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the old man a seat. Unload the wagons;
drive out the cattle toward the pastures of
Goshen. 1 z>t the slaves in scarlet kneel
and wash the feet of the newly-arrived,
wining them on t e finest linen of the
palace. Prom vases of perfume let the
newly -arrived be sprinkled and refreshed;
let minstrels come in with sandals of crm
son, and thrum the harps, and clap the
cymbals, and jingle the tambourines, while
we sit down, at this great distance of time
and space, and learn the lesson of the king’s
wagons.
My friends, we are in a world by sin
famine-struck; but the king is in constant
communication with us, his wagons com
ing and going perpetually; and in the rest
of my discourse I will show you what the
wagons bring and what they take back.
In the first place, like those that came
from the Egyptian palace,the king’s wagons
now bring us corn and meat, and many
changes of raiment. We are apt to think
of the fields and the orchards as feeding us;
but who makes the flax grow for the linen,
and the wheat for the broad, and the wool
on the sheep’s back; Oh, I wish we could
see through every grain field, by every
sheep-fold, under the trees of every orchard,
the king’s wagons. They drive up three
times a day—morning, noon and night.
They bring furs from the arctic, they bring
fruits from the tropic, they bring broad
from the temperate zone. The king lo ks
out, and he says: “There are twelve hun
dred millions of people to be fed and
clothed. So many pounds of meat, so
many barrels of flour, so many yards of
cloth and linen and flannel, so many fiats,
so many socks, so many shoesenough for
all, save that we who are greedy get more
shoes than belong to us, and others go
barefooted. None but a (rod could feed and
clothe the world. None hut a king's corn
crib could appease the world’s famine.
None but a king could tell how many
wagons to send, and how heavily to load
them, and when they are to sta’rt. They
are coming over tho frozen ground to-dav.
I)o you not hear tbeir rumbling ? They
will stop at noon at your table. Oh, if for
a little while they should cease, hunger
would come into tho nations, as to Utica
when Hamilcar besieged it, and as in Jeru
salem when Vespasian surrounded it; and
the nations would l>e hollow-eyed, and
fall upon each other in universal cannibal
ism ; and skeleton would drop upon skeleton,
and there would be no one to bury the dead;
and the earth would be a field of bleached
skeletons; and the birds of prey would fall
dead, flock after flock, without any car
casses to devour; and the earth in silence
would wheel around, one great blnck hearse!
All life stopped because the king’s wagons
are stopped. Oh, thank God for bread —for
bread!
I remark again that like those that came
from the Egyptian palace, the king’s
wagons bring us good news. Jacob had not
heard from his boy for a great many years.
He never thought of him but with a heart
ache. There was in Jacob’s heart a room
where lay the corpse of his uuburied
Joseph; and wnen the wagons came, tho
king s wagons, and told him that Joseph
was yet alive, he fainted dead away. Good
news for Jacob! Good news for us! The
king’s wagons come down and tell us that
our Joseph-Jesus is yet alive; that he has
forgiven us because we threw him into the
pit. of suffering and the dungeon of shame.
He has rison from thence to stand in a
palace. The Bethlehem shepherds were
awakened at midnight by the rattling of
the wagons that brought the tidings- Our
Joseph-Jesus sends us a message of pardon,
of life, of heaven; corn for our hunger, rai
ment for our nakedness. Joseph-Jesus is
yet alive!
Igo to hunt up Jesus. Igo to the village
of Bethany, and sav: “Where does Mary
live;” They say: “Yonder Mary lives.” I
go in. I see where she sat in the sitting
room. I go out where Martha worked in
the kitchen, but I find no Jesus. Igo into
Pilate’s court room, and I find the judges
and the police and the prisoner’s box, but
no Jesus. I go into the Arimatbean cemetery;
but the door is gone, and the shroud is cone,
and Jesus is gone. By faith I look up to
the king’s palace; and behold I liavo found
him. Joseph-Jesus is still alive! Glorious
religion, a religion made not out of death’s
beads, and cross bones, and undertaker’s
screw-driver, but one bounding with life,
and sympathy, and gladness. Joseph is
yet alive!
I know that my Redeemer lives.
What comfort this sweet sentence gives!
Tie lives, he lives, who once was dead,
He lives, my ever living Head!
He lives to grant me daily breath.
He lives, and I shall conquer death.
He lives my mansion to prepare.
He lives to bring me safely there.
“He lives, all glory to his name;
He lives, my Jesus still the same.
Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives,
1 know that my Redeemer lives?”
The king’s wagons will after a while un
load, and they will turn around, and they
will go back to the palace, and I really
think that you and I will go with them.
The king will not leave us in this famine
struck world. The king has ordered that
we he lifted into the wagons, and that we
go over into Goshen where there shall be
pasturage for our largest flock of joy, and
then we will drive to the palace, where
there are glories awaiting us which will
melt all the snow of Egyptian marble into
forgetfulness.
I think that the King’s wagons will take
us up to see our lost friends. Jacob’s chief
anticipation was not seeing tho Nile, nor of
seeing the long colonnades of archi leetural
beauty, nor of seeing the throne-room.
