The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-17

Beneath her fair hair.
HAMPTON Court Chapel was once the
scene of a singular epidemic, One
Sunday a youthful beauty tainted, and
the handsome Sir Horace Seymour cal
ried her out. Next Sunday another
voung lady was similarly attacked, and
Sir Horace, with like gallantry, sprang
to her relief And thus the epidemic
went on. On successive Sundays sue
cessiye youthful beauties tainted, and
the handsome Sir Horace carried them
successively out, till he got tired OF bear
inc such sweet burdens. An announce.
ment was at last made that in future all
swooning nymphs would be carried out
of the chapel by the dustman, whercupon
the malady rapidly disappeared.
Four sharpers having treated them.
selves to q asumptuous dinner atthe Hotel
Montreuil, were at loss how to settle 1t,
and hit on the following plan :-They
called the waiter, and asked for the bill:
One thrust his hand into his pocket, as II
to draw out his purse; the second pre-
vented him, declaring he would pay
the third did the same. The fourth for
! bade the waiter taking any money from
either of them, but all three persisted
As none would yield, one said, The bes1
way to decide is to blindfold the wal,
ter and whoever he first catches shall
settle the BILL This proposition was
accepted, and while the waiter was gro
ping his way round the room, they slip
ned out of the house, one after another
and were mo more SEEM
! A good story is told of Mr. Johr
Ramsay, whose life has just beer
published. He was speaking one day o
| the old practice of rough and readywort
and blow correction, and illustrated it a.
follows II min weel, when / wa
scarcely five years old, how my mithe
taught me that. The good woman hat
been hearing me repeat the Lord s Pray
er. She had added to her other instrnc
tions that night the information tina
the next night she wished me in addition
to saw somethingof my own-somethlnt
THAT I earnestly desired God to grant me
Ye can fancy her amazement, when from
1.-The lips of her kneeling boy there aros'
the petition, % Lord, gle my mither
better temper. Max her, The 'dirl
that instantly rang through my heat
rings in it now when I'm speaking OF.
Josh Billings says: 4 am rather ia
vourbly impressed with Gin and Muk
az an extrakt, and think minister o'
the gospel mite contend with sum ov it
on the sli, successfully; but when n
cums to reckomend it tew his people,
hav mi donbts about it, unless he know
! hiZ people better than do Moreover
that 'thare are people who don't 40 any
thing but watch their symptoms. hav'
seen dogs akt just as sensible, have seel
q rat tarrier watch the symptoms ov
knot hole in a board fenceall day for sun
rat tew cum out, bnt no rat didn't cnn
OUT Also, that it il our duty tew prs,
for them who revile and persekute US
but don't kno az we are obliged tew le
them knoi it, Likewise, that it il hare
tew quit play while we are winning
1t il Just so in morals; men seldom un
dertake tew git religion az long az the.
kan git emmy thing else.' And, in conclu
sion, the highest rate ov interest we pa,
IL on borrowed trouble, things that ar
always going to happen never do hap
pen. Face all things even adversity il
polite tew mans face
DEATH OF LAURA FAIR.-A Sar
Francisco dispatch, January 8, says tha
Mrs. Laura u. Fair, the convicted mur
!, deress, died in prison in that city, OF
/ Saturday, December 80. Mrs. Fair wa
woman of great personal attraction:
and strength of character, and was finely
edncated. She once occupied goot
social position in the Southern States
but had more recently been the wife o.
paralnour of great many men. Fol
Several years she was the mistress of A
P. Crittenden, a prominent lawyer ant
Democratic politician of San Francisco
Last spring Crittenden appeared to bt
striving to break away from the siren
and sent for his wife, who was then Wis
ting the Atlantic States. Mrs. Fai
armed herself with pistol and killet
Crittenden rs he was sitting by the side
of his wife on the Pacific Railroad ferry
boat, as Mrs. Crittenden was arriving ir
the city. Mrs. Fair was tried for murder
and was convicted after long aud excl
ing trial, and sentenced TO be hanged.
The defence was insanity, and the deten-
dant's counsel asked for new trial on
various technical grounds, chiefof which
was the alleged prejudice of some of the
jury. The case was argued before the
Supreme Court, but postponed from time
to time, and was still pending when
death in prison solved the question
which had agitated the courts and the
community. 1t was generally believed
in San Francisco that Mrs. Fair would
commit suicide rather than 90 to the
gallows, but nothing in the brief dis
patch, quoted above, indicates that such
was the fact.
KrLLED.-We learn that Jim Wads-
worth surrendered himself, last week, to
the authorities. as having shot and killed
Levi Watkins The parties are colored
men, and reside several miles from town.
Mr.. Jesse C.iSmith, acting coroner, tells
US that the verdict of the jury is "wilful
murder" From what we learn, there
was woman in the difficulty, and there
is 10 doubt that it will be proven homi-
fl e in self-defenee.-[ Nowbcr,y Herald.