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/;/ VOL. XIX. E PIC KENS, S. C., TFItJRSI)A Y, APRIL 1 80 M, A DEA) LION. ORDS SPOKEN IN THE TABERNA CLE PULPIT. 1)r., 1o Witt Talmage Speaks From Ecclesi astey Upon a "I)ead Lion," andu Creates at Sensation. The subject of Dr. Tahnage's ser mon on Sunday was "A Dead Lion," and his text, Ecclesiastes 9:4, "A liv ing dog is better than a dead lion." Ha said: The Bible is the strangest,the love liest, the mightiest, the weirdest, the best of books. Written by Moses the lawyer Joshua the soldier, Sam uel the judge, Ezra the builder, Job the poet, David the shepherd, Daniel the prime-minister, Amos the herds- 1 man, Matthew the custom-house officer, Luke the doctor, Paul the scholar, John the exile; and yet a complete harIlony from the middle verse of the lible,which is the eighth verse of the one hundrPd and seven- 1 teeuth psalm, both ways to the upper and lower lids, and from the shortest passage,. which is thirty-fifth verse of the eleventh chapter of John, to the longest verse, which is the ninth verse of the eighth charter of Es ther, and yet not an imperfection in all the 773,693 words which it is coi posed of. It not only reaches over the past, but over the future; has in it a ferry-boat, as in second Samuel: c and a telegraph wire, as iii Job: andl - ailroad train, as in Nahun; and : eCduces us to a foundrymaini by s S.'. name of Tubal Cain, and a slip. 1 i:.ilder by the name of Noah, and ani rh'Itect by the name of Ahioliab, L and tells us how many stables Solo- i mnou had to take care of his horses, ":ud how much he paid for those i I.rses. But few things in this ver (tile and comprelielinsive book inter- t me so mucli as its apothegns, those short, terse, sententious, epi rgamiatic sayings, of which lny text t is one--"A living dog is better than a C dead lion." ( 1- cethe lion stands for nobility, and a dog for meanness. You must know that the dog mentioned in the r text is not one of our American or European or Scottish dogs that, in our mind, is a synonym for the beau tiful, the graceful, the aftfeetioiate, the sagacious, anld the true. Tine St. Bernard dog is a hero, and if you l doubt it, ask the snlowS of the Alps,. out of which ie 1icked the "xhausted traveler. The shepherd dog is a poem, and if you doubt it, ask tlhi klighlands of Scotland. The Arctic dog is the rescuer of explorers, and if l you doubt it, ask )r. KaeI's exiedi tion. The watchdog is a living pro teetion, and if you doub )t it, ask ten thousand homestead: over whose safety lie watched last night. But Solomon, the author of my text., lived in Jerusalem, and the dog lie speaks 1 of in the text was a dog in Jerusalemi. Last December I passed nights and dlays within a stone's throw of where Solomon wrote this text, and from what I saw of the canines of Jerusa lem by day, and heard of them by night I can understand the slight up i preciation my text puts upon the dog I of Palestine. It is lean and snarly t and disgusting, and afhhicted with a parasites, and takes revenge upon 'ie human race by filling the nights with ( clamor. All up and down the Bible, 1 the most of which was written in f Palestine or' Syria, or 'onitiguouls I lands, the dog in used ini contemiphu ous comparison. Hazael said, 'Is thy servant a dlog, that lie should do I this thing?" In sehf-abnegationi the Syro-Phoenician woman said, "Even I the (logs eat of the erubhs which t fall from the Master's tab)l." Paild says in Philippians,"Beware (of dogs;" I and1( St. John in speakingofhae, says. "Without ar'e dogs." o ivei On the other hand the lion is healthy',t stronig, and loud-voiced, and at' its roar the forests echo and the I moutains tr'emblle. It is marvel&-m-i for strength, and w~hena its hiide is re * moved, the nmuscular' 'omparlL(tness ist something wonderful, and1( the knife I oIf the dlissector b)ound(s 1back from1 ihe -tendons. By the cleaing ofi' of' lhe< forests of P~alestine and the use oIf lire-arms, of which the lion in partiu larly itfraid, they hav'e dhisapp ieared I _fr'om places where they once'( ranged, I but they were very bold in olden -tinmes. They attacked anm ar'my of I Xerxes whlile mnarchinig through Mae-- I edlonia. They were so numerious i -that one thousand lions wereI'( slain inii forty yearn in the amplhithieater' inl I Rome. As niost of the Bible was written ini regions lionI-haunJtedl, this I creature appears imn almoslt all