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in our natures we would want to study God
In the great; but such small, weak, short*
lived beings ns you and I are want to study
God in the tittles.
When I see the Maker of the universe
giving himself to the architecture of a
snowflake and making its shafts, its domes,
its curves, its walls, its irradiations so per
fect, I conclude be will look after our in
significant affairs. And if we are of more
value than a sparrow, most certainly w
are of more value than an inanimate snow
flake. So the Bible would chiefly impress
us with God in the littlee. It does not say,
“Consider the clouds,” but it says, "Con
sider the lilies.” It does not sav, "Behold
the tempestsr but. "Behold the fowls:” and
It applauds a cup of cold water, and the
widow's two mites, and says the hairs of
your head are all numbered. Do not
fear, therefore, that you are going
to be lost in the crowd. Do not think that
because you estimate yourself as only one
snowflake among a three days’ January
snowstorm that yon will be forgotten. The
birth and death of • drop of chilled vapor is
as certainly regarded by the Cord a the
creation and demolition of a planet- Noth
ing is big to God, and nothing is small.
What makes the honey industries
of South Carolina suoh a source
of livelihood and wealth? It is be
cause God teacher the lady hug to make an
Opening in the rind of the apricot for the
be*. w;.o cannot otherwise get at the juices
of the fruit. So God sends the lady bug ahoad
to prepare the way for the honey bee. He
tenches the ant to bite each gram of cord
that she puts in the ground for wiuter food
in order that it may not taka root and so
ruin the little grauary. He teaches the
raven in dry weather to throw pebbles into
ajbollow tree that the water far down and
out of reach may come up within the reach
of the bird’s beak. What a comfort that be
is a God in littles! The emperor of all the
Kussias in olden time was looking at a map
that spread before him his vast dominions,
and he could not find Great Britain on tbe
map, and he called in bis secretary and said;
“Where is Great Britain, that I hear so
much about?” “It is under your thumb,”
said the secretary; and the emperor raised
his band from the map ami saw the country
he was looking for. And it is high time that
we find this mighty realm of God oloeo
by, and under our own little Auger. To
drop you out of his memory would be to
resign his omniscience. To refuse you his
protection would be to abdioate his omnipo
tence. When you tell me that he is the God
of Jupiter, and the God of Mercury, and
the God of Saturn, you tell me something
bo vast that I cannot comprehend it. Bnt
If you tell me that he is the God of the
snow-flake, you tell me something I can
hold and measure and realize. Thus the
smallest snow-flake contains a jewel-case of
comfort. Here is an opnl, an amethyst, a
diamond. Here is one of the treasures of
the snow. Take It for your present and
everlasting comfort.
Behold, also, in the sdow the treasure of
accumulated power. During a snowstorm
let an apothecary, accustomed to weigh
most delicate quantities, bold his weighing
sebies out of the window and let one flake
fall on the surface of tbe scales and it will
not even make it tremble. When you want
to express extreme triviality of weight you
say, "Light as a feather;” but a snow flake
is much lighter. It is just twenty-four
times lighter than water. And yet the ac
cumulation of these flakes broke down, a
few days ago, in sight of my house, six
telegraph poles, made helpless polioe and
fire deportments, and halted rail
trains with two thundering locomotives.
We have already learned so much
of the power of electricity that we have
become careful how we touch tbe eleotric
wire, and in many a case a touch has been
death. But, a few days ago, tbe snow put
its hand on most of these wires and tore
them down as though they were oobwebe.
The snow said; "You seem to be afraid of
the thunderbolt; I will catch it and hurl it
to the ground. Your boasted eleotric lights,
adorning your cities with bubbles of fire, I
will put out as easily as your ancestors
muffed out a tallow candle.” The snow
put its linger on the lip of our cities that
were talking with each other, and they
went into silence, uttering not a word. The
snow mightier than the lightning.
In March, 1888, the snow stopped Ameri
ca. It said to Brooklyn: “Stay borne!” to
New York: “Stay home!” to Philadelphia:
“Stay home!” to Washington; "Stay
home!” to Richmond: “Stay home!” It put
into a white sepulcher most of this nation.
Commerce, whose wheels never stopped be
fore, stopped then. What was the matter?
Power of accumulated snowflakes; on the
tOD of the Appemnes one flake falls, and
others fall, and they pile up, and they make
a mountain of fleece on the top of a
mountain of rock, until one day
a gust of wind, or even tbe
voice of a mountaineer, sets the
frozen vapors into action and by awful de
scent they sweep everything in their oourse
—trees, rocks, villages—as when, in 1827,
the town of Briel in Valais was buried, and
In 1624, in Switzerland, three hundred sol
diers were entombed. These avalanchei
were made up of single snowflakes. What
tragedies of the snow have beeu witnessed
by tbe monks of St. Bernard, who, for ages
have with tbe dogs been busy in extricati. g
bewildered and overwhelmed travelers iu
Alpine storms, the dogs with
blanket fastened to their backs
and flasks of spirits fastened
to their neck, to resuscitate tbe helpless
travelers, one of these dogs decorated with
a medal for having saved the lives of
twenty-two persons, the brave beast himself
slain of the snow on that day wben accom
panying a Piedmontese courier on the way
to his anxious household down tbe mountain,
the wife and children of the Piedmontese
courier coming up the mountain in search of
him, an avalanche covered all under pyra
mids higher than those under which the
Egyptian monarchs sleep their sleep of the
ages. What an illustration of the tragedies
of the snow is found in that soene between
Glencoe and Glencairn one February, in
Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes
forth to bring to his father’s house his
cousin Flora MacDonald, for the celebra-
tion of a birthday, and the calm day turns
into a hurricane of white fury that leaves
Ronald and Flora as dead, to be resuscitated
by the shepherds. What an exciting
struggle had Bayard Taylor among the
wintry Appenines.
