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cn the hi'l* heside it, and the cranes and
wiid cucks that flv across—for, contrary to
the old belief, birds do safely wing t heir
way over it—and the Arab horses you have
been riding, thou.h thirsty enough, will not
drink out of this dreadful mixture. A mist
hovers over pares of it a'nio-t continually,
which thougn natural evaporation, seems
like a wing of do m spread over liquid deso
lation. It is the rinsings of ah initiation.
It is an aqueous monster coiled among the
hills, or creeping with ripples and stench
ful with nauseating malodors.
I . these regions once stood four great
Cities of Assyria: Sod in, Gomorrau,
Adma and Zeixum. Th<- Bibie says they
were destroyed by a tempest of Are and
brimstone after these cities had filled up of
wickedness. “No. t at is absurd," cries
someone. “It is evident that this was a
region of salt and brims one and pitch,
long before that.” And so it was. The Bible
sa s it was a region of sulphur long before
the great catas rophe. “Well now,” says
ome one, wanting to raise a quarrel be
tween science and revelation, “you have
no right to sav that the Cities of the Piaiu
were destroved by a tempest of fire and sul
phur and brimstone, because this region
had these characteristics long before
these cities were destroyed.” Volcanic
action, is my reply. Tnese cities had been
built out of very combustible materials.
The mortar was of bitumen easily ignited,
and the walls dripped with pitch most in
flammable. They sat, I think, on a ridge
of hilis. They stood high up and consp.cu
ous, radiant in their sins, ostentatious in
their debaucheries, four hells on earth. One
day there was a rumbling in the earin, and
a quaking. “What’s thatcry the af
frighted inhabitants. “What’s that?” The
foundations of the earth were giving way.
A volcano, whose fires had been burning
forage-, at God’s command burst for.b,
easily setting everything aflame, and
first lifting these cities high in air,
and then dashing them down in chasms
fathcmless. The fires of that eruption
Intersbor the dense smoke, and rolled unto
the heavens, only to descend again. And
all the configuration of that country was
change !, ami where there was a hill there
came a valley, and where there had been
the pomp of uncleanness came widespread
desolati n. The red hot spade of vol
canic action had shovelled under the cities
of the plain. Before the catastrophe, the
cities stood on the top of the sal: and sul
phur. After the catastrophe they were
under the salt and sulphur. Science right,
revcla:i n right. “He touched the hills and
tbev smoke.”
No science ever frightened believers in
revelation so much as geology. They
feared that the strata of the earth would
contradict the sc iptures, and then Moses
must go under. But as In tne Dead Sea
instance, so in all cases, God’s writing on
the earth, and God’s writi g in the Bible
are harmonious. The shelves of rock cor
respond with the shelves of the American
Bible Society. Science digs into the earth
and finds det-pdown the remains of plants,
and so the Bible announces plants first.
Science digs down and says, “Marine
animals next,” and the Bible says, “Marine
animals next.” Science digs down and
says, “Land animals next,’’ and
the Bible responds, “Land animals
next” “Then comes man 1” says science.
“Then comes man!” responds the Bible.
Science digs into the regions about the
Dead Sea,and finds result of fire, and masses
of brimstone, and announces a wonderful
geological formation. "Oh, yes,” says the
Bible: “M ses wrote thousands of years ago
‘The Lord rained upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the
Lord out of heaven,’ and David wrote, ‘He
touebeth the hills and they smoke.’” So I
guess we wiil hold on to our Bibles a little
longer. A gentleman in the ante-room of
the white h use, at Washington, having
an appointment with Mr. Lincoln at five
o'clock iu the morning got there fifteen
minutes early, aud asked the servant
“ Who is talking in the next,
room?” "It isthe President, sir!” “Isany
boiv with him?” “No, sir; he is reading
the Bible. Ho spends every morning from 4
to 5 o'clock reading the scriptures.”
My tert implies that God controls vol
canoes not with the full force of his hand,
bjt with the tit) of his finger. Etna, Str.mi
boli and Vesuvius fawn at his feet like
hounds before the hunter. These eruptions
of the bills do not belong to Pluto’s realm
as the ancients thought, but to the divine
dominions. Humboldt counted 300 of them,
but since then the Indiau archipelago
has been found to have 900 of these
great mouthpieces. They are oa every
continent and in all latitudes. That
earthquake which shook all America about
six or seven summers ago v.as only the
raving around f volcanoes rushing against
the sides of their rocky caverns trying to
break out. They must come to the surfaoe,
but it will be at thediviue call. They seem
reserved for the punishment of one kind of
sin. The seven cities they have obliterated
were celebrated for oue kind of transgres
sion. Profligacy wns the chief character
istic of the seven cities over which they put
their smothering wing: Pompeii. Heroula
neum.Stabiffc, Adma,Zeboim,Sodom and Go
morrah. If our American cities do not quit
their profligacy, if iu high life and low life dis
soluteness does not cease to be a joke and
lie come a crime, if wealthy libertinism con
tinues to find so many doors of domestic life
open to its faintest touch, if Russian, and
French, and American literature, steeped In
pruriency, does not get banished from the
news stands and ladies’ parlors, God will let
loose s .me of these suppressed m maters of
the earth. And I tell these American cities
that it will be more tolerable for Sodom
and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment,
whether that Day of Judgment be in this
pre-ent century or in the century of
the earth’s continuance. The voiea tic forces
already in existence, but in the mercy
if God at ecl ained in the kennels of sub
terraneous fire. Yet let profligacy, wnether
to stagger into a iazeretto or sit on a com
irmrctal throne, whether it laugh in a faded
shawl under the street gas-light or be
wrapped in the finest array that foreign
loom ever wrought or lapidary ever etn
pearled, know right well that there is a vol
cano w siting for it, hether in domestic
life, or social life, or political life, or iu the
foundations of the earth, from which
sprang out the devastations that swallowed
the cities of the plain. “He toucheth the
hills and they smoke.”
