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REV. DU. TALRAGE THK NOTED 1)1 \ INK’S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: ‘•Expurgation of the Scrip tures.” Text: Let God be true, but every mnti a liar. —Romans iil., 4. The Bible needs reconstruction nccording to some inside and outside the pulpit. It is Scriptures, no surprise that the world bombards tho but it is amazing to find Chris tian ministers picking at this in the Bible nnd denying that until many good people 5£vi * n 'about what parts of the Bible they t ought to believe and what parts The heinousness of finding fault with the Bililo at ihls time is most evident, In our day the Bible is assailed by scurrility, by misrepresentation, by infidel scientists, hy all the vice of earth and nil tho venom of perdition, and at this particular time even P r 0a0 rs -°* Die Gospel fall into line of criticism , . of the word of God. Why, it makes me think of a ship in a September equinox, the waves dashing to thetopofthg smoke stack, and the hatches fastened down, and many prophesying the foundering of the steamer, and at that time some of the crew with axes and saws go down into the hold of the ship, and they try to saw off some of the plunks and pry out some of the timbers be cause the timber did not come from the right It does not . seem to . be , a commendable , ,, , bus iness for the crew to he helping the winds and storms outside with their axes and saws lnside. Now, this old Gospel ship, what with the rearing of earth and hell around the: Stem anil stern and mutiny on deck, is hnv ing a i cry rough voyage, but I have noticed tout not one of the timbers has started, and tie captain says he will see it through. And’ I June noticed that keelson and counter tim be>’knee are built out of Lebanon cedar, and/ sue is going to weather the gale, but no credd to those who make mutiny on deck. . Alien 1 see professed Christians in this particular day ilnding fault with the Scrip tU «r* , 'i it “ mk ,° s “® think ° f a fortress ter- 1 ’o r oYT loadin'• pans, Parts instea msiea i oi f bWii'inmg W out and ana lonamg; t u; guns and helping letch up tee ammuni ,? U lon l tlie fu 0 tr ',‘, n£ ' hirP .i , r V out ,r °ai the waIt certain; - f hi • m T;T ’ y \ lSe nu 0h ey ’^ e ,l!d ^° sl n ;; he COm °! D '"it o fight back, and fight down the^ | l'"ei*l''’ ’"m° f tr m = to mako ; - ‘Whlle iooww this exnur-tion ex P ur "“ n >n of 01 * tlm i q, ■ Y, , pt lies, .{ l l0r, shad give . . you, S!iy my t reasons orn0 for bVcn nd'lhvl hvtee^mv^hrle'fin^^er r • ..., ifp'm' ; by ,, Darwin T ’. roo lin^ over tliemj f ( . and . Spencer, , “you don’t now) DeHoveaU the les story much of the gatAvnol l believe. j < as as ^•But . • ” =,.^1 say thev'“vou a donT !’in® rcailv y vo! (Kdiev'f )•' 1 sti , 1 io Yes.and ; if f I 1 1 i .n. ti ^ ! T ■' L'i.!’! .'"J, iVivnvM i ti,,., ;>■),.tioi) .if tii. m appear to stand still. "But’ i.. ’they ...hoik’ sav •• VO u | .u.nT i.oiiovq wVr'strona o.'.-. i ' Dv.-dl Jonah’” Ye- end if I 1 enough to make a whale I could have madtf verv easv io ingress for the refractory oronhet leaving evolution to eject him if he were! an uuworthv tenant! “But,” sav they, “you don’t reallv helipvftthnt th«waiJr wb.<s tnrripri into wine?'’ Yes just as easily a." water now is often turned into wine with an admixture of Mxvohninp an.1 8 *««„<•»» they, “you don’t really believe that Samson slew 1000 with the iaw bone of ail ass?” Yes and I think that the man who in the'same tins dav assaults the Bible is wielding weapon! There is nothing in the Bible that staggers me. There riot”pretend are many things understand,'neveJ I do not under stand."I do to - ( ..... very small ____________ Infinite thm^can u i le ^ mS£u£d b‘ ^ ’ t finite. n • i You - must not expect to weigh . . the . thunderbolts of Omnipotence in an apothe-J Giu’v’c hniannou Sfav-Hrsr* wi+E idon DinF : out at the beginning’and that He is present ' now. there is nothing in the holy Scripture* bind' aTossiTo * linages, ^ o^f m^tho f t u g u ro tertiary formation fallen off the shelf of an’ antiquarian, ulo-kms a man in the latter part of the Ihole Bibl^frmnliVto nineteenth eentnrv ivvime 8 in a’ lid - I am opposed to the expurgation °because of tho Scriptures in the first place the B.ble in its