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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
risen, we shall rise. Jesus “the first fruite of
them that slept.”
Now, around this doctrine of the resur
rection there are a great many mysteries.
You come to me this morning and say: “If
the bodies of the dead are to be raised how is
this and how is that?” and you ask me a
thousand questions I am incompetent to
answer; but there are a great many things
you believe that you are not able to explain.
You would be a very foolish man to say: “I
won’t believe anyth ng I can’t understand.”
Why, putting down one kind of flower seed,
comes there up this flower of this color?
Why, putting down another flower seed,
comes there up a flower of this color?—one
flower whit 1 , another flower yellow, another
flower crimson. W T hy the difference
when the seeds look to be very much alike—
are very much alike? Explain these things,
forth a delicate aroma The building was so I Explain that wart on the finger. Explain
“EASTERT DE”
Rev. Dr. Tal mage’s Easter
Morning Sermon.
I Corinthians, XV, 20: “Now is Christ
Bisen From the Dead, and Become
the First Frnits of Them That
Selept.”
Bbogklts, April —Tne BrooKiyn Tar.
crnacle was elaborately decorated to-day,
both in platform and galleries. Within the
church a scene of rare beauty was presented,
the platform l>eing covered with flowers ar
ranged in various devices and breathin:
crowded tlmt the doors were held open by
the pressure, and many persons were turned
away, being unablo to got farther than tbo
iron gate on the street In addition to the
usual artistes of the church, Mrs. Florence
Rice-Knox sang twice. The opening hymn,
In which t»,0. K1 voices joined, was:
We prni-e Thee, O God, for the Son of Thy love,
For Jesus who died and is now gone above.
The subject of the sermon was “Easter
tide.” Dr. Talmago took his text from I. Cor
inthians xv, ‘JO: “Now is Christ risen from
the dead, and become the first fruits of them
that slept.” Ho spoke as follows:
On til’s glorious Easter morning, amid the
music and tbf- flowers, I give you Christian
salutation. This morning, Russian meeting
Russian on tlio streets of St. Petersburg,
hails him with tho salutation, “Christ is
risen,” an i is answered by his friend in salu
tation, “Be is risen, indeed.” In some parts
of Englar.d and Ireland, to this very day,
there is the superstition that on Easter
morning the sun (lances in tho heavens, and
well may we forgive such n snjierstition,
which illustrates tho fact that the natural
world seems to sympathize with the spiritual
Hail! Easter morning. Flowers! flowers!
AH of them a voice, all of them a toirgue, all
of them full of speech to-day. I bend over
one of tho lilies, and I hear it say, “Consider
the lilies of tho field, how they grow; they
toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in
ail his glory was not arrayed as one of
these.” I bend over a rose, and it seems to
whisper, “I nm the rose of Sharon.” And
then I stand and listen. From all sides there
comes the chorus of flowers saying, “If God
so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day
is and to-morrow Is cast into tho oven, shall
He not much more clothe you, O ye of little
faith ?’
Flowers! flowers! Braid them into the
bride’s hair. Flowers! flowers! Strew them
over the graves of the dead, sweet prophesy
of the resurrection. Flowers! flowers! Twist
them into a garland for my Lord Jesus on
Easter morning. “Glory be to tho Father
and to tho .Son anil to tho Holy Ghost; os it
was in tho beginning, is now and ever shall
be.”
Why, if a rainbow this morning had fallen
and struck tho galleries and struck the plat
form, the scene could not have been more
radiant Oh! how bright and how beautiful
the flowers, and how much they make me
think of Christ and his religion, that bright
ens everything it touches, brightens our
life, brightens our character, bright
ens society, brightens the church,
brightens everything. You who go
with gloomy countenance, pretending you
are better than I am because of your lugu
briousness, you cannot cheat me. You old
hypocrite! I know you. Pretty case you
are for a man that professes to be more than
conqueror. It is not religion that makes you
gloomy, it Is the lacK or Ti* There is just as
much religion in a wedding as in a burial,
just as much religion in a smile as in a tear.
Those gloomy Christians we sometimes see
are the people to whom I like to lend
money, for 1 never see them again.
The women came to the Saviour’*
tomb and they dropped spices all around the
tomb, and those spices were the seed that be
gan to grow, and from them came all the
flowers of this Easter morn. The two
angels robed in white took hold of tho stone
at the Saviour’s tomb and they hurled it
with such force down the hill that it crushed
in the door of the world’s sepulcher, and the
stark and the dead must come forth.
I care not how labyrinthe the mausoleum,
or how costly tho sarcophagus, or however
beautifully partorred the family grounds, we
want them all broken up by the Lord of the
resurrection. They must come out. Father
and mother—they must come out. Husband
and wife—they must come out. Brother
and sister—they must come out. Our darling
children—they must come out. The eyes
that we close with such trembling fingers
must open again in the radiance of that morn.
