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THE CARDENS OF THE SEA.
Ulßuge Preaches on the Botany ot
the Bible.
Xeform Which Should be Inaugurated
in the Preparation of Students for
the Ministry -Jonah's Trip to the
Bottom of the Sea Immense Plants
that Cable the Sea.
Brooklyn, Oct. I.—ln his sermon this
forenoon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, as
in many other discourses. Her. TANARUS, De
Witt Talmago took his hearers and read
ers through an untried region of thought
and found a subject for most practical
gospolization in "The Gardens of the
Sea.'’ The text selected was Jonah 2: 5,
“The weeds were wrapped about my
head.”
The botany of the Bible or God among
the flowers is a fascinating subject. I
hold in my hand a book, which I brought
from Palestine, bound in olive wood, and
within it are pressed flowers which have
not only retained their color, but their
aroma; flowers from Bethlehem, flowers
from Jerusalem, flowers from Gethsem
ane. flowers from Mount of Olives, flowers
from Bethany, flowers from Siloam, flow
ers from the Valley of Jehoshaphut, red
anemones, and wild mignonette, butter
cups, daisies, cyclamens, chamomile,
blue bells, ferns, mosses, grasses and a
wealth of flora that keep me fascinated
by the hour, and every time 1 open it, it
is anew revelation, it is the New Testa
ment of the fields. But my text leads me
into another realm of the botanical king
dom.
Having spoken to you in a course of
sermons aliout God Everywhere: on the
Astronomy of the Bible, or God among
the Stars; the Ornithology of the Bible,
or God among the Birds: the Ichthyology
of the Bible, or God among the Fishes;
the Mineralogy of the Bible, or God
among the Amethysts; the Concliology of
the Bible, or God among the Shells; the
Chronology of the Bible, or God among
the Centuries, 1 speak now to you about
the Botany of the Bible, or God in the
Gardens of the Sea. Although 1 pur
posely take this morning for considera
tion the least observed and least appre
ciated of all the botanical products of the
world, we shall find the contemplation
very absorbing. In all our theological
seminaries where we make ministers
there ought to be professors to give
lessons in natural history, physical
science ought to bo taught side by side
with revelation. It is the same God who
inspires the page of the natural world as
the page of the scriptural world. What a
freshening up it would be to our sermons
to press into them even a fragment of
Mediterranean sea-weed. Wo should
have fewer sermons awfully dry if wo
imitated our blessed Lord, and in our dis
courses, like him, we would let a lily
bloom, or a crow fly, or a lien brood her
chickens, or a crystal of salt flash out the
preservative qualities of religion. The
trouble is that in many of our theological
seminaries men who are so dry themselves
they never could get people to come and
hear them preach, are now trying to teach
young men how to preach, and the student
is put between two great presses of dog
matic theology and squeezed until there
is no life left in him. Give the poor vic
tim at least one lesson on the botany of
the Bible.
That was an awful plunge that the
recreant prophet. Jonah made when
dropped over the gunwales of the Medi
terranean ship, he sank many fathoms
down into the tempestuous sea. Both be
fore and after the monster of the deep
swallowed him he was entangled in sea
weed. The jungles of the deep threw
their cordage of vegetation around him.
Some of this sea-weed was anchored to
the bottom of the watery abysm and
' some of it was afloat and swallowed by
the great sea-monster, so that, while the
prophet was at the U>ttom of the deep
ilfter he was horribly imprisoned, he
could exclaim and did exclaim in the
words of my text: “The weeds were
wrapped about my head.” Jonah was the
lirst to {record that there are
growths u|K>n the bottom of the sea. as
well as upon land. The first picture I
ever owned was a handful of sea-weed
pressed on a page, and I called
them “The Shorn I.oeks of Nep
tune.” These products of the deep,
whether brown or green or yellow or
purple or red or inter-shot of many col
ors, are most facinating. They are dis
tributed all over the depths and from
Arctic to Antarctic. That God thinks
well of them I conclude from the fact
that he has made six thousand species of
them. Sometimes these water-plants are
four hundred or seven hundred feet long,
and they cable the te v. One specimen has
a growth of fifteen hundred feet. On the
northwest shore of our country is a sea
weed with leaves thirty or forty feet
long, amid which the sea-otter makes
bis home, resting himself on the buoy
ancy of the leaf and stem. The thickest
jungles of the tropics are not nioro full of
vegetation than the depths of the sea.
There are forests down there and vast
prairies all abloom, and God walks there
as he w alked in the garden of Eden “in
the cool of the day.” Oh, what entrance
men t, this sub-aqueous world! Oh, the
God-given wonders of the sea-weed! Its
birthplace is a palace of crystal. The
cradle that rocks it is the storm. Its grave
is a sarcophagus of beryl and sapphire.
There is no night down there. There are
creatures of God on the bottom of the sea
so constructed that, strewn all along, they
make a firmament besprent with stars,
constellations and galaxies of imposing
luster. The sea-feather is a lamplighter.
