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TAiMAGE ON THE TAJ MAHAL
Twenty Thoas >nd Sen Twenty Years
Building It
It* Cot 860,000.000 The Famous
Structure Built by a Shah a* a Tomb
for His Beautiful Queen -The Threat
of the English to Blow the Taj to
Atoms Ended the Disposition for Mu
tiny at Agra During the Dark Days of
18S7-A Visit to the Youns Hen's
Christian Association Booms at Bom
bay.
Brooklyn, Jan. B—ln continuing his
series of 'Round-the-World sermons,
through the press. Key. Dr. Taimage to
day chose for his subject: "Tomb and
Temple,” haing reference to that most
famous an-1 beautiful of mausoleums, the
Taj Mahal. The text selected was: From
India Even Unto Ethiopia," Esther 1; 1.
In all the Bible this Is the only book
In which the word India occurs, hut It
stands for a realm of vast Interest in the
time of Esther as In our time. It yielded
then as now, spires and silk, and cotton,
end rice, and indigo, and ores of all
r.ehnees, and precious stones of all sparkle
and had a civilization of its ow n as marked
as Egyptian or Grecian or Homan civ
ilization. It holds the costliest tomb ever
built, and the most unique and wonderful
Idolatrous temple ever oiwned. For prac- j
tlcal lessons, in this my sixth discourse
In “ ’Round-the-World” seri-s, 1 show
you that tomb and temple of India.
In a Journey around the world it may
wot be easy to tell the exa< t point which
divides the pilgrimage into halves. Hut j
• here was one structure toward which i
we were all the time traveling, and hav- j
Ing seen that, we felt that If we saw noth- j
ing more, our expedition would be a sue- 1
cess. That one object was the Taj Mahal
of India! It is the crown of the whole
earth. The spirits of architecture met
ifo enthrone a king, and the spirit of the
{Parthenon of Athens was there; and the
Spirit of St. Sophia of Constantinople was
jthere; and the spirit of St. Izauk of St.
B’etersburg was there; and the spirit of
the Baptistry of Pisa was there; and the
spirits of the Great Pyramids and of
Luxor Obelisk, and of the Porcelain Town r
of Nankin, and of St. Mark's of Venice;
and the spirits of all the great towers,
great cathedrals, great mausoleums, great j
sarcophagi, great capltola for the living. |
and of great necropolises for the dead, j
were here. And the presiding genius of !
the throng with a gavel of I’arian murhle !
•mote the table of Russian malachite, '■
and called the throng of spirits to order, (
and called for a vote as to which spirit
should wear the chief crown, and mount [
the chief throne, and wave the chief \
Sceptre, anil by unanimous acclaim ;
the-cry was; “Dong live the spirit of the
Taj, king of all the spirits of architecture!
Thine is the Taj Mahal of India!”
The building Is about six miles from
Agra, and as we rode out In the early
dawn we heard nothing but the hoofs and
wheels that pulled and turned us along
the road, at every yard of which our ex
pectation* rose until we hud some thought
that we might be disappointed at the lirst
glimpse, as some say they were disap
pointed. But how can any one be disap
pointed with the Taj Is almost as great
a wonder to me as the Taj itself. There
arc some people always disappointed, and
wlio knows but that having entered heaven
they may criticise the architecture of the
temple, and tiie cut of the white robes,
and say that the River of Life is not quite
up to their expectations, and that the
white 'horses on which the conquerors
ride seem a little spring-halt or spavined?
My son sutd, "There It is!” I said,
“Where?” For that which he saw to be
the building seemed to me to he more
hke the morning cloud blushing under
the stare of the rising sun. It seemed not
no much built up from earth as let down
from heaven. Fortunately, you stop
at an elaborated gateway of red sand
stone, one-elglith of a mile from the Taj,
an entrance so high, so arched, so grace
ful, so four-domed, so painted and
chiseled, and scrolled that you come
very gradually upon the Taj, which struc
ture is enough to intoxicate the eye, and
• tun the imagination, and entrance the
eoul. We go up the winding stairs of this
majestic entrance of the gate-way, and
buy a few pictures and examine a few
curios, and from it look off upon the Taj,
swid descend to the pavement of the gar
den that raptures everything between the
gate-way and the ecslacy of marble and
precious stones. You pass along a deep
stream of water in which all manner of
brilliant fins swirl and float. There are
eighty-four fountains that spout, and
bend, and arch themselves to fall in show
ers of pearl in basins of snowy whiteness.
