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t IN TRUMPET SOUNDS. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON FULL OF HOPE. Throuch the Name ueip rur mo uv|?w?va0 of Christ?The Need or Sympathy?Fulfillment of a Great Promise?A Mighty Gathering. Washington, Feb. 23.?'This sermon sounds the note of triumph, a note that all will be glad to hear in these times, when so many are uttering and writing1 jeremiads of discouragement. Dr. Talmage took as his text Genesis xix, 10, "Unto him shall the gathering I of the people be." Through a supernatural lens, or what I Lrght call a prophescope, dying Jacob looks down through the ^ corridors of the centuries until he sees iy Christ the center of all popular atJE traction and the greatest being in all the world, so everywhere acknowljag^^^&fed. It was not* always so. The fiMKHtorld tried hard to put him down and ^^^^to put him out. In the year 1200, Wr while excavating for antiquities 53 miles northeast of Rome, a copper plate tablet was found containing the death warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this wise: "In the year 17 of the empire of Tiberius Ca;sar, and on the 25th of March, I, Pontius Piiate, governor of the Praetore, condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die between two thieves, Quintius Cornelius to tead him forth to the place of execution," The death warrant was signed by several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi, Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet, a private citizen. The capital punishment was executed according to law. The name of the thief crucified on the right hand side of Christ was Dismas; the name of the thief crucified on the left hand side of mnn Pnnfine *Pilof a VUTIiSb TVCU5 UVOWUO. X VUMUU^X describing the tragedy, says the whole world lighted candles from 110011 until night. Thirty-three years of maltreatment. They ascribe his birth to bastardy and his death to excruciation. A wall of the city, built about those times and recently exposed by archae ologists, shows a caricature of Jesus Christ, evidencing the contempt in which he was held by many in his day?that caricature on the wall representing a cross and a donkey nailed to it, and under it the inscription, "This is the Christ whom the people worship." But I rejoice that that day is gone by. Our Christ is coming out from unaer the world's abuse. The most popular name on earth today is the name of Christ. Where he had one friend Christ has a thousand friends. The scoffers have become the worshipers. Of the 20 most celebrated infidels in Great Britain in our day 10 have come back to Christ, trying to undo the blatant mischief of their lives?16 out of the 20. Every man who writes a letter or signs a document, wittingly or unwittingly, honors Jesus Christ We date.everything as B. C. or A. D,?B. C., before Christ; A. D., Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. All the ages of history on the pivot of the upright beam of the cross of the son of God, B. C., A. D. I do not care what you call him? whether Conqueror, or King, or Morning Star, or Sun of Righteousness, or Bum of Gilead, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother or Friend, or take the name used in the verse from which I take my text, and call him Shiloh, which means his Son, or the Tranquil ator, or the Peacemaker, Shiloh. I only want to tell you that "unto him hall the gathering of the people be." In the first place, the people are gathered around Christ for pardon. No sensible man or healthfully ambitious man is satisfied with his past life. A fool may think he is all right. A sensible man knows he is not. I do not care who the thoughtful man is, the review of his life-time befcavior before God and man gives to him no especial satisfaction. "Oh," he says, "there have been so many things I have done I ought not to have done, there have been so many things I have said I ought never to have said, there have been so many things I have written I ought never to have written, there have been so many things I have thought I ought never to have thought. I must somehow get things readjusted, I must somehow have the past reconstructed ; there are days and months and years which cry out against me in horrible vociferation." Ah, my brother, Christ adjusts the past by obliterating it. He does not erase the record of our misdoing with a dash of ink from a register's pen, but lifting his right hand, crushed, red at the palm, he puts it against his bleeding brow, and then against his pierced side, and with the crimson accumulation of all those wounds he rubs out the accusatory chapter. He blots out our iniquities. Oh, never be anxious about tne future; better be anxious about the past I put it not at the end of my sermon; I put it at the frontmercy and pardon through