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A GLIMPSE INTO HEAVEN.
Talmage Preaches on a Text From
Ezekiel.
The Hymns and the Prayers as Well
as the S rmon More About the Fu
ture World Than This One--The
Preacher Tells of a Dream He Had
About Heaven.
Brooklyn, Feb. 4. -In the Brooklyn
tabernacle this forenoon the hymns, the
•cripture lesson and the prayers, as well
as the sermon, were about the future
world more than about this world. Kev.
Dr. Talmage took for his subject; ‘‘A
Vision of Heaven," the text being;
Ezekiel 1:1: “Now it came to pass as I
was among the captives by the river of
Chebar that the heavens were opened and
I saw visions of God.”
Expatriated and in far exile on the
banks of the river Chebar, an affluent of
the Euphrates, sat Ezekiel. It was there
he had an immortal dream, and it is
given to us in the holy scriptures. He
dreamed of Tyre and Egypt. He dreamed
of Christ and the coming heaven. This
exile seated by that river Chebar had a
more wonderful dream than .you or I ever
have had, or ever will have, seated on the
banks of the Hudson, or Alabama, or
Oregon, or Thames, or Tiber, or Danube.
But we all have had memorable dreams,
some of them when we were half asleep
and half awake, so that we did not know
whether they were born of shadow or
sunlight; whether they were thoughts let
loose and disarranged as in slumber, or
the imagination of faculties awake.
Such a dream 1 had this morning. It
was about half-past five, and the day was
breaking. It was a dream of God; a
dream of heaven. Ezekiel had his dream
on the banks of the Chebar; I had my
dream not fur from the banks of the Hud
son. The most of the stories of heaven
were written many centuries ago. and
they tell us how the place looked then,
or how it will look centuries ahead.
Would you not like to know how
It looks now? That is what I am going
to tell you. I was there this morning. I
have just got back. How I got into that
city of the sun I know not. Which of the
twelve gates I entered is to me uncertain.
But my first remembrance of the scene is
that I stood on one the main avenues,
looking this way and that, lost in rap
tures. and the air so full of music and
redolence, and laughter and light, that I
knew not which street to take, when an
angel of God accosted me and offered to
show me the objects of greatest interest,
and to conduct me from street to street,
and from) mansion to mansion, and from
temple to temple, and from wall to wall.
I said to the angel, ‘ How long hast thou
been in heaven <” and the answer came,
"Thirty-two years according to the
earthly calendar.” There was a secret
about this angel’s name that was not
given me, but from the tenderness, and
sweetness, and affection, and interest
taken in my walk through heaven, and
more than all in the fact of thirty-two
years' residence the number of years
since she ascended, I think it was my
mother. Old age, and deeripitude, and
the tired look were all gone, but I think
it was she. You see, 1 was only on a visit
to the city, and had not yet taken up resi
dence. and I could know only in part.
I looked in for a few moments at the
great temple. Our brilliant and lovely
Scotch essayist, Mr. Drummond, says
there is no church in heaven, but he did
not look for it on the right street. Saint
John was right when, in his Patmosie
vision, recorded in the third chapter of
Revelations, he speaks of ‘The Temple of
My God.” I saw it this morning; the
largest church I ever saw; as big as all
the churches and cathedrals of the earth
put together, and it was thronged. Oh,
what a multitude! I had never seen so
many people together. All the audiences
of all the churches of all the earth put to
gether would make a poor attendance
compared with that assemblage. There
was a fashion in attire and head-dress
that immediately took my attention. The
fashion was white. All in white, save
One. And the head-dress was a garland
of rose and lily and mignonette, mingled
with green leaves culled from the royal
gardens, and bound together with bands
of gold.
And I saw some young men with a ring
on the finger of their right hand, and
said to my accompanying angel, “Why
those rings on the fingers of the right
hands?” and I was told that those who
wore them were prodigal sons, and once,
fed swine in the wilderness, and lived on
husks, but they came home, and the
rejoicing father said, "put a ring on his
hand.”
But I said there was one exception to
this fastiion of white pervading all the
auditorium and clear uji through all the
galleries. It was the attire of the one
who presided in that immenso temple.
The chiefest. the mightiest, the loveliest
person in all the place. His cheeks
seemed to bo Hushed with infinite beauty,
and his forehead was a morning sky, and
his lips were eloquence omnipotent". But
his attire was of deep colors. They sug
gested the carnage through which he had
passed, and 1 said to my attending angel.
“What is that crimson robe that lie
•wears'” and 1 was told, "They are dyed
garments from Bo rah,” and" "He trod
the wine press alone."
Soon after I entered this temple they
began to chant the celestial litany. It was
unlike anything I had ever heard tor
sweetness or power, and 1 have heard the
most of the groat organs an t the most
of the great oratorios. 1 said to ray
accompanying angel, "Who is that stand
ing yonder with the harp?” and the an
swer was, "David !” And I said, "Who
is that sounding that trumpet?" and the
answer was “Gabriel!” And I said, "Who
is that at the organ?” and the answer
was. “Handel!” And the music rolled on
till it came to a doxology extolling Christ
himself, when all the worshippers, lower
down and higher up. a thousand galleries
of them, suddenly dropped on their knees
and chanted, “Worthy is the Lamb that
was slain.” Under the overpoiveriug har
mony 1 fell back. I said. "Det us go. This
is too much for mor.al ears. I cannot bear
the overwhelming symphony.”
