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attractive —and she was as bad as she was
said to be handsome, Queen, conqueress,
and spoke seven languages, although it
■would nave been better tor toe world if she
had not been able to speak any Julius
Cassar conquered the world yet she con
quered Julius Casar.
But Alexandria, fascinating for this o.
that thing, aeccraiug to the Us-eof the
visitor, was to me most entertoltung
cause it bad been the site of the greatest
Jibra-V that the world ever saw, C'usidcr
mg the fact that the art of rriuti.ig had not
Slu invented. Seven hundred toousand
volumes and all the work of a dow pen.
But down it all went under the torch o. be
siegers. Built again and destroyed aga n.
Built again, but the Arabs came along tor
its Qnai dem dition, and the 4.OUU bat .s of
the city were boated with those vorjnie*,
the fuel lasting six months, and were ever
fires kindled at such fearful cost.' ‘'hat
holocausts of the world’s literature! "hat
martyrdom of books! How not iy of them
have gone down under the rage in tne
nations. Only one book has been able to
withstand the bombardment and teat La*
cone through without smell of fire on its i
lids. No sword or spear or musket for
defense. An unarmed New 'testament. An i
unarmed Od Testament, invulnera
ble and triumphant. There must bs some- ,
thing supernatural about it. • nqueror of
'bocks! Monarch of books All the books
of all the ages in all the librar.es outshone
by this one book which you and I can cany
to church in a pocket. Something amid the
‘ashes of Alexandrian libraries.
But all aboard the Egyptian rail train go
ing up the backs of the Nile! Look ont of
. the window and see th se camels kneeling
tor the imposition of their load. And I think
. we might take from them a lesson, and in
stead of trying to stand upright in our own
strength, become conscious of our weakness
and need of divine help before we take
upon us the heavy duties of the year or t ie
1 week or the day, and so kneel for the bur
den. We meet processions of men and
l easts on'he wag from their day's work,
but alas, for the homes to which the poor
inhabitants are g dug. For the most part
hovels of mud. But there is something in
the scene that thoroughly enlists us. It is
the novelty of wretchedness and a scene of
picturesque rags. For thousands of years
this laud has been under a very damnation
of taxes. Nothing but Christian civiliza
tion will roll back the influences which are
“spoiling the Egyptians.” There are gar
dens and palaces, but they belong to the
rulers.
, About here, under the valiant Mural
Bey the Mamelukes, who are the finest
horsemen in all the world, came lixe a hur
ricane upon Napoleon’s army, but thev
' were beaten back by the French in one of
■4be fiercest battles of a 1 time. Then the
Mamelukes turned iheir horses’ heads the
.other way, and ii uesperation backed them
a gams t lb- Freici troops, hoping the
horses would kick the Ilf out of the French
■regiments, Mamelukes, failing again,
.plunged Into this Nile and were drowned,
the French for days fishing out the dead
Bodies of the Mamelukes to get the val
uables upon their bodies. Napoleon, at the
-daring of those Mamelukes, exclaimed:
“Could I haveunited the Mameluke hirse
to the French infantry, I would have reck
oned myself master of the world.”
This ride along the Nile is one of the most
solemn aud impressive rides of all my life
time, and cur emotions deepen as the cur
tains uf the night fall upon all surround
ings. But we shall not be satisfied until
we can take a ship and nass right out upon
these wo dr us waters and between the
tanks crowded with the storv of empires.
According to the lead pencil mark in my
Bible it was Thanksgiving dwy morning,
3Xov. £B, ISB9, that with my family and
friends we stepped aboard the steamer o;i
the Nile. Tne Mohammedan call to
.praters had been sounded by the prieets of
that region, the Muezzins, trim the
fear hundred mosques of Cairo as
the cry went out: "God Is great- l bear
•witness that there is no God but God. I
hear witnese that Mohammed is the apos
tle of God. Come to prayers. Come to
) ration. God is great. Tael'S Is no other
■hut God. Prayers are better than sie-p."
The sky and city and palm groves and river
chipping we e bathed in the light. It wav
not much of a craft that we boarded. It
would not be haded on any of our rivers
■with any rapture of admiration. It fort
unately had but little speed. for twice we
ran aground ad tuesailors jumped iuto the
water and on their shoulders pushed her our.
