Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thinfcln* HIWMftf * God Put? ' ' To Death. The Greenwood S. C? IndexJoiiv ) (ll recently published the following account oj 5 lit tU- known happening in the earl>* history; of South Carolina. That a man as a result of religious derangement should imagine himself i.. h- and while under this hal lucination killed u fellow man under the delusion that the other man was ?the devil" and then be hanged for his c i inn- in Charleston in an item of South Carolina history not known so commonly ?? Sergeant Jasper's sav ing the Hag and a few others. ilishop Vianeis Asbury in his Jour nal on the occasion of being near ??Weaver's ferry on Saluda river" re lated the tragie event as having been to)d him by inhabitants of that re gion. A very small account of it ia to be found in German settlements and the Lutheran church in the Carolinas by Dr. 0. D/Bernheim. The man who was hung in Charlea ttfn was Jacob Weber, also referred to as Jacob Weaver. In a signed con fession written in the Charleston jail before he was hanged he his name, "Jacob Weaver". The confes sion is dated April 16, 1761. He was hung not long after. Weber lived in what is now Lexing ton county not far from Saluda rivor ?hence Weaver's or Weber's ferry. Around him were Swiss and German Palatine settlers. The Palatines, it will bo recalled werd' Germans who through persecution had fled to Lon don tor refuge* and became so num erous that Kings. George paid a boun ty of so much per head to transport them to America after having assur ed them that they would be given lands of their own in the new country This was done and many thousands came to South Carolina under this plan. In South Carolina the poor Pala tines were not persecuted but they had been in their native land And having* come to this new and strange country, separated by thousands *>f miles, much of the distance being across the ocean itself, no wonder their simple minds were distracted. Jacob Weber was the father of a sect which took his name and con tinued to spread even after he' had been hung though his fellows did not continue his fatal hallucinatiqn of be lieving that any one of them was Cod. It is said the sect spread from South to North Carolina, thence into Maryland and Virginia. Though the heresy took the name of Weberites I)r. Mulhenberg in his account says that the founder of the sect was one Peter Schmidt. Weber himeself was a Swiss. * He first became an exhorter ?the settlers had a sermon from a j visiting clergyman about ewry ' twelve weeks. Weber pretended to be (Jod the Father, another the Son, a third thu Holy Spirit and the protend* ed Father having quarreled with the 1 Son, repudiate the pretended Son, I chained him in ih? forest and finally j gathered his gang, wh*? beat and : trampled on the poor man until ho died; he |s reported also to have killed the protended holy ghost in bed. A report T?f these circumstances having reached the authorities in Charleston, the militia were ordered to arrest the pretended deity, when he was tried, condemned and executed upon the gal lows. pr, Hazelhu tells of how Weaver as leader personated Christ another the Holy Spirit, a certain woman, the wife of Weaver, the/ Virgin Mary and one poor fellow was doomed to represent satan. He says excess fol lowed excess until at length Weaver (Webber) representing either Christ or God, ordered, in virtue of his dig nity that satan should be chained in a hole in the ground and Anally that he should be destroyed. For this pur pose they met, placed the unfortunate man in a bed, covered him with pil lows, on which some seated them selves, while others stamped their feet on the bed until the life of the man became extinct. The corpse was then taken out of the bed and thrown into a burning pile of wood, to be consumed in ashes. Weaver (Weber) was tried and sen tenced to be hung. His wife was pai* doned. lie was hung sometime after April 10, 17(>1, in ( Charleston. It is impossible to realize at this day and time that such a thing could have happened in South Carolina. Revenge. A woman entered a theater recently and happened to take a seat in front of a newly married couple. . She was scarcely seated before they began making remarks about, her. Her last year's hat and eioak were criticised with more or less giggling on the bride's part, and there is no telling what might have come next if the woman had not put