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|P' K ^ . .... VOL XLVI. ' ~ ' ~' WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNSDAY, APRIL 16, 1890. ISO. 35. A DEAD LION: WORDS SPOKEN IN THE TABE'RNA- j ?~ CLE PULPiTi I>r. De Witt Talma^e Sj?os.kn From Kcclciii- i a*t? Upon a 'Dead Lion," and Creates h J Sensation. i The subject of Dr. Talmage's ser-j e i .... ..4 r - | llAUii UI1 OUUittlj ?u3 -rx. jytavi and Lis text, Ecclesiastes 9:4, -A living dog is better than a dead lior." Hv said: The Bible is the strnngest.tln.* love- j liest. the mightif-su the weirdest. thr- j best of books. Written by Moses the lawyer. Joshua the soldier. Samuel th* judge, Ezra the builder. Job the poet. David the shepherd, Daniel the piime-minister, Autos the herdsman. Matthew the custom-house officer. Luke' the doctor, Paul the , ?- schaClr," Jonirthc exile: a.nd yet a complete harmony from the middle ] verse of the Bible,wilk>k.;s thejyghth verse of the one hundred and seven- ] + txpoU), ?.?* w fo t'ns liriiv-i' < UV:CjU bli W M u j >i i w V<AV MX/*rvA I and lower lids, and from the shortest j passage, which is thirty-tilth verse of j the eleventh chapter of John, to the j longest verse, which is the ninth f verse of the eighth charter of E>- ( ther. and yet not an imperfection in t all the 773.693 words which it is com- ( posed of. It not only reaches over c the past, but over the future; has in c it a ferry-boat, ;is in second Samuel; c and a telegraph wire, as in Job: and 1 :> railroad train, as in Xahuni; and i i i it-cduces us to a foundryman by ] th? re uric of Tubal Cain, and a ship- \ buil.. by the name of Noah, and an i lit- nnmt. At' Ahnliah L^UUV Vt Wav x--? j ^ and tells us how many stables Solo- i e mon had to take care of his horses, -md how much he paid for those \ horses. Bu.t few things in tliis ver- f, satiie and comprehensive book inter- u w. iiic so much as its apothegms, a -those short, terse, sententious, epi- c * rgammatic sayings, of which my text p is one?"A living dog is better than a a dead lion." a Here the Hon stands f:?r nobility, j e ^ w /?,%/ * ^a-.* rviaon-nACc Vrtii >n:ict 1 C&J-IXL ^ ViV/^ 1 A vbi iiAU>jv | jj know that the dog mentioned in the u text is not one of our American or h European or Scottish dvgs that, in p our mind, is a synonym for the beau- si tiful, the graceful, the affectionate, tl the sagacious, and the time. The St. d Bernard dog is a hero, and if you ai doubt it, ask the snows of the Alps, li out of which he picked the exhausted traveler. The shepherd dog is a I ^ - poem, and if you doubt it. ;-sk the v,, Higlilands of Scotland. The Arctic ti dog is the rescuer of explorers, and * u 3'ou doubt it. ask Dr. Kane s expecli- (\( tion. The watchdog is a living pro- ej i tec tion, Jind if you doubt it, ask ten m thousand homesteads over whose fr f safety he watched last night. But jr, Solomon, the author of my text, lived n( = in Jerusalem, and the dog he speaks ^ of in the text was a dog in Jerusalem, pi Last December I passed nights and \vrfcrrnz~n. 'lic-nv's ihzyrvr of WHei'G" p] - Solomon wrote this text, and from what I saw of the canines of Jerusa- t0 lem ,by day, and heard of them by f0 night I can understand the slight ap- e4. preciation my text puts upon the dog ^ and disgusting, and afflicted with T! parasites, and takes revenge upon the } . * human race by tilling the nights with s clamor.' All up and down the Bible. r i tlie most of which was written in ? Palestine or Syria, or contiguous u [ lands,' the dog is used in coniemptu-1 v P " ous comparison. Hazael said, " is c th\v?ervaut a dog, that he should do s I this thing?" In self-abnegation the -] Svro-Phcc-nician woman said, "Even f. j, the dogs eat of the crumbs winch f, . full from the Masters table." Paul 0 says inPhihppians/'Baware of clogs;'' ? - and St. John in speaking of heaven, r I, says. "Without are cogs." + ' On the other hand the lion is healthy, strong,. and loud-voiced. ai:d at l, its roar the forests echo and the P mountains tremble. It is marvelous i for strength, and when its hide is re- a moved, the muscular compactness is c something wonderful, ana tne sune i. of the dissector bounds back from the *t' tendons. By the clearing off of the 8 forestu of Palestine and the use of t fire-arms, of which, the Hon is particu- ? laiiy afriiid. they have disappeared <_ from places where they once i-anged, ?. but they were very bold in olden < ^ times. They attacked an army of < ? Xerxes while marching through Mac- j Iedonia. They were so numerous ( that one thousand lions were slain in > forty years in the amphitheater in \ I "'! ' Home. As most 01 tiie joioie was } t ^ written in regions lion-haunted, this < ' " creature appears in almost all parts ( of i be Bible as a simile. David irn- j viir; -tood its habits of night-prowling j j?Mci day-slumbering, as is seen from his description: ''The young lions car after their prey and seek their rueafc from God. The sun ariseth, - they gather themselves together, and hiy them down in their dens." And again hemes out, 'OJy soul is among iious.' Closes knew them and said: , ",'jdali is crouched like a lion. " bainson knew* them i"or he took honey from the carcass of a slain lion. Solf ?, omon kLew them and says. "The v kings wrath is like the roar of a lion." and again "The slbtliful man ^ - says, there is a lion in the way." Isaiah knew tliein. and says in the millennium, "The lion shall eat straw like an ox." Ezekiel knew them and savs, "The third was tile lace 01 a lion." Paul knew them, and says: "I was delivered out oi' the mouth of the lion." Peter knew them, and says: "The devil as a roaring lion walksth about." St. John knew them, and says of Christ, "Behold the lion of the tribe of .Judak!" Now*, what Joes my text mean > when it puts a living dog and a dead lion side by side, and says the former is better than the latter? It means that small faculties actively used are of more value than great faculj ties unemployed. How often you J see it: Some man with limited capacity is vastly useful. He takes that I which God has given him and says: I "My mental endowment is not large I and the