Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-17

LOUISVILLE. KY. February 12-There are two
common forms Of sa]utation with which we
Louisvillians now greet each other, How is
your vaccination doing, and have you been to
hear Barnes - This wonderful evangelist is
now in the eighth week of his revival, having
preached two sermons every week day with
out one omission, and three sermons every
Sunday during the time, and is as fresh, as
vigorous and as unfagging as when he first
rose before the people of Louisville. He is the
great topic of the town amongst all classes.
The number of his converts approaches thou
sand. and those who have been anointed for
bodily ills aggregate almost as many since he
opened here.
From the out of the way little church
around the corner" where the crowds who
came late were turned away, he has recently
secured the Opera House. and every
afternoon and night it is packed from
pit to dome with a motley gathering
something like that which assembled
in the Church of Free Souls. drawn thither to
hear the Comet of a Season" Fashionable
ladies are dropped from their elegant coupes
and enter the hall alongside of poor, dis
torted, ragged creature who comes with
the hope of a "touch and be healed"
digniied, elderly men, bald heads
W
counting house day after day, together
with grave Judges from the bench and busy
lawyers from the court room. The man is
human magnet. The same people who sit un-
der him and are shocked by his atrocious slang
are still found there nevertheless. time after
me. listening eagerly to anything that may
fall from Brother Barnes lips. His is no new
doctrine. He breaches much upon faith. and,
perhaps, lays not enough stress upon works;
his plan of salvation opens wide doors TO all,
and makes it so easy to be saved He scouts
the idea as the DEVILS own, that makes man
pray for more faith and grace and neWneSS OF
heart as a preparation for entering the King
dom. He teaches that we must plant the one
grain of mustard seed we all possess and let it
grow of itself He treats the devil as real,
personal entity, an AppolYon to be met and
overcome in literal combat.
Brother Barnes is man Of fine talents and
classical attainments being thorough linquist.
While in the Presby terIan ministry he was
missionary to India. For the past few years
since he has thrown himself into the evangeiZ-
ing field, he has labored principally in the
rOuntan districts of Kentucky-than which
no section could need those labors more
and has given up every worldly considera-
tion, having literally nowhere to lay his head,
but trusts to that Providence who feeds the
sparrow to care for him. When collections are
taken up for him wherever he is, he accepts
simply enough for board and raiment and
quietly puts aside the rest The ministers of
the city hold themselves sternly aloof from
him, one going so far as to denounce him from
the pulpit as a clerical blatherskite." But
none the less do these clergymen preach to
s i'm congregations, while Barnes gathers in
their focks.
If hi converts stray away, as so many do for
want of some one to organize them, it will be
because the churches refuse to lend helping
hand to carry his work to some end of practi-
cal good. The quantity and quality Of Brother
Barnes slang is something terrific, but except
r this broadness and homeliness his want of
Tulpit dignity, about which so much has been
said. is hardly more striking than the manner
Of haor
pared them. Brother Barnes attitude in PRAYER
is one of abject humility. He literally "hops"
in manner Jerry Cruncher would detest. He
declares that a minister who does not
wear out the knees of his trousers in prav er
is only "slack-twisted Christian" and will
never be able to save souls. And even vet he
says he has become too refined since he has
been in Louisville; that he never started out to
preach aesthetic Gospel, and must get back
TO the mountains to call things by their right
names. But despite his pecuiartieS and ir-
regularities, there is but one opinion with all
who have heard or known him-that he is a
sincere. earnest Christian, whose private life
is consistent, blameless and beautiful, and
who has yielded every worldly consideration
to preach the Gospel in his own way by the
light that is given him. There is no telling
when his revival will close, as the interest is
constantly and increasingly manifested.
Bishop Kavanaugh, of the Methodist Church,
and one of the Oldest presiding Bishops in the
denomination. recently passed his eightieth
birthday, and received at his home deputa-
ton congratulatiDg him upon the vigor and
strength with which the anniversary found
him. The Bishop still possesses the mental
energy and youthfulness, freshness of heart
and soul that sat so happily upon him half a
century ago, when he was called par excel
lence, the handsomest man in Kentucky. He
is always ready at a moments notice to board
, train to fill an appointment in any direction
or to fly off to the Pacific SLOPE and after per-
forming his multifaTious duties return with the
keen sense of enjoyment and defiance to the
WEAKNESS of travel that younger man might
envy.
ut is an ill wind that blows nobody any
good" In view of the smallpox epidemic two
Of our enterprising citizens have commenced
operations for starting vaccine farms, upon
the plan of those institutions in the East from
which they anticipate profitable returns Mr.
j B. Wilder. a wealthy wholesale druggist,
whose fine farm is but few miles from the
city. was the first to conceive the idea, and
physician living in the lower end of the city,
whose home is surrounded by only a few acres,
has already purchased eighteen or twenty
healthy young COWS to begin with. 1t is calcu-
lated that each COW will produce when inocu-
lated ten thousand points, " which sell at ten
cents apiece, and 1t Is furthermore claimed
that the COW is not injured by the process but
is more healthy and wholesome than ever as
food.
Still, it is not a very appetizing thought to
cross ones mind when looking down at the
succulent slice swimming in Worcestershire in
the dinner plate or the goblet of foaming milk
beside it, to reflect that this animal had served
lUS Gay ana Sen6raUlOn ana lent lIS ala TO m6Ql
cal science and humanity in quite a different
capacity. To disturb the calculations of the
vaccine farmers, DR.. Bell, the great medical
theorist of Louisville. steps to the front and
declares emphaticaly that bovioe virus never
prevented case of smallpox, and only human
lymph is eff1cacious. And so the battle RACES.
The report that Mary Anderson is to marry
Mr.. Carleton, of Louisville, is unfounded be
cause there is no Mr.. Carleton, of Louisville.
The gentleman in question is said to be Mr..
Guy Carleton, of New Orleans, the son of
General Carleton. The young gentleman is q
poet, and won the hundred dollar priZe offered
by the New Orleans Democrat for the best
poem on the yellow fever in 1S1S and the affec-
tionate aid and sympathy extended them by
the North to the South. The prize was awarded
to young Mr.. Carleton's purely classical poem,
"ADdromeda Unclaimed.
And Oscar Wilde is going to lecture here,
long hair, knee breeches and sunfowers, on
the 21st. OF course we shall all lie proStrate
on our backs and gasp until the ineffable pres
epce passes by. He has been invited to be the
guest of a dashing and wealthy society gentle
man who has Just completed a marvelously
% sthetic Queen Anne house that has been the
talk of the day. horrible f1re-red, gabled
monstrosty, tricked of in myrtle green fac
ings. ii the outbuildings are decorated in
the most expensive and artistic style, the young
upon an old chicken coop and renovating
it in the most approved fashion OF
high art so that the wild rumor gained
currency that he was about to take boarders
He is also engaged upon a novel which the
Harpers are to bring out soon with blue china
heroine and sage green hero who dwell in
Limoges palace and talk shattered pottery. A
prominent book store displays six pictures of
Oscar in as many different attitudes, offered at
the amazingly low price of fifty cents apiece.
One in which Oscar looks particularly hideous
can be had at the panic price of forty cents.
and yet finds no bidder. The windows of
Fourth avenue stores are gorgeous with the
display of sunfiowers, and fashionable young
ladies appear in costumes of hesitating blues
and indecisive greens mixed frightfully and
looking ike awful phantoms evolved from the
densest Of London fogs But Oscar is coming
shades of Rsthetcism be with us
CoYLE DOUGLAS.