But what v.icat of gayest sportsman, what
deck of swiftest ocean q leen could give
such thrill of rapture as a sail on the Nile*
.The pyramids in sight, the remains of cit
ies that are now only a name, the villages
thronged wr h population. Both banks
crowded with historical deeds of fortv or
aixtv centuries. O, what a book the Bible
is when read on the Nile!
As we slowly move np the nsajesiio river
I see on each bank the wheels, the pumps,
jtba bucks s for irrigation, and see a man
with his foot on the treadle of a wheel that
fetches up the water f >r a garden, and then
if or the firs; time 1 understand that passage
In Deuteronomy, which says of the Israelites
after they had got back from Egypt: “The
land whither th iu (£>est in to possess it is
Slot as toe land of Egypt, from whence ye
came out, where thou son edst thy seed, and
■watereditit with thy foot.” Then 1 under
stood how the land could he watered with
the foot. How do you sjppose I felt when
on the deok of that steamer on the Nile I
looked off upon the canals and ditches and
sluices through which the fields aro irri
gated by that river, and then read iu Isaiah
“The burden of Egypt; the river shall be
wasted and dried up ami they shall turn the
rivers far away and the brooks
of defense shall be emptied
sind dried up; and they shall bo
broken in the purposes thereof, ail that
snake sluices and ponds for fish.” 'that
Thanksgiving morning on the Nile I found
ray text of to-day. Pharaoh In this chapter
ts compared to t.ie dragon or hippopotamus
suggested by the crocodiles that used to line
jtbe banks of this river: “Thus saith the
Xiord God: Behold I am against thee Pha
rcah. King of Egypt, the great dragon that
lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath
■aid my river is mine own, and 1 have mode
it for myself. But I will put hooks in thy
jaws and I will cause the tLh of thy rivers
to stick unto thy scales, and l will bring
tbee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and
all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy
Scales, and ttio laud of Egypt shad be deso
late aud waste; a :d they shall know that 1
am the Lord; because he hath said the river
Is mine, and I have made it.”
While sailing on this river or stopping at
one of the villages, we see people ou the
banks who verify the Bible description, for
they are now as they were in Bible imes.
Shoes are now taken off in rave euee to sac
red places. Children carried a .tride tne
mothers shoulder a* iu Hagar’e time.
Wouica with profusion of jewelry a® when
Hebeeea was affianced. Lentils shelled into
the pottage, as when Esau sold his birth
right to get such a dish. The same hai.it uf
salutation as when Joseph and his brethren
fell on each ether’s necks. Courts of law
held under big truss as in olden times, Peo
ple making bricks without straw, com
}died by circumstances to use stubble in
stead of straw. Flying over
or standing on the banks in
scripture days are ilamingoes.
ospreys, eagles, pelicans, herons, cuckoos
and bullfinches Ou all sides of this river
sepulchers. Villages of sepulchers. Cities
of sepulchers. Nad .nsof sepulchers. Aud
one is tempted to call it an empire of tom’ v
I never saw sue i a place as Egypt is for
graves. And now we understand the com
plaining sarcasm of Ui* Israelite* when they
were on tne way from Egypt to Canaan
“Because there am no graves in Egypt hast
thou token u* away to die iu (he wihir
uaasC Gown tie- river bank corns the
buffalo and the cattle or kliie V> urns
And It was toe ancestors <4 these cattle
that inspired I’bsrooL's dream of the lean
kioe and the fat kino.
Hw we disemtara a little while fur
Memphis, off from (be Nile to th* right
Memphis, founded bf the firs: King of
Fgypt. and fr a long white the cep, a A
'4 c art., aud g jUi Mows </f to*
ruoraona. fktra n*t*wu utsias Mi twtuis
tmtmtM. Vaat aidouhaia* throe/*) widen
iwspos.m u-wasse laeo'hed. Mens Wood
•ke I inpit <d (he Bah. I'.eWf tu br. 'nax y a
[ sun shone on by another sun Memphis, in
power over a thousand one hundred years,
or nearly ten tiroes as long as the United
States have existed. Here is a recumbent
statue seventy-live feet loug. Ilro zed gate
ways. A necropolis called “t ie haven of
the blest.” Here Joseph was prime minister.
Here I‘haraoh received Jacob. All possible
splendors were built up into this royal oity.
: Hnsea, Ezekiel. Jeremiah anl Isaiah speak
i of it as something wonderful. Never did X
visit a city with such exalted anticipations
and never did mv anticipations drop so fiat.
Not a pillar stands. Not n wall is unbroken.
