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THE SUNNY SOUTH
m) FHOJ THI CHASE.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage at the
Brook'yn Tabernacle.
The Hunt for Pleasure and Gold in the
Horning of Life-May Evening
Bring a Division of the Spoils
of Christian Character.
BROOKLYN. May 9.—Rev. T. Dp Witt Tal-
xnage preac ed this morning in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle on the subject “Return from tho
Chase ” The opening: hymn was:
Now I have found a friend
Whose love shall never end.
Jesus is mine.
Before the sermon the pastor read and ex
pounded an appropriate chapter from the
Evangelists. The great organ of the Brook
lyn TaViornacle has been re-enforced by . ni-
provement-, which irreatly add to the majesty
and power of the instrument.
Dr. Talmage’s text, was from Genesis xlix,
27: “In the morning h* hall devour the
prey, an 1 at night lie shall divide the spoil.**
Dr. Talmage said:
There is in this chapter such an affluence
of simile anil allegory, such a mingling of
metaphors, that there are a thousand
thoughts in it not on the surface. Old
Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes of his
children. He prophesies the devouring pro
pensities of Benjamin and bis descendants.
With his dim old eyes he looks
off and sees the hunters going
out to the field--, ranging them all
day and at nightfall coming horwi, the
game slung over the shoulder, and reaching
the door of the tent the hunters Is-ginto
distribute the game; and one takes a coney,
and another a rabbit, and another a roe.
“In the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at niglit lie shall divide the spoil.” Or
it may he a reference to the habits of wild
beasts that s’ay their prey and then drag it
back to the oave or lair and divide it among
the young.
There is nothing more fascinating than the
life of a hunter. On a certain day in all Eng
land you can hear the crack of the sports
man’s gun, liecause grouse hunting has be
gun, and every man that can afford the time
and ammunition and can draw a bead starts
for the fields. On tho 20th of October our
woods and forests will resound with the
shock of firearms and will be tracked of
pointers and setters, t>ecause the quail will
then be a lawful prize for thesportsmaa Xen
ophon grew eloquent in regard to :ho art of
hunting. In the far east people, elephant-
mounted, chase the tiger. The American
Indian darts his arrow at the buffalo until
the frightened herd tumbles over the rocks.
European nobles are often found in the fox
chase and at the stag hunt. Francis I was
called the father of hunting. Moses declares
of Nimrod: “He was a mighty hunter before
the Lord.” Therefore in all ages of the
world the imagery of my text ought to be
suggestive whether it means a wolf after a
fox or a man after a lion. “In the morning
he shall devour the prey, and at night he
shall divide the spoil.”
I take my text, in the first place, as de
scriptive of those people who in the morning
of their life give themselves up to hunting
tho world, but afterward by the grace of
God, in the evening of their life, divide among
themselves the spoils of Christian character.
There are aged Christian men and women in
this house who, if they gave testimony, would
tell you that in tho morning of their life they
were after the world as intensely as a hound
after a hare or as a falcon swoops up a
gazelle. They wanted the world’s plaudits
and the world’s gains. They felt that if they
could get this world they would have every
thing. Some of them started out for the
pleasures of the world. They thought that the
man who laughed loudest was happiest. They
tried repartee and conundrum and burlesque
and madrigal. They thought they would like to
be Tom Hoods or Chari s Lambs or Edgar
A. Poes. They mingled wine and music and
the spectacular. They were worshipers of
the harlequin and the Merry Andrew and
the buffoon and the jester. Life was to them
foam and bubble and cachinnation and
roystering and grimace. They were so full
of glee they could hardly repress their mirth
even on solemn occasions, and they came
near bursting out hilariously even at the
burial, because there was something so
dolorous in tho tone or countenance
of the undertaker. After awhile misfortune
struck them hard on tho back. They found
there was something they could not laugh at.
Under their late hours their health gave
way or there was a death in the house. Of
every green thing their soul was exfoliated.