Shiloh, the sin pardoning Christ. "Unto him shall the gathering of the people be." "Oh!" says some man, "I have for 40 years been as bad as I could be, and is there any mercy for me?" Mercy for you. "Oh!" says some one here, "1 nad a grand ancestry, the holiest of fathers and the tenderest of mothers, and for my perfidy there is no excuse. Do you think there is any mercy for me?" Mercy for ycu. "But," says another man, t4I fear I have committed what they call the unpardonable Bin, and the Bible says if a man commit that sin, he is neither to be forgiven in this world nor the world to come. Do you think there is any mercy for me?" The fact that you have any solicitude about the matter at all proves positively that you have not committed the unpardonable sin. Mercy for you? Oh, the grace of God which bringeth salvation! The grace of God! Let us take the surveyor's chain and try to measure God's mercy through Jesus Christ. Let one surveyor take that chain and go to the north, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the south, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the east, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the west, and then make a report of the square miles of that vast kingdom of God's mercy. Aye, you will have to wait to all eternity for the report of that measurement. It cannot be j i -o-.-i measured. x~a,u? mcu w wimu wc height of it, and he went heigbl over height, altitude above altitude, monntain aboue mountain, then sank down in discourragement and gave it up, for he saw Sierra Neyadas beyond and Matterhorns beyond, and waving his hands back to us in the plains he says, "Pasl IS*-: finding out; unsearchable, that in all j things he might have the preemin, ence." You notice that nearly all the sinners mentioned as pardoned in the Bible were great sinners?David a great sinner, Paul a great sinner, Rahab a great sinner, Magdalene a 1 great sinner, the Prodigal Son a great sinner. The world easily understood how Christ could pardon a half and half sinner, but what the world wants to be persuaded of is that Christ will forgive the worst sinner, the hardest sinner, the oldest sinner, the most ini excusable sinner. To the sin pardon> ing Shiloh let all the gathering of the people be. But, I remark again, the people will gather around Christ as a svmpathij zer. Oh, we all want sympathy. I ' hear people talk as though they were independent of it. None of us could live without sympathy. When parts of our family are away, how lonely the house seems until they all get home! But, alas! for those who never come home. Sometimes it seems as if it must be impossible. What, will their feet 1 never again come over the threshold? Will they never again sit with us at the table? Will they never again kneel with us at family prayer? Shall we never again look into their sunny faces? Shall we never again on earth ; take counsel with them for our work? Alas me. who can stand under these griefs! Oh, Christ, thou canst do more for a bereft soul than any one else. It is he who stands beside us to tell of the resurrection. It is he that came to bid peace. It is he that comes to us and breathes into us the spirit of submission until we can look up from the wreck and ruin of our brightest expectations and say, "Father, not my will, but thine, be done." Oh, ye who are bereft, ye anguish bitten, come into this refuge. The roll of those who came for relief to Christ is larger and larger. Unto this Shiloh of omnipotent sympathy the gathering of the people shall be. Oh, thatJChrist would stand by all these empty cradles, and all these desolated homesteads, and all these broken hearts, and persuade us it is well. The world cannot offer you any help at such a time. Suppose the world comes and offers you money. You would rather live on a crust in a cellar and have your departed loved ones with you than live in palatial surroundings and they away. Suppose the world offers you its honors to console you. What is the presidency to Abraham Lincoln when little Willie lies dead in the White House? Per haps the world comes and says, "Time will cure it all." Ah, there are griefs that have raged on for 30 years and are raging yet. And yet hundreds have been comforted, thousands have been comforted, millions have been comforted, and Christ had done the work. Oh, what you want is sympathy. The world's heart of sympathy beats very irregularly- Plenty of sympathy when we do not want it, and often, when we are in appalling need of it, no sympathy. There are multitudes of people dying for sympathy?sympathay in their work, sympathy in their fatigues, sympathy in their bereavements, sympathy in their financial losses, sympathy in their physical ailments, sympathy in their spirtual anxieties, sympathy in the /vf /Innlirtirtrtt TTOQMO HaPTI ULUO \JL UU^llUAiig JWMO