Beds of all imaginable flora greet the
nostril before they do the eye, and seem
to roll in waves of color as you advance
towaiU the vision you are soon to have
of what human genius did when It did
its best; moon flowers, lilacs, marigolds,
tulips, and almost everywhere the lotus;
• hicket3 of bewildering bloom; on either
eide trees from many lands bend their
aborescence over your head, or seem with
convoluted branches to reach out their
arms toward you in welcome. On and
on you go amid tamarind, arid cypress,
and poplar, and oleander, and yew, and
sycamore, and banyan, and palm, and
trees of such novel branch, and leaf and
girth, you cease to ask their name or na
tivity. As you approach the door of the
Taj one experiences a strange sensation
of awe, and tenderness, and humility, and
worship. The building is only a grave, but
what a grave! Built for a queen, who, ac
cording to some was very good, and ac
cording to others was very bad. I choose
to think she was very good. At any rate
It makes me feel better to think that this
commemorative pile was set up for the
Immortalization of virtue rather than
vice. The Taj is a mountain of white mar
ble, but never such walls faced each
other with exquisiteness; never such a
tomb was cut from block of alabaster;
never such a congregation of precious
Btones brightened, and gloomed, and
blazed, and chastened and glorified a
building since sculptor's chisel cut its
first curve, or painter's pencil traced its
first figure, or mason's plumb-line meas
ured its first wall, or architect’s compass
swept its first circle.
The Taj has sixteen great arChed win
dows, four at each corner. Also at each of
the four corners of the Taj stands a min
aret 137 feet high. Also at each side of this
building is a splendid mosque of red sand
stone. Two hundred and fifty years has
the Taj stood, and yet not a wall is
cracked, nor a mosaic loosened, nor an
arch sagged, nor a panel dulled. The
storms of 250 winters have not marred,
nor the heats of 25u summers disintegrated
a marble. There is no story of age writ
ten mosses on its* white surface. Jlon
taz the queen, was beautiful, urui Shah
Jehan, the king, here proposed to let all
the centuries of time know it. She was
married at twenty years of age and died
at twenty nine. Her life ended as another
life began; as the rose bloomed the rose
bush perished. To adorn this dormitory of
the dead, at the command of the king,
Bagdad sent to this building its corne
lian, and Ceylon its lapis lazuli, and Pun
jab its jasper, and Persia its amethyst,
and Thibet its turquoise, and Datika its
aapphife, and Yemen its agate, and Pu-
nah its diamonds; and blood-stones, and
sadonyz, and chalcedony, and moss agate
are as common as though they were peb
bles. You find one spray of \ine beset with
eighty, and another with one hundred
stones. Twenty thousand men wi-|- tw*n
j ty years in building it, and a; hough the
i labor was slave labor, ar.d not paid for.
, the building eost what would be about
i Ji. M*n,(Vd of our American money, gome
; of the Jewels have hweii pi< kt-d out of the
wall by Incono'dasts or conquerors. and
substitutes of less value have taken tli ir
places; but the vims, the tra-erles. Ihe
■ arabesques, the spandrels, the entabla
tures are so wondrous that you feel like
dating the rest of your Iff*- from the day
i you first saw them. In letters of black
marble the whole of the Koran is spelled
out in and on this august pile. The king
sleeps in the tomb beside the queen, al
though he Intended to build a palace as
hlai k as this was white on the opposite
I side of tlte river for himself to sleep in.
! Indeed, the foundation of such a l.< ro
polls of black marble is still* there, and
from the white to th>- black temule of th*
; dead a bridge was to cross; but the son
dethroned him and Imprisoned him. and it
is wonderful that the klog had an 1 ' place
, at all in which to be burled. Instead of
windows to let in the light ti| on the two
j tombs, there is a tretlls-work of marble,
marble cut so delicately thin that the
shines through it as easily as through
glass. Book the world over and find so
much translucency; canopies, traceries,
la' i -work, embroideries of stone.
*
I ante of this Taj, and so I tried it. I sup
i lose there are more sleeping echoes in
that building waiting to he awakened by
the human voice than in any building
ever constructed. 1 uttered one word, and
; there seemed descending invisible choirs
I in full chant, and there was a l - veritera
! tlon that kept on Bong after one would
I have expected it to eease. When a iitie of
! a hymn was sing there were replying,
rolling,rising, falling, interweaving sounds
that seemed modulated by beings seraphic.
There were aerial sopranos and bassos,
! soft, high, deep, tremulous, emotional.