In the winter of 1812, by a similar force,
the destiny of Europe was decided. The
French army marched up toward Moscow
500,000 men. What can resist them! Not
bayonets, but the dumb elements over
whelm that host. Napoleon retreats from
Moscow with about 200,000 men, a mighty
nucleus for another campaign after he gets
back to Paris. The morning of Oct. 19,
when they start for home, is bright and
beautiful. The air is tonic, and, although
this Russian campaign has been a failure,
Napoleon will try again in some
other direction with his host of
brave surviving Frenchmen. But a cloud
comes on the sky, and the air gets chill,
and one of the soldiers feels on his cheek a
snow flake, and then there is a multiplica
tion of those wintry messages, and soon the
plumes of the officers are decked with
another stylo of plume, and then all the
skies let loose upon the warriors a hurri
cane of snow, and the march becomes diffi
cult, and the horses find it hard to pull the
supply train, and the men begin to fall
under the fatigue, and many not
able to take another step lie down
in the drifts never to rise, and the cavairy
horses stumble and fail, and one thousand
of the army fall, and ten thousand perish,
and twenty thousand go down, and fifty
thousand, and a hundred thousand, and a
hundred and twenty thousand, and a hun
dred and thirty-two thousand die, aud the
victor of Jena and bridge of Lodi, and
Eylau, and Austerlitz, where three great
armies, commanded by three emperors,
surrendered to him, now him
self surrenders to the snow
flakes. Historians do not seem to rec
ognise that the tide in that man’s life turned
from December the 16th, 18U9, when he
banished by kideous divorce his wife Jo
sephine from the pa'ace and so challenged
• the Almighty, and the Lord charged upon
him from the fortresses of the sky with
ammunition of crystals. Snowed under!
Billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillioos
of flakes did the work. And what a sug-
gestion of accumulative power, and what a
rebuke to all of us who get discouraged be
cause we cannot do much, and therefore
do nothing.
"O,” says someone, "I would like to stop
the forces of sin and crime that axe march
ing for theoonquest of the nation#; but 1 am
nobody,! have neither wealth, nor elo
quence nor social power. What can I do?”
My brother, how much do you weigh? as
much as a snowflakef “O, yes.” Then
do your share. It is an aggregation of small
influences that will yet put this lost world
back into tbe bosom of a pardoning God.
Alas that there are so many men and women
who will not use the one talent because they
have Dot ten, and will not give a penny
because they cannot give a dollar, and will
not speak as well as they can because they
are not eloquent, and will not be a snow
flake, because thev cannot be an avalanche.
In earthly wars tbe generals get about all
the credit, but in the war for God and right
eousness and heaven all tbe private soldiers
will get crowns of victory unfailing. Wben
we reach heaven —by the grace of God may
w all arrive there—l do not think we will
be able to tegln tbe new song right away,
because of the surprise we shall feel at the
comparative rewards given. As we are
being conducted along the street to our
celestial residence, we will begin to
ask where live some of those who were
mighty ou earth. We will ask, “Is so-and
so here!” and the answer will be: “Yes, I
think he is in the city, but we don’t hear
rnnch of him; he was good and he got in,
but he took most of his pay in earthly
applause; he had enough grace to get
through the gate, but just where he lives I
know not He squeezed through somehow,
although I think the gates took the skirts of
his garments. I think be lives in one of
those rack streets in one of the plainer resi
dences.”
Then we shall see a palace, the door steps
of gold, and tbe windows of agate, and the
tower like tbe sun for brilliance, and char
iots before the door, and people who look
like princes and princesses going up and
down the steps, and we shall say, “What
one of the hierarchs lives here! Tuat must
be the residence of a Paul or a Milton, or
someone whose name resounds through all
the planet from which we have just as
cended." “No, no,” says our celestial
dragoman, “that is the residence of
a soul whom you never heard of.
When she gave a charity her left
hand knew not what her right hand did.
She was mighty in secret prayer, and no
one but God and her own soul knew it. She
had more trouble than anybody in the land
where she lived mid without complaining she
bore it, and though her talents were never
great who* she had was all consecrated to
God and helping others, and the Lord is
making up for her earthly privations by
especial raptures here, and the king of this
country hail that place built especially for
her. The walls began to go up when her
troubles and privations and consecration
began on earth, and it so happened—what
a heavenly coincidence!—that the
last stroke of the trowel of
omethyst on those walls was
fiven the hour she entered heaven. You
now nothing of her. On earth her name
was only once in the newspapers, and that
amoDg the column of the dead, but she is
mighty up here. There she comes now, out
of her palace grounds, in her chariot behind
those two white horses, for a rids on tbe
banks of the river that flows from under
the throne of God. Let me see. Did you
not have iu your world below an old clasiio
which says something about ‘these are
they who came out of great tribulation,and
they shall reign forever and ever?’ ”
As we pass up the street I find a good
many on foot, and 1 say to the dragoman,
“Who are these?” And when their name is
announced I recognize that some of them
were on earth great poets and great orators
and great merchants and great warriors,
and wben I expressed my surprise about
their going afoot, the dragoman says: “In
this country people are rewarded not ac
cording to the number of their earthly tal
ents, but acoordmg to the use they made of
what they had.” And then I thought to
myself: “Why, that theory would make a
snowflake that falls cheerfully and in the
right place, and does all the work as
signed it, as honorable as a whole
Mont Blanc of snowflakes.” “Yes, yes;”
says the celestial dragoman, “many of
these pearls that you find on the foreheads
of the righteous, and many of the gems in
the jewel oase of prince and princess, are
only tbe petrified snowflakes of earthly
tempest, for God does not forget the promise
made in regard to them: ‘They shall be
mine, said the Lord of hosts, in the day
when I make up my jewels.’ ” Accumu
lated power 1 AU the prayers aDd charities
and kindnesses and talents of all the good
concentered and compacted will not be tbe
world's evaugelization. This thought of
the aggregation of tbe many smalls into
that one mighty is another treasure of the
snow.
