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Qtm$thm$ gemocht. SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietor*. ,subbcr?p-mon. Ono Year...?.SI .HO Six Months.1.00 Ministers of the Gospel.1.00 Advertiskmentb. First Instcrtlon.81.00 Each Subsequent Insertion.50 Liberal contracts made for 3 month and over. JOT3 OS^ICIE JS PREPARED TO JDO.AJX KINDS OF Jo1j> IPrinting The r?a!S <w ? Peaceful and Honored Citizen of ihe Stato. It Is with tho profoundest grief and regret that we announce tho fall of William M. Shannon, Esq., of Ker sjuaw, in n duel with Colonel Cash, of Chesterfield. Mr. Shannon was a peaceful and nobly good citizen, who had lived a useful and honorable life for sixty years. With, perfect truth can it bo said of him that no man in Uie State was more respected, more beloved, rnore honored than he. Surrounded by a largo family^?a wife aud thir teen .children?he had ripened into an honored and honorable life, a man whom none associated with the "bloody code.7' He was summoned to tho field, as we are informed, as in connection with matters growing out of his professional duties in a cause in court, and declined to an swer an invitation calling him to ac count, personally, for the discharge of what he esteemed his proper profes sional duties. Upon assuming this position he wag pronounced, and, as we are informed, published as a cow ard. An imperious custom directly in the face of the law of the Slate re quired Mr. Shannon, uuder Buch cir cumstances, to defend his aggrieved honor, and he falls at the hands of his adversary on the field, his life blood flowing from his person, in plain and unqualified violation of the law of the land. To our apprehension it is too late now to discuBS the rightfulncss or wrongfulneBS of what is called the "Code of Honor." The Slate has solemnly pronounced against it in the plainest possible provisions of the law. It is pot competent, according to our understanding of civilized rule, for tho individual citizen to gainsay a law because he or others may hold (and perhaps honestly) that it is an unwise, hurtful law. He who violates the plain law must justify himself un der the law or be content to Buffer the penalties it imposes. He who assumes to be superior to the law of the socio-?, -?^tyMn^wUich'-'uCrlive? takes this opHolfli ' and he must so mean when he refuses obedience to its plain commands. The question, too, with the sworn officials pf the Stnte is not whether they deem the law best served in the breach than in the observance thereof, but whether they are entrusted, un der oath, with cnoosing which laws they will enforce and which they will not. It is a solemn question, but it is one which must be met with calm, unflinching, courageous faithfulness. The Anti-pucling Society now has a practical case presented to it with which it may deal. If the law of the I State against duelling is plain and un qualified, and the sovereign power of the State has through the Legislature so declared, all that remains "is to enforpe the law, and for the citizens to demand, in the high defense of so ciety, that the law be enforced." On the other hapd, if it be impossible to enforce the law, let it be stricken from the statute book as an expres sion of our civilization, which is in conflict with the lecognized demands of society. But if th:s code of blood bo wrong, and the body politic are unwilling to forego the law of the land as it now stands, let ail know who live under this law that the law cf the State means what it gravely eaith, and must be obeyed ; that the tribunals of justice will in no event shield the transgressor in deference to the opinions of a few who may possibly hold their right to personal vengeance to be higher than the law. If tho State has tho right to curb the passions of its citizens and to say to one in one case, thus far shalt thou go, and beyond it you are solemnly forbidden to go under the penalties of the law, even unto the death penalty, and it so saith and so enforces in the one case without respect of persons ; and it hath the right and doth equally so say in another case it seems to us to bo trifling with our civilization and the most solemn securities of civilized society to enforce the one require ment and forego the other; for it is to assume in the latter case that there are opinions or individuals in the State above tho law, and hence above the State, and only beholden to obey its behests so far as they choose to do so, or so far as they agree with the State in the rightfulncss of its re quirements. Ith* but just to say here that we have no personal feeling in this mat ter save that of a citizen prepared to defend the law of the State against a sort of public sentiment which fearful ly misplaces good and law-abiding citizens at tho demand of those who assume tho right to require the citi zen to disobey