The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-05-04

seventeen or eighteen persons are now
down with the disease-among them
the names of Augustin Greene, Reuben
Bennet and wife, Richard Harris,
William Heard and Miss Watts are
mentioned Chronicle Dc Sentinel.
A REMARKABLE MAN.-I'he Ger
mantown (Ohio) Emporium has an
obituary notice of Mr.. John Schatfer,
who died in TINT vicinity on the 24tll
Of March, aged o2 years. The notice
concludes with these surprising state
ments:
The deceased was the largest man
that we ever saw. The coffin was s,lt.
liciently large to contain five men Of
ordinary size: measuring in width
three feet four inches in tie clear, and
three feet in height. Three men could
Lave worked in it at the same time
with conveniences 1t required six men
to take him from the bed on which he
expired. This was done by raising
Il platform-rcmovin the hcadboard
of the bcdstead, and taking him out
end@ise. They could not get the cot.
fin into the house, but by taking off the
door facing of an old vacated house
that stood in the yard, they got it into
that, and carried the corpse thither in
three empty bags. A wagon and four
horses stood prepared, and ten men
placed the coffin into the grave, they
had two lines doubled-one ut each
end and one largo well-rope in the
middle; and seventeen men to let
down this great sprinkle Of mortality
into its last home on earth. His
weight was not known.
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I'nE AroLlrloN ltxclrEMESr IN
GRAYsoS County, WA CouRr Dis
rERsED BY y Mob 1t whs mentioned
a few days ago that much excitement
existed i'll Grayson county, Virginia.
against certain parties suspected ofbc-
ing abolitionists, and that Judge Brown
was unable to hold the county court,
III consequence Of the resignation of
the clerk, and his inability to secure
another. 1t now appears the court was
dissolved by mob violence, the partic
ulars Of which arc thus detailed in a
letter from Carroll county TO tic Lynch
burg Tiryinida
After the execution Of the negroes
IN that county, some time ago, who
had been excited to rebellion by a
certain Methodist preacher, by the
name Of Bacon, of which You have
heard, the ciliz ms held meeting, and
instituted Il 1T OF inluisition, to find
out, if possible, who were the accom-
pliccs Of said Bacon. Suspicion soon
rested on man by he name Of Cor
nut, and Oh being charged with being
an accomplicc, lie acknowledged the
! fact, and declared his intention Of pre-
serving in the cause, upon Which he
was severely lynchcd. Cornut then
| instituted suit against the parties, who
afterwards held meeting and passed
resolutions, notifying the court and
lawyers not to undertake the ease up
on pal,T 0f coat of tar and fs:sthers.t
The court, however, convened at the
appointed time, and true to their
promis.. band of armed men march
ed around the court house, fired their
guns by platoons, and dispersed the
court in confusion. There was no blood
shed. This county and the county Of
Wythc, have held meetings and passed
resolutions sustaining the movement
Of The citizens Of Grayson."
a MAN FouNp dead UpoN Hrs
FEEr.-Last season an eccentric man,
80 or 20 years old, an EngIishman,
who had served through the war with
Mexico, was discharged honornbly
from the service. lie had consilera-
bic money, and he went out seven or
eight miles northwest of st. Paul
near White Bear Lake, to make u
farm. He built snug cabin, fenced
IL piece OF ground with board fence,
digging Il hole near the foot of each
tcncc-post, Ikea grave, which holes he
said We're for witnesses. He supplied
himself, before winter, With abundance
of provision, and then, alone, dcrncd
up for the winter. lie had ncighbors,
TO be sure, within a mile or two; but
with them he had no intercourse
One day last week, a citizen Of St.
Paul, acquainted with Stcan, on his
way out to Bear Lake, was induced to
go and see what had become of Tic old
man. They went to the door, found it
fastened, and the snow untrodden that
had fallen long before. They succeed
cd at last i'll opening the shutter of his
only window, and by the dim light
saw him upon his feet, leaning upon
his bunk. The party fastened back
to st. Paul, and returned with the cor
oncr to the cabin. Having forced the
door open, which was fastened strongly
inside with props and braces, they en-
tered and found deceased, rs before
stated, dead, upon his feet, his left
hand upon his forehead, the body lroz-
ell, and, by his side on the bunk, a
bowl of frozen water, and near by, -
plate of cheese and perhaps Of bread.
lie wore several pairs of pantaloors,
and had folded around his BODY $2O1
in gold, and, in one Of his pockets, two
or three dollars i'm silver His bod