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A -JOURNEYTO DAMASCUS
HO I ELS ECLIPSED 3Y A HOVEL IN
PALESTINE.
Its Biblical Associations What Gave
it Favor in the Eyes of Rev. Tnl
rnage-A Storm—The City as Seen
from a Hill Top—The Flash from the
Skies.
Brooklyn, N. Y.. Dec. T.—The New
York Academy of Music was rilled with an
audience of nearly six thousand persons at
the Christian Herald "> service this evening
when Dr. Talmage delivered the eleventh
sermon of his senes on I’alestine and the
adjoining countries. The same sermon, as
on previous Sundays, had been preached in
the morning to another large audience in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The
subject was Damascus, and the text: “As
he journeyed he came near Damascus.”
Acts ix., a Dr. Talmage said:
In Palestine we spent last r.ight in a mud
hovel of one story, but camels ands .eep in
the basement. Yet never did the most
brilliant hotel on any continent seem so at
tractive to roe as that structure. If we had
been obliged to stay in tent, as we expected
to do that night, we must have perished. A
violent storm had opened upon us its volleys
of had, and snow, and ram, and wind, as if
to let us know wliat the Bible means win 11
prophet, and evangelist, and Christ hims If
spoke of the fury of the elements. The
atmospheric wrath broke upon us about 1
o’clock in the afternoon, and we were until
night exposed to it, With hands ami feet
benumbed, and cur bodies chilled
to the bone, w made our
slow way. While high up on the
rocks, and the gale blowing the hardest, a
signal of distress halted the party, for down
in the ravines one of the horse;* bad fallen,
and his rider must not be left aione amid
that wildness of scenery and horror of
storm. As the night approached the tem
pest thickened, and blackened andstrength
•ned. Some of our attendants, goiug
ahead, had gained permission for us to halt
for the night in the mud hovel I speak of.
Our first duty on arrival was the resuscita
tion of the exhausted of our party. My
room was without a window, and an iron
stove, without any top, in the center of the
room, the smoke selecting my eyes in the
absence of a chimney. Through an
opeuing in the floor Arab faces were sev
eral times thrust up to see how I was
progressing. But the tempest ceased during
the night and before it was fully day we
were feeling for the stirrups of our saddled
hones, this being the day whose long march
will bring us to that city whose name can
not be pronounced in the hearing of the in
telligent or the Christian without making
the blood to tingle and the nerves to thrill,
and putting the best emotions of the soul
into agitation—Damascus!
During the day we passed Crosarea Phil
ippi, the northern terminus of Christ’s
journeyings. North of that he never want.
We lunch at noon, seated on the fallen col
umns of one of Ilerod’s palaces.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, coming to a
hill-top, wesaw on the broad plain a city,
which the most famous camel driver of all
time, afterward called Mohammed, the
prophet and the founder of the most stupen
dous sysiein of error that has ever cursed
the earth, refused to enter because he said
God would allow man to enter but one
paradise, aud he would not enter this earth
ly paradise lest he should bo denied en
trance to the heavenly. But no city that 1
ever saw so plays hide and seek with the
traveler. The air is so clear the dis
tant objects seem close by. You come
on the top of a hill and Damascus
seems only a little ways rtf. But down you
go into a valley, and you sei nothing for
the next half hour but barrenness and rocks
regurgitated by the volcanoes of other ages.
Up another hill and down again. Up again
aud down again. But after your patience
is almost exhausted, you reach the last hill
top and the city of Damascus, the oldest
city under the whole heavens, and built by
Noah’s grandson, grows upon your vision.
Every mile of the journey now becomes more
solemn and suggestive and treuieudous.
This is the very road, for it has been the
only road for thousands of years, the road
from Jerusalem to Damascus, along which
a cavalcade of mounted officers went, about
I*4l years ago, in the midst of them a fierce
little man who made up by magnitude of
hatred for Christianity for his diminutive
stature, and was the leading spirit, and,
though suffering from chronic iflanmiation
of the eyes, from those eyes flashed more in
dignation against Christ’s followers than
any one of the horsed procession. This little
mat, before his nnma was changed to
Paul, was called Haul. Bo many of the
mightiest natures of ail ages are
condensed into smallness of stature.
The Frenchman who was some-
times called by his troops “Old One Hun
dred Thousand,” was often, because of his
abbreviated personal presence, styled “Lit
tle Nap.” Lard Nelson, with insignificant
stature to start with, and one eye put out at
Calvi, and his right urin taken oil at Tene
riffe, proves himself at Trafalgar the
mightiest hero of the English navy. The
greatest of American theologians, Archibald
Alexander, could stand under r.ho elbow of
many of his contemporaries. Look out for
little men when they start out for some espe
cial mission of good or evil. The thunder
holt is only a condensation of electricity.
Well, that galloping group of horsemen
on the road to Damascus were halted
quicker than a bombshell or cavalry charge
ever halted a regiment. The Syrian noon
day, because of the clarity of the atmos
phere, is the brightest of all noondays, and
the Doonday sun in Syria is positively
terrific for brilliance. iiut suddenly that
noon, there flashed from the heavens a
light, w hich made that Syrian sun seem
tame as a star in comparison. It was the
face of the slain and ascended Christ, look
ing from the heavens, and under the dash
of that overpowering light all the horses
dropped with their riders. Human taco and
horses’ mane together in the dust. And
then two claps of thunder followed,
uttering the two words, the second word
like the first: “Saull Saul!" For three
days that fallen equestrian was totally
blind, for excessive light will sometimes
extinguish the eyesight. Aud what cornea
and crystalline lens could endure a bright
ness greater than the noonday Syrian sur.