world would not rate me B high for my intelligence, and my voI cabulary is limited, and my educa| tion was defective, but liere goes what I have for God and salvation. on/1 flip mrtViT><t of thi' world 2T?od I and happy." He puts in a word hero and a word there, enconra^ s a fainthearted man, gives a scripture passage in consolation to some bereft *\ woman, picks up a child fallen in the i street and helps him brash off the ??? mi a? HBBBM M?awaaoBeaaM dust and puts a live-coat piece in Lis Laud, telling him not to ay. so that the boy is singing before lie gets around the comer.waiting on everybody that ha.s a letter to carry or a message to deliver: conies into ;i rail train or stage coach, or depot, or 11-if'Ji n .milino +'o/.xi cntv' ?VLL%/jk/? ??i m t iuiiixijj iuvv liuvv b.7 everybody to thinking. "If that man can. with small equipment in life, be happy, why cannot I, possessing far more than he has. be equally happy?" One day of that kind of doing things may not amount to much, but forty years of that?no one but God him- 1 self v.c/i appreciate its immensity. < The simple fact is that the world ; has been, aud the world is now. full j of dead lions. They are people- of i1 ereat camcitv and lanre ormortunitv.! i doing nothing for the improvement ' of society, nothing for the overthrow 1 of evil, nothing for the salvation of c >ouls. Some of ihem arv momentary t lions. They have accumulated so t many hundreds of thousands of dol- ?< lars that you e;m feel their tread when s they walk through any street or come t nto any circle. They can by one \ in*;TWM?l mm'? mwpt tiufliPV C vet. Instead of the ten per cent, of & ;hoir income which the Bible lays c Iowa as the proper proportion of o heir contribution to the cause of r jrod, they do not give live per cent., c >r three per cent., or two per cent., a >r one per cent., or a half per cent, i >r a quarter per cent. Thai tney are <.1 1 1 i TJ'l Al- 7 ions, no one uouois. \>.nen iney oar Wall street, State street, and I Bourse tremble. In a few years thev p rill lie down and die. They will p tave a great funeral, and a long row u )f line cairiages, and mightiest requims will roll from the organs, and it >olished shafts of Aberdeen granite o rill indicate where their dust lies,but d or all use to the world that man h [light as well have lievel" lived. As I x> experiment as to how much he o an carry-with him. put a ten-cent A rlece in the palm of his dead hand, o: nd five years after open the tomb. *< nd you will rind that he has dropped fi ven the ten-cent piece. A lion! Yes, b ut a dead lion! He left all his treas- n re on earth, and has no treasure in le oovan Whof cnftll cf ririA roTfr^v lr at upon the obelisk over him? I n: uggest let it be the man's name, r? ion the date of his birth, then the ei ate of his death, then the appvopri- ti te senpture passage: "Better is a oj ving dog than a dead lion." w But I thank God that we are hav- le tg just dow an outbursts of splendid 1 enilicenee that is to Increase until k le earth is girdled with it. It is 111 ^reading with the speed of an epi- T,v emic. but with just the opposite I9 Feet of an epidemic. Do von not ^ )tice liow wealthy men are opening w ee libraries, and building chui'ches su . their native village? Have you th )t seen how men of large meaiiS, v-"' stead of leaving great pliilanthro- flt es in their wills for disappointed th iii'S to quarro! about, and the orlan courts to swamp, are becoming sp ieir own executors and administra- ex rs: After putting aside enough th 1 4,11^11 lctillil.lt:?> 11C Lllci>L piuviuii not for liis own, and especially di lose of bis own household, is worse tan an. infidel,") they are saying i'o' What can*L^lo,'lf^rUte1' Ij.rn jle-nd, eh ut while living, and in full posses- ti ion of my faculties., to properly di- h ect the buiding of the churches, or n lie hospitals or the colleges, or the 01 brnries that I design for the public ? relfave. and while 3 yec have ft.ill c;iapacity to enjoy the satisfaction of eeing the good accomplished.- n .Here arc oaa iasmons ana jjoou ^ ashions. and whether good or bad. hi asliions are mighty. One of fc.ie oj ;ood fashions now starting will s weep o; he earth?the fashion for wealthy ti aen to distribute, while yet alive, w heir surplus accumulation. It is be- P ng helped by the fact that so many ^ arge estates have, immediately t] iter the testators death, gone into t: itigation. Attorneys with large l\.-es h ire employed on both sides, and the ^ :ase goes on month after month, and I; ear after year, and afier one court tl iecides. it ascends to another court v. md is decided in the opposite direc- b ion, and the new evidence is four. J, t: md the trials are all -rt-pe&ted. The t.' hildi*en. who at the father's funeral li lee-med to have an uncontrollable t' jrief, after the will is read go into an ?iaboraie process to prove that tlio v !ather was crazy, and therefore in- u competent to make a will: and there a ire men on the jury who think that < :he fact that the testator gave so t nuch of his money to the Bible soci- i: *tv, and the missionary society. or the f opening of a free libraiy.is proof po>- r itive that he was insane, and that he t knew not what he was signing 1 when lie subscribed to tile words: j ?. "In the name of God, amen. L be \ Lng of sound mind, do make this my iast will and testament/' < The torn wills, the fraudulent wills, t the broken wills have recently been 1 made such a spectacle to angels ami : to men that sill over the land successful men are calling in architects and t saying to them: "How much vould ' i -? T 1 it cost for me to ouiivi a piciure gai- > levy for our town?" or "I am spe- : ciallv interested in "the incurables' and how lv.rge a building would ac- : commodate three hundred of such j patients?" or "The 'hurch of God : has been a great li lp to me all my ' life, and I want you to draw the plan ; for a church. commodious, beautiful, well ventilated, and with plenty of windows to let in the light: I want you to get right at work hi making out plans for such a building, for. T Q?.-. ,T-?n nmv U-T.i iinf/.v. tllOU^-LL JL mil ??