There was a focus to all his journeyings,
to all his anticipations; and that was
Joseph. Well, my friends, Ido not think
heaven would be worth much if our brother
Jesus was not there. If there were two
heavens, the one with all tho pomp and
paraphernalia of an eternal monarchy, hut
no Christ, and the other were a plain
heaven, humbly thatched, with a few
daisies in the yard, and Christ were there I
would say: “Lot tho King’s wugons take
me up to the old farm-house.”
If Jesus were not in heaven, there would
be no music there; there would bo but few
people there; they would be off looking for
the lost Christ, crying through the universe:
“Where is Jeeus.' where is Jesus;” and after
they had found him, with loving violence
they would take him and bear him through
the gates: and it would l>e the greatest day
known in heaven within the memory of tho
oldest inhabitant. Jesus never went off
from heaven but once, and lie was so badly
treated on that excursion they will never
let him go again.
• Oh, the joy of [moeling our brother,
Joseph-Jesus! After we have talked about
him for ten, or fifty, or seventy years, to
talk with him, and to clasp hands with the
hero of the ages; not crouching as uuder
lings in his presence, but, as Jacob and
Joseph, hug each other. We will want
some new term by which to address him.
On earth we call him fcjuviour, or Redeemer,
or friend; but when we throw our arms
around him in everlasting embrace, wo will
want some new name of endearment. I
can think of what we shall do through the
long ages of eternity; but what we shall do
the first minute 1 cannot guess. In the first
flash of his countenance, in the first rush of
our emotions, what wo shall do I cannot
imagine. Oh, the overwhelming glory of
the first sixty seconds in heaven! Methinks
we will just stand, and look aud look aud
look.
The king’s wagons took Jacob up to see
his lost boy, and so I really think that the
king’s wagons will take us up to see our lost
kindred. How long is it since Joseph went
out of your household; How many years is
it now last Christmas, or tho fourteenth of
next month j It was a da:k night when he
died: and a stormy day it was at the burial;
and the clouds went with you, and the
winds sighed for the dead. The bell at
Greenwood’s gate rang only a few mo
menta, but your heart has been tolling,
tolling, ever since. You have been under a
delusion, like Jacob of old. You have
thought that Joseph was dend. You put
hi* name first in the birth record of the
lamily bible, and then you put it in
the death record of the family i
table, and you have been deceived.
Joseph is yet alive. He is more alive than
you are. Of all the sixteen thousand mil
lions of children that statisticians say have
gone into the future world, there is not one
of them dead, and the king’s wagons wil
take you up to see them. You often think
how glad you will be to see them. Hava
you never thought, my brother, my sister,
how glad they will be to see you? Jacob
was no more glad to see Joseph than
Joseph was to see Jacob. Every time the
door in heaven opens, they look to
seo if it is you coming in. Joseph,
once standing in the palace, burst out cry
ing when he thought of Jacob—afar off.
And the heaven of your little ones w ill not
be fairly begun until you get there. All
the kindnesses shown them by immortals
will not make them forget you. There
they are, the radiant throngs that went out
from your homos! I throw a kiss to the
sweet darlings. They ere all well now in
tho palace. The crippled child has a sound
foot now. A little lame child says: “Ma,
will Ibe lame in heaven?” “No, my darl
ling, yon won’t be lame In heaven.” A
little sick child says: “Ma, will I he sick in
haven?” “No, my dear, you won’t be sick
in heaven.” A little blind child says- “Ma,
w ill Ibe blind in heaven?” “No, iny dea 1 ,
you won’t bo blind in heaven.” They are
all well there.
In my boyhood, for some time we lived
three miles from church, and on stormy days
the children stayed at home, but father and
mother always went to church; that was a
habit they had. On those stormy Sabbaths
when we stayed at home, the absouce of our
parents seemed very much protracted: for
the roads wore very bad, and they could not
get on very fast. So we would go the
w indow at twelve o’clock to see if they were
coming, and then we would go at half-past
twelve to see if they were coming, and at a
quarter to one, and then at one o'clock.
After a while Mary, or David, or DeWitt
would shout: "The wagon’s coining!” and
then we would see it winding out of the
woods, and over the brook, and thr ugh the
lane, and up in front of tho old farm house;
and then we would rush out, leaving tho
doors wide open, with many things to tell
them, asking them many questions. Well,
my dear brethren, 1 think we are many
of us in the King’s wagon, and
we are on the way home. The
road is very bad, and we get on slowly;
but after a while we will come winding out of
the woods, and through the brook of death,
and up in front of the old heavenly home
stead ; and our departed kindred, who have
been waiting and watching for us, will
rush out through the doors and over the
lawn, crying: “The wagons are coming!
the king’s wagons are coming 1” Hark! the
bell of the city hall strikes twelve. Twelve
o’clock on e arth, and likewise it is high
noon in heaven.
Does not the subject of to-day take the
gloom out of the thoughts that would other
wise be struck through with midnight?
We used to think that when we died we
would have to go afoot, sagging down in
the mire, and the hounds of terror might
get after us, and if wo got through into
heaven at all, we would come iu torn, and
wounded, and bleeding. I remember when
my teeth chattered and my knees knocked
together when I heard anybody talk about
death; but I havo come to think that tho
grave will bathe softest bed I over slept in,
and the bottom of my feet will not be wet
with the passage of the Jordan. “Them
that sleep in Jesus will God bring with
him."
