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~X. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1890. NO. 26. Of OEEDS." OF DI. TALMAGE'S S ~COUltBE., ed Upom &he 1I-vine br a Where Lazarus Lived n 11cle Sunday morning itt Taluage. D. D., tlie ne,v Brooklyn taber edicated is September. 6 discourse was "Re "and be took for his "Loose him, and let almage said: the place of this text, tih the lead pencil mark er at Bethany on the so of Mary and Martha re dismounted from our ,y up from Jordan to the i1y was the summer Jesus. After spend e hot city of Jerusalem \it theri almost every h)u3o of his three friends t ,ants of the house were father and mother were But the son and two have inherited property 'e been, jol-iging from 1 he foundations and the s, an opulent hom4. Laza . was now the head 'of his sisters depended roudeof him, for he I and everybody liked I were splendid girls. 4ehousekeepid, and I somewhat. dreassy 9 as good a girt, as i all Palestine." -Lit I siCk. The sisters I .Rather gone and I Icl very 'nervous lest I ther also. )iscase did 3 How the girls hung I Not much sleep about I eep) at all. From the )thermise developed, I t ha prepared the medi. < tempting dishes of food etite of the sufferer, but sobbed. Worse and arus, until the doctor < mw can do no more. The ' up from that household < cath had been drawn ( ers were being led by I o the adjoining room, nu imagine who have its broken. But why ition hadt aken place. the breathless body dis iapidly than in ours. If, 6 er decease, that body ed into life, unbeliev Paid that he was only in ., or in a sort of trance, rorous manipulation or ulant vitality had been -Four days dead. At sepulchre is a crowd of three must memorable was the family friend, I reft sisters. We went mal tomb in December, I own and dark, and with Isred it. We found it t fternoon of our visit, but of in the Bible thete was ted multitude. I wonder t I do. ie orders the door t moved, and then ho be- I the steps, Mary and 9 ter them. Deeper down I s and deeper I The hot 1 oIl over his checks and e backs of his hands. Were orrows compressed into 'eas in that group pressing Christ, all the time be e had not comse before? uispering and all the cry sounds of shuilling feet It is the silence of ex ath ha~d conquered, but ishuer of death confronted tid the awful hush of the iliar name which Christ pirn his lips in the hos village home came back and wit ha pathos and' an af which the resurrection dhall be only an eche, he .iruel c*'me forth I" The umimerer open and with he begins to ascend for the the tomb are yet on him e fast and his hands are m ped imenmts to allI his move reat that Jesus commands: se cerements; remnove these ~fasten these grave clothes: let him got" Oh, I am ter thc Lord raIsed Laza on and commanded the hoe corda that bound his le coul walk, and the the cerement that bound hat he could stretch out lutation, and the tearing o from around his jaws so speak. What would re have beenD to Lazurus if lie freed from all those crip ib body? I am glad that oded his complete emanci i: "Looso him, and let umnate thing now is that so nesi'r only half liberated. en raised from the death sin into spiritual life, but the grave clothes on them. Lanzarus, hobbling up the tomb, bound hand and foot, et of this sermon Is to hellp ry and fren their soul, and obey the Master's command mefl and comes to every eligion. "Loose him, and let gjrst, masy are b)ound hand Jy religloqa creeds. Let no erpret nte as antagonlaing 1tve eight or ton of them; a ~relig ion, a creed about art, it social life, a creed about nd so on. A creed is some ian believes, whether It be ritten. The Presbyterian agitated about its creed. ~n in it are for keeping If framed from the belief ot *In. O&her good men In It on. I am with neither party. evision I want substitution. have the question disturb e creed did not hinder us the pardon and the comn Westminster 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 trt of printing, and reject all modern iew9paper presses, and go back to the ime when telegraph was the elevating >f signals or the burning of bonfires on he hilltops and reject the magnetic ire which is the tongue of nations, as gnore all the exegetists and the philolo lists and the theologians of the last 820 ,cars and put your head under the sleeve >f the gown of a sixteenth' century dac or. I could call the names of twenty iving Presbyterian ministers of religion 'ho could make a better creed than rohn Calvin. The nineteenth century ught not to be called to sit at the feet of he sixteenth. "But," you say, "it is the same old lible, and John Calvin had that as well ,s the pre;sent student of the scriptures." es, so it is the same old sun in the ieavens, but in our times it has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. t is the same old water, but in our cen ury it has gone to running bteara en ,ines. It is the same old electricity, but a our time it has become a lightning ooted errand bov. So