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ONLY ONE SIN UNPARDONABLE.
TAUIAUE I’IiEACHKS ON THE FATE
OF THE BLASPHEMER.
The Pastor Convinced That the Sin Against
the Holy Ghost Vlas the Ascribing the
Works of the Spirit to the Agency of the
Devil In the Time of the Apostles—He
Does Not Think It Possible In This Day
to Commit That Sin.
New York. July 14.—1n his sermon for
to-day. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still In
the west on his annual summtr tour, chose
• subject which has been a fruitful theme
of theological disputation for centuries
past, via: "The Unpardonable Sin." The
texts selected were: "AH manner of sin
and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto
anen: but the blasphemy against the Holy-
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever spcakcth a word against
the son of man. It shall be forgiven him;
but whosoever speaketh against the Holy-
Ghost. It shall not be forgiven him neith
er in this world, neither in the world to
come.” Matthew 12: 31,32.
"He found no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tear*."
Heb. 12: 17.
As sometimes you gather the whole fam
ily around the evening stand to hear some
book read, so now we gather—a great
Christian family group—to study this text;
and now may one and the same lamp cast
Its glow on all the circle!
You see from the first passage that I
read that there is a sin against the Holy
Ghost for which a man Is never pardoned.
Once having committed it. he Is bound
hand and foot for the dungeons of despair.
Sermons may be preached to him, songs
may- be sung to him. prayers may be offer
ed in his behalf; but all to no purpose.
Ho is a captive for this world, and a cap
tive for the world that Is to come. Do
jtou suppose that there Is any one here
who has committed that sin? All sins are
against the Holy Ghost; but my text
speaks of one especially. It Is very clear
to my own mind that the sin against the
Holy- Ghost was the ascribihg of the works
of the Spirit to the agency of the devil In
the time of the apostles. Indeed, the Bible
distinctly tells us that. In other words,
If a man had sight given to him, or If
another was raised from the dead, and
aomeone standing there should say, "This
man got his sight by Satanic power; the
Holy Spirit did not do this; Beelzebub ac
complished it;" or "this man raised from
the dead was raised by satanlc Influence,"
the man who said that dropped down
under the curse of the text, and had com
mitted the fatal sin against the Holy
Ghost.
Now, I do not think It Is possible In
this day to commit that sin. 1 think it
was possible only In apostolic times. But
it Is a very terrible thing ever to say
anything against the Holy Ghost, and it
Is a marked fact that our race has been
marvelously kept back from that profan
ity. You hear a man swear by the name
of the Eternal God, and the name of
Jesus Christ, but you never heard a man
ewear by the name of the Holy Ghost.
There are those here to-day who fear
they are guilty of the unpardonable sin.
Have you such anxiety? Then I have
to tell you poslilveiy that you have not
committed that sin, because the very
anxiety is a result of the movement of
the gracious spirit, and your anxiety is
proof positive, as certainly as anything
that can be demonstrated In mathemat
ics, that you have not committed the sin
that I have been speaking of. I can look
off upon this audience and feel that there
is salvation for all. It Is not like when
they put out with those lifeboats from
the "Loch Earn” for the "Villedu Havre."
They knew- there was not room for all
the passengers, but they were going to
do as well as they could. But to-day
we man the lifeboat of the Gospel, and
we cry out over the sea, "Room for all!”
Oh that the Lord Jesus Christ would,
this hour, bring you all out of the flood
of sin and plant you cm the deck of the
glorious old Gospel craft!
But while I have said I do not think
It is possible for us to commit the par
ticular sin spoken of In the first text,
I have by reason of the second text to
call your attention to the fact that thera
are sins which, though they may be par
doned, are in some respects irrevocable;
and yob can find no place for repent
ance, though you may seek It carefully
with tears. Esau had a birthright given
him. In olden times It meant not only
temporal but spiritual blessing. One day
Esau took this birthright and traded It
off for something to eat. Oh, the folly!
But let us not be too severe upon hltn,
for some of us have committed the same
folly. After he had made the trade, he
wanted to get it back. Just &g though
you to-morrow morning should
take- all your notes and
bonds and government securities, and
should go into a restaurant, and in a fit
of recklessness and hunger throw all those
securities on the counter and ask for a
plate of food, making that exchange. This
was the one Esau made. He sold his birth
right for a mess of pottage, and he was
very sorry about it afterward; but "he
found no place for repentance, though he
sought It carefully with tears.”
