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SIGNS OF A SUMMER RAIN. ... kDCir |t would r.llB.'* ifiOil t!to faruier ii girl, ..a^t . lik, xu 1 ol the morn leg glories, for Ibrir tk-lls h*v» teen open the whole day long, ’ \n,l they’re (lowem that tell no stories.” •I knew It would rain,’' said the farmer's hoy, • uecauss of the ears—I eotild hear them, Though ,Ar un ' !lv tll * Jr roU * <1 orer the rails ka plainly ns if I w * s “ear them.” ••I knew it would rain," said the farmer’s wife, "J'or the sound of the wind wss so hollow, And when the wind's moaning and sighing that way, tvby a rainstorm is curtain to follow." .] knew It would rain,” said the farmer himself, ••for this reason—the old barnyard pump la gu dry that today It was not primed’ at all, And it's generally dry us a stump la." -I knew it would rain," said the good grand mamma, • When I saw our old tabby eat idaying, For when eats of her age hire their own klttena play, [S)ok out for wet weather, I'm saying.” And so when the rain jus! at twilight came down, And the wind, with a splash and dash, threw It •Gainst the doors and the windows, each sign was recalled. And every one said, “There! I knew it," - Bessie Q. Hart in Chicago Tribune BY BRET HARTE. [Copyrighted by Houghton, Mil’lm A Co., and published by arrangement with them.] CHAPTER III. To Kate's surprise the lower part of the house was deserted, but there was an unusual activity on the floor above, and the sound of heavy steps. There were alien marks of dusty feet on the scrupulously clean passage, and on the first step of the stairs a spot of blood. With a sudden genuine alarm that drove her previous adventure from her mind, she impatiently called her sister's name. There was a hasty yet subdued rustle of skirts on the staircase, and Mrs. Hale, with her finger on her lip, swept Kate unceremo niously into the sitting room, closed the door end leaned bock against it, with a faint smile. Bhe had a crumpled paper in her hand. “Don't he alarmed, but read that first,” she said, handing her sister the paper. “It was brought just now.* Kate instantly recognized her brother's dls^ tinct baud. Bhe read hurriedly. “The coach was robbed last night; nobody hurt. I’ve lost nothing but a day’s time, as this business will keep me here until tomorrow, when Manuel can join me with a fresh horse. No cause for alarm. As the bearer goes out of his way to bring you this, tee that he wants for nothing.” “Welle said Kate, expectantly. “Well, the ‘bearer’ was fired upon by the robbers, who were lurking on the ridge. He was wounded in the leg. Luckily he was picked up by his friend, who was coming to meet him, and brought here as the nearest place. He's upstairs in the spare bed in the spare room, with his friend, who wont leave his side. He won’t even have mother in the room. They’ve stopped the bleeding with John’s ambulance things, and now. Kate, here’s a chance for you to show the value of your education in the ambulance class. The ball has got to be extracted. Here's your op portunity.” Kate looked at her sister curiously. There was a faint pink flush on her pale cheeks, and her eyes were gently sparkling. She had never seen her look so pretty before. “Why not have sent Manuel for a doctor at once!” asked Kate. “The nearest doctor is fifteen miles away, snd Manuel is nowhere to be found. Per haps he’s gone to look after the stock. There's some talk of snow; imagine the absurdity of it!” “But who are they?” “They speak of themselves as ‘friends,’ as if it were a profession. The wounded one was u passenger, I suppose. ” “But what are they like?” continued Kate. “1 suppose they’re like them all.” Mrs. Hale shrugged her shoulders. “The wounded one, when he's not fainting away, is laughing. The other is a creature with a mustache, and gloomy beyond ex pression.” “What are you going to do with them?” said Kate. “What should I do? Even without John’s letter I could not refuse the shelter of my house to a wounded and helpless man. I shall keep him, of course, until John comes. Why, Kate, I really believe you are so pre judiced against these people you’d like to turn them out. But I forget! It’s because you like them so well. Well, you need not fear to expose yourself to the fascinations of the wounded Christy Minstrel—I’m sure he’s that—or to the unspeakable one, who is shy- ness Itself, and would not dars to raise his eye* to you.” There was a timid, hesitating step in the sassage. It paused before the door, moved tway, returned, and finally asserted its in dentions in the gentlest of taps. “It’s him; I'm sure of it,” said Mrs. Hale, vith a suppressed smile. Kate threw open the door smartly, to the txtreme discomfiture of a tall, dark figure shat already had slunk away from it. For all that bo was a good looking enough fel low, with a mustache as long and almost as flexible as a ringlet. Kate could not help noticing also that his hand, which was ner vously pulling the mustache, was white and thin. “Excuse me,” he stammered, without rais ing his eyes, “I was looking for—for—the old lady. I—1 beg your pardon. I didn’t know that you—the young ladies—company—were