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IN TRUMPET SOUNDS. REV- DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SEI MON FULL OF HOPE, o Help For the Ilopeless Through the Nan of Chrlitt?The Need of Sympathy?Fu Ailment of a Great Promise?A IVIlgh Gathering. Washington, Feb. 23.?Thissermc sounds the note of triumph, a no ai?i. -11 ?;il Ko wlaH to ho<ir? in fhp frllHL Oil niAl WW b*4*" -VM.4 4U .MV I times, when so many are uttering ai writing jeremiads of discouragemer Dr. Talmage took as his text Genes xix.10, "Unto him shall the gatherir of the people be." Through a supernatural lens, < what I might call a pronhescope, d ing Jacob looks down through tt corridors of the centuries until he sei Christ the center of all popular a traction and the greatest being ia a the world, so everywhere acknow edged. It was not always so. T1 world tried hard to put him down ar to put him out. In the year 120 while excavating for antiquities I miles northeast of Rome, a coppi plate tablet was found containing tl aeath warrant of the Lord Jesi Christ, reading in this wise: "In the year 17 of the empire < Tiberius Ciesar, and on the 25th ( March, I, Pontius Pilate, governor c the Praetore, condemn Jesus of Naz; reth to die between two thieves, Quii tius Cornelius to tead him forth to tt place of execution." The death warrant was signed b everal names. First, by Daniel, ral bi, Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes rabbi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly by Capet, a private citizen. The caj ital punishment was executed accorc ing to law. The name of the thi< crucified on the right hand side c Christ was Dismas; the name of th thief crucified on the left hand side c Christ was Gestus. Pontius^Pilat* describing the tragedy, says the who! world lighted candles from noon unt night. Thirty-three years of ma treatment. They ascribe his birth t bastardy and his death to excruciatioi 5; A wall of the city, built about thos times and recently exposed by arena ologists, shows a caricature of Jesu Christ, evidencing the contempt i which he was held by many in hi day?that caricature on the wall rej resenting a cross and a donkey naile to it, and under it the inscription "This is the Christ whom the peopl worship." But I rejoice that that da is gone by. Our Christ is coming ou from under the world's abuse. Th most popular name on earth today i the name of Christ. Where he ha one friend Christ has a thousan friends. The scoffers have become th worshipers. Of the 20 most celebrate infidels in Great Britain in our day 1' have come back to Christ, trying t "ill" +V?o Vtla+ont miecJllVf nf t.hei lives?16 out of the 20. Every mai who writes a letter or signs a docu ment, wittingly or unwittingly, hon ors Jesus Christ We date everything as B. C. or A. D,?B. C., before Christ A. D,, Anno Domini, in the year o our Lord. All the ages of history oi the pivot of the upright beam of th cross of the son of God, B. C., A. D I do not care what you call himwhether Conqueror, or King, or Mom ing Star, or Sun of Righteousness, o Balm of Gilead, or Lebanon Cedar or Brother or Friend, or take th name used in the verse from which take my text, and call him Shiloh which means his Son, or the Tranquil ator, or the Peacemaker, Shiloh. only want to tell you that "unto hin shall the gathering of the people be. In the first place, the people ar gathered around Christ for pardon No Bensible man or healthfully arabi tious man is satisfied with his past life A fool may think he is all right. 