! commingling, it was like an antiphons! of
heaven. But there are fyur or live Taj
1 Mahals. It has one appearance at sun
i rise, another at noon, another at sunset,
l and another by moonlight. Indeed, the
! sliver trowel of the moon, and the golden
trowel Ilf the sunlight, and the leaden
trowel of the storm build and rebuild the
glory, so that it never seems twice alike.
It has all moods, all complexions, ail
grandeurs. From ihe top of the Taj, which
Is 250 feet high, springs a spire thirty feet
higher, and that Is enamelled gold. What
an anthem lit eternnal rhythm! Lyrics
and elegies In marble. S< nip lured hosana!
Masonry as of supernatural hands!
Mighty doxology tu stone! 1 shall see
nothing to equal it till I see the Great
White Throne, and on It flint from whose
face the earth and heavens flee away.
The Taj is the pride of India, and espec
ially of Mohammedanism. An English of
ficer at the fortress told tts that when
during the. general mutiny In isr,7 the Mo
hammedans proposed Insurrection at
Agra, the English government aimed the
guns of the fort at the Taj and said, "You
make insurrection, and that same day w.
will blow your Taj to atoms;” and that
threat ended the disposition for mutiny at
Agra.
But I thought while looking at that
palace for the dead, all this constructed
to cover a handfull of dust.but even
that handful has probably gone from the
mosoleum. How much lx tter It would
have been to expend sixty millions of dol
lars. which the Taj Mahal cost, for the
living. What asylums It might have built
for the sick, wdial houses for the borne
less! \\ hat Improvement our century
has made upon other centuries in lift
ing In honor of the departed memorial
churches, memorial hospitals, memorial
reading rooms, memorial observatories.
By all possible means let us keep the
memory of departed loved ones fresh in
inltxl, and let there be an appropriate
head stone or monument In tlte ceme
tery, but there Is a dividing line be
tween reasonable commemoration and
wicked extravagance. The Taj Mahal
has its uses as an architectural uchlev
ment, eclipsing all other architecture,
but as a memorial of a departed wife
and mother it expresses no more than the
plainest slab In many a country grave
yard. The best monument we can any
of us have built for us when we are
gone is In the memory of those whose
sorrows we have alleviated, in the wounds
we have healed, in the kindness we have
done, in the ignorance we have enlight
ened, in the recreant we have reclaimed,
in the souls we have saved! Such a mon
ument is built out of material more last
ing than marble or bronze, and will stand
amid the eternal splendors long after
the Taj Mahal of India shall hate gone
down In the ruins of a world of which it
was the costliest adornment. But 1
promised to show you not only a tomb
of India, but a unique heathen temple,
and it is a temple underground.
With miner's candle we had seen some
thing of the underside of Australia, as
at Gimpie; and with guide's torch we
had seen at different times something of
the underside of America, as in Mammoth
Cave, but we are now to enter one of
the sacred cellars of India, commonly
called the Klephanta Caves. VVe had it
all to ourselves, the steum yacht that was
to take us about fifteen miles over the
harbor nf ,!ionihay, and between en
chanted islands, and along shores whose
curves and gulches and pictured rocks
gradually prepared the mind for appre
ciation of the the most unique spectacle
in India. The morning had been full of
thunder and lightning and deluge, but
the atmospheric agitations had ceased,
and the cloudy ruins of the storm were
piled up in the heavens, huge enough
and darkly purple enough to make the
skies as grandly picturesque as the
earthly scenery amid which we moved.
After an hour's cutting through the wa
ters we came to the long pier reaching
from the island called Klephanta. It is
an island small of girth, but t>o feet high.
It declines into the marshes of man
grove. But the whole island is one tan
gle of foliage and verdure; convulvulus
creeping the ground; mosses climbing the
rocks; vines sleeving the long arms of
the trees; red flowers here and there in
the woods, like incendiary's torch trying
to set the groves on tire; cactus and
acacia vying as to which r an most charm
the beholder; tropical bird meeting parti
colored butterfly in jungles planted the
same summer the world was born. \Ye
stepped out of the boat amid enough na
tives to afford all the help we needed
I for landing and guidance. You can be
carried by coolies in an easy chair, or
you can walk, if you are blessed with
two stout limbs, which the psalmist ev
idently lacked, or he would not have so
depreciated them, when he said, “The
Lord taketh no pleasure in the legs of a
man.” We passed up some stone steps,
and between the walls we saw awaiting
us a cobra, one of those snakes which
greet the traveler oftimes in India. Two
of the guides left the cobra dead by the
wayside. They must have been Moham
medans. for Hindoos never kill the sa
j cred reptile.
