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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN,
ESTABLISHED IN 1854,
By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, (
VOL. 18.
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Charles F. Crisp,
•litomen ai Law*
AMERICUS, GA.
declfitf
B. P. HOLLIS
Attorney at Lawn
AMERICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bant
building. dec2otf
E. G SIMMONS, "
Attorney at L.aw*
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of
J.amar Street, in the old office of Fort &
Simmons. • janetf
J. A. ANSI EY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AXI) SOLICITOR IN EQUITY.
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
(Jlothino Store, Americcs, Ga.
After a brief respite 1 return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will be
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involving titles of
land and real estate are my favorites. Will
practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
CARD.
I offermy professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found It difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square
Janl7tr B. C. BLACK, M. D.
DR. BACLEY’S
INDIAN VEGETABLE LIVER AND
KIDNEV PILLS.
For sale by all Druggists in Americus.
Price 25 cents per box. jan26wly
, Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY,
( DsntisT,
Americas. - - - Georgia
Treatssuccessfully all diseasesof the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved
method, and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
HUOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s
Drug Store. marllt
M. H. O’DANIEL M. D
Americus, Gil
Office and Residence, No. 2L Barlow
House.
All calls promptly attended, day or night.
Calls left at Eldridge’s Drug Store.
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Dr. J* F. Stapleton
Offers his professional services to the people
of Americus and surrounding couutry. He
will practice medicine, surgery, obstetrics,
and allother matters pertaining to his pro
fession. A successful experience in the past
will guarantee to him success. Calls left at
. uuvt oi Mrs. Mary Jossey, at Dr.
-uridge's Drug Store, and at the office of
Drs. Head & Black, will receive prompt
attention. janl9-3m
JOHN E. HALL,
DRUGGIST.
It was my intention by this advertisement
to call attention to some new features in my
Drug Business. It is hardly necessary, how
ever. Everybody knows my stand on For
syth street, and the large stock of
DRUG STORE GOODS
I am running and the low figures at which
they are purchasable. Thanks for my pres
ent liberal patronage, and solicit a continu
ation. Two doors from Fost-olficc.
mar3-lm
Livery and 2ik Stain 1
Besides Horses, we have the WEBSTER
WAGON, LANDIS BUGGIES. J. T.
BARNES’ ROAD CARTS, KENTUCKY
MULES, here and en route. To epitomize,
Horses, Mules, -Wagons, Buggies, Carts,
and Harness to suit all tastes and judge
! meuts, Fine stylos, substantial goods at ex
' ceedlngly LOW FIGURES. The times con
sidered in all our dealings. Call and see us.
J N. G. & K. PRINCE.
Cotton Ave. and West End Jefferson St.
jan3tf Americus, Ga.
yon urcti It? J:
■ ftflATPlMftßllAl Spot f clm.nil>i r fhj \uiwr
BJn/yi n I ITf VIT IML fflftdy or auulitnian should
Bwtouj : SMBfPNIiPHHIN
Mrs. M. E. HAINES
HAS A
Fine Assotment of
IN STOCK, SUCH AS
Jewelry, Vases and Toys!
CUPS AND SAUCERS!
Work Boxes, Writing Desks,
Paper Weights, Ink Stands,
Smoking Stands, besides
imm umu. ini m
AND
Millinery of all Kinds!
Store at the same old stand, Jackson Street,
west of the Public Square, Americus,Ga.
decStf
iiliitiQiiilS
IJE A L ESTATE CHEAP
FOR A. LK :
House and Lot on Felder street, just out
side tbo city limits. The house has four
rooms; are hard finished, large rooms, good
water, good neighborhood, healthy, about
fifteen minutes walk from Public Sehool.
Lot contains six acres, more or loss. Terms
moderate.
The Wright place, on College Hill, corner
Forrest street; has four rooms and one acre
of land, very comfortable place, and will be
sold cheap.
The Pickett place, next to the Wright
place on Forrest street; a very pretty,
sightly, four room house, with necessary
outbuildings, all in good repair. This will
be sold at a bargain.
