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w GfiS - ? \ ' - , lj T ' * j fe ^bkwlb lfltss?iger4 ^ . *? "ye- 2- ABBEVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1886. NO. 45. Murdered by a Woman .pecial dispatch to*The News an Courier.] / Midway, July 4?At Hunter's chap / church this morning, while Sunda school was in session, Miss Emma Coi nelly killed John A. Steedly. St walked into the church with her arn folded and a pistol in one hand cocke* She passed into the seat in rear of St< edly, and when just behind him sh< him. He arose, looked around, tried 1 get out his pistol, and at the same tino made for the door. Miss Connelly snaj ped her pistol at him again, but it faile to go off. If it had eone off the chancc are that some one else would hate bee hurt, as the church %as crowded. Steedly fell at the door of the churc just outside and died in about thre minutes. There was great excitmen among the ladies and children at th time. Steedly had been putting ou damaging reports about Miss Connelly for srhich her brothers and a Mr. Ot had horsewhinped him some time ago an account.of which appeared in you paper. Some ten days since, Steedb published a letter in your paper givinj his version of the whipping andreiterat ing tho reports. This letter seems t< have been the immedate cause of th< shooting. As far as can be ascertained the feel ing of the public seems to favor Mis* Connelly, who is under arrest. In the JVe?P? and Cottrier on Jun< 7th, the following letter was publishec from our Bamberg correspondent. Some excitement prevails in th? neighborhood of Hunter's chapel ovei the cowhiding of Mr. John Steedly bj Messrs. W. S. Connolly and A. L. Ott It seems that Steedly had beon circulating false and damaging reports concern* ing Connelly's sister. In order to obtain full satisfaction for the offence Me?gr?. ^Connelly and Ott purchased a $2.60 whalebone whip?';wiited upon Mr. Steedly and .administered about thirty laahes, wearing the whip comple: tely out. It is said that Steedly had bcoam# reconciled to his fate since calling upon a trial justice and being advised that in case a lawsuit was entered against Messrs. Connelly and Ott other punishment would probably lie inflicted for circulating reports equally false and damaging concerning other person. On June 23d, a letter from John A. 'Steedly was published in which he i said. "In your issue of the 7th inst., I see a card from your Bamberg correspondent stating that I was cowhided by W. T. Connelly and A. L. Ott. Your correapondent did me great injustice in that report. 1 was attacked by Messrs. Connolly and Ott, and before I had any warning Connelly presented a cocked pistol at me and Ott placed his hand on his, and I was told by both of these men that if I moved they would kill me. Connelly did strike me several blows with a whip, the cost of which i do not know or care. Your correspondent says that I had been circulating false and damaging reports concerning Connelly's staffer. That is untrue. All that I said was in a verv confidential w?r t . * had no desire or expectation of doing Miffs Connelly any damage by speaking of her to my friend, but unfortunately for me and him he divulged tho secret. "And now, since the lady and her friends have taken tho steps they have, in justice to myself I must say that her mother knows the whole truth and knows that I have not lied. Kveryone can see that your correspondent was not disposed to do me justice in that report. "I hope in the future, when using my name through the papers, he will be careful to say nothing but .the truth. Timo will tell whether I am reconciled to my fate or not; and as to his statement sbout my calling on a trial justice, it is. as other Rtatom?n#?: - ???t either wilfully or negligently untrue. Now, Mr. Editor, I hope in justice to me you will publish this : On June 25 the Bamberg correspondent of The News and Courier wrote u follows: "In justice to your correspondent and Mr. Bteedly it is necessary to state that the report made concerning the cowhiding of Mr. John Steedly was founded ntirely uponji to formation "given your correspondent by a gentleman whom he believes to be reliable. His statements have been confirmed by. other parties, and your correspondent has neither seen nor heard a denial of the facts as reported until Mr. Steedly's card ap l(j peared in the News awd Courier