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TALMAGE IN LONDON. HIS VIEW OF THE MODE IN WHICH T HE BLEST WILL SPEND ETERNITY. Thrilling Dct-ription of the Uleavwnly Host ts seen by St. John-.No More Toil or Sorrow or Sghing or Tears --The Music of Heaven. LONDON, July 10.-Dr. Talmage is spending a very busy season In England. Not only in the London churches, but in the provinces, enormous crowds have gathered to hear the eloquent American preacher. The great Sloreditch Taber macle in the cast of Londoi, where Rey. W. Cuff preaches, wits thorongeJ al most to sulfocation and the large Con unregational church in the Hackney dis rict, could not hold hall the people who tried to g!et I)to it, though it was on a Monday evemnug that Dr. Talmage preached there. Outside London the vagerness to hear hiu has been quite as !Itellse.. In Liverpool, lanchester, Notting ham, Crews and ILanley no church could b'e found large enough to accommodate the audienccs, and Dr. Talmage preached in the halls ill whIch the itreat political conventions are held, and the capacity of these was tested to the ut,L most. Since his arrival he has preached seven times each week. The sermon selected for publication this week ia trom te text, Revelation, vii, 9, 10, "After this I beheld, and lo! a great multitude which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and peoplc and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lmb, clothed with whitc robes, and palms in their hands, and cried with a loud Voice, saying, Salva tion to our God which sittet,h nipol the throne, and unto the Lamb.'' It is impossible to conic in contacl with anything grand or beautiful in art, nature or religion without being profited and elevated. We go into the art gal. lery and our soul meets the soul oI the painter, and we hear the hum of' his for. est8 and the clash of his conflicts, and see the cloud blossoming of the sky and the fibam blossoming of the ocean; and we coie out from the gallery better men than when we went in. We go into the concert of music and are lifted into el chantment; for days after our soul seems to rock with a very tumult of joy, as the sea, after a long stress of weather, rolls and rocks an(] surges a great while be fore it comes back to its ordinary calm. On the same principle it Is profitable to think of heaven, and look ofil uponl that landscape of joy and light, which St. John depicts; the rivers of gladness, the tree of life, the thrones of power, the commmiglings of' everlasting love. wish this morning that I could bring heaven from the list of intangibles and make it seem to you as it really is-the great fact in all history, the depot of all a-'es, the parlor of God's universe. This Iccollt inl my text 1ives Ia IC ture of heaven as it is on a holiday. Now if a man came to New York for the first time on the day that Nossuth arrived from litingary, ani lie saw the arches lifted, and the flowers Ilung in the streets, andl he heard the guns boom ing, he would have been very !'oohish to suppIose that that, was the ordinary ap pearance of the city. W hile heaven is aiways grand and amlways becautifuil, I think my text~ speals of a galai dayv in hecavetn. ft is a t inm' (ot ieat elebration-pe-1'r halps oit the bir'th or the resurrection of' Jesuis perhlmp s of thie downfall of' sonie despoti5m; perhaps bocause of the rush m,in of the luillenniumn. I know not wI at; lbut it do(eg semto1( meI it read1(ing this passa$ge ai if it were a holiday in heaven. "AMter tis I beheld, and to! ai 'r eat muti tude which no nmani could inmber, ol all tnauions and kindredls and I 'tople and tonhgue(s, stoodl hefore the throtn', andt lie!,ore the L ambt, clothed with white robef)s. andc pialmus in their liunas, and cried with a loudt voice, say mr, Salvation to our G od which sitteth 1u1on1 the thrione, and iimto the I Lnmh."' Sshal speakif to youi of the gloitied in heaven- their mumber, thI eir antecec dentds, t hiir dress, thte ir sy~mb ols atid their' song. tut how shall I begin by te'llingt. you of the tinmbers of those in heavet: I have seeni a cur ious est tiate by an ingenious man who c.uleulates how long the world was goitiir ti last, and hiow i~1 man peoplle th[ere areC in each igen ('rationi, and( 111 thenis uip the whol.e miatter, and says lie thinks there will be I u wetysee