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DOUBLE EXECUTION. THE BRUTAL 3WRDER OF W. C. ABER NATIlY AVEMED BY THE LAW John Feaster an? Charles Colston Hanged at Yorkville-Both Men Die Protesting Their Innocence of the Crime for Which They Forfeited Their Lives. YrvILLE, Jtne 7.-epe cial to The Register.;-John Feaster and Charles coistun were hanged here to-day for the muner of W. C. Abernathy. a mer chant At a cuarter to twelve o'clock the condemned ien ascended the scaffold, after which the death warrant was read. A hymn was then sung in which the coiemfnlCfed joined. The' Rev. C. C. Piuekney (colored) offered prayer, at the conclusion of which Feaster agd Colston were asked if they had any thing to say Both protested their in tiocelee, ('olStonl ciauiig that the coa fessioi lie made was brought about by one Jack Knox. The black caps were then dr awn over their faces and their - feet and hands pinioned. At three nun utes to twelve the drop fell, and in twenty three minutes they were pro nlounced dead. Colston was 'very nervous, and for a while supported himself by holding to the rope. Feaster was remarkably cool, awl (iue with a smile on his face. A. large crowd, white and colored, was in town, but very. few outside of the military guard and the reporters wit nessed the execution. Feaster's body was taken in charge by his father and conveyed to Fairtield for interment. Colston's remains were iml terred in Potters Field. Sisroitx' OF THE cRDIE. On the night of the 25th of January last, W. C. Abernathy, a merehant do ing business at Catawba Junction, in this County. was sitting in his store after sup'er, as was his custom, his residence being only a short distance awa v. The evidence given at the trial estad.ished the facts and circumstances of the crine as follows: John Feaster :and Charles Colston went into the store to make some purchases, and found their victim sitting by the stove reading a newspaper. sotne heavy swingletrees were lying upon a box near and just behind Mr. Abernathy. This was the instrument used in the fatal blow. It did its work well, as he was knocked senseless at the first blow. The murderers then proceeded to get what they could from the money-drawer, exut their victim was beginning to show signs of regaining consciousness. when he was again struck. They then became frightened and ran off. This occurred between eight and nine o'clock. About eleven o'clock, two hours after the brutal work, Mrs. Aber nathy heard some one groaning near the front door, whereupon she got up, and went out to find her husband lying there in a dying condition, whither he bad wandered and fallen in his deliri ous state. lie lingered for some days o sand died without ever regaining con sciousness. The crime for some time remained a mystery. At last suspicion pointed to one Charles McManus as the last party who had been seen around the store. He was arrested and lodged in jail. Some ten days or two weeks later John Feaster and Charles Colston were arrested and put in the gu'rd house at Rock Hill, the latter confessed the crime, implicating Feaster and five others. The citizens were so en raged that these murderers came near being lync-hed then and there, bmt wise counsel prevailed, and they were brought to Yorkville and lodged in jail. Some weeks after their commitment the Sheriff was informed that an attempt would be made to lynch them here, whereupon they were taken to Columbia for afe-e~p~g. Wi the Columbia low prisonn. - pril term of t!.e court they were brought back to York yille for trial under an escort of the Jenkins Rifles of this place. The party to whom the confession was made in Columbia was the principal witness against them. The testimony adduced proved conclusively the innocence of Charles McManus, and no verdict was asked for against him. The jury, after remaining out five minutes. brought in a verdict of guilty, and Judge Frazer passed upon themt the sentence of death. John Feaster, alias Henry Wil liams. was born in Fairfield County a little more than thirty-six years ago. He had to leave his home in that County on account of the commission of several crimes. He next turned up in Lancaster County, and two years ago . found employment with one of the con tractors of the Three C's Railroad. He was a notorious character, and was old in crime. Charles Colston was born in Stanly County, N. C.. and was about 2S years ofage'. ecame to this County about one year before~ 'the commission of his crime, and also found work on the sama railroad. It is reported that he bore a good character at his former home. The crime for which they paid the highest penalty of the law was a most brutal one. and it deprived a widow antd five small children of their support and protector. BROTHER JASPER AS A PROPHET. NHe Predicted Storms, Floods and Loss of S Life on the 31st of May. RicHMOND. Va.. June 3.