Several desirable residences in East
Americus. These are very choice invest
ments. They pay good interest on the
money, and are readily rented. Will he sold
low for cash.
I also have a number of farms to sell, and
have orders to buy some. For information,
prices, etc., call on me.
W. J. DIBBLE,
Real Estate and Insurance Agent,
Office, up stairs over Wooten & Ford’s.
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For Sale
I offer a splendid little 40-acre farm three
quarters a of mile northwest from Americus,
Ga. There is on the place a six-room frame
dwelling, the rooms plastered and very com
fortable; house almost new; all necessary
outbuildings on the place, and everything
in good order, including stable and carriage
house. The land lies well for cultivation,
and the soil with ordinary attention could
ho made to produce profitably; excellent
water on the place. For price and terms,
apply to W. J. DIBBLE,
mar7-tf Ileal Estate Agent.
Real Estate for Sale.
d|< QK / \ easy TERMS; 150 YARDS
from business portion of
city; a neat and well arranged four-room
dwelling, with cook room attached; good
servant’s house on place; splendid well of
water; beautiful flower yard; rich garden
spot, and several choice fruit trees in hear
ing.
dboprfl CASH FOR 150 ACRES FIVE
UpOOvT miles west of Americus; good
improvements; 100 acres in cultivation; bal
ance original forest; plenty of water on
place; splendid location for fish pond.
(JiQAA CASH WILL BUY 200 ACRES
IJP i7V / U of good laud three miles from
Smithville; 150 acres cleared; balance well
timbered; good settlement and good water
on place.
HARDY & TOMMEY,
feb2l-tf Real Estate Agents
mMMiiM A Lend in:? Loudon
WfWfimESRIS Physician esta&UsSica
EL” m S Hi BwrS an oGJce In New Ecrk
kQ fa jg for the cure of
EPILEPTIC FITS.
■SS m 69 Bv Prom Am. Journal of ilodic'.na
Dr. AD/Sfesorote (late of London), who makes a spe
cialty aTEpilepsy, has without <Uiul>ttroateda<( cured
more cases than any other living physician Lis suc
cess has simply been astonishing; wo hurts heard of
cases of over to years’ standing r-ucccssfulty cared by
him. Ho has publlshod a work oh this disease, which
ho sends with a large bot’.lo of h'.s wonderful cure fre®
to any stiff *ror who inay send their express cud P. O.
Addroft. Vi fid vise ony ono wishing a cure to address
lii. Ad. ME3EROLB, Vo. 03 John St., Vex: York.
WALL PAPER.
Fashionable Colors and Designs.
For Parlors, Chambers, Halls, &o.
Send for samples and bottom juices.
Mailed free.
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CONSUMPTION.
1 have a positive remedy for the above disease*; by Us
ana thounatdds of cases or the worst kind a?id of Iona:
standing have been cured. Indeed, ho strong in my faith
In Its cfUeaeV, that I will Bend TWO BOTTLE A i'HSCK.
together with a VA LUAULETREATISE on this dis.’uto,
to uny sufferer. (live Kspress and P. O. address.
OK. T. A. BLOCI'M. 181 Pearl Bt.. New Y.ak.
ADVERTISERS by addressing GEO. P.
ROWELL & CO., 10 Spruce Street, New
York, can learn the exact cost of any pro
posed line of ADVERTISING in American
Ne wspapers.jy 100 page Pamphlet, 25c.
A Valuable Farm Cheap.
425 acres of land at *5 per acre, in Sumter
county, about 350 acres cleared and In good
tato of cultivation, mostly hammock land,
ies level, creek running through it, but
little waste land, oak and hickory land, pro
duces well without manure, plenty of tim
ber, within two mile3 of church, outhouses
good, dwelling moderate—half cash. If ou
want a bargain call quick,
novl Btf J. A. ANsLEY; A tty at Law.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1883.
DAKBYS
PROPHYLACTIC
FLUID.
A Household Article for Universal
Family Use.