present shape has been so rnirac ulouslv after'Herodotus preserved Fifteen hundred vrni-s' wrote his history there was only one manuscript copy of‘it. Twelve hundred vears after Plato wrote his book’ there was only one manuscript copy of it. God was so careful to have us have the Bible in just tho right shape that we have fifty, manuscript copies of the New Testament a thousand years old, and some of them 1500 years old. This book, handed down from the time of Christ, or just after the time of Christ. by the hand of such men as Origen in tbe second century and Tertullian in the third century, and by men of different ages who died for their jiriucipies. The three best copies of tbo New Testament in r.mnu script churches—the in the possession of the three great Protestant church of England, the Greek church of Kt.'Petersburg and the Romish church of Italy. It is a plain matter of history that Tischen dorf went to u convent iu tho peninsul wall a of Sinat and was by ropes lifted over the into the Su,rSl , ,'T tr®* 01 ,L h “* .“‘“tli"! Ifoly ^Emperor Scriptures 1 of'itussla—that v,c- nut into > the baud of' tbt) ono copy sd marvelously protected. Do you not know that the catalogue of the S it°G T ° 3t t^ hnvc through' 1 the^am's? * coming down Ohf Thirty-' nine books pf tho Testament thousands bevm; l l : Te‘tamYnt ‘CO'Tvea^ ugo.' tH.oksof t»m Nev The New'l^esta Twenty-seven books of ment now. Marcion, for wickedness, was turned out of the church in the second cen Christianity ho incidentafiv 1 "i v < sa’ * cata iogueof loguo the books of the BibUi—that cata SeY^my corresponding b Ch5sti^itv exactly with ours— tes °of catalogue'then. y Assaulted now just like the and spit on and torn to pieces and burned, lanl yet adhering. The book tc-dny. in 300 guages, confronting their four-fifths of the human race in own tongue. Four hundred million copies of it in existence. Does not 8 S. d i Vi ,r3 ' through the centuries? es it notan argument plain enough to ktw 3 : 1 1011 ?* r' Ul uY' 1 i : V " ry h ;- ,n V" t W0I ^ u . if i Shape'"tlmt . ! Yto 1 "wants r shape Li the %ery 1 it. It pleases God an l ou^ht to please us. The epidemics which have swept thousand: or other hooks into the sepulcher of forgot-* fulness have only brightened the fame of tliis. There Is not one hook out of 1000 that liv^s five yoars. Any publisher will t©lI you that. There will not ho more than oile book' out of 20,000 that will live a century. Yet here is a book, much of it 1(10(1 years old and much of it 100 ) years old an l with more re hound and resilieivo an l strength in it than when the hook was first put upon parchment or This'book papyrus. tho cradle of all other saw l»)o* and it will see their graves. Would you not think that an old book like this. some of it forty centuries old, would come along hobbling with age and on crutches? Instead of that, more potent than any other book of the time. More copies of it printed in the last ten years than of any other book —Walter Scott's Wavorley Novels. Macau hiy’s “History of England," Disraeli’s "Eu dvmion,” the works of Tennyson and Long fellow, and all tho popular books of ourtimo having no such saje in the last ten years-as this old worn out book. Do you know what a struggle a book has in order to get through one century or two centuries? Some old books, during a tire in a seraglio of Constanti nojile, were thrown into the street. A man without any education picked up one of those books, read it, and did not see thavalue of it. A scholar looked over his shoulder and saw it was the first and second decades of Livy, and he offered the man a large reward if lie would bring the books to his study, but in the excitement of the fire the two parted, and the flrst and second decades of Livy were for ever lost. Pliny wrote twenty books of his tory. All lost. The most of Menander’s writings lost. Of 130 comedies of Plautus, air gone but tweniy. Euripides wrote 100 dramas, all gone but nineteen. /Esclilyus wrote 100 dramas, all gone but seven. Varro wrote the laborious biographies of 700 Ito mans, not a fragment left. Quintilian wroto his favorite book on the corruption of elo quence, all lost. Thirty books of Tactitus lost. Dion Cassius wrote eighty books, all only lost, twenty remain. Borosius’s