But I noticed as I was about to turn
away that on the steps of the altar was
something like the laehyrmal. or tear
bottle, as 1 had seen in the earthly mu
seums, the lachrymals, or tear-bottles
into which the orientals us'd to weep
their grieis and set ihem away as sat red.
But this lachrymal, or tear-bottle, in
stead of earthenware as those the ori
ientats us and, was lustrous ana fiery with
many splendors, and it was towering, aud
of great capacity. And I said to my at
tending angei: "What is that great
lachrymal, or tear-bottle, standing on the
sup of the altar:” an l tile angel said:
"Why, do.inu not know? That is the
bottle to which David the Psalmist re
ferred in his fifty-sixth psalm, when he
said: ‘Put thou my tears into Thy bot
tle.’ It is full of tears iroin earth; tears
of repentance; tears of bereavement;
tears of joy; tears of many centuries"
And then 1 saw how sacred to the sympa
thetic t.od are Car bl.v sorrows.
As I was coming out of atlio temple I
•av. all along the pictured walls there
were shelves, and golden vials were be
ra r set up on ail those shelves. And I
" Why the settiug-up of those vials
at this time? They seem now to have
—*? hl-eJ. and the atlendiugangel said.
* "cek of prayer all around the
earth has just closed, an t more suppli
lations have been made than for a long
while and these new vials, newly set up.
BlWespeaksof 115 "golden
Tuts of odors, which are the prayers of
saints.” And I said to the accompanying
angel, “Can it be possible that the pray
erof earth are worthy of be n r kept in
such heavenly shape' "Why," said the
angel, "there is nothing that so moves
h, aveu as ihe prayers of earth, and they
are set up in sight of these infinite multi
tudes. and. more than all, in the sight of
Christ, aud he cannot forget them, aud
they are before him without end.”
Then we came out, and as the Temple is
always open, aud worship ai one
hour and others at other hours, we passed
down the street amid the throngs < oming
to and going from the Great Temple. And
we passed along through a street called
Martyr Place, and we met there, or saw
silting at the windows, the souls of those
who on earth went through tire and flood,
and under sword and rack. We saw John
Wickli.Te, whose ashes were by decree of
the Council of Constance thrown into the
river; and Rogers, who bathed his haDds
in the fire as though it had been water;
and Bishop Hooper, and McKail, and
Latimer, aud Ridley, ana Polycarp,whom
the flames refused to destroy as they bent
outward till a spear did the work, and
some of the Albigenses. and Huguenots,
and consecrated Quakers who were slain
for their religion. J hey had on them
many scars, but their scars were
illumined, and they had on their faces a
look of especial triumph.
Then we passed along Song row and
we met some the old gospel sin
“That is Isaac Watts,” said my atten
dant. As we came up to him he asked
me if the churches on earth were still
singing the hymns he composed at the
house of Dord and L idy Abney, to whom
he paid a visit of .>6 years, and 1 told him
that many of the churches opened their
Sabbath morning services with his old
hymn, “Wel< ome, Sweet Day of Rest,”
and celebrated their gospel triumphs
with his hymn, ‘‘Salvation, O the Joyfui
Song,” ana often roused their devotions
by his hymn, "Come, We that Love the
Lord.”
While we were talking he introduced
me to another of the song writers, and
said "This is Charles Wolsey, who be
longed on earth to a different church from
mine, but we are all now members of the
same church, the temple of God and the
Lamb.” And 1 told Charles Wesley that
almost every Sabbath we sang one of his
old hymns, "Arm of the Lord. Awake!”
or “Come, Let us Join our Friends Above;”
or "Love Divine. All Love Excelling.”
And while we were talking on that street
called hong row, Kirk White, the con
sumptive college student, now everlast
ing well, came up, and we talked over his
old Christmas hymn, "When Marshalled
on the Nightly Plain.” And William
Cowpor came up, now entirely recovered
from bis religious melancholy, and not
looking us if he had ever in dementia at
tempted suicide, and vve talked over the
wideearthly celebrity and hoavenlypow r
of his old hymns, "When 1 can Head my
Title Clear,” and, "There is a Fountain
Filled with Blood.”
And there we met George W. Bethune,
of wondrous Brooklyn pastorate, and I
told him of how his comforting hymn had
been sung at obsequies all around the
world—"lt is Not Death to Die.” And
Toplad.v camo up and asked whethor the
church was still making use of his old
hymn. “Rock of Age3, Cleft lor Me.”
And we met also on Song row, Newton,
and Hastings, aud Montgomery, and Ho
ratio Bonar, and vve heard floating from
window to window snatches of the old
hymns which they started on earth, and
started never to die.