But the dragoman was rejoiced when we
had seen enough of this volcanic region of
Palestine, and he gladly tightens the girths
for another march, around the horses
which are prancing and neighing for de
parture. We are off for the Jordan, only
two hours away. We pass Bedouins whose
stern features melt into a smile as we give
them the salutation Salaam Aleikoum,
“Peace be with you,” their smiles some
times leaving us in doubt as to whether it is
caused by their gladness to see us or by our
poor pronunciation of the Arabic. Oh,
they are a strange race, those
Bedouins: Such a commingling of
ruffianism, and honor, of cowardice and
courage, of cruelty and kindness! When a
band of them came down upon a party in
which Miss Whailey was traveling and
were ab >ut to take pocketbooksand perhaps
life, this lady, sitting upon her horse, took
out her n< te book and penoil and began to
sketch these brigands, and seeing this com
posure, the bandits thought it something
supernatural and fled. Christian womanli
ness or manliness is all-conquering. When
Martin Luther was told that Iluke George
would kill him if be went to Leipslc, Luther
replied: “I would go to Leipsic if it rained
Duke Georges nine days.”
Now we come thr >ugh regions where there
are hills cut into the shape of Cathedrals,
with altar, and column, and arch, and
chai cel and pulpit and dome,and architect
ure of the rocks that 1 think can hardlv
just happen so. Perhaps it is because God
loves the church so well, he builds in the
solitudes of Yellow stone park,and Yosemite,
and Switzerland, and Palestine, these ec
clesiastical i ile-. And who knows, but that
un eenspirits may sometimes worship there?
“Drgiman, when shall we see the Jordan?”
1 ask. All the turn- we were on the alert,
and locking through tamarisk and willows
for the greatest river of all the earth. The
Mississippi is wider, the Ohio is deoper, the
Amazon is longer, the Hudson rolls amid
i egions more picturesque, tho Thames has
more splendor on its banks, the Tiber sug
gests more imperial p ocession. ‘he Ilyssus
has more classic memories, and the Nile
feed-greater populations by its irrigation:
but the Jordan is he queen f rivers and
runs through all the Bibie, a silver th ead
st ur:g like heals with hi r.iC-\ and be ore
night we shall meet on its banks, Elijah ar-d
Et.sha, and David, and Jacob, and Joshua,
and John and Jesus.
At last between two ‘reae I got a glimpse
iof a river, and said, “What is that?" "The
i Jordan,” was the qui. k reply. And all
alo. g the line which had been lengthened
by op.er pilgrims, omefrom An erica and
some from Europe, and s me from Asia, the
i erv was swinded, “Toe J rdan! The Jor
dan!” Hundreds of too isanus of pilgrims
have cha ted on its b nks and bathed in
I its waters. Many of ti ein dip a wet gov n
I in the wave and wring it cut and carry it
: home for their own shroud. It is an im
; petuous strem and ru-i es on as though it
, were hastening to tell its story to tne ages.
! Many an explorer lias it whelmed, and
many a boat has i‘ wrecked. Lieut, j
Moliiieux, had ropper-bottorue i crafts :
split upon its shelvings. Oly one
boat, that of Lieut. Lynch, ever
lived to sai. the whole length of it. At the
season when the snows <-f Lebanon meit,
the rage of this stream is like the Cone
mnugh wt.en Johnstown perished, ad the
wild beasts that may be near run for the |
hills, explaining what Jeremiah says: “Be- I
hold, be shall go up like a lion from the |
swelling of Jordan.” No river so often j
changes its mind, for it turns and twists,
traveling 300 lili es to do that which in a j
straignt line might be done in sixty miles.
Among banks now low, now high, now of
neks, now of n ud, and now of sand, laying
the feet of the terebintiis and oleand rs and
acacias, and reeds, and pistachios, and
silver poplars. This r.ver marries the Dead
Sea to Lake Galilee, and did ever so rough
a gro ni ta.e the hand of so fair a bride?
This is the river which parted to let an
army of two million Israelites across. Here
toe skilled major general of the Syrian
host at the seventh plunge droj ped hie lep
rosy, uot only by miraculous cure, but
suggesting to all ages, that water and plenty
of it, has much to do itu the sanitary Im
provement of the world. Here is where
gome theological -tu lents of Elisha’s time
were cutting t ees wi h which to build a.