There is an impression in almost every
man's mind that somewhere In the future
there will be a chance where he can correct
all his mistakes. Llvl as we may, if we
ohly repent in time, God will forgive us,
and then all will be as well as though we
had never committed sin. My discourse
shall come In collision with that theory. I
shall show you, my friends, as God will
help me, that there Is such a thing as un
successful repentance; that there are
things done wrong that always stay wrong,
and for them you may seek some place of
repentance, and seek it carefully, but never
find it.
Belonging to this class of Irrevocable
mistakes is the folly of a misspent youth.
We may look back to our college days,
and think how we neglectad chemistry, or
geology, or botany, or mathematics. We
may be sorry about it all our days. Can
we ever get the discipline or the advantage
that we would have had had we attended
to those duties in early life? A man wakes
up at forty years of age and finds that his
youth has been wasted, and he strives to
get back his early advantages. Does he
get them back—the days of boyhood, the
days in college, the days under his father's
root? “Oh," he says, "If 1 could only get
those times back again, how I would im
prove them:" My brother, you will never
get them back. They are gone, gone. You
may be very sorry about it, and God may
forgive, so that you may at last reach
heaven; but you will never get over some
of the mishaps that have come to your
•oul as a result of your neglect of
early dirty. You may try to undo It; yon
cannot undo it. When you had a boy's
a> rus. and a boy's eyes, and a boy's heart,
you ought to have attended to those
things. A man says, at 50 years of age, "I
do wish I could get over these habits of
indolence.” When did you get 'them? At
20 or 25 years cf age. You cannot shake
them oft. They will hang to you to the
very day of your death. If a young man
through a long course of evil conduct
undermines his physical health, and then
repents of It in after life, the Lord may
pardon him; but that docs not bring tack
good physical condition. I said to a min
ister of the Gospel, one Sabbath, at the
close of the service, "Where are you
preaching now?” “Oh,” he says, "I am
not preacliing. I am suffering from the
physical effects of curly sin. 1 can't preach
i now; I am sick. " A consecrated man he
, now is. and he mourns bitterly over
I earjv sins, but that does not airest their
l bodily effe< ts.
The simple fact Is. that men and wo
men often take twenty ycais of their life
I to build up Influences that require all the
rest of their life to break down. Talk
about a man beginning life when he Is 21
y<ars of age. talk about a woman begin
ning life when she Is IS years of ace!
Ah, no! In many respects that Is the time
they close life. In nine cause oft eif ten all
the questions ot eternity ate decided be
fore than Talk about a majority of men
getting their f< rtnnes between .>) and 40!
They get or lose fortunes between 10 and
20. When you tell in ■ that a man is Just
Lrginning life, I teil you he Is Just clos
ing it. The next fifty years will not
be of as much Importance to him as the
first twenty.
Now. why do I say this? Is it for the
annoyance of those w ho have only a bale
ful retrospection? You know that Is not
my way I say ie for the benefit of young
nun and women. I want them to under
stand that eternity Is wrapp’d up In this
hour; that the sins of youth we never
get ovsr; that you are now fashioning the
mould in which your great future is to
run; that a minute. Instead of-being sixty
seconds long. Is made up of everlasting
g*s. You see what dignity and import
<ini-e this gives to the life of all cur young
folks. Why. In the light of this siibje?*..
life is not fomething io be frittered awav,
net something, to be smirked about, not
something to be danced out, tJt some
thing to be weighed in the balances of
eternity. Oh. young man! the sin of ves.
terday, the sin of to-morrow, will reach
over 10,000 yeirs, ay, over the great and
unending eternity. You may, after awhile,
fay, "I am very sorry. Now I have got
to be 3) or 40 years of are, and I do wish
I had never committed those sins.” What
does that amount to? God may pardon
you but undo those things you never will,
you never can.
In this same category of Irrevocable mis
takes J put all parental neglect. We begin
tho education of our children too late. By
the time they get to be ten or fifteen we
wake up to our mistakes, and try to eradi
cate this bad habit, and change that; but
It Is too late. That parent who omits, In
the first ten years of the child's life, to
make an eternal Impression for Christ,
never makes It. The child will probably
go on with all the disadvantages, which
might have been avoided by parental faith
fulness. Now you see what a mistake
that father or mother makes who puts
off too laic life adherence to Christ. Here
is a man who at fifty years of age says to
you, "I must be a Christian;” and he yields
his heart to God, and sits In the place
of prayer to-day a Christian. None of us
can doubt it. He goes home, and he says,
"Here at fifty years of age I have given
my heart to the Saviour. Now I must es
tablish a family altar.” What? Where
are your children now? One in Boston;
another in Cincinnati; another In New Or
leans; and you, my brother, at your fiftieth
year going to establish your family altar?