the law under which he lives or Buffer tho penalties of a bloody, merciless and barbarous cus tom. - - We would not sec any man pur sued vindictively, but if it be necessa ry to defend the law in the person of an offender this wc would see done calmly, firmly and relentlessly to the high defense of the law as surely as God Mveth, without respect of persons or personal consequences.? Columbia Register. A True Lady. I WiUlncss is a thing which girls can | not afford. Delicacy is a thing which cannot he lost or found. No art can i restore the grape its bloom. Famil iarity, without confidence, without regard, is destructive to all that makes woman exalting and enno bling. Tlio world ih wtdo, IliGftG Illings sxro. Rinall ; Tlicy limy lie. nolhiiiK l??t Uie\ arc till. Nothing? Jt i*thc first duty of a woman to be a lady. Good breeding is good sense. Bad manners in a woman is immorality. Awkwardness may be ineradicable. Bashfulncss is constitutional. Ignorance of etiquette is the result of circumstances. All can be condoned and not banish men or women from the amenities of their kind. But self-possessed, uiishiink ing and aggressive coarseness of 'de meanor may be reekom d as a State's prison offence, and certainly merits that mild sort of restraint called im prisonment for life. It is a shame for women to be lectured on their manners. It is a bitter shame that they need it. Women arc the um pires of society. It is they to whom all mooted points should be referred. To be n lady is more than to be a prince. A lady is always in her right inalienably worthy of respect. To a lady, prince or peasant alike bow. Do not be restrained. Do not have impulses that need restraint./ Do not_ wish to dance with the prince un sought ; feel differently. Be sure yon confer honor. Carry yourself so loft ily that men will look up to you for reward, and not at you in rebuke. Tbc natural sentiment of man toward woman is reverence. He loses a large means of grace when bo is obliged to account her a being to be trained in propriety. A man's ideal is not wounded when a woman fails in wisdom ; but if in grace, in tact, in sentiment, in delicacy, in kindness, she would be found want ing, he receives an inward hurt.?Gail Hamilton. Another lor Hancock. Mr. Jerome, the prominent Repub lican who has recently declaied him self for Hancock, said recently to a New York World reporter: "So far as my letter goes, the responses from my family and friends have been abundant and inosc complete. I have received numerous letters from many Republicans of prominence who de clare that they agree with me abso lutely in the sentiments of my letter, and that they will support General Hancock to their utmost. I hope it will not prostrate Jones on a bed of sickness, but I nm going to organize a Hancock club in the twenty-fourth ward. My *vanity* just now is to see the twenty-fourth made the banner Hancock ward of the country. I do not believe that there is a single man of intelligence in the ward who will vote against Hancock next Novem ber. Mark you that. The Tribune, I too, has something to say of my letter j and me as a "cold-nosed Republican." As to that, I said in my letter that I had been a Republican and I spoke the truth. I voted for Hayes in 187G, and I contributed funds to aid in his election. I did the same for Cornell when he was chosen Governor, and the Tribune, may attack my record in that respect as much as it pleases. It may amuse the paper and it can't hurt the facts!" Atlanta is agitating the construc tion of a canal from the Chattahoochee river, so as to furnish the city with increased water power sufficient for manufacturing purposes. The length of the canal from the Chattahoochee river to tho Sewancc will be about thirty-one miles. The canal can be built at n cost of gl8,000 per mile at present prices, making the entire cost of tho work from $l,5>?0,000 to $1, 400,000. Night Life of Yonng Men. One night often destroys a whole life. The leakage of the night keeps tho day forever empty. JjHgbt is sin's harvesting lime. More sin and crime arc committed in one night than all the days of tho week. This is more amphatically true in tho city than in the 'Country. Tiie streot lamps, like a Glc of soldiers, with a torch in hand, stretch away in long lines on either sidewalk ; the gay-col ored transparencies are ablaze with attractions, the saloon and billiard halls brilliantly illuminated ; the gay company begin to gather to houses of pleasure ; the gambling deno are a/lame with palatial splendor; tho theaters arc wide open ; the mills of destruction arc grinding health, hon or, happiness, hope out of thousands of lives. The city under gaslight.is not the satrc as under God's sunlight. The allurements and perils and pit falls of night arc a hundred fold deep er and darker and more destructive. Night life in oar cities is