the logical seminary, and an ax- ea l, not
sufficient y wedged to the handle, flew off
into ihe river and sank, and the young man
deplored not so much the loss of tho
ax-head, as the fact that it was not
his own and cried. "Alas! it was borrow
ed,” and the prophet threw a stick
into the river and in defiance of
the law of gravitation, the iron ax head
came to the surface and floate i like a cork
upon the water, and kept floating until the
young man caught it. A mirac.e performed
to give o e an opportunity to return that
whic i was borrowed and a rebuke in all
ages for those who borrow and never return,
their bad habit In this reipect s j established
that it would be a miracle il they did return
it. Yea; from the bank of this river Elijah
took team of fire, sh iwing that the most
raging element is servant of the good, and
that there is no need that a child of God fear
anything; for, if the most destructive
of all elements, was that day fa-h
--ioned into a vehicle for a depart
ing saint, nothing can ever hurt you
who love and trust the Imrd. lam so
glad that that oh iriot of Elijah was not
made out of wood, or crystal, or anything
ordinarily pleasant, but out of fire, and yet
he went up without having so much as to
fan himself. When, stepping from amid
the foliage of these oleanders and tamarisks
on the banks of the Jordan, he put his foot
on the re 1 step of the red equipage, and
took the red rei sof vapor in h s hands,
and spurred the gailopiug steeds toward the
wide open gate of hea .en, it was a scene
forever memorable. So tho hottest affl.c
tinns of your life may roll you heavenward.
So the most burning persecutions, the
most fiery troubles, may become
uplifiing. Only be sure that when
you pull on the bits of fire you drive
up toward God; and not down toward the
Dead Sea. When Latimer and Ridley died
at the stake they want up in a chariot of
fire. When my friend P. P. Bliss, the gos
pel singer, was consumed with the rail train
tnat broke through Ashtabula bridge, and
then t >ok flame, I said: “Another Elijah
gone up in u c .ariot of fire.”
But this river is a river of baptisms.
Christ was here baptized and John baptized
many thousands. W hether oil these occa
sions the candidate for baptism and the
officer of religion went into this river, avid
then, while both were standing, the
water was dipped in t e hand of
one and sprinkled upon the forehead
of the other, or whether the entire form of
the one baptized disappeared tor a moment
beneath the surface of the flood, I do not
declare. While I cannot ttiink without deop
emotion of the fact that my parents held
me in infancy, to the baptismal font in the
old meeting-houso at Somerville, and as
sumed vows on my behalf, I must tell you
now of another mode of baptism observed
in the river Jordan, on that afternoon in
last December, the particulars of which I
now for the first time relate.
It was a scone of unimaginable solemnity.
A comrade in our Holy l and journey rode
up by my side that day, and told mo that a
young man, now studying for the gospel
ministry, would like to be baptized by me
iu the river Jordau. I got all the facts I
could concerning his earnestness mid faith,
and through personal examination made
myself confident be wai a worthy candidate.
There were among our Arab attendants two
robes not unlike those used for American
baptistries, and these we obtained. As we
were to have a large group of
different nationalities present, I dic
tated to my daughter a few verses,
and had copies enough made to al
low all to sing. Our dragoman had a man
familiar with the river, wade through aud
across to show the dooth and tho swiftness
of the stream, and the most appropriate
place for the ceremony. Then I read from
the Bible the accounts' of baptism t in that
sacred stream, aud implored the presence
of the Christ on whose head the dove des
cended at the J ,rda . Then, at the candi
date and myself stepped into the waters,
the people on the banks sang iu full aud re
souudi g voice:
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand,
And rasi a wishful eye
To Canaan's fair and happy land
Where my possessions lie.
Oh. the transporting, rapturous scene,
That rises to my si ht:
Sweet fields arrayed in living green,
And rivers of delight.
By this time we bad reached the middle
of the river. As the candidate sank under
the fl >ods and rose again under a baptism
in the name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Ghost, there rushed through our
souls a tide of holy emotion, such as we
shall not probably feel again until we step
into the Jordan that divides earth from
heaven. Will those waters be deep? Will
those tides be strong? No matter, if Jesus
steps in with us. Friends on this shore to
help us off. Friends on the other shore
to see us land. See! They are coming
down the hills on the other side to greet us.
How well we know their step! How easily
we distinguish their voioes! From bank to
bank we hail them with tears aud they bail
us with palm branches. They say to us.
“is that you, father?” "Is that you, mother f’
and we answer by asking, “is that you, my
darling!” How i ear they seem, and how
narrow the stream that divides us!
“Could wo but stand where Moses stood
And view (he lan scape o'er.
Not Jordan's stream nor Death's cold flood
Could fright us from the shore.”
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THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1890.
DESPERATE WILL WALLIS
HB TERRORIZES THE SETTLERS IN
THfc. MOUNTAINS.
A True Marksman and a Dread Enemy
to All—Shoots a Preacher’s Mustache
Off and Flogs His Neighbors—The
Head of a Daring Band of Moon
shiners and Hunters—Officers Unable
to Locate Them and Slow to Arrest
Them—Their Outrageous Depreda
tions go Unpunished.
C ataula, Ga, Och 38.—“ Will Wallis is
i coming.”
What a terrible announcement to those
backwoodsmen and mountaineers. To tell ,
them that the heavens were falling could
not 911 their souls with greater dread.
The sound of his name makes them shud
der, and his presence causes them to flea to
the mountains and bide like wild boasts.
Wallis is an outlaw.
A desperado of the deepest dye and his
deeds are well known all over this section
and far into Alabama. He has hurled
many a soul into eternity and his evil do
ings are not finished. He is just 36 years
old, and if he mows as wide sward in the
coming years as he has in the last few, he
will be tiie equal of the Jameses.