illoso ol in lry I hve o fithiinoetimaente.i of im text-it is "a. great multitude, whiebh ito mian can nmber."' Ivr few years mi this countr'y we taeacensus of thle ppuhation), and it is very easy5~ to tell how tmany peCople thiete are in a city oi' nation, but who shall give the census of the great nation if theC sav'~edy It is quiite easy to tell how many peopile there are in diflerent udetnomiationls of' Christians-how mian v Itaptist s and Methodists and Ep:hiscopai-. inns and Presbiyterians; of all the dIe inminations of Christians we could make ani estimitte. Suppose thtey were gathered ini one gient audience rotm; how overwhelm. nug the spectacle! But it. w~old give not idea of th.e great audience room of' heav en-the multitudes that bow down and that lilt up their hiosannas. Why, they come from all the chapels, from all the cathedrals, fromi all sects. from all ages; they who prayed ini sp)lendid liturgy, iaind those who in broken sentences ut tered the wish of bruken hearts.-f'rom G race church andl Sailors' Bethel, from uder the shapeless rafters and from tin (der higih sprung arch-"a great mult.i tude, that no man can nulmb)er." One of the most impressive things I have looked upon is an army. Stand ing uvmn a hiillside you see forty thous anfd c,i fifty thousand men pass along. Y ou ean hardly imagine the impression i1 ' oui have not actually felt it, but you may take all the armies that the earth has ever seen-the legions under Sen nachierih and Cyrus and Caesar, Xerxes and1 Alexander and Napoleon and all our modern forces and lput them in one great array, and then 0on some swift steed you miay ridte along the line and review the troops, and that accumulated hoat from all ages seems like a hail formed regiment compared1 with the great array of the redeemed. I1 stood one day at Williamsport, and saw on the opposite side of the Potomna< the forces coming down, regiment at tei regiment and brigade after brigade. Il seemed as though there was no end t< the procession. .But now let me takt the fIeld glass of St. .John and look ofi upon the hosts of heaven-thousands upon thousands, ten thousand times ter thousand, one hundred and forty atd four thousand, and thousands of thous ands, until I put down the field glass and say, "I cannot estimate it-a great multitude that no man can number." . You may tax your imagination and torture your Ingenulty and break down your powers of calculation in attempt ing to express the multitudes of the re leased from earth and the enraptured of heaven, and talk of hundreds of hun. dreds o1' hundre4s, of' thousands of thousands of thousands, of millions of millions of' mihious, until vour head aches and your heart faints, and ex hausted an(d overburdencd you exclaitl, "I cannot count them--a areat multitude that no man can number." But my subject advances, and tells you of their antecedents, "of all nations nad kindreds and tongues." So tie of them spoke Scotch, Irish, German, Enst lish, Italian, Spanish, Tamil, Choctaw, Burmese. After men have been long in the land you can toll by their accentu atior From what nationality they came; and I suppose in the great throng around the throne It will not be diflicult to tell from what part of the earth they came, These reaped Sicilian wheatfields and those picked cotton trom the pods. These under blistering skies gathered tamarinds and yams. Those crossed the deert on camels and those glanced over the snow, drawn by Siberian dogs, an(d I liese milked the goats far up ou the Swiss crags. These fought the walrus and white bear in regions of everlasting snow and those heard the song of fierN wimve-1l birds in African thickets. They were white. They were black. They Were red. They were copper color. From all lands, from all ages. Th3e were plunged into Austrian dungeons They passed through Spanish inquisi tions. They were confined in Londor tower. They fought with beasts in tht aiphitleater. They wcre Moraviani They were Waldenses. They were Al bigensee. They were Scotch Covenan ters. They were Sandwich Islanders. In this world men pref'er ditleren kinds of government. The Unite Statts want a republc. The Britisl government needs to be a co'stitutiona monarchy. Austria wants absolutism But when they come up from earth fron different nationalities they will prefe ove "reat monarchy-King Jesus