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LIKE SHEEP ASTRAY. AND REV.- DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT MEANS EVERYBODY. Half the Text Is an Indictment-?The Other Opens the Door to Heaven?A Glad ? tjie Nation's Cau UUB^Ci ltal. Washington, March 1.?The gospel sends out its gladdest sound in this sermon from tne nation's capital- Immense throngs pack and overflow the church to which Dr. Talmage preaches twice each Sabbath. His text this morning was Isaiah liii, 6: "All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him v , the iniquity of us all." 1 Once more I ring the old gosp?l iboU. The first half of my next text is ? an indictment, "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." Some one says: "Can't you drop that first word? That is too general; that sweeps too great a ? circle. Some man rises in the audi\ ence, and he looks over on the other tide of the house and says: "There ris a blasphemer, and 1 understand how he has gone astray, and there in another part of the house is a defaulter, and he has gone astray, and there is an impure person and he has gone ' astray." Sit down, my brother, and look at home. My text takes us all in. ' It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room and comes back to , the point where it started, when it says, "All we, like sheep, have gone ] astray." i I can very easily understand why , Martin Luther threw up his hands , after he had found the Bible and cried out, "Oh, my sins, my sins 1" and why the publican, according to the custom 1 to this day in the east, when they have j any great grief, began to beat himself ana cry as he smote upon his breast, "God be merciful to me, a sinner." I { was, like many of you, brought up in ! the country, and I know some of the habits of sheep, and how they get astray, and what my text means when ] it says, "All we, like sheep, have gone astray," Sheep get astray in two ways \ ?either by trying to get into other pasture or from being scared by the dogs. In the former way some of us f got astray. We thought the religion of Jesus 'Christ put us on short com- , mons. We thought there was better pasturage somewhere else. We thought if we could only lie down on ] the banks of a distant stream or under great oaks on the other side of some hill we might be better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that ^ which God, through Jesus Christ, " gave our soul, and we wandered on, * and we were lost. We wanted bread, and we found garbage. The farther y we wandered instead of finding rich _ TvoetiiMerA -wft found blasted heath t and sharper rocks and more stinging nettles. No pasture. How was it in , the clubhouse when you lost your , child? Did they come around and jj help you very much? Did your worldly associate console you very r much? Did not the plain Christian \ ' man who came Into your house and aatup with jour darling child give , you more comfort than all worldly associates? Did all the convivial t songs you ever heard comfort you in , that day of bereavement so much as the song they sang to you?perhaps , the very song that was sung by your , little child on the last sabbath after- , jg?,.; noon of her life? ^ Tfiere Is a happy land c Far, far away. 8 When saints immortal reign t Bright hr?*fct? a-r J Did y*>ur business associates in ? ih&t day of darkness and trouble i ? ;_i J~l o _ ?LVe you any especmi uuuuweuwt i uainess exasperated you, business n wore you out, ousinessleft you Jimp c a* a rag1, business made you mad. You ] got dollars, but you got no peace, f God have mercy on the man wno has a nothing but business to comfort him! a The world afforded you no luxuriant t pasturage. A famous English actor 1 stood on the stage impersonating, and q thunders of applause came down from r the galleries, and many thought it r was the proudest moment of his life, e but there was a man asleep just in j front of him, and the fact that that t man was indifferent and somnolent 1 spoiled all the occasion for him and he 1 cried: "Wake up! Wake up!" So d one little annoyance in life has been c more pervading to your mind than all t the brilliant congratulations and sue- r cess. Poor pasturage for your soul you fc find in this worla. The world has s cheated you, the world has belied you, c the world has