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out of the non. Come, Patagonian, out of
the heat. Come in furs. Come panting
under palm leaves. Come odo. Come all.
Come now. As at this well of Mesopotamia,
Jacob and Rachel were betrothed, so now,
at this well of salvation Christ, our shep
herd, will meet you coming up with your
long flocks of cares and anxieties, and he
will stretch out his hand iu pledge of his
affection, w'hile all heaven will cry out:
“Behold the bridegroom coroeth, go ye out
to meet him.” „ .
You notice that this well of Mesopotamia
had a stone on it, which must be removed
before the sheep could be watered; aud I
find on the well of salvation to-day impedi
ments and olistacles, which must be removed
iu order that you may obtain the refresh
ment and life of this gospel. In your case
the impediment is pride of heart. \ou
cannot bear to come to so democratic a
fountain; you do not want to come with so
many others. It is to you like when you are
drv coming to a town pump, a3 compared
to sitting in a parlor sipping out of a chased
chalice hicb has just been lifted from a sil-
ver salver. Not so many publicans and sni
pers. You want to get to heaven, but it
must be in a special car, with your feet
on a Turkish ottoman and a band of music
on board the train. You do not want to bo
in company with rustic Jacob and Rachel,
and to be drinking out of the fountain
where ten thousand sheep have been drink
ing before you. You will have to remove
the obstacle of pride, or never find your
way to the well. You will have to cnue as
we came, willing to take the water of
eternal life in any way, and at nDy hand,
and iu anv kind of pitcher, crying out: O
Lord Jesus, lam dying of thirst. Give me
the water of eternal life, whether in trough
or goblet: give me the life; I care
not in what it comes to me.” Away with
ail your hindrances of pride from the well’s
moutb. , . . . . ,
Here is another man who is kept back
from this water of life by the stone of an
obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth
of the well. You have no more feeling
upon this subject than if God had yet to do
you the first kindness, or you had to do
God the first wrong. Heated on his lap all
these years, his everlasting arms sheltering
you, where is your gratitude! Where is
your morning and evening prayer! AVbere
are your consecrated lives ? I say to you,
as Daniel said to Belshazzar: ‘ The God iu
■whose hand thy breath is, and all thy way,
thou hast not glorified.” If you treated
anybody as badly as you have treated God,
you would have made live hundred apolo
gies—yea, your whole life would have beau
an apology. Three times a day you have
been seated at God's table. Spriug, sum
mer, autumn and winter, he has appropri
ately appareled you. Your health from
him, your companion from him, your chil-
dren from him, your home from him. All
the bright surroundings of your life from
him. Oman, what dost thou with that
hard besrtl Canst thou not feel one throb
of gratitude toward the God who made
you, and the Christ who came to redeem
you, and the Holy Ghost who has all these
years been importuning von' If you could
sit down five minutes under the tree of a
Savior’s martyrdom, and feel his warm life
trickling on your forehead and cheek and
hands, metbinks you would get some ap
preciation of what you owe to a crucified
Jesus.
Heart of stone, relent, relent.
Touched by Jesus'cross subdued;
See his body, mangled, rent.
Covered with a gore of blood.
Sinful soul, what bast thou done?
Crucified the eternal son.
Jacob w ith a good deal of tug and push
took the stone from the well’s mouth, so
that the flocks might be watered. And I
would that to-day my word, blessed of God,
might remove the hindrances to your get
ting up to the gospel vvell. Yea, I take it for
granted that the work is done,and now, like
criental shepherds, I proceed to water the
sheep.
Come, all ye thirsty! You have au unde
fined longing in your soul. You tried
money-making; that did not satisfy you.
You tried office under government; that
did not satify you. You triod pictures and
sculptures, but works of art did not satisfy
you. You are as muoh discontented w ith
this life as the celebrated French author,
who felt that be could not any longer
endure Jthe misfortunes of the world,
and who said: "At 4 o’clock this after
noon 1 shall put au end to my own ex
istence. Meanwhile, I must toil on up to
that time for the susteuance of my family.”
And he wrote on his book until the clock
struck 4, when he folded up his
manuscript and, by his own
hand concluded his earthly life. There
are men here who ore perfectly discon
tented. Unhappy in the past, unhappy to-
day. to be unhappy forever, unless you
come to this gospel well. This satisfies the
soul with a high, deep, all-absorbingj and
eternal satisfaction. It comes and it offers
the most unfortunate man so muoh of this
world as is best for him, and throws all
heaven into the bargniu. The we ilth of
Crcesus and of all the Rothschilds is only a
poor, miserable shilling compared with the
eternal fortunes that Christ offers you to
day. In the far east there was a king who
used once a year to get on a scales, while on
the other side the scales were placed gold
and silver and gems; indeed, enough
were placed there to balance the king;
then, at the close of the weighing, nil those
treasures were thrown among the populace.
But Christ to-day stops on one side the
scales, and on the other side are all the
treasures of the universe, and he says: "All
are yours—all hight. all depth, all length,
all breadth, all eternity: all are yours." We
don’t appreciate the promises of the Gospel.
When an aged clergyman was dying—a
man very eminent in the ohurch- a young
theological Rtudent stood by his side, and
the aged mao looked up and said to him:
•‘Can’t you give me some comfort in my
dying hour?” "No.” said the yonug mao;
*‘l can’t talk to you on this subject; you
know ail about it, and buve known it so
long.” “Well,” said the dying man, "just
recite to me some promises.” The young
man though a moment and he came to this
promise. "The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin:” and the old man
clapped his hands, and In his dying moment
aid: “That’s just the promise I have been
waiting for. ‘The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin.’ " O, the warmth,
the grandeur, the magnificence of the
promises!