“But,” sa.v some of my hearers, “did
you see anything of our friends in
heaven?” Oh, yes, I did. “Did you see
my children there?” says someone, "and
are there any marks of their last sickness
still upon them?” I did see them, but
there was no pallor, no cough, no fever,
no languor about them. They are all well,
and ruddy, and songful, and bounding
with eternal mirth. They told me to
give their love to you; that they thought
of you hour by hour, and that when they
could be excused from the heavenly play
grounus they came down and hovered
over you, and kissed your cheek, and
tilled your dreams with their glad faces,
and that they would be at the gate to
greet you when you ascended to be with
them forever.
“But,” says the voice, “did you see our
gloriiied friends?” Yes. I saw them, and
they are well in the land across which no
pneumonias, or palsies, or dropsies, or ty
phoids ever sweep. The aroma blows
over from orchids with trees bearing
twelve manner of fruits, and gardens,
compared with which Chatsworth is a
desert. ‘The climate is a mingling of an
earthly June and October; the balm of
the one and the tonic of the other. The
social life in that realm where they are is
superb and perfect. No controversies, or
jealousies, or hates; but love, universal
love, everlasting love. And they told me
to tell you not to weep for them, for their
happiness knows no bound, and it is only
a question of time when you shall reign
with them in the same palace, and join
with them in the same exploration of
planets, and the same tour of worlds.
But yonder in this assembly is an up
turned face that seems to ask how about
the ages of 1 hose in heaven. "Do my de
parted children remain children, or have
they lost their childish vivacity? I’o ray
departed parents remain aged, or have
they lost the venerable out of their
nature?” Well, from what I saw I think
chilohood had auvanced to full maturity
of facu.ty, retaining all the resilience of
chilohood, and that the aged had retreat
ed to mid-life, freed from all decadence,
but still retaining the charm of the vener
able. Iu other words, it was fully devel
oped and complete life of all" souls,
whether young or old.
Someone says, “Will you tell us what
most impressed you in heaven?” I will.
I was most impressed with the reversal
of earthly conditions. I knew, of course,
that there would bo differences of attire
and residence in heaven, for Paul had de
clared long ago that souls would then dif
fer "as one star diftereth from another,”
as Mars from Mercury, as Saturr. from
Jupiter. But at every step in my dream
in heaven I was ama ed to see that some
who were expected to be high in heaven
were low down, aud some who 'were ex
pected to be low down were high up. You
thought, for instance, that those born of
pious parentage, and -of naturally
good disposition, aud of brilliant
faculties, aud of all _ styles
of attractiveness, will move "in "the
highest range of celestial spl udor and
pomp. No. no. I found the highest
Utioties. the brightest coronets, the
richest mansions, were o copied by those
who had reprobate father, or bad mo.her.
and who inherited the twis.ed natures of
ten generations of miscreants, and who
had compressed in their body all depraved
appetites, and all evil propensit.es, but
they laid hold of God's arm, they cried
lor especial mercy, they conquered seven
devils within and seventy devils without,
aud were washed iu the blood of ihe
Lamb, and by so much as their contest
was terrific, and awful, and pro ix, their
victory was consummate and resplendent,
and they have taken olaces immeasurably
higher than those of good parentage, who
could hardly help being good, because
they had ten genera ions of preceding
piety to aid them, ihe steps by which
many have mounted to the highest places
in hoa>eu were made out of the cradles of
a corrupt parentage When 1 saw that,
I said to my attending angel, "That is
fair: that is right, 'ihe harder the strug
gle. the more glorious the reward.”
Then I pout tt*it to one of the most colon
naded aud grandly-domed residences in
all the city and said, "Who lives there?”
and tho answer was. "ihe widow who
gave two mites.” “Aud who lives there?”
and the answer was, “l’ha penitent thief
to whom Christ said, 'This day shalt thou
be with me in paradise. And who
lives there!” I said, and the answer was,
"The blind beggar who prayed, ‘Lord,
that m,y eyes may be opened ’ ”
some of those professors of religion
who were famous on earth 1 asked about,
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY' o, 1894.
but no one could tell me anything con
cerning them. Their names were not
even in tho city directory of the New Je
rusalem. The' fact is, that i suspected
some of them had not got there at all.
Many who had ten talents were living on
the back stn ets of heaven, while many
with one t dent had residence fronting on
\ the King's Park, and a back lawn slop
ing to the River Clear as Crystal, and the
highest nobility of heaven were guests at
their table, ana often the white horse of
him who "hath the moon under his feet”
champed its bit at their doorway. In
finite capsize of earthly conditions! All
j social life in heaven graded according to
j earlhiy struggle and usefulness as pro-
I iiortioned to talents given !
As 1 walked through those streets I
j appreciated for the first time what Paul
said to Timothy: “If we suffer, we shall
' also reign with him.” It surprised me
| beyoDd description that all the grpat of
! heaven were greet sufferers. “Not all!”