And now we come near the famous tem
! pie hewn from one rock of porphyry at
) least eight hundred years ago. On either
side of the chief temple Is a chapel, these
cut out of the same stone. So vast was
the undertaking, and to the Hindoo was
so great the human impossibility that thev
say the gods scooped out this structure
from the rock, and carved the pillars, and
hewed its shape into gigahtic idols, and
dedicated it to all the grandeurs. We
climb many stone steps before we get to
the gateways. The entrance to this tem
ple has sculptured doorkeepers leaning on
sculptured devils. How strange! But 1
have seen doorkeepers of churches and
auditoriums who seemed to be leaning on
the demons of bad ventilation and asphy
xia. Doorkeepers ought to be leaning on
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1805
the angels of health, and comfort, and
life. All the sextons and janitors of the
earth who have spci.iled sermons and
1* lures, arid poisoned the lungs of audi
ences by inefficiency ought to visit this
Cave of Elephanta and beware of what
these doorkeepers are doing, when instead
of leaning on the angelic, they lean on
the demoniac.
In these Elephanta Caves everything is
on a Samsonian and Titanian scale. With
ehlsels that-were dropped from Dtmlew
hands at least eight hundred centuries
ago. the form“ of the god* Brahma, and
Vishnu, and Siva were cut into the ever
lasting rock. Siva is here represented by
a figure sixteen f-et nine inches high, one
half man and one-half woman. Run a line
from the center of the forehead straight
to th" floor of the rock, and you divide
this idol Into ma.se uline and feminine. Ad
mired as this Idol is by many, it was to
me atiout the worst thing that was ever
cut into porphyry, perhaps, because there
is hardly anything on earth so objection
aide as a being half man and half woman.
Io be one or other, my hearer. Man Is
admirable . and woman is admirable, but I
either In flesh or trap rock a compromise
of the two Is hideous. Save us from ef
feminate men and masculine women!
Yonder is the King Ravana worshipping.
Yonder Is the sculptured representation
of th- marriage of Shiva and I'arhati.
Yonder is Daks ha, th" son of Brahma,
liorn from the thumb of his right hand, i
He had sixty daughters. Seventeen of
those daughters were married to Kasyapa
and became the mothers of the human
race. Yonder Is a god with three heads.
The centt r god has a crown wound with
necklaces of skulls. The right hand god
Is in a paroxysm of rage, with forehead of
snakes, and in its hand is a cobra. The
left hand god has pleasure In ail lis feat
ures and the hand has u flower. But there
are gods and goddesses in all directions.
The chief temple of this rock is one hun
dred ano thirty feet square anti has twen
ty-six pillars rising to the roof. After
the conquerors of other lands, nnd the
tourists lrom all lands have chipped, and
defaced, and blasted, and carried away
curios and mementos for museums and
homes, there are enough entrancements
left to detain one, unless he Is cautious,
until he is down with some of the maluilus
which encompass this Island, or get bit
ten with some of its snakes. Yes. If. it
the chilly dampness of th- place, and left
this congress of gods, this pandemonium
of (lemons, this pantheon of Indifferent
deities, and came to the steps and looked
off upon the waters which rolled and
flashed around the steam yacht, that was
waiting to return with us tu Bombay. As
we stepped aboard, our minds tilled with
the Idols of Hie Elephant a Caves. 1 was
Impressed us never before with the
thought that man must have a religion of
some kind, even if he lias to contrive one
himself, and he must have a god. even
though he make it with his own hand. I
rejoice to know the day will come when
the one God of the Fnivcrso will be
acknowledged throughout India.
That evening of our return to Bombay I
visited the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation with Ihe same appointments that
you find in tlio Yollr.g Men's Christian As
sociations of Europe and America, and
the night after that ! addressed a throng
of native children who are In the schools
of the Christian Missions. Christian uni
versities path- r under their wing of bene
diction a host of the young rnen of this
country. Bombay and Calcutta, the ■ two
great commercial cities, of India, feel the
elevating power of an aggressive Chris
tianity. Episcopalian liturgy and Presby
terian Westminster Catechism, etui
Methodist Anxious-seat, and Baptist Wa
ters of Consecration now stand where
once basest idolatries had undisputed
sway. The work which Shoemaker Carey
Inaugurated at Serampore, India, trans
lating the Bible into forty different dia
lects, end leaving his worn-out body amid
the natives whom he come to save, and
going up into the heavens from which he
can better watch all,the Held—that work
will be completed In Ihe salvation of the
millions of India; and beskle him, gazing
from the same high places stand Bishop
Heber, and Alexander Duff, and John
Scttdder, und Maekuy. who fell at Delhi,
and Moncrieft, who fell at Cawnpore, and
Polehampton, who fell at Lucknow, and
Freeman, who fell at Futtyghur, and ail
heroes and heroines who. for Christ’s sake
lived and died for the Christianization of
India; and their heaven will not be com
plete until the Ganges that washes the
Ghats of heathen temples shall roll be
tween churches of the living God. and the
trampled womanhood of Hlndootsm shall
have all the rights purchased by Him who,
amid the cuts and stabs of his own assas
sination, cried out; "Behold thy mother!”