For Scarlet and
§ Erato
g mtAMA.|sSt^sa
WMBigawaMMßßWgsfl PO2, Measles, and
all Contagions Diseases. Peftons waiting oa
the Sick should use it freely. . Scarlet Fever, has
never been known to spread. whpre the Fluid was
used. Fever has been cured with it after
black vomit had taken place. The worst
cases of Diphtheria yield to it.
Feveredand Sick Per- SIrIAIX-FOX
sons refreshed and and
Bed Sores prevent- PITTING of Small
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Impure Air made A member of ray firm
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sure cure. F’hnd ; dw patient was
Contagion destroyed. ; n ? 1 'jebriour, was not
For Frosted Feet, ! P> d - and '7 a *out
Chilblains, Piles, j the house again m three
Chafing’*, etc. ! and “ hers
liheumat ism cured. j iad u 'p. 4 ) V ,’ ]/'
Soft White Complex
ions secured by its use. RBEBBEB9BBBSH
Ship Fever prevented, g]
To purify the Breath, B Diphtheria B
Cleanse the Teeth, jg H
it can't be surpassed. K -a . . K
Catarrh relieved and gj Jf TQVQHtGu, g
Erysipelas aired.
BurnHreHevedinstamly. Thc physician, here
Scars prevented. | use Darby, Fluid very
Ibrscnteip-euved. ; successfully in the treat-
Wounds healed rapidly. , men: of Diphtheria.
Scurvy-cured. 1 A. StOixenivcrck,
An Antidote ■orAmmr.l ; Greensboro, Ala.
or Vegetable Poisons,
Stings, etc. Tetter dried up.
I used the Fluid during Cholera prevented,
our present affliction-with Ulcers purified and
Scarlet Fever with de- | healed,
tided advantage. It is Incases of Death it
indispensable to the sick- should be used about
room. Wm. F. Sand- the corpse —it will
ford, Eyrie Ala. prevent any unpleas
j ant smell.
KT" ; The eminent,Pliy-
Vfiwml i Rician, J.MARION
gccanetjjsverg i spis, si. New
P ® York, says; “I am
H Cured H j Convinced Prof. Darbys
ra * g j Prophylactic Fluid is a
' valuable disinfectant."
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tonn.
I testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof.
Darb\ s Prophylactic FluiJ. Asa disinfectant and
detergent it is both theoretically and practicably
superior to any preparation with which I am ac
quainted.—N. T. Lpiton, Prof. Chemistry.
Darbys Fluid is Recommended hv !
Hon. Alexander 11. Stui’Hkns, of Georj-iU •
Rev. Ciias. F. Deems, D.D., ChUrcb of the
Strangers, N. Y.;
los. LeConte, Columbia, Prof.,University,S.C.
Kcv. A. J. Battle, Prof.. Mercer University:
Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church.
INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY- HOME.
Perfectly harm!- ss. Used internally or
externally for Man or Beast.
The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we
have abundant evidence that it has done everything
here claimed. For fuller information get of y .t
Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors,
J. If. ZHULIN & CO.,
Manufacturing Chemists, PHI I.ADF.LPIIIa.
fUTT*S~
PILLS
A DJSOKEJEHEO LIVER
IS THE BAME
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digestive orguna, giving them vigor to aa
aimiiato food. A a a natural result, flip
Nervoua System is Braced, the Muaclea
are Developed, and the Body Robust.
CMHs and E'ever,
E. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La,, says,
My plantation id in a malarial district. For
several years I could not make half a crop on
account of bilious dieeases and chills. I was
nearly discouraged when I began tho use of
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my laborers soon became hearty and robust,
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They relieve Use engorged Mroi’, elc&nso
the Blood from poisonous humors, nnd
cause the bowels to act naturally, with,
out which no one can feci well.
Try this remedy fairly, and yon will min
a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Piiro
Blood, Ntiving NerVee, and a Sound Liver.
Price, 25Dents. Oflice, 35 Murray SL, N. Y.
TUTPS HAIR DYE.
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy
Black by a single application of this Dye. It
Imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously.
Sold by Druggists, or sent by oppress on receipt
of One Dollar.
