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TABERNACLE SERMONS.
ST BET. T. DeWITT TALMACE.
SLAl’UIITKB OP YOUNG MEN
Aa an oxen to the slaughter,—Proverbs,
til., 22.
These is nothing in the voice or man
ner to the batcher to indicate to the ox
that there is death ahead. The ox
thinks ho is going on to a rich pasture-
field of clover, where all day long he
will revel in the herbaceous luxuriance;
but after awhile the men and the boys
closo in upon him with sticks and stones
and shouting, and drive him through
bars and into a doorway, where he is
fastened, and. with well-aimed stroke,
the axe fells him, and so the anticipa
tion of the redolent pasture-field is com
pletely disappointed. So many a young
man has been drawn on by temptation
to what he thought would be paradisia
cal enjoyment; but after awhile influen
ces with darker hue and swarthier arm
close in upon lnm, and he finds that in
stead of making an excursion into i
garden he has been driven “as an ox tc
the slaughter.”
We are apt to blame young men for
being destroyed, when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy them.
Society slaughters a great many young
men by the behest: “You must keep up
appearances; whatever be your salary,
you must dress as well as others; you
must wine and brandy as many friends;
yon must smoke as costly cigars; you
must give as expensive entertainments,
and yon must live in as fashionable a
boarding-house. If yon haven’t the
money, borrow. If you can’t borrow,
make a false entry, or subtract here and
there a bill from a bundle of bank bills;
you will only have to make the decep
tion a little while; in a few months, or
in a year or two, you can make all right.
Nobody will be hurt by it, nobody will
be the wiser. You yourself will not be
damaged.” By that awful process a
hundred thousand men have been
slaughtered for time and slaughtered for
eternity. Suppose you borrow. There
is nothing wrong about borrowing
money. There is hardly
borrowed dollar. But there
two kinds of borrowed money—money
borrowed for the purpose of starting or
keeping up legitimate enterprise and
expense, and money borrowed to get
that which yon can do without. The
first is right, the other is wrong. If
you have money enough of your own to
buy a coat, however plain, and then you
borrow money for a dandy’s outfit, yon
have taken the first revolution of the
wheel on the down grade. Borrow for
the necessities; that may be well. Bor
row for the luxuries; that tips your
prospects over in the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says, “The bor
rower is servant to the lender.” It is
a bad state of things when yon have tc
go down some other street to escape
mooting some one whom you owe.
young men knew what is the despotii
of being in debt .more of them would
keep out of it. \Vhat did debt do for
Lord Bacon, with a mind towering
above the centuries? It induced him
take bribes and convict himself as
criminal before all ages. What did
debt do lor Walter Scott? Broke his
heart at Abbotsford. Kept him wr
ing until his hand gave out in paralysis
to keep the sheriff away from the
pictures and statuary. Better for him
CTCTjbody, when they p»J the debt of
nature, the only debt they ever do P*y-
Now, our young men are coming up in
tbix depraved state of commercialethics,
and I am solicitous about them. I want
to warn them against being slaughtered
on the sharp edges of debt. Y ou want
many things you have not, my young
friends. You shall have them if y<~
bave patience, and honesty, and indu
try. Certain lines of conduct always
lead out to certain successes. There is
a law which controls even those things
that seem baphazzard. I hare been
told of those who have observed that
it is possible to calculate just how many
letters will be sent to tbc Dead Letter
Office every year through misdirection;
that it is possible to calculate just liow
many letters will be detained for lack
of postage-stamps through the forget
fulness of the senders, and that it is
possible to tell just how many people
ill fall in the streets by slipping on
n orange-peel. In other words, there
insignifi
cant event you ever heard of is the link
between two eternities—the eternity of
the past and the eternity of the futi
Head the right way, young r
if he had minded the maxim which he
had chiseled over the fireplace at Ab
botsford, “Waste not, want not.”
What did debt do for Robert Bums?
Drove him to hard drinking and to
begging for seven pounds and four shil
lings to pay for a volunteer’s uniform.
What did debt do for Lord Byron anti
his mother? She died in a fit of rage
from reading the upholsterer’s bill at
Newstead. William Pitt, with genius
enough to control the finances of the
English nation, could not control his
own finances, and went from one morti
fication to another, anil after death the
Parliament voted $200,000 to pay the
debts of that man who had received
$30,000 salary annually. The trouble
is, my friends, that people do not un
derstand the ethics of going in debt,
and that if yon purchase goods with no
expectation of paying for them, or go
into debts which you cannot meet, yon
steal just so much money. If I go into
a grocer’s store, aud I buy sugars and
coffees and meats, with no capacity to
pay for them and no intention of pay
ing for them, i am more dishonest than
if I go into the store, and when the
grocer’s face is turned the other way I
fill my pockets with the articles of
chandise and carry off a ham. In the
one case I take the merchant'
and I take the time of the messenger to
transfer the goods to my house,
in the other case I take none of the
time of the merchant, and I wait npon
myself, and I transfer the goods with
out any trouble to him! In other words,
a sneak-thief is not so bad as a m;
who contracts debts he never expects
pay. Yet, in all our cities there a
families that move every May-day to
get into proximity to other grocers, and
meat-shops, and apothecaries. They
owe everybody within half a mile of
where they now live, and next May
they will move into a distant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims.
Meanwhile, you, the honest family in
the new house, are bothered day by day
by tho knocking at the door of the dis
appointed bakers, and butchers, and
dry-goods dealers, and newspaper-car
riers, and yon are asked where your
predecessor is. You do not know,
was arranged yon should not know.