Come, also, to this gospel well, all ye
troubled. I do not suppose you have
escaped. Compare your view of this life at
15 years of age with what your view of it is
at at 40, or 60, or 70. What a great contrast
of opinion! Were you right then, or are
you right now? Two cups placed in your
hauds, the one a sweet cup, the other a sour
cud. A cup of joy and a cup of grief.
Which has been the nearest to being full.
and out of which have you the more fre
quently partaken? What a different place
the cemetery is from what it used
to be. Once it was to you a grand city
improvement, and you went out on the
pleasure excursion, and you rau laugh
ingly up the mound, and you criticised
iu a light way the epitaph. But since
the day when you heard the bell toll at the
gate as you went in with the procession, it
is a sad place, aud there is a flood of rush
ing memories that suffuse the eye and over
master the heart. O, you have had trouble,
trouble, trouble. God only knows how
much you have had. It is a wonder you
have been able to live through it. It is a
wonder your nervous system has not been
shattered, and your brain has not reeled.
Trouble, trouble. If I could gather all the
griefs, of all sorts, from this groat audience,
and could put them in one scroll,
neither man nor angel could en
dure the recitation. Well, what do
you want? Would you like to have
your property back again: "No," you say,
a a Christian man: "I was becoming arro
gant, and I think that is why the Lord took
it away. I don’t want to have my prop
erty back.” Well, would you have your
departed friends back again? “No.” you
say: “1 couldn’t take the responsibility of
bringing them from a tearless realm to a
realm of tears. 1 couldn’t do if.” Well,
then, what do you wont? A thousand
voices in tha audiauco cry out: “Comfort,
give us oomfoit” For that reason 1 have
rolled away the stone from the well’s mouth.
Come, all ye wounded of the flock, pursued
l of the wolves, cuiu-j to the fountain where
the Lord’s sick and bereft ones have come.
"Ah.” says someone, “you are not oia
enough to understand my sorrows, * ->u
have not been in the world as loag as l
have, and you can’t talk to me about m y la
fortunes in the time of old age. ,
I have been a g eat deal among-’ld P' ?°P£.
and 1 know how they feel about their
failing health and about thur de
parted frieods. and about the lonelinessi that
sometimes strikes through their roul. After
two persons have lived together lor forty or
fifty years, and one of them 1* taken away,
what desolation ’ 1 .ball not forget the ory of
the late Rev. Dr. DeU'itt of New \ ork when
he stood by the open grave of his gloved
wife, and, after the obs'.piles had ended be
looked down into the open place and .aid:
“Farewcdl. my honored, faithful auu be
loved Wife. The bond that bound us is
severed. Thou urt in glory, and I am here
on ear! h. We shall meet again. Farewell!
Farewell!” To lean on a prop for fifty
years, ami then have it broken under you!
There were onlv two years' difference be
tween the deaths of my father and mother.
After my mother’s decease my father used
to go around as though looking for some
thing; and he would often get up
from one room, without any seeiniug
reason, and. go to another room;
and then he would take his cane and start
out and someone would say: "Father,
where are you going?” and he would an
swer: "I don’t know exactly where lam
going.” Always locking for something.
Though he was a tender-hearted man, I
never saw him cry but once, and that was
at the burial of my mother. After sixty
years’ living together, it was hard to part.
And there ure agpd people to-day who are
feeling just such a pang as that. I want to
tell them there is perfect enchantment in
the promises of this gospel; and 1 come to
them and I offer them ray arm, or I take
their arm and I bring them to this gospel
well. Bit down fatner or mother, sit
down. See if there is anything at the
well for you. Come. David, the psalmist,
have you anything encouraging to offer
them! “Yes,” says the psalmist, "they
shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they
shall be fat and flourishing, to snow that
the Lord is upright, he is my rock, and
there is no unrigateousness in me.” Come,
Isaiah, have you anything to say out of your
prophecies for tress aged people? “Yes,”
says Isaiah, “down to old age 1 am with
thee, and to hoary hairs will I carry thee.”
AY ell, if the Lord is going to carry you, you
ought not to worry mucti about your fail
ing eyesight aud failing limbs. You get a
little worried for fear some time you will
come to want, do you! Your children and
grandchildren sometimes speak a little
sharp at you because of your ailments. The
Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think
you will come to want! AVho do you think
the Lord is! Are his granaries empty?
Will he feed the raven and the rabbit, and
the lion in the desert, and forget you? Why,
nnturalists tell us that the porpoise w ill not
forsake its wounded and sick mate. And do
you suppose the Lord of heaven and earth
has not as much sympathy as the fish of
the sea? But you say: “I am so near worn
out, and 1 am of no use to God auy more.”
I think the Lord knows whether you areef
any more use or not. If you were of
no more use he would have taken you be
fore this. Do you think God bits forgotten
you because he has taken care of tee seventy
or eighty years! He thinks more of you to
day than he ever did, because you think
more of hnn. May the God of Abraham,
aud Isaac, and Jaoob, and I’aul the aged he
your God for ever!
But I gather all the promises to-day in a
group, and 1 ask the shepherds to drive
their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply. "Behold, happy is the
man whom God oorrecteth.” "Though he
cause grief, yet will be have compassion.”
