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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, I By^H AS - W. HANCOCK, f VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - ?1 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 ESTPayable in Advance.^! All advertisements eminating from public dices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Kates. One Square first insertion, - - - - JI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 @"Ten Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, Attorney at Late* AMKKICUS, GA. declfitf B. P. HOLLIS, Attorney at JLaw . AMKKICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf E. G SIMMONS, Attorney at Latr* AMERICUS GA., Otiice in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort& Simmons. janCtf .JT. A. AWSLKY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AM) SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’ Clothing Store, Americus, Ga. After a brief respite I return again to the practice of law. As in the past it will he 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 Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Oilice at Or. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can he found at residence on Furlow’s lawn. Calls will receive prompt attention. niay26-tf CARD. X offer my 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 Or. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square. janlTtf 11. C. BLACK, M. 1). Dr. D7 P 7 HOLLOWAY, DemtisT, Americas, * - Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by tlie improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith & Sons, nmcrais ash mm Americus, Ga. We are prepared to do any kind of work in the carpenter line at short notice and on reasonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in tlie business, we feel competent to give satisfaction. All orders for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention: Jobbing promptly attended to. mav26-3m Commercial Ear. This well-established house will be kept in the same first-class style that has always characterized it. The Choicest Liquor aud Cigars, Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer, constantly on hand, and all the best brands at fine Brandies, Wines, &c. Good Billiard Tables for the accommodation of customers. mayOtf JOHN iV. COTNEY, Clerk. Commercial Hotel G. M. HAY, Proprietor. This popular House is quite new and handsomely furnished with new furniture, bedding and all other arlieles. It is in the centre of tho business portion of the city, convenient to depot, the banks, .warehouses, &c., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to none, among its permanent and transient guests, on account of the excellence of its cuisine. Table Boarders Accommodated on Reasonable Terms. mayfi-tf G. M. HAY, Proprietor. L GEORGE ANDREWS, BOOT Ml) SUM MISEII, At his shop In the rear of J.Waxelbaum & Co.’s store, adjoining tho livery stables, on Lamar St., invites the public to give him tbelrwork. Ho can make and repair all work at short notice. Is sober and always on hand to await on customers. Work guaranteed to be honest and good, aprll-tf DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and i Eradicates *’vers, ■ ■ Diphtheria, Sali- MALARIA. | valion * Ulcerated b . g Sore Throat, Small Ton* Measles, and all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread where the Fluid was used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after black vomit had taken place. The worst cases of Diphtheria yield to it. FeveredandSickPcr- SMAIX-rOX sons refreshed and and Bed Sores prevent- PITTING of Small ? rt , b Z ba l h , in s with Fox PREVENTED Darbys Fluid. . , r r Impure Air made A member of my fam harmlcss and purified, jty ,' vas ta J cen with For Sore Throat it is a 1 ! lscd the sure cure. I'luid ; the patient was Contagion destroyed. delirious* was not For Frosted Feet, P‘“cd, and was about Chilblains, Piles, the house againm three Chafing*, etc. } ve * k . s an . d ° thcrs Rheumatism cured. iad ,t- „,-?.• P. ARK * Soft White Complex- ions secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented, ■ To purify the Breath, JB ’DinlrtTlPnff M Cleanse the Teeth, B g it can't be surpassed. H , - B Catarrh relieved and g Prevented. [ Erysipelas cured. Burns relieved instantly. ! The physicians here Dysentery cured usc Da rbys Fluid very IZ? ~ V, , . „ successfully in the treat y ou,,ds hled ra P> d ff ment of Diphtheria. A CU ATs < i Ur ffl'r f • 1 A Stgllenwbrck, An Antidote for Atumal, Greensboro, Ala. or Vegetable Poisons, ’ Stings, etc. j Tetter dried up. I used the Fluid during ! Cholera prevented, our present affliction with ! Ulcers purified and Scarlet Fever with dc- j healed, cided advantage. It is 'ln cases of Death it indispensable to the sick- j should be used about room.