Moanwhilc, your predecessor has gone
to some distant part of the city, and the
jtcople who have anything to sell have
sent their wagons and stopped there to
solicit the “valuable” custom of the
new neighbor, and he, the new neigh
bor, with great complacency, and with
an air of affluence, orders the finest
steaks, and the highest-priced sugars,
and the best of the canned fruits, and
perhaps all the newspapers—Eagle,
Argus,Sun, Herald, Tribune, World,
and Times. And the debts will keep
on accumulating until he gets his good<
on the 30th of next April, in the furni
ture cart. Now, let me say, if there
are any such persons in the honse this
morning, if yon have any regard for
yonr own conscience, you bad better
move to some greatly-distant part of
the city. If, for instance, you live
South Brooklyn, move to the Eastern
D istrict or Q rcenpoint. Or, if you li ve
in this central part of Brooklyn, move
to New York or Jersey City! It ia too
bad that, having had all the trouble of
consuming the goods, you should also
have all the trouble of being dunned!
And let me say, if you find that this
picture if your own photograph, instead
o! being in church you ought to be in
the penitentiary! No wonder that so
many of oar merchant# fail in business.
"They are swindled into bankruptcy by
these wandering Arabs, these nomads
of city life, They cheat the grocer-out
of the green apples which make them
sick, the physician who attends them
daring their distress, and tha under
taker who fits them out for departure
from the neighborhood whep they owe nro
will come out at the right goal.
Bring me s young man, and tell n
what his physical health is, and win
his mental calibre, and what his habits,
and I will tell you what will not make
five inaccurate prophecies ont of the
five hundred. All this makes me
solicitous in regard to young men, and
I want to make them nervous in regard
the contraction of unpayable debts.
I give you a paragraph from my own
experience: My first settlement as pas
tor was in a village. My salary was
$800 and a parsonage. The amount
seemed enormons to me. I said to my
self, “What! all this for one year?” 1
was afraid of getting worldly under so
much prosperity! I resolved to invite all
the congregation to my house ingroups
of twenty-five each.. We began, and
as they "were the best congregation in
all the world, and we felt nothing was
too good for them, we plied all the
luxuries on the table. 1 never com
pleted the undertaking. At the end of
six months 1 was in financial despair.
I found that we not only had the sur
plus of luxuries, but we had a struggle
to get the necessaries, and I learned
what every young man learns in time
to save himself, or too late, that yon
must measure the size of a man’s body
before you begin to cut the cloth for his
When a young man willfully and
of choice, having the comforts of life
goes into the contraction of unpaying
debts, he knows not into what he goes.
The creditors get after the debtor, the
pack of honnds in full cry, and alas!
for the reindeer. They jingle his door
bell before he gets up in the morn
ing, they jingle his door-bell after lie
has gone to bed at night. They meet
him as he comes off his front steps.—
They send him a postal-card or
ter, in enrtest style, telling him
up. They attach his goods. They
want cash or a note at thirty days, or
a note payable on demand. They call
him a knave. They say he lies. They
want him disciplined at the church.
They want him tnrned out of the bank.
They come at him from this side ant!
from that side, and from before ant:
from behind, and from above and from
beneath, and he is insulted, and gib
beted, and sued and dunned, and sworn
at until he gets the nervous dyspepsia,
gets neuralgia, gets liver complaint,
gets heart disease, gets convulsive dis
order, gets consumption. Now he if
dead, and yon say, "Of course they
will let him alone.” Oh.no. Now they
watchful to sec whether there are
any unnecessary expenses at the obse
quies, to sec whether there is any use
less handle on the casket,to sec whether
is any useless pleat on the shroud
whether the hearse is costly or
cheap, to see whether the flowers sent
to the casket have been bought by the
family or donated,to sec in whose name
the deed to the grave is made out. Then
they ransack the bereft household, the
books, the pictures, the carpets, the
chairs, the piano, the piMow on which
he died. Cursed be debt! For the
take of your own happiness, for the
sake of yonr good morals, for the sak»
of your immortal soul, for God’s sake
young man, as far as possible, keep out
of it.
But I think more young men are
slaughtered through religion. Take
away a young man’s religion and y
make him the prey, of evil. We an
know that the Bible is the only peifect
system of morals. Now, if you want
to destroy the young man’s morals take
his Bible away. How will you do that?
Well, you wiil caricature his reverence
for the Scriptures. You will take all
those incidents of the Bible which can
be made mirth of—Jonah’s whale,
Samson’s foxes, Adam’s rib. These you
will caricature eccentric Christians or
inconsistant Christians. Then you
will pass off as your own all those
hackneyed argument against Christian
ity which are as old as Tom Paine, as
old as Voltaire, as old as sin. Now,
you have captured his Bible, and you
have taken his strongest fortress. The
way is comparatively clear, and all the
gates of his soul are set open in invita-
to the sins of earth and the sor-
of death, that they may come in
and drive the stake for their encamps
ment. A steamer fifteen hundred miles
from shore, with brokes rudder and lost
compass, and hulk leaking fifty gallons
the hour, is better off than a young man
when you have robbed him of his Bible.
Have you ever noticed how despicably
mean it is to take away the world’s
Bible without proposing a substitute?
It is meaner than to come to a sick m
and steal his medicine, meaner than
come to a cripple and steal his crutch,
meaner than to come to a pauper and
steal his crust, meaner than to come tc
a poor man and burn his house down.
It is the worst of all larcenies to steal
the Bible which has been crutch,
medicine, and food, and eternal home
to bo many. What a generous aud
magnanimous business infidelity has
gone into! this splitting up of lifeboats,
and taking away of fire-escaper ‘ ’
extinguishing of lighthouses. I
out and I say to such people,” What
are you doing all this for?” “Oh!”
they say, “just for fun.” It is such fun
to see Christians try to hold on to their
bibles! Many of them have lost loved
ones and have been told that there
resurrection, and it is such fun to tell
them there will be no resurrection!
Many ot them have believed that Christ
to carry the burdens and to heal
Greenwood, or rather, their bodies are,
for their souls have gone on to retribu
tion. Not much prospect for a young
who started life with good health,
and good education, and a Christian
example set him, and opportunity of
usefulness, who gathered all his treas
ures and pnt them in one box, and then
dropped it into the sea. Now, how i»
this wholesale slaughter to be stopped?