part n of' the Bible as a simile. D avid uni -< M-~~.tood its habits of nlighkt-l)rowlinIg ~mm dIay-sluimbering, an is seeni from< his description: "TIhe young lions I (JILr after' thieir' prey and seek their I 'oatl fronm God. The sun ariseth, they gatheri themselves togetier', and kt them downi in their dens." And agamin he cries out, "My soul11is among liors.' Moses knew themi and1( said: dah l is er'ouched like a lion." SaIm son knewv thonm for he took honey fi'om the carcass (If a slain ltin. Sol1 onion knew them and1( saLys, "The king's wr'ath is like the roar (If aIL - lion," and again "The slothful moani ays, there is a lion in the wayL~. Isaiah knew thiemi, anId says5 in the millennium, "T'he lion shalli (eat sitraLw like an ox." Ezekiel knew them and says, "The third was tlie fac(e of a lion." Paul knewv them, anId says: "I was delivered out of the muouth oif tihe lion." Peter knew themi, and saLys: "The (devil- as a roaring lion walketh ab)out." St. Joihnl knew them, and says of Christ, "Behold the lion oIf thme tribe of Judlah! Now, what doen my text miean when it puts a living (log and1( a dead lion side by side,' and says the former is bletter than the latter? It ineians - that small faculties actively used are of more value thani great facul ties iuemp)loyed. How often you 1e it! Some man with limited (a- hu )acity is vastly useful. He takes tlat lift vicl God has given him aId says: for 'My mniltal endowment is not large we tnd the workl would1 utot rate iue wii ugh for my intelligence, and mu1y vo- yoi abulary is limited, and1(1 my educa- out ion was defective, but here goes thc vhat I have for God and salvation, tail n(1 the making of the world good wa id happy." He puts in a word here be niid a word there, encourages a faint- of t earted 1i11a, gives a scripture tas- no' age in consolationi to some 1)ereIt \ voanti, picks ul) a child fallen in the o)i treet and helps himi11 brush oltl t lie mne lust and puts ia live-cent piece iii his <o r iand, Ielling hint not to cry, so that of lie boy is singing before he gets iut sround the eorier,wiiting oin every- c'r )ody that hasti it letter to c'r' 1)O >1' a Imessage to deliver; com1tes iito it or ; iall train or stage coitch, or depot, or tiit hop, with a,:iiilinig face that sets Bu verybody to t.linking, "If that manui lay anl, with sinaitll equipimient it life, be 'Th1 tppy, why caltnot I, possessing far 1)11 iore than he hits, be equally hLppy?" las1 )ne day of that. kind of doing things the nay Itot aiiiouit to inuch, but forty hal 'ears of that-no one but God hin1- les: elf can atppreciate its iinuncnisity. air The sitanple fact is thliat the w<owil1 the ms been, ainl the wor'ld is n1ow, lull a g f deul lions. They are people of li rent (':L)acity anti large opportunity, us' oing nothing for the imlpi'ovenent b)u f society, niothing for the overthrow i f evil, nothing for the salvittioi of ouls. Hote of theml are iotentary tui iols. They have nuttlmulated so thi univ hundreds of thousands of (1ol ) irs that you cat fee! I heir tr('al whe ttL bey walk through anystreet. or co 1ne ha ito any (irele. ThIiey eit by onewh nncial iove up)set the tiioiiey iar- t( et. Instead of the tei per i'-1 it. of 1urt heir income which the Bible lays ('n .own as the proper proiortiott of (on heir coit.ribut ion to tilie cause of stu i'od, tlhey lo not give live per cett., tht r tu'ec pe: cent., or two per (elt., ".' r one per cent., or a half per cent. tini r I (tuirter per cent. Iitt they are Ois, 110 one doubts. WheL(t they ha' oar Witll street, State street, and da ourse treuble. Iii a few years they th: till lie dlowi and die. They will .o ave ia great funeral, and a long row aga f hine carriatges, a11ntiihtiest reqcui- stnr nis will roll f'roiii the orgtns. and teti olished shafts of Aberdeen gruiit e ill indiente where their dust lies,but (-. ar all use to the world tihat muan = ,ight as well hatve never lived. As of 11 experiinent its to ;ow inuch1 h(" OP iani earry with hii 1 put t i(n-cent ntot >ieee ii the pahnt of his dead hand, (> iid live years after open the t111), si.l id you will iin( t hat lie lts (1 copped 111 Vein the teii-centpiece. A lion! Yes, d'( >ut a (lead lion! He left all his treas re on earth, tnd hats 0no treasure in Lo; leaVent. Wh'lat shall the stone ('uttter pre ut utponl the ohbelisk over liii I j)rt uggest let it he the lnau's naine. do heni the date of his birth, then the TI tate of his death, theii the itl)lpo)ri- is I te scril)ture passage: "Btt er is a op vingr dlog than at dlead lion.'' ol< Bitt I thank God that we are hay- .h ig just now anl otitbursts of s)lentdid 1f, enifiicence thitt is to inicretse uitl oft lie earth is girdled with 1 it. It is At] preading wit fi the speed of ani epi- Oi tmii, but , jilt just the opposite (1i fle't. of nii epideiiu. )o you not '" o ice' how wealthy iien arc open o'in 1(0 lib)raries, anid building churchh" l..ot"- --i..