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivereth him out of them
all.” “Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy oometh iu the morning.” Imn de
termined to-day that no one shall go away
uucomfoi ted. Yonder is a timid and shrink
ing soul, wh > seems to hide away from the
consolations I am littering, as a child with
a sore hand hides away from the physician,
lest he touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has to go and compel the little pa
tient to come out aud see the physician. So
I come to your timid and shrinking soul
to-day, and oomp.-l you to come out in the
presence of the Divine Physician. Ho will
not hurt you. He has been heuling wounds
for many years, and ho will give you gentle
and puinipotent medicament. But people,
when they have trouble,go anywhere rather
than to God. De (Juincey took opium to get
rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb took to
punch. Theodore Hook took to something
stronger. Edwin Forrest took to theatrical
dissipation. And men have ruu all around
the earth, hoping in the quick trausit to get
away from their misfortunes. It has been
a dead failure. There is only one well that
nan slako the thirst of an afflicted spirit,
and that is the deep and inexhaustible well
of the gospel.
But someone says in the audience: "Not
withstanding all you have said this morn
ing, X find no al eviation for my troubles.”
Well, lam not through vet. I have left
tbo most potent consideration for the last.
lam going to soothe you with the thought
of heaven. However talkative wo may be,
there will come a time when the stouten
aud most emphatic interrogation will
evoke from US'no answer. As soon as we
have closed our lips for the final silence no
power on earth can break that taciturnity.
But where, O Christian, will be your spirit!
In a scone of infinite gladness. The
spring-morning of heavea waving its
blossom* in tho bright uir. Victors fresh
from battle showing their scars. Tho ram
of earthly sorrow struck through with the
rainbow of eternal joy. In one group, God
and angels aud ibo redeemed—Paul and
Slas, Latimer and Hid ley. Isaiah aud Jere
irniab, Paysou and John Milton, Gabriel
and Michael the archangel. Long line of
choristers reaching across the hills. Hens of
joy dashing to the white beach. Conquer
ors marching from gate to gate. You
among them.
O, what a flock of sheep God will gather
around the celestial well. No stono on the
well’s mouth, while the shepherd waters the
sheep. There Jacob will recognize Rachel,
the shepherdess. Aud staudi.ig on one side
of the well of eternal rapture, your chil.
dren; and standing on the other side of the
well of eternal rapture, your Christian an
cestry, you will on all sides by
a joy so keen and grand that no other world
has ever been 1 erraltted to experience it.
Out of that one deep well of heaven, the
shepherd will dip reunion for ihe t*o
reaved, wealth for thq poor, health for
the sick, rest for the weary. And then all
the flock of the Lord's will lie down
in the greeu pastures, and world without
end we will praise the Lord that on this first
uutumuai Sabbath of 1891 we were per
mitted to study among the bleating flocks
and lowing herds of this Fair Ground the
story of Jacob and Rachel tho shepherdess
at the well in Mesopotamia. O, plunge your
buckets into this great gospel well and lot
them come up dripping with that water of
which if a man drink he nevor again shall
thirst. _
Death of a Legislator.
Staunton. Va.. Seot. o.—Hon. A. B.
Ligbtner. a member of the Virginia legis.
lature, from Augusta county, died this
morning of typhoid fever. He was 68
years of age.
Russia's Vacant Bishoprics.
Rome, Sept. 6.—The Vatican has for the
third time refused to accent Russia’s
nominee for the vacant bishoprics in
Russia.
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THE MORNING NEWS s MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,1891.
HARRISON'S PLEDGE.
SECRET CONFERENCE WITH EL
KINS AT INDIANAPOLIS IN 188a
The Indiana Aspirant Promised
Blaine’s Manasrer That if Nominated
He Would Not Oppose the Maine
Man In 1892.
Political circles here, says an Indianapo
lis special to the Uepu.blic.nrf> discussing
the pledge which Blaine’s friends say was
given by President Harrison to Elkins in
1888. The story, as toll by a gentleman
who was prominently Identified with the
campaign of 'SB as a speaker and party
counselor,| but who is now enthusiastic in
his support of Blaine, is here given sub
stantially in hisown words:
Bteve Elkins arrived in this city on Fri
day, June 15, 1888, and was drivon directly
to Harrison’s home. The outlook for the
presidential nomination was considered in
all its tiearings, and Harrison was assured
of the kindly feeling which the friends of
Blaine, who was then in Europe, had for
him as compared with the other candidates,
aud that Blaine would not accept the nomi
nation. He said that Blaine’s health was
so broken that he oouid not possibly stand
the mental worry incident to a campaign,
and that his friends were more solicitous
about a future nomination when he should
ba fully restored by rest and recreation than
about the present, wbioh neither he nor
they desired.
ELKINS’ TACTICS.
Elkins went from here to Chicago and
began the tactics with which the public is
familiar and which so disgusted the adher
ents of Harrison. Duriog the struggle,
however, Harrison said nothing against
Elkins, and when the nomination had been
consummated and Elkins returned here
June 30, he was received as the honored
guest at the Harrison homestead. The im
mediate friends of the presidential candi
date ware very much surprised at the cordi
ality with which Elkins was received, but
attributed it to the fact that Harrison was
desirous of conciliating the friends of
Blaiue, aud in this light it was viewed as an
evidence of his political sagacity.
HARRISON’S PLEDGE.
