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,xi V()1., XIx. PICKRSDAX'., MARCH 2U, 1890 %&801C OF REDS . t OF DR. TALIAGE'd Thoughts lisproceed Upe the Divine be a Visit to the Spet Whore Lazarss Lived nuil Di.d. At the Tabernacle Sunday morning the Rev. T. De Witt Talasage. D. I)., sald he thought the ne w Brooklya taber nacle would be dedicated is September. Tte subject "f his discourse was "Re vision of Creeds," and he took for his text John xi., 44: "Loose him, and let him go." Dr. Talmage said: My Bible is, at the place of this text, written all over with the load pencil mark made last I)ecereber at Bothany on tl;e ruins of the house of Mary and Martba and Lazarus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead Sea. Bathaay was the summer evening retr eat of Jesus. After spend iug the d.y is the hot city of Jerusalem he would come out there almost every evening to the house of his three friends I think the occupants of the house were orphans, for the father and mother were not mentioned. But the eon and two dlaughters mmn t have inherited property for it must have been, jrtging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Laza rus, the brother, was now the head of the housenold, and his sisters depended on hi in and were proud of him, for he was very popular and everybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girls. Martha, a lirat-rate housekeeper, and Mary, a spirituelle, somewhat dreamy but ultectionate, and as good a girl as could be found in all Palestine. But one day I,nzarus got sictc. The sisters were in consternatio.. Father gone and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. IIo,v tbe girls hung over his piilow ! Not ncIl sleep about that house, no sleep at all. From the characteristics otherwise developed, I judge that Martha prepared the medi cines and miade tempting dishes of food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus, until the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that went up from that household when the Ist, breath had been drawn and the t wo sisters were being led by sympat hzers Into the adjoining room, all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why days and ioaolutiori hadt akon place. In that elimate the breathless body dis integrates inure 1apidly than in ours. if, immediately after decease, that body had been awakened into life, unheliev era nilMht have said that he was only in a comatose at ate, or in a sort of trance, and by some vigorous manipulation or powerful e'irnulant vitality had been renewed. No! Four days dead. At the dour of the sepulchre is a crowd of people, bu the three must memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sisters. . We went into the traiditional tomb in December, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explered it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, but the day taaied of in the Bible there was present an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do. He orders the door of the grave removed, and, then he be gins to descend the steps, Mary and Martha close after them. Deeper down into the shadows and deeper! The hot tears of J_sus roll over his cheeks and splash upon the backs of his hands. Were ever so many sorrows compressed into so small a place as in that group pressing on down after Christ, all the timse be moianlio that, he had not come before? Now all de whispering and all the cry ing ami all .the sounds of shuffling feet are stoppeli. It is the silence of ex piectancy. D)eath hajd conqueredi, but now the vainquisher of death confronted the scene. Amid the awful hush of the tomb the familiar name which Christ had often h..d upon01 his lips in the hos pitalities of the village home came back to his tongue and with a pathos and an almiighti ness of which the resurrection of the last day .hall lbe only an eche, he cries: "bazarus I c'ome forth i" The eyes of the slumbere:r open and with great;d:liculty lhe begins to ascend for the ceremen's of the tomb) are yet on him and his feet are fast and his hands are fast and the impediments to all his move ments i:e so great that .Jesus commands: ''Take off these cerements; remove thc.se hindiiranesa; un fasten these grave clothes: loose himnu and let him go I" Oh, I ame so glad that af ter the Lord raised Laza rus he went on and commanded thc loosening of the cords that bound ii feettso that lie could welk, and th< breaking off the cerement that bounc hi- i'andue so that he could stretch oul bIi at o. in snliutaLti on, and the tearins . ob a ad age from around his jaws se th it he conld speak. What would to surrected life have been to Lazarus if hi ha.d not been freed from all those cri p plemnents of his body? I am glad tha C;hrist commnioded his compulete emanci mttion, saying: "Loose him, and le hjim go." TPhe uinfor:unate thuing now is that si many Christ ians are only hal f liberated Th~Iey have been ratised from the deatl and h brial of sin in to spiritual Ii fe, bu hey yet haive the grave clothes on them They are like Ljazar us, hobbling up th stairs of tmmb, bound hand and foot atnd the object of this sermon is to hl; free therir brody and free their soul, an' I