Office, 83 Murray Street, New Vork.
(Dr. TVTT*S MANVA.D of Valumblo>A
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Invalids who are recovering vital stamina,
declare in grateful terms their appreciation
of the merits as a tonic of Hostetter’s Stom
ach Bitters. None only does .it impart
strength to tlm weak, but also corrects an
irregular acid state of the stomach, makes
the bowels act at properlntervals, gives ease
to those who suffer from rheumatic and kid
ney troubles, and conquers as well as pre
vents fever and ague.
For sale l>y all Druggists and Dealers
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Fonts’. Powder, will prerent G*m> IN Fowliu
Fonts’. Powilers will limrease tha quantity of mill:
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aod sweet.
Fonts’. Powder, will cure or prevent atnuwt xvsrt
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BAI.TIKQBB.Xa.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY BEV. T. DeWITT TALSIAGE
[The Sermon, of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
containing 2t Sermons is issued every
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num],
THE ROYAL EXILE.
“Surely lie hath borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows.”,—laakdi JUi. 4.
Far up and far back in the history
of heaven there came a period when it &
most illustrious citizeu was about to
absent Himself. He was not going
to sail from beach to beach; we have
often done that. He was not going to
pnt out from one hemisphere; many ol
us have done that. But He was to
sail from world to world, the spaces
unexplored and the immensities un
trjyelled. No world had ever hailed
heaven, and heaven had never hailed
any other world, I think that the win
dows and the balconies were througed,
and that the pearline beach was crowd
ed with those who had come to see
Him sail out of the harbor of light
into the ocean beyond. Out and out
and out, and on and on and on, and
down and down and down He sped,
until one night, with only one to greet
Him when He arrived’llls disembarka
tion so unpretending, so quiet, that it
was not known on earth until the ex
citement in the clouds gave intimation
to the Bethlehem rustics thac some
thing grand and glorious had hap
pened. VV ho came there? From what
port did he sail? Why was this the
place of his destination? I question the
shepherds. 1 question the camel dri
vers. 1 question the angels. I have
found out. He was an exile. But the
world has had plenty of exiles.
Abraham an exile from Chaldee, John
au exile from Ephesus, Kosciusco an
exile from Poland, Mazzini an exile
from Rome, Emmet an exile from Ire
land, Victor Hugo an exile from
France, Kossuth an exile from Hunga
ry. But this One of whom I speak to
day had such resounding farewell and
came into such chilling reception, for
nut even a hostler went put with his
lantern to light Him in, that He is
more to be celebrated than any other
expatriated exile ol earth or heaven.
First, 1 remark that Christ was au
imperial exile. He got duwn off a
throne. He took off a tiara. He
closed a palace gate behind Him. His
family were princes and princesses.
Vashti was turned out of the throne
room by Ahasuerus. David was de
throned by Absalom’s infamy. The
five kings were hurled into a cavern by
Joshua’s courage. Some of the Hen
rys of England and some of the Louis
of France were jostled on their
thrones by discontented subjects. But
Christ was never more honored, or
more popular, or more loved than the
day He left heaven. Australian exile
very severe for English criminals. Si
berian exile very severe for Russian po
litical offenders; but Christ turned
Himself out from throne-room into
sheep-pen and down from the top to
the bottom. He was not pushed oft'.
He was not manacled for foreign trans
portation. He was not put out be
cause they no more wanted Him in ce
lestial domain, but by choice depart
ing and descending into an exile five
times as long as that of Napoleon at
St. Helena and a thousand times worse:
the one exile suffering for that he Itatl
destroyed nations, the other exile suf
fering because lie came to save a world.
An imperial exile. King exile. “Bles
sing and honor and glory anti power he
unto Him that eitteth upon the
throne’’
But I go further and tell you He was
an exile on a barren island. This
world is one of the smallest islands of
light in the ocean of immensity. Other
stellar kingdoms are many thousand
times larger than this. Christ came
to this small I’atmos of a world. When
exiles are sent out they are generally
sent to regions that are sandy or cold,
or hot—some Dry Tortugas of disa
greeablcness. Christ came as an exile
to a world scorched with heats and
bitten with cold, to deserts simoon
swept, to a howling wilderness. It
was the back door yard, seemingly, of
the universe. Yea, Christ came to
the poorest pait of this barren island
of a world—Asia Minor, with its in
tense summers, unlit for the residence
of a foreigner, and in thc rainy season
unfit for the residence of a foreigner.