I was reading of Robert Southey, who
said he wished he could die far away from
his friends —like a dog, crawling into a
corner and dying unobserved. Those were
his words. Be it ours to die on a couch
surrounded by loved ones, so that they
with us may hear the glad, sweet, jubilant
announcement: “The king’s wagons are
coining!” Hark? I hoar them now. Are
they coming for you or me?
LORRILLARD’S HUNT.
Terrible Havoc Among the Denizens
of the Cooper River Section.
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 9. Pierre
Dorrillard and his friends returned
to-day from a two days’ suc
cessful hunting expedition at the
head waters of the Cooper river with a
good bag, including one buck, twenty brace
of quail or partridge, nine trace of wood
cock, thirty pair of doves, lifteon pair of
elucks, three wild turkeys, two possums,
three coons, an unlimited quantity of
marsh hens or king sora and a varied as
sortment of field larks, snipe, wild pigeons,
robbins, curlews, squirrels, etc. There
were four guns in the party, which mad -
its headquarters on Mr. Lorrillard’s yacht,
the Reva. The party reached the city this
morning.
THE NEXT TRIP.
From to-morrow they will try the Ashley
river and its head waters, leaving here at
daylight for a three days’ hunting and fish
ing expedition. They are hound for the
region of alligators, deer and mullet. Mr.
Lorrillard’s floating stable and kennel has
not yet been finished, aud his stock and
dogs accompany him on the Reva.
After this trip he and his guests will return
to New York, and will there organize a
large party of hunters, returning here early
in January, when tho regular hunting sea
son will begin.
ATHENS’ NEW RAILROAD.
The First Train on the Covington and
Macon Enters Town.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9. —Tho locomotive on
the Covington and Macon railroad now
rings its bell and runs through tho streets
and business thoroughfares of Athens. A
small crowd gathered at the crossing on
Cemetery street late yesterday afternoon to
see the engiue and long train of loaded flat
cars make their first trip over the tanvard
trestle, which has just been completed by
Stiles & Cos., bridge contractors. The
trestle in one place is almost 90 leet high,
and is built of heart pine in large timbers.
The train came across at a very good speed,
and with a loud whistle announced its ar
rival in the heart of the city.
WHERE THE TRACKS REACH.
Track is laid to Baldwin street, which is
about two squares from Broad. At 8
o’clock this morning the first passenger
train over the road from here pulled out.
It was composed pf an engine, a box and a
fiat car. Among the passengers were the
John A. Ktevens’ Company, en route for
Macon. Several citizens were also aboard
as the guests of Col. L. \V. Roberts. The
regular schedule will commence in a few
days.
NO FEVER IN JACKSONVILLE.
Only Two Cases Developed Within the
City Limits In Ten Days.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 9.—l’resident
Neal Mitchell’s official bulletin for the
twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock to
night is as follows:
New cases 0
Deaths 0
Total number of eases to date ... 4,70"
Total number of deaths to date 412
NO CASE IN THE CITY.
An examination of the hoard of health
by tho Associated Press agont to-night re
veals the fact that o lly two cases of yellow
fever have been reported in the liinits'nf the
city proper during tho last ten days. These
were both declared convalescent by Presi
dent Mitchell to-night. This leaves no case
of fever within the city limits at present,
an announcement which is decidedly gra’i
fyitig to the board aud to the City generally.
JOHN P. VARNUII DEAD.
A Sketch of His Connection With
Florida Journalism.
Jacksonville, Fla., Doc. 9.—Nows
reached hero to-day of the death of John P.
Varnutn at Avon, Mass., until recently one
of tho most prominent jouri alists in
Florida. He was formerly city editor of the
Times of this city, a.id later a
partner with Charles H. Jones in
tho management of the Timet-Union.
He established the Morning News in 18Sii
and subsequently became a stockholder and
managing editor of tho Sens-Herald, from
which position he resigned November, 1887,
on account of ill health. He died of blood
poisoning. He was 34 years old.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1888.
MILL EDGE VILLE’S CONFERENCE.
Fuler Details of the Session of Satur
day.
Millepoevili.e, Ga.', Dec. 9.—The ex
ercises of the conference opene 1 Saturday
morning with tho usual religious services,
by Rev. R. K. Johnson. The larger portion
of the time was consumed in a continuation
of tho reading of tho annual reports of the
preachers of the various districts, giving
tho number of preachers, number of mem
bership Increase and loss in membership,
number and value of church parsonages,
and other church property. The num
ber of Sunday schools, their teach
ers, pupils, etc., and the amount of
money raised in their various circuits for
all religious purposes, which, taken in the
aggregate, make a fine showing, not only in
religious tone, but iu the liberality of the
people all over the country in unloosing
their purse strings for the purpose of sus
taining and maintaining the spread of the
gospel to all lands. Very few of these an
nual reports of the preachers show a de
crease, instead of an increase, both in num
ber of members, and in the increase of
their contributions.
Rev. VV. IV. Lampkin, upon the recom
mendation of Rev. E. W. Lovejoy, was for
personal reasons allowed to select the post
to which he should be assigned to duty for
the coining year.
Revs. B. T. Payno and P. A. Heard, who
from continued illness and hard work had
become broken down and begged for rest,
had their cases referred to the committee o.i
supernumeraries, and for their long and
faithful services will doubtless ho tenderly
provided for.