The arms we folded in dust must join ours in
an embrace of reunion. The voice that was
bushed in our dwelling must be returned.
O, bow long some of you seem to bo waiting
—waiting for the resurrection, waiting! And
for these broken hearts to-day I make a soft,
cool bandage out of Erister flowers.
| |Six years ago, tho night before Easter, I
received an Easter card on which there was a
representation of that exquisite flower, the
trumpet creep a - , and under it tho words
“The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall
rise.” There was especial reason why at
that time I should bavo that card sent me,
and I present tho same consolation to-day to
all in this house; and who has escaped?
My friends, this morning I find in the
risen Christ a prophecy of our own resur
rection, my text setting forth the idea that
as Christ has risen so His people will rise.
He the first sheaf of the resurrection har
vest; He “the first fruits of them that slept.”
Before I get through this morning I will
walk through all the cemeteries of the dead,
through all the country graveyards whore
your loved ones aro buried, and I will pluck
off these flowers and I will drop a sweet
promise of the gospel—a rose of hope, a lily
of joy on every tomb—the child’s tomb, the
husband’s tomb, the wife's tomb, the father’s
grave, the mother’s grave; and while we
celebrate the resurrection of Christ we will
at the same time celebrate the resurrection
of all the good. “Christ the first fruits of
them that slept.”
If I should come to you this morning and
ask you for the names of the great conquerors
<lf the world, you would say Alexander,
Philip, Cmsar, Napoleon L Ah, my friends,
you have forgotten to mention the name of
greater conqueror than all these—a cruel,
a ghastly conqueror. He rode on a black
horse across Waterloo, Atlanta and Chalons,
the bloody hoofs crushing the hearts of na
tions It is tho conqueror Death. He carries
a black flag and he takes no prisoners He
digs a trench across the hemispheres and fills
it with the carcasses of nations. Fifty times
Would the world have been depopulated had
not God kept making new generations. Fifty
times the world would have swung lifeless
through the air—no man on the mountain,
no man on tho sea an abandoned ship
plowing through immensity.
Again and again has he done this work
with all generations. He is a mona rch as
well as a conqueror; his palace a sepulcher,
his fountains the falling tears of a world.
Blessed be God, in the light of this Easter
morning I see the prophecy that his sceptre
shall be broken and^his palace shall be de.
molished! The hour is coming when all who
are in their graves shall come forth. Christ
the difference why the oak leaf is different
from the leaf of the hickory. Tell mo bow
the Lord Almighty can turn tho chariot of
His omnipotence on a rose leaf. You ask mo
questions about tho resurrection I cannot
answer. I will ask you a thousand questions
about every day life you cannot answer.
I find my strength in this passage: “All
who are in their graves shall come forth.” I
do not pretend to make the explanation. You
go on and say: “Suppose a returned mis
sionary dies in Brooklyn; when he was in
China his foot was amputated; ho lived
years after in England; ho is buried to-day
in Greenwood; in the resurrection will the
foot come from China and will the dif
ferent parts of the liody be reconstructed in
the resurrection? How is that possible? ’
You say that tho human body changes
every seven years, and by seventy years of
age a man has had ten bodies, in tbo resur
rection which wi.l come up? You say: “A
man will die and his body crumble into the
dust, and that dust be taken tip into the life
of the vegetable; an animal inay eat the
vegetable, men eat the animal; in the resur
rection, that body distributed in so many
directions, how shall it be gathered up?”
Have you any more questions of this style to
ask? Come in and ask them. I do not pre
tend to answer them. 1 fall back upon the
announcement of God’s word: “All who are
in their graves shall come forth. ’
You have noticed, I suppoic, in reading
the story of tho resurrection, that almost
every account of the Bible gives the idea
that the characteristic of that day will lie a
great sound. I do not know t hat it will be
very loud, but I know it will lie very pene
trating. In the mausoleum where silence
has reigned a thousand years that voice must
penetrate. In the coral cave of the deep that
voice must jienetrate. Millions of spirits will
come through the gates of eternity, and
they will come to tho tombs of the earth
and they will cry: “Give us back our
bodies; we gave them to you in corruption,
surrender them now in incorrupt-ion.” Hun
dreds of spirits hovering about tho crags of
Gettysburg, for there tho bodies are buried.
A hundred thousand spirits coming to Green
wood, for there the bodies are buried, wait
ing for the reunion of body and soul
All along the sea route from New York to
Liverjiool, at every few miles where
steamer went down, departed spirits coming
back hovoring over the wave. There Is
where the City of Boston perished. Found
at last There is where the President per
ished. Steamer found at last There Is
where the Central America went down.