Not a fountain tosses in the siiu. Even the
ruins have been ruined, and all that re
mains are chips of marbl n small pieces of
fractured sculpture and splintered human
bones. Here and there a letter of some
elaborate inscription, a toe or ear of a
statue that once stood in nicbo of palace
wail. Ezekiel prophesied its blot
ting-out and the prop eoy has been
fulfilled. “Aide on," I said to our party,
"and don't wait for me.” As I stood there
alone, the city of Memphis, in the glory of
past centuries returned. And I heard the
rush of her chari ts and tho dash of her
fountains and the conv, viality of her pal
aces. and saw the druuken nobles roll on the
floors of mosiac. whde in startling contrast
ami.i a'l the regalities of the place. I saw
i'uaraoh look up into the face of aged,
rustic Jacob, the shepherd, saying: “How
old art toon
But back to the Nile, aid on aad up until
you rea-h Thebes, in scripture ca.led the
City of No. Handrad-gatod Thebes. A
quadran tu'ar city, four nnles from limit to
limit. Four great temples, two of them
Karnao a .and Luxor, once mountains ia ex
quisite sculpture and gorgeous drv a us solid
ified in stone. Statue cf Kam
cses 11., eight hundred and eighty-seven
weight tons in and seveoty-fiva tee; higo,
but now fallen and scattered. Walls abloom
with the battlefields .>f centuries. The sur
rounding hills cf rock h Uo wed into sepul
chers, on the wall of which are ehisei-d in
picture and hieroglyphics the confirmation
of bibio story in regard to the
treatment of the Israelites in Egypt,
so that, as explorations go on
with the work, the walls of these
sepulchres bee‘me of the
Bible, the scriptures originally written
upon parchment here cut into everlasting
stone. Thebes mighty and dominant five
hundred years. Tnen she went down in
fulfi iraent of Ezekiel's prophecy concerning
the City of No, which was au >ther name
forThelios: “I will execute judgment in
No. I will cut oil the multitudes of No.”
Jeremiah also prophesied: “Ihussaith the
Lord, I will puni h the multitudes of No.”
This city of Thebes and ail the other dead
cities of Egypt and reiterate tho
veracitv of the scriptures, telling the same
ttory which Moses and the prophets toid.
Hive you no ioid how Goi kept bsok these
arcbieolog.cai confir.nat: u of the Bible
until our tune, when the air is full of un
belief ab >ut .hie tru hfuluoss of the dear old
book! He waited until the printing press
had been set up in its perfected shape, and
the submarine cable was laid, and the world
was intelligent enough to appreciate the
testimony, and then he resurrected the dead
cities of the earth, and commands thorn,
saying: ••Open your long seul>d lips ami
speak! Memphis and Thebes! Is the Bible
true!” “True!” respond Memphis and
Thebes. "Babylon! is the book of Daniel
true!” "True! ’responds Babylon. "Hums
of Palestine and By rial is the New Testa
ment true!” “True 1" respond the ruins all
tho wav from Joppa to the Dead saa, and
from Jerusalem to Damascus. What
a mercy that this testimony of the dead
cities should come at a time when the
Bible is especially assailed. And this work
will go on until the veracity and divinity
of thx scriptures will be as certain to all
sensible men and women as that two and
two make four, as that an isoscelos triangle
is one which has two cf its sides equal, os
that the diameter of a circle is a line drawn
through the ce.iter and terminated by the
circumference, aa certain as any mathe
matical demonstration. Never did I feel
more euo mmged than whan after preach
ing a sermon on evidonoes of the truth of
the Bible lrawn from Oriental lands, a dis
tinguished senator of the United .States,
known and honored everywhere, but
now deceased, came up to tho
platform ai,d saui: "I was brought up in
the faith of (Jnristianity,;butl g>t specula
ting ou ail these subjects, and had given up
my faith in the Bible, but those facts and
arguments archaeological talcn mo back to
my old faith iuthe Bibls, which my father
aid m ther taught me." Thotears rolling
down his ch ess evinced tha depth of his
emotion. When I read of the senator’s
death I was comforted to think that per
haps I may have helped him a little in the
stiuggieof his life, and perhaps given him
au easier pillow on which to die.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece,
diplomatized and almost came to battle for
■ >ue liook, a copy of .Eschvlus. Ptolemy
the Egyptian king discovered that in the
great library nt Alexandria there was no
copy of -E icuvlus. The Egyptian king sent
up to Athens, Greece, to borrow the book
and make a copy of it. Athens demanded
a deposit of seventeen thousand seven hun
dred dollars as security. The Egyptian king
received the book, hut refused to return
that which he had borrowed and so forfeited
the seventeen thousand seven huudred dol
lnrs. The two nations rose ui contention
concerning that one hook. Beautiful
and mighty book indeed! But it is a boo*
of horrors, the dominant idea that we are
the victims of hereditary influences from
which there is no escape, and that fate rules
the world, and although the author does tell
of Prometheus who was crucified on the
rocks for sympathy for mankind, a power
ful suggestion of the sacrifice of Christ in
later years, it is a very poor book compared
with that book which we hug to our nearts
because it contains our only guide in life,
our only oomfort in death, an 1 our only
hope for a blissful immortality. If two
nations could afford to struggle for one copy
of .Escbylus.how much more can all nations
afford to struggle for the possession and tri
umph of the holy scriptures*
But the dead cities 6trung along the Nile
not only d-molish infidelity, but thunder
down the absurdity of the modern doctrine
of evolution which savs the world started
with nothing and thea rose, and human
nature began with nothing, but evolved into
splendid manhood aud womanhood of itself.