He has never been restrained, never
checked, and he has grown so powerful in
his evil doing, that nothing except death
will st ip him. Wallis ii as strong as a
giant and ns cu n.ing as an Indian. He is
as true with a rifle or as sure with a dirk,
as practice can make him. He believes in
hnuseif and counts ever, body his foe. He
slaughters without mercy and plunders
without fear. Whan I came up into these
“diggings,” everybody was talking about
the de-perate feliow. It was all Wallis. He
had just made an incursion into the settle
ment, aud he made Rome howl, long and
loud. The women flew to the woods, and
the men dodged about in tho mountain
gorges like foxes. The greatest feat
that Wallis has ever done is
shooting the mustache off of a preacher.
Eve ybody knows this, and when
old settlers discuss Wallis they reter to this
feat. This is reputed to be the truth, and,
however “snaky" it may sound, old
reside ts put on a mighty sober face when
they tell it. Wallis was oue time decoyed
aud arrested for killing a ma >, he broke
jail and hid in the mountains. During this
time an old colored man alluded in his ser
mon to the taki.g away of the citizen and
said that Wallis’ s ,ul would burn f r it.
It reac ed the ear* of the outlaw and he
encountered the old preacher soma time
afterward and charged tiiiu with preaching
his soul to hell. The old man was afraid to
v dtnit t e truthfulness of the charge aud
W ailis made him get ou a bridge aud repeat
the sermon. Whe t this performance wus
concluded, Wallis put a cigar in the
preacher’s mouth, and before the old man
had smoked it, Wallis shot it out,and after
ward shot the old man’s mustache off. He
then made the old inan run, while the out
law peppered the ground around him.
That is tho only time that Wallis hs*
ever known to have been arrested. It was
not known that he killed the citizen who is
said to have been found before his door, cut
literally into fragments, but there was a
strong suspicion resting upon him. The
court ordered his arrest, but the officers did
not give the w arrant the attention usually
given to bench orders, and Wallis remained
unharmed. Fiuaily a mouth or two ago,
after court adjourned, the outlay amazed
and frigutaened the citizens by marching
into town and laying his weapons at tho feet
of tie sheriff, and saying that he was
ready to go to trial. The officer informed
the outlAw that court was not iu se sion,
and the trial cuuhl not take placs at that
time. As Wallis insisted, and the officer '
faid a trap for him, he agreed to give the
outlaw a hearing, and in the back part of
the store the trial was supposed to be going
on. Waliis wa* questioned, and when he
got up to make. Ids statement, two strong
armed citizens jumped iu the door behind
him, and seizing his arms, held him tight
unt 1 the officer tied him hand and foot.
This was the manner of the arrest. Wallis
did not remain long in prison. Oae morn
ing when tho officer went down to feed
Wallis, after he had been condiied about
tvro days, he fouud the door open, and
Weills gone. Tliey began then to suspect
that W aliis had a baud, and it is known
now that the outlaw is the head of a band
of as brave, daring and desperate fellows
as himself. They are hunters and illicit
distillers, Teey reside iu huts, along the
side of the Chattahoochee river, in the
vicinity of Pine Mountain, and Wallis
lives at the south foot of the mountain iu
a sort of defile of the mountain. It is
unfrequented, except by the outlaw’s band.
Several years ago an old resident was
out fox hunting and he discovered a small
hut to the south of the mountain, iu an
almost inaccessible spot, and approaching it
he found the outlaw skinning a cow. This
was during W aliis’ early days, and he only
looked amazed at the visitor, but did not
disturb him.
The old hunter rode back to town, and
the news spread like fire. Everybody knows
'about the outlaw’s hang out, and it would
be easier to make a citizen run through
fie than to go through the
settlement south of Pine Mountain. Old
residents say that the outlaw is tall, well
buiit, with eagle eyes and a “barbarous cast
o! countenanca” He seldom wears a coat.
His apparelin summer consists of a loose
shirt aud osnaburg tro ssers. He wears a
soft brown hat, with a brim like a parasol.
In winter this costume is exchanged for a
flannel shirt, jeans trousers and an over
coat. Whether in winter or summer, Wallis
never makes incursions into the country un
armed. Besides carrying a rifle bo is pro
vided with two heavy Colts revolvers aud a
dirk. He uses one as well as the other. His
work is as surely executed with a
dirk as with a rifle. On one occasion
Wallis and one or two of his
baud were roving the country when they
met two lone travelers. They forced the
men to give up their possessions and Walds
drubbed them until they were unable to
walk. He jumped in the buggy then and
drove away, leaving them ou the Side of
the road. It turn id out that these travelers
wei illicit distillers fleeing the officers and
they eluded pursuit by this means. The
officers chased Wallis out of the settlement
on this account. He remaiued away a con
siderable time supposing that be had killed
the travelers. Settlers begvi to breathe
free, thinking they were rid of the outlaw,
but Wallis turned up the following New
Year. It was announced thnt the
outlaw had returned and was up to more of
his deviltry. Cate iu the afternoon whou
night was about to put an end to the merry
making of the villagers, a neig bor rode
through town crying “Wallis is coming.”
That is the custom. When the outlaw
plunders one settlement, settlers dispatch it
to the adjoining settlements and a general
“hiding out” fellows.
On this occasion it was said that Wallis
had murdered two men and was spa mg
nobody. There was a stampede for the
woods ar.d the mountains, to Jet the outlaw
pass, but Wallis did not oome.
