The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-04-28
ORC, S. c., WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIT 28 1850
Death Of o. Hermit,

William Knight, notable hermit
has just died near Rockingham, Iowa
aged seventy-fve years. Thirty years
ago he left England without word
to his relatives, and, going direct to
Iowa, resumed his business as an at.
torncy, rapidly winning fame !n tha,
capacity. His friends in England
advertised descriptions of him, with
offor of reward for tidings Of hip where
abouts. For years their Efforts were
frui,less. knight possessed heavy
gold watch of worry peculiar construc
ton. Descriptions of this watch were
sent to the leading watch dealers in
America. Knights watch got out of
order. He sent it to Philadelphia, to
an establishment in which descrip-
tion of the watch was posted. The
proprietor wrote to London parties
that he had received the watch. Over
came knights friends, making their
way to Davenport as rapidly as the
moagro travelling facilities would
allow. They found tho runaway
They held conference after conference
with him to induce him to return to
England. They resorted to strategy,
and endeavored to secure his arrest
for some offence that he might be sent
back a prisoner. All in vain. From
that time forward until his death, on
Sunday last, knight was changed
man. BE bought small farm near
Rockingham, q heavily wooded tract !;
erected sort Of shanty in the forest,
and there, alone, with no companions
but his pipe, books and papers, he
spent his time. lie received papers
from England regularly, and loved to
read of new and noted books and their
authors. llo cooked his own food,
washed his own clothes. cut his own
wood and was his own servant gene
rally. lie rarely received callers.
Sometimes he would be seized with a
lctter-writing fit, and a letter to his
lawyers every day for fortnight would
be the result-an answer being cx-
pected by him as fully as though the
matter of correspondence was Of the
utmost Importance. And thus he lived
the life of hermit, save in relation
with his attorne8s alone. Why he,
who was SO gifted4 by nature and 80
splendidly educated, chose to abandon
his luxurious home and wealthy friends
make his way to the frontier Of the
American wilds for residence, and
th"n, whom aisnnun.ea by ,utt friends.
resort to the life of hermit, is sex-
planned only by an admission in one
of his letters to his legal friends,
wherein he admits having been hope
lessly cast down by disappointment in
love affair--he woocd, won and lost
q lovely English girl-lost her be-
cause she preferred "belted knight"
and u castle to young barristcr, who,
being younger son, had to make his
own way to fortune and to fame.
Cincinnati Commercial.
TIE CoyroN SrINNER's STRIKE IN
ENGLAND.-Wo published recently
an interesting letter from our London
correspondent in regard to the cotton
spinncrs' strike in England. In Ian
cashire, the principal cotton centre,
some five thousand "milln hands," as
they are called, were out on strike
BY this time the number may have
swelled to twenty or thirty thousand.
In Lanarkshire, Scotland, where there
are many thousands of families de-
pendent upon tho cotton mills, some
mills were already standing. The
disease may spread until it begets
great political trouble. Strikes in
England in all the branches of trade
have never done tho workingmen any
good. AS our correspondent truth
fully remarks, "capitnl in England al
ways starves labor into submission"
1t does not in England only, but
everywhere. The money which has
been actually lost through the system
of striking, or "standing out" is in
oalculablo. in too many instances
the workingmen is the tool of design
ing political demagogues. Men who
live and fatten on tho gains Of their
fellows, and who never themselves
suffer, unscrupuously bring Thousands
to misery. 1t is time that the work.
Abe, 'itSh III al Ctlh U
supply and demand are, aftor all, the
only regulators Of wages. nys
". Y. Herald.
THE RESULT IN VIRGINIA.-The
Boston Advertiser (RadicaIy predicts
the election of Walker. 1t says:
1t does not seem difficult to predict
what will be the result of the election.
The position of the three parties is
briefly this: The Republicans will
supporttho whole constitution, :nclud-
ing the disfranchisemont of rebels and
negro suffrage clauses; tho "new
movement" men, with minority wing
of the Republicans, will support the
constitution, accepting negro suffrage
but opposing tho disfranchising claus,
es. The Democrats will oppose the
constitution, butEwill vote separately
against the disfranchisement Of Whites.
The middle party undoubtedly holds
the balance of power, if it is not, in
an absolute majority. Joining with
the Republicans, it puts the adoption