Nay; the sculpture of the world was more
wonderful in the days of Memphis and
Thebes au 1 Carthago than in the days of
Boston and New York. Those tilocks of
stone weighing three hundred tous high up
in the wall at Karuac imply machinery
equal to. if uot surpassing, tlie machinery ot
tne muoreentn century. How was that
statueof Kacneses, weighing eight hundred
aad eighty-seven tons transported from
the quarries two hundred mites away and
how was it lifted! Tell us, modern machin
ists. How were .hose galleries of rock, still
standing at Thebes, filled with paintings
surpassed i y no artist’s pencil of the present
day: Tell us, artists of the nineteenth ceu
tury. Tne dead cities of Egypt so far a;
they have left enough pillars or statues or
sepulcher- or temple ruins to tell the story—
Memphis, Migdoi, Hierap -lie, 7.osn, Thebe';.
Gostien, Carthage—all of them developing
dowuward instead of upward. They have
e vote ted from magnificence intodsstruction.
The gospel of Jesu- Christ i* the only
elevator of individual aud social national
character. I.o* all th' living oitie know that
|K>mp ami opulence and temp *nU prosperity
an- uo security. Thus* anci-nt ciin-s lacked
nothing but good ult ra! Difslpatlon a:.a
sin slew them, and unless dlsopatloa and
sin are halted, they will suns dav slay our
modern cities, an l have our palaces of ui*-r
--ehandise an l our galleries of art aud our
city halls os fiat m the dust as we found
Memphis on the afterouou of that
Thanksgiving day. And if tl.-s
citlas g < down, t .i> uatmu will g., and ,wn,
“Ob, ‘ you say, "that is ini|iosslii!i>,
ws have stool *so long —yea, over a
hundred year, as a nation. Way.
wlist of t at’ Thstaw eteo4 five l.uulr l
years. Meuqte-e speed a t'- osand years
Osj and >es not i rgi.t Olot dy with ti,u
le/rd is as • thousand years, aud a th use J
years as one day, hJ v a>r i 'IsUWOiy
ei-1 1 s.l po'ii.re a;< tn a. rsp-diy wo king
ibe dwf vi-tlosi of oitr tiwr-o e.tin# IL,
sin 4 •> y hind aud o-l stasis ass-l fur 1 .
tUeUt usds as of Uir situs of afn i, oess 11
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1891.
I mighty aud now so prostrate.
1 But their gods were idols, and
I COU and do notbiug except for debase
! ment Our God made the heavens and sent
Ins Son to redeem the nations. And our
cities will not go down, and our nations will
not perish, because the gospel is going to
triumph. Forward! all schoolsana colleges
and churches! Forward' all reformatory
anl missionary organizations. Forward!
all the Jinfiuenoes marshaled to bless the
! world. I,et our modern European and
; American cities listen to the voice of those
ancient cities resurrected, and by hammer
and chisel and crow-bar compelled to speak.
1 notice the voice of those ancient cities
; is hoarse from the exposure of forty cen
, tunes, and they accentuate slowly with lips
that were palsied for ages, but all together
| those cities along tho Nile intone these
words: “Hear us, for we are very old, and
it is hard for us to speak. We were wise
1 ug before Athens learned her first lesson.
