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PICKENS, S. C., THUl)BSDAY. MARCI 20, 1890. t'iE SU xJECTr OF DR. rALMAGE'T . DISCOURSE. Thougite limpressed Upon the Dlviio by a Visit to the Spot Wiero Laizarus Clved nail Died. At the TaLbernacle Suiday morninX the ltev. T. De Witt Talsas%, D. D., said he thought the nte r Brooklys taber nacle woultil be dedicaed is September. Tie subject of his discourse was "Re vikion of Creeds," and he took for his text. Johk xi., 44: "Loose him, and let him go." Dr. Talmage said: My Bible is, at the place of this text, wIitten all over wish the lead pencil mark made lnst Decereber at Bethany on the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha ItUd LazArus. We dismounted flom our hnrses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead Sea. R.thasy was the summer evening reucat of J.?sus. After spend ing the dAy in the hot city of Jerusalem he wouli cne it, there almost every evenin to the house of his thrce friends I think the occuimnts of the house were orphans, for tihe father and mother were not Mentioned. But the son anil two daughlittems iimit have inbritedl property for it mu t lve been, julging from what I Saw( o the fountliatons and the size of the ro"Ims, an opulent home. Laz,% ru, the hr,,ther, was now the head of the house oi l, and his sisters depended otn him and were proud of him, for he was very !vpular and everybody liked him, ainWd Ilese girls were splendid girls. Martha, a first-rate housekeeper, and M:iry, A spir-tuelle, somewhat. dreamy hut alTrect ioiate, aMid as good a girl as Could be founti in all Palestine. Blit 0tne day Ltzirus got sicc. The siseri were in condernation. Father gone and mother g.ne, they feet very nervous leit they lose h.ir brother also. Disease did its quick wot k. Ili-v the girls hung over his pi:low ! N,it noich sleep about that hloti., no sleep at till. From the charactcierOcs otherwise daveloped, I jiulge th,t Mzrtha prepared the medi vines and made enpting dishes of food for the poor appetite of tile sufferer, but Mary prayvd and sobbed. Worse and w(irse go!s Lazarus, until the doctor annuu:,ce-ts that he can do no) more. The shriek that went up from that household whein the list, breath had becn drawn and tli t wo sisters were being led by sympathiz-r% into the adjoining room, al tho--e if li u cti imagine who have ha or owi hearts broken. But why days and di,-iolutiott hadt aken place. Ini that elimate the bieathless body dis integra0te more iapidly than in ours. If, ifmiediately after decease, that body had been aw-kened into life, unoeliev era inight have said that lie was only in a comatone at ate, or in a sort of trance, and by some vigorous manipulation or 0owerfill to.imulant vitality had been renewe-f. No! Four days dead. At the dor tof the sep:ulchrc is a crowd of people, but the three must memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sisters. We went into the traditional tonib in December, andt it is diep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it ill quiet. that afternoon of our visit, but the dia. talited of in the Bible thete was present atn excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do. iIe orderm 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 checks and 814ash upon the backs of his hands. Were ever so mian:y sorrows comphressed into so small a pla2Ce as in thatgroup pressing on down naft er Christ, all the timae be mosanini t hat he had not conae before? Now all I ne whispering and all the cry ing ains a:ll t he sounds of shuflling feet are stop)pei. It is the silence of ex pectancy. D)eath bad conquered, but ntow thle vatiutisher of death confronted tescene. Amid the awful hush of the tomb the familitar name which Christ lhad often h.d uploti his lips in the hos pitalities of the village home came back to his totngue and with a pathos and an almightine-ss of which the resurrection of thle itast day shall lie only an echo, he cries: " L:-zrust Ie"me forth I" The ey es oft lie ciu'mberer open and with griat,d-lhiiulty he begins to ascend for the ceremien's of the tomb) are yet on him tad his feet are fast andi his hands are fast atnd the impediments to aill his move ments n: e sot gretat that .Jesuis commands: "'Take off these cerements; renmove th.se httndrances; un fasten these grave clothes: loose himit and let him go I" Oh, I am so glaid that after the Lordl raised Laza rusa he went on and commanttded thle loosening of the cordis that bound his feet(so, that lie could walk, and the bireatkin~ off the cerement that bound hii- lands so that lie could stretch out hi - o .. in sal utatiron, and the tearing ob a ,tandaige from areund his jaws so lth it lhe cotuld speak. What would re surced life have hcen to Lazarus if he hdnot beeni freed from till those crip p'leents of his b)ody? I am glad that CThrist comanded htis compilete emanci 11 ition, satyinig: "Lo0s0 him, and let htim go.' Thei un fort unate