-n. ho me of huh -ea s >ies in t heir wills lot' dlisappo)tinte d it'" >hani courts to swamip,f) ar et ein g fl1i hieir ownt eecuitors andlt admhinuistra of or'11 thei fanni ies (for "h'le t hat pro'tvid- lt '5 hose of' his owi household, is wors' left mit while' liing, antd int full possc's lb ion1 of niy f'acul t's, to properi ly d i ft 1thi huidinig of' thle tchuircheis. ort\t lhe hto'spitials or' fihe 'clleges,' or~ iheil ))ittrais ltat . design for~ thle ptub li t 11in' liin' good~i nei'compilishledi asions, and heItheriiod tilg t or lit ashiotns :u-'e ighity. Onea of t : x .fte Iid fa sios wtati gwil itietp if 'hit ferh the' iashion tfe'ot weal 3i leton it ist'iute, 1 iL w il lit.' ('t a l , titi hir suis ae un'dai t lieon.it Iti b lis 1011 ailpd byl( te 1etiilat is itnimy for mfte the tasatoe' all'th i'd. iToe tif iiigtin A~'ttorneys ju withiarg fieris lys 'Orei employtd ton i both sills al 1tehe mal' ii'ase gofs onimonth ft er ~~ u '>nt'h and'i o leides, ituf and lie anit sier court Iil mdn i derilediniii the tppoit' dire ticIs u ion, al iithei now (videnc is('t Iound, it m tie sil are~ attl l' trepat tedl.t nil it i -hi'ir et wh atte flthattr'slfuerais lbrai e pocen tto'tlii prov hti''ifel ui ti<t 'ayiher wa crazy,t' andW ihefoul in wri -omtent bto k ihan hr r itemngte juyah iidtink ci lhattw he'ft,o tatet t'e tsttr gave (If thel ' pathenth' 0)'b''riltd i'hii'te words: whi s been a great hldi) to 11e all my ,I(l I want you to draw the plan a c"hurcl, co)i odiOUH, 1)eatutiful, Ii ventilated, and with plenty of uilows to let in the light; I want l to get right at work in uiaking plaHis for such a building, for, >ugh I and well now, life is uncer u, and before I leave the world I ut to see soiething done that will li appropriate acknowledgment lie goodiess of God to mie and mine; V Wnein eat I hear f'roi you?" Vito would atteinpt to write the tuary of the dead lions u, ('-l rev, the dead lions of law, tu ;cd lions; of mue(i('ine,tle dead lions soc"iatl inflluenlce'? Vast (capac'ity I thtey, and mtighty range, and of h mIenl in1 their tresence We'e as VelS as the antelope or heifer ;irafl'e v1ei frof le junigle a N u lian lion springs upon its prey. t they got Ihrought with life. They down in their niagiiceit. lair. (V IIave inade their last slarp gain. TIhy have spoken their lir d worl. t'lley coiuniiit'ed 11r last 1iem ac(t .W\h(en at taw nv in )itint of the deser11 rollsover iel i the lion1ess and whei('lps till lie with shrieks n:u I howls, and lash mtselves into laieutation, aud if is ('nuuie grtif for the 1)001 tlungs. t wlein 1 his dead lion of ouuinstrouls l('ssniess expires, tll('I is IOthiI g (alltized woe, for "Better is a ng dog thaiu a dead lion." Iy text also iteatuis that aini oppor itv of the living p'esent is b(tter it a great. oI)l)(n"tlutity passed. s)entd muchelt of Iur Ii tinwe it) say "If I oinly ful." We e:uit all k Ibat(k i ;t(1 5'( so11( o'cCitsiun 're we niight h~\ve (one at great d, or iright IItve eflf'eted an iin tant ('sce(, or we iuight .h ave If a st roke t faft would have a iplislel a vast result. Ilioutgh t)iditV or lack of appreciation of cr1isis, thr'ough procrastination, let the ch:itce go1)y. Ilow iucih e we have wasted int thinkiig of it we iight have said or might ( (onl! \\e spend hours an(1 's anud Vears ii walking around t dead lion. We caniunot resusei it. If will n(ever open its eyes in. Thire will ieve'r 1)' another ing in it s )aw. I)ead as any feline or of Southi Africa, I rough use Ih'art thirt y years ago Gordon iniing sentt tle slug. I)ont't. let us e inlly 1in1)r'e hi to 1l1' deploring tdead 1 ast. There are other 1ort unit ies remnaintin;g. They may be as great. but they are worth r attcntioni. Sui:tll opportunities arotumd, opport uniti's for the say of kind words a11( doing of kind 'ds. Ilelplesstess to he helped. lieit ''Led ones to be enicoui'aged. 