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2 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. I I ll——■■■■■ MEDICAL. COMPOUND EXTHACT Km The importance of purifying the Wood can not tie overestimated, for without pure blood you cannot enjoy good health. At this season nearly every one needs a good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich the blood, and Hood's Sarsaparilla is worthy your confidence. It is peculiar in that it strengthens and builds up the system, creates an appetite, and tones the digestion, while it eradicates disease. Give it a trial. Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass. 100 Poses One Dollar HOTELS. THE MORRISON HOUSE C CENTRALLY located, on lino of street cars, J offers pleasant south rooms, with excellent, board, lowest rates. With new baths, sewerage and ventilation perfect, the sanitary condition of the house is of the host. Corner Brough ton and Drayton streets. Savannah, Ua. HOTEL. TOGNI Jacksonville, Fla. J. B. TOONI, Proprietor. This popular hotel will be open to receive guests on and after December lOlh, 18H8. 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, POtCHONG PARTY? 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) WILL BE SOLD VERY LOW —FROM— MARKET BASEMENT. L. PUTZEL FINE CONFECTIONS. Whitman’s Crystalized Fruits and Superfine Candies in pound boxe9. White Nougat, Choco late Nougat, Chocolate Pralines. Pistachi Choco 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. Port- SIMON GAZAN. DON’T BE DECEIVED. Ask for ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR. a safe and reliable medicine, and take no other I have introduced Dr. B. F. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR in my practice, and find that it gives general satisfaction. The best evidence of the estimation in which it is held is the fact that persons trying it once invariably return for another bottle, recommending it at the same time to their friends. G. A. PENNY, M. D., Cedar Key, Fla. I have found ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR to act like a charm in torpid liver, etc. , D. O. C. HEERY, M. D„ Atlanta, Ga. WEDDINGS. Wedding invitations and cards printed or en graved at the shortest notice and in the latest styles. We carry an extensive and well selected stock of fine papers, envelopes and cards es pecially for such orders. Samples sent on ap. plication. Morning News Printing House Savannah, Ga. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATER TWO JVIoiIT’S ONLY', Monday and Tuesday, Dee. 10 and 11. Grand Matinee Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. for Ladies and Children. THE GREAT Miaco's Mannnolh Pantomime Cos And World of Novelties. 3 DISTINCT SHOWS COMBINED ! 3 A Complete Trick Pantomime, complete olio of sensational and moral specialties, headed by the great and only Alfred F. Miaeo, the Premier Pantomimist and Clown. Everything new, and elaborate Scenery Tricks, Transformations, Wonderful Mechanical Effects and Novelties, New Music, Elegant Stage Settings, Beautiful Singing, Splendid Costumes. Usual prices. Seats on sale at Davis Bros.’ December Bth. Next Attraction—“ Two Old Cronies,” Dec. 15. Augusta National EXPOSITION, AUGUSTA, - GA. THE LARGEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE EX POSITION EVER HELD IN THE SOUTH. RAILROAD RATES 1 CENT A MILE. Opens Nov. 8, Closes Dee. 18, r pilE Products of the South shown to the X World. largest Building in the South Nine hundred and sixty feet long, 200,000 square feet —Best accommodations for exhibitors and visitors. Regulation mile track, finest in the South. Three acres covered by machinery in motion. Greatest attractions ever seen in the South. Exhibits from all parts of the World. 570,000 IN PRIZES AND PREMIUMB, 510,000 TO RACE PURSES, 51,000 IN POULTRY AND PET STOCK. Women's Work and Works of Art admitted free, and in charge of Woman's Exchange. 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. KAIXIT. M-hflj tail. If you wish to pay high prices forever for Kainit, then buy from the “Sole Agents of the Great Kainit Trust,” but if you want to beat this mo nopoly, then buy from us. Wc are “Independent Deal ers,” and propose to remain so. BALDWIN FERTILIZER CO, SAVANNAH, GA. " —"T—“ . ■■■ 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