rule over it. And if that monarchy wer( disbanded, and it were submItted to al the hosts of heaven who should rule then by the unanimous sufl'rages of al the redeemed Christ would become tie preslident of the whole universe. Magniu Chartas, bills of right, houses of bur. gesses, tri uivirates, congresses, parlia. ments-nothing in the presence of Christ's scepter, swaying over all the People who have entered upon that great glory. Oh! can 1ou imagine it' What a strange comminsling of tastes, of histories, of nationalities, "of' all na tions and kindreds and people and tonlgues.' Aly subject advances, and tells you of the dress of those in heaven. The ob. ject of dress in this world is not only to veil tihe body, but to adorn it. The God who dreRses up the spring morning with blue ribbon of' sky around the bow and carrings of' dew drops hung from tree branch and mantlc of' crimson cloud 1lhmg over the shoulder and the violetted slippers ot' the grass for her f'eet-I know that God (foes not despise beautiful ap. parel. Well, what shall we wear in heavet4? "I saw a great multitude clothcd in white robes.'' It is white! In this world we had sometimes to have on working apparel. Bright, and Ius. trous garments would be ridiculously out of place sweltering amid forges, of mix ing paints, or lalster'ing ceilings, or Ini this w'orld we must hmave the wvork ing day apparel sometimes, and we care not how coarse it is. it is appropriate; but w hen all the toil of' earth is past and1( ther'e 15is nomore dr'udgery and no more weaineiss we shall stand( before the Lthrone rob)ed in white. Oni earth we somevt,iimes had to wvear miourning apparel -black scarf for the ar'm, black veil for the flate. black gloves for the hands, b)lack band f'or the hat. Abraham miourniing for Sairai; Isaac mouninug for lieheeca; lRachel mourning f'or her chil direni; D avid mourning fer Absafom; alairy mourning fi'r Lazarus. Every se'ondi of every minute of' every hour of .very (lay a heart br'eams. Th'le earthi fr'om zone to zone and from p'ole to pole is eleft with sepulchral r'ent . anid the ear'th can eaislyv afl'ord to bloom anid blossom whlen it is so rich with nmthliring life. Graves! graves! traves! liut whlen these bereavements have all patssal, arnf there are no more grave's to dig aind no moie cofilns to make and( no more sorrow to suff'er, we hall pull1 oil'tfhis mourning and be robed mI whiute. I see a soul going right upi from all this scene of'sin andl trouble into ilory. I seem to hear him say: I j'nrneay forth rejofeir g l'romn this dark v'ale of tears, 'I heavenly joy and freedom' krim earthily care and fears. Whien C2hmist my Lord shall gather All bi s redeemed agaIn, H s kingdom to inher't G;ood night till then. I hear may SaViour calling; 'I lhe joyful hour has coime Thf e angel guards are ready 'To guide me to our home. Wh'fen Christ our Lord shall gather All his redeemed agalin, I lis kingdom to inherit Uood nIght till then. Aly subject advances, and tells you of the symbols they carry. If my text had represented the goodl in heaven as carrying cypress branches, that would have meant sorrow. If my text had represented the goodl in heaven as carry ing nii ghtshade, that would htave meant siin. .u ut it is a palm branch they car ry, and that is victory. When the peo. ple caine home from war in olden times the conqueror rode at the head of his troops, and there were triumphal arches and the people would come out with branches of the plamt tree and wave them all along the host. What a significant type tis of the greetinog and of the joy of the redeemed in hea ven! On earth they were condemned, and were put out of polite circles. TIhey had infamous hands strike them on both cheeks. Infernal spite spat in their faces. Trheir back ached with sor row. Their bro w reeked with unalleviated toll. IIow weary they were! Some. times they broke the heart of the mid night it the midst of all thteir anguish, crying out, "O) God ." But hark now to thte shout of the dlvered captives, as they lift their arms from the shackles andl they cry out, "Free!tfree!" They look back upoht all the trials t.hrough which they htave passed the battles they have fought, the burdens they carried, the misrepresentations they suffered, and because they are delivered from all these they stand before God Waving