MAMV) high, everlasting, almighty sympathy We must have it, and Christ gives it. That is the cord with which he is going to draw all nations to him. At the story of punishment a man's eye flashes and his teeth set and his fist clinches, and he prepares to do battle even though it be against the heavens ; yet what heart so hard but it will succumb to the story of compas.sion! Even a man's sympathy is pleasant and helpful. When we have been in some hour of weakness, to have a brawny man stand beside as and promise to see us through?what courage it gives to our heart and what strength it gives to our arm. Still mightier is a woman's sympathy. Let him tell the story, who, when all his fortunes were gone and all the world was against him came home and found in that home a wife who could write on the top of the empty flour barrel, "The Loid will provide." or write on the door of the empty wardrobe, "Consider the lilies of the field; if God so clothed the grass of the field, will he not clothe us and ours?" Or let that young man tell the story who has gone the whole round of dissipation. The shadow of the penitentiary is upon him, and even his father says; "Be off! Never come home again!" The young man finds still his mother's arm outstretched for him. and how she will stand at the wicket of the prison to whisper consolation, or get down on her knees before the governor, begging for pardon, hoping on for her wayward boy after all others are hopeless. Or let her tell the story who, under villainous allurement and impatient of parental restraint, has wandered off from a home of which she was the idol into the murky and thunderous midnight of abandonment, away from God, and further away, until some time she is tossed on the beach of that early home a mere splinter of a wreck. Who will pity her now? Who will gather these dishonored locks into her lap? Who will wash off the blood from the gashed forehead? Who will tell her of that Christ who came to save the lost? Who will put that weary head upon the clean white pillow and watch by day and watch by night until the hoarse voice of the sufferer becomes the whisper, and the whisper becomes only a faint motion of the lips, and the faint motion of the lips is exchanged for a silent look, and the cut feet are still, and the weary eyes are still, and the frenzied heart is still, and all is still? Who will have compassion on her when no others have compassion? Mother! Mother! Oh, there is something beautiful in sympathy?in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy, motherly sympathy; yea and neighborly sympathy! Why was it that a city was aroused with excite, ment when a little child was kidnaped from one of the streets? Why were whole columns of the newspapers fill, ed with the story of a little child? It was because we are all one in sympathy, and every parent said: "How if it had been my Lizzie? How if it had , been my Mary ? How if it had been , my Maud? How if it had been my child? How if there had been one , unoccupied pillow in our trundle bed tonight? How if my little one?bone ) of my bone and llesh of my flesh? , were tonight carried captive into some den of vacabonds. never to come back ' to me? How if it had been my sorrow [ looking out of the window, watching ; and waiting?that sorrow worse than t death?" Then, when they found her, , why did we declare the news all t through the households, and every; body that knew how to pray says, "Thank God?M Because we are all one, bound by one great golden chain of sympathy. Oh, yes, but e-tff tell you that if you will aggregate all neighborly, manly, ^^ifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found only a poor starving thing compared with the sympathy of our great Shiloh, who has held in his lap the sorrows of the ages, and who is ready to nurse on his holy heart the woes of all who will come to him. Oh, what a God, what a Saviour we have! But in larger vision see the nations in some kind of trouble ever since the world was derailed and hurled down I the embankments. The demon of sin came to this world, but other demons 1 - * ii 1 J_ mi _ have gone tnrougn omer worms, xne demon of conflagration, the domon of volcanic disturbance, the demon of destruction. Dr Place says he saw one world in the northern hemisphere 16 months burning. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world burning. A French astronomer says that in 300 years, 1,500 worlds have disappeared. I do not see why infidels find it so hard to believe that two worlds stopped in Joshua's time, when the astronomers tell us that 1,500 worlds have stopped. Even the moon is a world in rums. Stellar, lunar, solar catastrophes innumerable. But it seems as if the most sorrows have been reserved for our world. By one toss of the world at Ticuboro, of 12,000 inhabitants only 26 people escaped. By one shake of the world at Lisbon in five minutes 60,000 perished and 200,000 before the earth stopped rocking. A mountain falls in Switzerland, burying the village of Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy in the night, when 2,000 people are asleep, and they never arouse. By a convulsion of the earth Japan broken off from China. By a convulsion of the earth the Caribbean islands broken off from America. Three islands near the mouth of the Ganges, with 340,000 inhabitants?a great surge of the sea breaks over them, and 214,000 perish that day. Alas, alas, for our poor world. It has been recently discovered inat a wnoie comment nas sunk, a continent that connected Europe and America, part of the inhabitants of that continent going to Europe, part coming to America over the tablelands of Mexico, up through the valleys of the Mississippi, and we are finding now the remains of their mounds and their cities in Mexico, in Colorado and the tablelands of the west. It is a matter of demonstration that a whole continent has gone down, the Azores off the coast of Spain only the highest mountain of that sunken continent. Plato described that continent, its grandeur, the multitude of its inhabitants, its splendor and its awful destruction, and the world thought it was a romance, but archaeologists have found out it was history, and the English and the German and the American fleets have gone forth with the archaeologists, and the Challenger and the Dolphin and the Gazelle have dropped anchor, and in deep sea soundings they have found the contour of that sunken continent. Oh, there is trouble marked on the rocks, on the sky, on the sea, on the flora and the fauna?astronomical trouble, geological trouble, oceanic trouble, political trouble, domestic trouble?and standing in the presence of all those stupendous devastations, I ask if I am not right in saying that the great want of this age and all ages is divine sympathy and omnipotent comfort, and they are found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ unto whom shall the gathering of the people be. Other words may fall, but this morning star will never be blotted from the heavens. The earth may quake, but this rock of ages will never be shaken from its foundations. The same Christ who fed the 5,000 will feed all the world's hunger. The same Christ who cured Bartimeus will illuminate all blindness. The same Christ who made the dumb speak will put on ever> tongue a hosanna. The same Christ who awoke Lazarus from the sarcophagus will yet rally all the pious dead in glorious resurrection. "I know that my Redeemer liveth," and that "to him shall the gathering of the people be." Ah, my friends, when Christ starts thoroughly and mi?/>lrltr ti-k lift this misftrohlft wreck of a sunken world, it will not take him long to lift it. I have thought that Ihis particular age in which we live may be given up to discoveries and inventions % which through quick and instantaneous communication all cities and all communities and all lands will be brought together, and then in another period perhaps these inventions which have been used for worldly purposes will be brought out for gospel invitation, and some great prophet of the Lord will come and snatch the mysterious, sublime and miraculous telephone from the hand of commerce, and, all lands and kingdoms connected by a wondrous wire, this prophet of the Lord may, through telephonic communication, in an instant announce to all nations pardon and sympathy- and life through Jesus Christ, and then, putting the wondrous tube to the ear of tho Lord's prophet, the response shall come back, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son." You and I may not live to see the day. I think those of us who are over 40 years of age can scarcely expect to see the day. I expect before that time our bodies will be sound asleep in the hammocks of the old gospel ship as it goes sailing on. But Christ will wake us up in. time to see the achievement. We who have sweated in the hot harvest fields will be at the door of the garner when the sheaves come in. That work for which in this world we toiled and wept and struggled and wore ourselves out shall not come to consummation and we be oblivious of the achievement. We will be allowed to come out and shake hands with the victors. We who fought in the earlier battles will have just as much right to rejoice as those who reddened their leet in trie last ivrmageaaon. .an, yea, those who could only give a cupful of cold water in the name of a disciple, those who could only scrape a handful of lint for a wounded soldier, those who could only administer to old age in its decrepitude, those who could only coax a poor waif of the street to go back homo to her God, those who could only lift a little child in the arms of. Christ, will have as much right to take part in the ovation to the Lord Jesus Christ as a Chrysostom. It will be your victory and mine, as well as Christ's. He the conqueror, we shouting in his train, Christ the victor will pick out the [humblest of his disciples in the crowd, mm / ? ?