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HOWTOGETON THE TRACK
fcALM % G E’S All VICE TO THOSE
OFF RECTITUDE'S RAILS.
Vo Xeed to K<*.p liuinpint Over thp
Cr>iflt i of nln ou Account of fine
or Two Derailment.—Evil Habits
Aniouf fbo OhtclH to be Overcome
H.IIV Christianity Gives Repentant
Sinners Cold Chills—The Proudest
KhU'III in I.ife.
i Clkviland, 0., Dec. 5. —Tao Rev. T.
be Witt T.lruage, D. D., preached here
jo-d.v. Following is bis sermon: Sub
ject: “OiT Track—How to Get on Again.”
text: Proverbs xxiii., 35: “When shall I
iwake? I will seek it yet again.”
With an insight into human nature,
loch as no other man ever reached, Solo-
Bon, in my text, sketchoa the mental
Iperations ot one who, having stepped
kside from the path of reotitude, desires
to return. With a wish for something
letter, he said: “When 6hall 1 awake?
When shall 1 come out of this horrid
Bigbtmareol iniquity?” But seized upon
By uneradicated habit and forced down
”1 by bis passions he cries out: “I will
leek it yet again; I will try It once
more.”
[ Our libraries are adorned with an ele
gant literature addressed to young men,
pointing out to them all the dangers and
perils ol life—complete maps of the voy-
Sge. show.ng all the rocks, the quick
lands. the shoals. But suppose a man
sas already made shipwrtca; suppose tie
Is already oil tne track; suppose he has
already g< r.e astray, now is be to get.
back*’ i cat is a field comparatively un
touched. 1 propose to address myself
ibis morning to such. There are those in
this audience woo, with every passion of
their agonized soul, are ready to bear
such a discussion. Tney compare them
selves w itn what they were ten years ago,
nd cry out (rom the bondage in
which they are incarcerated. Now, it
there be any in this house, come
wilt, an earnest purpose, yet feeling they
sre beyond the paie of Cnristian sympa
thy, and that the sermon can hardly be
expected to address them, then, at this
moment, 1 give them iny right band and
tall them brother. Look up. There is
glorious and triumphant hope for you
yet. I sound the trumpet of Gospel de
liverance. The church is ready to spread
h banquet at your return, and the
pierarcns ot heaven to (all into line ot
pannered procession at the news ot your
emancipation, bo tar as God may help
me, I propiose to show what are the ob
stacles ol your return, and then how you
sre to surmount those obstacles.
: The first difficulty in the way of your
return is the force of moral gravitation.
Just as there is a natural law which
brings down to the earth anything you
throw in.o the air, so there is a corre
tpondiDg moral gravitation. In other
words, it is ea-ier to go down than it is to
jo up; it is easier to do wrong thaa it is
to do right. Call to mind the comrades ol
your boyhood days—some ot them good,
tome of them bad—which most affected
you? Call to mind the anecdotes that
you have beard in the lust five or ten
fears— some of them are pure and some
Df them impure. Which the more easily
sticks to your memory ? During the years
of your lile you have formod cer
tain courses of conduct—some of them
goo <1. some of them bad. To which
ttyle ot habit did you the more easily
field? Ah! my friends, we have to take
but a moment of sell-inspection to find
cut that there is in ail our souls a force of
pioral gravitation. But that gravitation
pay he resisted. Just as you may pick
Dp from the earth something and bold it
In yonr hand toward heaven, Just so, by
the power of God’s grace, a sou! fallen
may be lifted toward peace, toward par-
Jon, toward neaven. Force of moral
rravitation in every one of us, but power
In God’s grace to overcome that force ot
moral gravitation.
The next thing in the way of your re
purn is the power of evil habit. I know
there are those who sav it is very easy tor
them to give up evil habits. I do not be
lieve them. Here is a man given to in
toxication. He knows it is disgracing bis
family, destroying his property, ruining
turn, body, mind and soul. If that man,
being an Intelligent man, and loving his
family, could easily give up that habit,
wouid ho not do so? The fact that he
does not give it up proves it is hard to
Igive it up. It is a very easy thing to sail
down stream, the tide carrying you with
great force; but suppose you turn tbe
boat up siream, is it so easy tben to row
it? As long as we yield to the evil incli
nations in our hearts, and our bad habits,
we are sailing down stream; but the
moment we try to turn, wo put our boat
in the rapids just above Niagara, and
try to row up siream.
Take a man given to tbe habit of using
tobacco, as most of you do, and let him
resolve to stop, and he finds it very
difficult. Twenty-one years ago 1 quit
that habit, and 1 would us soon dare to
put my rigjt nand in tbe tire as once to
indulge in it. Why? Because It was
such a terrific struggle to get over it.
Now, let a man be advised by bis physi
cian to give up the use of tobacco. Be
goes around Dot knowing what to do with
himself. He cannot add up a line of fig
ures. He cannot sleep nights, It seems
as if the world had turned upside down.
Be feels his business is going to ruin.
(Where he was kind and obliging he is
iscolding and fretful. The composure
{that cnaracterized him has given way
to a fretful restlessness, and he has be
come a complete fidget What power
Is it that has rolled a wave of voe over
the earth and shaken a portent in
tne heavens? lie bas tried to
•top smoking! After a while
be says: “1 am going to do as I please.
The ilootor doesn’t understand my case.