their palms. They come to the feet of Christ and they look up into his face, and they remember hIs sorrows, and they remember his pain, and Itey re member his groans and thtey say: "Why I was saved by that Christ. lie par. doned my sins, he soothed my sorrows,' and standing there they shall be exult ant, waving their p alms. That hand once held the implemeni of toil or wielded the sword of war, bul now it p lucks down branches from thi tree of life as they stand before thi throne waving their palms. Once hi was a pilgrim on earth; he crunched tht hard crusts he walked the weary way But it Cis all gone now-the sin gone the weariness gone the sickness gone the sorrow gone. As Christ stands us before the great array of the saved anc recounts his victories it will be like'tht rocking and tossing of a forest in a tempest, as all the redeemed rise up host beyond host, rank beyond rank waving, waving their palms. My subject makes another advance ment and speaks of the song they sing Dr. Dick, in a very learned work, sayl that among other things in heaven hi thinks they will give a grea, deal o time to the study of arithmetic and th higher branches or mathematics I di not believe it. It would upset my de or haaven if I thought so; I never hke( mathematics; and I would rather tak tle representation of my text, whicl describes the occupation of heaven a being joyful psalmody. "They crie with a loud voice, saying, Salvatio: unto our God," In this world we hav secular songs, boatmen's songs hai vest songs, sentimental songs; but I heaven we will have taste for only on song, andl that will be the song of sal vation from an eternal death to an etei nal heaven, through the blood of th Lamb that was slain. I see a soul coming up to join the re deemed in heaven. As it goes throug the gates the old friends of that spiri come around it and say, "What shal we sing?" and the newly arrived sor says, "Sing salvation;"and after awhil an earthly despotism falls, and a sce ter of iniquity is snapped, and churcht are built where once there were super stitious mosques, and angel cries t angel, "Let us sing," and the answer it "What shall we sing?" and anothe voice says, "Let us slug salvation;" an after awhile all the church on eartl will rush into the outspread arms of th church of heaven, and while the righte ous are ascending, and the world is burt ing, andt all things are being woun up, the question will be asked,"Wha shall we sing?" and there will be voice "like the voice of many water: like the voice of mighty thounderings, that will respond, "Sing salvation." In this world we have plaintive song -songs tremulous with sorrow, song dirgeful for the dead; but in heavei there will be no sighing of winds, ni wailing of anguish, no weeping sym phony. The tamest song will be hal lelulah-the dullest tune a triumpha march! Joy among the cherubim! Jo3 among the seraphim! doy among tnit rausomed! Joy forever! On earth the music in churches it often poor, because there is no interest in it or because there is no harmony. Some would not sing, some could not sing, some sang too high. some sang too low, some sang by fits and starts but in the great audience of the ra deemed on high all voices will be ac cordant and the man who on earth could not tell a plantation melody from the "Dead March in Saul" will lift an anthen that the Mendelessohns and Beethovens and the Schumanns of earth never imagined, and you may stand through all eternity and listen, and there will not be one discord in that great anthem that forever rolls lip against the great heart ot God. It will not be a solo, it will not be a duet, it will not be a quintet, but an innumer able host before the throne crying, "Salvation unto our God and unto the Lamb." They crowd all the temples; they bend over the battlements; they fill all the heights and deit. and lengths and breadths of heaven with their hosannas. .When pjeople were takeni into the rl'emple of Diiania it was such a brilliant room that they were always put on their guardl. .Some people had lost their sight by just looking on the brilli ancy of that room, and so the janitor, when he brought a stranger to tne door and let him in, would always charge him, "'Take heed of your eyes." Oh, when I think of the song that goes up around the throne of God, so jubilant, many