Christ came not to such a land as
America, or England, or France, or
Germany, but to a land one-third of
the year dawned, another third of the
year burned np, and only one-third
of the year just tolerable. O! it was
the barren island of a world. Barren
enough for Christ, for it gave such
small worship, and such inad equate af
fection, and such little gratitude. Im
perial exile on the barren island of a
world.
I go further and tell you that Hr
was an exile in a hostile country. Tur
key not so mu h against Russia,
France not so much against Germany,
as this earth against Christ. It took
Him through the door of a stable. It
thrusts Him out at the point of a
spear.” The Roman government
against him with every bayonet of its
army, and every decision of its courts,
and every beak of its war eagles. For
years after His arrival, the only ques
tion was how best to put Him out.
Herod hated Him, the high priests ha
ted Him, the Pharises hated Him, Ju
das Iscariot hated him, Gestas, the dy
ing thief, hated Him. The whole earth
seemingly turned into a detective to
watch His stepß. And yet Ho faced
this ferocity. Notice that most of
Christ’s wounds were in front. Some
scourging on the shoulders, but the
most of Christ’s wounds in front He
was not on retreat when He expired.
Face to face with the world’s ferocity.
Face to face with the world’s woe.
His eye on the raging countenances of
His foaming antagonists when He ex
pired. When the cavalry officer tow
eled his steed so that he might come
nearer up aud see the tortured visage
of the suffering exile, Christ saw it.
When the spear was thrust at His
side and when the hammer was lifted
for Ilis feet, aud when the reed was
raised to strike deepier down the spikes
of thorn,Christ watched the whole pro
cedure. When His hands were fas
tened to the cross they were wide open
still with benediction. Mind you, His
head was not fastened; He could look
to the right aud he could look to the
left, and lie could look tip and Ha
could look down. He saw when the
spikes had been driven home and the
hard, round, iron heads were in the
palms of His hands; He saw them as
plainly as you ever saw anything in
the palms of your hands. No ether,
no chloroform, no merciful anesthetic
to dull or stupify, but wide awake, He
saw the obscuration of the heavens,
the unbalancing of thc rocks, the coun
tenances quivering with rage and the
cachiunation diabolic. O! it was the
hostile as well as the barren island of
a world.
I go further, and tell you that this
exile was far from home. It is ninety
live million miles from here to the sun,
and all astronomers agree in saying
that our solar system is only one of
the small wheels of the great machi
nery of the universe turning around
someone great centre, the centre so f ar
distant it is beyond all imagination
and calculation, aud if, as some think,
that great centre in the distance is
heaven, Christ came far from home
when He came here. Have you ever
thought of the homesickness of Christ?
Burue of you know what homesickness
is when you have been only a few
weeks absent from the domestic circle.
Christ was thirty-three years away
from home. Some of you feel home
sick when you are a hundred or a thou
sand miles away from the domestic
circle. Christ was more millions of
miles away from home than you could
calculate it all your life you did noth
ing but calculate. You know what it
is to he homesick even arnid pleasant
surroundings, hut Christ slept in huts,
and He was athirst and He was ahuri
gered, and He was all the way from be
ing born in anothers man’s ham to
being buried in another man’s grave.
I have read how the Swiss, when they
are far away from their native country,
at the sound of their national air get
so homesick that they fall into melan
choly and sometimes they die tinder
the homesickness. But 0! the home
sickness of Christ. Poverty home
sick for celestial riches. Persecution
homesipk for Hosanna. Weariness
homesick for rest. Homesick for an
gelic aud archarigelic companionship.
Homesick to get out of the night and
the storm and the world’s execration.