I’m going back to myold habit.” And he
returns. Everything assumes its usual
composure. His business seems to
brighten. The world becomes an attrac
tive place to live in. His children, seeing
the difference, bail the return of their
{father’s genial disposition. What wave
ot color has dashed blue into the sky, and
greenness into tbe mountain ioiiage, ami
tbe glow of sapphire into the suusst?
What enchantment has lilted a world of
beauty and joy on his soul ? He nae gone
fcaok to smoking.
On! tko fact is, as we all know In our
own experience, that habit is a taskmas
ter, as long as we obey it. u does not chas
tise us; but let us resist and we find wo
are to be lashed with scorpion whips ami
bound wltl) ship cable, and thrown into
the track of bone breaking juggernauts.
Dui ing the war of 1912 there was a ship
set oo Bre just above Niagara Fulls. and
then cut loose from its moorings, it came
on down through tile nignt and tossed
over the fulls. It was said to have been
a scene brilliant beyond all description.
Well, there are thousands of men ou lire
of evil habit, coming down through the
rapids and through the awlul night of
temptation toward theeterual plunge. Oh,
tow hard it Is to arrest them. God only
nan arrest tuem. Kuppnue a man after five,
ten or twenty years of evil-doing,resolves
to do right? Why, ail the toices ol dark
ness are allied against him. lie cauuot
sleep nights. He gets down on his knees
In the midnight and cries: “God help tne!”
lie bites his Bp. Me grinds ills teeth, lie
flenches his fist in a determination to
keep bis purpose, lie dare not I>>ok at
the bottles In tbe window ol a wine store.
It vtus one long, bitter, exhaustive, i.nnd
to-hand fight with eatlanu-d, tantalizing
and merciless habit. When he thinks he
ts entirely free tbe eld inclinations pounce
uprn him like a pack of hounds with their
muzzles tearing away at tne flanks of one
poor reindeer, in l'aris there Is a sculp
tured representation of Bacchus, tbe god
of revelry. He Is riding on a panther at
Dili leap. Oh, how suggestive I Let every
one who is speeding on bad ways under
stand he is not riding a docile and well
! broken steed, but he is riding a monster.
, wild and bloodthirsty, going at
a death lean. How many there
are woo resolve on a better life and say:
“When shall 1 awake?” but, seized on by
1 their old habit', cry: “I will try it once
more; I will seek it yet again!” Years
ago there were some Princeton students
who were skating, and the ice was very
thin, and someone warned the company
ba'-k (rom the air-boie, and finally
warned them entirely to leave the place.
But one young man with bravado, afrer
all the rest had stopped, cried out: “One
round more!” He swept around and
went down, and was biought out a
corpse. My friends, there are thousands
and tens of thousands of men losing their
souls in that way. It is the one round
more.
I have also to say that if a man wants
to return from evil practices society re
pulses him. Desiring to reform be says:
“Now 1 w ill snake off my old associates,
amt I will find Christian companionsnip.”
And he appears at the church door some
Sabbath day, and the usher greets nim
with a .ook, as much as to say: “Why,
you here? You are the last man lever
expected to see „ church! Come, take
this seat right down by the door!” instead
of saying; “Good morning; lam glad you
are here. Come; I will give you a first
rate seat, right up by tbe pulpit.” Well,
the prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters
a prayer meeting, and some Christian
man, with more zeal than common
sense, savs: “Glad to see you. The dying
thief was saved, ami 1 suppose there is
mercy for you!” The young man, dis
gusted, chilled, throws himself back on
his dignity, resolved be will never
enter the house of God again. Perhaps
not quite lully discouraged about reform
ation, be sides up by some highly respect
able man be used to know, going down
the street, and immediately tbe respect
able man has an errand down some other
street. Well, the prodigal, wishing to
return, takes some member of a Christian
association by the hand, or tries to. The
Christian young man looks at him, looks
at tbe laded apparel and the marks o( dis
sipation, and instead of giving him a
warm grip of the band, offers him the tip
end of the long fingers of the left hand,
whicu is equal to striking a man in the
face.
Oh. how few Christian people under
stand how much force and gospel there is
in a good, honest handshaking! Some
times, when you have felt the need of en
couragement, and some Christian man
has taken you heartily by the hand, have
you not felt that thrilling through every
fibre of your body, mind and soul, an en
couragemnt that was just what you
needed? You do not know anything at
all about this unless you know when a
man tries to return from evil courses ol
conduct be runs against repulsions innu
merable. We say of some man, he lives a
block or two from the church or half a
mile from the church, 'there are people
in our crowded cities who live a thousand
miles from church. Vast deserts of in
difference between them aad the bouse of
God. The fact is, we must keep our
respectability, though thousands and tens
of thousands perish. Christ sat with
publicans and sinners. But if there came
to tbe bouse of God a man with marks of
dissipation upon him, people almost
threw up their hands in horror, as
much as to say: “Isn’t it shock
ing?” Bow these dainty, fastidious
Christians in all our churches are going
to get into heaven I don’t know, unless
they have an especial train of cars, cush
ioned and upholstered, each one a car
to himself! They cannot go with the
great herd of publicans and sinners. O
ye w no curl your lip of scorn at the (alien,
I tell you plainly, if you had been sur
rounded by the same influences, instead
of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and
the refined, and the Christian, you would
have been a crouching wretch in stable
or ditch, covered with filth and abomina
tion 1 it is not because you are naturally
any better, but because the mercy of God
has protected you. Who are you that,
brought up in Christian circles and
watched by Christian parentage, you
should he so hard on the fallen?