Yes, all. Moses, him of the Red Sea, a
great sufferer. David, him of Absalom's
unlilial behavior and Ahithopel's be
trayal. and a nation's dethronement, a
great sufferer. Ezekiel, him of the cap
tivity, who had the dream on the banks
of the Chebar, a great sufferer. Paul,
him of the diseased eyes, and the Medi
terranean the Mars Hill
derision, and the Mamerline eudungeon
ment, and the whipped back and the
headsman’s ax on the road to Ostia,
a great sufferer. Yea, all the
apostles after lives of suffering died
by violence, beaten to death with ful
ler's club, or dragged to death by mobs,
or from the thrust of sword, or by ex
posure on barren island, or by decapita
tion. Ail the high up in heaven great
sufferers and women more than, men,
Felicitas. and St. Cecelia, and St. Agnes,
and St. Agatha, and St. Lucia, and
women never heard of outside their own
neighborhood, queens of the needle, and
the broom, and the scrubbing brush, aDd
the wash-tub, and the dairy, rewarded
according to how well they did their
work whether to set a tea-table or govern
a na .on, whether empress or milk maid.
I could not get over it as in my dream I
saw all this, and that some of the most
unknown of earth were the most famous
in heaven, aud that many who seemed the
greatest failures of earth were the greatest
successes of heaven. And as we passed
along one of the grandest boulevards
of heaven, there approached us a group
of persons so radiant in countenance and
apparel I had to shade my eyes with both
hands because 1 could not endure the lus
ter and I said: "Angel! do tell me who
they are?” and the answer was: “These
are they who came out of great tribula
tion and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the lamb!”
My walk through the city explained a
thousand things on earth that had been
to me inexplicable. When I saw up there
tho superior delight aud the superior
heaven of many who had on earth had it
hard with cancers, and bankruptiees, and
persecutions, and trials of all sorts, I said,
"God has equalized it all at last; excess
of enchantment in heaven has more than
made up for the deficits on ourth.”
"But,” I said to my angelic escort, “I
must go now. It is Sabbath morning on
earth and I must preach to-day and be in
my pulpit by half past ten o’clock. Good
by,” 1 said to the attending angel.
"Thanks for what you have shown me. I
know 1 have seen only iu part, but I hope
to return again, through the atoning
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Good
by.”
Then I passed on amid chariots of salva
tion, and along by conquerors’ thrones,
and amid pillared majesties, and by win
dows of agate, aud under arches that had
beau uoisted for returned victors. And
as I came toward the walls with the
gates, the walls flashed upon me with
emeralds, and sapphires and chrysoprases
and amethysts, until I trembled under the
glory, and then 1 heard a bolt shove, aud
a latch litt, and a gate swing, and they
were all of pearl, and I passed out loaded
with raptures, aud down by worlds lower
and lower, and lower still, until I came
within sight of the city of my earthly
residence, and until through the window
of my earthly homo the sun poured so
strong upon ray pillow that my eyelids
felt it, and in bewilderment as to where I
was, and what 1 had seen, I awoke.i
Reflection the first: The superiority of
our heaven to all other heavens. The
Scandinavian heaven: The departed are
in everlasting battle, except as restored
after being cut to pieces, they drink wine
out of tiie skulls of their enemies. The
Moslem heaven as described by the
i\oran: "There shall be Houris with
largo black eyes like pearls hidden in
their shells.” The Slav’s heaven: After
death the soul hovers six weeks about
the body, and than climbs a steep moun
tain, on the top of which is paradise.
The Tasmanian's heaven: A spear is
placed by the dead, that they m3y have
something to light with, and after awhile
they go into along chase for game of all
sorts. The Tahitian's heaven: The de
parted are eaten up of the gods. The
native African heaven: A land of shadows,
and in speaking of the departed
they say, all is done forever. The
American aborigine's heaven; Happy
hunting grounds, to which the soul goes
on a bridge of snake, The philosopher’s
heaven: Made out of a thick fog, or an
infinite don’t-know. But hearken! and
behold our heaven, which, though mostly
described by figuresof speech in the Bible
and by parable of a dream in this dis
course, has for its chief characteristics,
seporation from all that is vile; abscence
from all that can discomfort; presence of
all that can gratulate. No mountains to
climb: no chasms to bridge; no night to
illumine; no tears to wipe. Scandinavian
heaven, Slav's heaven, Tasmanian
heaven, Tahitian heaven, African heaven,
aborigines’ heaven, scattered into tame
ness and disgust by a glimpse of Saint
John's heaven, of Paul's heaven, of
Christ's heaven, of your heaven, of my
heaven.
Reflection the second: You had better
take patiently and cheerfully all pangs,
affronts, hardships, persecutions and
trials of earth since if rightly born they
insure heavenly payments of ecstacy.
Every twinge of physical distress, every
lie told about you, every earthly sub
traction if meekly borne, will be heav
enly addition. If you want to amount to
anything In heaven, aud to move in its
host society you must he "perfected
through suffering. - ’ The only earthly
currency worth anything at the gate of
heaven is the silver of tears. At the top
of all heaven sits the greatest sunerer.
Christ of the Bethlehem caravansary and
of l J Hate's Oyer and terminer, aud of the
Calvarean assassiuation.
What he endured, O. who can tell?
To save our souls from death and hell.
O, ye of the broken heart, aud the dis
appointed ambition, and the shattered
fortune, and the blighted life, take com
fort irom what I saw in my tjabbath
morning dream.