a dark pro blem, whose depth,and abysses and j whirlpools make us start back with , horror. All nightlong tears arc full*, iug, blood is streaming. Young men tell me where you spend your evenings, and I will write out the chart of your character and final destiny, with blanks to insert your names. It seem9 to me an ap propriate text would Im "Watchman what of the night?" Policeman, pacing thy beat, what of the nigh? What are tho youny men of the city (loins at night? Where do they spend their evenings? Who are their assoeiutbs? What are their habits? Where do the}*'go in and what lime, do you sec them come out? Policemen, would the night life of young men commend them to tho confidence of their employers?? Would it he to their credit? Make a record of the nights of one week. Put in the morning paper the names of all the young men, their hahi's and haunts, that arc on the street forv sinful pleasure. Would there not be shame and confusion?) Some would not dare to go to their places of business; sonic would not return home at night; some would leave the city ; some would commit suicide. Remember young men, that in the retina of the all seeing Eye there is nothing hid but shall be revealed on the last day.?Christian Standord Pearson for Hancock. Gen. A. L. Pearson, a recognized Republican leader of Pillsburg, Pa. has declared for Hancock. lie is Chairman of the Republican Commit tee of Pillsburg, and was recenty Stale's Attorney, has been a stanch friend of Ihe C.amcrons, and laoored for the nomination of General Giant at Chicago. General Pearson went into the late war as a captain and came out a major-general. He ad dressed a Democratic ratification meeting at Grcenburg, Pa., Friday evening, and predicted that Hancock would not only bo elected, but that he would carry Pennsylvania. Gen end Pearson has addressed a lettor to General U. S. Grant, Crnirman of the [Union Veterans' National Committee resigning his connection with the committee, "having reluctantly come to the conclusion that the influence I of the great historic party is ended, ! and ought to end ; that those who pretend to keep up its organization are doing so for office and gain, and that its encouragement of sectional hate is a constant menace to the Uni on." General Pearson has also ten dered his resignation as Chairman of the City Republican Executive Com mittee of Piltsburg. Hanged. CHARLESTON, S. C. July 0.?Daniel Washington, a'ias Carter, a notori ous negro desperado and leader of a a gang of outlaws and horse thieves who infested this and adjoining coun ties for several years, was hanged nt 11.30 to-day for the murder of Allen Collins, a colored witness who had been summoned to testify against him in a horse stealing case. Tho mur der was committed September 1.1th, 1877, but Washington was not cap tured till in the early part of 1879. He was convicted and sentenced to death but appealed and the appeal being decided unfavorably he was hanged to-day. The execution was conducted in private and death was immediate. In his last momenfc ho was attended by two Catholic clergy men. Two Girls' Horriblo Death. Pqtxjiikkf,i'3IB, July C.?It was only a brief dispatch that told of a terri ble accident on the draw bridge on the Hudson River Railroad trek, near Dutches Junction, yesterday morning. Little Bella Crismier was the daugh ter of Hary Jane Williams by a for mer husband. She was G years of age. In compau}' with Annie Brad ley, her half-sister, who is 14 years old, and Mary O'Brien, a playmate 8 years old, she started "at 10 in tiie morning for a ramble/*-T/hoir home is situated just North of the draw bridge. On the East side of ti?o bridge, at a place called Byrnsville, ia an old mill, whore tJic lif.Ue ones were accustomed to play. It was for this mill they started, and they had to cross the draw-bridgo in order to reach it. They were on the down track. Suddenly one of them turned as they got on the bridge, and saw a freight train coming from the North. All three stepped across on the up track to get out of the way of the ap proaching train. iTuSKpjthen Annie Bradley looked Southland saw tho Saratogo express coining North on Ihe same track that they were on. At this time little Mary O'Brien was a little distance from thetn ; and nearer to the approaching tram than they were. Annie cried out to the O'Bri en girl to burr}' back ofT the bridge, and taking Bella Crismier by the hand, started back with her. The engineer of tlhc Saratoga express, Archie Buchanan, saw them, but it was *oo lato, lie rovcrsed his nn gino a' d the air brakes toere applied, but all to no purpose.