Very well; better late than never; but alas,
alaq, that you did not do It twenty-five
years ago !
When I was In Chamounl, Switzerland,
I saw In the window of one of the shops
n picture that Impressed my mind very
much. It was a picture of an accident
that occurred on the Bide of one of the
Swiss mountains. A company of travel
ers, with guides, went up some very steep
places—places which but few travelers at
tempted to go up. They were, as all trav
elers are there, fastened together with
cords at the waist, so that If one slipped,
the rope would hold him—the rope fasten
ed to the others. Passing along the most
dangerous point, one of the guides slip
ped, and they all started down the preci
pice; but after a while one more muscular
than the rest struck his heels Into the Ice
and stopped; but the rope broke, and
down, hundreds and thousands of feet,
the rest went. And so I see whole fami
lies bound together by ties of affection,
and in many cases walking on slippery
places of worldlness and sin. The father
knows It, and the mother knows It, and
they are bound all together. After a while
they begin to slide down steeper and
Steeper, and the father becomes alarmed,
and he stops, planning his feet on the
"Rock of Ages."He stops, but the rope
breaks, and those who were once tied fast
to him by moral and spiritual Influences,
go over the precipice. Oh, there is such a
thing as coming to Christ soon enough to
save ourselves, but not soon enough to
save others!
How many parents wake up In the lat
ter part of life to find out the mistake!
The parent says, ”1 have been too len
ient,” or ”1 have been too severe In the
discipline of my children. If I had the
little ones around me again, how differ
ent I would do!" You will never have
them around again. The work is done,
the bent to the character is given, the
eternity Is decided. 1 say this to young
parents—those who are 25 or 30 of 35 years
of age—have the family altar to-night.
How do you suppose the father felt as
he leaned over the couch of his dying
child, and the expiring son said to him,
"Father, you have been very good to me.
You have given me a fine education, ami
you have placed me in a fine social posi
tion; you have done everything for me
in a worldly sense; but, father, you never
told me how to die. Now 1 am dying,
and I am afraid.”
In this category of Irrevocable mistakes
I place, also, the unktndnesses <lone the
departed. When I was a boy, my mother
used to say to me sometimes, "DeWitt,
you will be sorry for that when I am
gone.” And I remember just how she
looked, sitting there, with cap and spec
tacles, and the old Bible In her lap; and
she never said a truer thing than that,
for I have often been porry since. While
we have our friends with us, we say
unguarded things and wound the feel
ings of those to whom we ought to give
nothing but kindness. Perhaps the par
ent, without inquiring Into the matter,
boxes the child’s ears. The little one,
who has fallen in the street, comes in
covered with dust, and, as though the first
disaster were not enough, she whips it. Af
ter a while the child Is taken, or the par
ent is taken, or the companion is taken, and
those who are left say, "Oh, if we could
only get back those unkind words, those
unkind deeds; if we could only recall
them!” But you cannot get them back.
You might bow down over the grave of
that loved one, and cry and
cry' and cry—tho white lips would
make no answer. The stars
shall be plucked out of their sockets, but
these influences shall not be torn away.
The world shall die. but there are some
wrongs immortal. The moral of which is,
take care of your friends while you have
them; spare the scolding; bo economical of
the satire; shut up in a dark cave, from
which they snail never swarm forth, all
the words that have a sting in them. You
will wish you had some day—very soon
you will—perhaps to-morrow. Oh yes.
While with a firm hand you administer
parental discipline, also administer it very
gently, lest some day there be a little slab
in the cemetery, and on it chiseled "Our
Willie,” or “Our Charlie;” and though you
bow down prone in the grave, and seek a
place of repentance, and seek it carefully
with tears, you cannot find it.
There is another sin that 1 place in the
class of irrevocable mistakes, and that is
lost opportunities of getting good. I never
come to a Saturday night but I can see
during that week that I have missed op
portunities of getting good. 1 never come
to my birthday but I can see that I have
wasted many chances of getting better.