1 sensible man knows he is not. I d not care who the thoughtful man is the review of his life-time behavior b fore God and man gives to him no es pecial satisfaction. "Oh," he says "there have been so many things have done I ought not to have done there have been so many things I hav saidi ought never to have said, ther have been so many things I hav written I ought never to have written there have been so many things. I hav thought I ought never to have thoughl I must somehow get things readjusted I must somehow have the past recon structed; there are days and month and years which cry out against m in horrible vociferation." Ah, m; brother, Christ adjusts the past b; obliterating it. He does not erase thi record of our misdoing wi'h a dash o ink from a register's pen, but lifting his right hand, crushed, red at th palm, he puts it against his bleedinj brow, and then against his pierce* side, and with the crimson accumula tion of all those wounds he rubs ou the accusatory chapter. He blots ou our iniquities. Uh, never be anxiou about the future; better be anxiou about the past I put it not at the em of my sermon; I put it at the frontmercy and pardon through Shiloh, th sin pardoning Christ. "Unto hie - shall the gathering of the people be. "Oh!" says some man, 4iI have for4 years been as bad as I could be, and i there any mercy for me?" Mercy fc you. "Oh!" says some one here, " had a grand ancestry, the holiest c fathers and the tenderest of mothers and for my perfidy there is no excuw Do you think there is any mercy fc me?" Mercy for ycu. "But," saj another man, "I fear I have commit ed what , they call the unpardonab] *ain, and the Bible says if a man con ^nit that sin, he is neither to be fo: given in this world nor the world t come. Do you think there is any me cy for me?" The fact that you ha\ any soiicnuae aDout me mauer ai a proves positively that you have n< committed the unpardonable sit Merer for you? Oh, the grace of Go which bringeth salvation! The grace of God! Let us take tl surveyor's chain and try to measui God's mercy through Jesus Chris Let one surveyor take that chain an go to the north, and another survey< take that chain and go to the sout] and another surveyor take that chai and go to the east, and another su veyor take that chain and go to tl west, and then make a report of tl square miles of tJtiat vast kingdom i God's mercy. Aye, you will have 1 wait to all eternity for the report i that measurement. It cannot 1 measured. Paul tried to climb tl height of it, and he went heigl over height, altitude above altitud mountain aboue mountain, th< sank down in discourragemei and gave it up, for he saw Sier: Nevaaas beyond and Matterhon beyond, and waving his ham back to us in the plains he says, "Pa : finding out; unsearchable, that in ! things he might have the pre en j ence." You notice that nearly all R-. sinners mentioned as pardoned in I Bible were great sinners?David j great sinner, Paul a great sini ! llahab a great sinner, Magdalene ?e great sinner, the Prodigal Son a gr i_ sinner. The world easily underst how Christ could pardon a half i ty half sinner, but what the world w's to be persuaded of is that Christ i forgive the worst sinner, the har< ,n sinner, the oldest sinner, the most te excusable sinner. To the sin pard se ing Shiloh let ali the gathering of 1(1 people be. ^ But, I remark again, the people ^ .'(gather around Christ as a sympa ,1S zer. Oh, we all want sympathy, hear people talk as though they w independent of it. None of us co 5r live without sympathy. When pi of our family are away, how Ion ie the house seems until tl all get home! But, alas! ? those who never come hoi ! Sometimes it seems as if it must impossible. What, will their f never again come over the thresho ' Will they never again sit with m . the table? Will they never again kn l's with us at family prayer? Shall never again look into their sun ie faces? Shall we never again on ea 1S take counsel with them for our wo: Alas me. who can stand under th f griefs! Ob, Christ, thou canst more for a bereft soul than any c else. It is he who stands beside us a" tell of the resurrection. It is he t' 1_ came to bid peace. It is he that con ie to us and breathes into us the spirit submission until we can look up fn - the wreck and ruin of our bright , expectations and say, "Father, noti y will, but thine, be done." Oh, ye w r' are bereft, ye anguish bitten, come ii f this refuge. The roll of those who ca: , for relief to Christ is larger and larg A TTnfn tliis Shilnh nf nrrminntent s\ * pathy the gathering of the peo ^ shall be. Oh, thatJChrist would sta * by all these empty cradles, and these desolated homesteads, and ? these broken hearts, and persuade " it is well. 0 The world cannot offer