here. I intended—I only wanted to say that my friend—” He stopped at the slight smile that passed quickly over Mrs. Hale’s mouth and his pale face reddened with an angry flush. “I hope ho is not worse," said Mrs. Hale, with more titan her usual languid gentle ness. “My mother is not here at present. Can I—can t«—this is my sister—do as well?” Without looking up he made a constrained recognition of Kate's presence, that, embar rassed and curt as it was, had none of the iwkwardness of rusticity. “Thank you; you're very kind. But my friend is a little stronger, and if you can lend me an extra horse I'll try to get him on the ttmnmit to-night.” “But you surely will not take him away from us so soon?” said Mrs. Hale, with a languid look of alarm, in which Kate, how ever, detected a certain real feeling. “Walt at least until my husband returns to-mor row.” “He won’t be here to-morrow,” said the stranger hastily. He stopped, and os quickly corrected himself. “That is, his business is •o very uncertain, my friend says.” Only Kate noticed the slip; but she noticed also that her sister wits apparently uncon scious of it “You think,” she said, “that Mr. Halo may be delayed?” Ho turned upon bar almost brusque! y. “I mean that it is already snowing up there;” be pointed through the window to the cloud Kate had noticed; “If it oonw. down lower in the past tbs roads will be blocked up. That is why it would be better for us to try and get on at ouce.” “But if Mr. Kale is kkely to he stopped by mow so are you,” said Mrs. Rais playfully; “and you had better let us try to make your friend comfortable hero rather than expose him to that uncertainty in his week con dition. We will do our best for hinsu My deter It dying for nn opportunity to •bow her skill in surgery,” she continued, with tn unexpected mischievousness that only *44*1 to Kate's surprised emberramraent 41 Aren’t you, KateP 4 Equivocal as tbs young girl polite evasion. Borne unaccountable impulse kept her constrained and speechless. The stranger did not, however, wait lor her reidy, but, casting a swift, hinged glanco around the room, said, “It’s impo *»b!o; we must go. In fact, I’ve already taken the lib erty to order the horses round. They ore at the door now. You may be certain,” he added with quick earnestness, suddenly lift ing his dark eyes to Mrs. Hale, and a* rabidly withdrawing thorn, “that your hors© will bo returned at once, and—and—we won t forget your kindness.” Ho stopped and turned to- ward tho hall. “I—I have brought my friend down stairs. Ho wants to thank you before be goes.” As he remained standing in the hall the two women stepped to tho door. To their surprise, half reclining on a cane sofa, was the wounded man, and what could bo Seen of his slight ilguro wss wrapped in a dark scrape. His beardless foes gave him a quaint boyishness quite inconsistent with tho mature lines of his temples and forehead. Pale, and in pain os he evidently was, his blue eyes twinkled with intense amusement. Not only did his manner offer a marked contrast to the somlxv* uneasiness of his companion, but he seemed to bo the only one perfectly at his ease in the group around him. “It’s rather rough making you come out hero to see mo off,” he said, with a not un musical laugh that was very infectious, ‘but Ned there, who carried me downstairs, wanted to tote me round the house in his arms like a baby to say ta-ta to you all. Ex cuse my not rising, but I feel as uncertain l)e* low os a mermaid, and os out of my ele ment,” he added, with a mischievous glance at his friend. “Nod concluded I must go on. But I must say good-by to the old lady first Ah! here she is.” To Kate’s complete bewilderment not only did the utter familiarity of this speech imss unnoticed and unrebuked by her sister, but actually her own mother advanced quickly with every expression of lively sympathy, and with tho authority of her yearn and an almost maternal anxiety endeavored to dis suade the invalid from going. “This is not my house,” she said, looking at her daugh ter, “but. if it were I should not hear of your leaving, not only to-night, but until you were out of danger. Josephine! Kate! What ore you thinking of to permit it? Well, then, / forbid it—there!” Had they become suddenly insane, or were they bewitched by this morose intruder and his insufferably familiar confidant? The man was wounded, it was true; they might have to put him up in common humanity; but here was her austere mother, who wouldn’t come in the room when Whisky Dick called on business, actually pressing both of tho invalid’s hands, while her sister, who never extended a linger to the ordinary visiting humanity of the neighborhood, looked on with evident complacency. The wounded man suddenly raised Mi's. Bcott’s hand to his lips, kissed it gently, and, with his smile quite vanished, endeavored to rise to his feet. “It’s of no use—we must go. Give me your arm, Ned. Quick! Are the horses there?” “Dear me,” said Mrs. Scott quickly, “I forgot to say tho hone cannot bo found any where. Manuel must have taken him this morning to look up tho stock. But he will be back to-night