Toward dusk a wagoner drove into town
with a load of bloody freight. One man lav
cut to death and another was wounded
almost fatally. This was the outlaw’s ha ill
work. Everybody expectei next to hear
of the terrible end of the sheriff. Thisou:-
rageous piece of butchery went out far and
near and officers banded together to
apprehend the villain, and take him dead or
alive. But their efforts were futile. Wallis
escaped. The next heard of him was
that he had fled to Alabama
and had married. This proved to be
true, but it was foreign to the desperado's
nature. After the honeymoon was over
Wallis revolted at his settled life, and he
ran away from homi and sought bis old
haunts. Ho worked about on the farm as
day laborer, but he soon, abandoned this
kind of life and soon began to terrorize the
settlement.
He met two negroes, neither of whom
knew him. He cracked his whip atom;,
; and the other threatened to prosecute him.
i\ aliis ma I • bi n get ont of the buggy and
whipped him aon idly, and made the other
dn .e away and leave his companion in the
j road.
All these caper* of the outlaw made the
j people in tbs settlement fear him. and the
! colored p ople dreaded him. A Glut this
t.mi it bi-cauie generadv known that Wallis
had a band, and the officers began to despair
of ever capt iring him.
Two years ag > a black republican lecturer
toured this section, maki lg incendiary
6peec es, advising the negroes to r.se and
refuse to submit to b Trig lod by the whites.
Waliis and bis bind h >ard of it, aud the
lecturer suddenly disappeared, nobody
where. The negroes were greatly
aiarnud, and began to suspect that the
lecturer was a ghost until it leaded out that
Wai ls’ band bad “fixed him.”
It is not an unusual thing for farmers to
find in the swamps traces of the outlaw
where tie has killed and butchered their
Cjw and hogs.
Wallis wa- boru in this section and lived
in an out of the way locality on a farm
with his widowed m ither untd he was 15.
His mother married a seeund time aud the
Etepfatber mistreated the boy. The mother
advised Wallis to leave home, and the boy
foil j wed her advice. One night he stole
out of the hou-* and was not seen again in
many years. He went <o Tera- and joined
the cowboys, and remained on the fro itier
until he was 25. He returned to Georgia to
get revenge upon his stepfa.her, but both
the stepfather and Wadis’ mother were
dead. Old residents say that Wallis then
became hardened to everything and counted
everybody his enemy. He lived about over
the country engaged in no work, aud grad
ually drifted into outlawry.
This sort of life has a fsscination for
him, and old residents say he will follow it
until ue is shot and ,wn. For a loug while
Wallis was alone in bis depredations, but
now it turns out that he has a band, and
the officers despair of ever capturing him.
This band numbers sixty, aud it is said
that the members ca i get together in an
hour’s time ready to do toeir work. While
those ou laws are up to all manner of mean
ness themselves, they never permit other
offenders to go unpunished. In
this sense they have bee une correctors of
the community. They quell insurrections
and put an end to all ou da wry of others.
Tn se who are known to be murderers, in
hiding among the mountains are appre
hended by Wallis’ band, and are turned
over to officers of the law. Nob dy knows
who Wallis’ followers are. He L seldom
seen now alays, except ou maraudering ex
peditions. Mountaineers reside all along
up a.d dowr. the river, and it would be a
difficult matter to capture Wallis or any of
his followers.
The only tailroad traversing this section,
until recently, wasthe Columbus and
Rome railroad, a narr w gauge. Some
thefts have been committed upon it, but no
trains have been held up. The Georgia
Midland railroad forges through the moun
tains near aere, and tha people have been
listening for train robbing on that line.
If Wadis’ band should got hard run. the
railroads, old residents say, may keep
guarded. The Georgia Midland is a splendid
road, ad it has i.over been robbed. As
long as the country people are in as good
condition as tliey now are, though, the rail
roads have no cause for uneasiness. It is
Hula that several hundred dollars are offered
for Wallis’ apprebe siou, but the chances
of arrest now are less sure than they were
two or three years ago. his friends among
the m uataine.rs and his followers among
the back woodsmen are always on the alert.
Arresting officers are never able to
possess themselves of information, re
liable, a. id unless they gain over
to their side some member of the despera
do’s gang they cannot accomplish any
thing. They cauuot hope to hunt him
down in the mountains.
Every piece of outlawry committed in
Pi >e Slountaiu district is charged to Wallis.
Old reddeata can see bis handiwork in al
most everything mean.
Sometimes he slay- for plunder, again a
sense of duty, they must impel him, as
in the case of the republican lecturer.
Z. D. R.
THU NSW GOLD FIELD.
Old Miners Flocking in and Seeming
to Be Satisfied With It.
Ardmore, I. TANARUS., Oct. 26.—The latest re
ports from the mines are of new and richer
leads found in the last twenty-four hours.
Richer placer beds have bean discoverrd
and excitement in that neighborhood in
creases In intensity as new discoveries are
made. Old miners from every section are
flocking to the gold regions,’ and express
themselves fully satisfied as to the richness
of the quartz being taken out. The Anvil
Rock Mining Company will meet at fish
omingo Saturday to issue stock and take
Immediate steps to increase the force at
work.
ADRIFT 43 DAYS IN THE PACIFI 7.
Captain, Mats and Steward Dead and
Boat?wainan Idiot.
San Francisco, Oct. 26.— Mail from
Peking arrived to-day states that the captain
of the British bark Lancefleld, recently
arrived at Hong Kong from New York, re
potted that he met the Brtish bark Guiding
Star, and that only one of the crow was
about. When he met the ship she had
bee i drilling forty-eight days.