Harrison saw the point which Elkins had
so deftly made, aud on the former's first
visit in his blunt way, said: "Mr. Biaiue,
then, is not a candidate, but should he be
restored to health ho may desire the nomi
nation four years banco.” He was assured
that such was a fact. Harrison then re
ferred to the distinguished services of
Blaine to his country uud his party, and
gave Elkins to understand that if he were
nominated at the approaching convention,
and Blaine should air vivu and be restored
to health, he would gladly relinquish any
claims that he might have on the party at
the eud of four years in Blaine’s
favor. During Elkins’ second visit
Harrison renewed the pledge that
he had giveu, and did it with such apparent
earnestness that Elkins returned home per
fectly satisfied. Through him Harrison
sent the invitations to Blaine to visit the
state during the campaign, aud if possible
mako speeches in several of the most popu
lous cities. Iu discussing the future of the
party with a number of Harrison’s friends
El k ins told the story of his conferences with
Harrison aud declared that it was his inten
tion from the first to turn the Blame en
thusiasm to Harrison’s account, but the
tactics invoked were necessary in order to
secure complete acquiescence in the ulti
mate selection by the convention.
Harrison and his friends regarded Rlaine’s
participation in tho campaign in Indiana
with außpioion,and as soon as it was decided
upon took steps to prevent it. Correspond
ence was begun between Michener, who had
charge of the arrangements for speakers in
this state, and members of the national
campaign committee, and the thought was
expressed that Blaine’s visit would injure
rather than advance Harrison’s prospects
aud especially ns it was desirable not to
dwell too strongly upon the tariff in political
discussions. The committee promptly can
celled throe of tho five dates which had been
made for Blaine.
OVERSHADOWED BY BLAINE.
When this beoamo known a protest wa3
received by Huston from members of the
national committee, and the change in the
programme was attributed to the enmity
JobnC. New was known to feel for Blaine.
In order to counteract the ill-feeling w hich
tho c irrespondence had then engendered,
Chairman Huston was obliged to ask that
the original dates be restored and Blaine
speak ns first arranged by the committee.
The appearance of Blaine in this city was
a complete corroboration of all that Elkins
had said regarding his popularity witfi tho
party. and on every hand Harrison saw
trmsalf overshadowed by tho man from
Maine. In the private conference at his
home he discussed matters relating to the
campaign, but. io is said, made no allusion
to the visit of Elkins or tho
promises which he had then made
with respect to the nomination of 1892.
Blaine was, of course, silent upon that
subject, and it is not known that it has ever
been mentioned between tho Frosidont and
his secretary, though it has beeu the subject
of correspondence during the past few weeks
between Elkins and somo of Blaine’s friends
in this city. In this correspondence Elkins
reiterates the statement that Harrison
promised not to bb in tbo way of Blaine
should he be restored to health, and says, it
is claimed, that he is surprised that the
President has not spoken before this on the
subject of a ronomination and declined to
be considered a candidate.
AUGUSTA’S EXPOSITION.
It Promises to Surpass Anything
Ever Been Seen In That City.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. s.—Of course the
all-absorbing topic of conversation in Au
gusta just now is the coming exposition,
which will engage the attention of the
public from Nov. 2 to Nov. 28, inclusive.
Surely, if the advantages of location, facil
ities for transportation and handling of
exhibits, splendid displaying halls, unques
tionably the finest aud most commodious in
the south, and a management of exceptional
merit, composed of gontlemen of intelli
gence. experience, influence and iudomit
able pet-serve ranee aud energy, can make
a success .of an undertaking,
the Augusta exposition of 1891
will pan out ail that its most ardent friends
could wish for. and prove an event to date
from iu the history of this quiet, solid,
steady-going old city down here on tho
banks of tne Savannah. And I think there
is no shadow of doubt now about its being
a graud affair, eclipsing all oners of like
character in this section, and placing a high
water mark in expositions tor other states
to roach for.
The Hon. Patrick Walsh, president of the
Chronicle Publishing Company, is also
president of the Exposition Company, and
be has placed his impress on this, as tie does
on everything with which ho is connected.
His national .reputation was a guarantee of
the thing from its inception, and no doubt
tended to give dignity jud eclat to what
wwuld otherw:so have been a comparatively
ordinary undertaking.
JULES REVAL,
one of Augusta’s most solid and successful
citizens and well-known financiers, is the
secretary and treasurer, and every one feels
secure that the monetary mu' tors of the
company are in competent hands that are
cupableof bridging any difficulties that may
urise or souuding any depths or shoals
which are apt to bn met with iu every
bittiness undertaking.
The assistant secretary and local manager,
Thomas P. Henrv, is a whilom attache of
the Morning News, and one whose spicy
news service from Atlanta to your paper
gave him a wide reputatiou as a raconteur
and chronicler of passing events. His office
is a bee hive of iudustrr, and the system and
order of a well regulated counting room sur
round him. He and a corps of typewriters
and steuogrophers are kept busy day and
night attending to the multifarious duties
•of his dual oflic“.
Hon. Jako Platt, one of the city’s oldest
1 and mist honored citizens, is general man a-
I ger, and his indefatigable Zeal and enter
prise are bearing the best of fruit for the
company he represents. He has swept
through New York city. Elmira, Pittsburg
and other places north and east, an and broug bt
iuto Augusta’s lap the mechanical and in
dustrial products of that section. A tour
among the great exhibitors of tho St. L'uis
exposition has been equally success
ful, while the displays of agricult
ural Implements of every character and in
numberless variety from the great
west are of exceeding interest and
full of wonderful information. Mr. Platt
is now in Canada, whither he as especially
invited by the National Electric Light Com
pany, and exhibits from which he is sure to
bring us.