A long and interesting discussion arose
upon the propriety of allowingthe churches
to be used by that body called the “Salva
tion Army.” Most of the preachers were
opposed io it, and the venerable bishop ex
pressed himself as opposed to it upon the
ground, as he rather facetiously remarked,
that “there was a great deal of itinerant
nonsense abroad in the land.” But he
finally announced that the house of bishops
bad emphatically decided that the church
edifice was under control of the minister in
charge.
Rev. M. Lynn was granted a location at
his own request, and Rev. J. M. Tumlin ap
pointed to fill his place.
The chairman of the committee on tem
perance, Rev. W. A. Candler, read a very
able report on temperance, urging an ex
tensive circulation of a book by Prof. H.
Scamp, of Emory College, entitled “King
Alcohol in the Realm of King Culture,” and
recommended a committee of W. H. Pottle,
A. G. Haygood and A. H. Colquitt to form
an organization to meet this evil in the best
manner possible.
Other (reports were read, the most im
portant of wnioh perhaps, was in relation
to the publishing house and the Christian
Advocate, of which Rev. Dr. Potter was
re-appointed managing editor.
Tne distinguished Bishop, J. C. Koene,r
preached in the Methodist church at II
o’clock a. m. to-day, to a fine audience.
AN IMAGINARY DUEL.
A Stranger on a Spree Telia a Fairy
Tale at Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 9.— Augusta has
been all agog to-day’over a reported duel 4 at
Sand Bar Ferry. Chief Twiggs received
advice from Balesburg last night that
parties were en route here to fight a duel.
To-day a young man attired in a neat fit
ting black suit and wearing a conspicuous
broad brimmed felt hat attracted a great
deal of attention by talking of tho code
duello and showing to crowds a ragged hole
through his hat. He admitted confidentially
to the News’ correspondent that he had
fought a duel and was very sorry he had
wounded his opponent. His name is Dr. A.
F. Dirlin. He says he is from Balti
more, and was at the time un
der the influence of liquor.
FOUR SHOTS HEARD.
Partite up from the ferry say that they
heard four shots, and the ferryman says ho
saw a carriage drive off. The theory is,
that Purlin, who has been on a prolonged
drunk, is suffering from delirium tremens.
He came to the city to goon a hunt with
some friends and got the idoa in his head
that he had a duel to fight. He
employed a carriage and drove to
the ferry and came back in a few
minutes with a hole in his hat, saying that
ho had plugged his man. He showed his
pistol several times and made visitors in
the hotel very uncomfortable. He was ar
rested when, after having smashed a
window in a gurney, he was trying to shoot
the driver. He was jailed on a charge of
carrying coneoalod weapons. When the
fumes were wearing off his befogged brain
ho admitted that the whole affair was a
lark.
PIEDMONT CHAUTAUQUA.
A Brick Company, Places It in the
Hands of a Receiver.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 9. —Ellis & Gray, at
torneys for the Chattahoochee Brick Com
pany, have placer! the Piedmont Chautauqua
in the hands of a receiver, and Heary
Hiliyer has been appointed to take charge
of the affairs of tho enterprise, The prin
cipal creditors are the Chattahoochee Brick
Company, Atlanta Lumber Company, aud
Bain V. Kirkpatrick. The liabilities amount
to about $'20,000, most of which is owed for
material furnished for building purposes.
It is belived that the creditors will get
their money, as the stockholders are liable,
and are amply able to pay off tho amount
due.
FRISCO’S SUGAR CARGO.
A Refinery to Close on Account of the
Seizure.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 9.—Andrew
Welch, the President of the American Re
fining Company, said to-day that owing to
the action of tho customs’ authorities in
holding the cargo of sugar which arrived
here from Java, on the steamer West
Meath, the refinery would have to close
Monday, as there was no other
stock to work on. He estimates that the
employes will lose $.’50,000 in wages. Mr.
Welch says he knows nothing of any fraud
ulent attempt to have the sugar admitted
at a low rate of duty, and declares that it
was imported in the regular way.
A CRANK AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
He Comes from Pennsylvania and Says
Ho Was Elected President.
Washington, Dec. 9. —During the past
two or threo days officials at the white
house have been annoyed by a man, evi
dently a “crank,” who haR paid frequent
visits there for tho purpose of seeing the
I’resident. Ho is about 46 years old and
well-dressed, and presents the appearance
of a man of good circumstances. Early in
tho morning aud late in the evening ho has
appeared to seo the President on important
business.
Kergt. Jones warned him to keep away,
and on his return to the white house this
afternoon Oilicer Cunningham placed him
under arrest. Ho was taken to tho sanitary
olliee, where, on bei g questioned, he gave
Ills name as G. W. Jamison, ami said he
was from Hartsville, Bucks county, Penn
sylvania.
” “There was an election last month,” re
marked the stranger.
“1 believe there was,” said the sanitary
officer.
"Well,” said Jamison, “there is a mistake
as to the man who was elected. Cleveland
mid another man ran. Cleveland was de
feated, hut the other man was not elected.”
“Who w..s.'" asked tho oftlcor.
“1 was,” liean-wered. “And I came here
to see that President Cleveland turns the
office over to me ami not to the other man.”