you any h< j at such a time. Suppose the wo g comes and offers you money. Y j. would rather live on a crust in a eel s and have your departed loved oi n with you than live in palatial si s roundings and they away. Suppi the world offers you its honors to cc d sole you. What is the presidency t Abraham Lincoln when little Wil q lies dead in the White House? P y haps the world comes and says, "Til will cure it all." Ah, there are gri e that have raged on for 30 years a s are raging yet. And yet hundre rl have been comforted, thousands ha been comforted, millions have be e comforted, and Christ had done t J work. Oh, what you want is symj 5 thy. The world's heart of svmpat 0 beats very irregularly. Plenty r sympathy when we do not want ! and often, when we are in appalli: . need of it, no sympathy. There a . multitudes of people dying for symj v thy?sympathay in their work, symj " thy in their fatigues, sympathy f their bereavements, sympathy in th< 2 financial losses, sympathy in thi e physical ailments, sympathy in th< spirtual anxieties, sympathy in t 1 time of declining years?wide, det . high, everlasting, almighty sympat! r We must have it, and Christ gives That is the cord with which he is ? e ing to draw all nations to him. I At the story of punishment a mai eye flashes and his teeth set and 1 ' fist clinches, and he prepares to do b 1 tie even though it be against the hea 2 ens; yet what heart so hard but it w ? succumb to the story of compas.'iio e Even a man's sympathy is pleasa and helpful. When we have been [1 some hour of weakness, to have u brawny man stand beside as a: ^ promise to see us through?what cot 0 age it gives to our heart and wl: , strength it gives to our arm. St is o mnmnn's Rvmnftt.hv. '! )- M ? " ~J ? ' him tell the story, who, when all 1 , fortunes were gone and all the woi I was against him came home and f oui , in that home a wife who could wr q on the top of the empty flour barr e "The Lord will provide." or write e the door of the empty wardrobe, 4'Cc sider the lilies of the field; if God q clothed the grass of the field, will ^ not clothe us and ours?" Or let It I young man tell the story who h lL gone the whole round of dissipatic s The shadow of the penitentiary is up e him, and even his father says: Y off! Never come home again!" T Y young man finds still his mother's a] e outstretched for him, and how she w I stand at the wicket of the prison ^ whisper consolation, or get down i e her knees before the governor, beggi ? for pardon, hoping on for her w? | ward boy after all others are hopele Or let her tell the story who, und t villainous allurement and impatie t of parental restraint, has wandered < s from a home of which she was the i< s into the murky and thunderous m d night of abandonment, away fr< _ God, and further away, until soi e time she is tossed on the beach of tl Q early home a mere splinter of a wre< ? Who will pity her now? Who ^ 0 gather these dishonored lo jks into I ,s lap? Who will wash of: the bio ir from the gashed forehead? Who w 1 tell her of that Christ who came ,f save the lost? Who will put tl ?? 1- ??* mIaam 5 weary ucttu upuu iuc ticou ? mis ^ low and watch by day and watch ,r night until the hoarse voice of the s rS ferer becomes the whisper, and 1 t- whisper becomes only a faint moti [e of the lips, and the faint motion of t i- lips is exchanged for a silent lo< r. and the cut feet are still, and the wez ;0 eyes are still, and the frenzied he; P_ is still, and all is still? "Who will hs re compassion on her when no oth 11 have compassion? Mother! Moth )t Oh, there is something beautiful sympathy?in manly sympathy, wi 1(j ly sympathy, motherly sympathy; ] and neighborly sympathy! Why v ie it that a city was aroused with exc re ment when a little child was kidnaj t. from one of the streets? Why w 1(i whole columns of the newspapers 1 )r ed with the story of a little child? was because we are ail one in sym [rJ thy, and every parent said: "Hov r. it had been my Lizzi?Y How if it 1: ie been my Mary? H-nv if it had b< ie my Maud? How if it had been : 0f child? How if there had been ( to unoccupied pillow in our trundle 1 ~r