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be not? Hezekiah was sick unto death; he
prayed for his lite; God heard him, and
added fifteen years to that lifetimo. The
Stayer saved him—the lump of figs applied
eing merely the God-appointed human in
strumentality. “But,” says someone, “I
don’t believe the Bible.” Ah! then we will
have to part company for four or five
minute*, for it is useless to try to argue
with any man with whom you can not
stand upon common ground. In any argu
ment. if you would be successful, tnere
must be some common data to start from.
It is foolish to try to prove to a man that
twice three fire six, provided h 6 does not
admit the multiplication table, or ttat. twc.
and two are tour, If he does not admit the
addition table
My first address, therefore, Is to those
who believe in the Bible 1 want to tell
you that prayer is the mightiest of h!1
remedied, arid that the allopathic, and
homeopathic, and eclectic schools will yet
acknow ledge it. Here are twa cases of sick
ness precisely alike: the same k;: dof medi
cine is given to both of them, and m the
same quantities. The one patient recovers,
the other docs not. Why? God blesses the
one remedy, and does not bless the other.
Prayer lias helped many a blundering doc
tor through with u case that would nave
otherwise become completely unma age
able. There is euoh a thing as gospel
hygiene, as Christian pharmacy, as divine
materia medica. That is a foolish man
who, in cases of sickness, goes only to human
resources, when w have these instance* of
the Lord’s bolp in tue sick-room. Before
you call the doctor, while he is there, a ;d
after he goes away, lo k up to him who
cured Hezekiah. L* t the apothecary send
the poultice, but God makes it draw. Oh:
I am glad to have a doctor who knows how
to pray. God send salvation to nil the doc
tors! Sickness would be oftener bulked,
deatn would be oftener hurled back fro n
the doorsill, if medical men came iut * the
sick-room, like Isaiah of the text, with a
prescription in their hands and the word of
the Lord in their mouths.
John Abercrombio, the most celebrated
physician of Scotland, prayed when he • ent
into the sick-room, and he wrote no more
ably about “diseaseof the brain” than
about “the philosophy of the moral feel
ings.” I don’t know' how much oJ the med
ical success of Sydenham, and Cooper and
Harvey, and Kush defended upon the fact
that they knew how to pray as well as to
prescribe. I don’t want a physician who
sees no God in human anatomy to doctor
my broken bones. If God made us, (and I
think he did), and if the Bible is true, (and
I arn rather disposed to think it is), then it
is not strange that prayer does not traverse
natural cause, ay, that introduces anew
cause When God made the luw he
did not make it so strong he could uot
break it. If God made our bodies, when
they are broken ho is the one to mend them;
and it is reasonable that we should call
him in to do it. If my furnace in the
cellar breaks down, there is no one so com
petent to repair it as the manufacturer. If
ray watch stops, there is no one so compe
tent to set it going as the one who made it.
If the body is disordered, call in the maker
of It. It is not all, as these physicists tell
us, a matter of ventilation or poisoned air,
of cleanliness or dirt, of nutritious diet or
poor fare. I have known people to get well
In rooms where the windows had been six
weeks down, tight shut, and I have known
them to die right under patent ventilators.
1 have known children sickly who every day
had their bath, and I have known children
robust the washing of whose faces would
make their features unrecognizable.
God did not make the law and then run
away from it What is a law of nature? It
Is only God’s usual way of doing things,
hut he has said that if his children ask him
to do a thing, and he can consistently do
It, he will do it. Go on with vour pills, and
plasters, and nostrums, and elixirs, and
your catholicon, but remember that the
mightiest agency in your recovery is prayer
Prayer to God brought the king’s cure, the
lump of figs being the God-directed human
instrumentality.
I would have you also see—-for it is an
other lesson of the subject—that our prayer
must also be accompanied by means. It is
an outrage to ask God to do a thing while
we sit indolent. The prayer, to be accept
able, must come not only from the heart,
but fom the hands. We must work while
vre pray, devotion and work going together.
Luther came to Melancthon’s bedside and
prayed for his recovery, and insisted, at the
same time, that he should take some warm
soup, the soup being ]ust as important as
the prayer. In the time of t e great
plague that came to York, of England, the
priests prayed all night and all dav for the
removal of the plague, but did not think of
clearing out the dead dogs and cats that
lay in the Rutters, causing theslcknens. W ■
must use means as well as supplications. If
a man has “evening prayers," askiuß
for health, and then site down to a full sup-
Eer of indigestibles at 11 o’clock at night,
is prayer is a mockery. A fsrra-r has no
right to pray for tiie safety of his family
when he knows there is no cover on the
cistern. The Christian man, reckless about
his health, ought not to expect the same
answer to his prayer as the Christian man
expects who retires regularly at 10 o’clock
at night, and takes bis morning bath wit h
the appendix of a Turkish towel. Paul
said to the passengers of the Alexandrian
com ship that they should get safe ashore,
but he told them they must use means, and
that was: “Stick to the old ship!” (Jod is
not weak, needing our help, but God is
strong, and asks us to co-operate with him
that we may be strong, too. Pray by all
means, but don’t forget the flg-poull ice'.
That God answers praye: s offered in the
right spirit, seconded bv qur own effort, is
the first ami last lesson of this text, and it
is a lesson that this age needs to learn. If
all communication between heaven and
caith is cut off, let us know it. ff all the
Christian prayers that are going uo townrd
God never reach him, then, I say, let silence
smite the lips of the afflicted world, and
the nations smother their groans and die
quietly. God does answer pi-aver. The
text shows it. You sav: “I don’t believe
the Bible; I think that those things were
merely coinc denoes, which are often
brought as answers to prayer.” Do you
say that! Was it mere hapoen-so that
Elijah prayed for rain just ns the rain was
going 10 come anyhow? Did Daniel p ay in
the wild b asts’ den jus at the time when all
the lions happened to havo lock jaw! Did
Jeuss oray at the grave of I jizarus just at the
time when Lazarus was going to dress him
self and come out anyhow? Did Jems 1 >se
his plaoe In hissormon, and make a mistake,
when he said: “Ask and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye snail find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you!” And, les: some
were so stupid they could not understand it,
he goes on: “For everyone that asketh re
ceived); and he that -eeketh flndeth; nni
to him that knocketb it shall be opened.'’