= and turning half around on the whi (Jforse of victory he shall point her 01 ' for approval by the multitude as 1 says, "She did what she could." The putting his hand on the head of son man, who by his industry made 01 talent do the work of ten, ne will sa; "Thou hast been faithful over a fe things; I will make thee ruler ovi ten cities." Two different theorl about the fulfillment of this promise There are people who think Chri will come in person and sit on throne. Perhaps he may. I shoul like to see the scarred feet going u the stairs of a palace in which all tl clnries of the Alhambra. and the T< ifrahal, and.St. Mark's, and the Wii ter palace are gathered. I should lil to see the world pay Christ in love ft what it did to him in maltreatment, should like to be one of the grooms < the chargers, holding the stirrup i the king mounts. Oh, what a glor ous time it would be on earth if Chri would break through the heaven s.ar right here where he has suffered ac died have this prophecy fulfilled"Unto him shall the gathering of tt people be." But failing in that, I ba gain to meet you at the ponderoi gate of heaven on the day when 01 Lord comes back. Garlands of a nations on bis brow?of the bronzt nations of the South and the palli nations of the North?Europe, Asii Africa, North and South Am eric; and the other continents that ma arise meantime from the sea to tali the places of their sunken predeces ors?arch of Trajan, arch of Titus arch of Triumph in the Champs EI] sees, all too poor to welcome this kin of kings and lord of lords any coi niiproTR in his aucust arrival. Tur out all heaven to meet him. Hang a along the route the flags of earthl dominion, whether decorated wit crescent, or star, or eagle, or lion, c coronet. Hang out heaven's brightes banner, with its one star of Bethleher and blood striped of the cross. I hea the procession now- Hark! Th tramp of the feet, the rumbling of th wheels, the chattering of the hoof and the shout of the riders I Te: thousand times ten thousand an thousands of thousands. Put up i: heaven's library, right beside the com pleted volume of the world's ruin, th completed volume of Shiloh's triumph The old promise struggling throug the ages fulfilled at last, "Unto hie ? >1 .1 -it - -f I snail me garnering 01 me peupio w. While everlasting ages roll Eternal love shall feast their soul And scenes of bliss forever now Klse in succession to their view. DECLARED INNOCENT, VERDICT OF THE JURY IN THE COL LETON CASE. The Conclusion Reached on Monday Nigh Col. Aldrlch Move* for Ball on Very Not el Grounds?The Application Befnsed. Walterboro, Feb. 25.?"Gentle men of the jury, have you agree upon a verdict?" j "We have." It is midnight. The old court hous of Colleton county is dimly lighted the body of the building being i; semi-darkness. The figures of th prisoners are imperfectlv seen in th dock, which is elevated nve feet abov the floor. At the rail dividing the ba from the public portion of the hal] there is a wall of white faces. Mei have been pusning and struggling fo an advantageous position, but now hush falls upon the assemblage. A few minutes before, when th news that the jury had agreed wa heard on the quiet streets, men ha seemed to spring from the grounc and in an incredibly short time hui dreds were struggling and pushing u the winding stone steps of the coui house, surging into the building, a most,overpowering the force of depi ties stationed along the railing. But Judge Aldricb had arrived an the stillness oi a vault now reignet Around a table lighted by one of th three kerosene lamps in the hall, wei fVivoo /-?* Qruvinl corresnondent' The Rev. G. H. Ackerman, father < Dr. W. H. Ackerman, sat by the sid of his wife, his white hair and bear being conspicuous in the uncertai light. The devoted mother, who h? so faithfully attended the court, wf bent forward, a handkerchief presse to her eyes. Several girls, relative of the prisoners, were seated about tt dock, serious but not deeply movec Thejorisoners looked straight ahead. "Wait a moment, Mr. Clerk," sai the judge, who then warned the aud ence against any demonstration. "Let the verdict be read," he said. "The State against W. B. Ackei man, Frank Jenny, Frank Brant an Wyman Kearse; indictment for mu: der?not guilty." A smile spread over Dr. Ackerman face as the last words fell from th clerk's lips. His father let his fa< fall in his hands with a sob; his motl er seemed to press the handkerchi< closer to her eyes. The other defen< ants were unmoved. Perfect silence continued for a se ond, when