tonight? How if mv little one?b< ae of my bone and llesh of mv lies) le were tonight carried captive into so bt den of vagabonds, never to come bi e> to me? How if it had been my sorr :n looking out of the window, watchi at aQd waiting?that sorrow worse tl ra death?" Then, when they found i QS why did we declare the news rjs through the households, and eve body that knew how to pray sa J; } all "Thank God?" Because we are all an i*n- one, bound by one great golden chain ho the of sympathy. Oh, yes, but I have to foi the tell you that if you will aggregate all saj a neighborly, manlv, wifely, motherly pu ler, sympathy, it will be found only a poor m? i a starving thing compared with the tal eat sympathy of our great Shiloh, who has "1 ood held in his lap the sorrows of the ages, thi ind and who is ready to nurse on his holy ter rats heart the woes of all who will come abi ivill to him. Oh, what a God, what a ' lest Saviour we have! wi in- But in larger vision see the nations thr ion- in some kind of trouble ever since the lik the world was derailed and hurled down the the embankments. The demon of sin gle vill came to this world, but other demons Ma thi- have gone through other worlds. The ter j demon of conflagration, the domon of to i volcanic disturbance, the demon of wb Uld destruction. sh( irts Dr Place says lie saw one world in the e]y the northern hemisphere 16 months ihe aey burning. Tycho Brahe said he saw ous for another world burning. A French wo 3ie> astronomer says that in 300 years, rig 1,500 worlds have disappeared. I do die eet not see why infidels find it so hard to "TJ Id? believe that two worlds stopped in pec ; at Joshua's time, when the astronomers gai eel tell us that 1,500 worlds have stopped, gat we Even the moon is a world in ruins. Loi ny Stellar, lunar, solar catastrophes in- nat rth numerable. But it seems as if the nat rk? most sorrows have been reserved for nat ese our world. By one toss of the world Afi do at Ticuboro, of 12,000 inhabitants only ant me 26 people escaped. By one shake of arl< ; to the woriu at Lisbon in five minutes the bat 60,000 perished and 200,000 before the ors Qes earth stopped rocking. A mountain arc , 0f falls in Switzerland, burying the vil- see* Isjorp nf fl-nlflaii. A mountain falls in of] JUA w w ;est Italy in the night, when 2,000 people que my are asleep, and they never arouse, out ho By a convulsion of the earth Japan alo ato broken off from China. Byaconvul1 doc me sion of the earth the Caribtiean islands crei er. broken off from America. Three is- cor< m- lands near the mouth of the Ganges, bar pie with 340,000 inhabitants?a great surge anc ,nd of the sea breaks over them, and 214,- the all 000 perish that day. Alas, alas, for trai all our poor world. It has been recently wh< us discovered that a whole continent has and sunk, a continent that connected Eu- tho aj rope and America, part of the inhabi- tho pjj tants of that continent going to Eu- hea ou rope, part coming to America over plet jar the tablelands of Mexico, up through con ies the valleys of the Mississippi, and we The Lir. are finding now the remains of their the 3SQ mounds and their cities in Mexico, in sha )n_ Colorado and the tablelands of the west. It is a matter of demonstration He that a whole continent has gone er. down, the Azores off the coast of me Spain only the highest mountain of ?? efs that sunken continent. Plato desn{j cribed that continent, its grandeur, l(js the multitude of its inhabitants, its ve splendor and its awful destruction, VEF en and the world thought it was a robe mance, but archaeologists have )a. found out it was history, and the English and the German and the The 0f American fleets have gone forth with ,-f the archaeologists, and the Challen- Co ger and the Dolphin and the Gazelle el r| have dropped anchor, and in deep sea ^ )a. soundings they have found the con- e )a. tour of that sunken continent. Oh, there is trouble marked on the rocks, on the sky, on the sea, on the * j, 3ir flora and the fauna?astronomical * r trouble, geological trouble, oceanic tjie he trouble, political trouble, domestic gem }p trouble?and standing in the