-Everybody is talking of Rev. .John Jasper's prophecy about the storms, floods and loss of life. The famous colored preacher made the . - uentfromhis pulpit two wvac's ago, and thengavcf 31 asThe day on wvhich the most frightil of all the catastrophes would occur. andl hjis dream camne true with startling results. Not only (did the fresghet come upon the Jam'es River Valley on that day, but the Johnstown horror happend on that fatal Fridav. A well-knmwn colored minister said vesterday: "Yes. Brother Jasper certainly gave true outlines of evenuts to happen. Never was a p.rophecy more fully realize.d." Police Justice Crutch fiel said he heard two colored men con versing Saturday evening about " the dram," and they agreed that Jasp~er was the one true p)rophet of the day. Scores of prominent citizens heard their servants relate Jasper'a dream, and the negroes were looking anxiously for the coming of the 31lst of the month. Jasper did not preach in Richmond yes terdlav. ie conducted services in the coulory and has nct vet returned. A coal-black representative of the colored race said yesterday: -"I started up to hear Brother Jasper. but met the sexton. and he told mec about Jasper being out in the country. 1 wanted to hear what ap;licatio)n he wvould make of his dream. His dreams never fail to come true. This one about the freshet and the loss of life makes the third dream to my knowledge that has come true. Jasper . hs atr-gift from God to foretell what is to happen. so he may warn his p~eople of the evils and destruction nigh unto them." "Jack the Ripper" at Work Again. Loxpox. June 4.-A parcel containing the lower tportion of a woman'.s body' cut in halves ~was foun~d in the Thames at lorsth'v D~own ti s morning. Another narcel i'n which w"ere a woman's thighs was picked up at Battersea. Both were w- m ~* i pitesof a woman's drawer's on wvlch the name Fisher was marked. The trunk andl thighs evidently belonged to the same body. which wvas of a wvell jeveloped person. The remains had prehable been in the water for two (lays. t is found that "Jack the Ripper" has agai been at work. HEALED BY FAITH. An Old Lady of Greenville Claimsto Have Been Cured of Rheumatism of Twenty Years' Standing by Two Females Evan gelists. i"s there any truth in it?" "I -don't believe a word of it," and such ejacula ions were heard on the streets when the -lieged healing of an old woman at the meetings of the lady evangelists Monday afternoon was mentioned. No one be lieved such a thing could happen, and most people expressed themselves as op posed to such meetings, and believed all reports of healing bosh," as they called it. To determine the truth or falsity of the alleged healing, a Greenville News reporter devoted some time yesterday to an investigation and gives the readers of the Yewes just what he has seen and heard. and leaves it to them to judge of the matter as best they can. lie first saw the evangelists themselves and endeavored to "pump" them, but they answered that the best plan to find oat would be to be present at the after noon meeting when the old woman would be there and get from her own lips a statetient of what happened. He at tended the meeting, at which were pres ent about eight or ten people, including the reporter and evangelists. Prayer, singilig, reading of chapters from the Bible aid exhortations from the two ladies constituted the programme of the services. The exhortations were delivered in a calm manner and all the words were directed in the same way-to a belief in the power of healing by faith in the Lord. Instances were cited and names and places given of people who had been healed by a firm belief in the power of God to accomplish those things. There was no one present who appeared anx ious to test the assertions of the evan gelists, and as the old woman was not at the meeting, the reporter left. He dis covered by inquiring that her name was Mary Ann Hall, and that she lived near the fair grounds. To that part of the city he directed his steps, and by more questioning found the place. in a little alley running North from Echols street, in the forks of Buncombe and Rutherford streets, was a cottage with four rooms. In one of the rooms was an old-fashioned spin ning wheel and a small amount of fur niture. A oung woman standing in the front door said that "mother is in the back vard." The reporter walked around the house and saw sitting on the curbing of a well the object of his search. She is short and stout, about sixty years of age and wore a pair of spectacles that had slipped down nearly to the end of her nose. Taking a seat beside her, the reporter proceeded to ask a series of ques tions which the old lady answered in a matter-of-fact way. displaying not a great deal of earnestness, but telling in detail what occurred. --Monday evening." she said "I went down street. I had heard of these wo man folks, and as I had been ailing for more than twenty years with rheu Inatism I wanted to