Reflection the third and last: How de
sirable that we all get there! Start this
moment with prayer and penitence and
faith in Christ, who came from heaven to
earth to lane us from earth to heaven,
i East summer, a year ago, I preached one
; Sabbath afternoon in Hyde Park, Loudon,
to a great multitude that no man could
; number. Hut 1 heard nothing from it
I until a few wce.es ago. when Rev. Mr.
Cook, who lor twenty years has presided
[ over that Hyde l ark out-door meeting.
; told me that last winter going through a
hospital In London ho saw a dying man
whose lace brightened as ho told him that
his heart was changed that anentoon
Important to Florida Tourists.
The Everett Hotel. Jacksonville, Florida,
largest and leading hotel In the cl.y. has re
fluted ihe rales to *3 per day on two
hundred tootns. One hundred rooms with
lulh. en si..te. especially adapted to families,
the Everett is the most expensively
equipped hotel in Jacksonville ,kt serv
ice. attendance and cuia.no are of the
highest order, and equal toother hotel# charg
ing |4 and $5 per day.-ad.
under my sermon in Hyde Park, and a 1
was bright now at his departure irom
earth to heaven. Why may not the Lord
bless this as well as that? Heaven as I
dreamed about it: ‘and as I read about it,
is so benign a realm you cannot any of you
afford to miss it. Oh, will it not be tran
acendently glorious after the struggle of
this life is over to stand in that eternal
safety. Samuelltutherford. though they
viciously burned his books and un justly
arrested him for treason, wrote of that
celestial spectacle:
The king there in his beauty.
Without avail is seen:
It were a well sp ;nt journey.
Though seven deaths lav between.
The lim/i with his fair army
Doth on Mount /ijii stand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
in Immanuel s land.”
TALLAHASSEE ITEMS.
Preparing to Open a New Mail Route.
Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 4 —The Florida
School Journal, a sixteen-page monthly,
it is said, will appear next month. Prof.
J. T. Mcßeatb, secretary of the depart
ment of education, will be its editor.
Col. L. M. Terrell, of Atlanta, and sup
erintendent of the United States mail for
the southern division, is looking over the
Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Gulf railroad,
with a view to arranging for daily mail
service on the new road to Carrabelle and
thence by steamer to Apalachicola.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Fuller, of
Troy. N. Y.. are guests of Mr. Theodore
R. Geer, auditor of the Carrabelle, Talla
hassee and Gulf railroad. Mr. Fuller is
prominent in New York politics and has
been city engineer of Troy for twenty-five
years.
Col. John Bradford, state engineer, has
returned from an inspection of the exten
sion of tho South Florida railroad from
Juliette to High Springs.
Sportsmen at the Leon shoot birds al
most daily. From the record the follow
ing double bags are taken: Upson and
Babcock 64, Upson and Nelson 68, Upson
and Hussy 60, Atherton and Ewing 46,
Ellis and Carroll 44.
Capt. Jas. R. Pickett and Capt. B. R.
Sbarit left yesterday for Mobile to bring
the steamer Crescent City-to Carrabelle,
to run between that port and Apalachi
cola, in connection with the Carrabelle,
Tallahassee and Georgia railroad.
TOURISTS AT THOMASVILLE. Q
There are Plenty of Them at That
Winter Resort.
Thomasville, Ga., Feb. 4.—Paul Bour
get, the French author, is spending the
winter at the Piney Woods.
John Lester killed in two days, on and
near lanionia lake, fifteen ducks and 186
quail.
Mayor Hopkins has presented a fine
crayon picture of Henry Grady to the
Thomasville Library.
Sixty cocks have already gone down to
Charlie Davis.' across the Florida line,
from Thomasville and Albany, for the
great main next Tuesday.
Roses and many other flowers are
blooming profusely in Thomasville. Peach
trees are also blooming.
The farmers are exhibiting unusual ac
tivity and cheerfulness in their opera
tions in Thomas county.
J. I. Parker recently killed enough hogs
to make 12.000 pounds of pork. Thomas
county could ship many fine hogs to a
nearby packing house.
Gardeners are planting now freely.
The season is especially favorable.
J. S. Norton, the largest trucker in the
county, will put in forty acres in Irish
potatoes.
Thomasville Is said, by those who ought
to know, to have more tourists than any
resort in the south. The attendance even
here, though, is not the best.
Fatally Injured by a Horse.
Bainbridge, Ga., Feb. 4.—This after
noon Willie Brocket, a lad about 17 years
old, who for the past three years has
been employed in a printing office in this
city, while out horse-back riding near tho
Savannah, Florida and Western depot,
had his horse frightened by a child play
ing in the street. Brocket was thrown
to the ground and the horse stepped on
him, which caused internal injuries and
resulted in his death in a few hours.
ME DI C A^T^
Mr. Simeon Staples
“I Had a Running Soro
On my ankle five years, the doctors tro
bouncing it salt rheum. It continued to in
crease in size, until I commenced taking
Blood’s Sarsaparilla, and using Hood’s Olive
Hood’s Cures
Ointment. In two years I was completely
cured and have had no trouble withitsince.”
Simeon Staples, East Taunton, Mass.
Hood’s Pills cure liver ills, biliousness,
fick headache, aud constipation. 25c.