history Nearly all the old books are mummified and are lying in the tombs of old libraries, and perhaps once in twenty years some man comes along and picks up one of them and blows the dust off and opens it and finds it thebookhednesnotwa.it. But this old book, much of it forty centuries old, stands to-lay more discussed than any other book, an 1 it challenges tho admiration of all the K °, od “? d the fP ite and the venom, and the animosity, f and the livpercriticism of earth and hell. I appeal to'your common sense if a book so divinely guarded and protected the in its present shape must not be in just way that God wants it to come to us. and if-it i pleases God ought it not to please us? Xotouly haven the attempts to detract ! from the book fai d, but all the attempts to ! a rldtoit : ^lany attempts were made to add l the , apoehryphal books to theOld lestament. ! phe council of Trent, the synod of Jerusalem, j the bishops of Hippo, all decided that the a Pochryhal books must be added to the Old j rp e9 tanient. “They must stay in,” said those ■ learned jnteliigent men but thev staid out There is i not iU1 Christian man that to-day ! w ill put tho book of Maccabees or the book i Romaas Jadith Then beside a the great book many of said, Isaiah “We or j . mus t have books added to the New Testa- 1 ment -” and there were epistles and gos P eIs and apocalypses written and added | | ho Now Testament, but they have all fallen out. You cannot add anything, lou eannot a abstract anything. Divinely pro tected boo k in 5, 1 ? 6 P^ent shape Let no , man dare + to , lay his hands on it with them- ■ tention of detracting from the book or cast- , ingout any of these holy pages. Besides that, 1 am opposed to this expurga tion °f the Scriptures because if the attempt | ™ successful it would be the annihilation j of the Bible. Iiifldel geologists would sav, i ; <0ut with the of Genesis;” infidel as- | tronomers would say, “Out with the Book i ot Joshua;” people who do not believe in ! the atoning sacrifice would say, “Out with j the Book of Leviticus; people who do not ; all those .......... wonderful ............... stories in the Old and I j ' N, : w Testament;’ and some would say j “ I th * re "°uld not be enough of the Bible left ! to bo be worth as o £-* much ni n/ili as no last 1 nof year !11U s almanac. 1 rVI ClVlflf* dl19 expurgation of the Scriptures means their annihilation. I am also opposed to this proposed fact that expur- «!>»- in ^ ation of the Scriptures for the proportion as the people become self-sacri they'’likethebook m it‘k Ihavo yet toflmi a man or a woman distinguished for self sacrifice, for consecration to God, for holi ness of life, who want3 the Bible changed. Many of us have inherited family Bibles, Those Bibles were in use twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps 100 years in the generations. To- j day take down those family Bibles, and find out it there are any chapters which have beeu erased by lead pencil or pen, and if in any margins you can find the words, “This chapter not fit to read.’ There lias been j£. cottony ty pmateiy ri'vatolv'to*’ to ex-mmlt^the^Bibh expur^te the Bible. >' ou kuow aI »y c **f such ex P ur * atlon - no * y°^ K raa ^ {l ^ u J r ^ lve it to your father, and did not your lataer give it to y° a<l Besu.es that ., , T I am opposed . to the ex- „ purgation of the Scriptures, because the so called indelicacies aud cruelties of the Bible * UIVU demonstrated no evil result. A cruel book wil l produce cruelty. An unclean book will produce unoleanness. retch me a vie tim - ( ' U J- Christendom and out of all Die ages fetch me a victim whose heart has !,een hardenei. to cruelty or whose life has been made impure by this book, bhow me oae - 0a f. °J the bost famllles 1 0V ? r ka ' w of . for thirty or forty years, morning and . evening, had all tho members gathered to MI. hither beginning and reading oneverse and reading a ****•»$£2 xorsc Tue father mambunedhm SSllSdlS fesslons ^was °grew Tjo Yife. au^enteredpro and commercial adorning every in the life in^ which they lived, and d J\vna wanYS md pure and righteous nsigned endured perpetually, the b ’ or ,hir ty years that family Driptarcs. . Not one of them ruined if vou will tell me of a family where taeBi.blehas been read twice a day for thirty years, and t iei children have been brought “Yi-h.hftho sons'aud daugiitors nuPhe^wcnt to rubhaad 1 tlu were destroyed by it ir wdl . >’ ou throw will tell me of Bible one such I incidental away my or wi v.,ur wlt! \ veraedv. 