He was taken to the Third precinct
station, where he wil be examined as to his
mental condition.
Tuk girls In the university at Minneapolis are
to be drilled in regular soldier fashion nnd to
carry real guns. A company of 100 has been
organized.
THE DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK.
The Working Ladles'Guild of London
and the Flutterings of Social Butter
flies at Home.
New York, Dec. 8. —Royalty is put to
all manner of odd uses nowadays. For
instance, I caught a glimpse of it in London
in the act of presiding at the opening of a
store. To lay every description of corner
stone has become a recognized branch of the
royal profession, and why not the corner
stone of a fortune?
It was a pretty little shop just off Regent
street for the prospective sale of wood carv
ings, “poker work,” small articles inlaid in
nmrquetorie. Bonnets peeped in at the
window, bonnets nodded in the doorway,
bonnets blossomed in a dense mass inside,
every bonnet pressing toward a circle of
yellow ro3es in the middle of the room. The
hedge of roses was the cordon marking the
august presence, and behind it stood her
Royal Highness Priucess Frederica with
rose-a, gathered from the hedge, in her
bands aud pinned upon her gown. It was
a simple enough function—a buzz of talk,
an examination of the artistic trifles ex
posed for sale, a hush, a half dozen grace
ful sentences from the rose circle, a flower
royally presented, a bustle of renewed con
versation, a hint of some royal purchase,
an adjournment for the inevitable tea
drinking. Simple, but Belgravia had been
present and the future of the shop was as
sured. Princess Frederica is a zealous patron
offthe Working Ladies’ Guild,and the small,
pale-faced artist just establishing herself in
business was ono of the guild’s pupils and
proteges.
There are 3,000,009 more women in Great
Britain than men. Thirty-seven per cent,
of all the women of marriageable age in
England are unmarried. Fully one half of
tho women of the educated middle-class
—gentlewomen—of marriageable ago are
without husbands. Economy is the watch
word of the day abroad. British fortunes
are shrinking. Ways and means of con
tracting expenditure are everyday topics
in British papers. Estates will no longer
stand the charges upon them involved in
the maintenance of such a horde of maiden
sisters. Women unused to lifting a finger
for themselves are being thrown in ever
increasing numbers on their own resources.
They have been brought up to no remuner
ative occupation. They have no business
experience. They have no business ideas.
They shrink with a painful sensitiveness
from contact with a rough aud tumble
world. There are thousands on thousands of
them. What are they to do?
Eleven years ago the Working Ladies’
Guild was founded to assist one of the most
helpless, most pitiable classes which society
has to ileal with, unmarried or widowed
gentlewomen. The place which it filled
was in such urgent need of filling that the
queen sent it money and Princess Beatrice
has become president of its departments,
working actively in its cause and starting a
fund in her own name to be devoted to its
objects. Identical iu Its aims with the ex
changes for women’s work, the first of which
Mrs. Candace Wheeler started iu New
York, and which are ramifying all over this
country, the Working Ladies’ Guild is more
extensive in its operations and more prac
tical in some of its methods, as one would
expect from the greater extremity of the
need to which it responds.
The guild has a shop in Brompton road,
London, where its goods are sold. These
goods are comprised under five depart
ments, each of which has its own head and
separate management. The first depart
ment is that of plain needlework, orders for
which are solicited from six different cen
tors in the metropolis and two or three more
in the suburbs. Next conies art needlework,
which includes church work and tapestry,
and Which sends out some of the finest pieces
of order work in England. This department
supplies teachers for women who may wish
lessons in embroidery aud sends out ladies
to repair old and valuable hangings. The
third group supports more than a hundred
invalids aud elderly ladies who can knit,
but whose strength or skiil is equal to little
else. This is Princess Beatrice’s depart
ment, aud she is doing her best to bring into
fashion all manner of articles knit of
Angora rabbit wool, which, aud the wheels
with which to spin it, she supplies.
Next comes the department for painting
and general art work which takes orders for
portraits, illuminations, china and mirror
painting and decorative furniture. It
mounts drawings and photographs and
supplies teachers in many branches. The
department for army aud poor work takes
contracts for embroidering soldiers’ coats
and orders for clothing for the poor. These
five grout s, through their main office and
its branches, find sale for articles w hich find
employment for hundreds of ladies, most of
whom are wholly supported thereby. But
with the management of its shops the work
of the guild is only just begun. It supplies
registry offices for employments for ladies.
It has now four such open in London,
whore governesses, lady housekeepers,
matrons, teachers of music and languages,
companions, readers, secretaries, chaper
ones, ladies to play dance music, to recite,
sing, play the violin, etc., at parties are
supplied.
The most interesting branch of its work,
and one which has no parallel in the
women’s exchanges of this country, consists
in the leasing of two blocks of buildings,
“Camden Houses” and the “Oakley Flats,”
the rooms of which are rented at as low
rates as consist with making the apartments
self-supporting to ladies whose lives would
otherwise be tortured out of them in dingy
and dreary boarding houses. Rents in the
Oakley Flats range from 75 cents to $1 a
week per room. The rental of one bed
room, which is provided with open fire
place aud all manner of small convenience",
entitles its tenant to the free use of sitting
and music rooms. Each block is provided,
moreover, with its restaurant, at which a
well-cooked meal of meat and vegetables
can be had as low as 15 cents, or at the
narrowest possible margin over the cost of
preparing the food. There are no vexa
tious restrictions such as have frustrated
many well meant efforts with us. and the
complete independence and comfort secured
keep the rooms full and a prossure.of would
be tenants for vacancies.