— Wm. F. Sand-! the corpse —it will ford, Eyrie Ala. | prevent any unpleas* The eminentPhy- I Scarlet Fever 1: SaS’S.’KfSK *3 H j York, says: “I am & GilrC’U s§ > convinced Prof. Darbys fj B I Prophylactic Fluid is a I valuable disinfectant.” Vanderbilt University, Naslivilie, Tenn. I testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. Asa disinfectant and detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted.—N. 1. Luiton, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid is Recommended by Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georg#- Rev. Chas F. Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; Jos. LeConte, Columbia, Prof.. University Rev. A. J. Rattle, Prof., Mercer Univarsity • Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church. USDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME. I criectly harmless. 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 your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. H. ZEILIN A: CO.. Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA. &itteb s Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters meets the re quirements of the rational medical philoso phy which at present prevails. It is a per fectly pure vegetable remedy, embracing the three important properties of a preventive, a tonic and an alterative. It fortifies tha body against disease, invigorates and revi talizes the torpid stomach and liver, and effects a salutary change in the entire sys tem. For sale by ail Druggists and Dealers generally; AYER’S Ague Cure IS WARRANTED to cure rill cases of ma larial disease, such as Fever and Ague, Inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com plaint. In case of failure, after due trial, dealers are authorized, by our circular of July Ist, 18S2, to refund the money, Dr. J. C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. The Bart and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. Tliis is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imi tated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and most valuable family medicine on earth many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word “Hop” or “Hops” were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no mat ter what their style or name is, and especi ally those witli the word “Hop” or “Hops” in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits, Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing hut genuine Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, Trust noth ing else. Druggists and dealers aro warned against dealing iu imitations or counterfeits. may!7-lm For Sale. 1 offer a splendid little 40-aere 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 he made to produce profitably; excellent water on the place. For price and terms, apply to W. J. DIBBLE, mar7-tf Real Estate Agent. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1883. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY BEV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish ed in pamphlet form by Geo, A. Sparks, 48 Biblo Ilouse, New York. A number containing 20 Sermons is issued every three months. Trice 30 cents, ?1 per an num] . GREAT ACCIDENTS. “Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-mor row we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.”—James iv., 13-14. The eighth wonder of the world had been built. Multitudes of people eith er through their own eyes or through vivid description had gazed upon it. People who had been compelled to spend all their lives in these cities, and had not seen many ot the wonderful sights of the world, had the satisfac tion at last of seeing the greatest. Tra jan’s bridge across the Danube, Xerxes’ bridge across the Hellespont, Ciesar’s bridge across the Rhine, Darius’ bridge across the Bosphorus, Niocrischo’s bridge across the Euphrates, the Pons /Elius across the Tiber, seem to be eclipsed by the greater wonder uniting these two cities. The opening ceremo nies had just closed, the roar of the cannon had hardly ceased its reverber ation, the two cities had hardly taken off their gay girdle of hunting, when all our hearts are shocked with a great tragedy. Thirteen lives sacrificed. Eerty people reported as wounded. A long roll of casualties that will never he known. A woman stumbles and falls, and there is an outcry, and peo ple imagine there is something the mat ter with the bridge, and others are impelled by a morbid curiosity, and there is a rush, and a trampling, and a massacre, and a bereavement of many households—fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters pushed out of life in most sudden and horrible manner. Was there anything the matter with the bridge? No. That stands firm as the eternal hills. The next century will have no power to weaken it. This generation will cross it, and the next, and the next; and the next. In that