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DANGER AT THE RESORTS.
TALMAGE PREACH iS ON THE
WATERING PLACER
Some of Fashion’s Outing Haunts De
clared Places of Temporal and Eter
nal Destruction—Some of the Temp
tations That Beset the People Who
Frequent Them.
Brooklyn. Aug. 3.—Dr. Talmage has a
timely topic for Uis sermon for to-day, in
the use and abuse of summer resorts. His
text is Mark vi., 31: “Come ye yourselves
apart unto a desert place and rest awhile.”
Following is the sermon:
Here Christ advises his apostles to take a
vacation. They have been living an excited
as well as a useful life, and he advises that
they get out into the country. I am glad
that for longer or shorter time multitudes
of our people will have summer vacation.
The railway trains are being laden with
passengers and baggage on their way to the
mountains and tte seashore. Multitudesof
our citizens < re packing their trunks for a
restorative absence.
The city heats are pursuing the people
wi.h torch and fear of sunstroke. The long,
silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all
abuzz with excited arrivals. The crystal
line surface of Winnipiseogee is shattered
with the stroke of steamer, laden with ex
cursionists. The antlers of Adirondack deer
rattle under the shot of city sportsmen. Tlie
trout make fatal snaps at the hook of adroit
sportsmen and toss their sp tted brilliance
into the game basket. Already the baton
of the orchestral leader taps the music stand
on the hotel green, and American life puts
on festal array, and the rumbling of the ten
pin alley, and* the crack of the ivory bails
on the green-baized billiard tables, and the
jolting of the barroom g b ets, and the ex
plosive unc rkmg of champagne bottles,
and the whirl and the rustle of the ball
room dance, and the clattering hoofs of the
race courses, attest that the season for the
great American watering places is fairly
inaugurated. Music —flute and drum and
coruet-a-piston and clapping cymbals—will
wake the echoes of the mountains.
Glad I am that fagged-out American life,
for the mo t part, will have an opportunity
to rest, and that nerves racked ami de
stroyed will And a Bethesda. I believe in
watering-places. Let not the commercial
firm begrudge the clerk, or the employer
the journeyman, or the patient the physi
cian, or the church its pastor, a season of
inoccupation. Luther used to sport with
his children; Edmund Burke used to caress
bis favorite horses; Thomas Chalmers, in
the dark hours of the church's disi uptiou,
played kite for recreation —as 1 was told by
his own daughter—an i tho busy Christ said
to the busy apostles: "Come ye apart
awhile into the desert and rest yourself."
And I have observed that they who do not
know how to rest do not know how to
work.
But I have to declare this truth to-day,
that some of our fashionable watering
places are the temporal and eternal destruc
tion of "a multitude that no man can num
ber, ” and amid tho congratulations of this
season and its prospect of the departure of
many of you for the country I must utter a
note of warning—plain, earnest and unmis
takable.
The first temptation that is apt to hover
in this direction is to leave your piety all at
home. You will send the dog and cat and
canary bird to be well cared for somewhere
else; but the temptation will be tv leave
your religion in the room with the blinds
down and the door bolted, and then you will
come back in the autumn to find that it is
starved and suffocated, lying stretched on
the rug stark dead. There is no surplus of
piety at the watering-places. I never knew
anyone to grow very rapidly in grace at
the fasbionuble summer resort. It is gener
ally the case that tlie Sabbath is more of a
carousal than any other day, and there are
Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday
excursions.
Eiders aud deacons and ministers of re
ligion. who are entirely consistent at home,
sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them
at Niagara Falls or the White mountains
tali - the day to themselves. If they go to
the churcn, it is apt to boa sacred parade,
and the discourse, instead of being a plain
discourse about the soul, is apt to be what
is called a crank sermon—that is, some dis
course picked out of the effusions of the
year as the one most adapted to excite ad
miration; and in those churches, from the
way the ladies hold their fans, you know
that they are not so much impressed with
the heat as with the picturesqueuess of balf-
diselosed features. Four puny souls stand
in the organ loft and squall a tune that no
body knows, aud worshippers, with two
thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds on the
right hand, drop a cent into the poor-box,
and then the benediction is pronounced and
the farce is ended.
The air is bewitched with “the world, the
flesh and the devil.” There are Christians
who in three or four weeks in such a place
have had such terrible rents made iu their
Christian robe that they had to Keep darning
it until Christmas to got it mended! The
health of a great many people makes an an
nual visit to some mineral spring an abso
lute necessity; but, take your Bible along
with you aud taka an hour for seoret prayer
every day, though you be surrounded by
guffaw aud saturnalia. Keep holy
the Sabbath, though they denounce you si
a bigoted Puritan. Stand off from these
institutions which propose to imitate oa
this side the water the iniquities of olden
time Baden-Baden. Let your moral and
your immortal health keep pace with your
physical recuperation, and remember that
all the waters of Hatnorne and sulphur and
chalybeate springs cannot do you so much
good as the mineral, healing, perennial
flood that breaks forth from the “Rock of
Ages.’’ This may be your last summer.
If 60, make it a fit vestibule of heaven.
Another temptation around nearly all our
watering places is the horse-racing business.
We all admire the horse. There needs to be
a redistribution of coronets among tbe
brute creation. For ages the lion has been
called the king of beasts, I knock off its
coronet and put the crown upon the horse,
iu every way nobler, whether in shape or
spirit, or sagacity or intelligence, or affec
tion or usefulness. He is semi-human, and
knows how t > reason on a small scale. The
centaur of olden times, part horse and part
man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact
that the; horse is something more than a
beast.
Job sets forth his strength, his beauty, his
majesty, the panting of his nostril, the
pawing of his hoof, and bis enthusiasm for
the battle. W hut Rosa Bonheur did for tbe
cattle, aud what Landseer aid for the dog.