misinterpreted you, the } world has persecuted you. It never l comforted you. Oh, this world is a 1 good rack from which a horse may s pick his food; it is a good trough from 3 which the swine may crunch their l mess, but it gives but little food to a a soul blood bought and immortal! a What is a soul? It is a hope high as the throne of God. What is a man? s You say, "It is only a man." It is e only a man gone overboard in sin. It I is only a man gone overboard in busi- t ness life. What is a man? The bat- j tleground of three worlds, with his 1 hands taking hold of destinies of light ] or darkness. A man! No line can 1 measure him. No limit can bound 1 him. The archangel before the throne \ cannot outlive him. The stars shall t die, but he will watch their extinguish- j ment The world will burn, but he will gaze at Ihe conflagration. End- < less ages will march on. He will ( watch the procession. A man! The 1 masterpiece of God Almighty. Yet ( you say, "It is only a man." Can a nature like that be fed on husks of the wilderness? Substantial comfort will not grow On nature's barren soil; All we can boast till Christ we know Is vanity and toll. Some of you got astray by looking for better pasturage, others by being scared by the dogs. The hound gets over into the pasture field. The poor things fly in every direction. In a few moments they are torn of the hedges, and they are plashed of the ditch, and the lost sheep never gets home unless the farmer goes after it. There is nothing so thoroughly lost as 1?1 ? V.OTTA K0011 A iOSt 5II CO p. lb uiajr uavo 1857, during the financial panic, or during the financial stress in the fall of 1873, "when you got astray. You almost became an atheist. You said, "Where is God that honest men go down and thieves prosper?" You were dogged of creditors, you wered dogged of the banks, ycu were dogged of worldly disaster, and some of you went into misanthropy, and some of y?u took to strong drink, and others of you fled out of Christian association ana you got as try. Oh, man, that was the last time when you ought to have forsaken J,God! Standing amid 1 foundering of your earthly failur how could you get along withou God to comfort you. and a God to i liver you, and a God to help you, a a God to save you? You tell me y have been through enough busin trouble almost to kill you. I know I cannot understand how the b( could live one hour in that chopp sea. But I do not know by what pi cess you got astry, some in one w and some inanotner, and if you coi really see the position some of you < cupy b?fore God your soul wou burst into an agony of tears, and y would pelt the heavens with the cr "God have mercy!" Sinai's batter: i _ i 1:?i .1 nave Deen uiiumuereuuwvcpui ou and times you have heard it thunde 'The wages of sin is death." "/ have sinned and come short of t glory of God." "By one man sin e tered into the world, and death by si and so death passed upon all men, f that all have sinned." "The soul th sinneth, it shall die." WhenSevast pol was being bombarded, twoKussi. frigates burned all night In the ha bor, throwinga glare upon the treml ing fortress, ana some of you, fro what you have told me vourselve some of you are standing in the nig of your soul's trouble, the cannonad and the conflagration, and the mul plication, and the multitude of yoi sorrows and troubles, I think, rau make the wings of God's hovering a ?1~ ~t,.-? tu*. amvci IU buc iajs? But the last part of my text opens ioor wide enough to let all out and let all heaven in. Sound it on the c *an with all the stops out. Thrum )n the harps with all the strings atun With all the melody possible let tl aeavens sound it to the earth and 1 ;he earth tell it to the heavens. "Tl Lord hath laid on him the iniquity < is all." I am glad that the proph iid not stop to explain whom he meai jy "him." Him of the manager, hii >f the blood sweat, him of the resurre ion throne, him of the crucifixio igony. "On him the Lord hath lai ;he iniquity of us all." "Oh," saj some man, "that isn't generous, tbi sn't fair; let every man carry his ow jurden and pay his own debts." Thj lounds reasonable. If I have 'an ol igation, and I have the means to met t, and I come ^to you and ask you t lettle that obligation, you rightly sayi kPay your own debts." If you and ire