I never go home on Sabbath from the dis
cussion of a religious theme without feel
ing that I might have done it in a more
successful way. How is it with you? If
you take a certain number of bushels
of wheat and scatter them over a certain
number of acres of land, you expect a
harvest in proportion to the amount of
seed scattered. AuU I ask you now, have
THE MOHNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 15, 1895.
the sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest
corresponded with the advantages given?
How has it been with you? You may
[ make resolutions for the future, but past
I opportunities are gone. In the long pro
cession of future years all those past mo
ments will march; but the arch-angel's
trumpet that wakes the dead will not
wake up for you one of those privileges.
Esau has sold his birthright, and there Is
not wealth enough tn the treasure-houses
of heaven to buy It back again. What
does that mean? It means that if you
are going to get any advantage out of this
Sabbath day. you will have to get It before
the hand wheels around on the clock to
twelve to-night. It means that every mo
ment of our life has two wings, and that
It docs not fly. like a hawk. In circles,
but In a straight line from eternity to
eternity. It means that though other
chariots may break down, or drag heav
ily, this one nex-er drops the brake, and
never ceases to run. It means that while
at other feasts the cup may be passed to
us and w-e may reject it. and yet after a
while take It, the cup-bearers to this
feast never give us but one chance at the
chalice, and, rejecting that, we shall "find
no place for repentance, though we seek
It carefully with tears.”
There Is one more class of sins that I put
In this category of Irrevocable sins and
that is lost opportunities of usefulness.
Your business partner Is a proud man. In
ordinary circumstances, say to him, “Be
lieve in Christ," and he will say, "You
mind your business, and I’U mind mine.”
But there has been affliction In the house
hold. His heart Is tender. He Is looking
around for sympathy and solace. Now is
your time. Speak, speak, or forever hold
your peace. There Is a time In farm-life
when you plant the corn and when you
sow the seed. Let that go by, and the farm
er will wring his hands while other hus
bandmen are gathering In the sheaves.
You are In a religious meeting, and there
is an opportunity for you to speak a word
for Christ. You say. "I must do It.” Your
cheek flushes with embarrassment. You
rise half way, but you cower before men
whoso breath Is in their nostrils, and you
sag back, and the opportunity Is gone, and
all eternity will feel the effect of your si
lence. Try to gel back that opportunity!
You cannot And It. You might as well try
to find the fleece that Gideon watched, or
take in your hand the dew that came
down on the locks of the Bethlehem shep
herds, or to find tho plume of the first
robin that went across paradise. It is
gone; tt Is gone forever. When an oppor
tunity for personal repentance or of doing
good passes away, you may hunt for It;
you cannot find it. You may fish for it; It
will not take the hook. You may dig for it;
you cannot bring It up. Remember that
there are wrongs and sins that can never
be corrected; that our privileges fly not
in circles, but In a straight line; that the
lightnings have not as swift feet as our
privileges when they are gone, and let an
opportunity of salvation go by us an Inch,
the one hundredth part of an Inch, the
thousandth part of an Inch, the millionth
part of an inch; and no man can overtake
It. Fire-winged seraphim cannot come up
with It. The eternal God himself cannot
catch it.
I stand before those who have a glori
ous birthright. Esau's was not so rich as
yours. Sell it orce, and you sell It forever.
I remember the story of the lad on the
Arctic gome years ago—the lad Stewart
Holland, A vessel crashed into the Arc
tic In the time of a fog, and it was found
that the ship must go down. Some of tho
passengers got off in the lifeboats, some
got off in rafts; but 300 went to the
bottom. During all those hours of calam
ity, Stewart Holland stood at the slgnrl
gun, and it sounded across the sea. boom:
boom! The h* In,! man forsook his place,
toe engineer v as gone, and some fainted
end some prayed and some blasphemed,
and the powder was gone, and they could
no more get off the signal gun. The led
broke In the magazine and brought out
more powder, and again the gun boomed
over the sea. Oh, my friends, lossed on
the rough seas of life, some have taken the
warning, have gone off in the lifeboat,
and they are safe; but others are not mak
ing nnv attempt to escape. So I stand at
this signal gun of the Gospel, sounding
the alarm, Beware! Beware! "Now is the
accepted time; now is t,he day of salva
tion.” Hear It that your soul may live!
DH. DEPEW CATCHES THE PARIS.
He Arrived on the Hull and Hounded
Aboard With Two Nieces in Tow,
From the New York Sun.