Job, with mightier pencil, does for the
horse. Eighty-eight times does the Bible
speak of him. He comes into every kingly
procession, and into every great occasion
and into every triumph. It is very evident
tbat Job and David and Isaiah and Ezekiel
and Jeremiah and John were very fond of
tbe horse. He came into much of their
imagery. A red horse—that meant war;
a black horse—that meant famine; a pale
horse —that meant death; a white horse—
tbat meant victory.
As tbe Bible makes a favorite of the
horse, the patriarch and the prophet and
the evangelist and tho apostle, stroking his
sle.-k hide, and patting his rounded neck,
and tenderly lifting his exquisitely formed
hoof, and listening with a thrill to the
champ of his bit, so all great natures in ail
ages have spoken of him in encomiastic
terms. Viigil in his Georgies almost seems
to plagiarize from the description of Job.
The Duke of Wellington would not allow
any one irreverently to touch his old war
horse, Copenhagen, on whom he had ridden
fifteen hours without dismounting at
Waterloo; and w hen old Copenhagen died,
his master ordered a military salute fired
over his grave. John Howard snowed that
he did not exhaust all his sympathies in
pitying the human race, for.'wheu sick, he
writes home; “Has rny old chaise horse be
ootne sick or spoiled?”
K. , ut We ~ot l b* u k that the speed of tbe
hhould be cultured at tbe expense of
Htium.'m degradation, llorse races, iu oldou
[ times, were under the ban of Christian
| people, and in our dy the same l stitution
j has come up under fictitious ' ames, and it
j is called a “summer meeting,” almost sug
igt stive of positive religious exercises. And
it is called an “agricultural fair,' suggest
j ive of everything that is improving in the
| art ot farming. But under these deceptive
titles a.e the same cheating and the -am*
I belting, the same drunkenuessaud the same
i vagabondage and the same abominations
that were to be found under the old horse-
I racing system.
I never knew a man yet who could
! give himself tc the pleasures of the turf for
Ia long reach of time aud not be battered in
I morals. They hook up their spanking
team, and put on their sporting cap, and
light the.r cigar, and take the reins, and
dash down the road tv perdition. Tho great
Javat Saratoga, and Long Branch, and
I Cape May. and nearly all the other water
Img places, is the day of the races. The
j hotels are thronged, nearly every kind of
equipage is taken up at an almost fabulous
price, aud there are many respectable
pe pie mingling with jockey-, an 1 gamblers,
and libertines, and foul-mouthed men and
flash v women. The bartenders stir up toe
brandy smasn. The bets run high. Ihe
greenhorns, supposing all is fair, put in
their money soon enough to lose it. Three
weeks befi re ttie race takes place the strug
gle s dec.ded, and the men in the secret
know on which steed to bet their money.
The two men on toe horses riding around
long before arranged who shall b -at.
| Leaning from the stand or from the car
i riage are men and women so absorbed in
j the struggle of bone and muscle and mettle
that they make a grand harvest for the
pickpockets, who carry off the pocket-books
and porteinonnaies. Men looking on see
only two horses with two riders flying
around the ring; but there is many a mau
on that stand whose honor and domestic
happiness and fortune—white mane, white
foot, white flank—are in the ring, racing
with inebriety, and with fraud, and with
profanity, and with ruin—black neck,
black foot, black flank. Neck and neck
they go in that moral Epsom.
Ah, my friends, have nothing to do with
horse-racing dissipations this summer.
Ixi.og ago the English government got
through looking to tho turf for the dragoon
and light-cavalry horse. They found the
turf depreciates the stock, and it is yet
worse for men. Thom is Hughes, tho mem
ber of parliament and the author, known
all the world over, hearing that anew turf
enterprise was being started in this country,
wrote a letter, in which he said: "Heaven
help you, then; for of all the cankers of
our old civilization there is nothing
in this country approaching in un
blushing meanness, in rascality hold
ing its head high, to this be
lauded institution of the British turf.” An
other famous sportsman writes: “How
many fine domains have been shared among
these hosts of rapacious sharks duriug the
lost 200 years; and unless the system be al
tered, how many more are doomed to fall
into the same gulf!” The Duke of Hamil
ton, through his horse rac.ng proclivities,
ill throe years got through his entire fort
une of $350,000, and I w ill say that some of
you are being undermined by it. With the
bull-fights of Spain and the bear-baitings
of the pit may the Lord God annihilate the
infamous aud accursed horse racing of En
gland and America.
I go further, and speak of another tempta
tion that hovers over the watering places;
aud this is the temptation to sacrifice
physical strength. The modern Bethesda
was meant to recuperate the physical
health, and yet bow many come from the
watering places, their health absolutely de
stroyed! New York and Brooklyn idiots
boasting of having imbibed twenty glasses
of Congress water before breakfast. Fami
lies accustomed to going to bed at 10 o’clock
at night gossiping until 1 or 2
o’clock in the morning. Dyspep
tics, usually very cautious about
their health, mingling ice cream3, and
lemons, and lobster salads, and cocoanuts,
until the gastric juices lift up all their
voices of lamentation and protest. Delicate
women and brainless young men chassezmg
themselves into vertigo and catalepsy.
Thousands of men and women coming back
from our watering places in the autumn
with the foundations laid for ailments that
will last them all their life lung. You
know as well as 1 do that this is the simple
truth.
In the summer you say to your good
health: “Good-by, I am going to have a
good time for a little whilo. I will be very
glad to see you again in the autumn.”