yesterday. It was far from the intention of ej your correspondent to do Mr. Steedly y an injustice, and it is hoped that he may t by able to clear up the matter satisfactoie is The Augusta Chronicle gives the foli. lowing additional details: 3- "Quite a number were at the depot as )t the morning train stopped at Midway to :o see the fair slayer leave for Barnwell, te where she has gone to give herself up to >- the County authorities to await a trial, d Miss Connelly was accompanied by her is attorney, Mr. Williams, of the firm of n Skinner & Williams, her father, her brother and several friends (Mr. Connelh ly, her brother, is in charge of the Cene tral Hotel bar here), and the reporter^ t not wishing to be too bold, obtained an e interview with Miss Connelly through t her brother. r, "Miss Connelly is a well-formed t young lady of medium height, with i, brown eyes deep set, high cheek bones r and sweet, interesting face, and one to j see her seated by her father would not I believe that it had been but twelve hours . since sne naa taken the life or the man } whom she thought had injured her. j "The reporter, on taking his seat by Miss Connelly, said : I do not wish to . be impertinent, but do you object to s talking on the subject of yesterday's tragedy.' ; "I do not,' she quietly replied. 'I I have nothing to regret about it.' She had simply punished an injury that a i cowardly man had placed on her. She r spoke well of Ms. Steedly, with whom > she said had been on the best of terms. , The two families are on intimate terms. . Miss Connelly said : I killed him be. cause I felt it my duty, and I did not want to put my father or brother in the ( position I ain now in. My name, and that's all a woman has, has been villifi ctf, and I have wiped out the RUrin J the blood of my *traducer.' "She said that Mrs Steedly, who is s brunette, weighing about 200 pounds and rather good looking, bore a good , character in the neighborhood. She ( said she would not care if th<* trial to come off immediately ; she^was ready. "Miss Conuelly did not display the least emotion. The Chronicle reporter's pleasant interview was cut short by the arrival of the train at Ranrwell. "Miss Conpelly and Mr. Steedly are second cousins. Robert. Aldrich has also been retained to defend Miss Con. nely. The Chronicle bade farewell to Miss Connelly, promising to be present at the trial." The Political Problem. "It makes us tired" to hear men forever preterding that Airmers are imposed upon in the administration of laws. We hear men continually talking about those who *re opposed to farmers. We do not believe there is an intelligent man jin Laurens county {who really ;r n?u>u, it uc Hsu mo power, do aught to f injure this class of our citizens. Is it ? the lawyer, doctor, merchant, teacher, ( carpenter,^blacksmith ? Who is it ? No; you may look in vain for those ^ who seek to injure farmers. Men dif- t fer as to what political measures are for the good of the| country, but the real question after all is to place men in ofr e ttce who have good sense and sound j judgment to decide those questions in- a telligently. We are opposed to any t class of citizens making political noini- ii nations. The Democratic party has * adopted the primary election system of * making these nominations, and any con* a ention "suggestees" in tho field will tl necessarily defeat the spirit of the pri- u mary. The Democratic party as fcn or* li ganization, allows farmers and overv w - ^ tl other class a voice, and we believe this u organization is amply sufficient to meet * the demands of the times. This being *i tho case, we do most heartily oppose si any political organization that seeks to di supplant democracy, whether it be far- tl mera or republicans. If the Democratic h1 party has failed to redeem pledges ; if it r< caunnt make nominations by the mode n adopted, then we might join some other gi political organization. When farmers' U clubs assemble they should discuss agriculture, and when they discuss poli- w tics, it should be done in a Democratic w club. Farmers can discuss politics, and ai should do so ; not as farmers, but as cifc- n isens?