see if I could be healed. I hobbled down with my stick and found the place and went in. The wonmen prayed for me and rubbed my arms with their hands and before I new it 1 too knelt down, a trick that I had not done in fifteen years. When I finished praying I got up and could mow my arms above my head. My left ear had been deaf for many years. I heard out of it as good as out of the other." "-How did you fe el when this change took place ?' "I felt like something had popped and broke loose. It was so queer, and I shquted for jov. When I went home I did not need nmy stick, and the pain in my hack had gone. 1 suffered with it every day, but to-day it is well. I am well all over except a little remaining ~amns and Iimbs. -But I don t mind tht" she~ said, as she straightened her arms above her head as an evidence of what she h'ad said. "There is a little pain in my left leg yet, and I wanted to go down this evening and get the ladies to rub it and cure it, too, but it looked so much like rain I didn't go." "Do you feel as if you had been per manently healed?' -Yes I know I have; when I could not raise my a: ms to wash my face, and now I can do it easy. The Bible says: 'Ask and you shall receive,' and I know the Lord was good to me." Nois bers of people have stated posi ivelv that the old woman was a de crepit invalid and never walked without the assistance of a staff until the day before yesterday. If the story is cor ret, and if she 'was in the feeble condi Ition previous to her alleged healing, and her story carries the evidence of truth with it,'there is every indication that a change has taken place. Whether it was wrought by Divine power or mag netism or imagination is a matter to be decided as the reader is inclined to be lieve. C.HASED AT SEA. A Merchantman Outruns a Vessel of the Defeated Lesritime. NEW YORK, June 3.-As reported yes terday. the steamer Caroline Miller ar rived'at quarantine late on Saturday night from Hayti and1 anchored off Red Hook Point, in the upper bay. She is commanded by Captain Miller, and left Cape Havtien, bound for Sr. Marc, with a cargo and passengers, April 18. When she had been some hours at sea.the man on the bridge discovered a vessel which apparently was bearing down on the se'r iis,Elver, as there seemed to e nothing to fear. The stranger proved to be the Totussaint L'Ouverture, and when within a distance of tive miles she suddenly opened fire. The balls and missiles fell within a shcrt distance of the merchant vessel. The firing did not cease even when the stars and stripes were unfurled from the Miller's staff. The guaboat approached nearer and nearer, and Captain Miller saw that un less he could~ outrun her serious damage wold be done. Extra steam was p~ut on, the tires were well coate~d and the race began. For a time it was uncertain who the winner 'would be. The balls continued to fall close to the Mil ler, ahthough not close etnough to do any lamage. After an exciting chase of several hours the merchant man outran the man-of-war. anid arrived safely in St. Mare. That was probably the last shot fired in the Haytian war, for soon after Carptain Miller had stepped upon the pier at St. Mare a messenger roae into tbe port announcing the change in a ffa irs. Few particulars were given save that all was quiet at Port-au-Prince, and no di strbance was anticipated. The news was carried to Port De Paix by Captain Miller, whence it was telegraphed to other points. Regarding the Hlaytian guns which the C'aroline Miller carried, and about which there hi: '-c1 so much noise, the 'cap tain said vcsterdlay that they were in teided fo'r repairs in Hartford. They were lying in St. Mare, where they had ieen e'aptured some time ago, and being disabled, ther needed to be repaired, and were consequently sent to the Con necticut factory for that ptirpose. The Caroline Miller left New York yesterday for Boston. Closed Down Indefinitely. BRAIDwooD, Ill., June 4.-Notice was posted at the office of the Chicago and Wilmington Coal Comparny yesterday announing that the mines would be closed for an indetinite period, and notifying all men having tools in the shaft to tae them out. FACTS ABOUT AMBER. Sow the Substance Is Gathered by the Fishermen of the Baltic. In the window of one of the largest tobacco stores in Brooklyn there is displayed a remarkably-fine collection of amber. Some of it, as translucent as honey, fairly glows with color, as though it had caught the sunshine of a thousand summers. This has been polished, and differs as greatly from the rough, dirty-looking lumps beside it as does a cut from an uncut diamond, and yet the latter is just as full of color, only it is imprisoned. -Where is amber obtained?" asked a reporter, who had been attracted by the display. of the proprietor of the store. "The bulk of the amber supply of the world," was the reply, "comes now from the region known as Samland, on the east Prussian coast