some one tapped the iloc with his feet, but a stern command < silence cut otf the applause. Cou: was then adjourned. A hundred men pressed about tl dock from all sides, while the prisoi ers stood up and received their enthi siastic congratulations. Mrs. Acke man was overcome with emotion an the other ladies wept aloud. The jurymen then filed by Rev. M Ackerman, who, still weeping, toe each one by the hand witn a fervej "God bless you." The mother wi the next, with tear-bedimmed eye to give thanks to these 12 men, wh then shook hands with the four occi pants of the dock and several frienc of those men. The prisoners were remanded 1 jail, being under indictment for tl -1 _ / X^T IT rauraer 01 isnam jvearse. Such is human nature and so it evi will be. In this friendly circle tl conviction of these men would hai been considered a crime too terrible contemplate;the enormity of thee fense charged against them was ove shadowed, forgotten, in the momei of danger to those for whom they ha^ regard, and all the influence of a po^ erful connection has been exerted spread that feeling to the minds < neighbors. 4 'Why should our frien< be the first to fall before this new] aroused public sentiment, when if the killed these people they did not inter to take life?" On the other side, those living b yond this little circle of friends ar acquaintances of the defendants, tho who know that neither the leadir counsel nor the prisoners will der that the latter committed the crime ' , whipping, those who have given ii " ' ' :--"7 > : ' te telligent and unbiased attention to the it evidence and have heard distinguished le lawyers make a desperate effort to ere :n ate the shadow of a defense, must reie alize that this was another case in ie which?from whatever cause?the Y? eyes of Justice have been bound and w the unbalanced scales taken from her ar hands-and in the sight of an enlightes ened, order loving country, liberty is . unprotected, truth is without honor st and justice is a mockery. a Colonel Aldrich in open court today Id made an oral application for bail for ip the six prisoners in jail?the fourdele fendants in the Hannah Walker case aj and Hiers and Campbell in the case a- in which they are charged with the ;e murder of Isham Kearse. The last >r two have not been indicted. I The motion was made on the ground that the prisoners were ready to go to is trial and could not do so, and that i- there being creat similarity between st theca9es of Hannah Walker and Isid ham Kearse, and as the evidence would j id be the same, the verdict of acquittal I ? in the former should be taken as a ie legal conclusion that in the second r- case the proof of their guilt was not is apparent nor "the presumption great." ir "If the verdict of a jury deserves ^ of VlOTTli OMfl/1 J f in fkic xi r^rcuiu?auu n uiuai* uavouguiti xu tuxo id court?the presumption of their inid nocence is here." a, Solicitor Bellinger opposed the moi, tion on legal grounds. To suppose y that the testimony in the :e case of Isham Kearse will be s- the same as in that of Hannah Wal3, ker, is to do so without the founda7 tion of knowledge of the facts, for he g was the only man in the court house l- who knew. n Solicitor Bellinger opposed the 11 motioa by defendants, counv sel for bail, which was made n on the ground that the evidence ?r for the State in the case of Isham it Kearse would be the same as in that of n Hannah Walker, he read the follow,r ing affidavit, made on Dec. 4,1895, bee fore C. A. Walker, trial justic, acting e coroner: 's "P. H. Hierssworn, says: On Monti day night Dr. Willie Ackerman and d Frank Brant, Frank Jenny and Wya man Kearse came to my house about l- 8 o'clock and wanted ine to go with e them to Sandy Campbell's to see if i. Isham Kearse was there. Before we h got to Sandy Campbell's we met Sandy n and Isham "Kearse in the road; they " arrested Kearse. If they had any warrants for his arrest they did not show them. Then they went on looking for Hannah Walker; found her at Ben Seymour's; tied her and carried = her on with them. F. W. Stanley was at my house and went with us after we got Hannah. Two men taken hei and went to look for a Bible which . had been stolen out of St. Nickle's church. We. or the crowd I was with. came to Mr. John Varn's; directly the other crowd came on and had t. Rosa Kearse, Isham Kearse's wife; had her tied f,L?o: said they were going to " the swamp. When they came to the swamp they said they were going to kill them or make them tell where the (j Bible was. They whipped all three with a buggy trace. "I tried to get Isham to tell where the Bible was. I e told them and tried to get them not to [ whip them so much, and also begged q them not to kill them. I don't think e they intended to kill them. Dr. Acke erman, Frank Jenny, Frank Brant, e Wyman Kearse, is