presence -g [jy of all those stupendous devastations, I ? jt_ ask if I am not right in saying that ^ rQ'_ the great want of this age and all ages ^ ' is divine sympathy and omnipotent ^ ,'s comfort, and they are found not in the ^ Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ ^ LV_ un'.o whom shall the gathering of the ^ ill people be. Other words may fall, but nt this morning star will never be blott- ^ ed from the heavens. The earth may w jn quake, but this rock of ages will never ^ a be shaken from its foundations. The j 0(j sameChrist who fed the 5,000 will ir. feed fcll the world's hunger. The ^ ^ same Christ who cured Bartimeus will , ill illuminate all blindness. The same ' Christ who made the dumb speak will g us put on ever> tongue a hosanna. The t^e Id same Christ who awoke Lazarus from * rc id the sarcophagus will yet rally all the ^ ite pious dead in glorious resurrection. fVir. el "I know that my Redeemer liveth," mv. 0n and that "to him shall the gathering t> r?f thft npsnnlft Kfl." Ah. mv friends. i. so when Christ starts thoroughly and ^ he quickly to lift this miserable wreck of i| j. iat a sunken world, it will not take him c,f/ as long to lift it Jen in. I have thought that Ihis particular to I on age in which we live may be given .up 0f t Be to discoveries and inventions by which doc he through quick and instantaneous com- The cm munication all cities and all commu: " ill nities and all lands will be brought the to together, and then in another period enc on perhaps these inventions which have 41 ng been used for worldly purposes will be " iy- brought out for gospel invitation, and ma] ss. some great prophet of the Lord will Wj ler come and snatch the mysterious, sub- der int lime and miraculous telephone from A Dff the hand of commerce, and, all lands fac< lol and kingdoms connected by a won- clei id- drous wire, this prophet of the Lord fall >m may, through telephonic communica- er s ne tion, in an instant announce to all na- ci0? iat tions pardon and sympathv and life ant ;k. through Jesus Christ, and then, put- p rill ting the wondrous tube to the ear of 0nc ler tho Lord's prophet, the response shall wit iod come back, "I believe in God, the sile 'ill Father Almighty, maker of heaven waf to and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his & lat only begotten Son." doc iil- You and I may not live to see the ers bv day. I think those of us who are over sjas uf- 40 years of age can scarcely expect to ma] he see the day. I expect before that time the on our bodies will be sound asleep in the i ;he hammocks of the old gospel ship as it ^c] )k, goes sailing on. But Christ will wake iry us up in time to see the achievement. "Q art We who have sweated in the hot har- the tve vest fields will be at the door of the to g ers garner when the sheaves come in. the er! That work for which in this world we par in toiled and wept and struggled and 0f \ ife- wore ourselves out shall not come to i fea consummation and we be oblivious of jaji vas the achievement. We will be allowed mu ite- to come out and shake hands with the g jed victors. ere We who fought in tHfe earlier bat- cod "1" ties will have just as much right to bee rejoice as those who reddened their con ieet in tne last Armageddon. An, ien 7 yea, those who could only give a cup- sba iac? ful of cold water in the name of a dis- of < ;en ciple, those who could only scrape a reg my handful of lint for a wounded soldier, erfi )ne those who could only administer to spr old age in its decrepitude, those who nei, >ne could only coax a poor waif of the be 1 street to go back home to her God, aro me those who could only lift a little child kill in the arms of Christ, will have as tot ;ow much right to take part in the ovation C wg to the Lord Jesus Christ as a Chrysos- yor ian torn. It will be your victory and acq eri mine, as well as Christ's. He the wh all conqueror, we shouting in his train, con ry- Christ the victor will pick out the tha Ys> humblest of his disciples in the crowd, wh d turning half around on the white telli rse of victory he shall point her out evid approval by the multitude as he law 