case, as in nine hundred and ninety nine cases out of a thousand, there was nothing the matter-absolutely nothing. When will people learn that amid great excitements the safest and the best thing is to sit or stand still? What a sad thing it is that one fool, or one ruffian, can turn thousands of people into a herd of buffaloes! <>ur deepest commiseration is aroused for the suffer ing, and our prayers are for the bereft. Oh, the sudden reversal from hilarity to heartbreak. To go out on a bright excursion and come home with only part of the family! Some of us know the horror of the contrast. Those peo ple who were sacrificed were in nowise to blame, but they were the victims of a heedless crowd, the victims of a vast number of people rushing there to see what was the matter. So we have seen again and again. A person taken ill in some public assembly—five hundred people rising to see what is the matter. A person carried out—a great crowd gathering around to see what is the matter, until resuscitation is almost an impossibility. Horse running away with a vehicle—who get hurt? Those who jump. Who come off' with few scars? Those who sit still. These people trodden under foot by a great crowd of heedless ones rushing ahead to see what is the matter. There are in this great calamity a worldly side and a religious side, and the worldly side says: “Keep cool, don’t lose your equilibrium; never go to see what is the matter unless you can be of practi cal help.” If there be a riot on Fulton street, go down Schermerhorn street. If people fall on a bridge, walk the other way, and give them an opportu nity to get up. Your curiosity will only make things worse. Some say that all this was the result of the work of pickpockets, and others charge it to the incompetency of officials. It was a pure accident and no precaution could have hindered it. As good and as wise men as there are in these cities gave their entire time to the considera tion of the subject for a long while be fore and made every reasonable precau tion. Curiosity to see what was the matter on the part of a great multitude trampled these poor victims to death. The tendency at such a time is to blame the bridge trustees, and such blame at this time is especially unfair. After twelve or fourteen years of suffering, of calumny, being charged with taking too long to build the bridge, and too much money to build the bridge, and not like this, and not like that, and not like the other thing, I tell you they need no new installment of abuse. They did their work grandly—mag nificently; did it under all possible dis couragements, and were no more to blame for the disaster than you are, or I. < >h, how wise people are after any thing has happened! ‘I told yon so!’ To hear us talk you would think we were better engineers than Roebling, and the bridge trustees made the great mis take of their life when they did not call us into their councils. Who are the critics of these bridge trustees? The people who put their thousands and their tens of thousands of dollars into the enterprise’/ No. Notone of them made a larger investment than one cent of toll at the gate, and having paid that one cent of toll they think they have bought the right to boss every thing. I have my ideas as to how the bridge might he bettered, and there are 500,000 people in these cities who have their ideas as to how the bridge might be bettered, and if the Board of Trus tees of the Bridge Company would only take all our advice what a bridge we would have. The present wonder eclipsed by the greater cariosity span ning the East river! My- hope is that as those men have had strength given them to endure the abuse which came before the bridge was opened, they will have the strength to endure the abuse that comes after the bridge is opened The applause of dedication day has its recoil. It is always so. The cry of hosanna always followed by the cry of “Crncify him!” But this calamity has a religious side, and some people immediately say we ought to live as though every day were our last, which is the great heresy of the age. You put that theory into practice and you will be a nuisance to the world instead of a help to it. Live as though you were to have a long life on earth, lay ing out all your plans with reference to a long life and the eternity that comes after it. It ought to be our ambition to live right and then we will die right, whether we go through long decadence of our faculties, or through sudden calamity, as did the unfortunates of last Wednesday. Healthy and intel ligent Christians do not set gravedig gers’ spades on their sideboard, nor go worrying about quick transit from this world to the next. You consecrate to Jesus Christ your life, and do jour best to make people happy, and your death will be a beautiful peroration. It seems to me that there is in this great calamity