- The engine struck the little O'Bricjf girl first and every car on the train ran over her. It next Btruck Bella Crismier, and the engine and every car ran Over her. Annie Bradley was onjeiho East side and had just stepped oft' the end of the bridge, and received only a slight bruise on the ankle. \ As soon as possible -the cars were stopped, and the trairfMfcnd3 picked up the remains of tifejDj|rb^rerit{/.'c5. Thcir skulls were cruslico, and their legs and arms were ground to pieces. All that could he found of the remains were placed on the side of the track, and Coroner Schenck, of Mnsteawan, was given notice and held an inquest, the jury returning a verdict in accor dance with Ihe pitiful facts. The main witness was Andie Bradley, and her testimony was given at the home of the dead children, amid the shrieks and moanings of tho parents, and was to a certain extent incoherent. Cor oner Schenck did not deem it, impor tant to summon Engineer Archie Bu chanan as a witness, although he could probably have told a much clearer story of the horrible alfair. Other evidence showed that the train men did all In their power to avert the calamity. The funeral of the victims occurred to-day and was attended by a large number of people. Mary O'Brien had a mother but no lather. A Sad Case. Danville, Va., July 9.?Last night about midnigh Thomas D. Dcjarnette entered a bagnio and enquired for Mollie Dcjarnette, nn inmate thereof. She appeared, recognized him as her brother, and at his request went with him(to a private room. A few minutes afterward repeated pistul shots were heard from the room. The police were called in and found the door fastened. They broke it down and discovered the girl lying on the floor weltering in blood, her brother stand ing by her, pistol in his hand. He immediately confessed having shot her and averred he had done it to wipe out the disgrace of his family by his sister's conduct. Ho surren dered himself to the officers and has been committed to jail, He declares his willingness to accept the i cnalty of the law. A medical examination showed that the girl was shot in five places, two wounds at least being necessarily fatal, and that she cannot survive. She protests that her broth er was right in taking her life, and begs that he be not punished. On their separation after the tragedy Ihe brother and sister embraced with mu tual forgiveness and tears of grief. The girl is only 17 years old and went wrong bu*., a few months since. She is remarkably intelligent and fine looking. Her brother is about 20 and is a railroad agent and telegraph operater at Brown Summit, N. C. The mothcrjs the widow of Dr. James Dcjarnette and lives in Caswcll Coun ty, N. C.| near Danville. Terrible Adventure jn a Well, Near the Umnliln River recently Mr. Green was digging a well and Mr. Scott his brother-in-law, while break ing a young and vicious horse, appro ached the well to speak to Mr. Green., then some thir'een feet helow. As Scott attempted to start the horse it whirled him around and, wvith cars pinned back and mouth wide opon made a plunge for him. lie dodged and into the well the horse .tumbled. As he went down he doubled up so that his shoulders and side struck Green, clashing him to tho earth. The only thing that prevented him from being instantly kill was a box whicn was suspended by a rope which was fastened above. This sustained sufficient weight to allow him to breathe, having been crushed down so that his lace came lieside tho box. At or.ee Scott realized the situation and knew that the frantic efforts of the]animal would quickly kill the man beneath him, and seizing an axe he jumped down upon the animal, when a life and death struggle ensued. At leng' h be managed to strike the horse a blow on the head which stunned him, and he then quickly dispatched him ; as every time he struggled large quantities of earth poured down upon tbe luckless Green, who was Impris oned beneath. Scott climbed to tho surface and ran a mile and a half for help. Returning as quickly as possible, men set to work cutting tho horse to pieces and hoisting it out of the well. Mrs. Green was present and cheered her husband by telling him he would soon be released. The poor man was suffering intense agony and said he could not live n minute longer. He bade his wife farewell in choking sobs. With frantic efforts the animal was torn limb from limb until the last piece was cleared away and the un conscious man was found buried to bis chin in dirt and gravel saturated with blood, and was lifted to the sur face. He was carried to his homo, oJatyrc restoratives were applied, and in a short time he spoke. Although' no bones were broken he was badly crushed and bruised, and may be con fined to his bed for weeks. A Story of Brick Pomery. There is a minor in circulation to tho effect that Brick Pomcroy has made a lucky hit and secured about 8100,000, and those who toll the sto ry claim they got it from good au lliority. The story is very romantic. Last summer, readers of his DcyiO' erat will remember, there was pub lished in that paper an article from the pen of