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MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1890. NO. 20. VOL. VI.mmmm A UEAU LION. ORDS SPOKEN IN THE TABERNA CLE PULPIT Dr. De Witt Taminage Speaks. Fromx Ecdlesi asted Upon a "Dead Lion." and Creates a sensation. The subject of Dr. Taliage's ser mon on Sunday was --A Dead Lm n. and his text. E,)laastes 9:4, --A L Ing dog is bet .t 1 Iz:Lln a dead- lion. He said: Ti Bible is the strangestthe love liest, the mightiest, the weirdest, the best. of books. Written by Moses tin: lawyver. Joshua the soldier. Sam ie] the judge. Ezra the builder, Job the poet, David the shepherd. Damel tii,rinr-!miisjter. Amos the herds 11Mn. Mattlew the cust om1- hou-1 oiticer, Luke the doctoc. Paul te scholr. Jo3im the exile: and y t a complete harmony from the middle verse of the Bible,which is the eighth verse of the one hundred and seven teenth 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 -hartti of Es ther. and yet not an imperfection in all the 773.693 words which it is coni posed of. It not only reaches over the past, but over the future: has in it a ferry-boat, as in second Samuel: aud a telegraph wire, as in Job: and a raih -1 train, as in Nahum: and 1iL-d A's us to a foundryman by t ie nme of Tubal Cain, and a ship onilder by the name of Noah. and an' riutect by the name of Ahollab, and tells us how many stables Solo mon had to take care of his horses, -nd how much he paid for' those r. But few things in this ver It:1.' :nd compreheiiive book inter a i.&- so much as its apothegms, those short, terse. sententious, epi igaimlatic sayings, of which my text is one---A living dog is better than a dead lion. Here the lion stands for nobility. and a dog for meanness. You must know that the dog mentioned in the 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 affectionate, the sagacious, and the true. The St. Bernard dog is a hero, and if you doubt it, ask the snows of the Alps, out of which he pickedthe exhausted traveler. The shepherd dog is a poem. and if you doubt it, ask the Highlands of Scotland. The Arctic dog is the rescuer of explore rs. and if you doubt it. ask Dr. Kane's expedi tion. The watchdog is a living pro tection, and if you doubt it, ask ten thousand homesteads over whose safety he watched last night. But Solomon, the author of my text, lived in Jerusalem, and the dog he speaks of in the text was a dog in Jerusalem. Last December I passed nights and days 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 ap preciation my text puts upon the dog of Palestine. It is lean and snary and disgusting, and afflicted with paraites, and takes revenge upon the human race by filing the nights with clamor. All up and down the Bible, the most of which was written in .Plestine or Syria, or contiguous lands, th~e dog is used in contemptu os comiparison. Hazael said, --Is thy servant a dog. that he should do this tingw" In self-abnegation the Syro-Phoenician woman said, "Even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the Master's table." Paul says inPhilippians,"Boware of dogs;" and St. John in speaking of heaven, says. "Without are dogs." Onthe other hand thelion is healthy, strng, and loud-voiced, and at ts roar the forests echo and tl' mountains tremble. It is marvelous for strength, and when its hide is re moved, the muscular compactness is something wonderful, and the knife of the dissector bountds back from the tendons. By the clearing off of the forests of Palestine and the use of fre-armi;, of which the lion is particu larly afraid. they - have disappeared from places wherethey once ranged, but they were very bold in olden times. They attacked an army of Xerxes while nmarching through Mac edonia. They were so numerous that one thousand lions were slain in forty years in the amphitheater n Rome. As most of the Bible was written in regions lion-haunted, this creature appears in almost all parts of the Bible as a simile. David un .1atood its habits of night-prowling ;sin day-slumbering, as is seen from as d-escription: "The young lions -ar after their prey and seek their meat from God- The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and ay them down in their dens." And again he cries out, "My soulis among lons' Moses knew them and said: -adah is crouched like alion." Sam son knew them for he took honey from the carcass of a slain lion. Sol omon knew them and says, "The king's wrath is like the roar of a lion," and again "The slothful man says, there is a lion in the way. Isaiah knew them. and says in the millennium, "The lion shall eat straw like an ox." Ezekiel knew them and says. "The third was the face of a .-...ion." Paul knew them, and says: '"I was, delivered out of the mouth of the lion." Peter knew them, and says: "The devil as a roaring lion -walketh about." St. John knew them, and says of Christ, "Behold tme lion of the tribe of Judahi!" Now, what does my text mean when it puts a living dog and a dlead lion side by side, and says the former is better than the latter? It means that small faculties actively used are of more value than great facul ties unemployed- How often you see it! Some man with lumited ca pacity is vastly usefultHe takes that which God has given gn~f an'l says: "My mental endowment is not large and the world would not rate me high for my intellige-nce, and my vo cabulary is limited, and my educa tion was defective, but here goes what I have for God and salvation. and the making of the_ world good and happy." He puts in a word here and a word there, encourages a faint hearted man, gives a scripture pas sage in consolation to some bereft woman, picks up a child fallen in the 1tret and helps him brush off the dust and puts a nive-eem piece mm lUS haMd telli him not cry so that the boy is sin"i b fore he gets