places and several of the wounds are pro nounced serious.-Ledger. It is said that an examination of old fur niture bills shows that the prices for "colo nial" tables and chairs are no higher than those for which they were originally bought, which shows that furniture is not so good an investment as china--if one con sider the gnnrd of posterity. 110W "SPIRITS" WORK. A REMARKABLE EXPOSURE OF MYS TERIOUS PROCEEDINGS. What a New York Audience Saw-The Writing on the Slate and the Process of Production--It's Easy Enough When You Know How It Is Done. (From the New York Sun.) An audience of 2,000 persons in the Academy of Music last night saw Dr. C. M. Richmond, the dentist, pull the fangs of spiritualism'with his little tricks and with the exhibition of Margaret Fox, the once-famous-producer of spirit rappings. The audience was an enthu siastic one when the Doctor did his tricks, and a disgusted one when he showed how simply he had done them. All the pleasure of being fooled van ished when the method of the fooling was exposed. The Doctor, looking par ticularly jovial in a dress suit, came upon the stage, which contained no furniture but a small table, with an ordinary looking two fold slate in his hand. He laid the slate on the table and advancing to the footlights re marked in a casual sort of a way that he saw so many familiar faces in the audi ence that a regular introduction seemed unnecessary, and perhaps it was just as well that he had forgotten at his office a little speech with which he had pro posed to open the entertainment. The audience thought that was pretty bright, and applauded. He smiled and re marked that maybe the spirits would say something appropriate tor him. He picked up the slate which he had pre viously held open so that all could see that it was blank, and opening it there was seen on it writing which he read. It was a brief expression of a desire that fraud and falsehood be exposed. A committee of sixteen men from the audience was then called to the stage. The Doctor tore a piece of paper into slips, which he laid upon the table, and asked the committee while he retired to select the name of some recently de ceased person of note, and to delegate one of their number to write the name upon one slip of paper. The committee had a long discussion among them selves, while the audience called out en couraging remarks, such as "Play ball!" "Write Harrison; he's as dead as any one!" "Time!" and "Take your base!" When the Doctor returned with an ordinary looking high hat in his hand, he asked some one to throw into it all the slips of paper, and he picked out one without looking at it and enclosed it in an envelope, which he laid out in plain view on the table. Then an ordi nary slate was examined by the com mittee, and passed around among the audience. The envelope containing the slip of paper was opened by one of the commit tee and the paper placed in a little round brass box which the Doctor held out in his hand. Then he announced that upon the slate he would produce a communi cation signed by the person whose name had been written upon the slip of paper, and furthermore, would produce from the box the identical slip of paper with the name the name written upon it by direction of the committee. While a small table was being brought in Dr. Richmond said: "I am not attacking the theory of spiritualism which is a very pretty one indeed, as any one who has ever read Swendenborg knows, but the thing I at tck is the fraud and humbug that is called Spiritualism." Somebody misunderstood this, and he said afterward: "I am told that some in the audience think I am a Spiritual ist. There is no such thing as actual spiritualim. (Applause.) Anything done contrary to natural law is a mira le, but there hasn't been such a thing as a miracle for at least 1,800 years." The table being set down in the cen tre, the Doctor called for a piece of chalk, which, being passed around among the committee, he placed under the slate. Then he stepped back and said: "The name on the paper was Frederick William. Is that right?" It was, and the committee was as tounded. Lifting the slate he showed it covered with writing, which he read: "I would not come back to live in a world where one smile must balance a thousand tears, for in this world of bliss there is nought but eternal happiness. "FREDECK WILLIM." The Doctor opened the brass box, and handed to the committee the slip of paper upon which the name was written. '"Now if anybody asks how I know that the spirits didn't, after all," he said "write that communication, i'll say that I know they didn't because I wrote it myself at my office this afternoon. This is a trick, which up to this time, no medium in this country has been able to do. Any spiritualist who has paid a dollar to get in here will find out how to make a thous and when 1 show how the thing