But someone persists In saying: “I don’t
believe anything of the Bible ” Then 1 ap
peal to your own instincts. Pi-over in cer
tain circumstances is a. natural to man as
the throbbing in the pulse, as the respira
tion of the lung.. Put a company ol men—
I don’t care how bad f hey are— in sum- im
mment peril, and tnev will cry out . “G and
have mercy on us!” t challenge that these
men who don’t believe in prayer charter a
steamer, go Out in the “Narrows," swing
out eight or nine hundred miles to sea, and
then heave to and watt for a cyclone And
after the cyclone comes and the vessel has
gone under ten times, when they did not ex
pect it would rise again, and the bulwarks
nave been knocked in, and the masts are
gniie—if they do not pray, I will surrender
my theory. Do you tell me that this in
stinct which God has put In us, he put there
just to mock us for tus own crun amuse
ment? If God implanted that instinct in
the human heart, it wav because in his own
heart there was something responsive.
To prove that God does hear prayer, I
put on the witness sand Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Micah, John.
Paul, Peter, aud King Hezekiab. Tell me,
ye ancient ba’tleftelds, ye oriental th i shing
Boors, ye Judean corn Helds, ye Galilean
Ashing smacks, is God deaf, and dumb, and
blind before all human petition? That God
answers prayer, I bring the te million
facta of Christendom to prove. There ha
never paper enough come out of the paper
mills to writs the story, lias not many a
mother prayed back her bad boy from the
ends of the earth—from Canton, from
Madras, from Constantinople—until he
knelt beside her in the old homestead?
Have there not been desperadoes and
renegades who have looked "Into the door of
a pruyer meeting to laugh and scoff at it,
who havo been drawn by the power of
praver, until they ran to the altar crying
out for mercy? Did not the blacksmith In
Lyons, New York, j ray to God until there
came a great awakening that shook the
community.
In my parish, in Philadelphia, one night'
at a meeting, I asked a young man to go
Into a room at the s:de of the church, and
talk upon the theme of religion. He grow
violently angry, and shook his fists at me.
We resolved to pray for that young man,
and w prayed that he might yield his soul
to God And when, next night, at the
meeting, the side door was flung open, he
was the first to stop in. Prayer had capt
ured him. 1 had a classmate iu coliege
whose uncle, Dr John Scudder, of India,
wrote to hi in, saying: “I will pray for you
every day until such a day, and tnen I w;:i
give my attention to some otner subject.”
The last day of these prayers, when they
had ail gathered up before the throne of
God, my classmate surrendered his soul to
Jesus. This is no second-hand story. I saw
the letter, and I knew the young man.
But why should Igo so far* I have had
in my own experience, and I have had in
the history of my own family the evidence
that God answers prayer. My mother,
with three Christian women, assembled
week after week, and prayed for their
children; they kept up that prayer-meeting
o? four persons year after year. The world
knew nothing or it. God answered all those
prayers Ail the group came in; the
eleven sons and daughters of my mother
came in, myself the last.
Hickness came to my household—hopeless
sickness, as it seemed to many. At 3
o’clock on Saturday afternoon the invalid
was carried to the steamer for Savannah.
At 11 o’clock the next day, being Sunday,
standing in this very place, a man of God
prayed for the recovery of the sick one. At
that time, 11 o’clock, she who had been
prostrated three weeks, with some help,
waUed up on dock. The occurrence was as
near to being miraculous as I can imagine.
That the was hopelessly sick, people who
sat up with her night after night, and are
here, can testify. That the prayer for her
recovery was offered in this pulpit, thous
ands of people could testify. That at 11
o’clock on that Sunday morning she walked
up on dec 1a as by a miraculous recovery, I
call the passengers on the San Jacinto,
commanded by Capt. Atkins, December 16,
to testify. This is no second-hand story.
Prayer impotent! If I dared to think
there was no force in prayer, methinks God,
after all he has done for me and mine,
would strike me dead. Prayer impotent!
Why it is the mightiest force in the uni
verse. Lightning nas no speed, the Alpine
avalanche nas no power compared with it.
Will you let the abstractions aud the va
garies of a few skeptics, or a good mauy
skeptics, stand beside the experience of
Gen. Havelock, who came out in front of
the English army, lifted his hat and called
upon the Lord Almighty? Or of Georgo
Washington, who, at Valley Forge, was
found upon his knees iu prayer? or of
William Wilberforce, who went from the
British parliament io the closet of devotion?
or with Latimer, who stood with his hands
on fire, in martyrdom, praying for his per
secutors? Was Washington weak? Was
Havelock weak? Was wilberforce weak?
Was Latimer weak? Bring all the affairs
of your store, of your soul, of your b.dy,
of your friends, of your church, before him,
and the great eternity will show you that
the best investments you ever made were
your prayer-, and though you may have
broken promises you made to God, God
never broke his promises to you. God
be true, though every man be found a liar.