The man who looks like Dr. Chauneey
M. Depew was down at the American
line's pier, at the foot of Fulton street,
yesterday morning half an hour earlier
than the doctor himself, presumably to
study the attitudes and mannerisms of the
great post-prandial orator. The man ap
peared to enjoy the sensation of being
mistaken for the doctor. He beamed on
several persons who greeted him as "Mr.
Depew,” and said he was really not going
to sail on the Paris, but the St. Louis,
whleh will leave this port on next Wed
nesday. The rumor spread over the ship
that Dr. Depew wasn't going to sail, as
he preferred to go on an out-going Yankee
vessel rather than a naturalized one.
The rumor was dispelled about live min
utes before the Paris got under way by
the sudden appearance of the only gen
uine Dr. Depew. He had a valise in one
hand and a steamer chair, which he had
bought at the head of the pier, in the
other. He sprinted down the pier like a
belated express on the New York Central,
waving valise and steamer chair and shout
ing: "Hold the ship!” or words to that
effect. His colored servant, who followed
him and also had a valise and a steamer
chair, imitated with the faithfulness of a
shadow his master's gestures. Several of
the doctor’s nieces were waiting for him at
the gang plank. He kissed them on the
tiy. As he bounded up the plank one of
them grabbed his coat tails, another one
grabbed the first, and he towed them all
aboard amid the plaudits of hundreds on
the pier and ship. The man who looked
like the doctor saw it all and doubtless
thought It would be pretty hard to dupli
cate.
Just before the Paris started the doctor
made a few comments on things political.
He advised Mayor Strong to stop drinking
tea, and said he thought the next presi
dent would be a republican from this
state. The doctor is going to see the
Prince of Wales and other distinguished
Englishmen during his trip abroad, which,
he thinks, will not last more than three
or four weeks.
Why He Went Abroad.
From the New York World.
A friend of Dr. Chauneey M. Depew
is responsible for the statement that Dr.
Depew's trip abroad this year is made
under unusual circumstances. Dr. De
pew. it is said, had fully intended to re
main at home all summer in order to at
tend to the patching up of harmony in
the Republican party in the state. There
was, it is said, a general protest from
Europe against the change is the regular
course of events.
Dr. Depew's dear friends, Prince Bis
marck. Lord Salisbury and Mr. Glad
stone. are understood to have united in
a cablegram urging the doctor to recon
sider his determination. The President of
France and the leading lady at one of
the great Paris theaters, well known for
her enjoyment of a good story, are said
to have been among those who besought
Dr. Depew not to desert Europe, even
for a season.
Dr. Depew could not but be deeply af
tected by these tokens of regard from his
foreign chums, but what finally decided
him to let the Republican party go to
pot and to make his usual round of calls
abroad is said to have been a personal
cablegram from the Prince of Wales ex
pressing the opinion that life for one sum-
mer without Depew would not be worth
living.
The same friend of Dr. Depew who Is
responsible for the above statements
wishes expressly to deny the rumor that
Queen Victoria had Joined her son In
protesting against Dr. Dt-pew's proposed
desertion of his dear friends. Queen Vic
toria. it is said, has disapproved of Dr.
Depew ever since he told her his famous
story of the bullfrog that ate grass.
MADE SECIRK AGAINST SNAKES.
Precautions Rendered Necessary la
Homes Alona the Klo Grnnde,
From the Philadelphia Times.
J. D. Mason, a well known traveling man
who has Just returned from a business trip
through Southwestern Texas, gives the
following interesting account of a pecu
liar phase of life In that part of the
world:
“There is a little strip of country,”
said Mason, “In Texas down by the Rio
Grande where snak>s are literally too nu
merous to mention. They are really as
thick as the proverbial dead leaves of
Vallombrosa, and the most abstemious
man in existence sees enough snakes in a
minute to knock him silly. I have a friend
Jim Hughes by name, living down In that
region who owns a cattle ranch consist
ing of 1,500 acres of land, and really and
truly the trail of the serpent was over
them all. Jim has a wife who is the pret
tiest little woman west of the Mississippi,
and two of the dearest little girls in the
whole world, I reckon, and for a long time
Jim was put to It to know how to protect
his family from the snakes. He said that
It used to be so that during the first warm
days of early spring, when the snakes
wore Just awakening from their torpor,
he and his ranchmen, cowboys, etc.,
would just have to leave the cattle to
their fate and form a cordon about the
house to keep the reptiles out. Nowadays,
though, such constant precaution Is not
necessary, as he has hit upon a device to
circumvent the snakes to a certain extent.