Homesickness will make a week seem
as long as a month, and it seems to me
that the three decades of Christ resi
dence on earth must have seemed to
Him almost interminable. You have
often tried to measure the other pangs
of Uhrist, but you have never tried to
measure the ingratitude and ponderos
ity ot a Saviour’s homesickness.
I take a step further and tell you
that Christ was an exile which He knew
would end in assassination. Holman
Hunt, the master painter, has a pic
ture in which ho represents Jesus Christ
in thc Nazarenecarpentershop. Around
him arc the saws, thc hammers, the
axes, the drills of carpentry. The
picture represents Christ as rising from
the carpenter’s working bench and
wearily stretching out His arms as one
will after being in contracted or un
comfortable posture, and the light of
that picture is so arranged that the
arms of Christ wearily stretched forth,
together with His body, throw on the
ground the shadow of a cross. O! my
friends, that shadow was on everything
in Christ’s life time. Shadow of a
cross on the Bethlehem swaddling
clothes. Shadow of a cross on the road
over which the three fugitives fled into
Egypt. Shadow of a cross on Lake
Galileo as Christ walked its mossaic
floor of opal and emerald and crystal.
Shadow of across on the road to Antais.
Shadow of a cross on the book Kedron,
and tho temple, and on tho bide of Oli
vet. Shadow of a cross on sunrise aud
sunset. Constantine, marching with
his army, saw just once a cross in the
sky, hut Christ saw the cross all the
time. On a rough journey we cheer
ourselves with the fact that it will end
in warm hospitality; but Christ knew
that His rough path would end at. a
del'oliaged tree without one leaf and
with only two branches, hearing fruit
of such bitterness as no human lips had
ever tastett. O ! what au axile—start
ing in an infancy without any cradle,
and ending in assassination. Thirst
without any water. Day without any
sunlight. The doom of a desperado
for more than angelic exeellence. For
what that expatriation aud that axile?
Wordly good sometimes comes from
tvordiy evil. The accidental glance of
a sharp blade from a razor grinder’s
wheel put out the eye of Gambetta and
excited sympathies which gained him
an education and started him on a ca
reer that made his name more majestic
among Frenchmen than any other name
in the last decade. Hawthrone, turn
ed out of the office of collector at Salem,
went home in despair. His wife touch
ed himontheshoulderandsaid,“Now is
the time to write your hook,” and his
famous Scarlet Letter was the brilliant
consequence. Worldly good sometimes
comes'from worldly evil. Then be not
unbelieving when I tell you that from
the greatest crime of all eternity and
of the whole universe,the murder of the
Son of God, there shall come results
which shall eclipse all the grandeur
ot eternity past and eternity to come.
Christ an exile from heaven, opening
the way fordepartation toward heaven
and to heaven of all those who will ac
cept the proffer. Atonement, a ship
large enough to take all the passengers
that will come aboard it. lu my boy
hood I often used to hear my father
talk with enthusiasm of the Coloniza
tion Society which proposed to take all
the colored population of America to
Africa, and the most eloquent lips in
the American Senate and in the Ameri
can pulpit advocated that theory, and
there was something inspiriting about
it. But how came all that compareil
with Chrikt’s work by which ho pro
posed the colonization of the whole hu
man race from earth into the free lands
of heaven ! Millions have already been
shipped, and other millions will make
the magnificent passage.
For this royal exile this morning 1
bespeak the love and service of all the
exiles here present, and in one sence or
the other, that includes all of ns. The
gates of this continent have so widely
opened that there arc on the main floor
to day, in the aisles, and in the gal
leries, many voluntary exiles from oth
er lands. Some of you are Scotchmen.
1 see it in your high cheek bones and
in the color that illumines your face
when I mention the land of yonr nativi
ty. Bonnie Scotland ! Dear old kirk !