7s, "She did what she could." Then ate i tting his hand on the head of some alizi tn, who by his industry made one whi ent do the work of ten, he will say, eyes 'hou hast been faithful over a few the ngs; I will make thee ruler over han i cities." Two different theories ene< jut the fulfillment of this promise, unp fhere are people who think Christ and 11 come in person and sit on a C one. Perhaps he may. I should mac e to see the scarred feet going up the ) stairs of a palace in which all the fenc tries of the Alhambra, and the Taj and thai, and St. Mark's, and the Win- in v palace are gathered. I should like mur see the world pay Christ in love for two at it did to him in maltreatment. I T1 >uld like to be one of the grooms of that s chargers, holding the stirrup as trial ! king mounts. Oh, what a glori ther j time it would be on earth if Christ the < uld break through the heavens,and ham ht here where he has suffered and be tl d have this prophecy fulfilled? in I nto him shall the gathering of the lega >ple be." But failing in that, I bar- case n to meet you at the ponderous appj e of heaven on the day when our "Ii rd comes back. Garlands of all cred ions on his brow?of the bronzed cour ;ions of the South and the pallid noce ions of the North?Europe, Asia, Sc ica, North and South America, tion 1 the other continents that may that se meantime from the sea to take case places of their sunken predecess- the i ?arch of Trajan, arch of Titus, ker, h of Triumph in the Champs Ely- tion j, all too poor to welcome this king was rings and lord of lords any con- who srors in his august arrival. Turn So all heaven to meet him. Hang all moti ng the route the flags of earthly selainion, whether decorated with on 1 scent, or star, or eagle, or lion, or for onet. Hang out heaven's brightest Keai iner, with its one star of Bethlehem Han I blood striped of the cross. I hear ing i procession now. Hark! The fore np of the feet, the rumbling of the coroi eels, the chattering of the hoofs "P I the shout of the riders! Ten day ] usand times ten thousand and Fran usands of thousands.' Put up in man ven's library, right beside the com- 8 o'c! ;ed volume of the world's ruin, the them lpleted volume'of Shiloh's triumph. Ishai > old promise struggling through got t ages fulfilled at last, "Unto him and! II the gathering of the people be." arres WhUe everlasting ages roll Eternal love shall ?f*at their soul them And scenes of bliss forever now for Klse in succession to meir view. r>en - her DECLARED INNOCENT. B\! : hei a tDICT OF THE JURY IN THE COL- h*d chur LETON CASE. came othei Conclusion Beached on Monday Night. Rosa L. 1 1. Aldrlch Movei for Ball on Very NovGrounds--The Application Befuaed. swac 7alterboro, Feb. 25.?"Gentle- 1 i of the jury, have you agreed n a verdict?" th We have." f?.ai . ? . mi 1. i tnld ; is midnignt. xne oia court nuuse /olleton county is dimly lighted, body of the building being in t^eiE i-darkness. The figures of the oners are imperfectly seen, in the ^Lma k, which is elevated five feet above floor. At the rail dividing the bar n the public portion of the hall, e is a wall of white faces. Men ^h e been pusning and struggling for as idvantageous position, but now a * h falls upon the assemblage. of tb . few minutes before, when the ?Jae ( rs that the jury had agreed was J^e,s rd on the quiet streets, men had j11 ned to spring from the ground, " in an incredibly short time hun- s 3s were struggling and pushing up wfjei winding stone steps of the court se, surging into the building, alit overpowering the force of depu ?'bei stationed along the railing. "ay' ut Judge Aldricb had arrived and stillness of a vault now reigned. wa? ?und a table lighted bv one of the 3e kerosene lamps in the hall, were " ^ ie or four special correspondents. -M-1 i Rev. G-. H. Ackerman, father of an u W. H. Ackerman, sat lay the side ^ lis wife, his white hair and beard J0 b 1 g conspicuous in the uncertain |??aj it. The devoted mother, who has *he J aithfully attended the court, was not t forward, a handkerchief prsssed sut^ ler eyes. Several girls, relatives he prisoners, were seated about the men k, serious but not deeply moved. am ? prisoners looked straight ahead. tff"1 Wait a moment, Mr. Clerk," said J^al tirVirt fhon wnrnp.d the audi J ""6"* .. e against any demonstration. J"ui? Let the verdict be read," he saiu. *p The State against W. B. Acker- firf* a, Frank Jenny, Frank Brant and * rman Kearse; indictment for mur- the ?not guilty." wer l smile spread over Dr. Ackerman's i?Por i as the last words fell from the |,^a' k'slips. His father let his face tl1?