shall tiry to, obey the Master's commnant that cosw" to me and comes to ever mninister of religion. "Loose him, and he him0 go." i rst, many are hound han aol foot by religious creeds. Let ni man m!a0in ter p,ret mae as aintIagon izi n creeds. I have .ight or ten of them; creed about religion, i creed about ar a creed about social life, a ':eed abot; g- v rnment, and so on. A crceed is sorm tihing that a man believes, wh ether it t: writ ten or uno wrItten. The Presbyterin c'mrchu is now agitated about its creei t->me goiod men in it are for keeping b.cause it ws framed from he belief J ihn Calvi n. O'.her good men in want revision. I am with neither part Iuistnaid of revision I want substitutiol I was sorry to have the question dlisturi edl at all. . The ced dId not hinder 1 frm offering the pardon and the ecr fort of the Gospel to all men, and ti Westlhintbr Confession has not inter fered iwith me one minute. But now that the electric lights have been turned on the imperfections of that creed- and everything that man fashions is imper fect-let us put the old creed respect fully aside and get a brand new one. It is Impossible that people who lived hundreds of years ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died three hundred and twenty-six years ago. The best.centuries of Bible study have come since then, and explorers have done their work, and you might as well have the world go back and stick to what Robert Fulton knew about steam boats and reject the subsequent improve ments in navigation; and go back to John Guttenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, and reject all modern newspaper presses, and go back to the time when telegraph was the elevating of signals-or the burning of bonfires on the hilltops and reject the magnetic wire which is the tongue of nations, as ignore all the exegetists and the philoo giste and the theologians of the last 326 years and put your head under the sleeve of the gown of a sixteenth century doc tor. I could call the names of twenty living Presbyteria:, ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth "But," you say, 'it is the same old Bible, and John Calvin had that as well as the present student of the scriptures." Yes, so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but in our times it has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. It is the same old water, but in our cen tury it has gone to running steam en gines. It is the same old electricity, but in our time it has become a lightning f.oted errand boy. So it is the old Bi ble, but new apt lications, new uses, new interpretations. You must rernem ber that during the last th cc hundred years words have changed their mean ing and some of them now mean more and some less. I do net think that John Calvin believed, as some say he did, in the damnation of infants, although some of the recent hot disputes wouli seem to imply that there is such a thing as the damnation of infants. A man who believes in the damnation of infants himself deserves to lose ncaven. I do not think any good man could admit such a possibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I conclude from what he did with the babies in Pales'ine when he hugged them and kissed them. When some of you grown pe.,ple go out of this world your doubtful destiny will be an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obsequies, who 'wqill have to be cautious sc( as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no "ifs" or "buts" or gues ses. We must remember that good John Calvin was a logician and a met aphysician and by the proclivities of his nature put some things in an unfortunate way. Logic has its use and metaphycics has its use, but they are not good at. making creeds. A gardener hands you a blooming rose, dewy fresh, but a severe botanIst comies to you with a rose and says: "I will show you the structure of this rose. Arid he proceeds to take it apart and pulls off the leaves and he says: "There are the petals," and he takes out the anthers, and he says: "Just look at the wonderful structure of these floral pillars." and then he ents the stem to show you the juices of the plant. So logic or metaphysics takes the aromatic rose of the Chriacian religion and says: "1 will just show you how this rose of religion was fashioned ;" and it pulls off of it a piece and says: "'Tnat is the hu man will," and another piece and says: "This is God's will," and another piece and says: "Tis id sovereignty," and( another piece and says: "This is free agency," this is this and that is that And while I stand looking at the frag ments of the rose pulled apart, one whom the Marys took for a gardener comes in and presents me with a crimson rose, red as blood, and says: "Inhale the sweetness of this, wear it on your heart and wear it forever." I must con fess that I prefer the rose in full bloocm to the rose pulled apart. What a time we have had with the dlogmatics, tihe apologetics and the hermeneutics. The defect in some of the creeds is that they try to tell us all about tile decrees of God, Now, the only humsan being that was ever com petent to handle that subject.was Paul, and he would not have been competent