around the corntrwaiting or (every body that has a letter to e:i rry or a message to deliver: colIS into a rail trai or stage Coach. or depot. or shop. with a -miling face that sets everybody to thinking, -If that man chn, with'small equipment in life. he .appy. why cannot. I possessig far more than he has, be equally happy? One day of that kind of doing things may not amlolut Lc iuch. but, forty years of that-no one but God him self can1 appreciLte Its iimmiuelsity. The simple fact is that the world has been. and the world is nvow, full of dead lions. They are people of great capacIty and large opportuity. doiu nothing for the illprovemnlilt of society. nothilig fo the overthirow ot evil, 1olilg. for the salvatoi of Souls. Somtle of thei arc momentary lions. They have accumulated so taany hundreds of thousands of dol lars that you in feel t heir tread when they walk through anystreet or come into any circle. They can by one financial move apset the mon-y miiar ket. Instead of the ten per cent. of their income which the Bible lays down as the proper proportion of heir contribution to the cause of God. they do not give live per cent.. or three pei cent., or two per cent.. r one per cent., or a half per cent. r a quarter per cent. That they are lions, no one doubts. When they roar Wall street. State street, and Bourse tremble. In a few yearsthey will lie down and die. They will have a great funeral. and a long row of fine carriages. and mightiest requi ens will roll from the organs. and polished shafts of Aberdeen granite will indicate where their dust liesbut for all use to the world that man night as well have never lived. As mn experiment as to how much he can carry with him. put a ten-cent piece in the pahn of his dead hand, and five years after open the tomb, and you will find that he has dropped even the ten-cent piece. A lion: Yes, but a dead lion: He left all his treas Lire on earth. and has no treasure In Leaven. What shall the stone cutter put upon the obelisk over him? I muggest let it be the man's namie. fhn the date of his birth, then the ate of his death, then the appropri ite scripture passage: --Better is a iving dog than a dead lion. But I thank God that we are hav ng just now an outbursts of splendid benificenec that is to increase until the earth is iidled with it. It is preading with the speed of an epr-. lemic. but with just the opposite dreet of an epidemic. Do you not Liotice how wealthy men are openlug Free libraries, and building churches in their native village? Have you aot seen how men of large means, nstead of leaving great philanthro >ies in their wills for disappointed 6eirs to qaarrel about, and the or han courts to swaup. are becoming their own executors and administra tors? After putting aside enough "or their families (for "he that provid th, not for his own, and especially hose of his own household. is worse han an infidel.") they are saying -Wiat can I do, not after I am dead, >t while living, and in full posses don of my faculties, to properly di et the buiding of the chiu'rches, or the hospitals or the colleges, or the ibraries that I design for the public velfare, and while I yet have full ca apacity to enjoy the satisfaction of eeing the good acomihshed!I here 'are- bad fashions and good Fashions, and whether good or bad. ashions are mighty. One of hie ood fashions now starting wills weep the eirth-the fashion for wealthy nen to distribute, while yet alive. their surplus accumulationi. It is be ing helped by the fact that so many arge estates have, immediately aftr the testator's death, gone into litigation. Attorneys with large fees re employed on both sides, and the case goes on month after month, and year after year, and after one court lecides, it ascends to another court md is decided in the opposite direc tion. and the new evidence is found. nd the trials are all repeated. The children, who at the father's funeral seemed to have an uncontrollable grief, after the will is read go into an elaborate process to prove that tihe father was crazy. and therefore in competent to make a will and there are men on the jury who think tha t the fact that the testator gatve so umh of his money to the Bible soci oty and the missionary society .a the opening of a free library is proof pos itive that he was insane, and tLhat he iew not what lie was signing when he subscribed to the wor01ds: "In the name of God. aimen. I. be ing of sound mind. do imake this my last will and testament." The torn wills. the fraudulent wills, the broken wills have recently been made such a spectacle to angels and to men that all over the land success ful men are calling in architects and saying to them: --How much would it cost for me to build a picture gal lery for our town !' or -'I am spe cially interested in 'the ineurables' and how h'Irge a building would ac commodate three luuah'ed of such patients?" or "The church of God has been a great ha lp to me all miy life. and I vwant vou to draw the phmn for a church.,nanodiouus. Lauatiful. vell vecntilated,. and with plenty of windows to let in the light: I want you to get right at work in makig out plhns for such :a building. for. though I am well now, life is uncer' tain, and before I l'ave the world .t want to see something done that will be an appr'opiriate acknowedgmen ct of the goodness of God to me and minme: no" wnen ('an I hear fr'om you? Who would attempt to wvrite the obituary of thle dead lions or coml muerce, the (dead lions of law,. the dead ions of mlediciie~thle decad lionas of social influe'nce' \ast capcty.' had they. and11 ighlty r'ange, and oth er menl ini their pre's"n ea poerless5 ais the't 'antope or ifer-i or giraie when from the. jungle a Nu miian lion spr'ings upton its prey But they got thr oug it~ih life. They la down in thueir