Yorkville Enquirer from York, South Carolina • 2

Jtoapjs and Jacis. California has three women in office i county school superintendents. The colored Odd Fellows of the Unite States and Canada have just held their thi tieth annual convention at Louisville. The Kaiserhof Hotel, in Berlin, tl largest and finest structure of the kind i Germany, has been totally destroyed by fir The loss is stated at 81,000,000. Six hundred million dollars are ann ally spent for alcoholic driuks in Grei Britain.

Of this sum more than one-half spent by the laboring classes. John Chinaman's method of warfare slow, if not sure. The troops fro Pekin for their western frontier three yea ago to repress Yakoob Khan, happening i get om 01 provisions enrouie, stopped tosu ply themselves by planting grain, and a now awaiting the harvest. The people of Galveston have the pleasing discovery that the recent may turn out to be anything but a calamit The waves washed out the harbor, and tl channel over the bar was deepened to fourth feet, so that the Liverpool steamers now con directly to the wharves for the first time the city's history. The test cases in the United States Ci cuitCourtagainst Richmond (Va.) raerchanl for failure to stamp bank checks, went again the government on the ruling of Judge Bot that the jury, in order to convict, must be sti isfied that the defendants intended to defrai the government of the revenue.

All simil; suits were thereupon dissmissed. In his address at the Christian count fair last week, Jefferson Davis incidenta ly said "I am steering as clear as I can all political questions. I have shaken ham with politics. If politics have gone to tl dogs, I give them to the dogs." He dwt for a long time on the currency question, views harmonizing fully with those of tl Democrats as set forth in Ohio. Contrary to expectation, the percentaj of increase in the receipts of the Post Offi Department for the last fiscal year, was about one and a half percent.

The psual pt centage yearly has been about five per cer As the statement just published shows an cess of expenditures over receipts araountii to the snug little sum of $6,000,000, it evident that it will be some time before tl department will be able to support itself. It is not long since Schuyler Colfax Vice-President of the United States. Sin that period his name has been gradually appearing ffora public observation, but late it has given a faint twinkle in the announcement: "Hon. Schuyler Colfax to be one of the judges at a baby show to held at Niles, Michigan." For a first-cls statesman this is a finale! According to the official statistics, on 9,349 immigrants landed at New York Is as compared wi the month of September, 1874. If this craese continues, the people of the Unit( States will soon have to depend upon own resources in populating the country, siugular fact in last month's report is th England furnished more emigrants than ai other country.

The fortunate financial condition France is illustrated by a statement by 1 Leon Say, minister of finance, that on recei ly announcing an issue of five per cent, tret ury bonds, repayable in five years, there such a demand that he had to stop the in order to keep within the limit fixed by law. He had lowered the interest to four ai a half ner and the demand thnm slackened, had not stopped. The New York Tribune discusses question, "Why has the business of insuri lives fallen off?" The main reason is believ to be the general depression of nearly all mi cantile and professional enterprises. Amo: the minor causes it is alledged that there disappointment among the people who ha been deceived by the fklse promises and pects held out by the canvassing agents. disgust of men who have suffered their polici to lapse is said to have been communicat to the general public.

Col: Thomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson and literary executor of Thorn Jefferson, died at "Edge Hill," his estate, 11 ar? ti xiiutrmuiie uu luuiaua) ittot, the 84th year of his age. Deceased was sou of Governor Thomus Mann Randolph ai Martha Randolph, (daughter of Thomas ferson,) and was born in the county of All niarle on the 11th of September, 1792. of the years of his boyhood and early nis hood were spent at Monticello, in the co pauy of his grandfather, who superintend his educatiou and" bestowed upon him 1 fullest affections. A recent suicide in Indiana has furnish the insurance companies a pretty good exci for their clause withholding the payment policy in such a case. W.

S. Wood, a bai presideut, who bad forged paper and othi wise involved himself, went to Indianapol visited two or three agencies, effected life i suranee to the amount of several thousa dollars, and was dead with opium in twenl four hours. Mr. Wood left a letter, which a curious instance of the mixing up of moi principle, which led him to provide for 1 own family, no matter to what extent he che: ed the insurance companies. After enuraei ting his last efforts to get insurance, he "I have always felt that it was my great duty to provide for my family, and I have, this short notice, no other way to do so th to resort to the insurance and ask of tbera all their kindest charities and to leave tny little ones poor, starving a wretched." A New York letter says: "The rest pinch is felt among literary men a artists.

With regard to the former, it may said there never were so many editors, bo makers, and reporters out of employment at present. It is sad to contemplate this ture in the world of letters, but it is inevitab The press in this city has suffered vastly nit in proportion than that of other districts, a there is but little immediate prospect of i provement. To refer to artists it may besa that photography is so unprofitable that grandest establishments are almost bankru One of the Broadway galleries was broug iuto notice a few weeks ago by the suicide the brother of the proprietor (Frederic! because of business difficulties. Another si ilar establishment was carried on by Bogi dus. He commenced in a small way ue Washington Market, and did a good busiw in picturing the Jersey farmers and thi families.

His ambition led him into a sph did establishment up town, but it is closed. The loss was heavy, and he made mistake in not keeping down town. following advertisement appeared yesterd i i in one or our leading cauies, aim wusuai the method by which talent seeks to obta patronage: 'An artist who paints fine tures wilf furnish four fine pictures for also worth of oil paintings for $20 1 regret to say that I fear that this appeal thrown away. Nobody at present wants give even $200 for $1,000 worth of painting You can now find men of genius glad to shelter in tenement-houses, and splendid sicians, and eveu theatrical performers, a to be found amid the haunts of squalid ty. Tiiese unfortunate creatures are the fii to meet the edge of public misfortune." Late foreign mails briug full details the railway jubilee recently held in Darlin tou.Euglaud, wherejthesemi-centennialof introduction of steam locomotion was celebr ted with great pomp and circumstance.

27,1825, Darlington witnessed starting of the first railway passenger tra expressly designed to compete with theexii ing modes of traveling. The greatest all difficulties in those days was to believe th people would trust themselves to the mercy oi moving steam engine, or would have ai need of that eccentric kind of traveling. Tl "first class" on this occasion was the inside of an old stage-coach put on a truck the "second? class" was the outside of it, and the third-class as the ordinary coal wagons. These, however, were pretty well filled, and as the train gathered speed the public gathered courage, and it is related that it entered the next town with as many as six hundred in the wagons, or clinging to them. The old coach, with its new motive power, had attained a speed of 10 fifteen miles an hour.

The whole load on that day was ninety tous, and the journey was done at an average rate of eight miles au hour. It was the glory of George Stephenson, not so mueh that he had solved a mechan18 ical problem, but rather that he saw his way and steadily pursued it through a world of 19 difficulties. The nine or ten miles opened on that day have growu to 16,500 miles in Great rs Britain, alone though only a small part of the to world, and the $2,000 received for passengers p- in the first twenty-one months has grown to re $110,000,000 a year. Even figures, however, but feebly indicate the change wrought in the le whole constitution of society by the iron horse )d and iron road. 0tfeville ae ar YORKVILLE, S.

J- THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 21, 1875. ds How to Order the the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-oflice, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-olilce money 118 order, or enclose the money in a registered letter, iq Enquirer is delivered free ol postage to all subscribers residing in York county who receive the paper at post-offices within the ge county and to all other subscribers the postage ce is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the naper, are not liahie for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid.

If subscribers do not wish their papers dis3g continued, the date must be kept in'advancet jg must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobDe work, are cash in advance as MISSISSIPPI MATTERS. ce The late excitement in Mississippi, consels" quent to the Coahoma riot, has about ded. A committee, composed equally ol 3jg white and colored citizens, have issued a cirbe cular invoking the efforts of all good citi168 zens in behalf of peace and the protection ol private property. It is also officially anly nounced that the compromise of the differl8t encesyn that State between, the Republicans and Democrats, is with the view to secure a(j peace aud quiet at the approaching election. RECENT STATE ELECTIONS.

at The State election in Nebraska went Reay publican. The new constitution was carried by a large majority, of In Iowa a large vote was polled, and besides electing a Republican State ticket, the Legislature will have an increased number of publican members. The Republican majori tKn fitulo ia agtimnlcrl At 000 1U UVUVV IO W-w. ww)vvv. he The Republican ticket was also successful in Ohio, the majority being between six and S1' seven thousand.

The issue in that State was almost entirely on the financial question, the Democratic party advocating a free and inflated currency, while the Republicans favored Br. a contraction of paper issue and a speedy rerig turn to specie payments. At the last election is in Ohio the Democrats were successful; but ve it would seem from the results of last week that the financial plank of their platform ies t0 weaken the party, and resulted in etj showing the sentiment of the State to be unmistakably in favor of specie payments. he SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. in over three hundred persons now conin fined in the State penitentiary, only one is he sick and in the hospital.

nd Neely Grant sold a bale of cotton in Cheater last week, weighing 955 pounds. He received $12.35 per hundred for it. t0. The Thornwell orphanage, located in ra. Clinton, Laurens county, was dedicated last ed Friday.

Its founder aud superintendent is sis the Rev. W. P. Jacobs. The recent census returns show that the county of Charleston has an aggregate popu'0jlation of 123,489, distributed as follows: rjb Whites, colored, 89,883.

White voerters, colored, 17,687. lis, State exchange is responsible for the ln" storv that a nersou residing near Midway, in 1 4 Barnwell county, a few days ago, killed eighty-three horned snakes, the largest being five feet three inches in length and the smalllis est measuring nine inches, at- farmers in the vicinity of the town ra- of Newberry have arrived at the couclusiou 78 that the cultivation of cotton will not pay, and are turning their attention to the sowing an of large quantities of small grain. Many to farmers in other sections of the State have lot promised to do the same thing, nd car loads of cotton were burned on the Air-Line Railroad, at a point five oi re- six miles west of Spartanburg on Friday last. The cotton was piled upon platform cars and was ignited by a spark from the engine. Upas on the discovery of the fire the train was at once stopped, and the burning bales easily je.

thrown off by the traiu hands, thereby saving ire any damage to the cars themselves. newly completed Presbyterian Church at Rock Hill, cost $7,000. A Methodist ke Church, costing $6,000, is to be erected there pt in a short time. For this latter temple one lady gives a thousaud dollars, and one genof tleman, who is not a member of the church, gives five hundred dollars, aud the two promm" isc to lend the church a sufficient amount to -air building. esg Plato C.

Fludd, a colored ex-treasurer nf rwiintrtnn couutv. who was convicted at the recent terra of the court of failing to make the monthly returns required by law, was a sentenced to one year's imprisonments in the penitentiary aud to pay a fine of fifty dollars. He appealed to the Supreme Court, and iin gave one thousand dollars bail. Fludd is an ic- ignorant negro, who wields a great influence among the colored people of the county, and has held several offices under the tion regime. yg When ex-Treasurer Niles G.

Parker was et brought before Judge Mackey in Columbia, u- on a writ of habeas corpus and discharged, re the Attorney General directed the Sheriff to lT' re-arrest hira, which he failed to do. A few 8t days ago Judge Carpenter caused a notice of rule to be served on thesheriff which required hira on Tuesday last, to show cause why he, the should not be attached for hava. ing failed to arrest and hold Parker to bail )n in accordance with the exigency of the prohe cess. The correspondent of the News aud Courier says the proceedings have been tuted for the purpose of placing upon record at Judge Carpenter's official disapproval of fa Judge Mackey's course in the famous Parker iy case. This is probably the last scene in the he Parker farce.

LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I Robert Sale. W. Blake, Nursery Garden.

John C. Big was Said. T. M. Dobson Ging- men's Black Made Clothing? Beady-Made Millinery Tobacco.

W. H. A J. P. Stock of and M.

Marks A Reid, Rock Hill, S. House. FROST. The first frost iu this section, sufficiently severe to affect vegetation, occurred last Sunday morning, and we have had frost and a chilling temperature every mbrning of the week. ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM JAIL.

On Friday morning last, two United States prisoners confined in the jail at this place? W. R. Love, white, and Joseph Mull, color- to make their escape by borj ing through the floor of their room with an auger that had been conveyed to them from I the outside. Ned Hambright, a colored counI ty prisoner, discovered their movements and I gave the alarm before they succeeded in effecti ing their purpose. DEATH or J.

MARTIN, ESQ. We learn that J. Maitlaud Martin, well known to many of the citizens of this county, died at Rock Hill on Saturday last. He was buried on Sunday with Masonic honors, and at the time of his death was proba" bly the oldest Free Mason residing in the county. From the most reliable information we have been able to obtain, he is supposed to have been aged about seventy-seven years He was a native of York county.

In early life he read law with Robert Clendenin, and was admitted to the bar, but continued the practice of his profession but a short 1 time. From about 1821 to 1825, he acted as Commissioner in Equity for York District. 1 The deceased was possessed of a kindly heart and cheerful disposition, and in the social circle readily won the confidence and esteem of those with whom he came in contact. CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIER. We were pleased to receive a call last Tuesday from Messrs.

E. C. Prince and Isaac Solomons, traveling agents of the Charleston anil Cmiriivr The pnternrisiny noblish I or ers of the News and Courier, which, by the way, is one of the best dailies in the United States, are now establishing agencies on the different Hues of railroad, whereby the public may be served with the paper' on the same terms and conditions as it is delivered to the citizens of Charleston. Master Willie Ferguson, news agent, has been appointed as the agent in Yorkville for the News and Courier, and will receive weekly subscriptions for the, i daily, at twenty ceuts per week, payable to hira at the end of the week. He will receive the paper from the office of publication, and promptly deliver it to subscribers on the arrival of the train every evening.

This will prove a great convenience to many who are unwilling to pay a year's subscription in ad, vance yet to those who subscribe for a year and make payment in advance, the agent is authorized to present, as a tine gift, a Map of the United States, which is sold iu the book stores for $7.50. THE CIRCUIT COURT. October term of the Court of Common 1 1 fti. nf rieas anu ocssiuna iui me York, his Honor Judge-T. J.

Mackey presiding, dosed the business ou the sessions docket at half past four o'clock last Saturday morning, having been in session all of Friday night, and ou previous nights of the term holding until midnight. Besides two capital cases the following, in addition to those reported in our last issue, were disposed of: State vs. Albert Bobbins, colored disturbing a religious meeting. Verdict, not guilty. State vs.