Then iu the autumn, when you are hard at
work iu your office, or shop, or counting
room, Good Health will come aud say:
"Good-by, I am going.” You say:
“Where are you going?” “Oh,” says Good
Health, “1 am going to take a vacation!”
It is a poor rule that will not work both
ways, and your good health will leave you
choleric and splenetic and exhausted. You
coquetted with your good health in the
summer time, and your good health is
coquetting with you iu the winter time. A
fragmont of Paul’s charge to the jailer
would bo an appropriate inscription for the
hotel register in every watering place:
“Do thyself no harm.”
Another temptation hovering around the
watering place is to the formation of hasty
and life-long alliances. The watering places
are responsible for more of the domestic in
felicities of this country than all the other
things combined. Society is so artificial
there that no sure judgment of character
can be formed. Those who form conman
ionships amid such circumstances go into a
lottery where there are twenty blanks to o.ie
prize. In the severe tug of life you want
more than glitter and splash. Life is not a
ballroom where the music decides the step,
and bow and prance and graceful swing
of long trail can make up for strong com
mon sense. You may as well go among the
gavly painted yachts of a summer regatta
tc find war vessels as to go among the light
spray of the summer watering place to find
character that can stand the test of the
great struggle of human life. Ah, in the
battle of life you want a stronger weapon
than a lace fan ora croquet mallet! The
load of life is so heavy that in order to draw
it you want a tram stronger than one made
up of a masculine grasshopper and a femi
nine butterfly.
If there is any man in the community
that excites my contempt, aud that excites
the contempt of every man and woman, it
is the soft-handed, soft-headed ‘fop,’ who,
perfumed until the air is actually sick,
spends his summmer in taking killing atti
tudes, and waving sentimental adieus, and
talking infinitesimal nothings, and finding
his heaven in the set of a lavender kid glove.
Boots as tight as an inquisition, two 1 ours
of consummate skill exhibited in tbe tie of
a flaming cravat, his conversation
made up of “Ah’s” and “Oh’s” and
“He-bee’s.” It would take five hun
dred of them stewed down to make
a teaspoonful of calve’s-foot jelly. There
is only one counterpart to such a man as
that, and that is the frothy young woman
at the watering-place, her conversation
made up of French moonshine; what she
has on her head only equaled by what she
has on her back; useless ever since she was
born, and to be useless uutil she is dead; and
what they will do with her in the next
world I do not know, except to set her uuou
the banks of the River of Life for all eter
nity to look sweet! God intends us to ad
mire music and fair faces and graceful step,
but amid the heartle-sness nr.d tho inflation
and the fantastic influences of oar modern
watering places, beware how you make life
oug covenants!
Another temptation that will hover over
ihe watering-place is that of baneful litera
ture. Almost every one starting off for the
summer takes some reading matter. It is a
book out of the library or off the b >ok
stand, or bought of the boy hawking books
through the cars. I really believe there is
more pestiferous trash read among the in
telligent classes 111 July aud August than in
ail the c ther ten months of the year. Men
and women who at home would not tie
satisfied with a book that was not really
sensible, I found sitting on hotel piazzas or
under tbe trees reading books the Index of
which would make them blush if they
knew that you knew wbat the book was.
“O,” they sav, “you must have intellectual
recreation ’’ Yes. 1 he.o is no need that
you lake along into a watering place “Ham
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. AUGUST 4, 1890.
ilton's Metaphysics" or some thunderous
discourse on the eternal decrees, or “Fara
davs Philosophy.” There are many essv
books that are good. You might as well
say: “I propose now to give a little rest to
my digestive organs; and, i - stead of earing
heavy rpeat and vegetables, I will for a little
while take lignter food—a little strvchuine
and a tew grains ot ratsbane.” Literary
j poison in August i- as had as literary poison
jin December. Mark that. Do net let the
j frogs aud the lice of a corrupt printing press
' jupin and crawl into your Saratoga trunk
' or Wnite mountain valise.
Would it not be an awful thing for you to
| be struck with lightning same day woeu
| von had in your hand one of thest paper
covered romances—the hero a Parisian roue,
tne heroine an unprincipled flirt—chapters
i-i the book that you would not read to your
children at the rate of one hundred dollars
aline! Throw out that stuff from your
summer baggage. Are there not good books
that are eas v to read—books of congenial
history, books of pure fun, books of poetry
ringing with merry canto, books of fine en
gravings, books that will rest the mi id as
well as purify the heart and elevate the
whole life? My hearers, there will not be a
hour between this and the day of your
death when you can afford to read a book
lacking in m <ral principle.
Another temptation hovering all around
our watering pla es is the intoxicatiug bev
era e. lam told that it is becoming more
and more fashionable for women to drink.
I care not how well a woman may dress if
she has taken enough of wine to flush her
cheek and put glossiness on her eyes, she is
intoxicated. She may be handed into a
$2,500 carriage and have diamonds enough
to confound the Tiffanys—she is intoxicated.
She may be a graduate of a great institute
aud the daughter of some man in danger of
being nominated for the presidency—she is
dru>'k. You may have a larger vocabulary
than 1 have, and you may say in regard to
her that she is “convivial,” or she is
"merry,” or she is “festive,” or she is "ex
hilarated,” but you cannot, with all your
garlands of verbiage, cover up the plain fact
that it is a case of old-fashioned drunk.
Now, the watering places are full of hern
iations to men and women to tipple. At
the close of the tenpin or billiard game
they tipple. At the close of the cotiliou
they tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling
themselves off they tipple. The tinge J
glasses come around with bright straws,
and they tipple. First they take "light
wines,” as they call them; but “light wines”
are heavy enough to debase the appetite.
There is not a very long road between
champagne at $5 per bottle, and whisky at
a cents a glass.