certainly, and if to-mor row”— The wounded man sank back to a sitting position. “Is Manuel your man?” he asked grimly. “Yes.” Tho two men exchanged glances. “Marked on his left cheek and drinks a good deal T “Yes,” said Kate, finding her voice. “Whyr The amused look came back to the man’s eyes. “That kind of man isn’t safe to wait for. We must take our own horse, Ned. Are you ready r “Yes.” The wounded man again attempted to lise. Ho fell back, but this time quite heavily. He had fainted. Involuntarily and simultaneously the three women rushed to his vide. “He cannot go,” said Kate, suddenly. inompson, m a state mem mt-nccu to ibere is a panther, wolves, shield the young man from the death pen- CO* of accident,’ in your amfuianec rules, I of Utc nwir,” sifid tnestranger, reed : ‘First ley the sufferer on his back end one is a grixzly inquCe bis name end family connections'? "ild'em, a [ox, and sene mountain goate” elty, declared It to have been th:iv daye. HMrVia, you can cell one ‘Ned’ end the other “An ill-assorted party,” said the voune cirl. Bo* Thompson's statement con;:. ! lets it- ‘George,’ it you Hite.” j “fll luck makes them conqiauions. .-<■1 „ They “Ob, you know whet I mean,” said Kate, *!*“ I 00 frightened to hurt one another now.” irrelerently. “tvi.i.4, i. tn m * n..i tll.'V ss-Si) .-..f- .-1.“-*f- . »4 I. 'Which is Gqorge?’ “George is th« wounded man,” said Mrs. Hale; “not the one who talked to you more than ho did to any one else. I suppose the poor man was frightened and read dismissal in your eyes.” “I wish John wore here.” But they will eat each uUier later on,” said Kate, cfc-jttit»g a glance at her companion. IIo lifted his long loshets and met her eyes. “Not on a haven of refuge.” (To be Continued.) self in iini>ortant particulars mid leaves the impression that Davit pasood bitweon Canada and Richmond on at least two sep arate missions, and the data at tho trial may have related to his first trip from Richmond to Canada and his last trip from Canada homeward. However, both the trial evidence and Thompson’s statement show that he made a return trip from the Confederate rendezvous in Canada to Co lumbus, and set out from therein the di- “I don’t think wo hart anything to fear in THE CONFEDERATE SPY , faction of fiftltimoto. bis absence from men whose only wish is to There were many points about the young get away from os. If it is a question of pro- j man to give him peculiar fitness for his priety, my dear Kate, surely there is the THROUGH THE. UNION LINES AND work; there was also a fatally weak spot pretence of mother to prevent any Krundol—' MANY PERILS. i in W» harness. lie was well bred and of prepossessing appearance. A native of R L. Dargan & Co., BoobMirs ami Mm, DABHNGTON, S. G. Schedule of the Hartsviile R. R. Uaktsvillk. 8. C., Dec. ’ 9. DAILY MIXED THAI Leaves Hartsviile, Leaves Jovann, Arrive at Floyd’s, Making connection with 6.4f) A. M. 7.80 “ 7.45 “ the South although i-colly her owu couduct with the wounded one is not above nixpicion,” she added, with that novel miucbiovonsnuw that seemed a return of her lost girlhood. “U’e must try to do toe bent we can with them and for them,’ she raid decidedly, “and mean time I’ll see if I can't arrange John’s room for them." “John’s room?’’ “6h, mother is perfectly satisfied; indeed, suggested it. It’s larger and will hold two beds, for ‘Ned,’ the fgiend, must attend to him at, night And, Kate, don’t you think, if you’re not going out again, you might change your costume? It docs very well while we are alone” “Well,” said Kate iadignrntly, “as I am not going into his room” T’ji not so sure about that, if wo can t get Daring ^tissioa of Officer to Ohio am! to Canada---Nar row Escape from the Gallows—Was This Another Andre Case? [Oopyriglu uy American Pm* Association ] IEUTKNAXT S. B. DAVIS, of the Confederate serv ice, probul lycame the m ;:r. st of any o fti c c i on either side i f playing the |role of tho Andre of the rebellion. He did not, it is true, lose his life in an attempt to negotiate for the surrender of an enemy’s fortress, as did the noted British Davis, and had the rcsiiect and confidence of the Confederate chieftains. Too young to havo attained prominence before the war, and never having served in the regular army, bis personality was not lUely to be known on the Uuion side of the lines. But he had served a long time on the staff of Gen. Winder, commander at AndersonviUe prls on, where many Union soldiers had seer, him often. Fortune favored him in his daring enter prise until his arrival, on what proved to be his final trip southward from Canada, at Newark, O. He was traveling in the pas senger cars of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road; had passed safely through Colum bus and other public centers most danger ous to him. At Newark two Union soldiers entered the car where tho disguised Confederate sat. They had been in AndersonviUe pris on, and after eying their fellow passenger for a time one ex-prisoner whispered in hii comrade’s ear, ‘There is Lieut Davis, ot AndersonviUe!’’ Both arose and, approaching Davis, one culled out bluntly to tho stranger, “Aren’t you Lieut. Davis?” ^ “No, sir; my name is Stewart! ’was the good lady wa* already in attondaiico on the «"ore, » “tate that did not swede, and cn pr . < ?vi’ t i .t ... tcred into the part he nlavcd on Ids own ' . ^ 03 * 3 011 aro Lieut. v „ . l*>i*ware. ho could mingle with northern p uriK)Sl conducting an establishment that will he a credit to Voui.r; CunfoUerato people without arousing suspicion. He: ^ ^ _ 1 _ ! was a distant relative of Jefferson Darlington County at the stand next door to Dr. Boyd’s Drug Store. bound passenger train on the Cheraw & Darlington Railroad. RETURNING. Leave Floyd's, 10.00 A. M. Leave Jovann. 10.30 “ Arrive at Hartsviile, 10.50 “ This train waits two hours, if necessa ry, for the North bound freight train on C. &. D. R. R. J. L. COKER. President. -O- -O- A full line of Stationery and School- Books always on hnad. FOB C. .4 1). AND C. & 9. RAILROADS Pbisidixt’s Ornas C. & D. AStrC. & 3. RAILROADS, Charleston, 3, C., May I, 1890. :■) a regular doctor. But lie is very restless, and wanders all over the house like u timid spy, but he was sentenced to bo hanged for and apologetic spaniel.” 1 complicity, under disguise, in negotiations “Who?” between citizens of the United States and “Why‘Ned.’ But I must go and look after ConfederaU officials in Richmond and in the patient. I .oppose they’ve got him safe ' Cunmlnfor the delivery of the states of in i.i« it^i «a i. Ohio, Illinois and Indiana and certain mil- s T !!! ' T 41 W,th B n0d 10 '* r ‘ iv itary position, on the lakes into the power she tripped up stana vf organized and armed emissaries of tho Uncomfortable and endtarrossed, she knew south, led by Confederate officers, not why, Kate sought her mother. But that Limit. Davis wiwbut S4, a native of Del uatient and Kate tuiri i.sl (h it i tcrod into the part he played on his own 1 , 1 u*’ Juu aro iaeut. Davis, and you had patient, and Kate huii led past that baleful I110 ,|„ n i charge of the prison when 1 was In Auder- center of attraction with a feeling of loneli ness and strangeness she bail never expe- j rienced before. Entering her own room she went to tho window—that first and last ref uge of the troubled mind—and gazed out. Turning her eyes in the direction uf her morning’s walk, she started buck with a sense of being dazzled. She rubbed first her eyes and then the rain-dimmed pone. It was no illusion! The whole landscape, so familiar to ' her, was one vast field of dead, colorless white! Trees, rocks, even distance itself, had vanished in those few hours. Au even, shadowiest, motionless white sea filled the horizon. On either side a vast wall of snow seemed to shut out tho world like a shroud. Only the green plateau before her, with its sloping meadows and fringes of pines and cottonwood, lay alone like a summer island in this frozen sea. A sudden desire to view this phenomenon The full details of the Northwestern con spiracy, as the scheme of the plotters in the south and in Canada is called, have, never been collected, but, in the outline i questioners would not given two years ago in a southern military Confederate yielded nn< •envlite,” persisted the soldier. A crowd of passengers quickly smH ounded the par ties and seeing that his stubborn cross- be convinced, tho and said more closely, and to learn for herself the • Morgan’s follower magazine by Capt. Thomas II. Hines,. enough is disclosed to show the purposes ; Davis, of the movement, the methods used and the identity of its chief abettors. Capt. Hines was one of Gen. John H. Morgan’s band, and with that noted leader had raided Indiana and Ohio, and after de feat and capture had escaped from tho peniten tiury at Columbus, O. lie was the mili tary leader assigned by the Confederate government to command the forces eu gaged in developing the conspiracy. Capt. Hines’ instructions were written at Richmond, March 10, 1801, and by their terms he was to be !il)cra!!y supplied with money, pass the United States to Canada, co.*.. r.in tho states “with the leading persons friendly or attached to the cause of the Confederacy,” collect all of Well, boys, you’ve got me. I am Lieut. -O- Law Blanks in great variety. -o- -o- This is tlu* place to buy your ledgers and blayk books of all kind at the lowest market prices. Sporting Headquarters! Base Ball Supplies, Croquet sets, Ham mocks, etc. On ami after May 12, the traini on these roads will run as follow*. S-unda / ex- ccptcd)every day: DOW* TRAIN. ! Leave Wadesboro Bcnnells Morven’s McFarland Leave Cheraw Cash', Society Hilt . 7 13 Dove's . 7.30 Floyd's Darlington . 7.60 Palmetto : Arrive at Florence . 