The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-08-27
MISS SMITH, THE SCOTCH PRISONER.

WI, gwen ny INC ScoLtlsll jury III the case
of the young woman charged with poison
ing lar lover, only as a legal necessity, lcav-
Ing a neral conviction of her guilt. She
goes forth to the world ruined girl, NOR
ally, mentally, every way. The verdict Of
"not proven" is not known in this country;
yet it should have Il place, the Irayelcr
we'll says, for it fills necessity between
"guilty" and "not guilty." the only vcr,
dict recognized by our courts. There are
often cases where jurics here arc obliged to
return "not guilty." when 'not proven"
would be more in accordance with the facts
and with their own feelings. The Scotch
jury consists of Is persons; and in the case
of Miss Smith, two were for verdict of
guilty OIL each of the counts. The thirteen
others stood for the verdict as rendered. -
There is deep, telling moral in the fol-
lowing account from Liverpool Journal,
of the manner in which Miss Smith had
been educated by lcr friends:
"The eldest member of family which
she has driven from home and happiness,
she was nurtured amid all the refnements of
life, like house plant. Her father resolved
that she should be kept apart from the
world as much as possible, vainly imagin-
ing that severe system of scclusion from
its evils would preserve his flower, Made
line, from contamination. She was per-
mittcd TO know Of evil only as it was spo-
ken of i'll the catechism. While she was a
girl, he thought he could mould her into a
spo:lcss being by denying cr.cven SO much
acquaintance with the outside world as is
revealed i'll the columns Of newsparcr.-
The London Times might be his daily
monitor, but Madeline was too delicate to
make acquaintance with its details of life.-
The result was even worse than might have
been expected, from a system so false and
so thoroughly opposed to the healthy dc.
velopement of humanity, in world where
moral beauty is reached through a kuowl
edge Of the bad that has 10 be resisted and
| overcome. When she came into society.
Madeline Smith plunged hcadlong into
vortex, Of the existence of which sho has
been previously unaware The dollhouse
plant was not fitted for the rough atmos-
phere Of the world, and it perished. The
catcchlsm was exchanged for Lucrctia,' and
novels Of that class, which were devoured
with unwholesome avidity. The fast litera-.
ture of tho day took the place of those
good books which she had been set to read
by good old DIR. Bcattie, the venerable pas
tor OF the United Presbyterian Church, of
Which her parents were members. She be-
came faster in her pace, than those of her
female acquaintance who had been accus.
toned to what Isaac Taylor's old lady friend
called a little wholesome neglect She had
before bccn so well taken care of that she
now took no care of herself. And so it
came about, in the course of few short
years, that she met in the poor Jersey
youth with her 'fate.' She led two lives:
this was the terrible necessity of the position
into Which sho had been precipitated and
later in the night in which she had been
down to the minister's house, perhaps to.
read to this venerable man, whose eyesieht
was growing dim, she would cit down To-
the construction Of letter to DAngelier, at
whose contents the most utterly abandoned
OF your Whitechapel 'unfortunates's would
blush with shame" n
worth hnotoing.-One pound of green
copperas, costing seven cents; dissoIYad in,
one quart of water, poulnasdown a .prfyy,
will eftectualIy concentrate and destroy the:
foulest smells. For wStsr closets aboard
s'nFs and steamboats,. about hotels. and
other public. places, there is nothing 30
nice to cleanse places as simple gresuc up I:
perss dissolved; and fSr sick sooaDk # my
be; placed under tha,bed in. anythfhr that
will hold water, and thus render a hospital,
or other places for. the Sjsl, free from m
pleasant sBselis For bnteh hstss sstaI,s, Hsif]
markets, Slaughter houses; ;;sihks: ana whar.]
ever there ere offepsiEe putrid Saases, DIS
solve coppefas and spsiaklsit tabsat, satsain)
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