I had read it a hundred times, but it i ever so
impressed me before, and probably will
never so impress me again, as I took my
Bible from the saddle bags and read aloud
to our comrades in travel: “As he jour
neyed, he came near Damascus, and sud
denly there shined round about him a light
from heaven aud he fell to the earth and
heard a voice saying unto him, ‘Saul! Saull
Why persecutes! thou me?’ and he said,
‘Who art thou, Lord” And the Lord said,
T am Josus whom thou porseeutest.’ ”
But we cannot stop longer on this road,
for weshnil see this unhorsed equestrian
later in Damascus, toward wmch his
horse’s head is turned, aud at which we
must ourselves arrive before night. The
evening is near at hand, and as we leave
snowy Hermon behind us and approach the
snadow of 20D minarets and domes, we cut
through a circumference of mauy iniies of
garden, which embower the city. Bo lux
uriant aro these gardens, so opulent in col
ors, so luciou9 of fruits, so glittering with
fountains, so rich with bowers and kiosks,
that tho Mohammedan's heaven wns
fashioned alter what are to he
seen here of bloom and fruitage
Here in Damascus at the right season
are cherries, and mulberries, and apricots,
and almonds, and pistaehois, and pome
granates, and pears, aud apples, and plums,
and citrons, and all tie richness of the
r and world’s polmology. No wonder that
Juiian called tbii city “the Eye of the
East." and that tho poets of Syria have
styled it “the luster on the neck of doves,”
and historians said: “it is the golden clasp
which (KHipiet the two sides of tho world
together. ”
Many travelers express disappointment
with Damascus, but the trouble is they have
tarried on tlicir minds from boyhood the
honk which daxsUw so many young people
—tbi) “Arabian Nights,” aud they Come into
Damascus looking for Aladdin’s lamp, and
Aladdin’s ring, and the genii ■duen ap
peared by rubbiEg them. Put, a I bare
never read the "Arabian Nights,” such
s.uff not being allowed around cur bouse in
my boyhood, and notuing lighter in the
way of reading than “Baxter's Saints’
Everlasting Rest,” and D’Aubigny’s “His
tory of the Revolution,” Damascus ap
peared to me a- sacred and secular history
have presented it, and so tlie city was not a
disappointment, but with few exceptions a
] suprlse.
Under my window to-night in the hotel
at Damascus I bear the perpetual ripple and
rush of the river Abau.i Ah. the secret is
out! No v I know why ali this flora, aud
fruit, and why everything is so green, and
the plaiu one great emerald. The river
At anal And not far off the river l’harpar.
which our horses wad and through to-day!
Thank the river*, or rather the God who
mad; the rivers 1 Deserts to the north,
deserts to the south, deserts to the east,
deserts t > the west, but here a paradise.
And, as the rivers Oihon, and Pison. and
Haldekel, an 1 Euphrates, made the
other paradise. At ana and I'harj.ar
make this Damascus a paradise. That
i.s what made lien. Naamau of this city of
Damascus so mad when he was told for the
cure of his leprosy to go and wash in the
river Jordan. The river Jordan is much of
the year a muddy stream, and it is never so
clear a* this river Abana that 1 hear
rumbling under my window to-night, nor
as the river Pharpar that we crossed to-day.
They are as clear as though they had been
sieved through some especial sieve of the
mountains. Gen. Naamau bad great and
patriotic pride in these two rivers of his ow n
country, and when Elisha the prophet told
him that if he wanted to get rid of his
leprosy, he must go and wa'hin the Jordan,
be felt as we. who live oa the magnificent
Hudson, would feel If toid that we must go
and wash in the muddy Tnames, or as if
those who lire on the transparent Rhine
were told that they must go and wash in
the muddy Tiber. So Gen. Naamau cried
out with a voico as loud as ever he had used
in commanding his troups, uttering those
memorable words which every minister of
the gospel sooner or iater takes for his text:
"Are not Abana and Pharphar, rivers of
Damascus. b?ttor than the waters of Israeli
May 1 not wash in them and be clean?”
Thank God we live in a land with plenty of
rivers, aud that they bless all uur At
lantic ccast and all our Pacific coast,
and reticulate all the continent
between the coasts. Odlv those who have
traveled in the deserts of Hyria, or Egypt,
or have in the oriental cities heard the tiuk
ling of the bell of those who sell water, cau
realize what it is to have this divine bever
age in abundance. Water rumbling over
the rocks, turning the mill wheel, saturat
ing the roots of the corn, dripping from the
buckets, tilling the pitchers of the house
hold. rolling througu the fonts or baptistries
of holy ordinance, tilling the reservoirs of
cities, inviting the oattlo to come down and
slake their thirst and tho birds of heaven to
dip their wing, ascending in robe of mist
and falling again in benediction of shower
—water, living water, God-given water!
We are awakened in the morning in
Damascus by the song of those who hava
different styles of food to soil. It is not a
street cry ns in Londoner New York, but a
weird aud long drawn out solo, compared
with which a buzz saw is musical. It
makes you inopportunely waken, and will
not. let you sleep again. But to those who
understand the exact meaning of the song
it tie comet quite tolerable, for they sing:
“God is the nourisher, buy my bread,”
“God is the nourisher, buy my milk,” “God
is the nourisher, buy my fruit.” As you
look out of the window you see the Moham
medans, who are in large majority in the
city, at prayer. And if it were put to vote
who should be king of all the earth, fifteen
thousand in that city would say Christ, but
one hundred and thirty thousand would say
Mohammed. Looking from the window
you see on the housetops, and on the
streets Mohammedans at worship. Toe
muezzin, or the officers of religion, who an
nounce the time of worship, appear high
up on the minarets or tall towers, and
walk around tho minaret, enclosed by a
railiug, and cry in a sad and mumbling
way: “O-od is great. I bear witness that
there is no God but God. I bear witness
that Mohammed is the apostle of God.