of the Baltic. I happen to know something about it, because I came from that part of the world myself, although not from that precise vicinity. From the Brusterot light-house on the Baltic coast one can see with the naked eye the entire. stretch of shore on which this precious petrifaction is and has been found for the past three thousand years. The stratum of blue earth on which the de tached fragments of amber are found lies from twenty to thirty feet below the surface of the beach. To some extent the amber may be and is ob tained by mining, but frequently the vein is exposed by the action of the water, so that fishing for amber is much easier than digging, and most of it is obtained in that way. "Amber fishermen are a vigorous and hardy people, and they need to be to carry on their businesss. They work in stormy weather, when the huge waves have detached masses of amber from the ocean bed and are roll ing it, mixed up with bunches of sea weed, in the surf. The fishermen, half naked,wade into the sea, shoulder deep, armed with long hook forks and hand nets. The women stand along the shore as near as they can to the waves. The men poke up the masses of seaweed with their forks and drag them in toward the shore as far as possible. With their nets they endeavor to secure the pieces of amber that may be floating in the water. As fast as the sea weed is got to the shore the women take it and pick out the bits of amber that may be clinging to it and place them in bags ready for the dealer. Some dealers stay on the beach while the fishing is going on, thus hoping to secure particularly fine specimens." "It must be a pretty interesting sight." "Not only interesting but exciting. The whole scene is wild in the ex treme. The thundering roar of the surf, the shouts of the men and the shrill screams of the women mingle weirdly with the soughing of the wind. The most profitable part of the harvest, however, is gathered after the storm is over. The amber which can be gathered while it is in prorgess is mostly in small pieces, but large masses of it too heavy to be moved within reach of the fishermen by the waves, have been uncovered. When the sea is smooth enough for the bottom to be seen through from five to fifteen feet of water, the fishermen row out and look for these blocks, recoveg ing them with their hooks and nets. A more systematic way of obtaining the amber is to get it from the reefs which..lipe some thgarters.f amnile. off shore. Here, when the different currents have met, it is heaped up with immense quantities of seaweed and rubbish. For fully - ten months in the year a little fleet of black boats is anchored oyer these reefs, the largest and most valuable of which is 600 feet long and 400 feet wide. Each boat has a diver who is sent downa to poke over the seaweed, discover the blocks of amber and raise it to the sur face. Each diver remains under water for five hours at a stretch and the la bor is said to be very trying. Some times such large blocks are found that it takes the united strength of two or even three men to bring them to the surface. Masses of such size bring from $75 to $150 apiece, the price for ordinary amber being but about $4.50 a pound. During the fishing season the water is icy cold and the work is prosecuted under great hardships." "What is amber used for mostly now?" "For mouth-pieces for pipes. Some years ago, you know, jewelry was quite extensively made of it, but, with the exception of children's beads, it is not used for that purpose to apy extent now. The greatest rival amber has nowadays is celluloid, out of which an excelent imitation can be made." Brookiin Eaaie. Age of Laying Hens. It is wrong to thin out the old hens and depend on young pullets every year, as there is a temptation to breed from the pullets before they are fully matured. thereby weakening the stock f persisted in. When a hen is laying necessity for disposing of her only to fill her place with a younger bird. It is a mistake to suppose that a hen is iii feior after she is two or three years of age. She will lay until seven or eight years old, and it will be time to seli her only when she shows signs of failing. Thre is a loss of time raising thie pulets to fill the places of the hens. it requires about ten months before the pullets ci the large breeds will come in, from the time they arc gatched, but the hen only loses three months, which is at the period of moulting, and if a cer tain date is used for a starting point, with a record kept of all the eggs layed, for two years, it will be found that the hen will lay more than the pullet. The hen produces stronger chicks than the pullet, which Is a very important point when broilers for market are an object. and her eggs are heavier and more uni form in size. A hen is not old at four years of age.