8 16 UP TRAIN. Leave Florence 8.10 P M Palmetto 8 25 Darlington 8.86 Floyd's 8.40 Dove's 8.0® Society Hill 9.12 Cash's 9 17 A LARGE LINE OF HANDSOME BOOKS SUITABLE FOR PRESENTS. LeavtCheraw 9.43 McFarlan 10.08 Morven’i 10 20 Bennett’s 10.85 Laks Waiiesbortf. ...11.00 Freight Train going up. P M Any book not in stock will be ordered out on a few day’s notice at catalogue prices. Leave Florence 8 11> » m Arrive Darlington 9 05 a ni Freight going ‘lown Arrive DarlinSton 3.00 p m Leave Darlington 8 30 p m Arrive Florence 4.10 p m limits of this new tethered life, completely possessed her, and, accustomed to act upon her independent impulses, she seized a hooded waterproof cloak and slipped out of tho house unperceived. The rain was falling steadily along the descending trail where she walked, but beyond, scarcely a mile utToss the chasm, the wintry distance began to confuse her brain with the inextricable swarming of snow. Hurrying down with feverish excite- [ ada in May, 1864, and Capt. Hines was or- incut, she at last came in sight of the arching dcrc ‘ l to report to and Iw governed by it in granite* [Hiitals of their domain. But tier first ; ot^hi’* operations. It was soon docidcd, had escaped to Canada and any other Confederates there desirous of re-entering the service, and. by such n cans os he could command, effect “an; fair and appropriate enterprises of war” against tho enemies of tho Confeder ucy. About the same time a commission, headed by Jacob Thompson,was dispatched from Richmond to Canada to net under secret instructions from the Confederate authorities. This commission reached Can- “Fbu cannot po,” said Kate, suddenly, “He will be better in n moment.” “But oniv for • moment. Will nothing in duce you to change your mind?” As if in reply a sudden gust of wind brought a volley of rain against the window. “That will,” said the stranger bitterly. “The rain?” “A milc.from here it is snow; and Ijefore we could reach the Summit with these horses the road would he impassable.” He made a slight gesture to himself, as if accepting an inevitable defeat, and turned to his companion, who was slowly reviving under the active ministration of tho two women. The wounded man looked around with a weak smile. “This is one way of going off,” he said faintly, “but I could do this sort of thing as well on the road.” “You can do nothing now,” said his friend, decidedly. “Before wo get to the Gate the rood will lie impassable for our horses." “For any horses?” asked Kate. “For any liorecs. For any man or beast, I might say. Where wo cannot get out no one can get in,” he added, as if answering her thoughts. “I am afraid that you won't see your brother to-morrow morning. But I’i! reconnoiter, as 1 can do so without torturing him," he said, looking anxiously at the help- 1 ( «9 man; “he’s got about his share of pain, I reckon, and the first tiling is to get him easier.” It was the longest speech lie hod made to her; it was tho first time lie had fairly looked her la the face. His shy rest lessness hod suddenly given way to dogged resignation, less abstracted, but scarcely more flattering to his entertainers. Lifting his companion gently in his arms, as if ho had been o child, he reas:-ended the staircase, Mrs. Bcott and the hastily summoned Molly following with overflowing solicitude. As soon as they were alone in the l»i !or Mrs Hale turned to her sister: “Only that our gucsta seemed to he os anxious to go now as you were to pack them off I should have been shocked at your inhoepitality. What baa come over you, Kate! Thceo ore the very people you have reproached me »o often with not being civil enough to.” “But who ore they?” “How do I know? There in your brother’s letter.” Sho usually spoke of her husband os “John.” This slight shifting of reationship and re sponsibility to tbs fcminlns mind was signifi cant Kate was a little frightened and ra- morssfuh “I only meant you don’t even know their glance through the gateway showed it closed as if with a white portcullis. Kate remem bered that the trail began to ascend beyond the arch, ami knew that what sho saw was only tho mountain side sho had partly climbed this morning. But tho snow had crept down its flank, and the exit by trail was prac tically closed. Breathlessly making her way back to tho highest part of tho plateau—the cliff behind the house that hero descended ab ruptly to the rain-dimmed valley—sho gazed at the dizzy depths in vain for some undiscov ered or forgotten trail along its face. But a single glance convinced her of its inacces sibility. Tho gateway was indeed their only outlet to the plain below. She looked back at the falling snow beyond until she fancied she could see in the crossing and recrossing lines the moving meshes of a fateful web woven around them by viewless but inex orable fingers. Half frightened, she was turning away, when she perceived, a few paces distant, the figure of the stranger, “Ned,” also apparently absorbed in the gloomy prospect He was wrapped in the clinging folds of a black ser&po braided with silver; tho broad flap of a slouched hat beaten back by the wind ex posed tho dark, glistening curls on his white forehead. He was certainly very handsome and picturesque, and that apparently without effort or consciousness. Neither was there anything in his costume or appearance in consistent with his surroundings, or even with what Kate could judge were his habits or position. Nevertheless she instantly de cided that he was too handsome and too pic turesque, without suspecting that her ideas of the limits of masculine beauty were merely personal experience. As he turned away from the cliff they were brought