thing now is that so many Chiristian:s are only hal f liberated. Thtey haye beeni raisedl from the death andl buril (if sin into spiritual life, but they yet have the grave clothes on them. They are like Lazarus, hobbling up the sotifsr of the tomb,, bound hand and foot, and the object of this sermon is to belgp free their bodly and free their souil, andl I shall t ry to obey the Master's command that conien to .anetand comes to every minister of religion. "Loose im, and let him go " First, many are bound hand a'i I foot by religious creeds. Let at) m-in in:sititerphret mue as antagonizing creeds. I hive tight or teti of them; a cieedi abot,U religion, a creed about art, ta creed alouit social life, a creedi abott g- v rnment, and so otn. A creed is some thing that a man bielieves, whether it b)e w'ii ten or unwrItten. The Presbyterian c'.urch ie now agitated about its creed. N >te grord men in it are for keeping if becautwe it was framed from *he belief ot J>.hn Ca!,in. Od.ber good meni Iu it want revision. I am with neither party. Tostead of revision I want substitution. I was eo-ry to have the qutestion disturb ed at all. The creed dlid not hinder us from offering the piardon and the com fort of the (Jonnol to all men, and the Westminster Confession has not inter fered i with me one minute. But nov that the electric lights have been turne< on the imperfections of that creed- an( 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 livec hundreds of years ago should fashion at appropriate creed for our times. Johr Calvin was a great and good man, but he died three hundred and twenty-six yeare ago. The best.centuries of Bible stud3 have come since then, and explorers havc 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 new4paper 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 philolo gists 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 naies of twenty living Presbyterian ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nieteenth century ought not to be called to sit at thu feet of the sixteenth "But," you say, "it is the same old Bible, and John Calvin had that as well as the preient 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 samic old water, hut in our cen tury it has gone to running %team en gimes. It is the same old electricity, but in our time it has become a lightning footed errand boy. So it is the old Bi ble, but new applications, new uses, new interpretations. You must remem ber that during the last th ee hundred years words have changed their mean ing and some of them now mean more nad 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 would 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 neaven. I do not think any good man could admit much a possibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I conclude from what he did with the babies in Palea'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 ofliciating at your obsequies, who will have to be cautious so 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 goed John Calvin was a logician and a met aphysician and by the proclivities of his naturc 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 coaies to you with a rose and says: "I will show you the structure of thiii rose. And he proceeds to take it apart and pulls oil 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 pillarm." and then he ents the stem to show you the juices of the plant. So logic or metaphysics takes the aromatic rose of the Christian religion and eays: "I will just show you how this rose of religion was fashioned;" and it pulls off of it a piece and says: "That is the hu man will," and another piece and says: "This is God's will," and another piece and says: "Tals ii 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 p)resents 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 confess that I prefer the rose in full bloom to the rose pulled apart. What a time we have had with the dogmatics, the apologetics and the hermeneutics. The defect in some of the creeds is that they try to tell us all about the decrees of God. Now, the only human being that was ever com petent to handle that subject.was Paul, and lie would not have been competent had hi not been inspired. I believe In the sovereignty of Giod and I believe in man's free agency, but no one can har mnonize the two. It is not necessary that he harmonize them. Every ser mon that I have ever heard that attem pt. ed such harmonization was to me as clear as a London fog, as clear as mud. My brother of the nineteenth century, my brother of the sixteenth centuiry, give us Paul's statement and leave out yot'r own. Better one chapter of Paul on that sub jact than all of Calvin's instittutes, able and honest and mighty as they are. D)o 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's government now, much less the mysteries of his government five hundred qtuintilli on of years ago. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scrip ture quotations pure and simple. That would take the earth for God. That would be impregnable against infidelity andl Apollyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. The demomi nation, whatever its name be, that can rise up to that will, be the church of the millennium, will swallow up all other denominations and be the one that will be the bride when the Bridegroom cometh. Let tis miake it simpler and plainer for people to get into the king dom of God. D)o not hinder people by the idea that they may not have been elected. lb not tag on to the essential of faith in Christ any of the innumerable nonessentials. A man heartily who aCcept s Chriet is a Christian and the man who does not accept Ilim is not a Christian, and that is all there is of it. Hie need nojbclieve in election or reprobation. He need not believe in the eternal gen eratir n of the Son. IIe need not believe In everlasting puinishment. lie need not believe in plenary inspiration. F"aith in Christ is the eriterinn' in the test, is the pivot, is the indispensable. But thei are those who would add unto the ten rather than subtract from theni. Thei are thousands who would not accel persons into church tiembership if the drink wine, or if they snoke cigars, or they attend the theatre, or if they pIla cards, or if they drive a fast hprse. Nov I do not drink wine or smoke or atten the theatre, never played a game of card and do not drive a fast horse, although would if I owned one. But do not sul stilute tests which the Bible does nc establish. There lione passage of scrir ture wide enough to let all in who ougli !o enter and to keqp out all who ougli to be kept out: "elieve in the Lor< Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Get a man's heart right and his life wil be right. But now that the old creed have been put under public scrutin something radical must be done. Son would split them, some would car-re them some would elongata them, some waul abbreviate them. At the present inomen and in the present shape they are a hin dranee. Lazarus is alive, but hampere( with the old grave clothes. If you wan one glorious church free and unencum bered take of! the erements of old cc clesiastical vocabulary. LoQse her, adu und let her go! Again there are Christians who art under sepulchral shadows and bindered and hobble(d 6Y doubts anl fears and sins long ag > repented of. What they need is to un-Jerstand the liherty of the sons of Gid. They spend mrore time under the shadow of Sinai than at the base of Calvary. They have been sing ing thev only poor hymn thaL Newton ever wiote: 'Tim at poiut I long to know, Oft it cliuisem mile anxions thought -- Do I love the ,orl or 1o, Ani I his or ain I not? Long to kniew, do youl? Why do yon not find out? Go to work for God and you will very soon find out. The man who,all the time feeling of his pulse and looking at his tongue to see whether it is coated, is moibid, and cannot be physically well. The doctors will say: "Go out into fresh air and into active life, and stop thinking of your-elf, and you vlil gvt well and strong." So there are people watching their spiritual symptoms, and they call it self-examina tiou, and they get weaker and sieklier in their fnith all the time. Go out and do something noby Christian. Take holy exereise and then examine yourself, and inbtead of Newton's saturnine and hil lious hymn that I first quoted, you will sing Newton's other hymn: Anaizing graew,.how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! Once I was lost. ht now i mound; Wis blind- Lut now I uee. What mnFLy of you Christians need is to got y-:,r grave clothes off. I rejoice that yoi have been brought from the death of si- to the life of the gospel, but you need to get your hands loose and your feet loose and your tongue loose and your soul loose. There is no sin that the Bible so arraigns and punctures and flagellates as the sin of unbelief, and that is what is th matter with you. "Oh," you say, "if you knew what I once was and how inany times I have grievously strayed, you would under stand why I do not come out brighter." Then I think you will call yourself the chief of sinners. I am glad you hit upon that term, for I have a promiso that fits into your case as the cogs in one wheel between the cogs of another wheel or as the key fits nto the latyrinth of a lock, A man who was once called Saul but af terwards Paul declared: "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all accep tation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save ainners, of whom I am chief." Mark that-"'of. whom I am chief." "PIut down your overcoats and hats and( I will take care of them while you kill Stephcn"--so Saul said to the atoners of tihe first martyr-"I do not care to exert myself much, but I will guard yotir suirlus ap)parel while you do the murder." The New Testament ac count says: "The witnessee laid down their c.lothes at