Pomcroy, reciting the ter rible sufferings of an Animosa (Col.) man, who, though wealth}', had been turned out of doors by his family, to whom he had deeded his property on condition that they would support him in his old age. According to the article the ungrateful family, by false swearing, caused the old man to be incarcerated in an asylum for the in sane, and then proceeded to enjoy themselves upon his savings. This is where Pomeroy's tale ends, and whore Dame Rumor takes it up. It is said that on his recent visit to Colorado Pomcroy gave attention to the case and succeeded not only in getting the poor old man out of the asylum but in putting him again in possession of his property. It is then said that in his gratitude the old man has deeded his property over to Pomcroy upon the same conditions ns it was first given to his famil}'. It is a fact that Pomcroy has a remarkable faculty of satisfying ignorant people of his greatness and it is not improbable that this yarn may be true.?La Crosse h'ejmbltcan. A Radical paper in Delaware recent ly published the following which is an indication of the proposed course of conduct of the campaign : "It is time that all men who love this land should vacate any ground that leads to a mere discussion of men. It is time to awake to a discussion of principles, and to recogn zc that this battle in November is simply the adjourned battle of Gettysburg. Seventeen years ago the rebels failed to defeat Han cock : failing there, they have not giv en up the onset, but have simply changed their line of attack and now ask him, instead of Longstrcet and Hill, to lead them in their endeavor to gain possession of the Govern ment." In California there arc about 800, 000 cattle and 8,000,000 sheep. An Adroit Swordsman. Pulaski, as is well known, woo as adroit a.swordsman as he was perfect in hotsemanship, and Im? ?vor rode a powerful and Hoot charger. {During tho retreat of the American army through New Jersey, in the darkest hour of our national adversity, PuIra ki wns, with a squall party ol horse men, pursued by a party of British cavalry, the leader of w4iicb ?was as good n horseman and mounted nearly as well as Pulnski. Pulaski rode in the near of his detachment, and the British Captain came in advance of those lie commanded. The morning sun was shining brightly, casting oblique shadows, nud, as the pursued party entered a ?long, narrow laue, Pulaski, having satisfied himself of the superior speed and command of his horse over that of his pursuer, slackened his pace and kept his horse to the sjde of the lane farthest from the sun. The pursuing ofilcer came up in hot baste, his sword .elevated so as to make the decisive cut upon pu laski as soon as he could reach him. Puluski rode as though he had not heard the advance upon him?yet he kept bis eyes fixed warily upon '.he ground on the side of his horse to ward the sun on la's right. As soon as he saw the shadow of his pursuer's horse gain upon him, and found that tbe horse's bead by the shadow had gained about half the length of his own horse's body, he gave the sudden sword cut of St. George, with his powerful arm, and saw the decapita ted head of the Jvnglish officer follow the stroke. His mathematical eye had measured the distance by the position of the shadow so^to^uratcly, and his posi tion giving u:- ong back reach to his right arm, while the cross stroke of his pursuer must have been made at a mheli shorter distance to have tak en effect, that tbe pursuing officer lost his head before he suspected that bis proximity was known, or that a blow was meditated. ^ _ He came to the door on tiptoe and cautiously poked his head in, in a sug gestive sort of way, as if there was more to follow and inquired : "Is this the editorial rinktnm?" "How's that, sir ?" "Is this the rinktum?Sinklum? sanctum?or some such place, where the editor lives, moves and does his lying?" I "This is the editorial room. Yes, sir, come in." "No ; I guess I won't come. I jes' w'anted to see what a rinktum was like, that's all. The great Jehosa phat! ain't she dirt}', and don't she loom up with old papers and trash? Looks like our obi last years corn crib?only wuas. And this is the rinktum? Well, I mus' be goin', good day." And he departed the "rinktum." Tin" following card recently np^ pearcd in the Edgcfield Advertiser. It has a local flavor: "I take this method of informing my friends in Shatlerfield and vicinity of the base ness, wickedness and low down act of some one who slandered me in my absence. Now it is generally report ed in Shatlerfield that I had a fight with a negro by the name of Wyatt Stevens. I never saw the negro in my life that I know of. I don't sec what the low-down, dirty, filthy, thieving cur that started that report meant. Whoever he is, he would steal trom a widowed mother?in fact he would not hesitate lo