The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
News OF the Week. 8.

get married. Poor thingl Shell hav,
Z often to wait for delayed male.
Dennis Sweringin inflicted a fata
wound with knife on the person o
Frank Postell, all colored, lnsAbbeyille
: last week.
Bunger McKeller, colored, was acci
5 dentally shot and killed by Thad. Titus
colored, last Wednesday, while hunting
l in Abbeville County.
| Ex-Speaker Randall, writing to
sympathizing friend in Connecticut
says: "Do not apprehend any, leglSla
4 tive mistakes here; we shall all do ou
utmost to avoid them, and strive to pu
our party in trim for 1884"
| at Rockville, Illinois, on Friday
/ John Bonnor locked out his wife be
cause she refused to supply him witt
money toget a drink. She went to tn
woods with her children and while
/ building a fire her clothing caught tirt
and she was burned to death.
Rosa Keiser, a handsome young wo
man of 35 years, shot herself dead in {
room of a man named Dunn, at the
Windsor Hotel, New York, on Friday
1 in the presence of Dunn and his
newly married wife. Dunn had beer
engaged to Miss Keiser and had aban
doned her without excuse or explana
| tion.
| Malone insists that the defeat o1
| Gorham for Secretary Of the Senate has
set back the cause of Liberalism in the
South for several years. Liberalism has
been having hard time lately. The de
feat of the Malone party in Virginia in
| November must have knocked her out
| of about fifteen years growth.
! They say that in a prayer meeting at
| Westfeld, Mass, the other night, q
| good brother rose and said he wanted
! to hear sung the beautiful hymn, Split
Doors" Every one looked at every.
body else in perpleXity for a moment
and then quick-witted sister struck
up "Gates Ajar," which was what the
good brother wanted.
OF President Arthur, as candidate
for a second term, the New York San
SAYS: "He controls the ShadoWy Re
| publican organization in the South and
in the territories and will send to Chic
ago from the three States Of New York
| Colorado and. Nebraska solid delega-
tions in his behalf; he will need no 9th.
er votes. He will get the nomination
on the first ballot. y.
Frank Evans, a barkeeper, was as.
sassinated Friday night on the high.
| way, near Homesville, Robinson Coun.
| ty, n. G. The murdered man was on
| his way home from party. 1t is
strongly believed that colored man
who is suspected Of his murder, was
| hired by an enemy of Evans to conceal
himself in the highway and shoot
Evans from ambush as he passed him.
A few days ago Edward F. Baldwin
| wealthy real estate dealer Of Newark
NJ. j., went to the forests of Wyoming
County Pa, hunting. He was accom-
| panied by w. S. Cannon and j. R. Bur
nett. On Friday, he got lost in the for
ests, and after search of, several hours
was found dead, with his dog watching
beside his body. He had, died of heart
disease, from which he had suffered
for years.
A difficulty occurred in Flat Creek
Township, Lancaster County, on Satur-
day night, between two young white
men, George Deas and Amos Hegler, at
the house Of the mother Of Deas. Whis-
ky was the inspiring cause OF the diff
Guilty. Hegler drew his knife and cut
Deas in number of places, intlicting
dangerous wounds. The wounded man
may recover, though he lies in criti-
cal condition.
The divorced wife Of ex-senator
Christiancy died in Brooklyn on Fri
day from mental and physical prostra-
tion caused, to a great extent, by chloral.
The Senator married her when she was
a. Treasury Department clerk, causing
her to be the envy of half the young
women of the country. They subse-
uuently sued each other for divorce,
unfaithfplness and cruelty being char
ged on both sides. Now she is dead at
the age Of "a.
Harrison Ramon, of Akron, Ohio,
died recently leaving over S2O0O0O in
cash concealed about his premises in
after a long and fruitless search resort
ed to prayer, and after praying "a hours
went to the bee hives in the yard and
found over 500, 900 hidden under them.
A young man tore UP a plank in the
barn to recover dropped hatchet the
same evening and found the rest of the
money.
John Arnold, a young; man aged
'tWenty-two, was stricken with paraly-
sis at his home, near Millersburg, Ohio,
on Sunday, and died two hours later.
Only one week ago Miss Mary Lemon,
to whom Mr.. Arnold was engaged to be
married, was stricken with paralysis,
and lived long enough1to have Mr.. Ar
mold place upon her finger the wedding
ring, and she said to him: 81 will take
that with me to my grave and you will
follow me soon." Her words were ver-
ified in less than one week after she
died. The affair has cast gloom over
the entire community.
The popular notion of Texas is that
of a State where most men die with
their boots on, and that where there are
more people under the ground than on
it. Yet at only one session of the Re-
corder's Court in Fort Worth, Texas,
recently, two men were fined 1926 each
for selling liquor on Sunday; three were
fined SIS each for being drunk; two So
for assault and battery; two S5 for dis
turbing the peace; three SIS for c,lrSing !;
one SIS for gambling, one $50 for carry
ing pistol; and only one man, who
was accused of gambling, was acquit-
ted
Miss Sarah Belle Waller, wife Of Mr..
Henry Waller, of Chicago, died in that
city on Thursday last. Mrs. Waller
was of the well known Langhorne fam
lily, of Virginia, and had been resident
of Chicago since 1858, and had been one
of the leading members of that brilliant
and elegant set of people from all over
the South who have made Chicago their
home. During the war she was eSpe-
cially useful and successful in acts of
thoughtfulness and lioerality and SYM
pathy for the soldiers of the lost cause
whom the fortunes of war cast into
prison at Camp Douglass, near Chicago
The Greenville Neans records the fol
lowing case of cruelty on the part of
worthless husband that the law officers
should look after: parties who were
in this city yesterday state that recent
ly, in Oak Lawn Township, a man be-
came intimate with white woman
and moved her to his place, near his
residence. This woman, it is said, at
|. tempted to enter the mans. residence
and his wife refused her admission
This enraged him and he beat his wife
shamefully, ejecting her with his six
| children from the house. She wandered
about seeking shelter and finally went
| to the house OF neirhDOr where she