There is not a person in the house but
is interested in that question. Young
mao, arm yourself. The object of my
sermon this morning is to pnt a weapon
in each of your hands for your own de
fense. Wait not for Young Men’s
Christian Associations to protect you,
or churches to protect you. Appealing
to God for help, take care of yourself.
First, have a room aomewhere that you
can call your own. . Whether it be the
back parlor of a fashionable boarding
house, or a room in the fourth story of
heap lodging, I care not. Only have
that one room yonr fortress,
the dissipatcr or unclean, step
threshold. If they come up the long
flight of stairs and knock at the door,
meet them face to face ami kindly yet
firmly refuse them admittance. Have
a few family portraits on the wall.if yon
brought them with yon from yourconn-
try home. Have a bible on the stand.
p!«y
, havt
afford i
harp, or Hnte, or cornet, or imlodeon, or
violin, or piano. Every morning before
m leave that room, pray. Every
ight yon come home in that room,
pray. Make that room yonr Gibraltar,
your Sebastopol, you Mount Zion. Let
bad book or uewspaper come into that
>m any more than you would allow#
cobra to crawl on your table. Take care
of yourself. Nobody else will take care
of you. Yonr help will not come up
two, or three, or four flights of stairs.
Your help will come through the roof,
down from heaven, from that God, who
in the six thousand years of the world’s
history never betrayed a young man
who tried to be good and Christian. Let
me say in regard to your adverse world
ly circumstances, iu passing, that yon
are on a level now witli those who are
finally to succeed. Mark my words,
young man, and think of it thirty years
from now. You will find that those
who thirty years from now are the mil-
lionaics ol' the country, who are the ora
tors of the country, who are the poets
of the country, who are the strong mer
chants of the country, who are the great
philanthropists of the country—might
iest in church and State—are this morn
ing on a level with yon, not an inch
above you, and in straitened circum
stances now. Those who die at the top
were born at the foot. Herscbel earned
his living by playing a violin at parties,
and in the interstices of the play
he would go out and look up at the
midnight heavens, the fields of his im
mortal conquests. George Stephenson
from being the foreman in a colliery
ing blessing. Now while I speak, you
'— at the forks of the road, and this is
right road and that is the ‘ wrong
road, and I are you start on the Tight
road.
Last Sabbath morning, at the dose
of the service, I saw the gold watch of
the world-renowned and deeplyrlament-
ed violinist, Ole Bull. You remember
he died last summer in his island home
off the coast of Norway. That gold
watch he had wound up day after day
through his last illness, and then he
said to his companion: “Now, I want
to wind this watch as long as I can,
and then when I am gone I want you to
keep it wound until it gets to my friend.
Dr. Doremus. in New York, and then
he will keep it wound until his life is
done, and then I want the watch to go
to his young son, my especial favorite.”
The great musician who more than
any other artist had made the viplin
speak, and sing, and weep, and langh,
and trinmph—for it seemed, when he
drew the bow across the strings,
all earth and heaven shivered in delight
ed sympathy—the great musician,*
room looking off npon the sea, and
rounded by his favorite instruments of
music, closed his eyes in death. While
all the world was monrning at his de
parture, sixteen crowded steamers fell
into line of funeral procession to carry
his body to the mainland. There were
fifty thousand of his countrymen gath
ered in an amphitheatre of the hills,
waiting to hear the eulogium; and it
was said when the great orator of the
day, with stentorian voice, began to
speak, the fifty thousand people on the
hillsides burst into tears. Ob! that was
the close of a life that had done so much
make the world happy. But I have
tell you, young man, if you live right
and die right, that was a tame scene
compared with that which will greet
you when from the galleries of heaven
the one hundred and forty and four
thousand shall accord with Christ in
crying, “Well done, thou good and
faithful servant,” and the influences
that on earth you put in motion will go
down from generation to generation, the
influences you wound up handed to yonr
children and their inflnences wound ui
handed to their children, until watcl
and clock are no more needed to mark
the progress, because time itself shall
be no longer.
^■Administratrix Sale. ■
T|Y virtueof an ordaoof tbs Ordinary of Sumter
«®ty, win be aold before the Court home
ofeale.JotoMend number fifty-four, end tbe
north half or lot of land number forty-three
and tbe aonth half of ninety aeree of lot of Uadi
number forty-two, in the Stub dUtriotof dumJ
“ 1 *"?"K**7 °* *ha aetate of r]
W^Vortb. Sold for dmeioo. Terms cash,” 1
■ Thie, the let day of November. I860.
E. U. FORTH. Adar*a.
Administrator’s Sale.
nr ILL be sold before tbe Cowt-bouw
Svin Americas, Sumter county, ol
Tuesday in December next, within tbe
spsaMsssEssss
a 23th district of raffi county. Bold aa the
*i?-|g£S5r-i
>-be the n
vned ol the world’
And those men who are t
• level now. I speak
n plaining of their
Humtcr County,
Sumter Sheriff Sales—December.
W ILL be sold before the Court Houae <
in the city of Americua, Georgia. Bm
county on tbe first Tuesday in December i
the following described property to wit:
Lot offend number five, one hundred acres
off of lot number twenty-nine, one hundred and
forty-fire acrea off of lot number thirtj-iix.it
being the northern part of aaid lot, containing
in all four hundred and forty-five aeree, mors
or less, all I; ing in tbs sixteenth district of Hun
ter county. Levied on as tbe property of Jas
Carroway to aataf* a 11 fa issued trom Humtcr
Superior Court, in favor of Uriah & Locket, vs.
T« ill Wb§m It bij Concern.
GEORGIA—WnsTxa Coctty.
grrHRREAS, Gro.fi. Dennard baa filed his pe-
1W tiUon in said Conn Tor letters ol adminis-
tnuon upon tbe estate of Isaac Dtnnard, deo’d.
®»ess are therefore to cite and admoniab all
f arttes interested, whether kindred or creditors,
to (how cause on or before tbe December term
tbe first Monday in
cf said Court, to beheld o
prayed ft
IUUbSlStui£ISlZS£l‘ •‘•“‘—■•W
aovS-lm O. W. juVENPOBT, Ord’y.