it is the old Bi ole, but new applications, new uses, ew interpretations. You must remem Oer that during the last th,ee hundred ears words have changed their mean ag and some of them now mean more led some less. I do net think that John 'alvin believed, as some say he did, in he damnation of infants, although some f the recent hot disputes would seem to mply that there is such a thing as the lamlation of infants. A. man who believes in the damnation f infants himself deserves to lose eaven. I do not think any good man ould admit such a possibility. What "brist will do with all the babies in the ext world I conclude from what he did Vith the babies in Pales'ine when he hugged them and kissed them. When ome of you grown pe.ple go out of this vorld your doubtful destiny will be an mbarrassment to ministers officiating it your obsequies, who will have to be autious so as not to hurt surviving riendn. But when the darling children .o there are no "ifs" or "buts" or gues ies. We must remember that g>ed lohn Calvin was a logician and a met iphysician and by the proclivities of his ,ature put some things in an unfortunate vay. Logic has its use and metaphycics InS its use, but they are not good at. naking creeds. A gardener haids you bloomi n.y rose, dewy fresh, but a severe )otanimt comes to you with a rose and ays: "I will show you the structure of his rose. And he proceeds to take it apart ud pulls oil the leaves and he says: 'There are the petals," 4nd he takes out be anthers, ad he says: "Just look at he wonderful structure of these floral >illars," and then Le ents the stem to how you the juices of the plant. So ogic or metaphysics takes the aromatic ose of the Christian religion and says: 11 will just show you how this rose of eligion was fahioned ;" and it pulls ofY >f it a piece and says: "That is the hu. nan will," and another piece and says: 'This is God's will," and another piece and says: "Tuai is severeignty," and mtoother piece and says: "This is free gency," this is this and that is that and while I stand looking at the frag nents of the rose p)ulled apart, one whom he Marys took for a gardener comes in and presents me with a crimsoa rose, ed as blood, and says: "Inhale the weetness of this, wear it on your heart and wear it forever." I must confess hat I prefer the rose in full bloom to the ros pulled apart. What a time we have bad with the dogmatics, the apologetics mrd the hermieneutics. Tphe defect in moms 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 subjet.was Paul, and he would not have beeni competent had ho not been Inspired. I believe ini the sovereignty of God and I believe in man's free agency, but no one can har monize the two. It is not necessary that he harmonize them. Ei very ser mon that I have ever heard that attempt 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 century, give us Paul's statement and leave out you'r own. Better one chapter of Paul on that sub ject than all of Calvin's institutes, able and honest and mi6hty as they are. Do 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 quintilli on of years ago. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scrip ture quotations pure and aimple. That woulld take the earth for God. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Apollyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. The deuomi nation, whatever its namie be, that can rise up to that will he the ohuaroh of the nmillennluto, will swallow up all other denominations and be the one that will be the hride when the Bridegroom cometh. Let us make It simpler arid plainer for people to get into. the hing dom of God. Do not hinder people by the Idea that they may not have been elected. D3 not tag on to the essential of faith in Christ any of the innumerable nonessentials. A man heartily who accepti Christ is a Christian and the man wiic does not accept lium is not a Obristian anjd that is all there is of it. Hie neec nojbelieve in election or reprobation He need not believe in the eternal gen erath n of the Son. He need not believ4 io everlasting punishment. He neet not believe in plenary Inspiration. Falti in U!hrist is the erierin Ia the test, i the pivot, is the indispensable. But there are those who would add u.to the testi rather than subtract from them. There are thousands who would not accept persons into church membership if they drink wine, or if they smoke cigars, or if they attend the theatre, or If they play cards, or if they drive a fast horse. Now, I do not drink wine or smoke or attend the theatre, never played a game of cards and do not drive a fast horse, although I would if Iowned one. But do not sub stitute tests which the Bible does not establish. There is one passage of scrip ture wide enough to let all in who ought to enter and to keep out all who ought to be kept out: "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Get a man's heart right and his life will be right. But now that the old creeds have been put under public