a stop to the con versation by a bit of clever strategy. She turned her head, noticed that the bride was considerably older than the- bridegroom, and in smooth tones 'said, "Madam, will yjpu please ask your son to remove his feet from the back of my chair?" ? The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Australia). Mrs. Maijy Creighlon, "on trial in the Essex county, N. J. court for murder for the second time in a month, the last time for the murder of her mother-in-law, was acquitted by a ?jury on Friday night. SPECIAL SUMMER SALE EXTRAORDINARY VALUES! ? . " - O N Kelley - Springfield and Diamond TIRES 30x3% (Clincher Rim) Cord Casing $12.50 32x3%. (Straight Side) Cord Casing 20.00 32x4 (Straight Side) Cord Casing.. 25.00 33x4 (Straight Side) Cord Casing' 26.25 34x4 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 27*75 32x4 Vjj (Straight Side) Cord Casing 35.00 33x4 %? (Straight Side)- Cord-Casing ...r.36.00 34x4% (Straight Side) Cord Casing ...37.50 35x5 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 40.00 Fully Guaranteed Standard Cord Casinga have never .been quoted at such prices. If you are going to need tires soon it will be your advantage to buy while these prices are in effect, which will be for 10 daya: Starting July 13th. WE ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL PRICE ON The fully guarantee ? trouble proof battery. LITTLE'S GARAGE Downy Comfort Prepare for tomorrow by sleeping tonight. Restful slumber is assured on a COTTON DOWN Mat tress?a satisfactory mattress at a reasonable price. GboUtio Spring & Mattreu Co. MarfMMMn . Ad? ? (1} For Sale B;' CAMDEN FURNITURE CO., C?mden, 8, C. MUST EAiiN RANK How Man Gradates I-Ymu "Che 011300'' to "SDurdouqh," Indiept table Law of the Yukon la That He Haa to 8te leu in Rlvei- Come and Go. lentil u man hun lived long enough lu the Yukon valley to see the ice come and go hi' Is a "Chei-huco5*- felie chuw-lcer), utter which ho Is a "Sour dough." Such is the unwritten, hut Indisputable law of the froxeil North. , . . Those who had already passed through the mill of experience selected the Indian word "Chechaco0? sig nifying extreme youthfulness li^ mat ters not particularly relating to uge ? as the tit and proper appellatlou for all th^ uninitiated ; assuming them* selves the title "Sourdough." bemuse nothing but that article can be de pended on to leaven bread In a coun try where the grip of winter Is so strong. A "Cheehaeo" who has determined to become a ''Sourdough" watches with interest the endless string of Ice tloes drifting down the mighty stream In the full. . By and . by each little buy Is frozen solid; the river Itself becomes a flexible, moving mass of plled-up lcc. The big white thing heaves lazily as It pusses by, anon lumbering against the Ice ledge, or receding, exposing a black streak of swirling water. The heavy grinding roar goe? on con tinuously, an incalculable weight heaving against the Immovable rocks until at lust It shivers, and with noise like the' screeching of Innu merable ungreased cart wheels, Blowly, very slowly, it cornea to a standstill. The vanquished Yukon set tles down for her long winter's slum ber. . . . ? ? ? The "Chechaco" has learned his first lesson; he patiently awaits the last. When the days lengthen out he watches the snow depart from the hills with wonder. It slips away with alarm ing rapidity and the little creeks foam and grhmble because the freshet Is heavy. Humor reports that the river la breaking up and he hastens thither to complete his education. The Yukon begins breaking up at its source. The \yarmer water of the melt ing snow pours Into it through Innu merable channels, dissolving and wear ing off the under side of the thick ice. Presently the swelling body of water can no Joriger be coirflned beneath' Its Icy trammels ; the ice Is rent asunder and heaved up. It is carried down stream until" a sharp, bend Is reached, where It packs, forming often a dam some 30 feet in height, flooding, in cidentally, the surrounding country. The ice below the dam Is soon broken up by the weight of water falling on It, but the pack remains intact, a co lossal berg Imbedded deeply in the channel bottom. It is often several hundred feet thick and stretches from shore to shore, forming a miniature Ni agara. At last the Jam- breaks and the mige floes go dancing down the swirl ing torrent lnv elephantine gambols, anon uprearlng themselves