To Whom it May Concern.
GEORGIA—Sumtek County.
O- Jenkins, Adm’r de bonis non,
— therefore to cite and admnni.fa
end singular, the kindred and creditors to be
have why such leave should not be granted. '
Given under my band and • official signature.
lla tha 4th Aaw rxf toon
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Pig and Bar Iron,
Iron Ore? IBoofingTile
Nails and Spikes „ Sewer Pipe.
E&t P kV 0ltS and Splk0S ’ I WarelSnse'felevators.
NUTS, WASHERS AND LAG SCREWS.
Te all whom It *»} Concern.
GEORGIA—Sumtsjl County;
W HEREAS, J. o. Gueny, Executor on Eetata
,. of J-P- Gueny, deceased, having filed hi*
U^U^said'eatata,* 0 **** **** ******
These are therefore to cite and admoniab al
and singular, tbs kindred and creditors to be
and appear at this office on tbe first Monde;
In December next, and to show cause if any
they have why such leave should not be granted.
Given under my hand and offioial signature,
ibis the 1th day of November 1880.
nov5-lm TAPS. H. aTEWABT, Ord’y.
Picks and shovels,
Miners’ Tools,
Boiler Bivets,
Antimony,
• Differential Pnlley Blocks
Foundry Brushes and Biddles
Sash Weights.
I Cotton Waste,
INGOT COPPER BLOCH TIN,
| Coil Chain,
Carriage Bolts,
Horse and Mule Shoes,
Boat Spikes,
I Hemp Tacking,
GEORGIA—Si
V HEBE AH, G. W. MeNeal having filed bis
petition in aaid Court (or letters of admin
istration on tbs estate ot Nepaey Coker, dee d,
Thees are there fore to cite and admonish all
parties interested, whether kindred or creditors,
to show canes on or before tbe December term
of aaid CourL to be held os the first Monday ii
~ ‘ ' J aaid letters of adminiat
should not be granted
4 prayed for,
and official signature, this
novS-lm T. If. 8TEWART, Ord’y.
December, 1880. why aaid let! era of administra
tion on said estate should not '
the s\id petitioner as prayed for,
Witness my band and (“"
4th day of November.
pelter.
Pig and Bar Lead,
Sheet Zinc,
No. 1 Metal Solder,
Sheet and Bolt Copper;
BLASTING AND SPORTING POWDER,
BABBITT METAL, j BLAPK DIAM0HD STEEL.
FIRE BRICK, PLOW STEEL,
DRIKDSTOKES. EiWS'
MACHINIST TOOLS, IIOHE SCALES
WIRE ROPE, I BELTING AND LAI ING,
COKE AND CHARCOAL FORKS.
S. B. LOWE.
juiylG-Gm Iinttn.no oga, Tonncssoe.
OUR CROWDED HOUSE TELLS THE TALE
The TWIN SPRING BED
GEORGIA—ScxTKu County.
W HEREAS, E. H. Cheek and James Alei
der. Administrators open the estate of 1
N. A. Hatfield, deo’d, appuae for leave t
P. Hollis, PUiutfffV attorney.
Property pointed ont by B
time and place, will be
the wounds of the world, and it is snch
fun (o tell them they will have to be
their own savions! Think of the mean
est thing yon ever heard of; then go
down a thousand feet underneath
and you will find yonrself at the top of
a stairs a hundred miles long; go to the
bottom of the stairs, and you will find
a ladder a thousand miles long; then go
to the foot of the ladder and. look off
precipice half as far as from here t
China, and yon will find the headquar
ters of the meanness that wonld rob
this world of its only comfort in life,
its only peace in death, audits only
hope for immortality.
Slaughter a young man’s faitli
God, and there is not much more left to
slaughter. Now, what has become of
the slaughtered? Well, some of them
are in their father’s or mother’s house,
broken down in health, waiting to die;
others are in the hospital, others are in
succeed are on
to those who
straitened and hard circumstai
Those who arc at the top at yonr age,
nine out of ten of them will come down.
No outfit, no capital, to start with.
Young man, go down to the Mercantile
Library and get some books, and
of what wonderful mechanism God
you in yonr hand, in your foot, in
eye, in yonr ear, and then ask some
tor to take yon into the dissectingi
and illustrate to you what you have
read about, and never again commit the
blasphemy of saying you have no capi
tal to start with. Equipped! Why, tin
poorest yonng man in this house ii
equipped as only the God of the whole
universe could afford to equip him.
Then his body, a very poor affair com
pared with his wonderful soul. Oh! that
is what makes me solicitous. I am not
so much anxious about you, young man.
because yon have so little to do with,
as I am anxious about you because yon
have so much to risk, and Jose or gain.
There is no class of persons that so stir
my sympathies as yonng men in great
cities. Not finite enough salary to live
on, and all the temptations that come
from that deficit. Invited on all hands
to drink, and their exhausted nervous
system seeming to demand stimulus.
Their religion caricatured by the most
of the clerks in the store, and the most
of the operatives in tbe factory. The
rapids ot temptation and death mailing
against that yonng man forty miles the
| hoar, and he in a frail boat headed up
stream, w ; th nothing but a broken oar
work with. Unless Almighty God
help them, they will all go under. Ah!
when I told you to take care of your
self yon misnnderstood me if yon
thought I meant yon are to dapentl upon
human resolution, which may be dis
solved in the foam of the wine-cup, or
may be blown ont with the first gust of
temptation. Here is the helmet, the
sword of the Lord God Almighty.
Clothe yonrself in that panoply and you
shall not be put to confusion. Sin pays
well, neither in this world nor in the
Bext, bat right thinking, right believing
and right acting will take yon in safety
through this life and in transport
through the next. 1 never shall forget
prayer I heard a young man make
me fifteen yeirs ago. It was a very
short prayer, but, it was a tremendous
prayer: “Oh! Lord, help us. We find
it so easy to do wrong, and so hard to
do right, Lord help us.” That prayer,
I warrant yon, reached the ear of God,
ii reached his heart. And there are
this honse this morning a hundred
in who have fonnd out a thousand
yonng men, perhaps, who have found
at that very thing. It is soeasy todo
rong, and so bard to do right.