scrutiny something radical must be done. Some would split them, some would car-re them, some would elongata them, some would abbreviate them. At the present moment and in the present shape .they area hin drance. Lazarus is alive, but hampered with the old grave clothes. If you want one glorious church free sud unencum bered take off the ecrements of old ec clesiastical vocabulary. Loose her, and und let her goI Again there are Christians who are under sepulchral shadows *and hindered and hobbled by doubts and fears and sins long ag3 repented of. What they need is to understand tho liberty of the sons of God. They spenil more time under the shadow of Sinai than at the base of Calvary. They have oeen sing ing the only poo. hymn that Newton ever wrote: 'Tis a point I long to know, Oft It causes me anxious thought - Do I love the LA)rd or no, An I his or am I not? Long to knew, do you? Why do you 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 tongiue to see whether it ie coated, is morbid, and cannot be physically well. The doctors will say: "Go out into fresh air and into active life, and stop thinking of youriolf, and you wlll get well and strong." So there are people watching their spiritual symptoms, and they call it self-examina tion, and they get weaker and sieklier in their faith all the time. Go out and do sometbing nob!y Christian. Take holy exercise and then examire yourself, and instead of Newton's saturnine and hil lious hymn that I first quoted, you will saing Newton's other hymn: Amazing grace,-how sweet the nound That saved a wretch like me! Onee I wax lost, but now I'm found; Was blind: Lut now I see. What many of you Christians need is to get your grave clothes off. I rejoice that you have been brought from the death of siA to the life of the gospel, but you %ee,d t- g mt uns-oeand 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 the matter with you. "Oh," you say, "if you knew what I once was and how many timcs 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 promise that fits into your case as the cogs in one wheel between the cogs of another wheel or as the key fits into the labyrinth 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 sinnora. of whom I asa chief." Mark that-"of whom I am chief." "Put down your overcoats and hats and I will take care of them while you kill Stephen"-so Baul said to tihe stoners of the first martr-"I do net care to exert mnyself much, but I will guard your surp)lus apparel while you do the murder." The New Testament ac count says: "The witnessee laid down their clothes at a young man's feet whose name was Saul." No wonder he said: "Sinners, of whom Iam chief." Christ is used to climbing, lie climbed to the top of the temple, Hie climbed to tile top of Mount Olivet. HIe climbed to the top cf the cliffs about Nazareth. HIe climbed to the top of Golgotha. And to the top .1 the hills and the mountains of your transgressions and he is ready to climb) with pardon for every one of you. The grean of Calvary is mightier than the thunder of Sinai. Full :ecceipjt is offered for all .Your in debtedneoss. if one thrown a stone at midnight into a bush81 where the hedge bird roosts, it immediately begins to sing; and into the midnight hedges of your despondency theso words I hurl, hoping to awaken you to anthe'm. D)rop the tunes in the minor key and take the major. Do you think it p)leases the Lord for you to be carrying around with you the debris mand carcasses of old transgressions? You make me think of some ship that has had a tempestuous time at sea, andi now that it pr~oposes another voyage, keeps on its daivits the damaged lifeboats,,and the sp)linters of a shivered mast, iad the broken glass of a smashed skylight. My advice is: Clear thle decks, overboard with all the dam aged rigging, brighten up the salted smokestacks, open a new log book, haul in the planks, lay out a new course, and set sail for heaven. You hhve had the spiritual dumps long enough. You will please the Lordi more by b- ing happy than by being miserable. Ilave you not somnetimes started out In tie lain with your umbrella and were busy thinking And you did not notice that the rain had stopped, and though it had cleared ofi you still had your umbrella up, and when yotl discovered what y-:u were do. lag you felt silly enough? 