walking down the street, bot lale, hearty and well, and I ask you t iriMMTT rv-?n itaii oqtt 11r r\ /CU1 * ULI^J JWU liguwj) V rour own feet." But suppose you an ! were in a regiment, and I was wount id in the'battle and I fell uuconscioi it your feet with a gunshot fracturt rad dislocations, what would you dc fou would call to yourcomrades, sa] ng: "Come and help! This man : lelpless. Bring the ambulance. L< is take him to the hospital." And e a dead lift in your arms, and yo yould lift me from the ground wher had fallen and put me in the ambu ,nce and take me to the hospital an lave all kindness shown me. Woul here bemeaning in my accepting tha ;indness? Oh, no. You would I ciean not to do it. That is whs 3hrist does. If we could pay ou lebts, then it would be better to go u .nd pay them, saying, "Here, Lore iama in w* tt aVvIi 1 An V> AMA r? via LCI C llij UUil^aUUU y Xlt/X V aiD IU aeans with which I mean to sett! hat obligation. Now give me a receip >oss it all out." The debt is paid. But the fact is we have fallen in th tattle; we have gone down under th lot fire of our transgressions; we ha\ >een woundel by the sabers of sir ve are helpless; we are undone. Chri omes. The loud clang heard in tl) ky on that Christinas night was onl he bfll, tto luooUiidiug boll,of .tb jnbulance. Clear the way for th Jon of God. He comes down to bin ip the wounds and to scatter the darl less and to save the lost, Clear th vay for the Son of God. Christ come lown to us, and we are a dead lif 3e does not lift us with the tips of h: ingers. He does not lift us with on irm. He comes down upon his knei ind then with a dead lift he raises u o honor and glory and immortality 'The Lord hath laid on him the in luity of us all." "Why, then, will nan carry his sins? You cannot cai y successfully the smallest sin yo iver committed. You might as we nit t.hfi Anp.nnies on nnft shnulrtar nn he Alps on the other. How muc ess can you carry all the sins of you ifetime? Christ comes and loot [own in your face and says: "I hav ome through all the lacerations c hese days and through all the ten: >estsof these nights; I have comet >ear your burdens and to pardon you ins and to pay your debts. Put ther >n my shoulder, put them on m leart." "On him the Lord hat aid the iniquity of us all." Si las almost pestered the life out c ome of you. At times it has mad rou cross and unreasonable, and : las spoiled the brightness of your daj ind the peace of your nights. Thet Lre men who have been riddled of sir Dhe world gives them no solace. Go: iamery and volatile the world, whi] iternity, as they look forward to it,: )iaclc as midnight. They writhe ui ler the stings of a conscience whic jroposes to give no rest here and n est hereafter, and yet they do not r jent; they do not pray; they do n< ffeep. They do not realize that ju ,he position they occupy is the pos ion occupied by scores, hundreds an thousands of men who never four my hope, If this meeting should be throw apen; and the people who are he; could give their testimony, wh thrilling experiences we should he; on all sides. There is a man wl would say: "I had brilliant surroum ings. I had the best education that or of the best collegiate institutions i this country could give, and I obser ed all the moralities of life, and I w self righteous, and I thought I was a right before God as I am all right t fore man, but the Holy Spirit came me one day ana said, 'Xou are a si ner. The Holy Spirit persuaded e of the fact- While I had escaped tl sins against the law of the land I hi really committed the worst sin a mj ever committs?the driving back the Son of God from my heart's aff< tions?and I saw that my ha,pds we red with the blood of the Son of Go and I began to pray, and peace car to my heart, and I know by expe ence that what you say is true." *'( him the Lord hath laid the iniquity us all I" Yonder is a man who wou say: "I was the worst drunkard in t city; I went from bad to worst; I ( stroyed myself; I destroyed my horn my children cowered when I enter the house; when they put up their li to be kissed, I struck them; when r wife protested against the maltre: ment I kicked her into the street, know all the bruises and all the t< rors of a drunkard's woe. -1 went ;he farther and farther from God, until < es, one day I got a