Robert Wilson, colored grand larceny. Pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine of twelve dollars aud costs or to be imprisoned for four months in the penitentiary. State vs. Adolphus Chambers, colored assault aud battery with intent to kill. Verdict of guilty.

Sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail foroueday. State vs. Ned Tate, colored assault and battery with intent to kill. Verdict, guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of twenty dollars and costs, or to three mouths in county jail.

State vs. Fred Jones, colored; murder. Verdict, not guilty. The prisoner was tried .1 lor inc inuruer ui iur? uuuumao mtntti, v-m whose laud he was working as a tenant, in June last. All the muterial witnesses in the ease were colored, and their evidence was quite its reproduction in our columns this week.

We will give a more particular notice of the trial in our 1 next issue. State vs. JefFerson McConnell, colored assault and battery. Verdict, guilty of assault. Sentenced to one day in jail.

State vs. Ned Harnbright; highway robbery. The offense charged was stealing the hat off a boy's head on the highway. Pleaded guilty. day's imprisonment in the couuty jail.

State vs. Ben. Massey, colored false imprisonment. Verdict, not guilty, i State vs. J.

B. Massey, colored assault and battery; same vs. Henry Massey, two cases assault and battery with intent to kill same vs. Parks Cooper, with intent to kill; State w. J.

B. Massey, riot. These cases all origina, ted in the disturbance at Rock Hill last July, on the occasion of an excursion to that town i by negroes from Charlotte. For want of prosecuting witnesses in two of the cases, a nol. pros, was entered as to them.

The others were all tried at the same time, the same wit! nesses being examined in each case. Verdicts i i of not guilty were returned in eacn case, ex-: cept as to the one charging J. B. Massey with 1 assault ami battery. He was sentenced to pay a 6 tie of one dollar and costs, or to be imprisoned iii the county jail for ten days, ij State vs.

Granderson Smith, colored as-1 saultaud battery with intent to kill. Pleaded guilty of assault and battery. Sentence, three days in county jail. State vs. same, charging him with abduction and marrying a girl under proper age.

Pleaded guilty. Sentenced I to pay a fiue of fifty dollars and costs, or to be imprisoned five months in the penitentiary, Charles Moore, colored, who on Monday of! the terra, pleaded guilty of horse-stealing, wa3 1 sentenced to six months' hard labor in the penitentiary. As will be seeu, nearly all of the offenders? indeed, all except were tried for violations law, were colored; and it may not be improper to remark that many of the cases were sent up by trial justices. An adjourned term of the court, for the' disposal of civil business only, and for which the jury will be summoned from the viciuage, will be held, commencing on Tuesday, the 16th i I of Novcmher next. I TRIAL OF J.

ALBERTUS HOPE AND MARY E. HOPE, FOR THE MURDER OK MISS MARY ISABELLA CASTLES. In the Court of for the County of York, Honor T. J. Mackey term, IB75.

At the time we went to press last week, the case of the State vs. J. Albertus Hope and his wife Mary Elizabeth Hope, indicted for murder, by poisoning Mary Isabella Castles, was progressing. The respectability and social position of all the parties to the atfair, and the peculiar circumstances attending the lamentable death of the unfortunate young lady, attracted greater'public interest to the trial than has been shown for any capital case that has been on the sessions docket of York county in many years. The impaneling of a jury to try the case occupied but a short while.

The regular panel was exhausted before the complement was obtained, when, according to the practice in South Carolina, a selection was made from the bystanders, all of whom were put on their voire dire. We have seldom seen a jury composed of a more respectable or intelligent body of men, whose names are as follows, given in i i -i tne oruer in wnicn mey were ciiuhuu xi. x. Blake, Robert Coon rod, Daniel Williams, L. R.

Pearce, W. Borris, J. C. Hoke, A. E.

Hutchinson, drawn from, the regular panel; and Peter Garrison, T. S. Neely, S. D. Barron, John Hammili and B.

P. Boyd, drawn from among the bystanders. A. E. Hutchinson was appointed by the Court to act as foreman.

Mr. Solicitor A. M. Mackey, for the State, opeued the prosecution by statiug the grounds upon which the State relied, and which the State would undertake to prove: First. That a homicide had been committed that is to say that Mary Isabella Castles had been poisoned.

Second. That she had been deprived of her life by a certain deadly poison called strychnine. Third. That was administered to the deceased by J. Albertus Hopeatid Mary Elizabeth Hope, the prisoners at the liar, feloniously, wilfully, and with malice aforethought.

We will show lilt- history of her sail fate, as will he proved by evidence liiriln: Statu; how the llti- ami i'air fame of a lovely young girl were sadly terminated by the acts of the seducer and betrayer. Mary Isabella an orphan, of noclnl position and the object of adoption ami solicitude by large circle of friends and relatives, was in the enjoyment of perfect health on the ITthof November. 1874, and on the IHtli she was a corpse. Her soul hail fled 10 Him who gave it; her life was suddenly snatched away, with no warning of Iter approaching fate no time for a loving farewell; no calm hour for prayer, during the brief struggle that preceded the passing of her life from this earth. The evidence which the State relies is circumstantial.

Rut we will attempt to prove thai site was seduced, deceived and murdered. She was an orphan ami resided witli J. Albertus Hope, whose wife was the sister of Iter mother, lie was the guardian of a sister of the deceased, and Iter teacher. We will show thai instead of training Iter, who should have been as dear to him us an own child, lie grossly violated lite sacred trust confided to him. We invite your attention to his acts.

We will prove the death of Mary Isabella Castles. We will prove that she died ill convulsions after giving birth to a child. And by circumstantial evidence we will prove that the prisoners administered (suson to her; that he had poison in his house; that it had been used that night; mid that lie administered it to her in the guise of medicine of a similar taste; that sevt ral weeks before procured poison and had studied medical works to acquire a knowledge of the character of poisons, and to ascertain the quantity of strychnine necessary to produce death and leave no traces' of its deadly work. Proving that site died of poison, we shall endeavor to show that his motive was the same that has frequently caused men to poison. He, a married man of seduced and ruined a young girl, a member of his household.

We will show that one of the defendants expressed himself, previous to this occurrence, as being in tmiit.i... :ui.I tluii the other had stated that site was in trouble. Ilistrouhlc was remorse. Her trouble jealousy on account of tin' intimacy already described. We will piovc that as lime approached for the hirth of Illicit crime, the defendant, J.

A. Hope, became more and more troubled. That then he procured iHiisou and begun to read medical works, and that when iliechiid was born, lie would be placed in a peculiar position, lie knew lie would he held to account for seduction by his own and Ills victim's large circle of relatives that he would have to abandon his home, because he could not live with his wife on the snuie loving terms he enjoyed previous to his criminality with the young girl of seventeen years, holding his own child in Iter arms. He knew he would lose his social position; the finger of scorn would lie pointed at him by the community, the only way to prevent which would lie to remove this impediment. He waited, knowing the fact that women frequently die in ehild-hirth, and that at the instant It was born he could administer medicine causing her death, which could be made to ap pear as resulting from convulsions sometimes occurring in such cases.