HARRIS’ LITHIA^VATErT^
For Sale at the Following Drug Stores:
Wheeler's Pharmacy,
Adams Paint and Drug Cos.
Solomons Si Cos., Bull Street Branch.
William M. Mills.
Masonic Temple Pharmacy.
L. C. Strong.
R. A. Rowllnskl.
Thisoelebrated water has no equal in the
United States for curing Dyspepsia, Consti
pation, Liver Complaint. Gout, Diseases of
the Kidneys and Bladder and all Diseases
of the Blood.
EST. S. W. BRANCH,
Agents.
NOTICE.
Savannah, Ga.. Feb. 3 1894
The partnership heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned, under the firm name
of RAYMOND JUDGE & CO., has this day
boen dissolved by mutual consent. The busi
ness will be continued by RAY MOND JUDGE
on his own account under the old firm name
of RAYMOND JUDGE & CO., and he will
take all of the assets and assume all of tho
liabilities of the old firm of RAYMOND
JUDGE A CO. [Signed!
RAYMOND JUDGE.
D. P. MCINTYRE.
MEDICAL.
THE OLD FRIEND
with red 7. on every package. It's the King
of Liver Medicines, is better than pills, ana
takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. Take
nothing offered you as a substitute. J. H.
ZhiI.IN A CO., proprietors. Philadelphia.
FUNBRAL_I NVim ONS.
SHAFFER.—The relatives and friends of
O. T. Shaffer and family. J. R Tebeau and
family and J. I). Seckinger are invited to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. anna M. Shaffer.
wife of the former, from Grace church, THIS
AFTERNOON at 3:30 o'cloik.
-
HE KALB LODGE No. 9,1. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will beheld
THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock, In Odd Fellows’
Hall.
Visiting brothers are invited to meet with
us. JOHN RILEY, N. G
•Tno. W. Smith, Secretary.
~ SPECIAL NOTICES^
R E. HARDEE,
Analytical and Consulting Chemist.
General analytical work solicited. Special
attention given commercial fertilizers and
chemicals used in their manufacture: also,
crude phosphate rock. Laboratory—Room
No. 31. Provident Building, savannah. Ga.
References, by permission—Dr. H. C. White.
Chemist. Athens. Ga.: Mr. Joseph Hull, of
Comer. Hull A Cos., Manufacturers of Com
mercial Fertilizers, Savannah. Ga.
NOTICE
In Regard to New Improvements, Etc.,
Made During the Year 1893.
City Treasurer’s Office, Jan. 8. 1894.—The
Assessment Book containing valuations of
real estate and improvements and property
of every kind not previously assessed, new
buildings erected and additions and Improve
ments made since the last regular assessment,
mot including property in the extended
limits! Is now open for Inspection in this of
fice and notice is hereby given to all con
cerned to tile their objections, if any they
have.within thirty days from this date, other
wise the assessments therein contained, will
be final and conclusive as establishing the
value by which to estimate the tax to be col
lected. Objections must be made in writing
and addressed to the ASSESSMENT COM
MITTEE and left with the Clerk of Council.
C. S. HARDEE.
City Treasurer.
NOTICE TO CONFLICTING POLITICAL
INTERESTS IN CHATHAM COUNTY.
The Registration Commission of Chatham
county will receive on or before February
10th. 1894, s g testions in writing of names of
persons eligible for appointment as Regis
trars. as provided by the Act of the Genoral
Assembly of Georgia, approved Dec. 12, 1898.
ROBERT FALLIGANT,
Judge Superior Court. Chatham Cos.,
A. H. MACDONELL.
Judge City Court of Savannah,
HAMPiON L. FERRILL,
Ordinary. Chatham Cos.,
Registration Commission.
NOTTCBh
City of Savannah, Office City Engineer,
Feb. 2.lß94.—Proposals will be received by
F. E. Rebarer, Esq.. Clerk of Council, until 12
o'clock m. (city time), Fen. 14. 1894. to pave
Jefferson street, from south side of Charlton
street to north side of Henry street,
with granite blocks, in accordance with pian
and specifications to be seen at the office of
the City Engineer. Approximate number of
square yards to be paved, eleven thousand
seven hundred (11,703). Propositions will be
received to do said work for ell cash, and for
part cash, balance in notes running from one
(I) to two (2) yearsatslx (0i percent, interest.
Propositions will also be received for fur
nishing granite blocks, f. o b. Savannah, Ga..
for all cash, or part cash balance in notes
running from one (1) to (2) years at six (6)
per cent, interest.
The city reserves the right to reject any or
all 1 Us. or to a-cept a portion of said bids.
For further information apply to
W. J. WINN, City Engineer.
By order of City Council.
NOTICE IN REGARD TO ASSESSMENT
OF CERTAIN PROPERTY NORTH OF
ANDERSON STREET EXTENDED.
City Treasurer s Office, Savannah, Ga.. Jan.
29. 1894.—Notice is hereby given that the
assessment book filed in this office Jan 12.
1894, and covered by the resolution of Council
passed Jan. 17. 1894, contains valuations of
real estate aad improvements not heretofore
assessed for taxation, lying between Ander
son street, as extended, and Wheaton street,
and east of the tracks of the Savannah,
l* lorida and Western Railroad Company, the
same Leing in the wards known as the At
lantic. Johnston. Kefly, Haywood, Schley.