'T nat 1 ‘‘ ) I cails tel you the if indehcacws an an is shocked of the word m God . he is . prurient in his taste and imagination. If a man cannot read Solo S«V?SiShS«.ri!riS SSSHShS The 01 1 Testament description of wicked n ‘" : ‘ uncloam.iaj ol all sorts, is iil^’T-ounr' install of y the Byfonic arid the Parisian vernacular, which makes Sjn atlraptive mstea i of appalling. When tlwse 0lU P^phets point you to a lazaretto. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. y° n unaerstnncl It Is n lazaretto, when a : man having begun to <lo right falls back in wickedness, and gives up his integrity, tin, Bible aoeenot say ho was overcome by tho fascinations of the festive board, or that he surrendered to convivialities, or that ho bc came a little fast in his Imhits. I will toll you what the Bible says, “The do# is turned to his own vomit attain and the sow that was w»«hed to her fallowing m the mire. ’ No gliding of Iniquity, No garlands on a death’s head. No pounding away with a silver mal let hammer. at iniquty whoa it needs au iron sledge I can easily understand how unoleanness people hrood Ing over the description of iu the Bible may get morbid iu mind until they are as full of it as the wings, and the beak, and the daw of buzzard . nostril, and the a are full of the odors of a carcass, but what is wanted is not that tho Bible be disinfect ed, but that you, the critic, have your mind and heart washed with carbolic acid I tell you at this point in my discourse that a man who does not like this book, and i who is critical as to its contents, and who is shocked and outraged with its descriptions, has never been soundly converted. The lay- 1 ing on of the hands of presbytery or epis copaey does not always change a man’s heart, and men sometintes get into the pul pit, as well as into the pew, aover having been changed radically by the sovereign grace of God. Get your heart right and the Bible will be right. The trouble is men’s natures are not brought into harmony with ; the word of God. Ah, my friends, expurga tion of the heart is what is wanted! You cannot make mo believe that the Scriptures, table of tho which and this best moment and lie on the j purest men women I of the age, and which were the dying solace of your kindred passed into the skies, have ! iu them a taint which the strongest micro scope of honest criticism could make visible, If men are uncontrollable in their indigua tion when the integrity of wife or child is as sailed, and judges and jurors as far as possible excuse violence under such provo cation, what ought to be the overwhelming and long resounding thunders of condemna tion for any man woo will stand in a Chris- i 1 tian pulpit and assail the more than virgin purity of inspiration ’ the well beloved daiu'h ter of God? j Expurgate the Bible! You might as well go to the old picture galleries in Dresden and in Venice and in Rome and expurgate the old paintings. Perhaps you could find a foot of Michael Angelo s “Last Judgment” that might be improved. Perhaps you could ,i throw donna.” more Perhaps expression into Raphael’s “Ma- I you could put more pathos into Rubens’s “Descent from the Cross.” Perhaps you could change the crest of the waves in Turner’s “Slave Ship.” i Perhaps you might go into the old galleries ; of sculpture and change the forms and the j 1 posture of the statues of Phidias and Praxi teles. Such an iconoclast would very soon find himself iu the penitentiary. But it is worse vandalism when a man proposes to re- ’ fashion these masterpieces of inspiration and to remodel the moral 8 giants of this tmllerv y of God. Now, let us divide off. Let those people who do not believe the Bible and who are critical of this and that part of it go clear over to the other side. Let them stand be- I hind the devil’s guns. There can be no com- j promise between infidelity and Christianity, Give us the out and out opposition of infl- I delity rather than the work of these hybrid theologians, these mongrel ecclesiastics, these