voiced, multitudinous, t fet l like saying, "Trake heed of your ears." It is so loud a song. It is so blessed an anthem. They sing a rock song, say ing, "'WVho is lie th at sheltered us mi the wilderness and shadowed us mi a weatry laud ?" Anid the chorus comes mi, "Christ, the s',a low of a rock in a weary land." T1hey smng a star soni, sa1ying, "'Who is lie that guided us through the thiek night, and when all other lights went out arose in tihe sky the mnoruning star, pourin. light, on the soul's (larkness?" And thie chorus will come in, "'Christ, the morning star, shining on the soul's darkness." They will sing a flower song, saying, "'Who is lie that, brighitened all our way, and b)reathedl sweetness upon01 our soul, and bloomed throughi irost, and tempest?'" and( the chorus will come in, "Christ. the lily of the valley. biloominig thirouigh fronrt and tempest." They sing a water sone, saying, "Who is lie [fhat gleamed to us from the frown ing crag, and lightened [lie darkest ravmne of' trouble, and brought coolinir to the lip, and was a fountain in the ~midst of the wilderness?" and then the chorus will come in, "Christ, the founthin in the midst of' the wilderness." My friends, will you join that a'uthem? Sh all we make rehearsal this morning? Ii' we cannot sing that song o.n earth we will not, be ab>le to sing it in heaven. Can it be [hat our good friends in that lan(i will walk all through that great throng of which 1 speak, looking for us and not lindinig us? will they come dlown) to the gate and ask if we have passedi through, and not, find us reportedi as having come'/ Will they look through the fohios ol eternal light and find our names unrecorded? Is all this a rep. resentatlon of' a land we shall never see--ot a song we shall never sing? White Caps at WVork. ItA LEIG H, X. C., July 8.-In Johnston county, last night, a party of disguised men went to the house of Steve Thomp son, white, and gave hIm nd lis wife a terrible beating. Thompson claims that the meni were white and that they isguised themselves by blacking their faces. I[e has made complaint and sworn out warrants against one of the wealthiest men in the county andi three of his sons, The investigation begins next Monday. The motive for whip. ping involves several things affecting the character of the Thompsons. It is charged that they are dangerous people and fiIrebrands in the com munity. They are also accused of being of depraved character, and several robberies are chlargedl to them. The woman is the mother of three negro children, These things the community could not endure, and the neighbors whipped the man and his wife, with the idea of driving them away. Their backs are a mnas of wouinds from the blows with heavy whips. Shot at a Church, BEDFonDI, Ind., July 7.--James Mur. phy, shot and killed William Faubion, at Chapel 11111, eleyen miles north of here, while the congregation knelt in prayer, and the preacher was asktng Giod to bless and protect those preseni from evil. The fatal shots were fired at the very door of the church. Fau blon was under the influence of whisk3 and was making a noise. lie was or dered away and the poor fellow wai leaving when Murphy shot him ini thu i back. Murphy esap..s SIHAW SHOWS UP. fi THE "LYNCHED" MAN APPEARS IN a HIS LAWYER'S OFFICE. H h Detailed Aucount of a N189ht 1anMOrAbiO a tu Mie LIfe-Havagei, W1tpped and h Threatened With Death-A Wild Dash 0 for Life and Liberty. it GREENVILLE,. C., July 8.-The first S newspaper itan to ate and interview g Dave Shaw since his mysterious die. I appearance from Laurens county, was i[ a reporter for The Daily iNews. The f alleged Interview with Shaw in the b Atlanta Constitution wan a .ike, as r many supposed. Thie News is able to a give the first straight story of the out. 11 rageous affair which, for over a month, f, has been shrouded in myestery. b It was on Friday night of the 27th of 8 May that Dave Shaw wa. subjected to le what he claims was most inhuman t a cruelty by a mob of Laurens county l; citizens, some of them influential and a prominent men. Since then the a whereabouts of Shaw has been known w to few, and all kinds of wild rumors hi have filled the air and gone uncontra- ir dicted, because the truth was not I t known. I)ave Shaw is 20 years old and is live sk 1 feet seven inches high. lie weighs a 1 about 