is done." It was simple enough. The hat had a false piece, which he slipped in over the original slips of paper, dropping in a lot of blank slips from his hand at the same time. It was one of these blank slips that he took from the hat and that was put in the box. A confederate be hind the scenes meantime took the original slips from the hat and obtained that with the name upon it. The box was a double one, so cleverly made that the deception defied detection to one who did not know its trick. The slip with the name in it was put in one com partment and the committee put the other slip in the other compartment. This accounted for the slip of paper, and the audience looked cheap, but cried hopefully for the explanation of the slate writing. That was simpler yet. The slate, which had been lying in plain view all the time, was picked up, and by a careless twist of the wrist the doctor shook out the side on which the writing was. This was a thin bit of cardboard with a slate surface, which fitted exactly into the frame on one side of the slate and was held tight by a clever invisible arrangement, so that the addition of the piece to the slate previously passed about the audience was not noticeable to the eyes of the committee. The pre poae piece, with the writingr on it, was brought in with the table, a piece of newspaner pasted over the back, making it indistinguishable from the real news paper that also lay on the table. While placing the chalk under the slate the Doctor fitted the loose piece with the slate frame, and that was all there was about it. The audience was too chagrin ed at the way it had been taken in to applaud very heartily at this, and their taste was spoiled for the tricks that fol lowed. Dr. Richmond then produced "Wash ington Irving Bishop's bank note trick," telling the number of a note by means of secret signs from a confederate, and produced some spirit pictures a Ia Dies Debar. "There is no such thing as spirit manifestations," said the Doctor, "and any one who claims they can do things like this ought to be in the peniten tiary.." 'ou ought to be there, too!" called out an angry Spiritualist. "Oh, no, I'm turning State's evidence; rm all right!" said the Doctor, and the audience wanted to put the Spiritualist out. On behalf of a Philadelphia man who, he said, was in the audience, the Doctor offered $5,000 to any one who could pro duce a mark an inch long on a slate by an7 power except a natural one. The Margaret Fox part of the show narrowly escaped being ridiculous owing to the stage fright or other affection which made her unable to speak her piece, and prevented her from reading it except in the most halting fashion. What she finally read was a few sen tences expressive of her regret at having been so greatly instrumental in perpet uating the fraud of Spiritualism upon a too confiding public. She solemnly asserted that now she was telling the whole truth, and asked God to forgive her as she hoped He would forgive those who believed in "this silly, nonsensical, wicked thing." Doctors from the audience went upon the stage and felt the woman's foot as she made the motions by which she used to do the rapping. Then she stood in her stocking feet on a little pine platform six inches from the floor, and without the slightest perceptible movement of the person made raps audible all over the theatre. She went down into the au dience, and there, resting her foot on another person's, she showed how by the motion of the great toe the sound was produced. Mysterious Origin of Fires. Not long ago a lot of Sea Island- cotton in bales was discovered to be on fire in a New Jersey warehouse, and when the flames were extinguished in one spot, they would immediately break out in another. An examination showed that it was roller gin cotton; that is, cotton of which the lint is drawn away from the seeds by a pair. of rollers, set at such a distance apart as to keep the seeds from en tering between theni.while the fibre passes on and goes into a bag. In the present case, more or less of the seeds had some how got between the rollers and been crushed, and had thus saturated the cot ton with oil, which, in due time, had caused spontaneous combustion. A still more curious case occurred in a Massachusetts factory. In the middle of the room a milling machine was turning knife handles, the dust being blown up through a metal tube into the room above and thence forced out of doors through a wooden pipe. A spark from an emery wheel, fifteen feet from the milling ma ohine, struck a window, and rebounding, entered the mouth of the metal tube, set the wood dust on fire, so that the flames poured out of the wooden pipe in a stream twenty feet long. An engineer, cleaning up a mill, put some cotton waste in front of the boiler, where it would be handy for the fireman in the morning. During the night this