We sailed our shipe while yet navigation
was unborn. These obelisks, these pyra
mids, these fallen pillars, these wrecked
temples, those colossi of black granite, these
wrecked sarcophagi under the brow of the
hills, tell you of what I was in grandeur,
and of what lam coming down to he. We
sinned aud we fell. Our learning could
not save us: Bee those half-oblit
erated hieroglyphics on yonder
wall. Our architecture could not
save us: See the painted columns of
Philip, and the shattered temple of Esaeli.
Our heroes could not save us: Witness
Menes, Diodorus, Kameoes and Ptolemy.
Our gods Ammon and Osiris could not save
us: See their fallen temples all along the
four thousand miles of Nile. Ob, ye
modern cities get some other Gcd: a God
who can help, a God who can pardon, a
God who can save. Called up as we are for
a little while to give testimony, again the
sands of the desert will bury us. Ashes to
ashes, dust to dust!” And as these voices
of porphyry and granite ceased, all the sar
cophagi under the hills responded, "Ashes
to ashes!” and the capital of a lofty column
fell grinding itself to powder among the
rocks, and responding, “Dust to dust!”
HAWAII WANTS TO JOIN US.
A Strong Feeling in Favor of Annexa
tion Said to Exist.
Indianapolis, Oct. 2.l. —Henry T. Conde,
who has just returued from the Sandwich
Islands, said to a reporter:
"Everybody on the island wants annexa
tion or else some treaty with the United
States that will put them oil the same foot
ing as sugar growers as our home planters.
That is, they want a bounty, and think the
only way to get is by annexation. The last
United States oongresi came near passing a
bill fora cable connecting this country with
the islands, but failed in the Senate. In
structions were given to make a survey be
tween San Francisco and Honolulu, and a
United States vessel has lately been ordered
on that service. The Hawaliane are greatly
interested in this survey.”
“You say, do you not, that the feeling In
favor of annexation is strong:”
"It certasnly is. This feeling is prevalent
among the best class of people, natives as
well as Americans aud descendants of Amer
icans. The Americans and children of
American missionaries control tho gov
ernment of tha Islands, and they lead in this
desire for annexation. I read a lot of rot
in the newspaper the other day that the
queen was about to die and
Eugiand was trying to get
hold of the islands. This is very ridiculous
to any one at all familiar with Hawaiian
affairs. England, with the present feel
ing in tho Islands, has not the slight
est show in the world to add them to
her possessions, The English people there
are few in number and without influence.
Our American minister, Mr. Btevens, en.
joys great popularity. I was told that he
is the first really good representation that
this country has had there for many years.
The man sent thare by Cleveland war said
to have boon an utter failure, apparently
favoring the English more than his own
country and countrymen. As to the
queen’s illneßS, I saw her three weeks ago.
She was well and hearty and looked as
though she might live twenty-five or thirty
years. She is about 50 years old and a very
large woman, fleshy, but not pursy. The
natives ere of fine physique, and when they
get fa r have tne abipose tissue distributed
uii over them and are not greasy.
BABB AND BCiObTEB
Save a Fight, Which Almost Costs the
Former Hla Eyesight.
Portland, Ind., Oct. 25.—A peculiar
battle —oue between a little boy’aud a Ban.
tarn rooster —took place yesterday evening
in the Hast End, and might have proved
rather sei ions for the former but for the
timely interference of a gentleman who
witnessed the conflict.
A 2-yeareold toddler of William Leggett
wandered ou . in the yard back of his home,
and in some manner attracted tbo attention
aud raised the ire of a diminutive Bantam
rooster, the property of a neighbor.
With flopping wings and a defiant crow
the Bantam made for the little fellow, and
time and again its sharp bill pierced the
tender flesh on his face. He screamed with
iwin and fright and maufully endeavored
to beat off his assailant with his chubby
fists, but the rooster would not be frightened
away. Tha noise at last brought Mr. Am
brosliier, who wrung the fighting Bantam's
neck.
Young Leggett is badly pecked about the
head and face, and also on his hands. Two
of the wounds are in dangerous proximity
to his ej oi, and the difference of a fraction
of an inch would have destroyed the eye
sight. _
HID SrOLEN HOR3aB IN A CAVE.
Hoosiers Discover a Den Used by
Thieves to Conceal Their Booty.
Valparaiso, Ind., Get. 25.—a part of
Forter county for several years has been
infosted with a gang of horse thieves.