-Farm and Fireside. -A gentleman in Brussels has shown unusual enthusiasm for the game of whist. In the course of a game his partner trumped the trick which he had already won by deep) calculation and skill. Instead of swearing, as a gentleman would ordinarily have done in such circumstances a few times, ho gave his unlucky partner twenty stabs in the ribs with a long knife and left him dead. -A canary belonging to a family of Midland Park, N. J., becomes greatly excited when the ei-year-old son comes into the room, and beats itself against the cage until released, when it flies on top of his head, jumps upon his finger, singing lustily, and then, for a rest, settles upon his shoulder. After its frolic, and a piece of apple or celery leaf from its little benefactor, it goes HISTORY OF FLOODS. THE JOHNSTOWN CALAMTY COMPARED WITH OTHER D1SM:TERS. The Great Floods of Other Years in Bu rope, Africa and India-Four Hundrjd Thousand Lives Lost in Holland-Half a Million in China. It may not be generally known, but it is true, that the great flood at Johnstown in Pennsylvania is the most disastrous, so far as loss of life is concerned, that has occurred in either Europe or Amer ica for nearly three centuries. There have been floods and floods since the deluge. It has been no uncommon thing to look for reports of overflows in the Valley of the Nile, with great loss of life. Nor do floods in India cause any great surprise, for the frequency with which the Ganges and other rivers of India break their bounds is well known. The same is true of the rivers of China, and was once true of those of Spain. In the olden times the breaking of dikes in Holland carried desolation into many thousand families. But since James I sat on the throne of England there has been no such hor ror known as that caused by the floods in Southwestern Pennsylvania, with the exception of one in Africa and one in China, although even in our own coun try the Mississippi and many smaller streams have played very serious pranks with the people who happened to live near their banks. Probably the most disast-ous Euro pean flood on record within the last five hundred years was caused by the failure of the dike in Holland in 1530. A gene ral inundation followed and 400,000 per sons are said to have been drowned. The greatest following this was the floods in Catalonia in 1617, when 50,000 persons lost their lives. By such records as can be got at it would seem that the Johnstown tragedy is second only to that in Catalonia 272 years ago. There have, however, been some big floods during the present century, both in this and in other countries, that were damaging enough in their way. It was but shortly after the opening of the cen tury, in December, 1802, that the River Liffey broke its boun. and did a vast amount of damage in the city of Dublin. It was even earlier in the same year that Lorea, a city in Spain, was destroyed by the bursting of a reservoir, which inun dated twenty leagues and drowned more than 1.000 persons. In 1811 the Danube overflowed at a point near Pesth, and swept away twenty-four villages and their inhab itants, and these floods were followed by others almost as disastrous in the sum mer of 1813, when whole villages in Austria-Hungary and Poland were swept away. In September of 1813 the Danube rose and swept away a corps of Turkish troops, 2,000 strong, who were encamped on an island in the river, near Winder. During the same year 6,000 men and women were drowned in Si lesia, and 4,000 in Poland. From here the record is easily fol owed. In 1816, in January, there were several floods at Strabane, Ireland, caused by the melting of the snow on the moun tains. In the same year the river Vis tula overflowed and destroyed 1(,000 head of cattle and 4,000 houses, besides numerous lives. During 1819 there was a flood in the fen Counties in England, when 5,000 acres of land were inun dated. In 1830 there were great floods in Wein, and in 183 me the great overflows iu1 China, Mn 1,000 persons were drowned in Cinnalone. In 1840 Lyons, Marseilles mother towns in France were pau bmerged by a break in the ba eriver Rhonie. And so the list ore is something S1a te .chron order in which various floods occurre: 1846. Overflow of the river Loire it the West and Southwest of France. Damage, $20,000,000. The Loire rose 20 feet in one night. 1849. May-New Orleans flooded by the inundation of the Mississippi. 1852. Floods at Hlmfirth in Febru ary. Overflow of the Rhine and Rhone in September. City of Hamburg flooded by the Elbe. 1856. Floods in the South of France. 1862. Forty thousand acres in Holland submerged. Inundations in France 1864. Bradfield reservoir, England, burst, March 11; 250 persons drowned. 1886. September-Great inundations in the South ot France. November - Great floods in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire, England. Mills were darried away, mines were flooded, rail~ roads were torn up and many lives were lost. 1869. JanuaryL-Cork, Dublin and other Irish cities were flooded and much suffering was caused. 