And now, in conclusion, I have to present
you some checks, blank checks, on tue bank
of heaven, written in blood and signed by
the hand wounded on the cross. It is not
safe for you to give a blank check with your
name to it. You do not know what might
be written above. But here is a blank check
which God says l can give you. It is signed
by the handwriting of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and you can fill it up with anything you
want to. “Ask, aud it shall be given to
you; seek, and ye shall find.” Ido not say
that your prayer will bo answered in iust
the way you expect, but I do say it will be
answered in the best way. Oh! will you
test him? This is the outcome of all this
subject.
Ir I should ask the men and women iu
this audience who have found God a prayer
answering Goa to rise up, you would nearly
all rise up. In time of darkness and trouble,
as In time of light and prosperity, he
answered you. 1 commend you to that
God to whom your parents dedicated you in
infancy. They believed so much in prayer
that their last wcrd was a supplication for
you. Having heard you in days of pros
perity, he will not reject your last petition,
when in the darkened room, after they have
wiped the dew of death from your brow,
and the whole group of loved ones have
kissed you good-bye, you have only strength
enough loft to pray: “Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit!”
H ARRIBON’S BAFBTY.
The Author of tbe Rumored Assaset*
nation Plot.
FVom the New York Herald.
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 21.— The author
of the story of the plot to Assassinate Presi
dent-elect Harrrison is Harry Rose,a photog
rapher who has been about Gen. Harrison’s
home taking pictures of his house and yard
ever since the latter's nomination in June
las'. He states that the attempt to take Gen.
Harrison’s life occurred about two wceits
before the day of the election and says that
(len. Harrison was so alarmed on account
of the threatening of his life, that he did
not feel safe in spending his nights in his
own home. According to Rose, he was
driven nightly to the stock farm of Joseph
M. Moore, a prominent real estate man of
this city, the place being known as “Tangle
wood place." He was taken there by T.
P. Haughoy, a leading banker of this city,
aid one of the best known men m the state.
Rose says that at the home on the Tangle
wood farm, which is about eight miles
northeast of this city, a room had been e’e
gantly fitted up for Gen. Harrison and that
he occupied it. Rose has been to the
Tanglewood farm and taken pictures of the
bouse and room occupied by the President
elect. He teds tin-* story with impunity
and declares that he kuows what he is talk
ire about.
This tale of the Tanglewood farm 1 beard
hinted at f. om another source several days
ago. but found no one who could give me a
reliable story regarding it. Ro?e is a
cripple and is understood to have been a
sort of favorite of Gen. Harrison.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
I called on Ranker Haughey this after
noon end he laughed at the story as he
positively denied tr.e part he i alleged to
have taken. Mr. Haughey, however, said
that he had often been mistaken for tbe
general
“I recently took a trip,” he said, “and
was ta .eu for the President elect so fre
quently that I was pointed out to the ad
mi ring populace as the next occupant of
the white house The other day a company
of children followed me through .he park
supposing that I wa Harris n. I own a
farm at Mnpleton, to which 1 used to drive
otien and where I sometimes remained uv-r
night. Inventive people thinking roe t> be
Harrison, wonderea why the distinguished
candidate should so much remain out of
town over night and ingeniously concocted
the assassination theory ”
ANONYMOUS LETTERS OK WARNING.
At Gen. Harrison 1 * home the story is de
nounced as a fabrication, and the only fact
pointing in any wav as a foundation for it
is that Gen Harrison did spend two nights
in the country during the week previous to
the election, partly because he w anted to
gnt (iway front tb* crowds for a little rest,
and also because he had received several
anonymous letters warning him tbnt an at
tempt would be made to murder him, as
; they had aiarmod Mi's. Harrison and other
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1883.
members of the family. It is denied, how
ever, that the general himself was particu
larly afraid, but that he went out and
stayed at the farmhouse of his law partner,
W. H. H. Miller, more to please Mrs. Har
rison than for any other reason.
From all I can learn, the fact that these
threatening letters were really received,
and the furiher fact that Gen. Harrison
did go out into the country for a couple of
nights because he did receive them, form
all the baaft there is to the story that a plot
was laid to assassinate hirn. I believe,
however, that my Informant told me the
story in good faith, and the fact that he
has gone to the trouble to photograph
Tanglewood farm is sufficient evidence of
this.
Mr. Rose Is an inoffensive and well mean
ing man, and had no intention of exciting
the world with a false story
PUTTING MILLIONS IN IT.
A Trust's Members Taking the Pine
Leaf Bagg.r.g.
New Ycrk, Dec. 23.—The Times of this
city says when it became known here that
New York capitalists were looking into the
pine ieaf bagging enterprise with a view to
heavy investments, it became rumored that
the American Cottonseed Oil Tru?t was
already at the back of the concern. This is,
in part, true, for the persons who are now
seeking to gum control are none others than
the controlling stockholders in the cotton
seed oil trust, but as individuals, not as a
company. A stockholder and officer of this
trust said last night that “thorough investi
gations are cow being made into the matter
by stockholders cf our concern, and although
as a company we have not got control of tue
bagging company, individual members have
signified their intention of investing heavily
in the enterprise. All the investigations
which havo as yet been made have proved
very satisfactory. The trust, however,
could not legally control the bagging manu
facturing concern.”
It was 6aid at the Windsor Hotel last
evening that individual members of the
Cottonseed Oil Trust stand ready to back
the pine bagging enterprise to the extent of
several million of dollars. They have since
they have been prosecuting their investiga
tions came to the conclusion that piue wiil
take the place of jute as a wrapper for cut
ton, even when the latter bagging is placed
at the very lowest prices at widen it can be
manufactured. The forests throughout the
southern states abound in pine trees, and
the dry needles can be gathered in e lor
mous quantities. The Jute Bagging Trust
has thus far successfully withstood all
efforts to break it, but the cottousixxi oil
people are very confident, and say ihat it
must at last succumb to the inevitable.