Wo have other to prove his guilt. After her dentil lie sends for her relatives hot not onec does lie syml for a physician, though one lives near. He sought to cover Ills crime by hasty same day of tile death. While tilt' uncles of the deceased objected, he still Insisted, and only by remonstrance was it postponed until the next day. When nil uoele of llipileecnsed suspected foul play, and started soil after the coroner, we will establish that J.

A. Hope followed the messenger in the yard and took bold of the reins of his Imrse to prevent liim from going, lie then shed tears for the first time; but tears of and not tears for the victim of his lust. He diil not want actions anil conduct expo.ed. We will also prove that be endeavored at the inquest to prevent a full investigation; tliathe hugged tile foreman of the jury not to press him oil certain questions. Tills Is a crime which has caused great excitement In the community the first of the kind, probably, in York county, or within the limits of Sou til Carolina.

Consequently, being one of such importance, requires clear minds to act upon it, and calm, dispassionate discussion to properly treat it in all its hearings. But it Is incumbent upon you, in the discharge of your if you find the defendants guilty, tn say so; ami it ymi timl tlicm nut QUlliy, to say so ana mi man will more heartily rejoice in your verdict than In the liellci that you will have the satisfaction of having properly and faithfully discharged your duty. The material witnesses were then excluded from the court-room, and testimony in behall of the State was proceeded with as follows J. M. Whitksideh, was at house on the morning of the 17th of November last, having been summoned by Mr.

Mill, who came in haste for me and my wife. We arrived there about three o'clock in the morning. Wt wore met at tiie door by Hope, who reported thai Mary was dead that she had died on that morning. Wlion I saw her, she was lying before tin lire, dead. Deceased is the daughter of my sister, and is the samo that resided at prisoner's house.

She was buried on the following day, at noon. When I saw her, she was lying before the tiro, her hands drawn up, her arms bent on her hreast, and her head thrown or drawn buck. Sho was lying on a quilt, with no pillow or other support tinder her head. I felt for pulse, but made no other examination of the body. Noticed nothing peculiar about tho face.

The were closed. The teeth were closed, but the lips wcro not. Hope told me that Mary had given birth to a child in tite yard, and was Head. He told me that hf was awakened about two o'clock that morning, hut ditl not know by whom. His wife said it was by Mary, the deceased, who was complaining oJ pains in her stomach.

Hope said his wife told him that she had given Mary a small dose of tea? that Mary had told her she was unwell. Hope said lie suggested to his wife to give her some pills, which were administered. Hope told me that after the pills were given he heard a noise in the yard resembling that of a cat. On hearing it a second time, he concluded it could not be a cat, and walked into the yard to see what it might bo; that he thought it might be a child; that he found a child, and told Mary, whom lie passed, that il she was able to do that, she was able to go into the house, and to do so; that Mary died instantly that tlio child was found twenty feet from the steps on which Mary was sitting when lie told her to go into the liouso. I saw the place, and I saw blood on thoground, Hope said Mary was sitting on the steps when he passed out; that she started to fall, God, I am dying, and no one to help me!" Hope said tho pills were given before the oceurrence; that Mrs.

Hope gave the pills, which were given her by Hope that the tea administered was squaw-weed tea, which was given to Mary by Mrs. Hope. Hope said very little more. My" wife wont totliccradle wlioresn'e siiw the child. She took it up and drcssod it.

Hope said that ho heard the cat-like noise after he advised Mary to go Imck to bed and see if she would not got better. The greater portion of the blood I saw was near the corner of the house. Hope told me ho picked up the child where he it. Cro.su think the child whs born where I was told. Hope said they did not see the child born that they were all in the house.

Hope told trie ho used camphor on Mary. I arrived there at four o'clock in the morning. I live a mile and aquarter from Hope's. Mijamin Smith is Hope's nearest neighbor. Iain the nearest relative of Mary I.

Castles. Hope told me she ate supper the evoning before, as usual, and also milked the cow on the same evening. Mrs. Hope said she counselled Mr. Hope and gave the pills by his direction, and she would have sent for a physician had she known Mary's true condition.

Mr. Hope did not say he had any knowledge or suspicion of any one being the author of Mary's condition. Ho'said he did not examine the child, and did not know whether the umbilical corn was cut or torn. My wife was at Hope's house about six days before the occurrence. I was always on intimate terms with Hope, socially and in business matters; we have conducted business together, and our business affairs are not yet wound up.

I don't remember the last time I was at Hope's prior to the 17th. Hope assisted 011 occasions of sickness at my house. Mary was at my house, at burial of 1113' deceased child in October. I did not observe anything wrong with the deceased. I saw her at church two weeks before her death, and did not then observe anything wrong with her.

I never expressed the opinion that anything was wrong with her. Lee Castles, sistor of the deceasod, lives at my house. She is about twelve years old; deceased was seventeen, f.nn raiiio to mv bouse after last Court. She has not visited Hope or his family since, nor communicated with them, that I am aware. Had she communicated with them I do not kuow that she would have told it.

Sidney Hill lived at Hope's; he was a laborer on the farm; was aped nineteen or twenty; had been there nearly a year. Suspicions at first were not directed to any one. Mary was buried at Smyrna. After the burial I questioned Hill. He donied any knowledpe of the affair.

Hope was not present when I questioned Hill. John Whitcsidea, Robert Whitesidea find T. P. Whisonant were present. I thought Hill might know theperson, if ho himselfwere not the man.

asked Hill if he had had any connection with the deceased, and he said he had not. No further conversation ensued. I have 110 recollection of the deceased staving all night at my house four or live months previous to her death. She was at my house on the occasion of the death of my child. Hone supported the deceased.

I do not know that no was paid for it. Hope taught her; ho received no pay for hor tuition that I know of, nor for her board. Hope was not her guardian. He treated the decased as his own children. I novor observed anything wrong.

ftc-dlreol notlood no blood on the steps nor on the lloorof the house. Deceased lived about two or three years with Hope, after the death of her guardian, Dr. Castles. She did a good portion of the house work helped with the washing, cooking, etc. Hope said he had no suspicions on the eartii.

I don't think he used Hill's name. He'said he did not know deceased was pregnant. Mrs. Hope said the same. Mrs.

Margaret M. Whitksides, was at Hope's house soon after the doath of Mary Isabella Castles. Saw her body, which was lying on a pallet before the lire. The lingers were drawn or clenched her arms were on her breast; her head straight. Mrs.

John Whitesidesand myself helped to lay hor out. The side of her leg next to tire was much that the skin peeled off. There was stain of blood on her rigid hand. We could not straighten iier arms, and had to call assistance to take off her clothing. Mr.

and Mrs. Hope met me and my husband at the door and told us Mary had given birth to a child in the yard and was death I enquired for the child and found it in the cradle sleeping sweetly. On being told nothing had been done for it, I attended to its wants. The umbilical cord had not been cut, and Mr. Hope assisted me in cutting it.

Six or eight inciies of the cord was attached to the body. I did not examine tlio cord, and cannot say whether it had been torn or cut. There were I leaves on the body of the child. Mr. Hope said he had been awakened that morning by Mary's moans, and that to his question of who it was, Mary replied it was her, and passed through the door; tnat sue stayed out awnno ano reiumeu, passing through the room that rs.