face to face. “It doesn’t look very encouraging over there,” he said, quietly, as if tho inevitablenees of the sittiation had re lieved him of his previous shyness and effort; “it’s even worse than I expected. The snow must have begun there last night, and it looks os if it meant to stay.” He stopped for a moment, and then, lifting his eyes to her, ■aid: “I suppose you know what this means?” “I don’t understand you.” “I thought not Well! it means that you are absolutely cut off bore from any commu nication or intercourse with any one outside of that canyon. By this time the snow is five feet deep over the only trail by which one can pass in and out of that gateway. I am not alarming you, I hope, for there U no real physical danger ; a place like this ought to be well garrisoned, and certainly is self-sup porting so far as the mere necessities and even comforts are concerned. You have wood, water, cattle and game at your com mand, but for two weeks at least you are completely isolated.” “For two weeks,” said Kate, growing pale— “and my brother?* “He knows all by this time and is prob ably as assured as I am of the safety of his family.” “For two weeks,” continued Kate, “impossi ble ! You dob t know tey brother! He will thiil some way to get to us.” “I hope so,” returned the granger, grave ly “for what is ooenble for him is nossible for u*.* “Then you are anxious to get away,” Kate could not help saying. “Very.” The reply was not discourteous in manner, but was so far from gallant that Kate felt a new and inconsistent resentment. Before she could say anything he added, “And I says Capt. Hines, “to utilize tho feeling existing in tho western and border states inimical to the administration (Lincoln’s) and to organize it for active and practical opposition.” The political disaffection in the territory named had given rise to a somi-military circle called the “Sons of Liberty,” which the grand commander, Clement L. Val- laudigham, of Ohio, represented as num bering SOO.OOOmcn. Of these 85,000 were in Illinois, 50,000 in Indiana and 40,000 in Ohio. Capt. Hines met Mr. Vallandigham at Windsor, Canada, where the latter was living in exile under a commutation by President Lincoln of his sentence to close confinement in a military prison for acts of treason, and secured information as to the forces under his control. This was early in June, and a few days later Vallandig ham returned home to Ohio. The Confederate party in Canada wished the whole tendency of the Vallandigham movement to be directed to the establish ment of a separate confederacy of north western states, to keep up a lire on the Union rear as an ally of the Southern Con federacy, but they did not disclose such a purpose openly. They hoped to see the “Sons of Liberty” breakout in open revolt in the states. Then, it was believed, an al liance with tho Confederates for open war would be welcomed by them. In July Thompson wrote from Canada to the Rich mond government that while the western confederacy he was fostering was to first demand of tho Union party peace, with In dependence for^the southern Confederate states, yet if such peace was not granted then war at home would be the remedy. All summer plotting went on, and dates were fixed at various times in July, Au gust and September for the uprising in the states. The Confederates in Canada were armed and divided into two commands, one to raid Camp Douglas, near Chicago, and release the Confederate prisoners there, and the other to do similar duty at the Rock Island prison. The 20th of August was selected for a Chicago emeute. It was the opening of the national Democratic convention, and Val landigham was to be on hand with subor hope you will remember, whatever may hap pen, that I did my bert to avoid xtayingJiere i longer than wax necessary to keep my friend from bleeding to death In the road.” “Certainly," xoid Kate; then added awk wardly, “I hope he’ll be better xoon." Bhe was Aleut, and then, quickening her pace, ■aid hurriedly, “I must tell my drier this dreadful new*.” “I think ahe ia prepared for it. If three it anything I can do to help you I hope yon will let me know. Pre-hop* I may beat fame service. I •hall begin by exploring the treib to-morrow, for the bmt rerviee we can do you possibly is to take oorselvee off; bat I con carry a gun, and the woods ere full ol game driven down from the mountains Let me “That wasn’t neoreeary for giving than a bsd and bondages Do you suppose the good Samaritan over asked the wounded Jew’s name, and that the Levite did not txcum because the thieves hod token the “AUEN’T YOU LIEUT. DAVIS?” dinute military leaders of the “Sons of Liberty.” The Canadian party, fully armed, reached the city, and were joined by bands of Confederate partisans from Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, all in disguise, but fully equipped and officered. An unlocked for increase of the Union garrisons at tho prisons just at this time, the detection and arrest of several prom i nent Confederate officers and the hike warmness of tho “Sons of Liberty” for overt acts caused a postponement. From that time on until the