Another treasure of the snow is the sug
gestion of the usefulness of sorrow. Ab
senoe of snow last winter mado all nations
sick. That snowless winter has not yet
ended its disasters. Within a few weeks it
put tens of thousands into the grave and
left others in homes and hospitals gradually
to go down. Called by a trivial name, the
Russian “grippe," it was an International
plague. Plenty of snow means public
health. There is no medicine that so soon
oures the world’s malarias as these white
pellets that the clouds administer. Pellets
small enough to be bonne jpathic, but iu
such large doses as to be allopathic, and
melting soon enough to be hydropathic.
Like a sponge every dike Absorbs unhealthy
gases. The tables of mortality in New
York and Brooklyn immediately lessened
when the snow of last December began to
fall. The snow is one of the grandest and
best of tbe world’s doctors.
Yes; It is necessary for the lands’ produc
tiveness. Great snows in winter are gener
ally followed by great harvest next sum
mer. Scientific analysis has shown that
snow contains a largor percentage of am
monia than the rain, and hence its greater
power of enrichment. And besides that, it
is a white blanket to keep the earth warm.
An examination of snow in Siberia showed
that it was a hundred degrees warmer
under the snow than above the snow. Alpine
plants perished in the mild winter of Eng
land for lack of enough snow to keep them
warm. Snow strikes back the rich
gases which otherwise would escape
in the air and be lost. Thank Ood
for the snows, and may those of February
be as plentiful as those of December
and January have been, high and deep and
wide and enriching; then the harvests next
July will embroider with gold this entire
American continent. But who with any
analogical faculty can notice that out of
such chill as the snow comes the wheat,
without realizing that chilling sorrows pro
duce harvests of grace! The strongest
Christians, without any exceptions, are
tnose who were by bereavements or sick
ness or poverty or persecution, or all of
them together, snowed under, und again
and again snowed under. These snow
storms of trouble 1 They kill the malarias
of the soul. They drive us out
of worldly dependence to God. Call the
roll of all the eminently pious of all the
ages and you will find them the sons and
daughters of sorrow. The Marouites say
that one characteristic of the cedar tree is
that when the air is full of snow, and it be
gins to descend, the tree lifts its branches
in a way better to receive the snow and
bear up UDder it, aud I know, by much ob
servation, that the grandest cedars of
Christian character lift higher their
branches toward God when the suows of
trouble are coming. Lord Nelson’s coffin
was made out of the masts of the ship
L’Orieut, in whioh he had fought s <
bravely, and your throne in heaven, O suf
fering child of God, will be built
out of conauered earthly disasters.
What gave John Buuyan such
a wondrous dream of the celestial
city* Tho Bedford penitentiary. What
gave Richard Baxter such power to tell of
the Saints’Everlasting Reit, and give his
immortal Call to the Unconverted! Physical
disease, which racked every nerve of his
body. What made George Whitefield so
mighty in saving souls, bringing ten thou
sand to God when others brought a hun
dred! Persecution that caricatured and
assailed him all up and down England,
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1891.
and dead vermin thrown m his face when
he was preaching. What mellowed and
glorified Wilberforoe’s Christian character?
A financial misfortune that led him to
write: “I know not why my life
s spared so long except it be to
show that a man can be as happy without a
fortune as with one.” What gave John
Milton such keen •piritual eyesight that he
could see the battle of tbe angels’ Extin
guishment of physical eyeeigbt. What is
the highest observatory for studying the
stars of hope and faith and spiritual prom
ise? The believer’s sick-bed. What pro
claims tbe richest and most golden harvests
that wave on all tbe hills of heavenly rapt
ure? The snows, tbe deep snows, the awful
snows of eartnly calamity. And that com
forting thought is one of the treasures of
the snow.
Another treasure of the snow is the sug
gestion that this mantle covering the earth
is like tbe soul after it is forgiven. “Wash
me,” said the psalmist, “and I shall be
whiter than snow." My dear friend Gasbie
rie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzer
land, for the recovery of his health, but the
Lord had something better for him than
earthly recovery. Little did I think when
I bade him good-by one lovely afternoon on
tbe other side tbe sea, to return to America,
that we would not meet again till we meet
in heaven. As ht lay one Sabbath morning
on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the
window open, he was looking out
upon Mount Blanc. The air was
ciear. I hat great mountain stood iu its
robe of snow, glittering in tbe morning
light, and my friend said to his wife: “Jen
nie, do 7< u know what that snow on Mont
Blanc makes me think of ? It makes me
think that the righteousness of Christ and
the pardon of God cover all sins and imper
fections of my life as that snow covers up
that mountain, for the promise is that
though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow." Was not that glorious!