Spirits hovering, hundreds of spirits hot Br
ing, waiting for the reunion of body and
soul. Out on the prairie a spirit alights.
There is where a traveler died in tho snow.
Crash goes Westminster Abliey and the. poets
and orators come forth. Wonderful mingling
of good and bad. Witterforce, thj good;
Queen Elizabo
pyramids o f . -
forth.
d bad. tviu«rK>rce, th> good;
abeth, the ^gd. Crash go the
Who can sketch the seen®? I suppose that
one moment licforo that general rising there
will be an eternal silence save as you hear
tbo grinding of a wheel, or the clatter of the
hoofs of a procession passing into the
cemetery. Silence in all the caves of the
earth. Silence on the side of the mountain.
Silence down in the valleys and far out into
the sea. Silence But in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, as tho archangel’s
trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing
across the mountain and sea, tho earth
will give one terrific shudder and the
graves of tho dead will heave like tho
waves of the sea, and Ostend and Sebastopol
and Chalons will stalk forth in the lurid air,
and the drowned will come up and wring out
their wet locks above the billow , and all the
land and all the sea become one moving mass
of life—all faces, all ages and conditions gaz
mg in one direction and upon one throne, the
throne of resurrection. “A11 who are in
their graves shall come forth.”
But,” you say, “if this do trine of the
resurrection is true, as prefigured by this
Easter morning—Christ the ‘first fruits of
them that slept,’ Christ rising, a promise and
a prophecy of the rising of all His people-
can you tell us something about tbo resur
rected body?” lean. There are mysteries
about that, but I shall tell you three or four
things in regard to the resurrected body that
aro beyond guessing and beyond mistake.
In the first place, I remark in regard to
your resurrected body, it will be a glorious
body. The body we have now is a mere
skeleton of what it would have been if sin
had not marred and defaced it. Take the
most exquisiie statue that was ever made by
an artist and chip it hore and chip it there
with a chisel, and batter and brulso it hero
and there aud then stand it out iu the storms
of a hundred years, and the beauty would be
gone. Well, the human body has been chip
ped and battered and bruised and damaged
with the storms of a thousand years—
the physical defects of other generations
coming down from generation to generation,
we inheriting the infelicities of past genera
tions; but in the morning of the resurrection
the body will be adorned and beautified ac
cording to the original model, and there is
no such difference between a gymnast and an
emaciated wretch in a lazaretto as there will
be a difference between our bodies as they
tt-e now and our resurrected forms.
There you will see the perfect eye after the
waters of death have washed out the staius
of tears and study. There you will see the
perfect hand after the knots of toil have been
untied from the knuckles. There you will
see the form erect and elastic after the bur
dens have gone off the shoulder—the very
life of God in the body.
In this world the most impressive thing,
the most expressive thing, is the human
face; but that face is veiled with the griefs of
a thousand years. In the resurrection mom
that veil will be taken away from the face,
and the noonday sun is dull and dim and
stupid compared with the outflaming glories
of the countenances of the saved. When
those faces of the righteous, those resurrected
faces, turn toward the gate or look up toward
the throne, it will be like the dawning of a
new morning on the bosom of everlasting
day! O glorious resurrected body!
But I remark, also, in regard to that body
which you are to get in the resurrection, it
wiU be an immortal body. These bodies are
wasting away. Somebody has said as soon
we begin to live we begin to die. Unless
we begin putting the fuel into the furnace,
the furnace dies out. The blood vessels are
canals taking the breadstuff; to all parts of
the system. We must be reconstructed hour
by hour, day by day. Sickness and death are
all the time trying to get their prey under the
tenement or to push us off the embankment of
the grave; but blessed be God, in tho resur
rection we will get a body immortal No
malaria in the air, no cough, no neuralgic
twinge, no rheumatic pang, no fluttering of
the heart, no shortness of breath, no ambu
lance, no dispensary, no hospital, no in
valid’s chair, no spectacles to improve the
dim vision; but health, immortal health. O,
ye who have aches and pains indescribable
this morning; O, ye who are never well; O,
ye who are lacerated with physical distresses,
let me tell you of the resurrected body, free
from all diseasel Immortal! immortal!
I go farther, and say in regard to that
body which you are to get in tho resurrec
tion, it will lie a powerful body. We walk
now eight or ten miles and we are fatigued.
We lift a few hundred pounds and we are
exhausted; unarmed we meet a wild beast
and we must run or fly or climb or dodge be
came we aro incompetent to meet it; we toil
eight or tea hours vigorously and then we
are weary; but in the resurrection we are to
have a body that never gets tired. Is it not
a glorious thought?