The gymnotus is an electrician, and he is
surcharged with electricity, and makes
the deep bright with the lightning of the
sea. The gorgona Hashes like, jewels.
There is the star-fish and the moon-fish,
so-called because they so powerfully sug
gest stellar and lunar illumination.
Oh! these midnight lanterns of the
ocean caverns: these processions of
flame over the white floor of the
deep: these illuminations three miles
down under the sea: these gorgeously up
holstered castles of the Almisrhty in the
under-world! The author of the text
felt the pull of the hidden vegetation of
the Mediterranean, whether or not ho ap
preciated its beauty, as he cries out:
“The weeds were wrapped about my
head.”
Let my subject cheer all those who had
friends who have been buried at sea or in
our great American lakes. Which of us
brought up on the Atlantic coast has not
had kindred or friend thus sepulchred?
We had the useless horror of thinking
that they were denied proper resting
place. We said: "Oh, if they had lived
to come ashore, and had then expired 1
What an allieviution of our trouble it
would have been to put them in some
beautiful family plot, where we
could have planted flowers and
trees over them.” Why, God did better
for them than we could have done for
them. They were let down into beautiful
gardens. Before they had reached the
bottom, they had garlands about their
brow. In more elaborate and adorned
place than we could have afforded them,
they were put away for the last slumber.
Hear it, mothers and fathers of sailor
boys, whose* ship went down in our last
August hurricane 1 There are no Green
wooes or Eaurel Hills or Mount Auburns
so beautiful on the land, as there are
banked and terraced and scooiied and
hung in tlie depths of the sea. The bodies
of our fouudereci and sunken friends are
girdled and canopied mid housed with
such glories as attend no other Ncscropo-
Jlic-y were swaiiqied in lifeboats, or
they struck on Goodwin Sands or Deal
Beach or Ho? Skerries and were never
hoard of, or disappeared with the City of
Boston or the Ville de Havre or the t’\ m
bria. or were- run down in a fishing smack
that put out from Newfoundland But
dismiss your previous gloom about the
horrors of ocean entombment
When Sehastopool was besieged in
the Anglo-Fren h war, I’rince Ments. ni
knff. commanding the Russian nav\. saw
that the only way to Keep the English out
of the harlior was to sink all of the
Kussian slaps of war in the roadstead,
and so 100 vessels sank. When, after
the war was over, our American engineer,
Gowan, descended to the depths in a
diving-bell, it was au impressive specta
cle. One hundred buried ships! But it
is that way nearly all across the Atlantic*
ocean. Ships sunk not by the command
of admirals, but by the command of cy
clones. But they all had sublime* burial,
and the surroundings amid which they
sleep the last sleep are more imposing
than the Taj Mahal, the Mausoleum with
walls encrusted with precious stones,
and built by the Great Mogul of India
over his empress. Your departed ones
were buried in the Gardens of the Se a,
fenced off by hedges of coraline. The
greatest obsequies ever known on the
land were those of Moses, where no one
but God was present. The sublime re
port of that entombment is in the Book of
Deuteronomy, which says that the* Lord
buried him, and of those who have gone
down to slumber in the deep, the same
may be said—“ The Lord buried them.”
As Christ was buried in a garden, so your
shipwrecked friends, and those who
could not survive till they reached port,
were put down amid iridescenc e “In the
midst of the garden there was
a sepulcher.” It has always
been a mystery what was the
particular mode by which George G.
Cookman, the pulpit orator of the Metho
dist church and the chaplain of the
American congress, loft this life after
embarking for England on the steamship
President, March 11, 1841. That ship
never arrived in port. No one ever
signaled her, and on both sides of the
ocean it has for fifty years been ques
tioned what became of her. But this I
know about Cookman, that whether it
was iceberg or conflagration mid-sea, or
collision, he had more garlands on his
ocean tomb than if, expiring on land,
each of his million friends had put a
bouquet on his casket. In the midst
of the garden was his sepulchre
But that brings me to notice the misno
mer in this Jonahtic expression of the
text. The prophet not only made a mis
take by trying to go to Tatshish when
God told hint to go to Nineveh, but ho
made a mistake when he styled as
weeds these growths that enwrapped
him on the day he sank. A weed is
something that is useless, it is some
thing you throw nut from the garden. It
is something that chokes the wheat. It
is something to be grubbed out from
among the cotton. It is something un
sightly to the eye. It is an invader of
the vegetable or floral world. But this
growth that sprang up from the depth of
the Mediterranean, or floated on its sur
face, was among the most beautiful
things that God ever makes. It was a
water plant known as the red-col
ored Alga, and no weed at all. It
comes from the loom of Infinite
beauty. It is planted by heavenly love.
It is the star of a sunken firmament. It
is a lamp which the Gord kindled. It is
a cord by which to bind whole sheaves of
practical suggestion. It is a poem all
whose cantos are rung by divine good
ness. Yet we all make the mistake that
Jonah made in regard to it, and call it a
weed. "The weeds were wrapped about
my head.” Ah that is the trouble on
the land ns on the sea. We call those
weeds that are flowers. Pitched up on
the beach of society are children without
home, without opportunity for anything
but sin, seemingly without God. They
are washed up helpless. They tire* called
ragamuffins. They are spoken of as the
Takings of the world. They are waifs.