Come to prayers 1 Come to salvation! God
is great. There is no other but God.
Prayers are better than sleep.” Five times
a day must the Mohammedans engago in
worship. As he begins, he turns his face
toward the city of Mecca, aud unrolls up n
the ground a rug, which he almost always
carries. With his thumbs touching
the lobes of his ears, and holding
his face between his hands, he cries:
“God is great.” Then folding his hands
across his girdle, he looks down and says:
“Holiness to thee, O God aud praise be to
thee. Great fe thy name. Great is thv
greatness. There is no deity Lut thee.”
Then the worshipper sits upon his heels,
I hen ho touches his nose to the rug, and
thee his forehead, these genuflections ue-
companied with the cry, “Groat is God.”
Then, raising the forefinger of his rigiit
hand toward heaven, be save: “1 testify
there is no deity but God, and I testify that
Mohammed is the servant of God, and the
messenger of God.” The prayers close bv
the worshiper holding his hands opened
upward as if to take the divine blessing,
aud then his hands are rubbed over his face
as If to convey the blessing to his entire
body.
There are two or three commendable things
about Mohammedanism. One is that its
disciples wash before every act of prayer,
and that is live times a day, and there is a
Gospel in cleanliness. Another commend
able thing is, they don’t care wise is look
ing, and nothing’ cau stop them in their
prayer. Another thing is that by order of
Mohammed, and a 1 order obeyed for thir
teen hundred years, no Mohammedan
touches strong drink. But the polygamy,
the many-wifehood of Mohammedanism
has made that religion tho unutterable and
everlasting curso of woman, aud whan
woman sinks, the raee sinks. Tho proposi
tion recently made in high ecclesiastical
places for the reformation of Mohammedan
ism instead of its obliteration, is like an at
tempt to improve a piugue or educate a
leprosy. There is only one thing that will
ever reform Mohammedanism, and that is
its extirpation from the face of the earth by
the power of tho Gospel of the Bon of God,
which makes not only man, but woman
free for this life and free for the life to
come.
The spirit of the horrible religion which
pervades the city of Damascus, along whoso
streets we walk and out of whose bazars wo
make purchases, and in whose mosques we
study the wood carvings aul hedizeuments,
was demonstrated as late as ISO ), when iti
this circuit put to death six thousand
ehnstiurrPln forty-eight hours and put to
the torch three thousand Christian homes,
ami those streets wo walk to-day were red
with tho carnage, and the shrieks of the
dying and dishonored men and woc.en
made this place a hill on earth. This
went on until a Mohammedan
better than his religion, Abd-el-Kader by
name, a great soldier who in one war had
with twenty-five thousand troops beaten
sixty thousand of tho enemy, now protested
against this massacre and gathered the
Christians of Damascus into castles and pri
vate houses and tided his own homo wilh
the utTrighted sufferers. After awhile the
mob came to his and >or and demanded the
"Christian dogs” whom ho was sheltering.
And Abd-el-Kader mounted a horse ami
drew his sword, and with a few of bis old
soldiers around him, charged on tho mob
aud cried: “Wretches! Is this the
way you honor the prop .ot ( May
liis curses bo ujioti you! Shame iii
vou! Khnrne: You will y t live to repent.
You think you may do as you please with
the Christians, but the day of retribution
will come. Tho Franks will yet turn your
mosques into churches. Not a Christian will
i give up. They are my brothers. Stand
Pack, or I will give my men tho order to
fire." Than by the might of one great soul
tinder God the wave .f assassination rolled
back. Huzzab for Abd-al-Kadcr! Although
now wo Americans and fo-elguer* piss
l brough the streets of Damascus unhindered,
there is in many parts of tha city the sub
dued hissing of a hatred for Christianity
that and it dared Would put to deat t every
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1890.
mnu, woman aud child in Damascus who
does not declare allegiance to Mohammed.
But 1 am glad to ray that a wide, hard,
splendid turnpike road has within a few
i year? been constructed from Beyrout, on
the shore of the Mediterranean t; this city
of liamuscus, and, if ever again,that whole
sale ussissiuation is attempted, French
troops and English troops would, with
jingling bit3 and lightning hoofs, dash
up the hills and down on this Damascus
plain and leave the Mohammedan mur
derers dead ou the Moor of their masques
aud seraglois. ft is too late in the hub >ry
of the world for governments to allow such
things as the modern massacre at Damascus.
For such murderous attacks on Christian
disciples, the g spel is not so appropriate as
builets or sabres sharp aud heavy enough to
cut through with one stroke, from crown of
head to saddle.