They found out that life was more than a
joke. From the heart of God there blazed
Into their soul an earnestness they had never
felt before. They awoke to their sinfulness
and their immortality, and here they sit to
day at sixty or seventy years of age, as ap
preciative of all innocent mirth as they ever
were, but they are bent on a style of satis
faction which in early life they never hunted,
the evening of their (lavs brighter than
the morning. In the morning they devoured
the prey, but at night they are dividing the
spoil
Then there are others who started out for
financial success They see how limber a
man’s hat Is when ho bows down before some
one transpicuous. They felt they would like
to see bow the world looked from the window
of a tliree-thousand-dollar turnout. They
thought they would like to have the morn
ing sunlight, tangled in the headgear of a
dashing span. Tiiev want ?d the bridges in
the park to resound under the rataplan
of their swift hoofs. They wanted a
gilded baldrick, and so they started on
the dollar hunt They chased it up one
street and chased it down another. They
followed it when it burrowed in the cellar.
They treed it in tho roof. Wherever a dol
lar was expected to be they were. They
chased it across the ocean. They chased it
across the land. They stopped not for the
night Hearing that dollar, even in the
darkness, thrillel them as an Adirondack
sportsman is thrilled by a loon’s laugh.
They chased that dollar to the money vault
Thej' chased it to the government treas
ury. They routed it from under the
counter. All the hounds were out—all
the pointers and setters. They leaped
the hedges for that dollar, and they cried:
“Hark away! a dollar! a dollar! ’ and when
at last they came upon it and had actually
Capture ! it, their excitement was like that
of a falconer who has successfully flung his
first hawk. In the morning of their life, oh,
how they devoured the prey! But there
came a better time to their soul. They
found out that an immortal nature cannot
live on government bonds. They took up a
Northern Pacific bond, and there was a hole
in it through which they could look into the
uncertainty of all earthly treasures. They
saw some Ralston, living at the rate of
$25,000 a month, leaping from a
San Francisco wharf because he could
not continue to live at the same
ratio. They saw the wizen and para
lytic bankers who had changed their souls
into molten gold stamped with the image of
the earth, earthy. They saw some great
souls by avarice turned into homunculi aud
the} said to themselves, “I will seek after
higher treasure. From that time they did
not care whether they walked or rode if
Christ walked with them; nor whether
they lived in a mansion or a hut
if they dwelt under the shadow of the
Almighty; nor whether they were robed in
French broadcloth or in a homespun if they
had the robe of the Saviour’s righteousness
nor whether they were sandaled with morocco
or calf-kin if they were shod with the prepa
ration of the gospeL Now you see peace on
their countenance. Now that man says
“What a fool I was to be enchanted with
this world! Why, I have more satisfaction
in five minutes in the service of God than I
had in all the first years of my life while
was gain getting. I like this evening of my
day a great deal tetter than I did the morn
ing. In the morning I greedily devoured
the prey: but now it is evening, and I am
gloriously dividing the spoiL”
My friends, this world is a poor thing to
hunt. It is healthful to go out in the woods
and hunt. It rekindles the luster of the eye.
It strikes the brown of the autumnal leaf
into the ch -ek. It gives to the rheumatic
limbs a strength to leap like the roe. Chris
topher North’s pet gun, the muckle-mounted
Meg, going off in the summer in the forests,
had its echo in the winter time in the elo
quence that rang through the university
halls of Edinburgh. It is health - to go
hunting in the fields; hut I tell you that it
belittling and hedwarflng and belaming
for a man to hunt this world. The
hammer comes down on the gun cap
and the barrel explodes and kills t on in
stead of that which you are pursuing. When
you turn out to hunt the world the work’/
turns out to hunt you; and as many a sports
man aiming his gun at a panther’s heart has
gone down under the striped claws, so whilu
you have l»een attempting to devour this
world, the world has been devouring von
Bo it was with Lord Byron. So it was with
Coleridge. So it was with Catherine of Ru
sia. Henry II went out hunting for this
world and its lances struck through his heart.