mag'nitieent har They have madei' the ir lasti shrp bargain. Thiey hay" "pokenU tir last hard w ord Theyn comnmitte t eir last meia at.W~hen 'a tawny in habitant of the desert roils ov er hell. less, the lioness and whelps till the Iair with shrieks and howls, and lasl theimselve iolmetation. nd itis a gemuiei grief for the poor hinlgs. BIt whei this dead lion of monstrous uselessness exie. tl:ro is nothing but di ramatized wo. for --Better is a livig dog than a dead lion. My text also m'ieans that an oppor tilitr o the living present is better than'a great opportunity passed. \e spend much of our time in say ing: --If I only had." We can all look back and see some occasion where we might have done a great I deed, or -might have eiP'rt ed an iu portant rescuo. or we mighit haN dealt a str-oke that. would have -- complished a vast result. Through stupidity or lack of appreciation of the crisis. through1 procrastmnation. we let the chance goby. How much tiie we have wasted in thinking of What we miight have said or might h done W'e spend hours anl days alnd y ears Ii walking aiounl that dead lioi. We '.:innot resusci tate it. It will never opeln its eyes again. There will never be another spring in itspaw. Deadas any feline terror of South Africa, through whose heart thirty years ago Gordon Cumming sent the slug. Don't let us give any more tiie to the deploring of the dead past. There are other opportunities reanianmg. Tihey iay not beI as great. but they are worth our attention. Small opportunities all around. opportunities for the say ing of kind words and doing of kind deeds. Helplessness to be helped. Disheartened ones to be encouraged. Lost ones to be found. Though the present may be insignificant as com pared with the past, --Better is aliving dog than a dead lion." The iost useless and painful feeling is the one of regret. Repent of lost opportunities we must. and get par don we may.but regrets weaken, dis hearten, and cripple further work. If a sea captain who once had charge of a White Star steamer across the Atlantic ocean. one foggy night runs on a rock off Newfoundland. and pas sengers and ship perish, shall he re fuse to taka command of a small boat up the North river and say. "I never will go on the water again un less I can run on the White Star liner' Shall the engineer of a light ning express. who -t a station mis read the telegram of a train dispatch er and went into collision. and for that has been put down to the work of engineering a freight train. say. -I will never again mount an engine un less I can run a vestibule express? Take what you have of opportanity left. Do your best with what re mains. Your shortest winter day is worth more to you than can be the longest day of a previous summer. Your opportunity now, as compared with previous opportunities. may be snll as a rat-terrier compared with the lion which at Matabosa. fatally wounded by the gunof David Living ston. in its death agony leaped upon the missionary explorer, and with its jaws crashed the bone of his arm to splinters, and then rolled over and expired, but. --Better is a living dog than a dead lion." My text also means that the con dition of the most wretched man alive is better than that of the most fovored of sinners departed. The chance of tise last is gone. Where they are they cannot make any earth ly assets available. After Charle nagne was dead lhe was set in an ormnented sepulehre on a golden throne, and a crown was put on his cold brow, and a sceptre in his stiff| hand, but that gave hinm no dominionj in thle next wvor'ld. One of the most intensely interesting things I saw last winter in Egypt was Pharaoh of olden times, the very Pharaoh who| oposed the Israelites. The inscrip tions on his sarcophagus, and the writing on his munmay bandages, pove b eyonid controversy that he was the Pharaoh of Bible times. All the Egyptologists anid the explora tions agrree that it is the old sooundrel himself. Visible are the very teeth with which he gnashed aganst the Isralitish brick-makers. There are the sockets of the merciless eves with which lie looked upon the over burdened people of God. There is the hair that tioated in the breeze of the Red sea. There are the very lis with which he commanded them tmake brick without straw. Thous ands of years after:ward, when the wrappings of the mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted up is arms as if in imploration, but skinny bones cannot again clutch his shat tered sceptre. He is a dead lion. Auid is not any m~an now living, in the fact that he has an op)portunity of repentance and salvation, better off than any of those departed ones who, by authority or p~ossessions or influ ene, wecre positively leonine, and yet wicked? Wlta thing to congratulate you on is life. \Why, it is worth more than all the gems of the universe kindled into oie precious stone I am alive: What does that ineani? Why, it means that I still have all opportunity of being saved myself. and helping ot bers to be saved. To be alive: Why. it meians that I have et an(tler cbanee to correct my past mistakes. and make sure work for hieavt'n. Alive. arc we? Come. let us "eleb ralte it byne(w resolutions. new seclf-exainationis. new 'onisecra 1I on, "nd 'a new career. The smallest an most]~ inisiiliicanit to-day is woith to : mre than five hunmdred yester days v. Taking advantage of the pr'es-I an eniy for all the future. Where are oulorgi ven insl don'~t know. God dn't kow. (either. He says. --our sis and iniquities will I re W\hiat enco'Luragemen(t in the text fr all Chiri.<tian wo rkers: Despair of no one's salvationj. While there is l'f 11here is hoe We in England a yolug lady. asked for' a class in a s id. -3Lettfr go out onl the street and'.et your clss." She brouight in a ra.'