presidential election Thompson's emissaries were busy and there was more or leas war along the border under his direction. Tho entire re gion of the Canada line was placed under strict Ugion surveillance and hundreds of persons were arrested. It was In this ex citing period that Davis, a commissioned officer of the Confederate army, appeared on the scene in disguise, the bearer over Union territory, as he confessed on his j trial, of important dispatches between the j Confederate government at Richmond ami the northwestern plotters. It appears from the evidence educed on , his trial and the admissions made by his friends ia order to secure executive clem ency that soium time after the failure of i Capt. Hines' expedition at Chicago Lieut. Davis volunteered to act os a messenger between Richmond and Canada. He was . provided with a British passport under an assumed aame, had his hair dyed, and put, on citizen's dress. The regular route of ; coinmunichtion between Richmond an. , Canada was by steamer via Bermuda, but j for some reason never yet explained Davis 1 went from Richmond to Daitimore, and from there to Columbus, O., where he cer tainly communicated with people of sus-1 "X DO SOT FEAR TO DIE.” Tho provost marshal of Newark was summoned, and tho prisoner was speqjiily hurried to the common jail. A search of his person failed to disclose any secret papers, and he was left in the main room with a number of ordinary county crim inals. Soon after the military had left the place the stranger was seen to remove from inside his coat lining a number of dis patches and drawings upon white silk, and to burn them in the fire which was blazing in an open stove. Tho link that would have removed all doubt as to his purnoses and condemned him to instantaneous death was thus hopelessly destroyed. Ohio was in the military department of Gen. Hooker, and Lieut. Davis was put under guard and held for court martial as a spy. His defense was that he was a bearer of dispatches. Tho court martial held that his presence in the Union lines in disguise constituted the offense for which the penalty is death. When tho evidence was all iu and tho case clear against him, the prisoner rose, facing the officers and witnesses, every one wearing the colors of his mortal enemies and some of them scarred with the conflicts in which he and his own had been pitted against them. There was no reason to expect mercy and he did not ask it. After stating his case briefly, he looked over his accusers and judges, and said: “I do not fear to die. I am young and would like to live, but I deem him unworthy who should ask. pity of his foemen. Some of you have wounds and scars. I can show them, too. You are serving your country as best you may, I have done the same. I can look to God with a clear conscience; and whenever the chief magistrate of this nation shall say ‘Go ’ whether upon the scaffold or by the bullets of your soldiery, I will show you how to die.” The sentence was that he be confined in the military prison at Johnson Island, in loake Erie, until the 17th of February, 1865, then “to he hung by tho neck until he is dead.” Just before the day arrived the condemned wrote to the judge advocate of the court martial askiug that one or more members of the court witness the execu tion. “Gome and see it done,” said he. “and you shall have the satisfaction of knowing that you hung a brave man.” During the night of the 16th of February, when all preparations had been made anu Davis had, as he believed, beheld the lust sunset on earth, a reprieve came from President Lincoln. Influential citizens of Ohio, Delaware and the south now set to work to have him pardoned and treated as a prisoner of war. Jacob Thomp son avowed that he knew all of the con tents of the dispatches carried by tho con demned and that they were not of hostile import. Powerful friends pleaded that the youth, bravery and noble bearing of the unfortu nate victim of war, and the fact that he ac complished no fell purpose, should be held as sufficient grounds for remitting the death penalty. But the dispatches which alone could reveal the nature of his mis sion had been burned by his own hand. Ke was placed in a dungeon at Fort War ren. Boston harbor, and before the reprieve ended the war closed. Then Mr. Stanton, secretary of war, “ very reluctantly ” per mitted him to go free. To the end he kept the secret of his mission to Ohio. Geouge Ia. Kilmko. Everything You Want in the Stationery Line, O^UST BE BOTTG-nT -A.T THE DARLINGTON BOOK STORE. Terms Cash : R. L. DARGAN & CO,, Proprietors. September 4,1890. Read these prices, Call at .EAR HENRY H. SMITH, Real Estate Agent, Florence St., Darlington, S. C. o Special attention paid totlie buying and gelling of real extato, collection of rents, &c. The strictest attention will "be paid to all business entrust ed to me. March 27, 1890—ly 1,000 yards assorted Worsteds at 10 eta, worth 20 to 40cts A full line Cashmeres at 12J and 15 cts. We arestill run ning our famous 25 cts. yard wide Cashmere in all shades more popular than ever this season. 