Francis I aimed at the world, but the assas
sin’s dagger put an end to his ambition and
his life with one stroke. Mary, Queen of
Scots, wrote on the window of her castle;
From the top of all my trust
Mishap hath laid me In the dust.
The Queen Dowager of Navarre was offered
for her wedding day a costly and beautiful
pair of gloves anil she put them on. but they
were poisoned gloves aud they took h w life.
Better a hare hand of cold privation than
warm and poisoned glove of ruinous success.
“Oh,” says some young man in the audi
ence, “I lielieve what you are preaching. I
am going to do that very thing. In the
morning of my life I am going to devour the
prey, and in the evening I shall divide the
spoil of Christian character. I only want a
Tttle while to sow my wild oats and then
will be good.” Young man, did you ever
take the census of all the old people? How
many old people nre there in your house?
One, two or none? How many in a vast as
semblage like this? Only here and there a
gray head, like the patches of snow here and
there in the fields on a late April day. Th-
fact is that the tides of the years are so
strong that men go down under them before
they get to be sixty, before they get to be
fifty, before they get to be forty, before
they get to be thirty; and if jou
my young brother, resolve now that you
will spend the morning of your days In de
vouring the prey, tho probability is that you
will never divide tho spoil in the evening
hour. He who postpones until old age the
religion of Jesus Christ postpones it forever.
Where are the men who, thirty years ago,
resolved to become Christians in old age,
putting it off a certain number of
years? They never got to be old
The railroad collision or the steamboat
explosion or the slip on the ice or the falling
ladder or the sudden cold put an end to their
opportunities. They have never had an op
portunity since and never will have an op
portunity again. They locked the door of
heaven against their soul and they threw
nwav the key: and if they could now break
jail and come up shrieking to this
audience I do not think they would take
two minutes to persuade us all to
repentance. They chased the world
and they died in the chase. The wounded
tiger turned on them. They failed to take
the game that they pursued. Mounted on a
swift courser they leaped the hedge, but th-
courser fell on them and crushed them
Proposing to barter their soul for the world
thev lost both and get neither.
While this is an encouragement to old
people who are yet unpardoned, it is no en
couragement to the young who are puttin:
off the day of grace. This doctrine that the
old may be repentant is to be taken cau
tiously. It is medicine that kills or cures.
The same medicine given to different patients
in one case saves life, and in the other de
stroys it. This possibility of repentance at
the close of life may cure the old man while
it kills tho young. Be cautious in taking it.
Again, my subject is descriptive of those
who come to a sudden and radical change.
You have noticed how short a time it is from
morniug to night in winter—eight or ten
hours. You know that a winter day has a
very brief life. The heart of the longest
day beats twenty-four times, and thon it is
dead. How quick the transition in the char
acter of these Benjaminites. “In tho morn
ing they shall devour the prey, and at night
they shall divide the spoil.” Is it
possible that there shall be such
transformation in any of our characters?
Yes, a man may be at 7 o’clock in the
morniug an all-devouring worldling, and at
7 o’clock at night he luav be a peaceful, dis
tributive Christian. Conversion is in
stantaneous. A man passes into the king
dom of God quicker than down the sky
runs the zigzag lightning. A man may be
anxious about his soul for a great many
years; that does not make him a Christian.
A man may pray a great while; that does
not make him a Christian. A man may re
solve on the reformation of his character,
and have that resolution going on a
great while; that does not make
him a Christian. But the very in
stant when he flings his soul on the mercy
of Jesus Christ, that instant is lustration,
emancipation, resurrection. Up to that
point he is going in the wrong direction,
after that point he is going in the right
direction. Before that moment he is a child
of sin, after that moment he is a child of
God. Before that moment hellward, after
that moment heavenward. Before that mo
ment devouring the prey, after that moment
dividing the spoiL Five minutes is as good
as five years. My hearer, you know very
well that the best things you have
done you have done in a flash.