*TAA iivMi, iiiv *.? tain, and before I leave tlie world I j want to see something done that will { be an appropriate acknowledgment j of the goodness of God tome and mine: j now?svnen can I hear from you?" i "Who would attempt to write the ' j obituary of the dead lions of com-! ! meree, the dead lions of lav.. the j dead lions of medicine.the dead lions i of social influence? Vast capacity i had they, and mighty range, and orii-! er men in their presence were as powerless as the antelope or lieil'er j or giraffe when froru the jungle aXu-! midian lion springs upon its prey.; But they got through with life. They lay down in their magnilicent lair. | 1,,,,.^ too,In flit-ir 1-r^t sliJii';') : jL UV.V Jia?< iijavvvv/ ? ? ba-rgaiu. Tm*y Linvo stwken tiieir last hard word. They committed their last mean act.When a tawny inhabitant of the desert rolls over helpless. the lioness and whelps till the aii- with shrieks and howls, and lash themselves into lamentation, and it is ; ^ J f a genuine grief for the poor things. < But when this doad b'oii of monstrous f uselessness expires, there is nothing i but dramatized woe. for -Better is a s living dog than a dead lion." t My text also means that an oppor- c timitvof the living present is better t than a great opportunity passed, s We spend much of our time in' say- a ing: "If I only had." We can all u look back and see some occasion v where we might have done a great I deed, or might have effected an im- t; portant rescue, or we might have t< dealt a stroke that would have ae- a L*omplisIi{-d a vast resist. Through tj stupidity :>r lack of approci;-.!: m of a the crisis, through procrastinaik u ^ ive let the chance gob}-. How much j ^ :ime v>\- have wasted in thinking of >vhai we might liave said or might t] lave clone! We spend hours and ?u lays and years in walking around o\ liai. dead lion. Wo cannot resuxci- 1* ;ate it. It will never open its eyes C igain. There will never be another g ;pring in its paw. Dead as any feline w error of South Africa, through w vliosc heart thirty years ago Gordon h: j warning sent the sliu;. Don't let us a .. .1??' ;i\r uu\ juuic tiuit* n; tiiv uqnu:^ >f the dead past. There are other w pportu jiities remaining. They, may st tot be a* great, hut the}' are worth m >ur attention. Small opportunities tL ill around, opportunities for the say- tL ug of kind words and doing of kind et [eeds. Helplessness to be helped, th disheartened ones to be encouraged, ia jost ones to be found. Though the ot resent may be insignificant as com- le: TTI^-h llJ o \V! ?iu: tav ytfcoc* JL/vI/wvi A.-J a n>ui^ " .og than a dead lion." in The most useless and painful feeling m > the one of regret. Kepent of lost gr pportunities we must, and get par- gi .011 we may,but regrets weaken, dis- de earten, and cripple further work, to f a sea captain who once had charge it f a White Star steamer across the gi' ilnntic ocean, one foggy night runs th n a rock off Newfoundland, and pas- th sngers and ship perish, shall he re- se: ,..7. i... /I n iv-/^ A^i' cu uuf cwiiiiiiaxivi. ui u ouiaii out up tlie North river and say. "I bu ever will go on the water again un- or; iss I can run on thv 'White Star E( tie?" Shall the engineer of a light- wi ing express, who at a station mis?ad the telegram of u. train dispatch: and went into collision, and for lat has been pat down to the work l engineering a freight train, say, "I ill never again mount an engine un?s; T f*fln vim n VAsfilinlp PVT-iv/asts1?'' like what you have of opportunity ft. Do your best with what renins. Your shortest winter day is K<* orth more to you than can be the ngest day of a previous summer. J our opportunity now, as compared ith previous opportunities. may be Tu null as a rat-terrier compared with ^ i .e lion which at Matabosa, fatally sei Dunded by the gun of David Liningon,-in its death agony leaped upon ntiwcinii'H'V uvvilAror <> -n rl it-ifVi ifc ail( tvs flushed the T^'^'ir Y^r" lbj?s. acd .thef"^ over"asd^Vi dog s My textalwmc. t^t the contiono? the mo. t wretched man >?o to is better than yrf ?ie most ] vored 01 sinners * , - ,,i ti,. <1i? ance ula ie.> "vse f-kroy cannot mate any tin ^ assets available. After Charle- sh; lagne was dead he was set in an taa mamented sepulchre on a golden % iroae. and a crown was put 011 his of nd brow, and a sceptre in liis stiff -a: ;md, but that gave him no dominion m( i the next world. One of the most UE itensely interesting things I saw ' ist winter in Egypt was Pharaoh of c0 Ithe verr Pharaoh who pposeil the Israelites. The inscrip- Jo ons on his sarcophagus, and the pl; Titing on his mummy bandages, if rove beyond controversy that he be as the Pharaoh of Bible times. All th ic Egyptologists and the . exploraons agree that it is the old scoundrel imself. Visible arc the very teeth bl itli which lie gnashed against the an ? i * 'i i rr?i . sraelitish. imcK-maicers. mere are ae sockets oi' the merciless eyes to ith which lie looked upon the over- fa' urdened people of God. There is ov :>o hair that floated in the breeze of he lied sea. There are the very bl ps with which he commanded them o make brick without straw. Thous- t? :uls of years afterward, when the 15 , rappings of the mummy were of urolled. old Pharaoh lifted up his rms as if in imploration, but skinny Sl ones cannot attain clutch his shat- tt t-red sceptre. He is a dead lion. And tt s not any man now living, in the n< act that nr. lias an opportunity 01 epentanco and salvation, bettor off lu han any of those departed ones who, >vhxjthorny or possessions or infiu- tv nee, were positively leonine, and yet vieked? What a thing to congratulate you m is life. V\'j tv. it is worth more t< han all the gems of the universe S dndled into one precious stone I o: . vi-K i. i ,, UU :uivei v> iiJil UUt'fi IIIJIL UACXUI>r> Why. it means that I still have all f< Dpport unity of being saved myself, a md he]pine others to be saved. To n oo alive! Why. it means that I have s ret another clmnco to connect my n oust mistakes, and make sure work a for heaven. Alive, are we? Come, let us celebrate it by new resolutions, o new self-examinations, new consecra- ? tion. and a ne w career. The smallest o and most insigruiiicant to-day is worth s to us more than live hundred yester- " T.v.