had he not been inlspired. I leelieve In the sovereignty of Go'd and I believe in man's free agency, but no one can lhar monize the two. It Is not necessary thlat he harmonize them. Every ser men that I have ever heard that attempt. ed such harmonization was to me as clear as a London fog, as clear as mud. Mly brother of the nineteenth century, my b)rother of the sixteenth century, give usi Paul's statement and leave out yOt'r own. Bletter one chapter of Pauil on that sub ject than all of Calvin's institutes, ab4e and honest and mie,hty as they arc. Doc not try to measure either the throne of God or the thunderbolts of God with: your little steel pen. What do you know about the decrees? You cannot pry open the docr of God's eternal councils. You cannot explain the mysteries of God'm -government now, much less the mysteriem of his government five hundred quistilli on of years ago. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scrip ture quotatIons pure anti Iimplle. That would take the earth for Glod. That would he impregnable against infidelit3 l and( Apollyonic assault. That wouild be I beyond human criticism. The denomi , nation, whlatever its name be, that car t rIse up to that wilt be the church of thi millennium, will swallow up all othie ,denominations and be the one that wil be the bride when the Bridegroon a cometh. Let us macke it simpler anc plainer for people to get into the king t dom of God. D)o not hinlder people h: the idea that they may not have beel e elected. D)o not tag on to the essentiai n of faith in Christ any of the innumerabi ~*nonessentials. A man heartily who accept fChriet is a Christian and tile man wh does00 not accepit IIim is not a Christini a nd1 that is all there is of it. iIe ae Snobbelieve in election or reprobatios *He need clot believe in the eternal geri .eratir a of the Son. Hie need not belley is In everlasting punishment. lHe nec y net believe in plenary inspiration. Fait a in Christ is the oriterion. iq the test, the pivot, is the indispensable. But there I are those who would add unto the teots rather than subtract from then. There a are thousands who would not accept H persons into church membership if they E drink wine, or if they smoke cigars, or if s they attend the theatre, or if they play y cards, or if they drive a fast hprse. Now, a I do not drink wine or smoke or attend t the theatre, never played a game of cards t and do not drive a last horse, although I a would if I owned one. But do not sub- s stitute tests which the Bible does not a establish. There li one passage of scrip- a ture wide enough to let all in who ought to enter and to keep out all who ought a to be kept out: "Believe in the Lord d Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." b Get a man's heart right and his life will d be right. But now that the old creeds C have been put under public scrutiny W something radical must be done. Some would split them, some would carte them, P some would elongata them, some would C abbreviate them. At the present moment g and in the present shape they area hin- Ct drance. Lazarus is alive, but hampered f with the old grave clothes. If you want one glorious church free and unencum bered take of! the eerewents of old cc- ti clesiastical vocabulary. Loose her, and cc und let her go! Again there are Christians who are , under sepulchral shadows and hindered t and hobbled by doubts and fears and i sins long ag, repented of. What they s ne.i v to understaml the liberty of the sons of God. They spend more time cc under the shadow of Sinai than at the f base of Calvary. They have been sing ing the only poor hymn that Newton te ever wiote: te 'Tis a point I long to know, as Oft it caseS me anrxous thought - hr I)o I love the Lorct or no, Am I lils or am I not? CC m Long to knew, do you? Why do you ar not find out? Go to work for God and te you will very soon find out. The man who,all the time feeling of his pulse and ra looking at his tongue to see whether it rh is coated, is morbid, and cannot be ti physically well. 'rho doctors will say: li "Go out into fresh air and into active ru life, and stop thinking of yourself, and g you will gut well and strong." So there c" are pcople watching their spiritual gc symptoms, and they call it self-examina tion, and they get weaker and sieklicr in n their faith all the time. Go out and do th something nobly Christian. Take holy e, exercise and then examiae yourself, and ai instead of Newton's saturnine and hil lious hymn that I first quoted, you will t sing Newton's other hymn: ti Amnaing grace, how sweet the sound tc That saved a wretch like met al Once I was lost, mt now i'm found; e; Was bilud; Lut now I see. to What many of you Christians need is t to get your grave clothes off. I rejoice P that you have been brought from the ti death of six to the life of the gospel, but t' you need to get your hands loose and your iu feet loose and your tongue loose and is your soul loose. There is no sin that o the Bible so arraigns and punctures and c flagellates as the sin of unbelief, and sl that is what is the matter with you. st "Oh," you say, "if you knew what I a once was and how lnany times I have as grievously