1870. Rome was inundated and many lives were lost. The King was obliged to relieve the sufferers with money. 1872. In October there were great floods in Northern Italy and thousand of persons at Mantan, Ferrara and other towns were left homeless. 1874. The banks of the Thames Rivet were swept and many lives were lost. May 16, the reservoir near Northampton, Mass., burst much in the same manner as did that above Johnstown. Mill River Valley was swept by the flood, and 144 persons lost their lives. July 24 a waterspout boursted at Eureka. Nevada, and many lives were lost. July 26, 220 persons were drowned in Pitts burg and Allegheny by the rising of the rivers in Western Pennsylvania. 1875. By the rising of the river Ga ronne in France a portion of Toulouse was ..eQstroed in June and 1,000 lives were from heavy floois- During the same period some 20,000 persons were left homeless in India by the same causes. 1876. March-Severe floods in France and Holland.~ December-Floods in England. . 1877. New Year's Day the water overflowed the piers at Dover, Folke stone- and Hastings, England, causing much damage. 1878. April-London suffered from inundations for several days. 1879. A flood in Szegendin, Hungary, swept away the entire town. Over one hundred persons were drowned, and more than six thousand dwellings were destroyed. June-The Rivers Po ar~d Mincio overflowed, causing much dam age in the North of Italy. October 16-17-Floods in Ahcante and other Spanish provinces destroyed 1,000 lives and swept away several thousands of houses. December-Hungary was again visited by floods. 1880. The midland Counties of Eng land suffered severely from overflows. 1882. [n January there were heavy loods all through the Ohio and Missis sippi Valleys, and there was much loss of life and property. And so the record goes. It might be extended were it necessary, but it will be seen that of all the disasters thathave taken place since the Catalonian floods of 1617 there have been none so terrible as that which has just cast a pall over Western Pennsylvania and has moved the whole nation to mourn with the stricken people. The memories of these former floods will certainly be recalled now. Many of us who have not read "Put Yourself in His Place" for many years will remem ber Charles Reade's vivid description of Ransome's mad ride, as described in chapter 43 of that great novel. The flood in the Mill River Valley on May 16, 1874, has been eommemorated in a somewhat similar manner. But the when compared with that which has just struck the country. He will be a master mind who can fitly describe the latter disaster, either in prose or verse, with the scenes attending it. OEVOTIONAL SONGS. Circumstances Under Which Some FamoS Hymns Were Composed. Among modern hymns there is prob ably no greater favorite in Christian households than Phebe Cary's beauti tiful poem entitled "Nearer Home." The circumstances of its composition are simple, and are told by its author in a few words in a letter written to the friend in whose dwelling the verses had their birth. "It was written," says Miss Cary, "in 1842. I composed it in the little back third-story bed room, on Sunday morning, after com ing from church, and it makes me very happy to think that any word I could say has done a little good in the world." Among the many sweet and helpful hymns sung at devotional meetings in this country few have taken stronger hold than that beginning "He Leadeth Me." It was wedded by Bradbury to one of his tenderest and purest melodies,and the words and music appear in almost every church collection of hymns and tunes. The author of "He Leadeth Me" was the reverend J. H. Gilmore, who wrote it in Philadelphia many years ago. It was after the author had delivered a lecture on the Twenty-third psalm at an evening service, and while a few of the leading members of his society were developing the subject still further in the parlor of one of their number, that Mr. Gilmore jotted the hymn down in pencil precisely as it now stands, save that the refrain has since been added by another hand. The poem was handed by him to his wife, who sent it, without his knowl edge, to the Watchman and Refcedor, in which paper it was soon after printed. The history of the beautiful hymn, "I Would Not Live Alway," affords one of the most remarkable instances of a double claim to authorship on record. It is almost universally accredited to Doctor Muhlenberg, and it may be a surprise to many to learn that strong evidence has been adduced to prove it to have been written by Henry Ward, a printer and poet. who died in Litch field, Conn., in 1871. Among the older rhymes which still retain their place as masterpieces in modern collections, one of the most sublime is Cowper's: God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. An interesting and pathetic story of the origin of this composition