commit any crime where cowardice would venture. And should he have brass enough to own up and want redress, I will be perfectly delighted to grant him the same in the quickest time possible. I am perfectly responsible for every assertion I make." A Lancaster young lady playfully threw her arm around the waist of a lady friend, and a pair of scissors hanging therefrom severed an artery in her arm and she nearly bled to death. This accident should teach young ladies that throwing arms around the female waists is a danger ous piece of business that should be performed solely by the male sex. Tho latter are strong and brave, and don't mind having and artery sever ed now and then for the good of the cause. There arc so many snakes about the lakes in Fickman county, Ky., that it is dangerous to fish there. Tho United States Senate?Centeat for its Control. On the 4th of March next the terms of twenty-four United States Senators will expire, and the State Legislatures to he chosen rthis jFall are to elect twenty of their -succes sors, fotuym JRhode Island, ^Ohio, Mississippi and Virginia, having al ready been chosen. The Senatorial terms of Messrs. Booth of California; iEaton,of Connecticut; Bayard, of Delaware; Jones, of Florida; Mc Donald, of Indiana; Hatnlin, of Maine ; Whyle, of Maryland ;.Dawes of Massachusetts ; McMillan, of Min nesota ; Bruce, Mississippi; Cockrell of Missouri; Paddock, of Nebraska ; Sharon, of Nevada; Randolph, of New Jersey ; Kernan, of New York.; Thurm tin, of Ohio ; Wallace, of Penn sylvania ; Burnetdes, of Rhode Island ; Bailey, of Teuuessee; Maxey, of Texas; Edmunds, of Vermont; Withers of Virginia.; Hereford, "of West Virginia, and Cameron of Wis consin, terminate next March. Gen Buroside has been re-elected for another term of six years: Gen. Ma hone succeeds Senator Withers ; Gen eral Gat field has been elected to Sen ator Tliurman's seat, and Judge Geerge, democrat, has heen chosen to succeed Senator Bruce, Republican,, of Mississippi. Of the twenty States to-elect Sena tors nex'i Winter only seven can-be called doubtful States?namely, Cali fornia and Maine, now Republican, and Connecticut' Florida, Indiana, New Jersy and New York, and whose outgoing Senators are democrats. The democratic majority in the Sen ate is now so small that a change of six votes would give the republicans once more control of the Senate, and this fact makes the Stale elections in the ay stem .of doubtful Slates Stales of great interest. The democrats hope to carry California and Maine, and they nominated Mr. English, of Indi ana, for Vice-President mainly be cause they do not want to. Jose dem ocratic Senator from that State: The. ^jj|?6blicaua mean to contest Florida, New York,' (?n^e^CU^ih^^^W^civ. ~ sey vigorously, with the hope of sc? curing four republican successors to the present democratic Senators from those States. Miscegenation and Misery. One who "knows whereof lie speaks" furnishes the Dailg Netoa the following facts: About two miles from the Courthouse on the Air Line Road, is a shanty of one small room, owned by A mislead Walker, a negro. A part of this hovel he rents to Rich Everett, a mulatto, fifty-three years old, who asserts that he is married to Lavinia, a white woman, thirty-four years of age, who lives there with him. This woman has two children the youngest of whom recognizes Everett as its father. Everett also furnishes a section of this one crowd ed room to n white woman, nged twenty-seven years, who, in turn, boards three other women, all. white, and aged respectively twenty-three, thirty and eighteen years. There are, besides, two white and one mulatto child in this room, where all live, cook and sleep alike on the floor. Walker, the nogro owner of the edij flee stays in a little shed attached to it. The women all Iura the relation of wives to the negroes. On the Pendleton road, about two and a half miles from the Courthouse, John Henderson, a negro, fifty years old, lives with a white woman who is the same age, Hake Valentine, black, about twen ty-five years old, lives with a white woman named Molly, thirty years old, whom he claims as his wife, on Buncombe street, just across tbe Air Line Railway, The gentleman furnishing this in formations knows of several similar cases, but is nnablo to recall the names and the locations.?Greenville New. The election of ex-Postmaster Gen eral Marshall Jewell to the chairman ship of the Republican National Com mittee, will uot have a tendency to mollify tho anger of the supporters of "the old commander ;" for Jewell left Grant's cabinet in a buff, and tbja brcaoh between him and Grant has never been dosed* There is as yet no- indication that any of the Grant managers propose to General Garfleld any re 1 support, and if their opposi tion and superb skill is lacking tho Democrats will have a walk-over, sure enough..