strayed, you would under- fe stand why Y do not come out brighter." ar Then I think you will call yourself the aI chief of sinners. I am glad you hit upon ar that term, for 1 have a promise that fits u into your case as the cogs in one wheel w between the cogs of another wheel or as1 o: the key tits into the labyrinth of a lock, cl A man who was once called Saul but af- d terwards Paul declared: "This is a w faithful saying and worthy of all accep- ti tation, that Christ .Jesus came into the y world to save sinners, of whom I amn c< chief." Mark that-" of. whom I am a chief." "Put down your overcoats and IC hats and I will take care of them while you kill Stephen"-so Saul sanid to the stoners of the first martyr-''I do not care to exert myself much, but I will guard'( your surpilus ap~parel while you do the murder." Theu New Test ament ac count says: "The witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet whose name was Saul." No wonder he said : "'Sinners, of whom I am chief." Christ is used to climbing, iIe climbed to the top of the temple, iIe climbed a to the top of Mlount Olivet. IIe climbed a to the top cf the cliffs about Nazareth. t iIe climbed to the top) of Golgotha. i, And to the top of the hills and the e mountains of your t ransgressions and liep is ready to climb with pardon for every 5 one of you. The groan of Calvary is y mightier thanm the thunder of Sinai. ;b Full receipjt is utTered for all *vour in- o debtedness. If one throws a stone at la midnight into a bush51 where the hedge- i. bird roosts, it immediately begins to I, sing; andl into the midnight hedges of your despondency these words 1 hurl, * hoping to awaken you to anthem. D)rop I the tunes in the minior key and take the ( major. D)o you think it pleases the I Lord for you to he carrying around c with you the debris and~ carcasses of old a transgressionis? You make me think of c some ship that, has had a tempestuous a time at sea, andi now t hat it pr~oposes 1 ainother voyage, keeps en its davits the a danmaged lifeboats, andl the splinters of I a shivered mast, iad the broken glass of 1 a smashed sky light. My advice is: Clear the decks, oyerboard with all the dam-i aged rigging, brighten up the salted smrokestacks, open a now log book, haul in the planks, lay out a new course, aud set satil for heaven. You have had the' sp,iritual dum ps long enough. You will please the Lord more by being happy! than b'y being miserable, IIave you riot somnetimnen started out in thme ain with> your urmbrella and wvero busy thinkting and you did not notice that the rain had stop)ped, aind though it hadl cleared off you still hrad your uminbrellIa up, and I wheni you di scovered ' whiat y:r were (10. ing you felt silly enough? That is what I some of you are doi ng In religious things. - You haive got so ulsed to sadness that Sthough the rain has stopped you still ahave your urnbrella up. Coame out of the I shadow. y~o~the stairs of jour S sepulobt4 out in1to the b)road a light ofiMod 2~ . We come around you ' to heJVygou recmove your grave clothes, , n a iice from tire heavens, tremilous I but omnipotent, commands "Loose him, .and lettMm go." . -Hoea is ninety-flye per cent, better e taa tbW dpj4 a thousand per cent. d better.; RStUt er ent. Letter. Take hi the gladdet'1rh6test, rmast jubilaist a d aysyo en rn lii - on et -m cor resa them into one hour, and that hen reuld be a requiem, a fast day, a gloomr horror, as compared with the po:res our they have had in heaves since it rst;tower was built, or its grat gate wunk or its first song ctroled. "Oh, ou say, "that may be true, but I am a fraid of crossing over from this worl t the next, and I fear the snapping o ie cord between soul and body." Well 11 the surgeons and physicians an iestists declare that there is no panl t the parting of the body and soul, an< lithe seeming restlessness at the cloe ,r hour of life is involuntary anc u di' 'ris at all. And I agree with th octors, io- what they say is confirme y the fact th t persons who wer rowned or were submerged until al >nsciousness departed and were after 'ards resuscitated,declaro that the sensa on of passing int" unconsciousCess wal leasurable rather than distressful. Th< go of the body has a door on easy his es, and when that door of the physica ige open1 the soul simply puts out iti ings and soars. "But," you say, ': ar to go because the future is so full o0 ystery." Well, I will tell you how t< eat the mysteries. The mysteries have ased bothering me, for I do as the Ldges of your courts often do. Thel ar all the argusent in the case and on say: "I will take these papers and ve you my decision next week." >e ] Lve heard all the argument in regard to o next world, and some things are un rtain and full of mystery, and so I Id up the papers and reserve until the xt world my decision about them. I n there study all the mysteries to bet r advantage, for the iight will be bet and my faculties stronger, and I will k the Christian philosophers, who have d all the advantages of heaven for nturies, to help me, and I may be p'er itted myself to humbly ask the Lord, d I think thero will be oily "ne mys ry left, and that will be how one so un )rthy as myself got into ruch an en ptured place. Cose up out of the sepul ral shadows. If you are not Chris. ms by faith in Christ come up into the ;ht; and if you are already like Laza s, reanimated, but still have your ave clothes in, get rid of them. The mmand is "Loose him, and let him ." The only part of my recent jour y that 1 really dreaded, although I did it say much about it beforehand, was e landing at J"ppa. That is the port of trance to the holy Land, and therE e many rocks, and in rovgh weathei ople cannot land at all. The boati king the people from the steamer ti e docks must rua between reefs tha oked to me to be about fifty feet apart d one misatroke of an oarsman or un pected wave has sometimes been fa 1, and hundreds have perished aloni ose reefs. Besides that, as we lef ort Said the evening before an o< aveler said: "The wind is just righ give you a rough landing at Joppa deed I think you will not be able t< nd at all." 'The fact was that whea ir Mcditerranean steamer dropped an. for near Joppa and we pat out foi iore in the small boat,the water was a ill as though it had been sound asleep hundred years, and we landed as easil' I came on this platform. Well, your are have pictured for you an appallinj rival at the end of your voyage of life d they say that the seas will run higt d that the breakers will swallow yor , or that if you reach Canaan at allii ili be a very rough landing. The verj )posite will be true if you have the ernal God for your portion. Youi sembarkation for the promised last ill be as smooth as was ours at Pales ne last December. Christ will mee >u far out at sea and pilot you int< >mplete safety, and you will land witi hosanna on one side of you and a hal lujah on the other. "Laud.?ahead!" it fruits are wvaving O'er the hills or fadeless green, And the liv'ing waters laying Shores where heavenly forma are se Rocks and storms I'll foar no more, When on that eternal shore; 1)rop the anchor! furn tho sail! I am safe within the yeill! All's Well That. Ende Well. ILAUREgNs, March 13.-Three month; o Miss Cornelia V i:ginia Chapmau fair young lady from the banks e 1e foaming Saluda, camne to the cit, isearch for lawyers. She found >uple and told them a tale of woo, th urport of which was that Jno. IR tells, a neighboring and gallan oung farmer, h ad sough t and obtaine< or afl'ectionsu, but that on the arriva f the time set for the marriage Well ad1 been seized with a fit of procrasi ation which had since become chron .The lawyers estimated the break the lady's heart and1 sued WVells fo 6,000 dlamages, which just comnfortr ly sized his pile. When the Court< fommnon Please opened in Februar I!ss Chapman was on hand with; loud of witnesses, but before the cas ras called, sud(den ly disappeared. Th asie was continued. Yesterday thi ows came her'e that Miss Chapma ad dropped her suit, that Wells ha oewed his and pushed it to asuccest uli issue and that the parties are es >orimenting as to whether or not mai iage is a failure. 'rho learned( counse ofue to be8 comforted. ---Henry Kepp, of St. Louis, won vager oflifty cents the other day b lrinking a beer glais full of gin an even ordinary ghlases of whisk.; Ie gulped them (downl inside of ti ninutes and next day it cent a coup1 >f (dollar for a collin and1 several (10 are more to bury him. -A daughter of ex -Represen tati' Ilonk lin, of Circlovillo, Ohio, went in1 ier father's orchard on Friday and d ihorately blew off herm head with ihot gun. Mihe was a pretty girl swenty-two alnd was to have boon ma ried1 this week, but she was in bi health and the excitement probab eausedi insanity. -The house of Charles (Gilss colored, near Coosaw, Beaufert Cou: ty, S. C., was burned Saturday nig an'd Gibson and his w'fe and ohi e rished in the lames. Foul p1 5 81sspected. .-A conscience contribution from' M. I.," Charleston, 8. 0., of $20.2S, 1 been received at the Treasuty Dept r SLAIN IN SPARTANBURG. t ? GEO. S. TURNER SHOOTS TO e DEATH E. H. FINGER THE i BROTHER OF HIS WIFE. f The Cauee that led to the Terrible Deed j -Eert. to L.yach the 4uraper---Triu mph of the I.nw Over the Olub. Another bloody tragedy stains the record of our county, On Friday af ternoon Geo. S. Turner slew his broth. in law, E. H. Finger, in tae public read at Valley Falls. The deed was I done with a pistol, and Finger died in I a few raiiutos after receiving his death wound. He never spoke after- 1 ward. TURNERi's ACCOUNT OF THE TRAoEDY. Oo. S Turner has furnished the fol [ lowing statement to the reporter of the Columbia Register: "Finger was walking and a negro was driving the wagn I did not meet Finger on the road, l)ut walked out of theu house and wua goIng to my gin house. The woman (Sparks) came to get pay 1 for some iiashing, and (lid not say any t thing abotn' t1w m,atter between her and t Fiuger. W. J. Fager, a brother of E. i H Finger, th; slain inns, and the latter r were cursing the woman as she came up to the dvor where I was standing, as f given in his own words bolow. e "Finger became abusive, but was car- c ried off by Dan Williams, a negro man, towards home. lie came back, how ever. ''Finger tolmi the negro to turn himI lo ee, as I had dared him to