a young man's feet whose name was Saul." No wonder he said: "'Sinners, o)f whom I am chief." Christ is used to climbing, iIe climbed to the top of the temtple. IIe climbed to the top of Mount Olivet. IIe climbed to the top cf the cliffs about Nazareth. iIe climbed to the top of Golgotha. And to the top) et thc hills and the mountains of your transgressions and lie is ready to elimb with pardon for every one of you. The groan of Calvary is mightier than the thunder of Sinai. Full receipt is offered for all *your in debtedness. If one throws a astone at nmidnight, into a bush where the hedge bird roosts, it immediately begins to sing; and into the mnidnight hedges of your despondency these words I burl, hoping to awaken you to anthem. D)rop the tunes in the minor key and take the major. Do0 you think it p)leases the LC,rd for you to bje carrying around with you the debris an I carcasres of old transgressuins? You make me thinik of some ship that has had a tempettiotus time at sea, and1( now that it proposes another voyage, keeps on its davits the damaged lifeboats, andl the spllint.ers of a shivered mast, and the broken glass of a smashed skylight. My advice is: Clear the decks, overboard with all the dam aged rigging, brighten tip the salted smokestacks, 01pen a new leg book, haul in the planks, lay out a new course, and set sail for heaven. You have had the sp)iritual dunmps long enough. You will please the Lord more b)y being happy than by being miserabile. T:,te you not sometimes startedl out in the salin with your umbrella and were busy thinking and you did not notice that the rain had stopped,(I and though it had cleared of! you still had your umnbrellIa mup, aind when you d iscovt red whalut y':u were do ing you felt silly enough? That is what, some of you aire doing In religious things. You have got so used to sadness that though the rain has stoppe)d you still have your umbrella upl. Conme out of the shadow. Ascend the stairs of your sepulchre. Step) out irito) the broad light of noonday. We come around you to help you remove your grave clothes, and a voice from the heavens, tremulous but omnipotent, commands "Loose him, and let him go." IIeaven is ninety-five per cent, better than this world, a thouisand per cent. better, a million per cent. hetter. Take the gladdest, brightest, most jubilant days you ever had on ,a .a co.. -e press them into one hour, and that hour t would be a requiem, a fast day, a gloom, . a horror, as compared with the po:resl t hour they have had in heaven since ite y first*tower was built, or its first gateF if swung or its first song caroled. "b,' y you say, "that may be true, lut I am so afraid of crossing over from this world d to the next, and I fear the snapping of a the cord between soul and body." Well, I all the surgeons and physicians and scientists declare that there is no pang t at the parting of the body and soul, and all the seeming restlessness at the clos : hour of life is involuntary and t '.no !i- frs at all. And I agree with the I doctors, i- what they say is confirmed , by the fact thi t persons who were drowned or were submerged until all B consciousnese departed and were after wards resuscitated,declare that the sensa. tion of passing into unconsciousness was pleasurable rather than distressful. The cage of the body has a door on easy bin ges, and when that door of the physical cage openi the soul simply puts out its wings and soars. "But," you say, "I fear to go because the future is so full of mystery." Well, I will tell you how to treat the mysteries. The mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I do as the judges of your courts often do. They hear all the argument in the case and then say: "I will take these papers and give you my decisiou next week." Wo I have heard all the argument in regard to the next world, and some things are un certain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve until the next world my decision about them. I can there study all the mysteries to lbet ter advantage, for the light will be bet ter and my faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christian philosophers, who have had all the advantages of heaven for centuries, to help me, and I may be per ritted myself to humbly ask the Loid, and I think there will be only one mys tery left, and that will be how one so un worthy as myself got into uch an en ralptured place. Come up out of the sepul chral shadows. If you are not Chris tians by faith in Christ como up into the light; and if you are already like Luza rus, reanimated, but still have your grave clothes en, get rid of them. The command is "Loose him, and let him go." The only part of my recent jour ney that I really dreaded, although I did not say much about it beforehand, was the landing at Joppa. That is the port of entrance to the Holy Land, and there are many rocks, and in roTgh weather people cannot land at all. The boats taking the people