took fire spontaneously; the flames spread to the kindlings under the boiler, and soon raised steam enough to cause the boiler to blow off, badly scaring the wa~tchman, who knew, or thought he knew,. that there was no fire under it. In another instance a man drove'a nail into the ceiling of a jute mill. The nail ganced off, was struck by the rapidly moving beaters and caused a serious con flagration. -Youth's Companion. Broke His Leg Pulling'Off H is Boot. A very peculiar accident befell George W. Susong, of the Georgia Construction Company. at Asheville. N4. C., on Sun lay night. While undressing in his room pre paratory to going to bed he broke his right le. The accidlent happened in a most pe culiar manner. Mr. Susong had already removed one of his boots, and finding the other tight, he put the foot encased by the contrary boot behind his other leg, and im straining in that position to pull the boot off, the thigh bone of his right leg was frctu red. Im mediate medical attention was given the broken limb, but Mr. Susong could not be moved, and was left at Ashe ville. He had just recovered from a long attack of typhoid fever, and had frequently complained of rheumatism in the thigh where the fracture occurred,. and it is thought likely the bone there was diseased. Kinled on the Railroad. On Monday evening, as the Laurens train was coming up to .Jalaippa, New berry county, it ran over two little negroes. One was killed. The other-larger one-bad presence of mind to lie down in the centre of the track, and was not hurt. Thme mother of the children, who was picking cotton near by, missed them, and ran when she heard the train and tried to stop it, but she was too late. She and the train reached the children at the same time. The child killed was a boy 4 years old. The engine struck him on the back of his bead and broke his skull. It is thought the little fellow was lying down and raised his head just as the engine reached him. Trhe en gineer did his best to stop) the train. The accident occurred just below Vance's Cross ing. -Prosperity Reporter. The Font Office Site Tests Concluded. The work of examination, boring and testing, by pressure, the several strata un derlying the soil on the site of the new post oflice has been completed. The work has been done under the direction of Gov ernment Architect Devereux, who, although interviewed on the subject, declined to give the results of the tests in advance of his official report to the supervising archi tet at Washington.-News and Courier. We seem to have three kinds of people -those who are moving forward, those who are standing still, and those who are go ing totart In some direction soon. A PECULIAR MURDER CASE. THE VERDICT IN THE SEiN CASE NOT A SURPRISE. Senn and Miss Helena Boland Found Guilty, but "Strongly Recommended to Mercy"--A istory of the Crime for Which They Were Tried. (Special to the News and Courier.) SPARTANBURG, October 22.-The ver dict in the Senn case was not a surprise to our people yesterday morning, nor would they have been surprised if they had been acquitted. The evidence was all circumstantial, and it was so evenly balanced that it was a most -difficult case to decide. One of the peculiarities of the trial was that He'ena Boland was out on a straw bond almost, and that she did not escape from the county, but awaited trial, and on that trial was convicted. The verdict itself was unusual, and it is the first instance in the history of the county, or peihaps in the State, when a verdict bore the expression "strongly recommended to mercy." This shows that the jury were not only divided, but that doubts prevailed as to the chain of evidence being complete. If their minds had not been tinged with doubt the ver dict would have been "guilty," without any reservation. Our people hope that the county is now rid of this case, which has been up for more than two years, and they would be pleased if the Gov ernor would exercise his clemency and commute the sentences. Senn is a stalwart, healthy man, with large frame and great physical strength. He looks as if he was about 33 years old. He has marked features that indicate a domineering spirit and a strong will. While he does not look like a typical villain and murderer, there is an abso lute want of gentleness and kindness in his appearance. During the trial he manifested great interest in all the de tails of the case, but never, at any time, was there any breaking down or evi dence of guilt. His mother was present during the trial and showed great inter est in every detail. Helena Boland is a frail, delicate woman, apparently about 35 years old, thin in flesh, and with a nose that would attract attention any where. It is a combination of the pug and club-end, with magnified propor tions of each. She is evidently fasci nated with Senn. While in jail she manifested the greatest