I think men also are often hindered
from return bj tbe fact that churches are
too anxious about their membership, and
too anxious about their denomination,
and they rush out when they see a man
about to give hd his sin and return to
God, and ask him how he Is going to be
baptized, whether by sprinkling or im
mersion, and what'kind ol church he is
going to join, O, my friends! it is a poor
time to talk about Presbyterian cate
chisms, and Episcopal liturgies, and
.Methodist ioveleasts, and baptistries to a
man that is coming out of the darkness of
sin into the glorious light of tbe Gospel.
Why. It reminds me of a man drowning
in the sea, and a lifeboat puts out tor
him, and the man in the
boat says to the man out of
the boat: “Now, if I get you ashore,
are you going to live in my street?” First
get him ashore, and then talk about the
Lion-essentials ol religion. Who cares
what church he joins, if he only joins
Christ and starts for heaven? ’O, you
ought to have, my brother! an illumined
face, and a hearty grip lor every one that
tries to turn from his evil wav. Take
hold of the samo hook with him, though
his dissipations shako the book, remem
bering that be that convertetb a sinner
irora tho error of his ways shall save a
soul from death and hide a multitude of
sms.
Now, I have shown you these obstacles
because I want you to understand lkuow
all tne difficulties In the way; but 1 am
now to tell you how Haunibal may soale
the Alps, and how the shackles may b
unriveted, and bow the paths ot virtue
forsaken may be regained.
First of all, my brother, throw yoursell
on God. Go to Him (rankly and earnestly,
and tell Him these habits you have, aud
ask Hun if there is any help in all the
resource* of omnipotent love to give it
to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole
people call prayer, made up ol “ob’s” and
“ah’s” and “iorevor audforever amensi”
Go to God and cry lor help! help I help!
and if you cannot cry tor help just look
and live. I remember iu the lato war 1
was at Antietani, and 1 went into the
hospitals after the battle, and 1 said to a
man: “Where are you hurt?” Unmade
no answer, but held up bis arm, swollen
and splintered. 1 saw where he was hurt.
Tao simple fact is, when a man has a
wounded soul, all he has to do is to
hold it up before a sympathetic Lord
and get it healed. It does nut take any
long prayer. Just hold up the wound,
oh! ills no small tmng when a man is
nervous, and weak and exhausted, coining
Irom his evil ways, to (eel that God puts
two omnipotent nuns around about him
and says: “Young man, 1 will stand by
you. The mountains may depart aud the
hills be removed, but 1 will never fail
you.” And then, as the soul thinks the
news is too good to be true, and cannot
believe it, and looks up in God's lace,
God Hits His right hand and takes un
oath, an affidavit, saying: “As I live,
satlh the Lord God, I nave no pleasure iu
tue death ol him that Uieth.”
Blessed be God lor such a Gospel as
this! “Cut the slices thin,” said tne wifs
to the husband, “or there will not he
enough to go ali around lor the children;
out the siloes thin.” Blessed be God
there is a lull loaf lor every one that
wants it; bread enough and to spare. No
thin slices at the Lord’s table. 1 remem
ber when the Master Street. Hospital, in
I’btiadelphia, was opened durlug tne war,
a telegram came, saying: “There will be
30b wounded men to-night, be ready to
take care of them:” and from ray church
there went in some twenty or thirty men
and women to look alter these poor
wounded fellows. As they came, some
from one part of the land, some Irom an
other, no one asked whether this man was
trorn Oregon, or Irom Massachusetts, or
troru Minnesota, or from New York.
There was a wounded soldier, and the
SAVANNAH MORNING MONDAY, DECEMBER 6,1886.
only question was bow to take off the
rags most gently, and put on the bandage,
and administer the cordial. And when a
soul comes to God, He does not ask where
you came from nr west your ancestry
was- Healing for all your wounds. Par
don for ali your guilt. Comfort for all
your troubles.
Tnen also 1 counsel you, if you want
to get hack to quit all your bad associa
tions. One unholy intimacy will fill your
soul with moral distemper, in ail the
a-es of the church there nas not been an
instance where a man kept one evil asso
ciate and reformed. Among tne fourteen
hundred million of the race not one in
stance. Go home to-day, open your desk,
take out letter paper, stamp and enve
lope, and then write a letter something
like this:
“My old Companions—l start to-day
tor Heaven. Until i am persuaded you
will join me in this, farewell.”
Tnen sign your name and send tne let
ter with the first post. Give up your bad
companions, or give up Heaven. It is
not ten had companions that destroy a
man, nor five had companions, nor three
had companions, but one. Whatchance
is there for that young man 1 saw along
the street,four or fiveyoung men with him,
halting in front ot a grog shop urging
him to go in, he resisting, violently re
sisting, until alter awhile they forced him
to go in? It was a summer night and the
door was left open, and I saw the process.