.ed andi vty . Thelu superl nl adent gavet him ?rood apparel. In a~ fewl Sundayixs he 'absentedl himself. Iniri iscovered that iin a street tisht l'e had hi s decenmt appJare.l tornl off. HeC wasL brouighlt in and a second ime respectably clad. After a few Sundays he ag~ain disappearedi. and it ws founid tht he wasi . aai ragged ad wre tch --Tfhen." said thu teacer.-we can do nothing with him up again and star-ted him again. After a while the gospel took hold of ed for the ministry and became foreigni missionary and on heatk: grounds live-d, and translated th scripture. mid preached, until amon the most illustrious names of th church on earth and in heaven i the wnae of glorious Robert Morr son. Go forth and save the lost and remember however filthy an< undone it child is, or a man is. or womn11 is. they are worth an effori I would rather have their opportuni ty than any that will ever be givei to those who lived in mgnificent six -md splendid unrighteousness an 'Twrapped their gorgeous tajpestr: arouui.i t'.m alid without prayer ex pired. -Beiter is a living dog than (eaa lion." In the -:vait day it will be fourm that the last shall b., firs:. Thma' :aio tle ro(--Shop1s aild in the haunt: of inioityl to--day those who will ye he :iuodels of holiness and preael Christ to the people. In yonde: group of young men whco came her with no usefal purpose. there is on< who will yet live for Christ and p-er haps die for Him. In a pulpit stool a s4taer preaching. and he said --Tiie lasf time I was in this churel was fifteen years ago, and the circui stances were peculiar. Three younc men had come. emiecting to disturl the service, and thy had stones it their pockets. which they expect ed to hurl at the preacher. One o the young men referred to refused tc take part in the assault. and the others, in disgust at his cowardice left the building. One of the three was hanged for forgery. Another is in prison. condemned to death foi murder. I was the third, but th( grace of God saved me.' My hearer give no one up. The case may seen desperate. but the grace of God like to undertake a dead lift. I proclain it this day to all the people-fre( grace: Living and dying, be that m theme-free grace: 'Sound it acros the continent, sound it across th seas-free grace: Spell out thosE words in flowers, lift them in arches build them in thrones, roll them iI oratorios-free grace! That will yei Edenize the earth and people heaver with nations redeemed. Free grace: Salvation! Oh, the joyful sound, Tis pleasure to our ears, A .over.Agii balm for every wound. A cordial for .)nr fears. Buried in sorrow and in sin AL death's dark door we lay; Dut we arise ny grace divine. To see a heavenly day. CONGRESSMEN WRITE A BOOK. econstruction and its Results Discussed The Race Question. Representatives Herbert of Ala bama. Hemphill of South Carolina, Turner of Georgia. Stewart of Texas, Wilson of West Virginia, ex-Repre ientative Barksdale of Mississippi, Seiiator Vance of North Carolina, asco of Florida, Vest of Missouri md W. L. Fishback of Arkansas, Ira P. Jones of Tennessee, 0. S. Long of West Virginia and B. J. Sage of Louisiana have collectively written, mud will soon publish. a book entitled, 'Why a Solid South; or, Reconstruc tion and Its Results. It undertakes to narrate fairly and :lispassionately, in a concise and pop lar form, the history of the recon tructed governments in each State howing how the Republicans ob :ained control and how they lost it, gures and facts as to the shrinkage >f values and the increase of debt and :axation under these their govern nents and the prosperity of the South nder present auspicies. The book speaks of Abraham Lin ~oln's death as an appalling calamity o the South. argues that Andrew Tohnson followed strictly Lincoln's rlani of restoration and contends that f Lincoln had lived he would have een able to defend that plan against he assaults of Congress. Each chapteris signed by its author, ~vho this becomes directly responsi ble for the truth of his statements, md the claim of the book in its pre Face, written by Gen. Herbert, its edi bor is that in all the chapters the Facts are understated rather than >verstated. The race question and race trou bles are extensively discussed. The statement is made that there is no in tntion to agitate for the repeal of the 15th amendment or the deportation of the negroes. Educational and imaterial statistics of many kinds are given in support of the contentiom that the negro is prosperous and ihat the South is solving for itself the negro question. The book is dedicated to the busi ness men of the North with the state ment that they are interested in con tinuing the prosperity of the South. Mrs Noble's Treasures. A writer in the St. Louis Republi< tells that Mrs. Noble, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, possesses one of the most unique collections o: gold enameled and silver spoons to be found in Washington. These curios are kept in the parlor in an inlaic mahogany table, the top of which is snk several inches below the oute: rim, lined with tufted crimson satir and covered with a plate glass-top which fastens with a spring, the kel of which is safely stowed away up stairs. Among the most interesting of the colleetion is a dull looking silver spoon. on the handle of whic& in has-relief, is shown the Baptism o Christ. with the Holy Spirit descend ing fimmz heaven in theC form a dove as John the Baptist pours .copionu draughts of water from his hands raised high above his Master. Thi: spoon was secured from an old ca thedral in Nuremberg. at which plac< was also obtained a small. delicatel; shaped teaspoon with p-ointedl bow] antd tine open work tilagree handles Anothecr curious piece. picked up is Mioscow. is a smaldl vessel, a cross be iween a spoonl andi a cup, used in th< hurches of Russia by~ the nobility is drinking the holy water. This is o gold inlaid with transparent enamiel which. ou being held up to the hight shows the miost brilliant coloring. Aa opent work golden egg enameled il the satme manner cani be taken apar and formued into two egg cups. -Mrs. Jane Clause. 