Hope went to herand she complained of cbstivaness; that Hope suggested pills, which were given. He said he gave Cook or Ayer's pills. statement of the finding of the child was repeated substantially the saute as by the tirst Hope did not state the time that intervened between the hiking I of the pills and the death of Mary. Mr. and Mrs.

Hope said they did not know' that Mary was enciente. I Or(tan or Mrs. Hopetold me Mary died immediately after they carried her into I the room. Do not reinemiter of their saying they sent lor me. I and my husband were the tirst to arrive there.

I noticed nothing peculiar from other corpses, except the contraction of the limbs, and one side of her face being purple. I noticed that her right hand was stained with blood. The child was sleeping sweetly in the cradle. The child was nine mouths old when it died. The I child was puny and did not grow like other children.

Mary was dissatisfied at living with Hope, but I do not know that she was compelled to stay there, nor do I know that she ever uiade an effort to get away. When I first saw her dead laxly the head was not up. A pillow was lying near, as if it had been taken from tier head. lie-direct seemed dissatisfied with her home for a year previous to her death. I saw the child frequently.

It had blue eyes. I suspicioned that Mary was encierte a week before her death. Mrs. Whisonant had also expressed to inc a similar suspicion. I afterward saw Mary and became confirmed in my opinion.

I said nothing about it to any one except my husband. Re-cronn do not remember that ever told my husband that Mary had expressed to me that she was dissatisfied with her home at Mr. Hope's. Mrs. C.

Whitksidks, am the aunt of the deceased by marriage. I arrived at Hope's house before daylight on the morning of Mary Isabella Castles' death. I saw the body of the deceased. The quilt had been removed from her and the pillow from under her head. She had on her every day clothes.

I assisted in dressing the lsaly. We could not take off her clothing without assistance. I think the body was stiff. Her dress was fastened in front. The fingers and toes were cramped.

The teeth showed. I took no notice of the head. There were stains of blood on her clothing, and a blood stain on her hand. repeated the statement of Mr. and Mrs.

Hope, on her arrival at their house, which was not essentially different from the'version of previous Witness went to the spot where they told her the babe had been concealed by Mary saw traces of blood from the door steps to the spot, but suw no blood whore the baby was said to have lain, which was a barren spot with leaves looking like something had lain on them. A spot near the steps had been freshly covered with ashes, having the appearance of blood that had recently been covered. Hope and his wife said they had placed the ashes there. They denied all knowledge of Mary's condition. I had heard of her condition three weeks before her death.

Mrs. Whisonant informed me. I said nothing about it to the Hopes previous to Mary's death. Mr. Hope came to our house on the 19th.

Hesaid he had heard that my husband had been told that either he i.Hope) or Hill was the father of Mary's child, and he would learn the author or spend the last drop of his heart's blood. I told Hope where my husband a place a mile from the house, but bo did not go to see him. I saw Mary two or three weeks before her death. Sha was robust. I helped to dress her body on the morning of her death.

It was a cool, damp morning; not very cold. A fire had been in the room where the body lay. I noticed that the skin peeled off the right leg when it was washed. Mary's body had lain near the hearth. Her clothing wasnot burnt.

Crom do notsay the blisteringon the log wasTauscd by being burnt with fire. She was lying in front, rather to one.side, of the fireplace. There had been a good fire, but it was burnt down. Mary was a "heavy-set" young woman resembled iter mother, and seemed to be growing up like her. When I left Hope's house, i vory few persons wore there.

In September or August Mary bad been to my house to get a dress made, Hope was on his way to his mother's when he was at my house on the enquiring J- for the author of the report that ho or Hdl was the father of Mary's child. My husband was off the roail Hope would take on the way to his mother's. Miss Lkb Castors, am a sister of the deceased. I was thirteen years of age last June. I have lived at Mr.

Hope's. He is my uncle by i marriage. Ho has been my guardian. I do not know how long I had lived there. Mary lived thore five vears.

I saw her after she died. When I I awoke that night she was sitting up in bed. 1 asked hor what was the mutter. She complained of pain in liar stomach and bowels. went to the end door of the room, which door opens to the yard; she stayed there a short while and then came back.

Mrs. Hope made some tea of which my sister drank she went through the house after drinking the tea. The tea was offered to her a second time, and she refused to drink of it. When it was offered the second time, she was sit! ting by the steps. She gave no reason for refusing the tea.

Some pills were then given to her by i aunt Lizzie. Uncle Burt took the pills from his trunk, and aunt Lizzie gave them. The pills were given to Mary in the yard while she was sitting on the ground. After Mary took the pills I and Mrs. Hope went into house.

Sister would not go in. Mrs. Hope lit her pipe. Mr. Hope was sitting by tho fire.

I don't remember how long it was after this until the child was found. Aunt Lizzie took the child into the house. I don't know who was first to enter the house. As we went into the house, sister Mary was sitting on the steps. She said she was dying and there was no one to do anything for her.

Uucle Burt cupght her as she was "falling from the steps. After she was laid down, uncle Burt removed the pillow from under her head while she was dying. She was placed on an oil-cloth and a quilt. The oilcloth and quilt were taken from the cradle. They nut them on the floor when they went to bring her in.

Thev spread them down and then went for sister. Whilo sister was dying, she jerked and shook. Her hands were crumped, and her fingers clasped. I did not see her legs. She said nothing after she was brought into the house.

She did not live longer than five minutes after being taken into the house. She did not live longer than twenty minutes after the pills were given. The pills wore given fifteen or twenty minutes after the tea. When the pills were given i I liad scan nothing of the child. Aunt juzzio covered the spot by the steps with ashes after sister was dead, and before Mrs.

Wliitesides came. I heard neither mint Lizzie nor uncle Hurt speak of sending for a physician. Mr. Hope got up out of hod about the time Mary first complained. I There was some lire in the fire-place, from the pine blazing, fie got the pills out of the trunk about a.

half an hour after getting up, and after giving the tea. The tea was made in a tin-cup on some coals. Aunt Lizzie made the tea. We all slept in the same room. I did not go out of the room while tho tea was making.

I do not remember that Mr. Hope came to the tea while it was making. I was to tho back of him and did not seo him open the trunk. Tho trunk was uncle Hurt's. I think he kept the key.

I don't remember to have ever seen inside trunk. Sister and I slept on the same bed. Mr. Hope slept in another lwvi some distance from our s. Mrs.

Hope and children slept in another. The trunk was at the sido of tho door, but not near Hope's bed. Hope's bed was about an equal distance from tho other two. To the was a clock in tho house. Sister and both went to bed at the same o'clock.

When I first saw my sister after we had gone to bed, she was sitting up in the bed. I don't know whether or not she had got out oftho bod. I was awakened at two bv the clock. She died at three. I was not with sister ail the time.

I did not, nor did Mr. Hope or wife, ask her about the father oftho child. I do not know that her legs wero exposed to the tire. I think her right log was next the hearth. I nover knew I oflini.

iratHiiir lior hue hurt nr hill-lit. did llot sleep after being awakened bv my sister. Direct examination Lizzie got the water to make the tea. I went with her; it was in the entry. Mr.

Hope did not take the candle when he went for the pills. My sister died in the room in which the tea was made. There I was no light in the room when the pills were taJ ken from the trunk. Mr. Hope did not take a light with him.

