The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, November 01, 1888, Image 1

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703~ I f7 IED186". NEWBERRY, S. C.,_THURSDAY, NOVEMBR1 88 RC 1AYA THE HOMICIDE AT HODGES. THE KILLING OF .JOHN GILMPH ,Y IiIs nuoTHEt:I Brief Sketch of the Actors in the Trag edy--Sone Intere-ting F act% and Inci dents in Rererence to the Sad Affair -The Corouer's Inquest and the Preliminary Trial-A Tale of f~illicit Love. [Abbevillc 'ress and Banner.] Last Friday about sunset, near the quiet village of Cokesbury. MeCreery Glymph killed his brother, John Glympli. The circumstances imniedi ately attending the tragedy are few and easily told, but the causes leading up to the act date back several years. Some knowledge of all the parties con- 1 cerned may be of interest to the gen- i eral reader. MeCreery Glymph and his brother John were sons of the late i D. B. Glymph, who was long a resident i lodges and a reputable citizen of .Aounty. "Mack," as he is fanil-. ly called, is about 32 years of ago. Some years ago he was bookkeeper for i the well known firm of McCreery &< Bro. in Columbia, and proved himself quite capable. Since leaving Columbia he has resided at Hodges, engaged in i business with his fattier. About a year c ago he removed to the Beacham place, near Cokesbury, and was conducting a s farm. John Glymph was about 22 1 years of age and had no occupation. r About five years ago Mack Glymph r married Miss Jennie P. Townsend, a f bright young woman, quite attractive 1 in person and manners. She was of i: good family connections, being a li daughter of J. F. Townsend and grand- t daughter of Rev. Joel Townsend of t venerated memlory among all Metho- 1 dists in this State. Her maternal s grandfather was the late Dr. W. C. t Norwood, who discovered the uses of d veratrumn viride. She was educated at b an excellent f tale college and stood I high in her classes. Some years ago r she and Mack Glymph were married t quietly at the residence of Mrs. Row- r lett, his sister, by a minister of the s Christian church. It is said that when married Miss Jllnie was engaged to be t married to John (lymph and also to k another excellent young nuan. 2 Whether these things are true or not, fi it has been common talk that the mar- tl ried couple did n:t live pleasantly. She b liked "John's ways better than Mack's I ways," and they separated several ii times. Her foadness for John led to a h difficulty between the two brothers a f few weeks ago, in which Mack was t< rather roughly handled. Johri iven att ti the Beacham place with the couple, o but her partiality for him became so a: marked that it was annoying to Mack. s Friday afternoon, all the partiet being hi at Hodges,an altercation arose between u the brothers, and Mack requested John n not to come to his house again. Mack a: an(1 his wife wont hlome. John fol- si lowed after thenm on toot, having bor- I rov-ed an extra pistol fronm a young t. man named Emerson. Soon after.John S reached the hcuse it .seemed the alter- o Cation was renewed and. John was u killed. Pprhaps twvo houirs initervenled be- a twee'n arrival of John and his death- b A load had been taken fromU Mack's *J gun by John, at the request of M1rs. j Jeninie Giymnph. Discovering this, 3 Mack recovered the eairtridgre from t John and reloaded theC guln. During ti two hours it is impvosible to nar- i rate all the incidents that occurred in the household of Mack Glymiph. HeI wvent off for Trial .1 ust ice Mfoore to aid a him in riddling hishiom e of the presencet of his brother. This oflicer of the law I was absent from home. Mack returned e to his owvn houlse anid went to his room. Again lhe earnestly requtested .Johni to Jeave the place. .John replied that Mrs.e Glymph had asked hinm to remnain and protect her, and lbe couldni't refuse to protect a ld.S maters progressedJ until th.' fatal shot was fired. Macki used a double-harrel breech-loadingt shot gun. Several shot took efl'eet. S One entered .John's left texmple and< one penetrated h.is eye. entering theJ brain, and death wvas instantaneous. The shot in the brain causedl the nmus-. cles of John's hand, i which a British I bull-dog pistol wvas gnasped, to contract. He fell face downward in tile passage way connecting the kitchen and the~ main buildinig. Mrs. GIlymiph went hurriedly out of tile back door, halted a moment and then wen~lt to a nieighbor's. MIack took his two) childiren in his arms to a house n:ear b, and then wentj to a Trial . istice and surrendered himl self. News of the kiliig spreadl rap)idly,1 and personis .who' lived near by were1 soonl on the spot. Nigzht had fallen upon the scene and thie hlouse was asj silent as the grave. Li:alas were pro cured. Jiohn ':ay. as he had fallen. Ai pool of blood srtroun tded hiis prostratea form. His righxt hand( firly grasped a pisto1, his finger on the triggaer. Trial Justice Moore at onre organized a jury .of inquest, and ev idenee was taken as to howv the 11'i l de occurred. Ini one of the pockets of lhe decasedi antlther loaded pistol was found, together with a memoranidumi book in which were various entries reilatingto.Mrs.G(lymph', and the letter which apIpears ini the~ evidence elsewhere. Bu t lit tle test imo-~ ny as to tihe actu:al kilingt could be obtained.I The inquest