letter saying: t a "My Dear Husband?I have tried ] de every way, done everything and pray- { nd ed earnestly and fervently for your ] ou reformation, but it seems of no avail. < 3ss Since our little Henry died, with the < it. exception of those few happy weeks s )at when you remained sober, my life had i >ed been one of sorrow. Many of the c r<>- nights I have sat by the window^ with s ay my face bathed in tears, watching for ild your coming. I am broken hearted, 3C- I am sick. Mother and father have ild been here frequently and begged me ou to come home, but my love for you y, and my hope for brighter days have ies always made me refuse them. That y ml hope seems now beyond realization. c >r: and I have returned to them. It is 6 ill hard, and I battled long before doing [ fie it. May God bless and preserve you in- and take from you that accursed appe- T n, tite, and hasten the day when we shall } nr ho attain living hannilv together. at This will be my daily prayer, know- , o- ing that he has said, 'Come unto me, 5 in all ye that labor and are heavy laden, j. ir- and I will give you rest.' From your >1- loving wife, "Mary." ? m "And so I wandered on and wander:s, ed on," says that man, "until one j ht night I passed a Methodist meeting ^ e, house, and I said to myself, 'I'll go in * ti- and see what they are doing,' and I t nr ?Ot to the door, and they were sing- a ist ing: t n- "All may come, w hoevj r will? s This man receives poor sinners still." n a "And I dropped right there where I j to was, and I said, "Goa, have mercy I' >r- and he had mercy on me. My home is it restored, my wife sings all day long e. during work, my children come out a c ie long to greet me home, and my houseet hold is a little heaven. I will tell you ie what did all this for me. It was the of truth that this day you proclaim, 'On et him the Lord hath laid the iniquity ^ it of us all.' Yonder is a woman who C m would .say: 'I wandered off from my t< c- father's house; I heard the storm that ci n pelts on a lost soul; my feet were blis- o id tered on the hot rocks; I went on and si rs on, thinking that no;.one cared for my ti it soul, when one night Jesus met me, ii n and he said: "Poor thing, go home! p it Your father is waiting for you; your vi t>- mother is waiting for you. Go home, ^t noor thine I' And. sir. I was too weak al ;o to pray, and I was too weak to repent, a s, but I just cried out?I sobbed out my r< I sins and my sorrows on the shoulders ir h of him of whom it is said, 'The Lord ;o hath laid on him the iniquity of us b n all.'" u d There is a young man who would 1- say: "1 bad a Christian bringing up; tl is I came from the country to city life; n ? I started well; I had a good position, st >? a good commercial position?but one a| 7- night at the theater I met some young al is men who did me no good. They drag- di it ged me all through the sewers of ini- tc I quity, and I lost my morals, and I lost T u my position,and I shabby and wretch- w e ed. I was going down the street 1- thinking that no one cared for me N d when a young man tapped me on the ti d shoulder and said, 'George, come tl it with me, and I will do you di good.' I looked at him to see wheth- n it er he was joking or not. I saw he vi ir was in earnest, and I said, 'What do ai p you mean, sir?' 'Well,' he replied, 'I ai I, mean that if you will come to the meet- w e ing tonight I will be very gkd to in- se e troduce you. I will meet yo>' at the tl t. door. Will you come?' Said I, 'I st will.' I went to the place where I Q e was tarrying. I fixed myself up as w ie well as I could. I buttoned my coat e over a ragged vest, and I went to the tl i; door of the church, and tKc young c< >t men met me, and we *w*Snt in, and as ai :e I went in I hear? an old man pray- tl y ing, and he looked so much like my v I sobbed right put, and they si te were all around, so kind and so sym- e< d pathetic that I just there gave my fc t> heart to God, and I know that what te you say is true; I kno^ it in my own L )s experience." "On him the Lord hatb h t. laid the iniquity of us all." Oh, my -w is brother, without stopping to look aj ie whether your hand trembles or not, u 3, without stopping to look whether your w s hand is bloated with sin or not, put it il r. in my hand and let me give you one si