from the steamer to the docks must run between reefs that looked to me to be about fifty feet apart, and one misstroke of an oarsman or un expected wave has sometimes been fa tal, and hundreds have perished along those reefs. Besides that, as we left Port Said the evening before an old traveler said: "The wind is just right to give you a rough landing at Joppa; indeed I think you will not be able to land at all." The fact was that when our Mediterranean steamer dropped an chor near Joppa and we pat out for shore in the small boat,the water was as still as though it had been sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed as easily as Icame on this platform. Well, your fears have pictured for you an appalling arrival at the end of your voyage of life, and they say that the seas will run high and that the breaiers will swallow you up, or that if you reach Canaan at all it wili be a very rough landing. The very opposite will be true if you have the eternal God for your portion. Your disembarkation for the promised land will be as smooth as was ours at Pales tine last December. Christ will meet you far out at sea and pilot you into comp)leto safety, and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and a hal lelujah on the other. "Land.Zahead!" it fruits are waying O'er the hUlls of fadeless green, And the living waters iayin~g Shores~ where heavenly foriue are sooni. itocks andi storms I'll fear no mnoro, WVhen on that eternal shore; IDrop the anchor! furl the sall! I ami Mafe withiiu the yell!t All's 'Well That Enida Well. rGAURfEN8, March 13.-Three months ago Miss Cornelia Virginia Chapman, a fair young lady from the banks of the foaming Saluda, caime to the city in search for lawyers. She fonund a couple and told them a tale of woe, the purport ef whichl was that Jno. R. Wells, a neighboring and gallant y oung farmer, had sough t and obtained her1 afl'ections, but that on the arrival of the time sot for the marriage Wells had been seized with a fit of p)rocrast ination which hand since become chron ic. Trho lawyors estimated the breaks in the lady's hiearit and sued WVells for $6,000 danmages, which just iomnforta bly sized his pile. When the Court of Common Please opened1 in February Miss Chapman was on hand with a cloud of witnesses, but before thoecase was called, sudd(en ly disappeared. The case was continued. Yesterday the news came here that Miss Chapman had dropped her suit, that Wells had renewedI his and pushed it to asuccess fill isstueandl that the parties are ex perimenting as to whether or not mar riage is a failure. The learned counsel refuse to be comforted. -Hen ry Kopp, of St. Louis, won a wager of fifty cents the other day by drinkinig a beer glass full of gin and seven ordinary glasses of whiskey. He gulped thorn down inside of ten minutes and next day it cost a couple of dollars for a coffin and several (101 lars more to bury him. -A daughter of ex-Reopresentativo Conklin, of Circleville, Ohio, went into her father's orchard on Friday and do. liberately blew off her bead with a shot gun. She was a pretty girl of twenty-two and( was to have boon mar ried this week, but she was in bad health andl the excitement probably oaused insanity. -T'he house of Charles Gibson, colored, niear Coosaw, Beauifert Couin ty, S. C., was burned Saturday night and Gibson and his wife and chIld perished in the lames. Foul play is suspectedl. --A conscieceC contrib,ution from "J. M. It ," Charleston, 8. C., of $20.25, has been received at the Treasury Depart ment SLAIN IN SPARTANBURG GEO. S. TURNER SHOOTS TO DEAT1 E. H1. FINGER THE BROTHE OF HIS WIFE. The Caunew. int Ledi to the Terrible Deed E--K8'r1 as Lynch the M4Ter---Triumph of the LnwY over the lib. Another bloody tragedy stains the record of our county, On Friday af ternoon Geo. S. Turner slow his broth In law, E. 11. Finger, in tae public read at Valley Falls. The deed was done with a pistol, and Finger died in a few minutea after receiving his death wound. He never spoke after ward. TUnN'ICs ACCoCTr 4)F THE TRAEDY. Goo. 8 Turoer has furnished the fol lowing atatement to the reporter of the Columbia ltegiiter: "Finger wab walking and a negro was <lTiving the wag.n I did not meet Finger on tihe riad. but walked out of i ie house and wa- g"in11g to my gin house. The wonman (Spaik) came to get pay for ioine washing, and did not sy any thing ahhn u'e mI iatter between her anIt Finir. W. J. Fi - ger, a brother of E. H Finger, ihe, slaiiina, and the latter were cunig the woman as she caie up to the d-or whero I was standing, as given in his own words bolow. l"FMuger became abusivc, but was car ried off by Dan Williams, a negro man, towards home. Ile caie back, how ever. "Finget tolo the negro to turn hi i lI-s9e, au I had daied him to holler t:rle in the road, which I denied to Fiuer and told him to go off and leave Ile 4a-Me Then he tore loose from the negr-, and after he tore loose he bad his pistiul