They are street arabs. The are flotsam
and jetsam of the social soa. They aro
something to be lot alone, or something to
be trod on, or something to give up to de
cay. Nothing but weeds. They are up
the rickety stairs of that garret. They
are down hi the cellar of that tenement
house. They swelter in summers when
they see not one blade of gxeen grass, and
shiver in winters that allow them not one
warm coat or shawl or shoe. Such the
city missionary found in one of our city
rookeries, and when the poor woman was
asked if she sent her children to school,
she replied: “No, sir, I never did send
’em to school. I know it, they ought to
learn but I couldn’t. I try to shame
him sometimes (it is my husband, sir,) but
he drinks and then beats me. (Look at
that bruise on my face), and I toll ldm to
see what is coming to his children.
There’s Peggy, goes soilin' fruit every
night in those cellars in Water street, and
they’re hells, sir. She’s learning all
sorts of bad words there, anil don’t get
back till twelve o’clock at night, if it
wasn’t for her earnin’ a shillin’ or two in
them places, I should starve. Oh, I
wish they was out of the city. Yes, it,
is the truth; I would rather have all my
children dead than on the street, but I
can’t help it.” Another one of these poor
women, found by a reformatory associa
tion. recited her story of want and woe,
and looked up and said: “1 felt so hard
to lose the children when they died, but
now I’m glad they’re gone.” Ask any
one of a thousand such children on the
streets: “Whero do you live!” and they
will answer: "I don’t live nowhere.”
Thoy will sleep to-night in ash-barrels, or
under outdoor stairs, or on the wharf,
kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
cares for them? Once in a while a city
missionary or a tract distributor or a
teacher of ragged schools will rescue one
of them, but for most people they are only
weeds. Yet, Jonah did not more com
pletely misrepresent the Hed Alga* about
his head than most people misjudge these
poor and forlorn and dying children of
the street. They are not weeds. They
are immortal flowers. Down in the deep
sea of woe, but flowers. When society
and the church of God come to appreciate
their eternal value, there will be more C.
L. Braces and more Van Meters and more
Angels of Mercy spending their fortunes
and their lives in the rescue. Here it.O. ye
philanthropic and Christian and merciful
souls; not weeds, but flowers. 1 adjure
you as the friends of all newsboys' lodg
ing houses, of all industrial schools, of all
homes for friendless girls, and for the
many reformatories and humane associa
tions now on foot. How much they have
already accomplished. Out of what
wretchedness, into what good homes. Of
21,000 of these picked up out of the
streets and sent into country homes, only
twelve children turned out badly. In the
last thirty years a number that no man
can number of the vagrants have been
lifted into respectability and usefulness
and a Christian life. Many of them have
homes of their own. Though ragged boys
once and street girls, now at the head of
prosperous families, honored on earth and
to be glorious in heaven. Some of thorn
have been governors of states. Some of
them are ministers of the gospel. In all
departments of iife those who were
thought to be weeds have turned out to
be flowers. One of those rescued lads
from ttie streets of our cities wrote to
another, saying: **J have heard you are
studying for the ministry: so ami.” My
bearers, l implead you for the newsboys
of the stieet. many o; them tue brightest
children in the city, hut no chance. Do
not step on their bare feet. Do not, when
they steal a ride, cut behind. When the
paper is three cents, once in a while give
them a live-eent piece, and tell them to
keep ttie change. 1 like tin; ring of the
letter the newsboy sent back from Indiana,
where he had been sent to a good home,
to a New York newsboys' lodging house:
“Boys, we should show ourselves that we
are no fools, that we can become us re
spectable us any of the countrymen, for
Franklin and Webster and Clay were
poor boys once, and even George I,a w and
\ underbill and Astor. And now, buys,
THK MOHNIMi XKWS: MONDAY, OOTOBEK 2, ISO3.
stand up and let them see you have got
tin* real stuff in you. Come out hers- and
make nwpectable ami honorable men. so
they enn say: ’There, that boy was once
a newsboy.' " My hearers Join the Christ
ian philanthropists who are changing
organ-grinders and Ihkil blacks and news
boys and streettumbs and cigar girls into
those who shall be kings and queens unto
God forever. It is high time that Jonah
finds out that that which is about him is
not woods but flowers.
As I examine this Bed Alga which was
about the recreant prophet down in the
Mediterranean depths, when in the words
of my text, he cried out: “The weeds
* were wrapped about my head." and 1 am
j led thereby to further examine this sub-
I marine world. 1 am compelled to exclaim:
: What a wonderful God we have! I am
: glad that, by diving-bell and "Brooks’
Deep-Sea Sounding Apparatus” and ever
improving machinery, we are permitted
to walk the floor of the ocean and report
the wonders wrought by the great God.