I do not care who you are or where you are,
you need as much as I do that cleansing
which made Gashierie Da Witt good while
he lived and glorious when he died.
Do not take it as the tenet of an
obsolete theology that our nature
is corrupt. \Y e must be changed.
We must be made over again. The
ancients thought that snow water had espe
cial power to wash out deep stains. All
other water might fail, but melted snow
would make them clean. Well, Job had
great admiration for snow, but he declares
iu substance that if he should wash his soul
in melted snow he would still he covered
with mud like a man down in a ditch. (Job
ix., 30.) “If I wash myself in snow water
and make my hands never so clean, yet
shalt thou plunge me iu tbe ditch and mine
own clothes shall abbor me.” We must be
washed in the fountain of God’s mercy be
fore we can become whiter than snow.
“Without holiness no man shalt see the
Lord.” O, for tbe cleansing power!
If there be in all this audience one manor
woman whose thoughts have always beeu
right, and whose words always rigut, and
whose actions always right, let such a one
rise, or if already standing, lift tbe right
hand. Notonet All we, like sheep, have
gone astray. Unclean! unclean I And yet
we may be made whiter than snow,
whiter than that which, on a
cold winter’s morning, after a night of
storm, clothes the tree from bottom of
trunk to top of highest branch; whiter than
that which, this hour, makes the Adiron
dacks and tbe Sierra Nevada and Mount
Washington bights of pomp and splendor
fit to enthrone an archangel.
In the time of Graham, the essayist, in
one mountain district of Scotland an aver
age of ten shepherds perished every winter
in the snowdrifts, and so be proposed that,
at the distance of every mile, a pole fifteen
feet high and with two cross-pieces be
erected, showing the points of the compass,
and a bell hung at the top, so that every
breeze would ring it, and so the lost one on
tbe mountains Would hear the sound and
take the direction given by this pole w ith the
cross-pieces and get safely home. Whether
that proposed plan was adopted or not I do
not know, but 1 declare to all you who are
In the heavy aud blinding drifts of sin and
sorrow that there is a cross near by that
can direct you home, end peace and God;
and hear you not the ringing of the gospel
bell banging to that cross, saying: “This is
the way, walk ye in it?” No wonder that
the sacred poet put the Psalmist's thought
into rhythm with that ringing chorus we
have so often sung -
Dear Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole;
I want thee forever to live lu ray soul.
Break down every idol, cast out every foe!
Now wash me, and I shall be whither than
snow!
Whiter than snow! Yes, whiter than snow!
Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than
snow!
Get that prayer answered, and we will be
fit not only for earth, but for the heaven
where everything is so white because every
thing is so pure. You know that the re
deemed in that laud wear robes that are
white, and the conquerors in that laud ride
horses that are white, and John in vision
says of Christ, “His head and his hairs were
white,” and the throne on which he sits is a
great white throne. By the pardoning and
sanctifying grace of God may we all at last
stand amia that radiance!
Ten thousand times ten thousand.
In glittering armor bright.
The armies of the living liod.
Throng up the steeps of light.
'Tis fliduhed, all is finished.
Their fight with death aud sin;
Throw open wide the golden gates,
And let the conquerors in.
CRIME RAMPANT AT WADLBT.
Two Attempts at Murder—The Publi
cation of the Herald to Be Resumed.
Wadley, Ga., Feb. 8. —The usual quiet
of Wadley has been disturbed by two
attempts at murder. About 9:30 o’clock
Wednesday night Jesse Marchman, a young
merchant of this town, while walking along
the most public street was shot at four or
five times by a negro assassin hid in a
clump of bushes. The first shot downed a
young negro man. an employe of the Cen
tral railroad company, who happened to be
with Mr. Marchman at the time. The ball
entered the negro’s head just below bis eye
brows, squarely in the center, and came out
near the base of the skull behind. The ne
gro, though severely wounded, is doing well
and is likely to recover.
The would-be assassin was arrested the
day following, but escaped from the mar
shal, leaving bis coat in the marshal’s
grasp.
TRIED TO KILL HIS WIFE.
Thursday, Bob Jones, a mulatto in tho em
ploy of the Central railroad, attempted to
murder his wife. He shot her twice and
cut her in three places. Dr. H. L. Battle
cut out one of the balls and dressed her
other wounds. She is progressing favorably
and is likely to recover. Her husband es
caped before the town marshal was apprized
of his doings, and Is still at large.
The Wadley Herald, which has been sleep
ing for a few weeks, will appear again next
week. William C. Ivy will be editor and
proprietor, aud he proposes to make it a
first-class weekly.
The new hotel being erected by CoL Win.
Donovan is progressing finely and will be
ready by April 1 for business.
The public school, under ths management
of Prof. J. E. Wright, assisted by Mrs. 8.
E. McCroan, has an attendance of seventy
seven pupils. One mile from here another
good school is being conducted by Miss
Mary E. Carswell of Hephzibah.
A Flag Presentation.
Waycross, Ga., Fob. B.— A flag will be
presented to tho Wayoross Rifles at the
armory by the sponsor. Miss Susie Wide
man, to-morrow night. The maids of honor
are Miss Daisy Hud-on and Miss Fannie
Wideman. The chaperons are Mrs. C. W.