out and shot. "Iw 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 it he didn't turn him loose. That is all wrong. "After he drew his pistol. VINoERH SHOT TWICK. "().e ball struck pretty near me in the ground, and the other struck my store house. I think the first ball struci the ground near me, as the smoke rose all around tne. I ONL-Y FiLED ONE F1oT, and after he quit shooting I quit also. "I pulled lily pistol when Finger start ed to pull his-when the uegro caught hiu and he then couldn't get hie pistol out. I held my pistol in my hand then, and when he came back he had his pistol pointed at me. Ife fired twice and I fired once after he had fired his two shots, immediately after his seco,d shot." ACTINO TUN TRAGEDY. That the reporter might make no imis take and should understand exactly lis account of the matter, Turner in the jail corridor gave a sort of pantomimic representation of the affray. Stepping off six paces from the report er, and coolly counting as lie stepped, he said that was about the distnce be tween him and Finger. Raising kis hand as though levelling a pistol, be said that was the way Finger fronted him while he (Turner) held his pistol in his hands. le thought Finger was watching the smoke rising tip from around the discharge of his pistol, but that lie (Turner) had his eye -n the barrel of his own pistol. He said that after Finger was shot lhe walked to the bridge ovei the creek near by, and half across it, before lie fell. It was a mistake that be, was killed instantly. w HAT niRot'oT ON TH E TIFtACRDY. In relation to thme causes which were alleged to have brought about the trag ody, and as to the published accounts in reference to the same, Mr. Turner made the following stateiment: "I was not p)artienilarly mad with E. HI. Finger, the man now dead, but I lied heard of his having threatened my life on two or amore occasions. "It was a suit for $25,000 damages andl not $10,000 as stated In the news pa'ers, brought in thle case for the ee duction of Clara Fingcr. the chain ivan 'a sister and( my sister-in- law. '"The dlay I received the summons I went to Mrs. Finger's house, where E. HI. Finger lived, for the puirpose of stop ping' this suit. I gave notice to Clara of my coiming to the gate. Finger came out os the piazza wITh if1 D)oU:li,E- hA itiiELL.Ei (dN, cocked it, and took deliberate aim at me. I jumped behind a tree andI tried to draw my pistol. Finger then took the gun down from his face, an.d the matter eased. AN UNAccEPTED (HALLiENnE. "Once after that, across the creek from my store, he cursed mie very loudly and dared mc across the creek. I didi 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 account of the seduction of his sister, but that lie was piersuaded or actuated by any enemies." RE SPEAKS OF MIS aSITER-iN-I.Aw. After a few moments' reflection, on being asked if he had anything more that he wished to say, Mr. Turner maid: "'I have not spoken of thIs seduction matter before to any one bt Sheriff Nicholls, but without saving that I di-] it. I will say this: "I have one groat reason whly I should always like my sister, Clara Finger, and that is she made a pleading reqluest of me to qluit strong drTink, which I have qunit for nearly twelve months. "I will also say that I believe that if Clara will lay aside all the lies, persua sions and inducements that have been offered and told to her since that seduc tion suit was commenced, and1 will put herself back as she was the night that, her taother left home AT TEE D)EAD MOUlt 01F MIDNWU'T, to bring this suit against me, and abe will make a full statement of the mat ter, I believe, I say, that there will be n cause of blame upon me about the so duction case, and I think that she '.ill say that I have never treated her wrong fully. CL.A IMS TIN KII.i.INO WAS JUSTIFIAnI.h. In relation to the alleged condition o public sentiment against him, Turne said: "I don't think that there were an, well thinking incu in the mob wh sought to lynch mae, or if there were, i was by a misunderstandiog of the tru facts in the case. "If V. J. Finger, my wife's brothe and the brother of the slain man, wil testify to the full truth and the whob truth in the killing watter, I believi that it will satisfy all reasonable peoplo that. the homicide was justifiable." NOT AFRAID TO ATAY IN SPARTANI1U RO. "Did the Sheriff tell you that I wai not afraid to be kept in Spartanburg V this man necused of two crimes asked the reporte,. On being told tha', Sher ill Nicholls had spi)ken highly of the nerve he had displayed, and had said he was not unwilling to remain in the Spar tanburg jail, Turner said. "Let me make a statement about that," and con. tined a follows; 'rill. M:%lon's -r.:n m t. -Hur:A-r. "I was not willing to leave Spartan burg until the Sheriff informed me that the mob was going up to Valley Falls and get Clara Pinger and push her along in front. until they could get to my cell and kill me. "Then