I got a letter last night, only oue par
agraph of which 1 shall read:
Having moved around somewhat, I
have ran across young men of intelli
gence, ardent strivers after that will-o-
the-wisp—fortune—and of one of these
I wonld speak. He was a yonng Eng
lishman of twenty-three or four years,
who came to New York, where he had
acquaintance, with barely sufficient
keep him a couple of weeks. He had
been tenderly reared, jn-rhaps I should
tenderly, and was not used ‘
earning his living, and found it c
tremely difficult to get any position that
is capable of filling. After many
efforts in this direction, he fonnd
himself on a Sunday evening in Brook
lyn, near yonr church, with about three
dollars left of his small capital. Prov-
ideuce seemed to lead him to yonr door,
and he determined to go in and hear
yon. He told me his going to hear y<
that night was undoubtedly the turning
point in his life, for when he went *
yonr cbnrch hi felt desperate, but while
listening to yonr discourse his better
nature got the mastery. I truly believe
from what this yonng man told me that
yonr sonnding the depths of liis heart
that night alone brought him back to
his God whom he was so near leaving.
The echo, that is, of multitudes in the
honse this morning. I am not prewh-
ing an abstraction, bnt a great reality.
Ohl.friendless young man. Oh! prodi
gal yonng man. Oh! broken-hearted
young man, discouraged yonng
wounded yonng man, I commend yon
to Christ this day. the best friend a
man eter had. He meets yon this morn
ing. Yon have come here for His bless
ing. .Despise not the emotion rising in
yonr soul; it is divinely lifted. Look
into the face of Christ. Lift one prayer
to yonr father’s God, to yonr mother’s
God, and this morning get the pardon-
> hundred and twenty, (230),
of land Number two hundred
:nty-one.‘22t), obtaining three hundred
tod three-fourth scree of land, more or lees
Rounded on tbe east bv lauds of Htllstnan A
Co , and 8heppard; on the south bv O. O. Shep
pard and Glover, and north by Rains Rooks,on
the west by Glover and Mrs. Chambleee. all
jing and being in the new Twenty-Sixth Dia-
tiiot of Sumter county, Georgia. Leved on aa
the property of Joseph Melts th, and sold by
virtue of a fi fa from Snmter Superior Court in
favor of Barney Parker vs Joseph McMath—
Property pointed ont by plaintiff,
novotde J. W. MIZE, Sheriff.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
persona indebted to tbe estate of D. G.
— a-oker, late of Snmter county deceased, are
hereby notified to oome forward and make im
mediate payment, and those holding claims
against the said estate are hereby notified to
present them for payment in terms of the law.
This, November 2nd, 1880.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Sumtxb County.
U NDER and by virtue of an order of the Or
dinary of said county, will be sold before
>_ the city of America*
ho legal hoars of sals,
Administrator’s Sale.
W ILL be sold oa Thursday the 16th of De
cember next at tbe residence of M. E. By
lander deceased, a part of the perishable prop
erty belonging to the (stats of aaid deceased.
the ConjtThoose door i
>f Americas
first Tuesday In December
one and one
•wor Danville
good and sufficient
tmining nine (9 a
plantation lying
Adam Robinson place, embracing
No. one hand red and eighty-nine >
forty-two aud a half (42J) aeree to the Sot
.. jrth
the Court-house in Americas oa the
UJe road. Tbe honse is enbetaa-
immodfonsly built. with seven rooms
“ 1 ^and ^sufficient outhouses.
on lying on same road two
ierica*; known as the old
. lace, embracing lot of land
hundred and eichty-nine '189) except
.121) aeree in the South-
corner—lot one hundred and ninety ex-
Sonth half of lot No. one hundred and seventy-
two (172) all in the 27tb district of said coun
ty. containing four hundred and aixty (460)
Also the plantation in the fifteenth district of
saidconnty, known as the B. I. Walker plan ta
ttoo—adloi
farming implements,
— four-horse
t d arfo ,f8 oth nd h '
dsy, December 16,183'h
nov27tds Adm’r Est.
Administrator’s Sale.
B Y virtue of a decree from the Hnperior Conn
of Snmter county, will bs sold on tbs Orel
Tuesday in January next, between the legal
hoars of sale, before tbe Court honse door, in
said count;, tbs following property; to-wit:
Lots of land Numbers seventeen (17) and
eighleeo, (18), in the 26th district of said conn
's. Sold as the property of M. E. Bylander,
[et-eased. for the benefit or heirs and creditors,
nrms ot sale CASH. Z. F. MABKKT.
not 27 ids *
djoining the lands of John A. Cobl>,i
Hawins, Estate of J. P. West, deceased.
Estate or A. O. Walker, deceased. Estate of J.
W. Walker, deceased. Mm Basil Lamar and^John
WhiUett Said plantation oonstetingof var—
lots and fractions of lota numbers not
known, and containing thirteen hundred
aixty (1,360) acres mure or less. All or aaid
K -operty sold as the property of H. L Walker,
te of said countv, deceased; for the purpose
! W. O. JENKINS, Adm’r.
Administratrix Sale.
rtoe of an order from the Court of Ordi-
y cf Webster oonnty will be sold before
irt-booB* door in Prea/in, Ga , on the
first Tuesday cf January next, between the le-
* --- follow.ng property to wit:
3fdis tribal
Administrator’s Sale.
W ILL be cold, under and by virtue of ai
der from the Court or Ordinary of 8ui
county, on the first Tuesday in December, I
bsfore the Court honse door in the cit
Americas, at pnblii
der, within the 1 ~
described lands,
tats of land a
(10i). one hundred and forty-three. (143,1,
legal hour* of sale, tbe following
tats of land lumbers one hundred and one,
le hundred and forty-i
and fortv-fonr, (144),
itcen, (118), one hundred and two, (1
hundred and three, (103). one hundred
een, (116,) and the sonth *"’*
hundred and fifty-eight. .
ing situated in tbe Fifteenth district
nty. The entire Ira
idrad (1300) acres, m
erty will be sold as the property of James P.