The samples of the articles seat nero are
not groatly unlike jute in appearance. It
was reported that it had been subjected to
heavy pressure in the cotton prom;
it had refused to burn when
set fire to; it had withstood every test to
which it had been subjected and, to crown
all, it ceuld be manufactured at a less ex
pense than oven jute could be under the
most favorable auspices. It was made from
the needles of pine trees, split. and inter
woven into a smut aud durable cord, and
was then woven into a coarse bagging. It
was even claimed that coals of fire had
failed to burn into a bale of cotton when
packed in It.
THE PINE STRAW INDUSTRY.
What the Commissioner of Agricul
ture Saya About It.
In the Morning News two weeks ago
appeared an interview with Mr. C. Menelas,
the well known cotton exporter, on the pine
straw industry. In that interview Mr.
Menelas stated that he had addressed a
letter of inquiry to the commissioner of
agriculture as to the possibilities of the
pine straw as an element of commercial im
portance, a reply to which inquiry he
would give to the public on its receipt.
A Morning News reporter called on Mr.
Menelas yesterday to learn if he had re
ceived auy response to his letter. Mr.
Menelas, who takes a decided interest in
anything tending to advance soutnern in
dustries. and especially the pine straw fiber,
which he thinks has unlimited possibilities
for new industries in the south, expressed
his satisfactiou that the Morning News is
taking an interest in the researches into
tbe pine straw as an article of commercial
importance in this section.
“I have received,” he said, “a letter ad
dressed to me by Hon. Norman J. Colman,
United States commissioner of agriculture,
on this subject, and emanating from so
eminent an authority it, cannot but attract
universal attention, and will have a tend
ency to dispel all doubts as to the practica
bility of utilizing the pine straw fiber. It
will inspire a hope and confidence all over
the south, and finally act a vigorous
stimulant to action such as is justified by
the facts before us.
The letter to which Mr. Menelas alludes
is as follows:
Wash!noton, D. C., Deo. 18, 1889.
C. Menelas, Esq., Savannah , (Vo:
Dear Sir —1 ain in receipt ofSyour letter of
the 13th inst., relative to the uses of pine leaf
straw, and to your Inquiry as to Its manufact
ure abroad, 1 can only say that I am not aware
that it has been utilized in the older countries
to a commercial extent for any other purpose
than to extract its empyreumatie oil for medi
cal and other uses, although, some twelve years
since samples from Germany of a soft fabric
resembling flannel, were exhibited in the
museum of this department. In this coun
try its use was recently commenced on a com
merctal scale for the manufacture of a substi
tute for jute bagging, to relieve the south from
the burden attempted to be placed upon it by
tbe organization of a jute bagging trust. At
the present time only the leaves of the long-leaf
pine are employed, although white and pitch
plus straw is equally a9 available. Its largest
use will be in the manufacture of bagging
for covering cotton bales, and will
therefore come in competition w.th
jute. It can also be made into carpets, matting,
and perhaps finer fabrics, and the fiber, in its
unmanufactured state, is declared by physicians
to be a most v.Unable agent m the treatment of
simple and compound fractures, surgical dress
ing after operations and suppuration of wounds,
its aromatic odor driving away fi:e9. etc. The
needles are gathered green, and the first process
i“. to thoroughly steam them, tbe vapor going
through pipes into a distillery worm, where iv is
condensed, t lie result giving an oil, which is very
valuable, being used for. both internal and e\
ternal application, as well as for many medici
nal purposes.
After the oil has been extracted, theplnestraw.
which has now become a det*p black, is placed
in large iron vats with water and alkali, and
thoroughly boiled, this process being necessary
to remove the silica which forms the outer cov
ering of the leaf The silica which is removed
is useful for tanning and other purposes. Dur
ing ni. this process of cooking the pine leaf
retains its aroma Toe last boiling process
continues for twelve hours, after which the
straw is soaked fer forty eight hours more,
when it is ready for the machinery.
There is little doubt in my mind but that it
will eventually bee >mc a very important in
dustry iu this country It has been feared by
some who are patrioticai.y interested in the
preservation of our forests, that the use of these
leaves for manufacturing would lead to the de
foliation of our forests and hasten the expul
siou of the lo: g-leaved pme from its present re
g. nof growth 1 do not snare in these fear*,
which are La*ed on the a.legation tba the
leaves cf the young trees only must be | eked
for the purpose, and do not appear to tr.e to he
well founded; for such a necessity is
not yet at; established fact ard may never be,
inasmuch as the fami.y of pines drop the..-
leaves e'ery third year, ana the new leave*
which follow are precisely similar to those of
the young tree*, except it may be in their
length.
When the immense areas of these Tines are
considered, this fear becomes less l.kely lo lie
realized. These area* m the southern part of
the Atlantic forest region are measured by more
than K>o,ooo square miles For instance, North
Carolina lias an area of about 13,C00 square
im!-v South Carolina about 7,000. Georgia in 000.
Alabama 14.000. the eastern gulf region 40.n0n.
1 I. usiai.a and Texas also have large areas, aud
there is a L.rg** region of long-leaved pine west
of the Mississippi.
These immanse areas are annually invaded
for timber as well an for the manufacture of
turpentine, rosin, etc ,to an extent which, in
the aggregate, far exceeds the common belief,
and it is fairly probable that the leave* of the
trees felled for this purpose will be utilized for
the new industry, in preference to the standing
timber, as being more accessible and more
I cheaply gathered, than to penetrate the dense
i fore*! to defoliate the young tree* Forest ex
1 pens do not hare these fears of the effects on
i forests of this new industry, and think tuat,
while they consider the long leaved pine doomed
to ultimate disappearance as a forest coining
ent, yet they do not contemplate that such re
sult will be accelerated by this ue of the leaves,
nor likely to be as much of a factor in final de
foliation as the use for timber and naval stores.