Lyon, Mrs. J. C. liall, Mrs. H. W. Rsid.
Mrs. H. 8. Dubose, Mrs. C. H. Andrews and
Mrs. J. McP. Farr. The committee is com
posed of the following gentlemen: Lieut.
T. O’Brien, Sergt. F. E. Andrews. Corp.
Charles Hohensteiu, Corp. John Hogan,
Corp. A, May, Private W. P. Wheipley
and Private A. C. Olney.
Van Houten’s Cocoa— delicious— made
instantly.— Adv.
THROWING DICE FOB A BBI DB
Italians Gamble for the Possession of a
Country w Oman.
New York, Feb. B.— Between One Hun
dred and One Hundred and Eighth streets,
on the eset side, is an Italian colony. It
is populated principally by Italian peddlers
and ash-barrel investigators, who live hud
dled together like sheep. Wedlock is at a
discount among them, very few in fact
conforming to the formality of a marriage
ceremony.
If a particularly well-favored young
woman migrates to the colony from their
native country the young Italians fall in
love with her as a body. If she wants to
be taken she has not one but many beaux,
eager and willing to escort her. This col
lective feeling does not lost long, and before
many weeks are past there are two or three
ultra-attentive men for tbe olive-colored
damsel and among them exists a great feel
ing of rivalry. It is only possible for her
to marry—if marriage it can be called—one
of them, and she is usually afraid to favor
either of the trio in particular on account of
their hot tempers.
THE CHOICE LEFT TO CHANCE.
The matter is then left to chance. Dirty
looking dice are brought out or a quarter is
flipped, and the winner carries off the
bride.
This scene was carried out on Wednes
day night in a house on One Hundred and
Second street, between First and Second
avenues. The object of the toss-up was a
pretty little sixtoen-year-old Italian
maiden, who has just arrived from the
sunny shores of the Mediterranean. From
Castle Garden she had been taken by
friends to a house on One Hundred and
Fourth street, where she was well cared for.
Her dark-brown eyes and olive skin soon
made a furor of excitement among the
young men of the colony, aud the girl was
feted to a remarkable degree. She enjoyed
the efforts made for her entertainment, and
it was sot long befpre Ntalis Diego
found two or three of the young fellows to
be more than usually interested in her. The
three youths told her of their intentions,
and she was present to go to wife to the
lucky tosser.
THE BRIDE IB WON.
The back room they used was dimly
lighted by a caudle, and the three, two of
whom own fruit stands, while the third is a
bootblack, tossed away. There was sus
pense iu that crowd until it was settled that
the bootblack was the winner of the girl,
who clapped her hands and threw herself in
bis arms. The other two congratulated
him, and the party went to their homes.
The bootblack’s name Is Gilpo Menneo,
and the two fruiterers are Angelo Cantelo
and Gussi Bennepi. In the Italian section
these names are known as belonging to very
respectable young men.
HAUNT OF A GORY GHOST.
Doora Thrown Open by a Filmy, Bleed
ing Figure.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean,
Lexington, Kt., Jan. 31.—An old sub
stantial brick residence located on one of
the principal thoroughfares of this city has
been considered a haunted house ever since
the war. Old oitizens claim that during the
war a union soldier, who had been wounded
in the battle at Richmond, Ky., and who
was being taken care of by the family that
then lived in the house, was brutally mur
dered by a southern sympathizer, in the
cellar of the residence.
Ever since then, the story goes, there
have been uncanny doings and mysterious
noises seen and heard in this old mansion at
regular Intervals of six months. At these
times when the families occupying the
house would be at supper, lights left in tbe
living room and other pans of the house
would be extinguished and sounds very
much like the groans of a person in agony
could be distinctly heard. No one ever saw
anything other than this until a few even-
ings ago.
The family that has been occupying the
house tor the past three months, and who
did not know of the supposed existence of
this peculiar ghost, were sitting at their
table eating supper at about 6:45 o’clock.
The parlor had boon lighted up, as there was
some young people visiting the house, and
the lamp was brightly burning in the living
room. The servant girl had occasion to go
into the parlor and living room during the
progress of the meal, and when she returned
she exclaimed:
“Miss Sallie, who dun blowed out dem
lights in ypr room an’ in de parler?”
Miss Sallie did not know, of course, and
before the astonished household could re
cover from their surprise deep groans were
heard as if coming from the living room,
which was separated from the dining-room
by folding doors. The groans grew louder
aud more agonizing in their tones until
suddenly the folding doors opened back
ward, and in the center of
the threshold the now thoroughly fright
ened family and friends beheld a sight
which is usually supposed to freeze the blood
with terror. There stood the form of a man
with his hands uplifted; he seemed envelop
ed in a white gauze, through which could
be seen a bloody and apparently bleeding
breast. The apparation only remained in
sight of the terror-stricken people but a few
seconds and then slowly disappeared iuto
the gloom of the darkened room behind it.
The supper was left unfinished, and there
was no deep in that house that night.
The next morning the head of the house
hold notified his business partners that he
would not be at the ofiice that dav, and be
fore night he had secured another house,
into which he moved his family the next
day.
This story is told by a neighbor and a
friend to the family, who is a thoroughly
reliable man.
A MYSTERIOUS TRAIL OF BLOOD.
The Family of a Washington C ergy
man Puzzled to Account for It.