holler there in the road, which I denied to Furer aad told him to go off and leave n me abmie Then he tore loose from the a negr.', and after he tore loose he had his a pistol out and shot. s '", hen he drew his pistol the colored ' man had turned him loose. I did not say 'Let him come, I'll fix him,' as stated in the paper, or threaten to kill the negro if he didn't turn him , loose. That is all wreng. "After he drew his pistol. YINOR SHOT TWICE. ''Oie ball struck pretty near me in the ground, and the other struck my t store house. I think the first ball struck C the greund near me, as the smoke rose all I around me. I ONLY FItE) ONE SHOT, and after he quit shooting I quit also. "I pulled my pistol when Finger start ed to pull his-when the uegro caught him and ho then couldn't get his pistol out. I held my pistol in my haud then, and when he came back he had his pistol t pointed at me. lIe fired twice and I fired once after he had fired his two shots, immediately after ha seco"sd shot." ACTING TIR TRAGE T. That the reporter might make no mis take and should understand exactly his account of the matter, Turner in the jail corridor gave a sort of pantomimic t representation of the affray. Stepping off six paces from the report er, and coolly counting as lie stepped, t he said that was about the distance be i tween him and Finger. Raising his hand as though levelling a I pistol, he said that was the way Finger fronted him while he (Turner) held his pistol in his hands, lie thought l Finger was watching the saeks rising up from around the discharge of his I pistol, but that he (Turner) had his eye en the barrel of his own pistol. He said that after Finger was shot he walked to the bridge over the creek near by, and half across it, before he fell. It was a mistake that be was killed instantly. wHAT BIROUOET ON TEE TRAftEDY. 'In relatioa to the causes which were alleged to have brought about the trag edy, and as to the published accounts in reference to the same, Mr. Tu'rner made the following statement: "'I was not particularly miad with E. HI. Finger, the man now dead, but I had 5 heard of his having threatened my life ,on twe or msore occasions. t "It was a suit for $25,000 damages 51and not $10,000 as slated In the news pa')ors, brought in the case for the ee s duction of Clara Finger, the slain man 's -'sister and my sister-in- law. t "The (lay I received the summons I went to Mrs. Finger's house, where R. H I. Finger lived, for the purpose of stop Sping this suit. I gave notice to) Clara of mny conning to the gate. Finger came -out on the piazza S r wITU I115 DOU'lH.E-OiARRIELLED) (UN, cocked it, arid took deliberate aim at me. I jumped behind a tree and tried V to draw my pistol. Finge.'r then took the gun down from his face, and the e matter oeased, 0 e AN UNAccEPTEDI (CHALL.EN(E. n "Once after that, across the creek Sfrom my store, ho cursed mie very loudly . and dlared me across the creek. I did .not go. 'This was the second case. ."I'll state that I think that this man, E. HI. Finger, did not want to kill me on secont of the seduction of his sister, but that hie was persuaded or actuated by may enemies." y NE 5?EAK4 (I MIS rilWTER-JN-LAw, El After a few mnoments' reflection, on it- being asked if lie had anything more a that he wished to say, Mr. Turner e said: "- 'I have not spoken of this seduction matter before te any one but Sheriff Nicholls, but without saying that I dli'l e it. I will say this: Lo "I have one great reasou why I should s' always like my sister, Clara Finger, a and that is she made a pleading request *f of me to quit strong drink, which I have r- quIit for nearly twelve months. id "I will also say that I believe that if ly Clara will lay aside all the lies, persua sions and inducements that have been offered and told to her since that seduc n, tion suit was commenced, and will put herself back as she was the night that Id her mother left home AT TUE D)EAD~ ROUR OF MIDNroJIT, to bring this suIt against me, and she J. will make a full statement of the mat ia ter, I believe, I say, that there wIll be e rt- cause of blame upon me about the se ductIon case, and I think that she w.ill say that I have never treated her wrong fully. CLAIMS THE KILLINU WAS JUsTIFIABLl. In relation to the alleged condition of public sentiment against him, Turner said: "I don't think that there were any well thinking men is the mob who sought to lynch me, or if there were, it was by a misunderstanding of the true mect. in the Case. "If W. J. Finger, my wife's brother tad the brother of the slain man, will testify to the full truth and the whole ruth in the killing matter, I believe hat it will satisfy all reasonable people bat the homicide was justifiable." QOT AFISAID TO STAY IN P" 'tTANnU EO. ")id the Sheriff tell you that I was Iot afraid to be kept in Spartanburg?" his man accused of two crimes asked he reporte;. On being told that Sher If N'cholla had spoken highly of the terve he had displayed, and had said he was not unwilling to remain in the Spar anburg jail, Turner said. "Let me nake a statement about that," and con inued as follows; TIlR MOn's TIRItiLE THREAT. "I was not willing to leave Spartan }urg until the Sheriff informed me that he mob was going up to Valley Falls ,nd get Clara Finger and push her along n front until they could get to my cell nd kill me. "Then I consented, because I was fear ul if they brought her there in the night he would accidentally get killcd, and I lid not want her to be made breast forks for a cowardly set of men. They new, and everybody else that was ac uainted with me, that LOVII) (I.A1A FIN(i}CR AS A RSTIR-IN LAW ud always had loved her fromt a child, nd they were fully aware that I would ive up my own life rather than that he should be killed In such a cowardly ray."