The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-21

Ok ta1S5 ODiy Sud't nesSiktsS 10 diiCWeu,
and no costs or expenses snail be paid by
the County or State on any execution
issued, Ca aSsse.sss!ter :o &c ::==::sa ard -c-
turned nulla toaa.
SEC. 8. All Acts or parts OF Acts incon-
sistont with this Act are hereby repealed.
In the Senate House. the fourteenth day
of December, in the year OF our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
nine.
CHAS. w. MONTGOMERY,
President pro tenn. Of the Senate.
FRANKLIN j. MOSES, JR.,
Speaker House of Representatives.
Approved the 10th day of December,
A. ID. 1869. ROBERT X. SCOTT,
Governor
THE LUCKY MlLhNEH. The Troy IN.
W Times says:
ment to the effect that Miss Gray,
milliner Of Fort Edward, had become
the fortunate heir to $40, 900, 900, which
her lover, young Englishman, had
willed to her upon his dying bed. The
main fact in the case. the hcirship, is
i true, but we now learn that, it was not
to the lover, but to his father, that Miss
Gray is indebted for her extraordinary
good fortune. IT seems the lover, on
his return to England, like too many
others, proved inconsistent, and married
another lady, against his fathers will.
Whether it was remorse ut his faithless-
ness or from some other cause, certain it
is the young man died in about u year
after his marriage, and left all his pro-
perty to his father The oil gentleman
was without heirs and not having be-
come reconciled to his daughter-in- law,
upon his death lett one-half Of his pro-
perty to the Government of England,
and tho remnining half. S19, 900, 900, to
Miss Gray, the Fort Edward milliner.
The sum was so large that many people
were disposed to doubt its truth when it
first appeared in print, but Miss Gray
has already received the first instalment
OF her fortune, II trifie of $1,000, 600,
from the British Consul in New York.
On Tuesday last. she received despatch
from the consul announcing that the
money awaited her order, and on the
following day she left Fort Edward for
New York, where it was pail over to
her
\ letter of the 10Th instant from Tar.
boro, \. c.. gives the following particn-
lars OF the execution. at Tnrboro, on
Friday last, Of Lewis Hines, oolored, for
the outrage of young white girl named
Sarah l.. johnson, on the 29th Of April
last: when conducted to the scaffold,
the condemned man made no confession,
but did not deny his guilt \ deputy
sheriff then adjusted the rope. but so
loosely, that when the criminal was
swung Of, the knot came beneath his
chin. His legs were not pinioncd When
he fell. he struggled fearfuly. by ex-
traordinary excrtion, the suspended man
seized hold of the rope Mt his throat with
one OF his hands. He turned round and
round, and succeeded in getting his feet
back on the platform from which he had
just been hurled. Terrible excitement
prevailed among the spectators while the
unfortunate wretch was endeavoring to
regain his feet; but as the stern decree
, of tho law had to be carried out, the
sheriff rushed upon the scafrold and
pushed the olinging feet Of the wretch
from the edge of the platform. He then
continued swinging for seventeen minutes
when life was declared extinct The man
was strangulated
SINGULAR CAUSE or DEATH. Men
sometimes die from very singular causes.
a blacksmith in Monticello. n. Y, re-
Gently put common wooden axle in his
fire to loosen the iron 'thimble" from it's
outer edge, when to his astonishment it
blew mp, shooting jagged splinters into
his body. Death ensued. 1t happened
thus: The broken axle had been lying
out in the rain for some time, and was
pretty thoroughly saturated with water.
There is frequently considerable cavity
between the thimble and the end of the
axle. The water had rusted the bolt
screw at the head of the thimble so as to
render it perfectly tight, and the swell
, ing OF the wood had produced similar
effect at the other end. When the mois-
tnre in the chamber had turned to steam,
and afterward to gas in the intense heat,
m explosion was the natural result
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kU kLUX.-The gentlemen who were
arrested and indicted on the charge OF
being connected with the party of men
who, last October, made threats against
Mr. DnBose and Robertson, and after
wards burnt their stores, have oil been
discharged. In the strongest case, in
which Mr.. Robertson and lis employee,
who slept in the store, swore to the
identity of three of the party, the ac-
cused were tried on Thursday last, and
acquitted, having proved by the most
conclusive and unimpeachable testimony,
that Mr. Robertson and his man were
entirely mistaken in their suspicious.
In the other cases in which indic.-
ments had been found. the Solicitor en-
tered nal. pros. Sumter. NeuS.
The UNITED STATES CouRr.-Hon.
Geo. S. Bryan, presiding-January l9.
Er parte A. C. Shaffer. Petition for
final discharge. Granted
E.c pdrte j. ID. Grady. Ldem. Refer.