a good, solid lesson of sympathy. We opened the papers and read the list of the wounded and the dead. The first question in your mind and mine was: “Did we know any of them?” They were all stangers to m;e perhaps they were to you; and yet our heart thrilled with sympathy. Their grief, our grief; their calamity, our ca lamity. Oh, it is beautiful to see this chord of sympathy running through all human hearts. Mines in Wales fall in upon workmen, and all nations feel the suffocation, i’rince Albert dies, and Queen Victoria has the sympathy of all Christendom. Earthquake rocks down a Mexican city, and all the world sympathizes. Famine stalks across Ireland, and all nations send cargoes of breadstuflfs. Our President lies wound ed at Long Branch, and simultaneous ly people gathered at the bulletin boards in Washington, in Savannah, in New Orleans, in San Francisco, in London, in Parrs, in Berlin, in St. Petersburg—all nations at once read ing: “better,” “worse,” “dying,” “dead!” So there is one great chord of sympathy running through ail our hearts, and it is that chord of sympathy which thrilled last Wednesday when we heard of the misfortune, which is yet going to bring all nations into ac cord, binding them all together and then binding them to the heart of God. And the ship of war that lies anchored in the harbor will be turned into a mer chantman, or swing into the navy yard as a specimen of barbarous times, to be looked at just as we examine scalping knives or thumbscrews; and the great towers that tolled alarm and woe will strike another sound—Scotch kirk and American church and mission chapel and great St. Paul thundering tones of Christ’s victory,and Marsellaise Hymn and Bonnie Doon and God Save the Gueen mingled in one great doxology, rolling like the surges of the sea, roll ing like the thunder of the skies. “Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omni potent reigneth!” Oh, it is the chord of sympathy. Paul struck it right when he said: “Of one blood all na tions that dwell on the face of the earth.” But there is in this great calamity a background for the better understanding of the question of my text: “What is your life?” In most of our lives there are few staccato pas sengers. Most of our days and years are in a monotone. If you are forty years of age, you have lived fourteen thousand six hundred days, and with out a memorandum you could not give an account of fifty of them. We rise in the morning, we breakfast, we go to our occupations, we attend to the busi ness of our life, we lunch, we dine, we come home, we sleep. Wednesday is a copy of Tuesday, and Thursday an echo of Wednesday, and it needs some great arousal, some groat calamity, some great misfortune to arouse in our soul the question of the text: “What is your life?” Well, if in the presence of this great sorrow you pross that question, I an swer, life is a test. Every new ship must have a trial trip. If you take someone into your employ and a crisis comes where his behavior will make or break you, say, “Now I will test him: now I will see what is in him.” And my friends, our whole life is a test, and we are all on a trial trip. Men, angels, devils the spectators; heaven, earth and hell watching. Every word spoken and every action having ten thousand echoes. You are watching me to see if lam faithful or unfaithful. I am watching you to see if you are faithful or unfaithful. Every man and woman in solemn, unmistakable, stupendous test. If you still further press the question of the text, in the presence of this calamity, “What is your life?” I tell yon it is an apprenticeship. "We study eight or ton years and we get our pro fession, we work five or six years and we get our trade, and then we go forth to the work of life. But this world is not our workshop. Have you any idea that those people who perished on the bridge were annihiliated? Oh, no. They ony passed into another state. This world is to be destroj-ed, but do you suppose that because this world is to be destroyed all the affairs of the universe are to stop? How many hands and feet and eyes are necessary for the carrying out o( the business of this world, and how many activities will he required for the business enterprises of eternity? That woman, that Christian woman who is busy taking care of the sick in the back alley will be regnant in a realm of light and love and joy celestial. That man who this morn ing could hardly get to church on crutches will beja ministering apirit Hy ing to the fmtherest outpost of God’s dominion. Wo are only getting ready to work in this world. We are ap prentices, and we have got oui diplo mas. Death is graduation day. Death is commencement day. But il in the presence of this great calamity you still further press the question of the text, “What is your life?” I tell you it is a conflict. Have you not found