West, Lte of aaid oonnty deccatea, for tbe bene
fit of the heirs and creditors. Terms of sale cash.
JOE P. WEST,
Administrator James P. West.
Administrator’s Sale.
W ILL be sold before the Court house door in
the city of A
the first Tuesday
P One house and lot in the city of Americas,
boanded on the north by tbe (joforel Baptist
church, on the south by Sam ~— — **“
west by land of O. M. Wheatley,
by Forest street; containing
i, one certain (2) two acre lot with small
and improvements thereon,
era limits of the corporation of
ntsi le, and adjoining lands of Baray Pare
i tbe west, on the north by lands of Fo
by Sam Wilson, and oast by lots of
•or- Bold as the property of tbs late
Booker Norman, deceased, for tbe benefit of tbs
editors of said deosaeed.
MERGER dCOTT, Adm’r.
'•sight. All lying and
strict el Sun.
itaiaing thirteen
lees. .Said pro|-
H0RTGAGE SALE.
W ILL be eeld before tbe Ooort-house door in
Americas, Snmter oonnty, Gi
first Tuesday m December next, wit
gel hours deals, tbe following property to wit:
tats of land, number oas hundred and tweo-
tv-one, one hundred and twenty-two, one hun
dred and twenty-three, one hundred and forty-
nine. and ooe hundred and fifty one. all lying
and being in the twenty-ninth district of Ham.
* nty. Levied on as the property ot Elia-
[elly, James Kelly, F. W. Kelly.
‘-'■-t- Amanda Kelly,
issued from
of Hinton i
Elizabeth Kelly], tt al. Property gsnl
J. Singletary, Amanda nelly, et al to satisfy a
mortgage II fa issued from Snmter Superior
Court, in favor of Hinton and Mathews, vs.
ElixabeUi Kelly, et al. Property pointed ont 1
said mortgage A fa. W. H COBB,
Deputy S
Administrator’s Sa'e.
O N tbe first Tuesday in December next, will
be sold before the Court-bo use door ii
Americas, agreeable to aa order of tbe Ordina-
—r ot Snmter county, the following property, “
tats of land numbers three bnnred and forty,
tven, three hundred and seventy, and two
hundred and eighty-three, all in the 28th dis-
laily Lee, bat
of originally Lee, bat now Samter county
containing six hundred seven and # half a
in all, more or leer. Sold aa tbe proper
William Duncan, lata of Snmter oonnty. do
ed, for tbs benefit of tbe heirs of said deco
Terms cash. LEONARD PARKER
^^Ldministrator with the will annexed.
Executor’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Sumtxb Cou»tt.
B Y virtue of an order from tbe Ordinary of
aaid coanty ot Snmter, I win aaU before
tbe Oonrt-bonas door ol aaid oonnty oa the first
Tuesday in Deeesr^ ‘ *"* **“ ’—*
home of aela, five
a* off of lot of land
fifty-eight ia tbs27th die-
. add five acrea boanded
as foUowa: Oa the aorth by land at present oo-
1 by lerd
formerly owned by H. K. McKay, on the South I
by tbe plane known as tbe Lewis tamp place,
oa the west by Samuel Hawkins. Said proper-1
ty eoidas the property of tbe estate of E. Brake,
drodb^roat of tbe heirs and creditors of the
■H GEO. W. GLOVER, i
EiccutorofE Brake.
aaid E. Brake.
SoHOOL BOOKS FOE ALL THE SCHOOLS
SCHOOL BOOKS FOB ALL THE 8CH00L8
SCHOOL BOOKS FOE ALL THE SCHOOLS
feb!8tf Anns Atcock.
cite and admoniah all
* * 1 or credi-
December
I 1 *™
belonging fo tail
erefoie to cite an
parties interested, whether kindred
-v on or before the 1
o be held on tbe first Moo-
880, why leave to sell said
should not be granted said appli-
Witness my hand and rfficial signature (bis
• “ u ■* * ' mmber. 1880.
T. H. STEWART, Ordinary.
These are therefore
interests *
said
da^inDecei
cant as prayed
tbe 4th day ol November
four-horse wagon, one two-horse
.. *OMbU£
Z. F. MARRETT,
artic'i
t M. E. Bylander.
Cheap. Durable, Comfortable, Noiseless, Don’t Sag in tho Middle
Anti-Bed Bug, Easily Adjusted. Try One Before Iluying.
MANUFACTURED AND FOR SALE BY
Drs. SEARS, CHENEY & CO
’onntj Rights for sate. Bed on exhibdion at GEORGE STAPLETON’S. Forsyth Slreet
ICUi, ua. Call and i-ee it. II. J. WILLIAMS, 'gent lor Humtcr County, nov"
Administrator.
aa the Perry place
from Weston to (
ing five hundred and fifi
Lnbution
d on thyroid
,Ga., contain-
Hold for dis-
heirs. Terms cash.
ELIZABETH PERRY.
Administratrix.
Cored b, ABSORPTION m.tnre'. w.J)
To whon it May Coiccm
GEORGIA—Sumtcb Coustr.
h N. Cheek applies to me for
—HEREAH, i. N. Cheek applies to
W letters of Guardianship of the pern
property of M. A., P. H., R. M., Lean
i and
phene. Exer L. and Hat
parties interested, whether kindred or creditors,
'i show canoe on or before the Janaary term
txt, of said court, to be held on the first Mon
ty iu January, 1881, why said letters should
at bs granted the said petitioner as prayed for.
Witn as my hand and official signature, this
te 2ith day of November, 1880.
nov2C-Im T. H. STEWART. Ord’y.
To Whom It maty Concern.
GEORGIA—Sun ru Cocjrn.
-HEREA8, F. E. Bnrke applies for letters of
' Guardianship of tbe perron and pi ,_
— Leonora and Charles Henry Burks,
beire or Martin Bnrke, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
parties interested, whether kindred or creditors.