TO SHOW TOC THE POPULARITY
of the individual members of the expos!
tion company, another invitation which is
pregnant with much good to the south and
fraught with a good deal of significance is
tho one from Boston, that a committee of
our members go on north and east and per
sonally mingle with the great manufactu
rers and inventors of that region, and talk
Augusta, the exposition and the south gen
erally to them. Those people, I believe,
are honestly anxious to know us
better, aud there is no better method
in the world of bringing this about than by
a hearty acceptance aud reciprocation of
such courtesies. Of course our people
accepted the invitation without hesitation,
and a committee, consisting of Hon. Patrick
AVaish, and Messrs. L \V. Carwile, William
Mulherin and AV. Edward Platt were ap
pointed to notify the Bostonians of tho
acceptance and foi rauiats clans for carrying
out a nice programmo. The excursionist*
will leave here to morrow evening and will
consist of thirty or forty gentlemen, who
will bo joined by others at AVashington
City, and they will be the guests
of members of the Three Americas
exposition (the biggest thing of the kind
ever conceived by the mind of man) and
will visit Fall River, New Haven and many
other northern and eastern centers of manu
facturing and commerce. These gentlemen
go, strictly speaking, not ro much as mem-
oers of the exposition as they do as citizens
of Augusta. Hence they will occupy ele
gant Pullman c laches and dining cat s, pro
vided for the occasion at their own individ
ual expense and without costing the expo
sition company a penny. At a glance, it
can bo seen tho many benefits derivable
from such a trip, both to the coming
big show and of permanent good to the
whole south as well. The military display
and the competitive drill to be had during
the exposition are attracting much attention
both in Georgia and in Carolina, and prom
ise to bo one of the finest foatures ever
witnessed. Lieut. Satterloe has consented
to act as one of the judges, which will be
good news to Savannah’s soldiery, among
whom he made many friends at the Chicka
maugua encampment. Augusta, probably
better than any other city in the south, is
adapted to military parades, by reason of
her unusually wide, level streets; and the
exposition grounds as a locus tenens for
sham battling has not its superior in the
country. It will be a great occasion and a
great multitude will witness it.
THREE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
and interesting displays secured are those
of tho Whittier Machine Company of Bos
ton, the Goodyear Shoe Machinery Company,
ulso of Boston, and Mr. William E. Jack
son's invention for decorticating the flhor
of cotton-stalks and other vegetable sub
stances, hitherto valueless, for manufacture
into carpets, mattings, rugs and ootton bag
ging. This is one of the most important
inventions of the age, and as Mr. Jackson is
an Augusta man, with mauy relatives and
connections in your beautiful Forest City,
we all feel very proud of him, indeed. His
invention promises to be tho means of a
largo fortune to him, as tho Higgins Carpet
Manufacturing Company, the largest in the
country, has made him an offer which, of
itself, means wealth to the young Augusta
inventor.
The management could easily fill their
immense displaying room ten times over,
but they are culling and pruning matters
to a considerable extent, and only soliciting
strict novelties aud first-class object lessons
for the show. As General Manager Platt
says, the iutentiou is to make the display
compact, fascinating and instructive, anil
certainly ho aud his aids are proceeding to
make it such in the strictest sense of the
word.
NO MONEY frOa DREYFUS.
The Congressional Party Will Not
Look With Favor Upon the Scheme.
Washington, Sept. 3. —Cable dispatches
report that tho French government looks to
the Chilean congressional junta for an early
settlement of the Dreyfus claim for $ 10,000,-
000. The modesty of this is plainer when it
is stated that Balmaceda’s rejection of tho
claim is one of the grounds on which its
payment is now expected. Balmaceda’s
action in this matter was one of th cred
itable acts of his government, and the
FYench authorities took their revenge by
keeping him from getting his warships for
mouths. Iu this way they gave direct aid
to the insurgent cause, yet it is doubtful if
tho congressional leaders will recognize
that the debt is great enough for
them to risk international complications
with the United States aud Great Britaiu
as well as with thejr South American neigh
bors, which would follow their acceptance
of the French contention. The history of
the claim U interesting. After the war be
tween Chile and Peru, a tract of land con
taining rich nitrate beds, and known as tho
Tarapaea desert, was granted by Peru as a
peace concession. By the terms of the con
cession it was stipulated that after ten
years the people should be allowed to vote
to determiue which government they should
live under. Chile or Peru. If they voted to
live in Chile then they were to pay Peru
$10,000,00 1 as the price of the land. If the
vote was in favor of Peru, then that coun
try was to pay Chile $10,000,000 as a war
indemnity. The ten years will expire
within a few months. It is thought that if
a vote were taken to-day nine-tenths of the
people would favor Chile. Therefore that
country will undoubtedly be compelled to
pay for the district.
At the outbreak of the war a French
banker named Dreyfus held a contract with
Peru for guano and nitrates which gave
him the exclusive right to mine and export
those products from o certain part of the
Peruviau territory. The war nullified the
contract, and he has a claim against Peru
for damages amounting to mauy millions
of dollars. When it became certain that
Chile would be compelled to pay Peru
$10,000,0011 for the Tarapaea desert Mr.
Dreyfus, who is very influential with
the ” French government, secured the
good offices of President Carnot, who
sent a special envoy to Chile to in
sist that the $10,000,000 should be paid
to Dreyfus aud not to Peru, and this
demand was backed by the power of the
French government. England ar.d the
United States both protested against the
claim of Dreyfus and Carnot. Mr. Blaine
wroto from Bar Harbor last summer one of
his characteristically vigorous dispatches to
the Freuch government, saying that the
United States was watching withexceeding
interest the negotiations touching the Drey
fus claim, and that this country could not
look with approbation upon any such trans
action as was contemplated. A similar dis
patch was sent to the Chilean government,
urging it not to consider the Dreyfus claim,
but to pay the money to Peru, which coun
try needs it badly.