The guild is organizing branches in the
larger English cities and in no long time
’ will have a net-work all over the kingdom.
It is helping ladies to emigrate, establishing
hospital and invalid funds, has a summer
vacation department, and, quite as impor
tant as anything, it tries to train for recog
nized occupations such women ns are not
too old for technical instruction in trades.
The Lady Mary Fielding is it s animating
spirit and it has in its counsels the March
ioness of llipon, the Countess of Ducie, the
Lady Frances Balfour, Lady Eden, Lady
Knightly and a long list of notables and
handworkers who extend its influence aud
its markets.
Guests at a 5 o’clock tea must fauoy thom
selves now and then participating in the
ceremonies round a witches’ caldron. Tho
shades arc drawn but gas is tabooed and
the candles do not burn very high. In tho
semi-obscurity one tiptoes from group to
group waiting for the mysterious revels to
begin. The logs in the fireplace throw out
a fitful blaze casting all mauner of strange
lights and shadows. By and by they burn
down and only a handful of rod coal is left.
Then voices drop almost to whispers and
the only light seems to he shed by tho blue
flame of alcohol in the tea-stand over which
my lady’s kettle hangs simmering. It is
wierd, almost ghostly, and the curious thing
is thnt nobody seonis to know what it is
for. Somebody says that somebody else cam
homo from the country with a bruise on
her forehead from a fall received while rid
ing and refused to light up until her faoo
os well. Society caught the gloomy in-'
faction, and it iB time some impetus was
given the other v/ay.
A gown for Mrs. Harrison was forwarded
from New York this week. It is supposed
that it will return to the metropolis to figure
presently in tho festivities that are expected
during the visit of the wife of the Presi
dent-elect to the Grants. It is a delightfully
rich, stately black velvet, with court traiu,
lined with white gilt-. The front of the
skirt is of black satin, embroidered m
arabesques in gold and silver needlework.
The bodice is of velvet with pointed front
of satin also embroidered in gold and silver.
It is a very beautiful exquisitely
finished in detail.
Autographs of Mrs. Cleveland are being
sought by women reluctant to turn from
allegiance to the old regime to devotion to
the new. Mrs. Cleveland is working zeal
ously in behalf of her alma mater, Wells
College, whose buildings were burned some
little time ago, and has promised to append
her signature, traced by her own fingers, to
every receipt for subscriptions to the
alumnae fund.
Sorosis has definitely abandoned its pro
jects for building a clubhouse for women in
New York. It talked over a carnival of
authors as a scheme for raising a building
fund, but has decided that the times are not
ripe for the idea. The New York Associa
tion of Collegiate Alumnae, an organization
taking in the college graduates among
New York and Brooklyn girls, is thinking
seriously of opening headquarters in some
convenient locality. B. P. H.
TAKING BLAINE'S SCALP.
Cutting Language by Gen. Harrison’s
Organ.
Indianapolis, INb.,Deo. 7.— The tongues
of republican politicians in Indianapolis are
wagging to-night over the leading editorial
in the News, Its editor, John H. Halliday,
is a personal friend of Gen. Harrison, who
in spite of his tariff reform predilections,
stood hy Gen. Harrison all through the
Presidential campaign, and did more than
any other influence to attract the mug
wumps of Indiana to the republican side of
national politics. It is acknowledged here
that he is nearer to Gen- Harrison than any
man in the state, and that bis paper is the
most likely to indicate his views correctly.
Hence the language of its leading editorial
this afternoon iu regard to Mr. Blaine’s
cabinet aspirations is very significant.
Its title’is “Blaine Bluster.” This is its
text: “The narrowness of the Maine yan
kee has rarely been more strikingly dis
played than in the interviews concerning
Mr Blaine which were reported of several
of the Maine congressmen and senators in
yesterday’s News. Congressman Boutelle’s
expression is a sample. 'Mr. Blaine,’ ho
said, ‘will be offered the secretaryship of
state. Of this I am confident, though of
course I have received no such intimation
from Gen. Harrison. Mr. Blaine is a big
man, and in the recent fight he bore the
brunt of the battle. He would get no more
than his deserts should he be given the state
portfolio.’ The assumption of that is in
sufferable.
“As to the fact of Mr. Blaine bearing the
brunt of the battle, few who watched the
campaign with unprejudiced eyes are
aware of it. The Blaineites intended that he
should. With their cut-and-drie i reception
and their ignoring of Harrison, these gentry
intended to give Mr. Blaine a ‘send-off’ that
should carry him through the campaign as
the central figure. To the extent that they
succeeded, to that extent the republicans
were handicapped, and it was the growing
weight of the conviction of Harrison’s
strength and masterfulness as he im
pressed himself upon the country as
the campaign progressed that counter
acted the mischief of the Blaine im
pression and brought victory to the
republicans. Take counsel of the enemy.
If Blaine was such a tower of strength, why
was the democratic campaign so system
atically bent to highten and extend that
impression? One great, general feature of
democratic tactics was to assert that Blaine
was the central figure; that he would be
virtual President: that Harrison was a fig
ure merely, and a feeble one at that.