solicitude about his welfare. At one time when he was quite sick and medicine had to be ad ministered during the night, she called to the watcher when the hour would strike and reminded him that it was time to give Mr. Senn's medicine. She never failed and seemed to be sleepless. In various other ways she manifested the tenderest regard for him. The testimony was very long and tedious and much of it irrelevant. The main links in the chain are about as follows: Senn and Hosella Stevens had been married about six years. Senn was unkind to her and at times gave her brutal treatment. For a time they were separated. She was brought back, not by him, but by some of his people, and placed in a little cabin on his mother's land. Their only child was taken care of for a time by Helena Boland. Senn was very familiar with Helena and their relations were such as to show that they exceeded all the bounds of propriety. Owing to certain abusive treatment, Mrs. Senn swore out a peace warrant against her husband. About ten days after that he concluded to come to Spar tanburg county and rent a piece of land where his wife might have better health. He hitched up a two-horse wagon, placed an old paralytic aunt in it, who has died since then, and brought his wife and Helena Boland along. The team was a unique one. It consisted of a mule and an old club-footed mare that would balk any and everywhere. With this team and party Senn started on .his mission. They camped the first night near Clinton, his delicate, sickly wife sleeping OrL the ground, or in the wagon. Sunday morning they left Cliton and set out towards the Enoree, the objective point seeming to be John Secin's in this county. At midday, Sunday, they stopped several hours. They started again, and instead of going to John Senn's they camped on the roadside about a mile and a half from Semn's house. Senn stated that his wife had to walk, as his team was weak and balky; that she had to help push the wagon when the old mare balked; that she ate about a peck of green peaches on the road. Going into camp they had their supper, after which she was taken sick and died about midnight. There were several families living a few minutes' walk from where they were camped, but no one was sent for until the woman was dead. Senn had no medicine, except laudanum, for this sicik ly wife. There was no light by which they might minister to her wants. The body bore marks of violence. On the left side of the throat were two blue places and on the right side one. The nose, about the middle, showed signs of pressure, or speedy decomposition. Just above the left eye the skin was abraded. The eyes protruded and had a frightened look. Such was her appearance after death. Her back hair showed signs of a strug gle, or great restlessness. Pine straw was found in it. Next day Senn and Helena Boland were indifferent and showed no signs of grief. No inquest was held in the county. The body was carried back to Newberry, where two in quests were held. The above is the case as made out by the State. On the other hand counsel for the defence showed by physicians that the external appearance of the neck and nose might have resulted from sud den death from natural causes. The ex pert testimony was most evenly divided. It was shown by witnesses who knew the Senna that they never heard of any cruel treatment. Johnstone & Cromer, attorneys for the defence, handled their side of the case in an able manner and defended it at every point. From the arraignment of the prisoners to the read ing out of the verdict nearly two days elapsed. The jurors deserve special commendation for their intelligence, and their patience and their conscien tious consideration of the case. Such is a short outline of the main points in the evidence. The public who listened to the trial throughout believe the verdit was right. Hardly any one believes that Mrs. Sean came to he r death from natural causes. This trial has been a very important one and at tracted attention on account of its pecu liarities and not because any of the parties were known here. Ocunsel for the State and defence acquitted them selves well and made the impression that four of the first lawers of the circuit were doing their best. - SENN AND BOLAND SENTENCED TO HANG. SPABTANBURG, October 23.