-imf nflv}ir>tflc?-p of t.hf nrfs- ( ..... ?-0- X- ( _ ent. lot us got pardon for all the past, i r and security lor ail the future. "Where : a are our forgiven sins? I don't know, c God don't know, either. He says, r "Your sins and iniquities will I re- s member no more." t What encouragement in the text 1 for all Christian workers! Despair of s no one's salvation. "While there is ? - ' TV .1 _ .1 ! i hie tliere is nope, w nen m xL?ngia:uu i ; a vonng lady asked for a class in a Sunday-school. the superintendent \ * said. "Better go out on the street ( and grot your class." She brought in ( a ragged and filthy boy. Tiic- super- f iutendent gave hinf good apparel. In 1 a few Sundays he absented himself. s Inquiry discovered that in a street ( fight he Lad his decent apparel torn i1 off. He was brought in and a second !i time respectably clad. After a few ! Sundays lie again disappeared, and it j was tcun'ci that lit- v.'as agam ragged;; and wre!:ched. "Then." said thej teacher. "we ck~,\ do nothing with;; him." i*>ut the superintendent fitted ; him up again and started him again. ' : After a while the gospel took hold of ; 1 him ajHl his heart changed. He start-' for the ministry ami became a foreign missionary and mi heatken grounds lived, and translated the icripture, and preached, until among he most illustrious names of the thurcli on earth. and in heaven is iie name 01 glorious nouert jaorri-1 011. Go forth and save tlie lost, nd remember however filthy and mdone a child is. or a man is, or a roman is, they are worth an effort, would rather have their opportuniv than any that will ever be given < o those who lived in magnificent sin j nd splendid unrighteousness and , tien wrapped their gorgeous tapestry round them and without prayer exired. "Better is a living dog than a < 1 lion." In tne grout day it will be found , a at the last shall be first. There J re the grog-shops and in the haunts 11 f iniquity to-day those who will yet 2 models of holiness and prvacli ci hrist. to the people. In yonder ( roup of young men who came here . t l _ J.1 ' mi no useiui purpose, mere is one y ho will yet live for Christ and per- D ips die for Him. In ;i pulpit stood fl stranger preaching, and lie said: die last time I was in this church as iifteen years ago, and the eircum- ^ ances were peculiar. Three young en had come, expecting to disturb e le service, and they had stones in 0 ifiv nnfkpts. wliifth thpv A\np<'t- . I to hurl at the preacher. One of e young men referred to refused to ke part in the assault, and the hers, in disgust at his cowardice, p] ft the building-. One of the three us hanged for forgery. Another is ie prison, condemned to death for ^ ardor. I was the third, but the ^ ace of God saved mo.'" My hearer, pe ve no one up. The case may seem rn( 'Sperate, but the grace of God likes undertake a dead lift. I proclaim |0 this day to all the people?free t]0 ace! Living and dying, be that my jv eme?free grace! Sound it across : ' e continent, sound it across the? tts?free grace! Spell out those ^ >rds in flowers, lift them in arches ^ Lild them in thrones, roll them ii itorios?free grace! That will y?t a]( lenize the earth and people heav?n th nations redeemed. Free grate! 8-ilvatlou! Oh, tha Joyful soacd. Ti? pleasure to our ears, A sovereign bairn Cor every wound. WZ K corulsti lor jar fears. ^ Buried iu sorrow and ia sin At death's dark door we lay: But we arise by grace divine, To see a heavenly day. th w ^ CONGRESSMEN WRITE A BOOK. ' ' & be construction and its Results Discussed? _v The Race Question. ^ Representatives Herbert of Ala- ? ma, Hemphill of South Carolina, rner of Georgia, Stewart of Texas, Ison of West Virginia, ex-Repre- ?k itative Barksdale of Mississippi, aator Vance of North Carolina, n\ "tm :-i-~ it i. -r : bcu oi JCIUUUH, vwi ui JJL:SSUO!I i I "W. L. Fishback of Arkansas, Ira q jOBOH of TSDK'-SSefcVO. S. Lcnon? jej :-st Virginia and B. J. Sage of uisiana have collectively written, J will soon publish, a book entitled, Thy a Solid South: or, Reconstrucn and Its Results." er [t undertakes to narrate fairly and ti\_ [passionately,- in a concise and pop- w; ir form, the history of the recon.i. - state il owing how the Republicans o toned control and how they lost it, ^ nres and facts as to the shrinkage p. values and the increase of debt and j|' sation under these meir goveranits and the prosperity of the South ^ der present auspicies. ? The book speaks of Abraham Lin- ^ ln's death as an appalling calamity ^ the South, argues that Andrew hnson followed strictly Lincoln's m of restoration and contends that Lincoln had lived he would have ^ en able to defend that plan against ^ e assaults of Congress. A] Each chapter is signed by its author, C( 10 thus becomes directly responsi- t? o for the truth ot ms statements, tJ d the claim of the book in its pre- J ee, written by Gen. Herbert, its edi- n r, is that in all the chapters the ^ cts are understated rather than r erstated. n The race question and race trou- p es are extensively discussed. The atement is made that there is no inntion to agitate for the repeal, of the >th amendment or the deportation o the negroes. Educational" and q aterial statistics of many kinds are \ ven in support of the contention t iat the negro is prosperous and that c Si/YiifW Id crvlvincr fnv itsplf the 1 ?gro question. The book is dedicated to the busi- f. ?ss men of the North with the state- c ient that they are interested in con- 1 nuing- the prosperity of^the .South. { 1 Mrs Noble's Treasures. j A ^iter in the St. Louis Republic 1 alls that Mrs. Noble, wife of the t ecretnry of the Interior, possesses i ne of the most unique collections of < old enameled and silver spoons to be ] )und in Washington. These curios re kept in the parlor in an inlaid lahogany table, the top of which is imk several inches below the outer j im. lined with tufted crimson satin 1 nd covered with a plate glass-top, | rhich fastens with a spring, the key i f which is safely stowed away up tairs. Among the most interesting f the collection is a dull looking ilver spoon, on the handle of -which a bas-relief, is shown the Baptism of "lirist. with the Holy Spirit descending from heaven in the form a dove. ,s John the Baptist pours copious Iran gilts of water from his hands, aised high above his Master. This poon was secured from an old ca1 -3,.