't ones to Ie found. Though the sent uniy he inisignilicant as com 'ed with the past,"Better is aliving tlti a dead lion." ie ino s, 1S(el('s5 and painl iful feeling lie onie of regret. tepent: of lost. )Oi't.uniti('s we m1ust, ad1(1 get pa1r i we iuay.lhut. r'gr'ets wveakeii, dis ren. at cril)ple f'urther work. t 5(11 captlain who once had (cltauge S\Wlite Star ttsteine' f'nross the aniti ' o'eii. (1e foggy nigh it ruins a rock oft N('wflo lalndt(, :ud pas !g'r, tl.;l ship perish, shaiill Ie re c to take n' iulmd of a sinall i. ip tit( Norti river and sav. "I 'r will go on t ihe water again iiin SShall the( enginieer of ai g liht e.<press. who1 at a station Iin is d the telegnan of' a train dispatch un(1iit iinto collision. ando for t 1has b1e in'u itf downi to fthe work niginieerinig a freIightf laiin, say, "I1 1 Cnn run111 a vest ibu.(le e'xpress('" we whati. ii yo la ye of'0 oppotu nityv .lDo your 1best with Ii lti, re. iis. Your' shor it est witer1( dav is thl o>re to you tiaii ('all he the gest dhay o f a pre'viousN sununertC1. h prevl'ious opporI)tunlitie's, inay b 11nded bly thei gim or David Liivinig s (cruishe(d tihl bone0 of Is arim to mtirs,:n t1(1Ihen rolled'I overi amd ired1. bu1t, 'IBet i'r is at livin g do g ni ai de:l lion.'' ly text aiko means11 fimt fihl ('(In oni of thle iinost witch umn(( 1041 y are4 thiey eiannot llurkennyl~ earth .ilI1brow%, an<1 a1 scepre inil his iff ll thle n1ex1 worbili. Oine ofI thel miost lselyv intt 4resfing ihinlgs I saw >0o(e 1 iho Israeliles. Theo iniscriip is on1 his sarC(ophaiguls. ma1( thel tmi on (l his munlunyiii' ham 'les vI' blon -oih 'It rover'isy. 1110d he .'oiei Plmnh oiles 'ims. A'l ll iayph:1 i llog ilt nd ( the xpovr as agreei tha i'his thobimimill tndel IIise. ) \Vitl are)1 th ve i'"\ Iitis hso whi1' h ft o,sed~ i'1 against the uel.iftih bick makersitlII. There arieii -ie sekts otf iheiuio'liltiies eyest -It hie1.11 1 vhaatini i i thte betze ott apianys of IiXithe mmamy were110S ~ll by authority or pohessiO1ns or influ CICie, w1r(' positively leoniine(, anl yet wicked? What a thing to congratulate you on is life. Why, it is worth mnore aimi all the geis of the universe kindled int.( onte j>recious stone I am alive! What (oes that mean? 'Why, it means that I still have all opportunity of being saved lnyself, and helping others to 1bc saved. To be alive! Why, it nuns that I have yet anioth1er clnn('u to correct. liy past mtistakes, anid inlake sure work for hiaveni. Alive, are W(e Conic, I ts ('elelat( it iy nl(\\ew res)lutions, I('1 .-C! I' !'Xahi iInuits, new conseera tioni, andl a Ii w n('iree'. The snutllest In( most insigniie:uit. to (lily is worth to us niore tl:ul five hundred y('este' days. Taking aivanitage of the Ir'es ('nt, let us get pardon for all the pat't, :mid security for all the future. Where are our forgiven sils? I (lon't know. (God lon't kuow. either. lie sity. "'Your sins :1nd iniquitie' will I re mlnbler no IUrel." 'Wlimt e(nc'Oulrig('11m(nt iii the text for all (1hrist in ii workeri: espatir of i) one':s silvatioii. While there is life there is hope. Whenl in England a youiig lady asked for i a class in a Suniday scholI, the superuitendent said. ""I;et ter go out On the street. anid gel your c'lass." Sli' brought in a ragged aid lilthy boy. The super inteiideit gave hini good apjarel. In a fev Siiidays he Ilsented himself. Iiiruny disc'overed thiat in at street. fight he had his decent. appar'l torn [)f. ie w\as b)rought in 1d11(1 a second Ulle respect ably chl. After a few Sundays lie again disappicard. and it was found that lie was agatin ragged 1id wretc('h(d. "'TeI I." said th e Iea(cher. "w i enin do inoth iiing withl hlinl."' But t he superinitendenit lilt((d Iiini uip again 1111(1 star'ted him again. After a while the gospel took hold of hiin and his hcart cliaiged. Ie start - ed for the niiiliistry :mid him 1 m,ue a foreign missioinary and on heathen grou(1s lived, and t laislated the sci'pture, andl preaeii('d. uniit il among the miost illustrious names of the c'hiurcl on ea'tl a:l in heaven is the name of glorious Rob'rt Morri i:<m. Go forthl and save the lost, and r'iieitebr however tilt hy and uli(lolie a child is, or a ntium is, or a wonii is, they are vorthi i a effort. I would rather have tle'ir opportunii ty thui anly that will ever be given to those who lived in linagniticent sin amid splendid unrighteousness and then wrap)e( their gorgeous tapestry around thiem9 and wit 1101 prayer ex pired. "Better is a