and from Bengal Bay to Arabian Ocean,
and from the Himalayas to the coast of
Coromandel there be lifted hosannas to
Him who died to redeem all nations. In
that day Elephanta Cave will be one of
the places where idols are "cast, to the
moles and bats.” If any clergyman asks
me, as an unbelieving minister of religion
once asked the Duke of Wellington: "Do
you not think that the work of converting
the Hindoos is all a practical farce?” I
answer him as Wellington answered the
unbelieving minister: "Book to your
marching orders, sir!” Or If any one hav
ing joined in the Gospel attack feels like
retreating, I say to him. as Gen. Havelock
said to a retreating regiment: “The ene
my are in front, not in the rear.” and
leading them again into the tight, though
two horses had been shot under him.
Indeed, the taking of this world for
Christ wifi be no holiday celebration, but
as tremendous us when in India during
the mutiny of 1857, a fortress manned by
Sepoys was to be captured by Sir Colin
Campbell and the army of Britain. The
Sepoys hurled upon the attacking columns
burning missiles, grenades, and fired
on them shot and shell, and poured on
them from the ramparts burning oil, until,
a writer who witnessed it, says: “It was a
picture of Pandemonium." Then Sir Colin
addressed his troops, saying: "Remember
the women and children must be rescued!”
and his men replied: "Ay! Ay! Sir Colin!
We stood by you at Baiaklava, and .will
stand by you here!" And then came the
triumphant assault of the battlements. So
in this Gospel campaign which proposes
capturing the very last citadel of idolatry
and sin. and hoisting over it the banner
of the Cross, we may have hurled upon
us mighty opposition, and scorn, and ob
luquy, and many may fall before the work
is done, yet at every call for new onset,
let the cry of the church be: "Ay! Ay!
Great Captain of our salvation: we stood
by thee in other conflicts, and we will
stand by thee to the last!” And then,
if not in this world, then from the battle
ments of the next, as the last Appolyonie
fortification shall crash into ruin, we will
join in the shout: "Thanks be unto God
who giveth us the victory!” "Hallelujah!
for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Killed by a Train.
Odum, Ga„ Jan. 6.—An unknown negro
was run over by the north bound train of
the Southern Railway Company last night
one mile above here. His body was so
badly disfigured that it was impossible
for any one to identify him.
The recent cold weather killed the rye
and oats throughout this section.
Death of a Minister.
Thomasvllle. Ga„ Jan. S.—The Rev. S.
W, Stubbs of the South Georgia Confer
ence. and who was recently appointed to
the Boston circuit, died at the home of
his fa'her-in-law In this county Friday.
He leaves a wife and four children.
Important to Florida Tourists.
The Windsor hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.,
opened for the season on Thursday, Nov.
15. The hotel has teen thoroughly reno
vated, etc., and will be run under the same
successful management as last year.
Baker & Travers.—ad.
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Gsven Surgical Operations
Good Health Restored by
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
STATE SPECIFIC TAXES, | 895.
The following state specific taxes for
1895 are now due, to wit:
Photographers.
Auctioneers.
Pool, Billiard and bagatelle tables.
Gaming Tables: Flying Horses, etc.
Ten pin alleys: shooting galleries.
Traveling vendors of patent medicines,
special nostrums, jewelry, soap, paper or
other merchandise.
Emigrant agents.
Traveling vendors using boats.
Itinerant lightning-rod dealers or agents.
Shows and exhibitions.
Gircus companies or others giving an
exhibition beneath or within a canvas
inclosure, advertised in print, or by pa
rade. or In any manner whatever, as a
circus, menagerie, hippodrome, spectacle,
or show Implying a circus.
Dealers in spirituous or malt liqors, in
toxicating bitters or bandy fruits, or do
mestic whies.
Dealers in pistols, toy pistols, shooting
cartridges, pistol or rifle cartridge, dirks,
bowie knives or metal knucks.