When we found the child, Mr. Hope called aunt Lizzie to come and help bring it in. I said nothing about the child. I was with my sister every day. I saw the visitors who came to the house.

I know of no young manor young men with whom mv sister was in the habit of walking, or witli whom she kept company. Cross sister had been going to school previous to the occurrence. There was one i grown boy or young man going to the same I school. Aunt Lizzie said she gave the tea 011 ac- 1 count of suppression of the monthly tlow, and the 1 pills on account of costivencss. two o'clock I 1 was with my portion of the timeout of I doors.

I accompanied her the first time she went 1 i out. She went alone the second and third times. 1 I was with my sister all the tinio she was in the house. 1 ate a hearty supper that evening 1 and milked the cow. I slept as usual that night.

Wo went to lied together about eight o'clock. Mr. Hope had made arrangements to start to King's: Mountain Station the next morning, to lie aeeom- i pauied by Mr. Smith. They wore to take cotton, which had been loaded on the wagon, and every i arrangement bad been made to go.

Recalled by the and my sister went to bod at oight o'clock. 8ho undressed when we wont to bed. I awoke at two o'oloek. When I awoke, sister had on her usual every-dav clothing. She retired with only her night clothes on.

I aiu positive, when I awoke and heard her groaning in the bed, that she had on her every-day I do not know when she dressed herself. I think, on that night, sister hung her elotbes on the beds a post, whereshe was in the habit of hanging them. Hi Aunt Lizzie's baby slept iu the cradle. The oil- 1 cloth was taken from tne cradle. The baby wns one or two years old.

The oil-cloth was usually 1 kept up stairs; the cradle was kept down I do not know when the oil-cloth was placed ih the cradle. It had been in the cradle two or three I weeks; but it was usually kept up stairs. did not ask sister wby she put on her clothes, nor did she give any reason. R. W.

Whitksides, am Mary Isa- a bella Castles' uncle. Her father married my sis- ter. I arrived at Hope's houso between four and live o'clock ob the morning of Mary Castles' death. Mr. Dillingham, a young man working 11 for Meek Whitesides, came for me.

I live two miles from Mr. Hope's. Dr. R. T.

Allison lives i three-quarters of a mile from Hope's. J. M. Whitesides lives nearer than I do to Mr. Hope's; the distance being about one mile.

When I ar- rived at Hope's, I met him and my brother at the gate. They told me that Mary had given birth to I a baby and was dead. I saw her lying on a pallet i before the tire in the house. She was lying with her head thrown back, toes drawn up, hands clasped, mouth shut, teeth clenched, and lips parted. By saying her toes were drawn up, I i mean that she seemed to have died in a spasm, j1 Her feet were toes pointing toward the heels or soles of the feet.

I noticed the side of her right leg was burned to a blister. I noticed no other stains on the body. Don't know of any peculiar appearance about the eyes. She was lying on a quilt or pallet in the hall. There was not much tire.

Mary Castles was not married. After viewing the dead body, Hope, niv brother flmvufrl uaboH mill 1UJ 9CU VI Cllb WUb HIIU niu uivii a mmmvm it'lie knew the fattier of the child. Fie replied that he did not. I expressed wonder at Hope not knowing who mighfc be the father. Hope said Hill was innocent of being the father.

Several other young men were mentioned, but Hope seemed to know of none to suspect. I remarked to Hope that it was to me that no man could lie suspected. Hope could not think ofany one, as lie said lie had been very particular to keep the deceased from company. "The next morning, when I was leaving Hope's house, he told me if I could get a hold on any one to do so, as he wanted a starting place. Hillacconipanied me home, but to my questions I could obtain very littlo satisfaction from him.

On the day of the one and twoo'cloek, my brother and Hope, had a conversation. My brother John suggested that there must have been foul play; that Mary must have been poisoned. Hope replied that lie had strychnine in the house, but it was kept where Mary could not get to his trunk, the key of which lie kept. We went into the house to "examine the medicines. The trunk I H'OU la Mm tltifir DM LUUl.llil.1^ wo entered.

Ho unlocked it. It container some apples, a Mask, a box of pills, a vial of strychnine, and probably a razor and some other small articles. I saw no herbs. The strychnine was in the right-hand corner of the trunk as ho opened it? the vial standing on the bottom of the trunk. The box of pills was next to the vial.

He said the vial contained It was a small round vial. said to resemble it exhibited? i inch in diameter and 1J inches The vial was one-third full. Hope took it up hythe neck. As ho did so, I said: "Mr. Hope, this vial is said to have been used last night." The vial appeared to have been full.

I did not see the pills. Hope said they were Cook's pills. He did not account for the use of the strychnine. He said he gave pills to the deceased. I saw no weed in the trunk.

Ho said the vial might have been handled when getting the medicine. The strychnine and pills were side by side, the strychnine in the corner of the trunk. His appearance on being confronted in regard to the use of the strychnine, was downcast and dejected. At our first meeting at the door, Hope's eyes were cast downward, and he looked as if ho was in trouble. When my brother remarked that lie suspected poison, Hope's countenance was downcast; he looked to the ground, and answered that there was strychnine in the house, but she could not got it.

While with him at the trunk, his look was downcast. On one occasion, when riding in company with Hope, six weeks before Mary's death, lie remarked that he was in great trouble and hud been for some time. He remarked that if he laid luonev, lie would not care whether he over returned home or not. I asked him why, remarking that I could not see that he had any more grounds for trouble than others; but he gave no reason for his troubles. Ciowt and I wore alone when bespoke of his troubles.

He is not a man of means, but was not in embarrassed ees. He did not speak of indebtedness. Since the death of Mary he lias been sued. He always claimed that lie was not in debt to my brother, J. though brother said was indebted to him.

Don't know of iny own knowledge that J. B. Wliifnuiiliiu liiw a iiiilirmntit fil'tu'n dol lars against Hope; have heard ho has. Hope's landed property is worth one thousand dollars. He was a man of good moans two or three years ago; considered to be in fair standing.

He had been a partner of my two brothers but I have understood the atl'airs of their partnership were about settled up. At the inquest 1 testified that ilopotold me he did all hecould for Mary. When Hope told me and my brother that he had poison in his trunk, he made the statement voluntarily. I did not previously know thut he had it. I was at Hope's house on Friday liefore the occurrence.

I saw her sitting near the fire-place. She did not rise, i took dinner with the family. Mrs. Hope, I suppose, prepared dinner. Mary was not at the table.

I was at the house four hours, but did not see Mary wn her feet. She went out at one time, but through a door in an opposite direction from where I was then standing in the yard. 1 do not think I saw her when I left. I do' net remember saying before the coroner that Mrs. Hope had told me that Mary had said she felt better after drinking the tea.

now exhibited a vial, asking if it was the vial Mr. Hope took from the I do not identify this as the vial Hope exhibited to me at the trunk. If it is the same vial, it has been emptied of its contents since first saw it. I cannot swear it is the same vial, but it is oftlie same size. My own impression, when confronting Hope, was that he was the guilty person, and was trying to fix the guilt upon another; but his conduct and countenance pre vented him from convincing me.