Doesn’t this show that rhe Blaine idea was
a republican weakness? Where was his
strength* Not here. He failed to carry
ladiana four years ago, and his mere pres
ence here this year was a damper that only
Harrison’s steady popularity overcame.
“Blaine certainly isn’t popular in New
York, where if the very idea that his fol
lowers are now instigating, namely, that he
was the great figure, had prevailed, would
have surely lost Harrison the state. Blaine
is thoroughly distrusted and feared as a
corrupt and unsafe man by one-balf the
people of the country, and he has lost the con
fidence and consideration of the thinking
element of his own party. He H the idol
of the ‘hurrah boys' and the unthinking
element of his own party, that is ail; and
he occupies no enviable position to-day as
the subject of such persistent and provincial
electioneering os the ‘dead set’ of the Maine
man is giving him.”
Orlando's Election.
Orlando, Bla., Dec. 9.— ln the city
election yestorday three candidates were ip
the field for mayor: W. R. Marks, dem.;
C. A. Haley, rep.; W. F. Wheaton, ind.
The entire democratic ticket was elected,
Their Respective Claims.
From the Chicago Times.
Two large processions encountered each other
on the public highway near Indianapolis.
“Let me pass.” said the leader of one. “We
are the men that first nominated Harrison for
President.”
"Wehave the rightof way," haughtily replied
the leader of the other procession. “We are the
man that went to school with him when we
were a boy.”
And the shock of the collision shook the earth
and broke all the windows for miles around.
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Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
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This popular hotel will be open to receive
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MEETINGS.
CLINTON LODGE NoT 54 , F . aT V. M.
A regular communication of this
Lodge will be heid at Masonic Temple
THIS (Monday) EVENING, Dec. 10th,
1868, at 8 o’clock. ' '
An election of officers will take place. Mem
bers will come prepared to pay their dues.
Members of sister lodges and visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to meet with us.
JOHN E. MALLEEY, W. M.
Waking Russell, Jr.. Secretary.
DeKALB LODGE NO. 9, I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will lie held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock, sun time.
The Second Degree will be conferred.
Members of other lx>dges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of R. M. HICKS, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
CALANTHE LODGE NO. 28, K. OF P.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will .e-jrx
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING.
at 8 o’clock. g/ xjja
Nomination of officers.
Vembers of sister Lodges cordially
. D. S. GREENBAUM, C. C.
W. Falconer, K. R. and S.
germ an friendly society.
The regular monthly meeting of this Society
will beheld THIS (Monday) EVENING, in K.
of P. Hall, at 7:30 o’clock.
W. SCHEIHING, President.
A. Heller, Secretary.
NOTICE.
West Side Democratic Club.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10, 1888.
A meeting of the above Club will be held on
MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 10, in room No. 16
(new building), at 7:30, standard time. All
members are respectfully requested to attend.
By order of M. S. BELKNAP, President.
Frank Fear, Secretary.
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS.
Central R. R. and Banking Cos. of Georgia, I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. sth, 1888. f
The annual meeting of the Stockholders of
this Company will take place at the Banking
House, in Savannah, on FRIDAY, December
21st, at!! o’clock a. m. Stockholders and their
families will be passed free over the Company’s
road to the meeting, from the 18th to the 21st,
inclusive, and will be passed free returning
from the 21st to the 23rd, inclusive, on presen
tation of their stock certificates to the con
ductors, T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under "Special
Notices" will be charged ft 00 a Square each
insertion,
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BENEFIT EPISCOPAL ORPHANS’ HOME,
AT THE SUPPER ROOMS
GUARDS’ ARSENAL,
(Entrance on President street),
MONDAY, DECEMBER lOth, 1888.
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Everybody come, and "Chang, hang hi and
hie hoc Pouchong.”
Prof. LEON will play at the entertainment
on Monday night.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship
SOUTHWOLD must be presented at our office
before 12 o'clock noon THIS DAY, Dec. 10, 1888,
or payment will be debarred.
RICHARDSON & BARNARD, Agents.
NOTICE.
The Merchants’ Nat’l Bank of Savannah, I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 9. 1888. f
The annual election for Directors of this Bank
will be held at the Banking House on TUES
DAY, Jan. 8, 1889, between the hours of 12 and
1 o’clock. THOS. GADSDEN, Cashier.
NOTICE.
Neither the Master nor the Agents of the
British steamship TITANIC, will be respon.
sible for any debts contracted by the crew.
WILDER & CO., Agents,
BUNCHES HA N A NAS!
TOO RIPE.
(Balance Cargo Schooner Swift)
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FINE CONFECTIONS.
Whitman’s Crystalized Fruits and Superfine
Candies in pound boxe9. White Nougat, Choco
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late, Cream Chocolate Drops, White Chocolate
Nougat, St. Nicholas Chocolate, Chocolate
Caramels, Instantaneous Chocolate in pound
cans, Cream Candy, Jordan Almonds, Roast
Almonds, Cream Mint Drops, etc., just received
at STRONG S DRUG STORE,
Corner Bull and Perry street lane.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Commencing MONDAY, Denember 10, Steam
ers ST. NICHOLAS or DAVID CLARK will
leave Savannah on MONDAYS and THURS
DAYS at 4 p. M., (instead of Tuesdays and Fri
days at 5 r m., as heretofore), for IIOBOY,
DARIEN, BRUNSWICK and FERNANDINA.