180 pounds, and is a dark ginger ti bread color. Ris face and chlin are w 1 smooth and his healthy condition is evidence that he has been well treated 4 since the night that he ran like a deer t( I for his life. lie seems to realize that S r his life is still in jeopardy, for a I frightened roll of the eyes and a quick, ti I startled turn of the body are noticed on t( the approach of an unknown )erson, r Under the right side of the chin are ' scars where a rope cut into the flesh P I and Shaw's back is yet sore from the t terrible beating he received. A scar on the right side of the face tells where a he was struck a stinging blow. The story of the negro is a wonderful one. Shaw, arrived yesterday afternoon from below here with a colored man, ft 3 his cousin, and a white man who has i I been a friend to him. le went to the tl ofilce of C. F. Dill, who has for years i been his attorney, to seek advice about d what lie shall do. He had not been in the oflice three minutes before a News reporter had been introduced to him. On being told that the reporter was a friend lie lost the startled expresion of his eyes and, on being asked, at once pro- -ii ceeded.to tell the story of what was the 3 nearest call to death lie ever knew and S of moments when he thought he would 'i soon meet his Maker. w Shaw's language was that of the typi cal darkey and no attempt is made to re- al produce his exact words. lie said that I he was arrested about 2 o'clock in after- e noon in his field by Constable Aber- U crombie, William Abercrombie, Wit- ) liam Watkins and James Bolt. The ar- ol rest was on a arrant charging him l with breaking into the store of V. L. I Hopkins. The men allowed Shaw to go tit to his house to get his shoes and coat. lie remained there at)out half an hour gi and was then taken to Hlopkin's house. to IIe was placed in a corn crib for safe yc keeping and was kept there until after w dark. Ile was given some food, which a' he placed in the hip pocket of his trous era. Shortly after dark the two Aber crombies, accompanied by one of the Hopkins,' started to Laurens With their prisoner. The three men were riding horses. Shaw was riding behind the i constable. Trhree-founrths of a mile ne from IIopkins' house is Rabun creek. 'U on reaching the stream the constable in told the two others that lie would walk fo across the foot loir with the prisoner, Lii and asked them to take charge of huis a horse amnd saddle, the saddle girth hav- er ing become loose. The constable anmd tr Shaw started up the hill. The two a others taJrietl beh in d. A bout T50 y ards fromi the creek Shiaw, notwithstanding t it was a dark night, saw tihe gieam of shirt bosoms in thne bushes oui each side of the road, iIe tiid nor, have time for er meditation, for the mob sprang froini t the bushes, fired pistols and gemns and el cried, "We want that prisoner'" The m constable stood beside his prisoner, to while nothing imuore wats seen by him o011.o the two other alleg(ed ollicers. Shaw at says that, there were at least lifty men fo ini the mob. Coinstab,le Abercrom-bie in said not hing and did notling in defence in of his prisoner,.t "Thecy took me," said Shmaw, "across into the pines, going aibout fifty or seventy-uive yards. Whent the Aber- o crombies and llopkins left IIopkins' ~ house with me they had my hands tied ca hardl behind me with my o wn plow line, t.h with which I was plowing wvhen they' th arrested mec. Th'ie crowd stopped under fo a pine and told me they were going to th hlang me if I did not tell them where ce Mr. HIopkins' goods were. I told them bc I knew nothing about the goods. They then untied the rope aroundt my hands, mn and put it over my nec~k. They pulled w: off my coat and threw it over my head." I Shaw then graphically diescr Ibed his first experience in hanging. T1he object of the mob at the beginning was to make imu confess the robbery and not Ic to kill him. They tied a knot In the m rope so that it wouldn't tighten and to kill him. The end of the rope was thi thrownl over a limb of a tree and Shaw hc was pulled tip, IIe was let down and p< commanded to make a confession, lie protested his innocence. Six or eight th Limes he was drawn uip andl let down, each time suffering agonies. Some one In the mob said, "D-in him, lie's rest lng too easy," and then t he rope was