B it 1 must say that this city of Damascus
as I see it now is not as absorbing as the
Damascus of olden times. 1 turn my back
upon the bazars, with rugs fascinating the
merchants from Bagdad, Bed the Indian
textile fabric of incomparable make, and
the manufactured saddles aud bridles gay
enough for princes of the Orient to ride and
puli, and baths where ablution becomes in
spiration, aud the homes of those bargasn
makers of to-day, marbled and divaned and
fountain*! and upholstered and mosaiced
and arabesqued and oolonnaded until noth
ing can be added, and the splended remains
of the great mosque of John, originally
built with gates so heavy that it
required five men to turn them, aud
columns of porphyry and kneeling-places
framed iu diamond and seventy-four
stained-glass windows and six hundred
lamps of pure gold, a single prayer offered
in this mosque said to be worth thirty thou
sand prayers offered in any other place. I
turn mv back on ail these and see Damas
cus as it was when this narrow street, which
the Bible calls Straight, was a great wide
street, a New York Broadway or a Parisian
Champs Elysees, a great thoroughfare cross
ing the city from gate to gate, along which
tramped and rolled the pomp of ail nations.
There goes Ahrahain, the father of all the
faithful. He has in this city been purchas
ing a celebrated slave. There goes Ben
Hedad of Bible times leading thirty-two
conquered monarebs. There goes David,
King, warrior and sacred poet.
There goes Tamerlane, the eon
querer. There goes Harouu of Raschid,
once the commander of an army of nintv
ff vo thousand Persians and Arabs. There
comes a warrior on his way to the bar
racks, carrying that kind of sword which
the world has forgotten how to make, a
Damascus blade with the interlacings of
color changing at every new turn of the
light, many colors coming and going and
interjoiniug, the blade so keen it could cut
iu twain an object without making the
lower part of the object tremble, with an
electicity that could not be broken, though
you brought the poiut of the sword clear
back to the hilt, and having a waterei ap
pearance, which made the blade
seem as though just dipped ia a
clear fountain, a triumph of cutlery
winch a thousand modern foundrvmen and
chemists have attempted in vain to imitate.
On tho side of this street, damasks, named
after this city, figures of animals, and
fruits, and landscapes here being first
wrought in silk—damasks. And specimens
of damuskoeming by which in this city
steel and iron were first graved, aud then
the grooves filled with wire of gold—Da
inaskeeiuing. But stand back or he run over,
for here are at the gates of the city laden
caravans from Aleppo in one direction, acd
from Jerusalem in another direction, and
caravans of all nations paying toll to this
supremacy. Great is Damacus!
But what roost stirs my soul is neither
chariot, nor caravan, nor bazar, nor pai
ac;, but a blind man passing along the
street, small of stature and insignificant in
personal appearance. Oh, ye-; we have
seen hitn before, lie was one of that caval
cade coming from Jerusalem to Damascus
to kill Christians, and we saw him and his
horse tumbie up there on the road some
distance out of the city, and he got up
blind. Yes, it is Haul of Tarsus now going
along this street coiled Straight. He is led
by his friends, for ho cannot sec his hand
before his face, unto the h use of Judas;
not Judas the bad, but Judas the good. In
auother part of this city, one Ananias, not
Ananias the liar, but Ananias the Chris
tian, is told by the Lord to go to this house
of Judas on Straight street, and
put his hands on the blind eves of Saul that
his sight might return. "O.” said Ananias,
“I dare not go; that Saul is a terrible fel
low. Ho kills Christians, ami he will kill
me.” “Go,” said the Lord, and Auanins
went. There sits in blinduess that tremend
ous persecutor. He was a great nature
crushed. He had started for the city of
Damascus for the one purpose of assassinat
ing Christs’s followers, but since that fall
from hiß horse he has entirely changed.
Ananias steps up to the sightless man, puts
his right thumb on one eve aud the left
thumb on the other eye, aud ia an outburst
of sympathy and love and faith says:
“Brother Haul, the f<ord, even Jesus that,
appM'ured note thee iu thy way as th'm
earnest, has sent me that tiiou mayest
receive thy sight, and be tilled with
the Holy Ghost.” Instantly something like
scales fell from the blind man’s eyes,aud lie
arose irom that seat tho mightiest evangel
of nil the ages, a Sir William Hamilton for
metaphysical analysis, a John Milton for
sublimity of thought, a Whitfield for popu
lar eloquence, u John Howard for wide
spread philanthropy, but more than all of
them put together inspired, thunderbolfcod,
multipotent, apostolic." Did Judas, tbe kind
host of this blind man, or Ananias, tbe visi
tor, see scales drop from the sigotlsss eyes?
1 think not. But Paul knew they had fal
len, and that is all that happens to any of
us when we ate converted. The blinding
scales drop from our eyes, and we see things
differently.
A Christian woman, missionary among a
most degraded tribe, whoso religion was
never to wash or improve personal appear
ance, was trying to persuade one of those
heathen women not only of need of change
of heart, but change of habits, which would
result iti etiange of appearance, but the ef
fort failed until the missionary had placed
in her own hallway a looking-glass, and,
when the barbaric woman, pissing through
the hall, saw herself in the mirror for the
first time, she exclaimed: “Cun it be possi
ble I look like that J” and appalled at her
own appearance she renounced her old re
ligion aud asked to tie instructed in the
Christian religion. And so we feel that we
are all right In our sinful and unchanged
condition, until the scales fall from our
eyes, and in the looking-glass of God’s word
we see ourselves as we realty are, until di
vine grace transforms us.