Their operations have extended to the ad
joining country, where horses have been
stolen iu the night and hurried to these
hills, where concealment waste lsy aud ap
t.rehenalon extremely difficult. Horses
were hidden in this manner for several
months nud shipped to Chicago, To-day a
necrot cave with an underground passage
was found In this group ot hills after a
search of many years. Over twenty horses
have been stolen aud run into these hills
uriug the post three months.
Two Fires Near Forsyth.
Griffis, Ga., Oct. 25. — Near Forsyth
Friday night two fires occurred. One was
the public ginnery at High Falls, tha other
a negro cabin ou the plantation of Hon.
Janies H. Sutton, five miles from Forsyth,
on the Indian Springs road.
With the ginnery a quantity of cotton
and machinery was destroyed, entailing a
loss of several thousand dollars. There was
no insurance. The negro house was occu
pied by Turner Stowe, a tenant on Mr. Sut
ton’s place who, with his wife, was picking
cotton near by. They had left their lilt o
child in the house, wh • was burned to
death. After the fire nothing of the child
could he found save a piece <fa collar bone.
Although the mother and father of the child
were in sight of tho house wnon the fire was
disi-oveed, the lire had gained such head
wav that it was unpowsinle to rescue the
child, r any ot the content* of the house.
TaUahoneew Topics.
Tau VII AS-.ix, Kla., * let. 2i.—Gov.
Fleming has appointed IV. A. Evans of
Federal I'.-lut, W. K. Ml' kle of Fort Myers
and E. I'. \ eruer of Grove Hark to be
notaries public for the suite at largo.
J. 11. liroonie, Jr., of isos baeu
ado dit —#i to prawns, tn tin- so precis court.
11. Iturlon Waterlift t .i .pau of Jack
sonville, capital ito.k ll.Vlyskl, has Iliad
articles f incorporation with Uie twetary
of "tile, Foe patent ou Bur lu’ watertlrt
■pi, .iotas mi granted I kst >k
It t:, Modgs and K. K. Oirau, Boston
capitalists, are here •>mg to th - t la toy 111
p eito- u of tie loscuDiary at U-u I,t I'le/rr
po opt.ate mine* ueot hare, iu which they
itaavr st i'fc Ueidsrs.
A DETECTIVE IN A PULPIT
PRE ACHE DTHRF HI SERMONS WHILE
HUNTING DR- DILL’S FOES.
Plot to Tar and Feather the Pastor
and Drive Him Out of Town Results
In Indictments Found by the Morris
County Gratia Jury Against the Con
spirators.
From the New York lt'or.’ii.
Morristown, N. J., Oct. 22. —Rev.
Arthur C. Dill of Stirliug recently lodged
a complaint with the grand jury of Morris
county charging Herbert Gray Torrey, an
employe of the United States assay office of
New York; Gray Torrey, his ton; Dick
Thomas, Frederick Taff and others with
conspiracy and assault. After a week’s
deliberation the grand jury has indicted
those complained against, and has found an
additional count against Herbert Gray Tor
rey and against Clarkson B. Maffett, one of
the justice* of the peace of Stirling, for con
spiracy.
Tho trouble between Dr. Dili and his
neighbors is the outgrowth of a row in the
little Presbyterian church at Stirling. It
was said that Dr. Dill manifested an over
zealous interest iu certain women of his
flock, and the report so irritated the youug
men of the parish tnat they began a sys
tematic persecution of tho clergyman.
The scandal resulted in a hearing before
Dr. White of Summit, the moderator for
the district. Dr. Dill was asked to resign
his charge. The young clergyman re
mained iu Stirling after he vacated his pul
pit and defied his tormentors. The residents
of Stirling who favored Dr. Dill procured a
hall for him in which to hold serv’ce. He
preached there for some time, while the
Presbyterian church’s pulpit was unoccu
pied.
In the meantime several young men,
sous of members of Dr. Dili’s former
church, stole the clergyman’s horse one
Sunday night aud, after painting the ani
mal red, white and blue, led it away to a
lonely spot, where it was afterward found.
Dr. Dill stood these attacks as patiently as
he could and did not attempt to have his
tormentors arrested.