fixed so that It would tighten. In the 1" face of what lie thought to be dleath lie so again declared his innocence, iIe was of pulled up, the rope ighted and after a short time he lost consciousness. A kt pleasant feeling stole over himi after a mi brief suffering and be thought hie was at in his own homne, with his family around rr him. iIe does not know how long lhe dr was hanging, but the first he remem bers was the sound of voices. A voice said, "D-n him, hie ain't dead, he's re only pQssuming," and lie was dealt a blow in the face. The mob took him to to another tree, took the rope from lisa neck, tied It to his thumbs and then of tried the thumb torture, pulling him * up many times by the thumbs. Shaw ra says the agony was excruciating, and N that his hands were swollen for dayg 01 Iis thumbs now have no feelings in 01 them. Even this fearful torture failed 01 to wring a confession from Shaw. An- ut other erdeal was In store for the unfor- Lii tuniate man. iIe was strapped to a tree se and whipped with a leather buggy in trace, the blood flowing freely. Occa- lo sionally he was struck with a stick. The trace madie more bruises than i gashes. Not a word passed Shaw's lips. V U p to this time the crowd had not di- Lu mlinished and the constable seems to i have followed in the hope of regaining lii his prisoner. at As a last resort the mob told Shaw pi that If he did not talk they would take ai him to a lake on lleedy river and his fa bed would be in that. T'he lake 12 te.vop miles and a bait from where 'the mob u took possession of the prisoner, and In the direction where Shaw was arrested. u 'The mob started with their helpless victim, going back toward where lie S w- taken from. The mob dwindled 11i waL 'e going along the road and m mile fro. where the start was made there Li was 'otsa large number. Shaw told the SI Crowd that he would help hunt the olen articles, hoping to get an oppor inity of escaping. The crowd turned om the road into the woods, lighting lantern. -Shaw cai ried the lantern. e was watching his chance. Three en were be ide him and the others be nd. Alter a long walk in the woods, branch wa reached. The crowd told im that they had tollowed him long iough and intended to blow his brains it. By thia time Shaw was again ear his own home aul knew the local y well. lie was close to a deep gully. uddenly he hurled the lantern into the ally and broke. He said: "I seed it ,as death any way I went and thought might as well die running as stand ig still." Ills familiarity with the round gave him an advantage. lil ts whistled around the fleeing negro, ut he thought only of escape. Shaw mn a long distance, pulled off his shoes rid went on. lie reached a swamp on [orse creek before daylight and went tr into it. Ile had the food which had 3en given hum. lie remained in the vaip until Sunday night, when he It, going to Belton. Ilis object was get as far away as possible. From -lton he reached Seneca and then ent to Toccoa, Ga., where lie staved ith a friend until Friday of last week, 'hen lie returned by the same route he d gone. Ile has been with a cousin the lower part of this county since [onday. Shaw has a wife and child, but has Dot en them since the afternoon lie was i 'rested. lie has a dread of going back I Laurens. Ile does not believe lie ould be safe in Laurens jail. Governor Tillman and Solicitor -humpert will probably be telegraphed for a:1vice about what to do with aw. Shaw would not tell for publication Le nawies of the men in the mob he cognized. le knows about twelve of iem and some, as stated, are men of rominence and influence.-News. WHY WILLIAMSON TURNS. e Cal't Support the Party of Imperial laim *ud Plutocracy, 1MREENCASTLE, Ind., July G.