They held him fast, and they put the cup
tohisilps, and they forced down the
strong drink. Whatchance is there for
such a young man*
1 counsel you also, seek Christian ad
vice. Every Christian man is bound to
help vou. If you hud no other human ear
w illing to listeu to your story ol struggle,
come to me and 1 will, by every sym
pathy of my heart, and every prayer, and
every toil of my hand, stand beside you in
the struggle for reformation; and as 1
hope to have my own sins forgiven and
hope to be acquitted at the judgment seat
ol Christ, I will not betray you. First ol
all, seek God; then seek Christian coun
sel. Gather up al! the energies of body,
mind andsoui, and, appealing to God for
success, declare this day everlasting war
agaiustall drinking habits, all gaming
practices, all houses of sin. Hall-and
balf work will amount to nothing; it
must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now
and you are lost. Push on, and you are
saved. A Spartan General fell at the
very' moment ol victory, but he dipped his
finger in his own blood and wrote on a
rock near which he was dying: “Sparta
has conquered.” Though your struggle
to get rid ol sin may stein to be almost a
death struggle, you can dip your finger in
your own blood and write on the Rock ol
Ages: “Victory through our Lord Jt*6us
Christ.”
O, what glorious news it would be for
some of these young men to send borne to
their parents in tbe country these holi
days which are coining. They go to the
post office every day or two to see whether
there are any letters from you. How
anxious they are to hear! You might
send them lor a holiday present this sea
sou a book Irom one ol our best publish
ing bouses, or a complete wardrobe from
tbe importer’s palace, it w r ould not please
them hall so much as the news you might
send home to-morrow that you had given
your heart to God. 1 know how it is in
the country. The night comes on. The
cattle stand under the rack through
which burst the trusses of hav. The
horses just having Irisked up from the
meadow at the nightiall, stand knee
deep in the bright straw that invites
them to lie down and rest. The perch ol
the hovel is lull of fowl, their feet warm
under the feathers, in the old farm
house at night no candle is lighted, for
the flames olap their hands about the
great hack log, and shake the shadow of
tbe group up and down the wall. Father
and mother sit there for half an hour, say
ing nothing. 1 wonder what they are
tbinkiug of. Alter awhile the lather
breaks the silence, and says: “Well, I
wonder where our boy is in town to
night?” and the mother answers: “In no
bad place, I warrant you; we always
could trust him when he was home, and
since he has been away there have been
so many prayers offered lor him, we can
trust him still.” Then at 8 o’clock—for
they relire early in the country—they
kneel down and commend you to that God
who watches iu country aud in town, ou
the land and on the sea’.
Someone said to a Grecian General:
“What was the proudest moment in your
life?” He thought a moment, and said:
“The proudest moment in my life was
when 1 sent word home to my parents
that 1 had gained ihe victory.” And the
proudest and most brilliant moment iu
your life will be the moment when you
can send word to your parents that you
have conquered your evil habits by the
grace of God, and become eternal victor.
Oh, despise not parental anxiety!
The time will come when you will have
neither father nor mother, and you will
go around the place where tbev used to
watch you, and find them gone from the
house, and gone Irom the field, and gone
from the neighborhood. Cry as loud lor
foi giveuess as you may over the mound in
the churchyard, they will not answer.
Dead! Dead! Aud then you will takeout
the white lock of hair that was cut irom
your mother’s brow just beiore they
buried her, aud you will take tho cane
with wuicb your lather used to walk, and
you will think and think and wish that
you had done just us they wanted you to,
aud would give the world il you had
never thrust a pang through their
dear old hearts. God pity the young
man who has biought disgrace on his
father’s name! God pity the young man
who has broken his mother’s heart! Bet
ter if he had never been horn—better if
in the first hour of his life, iustcad of be
ing laid against the warm bosom ot ma
ternal tenderness, he had been coffined
aud sepulchred. There is no balm power
ful euougii to heal the heart of one who
bas brought parents to a sorrowlul grave,
and who wanders about through the dis
mal cemetery, rending the hair and
wringing the hands, and crying, “Mother!
Mother 1” Oh. that to-day by all the
memories of the past, and by all the hopes
of the future, you wouid yield your heart
to God. May your father’s God and your
mother’s God be your God torever!
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE
The Important Features of the
Second Week of the Session.
Columbia, 8. C., Dec. s.—The impor
tant iealuros of tbe second week of the
session of the General Assembly were tbe
Inauguration of the newly olected Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor and tbe
black eye which was received by the Pro
hibitionists on Friday last. The inaugu
ration ceremonies would bo considered in
Georgia tame and uuintoresting. The
General Assembly of .South Carolina is
conducted on a strictly economical basis.
Tho State House buing in the hands of the
builder, and rootless, tbe Legislature
holds its session in a small hall, which
willscaroely hold a half dozen spectators,
and so the inauguration was held iu tho
Opera House here, tne use of whicu was
tendered free. There was not even a hand
ni music in attendance, and tho whole
affair occupied not more than forty min
utes.
PROHIBITION'S DKPEAT.
The defeat of the Prohibitionists was a
very amusing incident, it suould be oS
plalned that prohibition absolute prevails
all through this Blate outside ol incorpo
rated cities and towns—this by a general
law. In cities and towns a local option
law prevails, which leaves the regulation
of tho liquor traffic to the voters of each
municipality. 'Units law was passed in
deference to tho demand* of tho cold
water people. Tho Prohibitionists, how
ever, ure nothing if not uggresuive, nnd
for several years tue.v have been bussing
special sou applying to special counties.
making prohibition absolute through
tbe counties named, in several instances
passing such acts over Ibe heads and
against the express wishes of a majority
ol the voters of the coantv.