Study these gardens of the sea. Easier
and easier shall the profounds of the
ocean become to us, and the more and
more its opulence of color and plant un
roll, especially as “Villeroy’s Submarine
Boat” has been constructed, making it
possible to navigate under the sea almost
as well as on the surface of the sea, and
unless God in his mere.v banishes war
from the earth, whole fleets of armed
ships will yet, far down under the water,
move on to blow up the argosies that float
the surface. May such submarine ships be
used for laying open the wonders of God’s
workings in the great deep and never for
human devastation 1 Oh, the marvels of
the water world! These so-called sea
weeds are the pasture fields and the for
age of the innumerable animals of the
deep. Not one species of them can be
spared from the economy of nature. Val
leys and mountains and plants miles
underneath the waves are all covered
with flora and fauna. Sunken Alps and
Apennines and Himalayas of Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. A continent that
once connected Europe and America, so
that in ages past men came on foot across
from where England is to where we now
stand, all sunken, and now covered with
growths of the sea, as it once was cov
ered with growths of the land. England
and Ireland once all one piece of land, but
now much of it so far sunken as to make
a channel, and Ireland lias become an
island. The islands, for the most part,
are only the foreheads of sunken conti
nents. The sea conquering the land
all along the coasts, and crumbling
the hemispheres, wider and wider be
come tlie sub-aqueous dominions. Thank
God that skilled hydrographers have
made us maps and charts of the rivers
and lakes and seas, and shown us some
thing of the work of the Eternal God in
tlie water-worlds. Thank God that the
great Virginian, Lieutenant Maury, lived
to give us “The Physical Geography of
the. Sea,” and that men of genius have
gone forth to study the so-called weeds
that wrapped about Jonah’s head and
have found them to be coronals of beauty,
and when the tido receded, these scien
tists have waded down and picked up
Divine-pictured leaves of the ocean, the
naturalists, Pike, and Hooperand Walters,
gathering them from the beach of Long
Island Sound, and Dr. Blodgett preserv
ing them from the shores of Key West,
and Profs. Emtnerson and Gray finding
them along Boston harbor, and
Prof. Gibbs gathering them from
Charleston harbor, and for all the other
triumphs of Algogoly, or the science of
sea-weed. Why confine ourselves to the
old and hackneyed illustrations of the
wonder-workings of God, when there are
at least five great seas full of illustra
tions as .vet not marshalled, every root
and frond and cell and color and move
ment and habit of oceanic vegetation cry
ing out: “Mod? (iod! He made us. He
clothed us. He adorned us. He was the
God of our ancestors clear back to the
first sea-growth, when God divided the
waters which were above the firmament
from the waters which were under the
firmament, and shall bo the God of our
descendants clear down to the day when
the sea shall give up its dead. We have
heard his command and we have obeyed:
‘Praise the Lord, dragons and all deeps.”
There is a great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study of the so-called
sea weed, and that is tlie demonstrated
doctrine of a particular Providence.
When I find that the Lord provides in
the so-called sea weed the pasturage for
the thronged marine world, so that not a
fin or scale in all that oceanic aquarium
suffers need, I conclude he will feed us,
aud if he suits the Alga; to the animal
life of the deep, ho will provide the food
for our physical and spiritual needs.
And if he clothes the flowers of the deep
with richness of robe that looks bright as
fallen rainbows by day. and at night
makes the underworld look as though the
sea were on fire, surely he wifi clothe
you. "Oh, ye of little faith!’’ And what
fills me with unspeakable delight is that
this God of depths and heights, of ocean
and of continent. may, through
Jesus Christ, tlie Divinely ap
pointed means, be yours and mine, to
help, to cheer, to pardon, to save, to em
paradise. What matters who in earth or
hell is against us, if He is for us? Om
nipotence to defend us. Omnipresence to
companion us, and Infinite love to enfold
and uplift and enrapture us. And when
God docs small things so well, seemingly
taking as much care with the coil of a
sea weed as the out-branching of a Leb
anon Cedar, aud with the color of a vege
table growth which is hidden fathoms
out of sight as ho does with the solferiuo
and purple of a summer sunset, we will
be determined to do well all we arc called
to do, though no one see or appreciate us.
Mighty God! Roll in upon our admira
tion and holy appreciation more of the
wonders of this submarine world!
My joy is after we are quit
of all earthly hindrances we may
come baek to this world and explore what
we cannot now fully investigate. If we
shall have power to soar into the atmos
pheric without fatigue I think we shall
have power to dive into the aqueous with
out peril, and that the pictured and tes
sellated sea floor will lx> as accessible as
now is to the traveler the iioor of the Al
hambra. and all the gardens of the deep
will then swing open to us their gates as
now to the tourist Chatsworth opens on
public days its cascades and statuary and
conservatories for our entrance. “It doth
not yet appear what we shall be.” You
cannot make me believe that God hatli
spread out all that garniture of the deep
merely for the polyphs and Crustacea to
look at.
And if the unintelligent creatures of
the Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean.
