r ml-WE EKi,,Y EA.A.-riON-1 IVENINS1301to. S. -C.. T-II-U'*j-?,'S'-DAy. INIOL BEHEADING J[OE)E L. I Notified of His Doom--First Frightented Then Defiant--The Fatal Axo--A Neal, Stroko --Tho Modiroval Mode of Pun - ishment Which Germany Usos For Stato Offenses. IBnF.u, August 20.-Hoodel's -oe-* cution was soimething quite out of the common, even for Berliners, Not since February, 1865, when Louis Grothe, a young man who with his mistress and his mother had hacked in piecos and thrown into the river a French toaelrr namod Gregy, was executed, had the axe fallon on a guilty wretch's neck-at the capital, that is, for there were a few execitions in the provinces. The old Eimperor's in variable practico was to commute the sentence wV'henl a death wNarant was handed to him, and lhe would havo spared Hoodel's lifo had not the Crown Prince and Plrinco von Bismarck pressed him to ronioiber that clemency here might encourago Socialist assassins elsewhere as well as in Germany. It was on the afternoon of Thurs day that Hoedel, who occupied a coll in the city prison, was informed that the law was to take its course. He bit his lips and turned deadly palo ; then nottered to It keoper Vlo stood by him, "They'ro only trying to frighten inc." "Not so, said the keeper ; "that's really your death senteuco." He asked to be allowed to writo an appeal for mercy, but was told that it was too late ; then he asked that he mighit be executed on the Kreutzberg, a well known hill in tho suburbs, associated with the revolutionary procoedings of 1848. lie was told that he might ordor for his comfort whatever ho pleased, but lie declined to avail himself of tihe priviloge of "the headsman's banquet," as it is callod, though (for tle fir:st time since his incarceration) he asked for cigars ; subsequently he took a bottle of wine and soine beor, At 6:30, p. in., the condemned man was removed in a prison van to the penitentiary at Mo:abit, in the northwestern suburbs, and lodged in a strong coll, The Lutheran chaplain, Dr: Heinickes, acco mpanied him and passod most of the night chatting with him. Chatting is the proper word, for whenever the pas tor attempted to turn the conversa tion towards religious subjects Hoedel interrupted him rudloly. The condemned man spoko very freely, while smoking. "Had I been placed under other circum stances," he said, "I might. not have come to this; brought uip difforont. ly I might have boen another man." Then he added :"I must play out my part to the end as I began it." Towvards morning lhe fell asleep andr wvas sleeping soundly wvhen, at 5:30, he was awakened-to die. Hardly was he prepared for the scaffold when lhe thrust his cigar into his mouth. "You are free to do so if you wish," said the clergyman, "but I would rather you would not take that cigar with you." "Very well, I won't, then," said Hoodlel, "if it's any pleasure to you." The scaffold was erected in the prison yard, whlero about fifty per - sons, magistrates and lawyers, municipal officials, military officials and members of the police force, besides seome reporters, were gath ered. The prisonei', conducted by three wvardens, walked with a firm step to the foot of the scaffold and stared impudently arond at the assembly. Councillor Hollman, vho wvas charged with superintend wg the execution, took his place at a table and road loudly the son* Lence of death and the deoath warrant. At the conclusion Hoerdel spat upon the ground and cried, "B~ravo 1" The magistrate nowv turned to a tall, strongly built man, about thirty or thirty-five years of ago, hand Borne, with a small mustache and neatly, indeed elegantly, attired in a fine linen shirt wiuth waistcoat and .tr'ousers of black bloadeloth. This was Herr Krantz, the executioner. Holding up the warrant that the headaman might see the Crown prince's signature, Councillor Holl man said to him: "Note this document, and now receive from me the tinsmith Emil iHeinrich Max Hoedel, delivered to you to be beheaded." "Come this way," said the heads man to floedel, who, ran lightly up the throo steps leading to the platform and throw off his coat and wiaistcoat. At this moment the chapol-boll )ogln tolling ; lie gazod in its diroction, tho looked around upon those preseit with an irollical sneir. Throwing down his bracos, Hoodol h)ogain to uinbutton his shirt, but coul iot unifastei one of the buttons. One of the wardens went to his assistalloo aid tuirned it down beneaitth his shouldors, leaving the nock Itid the upper part ol the breast bare. Meanwhilo two other k1opers had tied the coildmned mani's arms and anklos. They then carried him, pinioned anid helpless, to the block, which Was of stout hardwooO, with a hollow to rcoiVO the neck, and painted blood-red. Laying him on it faco downwards, a strong leathern baud wis fastenled over the back of tho head so that it could not be moved, and a clearly de1ined mark was offorel for the lieat;inmuin's blow. Opening a loatherm case, on which wero in goli the figures "1878," Krantz took out the glitterinig