-\s Democrats.? Lauren* Adver- hi | si**r. ri J\<S \ i fe'; l; ' v Paul H. Hayne In his home upon the Georgia hilltop, where the J uly wind dirges through the pine forest, dear to the heart of the poet, Paul H. Hayne, the laurelled singer ol the South, slept the sleep that knows no waking in this lower world. He had valiantly, laboriously, faithfully. devoutly finished his course. In honorable poverty, after early affluence, he struggled on, always keeping the torch of literary genius resplenden abovet his head. Beyond his immediate family and the Alll-Father, few can understand how tremenuous a struggle this gifted man w?geu unceasingly witn lHe "an* spiritual god?Circumstance." Ui$V ted for the ruder conflicts of the mateiifcl universe, and shrinking from the rough contact of the werk-day world, ho devoted his existence to his art, and neter recognized another intellectual rival )n that orbit. What prodigies, for wfeat scant reward, that busy .brain and ttfdlc8s hand wrought! What beautiful poems, from year to year or month to month, shaped themselves in his pare imagination or flashed from this land to that other clime, which he pined to *ee, but never was permitted to behold ! lie was a master too of nervous, picturesque, suggestive prose, in nearly every chord of passionate pathos or delicate irony, to sny nothing of the spiritual insight that illumined and enchanted everything serious that came from his pen. How fonrlnrlv onrl olnnnon 11 anil niAnal*? \\*% ...M V<V^UVII**f <?IIU |IIWU<JIJ fiv, gathered the immortal flowers that fell from Tiinrod's hand and made the world weep at one of the saddest stories of neglected genius since the days of Chatterton, "the marvellous boy who perished in his pride." Timrod, unlike Chattorton, awiitcd the summons of his Maker and passed away reverently when "Love was stronger than Life." Happy was he in having had a friend like Bayne to lead his gentle apparition "down the aAreuios&.of time.'' In this connection, too, it is ft grmciooa. memory that his last prose contribution was in sympathetic aid of the venerable Charles Gayarre, who, in his old age, has not had the consideration hiB wonderful talents and services deserve. It was in impulse of love that made Ilnyne the literary executor of Timrod. It was the chivalric call of fraternal duty that roused him, in his last days, to rebuke the South for its churlishness toward such \ man as Gayarre. This was one of Paul liayne's noblest virtues. He had 10 jealousy of his professional brethren, but was swift and eager to do them any tindness and to espouse their cause in iny practicable fashion. Hayne was nn ardent lover of nature ind, like Wordsworth, had laid his ear to the bosom of the- mighty mother, learkening to secrets which she never ails to reveal to children who nestle in ter rfrms and confide in her inspiration. L'hc winds bad music for him, in storm >r zephyr. The sky, in serenity or fury icld messages for his Muse. Flower, horn, herbage, the multitudinous mira:les of creation were creatures of his ancy and gold mines of his thought. VII were instinct to him with the Pow sr that permitted them, and he saw the najesty of God in the loveliest violet as veil as in the plunge of the cyclone hrough the shrieking woodland. Luckily for Paul Hajne, he had some nestimable compensation. No man was ver blessed with a wife who so thorough 7 understood and appreciated him; i nd the same, in a relative degree, was rue of the remarkable son who has inherited the gentleness' of one parent nd the talent of the other. Ah ! that nift a happy family, despito the trials nd thwarting of life ! Harmony was here and love and trust and - heavenly nion. The master-singer has departed! [e has laid down his cross and taken is crown, in God's great mercy. An nspeakable void is in the hillside home ' nd the two faithful hearts that admired 1 nd adored him beyond human expres- ; on. Hut praise be to Christ the Re eemer and Healer the do not mourn as > le hopoless! A little while and they 1 tall rejoin him. His splendid work < >mains to make them and the peoDlo < joice that he lived. His memory is > aidless. The good ho did was ipcalcu- ^ ible. i There will be wet eyes in many lands * hen tidings of his death are known. Be 1 ill remain in the heart of wife and son i id grateful countrymen. We would1 * ot in speaking thus still the grief of j is kindred, but simply assuage it by , tverent comfort. ? fj .y* ' .