Weed. Padelford and Telfair wards. This
assessment, for the property mentioned in
this notice, is open for inspection in this
office, and notice is hereby given to all con
cerned to tile their objections, if any they
have, within thirty days from this date.
Otherwise the assessment mentioned will be
final and conclusive as establishing the valve
by which to estimate the tax to be collected
for the year 1894. Objections must be made
in writing and addressed to the assessment
committee, and left with the clerk of council.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
NOTICE
In Regard to the Assessment of Property
in the Extended Limits.
City Treasurer s Office. I
Savannah. Ga.. Jan. 22. 1891. |
The Assessment Book containing valua
tions of real estate and improvements of
every kind in ivhat is commonly known as
the extended limits of the city of Savannah,
being the property covered by the act of the
Legislature of Georgia approved Sept. 21,
1883. as amended, is now open for Inspection
in this office, and notice is hereby given to
all concerned to file their objections, if any
they have, within thirty days from this date,
otherwise the assessments therein contained
will be final and conclusive as establishing
the value by which to estimate the tax to be
collected. Objections must be made in writ
ing and addressed to the Assessment Com
mittee and left wi hthc Clerk of Council.
C. S. HARDi-E, City Treasuer.
APPLICATIONS FOR LIQUOR LICENSE
City of Savannah, Office Clerk of Council, I
February 1. 18 4. f
The following applications to retail liquor
during the year 1894 were referred to the
committee of the whole at meeting of Jan. 31.
1894:
J. F. Ehrlicher, n. e. cor. Drayton and Lib
erty street taue.
G. T. Erickson. 109 Broughton, between
Bull and Drayton sts.
Jno. F. Haudly, Margaret and Farm sts.
J. M. Lange, n. w. cor. Liberty st. lane and
East Broad st.
Chtls, Adolph and Otto Nell, 6q Barnard,
between Hrvan and Bay tone.
Frank Pollard, w. cor. East Broad and
Harris sts.
Jos. erpa. s e. cor Hull and Price sts.
Michael Shields. 18 j Reynolds st., between
Broughton and Congress sts.
Ja.ob choen, s. w. cor. East Broad and
Harris sts.
W. E. Wall, s. e. cor. Bryan and Farm sta.
F. E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
PRINTERS AND BOOK3 NJEHS.
SEP- M. HICHOLS,
. PFJIWT6KG,
binding,
BLANK BOOKS.
03* Bay St. Savanna*.
awusehzw^^
SAVANNAH THEATER.
=r—-"TUESDAY AND WKDXESDAY=
Matinee and Night,
Feb. 6 and 7.
First appearance in this city of the young
comedian,
MR. JAMES K. HACKETT
and his superb company, presenting the
greatest of all M bdisoi Square
Theater successes,
TUg Private Secretary
Indisputably the best performance ever given
of the laughable comedy.—N. Y. World.
How s your liver? Do you know? All
laughter.
Seats at Livingston's. Feb. 3.
Next Attraction—Mr. Potter of Texas, Feb. 8.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
THURSDAY, FEB. 8,
“I. POTTER Of TEXAS,”
By A. C. GUNTER,
Author of "Mr. Barnes of New York," etc.
Under the management of STEVE LEACH.
Special scenery representing .
“The Venetian Palazzo,”
"The Hotel at Folkestone,”
"The English Channel,”
and the
"Harbor at Bolojne. France.”
Direct from the Star Theater, New York.
Seats at Livingston's. Feb. 8.
Next Attraction—“McCarthy's Mishaps,"
Feb. 12.
NOTICES.
CONSULTING OPTICIANS.
A STARTLING FACT,
That very few persons have perfect eyes. It
must be evident that it requires both knowl
edge and skill to know what the eyes need
and to fit them properly with glasses. Those
who trust this work to uninstructed dealers
are criminally careless of the most valuable
of all the senses, their sight. In addition to
graduating in Germany and my thirty yeara’
practical experience I have taken a course
and graduated in a school of optics in New
York and learned the latest and best methods
of ascertaining the different defects of the
eyes and their proper correction, so that I
can fit you properly with glasses that will
strengthen and Improve your eyesight instead
of rapidly ruining It. as poorly fitted glasses
will always do. No charge for examination.
DR. M. SCHWAB * SON,
Graduated Optician*
■No. 23 Bull Street.
T SPECIAL NOTICES. ~
IN A NEW LOCALITY.
I beg to notify my friends and the public
generally that I have just opened the store
on the southeast corner of East Broad and
Broughton streets, and will keep on hand a
full stock of Groceries, Liquors and Cigars.
It is my intention to keep only the very best,
and hence for my leading cigar I w ju i{ ee p
the celebrated LE PANTO. They will be
sold at five cents each. Call In and see me.
J. F. HEITMAN,
Corner East Broad and Broughton streets.
GOOD LOTS CHEAP.
Lots 30x117 on Eighth and Ninth streets for
S3OO, $325 and *350.
Terms, $25 cash and $lO per month.