He managed to do this by fencing in the
house yard with closely woven wire net
ting.
To begin with, however, he had to dig a
ditch all around the place to the depth of
about four feet and plant cedar posts, let
ting them stand about six feet above the
level of the ground. Then on these posts
he stretched ten foot wire netting and
threw the dirt back In the ditch. By this
means, you see, he had four feet of net
ting underground, which prevented the
snakes burrowing beneath and coming in
to the yard, and a six foot fence above,
which only the more adventurous reptiles
try to surmount. Now and then a little
snake will manage to wriggle through the
meshes of the wire and get into the yard,
but the big fellows are practically circum
vented. Every morning, though, a man
goes all over the yard on a tour of inspec
tion, killing all the small snakes that may
have crept in before Mrs. Hughes or the
little girls venture out of the house. It is
not a very pleasant prospect either, al
though you are seated in the house in
comparatively security, to see the reptiles
writhing and squirming in the sun, now
and then butrtng against the fence or
dinging to the wire In hideous, coiling
festoons. About two miles away from the
place is a little bog or marsh, whence a
streamlet makes into the river, and here
the reptiles breed. Hughes inveigled me
Into going over one night to the neighbor
hood of the bog, and 1 shall never forget
the horrible noises that emanated there
from. The snakes were evidently fighting
among themselves, and the bog seemed to
be alive with them. Deliver me from
another experience like the one thnt night,
and from a home in Texas down by the Rio
Grande. Hughes thinks it is the garden
spot of the universe, however, and says
that w-hen he succeeds In getting that
marsh properly drained the snakes will
disappear.”
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fitting proper glasses to the eyes are apparent
to every intelligent person. Thousands of peo
ple suffer pain in the head, headache, and loss
of eyesight entirely from the use of inferior
glasses or glasses not properly fitted to the eye.
We cordially invite the public to call and see
us. have their eyes examined professionally by
an expert without charge, and obtain glasses if
required.
New glosses put in your old frames and all
other repairing at short notice.
DK. M. SCHWAB * SON,
No. 23 Bull street, * • Saranuab, Ga.
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CLINTON LODGE NO. M, F. & A. M.
A special communication of this lodge
will l e held at Masonic Temple this Jw.
(Mondavi evening at 8:20 o'clock. XJt
The M. M. degree will be conferred. ' r
Members of sister lodges and visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to meet with us.
CtOlfUE A. it KECK, W. M.
WAKING RUSSELL. JK„ Secretary.
DE KAMI LODGE SO. O, I. O. O. F,
A regular meeting of this lodge will be
held this evening at 8:30 o'clock, In Odd
Fellows' hall.
Visiting brothers are Invited to meet
with us. F. M. JEFFERS, N. G.
JOHN W. SMITH, Secretary.^
SAVANNAH BUREAU OF FREIGHT
AND TRANSPORTATION.
The Board of Directors are requested to at
tend a meeting at the rooms of the bureau. No.
13 Board of Trade building, to morrow (Tues
day) at 12 o’clock, city time
Important business to be considered.
By order W O. CANN, President
Attest: MAX ROBINSON. Secretary.
Savannah, Ga., July 6th, 1895.
A special meeting of the stockholders of
the Tybee Hotel Company Is hereby called
for MONDAY. 15th instant, at the Na
tional Bank of Savannah at 4p. m., to
take final steps towards winding up the
affairs of the company, selling its property
and paying up Its debts, and to do all
things necessary to this end. By order
WM. KEHOE, President.
J. F. BROOKS. Sec'y and Treas.
UOMESEEKERS’ MUTUAL LOAN AS
SOCIATION.
The adjourned 51st regular meeting of the
Homeseekers’ Mutual Doan Association
will be held at the office of the treasurer,
corner of Whitaker and St. JMlian streets,
this evening at 8 o'clock.
W. G. CANN, President.
W. B. STUBBS, Secretary.
MILITARY ORDERS.
Headquarters Chatham Artillery.
Savannah, Ga, July 12, 1895.
Orders
I. In accordance with orders this day re
ceived from the governor, an election for cap
tain to command the company will be held at
the Armory on Wednesday evening, 17th inst.,
between the hours of 7 and 10 o clock.
11. At the same time and place an election
is hereby ordered for a first lieutenant, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Lieutenant R. F. Harmon, and any other va
cancies that may arise.