living dog than a dead lion," In the great day it will he found that the last, shall be first. There are i tle grog-shops ui(1 ini the haunts of iniquity to-diay those who will yet be models of holiness and preace Christ. to the people. In yonder grouip of younig meln who cane here with no us('ful purpose, there is one who will yet live for Christ and per hips die for Him. In a pulpit stood a stianger prea(']hing, 1111(1 lie said: ""The last. tinie I wls ill this ('hurcllh :ls Iifteeni years ago, and the circuii siAi('es were peculiar. Three young lnmn had eonme, expecting to (list ui the service. and they had stones in theli' pokets, which they expect ed to liurl at the preacher. Oie of the young )iwnll referrd'(1 to rQfused to take itrt in the assault, amd the otlheis ii 1.isgulst at his cowar'di('e, left the bIuildig. Go oif the thrlee was huimg"d Ifor ftorgery. Amnothe ir is ini pr'ison, eonid<iwiid to death for muni'er'. I was th - third. but thle gie of God( Mave'( mie." My hearer, give 1n0 on1e uip. Ti- ecase niy seein (lh-sponuit e, but thle gracL(e of G od likes to1 undertake a deadl lift. I proclaimi it t his day to all the peop)le-fr(ee gice! Li viing amnd dyinI g, lhe t hat iny thieme. -free grae! Soumid it aeross Sihe ('on1 ibienti, somiah it a('ross t hie seas -- free gice(! Spell ouIt toste wor'ds in flowers, lift the'm ini arc'hes, buiildhIthemi ini thriones,5 roll themi ini oraitoids free 'ime'(! Imt will yet. Eniz the earlthi amid people hea'ven wvitli initiosns 1'edemuell. .l'r(e grai('(! Haivatlori ! Oh. the' Joyfil sotind1(, A sovereignt bini for every wotundt. A\ cordbrIi fte aurI ie:trs. liedI't ini XforrowV andi in sini At deal th'st darik do'or we ilay; lut. we aise x by israce divi ne, A wr'iter ini thle St. Lois R1pbicz i tells flit Mirs. Noble, wife of the Secreitaryi' of the int erioi', fpo ssesse's obl iiineledl aind silver spoonms tohe' foundi( in Washinigt on. These curios are kept iin thle parlori in ani inlaid nothiogany Iabile, the t(op (If which is siunk several inc'hes below the 0outer rimi, lined withI iuf'fed crimisoii sat iri and ('overe'd with ai p'late glasstop, which fa.i ('s with aiI sping, the key (If whiieh is safely sfowe'd :iway up ta irs. Amiong thle msost. inIteriesfing (f thme ('ollec(tion1 is a dull1 hooking silver' spsoon, on thle hualdle (If which ini bas relie'f, is shiowni the Bap1tismi oIf drautlghts oIf w%ateri fr'om his bands, rised('( high above his Master. Tlhiis thledial im Nurienmb erg, at which plae wvas atlso obt aimned a siinull, delientely aiid fimie opn work t'ilagr~ee hianidles. Mocw, is ILa 11 sn I ve(sselh, a er'oss lhe chure od15(f Ru~ssia by Iih n ob)ility ini dink in g ft' holy wateri. TJh iis is of gold inlaid wit hi tmauinpaenmt emuniel, which, on bIein. held uip to the light, slitows thle mo st 1illhian t. coloring. An open'i worIk goldeii egg (ninieled inl theo sanoi( mannertI enn1 hie t akeni aparit andh fornedl into1 I wo t'gg ('ups). W'ork has be1 i comm (1 11ienced on thlet Bea imnmout Mills, antd will b)e p)ut;hed rapidy forar 1 CLEMSON WILL CASE. INVOLVING THE TITLE TO THE JOHN C CALHOUN HOMESTEAD Whici Iy Now Declared the Proporty of th( Stato of South (uroliin, and will ho thn Site of an Agricultural College. At luuta CoeHtitution. A famous will cise ended. The decision of the Supreme Courl of the iited States was given briefll in yesterday's Constitutioln, a specia. fromt Washington. 'lio history of the case in a 1)CU liarly interesting one, involving at it (1o's the title to the old home oI John C. Calhoun, Fort, Hill, in Souti Calrolin1a. It wast here t,hat the "nutllitielttiol (''larations" we'e p)repatre(l by Mr Callhoun, the 1Papers 1 )earing the Post mark "I"ort lIill." Here also Mr Calhounl's famous letter to the GUover nor1, u1pon tlhe'questionl of nullitient.ion. was writ.ten. It is the birth-place of Hon. Pal Calhoun, of Atlaltl, who was an at torn'ey in the case. The issue was betweet Miss Isa l)P1la. Lee, a great grauiddaughlter o ,Jo1i C. Calhoun, and the State of South Carolina. TiIE SECONI) OWNER was Mr. Calhoun's widow, Mrs Floride Calhoun. May 13th, 1854 Mrs. Calloun anid her dlaughter. Cor nelia Calhoun, conveyed the placee 1< Ami(lrev P. Calhoun for $49,000, in l'ludilng 1a number of negroes aml( thei personalty. Andi'ew (Cahlmou gave i inortgage for 840)00. Aftervards he ollred several timue. to pay the 40,000, but. this was nol dono because his muot,'er preferre( drawing interest on the money as i investment. \r. Andrew Calhoun died jest after the war, leaving the mortg.'