The captain, the mate, the steward and a
seaman had died of fever and five others
were lying helplessly ill. The boatswain
became an idiot. Tne stricken bark was
taken to Batavia.
$40,000 for a Bride’s Trousseau.
Chicago, Oct. 23.—Two millionaire
families were united t -day when Miss Al
bersiue Hack, the brewer’s daughter, be
came the b. ido f Marshall Field, Jr., the
only sou of Chicago’s greatest merchant.
The ceremony was performed at high noon
at the Fl3id mansion, on Prairie avenue, by
Most Rev. Archbishop Feeban. The bride
was attired in a robe of w hite satin with
court train, half open bodice and De Medi
cis collar. She also wore a full veil of tulle
and carried a bouquet of white myrtle blos
soms. The bridal couple left this afternoon
for Now York en route for a year’s visit to
Europe. The trousseau of the bride is
the finest ever seen in the west, and cost
$40,006.
Writes With Both Hands.
-FYom the Aew York World.
Owing to ttie popularity of type-writers,
penmanship is becoming a lost accoinplisU
meti among business men; but one gentle
man of this city i> rites letters with both
bauds at o >ea He is E. C. Cockey of the
Western Union building aud he consented
to show a reporter ho .v to make a mauifoid
machiue of himself.
"After e idless practice,” he said, “I at
last found that I was capable of writing
with both hands at once, and in this way I
have done considerable writing of a busi
ness nature. Of late years, however, all
my writing has been doDe by dictation to a
stenographer.”
Mr. Cockev drew a pad from a drawer in
his desk, and, taking a lead pencil in each
hand, he wrote t e reporter’s name toward
the left with bis left hand and toward the
right with his right hand.
"This is one way of writing it,” said Mr.
Cockey, “but perhaps you would like to see
it written this way,” aud he wrote the name
upside down with both hands. Finally he
wrote a long sentence simultaneously with
both hands.
Special to Housekeepers.
We offer this week 200 oovere liii-hes and
casseroles, 160 sugars, creams, salads, etc.
of Haviland A Co.'s fine decorated French
China at less than they cost iu France.
These are all sa nples which we bought very
low.
We also offer special low prices on 200
chamber sets for this week only. Our prices
are as low aa the lowest in everv depart
ment. Til os. West & Cos.,
— Adv. No. 138 Broughton street.
A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.
Queer Matrimonial Complications tn
the Woolly West.
Chicago, Oct. 23,—A very interesting
and somewhat romantic marriage occurred
in Bloomington, 111., the other day—that of
Arthur English and Mrs. Lucy B.
English, the former cf St. Louis, the latter
of Chicago. Mrs. Euglish was formerly
Miss Lucy Temple, a elle of Bloomu gton,
daughter of Airs. Hate Temple, now of
Chicago. In her girlhood *i:e married a Mr.
Boyed of Burlington, la, but was soon left
a widow. Ten years ago she marnei Louis
Karr aud lived with him some ti ns in Colo
rado, where he diedsomeyea s after she had
obtained a divorce. After her divorce from
Karr she married Arthur English, a lawyer
from Philadelphia. Pa. I h-v lived happily
for a time, but trouble came between them
and a divorce followed.
Three years ago Bloomington and Chicago
were flooded with copies ot a printed cir
cular making the most scandalous and out
rageous charges against the lady, which
were denounced as false by all who knew
her. The authorship of the circular was
emphatically denied, both by Mr. Karr,
her seco: and husband, who was then alive,
and by Mr. English. Mrs. English clung
to the opinion, However, that English was
responsible for the circular. Some months
ago a correspondence began between En
glish and his divorced wife, which finally
ended in English’s proposition to marry her
again whenever fhe would acknowledge
that she was mistaken in charging him
with the authorship. This she has done,
for they were again united. Mr. Euglish is
in the re il estate business iu St. Louis. He
is a son of Thomas Dunn English, famous as
poet aid author, and now deiaocraticnomi
nee for congress in a New Jersey district.
BLUE GRASS ELOPEMENT.
Kentucky Lovers Elude the Old Folks
and Are Married.
Cincinnati, Oct. 36.—Parish Shropshire,
a bright young man of Centerville, Ky.,
and pretty Miss Nannie Nichols of Jack
sonville, Ky., were tied for weal or woe in
tha parlors of the Palace hotel last night by
Rev. J. Z. Tyler of the Central Christian
church. The marriage was opposed by
stern parents, and, like ali true Kentuck
ians, they resolved to fly to the Mecca of
Blue Gra s lovers, and accordingly came to
Cincinnati on a late train last evening.
After some tall hustling a marriage lice; se
.'as procured, Rev. Tyler was routed from
his warm bed, and, in an incredibly short
time, the twa.n we e one. R. L. Shrop
shire, Miss Maud Shropshire (brother and
sister of the groom) and J. D. Hawkins
of Centerville accompanied the happy pair.
Heir to $80,000,000.
Pleasantville, N. J., Oct. 26.—George
Johns, a middle-aged farmer and butte -
vender is probably the happiest mao in
tJeasantville. Late last eveniug he received
word that he had fallen heir to au English
legacy of $80,000,000. Mr. Johns stated
this evening that he didn’t credit the state
ment at first, but the report is now fully
confirmed by the English consul.