concl' ded, tihe (deceased was buried on SaturdIay afternoon in the cemetery at IHodges, Iter. Mr. Dantzler read ing t''e funeral services. McCreery GIiymph has etuployed Messrs. Eugr.ene lB. (Gary and hFranlk Gary, anid D. H. Magili to act as his attorneys. ~They demx anded a preliIl nary inxvestig.ationl. chich was ld1 by Trial Justice 31oore at Cokesbuiry on Mlondav. Sonme additional testimony to that given at the inquest was taken but it was of the same tenor. Appliea tion for bail will be made to Judg Witherspoon at A nderson. CORONER'S INQUEST--THE WIFE'S TE TI MONY. Jennie P. (lyniph, sworn, says: live in Abbeville County, S. C., abou one mile from Cokesburv. This aftei noon I was at home. At the time c the shooting this eveniing I was in th r. .n opposite the dining room in m; house. I heard the shooting. Befor the shooting I heard my husband MeCreery Glymph, and his brother Johnnie B. Glyniph, quarreling. Ion't know that what Johnnie sait .vould be considered quarrelling. John aie told Mack not to curse him no :rouble him; he didn't want to hav( my fuss with him. My husband use< y.ery profane language to Johnnie, his )rother. The quarrel was about John iie coming here to my house to stay 1Iack ordered him to leave the house lohnie said he only came for hil :lothes and nothing else. This quarre vas about an hour before the shootin ccurred. When my husband, Mack rdered JTohnnie away I told hin. Mack) he had no right to order John iie away; that he (Mack) had threaten d to kill me so often when he wa, Irinking, I would like for Johnnie t< tay as well for protection as for com >any. And then Johnnie says I can't efuse to protect any lady if she asks nie. Mack told him then he would gc or Mr. Moore, the TrialJustice, besides te would bring twenty-five men and tave him taken away. A good dea] lore was said to which I paid no atten ion. Mack did most of the talking. All his talking occurred about one hour efore the shooting. The next time I aw Johnnie he was sitting just inside he kitchen door. When I wentout of ining room to opposite room to lay my aby down, as I passed my room door saw Mack laying down on bed in my rom. At that time Johnnie was inside he kitchen door. While I was in the >om opposite dining room, I heard the hiot, and Mack, my husband, say, Now, see what I have done." He says, )o, in tender tones, "I am going to ill you, too, Jennie." I didn't see lack, but I thought I heard him walk 'oi dining room into my room. I ien ran out into the hall and out the ack door and as I got on the back steps, halted and I saw Johnnie's feet stick ig out the kitchen door, just as if he ad fallen backwards and the chair had ,len backwards with him. IL seemed me - if the shot had carried him %kwards aan is reet w r r. t rg ver a chair. I didn't see Mack at all 'ter the shooting, only heard what he tid. Johnnie has been staying at my ouse some time. Has been living with s. Johnnie was an orphan, and had o home. He was 21 years old, Mack ad Johnnie have had several disputes nce Johinnie has been living with us. don't know exactly the cause of the rouble between Johnnie and Mack. omnetinmes they would quarrel about ne tiling and sometimes about an t her. I stayed at the depot last night, at iy e;ter-in-law, Mrs. Rowlett's. My usband, Mack, was there awhile, ohnunie Glymph stayed also at Mrs. towlett's last night. Johnnie amd lack had somle words at Mrs. Rowlett' his morning. Mrs. Rowlett is the sis. er of Mack and Johnnie. Before leav ag Mrs. Rowlett's this evening Mack ave his pistol to Mrs. Rowlett, becaus< told huim he had threatened me s< ften I was afraid to ride home in the uggy with hlim with a pistol in is ocket. Mack looked like he felt th< tleet of something intoxicating. Hi ras not drunk. Before leaving Mrs towlett's, Mack told Johnnie not t< ome out to our house this evening (bout two or three hours after MacI .nd I got home Johnnie came. Mack ohnnie and I usually come togethe 1n a buggy. Before I left Hodges old J:>hnnie to go and get my father Ir. Townsend, to come and stay a ur house to-night for my protection ohnnie went for father; lie didn' omne; but Johnnie came. I had toh ohmnnie if father couldn't come, to comn iinmself. I have heard Mack constant v miake threats about whom he wa ~oinmg to kill, and when he did do it ih vas going to take the advantage hoot them when they least expectel t. I dlon't knowv why Mack threaten a1 me; did it usually while lie wva irinking. I don't know why he ot. eetedl to Johnnie coming to our house Lie said Johnnie didn't help to do any hinig. Johnnie played his cornet al he time and I the piano. I know Mack, my hlusband(, wvo calous of his brother Johnnie, andl c ny father, too. D)id'nt like for mec t .e wvith either of them. I don't knmx :bat Mack had any grounds to be jeal ms of .Johnnie. I have loaned Johr :sie mnoney when he needed it. I loane aim $25 a few weeks agro. He aske rue to loan it to him, and I told hinm wvould give it to him. Johnnmie has rine cornet. I don't knowv where h rot it. I suppose the imney I let him have paid for a part of it. I don know that rmy letting Johnnie have thm 325 was the cause of Mack's jealous3 Mack has been jealous of Johnnie evt .inee I married him. Johnnie and played together on cornet and pian whenever we got ready. I heard only one shot