( unpaid. The mortgage, it shoul he stated, was given to his mothe alone. lrs. Calhoun died in 1871. liy tlho pr'ovisions of her will i three-fourths interest iii the uortgag' was left to hert daughter, Mrs. A. U Clemsou, and the r'minidttuer to Mis Floridte Clemnsoni. Mr's. Clemson wa allowed to dispose of her interest i] the imortigage as she sawiL fit. It wt further provided that if the mlort gage was foreclosed amd the propert; bought under the fcreelosure, thl place was to stand ' lieu of th1(' Im1ort gage. SO1) A T AUTION. '11e mortgage was foreclosed an the pliace sold January 1, 1872. I wiS bouglht in the name of A. G Clemson as trustee for his wife Miss Floride Clemson muarrie< Gideon Lee, of New York, and die< l(aviig at lauigher. Miss Isabell eLEMSoN S IN''El{ES'T. 'rs. Clelson lied, leaving "thi entire property and estate to whic, she was tlei 111 11y' Wise ('ntitled, o whichi shte liglt afterwards acquire, to hLerlhusbal(1, Thomas U. Clemson in fee riin)le. Th'i iii a will 11111' in 188;, al ter(d in 1 887, Mr. Clemtson left. hit 1)roperty 4 to the' Stalte of South ICarali' lism. 1I14 died ini 1888, and in Novemabe t he( e'x'cu1tor addrlessedl a4 letterl to th, Legislafture( of SouthI CariolinaprJ)1offel ing to make thle deed to the Stautei the I<mditin were8 neJ4'l4cepte (d. A eO)LLE(1E sITE. will weret'(, ini effec', thait the priopertyf. was 1to be4 uised as th1e4 site for ms agr'icultural111 co'lege. 'P'i s wats to 1be ('ontrol 11led by aV board4. of fihiuteen'I tr'us fe,4'5 '(' see mtiiol inthe w14 Vill, :it lhe ot heris to be4 nitedio by3 fte St1 ate lIn case of aL vacancyli( amltongst. thle sever(' was to)44 be ille by 1V(elcion 1by th remtaimlerIci, so tha tii.Ihis nonberl t' matijoity 41f 11h'e board'4-was ~1 to he'self Miss Le'e, 111e great grandIi( daulgh te4 oIf .Joh dii . Cailhiounj, and 11h' s(ol4 biii 441 M's. Floide' Clemstion Lee, tiled tor' of the (Clemisoni estat e mtaking 41eed( 1(o the Statie of(1 Sou ft h Caro hln. It was1 con11t4'm(I(d that4 Mrhs. Clem1 le'fitIher by her'10 moher's wyiiliamout ing 1(o about11 $,4l1, and1( dido ntot in int(r1st, 1.nd ('th''~ 1 'at the homesteadishi Mrs. Flide1'4 Clemson 451l1A e. TIWil Ta'11AL1. 'The i inj untion was grante14 d, n4.1 thle ('11s4 was trtiedo before (Ch1i(f ~Jui tir' Fller and1 Jud( ' ioges Bon an1 ut It was1i dec'(ided' aginst Miss Lee An 41))u app a'l taken to 1114 Si 1ha1 just 1been announcte4'(d conflirnIi the dec'4ision (If thle lo~wer 'ourt.f Le'gislue.1' were1al i.''in iing. Perhaps 14.1 thi mo1(st e'xhausit i ve argumen41it oni eith<1 side( was4. that1 ofi Mi'. Ale'x. King, the( Atlanta14 fim of Cadhoun, King 'd ini Wasliington, and111 isconsider'c one of the, ablest arguments mado b) all that could be said in the interest of Miss Lee, as remaindorman under the will of Mrs. Calhoun. The decision is against Miss Lee, however, atln1 is final. THE iLSTOItY OF THE CAsE. Ei Thomas G. Clemson, who married th the daughter of Johm C. Calhoun, G made Fort Hill their home. They li lived there quietly and plainly. When SC. Mrs. Clemson died, Mr. Clemson was th left as the sole occupant of Fort tre Hill. He lived there almost as a w hermit, never leaving his own grounds co but taking the greatest pride and pleasure in showing visitors over the ai i place, an(1 Mr. Calhoun's library and as private rooms. No one suspected l that the old man had any money, and h only a short while before he (lied Mr. Gideon Lee wrote to a mierchant at "10 Pendleton and told him to let limi sa have any groceries that he might t" need, and send the hill on to him. f Mr. Clemson died in the spring of Ia 1888, and the contents of his will vi caused a surprise. This old man, sP who had b)eenl considered a penniless all 01(1 imbecile, had left the Fort Hill (1 place as a seat for the fonding of an agricultural and mclauical college, la aind his private fortutlne, which it' aionitecd to about 8100,000, as an wl ('nd(owmiient. en1t This will fell like a thunderclap 1r up1on the Calhount fanily. It was m generally thought that. Fort l [ill " would descend to Miss Isabella Lee, ti who was the diaughter of Mrs. Clemi . sont s sister, mid ('onse<iently the i grandiughltter of the great statestiian. Miss Lee was given the Calhoun plate and portraits, and a be<quest of ki' 8L 0,00() on