105 years agor. lives near Crews. in Lama outy.~pi Alabama. She counts he age at only a little over 1.00 years, bu the record of her birth which is no' in possession of a well-known ge teman of Marion county, shows he CLEMSON WILL CASE. INVOLVINC THE TITLE TO THE JOHN C CALHOUN HOMESTEAD Which is Now Declared the Property of the state of south Ca ina, and will be th4 site of an Agricultural College. w.santa Cor sutution. A. famous will case ended. The decision of the Supreimle Couri 2 of the U nited States was given briefi: in yesterday's Constitution, a special from Washington. The history of the case ib a pecu liarly' interesting one, involing a it does the title to the old home o John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill. in South Carolina. t It, was here that the "nullificatio i declarations" were prepared by Mr. Calhoun, the papers bearing te post mark --Fort Hill.~ Here also Mr. Calhoun's famous letter to the Gover nor, upon the question of nullitication was written. It is the birth-place of Hon. Pa Calhoun, of Atlanta. who was an at torney in the case. The issue was between Miss Isa bella Lee. a great granddaughter of John C. Calhoun, and the State of South Carolina. THE SECOND OWNER was Mr. Calhoun's widow, Mrs. Floride Calhoun. May 13th, 1854, Mrs. Calhoun and her daughter, Cor nelia Calhoun, conveyed the place to AncLew P. Calhoun for $49,000, in eluding a number of negroes and their personalty. Andrew Calhoun gave a mortgage for $40.000. Afterwards he offered several times to pay the $40,000, but this was not done because his mother preferred drawing interest on the money as an investment. Mr. Andrew Calhoun died just after the war, leaving the mortgage unpaid. The mortgage, it should be stated, was given to his mother alone. Mirs. Calhonn died in 1871. By the provisions of her will a three-fourths interest in the mortgage was left to her daughter, Mrs. A. G. Clemson. and the remainder to Miss Floride Clemson. Mrs. Clemsonwas allowed to dispose of her interest in the mortgage as she saw tit. It was further provided that if the mort gage was foreclosed and the property bought under the foreclosure, the place was to stand in lieu of the mort gage. SOLD AT AUCTION. The mortgage was foreclosed and the place sold January 1, 1872. It was bought in the name of A. G. Clemson as trustee for his wife Miss Floride Clemson married Gideon Lee, of New York, and died leaving a daughter, Miss Isabella Lee. CLEMSON S INTEREST. Mirs. Clemson died, leaving "the entire property and estate to whica she was then in any wise entitled, or which she might afterwards acquire," to herhusband, Thomas G. Clemson in fee simple. Then in a will made in 1886, al. tered in 1887, Mr. Clemson left the property to the State of South Caro' lina. He died in 1888, and in November the executor addressed a letter to the Legislature of South Carolinaproffer' ing to make the deed to the State if the conditions were accepted.. A COLLEGE sITE. These provisions of the Clemson will were, in effect, that the property was to be used as the site for an aigricultural college. This wa to be controlled by aboard of thirteen trus tees, seven named in the will, and the others to be named by the State. In case of a vacancy amongst the seven named by Mir. Clemson, the vacancy3 was to be filled by election by the remainder, so that this number-a majority of the board-was to be self. perpetuating. THE FIGHT BEGI~s. Miss Lee, the great grand daughter of John C. Calhoun, and the sole heir of Mirs. Floride Clemson Lee, filed a bill of injunction to prevent the execu tor of the Clemson estate making a deed to the State of South Caro lina. It was contended that Mi's. Clem son had conveyed to her husband only the property that was actually hers, the rents then in hand, fron the estate, with certain other properts left her by her mother's will, amotmnt ing to about $4,500, and did not in ton d to convey the estate in whici she had, it was contented, only a lif4 interest, and that the homestead she expected to become the property o Mr's. Floride Clemson Lee. TWO TRIALS. The injunction was granted. and the case was tried before Chief Jus tiee Fuller and Judges Bond and Simnonton in the eircuit court ai Charleston. -It was decided against Miss Lee. SAn appeal was taken to the Su preme Court. and the decision whici has just been announced confirm! the decision of the lower court. The case was advanced on th4 ,docket through the efforts of .h4 attorney general of South Carolina acting under instructions from th4 Legislature. The arguments in the last tria were all in writing. Perhaps th ~'most exhaustive argument on eithe. side was that of Mr. Alex. King, o: the Atlanta firm of Calhoun, King A Spaling. This was highly commend ed in Washington, and is considere< one of the ablest arguments made be fore that court in years. It embodied 'fall that could be said in the interes of Miss Lee. as remainderman unde: the will of Mrs. Calhoun. SThe decision is against Miss Lee however, and is final. THE IsToRY OF THE CASE. Thomas (.. Clemson. who marre< fthe daughter of John C. Calhoux r made Fort Hill their home. The; lived there quietly and plainly. Whe; t Mr's. Clemson died, Mr. Clemson wa left as the sole-"cupant of For - Hill He lived there almost as hermit, neverleaving his own groundi tut taking the greatest pride ani pleasure in showing visitors over th, place, and Mr. Calhoun's library an< private rooms. No one suspecte< that the old man had any money. aM only a short whde