in my hour th is even ing, before sun down, an hot or so'. Mack, miy husband, and were inl my1 room. I saw Mack lookin at the gun. I took the gun out int .Johnnie's room, and Mack told me i bring the gunl back, and I took it bael Mack opened the gun-a breech-loada -to see if it wvas loaded, and told me had takebn the 1.ad nnt. Johnie hi: the load and gave it to Mack. I had asked Johnnie to take the load out, and e he had taken it out. This was about an hour or an hour and a half before - the shooting occurred. I talked of breaking up ihousekeeping next year, [ hut never add I was going to break up t to _tt rid of Johnnie (lyniph. Johnnie - it inner with us to day. I never t' taid that I loved J ohnnie-that I liked bhim and if I would have had any pre ference hctwcen two. I liked Johnnie's = ways better than I liked Mack's. I was engaged to Johnnie at the time I married Mack. A wOM AN'S wONDERFUL LOVE. The following is the letter above re ferred to, which was in John Ulymph's I pocket, and which Mrs. Glynph ac knowledged writiug: c "Oh! my darling, how my heart t throbs when I go in your room and no Johnuie, is there. rIlere are all of your t clothes to look at which makes me so sad, my angel. I can't be happy away I from you. Johnnie you have no idea t how my heart ached when I drove away -,without you to-day. It was a sad iomtent to nie-one I shall never forget. I ant heart broken and almost I dead. If this separation lasts it will ( kill me. My darling sweet angel look e at mte with one of those sweet smiles right now just as soon as you read this. r Darling you have F good heart, I know I it, and I love you dearly. No one can t ever take your place in my heart. If I could hear that sweet - voice now I would give ten years of my life, and to imprint one kiss on my own angel e Johnnie's lips I would give twenty t years of r.y life." MACK GLYMI'H ADMITTED TO BAIL. a ANDERSON, Oct. 23.-Mack Glymph, s who a few days ago killed his brother t at Hodges for alleged undue intimacy a with his wife, arrived here yesterday t afternoon, accompanied by his attorney, t David Magill, and the Sheriff of Abbe- il ville County, to apply for bail before t Judge Witlterspoon. In hisapplication ast n ight he asked that he be ad- r, nitted t. bail in the sum of $200. This ti Judge Witherspoon refused to con- it sider, owing to the serious nature of d the charge againsthim. Hewasfinally, p this morning, admitted to bail, the I bond being :2,500. He gave the bond ii and was released. g -n Uses of the 1.eaion. p [Boston Traveler.] t Lemonade from the juice of the lem- p on is one of the best and safest drinks v for any person, whether in health or not. It is suitable for all stomach diseases, gravel, liver complaint, in- h flammation of the bowels and fever. It is a specific against worms and skin o1 comitlaLin, t Le ,fmorsaQ ig the-y antiscorlb utic rerrrec- > ,. It not only cures this disease, but prevents it. Sailors make daily use of it for this a purpose. I advise every one to rub E their gutms with lemon juice to keep them in good cot dition. The hands and nails are kept clean, soft and sup ple by tIe taily use of lemon instead o of soap. It also prevenits chilblains. if Neutralgiar mtay lbe cured by rubbing p the parit aflfected with cut lemon. It tl is valuable to cure warts and to destroy b d:m:druft ont the head by rubbin gthe o roots of the( hair with it. It will alle- d viate and finally cure coughs and heal b diseased lungs, if taken hot on going to t: bed at night. Its uses are manifold, r antd the more we emp)loy it externally v the better we shall find ourselves. a Lemon juice is useful in removing tar- e tar from the teeth, anti -febrile, etc. A dloctor in Rome is trying it experi- ~ mentally in malarial fever wvith great 1 success, and thinks it will in time su persede quinine. Get Up Whten Called. There lived once in the little city of ( Williamsport, Pa., an old judge by the na me of Williams. This old judge was noted for two things: For get- I ting mtellow occasionally and1 for being plucky and courageous under all cir -cumstances--a gamty 01(1 man. It was a peculiarity of the old judge that wvhenever he got mellow he grewv cor Srespottdittgly religious. One night he ,wandered into a protracted revival Smeeting and seated himself upon the [ front seat, full of spiritual influence of ,somie kihd. The clergyman, engvaged . in his preachitng, rose to a fervid pitch of . eloq1uence, and( in the mtidst of it ex c laiimied: ."Show mae the drunkard ! Show me the druntkard ! Of all men on earth . the most unfortunate ;show him to . To the consternation of all present ,the old juidge arose, and(, unisteadlily _ maintaiing hrimtself, exclaimed. ''"Well, sit, here I ami."' The clergyman having realized upon Shis inivestmxent miuchi sooner thain he y anticipated didn't know what to (10 a withi it. They finally pulled the 01ld .judge' downt, and the incident had . passed out of mtemory alnmost, when _ the clergymtan aga:in stuck an impas Ssitined period and exilaimned in the ifervor of Itis Ihea rt: "Sit"show me the hypocrite ! Of all tmen otn God's green earth thie most de e spicable. Show nme the hypocrite !" The judge arose the second time, t and, reac hitng his cane over to a certain e skyld djeacon, exclaimed : "DIea con, wvify don't you get tip when you're r called on ' A virginmia Editor Weds a Quakeress. SANov SPmitNGs, Md., October 24. e Professor WVilliamn Taylor Thtoim, edlitor r of the Evenming Telegramt of Roanoke, I Va., ando 1 es-ie Porter Miller, daughter g of Ben jam ini Miller, wvere married yes-. o terday at the homutie of the bride's o parenits, Mount Airy, near this pilace. .The ceremony was perfortmed accord r in:: to the usagecs of the Society of I Frien s, and there were 117 signers to H AMPTON IN CHARLESTON. rhte Old Soldier Addressen a Democratic Mann Meeting. [Special to Register.] CHARLESTON, October 24.