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one sriree
pitches him into eternal darkness. That is
a rare case. Very'seldom, indeed, can you
find a man who will be such a fool as that.
When a man goes down to destruction
Satan brings him to a plane. It is almost
level. The depression is so slight that you
can hardly see it. The man does ,not actu
ally know tnat he is on the down grade,
and it tips only a little toward darkness—
just a little. And the first mile it is claret,
theseoond mile it is sherry, the third mile it
is punch, and tho fourth mile it is ale, and
the fifth mile it is porter, an I tbe sixth
mile it is brandy, and then it gets steeper
and steopor, and the man gets frightened
and says, “Oh, let me gat off!” “No,” says
the c .inductor, “this is an express train, and
it doos not stop until it gets to the Grand
Central depot of Smashuptoa.” Ah, “look
not thou upon the wine when it is red, when
it giveth its color in the cup, when ic
moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth
like a serpent aud stingeth like an adder.”
My friends, whether you tarry at home—
which will ba quite as safe and perhaps
quite as comfortaole—or go into the country,
arm yourself against temptation. The grace
of God is the only safe shelter, whether in
town or country. There are watering
places accessible to allot us. You cannot
open a book of the Bible without finding out
some such watering place. F untains open
for sin and uncleanliuess; wells of solvation;
streams from Lebman; a flood struck out
of the rock by Moses; fountains in the wil
derness discovered by Hagar; water to
drink and water to bathe in; the river
of God, which is full of water; water of
which if a man drink he shall never thirst;
wells of water In the Valley of Btca; living
fountains of water; a pure river of water as
clear os crystal from under tho throne of
God.
These are watering places accessible to all
of us. Wo do not have a laborious packing
up before we start—only tho throwing away
of our transgressions. No expensive hotel
bills to pay; it is “without money
and without price. No long and
dirty travel before we get there; it is only
one step away. 111 California in five
minutes, I walked around and saw ten
fountains, all bubbling up, and they were
all different. And in five minutes I can go
through this Bible parterre and find you
fifty bright, sptrkung fountains bubbling
up into eternal life.
A chemist will go to one of these summer
watering places and take the water aud an
alyze it and tell you that it contains so
much of iron, and so much of soda, and so
much of lime, and so much of magnesia. I
come to this gospel well, this living foun
tain and analyze the water, anil I find that
it ingredients are peace, pardon, forgive
ness, hope, comfort, life, heaven. “Ho,
every one that thirsteth, come ye” to this
watering place!
Crowd around this Bethesda to-day! Oh,
you sick, you lamo, you troubled, vou
dying—crowd around this Bathos la! Step
in it! Oh, step in it! The angel of the
covenant to-day stirs the water. Why do
you not step in it? Some of you are too
weak to take a step in that direction. Then
we take you up in the arms of our closing
prayer and plunge you clean under tbe
wave, hoping that the cure may be as sud
den aud as radical as with Capt. Naaman,
who, blotched and carhuncled, stepDed into
the Jordan, and after tho seventh dive came
up. his skin roseate complexioned as tho
flesh of a little child.
BULLBTS FLY LIKE HAIL.
An Intoxicated Doctor Enlivens the
Day at Waresboro.
Waresboro, Ga., Aug. 3.—Dr. J. M.
Spence came out on the streets this after
noon with a W lncbester rifle and immedi
ately commenced firing at random. He
was intoxicated. The Methodist Sunday
school was in session, and bullets were
flying around so thick and fast that a panic
was caused. Supt. Bennett tried to com
pose the school with some remarks, but so
rapid and continuous was the firing that
disorder prevailed and nothing could be
done to prevent the rush to the streets,
where bullets were flying in every direc
tion.
One ball struck the sand within a few feet
of some small children and scattered it over
them. Great excitement prevailed until
the marshal and his assistants arrived on
the scene, and after obtaining a warrant
with instructions to take no bond, started
for Wavcross to lodge him in jail. The
town is now quiet with a feeling of relief on
the part of every one.
A BRIDGE JUMPER KILLED.
He Leaped 150 Feet Into the Water
and Fell on His Stomach.
Boston, Aug. 3.—This afternoon Charles
McCaffrey, the Canadian bridge jumper,
jumped from the Atlantic works in East
Boston into the water, a distance of 150
feet He struck on his stomach and was
killed. He had been giving exhibitions in
this city aud said that this wa- to be his last
jump before going to New York to jump
from tbe Brooklyu bridge.
Derailed by a Boulder.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 3.—Passen
ger tram No. 8, on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad which, left here last night north
bound, ran into a boulder ou the track near
Oakdale junction. Engineer George Moore
| and Firemau James Lanahau were killed.
No pas>engers were hurt. The loss to the
I railroad company is $15,000.
DUDLEY’4 PROGRAMME.
He Talks About Being a Congree
sional Candidate Against Crisp. ,
Americus, Ga., Aug. 3.—This proud i
city has had a bitter pill in its mouth for a
long time.
She has refused to swallow it so far, and j
from the present indications she will not
have to swallow iL
This bi ter pill is the much-talked-of Dave
Dudley, th s colored nominee for the Ameri- :
cus postoffice.
Dudley was nominated six months ago
upon the recommendation of Col. Buck,
and has been shoved along by CoL Buck
ever since, but it appears taat Col. Bjck
has been pushing the nominee against a
brick wall.
GOOD OUTSIDE APPEARANCE.
While everything is mist before Dudley’s
vision, he appears calm and serene, but in
wardly he is writhing in deep st agony of
defeat. He realizes that his political sun is
setting on a day lost to him, and
be is reaching out in every direc
tion to upturn sometbi ig before night
over akes him. His latest scheme is to beat
Judge Crisp out of his seat in congress.