i- warm, brotherly, Christian grip and c< a invite ^ou right up to the heart, to the si r- compassion, to the sympathy, to the o! u pardon of him on whom the Lord ai 11 hath laid the iniquity of us all. Throw d away your sins. Carry them no long- ei h er. I proclaim emancipation to all cj ir who are bound, pardon for all sin and fc :s eternal life for all the dead. e Some one comes here today, and I e< >f stand aside. He comes up three steps, a: l- He comes to this place. I must stand pi o aside. Taking that place, he spreads tl ir abroad his hands, and they were nail- r< n ed. You see his feet; they were bruis- ti y ed. He pulls aside the robe and r< h shows vou his wounded heart. I say, G n "Art thmi wparv?" "Ym." hfi sflvs. a' >f "weary with the world's woe." "i fi _e say, "Whence comest thou?" He n it says, "I came from Calvary." I say, o: rs "Who comes with thee?" He says: e "Noone; I have trodden the wine ai i. press alone." I say, "Why comest a; s- thou here?" "Oh, he says, "I came ii le here to carry all the sins and sorrows n is of the people." And he kneels. He y l- says, "Pat on my shoulders all the ii h sorrows and all the sins." And, con- e' o scious of my own sins first, I take ai e- them and put them on the shoulders b 5t of the Son of God. I say, "Canst si st thou bear any more, O Christ?" He a i- says, "Yes; more." And I gather up J Ld (he sins of all those who serve all at c< id these altars, the officers of the church a of Jesus Christ. I gather up all their b n sins, and I put them on Christ's shoul- p re ders, and I say, "Canst thou bear any n at more?" He says, "Yes; more." Then U ir I gatner up all tue sins ot a nunurea e 10 people in this house, and I put them tl d- on the shoulders of Christ, and I say, a le "Canst thou bear more?" He says, t< of "Yea; more." And I gather up all v- the sins of this assembly and put tnera t" as on the shoulders of the Son of God, \ l11 and I say, "Canst thou bear them?" 1 >e- "Yea," he says; "more." But he is to departing. Clear the way for him, g n- the Son of God! Open the door and i ae let him pass out, He is carrying our j tie sins and bearing them away. We ad shall never see them again. He in throws them down into the abyss, and of you hear the long, reverbrating echo < >r- nf llipir fn tl On liim tVio T.nvrl ViofVi f sre laid the iniquity of us all." Will < ?d, you let him take your sins today, or t ne do you say, "I -will take charge of them t ri- myself, I will fight my own battles, I < )n will risk eternity on my own account? i of I know not how near some of you * ild have come to crossing the line. 1 he A clergyman said in his pulpit one * le- Sabbath, "Befere next Saturday night ie; one of this audience will have passed ed out of life." A gentleman said to ps another seated next to him: "I don't ! ny believe it. I mean to watch, and if it i at- doesn't come true by next Saturday : I night I shall tell that clergyman his < sr- falsehood." The man seated next to on him said, "Perhaps it will be your self." "Oh, no," the other replied. 'I shall live to be an old man," That light he breathed his last. Today the Saviour calls. All may come. God T lever pushes a man off. God never lestroys anybody. The man jumps )ff; he jumps off. It is suicide?soul suicide?if the man perishes for the Tl nvitation is, "whosoever will, let him some," whosoever, whosoever, who- , loever! While God invites, how blest the day, Hew sweet the gospel's charming sound! Come, sinner, haste, oh, haste away V( While yet a pardoning God Is fonnd* In this day of merciful visitation se vhile many are coming into the king- w lom of God join the procession heav- g< inward. Seated in my cnurch was a et nan who came in who .said, "I don't b< mow that there is any God." That ti< van on Friday night. I said. "We vill kneel down ancl find out whether here is any God." And in the sec- se md seat from the pulpit we knelt. He sp aid: "I have found nim. There is a Jod, a pardoning God. I feel him sp lere." He knelt in the darkness of b; in. He arose two minutes afterward hi n the liberty of the gospel, while th .nother sitting under the gallery on 01 Friday night said: "My opportunity re s gone. Last week I might have been ui aved;notnow. The door is shut." m 'Behold the lamb of God, who taketh b? ,way the sin of