'rhat is what some of you are doing In religious things. You have got so used to sadness thai though the rain has stopped you etil have your umbrella up. (Come out of the shadow. Ascend the stairs of youl sepulchre. Stepm out into the broac light of noonday. We come around yet to help you remove your grave clothes and a voice from the heavens, tremulou but omnipotent, commands "Loose him and let him go." Heaven is ninety-five per cent. bette than this world, a thousand per coal better, a million per cent. 1,etter. Tak the gladdest, brightest, most jubilat: day youe enaver hadl on arth nnd AoW press t bem into one hour, and that hour would be a requiem, a fast day, a gloom, a horror, as compared with the poorest hour they have had in heaven since its first'tower was built, or its first gates swuoa or its first song caroled. "Oh," you say, '"that may be true, but I am so afraid of crossing over from this world to the next, and I fear the snapping of the cord between soul and body." Well, all the surgeons and physicians and scientists declare that there Is no pang at the parting of the body and soul, and all the seeming restlessness at the clos ;-w hour of life is involuntary and nu Irrps at all. And I agree with the doctors, ior what they say is confirmed by the fact thAt persons who were drowned or wero submerged until all consciousness departed and were after wards resuscitated,declare that the sensa tion of passing into unconsciousness was pleasurable rather than d*stressful. The cage of t1re body has a door on easy bin ges, and when that door of the physical cage open1 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 decision next week." So 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 bet ter advantage, for the ight 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 mitted myself to humbly ask the Lord, and I think there will be only one mye tery left, and that will be how one so un worthy as myself got into such an en raptured place. Come up out of the sepul chral shadows. If you are not Chris tians by faith in Christ come up into the light; and if you are already like Laza rus, reanimated, but still have your grave clothes on, get rid of them. The command is "Loese him, and let him go." The only part of my recent jour ney that I really dreaded, although I did not say mueh 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 alf." , 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 breakers will swallow you up, or that if you reach Canaan at all it wili be a vory 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 complete safety, and you will land with a "tosanna on one side of you and a hal lelujah on the other. "Laudinhead!" it fruilts arc waving O'er the hills of fadeless green, And the living waters laying Shores where heavenly forms are meen. itocks and storms lu fear no more, When on that eternal shore; U)rop the anchor! furi the Mall! I am safe within the veil! All's Well That. Ends Well. LAURENB, March 13.--Three months ago Miss Cornelia Virginia Chapman, a fair young lady from the banks of the foaming Saluda, came to the city in search for lawyers. She found a couple and told them a tale of woe, the purport ef which was that Jno. R. Wells, a neighboring and gallaut young farmer, had sought and obtained her affections, but that en the arrival of the time sot for the marriage Wells had been seized with a fit of procrast ination which had since become chron ic. 'rho lawyers estimated the breaks in the lay's heart and sued Wells for $6,000 dlamages, which just omforta bly sized his pile. When the Court of Common Please opened in February Miss Chapman was on hand with a cloud of witnesses, but before the case was called, suddenly disappeared. The case was continued. Yesterday the news came here that Miss Chapman had dropped her suit, that Wells had renewed his and pushed it to a success fuil issue and1 that the parties are e>x l,erimenting as to whether or not mar riage is a failure. The learned counsel refuse to be comforted. -Henry Kepp, of St. Louis, won a wvager- of lifty cents the other day by di inking a beer glass full of gin and sev-en ordinary glasses of whiskey. He gulped them down Inside of ten minutes and next day it cost a couple of dollars for a c.ffln and several dol lars more to bury him. --A daughter of ex-Representative Conklin, of Circleville, Ohio0, went. into her father's orchard on Friday e,nd do. liberately blew off her head with a shot gun. Sho was a pretty girl of twenty-two and was to have been mar ried this week, but she was in bad health and the .excitement probably eaused Insanity. -The house ef Charles Gibsson celored, near Coosaw, Beaufort Coun i ty, S. C., was burned Saturday night and Gibson and his wife aid chik] t erished in the lames. Foul pla3 r Is suispected. - -A consciesce con trii>ution from "J pM. B.," Charleston, S. C., of $20.25, ha Sbeen received at the Treasary Depart SLAIN IN SPARTANBURG GEO. S. TURNER SHOOTS T( DEATM E. H. FINGER THE BROTHER OF HIS WIFE. The Causes that Led to the Terrible Dee, M-Kifierto to Lyuch the s4tnyer-Trinmul of the lanw over the simb. Anotber bloody tragedy stains th record of our county, On Friday af tersoon Oo. S. Turner slow his broth in law, E. U. Finger, in tne publi read at Valley Falls. The deed wai done with a pistol, and Finger died li a few rianutes after receiving hii death wound. Ht never spoke after ward. TURNRIt's ACCOUNT OF THE TIAUEDY. Geo. 8 Turner has furnished the fol lowing statement to the reporter o the Columbia Register: "Finger was walking and a negro wa driving the wagon I did not meel Finger on the road, but walked out o: the house and wua going to my gin