-Judge Kershaw refused to grant Mr. Johnson's motion for a new trial in the Senn case to-day, and he then sentenced David N. Senn and Helena Boland to be hanged on the 14th of December next. Senn seemed somewhat affected while the Judge was passirg sentence, but Miss Boland was cool and self-possessed. A Travelling Jewelry Shop. The tour of the Emperor of Germany, in Austria and Italy, will costnot lessthan $200,000. When he left Berlin he took with him for presents eighty diamond rings, one hundred and fifty silver stars, fifty scarf-pins, all richly jewled, thirty diamond bracelets, six splendid present ation swords, thirty large photographs of himself, with the Empress and their children, all in gold frames; thirty gold watches, with chains, one hundred cigar case!, with the imperial arms and mono gram in gold, and thirty stars in dia monds of the Order of the Black and. Red Eagles. Cheering Hill. Mr. Blaine's tour in Indiana is more than counteracted. The visit of Governor Hill to that State was unquestionably one of the strongest cards that has been put out by the Democratic management. Hill helped the Democrats of Indiana and helped the Democrats of New York more. He placed himself in line with the Admiu istration. He knocked down the barrier which the enemy sought to raise between him and Mr. Cleveland. If the dignities and proprieties of his great office prevent.' the President from formally declaring him self for the Governor of New York, Hill generously and unequivocally declared himself for the President of the United States, and now all of us are happy. 'Rah for Hill -Cincinnati Enquirer. Very Sad. According to all reports, most of the bet ting money that is being put up on the chances of Republican success in this cam paign comes from Philadelphia. As soon as any Democratic money is displayed it is promptly covered by funds from that city. This is a queer sort of business for the Quakers to indulge in. It looks as if the arab coat and broad-brimmed hat were destined to become the outward sign of the sporting man, rather than of the meek and pious Quaker. The only safe conclu sion to draw from this condition of things is that the Philadelphians are red-hoe protectionists first and moderate Quakert afterward.-Boston Herald. Killed by a Fail. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of George Hoque, colored, who is supposed to have fallen on Tuesday morn ing from a gangway between the bulkheads at the Etiwan Phosphate Works and was killed. The body was found yesterday. Hoque was subject to epileptic fits. The distance fallen was aboat twenty feet. The verdict was in accordance with the facts as above stated.-News and Courier, Oct. 2.5. As Good as the Tropics. One of the banana trees in the garden of Mr. R. C. Barkley has borne five bunches of delicious fruit this season. The size, quality and flavor of the bananas indicate that with proper cultivation and immunity from early frosts in the fall and late frosts in the spring, Charleston's soil and climate re quite as tropical as some other places. hat pride themselves on their botanical wonders.-News and -Courier. A Shooting Affray on a Train. DARL.INGToN, Oct. 24.-On board the fternoon inail train on the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, between Florence and Darlington this afternooun, 0. Ellis, shot a egro named Lemuel W. Gadsden. The wound was a Ilesh one in the left arm. adsden is a negro of unsavory reputation. T'he origin of the difficulty is suipposed to be about a lawsuit now being tried at the ourt of sessions in which they are interest d.-Special to Charleston World. A sNOOZER. I love to wake at early dawn, When sparrows "cheep," And then tu-n over with a 3-awn And go to sleep. I love t-> see the~ rising sun In picture books; In nature I don't care a bun How Phcebus looks. I love to lie abed each morn In dreamy doze, And make the neighborhood forlorn With tuneful nose. I love to draw the cover well Up around my chin; I hate to hear the breakfast bell Confound its din! In short, I love the sweet embrace Of slumber deep; And Heaven, to me, will be a place Where I can sleep. Who was the only man who ever went o sea for fear of being drowned? Noah. Ice skates will be cheap this coming win er, as several of the patents have run out. It is better to have the bottom fall out of he hlour boom than out of the family bar el. By adding a little soda to sour fruit for pies less sugar will be required for sweet enng. In Paris stripes are still in great favor for dresses and cloaks. They make people ook taller. Black velvet and chinchilla are to form ne of the fashionable combinations in utdoor costumes the coming winter. A celebrated physician is of the opinion that many headaches are due to absorpti. n f the lend used in finishing hat-bands. nalysis of a black japanned band worn by a patient suffering from headache was found to contain three grains of lead salts. As tile new smokeless powder to be used y the French army makes no detonation, war will have added horror when it come.s o be generally adopted. Death will strike in silence, and much of the picturesque ess that has veiled the horrible will disap pear. The longest through car service of any railroad line In the world is said to be on the Southcrn Pacitic road, between New rleans and San Francisco-2,495 miika. lhe fastest through train on this road is timed at 113 hours and 25 minute , or 22 mile an hour.