-The Democratic mass meeting here to iight attracted a large crowd. Possibly >ver .5,000 people were gathered in front >f the City Hall. Bands of music and lectric lights made the scene a memo able one. Senators Gray of Delaware .nd Ransom of North Carolina, who vere expected, did not appear. Gen. 'zlar, State Chairman, presided and in roduced Senator Hampton, whose ap >earance was the signal for applause, rhich lasted several minutes. Among ther things, Gen. Hampton recalled he fact that in '76, when the strug ;ling State government needed ma erial, Charleston came forward romptly and paid the first taxes to he Hampton Government. He could ever forget that he had not forgotten nd the State could never forget it. He Lad seen it in the newspapers that the harleston Democrats had been brand d as cowards because they killed no iggers in '76. [Laughter and ap lause.] He wanted to say that if any ody was to blame for the fact that no egroes were killed in Charleston in 876, he was the one. It was his arnest wish, expressed to the people Lirough her friend, the late General ames Connor, that the fight should be constitutional one, and for this rea )n he besought the people of Charles >n to hold their hands. He freely ssumed the responsibility of all that ok place in Charlestoir in 1876. If ie people of Charleston were cowards i 1876, he was the coward who led 2em. Senator Hampton also said that he ,garded the primary plan of nomina on, adopted by some of the Counties i this State as a great misfortune. The efect in the system, was that after the rirnaries were over a great many emocrats ceased to take any further iterest in the election, and hence the -neral apathy on election day. There tight be objections to the convention [an of nomination, said he, but none iat could not be remedied if the peo le could only take an interest in the >ting. Touching briefly on national politics, a concluded by impressing upon his earers the importance of rolling up a g majority for Cleveland on the 6th November. Senator Hampton was followed b enator Blitrer .con- zmar id otesrs". -TIie meeting--wa large id enthusiastic. XTRACTS FROM SENATOR'S HAMPTON'S SPEECH-WOE TO THE SOUTH IF HARRISON WINS. Why, we are in the constant presence f a vigilant and aggressive enemy, and 'Harrison and Morton should in God's rovidence prevail, I do not believe lat all the days of our woes are num-' ered in South Carolina, or in any part f the South. Under the leadership and ictatorship of the gentleman who has een nominated for the Presidency by die Republicans, with feelings of ani iosity and vengefulness against the rhite men of the South, they will do 11 that men dare do not only to re over possession of our State and county overnments, but to remand you and 'our wives and children to a state of umiliation and degradation, from which you may not recover for years. You ask me how can they do that, ,nd say that we have the State Gov rnment and local government? how an' they by Federal legislation affect ur internal affairs? If I had a list of he bills and resolutions offered in the ast Congress directed and aimed at my .nd your liberties, and the liberties uid independence of the States, you vould find a very ready answer to the tuestion. 'ONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IN PERIL. Why, do you know tbat Mr. Chand er, Senator from New Hampshire, has lfIered a resolution referring to the com nittee of privileges and elections the ~redentials of a Senator from the State >f Louisiana, to inquire whether he wras elected~ by the suffrages of the peo >le of that State, and it was offered, in he absence of a single word of protest rom any human beingin the State ol Louisiana, and in the face of the fact hat his credentials have been read in ;he Senate, signed by the Governor, 3ertifying that he received the majority >f the Legislative vote, which was tpproximately unanimous. Yet Mr. I'handler and those who' think with aim are attempting to go behind the seal of a sovereign State with the view >f unseating the Senator on a principle tbsolu tely revolutionary and contrary :o the principles on which this Gov 3rnmnent is founded. With miajorities .n both houses, what will prevent themi from unseating Congressmen and Senators from every district and StatE in which they claim a majority? I tel) you there is but one thing to restrair them, and that is the public opinion 0: this country. So I repeat to you thai while we may feel secure, and I trus1 we are, it will never do in a free .coun. try, founded upon the idea of populaa rule, to takc anything for granted ir political controversies with antagonist like the Republicans of the Unite< States. I wish I could have seeni in othe