He surrounds with suc h beautiful grasses
of the deep, what a heaven we may ex
pect for our uplifted and ransomed souls
when we are unchained, of the flesh and
rise to realms beatific. Of the flora of
tnat "Sea of Glass mingled with fire" 1
have no power to speak, but I shall al
ways be glad that, when the prophet of
text, flung over the gunwales of the Modi
terraean ship, descended into tlie boiling
sea, that which he supposed to be weeds
wrapped about his head were not weeds,
but flowers. And am I not right in this
glance at the botany of the Bible in
adding to Lake’s mint, anise and
cummin, and Matthew's tares, and
John's vine, and Solomon’s cluster
of eamphire, and Jeremiah's balm,
and Job’s bulrush, and Isaiah's teberinth,
and Hosen’s thistle, and Ezekiel's cedar,
anfl "the hyssop that spritigeth out of the
wall." and the "Rose of Sharon and the
Lily of the Valley," and the frankincense
and myrrh and cassia which the astrolo
gers brought to the manger, at least one
stalk of the Alga: of the Mediterranean.
And now 1 make tlie marine doxolog.v of
Da\hl my peroration, for it was written
about forty or fifty miles from the place
where the scene of the text was enacted
“The sea is his and he made it! and his
hands formed the dry land. O, come, let
u* wursnip and bo w down: let us kneel
before the lx>rtl our Maker. For ho is j
tied, and we are the people of his pas
ture*.” Amen.
TALLAHASSEE ITEMS.
The Carrabelle Railroad ia Making
Fine Progress.
Tallahassee, Fla . Oct. I.—The state
pardoning board has passed upon two ap
olicatiotis the past week:
Joe Peacock of Walton county, con
victed of murder and sentenced to be
hanged, commuted to imprisonment for
life.
A. M. Nobles of Escambia, convicted of
adultery and fined; fine paid, granted a
full and free pardon.
Mr. Theo It. Geer, auditor of the Carra
belle, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad,
has returned from New York, accom
panied by his family.
George W. Betton. Jr., has gone to Bal
timore, where he will attend medical
lectures during the winter.
Miss Clara Lee is taking a normal
course in the state college at DeFuniak.
Miss Evelyn Winthrop goes to Balti
more next week to enter college. Miss
JO. B. Cameron gave her a complimentary
hop Thursday night, which was a delight
ful occasion for the young people.
Miss Lizzie Beck of Kentucky and Miss
Louise Card of Virginia are among the
arrivals to enter the State Seminary on
the 2nd.
rf. P. Simmons, manager of the Geor
gia and Florida Investment Company,
came in from New York Thursday. He
brought his family and Miss M. E. Spaul
ding.
Prof. E. C. Ravenseroft goes to Lake
City in a few days to conduct the high
school there this winter.
Dr. H. E. Palmer left on Thursday for
Chicago.
Mr. A. Levy has returned from a trip
north.
Track laying is progressing on the Car
rabeiie, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad
under the supervision of General Mananer
A. Orr Symington and Chief Engineer F.
P. Damon. Iron is coming by rail every
day, and it will be utilized as fast as it
arrives. Only thirty miles remain to be
laid south of Tallahassee to complete the
line to Carrabelle.
Misses Carrie Brevard and Hennie
Chaires were among the home-comers
the past week.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
See Seventh Pane.
Arrived Yesterday.
Steamship Dessoug. Edwards. Philadelphia
—0 G Anderson. Reports that in tat 33 13 lon
78 23 in 11 fathoms passed a spar about 20 feet
out of water, evidently attached to sunken
vessel.,
Consignees.
Per steamship Dessoug from Philadelphia—
I,< opold Adler. Mrs M Avenarina, C &~S Ry,
Broughton Bros,City & Sub rtv Co.Collat Bros
Diegnan & Donohoe, Eckman & V. Electric
Ry Cos. I Epstein & Bro. VS’ W Ferguson & Cos,
M Perst's Sons & Cos. John F Freeman. Fran
cis Hart. E M Hopkins, Andrew Jackson,
H Juchter, C Kolshorn & Bro, Lippman Bros,
E Lovell's Sons, I.ovell & L. C 11 Monsecs,
T A Mullogne & Cos, Mutual Co-op Ass n,
order notify M S Herman A Bro. L H Phillips
Palmer Hardware Cos, Pulaski Knitting Mills,
Savannah Brewing Cos, Savannah C& W Cos,
Savannah L & T Cos, Geo Settle v & Cos, PH
Ward. H Solomon & Son, Watson & P,
J 1) Weed & Cos, steamer Alpha, Southern Ex
press Cos.
SEPTEMBER PHOSPHATE SHIP
MENTS.
More Than 10,000 Tons Sent Out from
Punta Gorda.
Punta Gorda, Fla., Oct. L—The follow
ing shipments were made during Septem
ber : Ist, British steamship Ross-Shire,
Fernback, Altoona, Germany, 2,872 tons,
by Comer, Hull & Cos.; 11 tb, British steam
ship Roehampton, Leisk, Hamburg, 2,600
tons, by Peace River Phosphate Company;
13th, schooner Scotia, Davis, New Orleans,
700 tons, by Peace River Phosphate Com
l>un,v; 14th, British steamship Winnie,
Norby, Dublin, 2,467 tons, by Comer, Hull
& Cos.; 25th, schooner Sarah A. Fuller,
Brown. New Orleans, 725 tons, by Peace
River Phosphate Company; 20th, British
steamship Oakdale, Whiteman, Hull,
England, 1,500 tons, by Comer, Hull <!t Cos.