C. WILLIAMS. Agent.
ELECTION FOR DIR HI 'TORS.
Centbal R. It. and Banking Cos. or Georgia. I
Savannah. Ga., Dec. sth, 1888. (
An election for thirteen Directors to manage
the affairs of this Company for the ensuing
year will be held at the Bonking House in Sa
vannah, MONDAY, the seventh day of January,
1889, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and
2 o'clock p. m. Stockholders and their families
will be passed free over the Company’s road to
attend the election from the 4th to the 7th
January, inclusive, and bo passed free return
ing from the 7th to the 10th January, inclusive,
on presentation of their stock certificates to
the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
DR. J. I. g. IIOLgTOLN
HAS RETURNED TO THE CITY.
Office, 98 HARRIS Street.
DIVIDEND.
Central R. R. and Banking Cos. of Georgia, I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. stli, 1888. (
A dividend of Four Dollars per share from the
earnings of Uils Company and ils dependencies
has been declared, payable on ana after the
21st hist,, to tlie Stockholders of record this day.
The Transfer books of the Company will be
Closed from TO DAY until Jun. 7th, except on
Dec. 80th and 27th, when they will be opened.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
DIVIDEND NO. til.
Augusta and Savannah Railroad, I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1. 1888. f
On and after this date a dividend of Three
Dollars and a Half per share will bo paid to the
stockholders of tho Augusta and Savannah
Railroad, at the banking house of Charles H.
Olmstead .£ Cos., between the hours of 10 a. in.
and 1 p. m. W. S. LAWTON. President.
Fon ordinary.
I respoctfully announce to my friends and the
voters of Chatham county that I will boa can
didate for ORPIN ARY at tho election to bo held
on JANUARY 2d, and will be grateful for your
votes and support. P. J. O’CONNOR.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
FOR ORDINARY.
To my friends and Fellow Citizen's of Chat
ham County:
I respectfully announce myself as a candidate
for re-election to the office of ORDINARY of
Chatham County at the election to be held on
the 2nd day of JANUARY next, and kindly
solicit your votes and influence.
HAMPTON L. FERRILL.
FOR SHERIFF.
I respectfully announce to my friends and the
voters of Chatham county that I will be a candi
date for Sheriff at the election to be held Jan
2, and will be grateful for your votes and sup.
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Wedding invitations and cards printed or en
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styles. We carry an extensive and well selected
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Usual prices. Seats on sale at Davis Bros.’
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Women's Work and Works of Art admitted
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Grand Military Parade.
SHAM BATTLE AND ENCAMPMENT COM
MENCING Nov. 12.
Military parade on Nov. 12, headed by the
Gallant Hampton. Reviewed by the Hiroio
Gordon.
Sham Battle and encampment in Command
of GEN. M. A. STOVALL.
Cappa’e Seventh Regiment Band of New York
in attendance.
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PROPOSALS WANTED.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER’S OFFICE.
Charleston, S. 0., December Ist, 1838--
Sealed proposal* iu triplicate, to be opened •
o’clock NOON of DECEMBER 31st, 1888, are IF
Vitod for dredging in Mosquito creek, S. < • •
teniion of bidders is called to the acts of to
gross, approved February 26, 1885, and lenruwj
23. 1887, vol. 23, page 332, and vol. 2), page
Statutes at Largo. All information may b® “ .
of FREDERIC V. ABBOT, Captain Corps
Engineers, U. 8. A.
PROPOSALS FOR STONE AND MATTES
1 WORK IN SAVANNAH HARBOR AS"
RIVER, GA.-U. S. Engineer’s Office, sa'"
nah. Ua„ Sept. 12, 1888. -Sealed proposals
triplicate will lx* received at this office unu
o'clock M., city time, on the 24th day of 1 e ,, he
her, INSB, for constructing a training ' vllM *v. in 4
mouth of the Savannah river and for deposit*
stono on tho l*’ig Inland training wall t*' lo * ~
city of Savannali. Ga. Amount available a
sl*o,ooo. Attention is invited to Acts or c
gress Approved February 2(1. 18S.\and V,
21. 1887, Vol. 23, Page ,332, and Vol. 24, 1
Statute* at Large. For all necessary ink ,
tion, apply to O. M. CARTER, Ist l.t. t orp
Ellgr.s IT. S. A.—-
PROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUCTING
1 AT ENTRANCE TO CUM
SOUND, GA. AND E'LA.-U. S.
Office, Savannah, (la., Sent. 12. 188 - It tin*
proposals in triplicate will be received .
office until 12 oYlook m., city time, on n
day of December. 18,SK. for constructing 11
to be composed of stout* and oyster sn
tho entrance to Cumberland Bound. U p.
Fla Amount available, about SKW,WO. jl
tion U invited to Acts of an y O ,
February 2d. 1885, and February 23, m '•
23. Rage 832. and Vol. 24, Page 414 Statu**
ljirg*. For all necessary information. LJ
O. M. CARTER, Ist . Lt- Corps of hngrs.. u