* in his hands with a sob; his moth- ^ eemed to press the handkerchief ;er to her eyes. The other defend- anot & were unmoved. "on 'erfect silence continued for a secI, when some one tapped the floor h his feet, but a stern command of W nee cut off the applause. Court beth : then adjourned. W. ] l hundrfed men pressed about the State k from all sides, while the prison- unta stood up and received their enthu- cour itic congratulations. Mr3. Acker- day, a was overcome with emotion and $500 other ladies wept aloud. the he jurymen then filed by Rev. Mr. Miss lerman, who, still weeping, took her h one by the hand witn a fervent a st od bless you." The mother was boy. next, with tear-bedimmed eyes, was five thanks to these 12 men, who grou n shook hands with the four occu- cont Lts of the dock and several friends lire i hose men. boy. 'he prisoners were remanded to that , being under indictment for the him rder of Isham Kearse. died uch is human nature and so it ever cure 1 be. In this friendly circle the tope iviction of these men would have rend n considered a crime too terrible to left 1 [template; the enormity of the of- nerv se charged against them was over- plea fr.srrntiar, in thfl moment 2TaD langer to those for whom they have passi ard, and all the influence of a pow- nied ill connection has been exerted to wen' ead that feeling; to the minds of ed a ghbors. "Why should our friends men the first to fall before this newly forrr used public sentiment, when if they Flag 'ed tiiese people they did not intend and akelife?" and )n the other side, those living be- to tb id tl is little circle of friends and riag< uairtances of the defendants, those 12:3i o kiiow that neither the leading that insel nor the prisoners will deny expi t the latter committed the crime of way ippiiig, those who have given in- mov gent and unbiased attention to th< lence and have heard distinguishei yers make a desperate effort to ere the shadow of a defense, must re 3 that this was another case ii ch?from whatever cause? lh i of Justice have been bound an< unbalanced scales taken from he ds?and in the sight of an enlight 1, order loving country, liberty i rotected, truth is without hono justice is a mockery. olonel Aldrich in open court toda; le an oral application for bail fo six prisoners in jail?the fourde lants in the Hannah Walker cas Hiers and Campbell in the casi rhich they are charged with tb< der of Isham Kearse. The las have not been indicted. ae motion was made on the groun< the prisoners were ready to go t< [ ana could not do so, and tha e being great similarity betweet jases of Hannah Walker and Is i Kearse, and as the evidence woult tie same, the verdict of acquitta the former should be taken as i 1 conclusion that in the seconc the proof of their guilt was no irent nor "the presumption great.' the verdict of a jury deserve; it?and it must have credit in thii "t?the presumption of their in snce is here." >licitor Bellinger opposed the moon legal grounds. To suppose the testimony in the of Isham Kearse will be ;ame as in that of Hannah Wal is to do so without the founda of knowledge of the facts, for he the only man in the court house knew. licitor Bellinger opposed the ojl by defendants, counfnr hail, -which was made the ground that the evidence the State in the case of Isham se would be the same as in that of nah Walker, he read the follow iffidavit, made on Dec. 4,1895, beC. A. Walker, trial justic, acting aer: \ H. Hierssworn, says: On Monnight Dr. Willie Ackerman and ik Brant, Frank Jenny and WyKearse came to my house about lock and wanted me to go with i to Sandy Campbell's to see if 11 Kearse was there. Before we 0 Sandy Campbell's we met