p)arts of this State, and in other States the same intertst manifested in publi< affairs that I have seen in Charleston and I would pray to a merciful Heavern if my prayers will avail, that you saa not sleep on your rights, and that yol habll not soacrfie uoprty for th want of a very moderate degree of ertion. THE COUNTRY SAFE UNDER CLE LAND. Now I beg to call your attention a moment, and only a moment, what was said on the eve of the I Presidential election, that if a Der cratic Presidentshould be elected i negroes of the South would be remai ed to slavery, which many of them, the innocence of their hearts and sot honestly believed. They trumpeted every stump in the country that 1 business interests of the Union wo1 be destroyed; that our finances wo1 be thrown into inextricable confusi< and that the Rebel brigadier, that pc f%rlorn individual, would mount horse, ride into Washington and c ture the Government. Four years Democratic administration have sho' that not only the negro has not bE put back into slavery, but, as my tinguished colleague has said, has ceived from the President of the Unil States more recognition than had es been been bestowed upon him by the Republican Presidents. I have r seen, and especially in this beauti Southland ofours, a stride of progr and prosperity unknown in any pre ous four years of her history. I hia seen that much berated brigadier sta in his place in Congress and vote it lions upon millions of money in pm sions to Union soldiers. Money rais by the hard efforts of the one-arm Confederateisoldier, the one-legged s dier stumping his way along to ra that money to pay the pension of t Union soldier. We have asked pensions for our disabled comrades the South; we abide the arbitrament war, but we have the right to dema and the Rebel brigadiers have done more than to demand, not to ask or solicit, but to demand, I say, for th, disabled comrades, fair and impart justice. [Cheering and applause.] ROBBING THE SOUTH TO ENRICH T NORTH. What we protest against, and wt we will continue to protest against u til some remedy for it shall be found, the imposition upon the people of t South of burdens to maintain t privileged classes of the North, w; have sprung up and are the natu; productof the policy of a Republic administration. I am not prepared say that a remedy will be fotnd, but venture to predict that unless one found, unless the laws shall be admi istered for the benefit of the wh< spoken, the days of constitutior government, as we have been taught understand, are numbered in tl country. I trust that that day will ne% come, or if it should come that it w not be in our generation, and the or wvay to prevent it is that every citii of every county, of every township, every prec' ict in the Unlted Stat shall do his ,vhole duty, and it cam be done more effectively than by voti for Cleveland and Thurman. [A plause.] CLEVELAND AND THURMAN. President Cleveland-a giant in tellect, a giant in courage, a giant stature, who has thrown his form a his intellect and the great power of i Government across the path of th who were subverting the Governm and undermining and corrupting very foundations-has drawn upon devoted head much of the maligni hatred, abuse, slander and misre] sentation which the Republicans hi for us. But he has in a measures ceeded in obliterating sectionalism fr the discussions of public affairs,' comes into the arena with the voice the statesman. The consideration ideas deeply affecting the interests all the people has under him been si stituted for that narrow sectional. was the chief stock in trade of the: publicans. If he shall be elected, with him that son of Ohio who, a have said on former occasions, is ablest statesman with whom it was good fortune to be associated-if Pr dent-Cleveland, I say, be reinforced Judge Thurman I shall take cour for the future, and I trust when n we meet I shall be able to congratul yon upon the consummation oft important and glorious- event. [G: applause.] COULDN'T BE NaTURALIZED. A Chinese Merchant in Chicago Appllei Papers and is Refused. CHICAGO, October 20.-Moy] Ming, who owns a large spice and store onWest Madison street, is weal and has been in the city about tw< years. He called at the United St Attorney's office in the goverum building this morning. "What can we do for you?" asked of the clerks. "Me wantee be Melican man; wantee papee." "What kind of papers', "Oh, me wantee papee all samee Dutchee, Ilishman get. Me wantee Melican man. Me go legislater to x low. Me votee Plesident." "Oh, you want to be naturali; Why didn't you say so?" "Yep, me get natchalized; me v< Plesident.". When Moy was told that, in ac dance with the Act of Congress pa: May 6, 1882. he couldn't be natural he was much depressed. "Ilishmat get-papee, " pr.itested Ming. "That's so, but we can't help it." "Nigga, he all same like Meli man." "Too bad. Moy, but we can't give any papers." "Chinaman no votee, no nuttii Moy said disconsolately and wendet way homeward. He reads and w: 1the English language very well, ar ian intelligent man. He is an ar< ardvocate of the election of Harrisonn ex- THE STORY OF DAVE SENN AND HI HOMELY SWEETHEART. VE A Young Wife's Sorrowful Life-Her Hu: band's Strange Infatuation-A Mid for night Flight for Safety-The Last to Strange Journey-Mysterious Death in the Darkness Suspicion and Investiga no- tion and their Re :he salts in Court. ad in [Correspondence of The Greenvill ils, News.] - on SPARTANBURG, October 24.