I consented, because I was fear ful if they brought her there in the night she would accidentally get killed, and I did not waut her to be made breast works for a cowardly 8et of men. They knew, and everybody else that was sc quainted with me, that I 1 AR (l.utA VINAot AS A AsrICn-iX LAW and always had loved her fromn a child, and they were fully aware that I would give up my own life rather than that she should be killed In guch a co wardly way." Sprtanburg Herald. AFTElt TURNEI'S BLOOD. Ant Auser Mob Come to 1ave tIhe ria eutr. The feelings against Turner around Valley Falls was intense. On Saturday night rumors of a de termination to lynch him reached the city; on Sunday uneasiness prevailed here, but no masifestasion was made until Monday morning. 'The people of Valley Falls had re ceived notice that a party of 200 lynch ers, thoroughly organized, would reach towr on Monduy at noon, and were instructed to be prepared there to assist in the lynching. About two hundred of th3m assembled near the Morgan Monument. When twelve s'clock arrived, and the North Carolina lynchers did not come, the crowd grew restless and ugly. They wanted to lynch the prisoner without further delay; but, relying on the organized mob which they expected, they were without concert or leadership. Sheriff Nicholls and his deputies, Brewton and Vernon with Mr. Andiew Moore and Ed: Gentry were in the jail arm ed with, Winchester rifles, shot guns and rev3lvers. Mr. Nicholls was a brave Confederat e soldier, with a reputation for courage and devotion to duty which is known all over the country alid byeond it. IIe was standing behind the bars declaring that no man should reach Turner but over his dead body. They knew the inan anl no one was willing to charge him. Finally four men went to the encamp meint for the cannon belonging to the Spartan Artillery. They raised it up with a shout and hurrah, and unlimber ed it in front of the jail. The men wvho b)rough)t the gun were members of the artillery company and knew how to use it. The men in the jail w~ere armed with Winchester riUes. The distance was seventy-five yards. A bloody dutel at short range with artillery nad rifles seemed immiinent. Men who had remembered the seene of blood at Birminghami, begas to scatter from the streets, but still the narrow jail alley was packed with excited men. No ona knew whether the cannon was loaded. Tlhe muen in thle jail thought so and werein determined that it shotuld niever he Ii red in to the btuild i ng. They were readly with leveled rifles to shoot, oil the gunners at the first hostile move ment. The gun w-rs not loaded. The mien mn charge had made their plians to use iron fish b>ars from the railroad and steelyard peasS for cannon shot, but they had iiot yet gotten them. The crowd wan getting momuentary more excited. Just at this moment. Mayor I lenneman met the editor of the I lEnA 11 an I said: "\'Vhiat is to he d one now ?" '"Seize the gun and( spike it," replhiedl M r. JTones. Mayor Ilesnemian's resolution wan taken at once. Thlere was no time to orgarize a force. What was tu be done inmut be dlone prmpjtiy. lie had but six po1.1icemien at his command, but he did not hesitate. "'Follow me,"' lie continued, and they moved down .JailI street, through the Mr. .Jones ran through Archer's store and( rushed up oat the opposite side of the cauinon with the shout, "'8pike theo gun and arrest the men who b)roiight it here"' Mayor hlenneman lalce I bia foot on the cannon andl said : "1 will arrest the first man who touches tho gun.'' It. was a eritical muomient. Tlhie man in charge of the gua, take. by surprise, step)ped back in the crowdl. Mr. 1E. If. Carver, who was one of them, says that lie saw half idrunken men on all sides, reachingfomr their pistols,and that he saw one man draw a self-eockirng revolver, andl the hammer wan half raised from the cartridge, when some one seized it and stopped him. A single shot ired by a drunken coward would have been the signal for a bloody fusilade. Before t.hey recoveredl from their surprise, Mr. Jones seized a hatchet, and drove a naIl in the touch hole of the cannon, and in less than two raisatee six po(licernen and two civilians had captured the cannon in the face of two hundred angry meni, andl spiked it, and the dlanger was over, and a dozen negroes were trundling the useless cannon into the jail. Without artillery the jail is impregnable. The condition in the jili was h...,dl. - less exeiting, 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 r 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 Ilenneman held up his handkerchief. The men in charge of that cannon never knew how near they were to death. r Friends of Sheriff Nicholls telegraphed to the Governor for military aid. Whom the Sheriff heard of it he at once tele. graphe the Governor that he could defend his prisoner without assistance and would do so at All hazards, and the military was not called 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 lesd the lynchers, believing that the Sheiiff would not fire on them. Con servative citizens went to the Sheriff and urged hin to earry the prisoner to Columbia and allay the excitement, and avoid the bloodshed which they knew would follow an attack on the jail. The GoverEor telegraphed the same advice. So after supper the Sheriff quietly re mo ved the prisoner, drove down to Union and there boarded the train Tuesday morning, and on Tuesday night Turner slept iIt Richland jail. - -Spartanburg lierald. FOR LOVE OF HAWES. nemit! m-:riai. or n11i minshaou, A lleot. to n 111 lto' Lifc. 