My suspicion was excited by his remark: "Bob, fin-Hod's sake, if you euu get a starting point, do it." Ho urged me to make an etfort, ami when I told him thai Hill was not the man. was the time when I sus pected Hope. My reasons for suspecting him were based upon his countenance and his general conduct, and the absence of any notice or attention to the dead woman or the child. At Smyrna Church my brotherand myself questioned Hill to learn what he knew about the matter. After the death of Mary, Hill left Hope's and went to Mr.

Smith's; he may have remained at my house a few days. 'He afterwards went to 'Charlotte, North Carolina, but came to the inquest, when summoned by telegraph. The only com versations 1 had with him upon the subject were at Smyrna Church and at the inquest. Re-direct a subsequent interview with Mr. Hope at the bars of his fence, he asked mo if 1 had obtained any further information.

I replied: I have, and to your sorrow. I did not accompany him down the house, because I did not wish to be with him. My wife took charge of the baby. It died 011 the sixth ol last August. The child's eyes were blue; Hope's eyes, I suppose, are blue.

The eyes of the child's mother were blue. The child's forehead was full; Hope's forehead is full. There was a similarity between the forehead and the eyes of those ol Hope and the child. I once saw Hope in an inscnsiblecondition by a fall from his horse, and there was a strong resomblauco between his appearance then and the child. The head of the child was large; Hope's head is large.

The child's head was oval; so is Hope's head. The child's hair dark aud lnul the same po- culiarity of the hair of Hope's children, which was the inclination to curl at the approach ol damp weather. Hope's hair is curly, but the chilu's mother's hair was not. are other people in 1 that section with blue eyes and curly hair. J.

B. YVhitksidks, am the oldest uncle of the deceased, Mary Isabella (Jistles. I wonf fn Mnun's house between one and two o'clock on the afternoon of the day that Mary died. I did not enter the house. liobert Whitesides told me of the affair.

Hope also related to me the circumstance of strychnine being in his trunk. I replied: "Hope, in the namoof God, is there such a thing as strychnine about your house?" He dropped his head and replied that there was, but 1 said no one hud access to the trunk in which it was kept. On going to view the spot where the child was found, Robert Whitesides remarked to mo in the presence of Hope, that strychnine had been handled. Hope said he might have handled it while getting the pills. This occurred before the funeral.

When I arrived, Hope insisted that Mary ought to lie buried on that afternoon. I said there ought to be an inquest first, I eon- suited l)r. R. T. Allison as to the probablo cause of Mary's death.

He said it might have resulted from an internal hemorrHge. I do not remember 1 that Hope was present. I determined tosumiuou the coroner, and started my son on the errand. When my son mounted his ponv to start, Hope seized the bridloand pleaded with him not to go. Hope, while pleading with my son, was shed- ding tears.

Hope said the proceedings would be scandalous, though he did not say who would scandalized. I then concluded to detain my son, remarking that would see further about it. 1 Others objected to the projiosed hasty burial? among tliein Mrs. Castles, aunt of the deceased. The burial was deferred until noon next day.

My wife informed mo that on the next day after the funeral, Hope tailed at my houso, but I did not see him. witness then detailed cireum- stances connected with his exertions to induce the to leave Mr. Hope's house, to which proposition Hope urged The deceased was dissatisfied at living with Mr. Hope in the spring of 1N74. On Christmas day, 1S73, Mr.

in Mni-v mid her sister Lee visit- illj? a Nichols. Alicr I remonstra- ted with him, he consented, remarking, though, that he did not allow Mary to run about without his permission. The inquest was held six or eight days after Mary's death. The inducement to the inquest was that the wonder prevailed why, if the Whitesides' were correct people, they would permit their niece to be hurieu without an inquest. Several persons to whom I mentioned them members of the liar in the holding ol an inquest.

1 have always been lenient with Hope. In considers-. tion of Mary's home being at his house, I have given him "provisions, etc. I hold a judgment against him for the land he lives on. Ho owes me for the land has never paid me anything for it.

Jb the Castles was an orphan. She was the inheritor of some property, a portion of which her guardian, Doctor Castles, spent. There wero three children. No payment had been made to Hope for Mary's board. Cross had asked Hill what ailed Mary, but could obtain 110 satisfaction, which 8 me to suspicions.

Mary was not at my louse in September. She there in July or Lugust. My daughter then helped her to make All hat tnue Marv expressed her disatisfaction at living at Hope's, hut she gave no eason. could have tio control over her. Roh rt Whitesides and others saw Hope seize the iridle of my son's horse.

The older Dr. Allison lyes not practice now. To the J. W. Allison is the nearest radioing physician to Hope.

He lives a mile md a half Iroin Hope's. Analytical llejtorl of following malytieal report of the chemist was next offered us evidence: So. IKP E. T9tii 13. 1875.

A. M.Mackky, Sixth Judicial Circuit, South hirolina Sis of the fitli instant, to 'hurli-ston, frqucMiue my poiloftlic of Miss Castles' toiiiili'li. Was duly ivetl ami forwarded to me here. Tim is Ilii- result of lay Tim stouinch of Mary together with a sampli- of tin; alcohol in which it was iiierscd, nail certain were handed me for analysis by an igcninf the Court of the Sixth Cireuit. On examination, I on net the partially illiti'iuh il stomach rested In a mixture of nluhoi and the Huiil contents.

The mteiuiixiure hnil taken place hroagh IWOsliU or puiKlUies, and wai tint caused osmotic llltimmri through tlnr Tin- physicians who made the not mortem etui explain this iueiiiutruity. Willi the exception if some pnrtieles id woody lihre adhering to the exterior, mil a few broken seeds, under the micro Shuuim, there was absolutely nothing ndiii hi the stomneh. The aleohulie menstruum, containing the isual gastric secretions, was subjected to exhaustive anaiysis, ndh for mineral ami alkaloid xo.se or which wkre rouNti. The pills were cutuporcd principally of rhubarb. Reaiei'tlully submitted to tlte Court.

Vours truly, OTTO A. M0SE3, Ph. D. Mks. Mary M.

Whitesides, had of Mary's child after her death. The child had pale blue eyes; Hope's eyes are pale blue. Fhe child had large forehead and small mouth. Hope has a tolerably small mouth. The baby's i.ot..

fiielvuf times and at other times not. Two or three years ago, at Mr. Hope's house, I spoke to Mrs. Hope, when we were alone, in regard to Mary Castles. My husband accompanied me to the house, but at the time of my conversation with Mrs.

Hope, he was in a field with Mr. Hope. Mrs. Hope then told me she thought Mr. Hope and Mary Castles were too intimate.

She said sho bad once caught them together in bed, with their arms around each other. This was ltiout two years before Mary's death. I don't remember the exact date. the conversation with Mrs. Hope in regard to the suspected iutimaey of Mr.

Hope aiul Mary, no one else was present. I did not report the conversation to my husband. Mas. Susan Whitk, live on Calvin Whisonaut's place. I was living there at the time of Mary's death.

Two years before Mary's death I lived on Mr. Hope's place; not in his house, but in bearing distance of the house. While I lived on his place I observed nothing unusual among Hope, Mrs. Hope or Mary. I have never heard the parties quarrel in particular, but have heard hard words among them.