The English government also made tho
same appeal to Chile, and that country de
nied the claim. President Bnlmaceda
plainly told the French envoy sent by
President Carnot that the money would be
paid to tho Peruvian government, and that
it could not be garnished. Tarapaea is one
of the provinces which the insurgents occu
pied from the start. The Grace syndicate,
which funded the Peruvian national debt,
ail along gave uctive aid to the insurgents.
It will undoubtedly energetically protest
against paying over the money to Dreyfus,
and the influences of the Graces will uot bo
lost on the congressional leaders.
DECATUR’S BOOM.
Prospects for the Tobacco Industry in
Southwest Georgia.
Fowlstown, Ga., Sept. 6. —It is just be
ginning to be known by the outside world
that there is a body of hill lands, with
beautiful streams all through it, lying
principally in Decatur county, Georgia,
and Gadsdeo county, Florida, extending a
short distance into Thomas county, Geor
gia, and into the northern part of Leon
oountv, Florida, on which is grown the
finest grade of cigar tobacco (equal to any
that can be grown on the island of Cuba).
This body of laud is about fifty miles long
and from fifteen to twenty miles wide, with
very red clay subsoil, and will grow with
out fertilizers 300 pounds an acre of this
fine tobacco, which is being sold this season
at 3.5 to 7.5 cents a pound.
AVhole crops are taken at the barns by
New York buyers, and paid for in cash.
One man can cultivate six acres, and, be
sides,|make more corn than will supply him.
Many parties who have only an ox to plow
with are getting S4OO and SSOO for their
crop.
THE DEMAND FOR LAND.
The community is on a great boom, and
everybody is trying to buy a piece of this
land. The land-owners feel that they have
something better than a gold mine. Three
years ago, when cotton was the principal
crop, these lands could be bought for $5 au
acre. To-day they are selling readily at
sls to SSO an acre. And but little is being
offered for sale. I>et this tobacco boom go
twelve months longer and no one will sell
his land.
The finest and best flavored tobacco is
raised on the land on Attapulgus creek,
near the village of Attapulgus, Ga., and on
the Red hills, sixteen miles to Quincy, Fla.
The water is as pure as mountain water,
and the health of the country is equal to
aD.v in the United States. The people here
are going to abandon ootton next year
altogether. Many say the seed will be lost.
AVith proper fertilizing and cultivation
these lands will be made to grow 1,000
pounds of this fine tobacco on an aero.
Many are making 700 and 800 pounds this
season.
WHY HUSTON WAS DISGUSTED.
He Talks About President Harrison,
Hi3 Former Folitical Idol.
The Chicago Herald has interviewed ox-
United States Treasurer Huston, who,
among other racy remarks, delivered him
self of the following:
“I can never be the enemy of Gen. Har
rison. It would be an impossibility, loving
and udmiriug him as I did for ten years,
ever to become either openly or secretly
hostile to him. When I think of him at all
it is with the feelings of a man whose idol
has been shattered. It has been tho source
of groat sorrow to mo that I ever discovered
the President’s true character. I have no
personal pique against him. You know
that I am not a time-server nor a
hanger-on of any man. I wanted nothing
from Harrison for myself, but I desire that
some of my co-workers and friends who
gave their money and their euergies to make
Harrison what he is should be rewarded. I
want to say this: If President Harrison
oouid appreciate what has been done for
him by hundreds of Indiana republicans he
could nob be a humane being and act the
part of the ingrate that he has shown him
self to be. Now when I say that I want it
to bo understood that I do not charge the
President with being an unjust man. So
far as he can appreciate the value of ser
vices rendered he is willing to return
favor for favor. But he knows nothing of
politics. His part in life has been to sit on
a pedestal and review processions. He has
never had a whiff of the atmosphere that
surrounds the ‘boys’ who do the successful
work in politics. He believes very sincerely
that his securing tho presidenov was exclu
sively the work of the Lord.Jbut 1 have per
sonal knowledge that the Lord had many
aiders and abettors on tbi3 earth in accom
plishing that work.”
"You think, then, that the President re
gards himself as an instrument in the hands
of fate?”
“Yes, he is a Presbyterian, you know,
and believes in predestination, foreordiua
tion and all that. He probably realizes to
some extent that other men have made
great sacrifices to contribute to his success,
but he is so constituted that he believes
these very men, in making these sacrifices,
have only been acting iu obedience to the
lawsof dastiny. It is extremely painful to
mo to discover that a man whom I have
looked up to as a great man, a big-brained
and large-hearted man, is narrow-minded
and pig-headed. Why, look at the man
Miller, who is Harrison’s attorney gonoral!
Was there ever such a mistake made by any
other President that could equal Harrison’s
mistake iu the selection of Miller? When I
learned that Miller was going into
the cabinet, I wont to the President
and said: “Gen. Harrison, you
can make your official family to
suit yourself, but if it had been
known before the election that you would
honor Mr. Miller with the attorney gen
ernl’s portifolio, or any other important
office, you would have lost the state of Indi
ana by 50,000 votes. He insisted on making
the appointment, and I left his presence in
disgust. My disgust was so great that I de
termined to leave Washington before the
inauguration, aud I went into a railroad
office to seoure transportation. Murat Hal
stead and others, seeing mo go into the rail
road office, divined my intention, and,
dragging me to a -hotel, ordered a council
of war, and passed resolutions forbidding
my departure from the city, under penalty
of being made mtnister plenipotentiary
to the cannibal islands. I remained,
but I was disgusted—awfully, horribly
disgusted.”