^ 1 X: hma?y?T\av/? r?4- trln/tli Y\1 <1 iXieUTBJ. ill 1^1 U1 OiV *T J-ULV-iJ. | vas also obtained a small, delicately ;haped teaspoon with pointed bowls md fine open work filagree handles. Another curious piece, picked up in Moscow, is a small vessel, a cross beween a spoon and n cup, used in the 'hurclies of Russia by the nobility in Irinking the holy water. This is of xold inlaid with transparent enamel, vhicli. on being held up to the light, ihows the most brilliant coloring. An _>pen work golden egg enameled in the same manner can be taken apart uid formed into two egg cups. ?Mrs. Jane Clause. 105 years of ;ige, lives near Crews, in Lamar county. Alabama. She counts her age at only a little over 100 years, but the record of her birth which is now in possession of a well-known gentleman of Marion county, shows her to have been 105 last autumn. "LE3IS0N WILL CASE. & pla rOLYINC THE TITLE TO THE JOHN C, CALHOUN HOMESTEAD orj Melt in Xa? Declared the Property of the at* of Soutli Cartfina, and will bti tlie ? "" :e of an Agricultural College. A-uta Corttltution. . famous will case ended. i gg 'lie decision of the Supreme Court can Dfiie United States was given briefly whi nesterdav's Constitution, a special - ? .: . pla Tit Wasiiiiigton. ftOT Jhe history of the case is> a pecurly interesting one, involving as am does the title to the old home of euc ku C. Calhoun, Fort Hill, in South ^ <i olina. o-er wu? here that the '"nullification vroi [varations" were prepared by Mr. wh< the papers beaiing the post- S0D irk "Fort Hill." Here also Mr. fl? ILioun's famous letter to the Gover- *r1? r, upon the question of nullification. 2^ .s wiitten. ^ ft is the birth-place of Hon. Pat Jhowi, of Atlanta, who was an at- y? mey in (he case. p?* The issue was between Miss Isa , 11a L&e, a great granddaughter of hn C. Calhoun, and the State of utli Carolina. 0 me: THE SECOND OWNER - def is ill'. Calhoun's widow, Mrs. ^ r?ri<lp Calhoun. Mav 13th, 1854, l's. Calhoun and her daughter, Cor- ??a lia Calhoun, conveyed the place to s idrew P. Calhoun for ?49,000, iniding a number of negroes and theiirsonalty. Andrew Calhoun gave a am >rtgage for ?40,000. aPj Afterwards he offered several times J1" pay the $40,000, but this was not (-ru 'lie because his mother preferred na* awing interest on the money as an . vestment. anc '? " T i ?licer Mr. Andrew uamoun aieu just r ter the war, leading the mortgage ?ia ipaid. The mortgage, it should stated, was given to. his mother ,. }116. Mrs. Calhonn died in 1871. . By the provisions of her will a p"a: ret fourths interest in the mortgage is left to her daughter, Mrs. A. Gr. pmKn-n. and the remainder to Miss ^ oride Clemson. Mrs. Clemson was >?? .owed to dispose of her interest in e mortgage as she saw fit. It was rther provided that if the mort- -tio ge was foreclosed and the property >ught -under the foreclosure, the .e ace was to stand in lieu of the mort?)?? till wit SOLD AT AUCTION. the The mortgage was foreclosed and e place sold January 1, 1872. It the is bought in the name of A. G. emson as trustee for his wife ?" - ; _ j ->liss .blonde uiemson mameu ? ideon Lee, of New York, and died Qur' ilYlilJj /! - -Miss T*y>j3filla ?e' . Stf CLEMSON' S INTEREST. Mrs. Clemson died, leaving "the 7e] ttire property and estate to whicn toi ie was then in any wise entitled, or C&1hich she might afterwards acquire," Su 1 Til n Plamcinn als i iiernusDanu, muunw v>. v^v. <~J*2>v?s> tio Then in a will made to 'xcbo, w;red in 1887, Mr. Clemson left the foperty to the State of South Caro- fo na. * ?1 He died in 1888. and in November ta le executor addressed a letter to the at legislature of South Carolina proffer- ^ ig to make the deed to the State if ^ le conditions were accepted. ti( CO A. COLLEGE SITE. CQ These provisions of the Clemson te ill Twn-r-a ir\ a-ffani ilinf fV)P firDTWrtv ht 1JUL ?> JUL* ViAVVW, V?w x ^ ^ as to be used as the site for an ti< gricultural college. This was to be be Dntrolled by aboard of thirteen trus- M ?es, ""en named in the will, and to le 01 aers to be named by the State. Cj d case of a vacancy amongst the seven amed by Mr. Clemson, the vacancy as to be filled by election by the r? emainder, so that this number?a lajority of the board?was tobeself T? >erpeiu?im?. j.k fV THE FIGHT BEGIX3. Or Miss Lee, the great grand daughter Hi if John C. Calhoun, and the sole heir S( ?f Mrs. Floride Clemson Lee, filed a tl till of injunction to prevent the execu- tr or of the Clemson estate making a ^ leed to the State of South Caro- c< ina. k It was contended that Mrs. Clem- a] ion had conveyed to her husband a) >nlv the property that was actually iptm. the rents then in hand, from h he estate, with certain other property h eft her by her mother s will, amount- u ng to about ?4,500, and did Dot in- S! ;end to convey the estate in which >he had, it was contented, only a life f< nterest, and that the homestead she n expected to become the property of ^ Mrs. Floride Clemson Lee. s TWO TRIALS. c The injunction was granted, and the case was tried before Chief Jus- 1; tice Fuller and Judges Bond and r Simonton in the eircuit court at * > Charleston. c It "was decided against Miss Lee. j An appeal was taken to the Su- i preme Court. and the decision which ^ has just been announced confirms t the decision of the lower court. The case was advanced on the s docket through the efforts of the 3 attornev-eeneral of South Carolina, 1 acting under instructions from the 1 Legislature. i The arguments in the last trial j were all in writing. Perhaps the i most exhaustive argument on either \ side was that of Mr. Alex. King, of 1 the Atlanta firm of Calhoun, King & j Spalding. This was highly commended in Washington, and is considered i one of the ablest arguments made be- < fore that court in years. It embodied all that could be