There are many people in tilts house to
day as blind as Paul was before Ananias
touched his eyes. Aud there are mauy here
troui whose eyes the scales have already
fallen. You see all subjects and all things
differently—God, and Const, and eternity,
aud your own immortal spirit. Sometimes
the scales do not all fall at once. When I
was a boy at Mount Pleasant, one Sunday
afternoon, reading “Doddridge’s l.ise and
Progress of Religion in the Soul,” that after
noon some of the scales fell from my eves
and I saw a little. After 1 had been in the
ministry about a year, one Sunday after
noon m the village uarsotiHge renting the
Bible story of the Syro-Phenieian’s faith,
other scales fell from my eyes and i saw
better. Two Sunday oveuiogs ago, while
prop iring for the evening service in Now
York, 1 picked up a boob that I did not re
memb r to have seen before, and after I
iiad read a page about reconseeratlon to
God I think the remaining sc ,l<s foil from
ray eyes. .Shall not our visit to Damascus
to-dav result, like Paul’s visit, in vision t >
the blind, and increased vision for those
who saw somewhat before)
i was reading of a painter’s child who be
came bii. din infancy. But after the ittulu
was nearly grown, a surgeon removed the
blindness. When told that this could lie
i done, the child's chief thou,’ht, her mother
being dead, was she would be utile to sec her
father, who had watched over her witii
groat tenderness. IVh n sight came she
was in raptures, and ran her hands over her
father's face, and shut her eym as if to
tnoure hors ill that tills was ready the father
whom a to hsd oidr known by touch, and
o', looking iron him, noble man as he
was ia appearance as well as in reality, she
cried out, "Just to think that I had this
father so teeny y*ar? sad never knew -him"’
As great and greater is the soul's joyful
surprise when the wales fa!! from the eyes
and the long spiritual darkness is ended,
and we look up into our Father’s face,
always radiant, acd loving, but now for
the first revealed, aud our blinduess forever
gone, we cry “Abba father!”
To each one of the vast multitude of
auditors, I say, na Ananias did to Saul of
Tar-us, when his sympathetic Angers
touched the closed eyelids: “Brother Saul!
brother Saul! tbe Lord, even Jesus that ap
peared-unto thee in the way that thou
earnest, hath sent me that thou ruightest
receive thy sight, a:id be filled with the
Holy Ghost?”
TALLAHASSEE TOPICS.
Appointments by the Governor—A
Store Closed by the Sheriff.
Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. B.—Gov. Flem
ing has made the following appointments:
M. A. Gonzalez, to be pilot commissioner
for the port of Fort Myers: S. P. McDonnell
of Archer, to be notar 1 public for the state
at large; W. J. Brack of Kissimmee, to be
county commissioner for district 4
of Osceola county, vice R. B.
Parker, resigned: I>. A. Gray of High
Springs, to be notary public for
the state at large; Thomas C. Butler of Pa
latka, to be county commissioner for district
4 of Putnam county, vice John Walton re
signed ; F. H. Sauls and James W. Clardy of
Jasper, to be notaries public for Hamilton
county; Archibald MacCallum of Orlando,
to be justice of the peace, and S. P. Butler
to be constable for district 19 of Orange
county; A. E. Pooser of Arcadia, to be no
tary public for the state at large.
Letters patent have been granted to the
Montgomery, Pensacola and Mobile Railway
Company.
CLOSED BY THE SHERIFF.
Hathaway & Cos., merchants of this city,
have been closed by the sheriff on judg
ments secured by creditors. Their failure
is heavy, but reliable information as to
amount of liabilities and assets has not yet
been announced. W. E. Hathaway, the
read of the firm, was recently married to
Miss Bailey of St. Louis, daughter of Gen.
William Bailey, president of the Augusta
and West Florida railway.
AN ASSIGNMENT.
George E. Wbite, proprietor of the Enter
prise novelty works, has made an assign
ment to A. J. Fish, in favor of his erditors.
He has returned to Chicago. Failing health
was the direct cause of his trouble. He
could not give his business the personal at
tention it required, and thought best to
assign before getting deeper into debt.
A CYCLONE IN KBWTON.
Two Lives Lost, Fevaral People In
jured and A'anv Dwellings RazecL
Covington, Ga., Dec. 7.—A narrow, but
terrific cyclone passed through the north
ern portion of this county this morning at
9 o’clock. Its direction was from west to
east.
It struck the earth at Joseph Ellington’s
and unroofed several negro cabins on the
place, hut injured no one seriously there.
Half a mile east it struck the dwelling of
J. A. Henderson, which was razed to the
ground, tumbling on himself and family.
Mr. Henderson was killed instantly, a child
smothered under a feather bed, the wife
seriously crippled by logs falling on her,
aud several other children moro or leis
injured.
Near Jersey, two miles east of here, it un
roofed several houses, but no other casual
ties are reported.
GORDON TO JOIN THE ALLIANCE.
A Legislator say? He Has It From the
General's Own Lips.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7. —Tho announce
ment made by the country pre-s
a week or two ago that Sena
tor-elect Gordon would join the al
liance has been revived, and to-dav
gained broad local circulation in such defi
nite shape a3 to compel that belief, which,
owing to the seeming improbability
of the statement, was not at first
accorded. Ger. Gordon is not in the city,
but there is a good reason for confirming
the report, wild as it has always appeared.
To-night an alliance member of the legisla
ture and a prominent Gordon man in the
recent c mtest, states that he has it from the
senator's own lips that his application for
admission into tho brotherhood ha3 been
filed.
AN OFFER FOR 6,500,000 ACRES.
A Cattle Syndicate Wants the Chero
kee Strip for 510,000,000.
Chicago, Doc. 7.—C01. A. J. Snider, a
wealthy- Kansas City cattle man, arrived in
this city yesterday and registered at the
Grand Pacific hotel. .After a short conver
sation withs ine stock men Col. Solder seDt
the following message:
A. P. Mayes, Chief of the Cherokee Xation.
Tithlequah. hutian Territory.
I am prepared to offer you $10,000,000 in cash
for fi.eOO.OX) acre of land known as the ('hero
koe strip. Answer if any encouragement.