the world." Now is tr he accepted time. Now is the day of w alvation "It is appointed unto all m aen once to die and after that the m udgment" fu in A WONDERFUL GIRL. fp be laretta N, Avery Preaches to an Im be Of mease Congregation. Columbia, S. C., March 5.?There fo rere fully 2,500 people at the First ialvary Baptist church, colored, last or ) hear Claretta N. Avery, a young alored girl, apparentlv about 13 years sa f ace. Dreach. She nas, durine her C1-r aort career, created a decided sensa- ?? on throughout the north and south, ^ x many of the cities in which she has ^ reached to thousands of persons, both ^ hite and colored. gg Her mother, a woman apparently ur bout 55 years of age, travels with her ad last night sat beside her on the ^ jstrum and seemed to take interest i all that she said to her auditors. ^ Before the young girl commenced jji er discourse a collection was taken w( p and hundreds liberally contributed. pp After the singing of several hymns fr< le pastor, Rev. J. C. Daniels an- jia ounced thai the "wonderful little in- pp rument in the hands of God" would pU *ain preach at Calvary this afternoon ?0 ; 3 o'clock in order to allow the hun- i reds who had been denied admittance ^ > receive the benefit of her powers. a . his service will lie especially for the Qf hites. sll Little Claretta is from Carthage, wj orth Carolina, but her pronuncia- eg r?n ia Histincllv different from that of le southern negro, being doubtless yc" ne to her long journey through the ga or them States. She spoko in a low an Dice, though clear to those near her, ^ ad the immense c ongregation was oused to a high state of enthusiasm hen she so intended them to be. She semed to hold them as ia a trance and ley appeared deeply tonobcd and Qf ronglv impressed oy her prayers to na od and her interpretation of His p ord la Ic was with the greatest difficulty lat Rev. Daniels and his assistants ho >uld restore quiet when those in the na idience became so enthusiastic over jj( le young girl's teachings as to give an ent to exclamations of approval and le was, in fact, repeatedly interrupt- ^ I during her discourse and the pastor an >und it necessary to appeal for quiet, In her preaching she said that the * ord sent many into fields to work for i ( im and that satan attempted, often ith success, to persuade them to work gainst him. There were hundreds of nbelievers who had fallen by the tK ayside by the persuasion of the dev. The sinners needed to come to Jeis in order to appreciate their real j18 - ? J "ii ? ?. T i- M*nn ilaAA/lfiil 4a V*A Q tPI JJLlUillUIi. jll was urcauiui iaj w w nner and unconverted to the cause W! f Jesus Christ, for death comes at ay moment and perhaps at a time hen it is too late to prepare for an atrance into the pearly gates. This 118 luse should be championed until He >rbids us to proceed further. *8 She pictured hell as vividly present- 111 i in the mind of a dreaming sinner, ?r 5 a place where writhing, hissing ser-, ^ ants found their habitation within le living breast; where the soft spots c0 jfused to rest the weary limbs of a "c aveler, for in ''hell there there is no Fe ;st." The sinner then called upon ia od for aid. When the dreamer *? woke, the visions of damnation still m esh in his mind, he deserted the ban- ** er of satan and fought under the colrs of Jesus. nc She appealed to her now thoroughly roused and enthused auditors, to do 3 the dreamer had when he "washed l the blood of the Lamb." Old wo- 01 len in the congregation called to the j? oung girl in tones of approval, Stand- f11 lg up and gesticulating wildly and jy 7en applauding at times. The entire f* ssemblage gave vent to their feelings al y murmurings of delight as she dejribed the asce*t to the heavenly gates be nd the entrance to the kingdom of fii esus Christ. Men and women lost E ontrol of themselves in mad enthusi- T< sm at the girl's words when she egged them to fight for God and pre- ai are themselves for the fields of happi- ai ess above the clouds. Some pressed ^ J. ~t IT-- ?U at jwaru IQO iruilt U1 lUO tumta auu w ndeavored to get nearer to the girl, fr browing up their hands before her nd lingering between a smile and a B ear of joyful belief. ir At the close of her sermon she asked P hose who desired to profess their con- tl ersion to the