Dealers in futures; bucket shops.
Peddlers of stoves or ranges, patent
churns, patent fences, or clocks.
Parties keeping billiard or pool tables
for hire or sale.
Itinerant doctors, dentists, opticians or
other specialists.
Packing houses or dealers doing busi
ness in this state, whether carried on by
the owners thereof or by their agents.
Bren ing Companies.
Pawnbrokers.
Mercantile and collecting agencies, com
mercial agencies and other agencies of
like character.
All parties subject to the above taxes
are required to register with the ordinary
and pay the tax before- commencing to
do the business specified.
• JAMES J. M'GOWAN.
Tax Collector C. C.
DK. L. A. FALLIGANT,
Hounropathlst.—
Office and Residence, 173 South Broad Street,
Savannah. Ga.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
To Every Housekeeper in Savannah.
We have a very competent force to put in
liaMmore Heaters and Hot Air Furnaces and
can vive you the very best work possible in
these departments. We bin e ai-o a very care
fully selected stock of household goods of every
description, from a broom to a range. Persons
Who come to us for alt in this line wi'l get 'he
most for their money. Come and :e ■us
LOVELL a LAOTIMORE.
PROPOSALS.
City of Savannah, Office City Engineer.
Jan. 18%.—Proposals will be received bv
Frank E. Rebarer, Esq., Clerk of Coun
• until 12 m.. telly time), Monday, Jan.
H. 18..1. for furnishing the city with 50,000
(heaped) bushels of live oyster shells, de
livered on city wharf at the rate of 10.000 or
more (heaped) bushels per week.
The city reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
For further information apply to
W. J. WINN,
City Engineer.
meetings.
lit KALI! LODGE No. 9. I. <>. O. F.
A regular meeting of this lodge will be
held this evening at 8 o’clock in Odd Fel
lows Hail. Officers for the ensuing term
will be installed. Visiting brothers are
invite-1 to meet with us.
O. T. SHAFFER.
N. G.
JOHN W SMITH. Secretary _
Ml Tf.tl GASLIGHT COMPANY,
139 Congress Street.
Savannah. Georgia. Jan. 7, IS9s.—Notice
1 hereb-' given that the annual meeting
of the stockholders of the Mutual Gas
Light Company of Savannah, Georgia,
w ill b<- h. Id at the office of the company
on Monday, Jan. 21. 1*95 at 12 m.. for the
purpose of electing direi tors a’fd officers
for tie ensuing'year, and the transaction
of such other business as may come be
fore the meeting.
JOHN W. GOLDEN.
Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular meeting of this society will be
held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING at S
o'clock. GEORGE T. CANN,
Secretary
MIL'TARY ORDERS.
IKl: U JASPER GREENS. .
The corps will assemble at the armory
for drill and the transaction of business
at 8:30 o’clock, new city time, this (Mon
day) evening. JOHN FLANNERY'.
Captain.
SPECIAL NOTiCES.
SPECIAL FOR THE HOLIDAY TRADE.
AiJ&k
DR. M. SCHWAB A SOX,
The Opticians,
Have imported the fines: Opera. Field, Marine
and Spy Glasses, Microscopes. Magic Lanterns
and the largest assortment of Lorgnettes and
Chatelaine ('aseb in the South, which they will
sell at very low prices. We s' u make special
price* lor Gold Spectacles and Eyeglasses for
tho Holidays. Any person purchasing glasses
for a Holiday present can have the lenses ex
changed to suit the recipient of such present
within one year fret of charge. Remember
our numler,
No. 33 Ball street.
FOR NEW YEAR'S.
MALAGA GRAPES,
CATAWBA GRAPES.
WHITMAN'S FINE CANDIES,
KALAMAZOO CELERY,
FINE ORANGES.
CELEBRATED DEWDROP BRAND
CANNED GOODS—
The Finest Goods Packed;
ASPARAGUS,
. CORN.
PEAS.
TOMATOES,
-at-
WM. G. COOPER'S,
£8 Whitaker street.
SEED POTATOES—POTATO SEED
and
SEED OATS.
We heg respectfully to intimate to the
TRUCK FARMERS
of Chatham County that we have purchased
3,000 BARRELS SEED POTATOES,
: Consisting of VIRGINIA SECOND CROP,
choice selected stork,
EARLY’ ROSE,
CROWN JEWEL.
BLISS TRIUMPH,
and the well and favorably known
BLACK RIVER EARLY ROSE.