A. P. Snider.
Mr. Snider says the Cherokee Strip Live
Stock Association want that land, and will
have it if money can buy it.
A WOMAN DEAD IN THE BOX.
Her Husband ia Under Arrest at Tai
-1 ilmssea on Suspicion.
Tallahassee, Fla., Dee. 7. —The dead
body of Lizzie Williams (colored) was found
in the road near Tallahassee this morning.
Tim bodv was stiff and cold and had appar
ently lam there all night. The only marks
of violence were finger prints about the
throat. Circumstantial evidence leads to
tho belief that sho was choked to death by
her husband, Richard Williams, aud he has
been arrested. A coroner’s inquest and
post-mortem examination were held, but
the jury will not bring in a verdict until
to-morrow.
MURDER AND LYNCHING,
A Negro Pays the Penalty for Killing
a Storekeeper.
G reenvy: 1 and, Miss., Dec. 7. —Gus Arm
was murdered at his store at Roebuck land
ing, on tho Yazoo river, by a negro named
Dennis Martin. Phil Thomas, a white man,
took up a <i ,üble-barreled shotgun and fired,
breaking both of Martin’s arms. A posse of
colored people took Martin, hanged him to
a tree, and riddled him with buliet3.
An Albany Merchant Dead.
Albany, Ga., Dbc. 7. —H. Weisso, a
highly resp-ctad Hebrew merchant of this
city, died suddenly- at 7 o’clock this morn
ing of apoplexy. He started to get up and
dress, when his wife remarked that there
was no us.‘ in rising so early, as it was Sun
day morning. Jlr. Weisse laid down, drew
in u long breath and died without speaking
again.
Williamson Dies from His Wound.
Way cross, Ga., D9c. 7. — D. B. William
son, tho turpentine operator who was shot
some time Once at Waresboro byD. M. Da
vidson. an account of which was wired the
News, died to-day from the effects of his
wound, llu had sufi'ero l much until death
i relea-ed him. David sou is out on bond, but
will doubt! is surren ler himself to his
bondsmen.
Death Follows an Assault.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7.—J. D. William-',
the old man assaulted by Italiff K 1 Curriau
while ill m bed. d.u 1 to-day, but it is and übt
fnl if ins death resulted from tho assault, us
be was suffering from a complication of
serious diseases.
Important to Traveling Public.
New Kveeett Hotel now open. Largest, best
equipped, ami is *! popular hotel la Jaokson
Wide. MU Mlfte. With 114' ho. K*tJ>, $1
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H3APPORTIONMBNr ROBBERY.
The Rarmblicans Scheming to Leave
Many Democrats Uni-e presented.
Washissjton, Dec. 7.—Tire democrats
will vote against the 35*1 reapportionment
•rheme agreed upon by the republican*.
They will oppose it, not only because out of
the resulting remainders from the dividend
eight members are given to democratic
rtatesaud nine members are given to repub
lican states, but al *o because the democratic
states are deprived of at least three mem
bers which they ought to have. The demo
crats of the census committee will prepare
another bill, which they will offer as a sub
stitute, but if, as its friends gave out, the
scheme of the republican census committee
men has been approved by 1 Yea dent
Harriioa and Speaker Reed, it will
be put through the House with
the regularity of clockwork under the
mechanical system of Speaker Reed’s ad
ministration. In the Senate, which is
more than ever, apparently, a deliberative
body, it will be debated and perhaps de
feated, but some reapportionment bill
seems tikely to be passed in spite of all
democratic opposition.
UNFAIRNESS OF THE BILL.
Mr. Outhwaite of Ohio, who has carefully
examined the republican bill, is quoted as
saying: “It is an unfair bill. The ratio
which it takes to get the number 356 is 173,-
OOL, and that only gives 3S'J representatives
on an even division of the uonuiation
of the several states. The bill makes
up the difference of seventeen mem
bers by giving them to the states
which have a resulting remainder of more
than one-half the ratio taken, by which
eight go to the democratic and nice to those
which are regarded as republican, liut that
is not where the unfairness comes in. There
are nine democrat states which have a large
stilting remainder, but not large enough to
get representation for it. I:r three of these
nine states the remainder is over 50,000, tu
one other nearly 70,000, in three others 70,-
000, and iD twe about 85,000. This is a large
number to be left misrepresented, as it
might be expressed, over 015,000, more than
three times the ratio, hence as many as
hould be entitled to three representatives.
On the other hand, there are only two re
publican states which have large remainders
to be unrepresented accordiug to the bill,
neither of which would equal the unrepre
sented remainder of New York or Arkansas.’’
“Is this the only unfair feature of the
bill 3 ”
‘•Well, it affects the electoral vote
equally unjustly, rather grasping when one
recalls the fact that thjf?e republican states
—Nevada, W yoming and Idaho together—
have only 9,000 more people than this ratio,
yet will have three representatives and six
Renters, which will give them nine electors
fir President and Vice President.”
MEDICAL*
SCROFULA
Is that impurity of the blood which produces
unsightly lumps or swellings in the neck;
which causes running sores on the arms,
legs, or feet; which develops ulcers in the
eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
deafness: which is the origin of pimples, can
cerous growths, or “humors;” which, fasten
ing upon the lungs, causes consumption and
death. It Is the most ancient of all diseases,
and very few persons are entirely free from it.
TnrcunEß
By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, by
the remarkable cures it lias accomplished,
has proven itself to boa potent and peculiar
medicine for this disease. If you suffer from
scrofula, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
“Every spriug my wife and children have
been troubled witli scrofula, my little boy,
three years Old, being a terriMo sufferer.