Totals—l,42s tons, coastwise; 0,439 tons,
foreign; grand total, 10,804 tons.
A White Girl Assaulted.
Columbia, S. C., Oet. I.—A white girl
was assaulted by a negro Imy near Kings
ton. S. C., last night. The names and
particulers are not given. The negro will
be lynched when caught.
Tired, Weak, Nervous
Mrs. Mary C. Oryderman
I had rheumatism so severely that I was
obliged to use a cane. I w.'i tired of life and
was a burden to those about me. I often
suffered from dizziness, worried much, and
was subject to nervous spells. Hood’s Sar
saparilla made me feel lil c a differcas
IHlooePs Cures
person. I owe my present good health to
Hood’s.” Mrs. Mary C. Cuyderman, La
Fontaine, Kansas. Ho sure to get Hood’s.
Hood’s Pills cure all liver ills, bilious
ness. jaundice, indigestion, sick headache.
SPEC|AL^NOT£CEi^^
C. IS. HI’IET £ CO.,
Brokers,
COTTON. GRAIN, VROVISIONS,
fill Bay street,
Board of Trade Building.
Direct private wires to all exchanges.
Quick confirmations.
All fluctuations of the markets.
Call and see us.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship
TAENA must bo presented at our office THIS
DAY (Monday), or payment will be debarred.
J. F. MINIS & CO.,
’Consignees.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
DR. S, LATIMER PHILLIPS
Has returned to the city.
Office 53 Whitaker street.
Office hours: 8 a. m. to 2p. m., and 3:30 to
5 p m.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship
ABKONA, Ayers, master must be presented
at our office by or before 18 in THIS DAY
Oct 3, or puyni mt tuoreof will be debarred.
J. F. MiNls A CO., Consignees
MEDICAL.
TIME AND DOCTORS’ BUIS SAVED
By always keeping Simmons Liver Regu
lator in the house.
"I have found Simmons Liver Regu
lator the best family medicine. Have
used it in Indigestion. Colic. Dlarrhtea,
Biliousness, and found it to relieve
immediately. After eating a hearty
supper, if. bn going to hed, I take a
teaspoonful. I never feel the effects of
the supper eaten.”—O. G. Sparks, ex-
Mayor Macon, (ia.
{SfTONI.Y GENUINE Jgi
Has our Z-Stamp in red on front of Wrapper.
J. H. ZEILIN A <jO., Sole Proprietors,
Price sl. PHILADELPHIA. PA.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS. __
YONGE.—'The -elatives and friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip R. Yonof. and family and
his sister, Mrs. Charles C. Miller are invited
to attend the funeral of the former, from
Duffy Street Baptist church, at 4 o’clock
THIS AFTERNOON.
DE KALI* LODGE No. , I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held
THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock, in Odd Fellows
Hull.
Visiting brothers are invited to meet with
us. D. A. HARRIS, N. G
,Tno. W. Smith, Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular meeting of this society will be
held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING at 8
o'clock. GEO. T. CANN,
Recording Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
To my friends, customers, and the pub
lic generally: I will always keep on hand
the celebrated LE PANTO Cigar. Pedes
trians passing over to the Central railroad
wharf are requested to stop In and get a
genuine LE PANTO CIGAR. It Is the
best nickel smoke to be had in the city.
MARTIN HAAR,
293 Bay street.
IF YOU WANT
THE BEST
VALUES
IN CLOTHES
For the money ex
pended
Go to
FALK
CLOTHING CO.
DR. SCHI-EY
Has removed his office to his residence,
on north side of Gaston street, two doors east
of Drayton street, opposite City Hospital.
DR. PAIGE
Has returned and resumed his practice,
Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
at 136 Liberty street.
Office hours: 10 to 2 and 3to 4. Sunday 10to 12.
PROCLAMATION.
City of Savannah, mayor’s Office. (
Savannah. Ga., Sept 13, 1 893. f
On account of the prevalence of yellow
fever in the city of Brunswick, Or., and for
the purr o*o of protecting the people of Sa
vannah t lerefr.im, a rigid quarantine Is now
hereby declared against the city of Bruns
wick and against a'l other p'a ’es and dis
tricts in the stat; of Georgia which may be
come infected with yellow fever.
No persons, l a 'gage, cars, boats, vessels,
freights or packages of any kind from Bruns
wick, or any other infected place in the state
of Georgia, will be allowed to enter the city
of Savannah except persons and baggage
from United States camp of detention near
Waynesville and holding certificate of officer
commanding same.
No mails from said places, unless and until
disinfected under regulations from the Unltod
States postal authorities, will le allowed to
enter Savannah.