said in the interest of Miss Lee, as remainderman under the will of Mrs. Calhoun. The decision ia against Miss Lee, however, and is final. THE HISTORY OK THE CASE. Thomas G. Clemson, who married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, made Fort Hill their home. They lived there quietly and plainly. When [Mrs. Clemson died. Mr. Clemson was left as the sole occupant of Fort Hill. He lived there almost as a hermit, never leaving hie ovra grounds, but taking the greatest pride and1 asure in showing visitors over the; ce. and Mr. Calhoun's library and ! rate rooms. No one suspected WH t the old man had any money, and | y a short while before he died Mr. leon Lee wrote to a merchant at Thc ldleton and told him to let him ^ e any groceries that he might _< d. and send tJie Dili on to mm. m 5x. Clemson died in the spring of Lett 8, and the contents of his -will ~ sed a surprise. This old man, 0 had been considered a penniless daj imbecile, had left the Fort Hill of ce as a seat for the founding of an ove icultural and mechanical college, ^ 1 his private fortune, which ounted to about ?100,000. as an ^1G towment- - . tioi .Tils will fell like a thunderclap Brc >n the Calhoun family. It was terallv thought that Fort Hill iild descend to Miss Isabella Lee, Pul o was tlie daughter of Mrs. Clem- 'iioi ;'s sister, and consequently the -poc ndaugliter of tlie great statesman. j^g js Lee was given the Calhoun te and portraits, and a bequest of cru 1,000 on condition that she would I ; contest the wilL It had long mo m understood that she was to let rec in C. Calhoun, of New York, and teri - rinlVinnn. nf Atlanta. Ga., have nat Fort Hill place, and that tliey troi :e to fix it up in grand style as the the homestead and use it as a sum- ten r home. They at once set about to call eat Clemson's purposes. - rnf 3iey contended that Clemson was fro: 5 an imbecile, and that he had no an 1 title to the property, which was ate: wife's. The will looked to the the eptance of the bequest by the int< ,te, and to its supplementing the tra.1 ? i. ~ nriUni^ 1\T- Qnmiftl UUXLL VI JJLK-UXCJ V11JJ.CVA wj )ropriations to the college. It pro- to 1 ed that the State should elect six anc stees to co-operate with the seven wa: ned in the will. em ."'his r,hrew the matter into politics lan I the question of the State's ac- for< tance of the Clemson bequest was sue de the chief issue in the campaign sec the election of the Legislature of anc 8. The friends of the South Caro- ma i college fouerM tht friends of the A mson College, and the campaign cry - * n j_7_ -j__ 5 the bitterest Known m ooutu us .'olina since the great campaign of fro: 6. The farmers won and sent a thr jority of the adherents of Clemson thii liege to the Legislature, but the Tai I providing for the State's accept- Sn< :e was carried through both the oth use and the Senate. The Gover- in i , however, refused to sign the bill, urg is allowed by the constitution the ha-s ht to hold over a bill until the first vici ee days of the next session, if he the jhes. He exercised this right on thii ! ground that he did not care to See ke the State a party to the cause 800 >n in ihe United States court. But enc en th'o Legislature reassembled In I anc t December, the Governor sign- wri the bill, thereby accepting the be- fro est. the The executor of the will then_ma4e tbs ir a ctoecr or Ttrra&Hbe ite, ar.d the attorney-general was at ;trace d to co-operate with the law- ] rs already employed by the execu- the of the will in defending it in the So >e now before the United States gei prem Court. The Legislature op *o provided for. the immediateerec- am m of s oitaygji^tldings forihe col- mi for"the opening oHhfc-'j2lSlEr w( tie* with complete apparatus and to 11 faculty at as early a day as pos- th ^'av^ "Will 10 o -firvo rVM sfcj J1C. A. u1 u .? a. Hi. ao LM w vam. ... vw, fcion of about a thousand acres, sii out two miles from Pendleton, the M :arest railroad station- The dwell- to g is a typical old Southern planta- na >n home. It sits on the top of a to immanding hilL The large white m lumns to its piazza attract the at- qi ntion of all passers by. The old d? >use is in a fine state of preserra- gr m, and contains all the furniture, ta >oks, portraits and other relics of ce r. Calhoun. The trustees propose i keep the house intact as a kind of di ilhoun memorial- gi ? tL RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. g( evolution th? Certain Sequence of Official ta Tyranny. gi The irequency with, wiiich. the ?3 ussian outrages are brought "before tl le public by the indefatigable eorge Kennan, makes the subject a tr btle tiresome. The latest and most msational of all?the massacre of tr le political exiles in Yakutsk?is gi eated afresh in the April Century, herein Mr. Kennan shows quite g< mclusively that the explanation fa iade by the Russian government is ti bsurd. He concludes ins summary w 3 follows: d One of the executed men, two ai ours before the rope was put about h' i.i neck, scribbled a hasty farewell, si ote to his comrades in which he b aid: We are not afraid to die, but o: ry?you?to make our deaths count o Dr something?write all this to Kenan/' The appeal to me shall not be 1* i vain. If I live the whole English v 1 "? ' > -L 1 1, pealong world as least, Hiia.ii jsjuluw 11 the details of this most atrocious r rime. n However this may be, the world at h arge, and we of America as a part of c t, cannot but feel a deep interest in t - hat is going on in Russia. There ( :an be but one end to the total sup- f session of liberty which the govern- s nent of Russia exercises this day. 1 nth as brutal a severity as in the I imes of Peter or of Catharine. i There was a dawn of hope for Rus- i iia?at least it looked that way to i roung America?when the serfs were ? irst emancipated. Russia had been i dnd to ui5?although, as our states * nan then knew.the kindness was but mother name forjpoliey?and Amer- ] cans were deceived for a while with < ;he roseate views of what rejuvena- i ied Russia would surely accomplish 1 ai time. J It soon became evident, however, ] that there was no hope for modern ' civilization in Russia, until she should : pass through the same furnace which > tried France, and in the nature of ' things, the trial will be even more se- i vere. The tyranny of the French nobility was as nothing compared with : that which the governing class of Russia exercise without limit, and the retribution will, unhappily, reach the innocent alike with the guilty. "When Russia emerges irom tnis sea of blood she will take her place in the foremost ranks of the great nationalities of the world. ?It is stated that not a pound of ice was saved in North Carolina last winter." ( A NEGRO EXODUS. M ! thj OLE SECTIONS OF NORTH CARO- ^ UNA WITHOUT COLORED LABOR. : W ; th< i Emigration Agents have Almowt De- j ?p_ mniafwi th? Eastern Section of the State i ^ Scenes of Destitution Along the Country ! L""' aad8. 