The same stork we %ave handled for years.
Acknowledged headquarters Truck Farmers'
Supplies. l ocal selling acents for the Co
m-1 m(Trial Guano Company's High Grade Vegeta
| hie fertilizer.
FAWCETT BROS.,
Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants,
Telephone ::'4, nay and Jefferson Streets.
•
SPECIAL NOTICE.
For three days only, Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday, we will make a special run on
Mothers' Friend Flannel Shirt Waists at only
50 vents. B. H. LEY Y A bRO.
BIDS.
City of Savannah, Office Clerk of Coun
cil, Jan. 5, 1895.—Bids will be received at
the office of the clerk of council until 12
m.. Saturday. Jan. 12, 1595, for furnishing
the fire department with SOU feet of best
rubber hose and 3,500 feet of best fabric
hose.
The city reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
By order of the committee on fire.
F. E. Rebarer,
Clerk of Council.
NOTICE.
The city of Savannah having adopted the
75th meridian standard time, the tanks in this
city will conform thereto, and notice is hereby
given that on MONDAY. Jan. 7. and thereafter
the tanks will open at 9 o'clock a. m., city
time, and close at 2 o'clock p m , city time
The Central Railroad Bank.
'lhe Merchants National Bank.
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia.
The Citizens Bank of Savannah
The Germania Bank.
The Savannah Bank and Trust Cos.
Ihe National Bank of Savannah.
The Chatham Bank. •
FOR COUGHS AND COLDS
Try a 25c bottle of Strong's Syrup Tolu
Tar and Wild Cherry and for chapped
faces and hands use Strong’s Autiseptic
Cream made and sold by
HARY'EY" & BUSSEY',
Successors to L. C. Strong,
67 Bul > Street.
(Phone 263).
FLOWER SEEDS
and
BULBS.
—at—
GARDNER'S
US Broughton street.
AMUSEMENTS.
gAVANNAH THEATER.
CNE NIGHT ONLY'.
MONDAY, JAN. 7.
HOYT’S
ft TRIP TO
CHINATOWN,
As Played Over TOO Nights* at Hoyts Theater.
Sew York City.
FIRST TIME IN SAVANNAH.
Seats at Livingston’s Pharmacy Jan. 4.
_Next Attra.-ticn. Potter Belle w. Jan t*.
g AVANNAH THEATER.
TUESDAY, JAN 8.
ENGAGEMENT OF
MRS. POTTER,
MR BEL LEW,
And Their Magnificent Company, Presenting
Their Latest Success,
CHARLOTTE
CORDAY.
Seats at Livingston's Pharmacy Jan. 5. 9:30
a. m.
Next Attraction. "Devil's Auction." Jan. 9
and 10.
gAVANNAH THEATER.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,
THURSDAY' MATINEE,
JANUARY 9 AND 10,
The one great attraction. Chas. H. Y’ale s newest
DeviFs Auction;
Possessing more actual novelty than all other
spectacles combined, a great big company,
'ions of special scenery, gorgeous costumes and
armor, gran t o; era ballet. Imported special
ties. brilliant light effects. Euro;qfci, } remiere.-.
male and female (lancers. Y'ou must see the
Shaft of Light, the i roily Cars. Lurellu Tr.o.
Les i reres Carom, the 1 oar Midget Dancers.
On the Ktaito, and one thousand other features
too m m -rous to mention. Timely pri.es Seats
at Liv.ncstons, Jan. 7. Next attraction.
"Prodigal Father. Jan. i.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPREADING.
We take pleasure In Informing our friends
and patrons that owing to their patronage
so generously extended to us, we have
been compelled to greatly enlarge our
facilities and to that end have leased the
well-known Pulaski House Stables, which
we will conduct in connection with our
present stand, the Oglethorpe stables. We
have in stock: Landaus, traps, surreys,
4 and 6 seats, buggies, phaetons, victorias,
saddle horses and the Only Buck Board
in the city carrying 13 people.
THOMAS F. GLEASON & CO.
Pulaski House Stables. ’Phone 125.
Oglethorpe stables, ’Phone 46.
MONEY EASY TO GET.
Just save the tags that come on every
plug of Golden Apple Tobacco, and you
can get a half cent each for them at any
store in the city, or from
HENRY SOLOMON & SON,
Bay and Jefferson streets.
ELECTION 4OK DIRECTORS.
The Central Railroad and Banking Company t
of Georgia.