Sandy Isham "Kearse in the road; they tted Kearse. If they had any war1 for his arrest they did not show t. Then they went on looking Hannah Walker; found her at Seymour's; tied her and carried on with them. F. W. Stanley at my house and went with us afre got Hannah. Two men taken nd went to look for a Bible which been stolen out of St. Nickle's ch. We, or the crowd I was with, i to Mr. John Varn's; directly the r crowd came on and had , Kearse, Isham Kearse's wife; had ied also: said they were going to swamp. When they came to the up they said they were going to ihem or make them tell where the j was. They whipped all three & buggy trace. "I tried to get m to tell where the Bible was. I them and tried to get them not to > them so much, and also begged i not to kill tbem. I don't think intended to kill them. Dr. Ackm, Frank Jenny, Frank Brant, nan Kearse, is all that I am certain whipped them. gned) P. H. Hiers. is was a surprise to those present, ie existence of this affidavit had >een made known during the trial e Hannah Walker case. Hiers is if the'prisoners now in jail under ame charge as Dr. Ackerman, bui as not been indicted. He was one lose who created a sensation on o/?r?n^ /loir nf fViA frial fftflisinor. l put upon the stand as a State's ess, to answer questions which any connection with his or the p defendants' whereabouts on the f the trag edy. r. Gruber intimated that the State attempting to impress the courl an idea that it had evidence, when d none. Bellinger protested against such ncalled For assertion. dge Aldrich said he did not care ear any more arguments. By a lly provided express procedure, udge is enabled to say whether or 'the proof is evident, or the pre ption great." 'here are hero separate indict ts. One case has been tried and ] isked to take actual notice that the mony in the case of Hannah ker is applicable in that of Isharc se. In such circumstances the is that the State is not supposed ive presented its full case in the instance. therefore, without passing upon question whether the defendants i entitled to bail on the ground l which the application was made, ve not tne legal rignt 10 enienaiu notion." le defense will probably make anr effort before Judge A Id rich or her judge, putting their applicain a different form. W. E. Gonzales. Miss Flagler's Sentence. ashington, Feb. 25.?Miss ElizaM. Flagler, daughter of Gen. D. Flagler, chief of ordinance,United ;s army, pleaded guilty of involry manslaughter in. the criminal t in the District of Columbia to and was sentenced to a fine ol and three hours' imprisonment in District jail. On Aug. 2, 1895, Flagler, who was in charge ol father's suburban residence, fired nail revolver at a small colored Ernest Green, who she thought stealing fruit from her father's nds. Miss Flagler has always ended that her intention was tc in the air, simply to frighten the The moment that she discovered he had been wounded, she had brought into the house, but he before a physician could be sed. The young lady at once drove lice headquarters, where she surered. Being released on bail, she the city, svtiering from extreme or,s prostration, but.returned tc d to the indictment found by the id jury. After sentence had been jd today, Miss Flagler, accompa by her father and other friends, t to the marshal's office and waitfew minutes until the commit t papers were made out. These lalities being concluded, Gen. lpr n.n'd the line to the marshal Miss Flagler, in charge of a balili accompanied by her aunt, drove le jail in her father's private car j, followed by Gen. Flagler. A1 3 p. m. the warden notified hei her term of imprisonment having red, she was at liberty to go her . She was shortly afterwards reed by her friends. -*>; ,;v . 0 Roasted to Death. 1 Chattanooga, Feb. 21.?A fei s days since the remains of two mei i- burned beyond recognition were foun i lying on the cinder pile of the Look e out Rolling Mill at Harriman, Tenr 3 Tneir identities were to day establish r ed by some miners1 checks as C. A Curry, a coal miner of Richmond s Va., and Frank Glozier, of Foresl r ville, N. Y. 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