1 SIT er to The New York Sun, i ^ I ?he emigrant agent has had his j ap. in North Carolina. Like a plague j rei devastating insects he has swept I of r the entire eastern section of c0< State, leaving nought behind but ^ te waste places, desolated planta- oa] i? n-nr? inrtlodorous memories, be; along levees and an unprecedented ^Y11 rflow in the Mississippi Yalley ^ , an effectual check upon the opera- thi is, but, alas, too late to save the ev< r negroes already gathered into -he net from untold hardships and 101 62T el deprivations. t is a curious fact that every great mi; rr^TTv^nt nf flip tipurees in the di- ces t LUlVHt V/* c tion of seeking to better tbeir ma- coi .al condition by removal f: om their ma ive soil has has resulted disas- he: asly to them. Take, for example, nic great exodus into Kansas some tel years ago, which resulted in a th< . for Government aid to succor the tat ortunate creatures and save them tai m starvation and freezing during da: unusually hard winter immedi- agi ly following. Then, later on, when an re was a great influx of negroes we } Arkansas and Texas from Cen- va< I Georgia and Western South an olina, State and Diivate aid had bii - - - - -1 Ml J?; j oe furnished to save tne m-aaviseu. un I over-sanguine blacks from dire in| at. So now. scarcely have the shi igrants from this State been safely blf ded in the Mississippi region be- biz 5 an unprecedented overflow en- no s, inundating almost the entire va tion into which they have removed, lef I precluding all likelihood of tai king a crop this season. '! dready the apparently inevitable roj of distress has been sounded, and an reverberations are echoing now blf m every village and hamlet foi oughout the deserted distiicts in So ? State. At Goldsboro, Winston, th< i-boro, Halifax, Scotland Neck, ke )w Hill, Plymouth and various wc er towns and settlements visited tw ;he last few days, letters the most he rent are shown from negroes who ale 'e but recently gone from these A inities, beggingfor money to bring bl: m back. And yet in the face of all un 5 there are 400 deluded blacks at no rf.lfl.nd Neck. 600 at Plymouth and va: ?in Beaufort county, packed and T1 :amped, aMBfc^a^ents to come be '^s, ?l ^p Sisoienribrtimesometo come, if tn all. at in addition to the check put upon be ) movement by tHe overnow m me athwest, the planters and citizens ve leraliy have combined to stop the th erations of the emigrant agents, wj d have been moved so to do as if ic3^jat__of_consideration for the th ;lfare of thenegroes Tnems^frus aiWui retain what available farm labor tl ere is left in the country. An in- tl ince of this occurred a few days ir ice at Scotland Neck, where a Mr. h cNeil, of the fiim of McNeil & Pax- n< n, Josselyn. Ga., turpentine and b' ,val stores producers, who had gone a1 that point to secure laborers, was tl et by a committee of citizens and d lietly but firmly admonished to vs jsist from interfering with the ne- ^ oes thereabouts, and advised to 6 ke himself off. which he did with n - - a lenty. Just here it is proper to cite the t( stinction between the exodus erui- b ants and the turpentine emigrants, .e difference being that the former h ) to stay, and the latter?who are s< ken to Central and Southern Gec-r- n a?only go for the season, it being tl ipressly stipulated in their contracts c: iat when then* services are no longer iquired they shall be furnished ansportation back to then homes. Geo. W. Price. Jr., a representa- h re negro, who has become an emi- n :ant agent, returned from the Yazoo ? [ississippi delta on Monday, having r ?l?_ )H6 unDncr WILLL tiuuui L?uunvuvu. ^ ,milies. He tells me that the en- c re region is now under water, and ^ lat in consequence there is great f emoralization and dissatisfaction c mong the emigrants. It is hoped. s owever, that the flood will yet sub- j de in time for the making of a crop, * 1 1 - " L r?-n1l oesenvr*/"! i ux ne is iiot &uxucic.ui4j ?icu ?o.joivw t f this to venture forth with any more l f his people. j To get an accurate idea of the deso- y ite condition of the counties from j rhich so many of the exodusters < ave gone one must leave the rail- } oads?in the vicinity of which there 1 3 always more or less life?and by 3 ;orseback or vehicle traverse the 1 xl. I - ountry roads. As a general rmus , he country roads in Eastern North Carolina are not inviting to travellers ' amiliar with and accustomed to hard, imooth-surfaced pikes, or even clay >sdded wagonways. Tlirough the )inev woods these rural thoroughares wind and twist about in the nost bewildering and provoking faslion, while your steed or span of horses jtruggle through the sand, varying Vnm nnp to ten inches in depth, con stituting the roadbed. The eastern counties of this Stat lave been, up to the tint? of the negro sxodus, the most populous. and there ire still people enough in them to sill and make productive almost every icre of farming lands. But the labor ls not properly distributed. The towns, and especially the larger nlftces like Wilmington and Weldon are, as a rale, overcrowded with an unproductive element, in some instances closely approximating onehalf of the total population. And from these centres no emigrants have been taken, which is to be regretted, since very many could have been spared with advantage to all parties. Take the city of Wilmington, for ex ?n. tnfn] of about I CUAVk VMV V* v* ? 