Persons from other points must provide
themselves with proper health certificates or
they will not be allowed lo enter the ejty.
This quarantine will continue In force until
further notice.
The officers, agents and all persons in
charge of railn ais, steamboats, express com
panies and other ipeansof publio conveyance,
are requested to assist in cnforcirg this quar
antine.
Given under my hand rut official signature
and seal of said city at the city of Savannah,
Georgia, this thirteenth day of September,
eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
JNO. J. MCDONOUGH, Mayor.
Attest: F. E. Reuarer, Clerk of Council
NOTICE.
City of Savannah. i
Mayor s Office, Sept. 18, 1893. f
Yellow fever has been declared epidemic at
Bruuswick, and the citizens of that ill fated
city are in distress and need the necessaries of
life. A subscription list Is now open at the office
of the Clerk of Council, where cash subscrip
tions and all other donations will be received.
Packages of all kinds donated for the . ufTer
ers will be sent to Brunswick by the S., F. &
W. Railway free of charge.
JOHN J. MCDONOUGH. Mayor.
Attest: F. E. Rebareh, Clerk of Council
REOPENING OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The public sch< o!s will lie reopened on
MONDAY, the 2d day of October.
The Superintendent will be In his office, at
Chatham Academy, on THURSDAY and
FRIDAY of the present week to issue cards
of admission. Applicants, before receiving
their cards, must produce evidence of having
teen vaccinated
Applicants for the colored schools will re
ceive their cards from the Principals at the
several schools during the surne hours
W. H. BAKER.
SuiM-rintendent.
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
TUESDAyV OCT. 3.
America s Comte Actor,
JOHN T. KELLY
In the Merry Eccentricity,
ifEE OP DUBLIN
The most complete comedy company ever
organized. Including the famous prlma donna,
ADELAIDE RANDALL
The lively soubrette,
GEORGIE PARKER.
The clever comedian,
HARRY KELLY,
and others.
Seats at Livingston's drug store. Sept. 30.
Next Attraction—Las-rence Hanley, Oct. 4
and 5.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,THURS
DAY MATINEE, Oct. 4 and S.
A SOCIETY EVENT.
The handsome young American Tgagedian,
MR. LAWRENCE HANLEY,
Supported by his superb company, will pre
sent
“THE PLAYER,”
Embodying arts from “Hamlet,’’ “Romeo
and Juliet” and “Lady of Lyons,” pre
sumably played to an audience
at Drury Lane Theater.
A Legitimate Novelty in Four Acts.
Seats at Livingston s drug store Oct. 2.
Next Attraction—Rose and Charles t'ogh
lan. Oct. 6.
SPECIA L NOTiCES.
INTEREST NOTICE.
Thk Germania Bank. I
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 30, 1893. (
Interest for the third quarter of 1893 on de
posits in the Savings Department of the Ger
mania Bank is now due and payable on de
mand.
Depositors will please present their hank
books to be balanced.
JOHN M. HOGAN,
Cashier.
INTEREST NOTICE.
The Citizens’ Bank of Savannah, l
Savings Department, V
Savannah. Oct. 2, 1803. t
Interest for the third quarter of 1803 is now
due and payable on demand.
Depositors will please leave their pass
books to be balanced.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN,
Cashier.
INTEREST NOTICE.
The Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Cos., I
Savannah, Ga., Oct. l. 1803. (
Depositors will please present pass books
for entry of Interest for the third quarter,
of 1893. which is now due and payable on de
mand. JNO. M. BRYAN,
Cashier.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
City Treasurer’s Office, I
Savannah. Ga., Oct. 1, 1803. f
The following taxes are now due:
REAL ESTATE, third quarter, 1803.
STOCK IN TRADE, third quarter. 1893.
FURNITURE, ETC., third quarter. 1893.
MONEY NOTES ETC., third quarter, 1803.
A discount of ten per cent will he allowed
upon all of the above if paid within fifteen
days after October first.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
NOTICE?”
Office Board of Sanitary Comm’rs, 1
Savannah. Ga.. Sept. 18. 1893. f
Cittzens are earnestly requested to co op
erate with the health authorities in sustain
ing a rigid quarantine against Brunswick. It
is necessary for the preservation of our health
that all persons from Brunswick be kept out
of the oity. and citizens are requested to aid
the authorities in apprehending suspects who
may be in the city at the present time, or
those who may in the future evade quarantine
and enter the oity.
All persons aro warned against harboring
people from Brunswick under penalty of the
law. All persons are also warned against
spreading false rumors as to the existence of
yellow fever in this city, and all good citizens
should report to the city authorities the
authors of all such reports so damaging to
our overy interest.
JNO. J. MCDONOUGH, Chairman.
W. F. Brunner, Secretary.
NOTICE.
City of Savannah. i
Office Board Sanitary Commissioners, V
Sept. 13, 1893. j
The following resolution was pissed at a
meeting of the Board of Sanitary CommisJ
sioners, held this day, and is published for
information of all concerned:
Resolved, That all persons who have come
into this city from Brunswick since yelliw
fever made its appearan ,*e in said city, be re
quired to report to the health officer, to whom
they shall state vn ler what circumstances
they came to this city.