When this General Assembly convened
the Prohibitionists, it was thought, had a
clear majority in the Lower House. Their
first aggressive measure was the intro
duction of a bill to limit the local option
law concerning municipalities to towns
and villages ofover 300 inhabitants, and
it was on this bill that the great fight, the
first ol the season, occurred.
unfavorably reported.
The bill bad been reported unfavorably
by tbe Judiciary Committee, but never
theless in deference to tbe Prohibitionists
bad been allowed to go upon tbe calendar.
When it was reached on Friday last there
was a slim house, a good many members
being absent. The support of the bill,
strange to say, was mainly from Edge
field county, the unsavory reputation of
which extends all over the land.
Its author was a Lutheran
minister from that county and a member
ol the Legislature. Tners wa some slight
skirmishing first and finally a vote was
reached on a motion to kill the bill. This
was defeated by a majority of two only.
Tbe author ol the bill who is doubtless
more familiar with the ethics of the Holy
Scriptures and the etiquette of the
pulpit jumped at once to the conclusion
that he had won tbe battle and actually
arose in his seat and bestowed the bene
diction upon the members.
GREAT ASTONISHMENT.
His astonishment was great, however,
upon finding out that the victory was not
yet won. There are certain far-seeing
politicians in the House who had not yet
taken a hand in the fight. Foreseeing the
danger with which this arbitrary meas
ure was fraught they at once entered the
list, and, in a half hour, the bill was per
manently and effectually killed by a sub
stantial majority vote against it.
The farmers’ movement,with which tbe
readers of the Morning News are fami
liar, has crystallized. Two bills have
been introduced embodying the main
points of FarmerTillman’sscheme for the
agricultural r demption of the State. One
of these proposes to take from the State
the control and management of the Agri
cultural Bureau and vest it in the Farm
ers’ Association, weieb as yet has no
legal existence. This bill has been re
ported favorably by tbe Agricultural
Committee.
THE BUREAU’S SUPPORT.
The Agricultural Bureau, it may be
mentioned, is supported by what is known
as the fertilizer tax—a tax of 25c. on every
ton ot commerce fertilizer sold in the
State. The proceeds of the tax amount
to about 125,000 annually.
The other bill referred to Is one to es
tablish a purely agricultural college.
Farmer Tillman’s plan to establish the
college is to double the phosphate royalty
(now $1 per ton) and a bill to efliet this
has already been introduced. This idea
expressed in his bill is for the State to
appropriate all the moneys received from
the phosphate royalty, over $200,000 an
nually, to the establishment of the college.
Last year tbe receipts from this source
w'ere about $190,000. It will be under,
stood that tins royalty is exacted only
from phosphates mined in the rivers. The
miners ol land rock, of course, pay no
royalty.
A WARM FIGHT.
The bill to increase the royalty, there
fore. has induced a very warm fight. Toe
miners of land rook, it is needless to say,
are giving it their very cordial support.
9hould the royalty bo doubled the price ol
iheir product will be increased $1 per ton
without any additional cost in the pro
duction. The college bill has, however,
not yet meterialized, only the rough dratt
ol it having been prepared. Farmer
Tillman has decided, however, to make
the light lor the increase of tbe phosphate
royalty as tbe only means of raising
money for his arcadian college.
The’ old Palmetto State seems to have
developed of late years some of the small
est of insignificant statesmen. It would
have been thought that the recent fearlul
calamity to Charleston, the metropolis of
the State, would at least have wiped out
the bitter feeling of animosity—almost oi
hatred —that bas been engendered against
the old city in certain ot the upper coun
ties of the Stale.
EXPECTATIONS OF THE CITIZENS.
Overwhelmned as Charleston was with
the golden flood of sympathy that was
showered upon h r by tne people of every
section ol the Union, it was certainly
thought that in the breasts of South
Carolinians there could be nothing but
love ancl sympathy for the terribly
afflicted old city. With this impression,
the people of Charleston determined to
ask nothing at the hands of the State save
a temporary relief from taxation for those
who had suffered bv the earthquake, and
where losses, irom the nature of tnings,
were not and could not be repaired out of
tne generous contributions sent them
by tbe people of the United States. With
this view, a bill was introduced providing
simply for the reassessment of the pro
perty and a postponement of the taxes
now due until March next.
BITTER OPPOSITION.
It will scarcely he credited, but it is a
fact that this bill met serious and bitter
opposition in tbe Senate of South Caro
lina, and that it was actually only passed,
after a three-days’ heated debate, by a
majority of one vote. The argument
against it was that there had been, in the
language of a distinguished up-country
Senator, “short craps” in the up country,
and that no relief nad been granted the
farmers. The Dill bas not yet neen dis
cussed in the House.
It is generally understood that the
Ways and Means Committee expect to
make a reduction in tbe State levy for the
ensuing fiscal year of one mill. The
economisls will, however, make an effort
to reduce the levy two mills, by the use
of tbe reserve fund now in tne Treasury,
held there for the purpose of meeting the
interest on the public debt.
£M?ical.
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If you have humors, pimples
boila, eruptions, it is because
the system needs toning and
purilylng. Nothing gives such
good health,smooth, clean skin
and vigorous feeling as Sint
mono Liver Regulator, a sim
ple vegetable compound. It
stimulates tho Liver, cleanses
the eyes and skin of yellow ness,
Improves digestion and makes
the breath pure and sweet.