Washington, Feb. 8. —Averv mysteri
ous affair is puzzling the detectives of this
city. At an early hour Friday morning the
family of Rev. Dr. Sunderland was aroused
by a noise in tbe basement of tbe family
residence, as of a heavy body falling.
Nothing more was heard, and when the
servants arose they were horrified to find a
large pool of blood on the landing of the
stairway leading to the basement, the door
knob and walls smeared with blood, and
several large pools of blood on ihe floor of
the basement, with a half-burned ca die.
The fastenings of the doors and windows
showed no sign of being broken, nor was
there any other evidence of the presence of
strangers in the house. The trail of blood
was clearly discovered for some distance
down the street where all trace was lost,
and, though detectives been Indus
triously at work ever since, no clues to the
mysterious visitants have been found.
BURNED BY HER BABY.
A 4-Year-Old Girl Destroys Her Home
&nfi Cremates Her Mother.
Guthrie, O. TANARUS., Feb. B.—Mrs. William
Grimes, after completing her domestic
duties to-day, laid down on the bed in her
room and went to sleep. Her 4-year-old
daughter foupd a box of matches, aud with
them set firo to the window curtains
and the clothes in tho closet. The
child had previously locked the bed
room door and thrown the key out of the
window. When tho mother awoke the
whole room was ablaze. Bbe could not
escape by the door and was obliged to leap
from the window with her child in her arms.
Her clothing had caught fire, and when sue
fell to the ground she was wrapped in
flames. Neighbors ran to her assistance,
but were too late to save her life. She died
in terrible agony this evening. Her little
daughter escaped severe injury.
Biukins—l called at your house to see you to
day, and I noti.-ed that your wife referred to
you as the bead of the family.
Wilkins—Huh! Out collecting bills, weren’t
you?—New York M eekly.
POPULATION OP GEORGIA.
Final Count of the Inhabitants of the
Empire State of the South.
Washington, Feb. B.—The following is
the official count of the population of Geor
gia by counties:
Appling 8,676 Johnson 6.129
Baker 6,144 Jones 12,709
Baldwin 14,t*i Laurens 15.747
Banks 8,182 Lee 9,074
Bartow 20,616 Liberty 12,887
Berrien 10,694 Lincoln 6,146
Bibb •.... 42.370 Lowndes ..... 15,102
Brooks 13,979 Lumpkin. .... 6,867
Bryan 5,520 McDuffie 8,789
Bulloch. 13,712 Mclntosh 6,470
Burke 28.501 Mscon 13,183
Butts 10,565 Madison 11.0*1
Calhoun 8,438 Marion 7.728
Camden 6,178 Meriwether..., 20,740
Campbell 9.115 Miller 4.275
Carroll 22,301 Milton 6,208
Catoosa 5.431 Mitchell 10.906
Charlton 3,335 Monroe 19,137
Chatham. .... 67,740 Montgomery.. 9,248
Chattahooch'e 4,902 Morgan. 16.041
Chattooga .... 11.202 Murray 8.481
Cherokee 15,412 Muscogee 27.761
Clarke 15.186 Newton 14.310
Clay 7,817 Oconee 7,713
Clayton 8,295 Oglethorpe ... 16.951
Clinch 6,65? Paulding 11,946
Cobb 22,286 Pickens 8,182
Coffee 10,483 Pierce 6,379
Colquitt 4,794 Pike 16,300
Columbia 11,281 Polk 14,945
Coweta 22,354 Pulaski 16,559
Crawford 9,815 Putnam 14,842
Dade 6,707 Quitman 4,471
Dawson 5,612 Kabun 5,606
Decatur 19,949 Randolph 15.867
DeKalb 17,189 Richmond 45,194
Dodge 11,452 Rockdale 6,813
Dooly 18,146 Schley 5,443
Dougherty.... 12,206 Scriven ...... 14.425
Douglas 7,794,Spalding 13,117
Early _ 9.792 Stewart 15,682
Echols 8,079 Sumter 22,107
Effingham .... 6,599 Talbot 13,258
Elbert 15,376 Taliaferro 7,291
Emanuel...... 14,703;Tattnail 10,253
Faun1n......... 8,724 Taylor 8.666
Fayette B,72B;Telfair 5.477
Floyd 28,39) Terrell 14,503
Forsyth 11,165 Thomas 26,154
frauklin 14,670T0wns 4.064
Fulton 84,6651Tr0up 20,723
Gilmer 9,074 Twiggs 6,195
Glascock 3,?2o|Union 7,749
Glynn 13,420 Upson 12,188
Gordon 12,7581 Walker 13,282
Greene 17,061 Walton 17.467
Gwinnett 19,899 Ware 8,811
Habersham... 11.573 Warren 10,957
Hall 18,047 Washington... 25,237
Hancock 17,149 Wayne........ 7,485
Haralson 11,316 Webster 5,695
Harris 16,797 White 6,15!
Hart 10,887 Whitfield 12,916
Heard 9,557| Wilcox 7,980
Henry 16,2201 Willies 18.081
Houston 21,613: Wilkinson 10,781
Irwin 6,816 .Worth . 10,048
Jackson 19,!76j
Jasper 13.879|T0tal for State 1,837,353
Jefferson 17,213)
FIRE WIPES OUT A TOWN.
Only Three Houses Left Standing at
Billsville, ill.
Pboria, 111., Feb. B.—The town of Ellis
yills, Fulton county, was swept from the
face of the earth by Are yesterday. Only
three houses are left standing in the plaoe.