Respectfully,
Norman J. Colman.
Commissioner Agriculture.
Mr. Menel&s says that he expects addi
tional information from England and Ger
many, where pine straw has been manufact
ured for some years into underclothing,
which ;a highly recommended for the me
dicinal virtues which the fiber is said to
contain. He says that when the informa
tion sought is received by him. he will take
pleasure in giving it to the Morning News.
He says that he would be very glad if the
entire pres l * cf the south would second the
work of discussing the pine straw industry,
which action, in fc.s judgment, would hasten
the establishment of anew industry in the
south destined, in thene- r future, to attract
capital, afford employment to thousands of
neopie, a: and create an additional source of
wea.in exceeding in its volume the expecta
tions cf the most sanguine advocates of the
utilization cf the pine straw of the South
Atlantic coast.
A FILTHY PRACTICE
And a Vigorous and Timely, Protest
Agalret It.
Editor Morning Sews: Being obliged
to take the street cars to and from business
four times daily at present, I ride by pref
erence in the fine cars of the Beit line, and
think that the management of that com
pany deserves great credit for having given
Savannah such hand nine street cars and
such a substantial roadbed. *
But why is it that the citizens who pa
tronize this line do not make a vigorous
protest against the filthy practice of those
who chew an l spit tobacco juice all over
tne floor sof the cars ?
The otaer day I saw a colored man, who
chewed inside the car but spat
all over the conductor’s platform.
The conductor was at the " driver’s
end of the car and did not observe him, but
when he di lso ho told him to desist. In
stead of desisting he said ho had a right to
do so arid defied the conductor to remove
him, as he had paid his 5 cents. Yesterday
au old man, with flowing white beard, made
a perfect pool underneath the slat3 on the
flo r, and yet the conductor *aid nothing
to him. I called another conductor’s atten
tion to a colored woman who spat on the
floor with great regularity and soon had a
mess around her which would have soiled
a lad5 r *s skirts beyond repair. What did
she do when she could not rai e the window'
to spit out but spit inside the spaco where
the window is let down !
Watch any car load of passengers and
there you will find a filthy chower and
spitter, one who has so little regard to the
rights of other people that he makes the
public conveyance a public nuisance.
Cannot something be done to* put down
such a filthy practice, otherwise ladies will
have to wear waterproof garments to pro
tect their dresses from the effects of such an
inexcusable habit. W. A.
ON RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.
The general contractors for the construc
tion of the Alabama Mid land rail way, J. M.
Brown & Cos., report their work well under
way.
The laying of new iron on the road be
tween Buena Vista and Americus is pro
gressing, the Buena Vista Patriot says. The
iron has been hauled and laid along the
track as far as EUaville and the track gang,
have placed the iron a few miles from
Buena Vista. It is now claimed that the
Buena Vista and Kllaviile extension will be
completed to Octal!bus by February 1.
A St. Augustine dispatch says: “The St
John’s and Halifax aud the St. Augustine
and Palatka road has been purchased by
the St. A jgustine, and after Jan. 1 will be
run, together with the Jacksonville and St.
Augustine, under one management. The
drawbridge over the St. John’s river is
nearly completed, and vestibuled trains will
run into St. Augustine in a few days. The
machine shops of the combined roads are to
be moved to St. Augustine.
The Valdosta Times says: “A gentleman
in Valdosta is in receipt of a letter from the
secretary of the board of trade of Cedar
Keys, in which it is stated that the|business
men of that place were moving in the di
rection of building a road from Cedar Keys
to V aidosta. A charter had been secured
and a preliminary line run on the Florida
portion of the route, and large subscriptions
n&d been secured. They wanted Vaidosta
to co-operate with them in the enterprise.
The Oglethorpe Echo says: “Now that the
gr&diug has been finished up, the directors
of the Lexington Terminal have turned
their attention to the securing of iron and
crossties, and are making every effort to
have them on the roadbed 03 soon as possi
ble. Already more than half of the cross
ties have been purchased along the line of
the Georgia railroad, and negotiations are
going on for steel rails sufficient for the en
tire line. The directors hone to have the
road in operation by March 1 at the
furthest.”
Mr. J. VV. Preston, chief clerk of tbe
general freight department of the Central
railroad, has resigned his position, to take
effect Jan. 1, and has accepted an im
portant and lucrative position with Still
well, Millen & Cos. Mr. Preston has been
chief clerk for many years with marked
ability, and will carry with him the best
wishes of his superiors and subordinates
He has had charge, under Maj. Whitehead,
of both the claim and rale departments
So far as known his successor has not yet
been appointed.
Mr. M H. Connally, Florida freight
agent cf the Nashville, Chattanooga and
Bt.Louis railroad, is rushing the orange
business n Florida. He says that tho crop
will not fall under 2,500,000 boxes. The
Jacksonville fimes-Union says of him:
“Mr. M. H. Connally has just' arrived in
the city from Savannah, and will at once
open an office in the Astor building to fui
fill the duties of his recent appointment n s
Florida freight ag j nt for the Nashville,
Cuatanooga and ' St. Louis railroad. Mr
Connally is well known north a3 a smart,
experienced railroad man, and was for
merly on the Central railroad of Georgia.”