contlition thitt s1e woul<d 1 not, (contest the will. It had long ' been understood that she was to let Icil Joln C. Calhoun. of New York, and tih Pat Calhoun, of Atlanta, (ia., have to, Ie Fort Hill place, and that they iLt were to fix it up in grand style as the old homestead amid use it. as iv sum- tlh mer home. They at once set: about. to '1 defeat Clem siOn's piirposes. pit They contended tIhat (lemsoln Wias tri Was ain imnbecile. itl that, lie had 1o th :'eal title to the property, which was his wife's. The will looked to the bi acceptance of the ibc(tuest by the th Stitte, and to its suppleinenitintg the 1t aiount of money willed by ainu:tl tL appropriations to tlie college. It pro- thi vided that the State should elect six ? trustees to co-operate with the seven of mued in the will. th This threw the nat ter into polities i and the (luestion of the State's ac eeptiuce of the Clemson bequest was iade the chief issue in thie campaign for the election of the Legislature of 1 1888. The friends of the South Caro 1 lina college fought the friends of the SClenison College, and the eampaign was the bitterest. known in South - Carolina since the great caipaigni of i 1870. The farmers won and sent a i majority of the adherents of Clemson I i Collego to the Legislature, but time bill providing for the State's accept ance Wits ctiried through both the Ilouse andl the Senate. The (lover noi, however, refused to sign the bill. lie is allowed by the coistitution the right, to hold over a bill until the first ti three days of the next session, if he '4 wishes. He exercised this right on . the grounl that lie did n1ot care to (l - make the State a party to the cause ul tlien in the Tnited States court. But st when the Legislature reassemble.d n si last. December, the Goverinor sign ta red ihe bill, thereby accpting t lie be of ThVie executor of the will then imade, tat over a deed of the property to tihe "I St ate, and( the iattorniey-genieratl wits instru'cted to cooperai'te with time law~~ yers already ('niiployed by the( ('eecu tor of thle will ini defeninug it inc the to case now b)etore thle United States Suipreime Court. Thec Legislature P1 ialso provided for th inuncciiediat e ree i ion of suitiable buildings for the (c01-b lege, muid for the opening of the iinsti - t fuill facul ty it its (early at (liy as5 t)os sili. Fo rt ill is a tine odld pilian-b iof about a thiousantd iacres, " fa -n is5 aiyil nol sta ouThe plnta tion lionne. It sits oni the top of it 0 coiiiunaming bill. Th'le large whit e ~i (01cobuins t o it s ia zzat att rct t. ie at -b ticitionc of iall paissers byV. The ol.l s hou1 ase is mi a lin 4 -e stat of prsrv - ion1, iand (contins all thIe fcuniturie, hoo1 ks, psoritraiiits andii othe relie414s of ot MrIi. Calho1un1. The itru istees propose n05( to keep tihe hiouse intact. as it kinid of g' Calhiocin iei nria. tIc - th A story is tol (if Coingressmanc mi Tauilbese, c Kn'utne4ky, who was shot nii lately by Cnar'les Kiineaid, in Wash . tu tile humiior. An 4)ld 'oloredl mian (enlled1 Uncle Eph)l ihad lived ini the fTaulheef faimily numify years' acid wats cons151idee an honIi4iest iand fai ftul1 old in s(ervatt. After' the' election for' Conc w gre ssmiani, - Tiaulbe(' haiviing 1beeni a it i 1'111i canidte, lhe wuas Iiuntedl by somei of tE 1h5 iloonents 'with the11 statemeni'it !u. '1 thatt Lunc'le 1Eph 1had4 voted1 against m himii. Lothl 1( believe it he~ (called . l vo~' t)ed( agatinistl me it. thle elect ionu t "W' \ell, sid 'Tauilbee, "'I like franick ing~ his head14, when1 1iici Ta )e(' asked:'( Wel,Eh wa.1sit? 'Well, Ma ~ssa Ttulblee,''said Eph, "if you is buying citndor' you owes rmae fo' tdolliars mo'4, kas(' 1 vote' atgain ye' hve tiunes. 1. ..The granud lodge of the lIdepenc dl dl(nt Or'der' of Odd Fe(llows of the ~ -State of North Carolina will imeet in I Cl IWilmington, Tu esdy May Ia ,hh RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. volution the Certain Sequence of Omtcial . Tyranny. The frequency with which the Issian outrages are brought before public by the indefatigable orge Kennan, makes the subject a ble tiresome. The latest and most isational of all--the massacre of political exiles in Yakutsk--~is 'ated afresh in the April Century, terein Mr. Kennan shows quite aclusively that the explanation ade by the Russian government is surd. He concludes his summary follows: One of the executed men, two urs before the rope