Dr. Dill’s brother, James B. Dill, is a New*
York lawyer. The staid residents of Stirling
woudeivd why the lawyer aid not come to
his brother’s rescue. Lawyer Dill was,
however, quietly collecting evidence
against the unsuspecting young country
men. He had scouts in all directions, aud
affidavits were obtained from persons who
knew all about tho plot to tar aud feather
Dr. Dill on the night of July 4,
While the detectives were bunting evi
dence it was noised around that the Presby
terian chapel was to have anew pastor, and
the members of the church, who had been
anxious for a good old-fashioned revival,
were overjoyed. The new incumbent ap
peared at the appointed time. He preached
acceptably for three consecutive Sundays,
and then his store of biblical knowledge
suudenly gave out. Boms one heard him
use a profane word, and then it was dis
covered that the congregation had experi
enced the novelty of hearing scripture pro
pounded by a full-fledged deteoti ve.
Another detective called on the sister of
one of the accused young men and before
long w as in possession ot a receipt tha young
lady held for a pist. l that her brother had
purchased. As soon as the Dill party had
secured all tho evidence necessary four of
those concerned were asked to make affida
vits without the knowledge of the others.
When the case was presented to the grand
jury a great deal of contradictory evidence
was given by tne young men, who did not
know of the existence of t. e affidavits. One
of these affidavits follows:
The witness declared under oath that he
was of age, and that he resided at Stirling,
Passaic to wnship.M irris county.New Jersey,
that ho knows and is personally acquainted
with the Rev. Arthur G. Dill and several of
the young meu identified with the assault on
Dr. Dill, and saw them ou July 4, 1891, at
Stirling. He said that on the afternoon of
July 4, 1891, he was in Stirling and wax ap
proached by Gray Torrey. with whom he is
also personally acquainted; that Gray Tor
rey said to him that he (Torrey) was intend
ing to get some boys together that night
aud to go over and catch Dr. Dili, and to
tie him in a sack and to carry him off over
the mountains into the woods and to tar
and feather hl:u,and to leave him there. He
declined being a party to the tar and feather
business, out said ha would be around in the
evenlug, Gray Torrey having said to him
that the boys would meet at the barn of
Clarkson B. Maffett at 8 o’clock. Torrey
added; " We intend to drive Dr, Dill out of
tne place.”
Torrey further said to him that he had
arranged with some ofjthe parties identified
to be present at that time, and asked him
to see Johnnie Ferris and request him to be
present. This conversation occurred in the
afternoon at about 2 o’clock. The witness
further eav* he went to the barn of Giark
son B. Maffett in company with James
Travis. A conversation occurred there in
whioh Maffett took part. Fred Maffett was
also there. Soon after Diok Thomas came
with Gray Torrey in Gray Torrey’s buck
board with Gray Torrey’s black horse. It
was then proposed to tar and leather Dr.
Dill, and there was some discussion with re
gard to what was to be done with him after
that, The Witness repeated that, he would
not boa party to the tar aud feather busi
ness, but would go and see bow the
affa r turned out. Clarkson B. Maffett also
said that he thought it would be unwise to
tar and feather Dr. Dill, because it might
ba discovered and would then lead to seri
ous consequence*.
"After some discussion,” the witness con
tinued, ‘ ‘Gray Torrey left, telling us that
we should meet at my house that evening
about 11 o'clock. Torrey added that Dr.
Dill could bo caught between 11 and 12
o'clock that night at the appointed hour.
Mr. Travis, with Johnnie Ferris, came to
my place, and were followed by Dick
Thomas and Frank Maffett. They waited a
half hour, aud when sbey heard a wagon
coming up the road they went out to see
who was in it. The purty started up the
road toward Millington aud met a person
coming toward them on horseback. They ran
out and hid in an appleoiclmrd until he got
past, then they went on to Dr. Dill’s house.
Dr. Dill was not home, and when Maffett
knocked at the door Miss Catherine Boyle,
with whom he boarded, aaswered. .She
said Dr. Dill was not at home, and might
not be that night. She asked who wished
to see him, and Maffett said ‘August
Walker.’
"Then all hands bid under the shade of a
cherry tree Because Maffett said tho doctor
would arrive about midnight. It was about
midnight when Dr. Dill arrived and as soon
as he approached the house one of the boys
brandished a pistol in his faco and cried ]
‘ Halt, or I will fire!’ Dr. Dill retreated to- ]
ward the house and the command was given
again: ‘Halt, or I will fire!' Dr. Dill, on
Roaring the command a third time. *Ha!t,
or I will Are!' turned tho knob and ran into
the house. Pistols were fired in the air and
there wax a great commotion.