The Times says that cit.zens of Valdosta
and Lowndes county subscribed about
ISO.OOO to the capital stork of tfte Georgia
Southern and Florida Company,
the notes being made payable when the
read was completed to. Valdosta. Two
weeks ago tbe iron was laid to Valdosta,
and the?* notes became due. A number cf
subscribers made a proposition to th* com
pany to pay one-half cash and make that
axoutit a gift or donation and receive
nothing in return but their notes fully sat
isfied. In other words, it was a proposition
to the company to buy its own stock at 50
cent* on the dollar, fbe Times is author
ized to say that tbe company has accepted
the proposition
Avery interesting contribution is made
to the “Railway Series,” now in course of
publication in Ncrthnsr's Magazine, bv
Gen. E. P. Alexander, president of the Cen
tral railroad, who writes In tbe January
number ou “Railway Management.” 11.
tbe course of this paper Gen. A.exander
makes Nome very interesting observation
ou pooling. Hr*says: “In the United State*
the railroads had largely resorted to poo.s
before the interstate commerce law forbad*
them. Tbe result of th* law ha*
generally been very advantageous to
tba best lines, which, under tie
pool, really paid a sort of blackmail to the
poorer lines to umi dam rates. If the pen
altles of the law can restrain such lines
from rebating and umlerbilltng, to be rid of
the pool will be a great basing to the well
locaUkl road* If nt, then the road* will
be driven Into consolidation, for tho end of
fighting will be bankruptcy aud sale. For
tunately, consolidation nn* already cone so
far iu many* secti-ns of tbe country that the
difficulties uf abolishing rebate* have been
greatly redur and. And as far a* it has gone
it ha* proved of much advantage both to
tho public aud to ths stockholder”
The Quitman Free Press appears to be
worried, because it claims that Quitman
can’t get the salt out of Savannah which is
consigned to Quitman merchants, and that
there is cotton which has been waiting for
weeks at that point for shipment. General
Manager Haines of the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway said last nigntthathe
had noticed the question if he could do
something “to ease things up a little.” He
thinks that it Is not the fault of the railway
that Quitman is short on salt. Whenever
it is delivered to the railroad it will be 6ent
on. As to the cotton, he rays it is quite
likely that when the railroad could have
handled the cotton more promptly the ship
pers w. re not ready. For the past ten days
the Savanuah, Florida and Western rail
way has been busy helping to get.
the Florida orange crop to market,
and it is not so easy to get a car now as it
was a while back. Mr. Haines says the
next people to complain will be the naval
'tores men. They piled up naval stores
along the line, and were not inclined to
-hip to market during the duller season on
account of the expense of storage for a
month or two, and when the rus i is on they
will want cars right away quick, and may
not be able to get them as fast as they want
t: em. Then they will “kick.” Railroad
nig, Mr Haines says, is like any other busi
ness. One cannot please everybody.
Oak Pine and Lightwood.
Have removed my wood yard to corner
Gwinnett street and Savannah, Florida and
Western railway. Telephone 77.
It. B. Cassels.
BOOK NOTICES.
A Blockaded Fa wily. By Parthenia Antoinette
Hague. Houghton, Mifflin &. Cos., New York
Cloth. sl.
In this volume life in Southern Alabama
during the war Is presented. It is a very
interesting volume, and affords glimpses of
the struggles and trials which were wit
nessed in southern homes in the troublous
times from 1861 to 1860. The battles of the
ctvil war and the political questions which
led to it have been frequently described, but
there is a great deal of interesting and
valuable material for.writers to be found in
the field of private life during the war
period, which has as yet been but slightly
handled.
The Bible and Land. By Jame3 B. Con
verse. 10 mo. Cloth. Price SI.OO. Pub
lished and for sale by Kev. Janies B. Con
verse, Morristown, Tenn.
The table of contents of this book is as
follows: 1, “The Creator’s Title to Land
2, “The Problem;” 3, “The Causes of Pov
erty;” 4, Land Values;” 5, “Grounds of
(Owner'hip;” ?>, “The Terms of the Original
Grant;” 7, '‘Biblical Land Grants;” 8, “The
Land Laws of Moses;” 0, “The Law of the
Tithe;” 10, “The Prophets and Laud;”
11, “The Bible and Liberty;” 12, “God’s
Government and God’s Land;” 13, “The
Future of Earth;” Appendix of Proof
Texts.
Mineral Resources of the United States. By
David T. Day of the United States geological
survey, Washington, D. C. Government
Printing Office.
This volume contains a vast amount of
interesting and valuable information. It is
the practice to throw aside books issued by
the government as being uninteresting and
valueless, but it is a mistake to do so. The
present volume is well worth careful study,
and is valuable as a book of reference.
The World of Cant. J. S. Ogilvie publisher,
5? Rose street, New York. Paper 50 certs.
This work is put out as a companion book
to “Robert Elsmere.” Its aim is to show
up cant and that it doe3 in a very interest
ing and satisfactory way.
MAGAZINES.
Scribner's Magazine for January opens
the third year of its successful existence
with the promise for 1889 of an oven grentkw
variety in its contents than before.
of articles on Art, Literature and Criticism,
Railways, Electricity aud Fishing, will be
among the interesting features. The rich
ness and excellence of the illustrations will
be maintained and advanced. More than
25.000 new readers were added to the maga
zine during the past six months, and the
outlook for the now year is equally encour
aging. There are six illustrated articles
in the January number, E. H. and E. \V
Blashfield contributing tue leading one, en
titled “Castle Life ia she Middle Ages.” It
reproduces uot only an idea of the architect
ural beauties of feudal castles, like Coucy
and Pierrefonds, but peoples them with the
romantic and interesting personages who
lived within their wails—knights and
ladies, with hosts of.. retainers. Charles
Scribner’s Sons, New
The Sanitarian for December contains
some very valuable articles. That on
“Garbage Furnaces” is commended to sani
tarians who are intrusted with the health
of cities. American Nows Company, Now
York.
The Atlantic tor January is bright and
breezy. It has a very attractive table of
contents. Asa frontispiece it has a steel
portrait of John Gr**enleaf Whittier.
Hougntcn, Mifflin & Cos., No. 11 East
Seventeenth street, New York.