MEDICAL
Ilhogb k s>4
COMPOUND EXTRACT
The Importance of purifying the blood can
not be overestimated, for without pure
blood you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs a
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and Hood's Sarsaparilla is worthy
your confidence. It is peculiar in that it
strengthens and builds up the system, creates
an appetite, and tones the digestion, while
it eradicates disease. Give it a trial.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
MME. %. DE SB Oil I CLOUS ”
Has returned from New York, and will open
MONDAY, 27th, with a very select
stock of everything. New style in Hats,
Bonnets, Toques and Children's Hats. Also Boas
in Ostrich and Cock's Plumes, very handsome,
with her usual stock of ribbons, feathers, birds,
flowers, etc.
102 FEET FRONT
OX WEST BROAD STREET,
Between the lines of Huntingdon and Hall
streets,
FOR SALE.
This is a splendid stand for a store and a
capital place for tenements.
C. H. DORSETT.
DR. I. N. WELLS,
DENTIST,
Has returned to the city and resumed practice,
At 130 Liberty Street.
DON'T GIVE CP IN DEePAIK.
Dyspeptics, you will find a reliable remedy in
DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
It Is a faultless vegetable preparation, and
indorsed by prominent medical men.
Silver medal aud diploma awarded over com
petitors.
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist,
Savannah, Ga.
Price. $1 per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
NOTICE. '
All hills against the British steamship
SNELLSWORTH must be presented at our
office by 18 o'clock noon, THIS DAY, or pay
ment will be debarred.
Oct. 27, 1890. WILDER * CO - AKems -
NOTICE
Is hereby given that at the next session of the
Legislature the Coast Line Railroad Conmauy
will apply for an amendment to its charter,
permitting the use of electricity in place of
horse pewer on its cars, in accordance with or
dinance passed by City Council.
DR. BEST
-HAS-
RETURNED.
MARRIAGES.
Married. "Si.
I*o, at St. Patrick’* cnurch, bv the Kay. Father
Me >1 ebon, Mr. Taoe. E. McGim and Miss Maqoii
F. Kellxm. No ca-de.
MEETINGS.
UK KALB LODGE NO. 9. iTo. O. F.
A regular meeting will lie held THIS (Monday!
EVENING at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows’ new
building.
Th# Initiatory Degree will be conferred.
Members of other lodges and visiting brethren
are eordiaUv invited to attend.
By order of H. M. REEVE, N. G.
John Riley. Secretary
CALANTHE LODGE AO. 28, K. OF F.
The regular meeting of the lodge trill
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at /PSA
S o’clock. STJfI
A prompt attendance of the mem
bers is requested.
J. M. Roses field. C. C.
J. E. Freeman, K. of R. and S.
MketTng to ohuaaizr
A Cotton Factory Association!
A meeting of the citizens or Savannah who
wish to interest themselves in the formation of
a MUTUAL CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
to build a Cotton Factory here, will be held at
Catholic Library Hall, oa TUESDAY, the 28th
inst., (October) at 8 o'clock. It is hope J that
every individual in the city, those of small as
well as of large means, will interest themselves
in this most important enterprise.
John Schwarz, Henry Hobenstein,
G. W. Lamar, J. L. Whatley,
R B. Harris. C. H. Olmstead,
Wm. bar ard, Wm. Rogers,
D. G. Purse, F. 8. Latnrop,
St. J. R. Yonge, R. H. Tatem,
■ Jordan F. Brooks, Go .. N. Nichols,
| H. C. Davis, H. T. Moore,
j B- H. Levy & Bro, J. 8. Collins,
i W. K. Wilkinson, W. B Mell,
w. L. Wilson, Wm. N. Nichols.
A. Fernandez, Rowland & Myers,
EmiiNezman, Warinz Russell,
Fred Grimm, S. J. Wheaton,
Hugh Logan, Robt. M Hicks,
John R. Dillon, S. K. Piatshek,
Peter L. Constantine, J. G. Yonge.
Marcus 8. Baker, John D. Gould,
E J. Kennedy, Dryfus Bros.,
J. K. P. Carr, Wm. E. Mongin,
Louis Ale aner and many others.
SHELIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1830, the ba*U of meat-
Hrement of all advertising tn the Mobni.no
Nbws mil be agate , or at the rate of $1 -10 an
inch for the first insertion.
SECURE A COMFORTABLE HOME (IV
EASY TERMS.
The Chatham Real Estate and Improvement
Company offers inducements to homeseekers.
Those two comfortable and recently fitted up
houses on the south side of Henry street, next
east of Lincoln street, will be sold, for a small
cas'\ payment and on a monthly instalment plan
for a period of ten years or lees at the option of
the purchaser. For full particulars apply to
M. J. SOLOMONS,
Secretary and Treasurer,
1 IS Bryan Street.
BA.YA.YA6, HAVANAS.
9,000 BUNCHES BANANAS
just arrived per steamship Unite from Blue
fields.
I
KAVANAUOn £ BRENNAN.
RESTAURANT.
COME DOWN TO SEE ÜB.
WE ARE IN THE MARKET
THE FINEST IN THE
SOUTH.
OFEN DAY AND NIGHT.
FRIED & HICKS,
D, 11 and 13 Market.
KOWLI.Y6KI,
Pharmacist,
PrescriDtions. Ships’ Medicine Chests filled
and labeled in Frencn, German, Swedish, Nor
wegian or Danish.
Broughton and Drayton Streets.