--The >Ilowing correspondence between the [on. George A. Knight of this city and ie Ilon. D. E. Williamson, formerly ie Republican Attorney General of In iana, is published in the 1), wocrat: UBRAziL, Clay County, Ind., June, 25, 1892. . E, Williamson, Greencastle, Ind. MY DEAR FRIEND-I see by this orning's papers that you have averred >ur purpose to vote for Cleveland and evenson. I congratulate you upon ds return to your ancient love, from hom jou have beon eo long alienated. I admire such independence of 'arty ackles. Your great influence wili be lt throughout the borders of Indiana, d many others, by your heroic pur ,pe, will be induced to return to the E party, which, I am proud to say, is arer sound and correct In its princi. es on the financial and tariin questions an it has been for twenty-five years. I extend to you the right hand warm ip of* party fellowship. May you live be a thousand ).irs old, and when u (lie may it be in the ancient faith to litlh you once held and which you have ain embraced. Yours fraternally, Gj-.onoi A. KNIGHT. G R-:ENCAsTL., Ind., June 27, 1892. nrge A. Knight, Brazil, Ind.: MY DEAR FRIEN)-l have your note the 25h inst. I treasure its contents the expression of a irtend without a ile. Lu 1801l the war, that great epoch Ameriean history, led me into the Ids of the Republicani party. My ac n w as the result oflhoniest convi,a, belilf that the Gov'ernment could only ist by micent expenditure of' blood and lasure. I stood by that, party and t'3d with it until every que'stion arising t of the war was set,tled and sealed by e law of the land. No change was er made in my mnind as to old Demo. ?ttic pirinciples- they had grown too :ong to be eradicated by sulbsequent ents9, Thirough one of those political itations, that all parties are stibject the l)ermocratic par;,y now stands as the Governmnent, policy (t.he slavery estion eliminated) where it stood ba -e the wvar: A tariff for reventue, with :idental protection to our manuf actur Sinterests, not a tariff for ;uroteet,ion wealth andl inlcidental revenue to' the )ver.iment. Th'le race qluetion is now( the shouilers of the Repl)hican rty. The President and the Rtepubli a ploliticins are squarely p)ledged to a "force bill," whenever they obtain a power to pass such a measure. 1. one, am not willing to aid them I air effort for that power. If they suc ed in this canvass that, odious law will fastened upon the people. Power to control the Federal Govern cnt, is what, the Rtepublic:an leaders mat. The negroes of the Sout,h can be 't to take care of themnselves in all at,e elections, but in the election of esident and Congressmnen the whole Jeral po~wer, executive, judiciary and litary, if necessary, must be invoked keel) the negro of the South on top of e whit,e population. The negro has en freedl, enfranchised, and has cqual hltical p)rivileges with the white man. I am tiredl of the polit,ical cry, "Lo! a poor negro." lIe can solve the ra::e estion himiself by breaking up the lid negro vote. Tis at once would . t him under the p)rotection of bot,h rt,ies an' .t, the same time break the 4 lid South, and would we have no more the race iuestion. Then again, if' tha Republican party Is pt in power, the government at Wash Iton will become imperial in all its t,ributes, and( .hie States mere out,lying ovinces an~d local self-government a sam of the past,.t The present rulers ol the htep)ublican f rty all have military p)retensions and ~ ard the mass of the part,y as subjects I I comminand. TIhe p)eople have but, little say, other tIhan ratify the acts of the i ice- holdecrs and( coloredl gentlemen of I e South. For my part, I reluso to tLfy. I had occasion last week to visit uncle, lndl , and availed myself of t,be porttinity of visiting the nmer a manufacturing establishments in eration and numerous others going ; mitlions of dollars expended in I' planits; no0 want of money, rp)lus capital o: other manufactur-. Senterprises. As I returned home I ked out at the farmer tolling In the lds, his fiirm of but little Increased lue l)y years' hard work; the manuifac rer a milhl!naire, wIt,h the markets of o worldh oj, ia to his output; the farmer nilted to a home market for lis products d compelled to pay a royalty on all his Irchases; the manufacturer a mIllion re wit,h all the luxuries of' wealth; the rmer a slave to labor with a bare comn tence*; the former the pet,ted child of e government, the latter the Atlas on which all rests. Are you sur prised that I am on the he of the under man, and aid In the ~ht against plotocracy and Imperialism? Stand upon the watch tower, unfurl e banner 01 Democracy, cry aloud and are not. I am truly your friend, D,) E. WILLIAM8ON. A Vity Alatioit urnat 'p. HALIFAX. N. F., uly 9.--The most 11ast.rous liro in the istorv of St. John's, N 1., broke out yesteriay vena Lng, dtiring a heavy north wct gaie. 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