“1 was greatly troubled with bolls on my
neck and body, and could find nothing to re
lieve me. Simmons Liver Regulator having
been recommended to me, 1 tried it with com
plete success and have hud no return ol' them
since."—.l as. M. ( i.kmknt. Agent Philadel
phia and S mtbern Mall Sic unship Company,
Philadelphia. I’a
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tlnu and Consiination. my health became
broken and my complexion assumed a tellow
lsh hue. .Alter using Simmons Liver Regula
tor for a short time my health was restored
and also the freshness of my complexion,”—
Mrs. M. liiiooKS, Clinton, Gtt.
Genuine ha* our trade mark Z in red on
front of wrapper. J. 11, ZEtctN CO.,
Philadelphia.
ftmoorh*.
FIRE OR AO KERBI
-FOR SALE BY-
C. M. GILBERT & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
GEOBGIT HISTORLAL SOCIETI.
The regular meeting of the Georgia Histo
rical Society for December will i>e held at
Hodgson Had,
MONDAY EVENING, THE 6TH, AT 8
O’CLOCK.
THE HON. CHARLES C. JONES, JR.,
Of Augusta, will deliver an address on
“THE LTFE AND SERVICES OF THE
HON. SAMUEL ELBERT,
Brigadier-General in the Continental Army,
and Governor of Georgia.”
The nulbic are invited to attend.
By order of THE PRESIDENT.
DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. 0. 0. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Mon
day! EVENING at N o'clock.
The first degree will be conferred.
Members of other Lodges aud visiting
brothers are cordially invited to attend.
By order W. E. SWANSTON, N. G,
John Riley, Secretary.
Savannah Volunteer Gnards.
Headqpabteks Bat. Sav’h Vol. Guards.)
Savannah, Dec. 1, lss6. )
General Order .Vo. SC:
The corps is herebv ordered to assemble at
the Arsenal on MONDAY, Dee. 0. at 8 o’clock
p. m. vunctuaUy, fully uniformed, (without
cross belts) to e-cort the savannah Cadets to
tlie opening of their Bazar. Honurarv, pay,
exempt country, and retired members are
requested to participate in the escort. By
order of
LIEUT. COL. WM. GARRARD,
Wm. W. Williamson, Commanding.
Adjutant.
Notice.
The annual meeting of Public Road Com
mieaioners Chatham County will be held at
the Court House on MONDAY", 6th Inst., at 11
A. M. A full attendance is desired,
GEO. P. HARRISON, Chairman,
R. Coaklky, Secretary.
Meeting of Stockholders.
Central R. R. & Banking Cos. of Ga., i
Savannah, Ga., Dec. Ist, 1886.)
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of this
Company will take placo at the Banking
House, in Savannah, on WEDNESDAY', Dec.
22d, at 10 o’clock A. M, Stockholders and their
families will bepaesed free over the Company’s
road to the meeting from the 19th to the 22d
inclusive, and will be passed free returning
from the 22d to the 25th inclusive, on presen
tation of their stock certificates to the con
ductors T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
Cashier.
Spcrtal Unttrre.
Notice.
Stockholders in the Equitable Loan and
Building Association will please take notice
that I can be found at the office of Mr C. 11.
Dorsett, 156 Bay street.
W. K. WILKINSON.
Treasurer.
A Certain Profit
Is to be obtained from Florida lands. The
future of this wonderful State can only be
conjectured.
At the earnest solicitation of friends iu
Florida and in this State I have consented to
carrv on my list a line of Florida properties.
This has almost become a necessity, as a
large number of our citizens are constantly
buying lands in Florida and would prefer
to do this through a home agent.
I therefore announce that I am now offer
ing a varied line of lands in
ORANGE AND HERNANDO COVNTIES,
and can give prices that muet realize a profit
to the purchaser. C H. Dorsett,
Real Estate Dealer.
Central Railroad and Ranking Com
pany of Georgia.
Savannah, Ga ~ Dec. Ist, 1886.
A Dividend of FUCK DOLLARS per share
from the earnings of this Company and it
dependencies has been declared, payaole on
and after DEC EM BEK 20 th, to the Stockhold
ers as of record this day.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
Cashier.
Election for Directors.
Central R. K. & Banking Cos. of Ga.. i
Savannah, Ga.. Dec. Ist. 1886.)
An election for Thirteen Directors to man
age the affairs of this Company for the ensu
ing year will bo held at the Banking House,
19 Savannah, MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY
OF JANUARY", 1887, between the hours of 10
o’clock a. M. aud 2 o’clock p. M. Stockholders
and their families will be passed free over the
Comnany’s road to attend the election from
the Ist to the 8d of January inclusive, and be
passed free returning from the 3d to the 7th of
January inclusive, on presentation of then
stock certificates to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
Cashier,
kickapoo Indian Remedies.
KICKAPOO INDIAN SAGWA.
KICKAPOO INDIAN SALVE.
KICKAPOO INDIAN OIL.
KICKAPOO INDIAN WORM KILLER.
A full supply on hand at
E. J. KIEFFER’S
Drug and Paint House, corner West Broad
and Stewart streets.
Safety Boxes.
