The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-10-02

;tctiiIy wore out my best spotted muslin car
a dressin up for him! lie alters talked
most to Mary, but law thinks to myself
he's only n little baslfu One night, arte,
we'd talked spell in the fore room, he
asked me if I wouldn't favor him with =
little private revenue in another room. I
got up and took linn into the driet-applc
room, and the mnnit shot the fore room
door, hecrd that torment Of Mary laflil
like all possessed
Set down, Mr.. Backstcd, scz I, 'and
make ycrscf contented; it amt very
nice room, but guess we can make it do,
scz I.
eco, yes sez he, it'll do we'll enough,
Mrs. Trrc, well enough only asked you,
TO cum somewhere for fear-al,em. I
s'pose, Mrs. Tripe, you'll think Pm too sud-
den about it, hut
Law, no! Mr.. Blackstcd,' sez I, its
best to strike while tho irons hot, amt
iii?
q" Percisely, Mrs. Tripe, pcrcisely" sez
he, but didn't know but but you might
think that ] hadn't ort to so soon'
! $50, Mr.. l'lackstcd, sez |, it's alters best
to bc in season.
"'Jest SO think scz lie, and want
to know if you'd be willin for me to marry
yer niece, Miss Kirkland, rcrvi,lcd she don't
kccrH
" l was'struck. (Ali<craLle old curmu,l-
geon) | didn't know what to say, but at
'St l'intcd to the door. ! meaut for him
/ to so of, but lie didn't understood me- and
went rite into the fore room agin, and asked
Mary to hcv him, s'pose She never
would tell me Il thing about it, but when I
got back in the fore room she was a-scttin
. there latlin as if she'd die, and Mr. Black
s'cd WIS jest a-goine out of the door, Il
swearin like a pirate.
CSC. Aunt srz she, that lea kiulc kivcr
will he the death Of me yet {; and then she
latfcd till her checks was us red rs fire
couls
"Mr. Blacks:cd l,ain't been here sense
he went of putty soon afterwards, aud
ain't seen him scuse, and don't want to-
Dcsatefnl old snipe"
G"Iiy r"nScicnce.-Onc Of the most me-
moratle passages ever uttered hy Mr.. Web
stcr WAS in tho vindication of the authority
Of conscience and of providence. On a trial
for Il dark and mysterious murder "Thc
guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. -
It. is false TO Itself. or rather it feels an ire
sstibc impulse to be true to itself. 1t labors
II ''cr its guilty possession and knows not
what TO do witt, it. The human heart w:,s
not made fur the residence of such an in
l'ahi'ant. 1t finds itself prcyol upon by Il
torment which it docs not acknowledge to
God or man. y vulturc is levourinr it.
and It can ask no sympathy or assistance,
either from heaven or earth. The secret
which the murderer possess, soon comes to
possess linn and like the evil spirit Of wlicl,
we read, it ovcrcomcs linn and leads him
wi'hcrsocvcr it Will. lie feels it beating
Il: his heart, rising in his throat, and de-
man'ling disclosure. lIc thinks the whole
world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes,
and almost hears its working in the very
silence Of his thoughts. 1t ll:,s become his
master. 1t bctravs his discretion, it breaks
down his courage, it conqucrs his prudence
When suspicious from without begin To-
; enbarrass him, and the ;,et Of circumstance.
to cntangle linn, the fatal secret struggles
with still greater violence to burst forth
Itm"st be confessed ; it vill be confessed
there is no refuge from confession, but sui
ci,le; and suicide is confession.
One Tenth Of Srcond from DcatA.-I
will be remembered that the Rev. Mr.. Sell
wool Of the Episcopal Church. missionary
to Oregon, was in the Panama massacre
and rcportcl among the dead. In letter
just received from him, he says that he
received four wounds, and is disfgured fo,
life. His narrow escape from death is thu.
described:
After I had recovered, and previous tt
leaving the hospital, one of my medical at
tendants said to me: 81 look upon you
escape rs miracle; the ball passed so nca
the heart, that it must have passed nt the
instant of its contraction, for had it passct
at its expansion, you must hayo been killed
Just tho one-tcnth of second made al
the difference in your case between life ant
DEATH"
Funny if True.-1t is related of Thoma
, F. Marshall THAT Judge having once fine'
, him thirty dollars for contempt Of conrt, h
!. rose and asked the Judge to loan him th
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