house The woman (Spatrks) came to get pa3 for some washing, and did not say an3 thing abnut the matter between her anc Finier. W. J. Fi.ger, a brother of E M. Finger, the slain mar, and the lattei were cursing the woman as she camc up to the door where I was standing, at given in his own words bolow. "Finger became abusive, but was car ried off by Dan Williams, a negro man, towards home. Ile came back, how ever. "Finger told the negro to turn him loose, as I had dared him to holler there in the road, which I denied to Fnger and told him to go off and leave me alone. Then he tore loose from the negre-, and after ho tore loose he had hiQ pistol out and shot. "When 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 wrong. "After he drew his pistol. FEIGER snOV TWICS. "One ball struck pretty near me im the ground, and the other struck mi store house. I think the first ball strucd the ground near me, as the smoke rose all around me. I ONLY VIRED ONE SHOT, and after he quit shooting I quit also. "I pulled my pistol when Finger start ed to pull bis-when the negro caughl him and he then couldn't get his pisto out. I hold my pistol in my hand then and when he came back he had his p1io pointed at me. lie fired twice and fired once after he. had fired _hisLw< shots, innicdiaitely after his seco-G ahot" AcTINO THIC TRIAGEDT. That the reporter might make no mis take and should understand exactly hii account of the matter, Turner in th< jail corridor gave a sort of pantomimic representation of the affray. Stepping off six paces from the re.port er, and coolly counting as he stepped, he said that was about the distance be, tween him and Finger. Raising his band as though levelling F pistol, he said that was the way Fingei fronted him while he (Turner) held his pistol in his hands. IIe thoughi Finger was watching the smoke rising up from around the discharge of his pistol, but that he (Turner) had his ey< on the barrel of his own pistol. He said that after Finger was shol he walked to the bridge over the creeli near by, and half across it, before he fell. It was a mistake that he was killed Instantly. WUAT nROUGHT ON THE TRAOEDY. In relation to the causes which were alleged to have brought about the trag ody, and as to the published accounti in reference to the same, M1r. Turne made the following statement: "I wasn not particularly mad with IE H. Finger, the man now dead, but I ha< heard of his having threatened my Iif on two or saore occasions. "It was a suit for $25,000 damage and not $10,000 as stated in the news pa'ers, brought in the case for the se duction of Clara Finger the slain man' sister and my sister-in- law. "The day I received the summuns went to Mrs. Finger's bouse, where E HI. Finger lived, for the purp)oae of stop p)ing' this stuit. I gave notice in (liara of my coming to the gate. Finger cam, out on the piazza WITli 1I15 DoUBLE-utARcRELLEDI (IUN, cocked it, and took dlell'aerate aim a me. I jumped behind a tree andi trie' to draw my pistol. Finger then tool the gun down from his face, and th matter ceased. AN UNAcCEP'TED CUALLECNOE. "Once after that, across the creec from my store, lie cursed me very loud I and dared me acrors the creek. I dii not go. This was the second case. "I'll Mtate that I think that this mat E. HI. Finger, did not want to kill me o accotunt of the seduction of his sistel but that he was plersutaded or actuate< by my enemies." NR BPEAKII OF HIS sitsTER-IN-LAw. After a few moments' reflection, o being asked if he had anything mot that no wished to say, Mr. Turnt said: "I have not spoken of this sedt,io matter before to tany one but Sheri Nicholls, but without saying that I di it. I will say this: "I have one great reason why I shoul always like my sister, Clara Fingel and that is she madle a pleading reque: *of me to qutit strong drink, whicht I hav qait for nearly twelve months. "I will also say that I believe that Clara will lay aside all the lies, persui sions and inducements that have bes offered and told to her since that sedu< tion suit was commenced, an'I will pi herself back as she was the night thb her mother left ho AT TEE D)EAD MOURt OF MIDNIoHT, to bring this suit against me, and sl will make a fulIl statement of the ms ter, I believe, I say, that there will bei cause of blame upon me about the a duction case, and I thinkc that .he .. say that I have never treated her wron fully. CLAIMS THE klLI,INU WAS JUSTIFIABI,E In relation to the alleged condition < public seutiment against him, Turni said: "I don't think that there were an well thinking men in the mob wL sought to lynch me, or if there were, was by a misunderstanding of the tri facts in the case. "If W. J. Finger, my wife's broth and the brother of the slain man, wi testify to the full truth and the who truth in the killing watter, I beliei 3 that It will satisfy all reasonable peop that the homicide was justifiable.' I NOT AFRAID TO STAY IN SPARTANnU R( "Did the Sheriff tell you that I ws - not afraid to be kept in