half evoiuted peopie who believe the Bible miracles and and do not do not believe accept it, them who who accept believe the j in the inspiration of the Scriptures and do j , not believe in the inspiration of the Scrip turos—trimming their belief on one side to suit the skepticism of the world, trimming their belief oil the other side to suit the pride of their own heart and feeling that in order . to demonstrate their courage they must , make the Bible the target and shoot at God. i There much, is one and thing that that that encourages the Lord made me ; very is : “““/if ” 0 L W ™! ' born, and will probably bo able to ~ make out to manage the universe a little while after they are dead. While I demand that the: antagonists of the Bible and the critics of j j over where they belong, on on the th 9 devil’s dev d’8 side side, I ask that all the friends ! of AT TillC this , good ffAA(i book hAAL’’ come^out l openly and above j board in behalf of it,, that book which was | your*an!ratry, ta and wW.h V< wiU e be'’the ’best j legacy you will leave to your children when | you bid the good-by as you cross the ferry j °Young man, do not be ashamed of your, Bible. There is not a virtue,but it com- : mends, there is not a sorrow but it comforts, . there is not a good law on the statute book of any country but it is founded on these Ten grander Commandments. people in all There the earth are no than braver, the j , heroes and the heroineswhich it biographizes. Of all the works of Dore. the great artist, i there was nothing so impressive as his ilius- j tratedBible. What scene of Abrahamic faith 0 r Edenic beauty, of dominion Davidic or Solomonic of miracle or parable, of nativity or 0 f crucifixion or of last judgment but the thought leaped from tho great brain to the j skillful pencil, and from skillful pencil to j canvas immortal. The Louvre, the Luxem bourg, the National Gallery of London com pressed within two volumes of Dore’sillus tratedBible. But the Bible will come to bet ter illustration than that, my friends, when ail the deserts have become gardens and all the armories have become academies and all j. be have become Gennesarets with Christ walking them, and all the cities have become Jerusalems with hoveriug Shekinah; and the two hemispheres shall bo clapping cym bals of divine praise, and the round; earth a footlight to Emanuel’s throne-i hat, to a ll lands and all ages and all centuries and all cycles will be the best specimen of Clmrged With Funds n.louglug Tinted r States Depu y urs b latini ,8 -th l 'A*?? ’ ’ Monday night for Ocala with a warrant for the arrest of E. W. Agnew, president of the First National Bank, of Ocala, which failed three weeks ago, charging him with converting to his own use certain funds belonging to depositors of the bank, Agnew is one of the richest men in Ocala and was pictured as one of the P r > n cipnl characters of the novel, “The Tragedies of Oaklmrst.” He w jn be tried in the United States court in Jacksonville on July 1st. The lia bilities of Agnew’s bank are nearly $300,000. The nominal assets are about $200,000, but the actual assets j are f j ‘ South Carolina’s Registration Case. A* ihe .onclu.io. of U>. in the South Carolina registration case, I before Chief Justice duller and Justices Hughe* and Seymour, at Richmond - j Va., three days were given each sid c in which to hand in the cases to sub Btantiate their poBit ion8. FOR FREE COINAGE. 8ILVF.R CONVENTION HELD AT SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. Tho Platform Says Coin Roth Metals at the Rutlo of 1G to 1. With every train that came into Springfield, Ill., Wednesday came , large _ „ delegations , , if It legates to the , v w . democratic state convention. Ihe fear of the leaders that the attendance ]d b small wero allayed. J More people came than anyone had ex pected and the streets were thronged w j tb 8 ilverites from all parts of the state. Blue badges bearing the in scription . “F silver; sixteen to one, ree fluttered from tho lapels of coats of incomers and many i 7 delegations car Tied . , , banners proclaiming • ■ their • , belief ,• . in free coinage of silver on a basis of jq b) \ G f H go ld. There was a full representation and abundant enthusiasm. Judge McCou nel, of Chicago, was