111. Under Article IV, See. 35. of the Regula
tions Governing the Georgia Volunteers, the
members entitled to vote at the election of
company officers arc the regular commissioned
officers and bona fide enlisted men of the com
pany. GEORGE P. WALKER,
Second Lieutenant. Commanding C. A.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
WE WANT
YOUR WIFE
%
or your housekeeper to drop In our
store and examine oar stock of
Groceries. It irill not take her
more than
A MINUTE
to le convinced that we carry the
finest and most complete stock of
Groceries in the city. Nothing
high about us hut the quality.
W. G. COOPER.
IF YOU WISH TO KEEP COMFORT
• ABLE
4
Till, liot weniUer, just go to oar soda
fountain and try one of our Iced
Gems, a Milk Shake Cooler, or any
of our numerous hot weather drinks.
AD\MS DRUG, PAINT A OIL CO.,
Congress and Whitaker sts.
NOTICE TO CITY COURT JURORS.
On your way to the court house this morning
stop in and get a nickel piece of
LUCKY STRIKE TOBACCO.
as iP is made only of natural leaf. You can
chew it all day without getting nervous.
J. B. FERNANDEZ,
Broughton and Bull streets.
LADIES' WAIST SETS.
HAMMOCKS, 73c Each.
CROQUET SETS, 73c Set.
ROLLER SKATES, 50c Pair.
AT
GARDNER'S,
11S Broughton Street.
ALL THE LATEST SODA DRINKS.
For all the latest SODA DRINKS,
go to HARVEY & BUSSEY (Strong's
stand), 67 Hall street.
Agents for WAGNER, the Florist.
EXCURSIONS.
Family Excursions
TO WARSAW.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY,
WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY*
and SUNDAY.
Steamer Vigilant leaves wharf foot of A tor
corn street at 10 a. m.; Thunderbolt at 11 a m.
Refreshments and music on board and on the
island
F are 50e and 25c. W. T. GIBSON.
SPECIAL NOTICES^
REORGANIZATION OF THE CEN
TRAL RAILROAD AND BANKING
COMPANY OF GEORGIA.
A plan of purchase of the railroads and
properties of the Central Railroad and
Banking Company of Georgia and the oth
er lines embraced In Its system has been
prepared and the Mercantile Trust Com
pany of New York has been, by proper
agreements and request, appointed agent
and depository under such plan.
The following interests have already
lodged their written approval of the plan
and have requested the said Trust Com
pany to proceed to call for deposits there
under and take all such steps as may be
necessary and proper to fully effectuate
and execute the reorganization, namely:
A majority of the capital stock of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company of
Georgia.
The committee of the holders of certifi
cates of indebtedness of the Central Rail
road and Banking Company of Georgia.
The underwriter of the proposed first
mortgage bonds of the new company, to be
used in taking up the present tripartite
bonds.
The committee representing the first
mortgage bondholders of the Mobile and
Girard Railroad Company.
Deposits under th's plan are invited from
the following parties in Interest:
(1) The holdeis of the capital stock of
the Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany of Georgia.
(2) The holders of certificates of In
debtedness of the Central Railroad and
Banking Company of Georgia.
(3) The holders of the first mortgage
bonds of the Montgomery and Eufaula
Railroad Company.
(4) The holders of the first mortgage
bonds of the Savannah and Western Rad
road Company.
(5) The holders of the first mortgage
bonds of the Chattanooga, Rome and Co
lumbus Railroad Company.
(6) The holders of the first mortgage
bonds of the Macon and Northern Rail
road Company.
(7) The holders of the first mortgage
bonds of the Columbus and Rome Rail
road Company.
(8) The holders of the first mortgage
bonds of the Savannah and Atlantic Rail
road Company.
Negotiable certificates of deposit will be
issued by the undersigned In exchange for
securities so deposited.
Securities may be deposited with the
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia,
Savannah, Georgia, as the agent of the
Mercantile Trust Company.
The right to make such deposits is here
by limited to the fifteenth day of July,
1895.
Printed copies of such plan and any
further information In connection with
the reorganization which may be desired
by security holders will be furnished at
the office of the undersigned, 120 Broad
way, or by Messrs. Samuel Thomas and
Thomas F. Ryan, at their office in the
Mutual Life building. No. 32 Liberty
street. New York city.
THE MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY.
Depository.
New York, June 5, 1895.
On application to the Trust Company,
Mercantile Trust Company certificates of
deposit under Hollins plan of reorganiza
tion can be exchanged for certificates un
der this plan.