Pignty of occupation in heaven, I suppose,
aud Broadway, New York, in the busiest
season of tii - year at noonday, is not so busy
as heaven is all tho time. Grand projects of
mercy for other worlds. Victories to be
celebrated. The downfall of despotism on
earth to be announced. Great songs to be
learned and sung. Great expeditions
on which Go 1 shall send forth His
children. Plenty to do, but no fa
tigue. If you are seated under the
tree of life it will not be to rest
but to talk over with some old comrade, old
times, the battles where you fought shouldei
to shoulder. Jacob and tbo angel wrestle??
together. Jacob was not thrown because tbfi
angel favored him. But once get your resur
rected body and tho angel could not wrestle
you down. It is impossible to wrestle down
tho giants of (rod on high--strong, supple,
unexhausted, mighty, immcrtal Oh, is it
not a glorious thought?
Sometimes in this world vre feel wo would
like to have such a body as that. There is so
much work to be done for Christ,
there aro so many tears to lie wiped
away, there are so many burdens to
lift, there is so much to bo achieved for
Christ, we sometimes wish that from
the first of January to the last of
December we could toil on without stopping
to sleep or take any recreation or to rest or
even to take food—that we could toil right
on without stopping a moment in our work
of commending Christ and heaven to all the
people. But we all get tired.
It is a characteristic of the human body in
this condition. We must get tired. Is it not
a glorious thought that al ter a while, in the
service of God, we are going to have a body
that will never get weary? O glorious resur
rection day! Gladly will I fling aside this
poor body of sin and fling it into the tomb il
at Thy bidding I shall have a body that
never wearies. That was a spendid resurrec
tion hymn that was sung at my father’s
burial:
So Jesus slept, God's dying Son
Pas-ed through the grave and blessed the bed;
Rest here, blest saint, till trom ills throne
The morning breats to pierce the shade.
0 blessed resurrection! Speak out, sweet
flowers, beautiful flowers! While you tell of
a risen Christ, tell of the righteous who shall
rise. May God fUl you this morning with
anticipation!
1 heard of a father and son who, among
others, were shipwrecked at sea The father
and the son climbed into the rigging. The
father held on but the son after awhile iost
his hold in the rigging and was dashed down.
Tho father supposed he had gono hope
lessly under the wave. Tho next day the
father was brought ashore from the rigging
in an exhausted state and laid on a bed in a
fisherman's hut, and after manv hen »« Jjad
—’—■ ‘ m ”
©ms of J’honglit.
Little do men peroeive what solitude is,
and how far itextendeth ; for aerowd is not
company, and faoee are but a gallery of pict
ures, and talk but a tinkling oymbal, where
there is no love.—Lord Bacon.
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to
be striven withal, being like a mighty beast,
sooner tamed with following than over
thrown by withstanding.—Sir P. Sidney.
It is no point of wisdom for a man to beat
his brains about things impossible.—Bake-
well.
It is a gentle and affeotionate thought,
that in immeasurable height above os, at
onr first birth, the wreath of love was woven
with sparkling stare for Bowen.—Coleridge.
A good man not only forbears those grat
ifications which are foi bidden by reason
and religion, bot even restrains himself in
unforbidden instanoes.—Atterbury.
Self-denial is a kind of holy association
with God, and, by making yon his partner,
interests yon in his happiness.—Boyle.
In the want and ignorance of almost all
things ihey looked opon themselves as the
happiest and wisest people of the universe.
—Locke.
God designs that a charitable spirit
should be maintained among men, mulual-
ly pleasant and bemfioial.—Addison.
Breed is stronger than pasture.— George
Eliot.
. All things human, especially the lives of
meD, are transitory, ever advancing from
their beginning lo their decline aud final
determination.— Cervantes.
For the noblest man that lives there still
remains a eonfliot.—Garfield.
“No; it is certainly not the vocation of
children to be silent,” said Kavanagh,
laughing,. “That would be out of nature,
saving always the ohildren of the brain,
whiou do not often make so mnoh noise in
the world as we desire.”—Longfellow.
1 do not know why a girl should be exptot-
ed to talk well until she is at least twenty.
There cannot be mnoh in her. She may be
prettily ezaoting or charmingly modest, bot
her attractions must be personal uot intel
lectual.—Jean Ingelow.
Whatever makes men good Christians
makes them good oiuzans.—Daniel Web
ster.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style,
familiar but not ooarse, and elegant but
not ostentations, most give his nights and
days to Addison.—Or. Samuel Johnson.
Plow deep while sloggards sleep.—Benja-
mine Franklin,
gtislorical.
passed lie came to consciousness and saw
lying beside him on tho same bed his boy.