Telephone 465.
NOTICE.
Neither the master nor consignees of the
Spanish steamship PIO IX will be responsible
for any debts contracted by the crew of said
vessel. STRACHAN & CO .
Consignees.
DR. T. F. ROBERSON,
DENTIST.
ODD FELLOWS BUILDING,
Corner Barnard and State Street*.
SWISS ALPINE FLOWERS
as a delicate perfume, combined with
the b’St materials known to science for the
teeth and gums, makes
‘EDELWEIS DENTIFRICE”
—A—
perfect article for the boudoir. Only
—AT—
BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull and Congress streets.
DON’T BE “SHORT” OF “MONEY.”
For if you are, “Uucle Adam," at No. 20 Jeffer
son street, between Congress and Broughton
streets, will advance you on your Jewelery,
Diamonds, Clothing, Etc., Etc. Open, 7a. m to 9
p - M. ADAM STRAUSS, Manager.
NOTICE.
All bills against the Portuguese bark YZA
BEL, Silvano, Master, must be presented at our
office THIS DAY by 12 m„ or payment will be
debarred.
CHARLES GREEN'S SON & CO.,
— Consignees.
NOTICE
Is hereby given that at the next session of the
Legislature the City and Suburban Railway
Company will apply for an amendment to its
charter, permitting the use of electricity in
place of horse power on its cars, in accordance
with ordinance passed by City Council.
FOR RELIABLE MEDICINES,
FANCY ARTICLES,
PURE CANDIES AND FRESH BEED,
PATRONIZE
HEIDT’S DRUG STORE.
GROCERIES and liquors.
±S JD±± ±±o-0-113 ]
BEER
Which will Satisfy the Taste of Even the Most Exacting
Connoisseur!
EVERARD’S CANADA MALT ALWAYS DOES!
Try It and be Convinced! Sold in Bottles Only. Ask f° r ll ‘
Cat nclcen.ileiiiiei* &
_ AMUSEMENTS. **
Savannah Theater'
Wednesday, Oct. 29.
THE OREATFBT SPECTACLE OF THE if,
kikalfys gorgeous fairy B
SPECTACLE.
"THE WATER QUEEN”
Direct from Nibl ,'s Garden. New York r„ 1
fail to see the host of novelties. The m
and m y Dares gymnast* fro m c's'r 1
Royal Aquarium. The Brothers WaStJ^i
Alhambra*and** 7
KIRALFY’S WORLD RENOWNED CORwj
IE BALLET,
eaded by MLLE R2DMUND. nrincinie a.,
from Madison Squire Garden.
the grand production. Entirely ln
Objectionable features J rroe fr!, m
Seats at Butler's. Oct 27th, a m \\>„ .
traction Effle Ellsler Niv 3. * V?lt -
EXCURSIONS. ~
Charleston & Savannah Ry,
Charleston, 8. t, Oct 23d, 189 ft
Charleston’s Gala M.
Round Trip Tickets
To Charleston $2.30.
Tickets on sale Oct. 25th to 30th include
rood until Nov. 4th, 1890. '
E. P. McSWINEY,
1 inn. Pass. Agent.
FURSI3IIIMG GOODS.
Map's Notv Silk Hats.
Dunlap’s New Derby Hats.
The New English Derby,
WAKEFIELD OF LONDON MAKER.
ALL SIZES NOW IN STOCK.
New MaekW Gits, I
Waterprojf Rubber Coats,
FINE UMBRELLAS
AND I
New Fall Goods for Situ I
NOW OPEN AT I
LctF.A.R’S, I
27 BULL STREET. I
BAMiS. I
jos'd, weeis,' jn6.TroWßd! I
2 President. Vice President, ■
JAS. H. HUNTER, Cashier ■
SAVANNAH BASK A TKL'SI CA I
Savings Dep t I
ALLOWS 40/0 I
Deposits cf St and Upward himl I
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly. ■
DIRECTORS: I
Joseph D. Weed, of J. D. Weed and: Cos. ■
John C. Rowland, Capitalist. ■
(’.A. Keitze, Exchange an t Insurance. ■
John L. Hakdee, capitalist. H
it G. Erwin, of Chisholm, Erwin 4 daßigsox H
Edward Karow. of Strauss & Cos. H
Isaac G. Haas. General Broker. H
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y. AD. I. Maclntyre H
John Lyons, of John Lyons & Cos. H
Walter Coney, oi Paterson. Downing 4ai H
I>. C. Bacon, Lumber.
PRINT, NG AND BOOKBINDING.
PRINTING AND BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
Establishment fully furnished withijl
necessary TOOLS and MACHINES!.
PAPERS and MATERIALS. Coni*'
tent Workmen. Established Bew®
tion for Good Work. Additional/'
ders solicited. Estimates furnished.
93'/i BAY STREET.
GEO. N NICHOLS^
COTTON FACTORS.
John Flannery. John L. Johns* '
JOHN FLANNERY & CO.,
Cotton Factors,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Bagging and Iron ties furnished at l°**j
market rates, prompt attention given w
business entrusted to us. Li beral cash aara
made on consignments of cotton.^^^^^
DRUGS AND MEDICINE-
The Boss Corn Varnish
CURES Corns, Warts and Bunions. No tn *
No cutting. No pain, bur© cur© o
Sold by all druggists.
J. C. MIMS& CO., Proprietors,
SAVANNAH, ga