IF YOU ARE IN NEED
of
VENETIAN BLINDS,
INSIDE SLIDING BLINDS,
SASII AND DOORS, T
1.5.,
see
I
A. S. BACON & SONS, '■
And get their prices.
IVORY CREAM TOOTH SOAP,
A Delightful Toilet Article,
Only 15c a boL.
POWDER PUFFS
At greatly reduced prices. See our
line at 10c, )5c and 20c.
SOLOMONS Ac CO.,
Druggists.
Two Stores—l 63 Congress street nd
Bull and Chari on streets.
IT PAYS TO BUY HANNIS.
And why? Because by placing
your orders with us you cun get
your whisky Just ten per cent, cheap
er than if you bought It through a
traveling salesman. We can prove
this to your absolute satisfaction.
HENRY SOLOMON fc SON,
Sole Agents.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
, Treasurer's Office. Savannah. Ga., July
1, ISOS. The following taxos are now due: *
REAL ESTATE, 2d quarter 1805.
STOCK IN TRADE, 2d quarter 1895.
FURNITURE, ETC., 2,1 quarter 1895.
MONEY, NOTES, ETC., 2d quarter 1895
Also WATER KENTS for six months In ad
vance, from July 1. 1895, to Jan. 1, 1866.
Upon all of the above a discount of ten per
cent, will be allowed if payment is made wih-
In fifteen days after the first of July.
C. S. HARDEE. City Treasurer.
NONE TO EQUAL THEM.
Beckmann's Cafe
Little Havana Smokers, 5 Cents.
New Lot Just Received.
EVERY MAN ===
IS lIAI'PY"
W HO LIVES WELL
ALL LIVE WELL—
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k k nip's.
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live well ----- - :
ELBEWIIEREfrr=
WHEN YOU
ARE SICK
And send for a doctor you
don’t stop to count the cost
—you want quick relief.
We are sick of carrying
such a big stock of LADIES’
and CHILDREN’S
LOW
SHOES,
and our standard infallible
remedy for that “over
stocked” feeling is a
REDUCTION.
The deeper the cut the
surer the cure, and we have
taken an “overdose.”
Nearly every pair of LOW
SHOES in the house —staple
and novelty—cheapest and
costliest—is “on the list.”
Ail you’ve got to do is to
help yourself—the PRICES
that holds ’em now are not
worth mentioning.
Call and see for yourself.
■o-" Wbllsk'r Silo
Periodical Tickets Taken
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital 8500,000.
Transact, a general banking bu.lnc.
Maintain, a Savings Department and al
low. INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., com
pounded quarterly.
The account, of Individual., firms, bank,
and corporation, are .ollcited.
With our large number of correspond
ent. In GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA
and SOUTH CAROLINA, we are prepared
to handle collection, on the mo.t favorable
term., Corre.pondence Invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, President.
M. B. LANE. Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
Savannah Savings Bank
PA Y 8
5 %
ON DEPOSITS.
Issies 6 Par Cent. Certificates of Deposit
Send or write for our
literature.
W. K. WILKINSON, President
C. 9. ROCKWELL, Treasurer.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH. ga.
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496
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPART
MENT.
Collections on Savannah all southern
points, we handle on the most favorable
terms and remit at lowest exchange rates
on day of payment. Correspondence
solicited.
JOSEPH D. WEED, President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Vice President.
JAMES H. HUNTER. Cashier.
FIRST-CLASS
Account and Record Books*
MADE ONLY TO ORDER.
JOB PRINTING
SATISFACTORILY DONE.
lood Work-Prompt Execution-Fair Price*
ESTIMATES GIVEN
FOB PRINTING AND MIN DING.
ORDERS SOLICITED.
nx a GEO. K. GICfIOU
EDWARD LOVELL’S SONS,
SAVANNAH, CA.
HARDWARE.
Bar, Band and Hoop Iron,
Wagon Material,
Turpentine Toole,
Agricultural Implements.
Lovelu
p 1 HWPPQ Beautiful designs.bouquets,
1 lUliul j plants, and cut flowers.
Leave orders at Koscnfeld & Murray’s. 35
Whitaker st., or Telephone *J4O. KIEBLING.
Take Belt Lino railway for nurserv on White
Bluff road.
FOR RENT,
Second and third stories building corner Bay
and West Broad streets, lately occupied by
Morehouse Manufacturing Go.
C. M. GILBERT & CO.