The town was a small one, and there were
no means to fight fire.
MEDICAL.
COMPOUND EXTRACTyV^^
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/4Paa
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 triad.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dotlar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SATURDAY O* MONDAY.
TO-DAY (9th) AT HEIDT’S,
BECAUSE OF THERAIN LAST SATURDAY,
CUT PRICKS THIS DAY’.
Profit by it, and get FREE while you can one
of those desirable Erasable Pocket Tablets
so much sought after, as tee supply will be
used up in to-day's distribution. So call early
and avoid disappointment.
CUT PRICES FOR THIS DAY. (9th) NOT TO
MORROW.
The popularity of 25c and 35c pound boxes
Candy is due to superior quality for the price.
5c box Vaseline.
16c lb Horehound Drops.
10c to-day only for Sugar Plums.
15J4c Chocolate Creams. See.
10c pound Gamdrops; al prices for to-day o nly.
35c lb Fruit Tabieis, ladies’ favorite.
25c pound Eggs.
10c Tooth, Nail, Shoe, Hair Brushes.
9c Artesian Soap for our artesian water.
15c gallon Homelight Kerosene, 25c elsewhere.
83c dozen papers Flower Seed.
45c and 85c large bottles Silver Bell Cologne.
4c for 10c case fine Toilet Soap.
10c pint bottle Stronger Ammonia.
6c glass Hot Chocolate, and other drinks.
10c box Heidt’s Celebrated Cough Drops.
230 pint bottle Castor Oil.
Agents for only perfected Eyeglasses.
Guarantee given with Nerve and Brain Tonic
and with Japanese Pile Cure. See advertise
ment.
HEIDT’S for Reliable Drugs. Fancy Articles
and Fresh Seeds at low prices. Prescriptions
filled by cimpeteut pharmaoist.
PICKLED MULLETS AND ROE.
MULLETS PUT UP IN HALF AND QUARTER
BARRELS.
ROE PUT UP IN FIFTY AND TWENTY
FIVE POUND PACKAGES.
Every grocer should have some of these goods
for their Lenten trade. All stock guaranteed.
Send In your orders. Liberal discount to whole
sale trade. Orders for interior points promptly
filled.
GEO. A. HUDSON,
CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND IM
PROVEMENT COMPANY.
Savannah. Ga.. Feb. 9, IS9I,
The nineteenth installment on Series B and
dues to Series A are now due.
M. J. SOLOMONS.
Secretary and Treasurer.
NOTICE.
Neither the Master nor Consignees of the
Norwegian bark CARL BECH, Tuomas Nielsen,
master, will be responsible for any debts con
tracted by the crew of said vessel.
A. MINIS’ SONS, Consignees.
THE Ml SIC BOX
Will be disposed of at the White Elephant
Wine Room on TUESD ■ Y EVENING, the 9th
jnst. at Ba. m. Those interested will please be
on hand. J. C. RAY, Proprietor,
DO YOU NEED MONEY I
If you do, “Uncle Adam, 1 ' at No. SO Jefferson
street, will loan you liberally on any “personal' 1
property jou have. Open from 7a. x. to 9p. m.
N. Y. LOAN OFFICE,
ADAM STRAUSS, Manager.
DEATHS.
LILLIKNTHAL—Died. Sunday evening, at
the residence of A. Leffler, Leopold Lilltek
tual of New York. Interment in New York.
MEETINGS.
LODGE NO 54, F. <* A. M.
A regular communication of this lodge A
will be held at Masonic Temple THIS J'v
(Monday i EVENING, Feb. 9th, at 8
o'clock The E. A. degree will be con-' w '
ferred.
The F. C. Degree will be conferred.
Members of sister lodges and visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to meet with us.
FRANK H. MORSE, W. M.
Waring Rcssell, Ja.. Secretary.
DE KALB LODGE NO. . L O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock at Odd Fellows’ new
building.
The Initiatory Degree will be oonferred.
Members of other lodges and visiting brethren
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of C. H. CARSON, Jr., N. G.
John Rilet. Secretary.
CALANTHK LODGE NO. 23, K. OF P.
The regular meeting of the Lodge will yifs
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at
8 o’clock. to
A prompt attendance of the mem- IjgC'NSfl
here is requested. xwSaTy
Chas. A. Fleeing, C. C.
J. E. Freeman. K. of R. and S.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting will be held
THIS (Monday) EVENING in Knights of Pythias
Hail, at 7:30 o'clock.
WM. SCHEMING, Pres.
A Heller, Secretary.
MILITARY ORDERS.
SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER GUARDS.^
Headquarters 1
Battalion Savannah Volunteer Guards, l
Savannah, Feb. 3, 1891, )
Order .Vo. 9.
The regular monthly meeting of the Corps
will be held at the Armory on MONDAY, 9th
inst., at 8 o’clock p. m By order of
LIEUT. COL GARRARD.
Wm. P. Hunter, Ist Lieut, and Adjt.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the bruit of meas
urement of aB advertising w the tlounim
News will be agate, or at the rate of % 1 40 an
inch for the first insertion.
notice to cirizisgT^
City op Savannah, Mayor’s Office, )
Feb. 9. 1891. f
Whereas, The Military Commanders have, in
response to a request of the Citizens’ Committee
of Arrangements, decided to order a parade of
the military in honor of the visit of His Ex
cellency Governor Northen, Senator Gordon,
and the members of the Agricultural Society of
Georgia, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th inst., the
heads of departments in the railroads and other
corporations, and business men generally, are
respectfully and earnestly requested to excuse
on the afternoon of the day mentioned such of
their employes as are members of military
organizations, in order that the parade may be
such as will do Justice to our soldiery and re
flect credit upon our city.