O my friends, what a glorious thing it will
Vie to wake up at last to find our loved ones
beside us? Coming up from tho same plot
in tho same graveyard, coming up in the
same morning light—the father and son alive
forever, all tho loved ones alive forever,
nevermore to weep, nevermore to part, never
more to die.
May the God of peace that brought again
from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
shepherd of lhe sheep, through the blood
the everlasting covenant make you perfect
iu every goo i work, to do His will; and let
this brilliant scene of tho morning transport
our thoughts to the grander assemblage be
fore the throne. This august assemblage
nothing compared with it—the one hundred
and forty and four thousand and the “great
multitude that no man can number,” some of
our lx*st friends among them, we, after
while to join tho multitude. Blessed anticipa
tion!
Blest are the saints beloved of God,
" a-hod are their robes in Jesus’ blood.
Brighter than angels, lo! they shine.
Their wonders splendid aud subUme.
My soul anticipates the day,
Would stretch her wings and soar away;
To aid tile song, the palm to bear,
Aud bow, tlie chief of sinners, there.
RELIGIOUS OPINION.
The bishop of Peterborough ?Dr. Magee)
speaking on March 11 at Northampton, Eng
land, in aid of church extension in the dis
trict, said that he was strongly in favor of a
redistribution of church income. Tho church,
hp was confident, would bear a wisa, cautious
and well governed redistribution of its in
come. Of course, ho spoke of incomes above
a certain limit, and he wished it to be clearly
understood that he included Episcopal in
comes in the redistribution. He had not the
least idea of being generous with other
people's money.
A writer in The North-East says of the
prayer book revisei-s “that they have left
many pressing wants unsatisfied, and that
much remains to bo done before our prayer
book is made ready for the life and work of
tho Twentieth century.”
A Philadelphia correspondent of The
Church Press says: As to union or fusion of
the diocese of Easton with that of Delaware,
under the name of the diocese of Wilming
ton, as proposed in the article referred to, it
must strike any candid observer as the unit
ing of a live branch to a dead body. While
this is said with aU duo respect to the dio
cese of Delaware, it is also said with regret
that the thesis is partiaHy true. And while
it might have tho effect of infusing new life
into the body, is it not too great a risk to be
thought of for the branch until that body is
pruned and strengthened?
The Rev. Dr. Francis Pigou, one of the
English mlssioners concerned in the New
York Advent mission, is printing in an Eng
lish newspaper some impressions of American
churches and congregations. He thinks that
among us “preaching would be more effective
but for tho habit congregations have, to a
degree I have nowhere else noticed, of con
versing freely with one another within the
precincts of God’s house. My friends in New
York must not resent my saying that this
habit of talking in church, before and after
service, is not conducive to devotion, does not
promote reverence for sacred places, and is
fatal to the retention of good impressions,
however earnest the sermon may have been.
Tho senteirco with which divine service com
mences in the American church is one which
should have a prominent place assigned to it,
on which eye and mind coaid rest, ‘The Lord
is in His holy temple; let all the earth keen
silence before Him.’”
Before the introduction of stamped money
all some were reokoned by the pound weight,
and not by the number of pieces.
An anklet of choice materials and work
manship was worn by the Greek woman and
oourteeans ronnd the ankle in the same
manner as a bracelet.
The ladies and yonng men of fashion of
anoient Rome need a ball of German po
made to tinge the hair of a light or fair
color. It was composed of goat’s tallow
and beaohwood ashes, and made np into a
ball.
The hippooambns was a fabulous animal,
having the forequarters and body of a horse,
bat ending in the tail of a fish, and the bip-
pooentaoros was half horse and half man,
under which form the giants who waged
war against the gods were represented.
Some of the anoient nations employed a
moveable tower or roof made of boards or
hurdles ocvered with raw hides or hairoloth
and fixed upon wheels, under the shelter of
whioh a besieging party oonld advance close
up to the walls of a beleagured fortress, and
dear it of its defenders before beginning
theffoalade.
The Cartbaginians invented a sort of
sledge cart for threshing, and it was after
ward adopted in Italy. It consisted of a
wooden frame like a sledge, into whioh a
certain number of rollers, set round with
prejeeting teeth, were fitted; these threshed
the corn as they torned round when drawn
over the floor by the cattle attached to the
maohine, which was further weighed by the
driver, who sat in a sort of frame or chair
plaoed upon it.