* '* ' ' </' :K'- v .. ' < Not long ago, as if prescient of his approaching end, Paul Hayne, though t grateful to Georgia for cordial hospi, tality and ample recognition of his merit , cried out to his South Carolina mother, f never forgotten in another State i to receive him when, to quote the lore^ ly thought of Tennyson, uGod's finger u:- ' 1 - ?m;uuu mm anu ne |siept." Georgia would be proud to have him in death as in life, but how can she resist the poet's last pathetic cry for the embrace of South Carolina ? Surely that imperial mother will claim her glorious . son and consecrate his last abode. And when he shall sleep beside the twin rivers and within sound of the historic sea, while men of all natiuns shall seek his grave as pilgrims visit sacred shrines, no tears will fall upon the sod more affectionately than those shedbj* Georgians, who surrender him only at his own bidding And in response to a summons that even Love cannot de: ny.?Augusta (Chronicle. What Is Cheat. Mkhhbb. Editor : I noticed an article is your last issue, headed above, and your request "to hear from some of our farmers on the question". I am not a farmer now, but was one for the spaoe of forty-five years, and will freely give your readers my views long entertained on the above subject. Cheat or chess is the offspring of imperfect wheat i j - - ~ ur u?u aim oiner small grain, 1 think, not possessing vitality sufficient to produce its own species?caused either by the grain being imperfect when sown or becoming so by the soil remaining wet for a long time after sown, as seen more plentifuly in wet spots in the field or the stalk may be so injured sometime after sowing, by freezes, as was the case in the fall sowing last winter, sapping its rigor to tho extent that it i failed to produce its own species. We [ail fenftW that the fall ?ofring of oats has changed to cheat the present year which, is proof sufficient of my views of it. I learn there is no cheat in the spring sowing. My attention was called to a field of wheat in 1845 in Newberry County, by a friend who was a practical planter for many years, which had much cheat in it. He asked me if I knew the igin of cheat. 1 gave my views as above stated, and he corroborated them by saying that he and his brother sowed wheat in adjoining fields, of the same variety and same soil, his brother sowing two weeks beforo he did; much rain fell on his brother's wheat im- , mediately after sowing, but none on his until after it had made its appearanco above ground. The result waa that his brother's wheat was much infested with cheat whereas his was exempt ' from it. He then asked if I had not noticed more cheat in fields in low and wet spots then elsewhere. I answered in the affirmative. As there are several varieties of chess . or cheat two of which I noticed yester- j day, one that bunches, not unlike oats. ( the other having its grains adhering to ^ the stalk which is found in wheat the . ' i other in oats. 1 became more convinced ( of the theory I have advanced as to ( their ortflrin. Anw <? ' ?1 0 j ^ i MI it ui ovcu UlllCSH a water plant belongs to it will lose much of * its vitality in wet ground while germinating. This is scon in most plants when just above ground, or before a wet spell of weather. No doubt all farmers and gandeners have noticed the weakness or want of vitality in plants, and want of green color, that appear above ground after much wet or cold weather. I doubt not that some varietios of chess or cheat take their origin from the same species. Be this as it may, but that ? does not prevent wheat or oats under the circumstances changing to cheat. If I am in error I should be pleased to be corrected in your next issue by some one whose experience has led them to a difiercnt conclusion.? W. E. in Winnaboro News and Herald. P. 8.?In corroboration of my theory ks to the origin of cheat it is a will known fact that all our fruits and esculents have undergone a radical :hange tinea they were first know. I recollect when there was but one rariety of Irish potato, and only two of -1 iweet, md they the poorest esculents I j, jver eat. So also with garden regoU- i ties. When a boy I never wu but three \t rarieties of beans or cabbage and one of n urnip. What changes in variety and n laTor hate si nee occurred no one bnt he aged knows. The same theory will ilso apply to most or all of the animsl is well as vegetable kingdom. W. E. n * .' ' * /* / " : ; / : ... v;, > # . v ' , u j&! ' yy A. Plea for Candidates. M ebhkh. Editors :?As the candi dates are