The Southern Bank is now prepared to rent
out Safe Boxes iu its new burglar and fire
proof vault. Parties wanting a secure place
In which to keep Bonds, Certificates of Stock,
Mortgages, Notes, Deeds, Wills, Diamonds,
Jewelry or other valuables have an opportun
ity of procuring same by renting one of these
boxes.
Terms, Five to Twenty Dollars per annum,
according to size, etc.
JAMES SULLIVAN,
Cashier.
Savannah and Tybce Railway Com.
patiy.
Office of Treasurer. 11l Bay St..|
Savannah, Nov. 10, issa. j
By resolution of the Board of Directors,
adopted at last regular meeting, a THIRD
INSTALLMENT of TWENTY-FIVE PER
( ENT of the PREFERRED CAPITAL
STOCK is called for, pavable at the- office on
or before the ELEVENTH DAY OF DECEM
BER, 1886. JOHN W. BURROUGHS,
Treasurer.
Ir. Henry . Golding, ~ ~
SURGEON DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton street.
Graduate Baltimore College of Dental Bur-
gery.
Hr. if. H. Hitchcock
Offers his professional services to the citizens
of s.uuniiHli, < mire Mo Liberty ol rent
l liner’s Liter Corrector.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the
system. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and
other ills, caused by a disordered livor, it can
notbo excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and
Indorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for
Ulmer’s Liver Corrector and take no other.
11 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B.F. ULMER. M. D„
Pharmacist. Savannah, Ga.
NOTICE.
A JR- C. B. PARKER Is this day admitted e
a member of our firm. Tlie firm name will
remain the same.
ELLUL YOUNG A CO.
S AVA NN A H THEA TR eT
Monday and Tnesday, Dec! 6 and 7.
OF THE POWERFUL
EMOTIONAL ACTRE 8
Miss Louise Rial,
Supported by the following well known
Artists: Will S. Marion, W. D. Stone. Mar
lunde Clarke, Nellie Pierce, Lillian Stillman,
etc. , in the new American Melo-Dramatic
Comedies,
Fo rtu ne’s Fool
AND—
CALLED BACK.
Seats on Bale at Davis Bros.’ Dec. 4th, 9 a. m.
Next attraction—the Beautiful ZO ZO—Dec.
15 and 16.
SaraliCits’
GRAND
BAZAR
WILL OPEN
December 6th,’B6,
—AT—
SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER
GUARDS’
ARSENAL.
Stooro. •
Large Sales.
YTTE are having the largest demand this
Vi season for our STOVES and KANGVB
that we have ever experienced, and attribute
it solely to the great favor in which the Bel
monts, Othelios, New Records, Acorns.
Farmer Girls and others are growing. On
some makes we have had a perfect rush, our
prices being most reasonable.
LOVELL & LATTIMORE,
SAVANNAH. GA.
THE BEST PLACE TO BUY
Cooking Stoves, Heaters or Ranges,
Crockery, Tinware, and all kinds of
Honse Famishing Goods. Satisfac
tion guaranteed or money refunded.
FREEMAN & OLIVER,
192 BROUGHTON STREET.
For cash or credit.
Cold Wave Coming!
You are invited to call and
see the prettiest and best lot
of Stoves in the city ami get
prices.
Heating Stoves $2 50 Up.
Cooking Stoves @6 Up.
CORNWELL & CHIPMAN
ODD FELLOWS’ BUILDING.
■lumv.
BEWARE BF lIiTATKM
USE ONLY
HECKER’S
Self-Raising Flour!
SOLD BY ALL GROCERS,
GEO.V.HECKER&CO.
176 Bay street,
SAVANNAH, - - - - GA.
_ <3ol> JJfintnuj.
1881. ESTABLISH ED 36 YEARS." 1886
CEO. N, NSCHOLS,
Job Printing,
Book Binding,
Blank Books.
Every facility for all kinds of work. Now
Type, new Machinery, largo stock* of Papers,
good work.
Prices as low as quality of work and mate
rial wanted will warrant.
93a Bay St. - Telephone 39.
|>vopooato Ui.titlr \
Oil V (IK lit ANNAH )
Office city .SiiivkyorS
Dec. 4, 1886. >
I* R O P OS A S
Will lie received at the office of the Clerk of
Council until 12 m. SATI RIM Y. llth met., for
painting the iron ami wood work of the ex
terior of the Pol lce/Barracks building. For
specifications apply at the office of tlio under
signed.
The right to reject anv or all bids reserved.
JOHN I!. HOWARD,
City Surveyor.
——ii ■ i ail
KELLER & RUSTIN,
PKAI.EKH IN
Beef, Veal anti Million, Dork, Poul
try. Km;*, Fruit* A Vegetables.
ALSO, fresh country Sausage kept on hand
all the time. Orders promptly flllod to
any part of the city free of charge, and satis
f< Mon guaranteed. Call and seeotir line stock
before you buy elsewhere. Corner Waldburg
and Barnard streets,
I Pn) C6ooDo.
DANIEL HOGAN
1 WILL COMMENCE ON MOND AY a
SPECIAL SALE
IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
200 REMNANTS OF SUPERIOR
Black and Colored Silks
sss srssfisfs . c ,•?£“■> *
Satin Rhadames
—at
95cts., $1 15 and $1 95
Heavy GROS GRAIN at Ssc., 95c.. ii ‘
$1 25 and up lo $3 per yard, ’
1 arge and Elegant stock of PI.T t shf; „
VELVETS la PLAIN, FANCY STRIPge '1
BROCADES. 01 ttieK4ii<i
DKESS GOODS.