-Th ,he case of the State vs. David N. Senn an ald Helena Boland, which has just resuli aild ed in the conviction of the prisoners < on, murder, is in its details one of the mo: or, remarkable ever tried in South Carol his na. ap- Here are its salient points: In Apri of 1880, Devid N. Senn, a young Nem wn berry farmer of small means but gre en physique, was wedded to an attractiv fis- Edgefield girl, Miss Mellissa Ozell re- Stevens, whose father lived about 2 ,ed miles from Senn's mother, but whos ier sister, Mrs. Martin, lived near th all Senn place. For three years they live lot with F. H. Dominick, a large cottoi ful planter. During this period a littl ess girl was born to them, and Mrs. Senn' vi- health became poor. About this tim ve it was shown that he struck his wif nd with a stick as large as the constable' iil- staff while she lay in bed with he m- young infant in her arms. The young ed couple then moved to the place o ed Dave Senn's mother, living in a littl< ol- cabin some distance from the "bij ise house." But Senn's mother and th< he young wife could not agree; so after i no while Senn carried his wife and chil< of to her mother's home in Edgefield of Some unpleasantness arising about th nd management of the baby, Dave Sent no saddled his mule and galloped to hi to mother's with the infant in his arms. eir Just here the "other woman" appear ial on the scene. Dave's sister, Etta, ha( married a Boland, who had a siste E called Helena. While his invalid wifi in Edgefield is longing for her child at Senn visits the place in Lexington where Helena Boland is living, and it in-ashr ,adi a short time she comes to visit Senn', is he mother and remains there permanentlj he Senn and Miss Boland are seen walkini bo along a path in the fields with arms en twined about each other;1 an unexpect 7 ed visitor early in the morning recog nizes their voices together in a sinai I sleeping apartment. But after about a year of separatior Senn receives a letber from Edgefield and soon his mother and brother drivi over to the Stevens settlement, return a ir-e t; na-"ourr:rds:r al before the death ef Mrs. Senn, she cam4 l rushing to her sister's house in th, night with hair over her shoulders an< wearing only one shoe. Thence th< er two sisters proceeded immediately t ill the office of Trial Justice Peterson. A Sthe hearing before the magistrate, onl: of thirteen days before her death, Mrn ofSenn stated in the presence of her hus es, ba nd that he had threatened her, say tot ing that if he heard any more about at attempt to poison her which she al Sleged was made by his mother and He lena Boland, he would "burst hell ou of her with an axe, for he could see he in- dead in hell and rake the coals of fix in over her.'" Without denying this b *nd was put under a peace bond. ~he Twelve days after this, on Saturda3 ose the 21st August, 1886, Senni and b, mt wife, accompanied by Miss Boland an its Senn's invalid aunt, Mrs. Lake, lef his Newberry, in a wagon drawn by ty, young mule and a balky, club-foote re- mare. Their ostensible purpose wi old to visit relatives, searching for a pla< uc- on which to live next year and affort om ing sickly Mrs. Senn a change of a Ld for her health. The first objective poir of was the place of John Senn, Dave of cousin, in Spartanburg County. Sui of day afternoon the twvo young wome b-were seen trudging along the rougz sm road behind the wvagon, and suns< Re- caught them on the wrong route, bi md only one and a half miles from the sI destination. They got permission froi the old Crow to camp near her house, mly Mrs. Senn was feeling very badly at esi- the team was exhausted, as thou8 by camping out when shelter was neL age was good medicine for the sick woma: ext A torch was given them; they kindk ate a fire, got the necessary water and kir hat hearted Mrs. Crow went to sleep, litt eat dreaming of the scenes about to occi near her. There poor Mrs. Ozella Set: witnessed her last camp fire. After midnight Mrs. ('row was a for oused by a request from Senn to con out quickly to the wagon, as his wi was dying. She hurried out and four. Gon the old invalid and Miss Boianid in ti tea wagon with a corpse. Sennx remarki th that his wife had (lied in his aIrms ju 0eas Mrs. Crow approached. He the ent showed no emo(tion. Miss Bolar afterward said that sihe had closed i one eves and mouth during Se1:n's abset me In searching for cloth with which bind up the (lead woman's jaws, Mr Crow noticed sonile heated rocks wIh< lihad been placed against the limbs 2ol- the deceased to warmi her. Albe Hughes, a young farmer living nue e?came out and found Senn in the da: ceweeping. When daylight came Hug sees hitched his team to the wagon at cor- the party proceeded to John Senn sse There the body was renmoved to t hehouse, where several neighborly ladi hecommenced preparitng it for b,uri: Everybody noticed three blue marl can two on one side and one ont the otl: side of the deceased's neck, a bin vou - spot on the nose, and another above t g," left eye. John Senn's wife offered I.his furnish clothes for the interment, desi the party had brought nto additiot dent Iclothes, despite Senn's statement t he stand that he was takin<r his si s wife on a tour for her improvement, but Semi and Helena Boland declined this, an1d asked that the hair be brushed down over the bruised spot on the forehead. When the undertaker came he re. fused to furnish the cofdin without a doctor's certificate that death resulted from naturai causes. So Dr. Pool, of Lauren:s, was sent for, arriving Mon. day afternoon. Senn staled to the doctor that his wife had eaten about a e half peck of green peach.