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 (lose of mor. phine, develops the fact that sie did so through love of Dick Hawes. Beisie, it appears, is the woman who became so completely infatuated with Hawes duirng his confinement in tho county jail, and who was in the habit of visiting him daily, muh to the annoy ance of the jailer, who was often called upou to admit her to him two or three times a day. The woman's frequent visits to the jail attracted no little atten tion, but at the time very little was said about them. When the Supreme Court decided that lawes must hang and the death watch was placed over him, Bessie was told that her visits to the celebrated criminal must cease. This information appeared to oveicomo lir and she burst into tears, but finding her oeportunities of no avaIl, after arepeated fruitless visits to the jail, she finally abandoned all hope of seeing lawes and took to sending him affectionate notes and handsomt bouquets. As the time for Hiawes' execution drew near she grow morose and low spirited, kept her room a good deal of of the time .nd as disinclined to talk to any one. After the execution her grief was un bound:d, but no fears were entertained that she would atterapt to tak her life, until she was discovered in her room sufering from a dose of morphine, and by prompt medical aid was brought back from the verge of the grave.--Bir mingham Age-Herald. A 11a.1 e G irl's A ct. There is one brave girl in Charlotte. She is Miss Lula Smith, the pretty little fourteen-year-old daughter of Sheriff Z. H, Smith. At 5 o'clock Monday after noon Miss Lula was playing near the jail with some other children, when she happened to see a prisoner slide out of the jail through a newly made hole in the wall. The little Miss knew that would never do. so she ritn quickly to the side of the jail and picked up a big stone. She began to pound a second kinky head, p)oked nearly through the hole, and in the act of escaping. Only a few licka were necessary to drive the p)risonier back. Standing by the hole on the inside of the jail were a dozen p)rison era ready to crawl through the hole and escape, but the little woman stood guard at thie outside, (dared them to p)oke out their heads. She gave the alarm, and soon her father was on the scene and the prisoners all locked up in their cells. Ily some ameans or other the prisoners had cut a hole throughm the thick brick wall, and had it not been for Miss Lula a wholesale delivery would have resulted. Th'le prisoner that succeeded in getting away wa.s a negro boy, in for a trifling oflzenso. T'Im (Grady MonlumenCt. It has already been stated that the plan of Mr. Alexandler D)oyle, a New York architect, has been adopted for the monument of Mr. Henry W. Grady in Atlanta. The Constitution says Mr. D)oyle's conception of the monum ment is a very beautiful one. It con sists of a square of' granite surrounded by a low balustrade, from the centre of which rises an exquisitely proportion ed pede.stal, and on this elevation stands a bronze figure of Mr. Grady in one of his most natural attitudes. On one side of the pestal is a bronze figure of History, inscribing on her tablets the deeds of the brilliant editor, on the op. posite side is a figure of the South, weep)ing b)itterly b)ecause of the loss of a favorite son; the other two sides of the pedestal bear only a p)alm leafI and a wreath of immortelles, also wrought in bronzes, Mr. D)oyle has had more 'experience as a monumental artist than almost any man of his years in America. T1he Saratoga monument, which is considered one of thme finest works of art in the country, is the pro. dluct of his genius. The .Jaspei menu mnent in Savannah and the Ben Hill mzonument in Atlanta were also designed by him. Mr. D)oyie was a strong ad mirer and a warm personal friend of Mr. Grady's, and his present work will receive his closest attention. Riot In time Atlanta Jal. A rIo6 occurred in the Atlanta Jail Tuesday afternoon. Henry Falvey, a white prisoner and Sol Turner a no gre, qluarreleci andI fought. Paivey direw a concealed knife and stabbed Turner badly in the breast and head. The fight then beeame general. Po lice were called in and stoppedI it. Besides Turner, a negro named Moses was badly injuirid by blows on the head from a niece of box.