high In the air, sometimes leaping quite clear of . the water. ... No man can hear another's voice in the thunderous din ; yet above all rings the bell-like note of the floes As they collide, sound Ifig Tnte"tHe musical clink of a wine glass. A few minutes 'later the great stream haa rwumecT its peaceful ap pearance of last summer. Tiny wave lets sparkle In the sunshine, eddies whirl round in their accustomed places, and none could guess that but a short time before it was the scepe of a grand natural convulsion. - The "Ohechaco" turns away with heart too full for words. He has won thft prmiii distinction of "Sour dough." ? Percy Dent In Chambers' Journal. \ Adjustable Window 8ash??. A multlple-sash window, whose sev eral sashes slide horlzonally In the window frame, so as to permit ad justment to suit any external weather cdfcdltlons, is described and Illustrat ed In Popular Mechanics- Magazine. Two or iw>ro sets of sa8he8jnay_.be mounted In the frame, of which one set may be provided with glass, 'and the ^others with wire screenings, or Venetian blinds. In the winter all may be fitted with glass insuring an absolutely weather-tight window foi keeping the cold out. Horizontally grooved frames, invisible In the win dow wall, receive the flanged roller* with which ea^h sash is provided ; and the wall Is recessed. of course, tc receive those sashes which are not in use. The sides of the frame proper are also provided with a stop catch to limit the movement ot each sash. Daring Feat of Aviator. A landing has been made with an airplane on .the brink of the crnter of a volcano in eruption. The hero of the exploit la, Chanteloup, the famous French piiot, who, with three frtenrts. went to Java In search of the most daring feat he could achlave In a small airplane, lie effected a landing on Bromo, one of the serfe* of active vol canoes to the Tengger chain of moun fains, and more than 8,000 feet high. Felt Heraelf N#fll#cted. occurred when J DOG HAS SENSE OF OIGNtTI What in M?n Is Known as "Oluff" Is Quit* Highly Develop d in tne Canine Race. Once past tilftir puppy hood ?ll dogs hnve a senye of dignity and self-re spcct. The other day I watched a wtuull boy tickle a terrier's nose with ? ?tv?w, ; sn.vH h writer In the London Ihiih Mail. The dog sniffed. sneeaed and 'turned his head utide. When the op eration was repented he rose, stretched himself languidly ? an If he was mov ing merely of his own accord and slowly walked uway. There was con temptuous disdain In every movement. It I# this ever-present sense of dig nlty which Induce* "bluff" In a dog. h tpm lli v which one might think be longed solely to man. The arrant coward* of the canine race, with the exception of "pampered darlings/' and broken-spirited pariahs, are not so shameless ns to ignore the opinions of others. Even though clear ly anxious to avoid a fight, they make some pretense of bravery or disdain. ? All this may be seen any day In the street when dogs meet to "take stock" of each other. Hut the best Illustra tion po sA1hTo~waiTu fford ed recent iy~"ny~ a litter of beagle puppies. Rajah, a big, strong puppy, was se cretly chicken-hearted. Restless wn?k small and weak, but indomitably fero cious. lii the first clash of arm* Rajah "put up ? shnw** and got severely han dled. Siyw, If Restless openly covets Rajah's/bone the last named seems suddenly to lose Interest In It. He deserts the bone but retains his dig nity. } No one who gives a dog's nature the smalU-st amount of study can fall to be struck by Its resemblance to man's. The value set on public opinion Is only one example of many. A dog can be anxious, amazed, hopeful, frigh tened. inquisitive, ashamed, sad, lov ing, Jealous, Interested ? even amused. Thelfuman gamut of emotions" is not much greater. That a dog has a sense of humor Is most widely doubted. Hut there has been a ? terrier who could actually smile, baring his teeth In a manner quite different from a snarl. He was chained up in a yard where a number of fowls Infuriated hltn by stealing his food. One day their feeding time coin cided and he bad cleaned out his high pot before the fowls arrived. He then lay motionless In the sun with one eye half open, wntching a cockerel nervously approach. At last, with great effort und much trembling, the . cockerel craned his. neck and looked down Into the pot The terrier tapped the ground twice with his tall, smiled and closed ills eye. Mind's