MEDICAL.
Be Sure
II you have made up your mind to buy
Hood's Sarsaparilla do not be Induced to take
any other. A Boston lady, whose example is
worthy Imitation, tells her experience below:
“In one store where I went to buy Hood's
Sarsaparilla the cleric tried to induce me buy
their own instead of Hood’s; he told me thelr's
would last longer; that I might take It on ten
To Get
days’ trial; that It I did not like it I need not
pay anything, etc. But he could not prevail
on me to change. I told him I had taken
Hood's Sarsaparilla, knew what It was, was
satisfied with it, and did not want any other.
When I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla
I was feeling real miserable with dyspepsia,
and so weak that at times I could nardly
Hood’s
stand. 1 looked like a person in consump
tion. Hood s Sarsaparilla did me so much
good that I wonder at myself sometimes,
asid my friends frequently speak of it.” Mrs.
Ella A. Goff, 61 Terrace Street, Boston.
Sarsaparilla
Sold by ail druggist* $1; six for f3. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IQO Poses One Dollar
REAL ESTATE;
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Real Estate Agent,
118 Bryan Street, Rear Office
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FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
O’DONNELL.—The friends and acquaintance
of Mrs. Mary O’Donnell and family are re
spectfully Invited to attend her funeral from
her late residence, on Montgomery street, near
Bay, THIS MORNING at 10 o’clock.
KELLY.—The friends ar.d acquaintance cf
Mr. James Kelly and Mrs. Margaret Wether 1.
are invited to attend the funeral of the former
from St. Patrick’s Church at o’clock THIS
MORNING.
WATERS.—The friends and acquaintance of
Mrs. Sarah Ann Waters aud Mrs. Mary
Thompson, are respectfully invited to attend
the funeral of the former at her mother s resi
dence, Gwinnett street, Eastvllle, at 8 o clock
THIS AFTERNOON
MEETINGS.
DeK VLB LODGE NO. 9. I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock, sun time.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of R. M. HICKS, N. G.
John Riley. Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Notices'' will be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
1,2U0! 1,200!! 1.200 Iff
CHOICE FRESH KILLED
TURKEYS,
The best on the market, are for sale a)
PUTZEL’S.
tySend me your orders. Free delivery.
Telephone 193.
L. PUTZEL, Market Basement.
NOTICE.
TO-MORROW BEING CHRISTMAS DAY
MY WOOD YARD
WILL BE CLOSED.
W. H. CONNER AT.
XMAS GOODS.
BEAUTIFUL GLOVE AND
HANDKERCHIEF BOXES.
DRESSING CASES.
Shaving Sets, Odor Cases, Triplicate Mirrors,
CUFF AND COLLAR BOXES,
Manicure Sets, Baskets of Perfumery, etc.,
which we are selling at reduced prices.
STRONG’S DRUG STORE,
Corner Bull and Perry Street Lane.
OI H CHRISTMAS SOUVENIR.
AT THE YAMACRAW PHARMACY.
Every cash purchaser of
Fifty Cents or more will be entitled to one of
Our Handsome Holiday Souvenirs.
Call and see us.
M. A. BARIE, Proprietor,
S. E. Corner West Broad and Brvan Streets.
SPECIAL TO TIIE LADIES
Doing the Market for Christmas and Sunday.
FISH FROM NEW YORK AND BALTIMORE
STREAMS.
ROASTS OF BEEF, MUTTON AND BONELESS
VEAL.
FINEST TURKEYS. FINEST GEESE.
POULTRY OF ALL KINDS.
Roasting Pigs, Koshered Pork and Bologna
Sausages, Pork, Tripe and Fish of all kinds,
Celery, Cranberries, at
LOGAN’S CITY MARKET.
NOTICE.
Neither the Master nor Consignees of the
British steamship LAURESTINA, Batty, Mas
ter, will be responsible for any debts contracted
by the crew.
A. MINIS & SONS, Consignees.
NOTICE.
The Merchants’ Nat’l Bank of Savannah, (
Savannah, Ua., Dec. 9. IsBB. \
The annual election for Directors of this Bank
will be held at the Banking House on TUES
DAY, Jan. 8, 1639, between the hours of 12 and
1 o’clock. THOS. GADSDEN. Cashier.
SPECIAL INDUCE.
City ok Savannah, l
Office City Mahsahal, Dec. nth. 1888. i
Notice is hereby given to all parties interested
in City Lot Ground Rents that on the FIRST
TUESDAY IN JANUARY. 1889, I will advertise
for sale ail lots in arrears. The effect of tbe
sale will vest a fee simple title in the purchasers.
Tbe tots will be sold without roaorve to the
highest and best bidder.
KOBT. J. WADE, City Marshal.
BE*T IMPORTED A It'D AMERICA*
HT\EN AYR LIQUORS,
In Hock by Michael Latin’* Kitatr,
ESTABLISHED 1853.
CHAMPAGNES Piper Heidaick, Dry Mono
pole and Mumm’s Extra Dry.
CLARETS (’bateau Maucamp, St. Julian
Medoc and Zinfaudel.
WlNES—Spanish Ports, Sherries and
Madeira, California Angelica.
ALES, ETC. - Bass’ Ale, Guinness’Stout, Irish
Ginger Ale. Budweiner Boer.
RUMS—.Jamaica, St. Croix and New England.
GlNS—Holland and Domestic.
WHISKIES—Irish and Scotch Malt, American
Corn and Rye. Celebrated Old Wilson.
Orders by ma 1 and telephone promptly and
properly attended to.
Telephone 54. 45 EAST BROAD ST.
ELEC TION FOR DIRECTORS.
Central R. R. and Banking Cos. of Georgia, {
Savannah. Ga., Dec. sth, 1883.