[l. s.] jno. j. McDonough,
Attest: Frank E. Rebarer, Mayor.
Clerk of Council
ONLY PRESCRIPTIONS AND MEDICINES
DISPENSED SUNDAY.
ROWLINSKI, Pharmacist,
Broughton and Drayton Streets.
Telephone 4®5.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship
STORRA LEE, Bailey, master, must be pre
sented at our office by or before 12 o'clock m,
THIS DAY, Febi 9, or payment thereof will be
debarred. A. MINIS’ SONS,
Consignees.
TRE BEST RESTAURANT IN THE CITY?
FULLY EQUIPPED WITH THE FINEST
SERVICE AND CONDUCTED
-BY
FRIED & HICKS,
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN SERVED DAY
AND NIGITT.
GOLD LOCKS
And ringlets are now made by art almost as
frequently as by nature. To obtain the most
satisfactory results, it is absolutely necessary to
have a bleach of standard strength and purity.
We have it in our
“FAUNTLEROY BLEACH."
ONLY AT
BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
Bui,! and Congress.
FOR RENT.
The offices now occupied by the Savannah
Fire and Marine Insurance Company,
97 BAY STREET.
Also, for sale, the office furniture therein,
con istlng of Desks, Chairs and Safe.
Apply to
HERMAN MYERS, Chairman,
134 Bay street.
DON’T GIVB CP IN DESPAIR.
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 and diploma awarded over com
petitors.
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist,
Savannah, Ga.
Price. $1 per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
DR. M. SCHWAB & SON,
GRADUATE OPTICIANS,
No. 23 Bum, Street, Savannah, Ga.
If your eyes are not properly fitted with eye
glasses or spectacles, we desire the opportunity
of fitting them with glasses which will correct
any visual imperfection that may exist, or can
b • corrected by scientific means As specialists
we have fitted ourselves by a practical course of
study, graduating from Dr. C. A. Bucklin’s
School of Optics, New York. We are practical
opticians, and make our own goods. New lenses
put in old frames while you wait. Oculists’
prescriptions a specialty, and carefully filled.
No charge for examination.
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AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER.'
MONDAY, Feb. 9, 1891.
MR.ROLAND REED
In D. D. Loyd's Eccentric Comedy,
The Woman Hater,
As Played 100 Nights in New York.
Seats at Butler's Pharmacy Feb. 6. Next .
traction Greenwood Opera Company FeK ii
12 and 13 3 ’ eo>
SAVANNAH THEATER^
THREE NIGHTS and THURSDAY MATINKF
CommenclngWEDNESDAT.Feb.il *'■
THE MARIE GREENWOOD
Comic Opera Company.
36 SE LKCT ARTISTS-38
and their own suberb orchestra.
REPORTCHRE—Wednesday nighti”Boccaccio ”
Thursday matinee and night “The Hermit ’’
Friday Bight “Girofle Girofla.’’
A splendid oompany. Catchy music, strong
chorus. Handsome costumes. Clever coma
dians. Refined Ballet. Brilliant marches.
The Finest Voices on the Comic
Opera Stage.
Reserved seats on sale at Butler's Pharmacy
Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock. No advance in
price*.
A Charity Auction
WILL BE GIVEN BY THE
TWILIGHT SOCIAL CLUB,
AT YONGB’S PARK HALL,
For the benefit of the Industrial Home, MON.
DAY EVENING, Feb. 9,1891.
Tickets 25 cents. Doors open at 7-so p s
Dancing and Refreshments. ‘
C AVANNAH THEATER—TUESDAY. Feb!
K-l .0, Grand Wrestling Mateh between JACK
CONNORS, Champion of England, and GREFF
GEORGE Champion
Wrestler of America, for $250 a side; Greco-
Roman. best two out of three. Best local talent
will also appear and amuse the aadience with
gloves. Wrestling between Connors and George
commences at 9p. u. sharp. Admission 75 m
and 25 cents. TUESDAY, Feb. 10. ’
BANfita.
President. Vloe President.
JAS. H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BAM 4 TOT CO.
Savings Dep’t
ALLOWS 4%
Deposit* of SI and Upward Reared.
interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
DIRECTORS:
Jsskph D. Wbkd, of J. D. Weed 4 Ox
Joan C. Rowland, Capitalist.
C. A. Rxitzc. Exchange and Insurance.
Jobs L Hardee, Capitalist.
R. G. Erwin. of Chisholm, Erwin 4 dußignon.
Edward Karow. of Strauss 4 00.
Isaac 0. Haas. General Broker.
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y. & D. L Maclntyre.
John Lyons, of John Lyons & 00.
Walter Oohey. of Paterson, Downing 4 Cos.
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BLANK BOOKS.
Establishment fUlly furnished withall
nooessary TOOLS and. MACHINERY,
PAPERS and MATERIALS. Comps
tent Workmen. Established Reputa
tion for Good Work. Additional or
ders lolicited. Estimates furnished.
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OFFERS a full line of desirable securities,
viz: Georgia Southern and Florida First
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A. L. HARTRIDGB,
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BUYS and sells on commission all classes o!
Stocks and Bonds.
Negotiates loans on marketable securities.
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