it so? Struggling, those people were, in the last moment of their life. Their whole life had been a strug gle. So has yours. So has mine. There is no person in this house to whom life has been happier than to me, no one who has had more kindness than I have had bestowed upon me, no one who has had better health, no one to whom the world is brighter than this world is to me now, and yet I have found it a conflict, Is it not so with you, my brother my sister? If you have never tried to curb your temper, if you have never tried to subdue your passions, if you have never tried to be better men, better women, then you know not what I mean; but. ifyou have tried to do better, and wanted to be better, and struggled to do better, then you know that Paul was not only graphic but accurate when he described life as war with the world, and war with the flesh and war with the devil, it may- have been conflict with your selves. it may have been conflict with poverty, it may have been a conflict with higher social position, with an unhappy family name, with the perse cutions of the world; but I warrant your liie lias been to the most of you a hand-to-hand fight. There is only one peaceful encampment in the world, and that is the white tent, the white tent of the grave. Fife a conflict—so tlie Bible declares it. Life a conflict —so your own experience ratifies it. Must 1 bo carried to the skies, On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas’” But if in the presence of this sorrow, the great calamity, yon still further press the question of my text, “What is your life?” 1 answer, it is a prophe cy. What you are now you will in all probability be forever, only on a larger scale. On banks of celestial light walks the consecrated Alfred Oookman. In dungeons of starless night .sits John Wilkes Booth. Are all your preferences toward the bad? The probability is they will be so for ever. Are your preferences toward the good? Do you want to bo better? Do you long after God as an eternal por tion? I tell you plainly that you are on the way tograndeurs which no sum mer night’s dream had ever power to depict. But if in the presence of this great calamity yon still further press the question of the text, “What is your life?” I answer, it is a preparation. If we are going oil a long journey we must get ready; we must have a guide book; we must have apparel. If we are going among dangers we want to be armed. We have all started on a road which has no terminus, and once started wc will never come back. Are we ready for the future? When death shuts tlie door of the sepulchre the an gel of repentance never opens it. “As far as I can understand your case, my brother, your groat need is to have your sins pardoned. I know oi no way to do that, or have that done, except one. “The blood of Jesus Christ cleansetli from all sin,” and though yon may, by the grace of God, become the best saint. “Where sin abounded, grace may much more abound.” But if in the presence of this calami ty you press the question of my text a step further, an 1 ask me, “What is your life?” I answer, it is a great un certainty. Of those people who per ished on the bridge, there was not one who expected to quit life in that way. Some no doubt had said, “Well, 1 shall leave the world under this disease or under that disease.” Another per son said, “There are so many perils in my style ol business, in that way l shall come to the end of my earthly life.” Not one ever expected to go in that way, to perish on the bridge, and to every man the step) out of this life is a surprise. I never knew any one to go in the way he expected. You see someone who has been ail invalid for twenty-five years, and he always de parts suddenly. You hear of some friend who, after thirty years of illness, lias departed, and you say, “Why, is it possible?” Our life is struck through with uncertainty. Our friends change, oiir associations change, our circumstance change, our health chan ges. All change. We know not how our children will turn oui. We do not know what we ourselves may be tempt ed to do. Better men than you and I, naturally better, have made shipwreck for this life and the life to come. Ido not like to hear a man say, “I couldn’t have done this,” or “I couldn’t have done that.” Do not have any bragga docio about this life. If God should let you go you could do anything which is bad. So life is struck through with uncertainty. But, blessed be God, there is a rock on which we stand, the Bock of Ages. It is no autocrat at the head of the universe. My Father is King. Though the mountains may depart and the hills remove, Ilis kind ness and His love and His grace will fail us never, never. In that hope I have lived over thirty years, and though I should he very sorry to think that there is in tliis house any one who lias been more unworthy than I have been, still I know enough of this religion to commend it to all the people. And I tell you that the grandest and the lov ingest and the best friend a man ever had is Jesus Christ. 