Looking to this end, Dudley has called the
district convention for Aug. 25 here, when
he will be nominated. I saw him to-day.
He impressed me as being a scheming poli
tician, full of vanity and without convic
tions.
HIS GOOD DAY GONE.
There has been a good day, when Dudley
might have prospered here, but that day
has passed.
The moment he put his foot into politics
he necessarily allied himself against his best
friends here and brought woe upon his head.
He counts to foes now where he o.ice found
friends. I was told when I made inquiry
about Dudley that he was of very little ac
count, and that he might be found as well
in one part of the town as another. If the
same question had been asked of him a
while ago, the answer would have been that
he was a thriving young colored man,
honest and respectable. So he was.
BEING HONORED MAKES HIM VAIN.
Since Dudley returned from the Chicago
convention, it is said that he has become
puffed up with vanity, and when he became
the nominee for the postoffice he abandoned
all labor and became an eyesore to the
working class. He denies that he enter
tained an idea of abandoning all efforts to
secure his confirmation as postmaster here.
On the contrary, he says that he will be
confirmed within a month. He says that
Col. Buck is standing up for him.
WHO DUDLEY IS.
Dudley was born and reared in Americus,
His parents are both colored, and live in
this county. When he reached the age of
15 he went into a blacksmith shop and
learned the trade. He earned a comfort
able living for his family and won the
esteem of his colored friends and the re
spect and good will of the white citizens.
Until the dost presidential campaign
Albert Head, an aged and highly respected
colored man, was recognized as the repub
lican leader in this district, but some differ
ence sprung up among the younger mem
bers and they put Dudley in Head’s place.
He was sent at once as a delegate to the last
national republican convention ia Chicago
and, at the same time, he was elected
chairman of the republican district con
vention of Americus. These compliments
set him up.
A SHREWD MANIPULATOR
From his shrewd management of men in
the local conventions it developed that he
could lead them about and weld them to
gether as he did Iron in his shop, and this
inspired confidence in him. He was put up
as an applicant for the postoftice here and
received the nomination easily.
The success of these times flushed the fol
lowers, aud their respect for their new
leader amounted almost to worship.
They were confident tbat he was equal to
anything, and when he offered they tnought
it meant a great sweep of the country.
Dudley watched his way through closely,
and long ago he saw a mist rising before
him. His confirmation seemed doubtful.
Ho began at once to impress upon
his followers the necessity of having
some shrewd republican in congress
next time from this district. Twelve
months ago he couldn’t have preached into
tbe beads of the republicans here that Con
gresman Crisp could be defeated, and th at,
too by a colored republican. But their
“unpuraleled successes”with Dudley leading
aroused the wildest enthusiasm for their
party, and they followed as far as tho stand
ard bearer dared go.
THE DAY OF NOMINATION.
Their district convention is called for
Aug. 25 in Americus. Dudley told me that
ho had tho men better organized than they
have ever been, and be is working a plan
by which tho whole strength of the republi
cans in this district may be known. He
said that while he is not an aspirant for
congressional honors he was not pre
pared to refuse to serve the party
if asked. Ha recognized, he said, that
Judge Crisp’s ability and the esteem in
which he is held here will make it difficult
to defeat him ; at the same time, he believes
that the republicans are the strongest here
and that they are able to accomplish what
ever they undertake. Those who have kept
up with Dudley more closely apprehend no
further trouble from the republicans of this
district. They have played out.
Dudley kuows that it is utterly impossi
ble for him to defeat Congressman Crisp,
but to have it said that be opposed that dis
tinguish statesman and leader will be food
for Dudley’s vanity.
HE WILL BE DROPPED.
When his party finds out that he has been
too weak to accomplish anything it will
cast him aside and d*op their nets for an
abler leader. Just who will receive the ap
pointment of postmaster here is not known,
but it is doubtful if a change will be made.
J. C. Roney is tho present incumbent, aud
he has given satisfaction to all. Dudley
said that if ho were out of the way Roney
would get the office. He said that the col
ored people prefer Roney after himself, and
they represent the Republican party of this
district.
KBMMLER’S DAY OF DOOM.
A Swarm of Reporters on a Fruitless
Hunt for News.
Auburn, N. Y., Aug. 3. —Rev. Dr.
Houghton, who has been Kemmler’s spirit
ual advisor since he embraced religion, did
not visit him at the prison to-day. Other
duties occupied his attention. Kemmler spent
the day quietly, finding his chief amuse
ment in listening to tbe performance of the
condemned murderer Fish, who occupies a
cell next to his. The chief local interest in
the execution is taken by a swarm of re
porters who have cume here to pick up
what information is obtainable when the
execution is over.
THE PRESS TO BE REPRESENTED.
The warden may admit two persons con
nected with the press associations to wit
ness the execution. They will go iu as mem
bers of the jury, but none of the special
representative! of individual newspapers
will lie admitted to the jail. One
New York evening paper has
a platform twenty feet from the ground
on a telegraph pole directly across from the
prison. A longdistance telephone wire will
connect a watcher on the pole with the
office of his piper in New York, but he can
see only the bare walls of the prison.
JAPAN’S RICE FAMINE.
The Government Makes Irrr- rte and
Foil 6 the Speculators.
New York, Aug. 3.—The captain of the
steamer Glenogle reports the suffering
from tho rice famine in Japan to be upon
the increase. In every part tbe inhabitants
are starving. The government has taken
hold of the matter and at its own expense
has imported large cargoes of rice from
Siam, Cochin China and Burtnah. This
action foiled the efforts of speculators to
corner the market, but the article is still
very high.
PASSENGER TRAINS CRASH.
Two Men Kiilea and Several Severely
Injured.