MEDICAL.
Be Sure
If you have made up your mind to buy
Hood’s Sarsaparilla do not be induced to take
any other. A Boston lady, whose example is
worthy imitation, tells her experience below:
“ In one store where I went to buy Hood's
Sarsaparilla the clerk tried to induce me buy
their own instead of Hood’S; hetoldmotheir’s
would last longer; that I might take it on ten
To Cet
days’ trial; that if I did not like it I need not
pay anythiug, etc. But he could not prevail
on me to change. I told him I had taken
Hood's Sarsaparilla, knew what it was, was
satisfied with it, and did not want any other.
When I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla
I was feeling real miserable with dyspepsia,
and so weak that at times I could hardly
Hood’s
I looked like a person in consump
tion. Hood's Sarsaparilla did me so much
good that I wonder at myself sometimes,
and my friends frequently speak of it.” Mrs.
Ella A. Goff, 61 Terrace Street, Boston.
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. >!. six for 55. Prepared only
by C. I. II(X)D & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
SPRCIAL NOTICES.
PERSONAL.
A young lady, non resident, blonde, petite, in
financial distress, desires to meet an elderly
gentleman who can be of assistance and appre
ciate the wonderful-cleaning propeii.es for
clothiair <>f .Japanese Cream. Sold by
ROWLINsKY, Broughton and Drayton.
Oniy 25 cents Address, in confidence.
MI?S CREAM.
MEDICAL.
It is realty turprisma how people will suffer
month alter month and year
after year with
CONSTIPATION
when a regular habit of body can be secured
without chauging the diet or disorganizing the
system, if they will only
G ULATQRj
A Simple but Effective Vegeta
ble Compound.
“I have used Simmons Liver Regulator for
Constipation, and al ways with decided benefit."
—Hi ham Warner. Late Chief Justice of Ga.
Prepared by
.1, 11. ZKIHA & CO , Philadelphia, Pa.
DEATHS.
SCHREINER Died, Sept. 5. in Gera, Ger
many, Mr. H. L. Schreiner, in the 59th year of
his age.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
BRYAN.—The friends and acquaintance of
N. J. Bryan and family are requested to attend
his funeral at 8:30 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON,
from his late residence, No. 21 St. Gaul street.
M E ET INGft.
STONE SQUARE LODGE NO 25, A.
AMI A. M.
The members of Stone Square Lod?e No. 25,
A. F. and A. M., are requested to meet at the
lodge room THIS AFTERNOON at 2 o'clock, to
pay the last tribute of respect to our deceased
brother, Nathanikl J. Bryan. Sister lodges
are invited to attend.
J. A. PHILLIPS, W. M.
Attest: W. Newmans, Secretary.
MOUNT MEK LODGE NO. 2411, G. U. O.
OF O F.
Members of this lodge are hereby requested
to meet at their lodge room at 2 o'clock THIS
AFTERNOON to pay the last tribute of respect
to their deceased brother, N. J. Bryan, one of
the oldest passed oilicers of this lodge. By order
of W. E. PHILLIP, N. G.
F. B. Waters, P. S.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at 8 o'clock.
CHAS. N. WEST,
Recording Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of meas
urement of all culver Hrima tn the Bfoaxixo
News wM be agate, or ai the rate of fl 40 nn
inch for the first trvAcrfinn. No Special Notice
inserted for less than $1 00.
CARD OF THANKS.
Capt. Murray desires to thank his friends in
Savannah for the generous and kind remem
brance the presentation of a handsome gold
watch, at Warsaw, Sept. 6, 1891, and the follow
ing letter:
Capt. C. E. Murray , Steamer Crescent City:
Hear Captain—ln appreciation of the many
acts of kindness and courtesy extended us. we
desire to tender you some little mark of esteem,
and trust that you will receive this token of re
gard from some of the many friends you have
made during your stay in our city. With best
wishes for your future welfare,we,beg{to remain
your friends: Samuel Reynolds, O.H. Dixon, W.
H. Cole, George Meyer, John Seiler, Alex E.
Izaekey. John W. Harris, John H. Wright, Her
man Winter. George Schwarz, It. 8. Claghorn,
Edmund Middleton. Thomas McOuade, C A.
Perry, J. G. Young, C. E. Young, Tneo Fincken,
V. C. Schneider, George It. Small, John C.
Small, George R. I>yer, John A. Calhoun, C. H.
Levan, W. D. Innes, J. T. Gorman, R. E. Owens,
G. S. Van Horn. F. M. Cornwell, R. 11. Corn
well. J. B. Hull, R. D. Lattimore.
Savannah, Ga., Sept, ti, 1891.
FREID & HICKS,
RESTAURANT.
RICE BIRDS ON TOAST,
OYSTERS, ETC,
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT,
TELEPONE 546.
NOS. 9,11 AND 13 MARKET.
HEW,. ID.
Richmond and Danville Railroad, Cos., 1
Office of General Manager, -
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1, 1891. )
This company will pay SIO,OOO for the arrest
and conviction of the person, or persons, who
removed the rail fromjthe track of the Western
North Carolina Railroad, near Bostian’s Bridge,
Iradell county. North Carolina, on the night of
Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1891.
W. H. GREEN,
General Manager Richmond and Danville Rail
road Company.
SOLI!) BACKS
are by odds the most desirable Hair Brushes
for active service, and we have in stock now
our second importation of solid-back, wire
drawn brushes, tho low prices of which will
astonish you.