= along the road. This led the dloctur to ascribe death to congestion of the stomach, as ,f the appearance of the face indicated t congestion. But when he noticed dis coloration and indentations on the neck, having the appearance of finger prints, and heard from Seun that he bad laudanuni along, he refused the t certificate. No Trial Justice, however, e was accessible, and the body was placed a in the coffin and taken to Newberry. 5 Three days after death Coroner Bash, e of Newberry held an inquest, Doctors e Kibler, Thompson and Senn perform I ing an autopsy to ascertain whether the death resulted from natural causes. e They found no natural causes of death; s a state of acute general congestion ex e isted and the conditions were such as w would occur from choking or smother s ing. Discoloration prevented the marks r on the throat from being seen. No ar rests were made. The doctors were f considerably in the dark. The case had not developed, and they were looking for poison. Ten days later another autopsy was made to discover if the skull had been fractured. It was found uninjured. But by this time information of the marks of violence reached the Coroner, and Dave Senn and Helena Boland were arrested near each other in Lex ington County. Senn had been in Spartanburg jail I for over two years when he came to trial. He is a handsome blond, weigh about 185 pounds, with light hair, heavy moustache and ruddy complex ion. His paramour, however, is ex tremely hniely, thin, small, of dark complexion and dark ha'ir, with a long nose-very large at the end. She is said to evince the greatest infatuation for Senn. They have been ably defended, but were found guilty of as deliberate a crime as the mind can conceive. W. A. L. Penalties of Greatness. [Greenville News.] mmon herd who can children baptize orea ris ne more than the usual family squabbling over such events and quarrel and make peace with their relations and connec tions without causing more than t neighborhood gossip, may well be thankful for their lot and filled with sympathy for the high and mighty of -the earth whose haps and mishaps go -into the newspapers. There is nothing particularly remark -able about Janmes G. Blaine, Jr., but he is debarred from honorable and peace t ful ob)scurity by the fact that he is the r so.i of .lames G. Blaine, Sr. It was all e very well to a certain point. He was e doubtless elated and flattered when in consequence of his parentage his goings ,and comings were chronicled as impor taut events. Like many thousands of d other young men he was married, and no doubt he thought it a tremendous a thing when that proceeding was writ d ten up in many columns and announc ed far and wide, free of cost, by the e associated press. But there the pleas ant features of his eminence ceased. r Like many thousands of couples t everywhere, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine were in the course of time more or less glad dened by the arrival of an infant. One of them is a Catholic and the other a h Protestant and a row began over the t particular method by which the safety tof the newly arrived soul should be secured. Of course the parents on each rside had to dip in and a gorgeously Scomplicated family disturbance ensued. d Young Mr. Blaine did what too many h young men do in such circumstances. Withaftetonsanid conscience tangled divided up, he p)roceeded to work his dintellectual faculties into harmony dwith his domestic affairs by becoming lferociously, frequently and flagrantly inebriated. n Just such things happen all over the world every day, and with ordinary rpeople are patched up and forgotten tewhen feeling and common sense have fhad time to assert themselves. But d these people were Blaines, and conse quently the reporters got hold of the fiacts. JfImediately every newspaper sin the country took a part in this en t(~i rely p)rivate d istu rbanice and engaged vigorously ini setting the Blaines against eC the Nevenses and the Nevenses e. agvainst the Blaines arid stirring toup the trouble to the utmost. sIt has become part of the campaign and the D)emocratie newspapers (we must ofv in extraordinary defiance of de-. rte'ney are trying to make the h.apless r'ifn a Dr. Bucadfor HarrisOn. Of course the politicians do not care a snaip for the fact that the lives of a y ou ng manl and a young woman are to h-Ie blighbted and the peace of two fami eC lies is to be wrecked. They are working es the Blainie baby for all it is worth on il. the Irish vote and putting the innocent little thing into politics regardless of Sthe circumnstance that it is a girl and er not yct out of its first long clothes. - Very likely there will be a divorce. h We hope otherwise, but with a legior of~ newspapers and a host of politicianh to added to the usual elements of mothers. as