now axe, 1111d taking his aim, with an almost imporceptiblo glmnce, sw1unig the weapon al(oft and brought it hissimg downu on the band of flesh botwee'n th leathern fastoning an1d the turnod-'>ack shirt. Only ome blow was ineded. Tho blood sprai'g out of tho immenso wound ; the neck vanished (so it seemed) and there was left the triuni, whichi twitehiod spasmnodicalh a few times, and tho head, Which looked as if it had been shorn off just at the chin. A very slight Contract'ion or move mmint of the skin of the forehead was noticeable. The wholo opera tion lasted about two inuates and a half. A coflin was brought out, into which the still bloeding remains were pitched ; it was placed in a hole already dug in a corner of tie prison yard ; tho carth was filled in and all was over. Tm.: VONDIUL GloW'rH OF Ts -Ex-Govern ;r Pease, of f. x s, now on a visit to his former homo inl Ccnnectient, furnishes some inter esting items of contrast and growth ill that great Stato since he went there in 1835). He ias seen the population grow from 20,000 to 2,000,000. A million have heoon aded since the cenusus of I870. Most of this increase c:uno froni tho Southern States ill the six or seven years immediately following the Wa1r, but for somo years now the bulk of tho ieilliiration has been from the Northwester4 States-Wis consil, Michigan, Iowa and Minne sota. Bit fow European immi grants havo como in. BAsHFUL.-A b ashfl young man went throo times to ask a beau tifuil young lady if he might be the parltner of her joys and sorrows, and other honsehold furnituro, but each time his leart failed him, and ho took the question away unIpopped. Slhe saw the angruish of his Soul, and had compassion on him. So .the next timo ho camo sho asked him if lie thought to bring a screw driver w'~ih himi. He bhished0(, and wanted to know whlat for. And shue, in the fullness of her hear't, said she didn't know but wvhat he'd want to scew~ upi his courage be fore he left. He took the hint. The secretary of war deniies the report started, it is said1, in a Rich mond pipem', that the Souither'n His-. torical Society has been tendered free access to tile Confederate ar chives in tile wanr department, or that GIon. Marcus J. Wright, a Confed orate officer, is in chlargo or such records. Col. R. N. Scott, a Feder,. al officer in the war, has charge of the archives. The war doepartmnont, in or'der to secure certain valuable Papers nowv in thle hands of the Southern Histor'ical Society, has arrange(d to furnish copies of certain records of pauroly historical valuo to that society in roturn. Onm Exoswero.--He wasI an old phys'oian, and ho was declaiming the the other day against the prop~ensity of eating unripe fruit and vegetables. Said be, "T1horo is not a fruit or vegctablo growing in our gardens that is not best wvhen arrived at maturity, and most of them are p)ositivoly injurious unless fully ripe." "I knowv one thing that ain't so good when it's ripe as 'tis when grean," interrupited a little b)oy, in a vary confident but modest manner. "What's that ?" sharply said the p)hysician, vexed at having his prin~. ciple disputed -by a mere boy. "A cucumber," replied the lad. The old saying, "Exciuse haste and a bad pen," has been attributed to a pigy which ran away I,.em hom. TilE BIMCA'1 DJL%%I.4 Roports of tie Speeches Doulvored at the Great Democratic Rally In Winns. boro on tho 13th Inst. As severe indisposition proven ted the editors of TiE, NaVs AND H-n, A) from making, as they had fully intendod, exhaustive reports of the spieecles deliverod Oil the 13th, the reports takein from the N eis mie owrier are heiro given, ill order that the few who woro not present on that day may read the words of cheer tSpoken by the standard bearers of Democracy: oEINERlA, UR ATTON s OPUNINo. Gen. J11o. Bratton, County Chair. man, called the imieeting to or der, his appearalnco being groted with loud cheers. He said that they had assembled to in auguraf o anothier camilpaign inl the politicill wa11faro for the rights of peoplo and1(1 the preselrvation of the State. Tiey had assembled to on, dorso thei Doiorwratic nolilneos and ritify the Democ'ratic pl)atforiH, every lino an syllable of whlich lookod to the re-ositabllillelt of the coistitt ion. Every pledge coltailned ad pinciplo avowed in that platform would be carried out by the c:indidates. They had been tried and proved. They had found every right in the Stato trampled Upon by the XeerCISo of personal power, and by merely doing their dluty 1had lifted the Comnmonwealtl again to her former place. The Gowi.nor's health, unfortunately, had forbidden his app'eaninnec, biLt he had the pleaisuiro to- introd(uco it strong second to that grand figure.. head of the law in South Carolina. Hi then ld forward Lientenant Governor Siwpson, who Was re ceived with long and loud cheers. THE LIIUTENANT-oOVERNoRt began by alluding to the enforced ab.sence of Governor Hampton, and expressing the hope that beforo long the great leader would be enabled again to enter the camnpalign. H