45-inch Henrietta at 50 cents. A large line of Black Goods consisting of Cashmeres, Henriettas and Imported Reps from 15 to $1 per yard. A well selected stock of Ladies’ and Misses’ Wraps consisting of Jackets, Modjeskas and New Markets. A specially large line of Staple Dry Goods, and Notions at prices that move them rapidly. SHOES. Our line of Shoes is large and complete and well adapted to the wants of the people. We continue to maintain our reputation for selling solid goods. Gents’ Furnishing Goods Our success in the Gents’ Furnishing Goods Department war rant us in the belief that oui Clothing and Hats Men’s, Youths’ and Roys’ suit the people, both as to quality and price. We carry always in stock a full line of Hardware, Crockery, Tin, Harness, &c. GROCERIES. The Grocery Department is large and kept well supplied, at Rock-bottom prices. HARDWARE. At the Hardware Store, Managed by J. H. Early, is kept Stoves, Sewing Machines, Pumps; Gins, Belting Steam Engines, &c., in fact everything that comes under the head of machinist’s supplies. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. October 31,1889. A. F. RAVENEL, Pre». 0 II Mailer TranaporlitioD. SOUTHEASTERN RAILROAD OiiARLCgTOX, S. C. t May 1, 18‘.() On ami after this date the following schedule will be run : GOING SOUTH. No. 27, Daily. Leave Florence *1 36 a m Leave Kingslree 2 29 a m Arrive Lancs 2 60 a m Leave Lanes 2 60 a m Aprive Charleston 6 00 a m No. 28, Daily. Leave Florence *8 30 a m Leave Kingslree tl 411 a o Arrive Lanes 10 07 a i Leave Lanes 10 07 at Arrive Charleston 11 59 a m No 63. Leave Lanes * *7 60 P. M, Arrive Charleston 9 80 p. m. Train on C A D K R conn els at Flor- tnee with No 23 Train. GOING NORTH, No, 78, Daily. Leave Charleston *1 20 a m Arrive Lanes 3 00 a n Leave Lanes 3 00 a m Leave Kiugstree 3 17 a m Arrive Florence 4 20 a m No. 14. Leare Cnarleiion Arrive Lanes Leave Lancs Leave Kingslree Arrive Florence ‘4 50 p in b 29 p in « 29 p iu I! 4(i P HI 7 55 p in No. 52, Daily. Leave Charleelon *7 00 a Arrive Lanes 8 27 a * Daily, f Daily except Sun Nos 52 runs through to Ooiumb via Central R R of S C. Not. 78 and 14 run solid to WHmingtoi N. C., making dole connection with W. W R R for all points north. J. R. KENLY, J. F. Diviss, Supt. Trans. Gcn’l Sup’ T. M. Ehibson, Oen’l Pass. Agt. ULSIXCTON COLIIBIA AM AlUSTA RAIU May i, 1890. 00INQ SOUTH No. 28. Leave Wilmington Leave Marion Arrive Florence Leave Florence Arrive Snmler Leave Sumter Arrive Columbia Leave Wilmington Leave Marion Arrive Florence No. 50. No. 27 *0 15 p m 9 33 p m 10 20 a m 3.20 a u 4.u6 a re 4 35 a m 0. 16 a in *10.10 p ■ 12.40 p m 1 20 a m No 62 Leave Sumter | 9 45 a m Arrive Columbia 10 66 p m No 68 Leave Florence f8 25 a a Arrive Sumter 9 85 a m No 52 rune through from Charleaten via Central R U. Leaving Lanei 8 80 A M., Manning 9 10 A M. Train on C & D R U conneoti at Florence with No 58. GOING NORTH. No 61. (?. s. mm & Manufacturers —OF— Doors, Sash, Blums, * IMIOTJIzIDIIsrGIS —AND- Building Material. ESTABLISHED 1842. CHARLESTON, S. C. April, 20 1889-1 <£lK Punk of PiuliiifltuH, HAS OPENED A SA-XTINGtS 333NTT, And from and after this date will receive deposits of One Dol lar and upwards, and pay quarterly interest on the same, at the rate of five per cent, per annum, under regu lations to be made known at the Bank. This is a favorable opportunity for Farmers, Clerks, /.cave Columbia. •10 36 p n Arrive Sumter 11 68 p n, i Leave Snmler 1168 pm I Arrive Florence 1 15 a m Leave Florence, No. 78. 4 35 a m Leave Marion 5 20 a m l Arrive at Wilmington, 8 35 a ■ No. 69 Leave Sumter ffi 37 p m 7 50 p m Arrive Florence No. 68, Leave Colombia •5 20 pm Arrive Snmler No 14 C32p m Leave Florence *8 15 p m Leave Marion 8 65 p m Arrive at Wilmington 11 45 p m Mechanics ■bow yore ooBorililng yoo may not havo . . ( , io - U( , c | iarat ter at tha time, aotfoed.” Ho (topped and pointed to a renall Froin Coiumbu* be went to Detroit, and knoll of sheltered ihrubhery and granite on froal there to Wind*or, Canada, where he the appealte rv—"t* 1 ", which rtill remained nle t Thompson and other Confederate em | hUckoiainri the reuToandlng mow. It imariee. How long he remained iu Canada | “Thwart wad animate driven out 1 Factory Operatives, To Save Their Earnings. Laborers, Attention Mechanics! fell W. C. COKER, All persons in need of babbitt metal j Prftsidftflt caw purchase it cheap at The Dak-| riOSJUBin. lihoto.n Nkws office. Darlington, S. C., June 18, ’89. June 12, ’90—tf I BRIGHT WILLIA2JS0E, Cashier. “Daily, f Daily except Sunday. No 63 run, through t* Chariest jn, via Oentral R U, arriving Manning 7 04 P 1. Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 80 P M. No 69 conueeK at Florence with CAD train for Uberaw and Wadesboro’. Nos 78 and 14 make oloie connection at Wilmington with W & W R R for all point* North. Train on Florence R. R. leave Pee Dee ; daily except Sanday 4.40 P. M., arrive Rowland 7.00 P. M. Returning leave Rowland 0.80 A. M., arrive Pee Dee 8.60 A.M. Train ou Manchester A Augusia R. I leaves Sumter daily except Sunday. 10.50 A. M.. arrive Rimini 12.01P.M. R- turning leave Rimii.i 19.16 P. M . rive Sumter 1.80 P. M. JOHN P. D1VINK, G«u. Sop’t.