Ix>uisviLLE, Aug. 3.—There was another
wreck on the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago railroad this morning. Two men
were killed and several severely injured.
About seven miles north of Bedford, Ind.,
an out-bound tassenger train from Chicago
came in collision with a north-bound pas
senger train from Louisville. Several of
the cars were completely telescoped. The
dead are:
Arthur Burns of New Albany, engi
neer of the south-bound train.
George Cole of New Albany, fireman
of the south-bound train.
Both are still under the wreck.
It is stated that another man was on their
engine and is under the wreck.
THE CONDUCTOR’S STORT.
Conductor McDonald, of the south-bound
train, says he and his engineer agreed to
side-track at Guthrie, three miles north of
the wreck, but he went to sleep and did not
wake till the trains struck.
Engineer Bent says he was half asleep
when the crash came, and when he did open
his eyes he saw the baggage car coming
right through the parlor car and it struck
him in the forehead, stunning him for a
moment.
BOTH BEHIND TIME.
Engineer Muir says that he was two min
utes behind time, wnilo the northern train
was about six hours behind.
Doctors were sent out at once with a
wrecking tram, and the wounded were
taked to New Albany.
John Tilford, a brother of postal clerk
Tilford, called on the sheriff to arrest
McD maid, saying: “I will kill him if you
don’t.”
A Now Albany report says a passenger
named Ashcroft was killed.
WORLD’S FAIR LEGISLATION.
A Flaw in the Act Passed by the
• Illinois Legislature.
Chicago, Aug. 3.—A special from
Springfield, 111., asserts that there is danger
that the world's fair bill may be vetoed by
Gov. Fifer. Jho amendment adopted
almost in the last moment of the special
session of the legislature is said to
have possibly exceeded the powers
conferred by the special call issued by Gov.
Fifer. The amendment in question is in
relation to submerged lands on the lake
front, the ownership of which it is proposed
to vest iu the city of Chicago for park pur
poses after the world’s fair is ended. This
directly creates anew park and legislates
away tho title to such submerged land as
may be reclaimed, the same being the
property of the state.
WHAT THE CALL CONTEMPLATED.
It is declared that the call contemplated
legislation giving to the world’s fair only
the use of the public grounds of either the
state, city or park for the purposes of the
fair. The amendment passes title with cer
tain restrictions, and creates anew park—a
proposition apparently not involved
by tho call and not included
in the title of the bill—and
the courts of the state have held time and
time again that “but one subject shall be
included in an act, and that it snail be ex
pressed in its title." If Gov. Fifer is forced
to veto the btil it is understood that he will
not reconvene the legislature, but will allow
the matter to be reintroduced in the Thirty
seventh general assembly.
A FUND TO HELP DBLAMATER.
Senator Quay to Issue a Begging Cir
cular This Week.
Washington, Aug. 3.—As Boon as Sena
tor Quay, who has been very much uuder
the weather for a week, gets well again he
will issue a begging circular deeigaed as a
blind to conceal the enormous campaign
contribution expected from Senator Don
Cameron and the corporations desiring Del
amater’s election. It will be addressed to
the Pennsylvania republicans, especially
manufacturers, merchants and bankers,
and will appeal in eloquent lan
guage for money to fill the cam
paign chests, which will be
represented ns empty. It will not, of
course, matter to Senator Quay whether
the appeal brings favorable responses or
not,|since the purposo is to cent ibute the
money from tlie great subscriptions already
received to the men to whom it is to bo
seut. An assessment will also be levied on
the Pennsylvania clerks in tho departments
here through the Pennsylvania Republican
Association.
A BIG BLOW IN MINNESOTA.
Hailstones Driven Through the Roofs
of Buildings.
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 3.—The
Tribune's New Richmond, Minn., special
says: “The most terrific wind and hail
storm ever experienced bore visited this
section about 11:33 o’clock this morning.
Windows on the west aud north side of
every building in the village and for
miles on either side in the country were
broken. The storm was about forty miles
wide aud about ten miles long.
grain a total loss.
“All the grain iu its path is a total loss.
The hail in some instances was as large as
hens’ eggs and covered the ground for
several inches. The loss is estimated at
from $75,000 to $150,000. Many hogs were
killed and hundreds of chickens perished.
In some instances pieces of ice were driven
with such force as to pierce through the
roofs of buildings.”
STEAMERS RACE FROM JAPAN.
One of Them Makes the Trip to New
York in Fifty-four Days.
New York. Aug. 3. The great tea
steamers Glenogle and Momenthshire left
Japan June 10. After stopping at various
ports ir. the China seas to complete their
cargoes they started on a race for the port
of New York, passing Singapore June 26.
The Glenogle was aheal. The Glenogle
arrived to-day, having made the trip from
Japan in the remarkably short time of
fifty-four days. The Momentsbire is ex
pected hourly. The quickest time heretofore
recorded is that of the steamer Glenshiel,
which made the trip in fifty-five days iu
1889.
HARRISON AT CAPE MAY.
He Spent the Day at Home With Sec
retary Blaine.
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 3.—A special
to the Public Ledger from CaDe May Point,
N. J., says: “President Harrison remained
at home all of to-day with his guest, Secre
tary Blaine. This morning Mrs. Harrisou
and Mrs. Dimtnick attends! services at Bt.
John’s Episcopal church, where Right
Rev. Bishop Scarborough of the
diocese of Now Jersey officiated.
The citizens of Cape May and
visitor-jbave tendered President Harrison,
his guests and family a public reception at
the Stockton hotel to-morrow night. The
President has accepted the invitation and
expects to be present with Secretary
Blame.”
WHITEWASH FOR FORAKER.
No Reason Why the Committee Should
hot Meet Now.