An election for thirteen Directors to manage
the affairs of this Company for the ensuing
year will be held at the Banking House iu Sa
vannah, MONDAY, the seventh day of January,
1889, between tba 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 tna ?th
January, inclusive, and be passed free relum
ing from the Tiii to the lJrb January, inclusive,
on presentation of their stock certificates to
the conductors.
T. M. CUN XIN OITA M Cashier.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
Fellow'Citizens lam a candidate for re
election to the office of Tax Collector, at the
election to be held on JANUARY 2d, 16e3. and
respectfully solicit your support.
JAMES J. MoQOWAN.
FDR COI ATY MILIIII I .
To my Follow •Citizen*.
Gentlemen: Being thankful for your support
and vote* in the past, I beg to announce myself
a* candidate for re-election to the office of
COUN iA’ SHERIFF, and most respectfully
solicit your Influence and v< tes at the election
to bo held on WEDNESDAY, January 2d, IM9.
Respectfully.
JOHN T. RON AN.
FOR ORDINARY.
I respectfully announce to my friends and the
voters of Chatham county that I will be a oan
didate for ORDINARY at the election to be held
on JANUARY 2d, and will be grateful for your
vote* and support. P. J. O’CONNOR.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
City Treasurer’s Office 1
Savannah, Ga., Deo. 17,1888. i
Owners of unoccupied property will t.i-I
tlce of the following clause in relation to Wat*
Rents: ’’When discontinuance
tended, written notice must be served on tSSI
i Treasurer seven days before the commence
meat of tbe following term, or the contract win
he held as continued for the next tenn, and f,
rent for the same required. 1
O. S. HARDEE. City Treasurer
DON’T HE DECEIVED^
Ask for ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR ,
safe and reliable medicine, and take no othe,
1 hare 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. FENNY, M. D., Cedar Key, FU.
1 have found ULMER S LIVER CORRECTOR
to act like a charm in torpid liver, etc.
D. O. C. HEKRY, M. D„ Atlanta, Ga.
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 hold on
the 2nd day of JANUARY next, and kindly
solicit your votes and influence.
HAMPTON L. TERRILL,
NOTICE.
Office Chief’ of Police, )
Savannah, Ga„ Dec. 19,1838. f
The following order is hereby published for
the information of all concerned:
General Order No. 1:
I. The ordinances of the city forbid the firing
of guns, pistols and other firearms anywhere
and at any tune within the corporate limits
11. The firing of sky rockets, wheel rockets,
Roman candles, serpents, firecrackers and other
fireworks, or of any other articles or thing con
taining gunpowder, fulminating powder or
other explosive or detonating substance and
the making of bonfires, except in the extended
portion of Forsyth place, and in the public
sqares of the city south of Liberty street and
then only five days before and ten da vs’after
Christmas day and the Fourth day of July ia
each and every year, is also positively prohibited
by the ordinances of the city,
111. The members of the police department
are hereby ordered to arrest all persons found
violating these ordinances, and to be unusually
vigilant during the approaching holidays m
chocking prompt y all improper irregularities
and disorders detrimental to good order, and to
the proper protection of life and property.
JOHN GREEN, Chief of Police.
WEDDIX.b,
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. Mohnino News Printing House,
Savannah, Ga.
AM U SEMEN TS. ~
SAVANNAH THEATER.
t>EC. 24 AND 25.
ENGAGEMENT
-THE- EXTRAORDINARY!
rftMPINY Mr AUGUSTIN DALY'S
vV/iIII nil 1 • Greatest New York
Success,
A NIGHT OFF.
Mr. Bjgnold, . „ , . .
Mr Verney A Comedy that has always
Mr. DeLesser, Pleased the people. A Cast
Mrs. Ebkrle such as has never been seen
Miss Harned here. Crowded houses. A
Miss Willard, Company of Comedy Stars
Miss Livingston. 4 n Evening of Fun. Pro
duced in the same e!ezant
manner as at DALY'S THE
ATRE, New York City.
Reserved Seats on sale at Davis Bros.’ Dec. 22.
Next Attraction—Estelle Clayton, Dec. 27.
XMAS DAY
A T
TYBEE ISLAND.
ON TUESDAY DEG 2* 188a
TWO trains leaving denot at 10 a. m. and 2:30
p m HIFTY CENTS round trip.
KAINIT.
Jii-lif Ij pil
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.
We are “Independent Deal
ers,” and propose to remain
so.
BALDWIN FERTILIZER C 0„
SAVANNAH, GA.
FURNISHING GOODS.
LaFAR
TELLS WHAT TO HIVE AS A
PRESENT!
EITHER OF THESE WILL DO:
FUR TOP OLOVES.
LYONS SILK UMBRELLAS.
A FINE SILK HAT or SMOKING JACKET.
SILK MUFFLER or a line pair of KID
OIX3VKS.
A DRESSING CASE or SMOKING SET.
One half dozen INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS,
beautifully embroidered.
A BUGGY ROUE or Splendid DRIVING
GLOVES
GLORIA UMBRELLAS, beautiful Gold or
Silver Heads.
WALKING CANES, the fashionable Buck
Horn HauJles.
New SCARPS and TIEB, for Hoys, Small
Shapes.
A DUNLAP HAT or a RIDING CROP.
A few LADIES' RIDING HATS and GLOVES
still left.
WARNER’S SANITARY UNDERWEAR, and
the CHAMOIS SKIN VESTS, to preserve your
health, to enjoy the above.
At La FAR’S,
THE FURNISHER,
117 BIJLL ST. _
TTTP MOKNtKQ NEWS earriera reach
I H r wy pert of the city early. Twem>
111 Li n<e ceuu a wee* payafor tba Daily-