Power Over the Body. There 18 no doubt of the existence of a certain basin of scientific knowl edge for the present vogue of the assumption of the Importance of mind's Influence over body* and of the Importance of the unconscious ele ment in mind. Hut, of course, ~thl* vogue Is chiefly the result of extrav agant claims unjustified by the facta yet knowp, Vernon- "Kellogg writes In the North American Review. These claims are pressed by persons who are not even acquainted with the scientific facts that give any basis at all to them. Too often they are deliberate attempts to exploit the popular Inter est. In other cases they ! are not dis honest In intention; only dishonest through careless disregard of the ob ligation resting on any one who offers to point the- way. to health ofHfiavlrig scientific fact as a basis for this ad vice. When I asked M. Coue for some proofs of his cladms to be/able to do what he thinks ? probably quite honestly ? he and any of us can de by his methods, he drew from an Inner pocTset a smalT packet of Tetters, evi dently much used, and handed me ona or two to read. Each writer said that she had got well. It was. S naive reply on M. Cone's methods. M. Coue considers them to mean every? thing. I cannot. In State of Ignorance. A tall, smiling, negro, who said In lived in Chicago, stood before Judge Delbert D. Wllmeth in city court a few days ago to anfriv^r to a charge of vagrancy. j~~ "On what street do yo*i live?" Judg* Wllmeth asked. "I Just can't remember the name ot that street, your honor," replied the prisoner. "Well, does it run east nnd west or nortfr and south ?'V queried the judge. "Well, sir, I'm not positive which wny It does ran. I never was no good on directions." "You should be In vaudeville," Judge Wllmeth said when he ordered the man discharged. "Just where Is that town, 'judge?" i anker] the negro. "Seems like I don't remember I ever heard of that place before." ? Indianapolis News. Blind People Read Much, i Teople who have lost their sight read more as a class than their i sighted neighbors, according to reo ords of the book exchange department of the California state library, which ' were made public by Milton J. Fer , guson, state librarian, i Despite the fact that mnny of the blind have never learned to read by ithe raised-letter system and hen<;e do not read St all. Fehfusom* stated tho state library collection of 14,937 books tvr hlH"* bMnfl people in California keep ther collection constantly in circulation. Many of the blind patrons of r th* library take out an average of fiva All-Day Meeting at Springvalc. Hlaney, S. (\, July 17.- Sunday, July 22nd, will bo get-together day at Springvalc Baptist church. lllaney, Harmony and Union churches will have delegations on hand and a com pany of friends from Winnaboro will be present to assist in the services. Dinner will be served on the church grounds and the occasi on ihumum's to be one of spiritual and social pleas Utft to those who attend. At eleven o'clock Monday the 28rd evangelistic services will begin at Springvalc with Rev. M. M. Benson doing the preaching. Mr, Henson is a well known and popular favorite with the church-going people of Cam den and vicinity, all of whom will, no doubt, bt1 glad to visit Springvalc ? during his stay. Springvale is loca ted near Habon's crossroads anil is reached from five directions by good clay roads. Visitors from Oamden will take the right fork, or the YVinns boro road, after crossing the river bFHlger taking the left at Rabon's crossroads. We are anticipating a refreshing season of revival because of the good preach in ir. good singing and spirit of good fellowship that we expect to prevail. The public gen erally is cordially invited to attend all these meetings. After Every Meal Have a packet in your pocket for ever-ready refreshment. Aids digestion. Allays thirst. Soothes the throat. For Quality, Flavor and I the Sealed Paokage, _ gel E Mrs. 1/dis Nichols was shot to death by her husband at Memphis, Tenn., Saturday. Ho then fired a bullet through his own heart. They uric v'HtraHRl'd. Progressive Business We realize that this institution must play an important part in the future economic growth of this city. . We are serving many of the most progressive business concerns in this city and have ample facilities for serving more. We offer an extra measure"" of Service. 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