Some of your ancestor Sleeping in Gray
friars Churchyard, or by the deep lochs
filled out of the pitcher of heaven, or
under the heather sometimes, so deep
of color it makes one think of the blood
of the Covenanters who signed their
names for Christ, dipping their pens
into the veins of their own arms open
ed for that purpose. How every fibre
of yonr nature thrills as I mention the
name of Robert Bruce, and the Camp
bells, and Cochrane. I bespeak for
this royal exile of my text the love and
the service of all Scotch exiles. Some
of you are Englishmen. Yonr ances
try served the Lord. Have I not read
of the sufferings of the Haymarket?
and have I not seen in Oxford the very
spot where Ridley and Latimer mount
ed the red chariot ? Some of your an
cestors heard George Whitefield thun
der, or heard Charles Wesley sing, or
heard John Bunyan tell his dream ol
the celestial city; and the cathedrals
under the shadow of which some of you
wore born had in their grandest organ
roll the name of the Messiah. I bespeak
for the royal exile of my sermon the
love and service of all the English ex
iles. Yes, some of yon came from the
island of distress over which Hunger,
on a throne ot human skeletons, sat
queen. All efforts at amelioration
halted by massacre. Procession of
families, procession of martyrdoms
marching from Northern channel to
Cape Clear, and from Irish sea across
to the Atlantic. An island not hound
ed as geographers tell us, but as every
philanthropists knows-bounded on the
north and south and east and the west
by woe which no human politician alle
viate and only Almighty God can as
suage. Land of Goldsmith’s rhythm,
and Sheridan’s wit, and O’Connell’s
eloquence, ana Edmund Burke’s states
manship, and O’Brien’s sacrifice, l’at
mos with its apocalypse of blood. Yet
yon cannot think of it to-day without
having your eyes blinded with emotion,
for there your ancestors sleep in graves,
some of which they entered for lack of
bread. For this royal exile of my ser
mon I bespeak tho love and the service
of all Irish exiles. Yes, some of you
are from Germany, the land of Lnther,
and some of you are from Italy, the
land of Garibaldi, and some of yon are
from France, the land of Johu Calvin,
ono of the three mightiest of the glorious
Reformation. Some of you are descend
ants of the Puritans, and they were ex
iles, and some of you are descendants
of the Huguenots, and they were exiles,
and some of you are descendants of the
Holland refugees, and they were exiles.
Some of yon were horn on the banks of
the Yazoo or the Savannah, and yon
are now living in this latitude. Some
of you on the bauks of the Kennebec,
or at the foot of tho Green mountains,
and yon are here now. Some of you
on the prairies of the West, or the ta
ble lauds, and you are here now. O !
how many of us far away from home.
All of ns exiles. This is not our home.
Heaven is onr home. O ! lam so glad
when the royal exile went back He left
the gate ajar, or left it wideopen. “Go
ing home 1” That is. the dying excla
mation of the majority of Christians.
I have seen many Christians die. I
think nine out of ten of them in the
last moments say, “Going home.” Go
ing home out of banishment and sin
aud sorrow and sadness. Going home
to Christ. Going tamie to God. Go
ing home to stay. Where are your
loved ones that died in Christ ? Yon
pity them. Ah ! they ought to pity
von. You are an exile far from home.
They are Home! O! what a time it
will be for yon when the gatekeeper of
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heaven shall say: “Take off that rough
sandal; the journey is ended. Put
down that sabre; the battle’s won. Put
off that iron coat of mail and pnt on
the robe of conqueror.” At that gate
of triumph I leave yon this morning,
only reading three tender cantos trans
lated from the Italian. If yon ever
heard anything sweeter I never did:
“ ’Twas whispered one morning in heaven
How the little chiid angel May,
In the shade of the great white portal
Sat sorrowing night and day;
How she said to the stately warden
lie of the key and bar—
‘O! angel, sweet angel, Ipray you
Set the beautiful gates ajar—
Only a little, I pray you,
Set the beautiful grates ajar.”
“ ‘I can hear my mother weeping,
She is lonely, site cannot see
A glimmer of iight in the darkness
When the gates shut after me;
O! turn me the key, sweet angel,
The splendor will shine so far!'
But the warden answered, ‘I dare not
„ Set the beautiful gates ajar !’