I cannot say what the hard words were about. I have heard Mary say she intended to leave there, as Mrs. Hope wis a curious woman. Mrs. Hope never talked to mo about her husband or Mary Castles.

I did not tell J. A. Wallnoe, foreman of the jury of inquest, when I was examined at the inquest, that Mrs. Hope was jealous of Mary. I only said I thought she was jealous, my supposition being based upon hearsay.

I never saw lead inc to the belief that there were iinpropeT relations between Mr. Hope and Mary Castles. Xathanikl White, last lived with J. A. Hope three years years before the death of Mary Castles.

During that time Mrs. Hope once asked me to watch Hope, as she beiw.li?no Mofv f'nutlou worn intimate. VU v.w never saw anything amiss between them. I did not testify at the coroner's inquest. Mbs, Maruaret Whisonant, am an aunt of Mary Castles, and a sister of Mary Elizabeth On one occasion, about three years ago, she told me that her huslytnd did not treat her properly, and had threatened that if she should tell me of her troubles he would leave her and take the children with him.

I advised her to leave, and take the children herself; to come to my houso or go to brnthqr John's. She answered: "You don't know Mary." I saw Mary three or four weeks before her death. I suspicioned that she was pregnant and spoke to Mrs. Hope about She said there was nothing wrong that she knew; she said she thought all was right. At this time Mr.

Hopo was absent from home. He had gone' to King's Mountain Station. I know what squaw weed tea is. It was given to mo once when I was in continement. Itis sometimes given in such cases.

Hill and J. M. Hope were at the house when I was there'. Squaw weed tea is used as a remedy for obstruction. De-direct I told Mrs.

Hope I believed Mary was pregnant, I made no suggestions to her. Mrs. Hope said she knew all wrs right. I advised her to be particular in noticing Mary's catameuial periods. Mrs.

Catherine M. Brown, Mrs. Hope told me on tho day of the burial of Mary, that on one occasion she hud remarked about Mary's appearance. The cause of the remark, she said, was that on the day she made it, Mary had declined to go to church. Mrs.

Hope repeated nothing that her husband might have said on the same occasion. On tho day of tho funeral Mrs. Hope told mo that she had previoiislv expressed fears to Mr. Hope that Mary was with child. Cross llope said she had expressed to her husband her fears of Mary's condition six weeks or two months before Mary's death.

Mrs. Eliza Smith, am well acquainted with Mr. Hope. I live two miles from his house. I nursed Mary's child.

I nursed it when it died. It had a round forehead, a small mouth, light haii', inclined to eurl. R. M. Whitesides, was at J.

Hope's house 011 the day before the funeral of Mary Isabella Castles. I was requested by iny father to notify tho coroner of her death. Mr. Hope asked uie not to go for the corouer, saying it would be an injury to the people if I should do so, and asked mo not to disgrace the family any more than possible. He took hold of my bridle reins when he spoke.

I did not go. The coroner lived seven or eight miles distant. Sidney Hill, was living with J. A. Hope at the time of the death of Mary Castles.

At the time of the occurrence I was in my bed asleep, in the room on the porch. When 1 awoke Mr. Hope was calling me. He asked me to go to J. M.

Whitesides', and tell him for God's sake to come over, as he believed Mary was dead. I started as soon as I could. Hope brought my coat from inside the house. I went to Meek Whitesides' as rapidly as 1 could, starting at about three or halfpast tnree o'clock. They returned to Hope's house with me, 011 the same morning of Mary's death.

I went to bed about eight o'clock on the previous night. Some of the ftimilywerfe up at that her sister and Mr. and Mrs. Hope. All were up except the small children.

I dm not know of what had happened until 1 was aroused. I returned from Meek Whitesides' about day-break. No one was then at Hope's except his own home-folks. Meek and familv returned with me. On our return from Meek's I saw the corpse of Mary.

I next went to John B. Whitesides'. When we returned from Meek's they were all sitting by the fire. There was fire when I started to Meek's, but I do not rfemertiber the size. I attended the funeral.

I rode in the wagon containing the corpse. After the funeral I first went to Mr. Brown's ana next reiurneu io Mr. Hope's. I was examined at the inquest.

Mr. Hope was at the funeral; also, Mrs. Hope, I think, but won't be positive. I never saw any improper intercourse between Hope and Mary Castles, though I had seen some things which I did not think were becoming. I noticed that Hope was very kind to Mary and kept her close at home, while he was crabbed towards his wife.

I cannot specify any particular act. I speak from his general conduct. When I was once driving Mrs. Hope home from a neighbor's, Mr. Haiubrigbt's, where she had been to visit a sick child, she told me she was greatly tormented while at home.

She spoke or Mr. Hope and Mary. She asked me if 1 had ever observed any improper conduct between them, and asked me to watch them. This conversation, 1 think, was before Christmas, 1873. I went to Hope's! to live on the third lay ot September, 1873, and remained there until occurrence on the 17th of November, 1874.

I lid not tell Mrs. Hope that I had ever seen wrong. I meant to say here on the stand from my own observations I suspected they were too intimate, but I did not tell Mrs. Hope that I thought so. I lived and worked at Mr.

Hope's. I remeniberone scene at supper. Mary had left the table and gone out on the porch. Mr. Hope followed in the same direction.

As I was leaving the table and passing through the room, of the children, Lulu, aged eight or nine pears, who had preceded me from the table, came running in, exclaiming to her mother that her father was in the porch with his hands on Mary's legs. to by I was leaving room and did not'hpar Mrs. Hope's answer the child. This scene occurred prior to my conversation with Mrs. Hope when she requested me to watch her husband and Mary.

to by When Hope sent me for Meek Whiteside's, he said nothing about the child havng been horn, nor did he send word as to the cause of the death. His words were, he thought the was dead. 1 then knew nothing of the birth the child. I had lived there over a year. Mary had no beaux, nor did she visit 4 great leal.

When I first went to Hope's, Mary went preaching nearly every Sunday, but she i.w.l-ntr sh? went to school to Mr. tfope. The school house was about a mile listnut. stopped going to school about a nonth before her death. Suspicion was arousal that slie was eneiente in July, I va.s there.

I do not remember the last time she ittendcd church. I was not in the habit of atcntling church the first few inontlis after I went account of the distance to the church lie family attended, and I having no other means tfgoitig hut to walk. After I became acquainted hrough the neighborhood, I walked to Enon, a learerchurch. During crop timeof 1874,1 think was, Mr. Hope had a conversation with 1110 in he porch, on the subject of my getting married, le told me if I would marry somebody to please litti, lie would give me the lower portion of his dace.

In fun I asked him whom he meant, but io did not tell me. I will be twenty years of age he eleventh, of next January. I remained at lope's house during the occurrences of the 17th 18th of November, 1874; I went to the funeal of Mary Castles; and I returned to Mr. Hope's lotisc that night. I am not a relative of the deeased, Mary Isabella Castles.

Owing to the length, we are compelled to coninue to Dextweck the remainmg proceedings of he trial, which include the cross examination of iidney Hill, the concluding evidence for the the testimony for the defense, the stateuents of the prisoners, the Judge's charge to the ury, the verdict, Ac. Dr. J. K. Pinnix, of Lexington, N.

ommitted suicide on the 8th instant, by hooting himself with a gun. No cause asigued for the act..