was put about neck, scribbled a hasty farewell, to to his comrades in which be d: We are not afraid to die, but -you--t() make our deaths count - something-write all this to Ken ii." The appeal to me shall not be vain. If I live the whole English c-aking world at least, shall know the details of this most atrocious mc. Eiowever this may be, the world at ge, and we of America as a part of cannot but feel a deep interest in hat is going on in Russia. There 1 be but. one end to the total sup : ssion of liberty which the govera nt of Russia exercises this day. u as brutal a severity as in the I(s of Peter or of Catharine. l'here waes a (lawn of hope for Rts. --at least it lookedl that way to wig America-when the serfs were $t. eiancipated. Russia had been id to uus-a--ilthou'hi, as our states In then kuew.the kindness was 1)ut other iamw for"1olic-3-and Amer .n5 Were deceived for a while with roseate views of what rejuvena 1 Russia would surely accomplish time. [t soonl beCae evident, however, it there WaS 11o ho)e for modern ilization in Russia, until she should ss through the same furnace which ed France, and in the naturo of ings, the trial will be even more so re. The tyrlmy of the French no ity was as nothing compared with at which the governing class of 1ssia exercise without limit, and e retribution will, unhtappily, reach ( innocent alike with the guilty. hen Russia einerges from this sea blood she will take her place in e foremost ranks of the great na )malities of the world. CONCRESSMEN WRITE A BOOK. Ieemlsrte-tiom anul tLK ltesalts D)isettnKed-. The Race Que,t IOn. Representatives Herbert of Ala iuna, Her:,ihill of South Carolina, irner of Georgia, Stewart of Texas, ilson of West Virginia, ex-Repro itative Barksdale of Mississippi, 1nator Vance of North Carolina, sco of Florida, Vest of Missouri cl W. L. Fishback of Arkansas, Ira Jones of Tennessee, O. S. Long of est Virginia and B. J. Sage of )lsiala have collectively written, (d will soon publish, a book entitled, V1hy a Solid South; or, Reconstrue m aid Its Results.'' It undertakes to IarrIte fairly and spasssion-ately, in a concise and pop r form, the history of the recon ucted governmnents in each State oving how the RepublicanS ob ind4 conitrl'I and1 how~ they lost it, uirce and facts as to the slu-inkage values and the increase of debt andi mitioni unlderi these their govern uits and( the prosperity of the South der presen t auspicies. The( boo0k spea'uks of Abraham Lin Ini's death as an app)alling calamity. the South, argues that Anidrew hiuson followed strictly Lincoln's mi of restoration anid contends that Lincoln had lived lhe would have (en able to defend that plan against e assaults of Congress. Ealchchlapter is signed by its authior, 10 thus her'omes(' directly responsi e ftor the truith of his statements, d thet claimi of the boo0k in its pre ce, written by Gen. Herbert, its edi rn. is that in all the c'hapters the ets are( uinder'staitcd rather thon Thle race question anmd race trou e's are( exten'lsively d1iscuss~ed. The at t'men')t is mnad(' that there is no in nit ion to agitate for the repeal of the th aiimndmen'ut or* the deportationi thle negr'oes. Educational and rtt(rialt statistics of many kinds are v'on ini supp)jort of the contention att the niegro is priosperouis andi thait t' South is solving for itself the Then book is ded(ienite (to11 the b)usi ss meni of thle Northi with the state enit that theuy arc initerestedl in eon inig ihe prospHjerity SoitheC South. The Wheat ('eop. The( Louiisville' Courier -Journail bl Iishecs reports on the( growing heat crop from one hundred and ty of its c'orre'sponldents in Ken e'ky, Tenniiess'e, Southern Ind(iania di Northlerii Alabatma. The outlook Keiituicky and1( Alabhamna is for a 'aily aveiage crop; while acr'oss the bio iiid ini Tenmness(ee the prospects e not so goodi. rThiis is esp)ecially c case ini the b)order counties of dianla, where cold and wet weat hem' s plIayed1 havoc with thle grain. A Ghreat Bridge. The Congressional House of Rep-. stative's has passed the b)ill for il' big new bridge across the Hud mi ltive'r between New York and ersey lRiver. The bridge is to have x railroad tracks, with capacity for mir more; is to b)e of a singl span, nid stand as high from the water as hie present Brooklyn bridge. Its onistructoi must begin wvithin three ears, and end within ten years. This >ridge, if built, will excel the famous