Washington, Aug. 3. Congressman
Turner having returned from Georgia Gov.
Foraker's friend, Representative “Billy”
Moore of Chicago, will have no good reas n
for not calling the Foraker investigating
committee together this week and adopting
reports. Mr. Moore’s report, which white
washes Gov. Foraker, will be a minority
report, for Representatives Cogswell and
Struble, the other republicans on the coin
mitnte, would rather sign that prepared by
Mr. Turner and signel by William L. Wil
son than satisfy themselves by covering up
the results of tbe investigation.
SHOT HIS WIFE'S LOVER DEAD.
A Burglary Yarn C irculated to Bide
an Amour.
Charleston, S. C.. Aug. a—Last week
the local newspapers were filled with an ac
count of a burglary said to have been com
mitted on the premises of a Mrs. Green,
who kept a store at the Ten Mile
Hill, a station near this city. The
item was furnished to the news
papers by W.lliam Ahrens, who
claimedjto have arrested four negroes said
to have been implicated in the burglary,
and who lodged the alleged burglars in
jail. To-day the coroner of Berkely county
is holding an inquest on Ahren s body,
which lies in the bedroom of Mrs. Green at
Ten Mile HilL The story of tbe killing of
the enterprising detective is brief. The
tragedy occurred at 3 o’clock this morn
ing. Mrs. Green, whose store it is alleged
was burg arized last week, lives on the
premises.
separated from her husband.
She and her husband, Tom Green, had
been separa ed for some time, it is said,
owing to the attentions of Ahrens. Green
beard about the burglary last week, but did
not place much confidence in the story. Last
night he heard that Ahrens was quartered
at his wife’s house, an l taking a late train
he repaired to Ten Mile Hill with the purpose
of looking into the matter. He found
Ahrens and Sirs. Green occupying a lounge
in tho bedroom and at once opened
fire. His first shot tumbled Ahrens out
of the bod, while ho had a pistol iu his
grasp. Two more bullets put an end to him,
and Green, taking the next train south,
canre to tbe city aud gave himself up. lie
is now in jail, but will doubtless be speedily
released. Ahrens was a man of very un
savory reputation, and his killing is gener
ally considered justifiable. Green charges,
and professes to be able to prove, that the
recent burglary at his wife’s house was a
job put up by Ahrens.
ADJOURNMENT NOT IN SIGHT.
Republican Senators Give Senator
Carlisle a Tip.
Washington, Aug. 3. —Apropos of the
probable date of adjournment it is said that
Senator Carlis'e lecently consulted with a
number of the republican senators with the
view of an agreement upon a day for the
delivery of the eulogies upon his predecessor,
Senator Beck. Tbe ex-speaker suggested
an early day, as he has engagements that he
is very desirous to meet, but he was met
with the counter proposition to name
Aug. 23. When Senator Carlisle re
marked that possibly congress might not
be in session at that time, he was told that
perhaps it would not adjourn for many
weeks after tbat date.
Fayette's Primary.
Fayetteville, Ga., Aug. 3.—The results
of ihe primary in Fayette county were con
solidated yesterday, and the county indorses
Northo-i for governor, Livingston for con
gress, Nesbit for commissioner of agri
culture, and Lester for attorney general.
The other state house officers who are can
didates for re-election were indorsed.
MEDICAL.
Peculiar
Peculiar in combination, proportion, and
preparation of ingredients, Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla possesses the curative value of the best
known reme- J J dies ©f th©
vegetable mOUU S kingdom.
Peculiar in its strength and economy, Hood’s
Sarsaparilla is the only medicine of which can
truly be said, “ One Hundred Doses One Dol
lar.” Peculiar in its medicinal merits, Hood’s
Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures hitherto un-
Sarsaparilla;”"";
the title of “ The greatest blood purifier ever
discovered.” Peculiar in its “good namo
at home,”—there is more of Hood’s Sarsa
parilla sold In Lowell than of all other
blood purifiers. Peculiar in its phenomenal
record of D art . - | J -> >. sales abroad
no other r CV/MIIICII preparation
ever attained so rapidly nor held so
steadfastly the confidence of all classes
of people. Peculiar in tlie brain-work which
it represents. Hood's Sarsaparilla com
bines all the knowledge which modern
csearcho" ■ je in medical
science has ■ O IXS6IT developed,
with many years practical experience in
preparing medicines. Be sure to get only
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sc!d by all druggists. £1; six for £5. Prepared only
by C. I. IIOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IQO Doses One Dollar
EXCURSIONS.
EXCURSIONS
Steamer CRESCENT CITY
will make trips to
WARSAW
and WILMINGTON
EVERY DAY
(Except Mondays.)
Leaving wharf at 9 a. m., connecting at Thun
derbolt with train leaving city at 10 a. jl
FARE 50c. | CHILDREN 25c.
Fish Dinners at Warsaw
Trains connecting with steamer at Thunder
bolt leave Coast Line Depot, city, 10 a. m. On
Sunday an extra trip is made, connecting at
Thunderbolt with 2:30 p. m. train from city.
Excursion tickets are good on either boat or
train from or to Savannah.
A. G. DRAKE, Manager.
Office on wharf, foot of A here >rn street.
BANKS.
I SAVINGS BANK. I
SAVANNAH BANK k TRUST Cft
4°\o
Deposits of $1 and Upward Reeeivei
SPECIAL NOTICES.
DOYT TRAVEL WITHOUT IT.
No traveler should be without a bottle of
DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR,
To ward off the ill effects incidental to a change
of climate and water. This faultless family
medicine is gaining popularity daily, and was
awarded highest prizes over competitors.
Prominent medical men indorse it. Ask for Dr.
Ulmer's Liver Corrector aud take no other.