cause to stand, and fully w 00 arose. e< Claretta is undoubtedly a wonderful N ;irl, and to hear her is the only way p n which her powers of speech can be n >roperly appreciated.?State. c Disastrous Storms. k London, March 2.?A dispatch re- p :eived here, dated Brisbane, says that f; jales and floods have caused a great y ??? okAllf M xctti Ui uuiuhj;d jlli uuu g he seaport of Townsville. Seven- t< ,een vessels in that harbor have found- o jred and one of them went down with ts passengers and crew. Houses on d ihore were razed to the ground. The o loss by the foundering o? four passener s, steamers is estimated to be $2,500,000. tj c A Bridegroom Suicides. $ Manassas, Va., March 2.?C. H. ti McAuley, 31 years of age, committed a suicide at Marshall yesterday after- n noon, by shooting. He was married r on Wednesday last. No cause is ap- a parent for the act, which was com- i: mitted in the presence of his bride. t . : V:* ' - **"-' ' ; j ' BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS," HIEVERY AND LACHESE IN THE COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD. lie Grand Jury Makes a Presentment Which Reflects on a Former County Treasurer and the Present Sheriff and his Rascally Deputies. Edgefield, March 2.?Court consned here today, Judge Ernest Gary residing. The following special preintment, which created a sensation, as made by a committee of the outsing grand jury. The criminal dockis lighter than usual, the chances iing that it will occupy only a porrm r?f fVio nroolr L/U VI VUV TT\JVA? A STARTLING EXPOSE. The grand jury submits as its prerntment the following report of its >ecial committee: Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: Your >ecial committee to investigate the x>ks of the different county officials is submitted reports at each term of Le court since our appointment, but i account of the delay of the sheriff's turns on executions and the treas er's final settlement, we could not ake our report complete in Novemsr. Commencing in the office of the easurer with the fiscal year 1892-93, e ascertained that the annual settleent with the treasurer had been ade from the original assessment rnished by the auditor, and knowg that money had been collected om parties whose property had not sen assessed, we proceeded to the lairious task of aggregating the stubs every receipt given in the county r money collected as taxes. We und that the sums of the stubs aounted to $1,043.23 in excess of the lount that had been charged in the iginal assessment. For the fiscal year of 1893-94 the me state of things exist, and with a nilar investigation as we made of e previous year we found that the sasurer had collected $508.37 more an charged to him by the assessment, us making for the two years $1,551,that has been collected by the treaser and has not been accounted for. lese amounts for both years were llected from parties whose property d not been assessed, but voluntarily me forward to pay their taxes. 3on examining the settlement sheets > find no additional reported. The esent treasurer has already collected )m a similar source about $600 and a the amounts and names of parties operly entered upon a book for this rpose. This fact itself bears out the rrectness of our examination. The tax executions are given out by e sheriff to a lot of deputies, and in jreat many cases to men unworth v such trust, as the facts below will ow. From various townships, thout expenses and with very little !ort, we have the following facts: In Higgins school district an execu>n for taxes went out against Wess muels and the books of the sheriff d treasurer are both marked "Non nulla bona," and we have in our session the receipt of the deputy, J. Webb, sbuwmg tnai ne collected .40 fx'om Wess Samuels. in Pine Grove Township the taxes Sophie Burt is marked "Nulla boi," and we have the deputy's, J. Q. >gburn, receipt showing that he coiJted $3.50. In Moss Township Wiley Blanchard s been marked "Non est, nulla boi," and we have the receipt of A. V. organ, constable, for $5 for taxes id penalties of Wiley Blanchard. In Mobley Township D. W. Harris returned on the books nulla bona d we have the receipt of W. L. loden, deputy, for $9.35, collected jm D. W. Harris for taxes and penties. W. G-. Wood was given the execu>ns for Collier