Resolved, further, That all persons who
have come into this city from Brunswick since
September 9th be requirt and to leave Savannah
immediately with all their luggage.
JOHN J. MCDONOUGH, Chairman.
W. F. Brunner, Health Officer.
DISSO I.ITION.
The firm of SWINTON & MATHEWS Is
THIS DAY dissolved by mutual consent. I.
H. Mathews retiring. The business will be
continued by
SWINTON & CO.
_Savannah, Ga., Sept. 30, 1893.
W A TER KENT NOTICE.
City Treasurer's Office, i
Savannah,Ga., Sept 30, 1893. f
Water rent in advance for the six months
ending Dec. 31 Is past due since the first of
July. Delinquents are requested to call and
pay without delay, otherwise the supply
of water will be shut ofT without further no
tice* C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Next session will begin on Oct. 2. Boys and
young men carefully prepared for college
university or business Three experienced
teachers good equipment, thorough teaching,
firm discipline Refers by permission to the
following patrons: Hon. Pope Barrow. Samuel
B. Adams, Col. F. B. Papv, Hon. W G
Charlton, Dr. C. C. Schley, Rov. Charles H
Strong. B. A. Denmark, Rev. Robb White
Catalogues at Estill s News Depot or on am
plication to J. A. CROWTIIER.
Principal.
FOR SALE]
Those two very desirable tenements Nos. 82
and 84 Gaston street. This is one of the best
investments on the market. Terms will te
arranged to suit purchasers. Apply to
WALTHOUR & RIVERS, Agents.
SEASONABLE ARTICLES.
MELDEKMA-A pleasant Toilet Powder
instantly removes the offensive odors
caused by perspiration.
BOKACINK A powder tor the Toilet and
Nursery; cures prickly heat and
chafe.
Ct I*lll ALMOND CREAM—GlvesQuick ro
lief from Sunburn.
RIBBEK ItATHINti CAPS—Keep the hair
dry and are decidedly ornamental
SPONGES—A full line for the Bath ana Toilet
—AT—
SOLOMONS & CO.,
1(53 Congress street and M Hull street.
GEO. K. KiCHOLS,
PRINTING,
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
834 Bay St. Savaanak
HIIS
°o°
1 N TH E
Chain of Confidence
—BETWEEN —
US AND YOU
—ARE —
Fairness, Quality,
Quality, Service,
Ctieapuess, lieu,
RELIABILITY.
We keep all kinds of
SHOES.
BYCK BROS.,
17 WHITAKER.
BANKS.
Savannah Savings Bank,
CORNER ST. JULIAN AND WHITAKER
STREETS.
RECEIVES DEPOSITS OF 250.
and upwards and allows 5 PER CENT
INTEREST on deposits, compounded
quarterly.
Loans made on Stocks* Bonds and Real
Estate.
Rents boxes in its safety deposit vault
open until 0 o'clock p. in
Bank open woruiugs from 9 till 2,
Afternoons from 4 till 6, Saturdays until 8
o'clock.
W. K. WILKINSON, President.
C. 8. ROCKWELL, Treasurer.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital $500,000.
Transacts a general hanking business.
Maintains a Savings Department and al
lows INTEREST AT 4 PER LENT., com
pounded quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, linns, banks
and corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspond
ents in GEORGIA. ALABAMA, FLORIDA
anti SOUTH CAROLINA, we arc prepared
to handle collections on the most favora
ble terms.
Correspondence Invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, President.
M. B. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH, GA.
INTEREST AT
4%
OK DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART.
MENT.
Collection, on Savannah and all south*
ern points, we handle on the most, favora
ble terms and remit at lowest excliang*
rates on day of payment. Correspond*
•nee solicited.
JOSEPH I). WEED, President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Vice Presides*
JAMES H. HUNTER, Cashier.
RAILROADS.
~&SW“nTand
W DANVILLE R. R.
The Greatest Southern System,
IMPROVED schedules. Through first-class
coaches between Savannah ami Asheville
N. C., for Kot Springs and other Western
Carolina points.
Also to VValhalla and Greenville, S. C., and
Intermediate points via Columbia.
Quick time and improved service to Wash
ington. New York and puc Hast.
Only line in the south operating solid vesti
buled limited trains with Pullman dining cars.
World s Fair tickets via this route allow
stopovers going and returning west of Tryon,
N. C. Buy one ticket and visit both Wester
North Carolina and the World’s Fair.
W. A. TURK. G. I*. A.. Washington, D. C
S. 11. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A..Atlanta, G*
SEED RYE
CEORCIA SEED RYE,
HAY, CRAIN,
FEED AND PRODUCE,
LEMONS.
173 AND 17? BAY.
W, D. SIMKINS.
\YT ANTED merchant, to try the benefltsot
tV wdvertislng In the One cent • word
column* of the Monkun. Nfcww. U wui ow
Ulnly