Almost every town in aDoient Greece bad
a gymnasium, and Athens posessed three,
tbe Lycean, Cynosarges and Academia, all
of whioh were constructed upon a plan of
great splendor, and fnrnished with every
kind of oonvenienoe, oovered and open a-
partments, oollonades, shady walks, baths
and other contrivances conducive to the
health and comfort of the large oonoourse
resorting thither ss performers or specta
tors, or for the enjoyment of literary or sci
entific conversation.
Two hundred years and more ago tbe beds
in England were bsgs filled with straw or
leaves, but uot upholstered or squared with
modern neatness. The bag oonld be opened
and the litter remade daily. There were few
bedrooms in the houses of ancient England.
The master Bnd mistress of the Anglo-S-ix-
on house had a chamber or shed built
against the wall that enclosed the mansion
and its dependencies; their daughters had
the same. Young men and gnesta slept in
tbe great hall, whioh was the only notice
able room in the house, on tables or bench
es. Woollen coverlids were provided for
warmth; poles or books on whioh they
oonld haDg tbeir clothes projected from the
wall; perohes were provided for their hawks.
Attendants and servants slept under the
floor.
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Leave Washington 900am 10 00 P no
Arrive Baltimore 10 18 am 11 25 p m
Philadelphia 12 85 p m 8 00 a m
New York 3 20 p m 6 zo a m
Boston ID 30 p m S 80 p m
Leave Danville 11 28 a m 10 ?8 a m
Burkeville............ a 08 a m 2 02 p m
Arrive Richmond 7 to a m 4 17 p m
“AIR LINE BELLE”-DAILY EXCEPT
SUNDAY.
Leave Atlanta (city time) 4 00 p a
ArriveGaineeville 8 10pn
BETUBN1KO.
LeaveGelneaville (city time) B 00 u m
Arrive Atlanta - 8 25 a m
Two Duily Trains to Atlanta, Ga.
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
ONLY 31 HOURS TRANSIT
ATLANTA TO SEW YORK
The Only Line Running Pullman Buffet
Bleeping Cars, withoat change, Atlanta to New
York via Washington.
Berthb secured and numbers given ten days in
advance in these cars. Train number 58 has Pull
man Buffet Bleeping Cars New Orleans to Washi
ngton.
Train number 51 has Pullman Buffet Bleep
ing Car Atlanta to New York.
Two Daily Trains For Athens, Ga.
EXOrPT SUNDAY.
E. BEBKELY. G. W. CHEAB8,
Superintendent, Aae. Gen. Pane. Agent,
s Atlanta, tta Atlanta, (ii.
C E uEBGEANT,
«ji?v »'«ss«uger Agt.
13 Kimball House,
Atlanta. Georgia
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY.
Office Genfral Manager,
Augusta, lia., Nov. 21st, 1&85.
Commencing Bur day, 5r2d proximo, the follow
ing passenger schedule will be operated:
Trains run by 9uth meridian time.
FAST LINE.
NO. 27 WEST-DAILY.
Leave Augusta J am
Leave Washington J f* hm
Leave Athens * am
Leave Gainesville 2 S Bm
Anive Atlanta 1 P™
NO. 28 EAST-DAILY. ,
Leave Atlanta 2 45 pm
Leave Gainetville J y 5 am
Arrive Athens ' P m
Arri^jjW&shingtou 7 85 pm
Cotton Belt
Route.
J j§[jj\ 1 1 11 1H v«y
THE NEW THROUGH LINE
Between the
Southeast and the Great
Southwest,
BEST ROUTE toall points In
EASTtRN ARKANSAS
And Southern, Eastern and Central
Texas.
The Equipmeut was built by the Pullman
Companv. n all new and elegant. Pullman
Palace sleepers, Pullman Parlor Cars, vnd Day
Palace me pe , accommodation, lor
travel?Low Rates and Round
Trio Tickets to all principal points. Fur Maps,
f fiife Tables, &c., &c., apply to any Agent to the
Company, or to T v ifith
. u nnmiE J. S. lkiih.
^NTsh^He^ub.
W. P. ROBINSON, Traffic Manager,
St. Louis. Mo.
QUICKEST TIME
ATLANTA.
—TO—
MEMPHIS
—IS BY THE—
East Tap., Ya, & Ga., R. R.
AND
MKHPH1S A- CH1KLE5TM It. II
73 MILES SHORTEST LINE
FROM
CHATTANOOGA to MEMPHIS’!
Only 17 Hours from Atlanta to Memphis
Leave ATL ANTA every day, - 12:15 n’n
Arrive OH AT TANOOGA, every day, 0:00 pm
Leave CHATTANOOGA, “ 6:10 pm
Arrive MEMPHIS, “ 5:20 am
OVER 7 HOURS QUICKER
Tuan any other llue leaving ATLANTA iu the
afternoon.