elected perma nent chairman. Ex-Congressman Bry an ’ B speech was the feature of the day. * , , e ,, duliculty continued , U “ >. account of the applause. Theplat form adopted was as follows : «»Tyv,„ r „ fto k miver uml rmld hmr« ' been , tho principal metals of , money the world for thousands of vears and silver monev y recognized ° and used as honest money between nations, not withstanding the varying ratios be tween silver and gold, and, .., Whereas, Tr . r Ihe „. demonetization , ..... of silver has deprived the people of the free use and benefits of an invaluable au ^ i original • • i money metal, , , and - , has m creased debts and added to the bur dens of the * people by lowering the _-i_ p of ° f lab labor products nr odncts- and and Whereas, xlie constitution of the Uniled States prohibits the use of any thing ’ but gold and silver coin as legal f . eI1( „ ^ eI . lor ...„ the payment of f ^ debts, , there- .. by recognizing that com composed of silver and gold is honest money and tit tn to he be Uf,ed as ft a loaal le 8 al • tender tender, ^ there tnere fore, by the democracy of Illinois, in convention assembled, be it “Resolved, ’ That we are in favor of * 1( use , , , nnll] 1 ! V Cr ® t l6 ' standard money of the United T , 0 States, , demand the free and unlimited coinage of both metals at the ratio of 16 fc , 1, , without ... . it ■.■ lor the ,, action .■ o wt g of any other nation, and that such coins-shall be a legal tender for all debts both pub ‘ li c am \ private, and mat , an contracts t t hereaft mreaner ; r ex^cuteu eie cuted for the payment of money, whether in go ld silver or coin, may be discharged by any money which is by law a legal tenuer. “vVe hereby indorse the action of the democratic state central committee in calling this convention, and we in struct the committee to carry out the will of this convention as expressed in “8 .. nlnffnrm plattorm 1 by 1V inant-iratino- inaugurating, ami anu car- car rying on a campaign of education in this state, and to thoroughly organize f be democracy of the state on the lines laid down in tho platform of this con Tention. “Resolved, That we request thf democratic uat i 0 nal committee to cal' a democratic national convention tc consider the money question not later than August, ° 1895. If the said na Clonal . , committee refuses + to call n such , a convention, then we invite the demo cra tic Btate committees of the other gbl ^ eR t a ke concurrent action with democratic . state , convention ,. of , this , . me state in calling such a convention, “Resolved, That the democratic membe r8 of congress and members of ihe . senate . frri trom „ ii,.- this -l state . ■. be and i are hereby instructed to use every honor «ble means to carryout the principles , prmneiated ” THE NEW PLAN On Which the Central Railroad will he Reorganized. Messrs. Thomas F. Ryan and Sam Thomas have formally announced the rJan f ian which W ^ 1CU thev f.T have drawn uu L lul for the purchase ot the a properties of the Central Railroad and Banking Compa W. <>' »H «>• propurtio, of tho pros con8cd i da t ed mortgage, or both, and of the securities pLdged 1 ° for the float • , , . ° Republic of Formosa a Failure, Dispatches published at Shanghai an ,t received from the island of For mosa report great excitement at Tai peh Fu. The president of the repnb lie bus escaped from his yamen and the other official buildings have been burned by rioters. The natives and the Chinese soldiers are said to be rioting in all directions. Rioting is also reported to have taken place at Hobe. The foreigners on the island 0 f Formosa so far have not been mo , lested. , , Russia Guaarntees the f Loan. » ;» Wroed thjrt thoCbloM. 4 pel cent loan of £16,000,000, just conclud ed by Paris bankers, is guaranteed by Bussin, iu consequence of China’s con j cessions to Russsia, eua iletl her to ex tend the Siberian railway into ± an* churia. RKGRKTS OF THF. FACULTY. They Are Sorry tlie Affair Occurred at the Industrial College. The faculty of the Georgia Normal and Industrial college had a meeting Wednesday night and passed tho fol lowing resolutions in regard to the late affair at the college: “The faculty of the Georgia Normal and Industrial college, at their dosing session for the present school year, subscribe to tho following resolutions: 1. We deprecate the effect of the ac counts in our state papers of tho oc currence in our college chapel at the graduating exercises on June 4th. ‘2. That the demonstration against Governor Atkinson by tho young la dies of the college was the outcome of intense excitement and not a deliber ate insult to the founder and friend of this institution. 