Savannah. Ga.. Dec 7, lsf4 I
An election for ibirteeu directors to serve for
the ensuing year w ill tie held at the Banking
House in Savannah. MONDAY, Jar. 7. tsbe. be
tween tlie hours of 10 o'clock a. m. anil 12 m.
Stockhoders and their families will be
passed free over the company's load to attend
the election from the stli to the ttli of January
inclusive, and will be passed tiee returning
from the 7th to the 9th of January inclusive,
on presentation of their stock certificate! to
the conductors.
Transfer tooks will he closed from 20th De
cember to 7th January inclusive.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
PLUMBING,
GAS AND
STEAM FITTING.
We would be pleased to make estimates
for, and do any work of this character.
CORNWELL & CHIPMAN,
Telephone 376. 150 Congress street.
1
TO PHYSICIANS.
We will receive on Monday a supply of
DIPHTHERIA ANTI TOXIC SERUM,
the new remedy for diphtheria which has teen
used with such wonderful success.
SOLOMONS & CO.,
Congress Street and Bull Street Branch.
BANKS.
THECmZMS~BAM
OF SAVANNAH.
Capita! $500,000.
Transacts a general hanking business.
Maintains a Savings Department and al
lows INTEREST AT 1 PER CENT., com
pounded quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, firms, banks
end corporations arc solicited.
With our large number of correspond
ents in GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORID A
and SOUTH CAROLINA, we a-e prep ired
to handle collections on the most favorable
terms. Correspondence invited
mYYVY c. l>^ M ;\ KK ’ Pr ident
.i. . L, Ice President.
GEORUE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
LI,OKB NDtRS.
first-class
Account and Record Books*
MADE ONLY TO ORDER.
JOB PH I\TI A < ;
SATISFACTORILY DONE.
Good Work-Prompt Execution-Fair Prices.
ESTIMATES GIVEN
FOR PRINTING AND BINDING.
—ORDERS SOLICITED.—
936 Bay St GEO. ti. NiCBOLS,
_ SHOES.
WieiMSfioes
FOR —
. $2,
If the dealer for whom
they were made could
have taken them the re
tail price would have been
$?, maybe S?YO.
He couldn’t.
The big lot was “seek
ing.”
The usual result, we
got hold of them.
Fine Bright Kid Button
Shoes they are, warranted
solid leather in every par
ticular. Patent leather tips
and plain toes.
Three new shapes, all
sizes and widths and at
$2 the pair
About enough for four
days’ bright selling.
Cor. Whitaker Street.
MEDICAL.
HEALTH iS SUPERIOR
TO ALL BLESSINGS.
This is an undisputed fact acknowledged
by all. Begin *95 with a resolution not to
1 t*c*t your ailment. particularly when
you have In your midst a resident specialist,
wlio lias been tried and not found wanting
in skill, experience or method, and one
who has CURED where others have failed,
as hundreds will testify-home fac ts
xuickly reached cannot be downed.
tAn associate
Bper Ia 11 st.
whose wide
range In ex
pert e n c e,
backed by
recomm end a
tions from
the highest,
medical au
thority, i
also with I)F.
BROADFOOT.
Ills increase
in business
necessitating
1 x /( the obtaining
of more help, and Dr. Broadfoot has oh
talned the best as ho believes in none but
the best. Froe consultation by mail. Thor
ough examination, and if incurableyoa are
frankly informed. Private, Skin and Blood
Dice ties. Nervous Debility, Loss of Man
hood, Piles, S'p tills. Stricture, Night
Losses, A arieocele, f leers or Superfluous
Hair, all arc cured by the grertest special
ist of modern times.
Send for Symptom Blanks No. 1 for
men. No. 3 for women. No. 3 for skin and
blood diseases.
Consulting Parlors,
136 BROUGHTON STREET,
BANKS.
mmum
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH, GA.
INTEREST at
4%
OS DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART*
MENT.
Collections on Savannah and all southern
points, we handle on the most favorable
terms and remit at lowest exchange rates
on day of payment. Correspondence
solicited.
D - WrKn ' President.
■iVSio 1 ; HOV ;AN ,J - Vice President.
B. ULNi'EK. Cashier.
Savannah Savings Bank
PAYS
fig O /
& / o
ON DEPOSITS.
Issues 6 Per Cent. Certificates of Deposit.
Send or writ© for our
literature.
W. K. WILKINSON, President
C. S. ROCKWELL, Treasarer.
*OU WANT STATIONERY ANi>
blank nooks. We have the facilities for
supplying them. Send your orders to
Morning News, Savannah, Ga. Litho
graphers, book and job printers and blank
book manufacturers.