in-law, fathers-in-law and contlictint ial church authorities the prospect foi onIt is almost another case of Ginx's THE POLITICAL OUTLOOR, A Novel View of the National Campaign Neither Cleveland Nor Harrison De pendent Upon the Votes of New York, Connecticut, Indfana and West Virgina---The Vote that Constitates the Real Element of Doubt. [From the Philadelphia Times, nd.] Political leaders and calculators, as a rule, assume that the present national contest is being fought on old party lines by old pai?ty methods, and that the result can be estimated by old party records. It' is possible that the result of the coming November election may run on the same general party lines as did the contest of1884, with variations in a very few of the closer States, but it is quite probable that both parties may be surprised at the revelations of the ballot boxes on the might of the 6th of November. It is commonly accepted by leaders of both sides that New York is the battle ground of the contest and that the electoral vote of that State will de cide the Presidency. We do not so regard it. On the contrary,' we be lieve that the next President will not need the vote of New York to assure his election, although it is most likely that the Empire State will vote for the successful candidate. If Gen. Harrison shall be elected, he will have electoral votes to spare without New York, and if President Cleveland shall be re elected he will not be likely to need either New York o: Connecticut, and may be re elected without the electoral votes of New York, Connecticut, In diana and West Virginia. The following may be classed as fairly doubtful States-that is, States whose votes either way are quite within the range of possibility : California........... 8 Minnesota ....... Connecticut...... 6 Nevada........... 3 Illinois...............22 N Hampshire.. 4 Indiana............15 New York....... 36 Iowa..................13 West Virginia.. 6 Michigan..........'13 Wisconsin.......11 The foregoing States will cast 144 of the 401 Elect ral votes, and'at no elec tiol since 1856 have so many States been in any measure doubtful. We regard New York, Connecticut, Indi ana and West Virginia, as more likely to vote for Cleveland, than to vote for Harrison,. while the other States classed as doubtful are more likely to vote for Harrison than for Cleveland; but it is certainly within the range of reasonable probability that nearly or quite all of them may vote for either to-day about even between the two can didates. We are aware that few political lead ers on either side are prepared to accept ! this view of the present national strug gle, but they are estimating only from the usual surface indications, when it is conceded that there are.hundreds of thousands of voters in the States we class as doubtful, who are studying the tariff and tax issue for themselves and who are certain to exhibit exceptional independence in voting on the ques tion. These hesitating voters embrace every political faith, and, however they may vote on election day, they will vote their convictions rather than in obedience to party. They may divide so nearly equal in numbers as not to materially affect results; They may cast a large preponderance for Harrison, and if they shall largely fall upon one side or the other, they will carry every Sate we class as doubtful for the can didate who commands their favor. It is this vote of from half a million to a million of voters, scattered from New Hampshire to California, that furnishes the one element of doubt, in the present contest, and it' is not the wrangling of Denmocratic factions inl New York. With the support of the bulk of this doubtful vote, Cleveland will be elected with or without the aid of Tammany or the County Democracy ; without the bulk of that vote a victory in the Empire State would be valueless to him. And this vote that is next to certain to be the controlling factor of the battle,is beyond the reach of party disci pline or party prejudice or party corrup- - tion funds. It will decide the isssue for itself; it will decide it independentlyand honestly according to the bestlight it can attain, and until its attitude shall be known, it will be the blindest guess, even on the part of the best inf8rmed politicians, as to the issue of the No vemiber battle. Jack Frost. Here's the record for the past nine years: Earliest frost in 1879, on November 4. Earliest frost in 1880, on October 24. - Earliest frost in 1881, on November 4. Earliest frost in 1882, on November 9. Earliest frost in 1883, on November 2. - Earliest frost in 1884, on October, '?4. Earliest frost in 1880, on October ->. Earliest frost in 1&%., on October 28. Earliest frost in 1887, on October 13. Earliest frost in 1888, on September28 The Great DeaI to be Contested. PHIILADELPHIIA, October 22.-Tlhe Philadelphia Press says: "It is stated on high authority here that suits inl equity will be brought immediately by parties in interest to prevent the con summation of the acquisition of the Georgia Central by the Richmond Terminal, and also to prevent the lease of the Georgia Pacific to that company. The grounds on which the suits are based are that the proposed acquisition and lease are in opposition to the laws of Georgia and other Southern States and against public p>licy."