“All the boys wore masks. A German
named Klemuatz Kuuipz, heard the shuts
and rushed ur> to find out what it was all
about. (Jae of the boys, I think Gray Tor
rey, pointed to his own throat, indicating
that tne ru|ie would be placed there if he
-aid anything aliout wliat had occurred.
Ttiis German is known by the people as
‘Clarauce.’ After the thorn mg we returned
to Ktirlug. Herbert Gray l'orrey aud bis
wife knew what was going to occur, ne both
were present before we left Stirling.”
Among others who teitified before the
Srand jury wore the Itev. Dr. White of
iiunnit and the Bar. Dr. Erdinan of Mor
rithiwu.
A H'orhf reporter railed upon Herbert
Gray Torrey et his oßie on Well atreef.
Mr. Torre> eel-1 that he had been pel Iy in- I
■trunienui in bringing IV. Dill to Ktirll ig
end t.-il bit teiuii-rt' be reepertful P' him, {
He bed et. ter lain* i him at bis bouse, where "
let v** alters wele to-, until ,t It -. tn
known that U- was gutty cf iudiacreet seta
aad wee lower .tig buns* f by M— V lug
lot' freatr with Use dk it.iii girls. H. ,
dtde’t *; *k t Dr. Ldll any uim after that i
and had forbidden him his house. He also
worshiped elsewhere while Dr. Dill
preached at Stirling.
Herbert Gray Torrey will be tried on two
indictments. The date for the trial has not
been fixed.
•THORNTON'S DRIFT STORY.
Roebuck Has Found the Han Who
Gave Them a Lilt inHis Mule C3rt.
From the New York World.
MayI'ORT, Fla., Oct. 24. —A negro was
in town to-day who says that he is the man
who drove Sam Thornton and Eva Jewell
in a mule cart from a point near Idlewili
to the South Jacksonville ferry—a distance
of twelve miles. This was during the fore
noon of Sunday, Sept. 20. lie also says
that he has given an affidavit to S. Roe
buck, the weather-strip man, attesting
these facts, lie was questioned closely aud
a good deal of information was got out
of him.
Ho says that Roebuck has affidavits from
three people who saw the strange-looking
ship off Pablo Beach. These are F. Davis
of Mandarin, George E. Wilson of Jackson
ville, both cottagers at Pablo, and another
white man who stopped there Saturday
night and arose early Sunday morning to go
into the surf.
Paul Napoleon, a negro, says that he rode
on his white mule for nearly a mile just be
hind the mule-cart with Sam and Eva
seated on the floor of it, and Capt. Flovd, a
towboat man, aud Dr. Williams of South
Jacksonville botn testify that they saw
such an equipage pass their house that Sun
day morning.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 23.— Roebuok,
the weather-strip man, left for New York
to-day by rail. It is learned at his board
ing house that ho went off well satisfied
with the results of his investigations here
into the Thoruton-Jeweli case. His pockets
and his jsachel are stuffed full of affidavits
attesting circumstances which prove the
truthfulness of Sam and Eva’s tale beyond
any doubt to his mind. There is an intima
tion from him that Conductor Barr and
Editor Carter (now in New York) may be
made to answer in the courts to a charge of
conspiracy against Thornton and Miss Jew
ell. This is laughed at here.
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Nelson, A. Cuyler are respectfully invited to
attend the funeral of tho former from the resi
dence of the latter. Oharlton street lane, six
uoorseast of Price, THIS (M judayi .MORNING
at 10 o'clock.
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Will meet THIS (Monday) EVENING at S
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Jones street, corner Lincoiu.
W. N . SMITH. Conductor.
I If ERSITY tLID OF SAVANNAH.
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will he held in the supper room, Odd Fellows'
building, MONDAY, Oct. 26, at 8:30 o’clock i>.
m. Mr. W. L. Clay will read a paper on "The
Fail of the French Monarchy."
JOHN SCREVEN, President.
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OFries Wateu Works, i
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THIS (Monday) MORNING in the district from
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Cemetery streets, for the purpose of moving
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TO THE PLBLIC.
Savannah. Ga., Oct. 24, 1891.
We have bought the wine and liquor busines 8
of L. CHARRIER & CO., Importers, 80 Bay
street. Mr. Charrier will remain with us and
will be pleased to meet his old customers. We
will continue the above business in connection
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No charge for examination.
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I*ll YHI IASs
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TWO PERFORMANCES. '
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