CLOVE CONNECTION AT MEMPHIS
FOR TV.XAS, ARKANSAS. KAN-
K,1S aND MISSOURI.
Call and see JACK JOHNSON, Ticket
Agent. Atlanta, (to.
c. H.iiunsoN,
General Manuger.
C.N. KNIGHT,
Div. Pus, Agent,
B. W. WRBNN.
Gen. Pass. & T. A.
Arr*V»?5iu*iiou»..? .... 8 I.'pm
( DAY PASSENGER TRAINS.
NO. 2 EAST-DAILY. I NO. 1 WEST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta.. 800 am I L’ve Augusta..In 5nam
Ar. Gainesville 8 25 pm | “ Macon 7 10 am
“ Athens...... 5 30 pm j “ MiHedgeville 9 38 am
“ Washington. 2 20 pm 1 “ Washington. 11 ‘AI am
“ MilledgeviUe 4 43 pm | “ Athens 9 00 am
Macon 6 15 pm j Ar. Giinesvifie 825 pm
l| “Atlanta 5 40pm
NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAII
1 Augusta 8 85 pm I
NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. I NO. 3 WEST-DA ID Y,
L’ve Atlanta ..815 pm I L’ve Augusta.. 9 45 pm
Ar. Augusta.. 5 50am | Ar. A lanta... 6 45 am
COVINGTON ACCOMMODATION.
L’ve Atlanta.. 5 50 pm I L’v- Covington 5 40 > m
Decatur 6 26 pm I L’ve Decatur.. 7 25 am
Ar. Covington. 8 10 pm | Ar. Atlanta... 7 55 am
DECATUR TRAIN.
(Daily except 8u> days.)
L’ve Atlanta.. 9 35 am I L've Decatur... 1010 am
Ar. Decatur.. .10 05 am I Ar. Atlanta.... 10 40 am
CLARK8TON TRAIN
L’ve Atlanta . 1 25 pm | L’ve Clarkston 2 26 pm
L’ve Decatur,. 147 rm L’ve Decatur.. 3 01 pm
Ar. Clarkston. 2 12 pm I Ar. Atlanta... 3 30 pm
Trains Nos. 2,1,4 and 3 will, if signaled, stop
at sny regular schedule flag station.
No connection for Gainesville on Sundaye.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passen
gers to and from the following stations only:
GrovetowA, Berzelia, Harlem, Bearing, Thomp
son, Norwood, Barnett, Crawfordville, Union
Point, Greensboro. Madison. Rutledge. Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain and
Decatnr. These trains make close connection
for ail points east, southeast, west, southwest,
north aud northwest, and carry through sleepers
between Atlanta and Charleston.
Train No. 28 will stop at and receive parsen-
gers to and frem the following stations only:
EAST AM) WEST l£. K. «F ALABAMA.
CHANGE OE SCHEDULE.
AIN and after Jan. 15th, 1886, passenger trains
at will run as fo lows:
No, 1.—Daily Passenger Tram going West
Leave Cariersville 9 55 am
“ J*«ok mart !. ” 11 in am
Cedartown 12 01 p m
, . i-ross Flame I45 t m
Arrive Broken Arrow 5 30 pm
No. 2.—Daily Passenger Tr<-in going East.
Leave Broken arrow 6 55 am
Cross Piatne 1130 am
.. Cedarfown 1 25 pm
. Rock mart 2 25 pm
Arrive?,artersvil o 4C0pm
No 3.—Acoom’nodation. Goi-g West.
(Daily except Sunday )
Leave Cartersvil le a ro nm
Bockmart ... "V.V.V.V.'.V. fl 35
Arrive Cedartown 7 35 pm
No. 4.—Accommodation. Going East.
(Daily except Sunday.)
Leave Cedartown g 15 __
“ Bockmart 7 r, am
Arnve Catereville V".’ 91.0 am
»irh’» .ejections R t Rock mart
T „\Y‘ m reach III* Atlanta 9:40 a.
m., and at < artersvfiie with W A- A
ing Atlanta 11:05 a m.
Grovetowu, Berzelia, Harlem,
ing, Thomp
A mass of lead in an elevated furnace in
Paris was completely dissipated by a stroke
of lightning, no trace of metal being found
afterward.
Kate Rowsand, the dwarf, known in Eu
rope as “Mme. la Marquise,” provides in
her will that twenty dolls of her size shall
he purchased, dressed from her wardrobe
and given to orphans. She was so diminr-
tive that her clothes would not fit the small
est child.
The Maluva tree of central India (bassia
iatafolia) bears flowers which are now being
exported to Europe for their sugar, of
whioh they oontain more than half tbeir
weight. The tree resembles the oak, and a
single speoiman sometimes bears a ton of
flowers.