is re lated by John Banvard, who was well acquainted with the circumstances: As is well known, Cowper was sub ject to deep melancholy, which at times even amounted to insanity. During one of these fits of depression, while in London, the poet was seized with the sudden impulse to drown himself. He immediately ordered a hackney coach to be brought to his door, and upon its arrival he rushed down-stairs and into it without giving orders where it was to be driven. On the driver asking d:. where he wished to be taken, he replied, excitedly: "To the Thamesl" The manner and look in which these words were uttered convinced the man that all wa not right. He drove off, but not to Ahe river, as Cowper had ordered him. lie drove up one street and down another for a long time. while Cowper sat back in his seat in .~stal abstraction. which convinced the dri& 1 isoccupant was in sane. After a long, round-about journey he at length drove up to the poet's lodgings and told him he had arrived "where he was ordered." Cowper de scended from the vehicle, entered the house and went to his room. Then, in his returning consciousness, the truth of the entire transaction entered his mind, and he found that he had not seen the river at all, nor had he drowned himself, as he intended when he left the chamber two hours before. In this occurrence Cowper plainly dis cerned the hand of Providence, and immediately composed the famous hymn, which will be sung as long as hymtis are sung in religious worship. --Detroit Free Press. ."" A Ghoulish Act. Jonas Nelson, a colored man, had a preliminary hearing last Monday before Trial Justice Benbow, on a charge of disturbing religious worship. It seems that last Sunday, while a grandchild of this negro was being bu ried on Mr. W. M. Plowden's plantation, Jonas, who was present and had been a silent spectator during the burial ser vice up to the time the coffin had been lowerei into the grave, stepped forward and jumped into the grave, snatched the coffin from its place, threw it out, and then jumped out of the grave himself, picked up the coffin, put it on his shoul der and walked off. The bystanders were so greatly horrified that no one at tempted to stop him. The child had been dead about thirty-six hours and de composition had set in, and as Jonas walked off the water trickled out of the coffin down his clothing. It is not known where he carried the child, as 1no one followed him. He claims that after remonstrated with by some of his friends, he retu-ned alone to the grave and buried tbe child. fHe also claims as his reason for thus acting. that he had not been treated with proper respect by the mother of the child, in being promptly notified of the death and time and place of burial. Jonas is represented as being a very dangerous negro, and all at the burial were afraid to interfere or make any re sistance. At the preliminary he ac knowledged his guilt, said he was not drunk, but was overpowered with pas sion. The Trial Justice committed him to jail in default of $300 bail, to await his trial at the next term of-court. Manning Times. - A Chicago Woman's Experiment. Miss Jane Adams, a wealthy young lady of Chicago, has her own ideas of philanthropy, and is of the opinion that the true way to be philanthropic is to assist in raising the social status of the poorer classes. In order to carry out hier idea she has rented the handsome residence of the late millionaire J. C. ull, and proposes to entertain largely. She will not only invite her swell friends of Chicago's good society, but she will have the Poles, Bohemians, Germans and 'eLber nationalities who reside in the r" .iborhood. Miss Adams doesn't pro to play the part of the Lady Bountiful, but means to do what she can toward the elevation socially of the people among whom she is shortly to take up her residence. Her friends are awaiting the outco~me of her exper iment with interest, but confidently predict she will soon weary of her new friends. PAIs, June6.-Ttie Cabinet has con sidered favoraibly the request of Ameri can residents frr permission to hold a public celebration in Paris on July 4. President Carnot has consented to un AN UNUSUAL HOMICIDE. ONE NEGRO KILLS ANOTHER TO AVENGE A PRIVATE WRONG. Cornelius Means Lies in Wait for Alfred Prioleau, and Shoots Him to Death for Ruining His Daughter. The First Case of the Kind in South Carolina. RIDGEWAY, S. C., June G.-[Special to The Register.]