before he died Mr Gideon Lee wrote to a merchant a Pendleton and told him to let hin have any groceries that he migh need, and send the bill on to him. Mr. Clemson died in the spring oj 1888, and the contents of his wil caused a surprise. This old man who had been considered a penuiles old imbecile, had left the Fort Hil place as a seat for the founding of ax agricultural and mechanical college and his private fortune, whici amounted to about $100,000, as ax endowment. This will fell like a thunderclai upon the Calhoun family. It was generally thought that Fort Hil would descend to Miss Isabella Lee who was the daughter of Mrs. Clem son's sister, and consequently th grandaughter of the great statesman Miss Lee was given the Calhoun plate and portraits, and a bequest o0 $10,000 on condition that she would not contest the will. It had long been understood that she was to let John C. Calhoun, of New York, and Pat Calhoun, of Atlanta, Ga., have he Fort Hill place, and that they were to fix it up in grand style as the old homestead and use it as a sum mer home. They at once set about tc defeat Clemson's purposes. They contended that Clemson was was an imbecile, and that he had nc real title to the property, which was his wife's. The will looked to the acceptance of the bequest by the State, and to its supplementing the amount of money willed by annual appropriations to the college. It pro vided that the State should elect six trustees to co-operate with the seven named in the will. This threw the matter into politics and the question of the State's ac ceptance of the Clemson bequest was made the chief issue in the campaign for the election of the Legislature of 1888. The friends of the South Caro lina college fought the friends of the Clemson College, and the campaign was the bitterest known in South Carolina since the great campaign of 1876. The farmers won and sent a majority of the adherents of Clemson College to the Legislature, but the bill providing for the State's accept ance was carried through both the House and the Senate. The Gover nor, however, refused to sign the bill. He is allowed by the constitution the right to hold over a bill until the first three days of the next session, if he wishes. He exercised this right on the ground that he did not care to make the State a party to the cause then in the United States court. But when the Legislature reassembled in last December, the Governor sign ed the bill, thereby accepting the be quest. The executor of the will then made over a deed of the property to the State, and the attorney-general wts instructed to co-operate with the law yers already employed by the execu tor of the will in defending it in the case now before the United States Supreme Court. The Legislature also orovided for the immediate erec tion of suitable buildings for the col lege, and for the opening of the insti tution with complete apparatus and full faculty at as early a day as pos sible. Fort Hill is a fine old plan tation of about a thousand acres, about two miles from Pendleton, the nearest railroad station. The dwell ing is a typical old Southern planta tion home. It sits on the top of a commanding hill. The large white columns to its piazza attract the at tention of all passers by. The old house is in a fine state of preserva tion, and contains all the furniture booka, portraits and other relics of Mr. Calhdun. The trustees propose to keep the house intact as a kind of Calhoun memorial. RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. Revolution the Certain sequence of Offlcial 'ryranny. The frequency with which the Russian outrages are brought before the public by the indefatigable George Kennan, makes the subject a little tiresome. The latest and most sensational of all-the massacre of the political exiles in Yakutsk-is treated afresh in the April Century, wherein Mr. Kennan shows quite conclusively that the explanation made by the Russian government is absurd. He concludes his summary as follows: One of the executed men, twc hours before the rope was put about hi-i neck, scribbled a hasty farewell, note to his comrades in which he said: We are not afraid to die, but try-you-to make our deaths count for something-write all this to Ken nan." The appeal to me shall not be in vain. If I live the whole Englisi: speaking world at least, shall know all the details of this most atrociou: crnme. IHowever this may be, the world ai large, and we of America as a part oj it, cannot but feel a deep interest u what is going on in Russia. Ther< can be but one end to the total sup pression of liberty which the govern -ment of Russia exercises this day with as brutal a severity as in the times of Peter or of Catharine. There was a dawn of hope for Rus sia-at least it looked that way t< young America-when the serfs wer< first emancipated. Russia had beer kind to us-although, as our states man then knew,the kindness was bu another name forpolicy-and Amer icans were deceived for a while witl the roseate views of what rejuvena ted Russia would surely accomplisi in time. It soon became evident, however that there was no hope for- m~oden~ civilization in Russia. until she shoul( pass through the same furnace whic] tried France, and in the nature o: i- things, the trial will be even more se vere. The tyranny of the Fr-enchno , bility was as nothing compared wit] that which the governing class o Russia exercise without limit. an< the retribution will, unhappily, reacd l the innocent alike with the guilty ,When Russia emerges from this se r of blood she will take her place il the foremost ranks of the gr-eat na tionalities of the world. S-It is stated that not a pound c , ice was saved in North Carolina las I wi.ter. A NEGRO EXODUS. WHOLE SECTiONS C: NORTH CARO LINA WITHOUT COLORED LABOR. The Emigration A-.ents hwe Ahno6t De populated the Eas.Arn Section of the State -Scenes of Detituri.