I will offer Special Bargains durimr th .
week in Imported Novelties and Comb?Mt, h nn
runs. A Large Invoice of FRENCH t
MERES in all Colors aud Black at 62c; worth
The following reduction in Silk Warp
HENRIETTAS
Quality A 95c; formerly $1 12 t' o n „i it „ „
Boys’ Clothing,
Boys’ PlaiD and Plaided Suits, 4 to 12 years
of £?°i Laß9 ™ ere and thoroughly made "mu'
The New Norfolk Suit. 4 to 12 year, m.,
patterns, durable material, box-plaited wJ
and tront. at $3 25 and $3 75. P Slted back
Boys’ first-class Suiis. Dark Brown Mixed
Cassimeres, 4 to 12 years. Norfolk bio,me
hox-iuuited back and front, splendid Z,.'
rial, very neat and stylish; Will give excefien
lent satisfaction in wear, $5. uen
Boys’ Handsome Dress Suits of all-woo 1
English Corkscrew, W orsted. Blue an dßm™
4 to 13 years, made in the very best manner in
Plain Norfolk or plaited blouse style and lined
&*9to|7Sfc* Sllk -' iulbhed ® er S e , reduced
Carpets, Carpets,
Made and Laid at the Shortest Notice.
25 nieces Tapestry Brussels at 60c.
25 pieces Tapestry Brussels at 80c.
40 pieces Tapestry Brussels at 90c
65 pieces Ingrain Carpets, ranging in price,
from 25c to $ 1 per yard.
Extra quality 3-plys at *1 laid and made.
100 Rolls Canton Matting
Prices ranging from 2254 cto 50c. U
.2„ ai ? also lowing a magnificent line of
MISSES’ CLOTHING, as well as a splendid
SHOrTwRAPS? *“ d Ml ' Bt ' 8 ’ LOilG aa,i
Blankets, Blankets.
The most extensive stock In the city; priem I
ranging from 85c to $25 per pair.
DANIEL HOGAN,
crumting. j
OurCatalogue
After many vexatious delays, is at last I
ready for distribution. ]
The PI.ATES were made from Draw- I
ings of our Garments, and show all of the I
prevailing forms of dress for different I
occasions. 1
The READING MATTER was mos, I
carelully compiled and gives full descrip- I
tions of the Plates aud a general Idea of I
our prices, eto. I
The BOOK Itself will serve as a guide I
and friend to GBy one when in a dilemma I
as to “WHAT TO WE AB.-’ I
We bespeak for it a kind reception, I
although so very late in coming out, amiH
the remembrance of our friends and theH
public when in need of any articles i?H
our line. I
To those who are Interested and barf ■
not received a copy we will gladly seciß
one on application. ■
A. FALK & SON.I
Savannah, Ca. I
aiute *tt® ©tie.
Railroad & Mill Supplies!
SPECIAL LOW PRICESj
Prime Winter Lard Oil, bbl 52c petSH
West Virginia Black Oil. bhl 9 „ I
Cylinder Oil, bbl 50 I
Home Light Oil, 160 deg. Are test, I
bbl 18
Water White Oil, 150 deg. lire test, l( I
bbl 15 I
Kerosene Oil. Georgia test, 120 „ I
deg. lire test, bbl „ I
Hanley’s Machine Oil .. - 20 I
Axle Grease, bbl * P e v° I
Tallow. Refined, bbl I
Colored Waste, bale .. ’■* J
All of the above goods are guarantee*
give perfect satisfaction or no side. 1
weights and measures guaranteed. ]V I
I carry the largest stock of WHU r, ■
DOORS. SASHES, BLINDS. MOUPpI
ItITILDERS’ HARDW ARE PAINTS O‘!J
RAILROAD.BTEAMBOAT and MILL S'. ■
I’I.IKS of any house in the South, shicn **
selling at very low pxices,
Send for estimates and price lists
buying and be convinced. I
Andrev/ Hanleyl
WMlalcer, York and President Sis.,l
SAVANNAH, QKOBgjJ
JOHN C. BUTLEIfI
PAINTS; RAILROAD. SIEAMtR **
MILLSUPPLI KB.SA.SH ES.I iOOID
and BUILDERS’ tUKDWARE. f s t|B
for GK () RGIA LI ME.C AUAN KI P Kgj
CEMENTS, HAIR, and LAND I LASi
Whitaker Street. SsvannaPtJM
1865. CHRIS. MURPHY, IB6J
House, Siffn k Ornamental
TNXECUTKD ncatly and with
Vj Paints, oils, \arnlshes, 1 n ** t,■
Glasses, otc., etc, EaMmates turn prufiM
plication. Corner Congress aiw ■
streets, roar of Christ Churclu^^^^^^J
Wood! Wool
C. H. SHEFTALL, H
DE A LER In Wood of all k'J’' l r‘ 9 5aH
Oak, Green Oak, n j''k •' *■
an<l best (ieortcia Yellow 1 ,n ® 0 f
Kindlings. Yard at the corne
and West Boundary streets, on the H
Wood Sawed any Long ■
To suit the smallest stoves. U rsUI * H
P 'prompt attention given jo
satisfaction guaranteed. ftLt H|