-This little village was thrown into some excitement this morn ing by the killing of Alfred Prioleau by Cornelius Means, both colored, a little before 5 o'clock, as Prioleau walked from his house, on the sidewalk near the railroad track, to the street crossing the track. As he came on a line with a vacant store building about 15 feet* from the track, he was fired upon by Means, who was standing just in front of the store. The weapon was a double barrel shotgun. The charge struck Prioleau on the right arm near the shoulder, breaking the arm in three places, seven shot entering thadt mem ber. Five shot were found in the body, having entered near the right arm-pit. Death was almost in stantaneous. Means, immediately after his shot, stepped rapidly foryard and struck the head of the dead man three times with the gun, breaking the weapon at the point where the end of the barrel joins the stock. Returning to the store, Means put up the gun and again ap proached the body with a pistol in his right hand. Standing over the body, he fired, but the bullet struck the wooden bridge upon which the corpse lay. The physician who made the examination preliminary to the inquest, is of the opinion that but for the blows with the gun Prioleou might have survi' ed the shot about a half hour. After discharging his pistol, Means repaired to the residence of Mr. R D. Bolick, the constable of Trial Justice Meares, surrendered himself and asked for protectiou-saying that he had killed Prioleau in defense of his family's honor. An inquest was promptly held by Trial Justice Meares. The jury rendered a verdict in the form prescribed by the statute, of felonious homicide. Means was at once taken to Winnsboro and committed to jail. The cause of the killing is stated to be the criminal conduct of Prioleau to wards a daughter of Means. No doubt is entertained of Prioleau's guilt in this direction. Means is a mulatto, about 40 years old. He is among the most respectable colored men in this County. He bears a high character for honesty, and has long been a devout member of the Pres byterian Church and a teacher in the Sunday school. He has been for years a consistent and outspoken Democrat. In 1876 he was active in his efforts for the Hampton ticket, and thus incurred the hostility of the Radical negroes of this section to such an extent that it was made known to the Radical bullies that any assault upon Means would be very promptly punished. In 1877 Means received the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner, and served his two years' term. He was then appointed for the fractional term expiring at the end of 1880. He made an excellent officer and did not offer for re-election. The sympathy of this section is very strongly with him, though the killing it self is much regretted. The act was a general surprise, though it was ob served for a day or two past that Means was in grcat mental trouble. Pf-ioleau was a black man about 25 years old, active, well-built and power ful. He was a "fussy" fellow, and had been engaged in several quarrels. He was frequently troublesome at negro frolics. But he was garded as a dangero recently married. W in his - chamn were fos ~ ttle about lynching. But there never was atny danger of that. The negroes ap pear content to let the law take its course -seeming to assume, however, that Means will be severely dealt with. Much of the bitter talk has proceeded from tihe women, whose hostility to Means pro ceeds chiefly from his politcal course and from the friendship he enjoys from the~white peope.* FED ON "ROUGE ON RATS." An Unfaithful Wife, Aided by Her Par amour, Poisons Her Husband. STAUNTON, Va., JTune 4.--Monday last a Coroner's inquest was held on the body of Wmn. Bush, who died near Waynes boro, Saturday, in violent convulsions. The evidence resulted in the arrest of Ida Bush, deceased's wife, and Peachy Atkinson, charged with causing Bush's death by administering "Rough on Rats" and arsenic in his food. This had been going on'since May 23, when Bush no ticed his first queer feeling. Saturclay arsenic was added to the "Rough on Rats," with fatal i-esult. An intimacy between Mrs. Bush and Atkinson was suspected, and the motive was to get Bush out of the way. Atkinson is 18 years old and Mrs. Bush 23, with three little children. A WISCONSIN HOTEL BURNED. The Night Clerk and Two Girls Perish in the Flames. STnvENs PoINT', Wis., .jJune 6.-The St James Hotel, with all its contents, was totally destoyed by fire last night and the night clerk, Charles Oetball, and two of the girls, Maggie Reiley and one known as Netties arei * and there is little doubt h l three IaS ner ves T etwo first named wek on the second floor when the fire brok\ out, and came down, but went back to~ secure their wearing apparel. All who escaped saved nothing but what, they had on their persons. The station and adjacent buildings to the holel were saved with hard work. A number of traveling men lost their baggage and samples. The loss is $50,000, with an insurance of 210,0.00. OSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT L AW. MANNINhG, S. C. OHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. F.N. WILSON, MANNING. S. C. J. BRAGDON, 'REAL ESTATE AGEXT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business ortion of the town, TWO STORES, with iuitable lots; on Manning and R. 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