Spartamburgl this man accused of two crimes aske the reporte,. On being told that Sher iff Nicholls had spoken highly of th nerve he had displayed, and had said.h was not unwilling to reviain in the Spar tanburg jail, Turner said. "Let m make a statement about that," and con tinued as follows; THE MOn's TERIIt1G THREAT. "I was not willing to leave Spartan burg until the Sheriff informed me tha the mob was going up to Valley Fall and get Clara Finger and push her alon in front until they could geo to my cel and kill me. "Tben I consented, because I was feal ful if they brought her there In the nigh she would-accidentally get killed, and did not want her to be made breast works for a cowardly set of men. The knew, and everybody else that was mc quainted with me, that I LOVED1 CLARA FINGER AS A 6I8TEt-IN LAW and always had loved her from a child and they were fully aware that I woub give up my own life rather than tha she should ipe killed In such a co wardi way. "--Spartanburg Herald. AFTER TURNER'S BLOOD. An Anary Meb Conic to llave the Prim oner. The feelings against Turner aroun( Valley Falls was intense. On Saturday night rumors of a de termination to lynch him reached th< city; on Sunday uneasiness preval let here, but no manifestasion was madi until Monday morning. The people of Valley Falls had re ceived notice that a party of 200 lynch ers, thoroughly organized, woul< reach towr. on Monday at noon, an< were instructed to be prepared ther to assist in the lynching. About tw hundred of them assembled near th Morgan Monument. When twelv o'clock arrived, and the North Caroliv L di IIiil& ome, the crow grew restless and ugly. They wante to lynch the prisoner without furthe delay; but, relying on the organize mob which they expected, they wer without concert or leadership. Sheri Nicholls and his deputies, Brewto: and Vernon with Mr. Andiew Moor and Ed: Gentry were In the jail arm ed with Winchester rifles, shot gun and rev.slvers. Mr. Nicholls was a brave Confederat soldier, with a reputation for courag and devotion to duty which Is knowi all over the country ahd byeond it. II was standing behind the bars declarini that no man should reach Turner bu over his dead body. They knew th man and no one wax willing to charg him. Finally four men went to the encamp ment for the can non belonging to th Spartan Artillery. They raised it ul with a shout and hurrah, and unlimnber ed it in front of the jail. The men who brought the gun wer members of the artillery company an knew how to use it. The men in th jail were armed with Winchester riflet The distance was seventy-five yards. bloody dluel at short range with artiller and rifles seemed imminent. Men wht had remembered the seene of blood s Birmingham, begaB to scatter from th I streets, but still the narrow jail alle i was packed with excited men. No on knew whether then cannon was loaded I The men in the jail thought so an -were determined that it shoul - never he fired into the building. The were ready with leveled rifles to shoc oil the gunners at the first hostile mfovt i ment. Thel gunl was not Joaded. Th men in charge had made their plane -use iron fish bars from the railroad an steelyard peas for cannon shot, b)ut the a had not yet gotten them. The crowd wa getting momentary more excited. Jma at thin moment Mayor Ilenneman m<( the editor of the HER~iALD an I said t "'What is to be (lone now?" I "S~eize thle gun and spike it," rep)lie C Mr. Jones. U Mayor Ilcnnemnan's resolution we taken at once. There wvas no time 1 orgar-ize it force. What was to be doni must be dlone promptiy. iIe had ba siK policemen at his command, but 1 Sdid not hesitate. ''Follow me," lie continued, and the moved down .Jail street, through tl ,mob. Mr. .Jones ran through Archer store and rushed up on the oppehi side of the cannos with the shou "Spike the gzun and arrest the men wi: brought it here" I aMayor Ilennemnan place.l his foot o e the cannon and said: "I will arre r the fIrst man wvho touches the gun." It was a critical momecnt. The mani a charge of the gua,. takes by surprin g stepped bAck in the crowd. Mr. E. 1 Carver, who was one of them, says th he saw half |drunken men on all side dI reachingfor ttheir pistols,and that he s -one man draw a self-cocking revolve t and the hammer was half raised fre e the cartridge, when some one seized and stopped him. A single shot Bri if by a drunken coward would have be . the signal for a bloody fusilade. Boe n they recovered from their surprise, k .Jones seized a hatchet, and drove a ni i in the touch hole of the cannon, and a~ less than two minutes six po'licem and two civilians had captured t cannon in the face of two hungr angry men, and spiked It, and t ie danger was over, and a dozen negrc ,t- were trundling the useless cannon in in the j.il. Without artillery the jail in-the jre wasbha. - less exciting, and the danger from that quarter was greater than from the 'mob. The officers did not understand the sud den commoion and thought that the at