Last spring lie was one mass of sores from
headtofeet. Wealltook Hood'ir aparilla,
and all have been cured of the scrofula. My
little boy is entirely free from sores, and all
four of ray children look bright and healthy.”
W. B. Atherton, Passaic City, N. ,J.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. £1; six for£s. I’roparcdonly
by C. I. HOOD A- CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
EQQ Doges One Doilar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
FOR < 01 XTY TREASFRER.
The friends of Cot.. CHARLES H. OLM
STEAD announce him as a candidate for the
office of County Treasurer, and ask in his be
half the votes and support of their fellow citi
zens at the election WEDNESDAY, January'.
1891.
CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND IM
PHOYKMB.IT COVIPANV
Office of Chat. Kkat, F.st. & Ikp Cos., I
Savannah, Oa., Deo. b, 1890. l
The seventeenth installment on stock in
Series 15 and dues to Series A are now one.
Si. J. SOLOv.ONS.
Secretary and Treasurer.
WQUNIIU OA Otb,
■ FOR THIS WEEK
Cut Prices for Candies.
Go get Christmas supply at once from
HEIDT'S. and see their holiday display.
NOTICE
Neither the Contain nor Consignees of the
British steamship RANNOC3 will bo responsi
ble for any debts contracted by thecrew of said
vessel. BTRACHAN & CO ,
Consignees.
AUCTIONEERS’ SALE STABLES,
West Broad and Charlton streets. TUESDAY,
Dec. 9, regular -ales of Horses, Mules, Cows,
Buggies. Gigs, Carts, Wagons, Harness.
SPECIAL. NOTICE.
We have THIS DAY associated C. R. PETER
SON with us in business under the firm name of
PEACOCK, PETERSON & CO.
PKACOCK & PETERSON.
Sttckf.y, Ga., Dec. 1, 1890.
DON’T BE “DEAD BROKE.”
“Uncle Adam” will lend you Money on any
• personal” property at lowest rate of interest
for one, two or three months. Open from 7a.
m. to9i> ; Saturdays to 11 p. m. NEW YORK
LOAN OFFICE, 150 Jefferson street. corner
Congress Street Lane. ADAM STRAUSS,
Manager.
“PEACH BLOSSOM, ’
A DELICATE, DELIGHTFUL, YET LASTING
ODOR.
THE PERFECT RESULT OF CONSTANT
STUDY.
Onr store will be perfumed every afternoon
with it.
Made and sold only at
BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull ami Congress at reels.
FRIED & HICKN,
THE ONLY LADIES’ RESTAURANT IN THE
SOUTH.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
THE FINEST OYSTER C JOK IN GEORGIA.
FRIED A IIICKS. H, II and 13 Marm.
funeral invitations.
WALTHOUR—The relative* and friends of
j Cap. 'am. WV-tswr and family are
! requested to attend ti>£ funeral services of the
former THIS AFTERNOON at 3:30 o'clock, at
St. John's Church.
BYRNES —The friends and acquaintance of
Mrs (>eo. E. Byrnes and family are respectfully
invitel to attend the funeral of her youngest
son. Charles Cln vkla vp. from her r-sidence.
Congress and Houston streets, at 3 o'clock
THIS AFTERNOON.
M EETINCs. "
CLINTON LODGE NO 51, F. A A. M.
Annual communication of this lodge A
will 1j held at Masonic Tenmle THIS
i Monday i EVENING, Dec. Bth. at 8
o'clock The election of officers will be ' ” '
held. Members will come prepared to pay
dues. Members of sister lodges and visiting
brethren are cordially iuvrted to meet with us.
FRANK H. MORSE, W. M.
W a hint; Risselu, Jb , Secretary.
DE KALB LODGE NO. 9. I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday!
EVENING at 8 o’clock at Odd Fellows’ new
building.
The Second Degree will be conferred.
Members of other lodges and visiting brethren
are cordially Invited to attend.
Bv order of H. M. REEVE. N. G.
Joan Rit.ity. Secretary.
CALANTHE LODGE NO. 2S, k. of p.
The regular meeting of the Lodge will yrpy
bo held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at /./T "A
8 o’clock.
A prompt attendance of the mem fegarari
bers is requested. uSffl'
J. M Rosknfield, C. C. NSJf
J. E. Frbkhan. K. of R. and S.
8> \ VANN HI LODGE NO. 217, I. O. B. B.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held
THIS (Mondayi EVENING at 8 o’clock. Every
member is requested to be present, as a com
munication of special importance will be pre
sented.
By order of the President.
RICHARD ROBINSON. Secretary.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 7:30
o'clock, in Knights of Pythias Hall. By order
of WM. SCHEIHING. Pres.
A. Heller, Secretary.
MEETING OF STOCK HO LOIRS.
Central Railroad and Banking Cos. of Ga. )
Savannah, Ga. , Dee. 8,1890. f
The annual melting of the stockholders of
this company will take place at the Banking
House, in Savannah, on TUESDAY, Dec. 23. at
10 o’clock a. m. Stockholders and their families
will be passed free over the company’s road to
the meeting from the 20th to the 23d, inclusive,
and will be passed free returning from the 23d
to the 27th, inclusive, upon presentation of their
stock certificates to the conductcre.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
MILITARY ORDERS.
SAVANNAH VdI.U.VTKER GUARDS.
Headquarters Battalion 1
Savannah Volunteer Guards. V
Savannah, Dec. 8, 1890. I
Order No. 65.