- Along the Country Roads. Letter to The New York Sau,. The emigrant agent has had his day in North Carolina. Like a plague of devastating insects he has swept over the entire eastern section of the State, leaving nought behind but L wide waste places, desolated planta tions, and malodorous memories. Breaking levees and an unprecedented overflow in the Mississippi Valley put an effectual check upon the opera tions, but, alas. too late to save the poor negroes already gathered into his net from untold hardships and cruel deprivations. It is a curious fact that every great movement of the negroes in the di rection of seeking to better their ma terial condition by removal from their native soil has has resulted disas trously to them. Take, for example, the great exodus into Kansas some ten years ago, which resulted in a call for Government aid to succor the unfortunate creatures and save them from starvation and freezing during an unusually hard winter immedi ately following. Then, later on, when there was a great itlax of negroes into Arkansas and Ttexas from Cen tral Georgia and Western South Carolina, State and private aid had I to be furnished to save the ill-.,dvised 1 and over-sanguine blacks from dire i want. So now, scarcely have the emigrants from this State been safely landed in the Mississippi region be fore an unprecedented overflow ea sues, inundating almost the entire section into which they have removed, and precluding all likelihood of I making a crop this season. Already the apparently inevitable i cry of distress has been sounded, and its reverberations are echoing now from every village and hamlet J throughout the deserted districts in this State. At Goldsboro, Winston, i Tarboro, Halifax, Scotland Neck, I Snow Hill, Plymouth and various 1 other towns and settlements visited i in the last few days, letters the most I urgent are shown from negroes who i have but recently gone from these vicinities, begging for money to bring 1 them back. And yet in the face of all i this there are 400 deluded blacks at Scotland Neck, 600 at Plymouth and 800 in Beaufort county, packed and encamped, aw~aiting agents to come and remove them. But up to this writing no agent has appeared, and I from the present demoralized state of the traffic -there is small likelihood that those 3,800 negroes ll find means of exit for time some to come, if I at all. In addition to the check put upon the movement by the overflow in the Southwest, the pl n ters and citians generally have com-bined to stop the I operations of the emigrant agents, and have been moved so to do as much out of consideration for the I welfare of the negroes themselves as to retaiu what available farm labori there is left in the country. An in- 1 stance of this occurred a few days since at Scotland Neck, where a Mr.] McNeil, of the firm of McNeil & Pax ton, Josselyn, Ga., turpentine and1 naval stores producers, who had gone to that point to secure laborers, was1 met by a committee of citizens and quietly but firmly admonished to desist from interfering with the ne groes therea'oouts, and advised to take himself off. which he (did with celerity. Just here it is proper to cite the1 distinction between the exodus emi-1 grants and the turpentine emigrants, the difference being that the former1 go to stay, and the latter-who are taken to Central and Southern Geor gia-only go for the season, it being expressly stipulated in their contracts that when their services are no longer required they shall be furnished transportation back to their homes. Geo. W. Price, Jr., a representa tive negro, who has become an emi grant agent, returned from the Yazoo Mississippi delta on Monday, having gone thither with about two hundred families. He tells me that the en tire region is now un:der water, and that in consequence there is great demoralization and dissatisfaction among the emigrants. It is hoped. however, that the flood will yet sub side in time for the making of a er op. but he is not sutli'eiently well assured of this to venture forth with ' ny moere of his people. To get an accurate idea of the dleso late condition of the counties from which so many of the exodusters have gone one must leave the rail roads-in the vicinity of which there is always more or less life-and by horseback or vehicle traverse the country roads. As a general thing the country roads in Eastern North Carolina are not inviting to travellers -familiar with and accustomed to hard. smooth-surfaced pikes, or even clay bedded wagonways. Through the piney woods these rural thorough fares wind and twist about in the most bewildering and provoking fash ion, while your steed or span of horses struggle through the sand. varying from one to ten inches in depth. coit stituting thie roadbed. The eastern counties of this State have been, up to the time of the negro exodus, the most populous, and there are still people enough in them to till and make productive almost every acre of farming lands. But tl'e labor is not properly di triuted The tons, and especially th"e larger places like Wihningtont id We tldon ae, as a rule, overer rded w ith a unproductive elem-a at some - in stances closely ap oxmut on ilt of the total pvpulion.' Andl from these centres no emig~ranits hiav.e been taken. which is to be regretted.I Isince very many could have~1 been spared with advamage to all parties. Take the city of Wilmngaton, for ex ample, and out of a total of4 about 125,000 souls quite 10,000 are negroes, and at least one-half of these are not employed four months out of the twelve. fDriving out from Goldsboro one is t impressed with the thrifty and in all try. Immediately neighborig on that live little town but few negroes were induced to