Prepared by B. F. Ulmer, M. D., Pharmacist.
Price, $1 00. Sold by ad druggists.
TO PROPERTY OWNERS.
In a short time my connection with the Sa
vannah Furniture Company will terminate and
I intend to engage in the Real Estate Agency
business. I will endeavor to attend to any busi
ne.se that may tie ectrusted to me in the most
satisfactory manner, and would be glad to get
bouses to rent to all (arts of tbe city. Office
198 Broughton street a. C ROGERS.
08. T. K. ROBEKbON,
DENTIST
ODD FELLOWS BUILDING,
Corner Barnard and Slate Street*.
__ FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
JAL GSTETTER—The friends and acquain*
ances of F. J. Jaugstetler and fa.i iiy ire ?e
spectfully invited to attend the funeral *
tneir youngest daughter, asnii, from their r i
idence. No. 30(4 Margaret street at i ,
THIS AFTERNOON ' * ocloc
DIXON—Tbe friends and acquaintances
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dixon are respet fully
to attend the funeral of their infant daughter
Ekily, from their re-tdtmce. 11 Huntingdon
street, at 4 o’clock THIS AFTERNOON 8d
MEETINGS.
DrHALB LODGE VO. 9, Lo. u" P. ”
meeting will be held THIS (Mondavi
EVENING at So clock, sun time.
Hall, corner Whitaker and President Streets.
The Second Degree will be conferred.
A full attendance is earnestly solicited.
Members of other Lodges and visiting orotne
are cordiallv invited to attend
By order of H. M. REEVE, N. G
Jo ns Riley. Seeretarv.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOcTeTvT
The regular monthly meeting of this socie-y
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at 8 o'clock.
BEIRNE GORDON,
Recording Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of me as.
urement of all advertisin'] in the. Morsim
News will be agate, or at the rate of *1 so A ‘
inch for the first insertion.
noticeT ' ' '
The public is cautioned not to cash two check,
drawn in favor of Malcom Courson for $24 y
and $105.50 on the Merchants' National Bank of
this city, as the payment of same has been
stopped. HENRY SOLOMON & SOX.
FOR SALE.
The following pieces or property will be sold
cheap and on easy terms:
House and lot on Broughton street, near \b
ercorn '
House and lot corner Third and Abercorn
streets.
Two houses on Habersham, near Anderson
street.
House and lot immediately at the Belt Lina
stables.
Two lots just south of Twelfth street.
Apply at once, if you want bargains, to
W. G. WOODFIN,
ASK A POLICEMAN
HOW'S THE WEATHER.
A nice line of
THERMOMETERS,
All sizes, including
BATH AND CLINICAL,
—AT—
BUTI.ER’S PHARMACY.
Corner Bull and Congress Streets.
NOTICE TO OWNERS OF DOGS.
City of Savannah, 1
Office Clerk; of Council, v
„ „ . . August 2. 1890. j
Notice is hereby given that all persons own
ing or having dogs on their premises, who have
not paid the tax on dogs for the year 1890 are
requested to pay same within ten days from this
date. Upon failing to pay said tax, delinquents
will be placed upon the information docket
without further notice.
By order of the Mayor.
C. V. HERNANDEZ,
Acting Clerk of Council.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
I have this day associated with me in the
General Grocery Business CLEMENT SAUSSY
under the firm Dame of MACDONELL &
SAUSSY, iu our new store 29 and 31 Barnard
street, under Odd Fellows hall, where we will ba
glad to have our friends call on us.
R. D. MacDOXELL
@SOO REWARD. @SOO
City of Savannah, 1
Mayor's Office.
Savannah, Ga., July 2*. 1890. t
Whereas, It has been represented that on the
night of WEDNESDAY, July 23, 1890, the house
on the south side of Congress, near Montgomery
street, was destroyed by an explosion; and
whereas, the mayor and aldermen of the city
of Savannah, in council assembled, have author
ized and empowered me as mayor of said city
to offer a reward for the apprehension of tho
person or persons guilty of the destruction of
said house.
Now, then, be it known to all men that I, John
Schwarz, mayor of the city of Savannah, under
and by virtue of the resolution passed in council
this day, do hereby offer a reward of Five
Hundred Dollars for the arrest, with proof to
convict, of the person or persons guilty of said
crime, anti of the crimes connected therewith.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand
and have caused the corporate seal to be
affixed.
i ~ i —- , JOHN SCHWARZ,
• seal. J- Mayor.
Attest: C. V. Hernandez,
Acting Clerk of Council.
NOTICE.
Books of subscription to the capital stock of
the CHATHAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY
will be found at the places named below. Terms
20 per cent, of subscription on call, balance ia
monthly payments of 20 per cent, each:
E. Lovell’s Sons, 155 Broughton street.
Lindsay & Morgan. 155 Broughton street.
W. G. Cooper, 28 Whitaker street.
G. W. Tiedeman, 151 Bay street.
The Title Guarantee and Loan Cos., 133 Con
gress street.
J. J. Reily, 30 Whitaker street.
J. J. Joyce, Liberty and Abercorn streets.
C. H. Dcrsett, 142 Congress street.
sc. GLASS
PURE GRAPE JUICE
Try it at HEIDT'S Fountain.
GREAT HUME ENTERPRISE.
THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY'S
PILSEN —AND— TIVOLI
—B EER S.
—for sale—
IN EVERY FIRST-CLASS SALOON.
We would especially recommend our
Beer to families, as
NO ADULTERATIONS ARE NECESSARY
FOR THE HOME TRADE
CALL FOR THE BEER AND SEE THAT TOC
GET IT.
rv We pay 15 cents a dozen for all empti*
returned to us.
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