^ow cause on or before the January term
hu, of said court, to be held on the first Mon
day ie January, Utti, why said letters should
not bs granted said petitioner aa preyed tor.
Witness my hand and official signature, thl
tbe 24th day of November, 1880.
’6-ltn T. H. STEWART, Ord’y.
Webster County.
W in the town of Preston, Wsbe .er oonnty,
Ga., between the usual boars of sale, oa the
first Tuesday in December, i860, the following
property, to-wit.
The south half of lot of land
two hundred and one (2011 being and lying in
the 13th district of said oonnty. Levied on as
tbe property of J. T. Lunsford, to satisfy a F
perior Court fi fa, issued from an attachment
ravor of O. W. Davenport, vs. said Loaafo
Property pointed ont in said 4 fa.
Also, at tbe same time and place, will be sold
lot of land n am bar one hundred and sixty one,
(161.) Tbe same being and lying in tbe 24th
district of said count;, bounded south by Isaac
Dennard's farm, east by Charley Jones. Lev-
aa the property of W. D. Yarborough, U
,• a Snpsriot Court fl fa, issued from Web
ater Superior Court in favor of G. W. Daven
port, vs. said Yarborough and f>. J. Passmore.
Property pointed ont by Plaintiff's attorney.
at tbe aeae time and place, will be aold
, mors or lees, off of lot of land, nt
not known, bnt known as the place on
— ‘ “Iarris’ Blacksmith shop, place sit
of Weston, to satisfy acostflf*
a favor of officers of Court, vs.
Harris and Mary Harris claimant. Bold
|>rcgertyjofMai7 Harris. Property pointed ont
This^the 3d day of November 1880.
F. M. MoLBNPON. Sheriff
To Wkta II Hoy Concern.
GEORGIA—WxMTxa Couxty.
W HEREAS Mary J- Wamble. adm*rx on the
estate of Enoch Wamble, having applied
to me lor lease to sell the real estate be)
These are therefore to cite and adosoi
parties interested, whether kindred or creditors,
’ jw cause on or by tbe December *
at said Oonrt to beheld on the fire! —
day in December, 1880, why said leave should
not be granted to th* said appUosnt as prayed
neaa my hand and official signature, this
t day of November, 1880.
GEO. W. DAVENPORT.
Application for Homestead,
GEOB1I4 Wraarwa room,
nr HERE AM. W. L. Blackshear having applied
W to me for Examptfoa at Pereoulty end
‘ The American Eagle still proudly soars a!otl” and “Belies lheff«
and Mankind in general” to prodneo a more Complete st w t ‘
of goods, (Quantity, Quality and Variety considered)
thsn is now being offered to the pnblic by
m a. mm
(Successor to MONTGOMERY & SHAW,)
The Recognised Leader of
LOW PRICES AND GOOD GOODS
Forsyth Street,
Americus,
All
LUNG DISEASES,
THROAT DISEASES,
BREATHINQ IROUBLtS.
Cure Your Back Ache
And all diseases of the Kidnevs. Bladder and
Grinary Organa by wearing the
It DRIVES INTO the system curati-
rents and healing m diclner.
It DRAWS FROM the diseased parts tl
0 'rtawMUtitdM Testify te Ira Virtues.
of Price, tn.00.by
mmiSi wc™ The Only Lung Pad Co.
Itook, “ Three
Millions a Year,’
Lee County.
Lee Sheriff Sales-December.
W ILL be sold before the Oonrt-bonse <
in the town of Leesburg, Lee county
tbe first Tuesday in Dso«mber next, the follow
ing property to wit:
One honse and lot in Smithvills, county
Lee; bounded north and east bystreet, son)
by lane snd west by lands of T.J. Avera’s E
tate, said property known as the Whi
aker honse and lot. containing one aor.,
more or lees, and now occupied by W. W. Ken
nedy. Levied on aa the property of Mrs. O. A.
Whitaker, to satiafy a fi fa issued from Houston
Superior Court, in favor of Mrs. D. Alva Meira,
Tenant in possession legally notified. Property
pointed ont by Plaintiff e attorney.
novStds JAS. 8 ALTER. Sheriff.
Administrator’s Sale
B Y virtue of an order of Lee county, Oa.,'
be sold before tbe Oonrt house door, in
town of Leesburg- raid countv. on the first
Tuesday in December next, lots of land No. two,
(2), three, (3), and thirty-one, (31), in the four
teenth (14) district of Lee oouniy. Sold as the
property of James 8. Martin, late of said county
deceased. Terms cash. Bold for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors of said deceased.
UARVELof HEALING and RELIEF,
Simple, Sensible, Direct,
Painless, Powerful,
It CURES where all else
TTON and REVOLUTION in Medicine. I
sorption or direct application, as opposed to i
internal medicines. Send for (
satisfactory
ttise on *
iggija.
treatise on Kidney troubles, se nt free. Bold by
* *— ut by mail, on receipt of price,
* Tha ‘Only’ Lung Pad Co
^ Williams Block,
DETROIT, niefa.
Schley County.
Postponed Executors’ Sale.
W ILL be aold before the Court
in the town ofEUav " “
Ga., between tbe legal hoot
half of lot ol land No, ooe hundred and *thirty-
‘— —** 1 “‘ us hnndr~*
en, containing oni
EUavtlle, Bchley coanty,
ing: Ei
d ibirt.
tdred acres, more
»d and flftj -
idrsd and fifty acres
' ‘ .nd tour, b
ihop. All
... .y
ity deceased. Sold for tbe bei
noire aud creditors of r "
made known on the day
W. J. 8COVILL,) -
nov!2td J. M. 8COVILL, ( Ex
But act on the Theory that Every Article should be a
aecoascd. Terms Our Policy is Steady Low Prices, Year in and Year
To All Whom it may Concern.
•, Ga.. will | GEORGIA—Bchlit Cocsrrr.
HERE AS, W. G. Womack havit
oci27tds
Administrator’s Sale.