being announced, I an prompted, with your permission, t< bring to the attention of your inanj readers, two subjects. In one of theai the candidates are particularly interest ed, and in the other all of us are 01 should be deeply concerned. For sev eral years the candidates have been sub jected to an annoyance, to uav tho of it. which in our humble (opinion should be stopped, cither by the candidates themselves, or the people at large or both combined. I allude to calling upon the candidates to assist in all conceivable enterprises, and in what is considered by any one a charitable object. Now generally, the most of those offering for the Legisldture, are men possessing at least a moderate share of this j world's goods, and it may not be heavy upon them to contribute of their ?mcanfl to an occasional call, but for those who arq. running for any of the minor offices, it is not short of oppression. Could it bo known positive'y, prior to the primary, who were to be the favored ones, there would be some sort of propriety in those being approached and asKed for aid. but these petitions, these subscription lists, are presented when all is uncertain, and all must alike be called upon and expected to shell out. The whole thinp: is a crying evil?a nuisance trl??pV? eKnnlil 1 ' ^ " n.iuuiu uu aumuu. une oi I tie candidates, several years ago, told this writer that he was almost afraid to go anywhere, for fear of being asked to giro some of his hard earned moneyt which he could ill afford to do. to build or repair churches, school-houses &cM in other sections of the county, when there were more of just such calls.in his own, than he could in justice to himself and family respond to. Aa a failure to respond, might lose him a good many votes, I for one, ain in favor of all the candidates uniting and positively refusing to ?ire one cent, at least till aftor the primary. After that election* those who feel able to do so, might, if disposed, give according to their means, and the others give according as their future prospects warrant them in doing. The next subject in which wo desire our would-be Legislators to take a lively interest, is in regard to the Township School Trustees. It is a hard matto r I n OAmn Af , ... OU.UC VI iiic lUWIISIIipS, 10 get any one to serve. In this Township two years ago, quite a number were called upon, and urged to act before the board was full. It may seem to the uninitiated but a small matter, but to those who have tried it it assumes much greater proportions. Several pears since, the school trusteed were exempt from road and jury duty and the payment of a poll tax, which was some sort of compensation. Now all of these are denied, "and the trustees nuust neglect their business and thereby In many instances, incur considerable loss. The office pf school trustee is :he only one in the county, except that >f road supervisor, in which the pay is ill honor and no nrnflt Tho . , ? a ?*v nuuviUI trustee has to spend at least one day nore than the number of months that :he school fund lasts in attending to lis duties. It has been urged fcy some hat to excuse the trustees from serving is jurors too many good men are exempt from that very important dnty. There are sixteen townships in this :ounty, and three trustees to each town* (flip aggregate forty-eight men. In a roting population of several thousand, food men must be alarmingly few in lumber, if taking therefrom forty-eight vould seriously impair the jury system. Fhe trustees have the disbursing of ixteen or seventeen thouun^ hm lave the burden upon them of properly listributing that sum, and "doing the peatest good to the greatest number." f good and true men are not needed in uch a place, I know not whore they re. Even the advantages enumerated bore, are far from being an adequate emuneration to the trustees for- tiine sst and labor done. Philanthropy and atriotism are well enough in their Way -are very commendable at times, tut tiese hard times it is not very encourging to hare to work for nothig and board and clothe yourself, 'here is but one more step to be taken i a downward direction, and that is; to i it.i?* i?