Shaving and Tooth Brushes in elegant
variety at
BUTLER’S PHARMACY.
Cor. Bull and Congress.
BOLTOV STREET,
Double cottage, north side, between Abercom
and Lincoln. For sale cheap. Address
WALTIIOUR & RIVERS,
Savannah. Ga.
CALL OV “I'VCI.K ADAM"
At No. 20 Jefferson street, corner Conerass
street lane, if you are short of ready money.
He will advance you cash on your diamonds,
watches, jewelry, clothing, musical iastru
meats, tools, etc.' Open 6a.m.to 9p. M. ; Sat
urdays to 11 p. m. NEW YORK LOAN OFFICE,
20 Jeifersou street, ADAM STRAUSS. Man
ager.
TO DISPEL MOSqUITOES
Burn a 3mall quantity of the True Dalmatl on
Insect powder, not the adulterated article.
Cupid Almond Cream will remove sunburn
and all eruptions of the skin, rendering it soft
and white.
Mennan's Borated Talcum Powder, for heat
and chafed surfaces. It is a safe and harmless
powder.
SOLOMONS A: CO.,
163 Congress Street and 2 Ball Street.
ISE DR CLMBH’S LIVER CORRECTOR
FOR INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA,
ALL
LIVER COMPLAINTS.
SILVER MEDALS AND DIPLOMA
Awarded it over all Liver Medicines.
PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE.
Freight Prepaid to Any Address.
CLOTHING.
G U ESS.
Call around to our new quarters and register
your guess, at the Figures and Pots on the
articles displayed intfour Furnishings Goods
Window.
IT COSTS YOU NOTHING TO GUESS. YOU
ARENOT REQUIRED TO PURCHASE \\v
THINQ IN ORDER TO GUESS.
We merely desire to break the general monot
ony of things before the fall season opens up"
$lO
In merchandise presented to the parties guess
ing nearest to the number of Dots and Figures
on articles in window mentioned.
APPEL&SGHAUL,
One Price Clothiers and Haberdashers,
159 Broughton St.
AMUSEMENTS. ===S
SAVANNAH THEATER^
ONE NIG-HT ONLY—-SEPT. 8.
A Cyclonic Disturber of the Risibilities.
THE FERGUSON AND MACK COMPANY,
Under the Direction of
Mr. Charles E. Rico,
Presenting the Merriest of Comedies,
McCarthy's Mishaps,
By BARNEY FERGUSON.
A strong company of Stage Celebrities, Intro,
ducing a Boquet of Refined Specialities.
Barney Ferguson as Dennis McCarthy.
Laughter, Hilarious and Incessant.
Seats on sale at Davis Mnsic Co.’s Sent 5,9 a x
Next attraction “An Irish Arab,” Sept. 11 andit
aoixia.
THE MARSHALL.
11. IST. FISH’S
European Hotel and
Restaurant,
Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.
ROOMS sflc, 75c, Si per day. each person.
PULASKI HOUSED
Savannah, Gra.
REDUCTION IN RATES
FOR THE
STTIMIIIVEIECZR,
JUNE Ist TO OCT. Ist.
Rates $2 50 per Day.
L. W. SCOVILLE.
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL,
MADMON SQUARE, N\ Y.
THE LARGEST. BEST APPOINTED and
MOST liberally managed hotel in the city,
with the most central and delightful location.
HITCHCOCK, DARLING & CO.
A. P. Darling, formerly of the Battle House,
Mobile.
Hiram Hitchcock, formerly of the St. Charles
Hotel, New Orleans.
BANKS.
THE GERMANIA BANK,
SAVANNAH, GA.
CAPITAL, $200,000
In connection with its general banking busi
ness it has a
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT,
WHERE
\ Per Cent. Per Annum
Is paid oa deposits compounded quarterly. De
positors of all classes art* solicited. With an
obliging staff of officers and conservative man
agement patrons und those desiring to deposit
with it may be assured that their' interests will
be carefully guarded.
OFFICERS.
HENRY BLUX. GEO. W. OWEN?;,
President. Vice President.
JOHN M. HOGAN, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY BLUX.
GEO. W. OWENS, Attorney at Law.
P. BRENNAN, of Kavanaugh & Brenuan.
R. M. HULL, of Bearing ft Hull.
WILLIAM KKiiOE, of Wm. Kehoe & Cos.
AMSON MOHR, of Mohr Bros.
DR. J. B READ.
T. F. STUBBS, of Stubbs & Tison.
A. P. SOLOMON, of Henry Solomon & Sons.
G. M. RYALS.
IRVIN B. TIED EM AN, of Geo. W. Tiedeman&
Bro.
Preokleet, Vico ProeklenL
JAB. H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK & TRUST tt
Savings Dep t
ALLmvs 40/o
Deposits of $1 and Upward Rsmht#4
interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
DIRECTORS!
Joseph D. Wecu, of J. D. Weed Sc 00,
1 0H1. C. Rowxaso. Capitalist.
0- A. Rjuvze, Exchange aud Inauranos.
Joim L. HaK Dire Capitalist.
K. G. Euwix, of Chisholm, Erwin & doßfgaaa.
Edward K.-.now. of Straus, y Go.
Isaac G. Haas, General Broker.
M. Y. Marlirrvaa. of M. Y. & D. L Ifsalntyre.
John Lyow.v of John Lyons Si 00.
Watren Oiutky. at Paterson, Dowatag ft 00.
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r I.ANTS, F.ouqu-ts, Designs, Cut
furnished to order. Leave orders at Da
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