3. That our feeling toward every member of the board of truestees is one of cordial good will. We believe that in their official action they were influenced by conscientious motives even as we ourselves were. 4. That we beg all the friends of this college to cease to discuss this unfor tunate affair and to unite with the trustees, faculty and students in ad vancing the future welfare of this in stitution already so dear to tho hearts of our people. Carried by a unanimous vote and signed in behalf of tho faculty by the president. J. Harris Chappel, “President Georgia Normal and In dustrial College." DISBENSER MIXSON ARRESTED. Charged With Conspiring to Interfere With Interstate Commerce. A big sensation was created at Co lumbia, S. C., Wednesday, by the ar rest of Liquor Commissioner Mixson and Constable Beach at the instance of I)r. Sampson Pope, who charges them with conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce. The case was brought by reason of the seizures of two barrels of beer shipped from Au gusta, Ga., to C. J. Brick and W. F. Fuller, of Columbia. The prisoners were taken up for a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Reid, of New berry. Dr. Pope appeared before the complainants and asked that they be bound over for conspiracy. The as sistant attorney general told the dep uty marshal to consider the seized property in his possession for the pur poses of this ease. The state main tained that the defendants could not be held criminally liable under this act of congress. The commissioner decided that the defendants were in contempt of Judge Simon ton’s order of injunction, which, he said, was now the law, and bound Mixson over to appear for trial at the November term of the United States district court iu thb sum of $1(000, making the constable’s bond only half that amount. PACKWOOD MURDER CASE Will Be Again Brought Before the Florida Courts. The celebrated Pack wood murder case, in which Irving Jenkins, Marian Clinton and W. A. McRae were con victed, was reversed in the Florida su preme court at Tallahassee Monday, Chief Justice Mabry delivering the opinion. The Packwoods were mur dered in Volusia county in December, 1891. The ease was brought up on writ of error from Lake county cirouit court. On December 12, 1891, in a lonely spot seven miles below New Smyrna, on the Hillsboro river, Adelaide Bruce, her little nephew, Frankie Packwood, son of F.J. Packwood,of New York,and Mrs. J. Hatch and little son, neigh bors who were spending the night, were murdered, ^liss Bruce was shot, her throat cut and face crushed in. The throats of the two children were cut. Mrs. Hatch was simply shot. F. J. Packwood, who owned the place, was in DeLand, forty miles away, at the time. His little son was left in charge of his sister-in-law, Miss Bruce. Packwood was a New Yorker, but had lived in Florida some years. TO AID THE INSURGENTS. An Expedition From tho States Lands on Cuban Shores. A telegram from Key West, Fla., says : “It is now known that the ex pedition that left Wednesday night, landed on the north of Cuba, in the province of Las Villas, near Sagua! Lachico. The expedition was under] Im-i the command of General Roloff. mediately landing, they were i upon joined by 2,000 insurgents, under com mand of Zayns, Castillo and Reves. Among the fillibusters was a very prominent surgeon by the name of Valdes Dominguez, author of a book on tho medical students who were assassinated in 1871. They carried 500 pounds of dynamite, It is rumored that fourteen Americans ac CO mpanied the expedition, and also an expert telegraph operator, civil en gineer nnd a powder maker. Tho ves sel that carried the expedition, though not a warship, win prepared to show fight in case they were stopped undoubtedly by any Spanish gunboat. It was the best equipped expedition that has left the states in the cause of Cuban liberty.