C. H. DORSETT.
*- -- TURKEYS.
Choice Lot
DRESSED TURKEYS
to arrive thie morning.
WM. G. COOPER,
28 Whitaker Street.
NOTICE.
City Treasurer's Office, I
Savannah. Ga.. Jan. 81. 1894. [
All persons who have been double taxed
under the tax and revenue laws of the city of
Savannah for the year 1894 may appeal to
Council within thirty days from this date.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
FRESH FLOWER SEED,
SKED PANS
and
FLOWER POTS.
J. GARDNER,
118 Broughton Street.
ONION SETS.
Peas. Beans. Cabbages, and all other Vege
table Seeds, warranted fresh and true to
name; Flower Seeds, with full direction for
planting, just received.
SOLOMONS A CO.
Use Phosphatlque for the nerves.
A SIMPLE REQUEST.
My customers will confer a favor by giving
my drivers orders for
gw-JTagfe. SEA FOAM SOAP
You will readily appreciate the high
quality of this soap. It is absolutely free
from all adulterations, and it Is the on y
laundry soap that Is perfumed. Don't forget
the name of "Sea Foam.”
JAMES G. NELSON,
Manager of the Branch Estate,
Brout-hton and Whitaker streets.
AND
DANVILLE R, R.
The Greatest Southern System.
IMPROVED schedules Through first-class
coaches between Savannah and Asheville.
N. C.. for Hot springs and other Western
Carolina points.
Also to Walhalla and Greenville, S. C., and
Intermediate points via Columbia.
Quick time and Improved service to Wash
ington New York and the r.agt.
Only line In the south operating solid vestl
buled limited trains with Pullman dining curs.
cou te d*uy fast trains be.ween New .oik,
Philadelphia Baltimore Washington. Char
lotte, Colum: la. Savannah, and Jacksonville
and Tampa. Fla carrying Pullman drawing
room cars between Savannah and New York
on all thro gh trains Aso dining cars be
tween savannah and Washington on trains 37
and 38
W. A. TURK. G. P. A. Washington. D. a
i- U. HAR D WiCK t A. G. P. A-, Allan la, Ga.
SHOES.
S 2.8 5
Will purchase yeur choice
of a large lot of Men’s
Shoes, in Lace and Con
gress, every pair warranted
for good wear.
AC-, -
§3.00
Will buy your choice of a
handsome assortment of
Ladies’ Shoes.
This is an absolute, bonafide
CLOSING OUT SALE,
as we Intend moving to our new store shortly,
s. e. corner Broughton and Whitaker streets,
and we do not intend to carry over there a
single pair of our present stock, Now is your
chance.
BYCK BROS
17 Whitaker Street.
BANKS.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital $600,000.
Transacts a general banking: business.
Maintains a Savings Department aud al
low* INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., com
pounded quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, firms, banka
and corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspond
ents In GKOIiUIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA
and SOUTH CAROLINA, we arc prepared
to handle collections on the most favora
ble terms.
Correspondence invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, President
M. 11. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
Savannah Savings Bank,
CORNER ST. JULIAN AND WHITAKER
STREETS.
PAYS
ON DEPOSITS.
W. K. W ILKINSON, President
C. 8. ROCKWELL, Treasurer.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST CC.
SAVANNAH, GA.
INTEREST AT
4%
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART*
MENT.
Collections on Savannah and all south
ern points, we handle on the most favora
ble terms aud remit at lowest exchange
ra-.es on day of payment. Correspond
ence solicited.
JOSEPH D. WEED, President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Vice President
JAMES H. HUNTER. Cashier.
SPECIALIST.
Dr. Broadfoot,
SPECIALIST,
Has passed the experimental stage, and ia
now acting with full knowledge of what hs
can do. His straightforward course has rec
ommended him to the public and his marvel
ous success in the treatment of tho most deli
cate diseases which are peculiar to men and
women and are private in their nature, has
made him a reputation as a true specialist. His
&Buccassß baa
culmin a t c and
in an entire
new and ef
fective treat
ment for prl
va te. s k in.
bl o o and and
n e rvous di
seases. such
as spe c i tl o
Mood poison,
spe c lfl c u
r e t h r i tes,
stricture, hy
drocele. var
icocele. ec*-
em a. pim
ples, ulcers,
piles and di
seases of
worn en. If
you can not
call at his of
fice write to him and he will send you symp
tom blank No 1 for men: No. 2 for women; No.
3 for skiu diseases, from which your case can
be properly understood. If possible call at
his office. Consultation costs you nothing
and terms of treatment are within reach ®*
all. Address or call on
DR. BROADFOOT.
136 Broughton St., Savannah. Ga.
Hours—to 12, 2to 6, and 7to 9. Sundays,
10 to L
FOR SALE-
Empty Syrup Barrels
FOR S ALE BY
C.M. GILBERT & CO.,
Corner Bay and West Broad streets.
How Are Your Office Supplies?
WAX! ANYTHING FOB NBXT W*EK,
OR IN A HURRY?
If so, send your orders for
PRINTINO, LITH39NAPHINS i BLANK BOOK!
To MORNINfi NEWS, Savannah, (ia.