|u?ru wo trustees to pay an annual am for the pleasure and honor of aerrig in that capacity. The public school fstem has many defects, some of 'hich cannot well be remedied, but this evil can be easily removed/ and it . is to be ho'ped that our next Legislature ^ will see to it that it is done, j Troupb. [ Secessity or Urate7. There is no good reason why every _ finnpr kKahU r ?..? ?i?v raise grass enough for nis own use. We cannot excuse ourselves for neglecting the grasses because , we cannot raise blue grass, for there arc grasses adapted to the soil and climate of South Carolina just as valuable ? as blue grass. The misfortune is that we look upon our grasses as nuisances. Bermuda, one of the most valuable grasses we have, * is by most of us considered good enough to hold the levees of the Mississippi in nlnro *>n?- ?"* 3 ? , ..%uvi gooa enough for our (I fields and pastures. Its great tenacity I of life which should recommend it is , made a serious objection. It is perennial, nutritive, relished by all kinds of stock, and everything feeding upon it fattens rapidly. It makes good pasture in the extreme South every month in the year. When cut and dried it luakes a most excellent hay and is more profitable than a crop of cotton. But a? the Hoods cannot kill it, nor the hdf* dry summers of the South, nor tramping, nor in all cases plowing, we are warned to keep it at a distance. Its merits are considered faults. For the same reason we could find fault with blue grass. In many instances it has been turned over in the spring, the land cultivated in corn without killing it. But I must confess that talking does not always effect revolutions, however wisely it nuv h? J -one. Example is sometimes, if not always better than preccpt, When a problem is demonstrated before one's eyes there is no disputing it. Every man wants to do the best he can and when he is shown a .new way, that is decidedly an improvement over the old one, or what he has been used to, ht will adopt it. Then let some one taiie the lead and adopt new ways, make use of the grass* es, and stop the leak that is raining our land. John Raskin on Fiona Beggars. John Ruskin being asked the othtfr day for aid in paying off a church debt replied by letter thus : "I am sorrowfully amused by your appeal to me. of all people in the world, the precisely least likely to give you a farthing. My first word to all men and boys who care /> Vi ? ?- - - - ,v Ucai uiu is, uont go in debt. Starve and go to heaven ; but don't borrow. Try first begging. I don't mind if it*? really needful, stealing. But don't buy things you can't pay for.' And of all manner of debtors, pious people building churches they can't pay for arc tbo most detestable nonsense to we. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges or in a sandpit, or in a coal-hole first? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built, iron churchoft are thedamnahlcst to inc. Aud of all the sects and believers in any ruling spirit, Hindoos, Turks, Feather Idolaters, and Mumbo Juiubo Log, and Fire Worshippers. who want churche?. your modern u t;.-t n fiu^uim ftvangoiical sect in the most absurd and ertirely objectionable and unendurable to me. All of wbioh you j might very easily have found out from o my books. Any other sect would, before bothering me to write it to them." The Salary of Teachers. [Greenwood Tribune.] Surely the common school system is sufficiently farcical as it is. but what must it become when placed under the ^ instruction of teachers worth the whole of |10.00 per month ? When one un- .] dertakes to ride a hobby he is very apt to ride it to death and it is not unfrequently an appropriate thing top a man to pray that Qod would deliver him from his friends. : & A Fbiewd op Education. "I .. When the liver and kidneys are disordered the bowels beeome luetiT* retain the bidlr digested food from the stomach, and absorb deleterious matter, which thus poisoning the bolod gives rise to otherserious derangments. Use I)r. J. H. MeLean,s Liver and Kidney Btlo. Buklei^s AnlM 8?lr?. ;| The best salve in the world for Cnta, Bruises, 8orss, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever SoreS, | Tettefj Uhsp^ed Hands, Chilbains, Corns* .rn?aa, auu MltlTflJ OVTII. > Piles, of no p*y required, ft Is goutttMd , * to gire perfect aatUTactloo, or boomj refund- , ^ ep. Prfee Si Nnti pti box. For Ml* pj 1 3 T. C. Parritt * Slokoeu ootnat u?ia?ited, bat If it iftdtaa v, < with hafcHhf and aotiro Hrer ind kidMjs, ('M with pur* Mood wa in la^rtrnM* to it* -wi attack. The baat inrLporaat I* Dr. J. S, >jj MeLuu'i Ut?r u4Kmhj Balm,. j