Township. Execu>ns were given to him against himIf and brother, T. B. Wood. InMid of paying his, he marked it as iving been paid by receipt 1,170 of sasurerand marked T. B. Wood, ith receipt of treasurer, 5,053. We :amined the stubs and they show at the receipts for these numbers are for other parties and that Wood is defrauded the county. This same deputy had an execution ;ainst a negro, Lewis Holmes; sold 8 clock, bought it and he or hisfath, has the clock to day, and returned jwis Holmes "Can't be found." These facts gathered without expens e nvinced us that something should be ine and not wishiner to assume the sponsibility of involving the county the expense of investigating every wnship in the county we decided to vestigate one township thoroughly, id we employed a reliabe man sent m to Merriweather Township, with ) intimation from any one that it as worse than any of the forty townLips and school districts in the county. re found in Merriwetber Township i the execution book Jesse Schultz, arked "Non est, nulla bona," can't id, and we have receipt of tha depu , W. E. Bussv, for $8, collected om Jesse Schultz for taxes and penties. Tom Johnson is returned on the )oks "Non est, nulla bona, can't ad," and we have the receipt of W. . Bussey that he collected $5.65 from Dm Johnson. Jack Johnson and Richard Johnson e both returned on the books N. E. id N. B., and we have the receipt of J. E. Bussey showing that he collect1 $5.65 from Jack Johnson and $5.52 om Richard Johnson. Oliver Patten is returned N. E., N. and we have Bussey's receipt showig that he collected $5 40 from Oliver atten. We have positive evidence lat W. E. Buzzey collected in Merri'ether Township more than thirty exjutionsand returned them all "N. E., f. B." and that more than $150 was aid to him in this township, of which ot one cent, was turned over to the ounty. The sheriff certainly ought to have nownthat Busseywasnot makings roper settlement and should have re jsed to accept his returns without in estigating the matter. We have iven a thorough investigation of this Dwnship and from it you can judge f the balance of the county. December 5, 1893, the county com lissioners approved a claim in favoi f J. C. Kinard for $3.40 for four hovels. The claim was entered or tie book $34. February 20, 1804, a heck was given to J. 0. Kinard for 34. We called Mr. Kindard's atten ion to this matter during last summer, nd hoped that he would return the aoney, but he has failed to do so. We ecemmend, that suit be broughl gainst Mr. Kinard for the money and a case it can not be made out of hin: hat suit be bought against the countj commissioners. ] Id our August report we called the I attention of the treasurer to seven school cetificates, amounting to $150, which were forgeries. The present treasurer never having been served with such an order, has paid $150 to the Farmers' Bank for these forged certificates, taking an indemnity bond from the said bank. We recommend that suit be entered at once against the Farmers' Bank for the recovery of this money. Since ou?* investigation commenced, last July, we have found errors, irre; gularities and shortages to the amount of $3,248.95. Some of this amount has already been returned to the treasury, and all of it will go back to our treas11 ?m i f A11K nnil r*f XT rvofo l'lo A unn nn^ uijf 11 UUI wvituuj KVW ito uuco, auu there is very little doubt but that the money can be made out of the parties. The tax execution business is not in5 eluded in this $3,248.95. We find the books used by .the different offices to be very unsystematic, so much so that we earnestly urge an immediate adoption of a systematic form. Especially do we recommend this in the offices of the auditor, treasurer and sheriff. Wo have examined all of the county officers for two years, bringing them up to August 1, 1895, except the treasurer's ana sheriff's, whicn we have brought up to October 1.1895. ? Respectfully submitted: A1 vin Hart p W. A. Strom, Harry S. Hill, Jas. T. *Mims, J. C. H. Rauch, Committee, This report'and presentment Is signed by "H. B. Gallman, foreman," who adds: "We extend thanks 'to your Honor, the solicitor and other officers "f Pftnuf fnv nnnrlpcipg " f.T wa "uw vvuaw wm4^?4vw, Three Killed by a Train. 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