tack was commencing. Their guns were r ready, their fingers on the triggers, and the sheriff was on the point of giving y the order to fire when Mayor Henneman held up his handkerchief. The men in i charge'of that cannon never know how near they were to death. Fr ends of Sheriff Nicholls telegraphed It to the Governor for military aid. When II the Sheriff beard of it he at once tele graphe the Governor that he could defend his prisoner without assistance and would e do so at Ill 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 leed the lynchers, believing that the Sheiiff would not ire on them. Con servative citizetis went to the Sheriff a 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 quietly re moved the prisoner, drove down to Union and there boarded the train Tuesday t morning, and on Tuesday night Turner s slept in Richland jail. -Aspartanburg Herald. VOR LOVE OF HAWES. t Heal EUnrigst. of 1inrealugam, Atteumte to FYndl Hler Life. Later developments in the came of - Bessic Inwright, the young woppan 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 H'he did so through love of Dick Mawes. t Bessie, it appears, is the woman who became so completely infatuated with Hawes duirng his confinement in the county jail, and who was in the habit of visiting him daily, mueh to the annoy ance of the jailer, who was often coled upon to admit her to him two or three times a day. The woman's frequent visits to the jbil attracted ne little atten tion, but at the time very little was said about them. When the Supreme Court decided that 11awes must hang and the death watch L was placed over him, Bessie was told 3 that her visits to the celebrated criminal must cease. This information appeared to overcome 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 3 of seeing I[awes and took to sending him affectionate notes and handsome a bouquets. : ekh timd for IIawes' execution drew nes morose and low spirited, kept her room ' ood deal of of the time and was disinclin talk to any one. After the execution her grief was un bounded, but no fears were entertained that she would atterept to take her life, until she was discovered in her room 1 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 Bravo Girl's Act. There is one brave girl in Charlotte. She is Miss Lula Smith, the pretty little Sfourteen-year-old daughter of Sheriff Z. 8 8, Smith. At 5 o'clock Monday after 3 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 a quickly to the side of the jail and picked up a big e atone. She began to pound a second 3 kInky head, p)oked nearly through the e hole, and in the act of escaping. Only .a few licks were necessary to drive the i prisoner back. Standing by the hole on the inside or the jail were a dozen prison ers ready to crawl through the hole and t escape, but the little woman stood guard e at the outside, diarea. them to poke out their heads. She gave the alarm, and a soon her father was on the scene and .the prisoners all locked up in their cells. 3 By some scans or other the prisoners j had cut a hole through the thick briek ~, wall, and had it not been for Miss t Lula a wholesale delivery would have - resulted. The prisoner that succeeded e in getting away was a negro boy, in a for a trilling oflenso. . 0 The Grady Monuiient. gpai' 5 It hase already been stated that the .'ill al t~ plan of Mr. Alexander Doyle, a New >ate for t York architect, has been adopted for dyo 'the monument of Mr. IIenry W. a ma Grady in Atlanta. The Uonstitution says Mr. D)oyle's conception of the monu ment is a very beautiful one. It con 5 sists or a square of granite surrounded o by a low balustrade, from the centre ors e of which rises an exquisitely proportion t ed pedestal, and on this elevation stands . e a bronze figure of Mr. Grady in. one of ____ his most natural attitudes. On one side _____ y of the pedestal is a b)ronzs figure of e" Iistory, 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; she ether two sides 0 of the pedestal bear only a palm leaf and a wreath of immortellos, also n' wrought in bronze, Mr. Doyle has had it more.experience as a monumental artist than almost any man of his years in t " America. The Baratoga monument, 6, which is considered one of the finest -. works of art in the country, is the pro St duct of *his genius. The Jaspet mionu s, ment in Savannah and the Ben Ilill W monument in Atlanta were also designed r, by him. Mr. Doyie was a strong ad ma mirer and a warm personal friend of It Mr. Grady's, and his p)resent work will ad receive his closest attention. re Riot in the Atlanta Jail. r. til A rio6 occurred In the Atlanta jail in Tuesday afternoon. Henry Falyey, a sn white prisoner, and Sol Turner, a nie be gre, quarreled and fought. F'alvey scd drew a concealed knife and stabbed be Turner badly in the breast and head. es The fight then besame general. Po to lice were called in and stopped it. Es Besides Turner, a negro named Moses was badly injured by blows on the ly head from a pieoe of boa.