ITT ILL be sold before the Court-house door
fV in Lee*burg, Lee coanty, on the first
Tnesdsy in December next, agreeable to an or
der ot tbe Ordinary of said county, the real es
tate belonging to Thomas F, Porter, late of Lee
oonnty decerned. Sold for the benefit of the
beire and creditors of said deceased. Terms
n tbe day of sale.
I. F. DE AS,
T. Whom it Maj Concern.
GEORGIA—La Cocxtt
-—HEREAS, P. A. Jackson, administrator de
W bonis non, on the estate of W. H. Green.
has filed his petit’ * 1
belonging t
for leave to sell the real
id deceased,
therefore to cits and admonish all
*, whether kindred or creditors,
or before tbe December term
V * *'
day in December,
1 tMio11
icd for.
ny handand official signature.
to said deceased,
jarathei *
parties
of said Oourt.to bs held on tbs third Mon-
in December, why said leave to sell
should mot bs grantsd to the said petitioner as
rag.
W.’BATTB. Ordinary.
this 18th day of N
GEORGIA—Ln Couxty. ...
—HEKEAS, Ind.ey Walden, administratrix
W on the estate of W. H. Walden, having filed
for leave to eeB the real estate be-
* as Id deceased.
of aaxLCoo rt. to bs held on tbs third Monday la
December. 1880, why said leave to aril tho raid
property should »«£oo *««*•<* to the said pe-
WitMm my^hand and official signature, «■*-
the 18tb day of Novembw, 1880.
TW.BXTra, Ordinary.
Application for Homestead.
GEORGIA—uta OotarrY.
apart aa valr 1 *
beirtbsVSkdayv atRgaira fo Tosshnrg.
Thta,I7tbd.y.ofN^ & mo. 0r(:icw7
for IeUere of administration upot
W iwtere of adm?ni T swa| ftled W *
tbs estate of Lindsay KiUabrew, lab
coanty, deceased.
These sre therefore to cite and admonish all
parties interested, whether kindred or creditors,
to show canes on or by the December term of
said Court, to bs held on the first Monday ia
December, 1889, why said letters of administra
tion should not be granted to said petitioner a
my hand and official signature, thi
4th day of November, 1883.
O. H. VARNER, Ord’y.
FOR SALE.
OFFER for sale until the first of J anna rv next
my HOUAE AND LOT at tbe corner of Col
lege and Fori est Streets, containing one am
three-fourth aeree cf land, select fruit trees,
strawberries, etc. Tbe dwelling has ten rooms,
each with fire-places. Also two ont houses w«th
two rooms each, for servants or rent. All of
which will be sold low for GASH, as I need tbe
money to carry on my business. Those wish
ing to purchase, call ‘
- - . • — a at Brown * Carter’s
shoe store. [novl7waswlml P. F. BROWN.
For Sale or Rent.
fnW0 THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND, in the
X 17th distriot of Sumter oonnty, Georgia,
lying on the water, of Xinebafooaee and Pestle
creeks, sad adjoining Ian is ol Wm. H. Davison
and others, being a portion ot tbe lands forma
ly owned by Judge N. Wylie, deceased. Ft
me apply to tbs undersigned at Lnmpkii
-, or to Wm. H. Davison, near the place.
ctlStf BUSAN E. HALUDAY.
HELP
Tjf Povertyfrom yordoor. Those
who always take advantage of the rood chance
each chances remain ia poverty. We want
many mew, women, boys and girU to work for
ns right in our own localities. Tbe business
wiUnsytnors than ton times tSrdin ary *—
We turnish an expensive outfit and all thJ
Med, free. No one engaged fails to mikVP
syvmyrspsffiy. low caa devote yonr whole
HSi’SSiK&Sfff.fflESaUS*
Addices 8ns*os Jt Co., Portland, Maino.l
ectSswAwly,.
FOR SALE.
A MILCH COW WITH A TOHNft CALF.
,aBora “
Dry Goods and Notions
FOR FALL AND WINTER TRADE.
LATEST STYLE DRESS GOODS, TRIMMING SILKS,
OPERA FLANNELS, VEILING, RIBBONS, LACES. TIE:
CORSETS, BUTTONS, HOSIERY, DOMESTICS,
CASSIMERES, JEANS, TABLE CLOTHS, TOWELS,
And a Thousand and one other Articles too numerous to i
"“We have nothing to 6ay about the amount of stock we are now c
^as the time for making Tax returns will come soon, and, besides,*1*
““A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR STOCK, or, "Atmod
^pressure” either, to do with the “American Eagle?” Some
^“dre higher than ours, bnt what is lacking in HEIGHT w
^“width, depth and thickness, as our building is forty-eight !>.. .
**feet, w»th basement nndcr each room, and ALL FULL TO COMPLEI
^and New Goods arriving daily, and at prices that cause comped®
^sink into insignificance—“AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT!”
Clothing! Clothing
In this department we are offering Extraordinary Inducements.
Goods are all New and selected for service as well as appearance, a:
bought direct from the manufacturer! AT BOTTOM PRICES, and
giving oar customers the benefit of the same.
Boots an.<3. Slioes
Hats arui Gaps.
Our stock in this line is fuller and more complete than ever lef*** 1
Prices that will convince you that “We Mean Business”—Come and tit
Trunks and "Valises
A large assortment now in store and at Prices to suit the t
GROCERIES AND PROVISION
e think it only necessary to say that our Stock is
and can’t be surpassed.
Bedsteads. Bedstead
... AUrg.lot onh.»dfrom(2.50 AND UPWARDS—
Side IUtli, Slat!, Wrought Iron Faat« and Rollers.
came here to do business nearly twelve y cars Jfi
to remain as long as we live, unless we get
which we are likely to do if we continue -selling goods *
small’profits. But we do not propose to be Undersold by*
“Bust or no Bust”—<‘AND DON’T YOU FORGET ITT
JTOHJV R. SHAW,
FORSYTH STREET. .... AMERICA*
tST SEE wise stair.