-- Spartanburg Herald. AFTER TURNER'S BLOOD. n Augry Slob Coine to have the Prir enor. The feelings against Turner around Talley Falls was Inten se. On Saturday night rumors of a de ermination to lynch him reached the ity; on Sunday uneasiness prevailed Lore, but no manifestasion was made intil Monday morning. The people of Valley Falls had re ;ived notice that a party of 200 lynch rs, ahoroughly organized, would each town: on Monday at noon, and vere instructed to be prepared there o assist in the lynching. About two mndred of them assembled near the Iorgan Monument. When twelve ,'clock arrived, and the North Carolina lynchers did not come, the crowd grew restless and ugly. They wanted to lynch the prisoner without further Ielay; but, relying on the organized nob which they expected, they were Nithout concert or leadership. Sheriff vicholls and his deputies, Brewton u(l Vernon with Mr. Andaew Moore mnd Ed: Gentry wore in the jail arm d with Winchester rifles, shot guns and revslvers. Mr. Nicholls was a brave Confederate oldier, with a reputation for courage Lud devotion to duty which is known ill over the country ahd byeond it. lie vas standing behind the bars declaring hat no man should roach Turner but >ver his dead "ody. They knew the nan and no one was willing to charge uie. Finally four men went to the encamp neu~t for the cannon belonging to the spanrtani Artillery. They raised it up ivith a shout and hurrah, and unlimber d it in front of the jail. TLhe men wvho b)rought the gun wecre members of the artillery company and inew how to usc it. The men in the jail were armed with Winchester riues. l'he distance was seventy.five yards. A )loody duel at short range wvith artillery mdl( rifles seemed imminent. Men who and1 remembered the scene of blood at Birmingham, begam to scatter from the utreets, but still the narrow jail alley wvas packed with excited men. No onis knew wvhethier the cannon was loadedl. l'he men in the jail thought so andl were determined that it should never be fired into the building. They were readIy with leveled rifles to shoot off the gunners at the first hostile move ment. The gun was not loaded. The men in charge had madeo their plans to uise iron fish bars from the railroad and steelyard peas5 for cannon shot, but the3 had( not yet gotten them. The crowd wai getting momentary more excIted. Juni at this moment Mayor lienneman mei the editor of the lI~IxAm.i andI said "Mvnat is to be (lone now?" "'Seize the gun and spike it," replie< M r. .Jones. Mayor IIenuemuan's resolution wa taken at once. Thlere was no time ta orgarize a force. What was to be dona must be dlone promp~tiy. lie had bu six p)olicemhen at his command, but h did net hesitate. '"Follow ins,"' he continued, and the moved down m Jail street, through th mnoh. Mr. JIones rain through Arc her' store and rushed upj (on the opplosit side of the cannos with the shoul '"Spike the gun and arrest the men wh t)rouight it here'' Mayor IIlennemaun p'laeo 1 his foot 01 the cannon and said: "I will arrem the first mana who touches the gun.'' It was a critical monient. Th'le man i charge of the gua, taken by surprisa stepped1 back in the crowd. Mr. E. I1 Carver, who was one of them, says thn lie saw half idrunken men on all sidei reachingfor their p)iStols,and( that he sa' one man draw a self-cocking revolve andl the haummer was half raised from the cartridge, when some one seized and stopped him. A single shot ire by a drunken coward would have bee the signal for a bloody fusilade. Befor they recovered from their surprise, Mi Jones seized a hatchet, and drove a na in the touch hole of the cannon, and I less thani two minmutes aix policeme and two civiliams had captumed t1h cannon in the face of two bundre angry mecn, and spiked it, and t danger was over, and a dozen negroa were trundling the useless ca.nnon inl the jail. Without artillery the jail limpregnable. IThe cndition in the jail wa harri less exciting, and the danger from that quarter was greater than from the mob. The officers did not understand the sud den commotion and thought that the at tack was commencing. Their guns were ready, their fingers on the triggers, and the Sheriff was on the point of giving the order to fire when Mayor Henneman held up hih handkerchief. The men in charge of that cannen never knew how near they were to death. Friends of Sheriff Nicholls telegraphed to the Governor for military aid. When the Sheriff heard of it ho at once tele. graphe the Governor that he could defend his prisoner without assistance and would do so at all hazards, acd the