Spoke low and auswered the warden, ‘ldara
not
Set the beautiful gates ajar. - ’ t
“Then up rose Mary, the blessed
Sweet Mary, the mother of Christ;
Her hand on the band of the angel
She laid, aud her touch sufficed.
Turned was the key in the portal,
Fell ringing the golden bar, t
And lo! in the little child’s fingers
Stood the beautiful gates ajar,
In the little child’s angel fingers
stood the beautiful gates ajar.”
AN OLD EDITOR’S CURIOUS
FANCY.
One of tho Most Remarkable
Funerals on Record.
A special dispatch from Gomanda,
New York, says: Thc death and buri
al of F. G. Stebbins, for twenty years
editor of the Cuba Patriot, caused a
sensation in Western New York, and
will go down as one of the most curi
our affairs of the age, Stebbings was
what might be pronounced an Ingersol
ite. For years he has been dying of
consumption, aud for months he brood
ed over his approaching dissolution.
He was impressed by the refusal of
Charles R. Thorne, Jr., the actor, to
have any religions services held -over
his body, and prior to his death he ex
acted from his family the promise that
no minister of whatever denomination
should be allowed to hold religious
service. He w<.s a member of lodge
No. 534, Knights of Honor, and asked
that the ceremonies should oe conduc
ted by thc lodge. He desired the
Knights, in following his body to the
grave, to sing “Marching through
Georgia,” repealing the song when the
earth fell upon his coffin. On leaving
the cemeteiy they were to sing“ Good
Bye, My Lover, Good-Bye.” Steb
bins died last Friday, the funeral ta
king place here yesterday. Twenty
eight Knights in fall regalia attended
the funeral. They sang the songs re
quested, both in going and coming,
and created a sensation in the quiet
town, and, the citizens of which did
not understand how such songs could
be tolerated at a funeral. The mourn
ers did not seem to mind the strange
ness ol the obsequies. The scene at
the grave, when the earth clattered on
the box and the Knights started up
the old war song, was impressive. As
the last words died away the cortege
moved on, and when outside the cem
etery the sentimental song was taken
np aud sung with spirit, It was a
strange funeral. Stebbingß two years
ago was appointed United States Con- -
sul to one of the Phillippine Islands.
To Clean Lamp Burners.
Kerosene oil is generally used for
lights in the country, and the cleaning
ot lamp chimneys is quite tiresome, but
must be attended to every day. The
burners often get out of fix, and it is
very vexatious to keep them in running
order. When they get clogged and will
not turn up or down, and are all cover
ed with gum and soot, do not throw
them away, but take a little irou kettle
and pnt a pint of wood ashes and a
quart of water; put in the burners and
set them on the stove and let them boil
five or ten minutes; take them out, and,
with a soft rag, wash them clean and
dry them well. They are then as good
as new, and will do another six months.
It is very little trouble,and saves much
vexation. After one has tried it once,
she will not be apt to forget it. Nice
looking, clean lamps are quite ornamen
tal, while a smoky chimney and bad
smelling burners are not agreeable.—
Country Gentleman.
To Preach or Die.
Among the hills of Northern Con
necticut are many quaint characters,
solemn ir mien, sturdy and honest in
their dealings, but with a vein of un
derlying humor that crops out daily in
their conversation. Among them was
one J S , or Uncle Jesse, as
he was familiarly called. Early in
life he studied hard to fit himself for
the ministry, and when he thought
himself perfected he called old Father
P , a noted Baptist minister of that
day in S , and told him he must
either preach the gospel or die, and he
stated his wish to be examined. Af
ter a rigid examination, B’ather P——
leaned his head npon his hands and
remained silent for a few minutes, then
suddenly looking up, he said: “Mr.
S , I’m afraid vou’ll have to die.”
Easily Proven.
It Is easily proven that malarial
fevers, constipation, torpidity of the
liver and kidneys, general debility,
nervousness, and neuralgic ailments
yield readily to this great disease
conqueror, Hop Bitters. It repairs
the ravages of disease by converting
the food into rich blood, and it gives
new life and vigor to the aged and in
firm always.
NO. 52.