remove. but in the more remote regions to the north west of that poi.t vacant cabins, with their smnokeless chimneys. broken eces aid a ge;eral air of desertion become oppressively apparent. One small fau after another is passed, and now :.nd then an extensive plan tationl. upon which no signs of life appear. Evidence of recent and hasty rinmoval are everywhere visible. Parts of broken furniture. racked or broken cooking utensil,, old brogan shoes, ar'd various remnants of wearing ap parel, all in a shape of having been carelessly and hastily thrown aside, bear testimony to the hurry and flurry ith which the late inhabitants took their departure. Occasionally a va grant cur dog, which, as a general thing, the country negro prizes above even the members of his family, is to be seen still, with mute but loyal fortitude, standing guard over the empty home of his whilom friend and maister. The country is full of these niserable brutes, which were of ne :essity left behind and no amount of oaxng will induce the sad-eyed, 21angy-coated mongrels to desert the iearthstone. Here and there little nounds. with plain board markings, :ell of the last rest resting place of ;he kindred of those who have volun :arily sought new homes in the dis :ant Southwest. Once in a while a lamaged coon p-lt flaps in the breeze Lgainst the gable of the empty hut; m old battered bucket sits by the vel side; wide-open barn doors, acant mangers, empty cow pens, ua neglected garden patches com >ine to present a picture in detail of itter desolation. The humble "meet ng house," in which God was wor ;hipped on Sunday and the young Aacks received instructions in the >lue black speller on week days, is iow a lonesome testimonial of ad anitages enjoyed in homes they have eft, which may not be so easily ob ained again. Still further on one comes to cross -oads, and here again all is hushed nd silent as a churchyard. The >A)cksmith shop is nailed up, the orge is gone, and with it the smith. )o also is the store closedandbarred, he goods removed, and the store ceeper with them. So contagious vas the exodus epidemic that one or wo white families, formerly resident., iere, caught the infection and went dong with their colored neighbors. stray domestic fowl, which proba )ly roosted in some sequestered spot mnknown to its owner, is met with iow and then, as is also a pig or two ainly searching for its former mates. Che road itself shows that there has >een no recent travel over it, and, vith the advancing spring, weeds and trass are sprouting forth soon to en Math the pathwayin a track of living reen. -re-tle' dsible evidences of he desolation wrought by the exo- - lus. but of course they are only to )e met within the more remote sec ions. From the vicinity of all towns rery few negroe-, have removed, for ;he double reason that they were not vanted and wouldnot have have gone f they had been. In and about all of he cities and towns thereisanabund mIce of negro labor, which, but for he demoralizing effect of towrn life on :he~ colored citizen, might be utilized n restoring the waste places and re iabilitating the planting interests, io at a standstill. If it was possi >e to properly distribute the surplus td burdensome negro elements of he towns throughout the farming listricts now lying waste the exodus vould prove a blessing to the State, .vhich has for so many years suffered 'rom an excessive, consumi'ig and ion-producing population. But that :his will be done, or that it is possible :o do it, none who knows the town red negro dares hope. But even as matters now stand, the andowners are taking a very philo ophical view of the situation, and the nore foreseeing agree that the effectof he exodus will ultimately be benefi ial to the State in every way. Reform in the Internal Revenue. The House Judiciary Committee as ordered a favorable report to be nade upon Henderson's billto amend :he internal revenue laws. The bill removes the min mum penalties now provided by law for the puisihment f offenders against revenue laws, imits the issue of warrants upon in ormation to those sworn to by the olector, deputies or revenue officers m to those mnade upon sworn com olaints and personal knowledge, and prohibits the payment of fees unless the prosecution is approved by the United States Attorney or conviction results. It provides for a return upon warrants before the nearest" judicial officer. authorizes Circuit Courts to appoint commissioners to act upon warrants and admit persons to bail, and finally empowers the,com mssoners of internal revenue to com promise civil or criminal cases or re duce and remit fines. She Raised Eleven Good Democrats Wilson & Bishop's Rink, in New York, was filled Saturday with 16'ib-? the descendants of Aunt Amah Chard, who assembled to help the old lady celebrate her 101st birthday. Mrs. Chard was in the best of health and spirits, and was greatly pleased on receiving the feongratulations of her friends and relatives. In the evening eliious exercises were held, and o e threec hundred people were pres ent. Mrs. Chard was born in Brandy wine. Pa., in 1 780, on the very spot here the battl3 of Brandywine was fout. She takes pride in pointing ot. the faLct that she has raised a aiyof eleveu boys. who are all living and are all good Democrats. Her oldest boy is eighty years of Bullets Stc -ped in Garlic. In a trial in New York, on Thau-s day. of Concetta Rocsit, ayoung Italian women. for an assault on Guiseppe Allianello. the facts were brought out that the husband made the wife tir at Per lover with bijl ts steeped in garlie. accordi"~ superst~tion among the Italian 'pas ants that to steep a bullet in garlic puts it-; effectiveness beyond all doubt. But the superstition failed in this case, as the bullets did not hit the man. She was sentenced to