military was not cailed on. That night, it was reported, another attack would be made. Information was brought that the moth er and sister of the slain man would lead the lynchors, believing that the Shetiff would not tire on them. Con aervative citizens went to the Sheriff and urged him to carry the prisoner to Columbia and allay the excitement, and avoid the bloodshed which they knew would follow an attack on the jail. The Governor telegraphed the same advice. So after supper the Sheriff quieLly re moved the prisoner, drove down to Union and there boarded the train Tuesday morning, and on Tuesday night Turner slept in Richland jail. ---Spartanburg lIcruld. F'OR LOVE OF IJAWES. lenrc Enright. or HIrnlutham. Attemipt. to Fil hler Life. Later developments in the case of Bessie Inwright, the young woman who tried to end her life Wednesday night, in a house on Third Avenue and Twen tieth street, by taking a dose of mor. phine, develops the fact that a'.ie did so through love of )ick Mawes. Bessie, it appears, is the woman who became so completely infatuated with H[awes duirng his confinement In the county jail, and who was in the habit of visiting hia daily, mueh to the annoy ance of the jailer, who was often called upon to admit her to him two or thrre times a day. The woman's frequent visits to the ja.il attracted no little atten tio., but at the time very little was said about them. When the Supreme Court decided that Ilawes must hang and the death watch was placed over him, Besaie was told that her visits to the celebrated criminal must cease. This information appeared to overcomo her and she burst into tears, but finding her oeportunities of no avail, after repeated fruitless visits to the jail, she finally abandoned all hope of seeing Hawes and took to seading him affectionate notes and handsome bouquets. As the time for Ilawes' execution drew near she grow morose and low spirited, kept her room a good deal of of the time and was disinclined to talk to any one. After the execution her grief was un bounded, but no fears were entertained that she would attempt to take her life, until she was discovered in her room sutering from a dose of morphine, and by prompt medical aid was brought back from the verge of the grave.-Bir mingham Age-Herald. A Ikavo Girl's Act. There is one brave girl in Charlotte. She is Miss Lula Smith, the pretty little fourteen-year-old daughter of Sheriff Z. 8, Smith. At b o'clock Monday after noon Miss Lula was playing near the jail with some other children, when she happened to see a prisener slide out of the jail through a newly made hole in the wall. The little Miss know that would never do, so she ran quickly to the side of the jail and picked up a big stone. Bhe began to pound a second kInky head, poked nearly through the hole, and in the act of escaping. Only a few licks were necessary to drive the prisoner b)ack. Standing by the hole on the inside of the jail were a dozen prison ers readly to crawl through the hole and escape, but the little woman stood o'~rd at the outside, dared them to pa)kt, out their heads. She gave the alarm, and soon her father was on the 'scene and the p)risoners all locked up in their cells. By some means or other the prisoners had cut a hole through the thick brick wall, and had it not b)een for Miss Lula a wholesale delivery would have resulted. The prisoner that succeeded in getting away was a negro boy, in for a trifling oflenso. The Gr-ady Mo)nuent. It hr.s already been stated that the plan of Mr. Alexander D)oyle, a New York architect, has b)een adopted for the monument of Mr. Henry W. (Grady in Atlanta. The Constitution says Mr. D)oyle's conception of the monu ment Is a very beautiful one. It con I ists of a square of granite surroun ded by a low balustrade, from the centre of which rises an exquisitely propertion ed pedestal, and on this elevation stands 3 a bronze figure of Mr. Grady in one of his most natural attitudes. On one side T of the pedestal is a bronze figure of a History, inscribing on her tablets the deeds of the brilliant editor, on the op a posite side Is a figure of the South, e weeping bitterly because of the loss ,of a favorite son; the other two sides a of the pedestal hear only a palm leaf and a wreath of immnortelles, also I wrought in bronze, Mr. Doyle has had Smore experience as a monumental artist thani almost any man of his years in America. The Saratoga monument, ,which is considered one of the finest - works of art in the country, is the pro t duct of his gonius. The .Jaspei monut '4 meat in Savannah and the Ben Hill y monument in Atlanta were also designed , by him. Mr. Doyio was a strong ad " mirer and a warm personal friend of t Mr. Grady's, and his p)resent work will il receive his closest attentien. 5 RIot in the Atlanta Jail, 1A riot occurred in the Atlanta jail a Tuesday afternoon. Henry Falvey, a n white prisoner, and SoI Turner, a no egre, quarreled andl fought. Faivey ci drew a concealed knife and st.abbed' e Turner badly in the breast and head. a The iight~ then became general. Po o lice were called In and stod -it. ra Besides Turner,'a n.o ~~ Moses was badly hlju bfy biwa on the .. head from a pIece or boi.