all that I am certain r that whipped them. (Signed) P. H. Hiers. a This was a surprise to those present, r as the existence of this affidavit had a not been made known during the trial of the Hannah Walker case. Hiers is e one of the prisoners now in jail under s the same charge as Dr. Ackerman, but (j he has not been indicted. He was one I of those who created a sensation on /. the second day of the trial by refusing, p when put upon the stand as a State's witness, to answer questions which had any connection with his or the l other defendants' whereabouts on the day of the trag edy. d Mr. Gruber intimated that the State 1 was attempting to impress the court q with an idea that it had evidence, when .e it had none. Mr. Bellinger protested against such vf an uncalled For assertion. [e Judge Aldrich said he did not care ,<j to hear any more arguments. By a n legally provided express procedure, ^ the judge is enabled to say whether or ls not "the proof is evident, or the pred sumption great." ;s "There are here separate indictee ments. One case has been tried and I j am asked to take actual notice that the testimony in the case of Hannah (j Walker is applicable in that of Isham j. Kearse. In such circumstances the rule is that the State is not supposed to have presented its full case in the P. first instance. d "Therefore, without passing upon P_ the question whether the defendants were entitled to bail on the ground >s upon which the application was made, ie I have not the legal right to entertain ,e the motion." j. The defense will probably make an3f other effort before Judge Aldrich or another judge, putting their application in a different form. c. W. E. Gonzales. >r Miss Flagler's Sentence. >f Washington, Feb. 25.?Miss Elizart beth M. Flagler, daughter of Gen. D. W. Flagler, chief of ordinance,United ie States army, pleaded guilty of invol l- untary mansiaugmer in me criimuui i- court in the District of Columbia to- j r- day, and was sentenced to a fine of id $500 and three hours' imprisonment in the District jail. On Aug. 2, 1895, r. Miss Flagler, who was in charge ol ik her father's suburban residence, fired it a small revolver at a small colored is boy. Ernest Green, who she thought s, was stealing: fruit from her father's lo grounds. Miss Flagler has always u- contended that her fntention was to Is fire in the air, simply to frighten the boy. The moment that she discovered to that he had been wounded,- she had le him brought into the house, but he died before a physician could be seer cured. The young lady at once drove le to police headquarters, where she surre rendered. Being released on bail, she to left the city, suifering from extreme if- nervous prostration, but returned to r- plead to the indictment found by the at grand jury. After sentence had been re passed today, Miss Flagler, accom pair nied by her father and other friends, to went to the marshal's oflice and waitof ed a few minutes until the commit Js ment papers were made out. These ly formalities being concluded, Gen. >y Flagler paid the line to the marshal id and ixiss Flagler, in charge of a balill' and accompanied by her aunt, drove e- to the jail in her father's private carid riage, followed by Gen. Flagler. At se 12:3U p. m. the warden notified her ig that her term of imprisonment having ty expired, she was at liberty to go her of way. She was shortly afterwards rea moved by her friends. Boasted to Death. Chattanooga, Feb. 21.?A few days since the remains of two men burned beyond recognition were found lying on the cinder pile of the Lookout Rolling Mill at Harriman, Tenn. Their identities were to day established by some miners' checks as C. A. Curry, a coal miner of Richmond, Va., and Frank Glozier, of Forestville, N. Y. The men had evidently gone to sleep on the hot cinders, the escaping gas from the pile acting as an anaesthetic. Killed by Hlg Crazy Son Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 21.- ExUnited States District Clerk Ed R. Campbell was shot and killed by^ his son, Robert Campbell this morning. The young man approached his father from behind while the latter was walking the street and shot him through the head. Young Campbell is demented and this is the only ground on which his act can be accounted for. He is about 22 years old and had recently been confined in an asylum at Cincinnati. Shot Eleven Times. Bristol, Fla., Feb. 24.? M. F.I Grissett was killed at logging camp of Covington, Cox & Co. Grissett was a desperado, and went to the-camp to clean it up. He opened fire, slightly wounding Messrs. Covington and Cox. Meanwhile, Henry Colvin and W. R. Flowers, employees, procured pistols and begun firing at Grissett. After the exchange of snots, by one of which Colvin was wounded, Grissett fell I dead. 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