1 know Him. lie lias never betrayed me, and lie will never betray you. But do not take my testimony. Take the testimony of those who have been long in the Chris tian service. Ask those who are in the very evening of their life, when Christ betrayed them, by what sick-bed, in what dark passage, in what awful cri sis. Just ask them. They will tell you, “When I was sick, the best phy sician was Christ, and when I took the last kiss from lips that never again could speak to me, and when I stood by a grave so deep it buried all, Christ was my comforter.” And those per sons would go on and give you testi mony that their brightest anticipation of the future is the presence ol Him whom, having not seen, they love, and in whom believing they rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Ob, my friends, is life a test ? Make it a successful experiment; is life an ap prenticeship? Make it an industrious one. Is life a conflict? Fight the brave fight. Is life a prophecy ? I.et it foretell glorious results. Is life a preparation? Make sure work. Is life a great uncertainty? Get the divine insurance. You say, “I will do this,” and “I will do that,” and “I will go into the city and get great gain,” whereas you know not what shall be in the morrow; for what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then—vanisheth away.” The stoutest voice that comes from thatcalamity says: “Be ye also ready.” Your first, your second, your hundreth, your thousandth, your last necessity is a heart changed by the converting grace of God. 1 do not. think that cowardice is a characteristic of my na ture, but 1 tell you plainly that I would not dare to take another step in life; I would not dare to pass down the street, I would not dare to cross that river, i would not dare to live another hour, did 1 not feel that whatever happens to my body, my immortal soil! shall go free. 1 boose God fur your eternal portion. The air is full of perils. Pe rils flying tdiis way, perils flying that,, perils above, perils beneath, perils on all sides. Oh, you want God’s pro tection as a canopy and marshaled around you like an armed host. And oh, you men and women of God, take congratulation this morning that the revolution of the days and years is bringing you toward your last hour ot earth and y. nr first hour of heaven. Waking, sleeping, your heart is beat ing the double-quick step of an immoi tal spti'it. Sec you not through the fogs and mists of earth looming up the shore on which the white-robed walk? And hear you not coming across the waters the sound of harps that never felt the twang of woe, and the trumpets pouring forth the victory of uncounted multitudes? See you not the trees of life, and resting under them the toil worn of earth looking down toward you, ready to shout at your coming amid the rustling of palms and the clang of towers, “Hail, hail, hail!” Sympathy tor those who stay. Con gratulation for those who go. They Hit It Again. Whoever it was, he will enjoy learning that the 150th Grand Month ly Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery, at New Orleans, on May Bth, resulted as follows: Ticket No. 71,- 189, sold as a whole for §5 to a weal thy Cuban at Havana, drew the first capital pirize of 875,000. No. 47,803, sold to a New Yorker as whole, drew the second prize, $25,000. No. 23,433 drew the third capital prize, §IO,OOO, and was sold in fifths, at $1 each, to Messrs. Jas. J. McMillan, through Messrs. Jones & Hamilton, Caldwell, Texas; to Mr. Sam. Jones, of Los An geles, Cal.; Mr. I’. Schumacker, of Allentown, Lehigh Cos., Pa. Nos. 10,229 and 20,203, drew each the fourth capital, §O,OO0 —sold in fifths at §1 each—among others to Henry Ehr hardt, S. W. cor. 10th and Market st., St. Louis, Mo.; J. F. Albert, 014 Lo cust st., same city; two-fifths collected by Messrs. C. 15. Richard & Cos., No. 01 Broadway, New York city, for a party in San Francisco, Cal. Many winners among those who captured §205,500 in prizes desired their names withheld. The next drawing occurs Tuesday, July 10th, and M. A. Dau phin, New Orleans, La., will furnish any desired information on an appli cation. One strong enemy is worth more in the building up of a man than two slippery tongued friends. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is a highly con centrated extract of Sarsaparilla and other blood-purifying roots, combined with lodide of Potassium and Iron. Its control over scrofulous diseases is unequaled by any other medicine. Pure ground Spices, Cloves, All spice, Cinnamon, Mace, Ginger; Mus | tard, Pepper, Ac. I)r. Fldridge’s Drug Store. { four dollars per annum. ALONE! ln'l II! 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