An association of pharmacists in Paris
has been dieonssing the old question of the
influence of plants in bedrooms upon the
health of the oocupants. The conclusion is
that the plants are beneficial, especially to
consumptives, plants without flowers being
preferred to those in bloom.
Attention hss lately been called to two ra
ces of men that mnst soon become extinot.
At tbe present rate of decrease, the Moors of
New Zeland, now reduoed to lees than 45,-
000 from 100,000 in Gapt. Cook’s day, must
have disappeared by tbe year 2000. The
Laplanders are estimated not to exceed 30,-
000 in number, and are gradnaly becoming
fewer.
A. new system has been proposed by Prof.
Lindon. Tbe new system is on lhe decimal
plan, and provides that the piesent day of
twenty-four hoars be divided into ten divi
sions, so that each hour would correspond
to two honrs and twenty-four minutes; this
honr wonld be again divided into 100 divi
sions, called minntes if neceesary, each
hour on the new By stem thus corresponding
to 144 minntes; again, this new minote divi
sion to be subdivided for aoenrate measure
ments into 100 divisions, ealled seconds.
The advantage arising from snoh a system,
thus enumerated, are the abolition of the
called “A. M.” and “P. M.,” as has al
ready been accomplished by the twenty-four
system.
Mountain and Decatur.
No. 28 stops at Union Point for supper.
Connects at Angnsta fur all points east and
souths'- st.
J. W. GREEN, E. B. DORSEY,
Gen’l Manager. Gen‘1 Pass. Agent.
JOE W. WHITE,
Gen’l Traveling Passenger Agent,
Augusta tin.
THE
GEORGIA PACIFIC RAILWAY
COMPANY.
General Passen er Department.
BianiNOBAM, Ala., Jan. 1,1886.
SCHEDULE OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
WESTWARD.
No. 54. Mail and Express.—Leaves Atlanta 8:05
a m. daily. Stops at all stations. Arrives at
Birmingham 3:55 p. m.
No 50. Fast Line—New Orleans, Vicksburg and
Shreveport.—Leaves Atlanta 4:3u p. m. daily.—
Stops at Chattahoochee Tallai ooca and inter
meciate legul r e at ions Anniston and Oxana
Arrives at Birmingham 11:35 p. m .
No. 52. Night Passenger —Leaves Atlanta 10:00
p.m. daily—Stops at all stations. Arrives at Bir
mingham 9A0 a m.
EASTWARD.
No. 55. Passenger and Mail—Leaves Birming
ham 8:00 a. m. daily—stops at all stations. Ar
nvea at Atlanta 8:00 p. m.
No. 51. Night Passenger—Leaves Birmingham
5:45 p. m. daily—stops at all stations. Ar i».
at Atlanta 930 a. m.
No. 53. Fast T ain.—Leaves Birmingham
1D5 a. m. daily—stops only at Anniston, Oxana
Tallapoosa, and a ationa east of Tallapoosa A
irve* at Atlanta 7d5 am.
Mann Boudoir Sleeping and Dining Cars be
tween Atlanta and New Orleans via The Georgia
Pacific Railway and Queen and Crescent on tram*
50 and 51.
Trains 51 and 53 Connect at Atlanta with F! t
V, A G. B. B., C. B. B. of Ga and Ga B. R. for’
points in Georgia and Florida and with Piedmont
. lir-Line for points in the Carolina*. Virginia
and the North and East. ’ ® “
The fastest line to Washington, Baltimore Pull
adelpbia and New York.
Pullman Cars, Atlanta to New York withoat
change.
Trains 50 and 52 leave Atlanta on arrival of New
York trains via Piedmont Air-Line and make
the fastest time via New Orleans and Shrevauort
to all points in Texas. *” n
All trains arrive at and depart from the Union
Depot, Atlanta, and from Ga Psc. depot, (2Cth
St., and Powell Avenue) Birmingham. Ala 1 U
I. Y.8AGK. GEO. B. BARNUM
Sen’l Cupt Gen’lIWint
artorsv-ille »i(h W, * A. train reach
11:05 a m.
wits wTa**. d - rec , t connection t Cariersville
Z'.., rt/Tv'\at ,n? Atlanta at 1:31 p. m.,
Atlantea’-triil m ain at B^kmart leav-
No-lnjekes connection st Carterevllle with W.
Yf tr 5 ln Atlanta 7 50 a. m. and with
ltorne Express from the North. ’
no. 2 connects at Cirtersville with W A A
tram reaching Atlanta at 0 J7 p m *>.&.&.
FRED M. WILCOX T J NICHnr t
Gen. Pass. Agent. ^ ^S^kger
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«K Whitehall Street.