The age-herald., 1901-06-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
 AND ELSEWHERE

 this day, Wednesday, June IS. 1901:
 Court and ask favors in the evening""
 "Do not quarrel, this being thy birth day; thou wilt have an unsettled year, and thy business will require much atten- tion."
 "he young will court"
 "A child born on this day will have a quiet year, although much will depend on the hour of It's birth; 1t will be quick in temper and have much trouble in it's love and domestic affairs"
 A Tragedy in William L. Yancey's Life.
 There still stands in Main street. Greenville, s. C., the ancient red brick courthouse of Greenville County. in which the immortal William L. Yancey was tried, convicted and sentenced for the manslaughter of Robertson Earle, then the head of the famous Earle fam fly of South Carolina. That occurred about fifty years ago, though forget the exact date, and I haven't got DuBose's Life of Yancey within reach at the mo- ment," said traveller last night.
 While I was In Greenville recently a member of the Earle family, a learned young lawyer modestly proud of his H. lustrious race, related to me what I &C., cepted as a family version of that famous tragedy, and he said 1t had never been in print. As the story ran, Yancey, then a practicing lawyer, was at that time a tacturn but somewhat high-tem- pered and impetuous man when aroused, and was easily aroused at ail times. His friend Earle's son, a young boy, one day offered Yancey very offensive rudeness in the public street. and Yancey thoughtless- ly struck the boy a mild blow.
 Tn moment Yancey regretted the act, though feeling that he had just cause for 1t, and he sought Earle and told him the circumstances, saying that he was greatly provoked. His sense of propriety. he said, required him to seek the father of the boy and tell him the story in person.
 Earle answered in friendly spirit and said it was all right with him; that he could easily understand how his sons conduct as related by Yancey might pro- yoke gentleman. The two men separ- ated on most amicable terms. That oc- cured in the morning.
 At noon Earle went home to his mid- day dinner. according to custom that pre- vals still in Greenville, and to his as- tonishment he found Mrs. Earle in high state of excitement. The boy had gone home and told the mother about Yancey having struck him, and she was passion ately angry. It seems that at first Earle sought to soothe his wife. but she played upon his feelings and soon got him wrought up in anger against Yancey. Finally his wife demanded that he should go down town and have it out with Yam cey. He armed himself and went No- body ever yet doubted the courage of an Earle.
 Earle found Yancey at a famous tav- ern within a few paces of the courthouse, on the site now occupied by the Green vile Daily News building, and a violent quarrel arose at once. Almost instantly Yancey drew a pistol and shot Earle dead.
 "It was one of the greatest sensations in the history of state famous for sen- sational tragedies. Yancey was indicted, tried and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to a term of Imprisonment. After getting out Of his trouble, he re- moved to Alabama, settling in the neigh borhood of Montgomery, and almost at once began that extraordinary career of political activity which more than any other individual force caused the disas- -trous war between the states, the result of which he was not to live to see!
 'The old courthouse in Greenville is a small two-story structure of red brick, and with its walls four feet in thickness 1t is as substantial now as it was when built more than century ago."