25.000 souls quite 10,000 are negroes, j and at least one half of these are not employed four months out of the twelve. Driving oat from Goldsboro one is impressed with the thrifty and in all respects desirable aspect of the coun *. Immediately neighboring on a it live little town but few negroes "? re induced to remove, but in the | >re remote regions to the north- " ? st of that point vacant cabins, with sir smokeless chimneys, broken ices and a ereneral air of desertion come oppressively apparent One &11 farm after another is passed, d now and then an extensive planion. upon which no signs of life pear. Evidence of recent and hasty noval are everywhere visible. Parte broken furniture, cracked or broken 3king utensils, old brogan shoes, d various remnants of wearing aprel, all in a shape of having been elessly and hastily thrown aside, ai* testimony to the hurry and flurry kh which the late inhabitants took iir departure. ' Occasionally a vault cm- dog, which, as a general ng, the country negro prizes above ?n the members of his family, is to seen still, with mute but loyal iitude, standing guard over the pty home o: his whilom friend and ister. The country is full ol tnese serable brutes, which were of ne>sity left behind and no amount of ixing will induce the sad-eyed, Jigy-coated mongrels to desert the irthstone. Here and there little >unds, with plain board markings, 1 of the last rest resting place of j kindred of those who have volunilv sought new homes in the dislt Southwest. Once in a while a maged coon pelt flaps in the breeze tine* fn? crflKIp of the emotv hut: old battered bucket sits by the ' 11 side; wide-open barn doors, , . ---| ;ant mangers, empty cow pens, d neglected garden patches comle to present a picture in detail of 'Air desolation. The humble "meetr house," in which God was woripped on Sunday and the young tcks received instructions in the le black speller on week days, is w a lonesome testimonial of ad- fzM. ntages enjoyed in homes they have t, which may not be so easily obned again. Still further on one comes to cross- . ids, and here again all is hushed d silent as a churchyard. The icksmith shop is nailed up, the ge is gone, and with it the smith. vy, also is the store closed and barred, s goods removed, and the store- ' " M - - - ~ . . .-sgg c-per -with them, bo contagious .s the exodus epidemic that one or o white families, formerly resident re, caught the infection and went / mg with their colored neighbors. ^ stray domestic fowl, which probar roosted^in some sequestered spot known to its owner, is met with w and then, as is also a pig or two inly searching for its former mates. le road itself shows that there has en no recent travel over it, and, th the advancing spring, weeds and ? 8ilC bpruui'iiig iUiUU DUUii W pathway in a track of living -e desSSSSrwrougETBy tfie ezois, but of course they are only to : met within the more remote sec- _ >ns. From the vicinity of all towns ry few negroes have removed, for e double reason that they were not rnted and would not have have gone * "* * "**? oil rtf they had oeen. jm iuiu. a^u.v e cities and towns there is an abundujj^of^negrohbor, "which, but for le colored citizen, mightDt^Bliw^ i restoring the waste places and^ abilitating the planting interests, ow at a standstill. If it was possile to properly distribute the surplus ad burdensome negro elements of le towns throughout the farming >* . iistricts now lying waste the exodus ould prove a blessing to tne state, 'hich has for so many years suffered om an excessive, consuming and on-producing population. But that lis will be done, or that it is possible ) do it, none who knows the townred negro dares hope. -J But even as matters now stand, the mdowners are taking a very philoophical view of the situation, and the lore foreseeing agree that the effect cf " -11- i..i_ i. . ; lie exoaus wni ultimately w wucuLai to the State in every way. " ?> ' t ?? Kel'orm in the Internal Revenue. The House Judiciary Co:nmittee as ordered a favorable report to be aade upon Hendersons bill to amend he internal revenue laws. The bill einoves the minimum penalties now trovided by law for the punishment >f offenders against reveiue laws, .--'TTfS imits the issue of warrants upon inAMnofirtn fr> flinsp sworn tf. bv tTift jollector, deputies or revenue officers tnd to those made upon sworn com)Iaints and personal knowledge, and prohibits the payment of fees unless lie prosecution is approved by the [Jnited States Attorney or conviction results. It provides for a return ipon warrants before the nearest > ^ udicial officer, authorizes Circuit ^ Courts to appoint commissioners to -yr* let upon wan-ants and admit persons to bail, and finally empowers the commissioners of internal revenue to compromise civil or criminal cases or re- _? >* duce and remit fines. She Raised Eleven Good Democrats Wilson & Bisbops Rink, in New York, was filled Saturday with 167 of ii.. ^ ^ \.f Uie i >JL iXUUC ^JuUJLOU-L VX^'Ai. V?1 who assembled to lielp the old lady celebrate her 101st birthday. Mrs. Chard was in the best of health and spirits, and was greatly pleased on receiving the {congratulations of her friends and relatives. In the evening religious exercises were held, and over three hundred people were present. Mrs. Chard ?vas bom in Brandywine. Pa., in 1730. on the veiy spot +^1^ Ivi-ftlr- nf Tirsmrivwine was fought. She takes pride in pointing out the fact that she has raised a family of eleven boys, who are all living and are all good Democrats. Her oldest boy is eighty years of age Ballets Steeped in Garlic. ? * *vr -xr _ i_ ? rm. v JLn a trial in .aew xorx, on xnuns- -- i day, of Concetta Rosita. a young J Italian women, for an assault on . Guiseppe Allianello, the facts were ^ brought out that the husband iruuie ' the wife fire at her lover with bullets steeped in garlic, according to a superstition among the Italian peas- j ants that to steep a bullet in garlic puts its effectiveness beyond .all J doubt. But the superstition failed n in tins ea5tf, as the bullets .'id not A hit the man. She was sentenced to ~ J