The regular monthly meeting of the Corps
will be held at the Armory on MONDAY, Bth
iost., at 8:15 oYlock i*. m.
Members will come prepared to pav then
due*. By order of
LIEUT. COL. GARRARD.
Wy. P. Hunter. Ist Lieut, and Adjutant.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and attar Feb. 1, 1990, the han't of meas
urement nf all advertising in tAe Mount so
News unll be agate, or at the rate of $1 40 an
inch far the first insertion.
DIVIDEND NO. 58.
Augusta and Savannah Railroad, )
Savannah, Ga., Dev. 2, 181)0. f
On and after THIS DATE a dividend of
Three Dollars and a Half per share will ba paid
to the stockholders of the Augusta and Savan
nah railroad at the banking house of Charles
U. Olm.-tea I A Cos., between the hours of 10 a.
m. and 1 p. M. W. S. LAWTON, Pres.
AOTICK.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
British steamship CROWN will be responsible
for any debts contracted by the crew of said
vessel. STRACHAN & CO..
< dnsignees.
INSURANCE AGENCY.
•la. T. Stewart & Son, Agents.
J as. G. Yonge, Managsr.
London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Com
pany of Liverpool .and New York Underwriters
Agency of New Y'ork. OFFICE: No. 90
Bay Street.
ELECTION FOB DIRECTORS.
Central Railroad and Banking Cos. of Ga. i_
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 3, 1880. )
An election for thirteen directors to manage
the affairs of this oompany for the ensuing
year will be held at the Banking House in Sa
vannah, MONDAY, the sth of January, IS9I,
between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M., and 2
o'clock p. m. Stockholders and their families
will be passed free over the company's road to
attend the election, front the 3rd to the sth of
January, inclusive, and be passed free return
ing, from the sth to the 7th of January, inclu
sive, on presentation of their stock certificates
to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
Dll. V. V. EX LEY,
DENTIST,
Offers his services to the people of Savannah.
Office. 158 Liberty street.
PLUG HORSES AND MI LES
Must and will be sold at public outcry TUES
DAY. Dec. 9, AUCTIONEERS’ SALE STABLES,
West Broad and Charlton streets.
HOWLINSKI,
Pharmacist,
Prescriptions. Ships' Medicine Chests filled
and labeled in French, German, Swedish, Nor
wegian or Danish.
Broughton and Drayton Streets.
Telephone IS3.
DR. T. F. ROBERSOdI.
DENTIST.
ODD FELLOWS BUILDING
Corner Barnard and State Streets.
DON'T GIVE UP IN DESPAIR.
Dyspeptics, you will find a reliable remedy ia
DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR
It i? a faultless vegetable preparation, and
indorsed by prominent medical men.
Silver medal and diploma awarded over com
petitors.
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, il D„ Pharmacist,
Savannah, Ga.
Price, $1 per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
HEKK.
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SAVANNAH ' THBATPP"
, TWO NIGHTS*
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WE%L EXTRA VAG U/A ro'm. v
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BLUE BEARD
-El Al JUNIOR, 7
Ur Fatima and the Fc’rv
In iaS 2?P n4l Superb Splendor Tr **
Of 163,000 was expended on the crLmVf rls
production.
-Diatinjfuijihel Artists—
Latranciuß: Orand Bullet, led hvtLvL •
M ile Paris.
Faaclnating Ballet of Bird, and u
of Asia. Seores of Astouuomg Novel IV,,' 1 ’ ’
Admission 25c. 50c and *1 Fe,tur ’ ’
extra. Seats ..n Sale at Butler's Deo s ‘
Next attraction. Little Tycoon (i^Dec’U^J
SAVANNAH THEATER
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BANKS.
Indent h HTJNTER,\‘ShiS Sitl9DU
SAVANNAS BANS k TRUST CO.
Savings Dap’t
ALLOWS
Deposit of Si and Upward HceriFei
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly
DIRECTORS:
Josi-ptr D. Wkid, of J. D. Weed & 00.
iIbHN C. Howland, Civjitalis'.
9* A * flxchai andlaguracoe
J uiN L. Harder, (^pltaliaf.
R H. Erwin, of Chisholm, Erwin £ dußJsmon
Edward Karow. of Mrauss & Cos.
I&aac G. Haas, Goner&l Broker.
M. Y Maclntyuk, of M. Y. A I). L Maclntyre
John Lyons, of John Lyons A Cos.
NV ALruu C >np:y. of Paterson, Downing & Cos.
D l _C I _BAcoy. "*
PRINTING AN D BOOKBINDING.
183Q-FALUM MTEHBBI
PRINTING AND BINDING,
PLMK 800K,3.
Establishment, fully furnished with all
necessary TOOLS and MACHINIJRY.
PAPERS and MATERIALS. Compe.
tent Workmen. Established Reputii
l.un for Good Work. Additional or.
ders solicited. Estimates furnished.
93 BAY STREET.
GEO. N NiCHOLS.
COTTON FACTORS.
Jons- rtunntr. John L. Johksox
JOHN FLANNERy & CO..
Cotton Factors,
SAVANNA.II, GA
and Iron ties furnished at Inwert
market l’rompt aTtenfion given to all
business entrusted to us. Liberal cash advances
made on consignments of c ttoL.
HOXBjla.
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SAVANNAH, GA
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in the world.
Accomodations for 500
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SAVANNAH, GA.
Management strictly first-dart
Situated in the business centef,
L. W. SCOVILLfi
THE MARSHALL REST * URANT
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claes place, conveniently l<xsiti-.. . r f r , m
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