You made up your mind in an instant
to buy or to sell or to invest or to stop or
to start. If you had missed that one chance
you would have missed it forever. Now
just as precipitate and quick and spontaneous
will be the ransom of your souL This morn
ing you are making a calculation. You are
on the track of some financial or social gama
With your pen or pencil you are pursuing
it This very morning you are devouring
the prey; but to-night you will be in a
different mood. You find that all heaven is
offered you. You wonder how you can get
it for yourself and for your family. You
wonder what resources it will give you now
and hereafter. You are dividing peace and
com I or t and satisfaction and Christian re
ward in your soul. You are dividing the
spoiL
On a Sabbath night at the close of the
service I said to some persons: “When did
you first become serious about your soul?"
and they told me: "To-night.’' And I said
to others: "When did you give your heart
to God?” and they said: “To-night.” And I
said to still others: “When did you resolve
to serve the Lord all the days of your lifof’
and they said: “To-night.” I.^aw by
their apparel that whea—the grace of
God struck them 'they were devour
ing the prey: but I saw also in the
flood of joyful tears and in the kindling
raptu-es on their brow and in their exhilarant
and transporting utterances that they were
dividing the spoiL At night with one touch
of electricity all these lights blaze. Oh, I
would to God that the darkness of your souls
might be broken up, and that by one quick,
overwhelming, instantaneous flash of illum
ination you might be brought into the light
aud the liberty of the sons of God!
You see that religion is a different thing
from what some of you people supposed.
You thought it was decadence; you thought
religion was emaciation; you thought it was
highway robbery; that it struck one down
and left him half (lead; that it plucked out
the eyes; that it plucked out the plumes of
the soul: that it broke the wing aud crushed
the beak as it came clawing with its black
talons through the air. No, that is not re
ligion. What is religion ? It is dividing the
spoiL It is taking a defenceless soul and
panoplying it for eternal conquest. It is the
distribution of prizes by tho king’s hand,
every medal stamped with a coronation. It is
an exhilaration, an expansion. It is impara-
disation. It is enthronement. Religion makes
a man master of earth and death and hell.
It goes forth to gather the medals of victory
won by Prince Emmanuel, and the diadems
of heaven and the glories of realms terros-
trial and celestial; and, then, after ranging
all worlds for everything that is resplendent,
it divides the spoil. What was it that James
Turner, the famous English evangelist, was
doing when iu his dying moment he said:
‘‘Christ is all! Christ is all!” Why, ho was
entering into light; he was rounding the Capo
of Good Hop-?; he was dividing the spoiL
What was the aged Christian Quakeress do
ing when at eighty years of age she arose in
the meeting one day and said: “The time of
my departure is come. My grave clothes are
falling off.” She was dividing the spoil
She longed with with wings to fly away,
And mix with that eternal day.
What is Daniel now doing, the lion tamer!
and El ijah, who was drawn by the flaming
coursers? and Paul the rattling of whose
chains made kings quake? and all the othe'r
victims of flood and fire and wreck and guil
lotine? Where are they! Dividing the
spoil
Ten thousand times ten thousand.
In sparkling raiment bright,
The armies of the ransomed saint*
Throng up the steeps of light.
’Tis finished, all is finished,
Their fight with death aud sin:
Lift nigh your golden gates
And let the victors in.
Oh, what a grand thing it is to be a Chri
tianl We begin on earth to divide the spoil
but the distribution will not be completed to
all eternity. There is a poverty-struck soul,
there is a business-despoiled soul, there is a
sin-struck soul, there is a bereaved soul-
why do you not come and get the spoils of
Christian characier, the comfort, the joy,
the peace, the salvation, that I am sent to
offer you in my Master’s name? ThougL
your knees knock together in weakness,
though your hand tremble in fear, though
your eyes rain tears of uncontrollable weep
ing—come and get tho spoils. Rest for all
the weary. Pardon for all the guilty.
Labor for all the bestormed. Life for all
the dead. I verily believe that there are
some who have come in here outcast because
the world is against them, and because they
feel God is against them, who will go away
to-day saying:
I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary and worn and sad;
I found in Him a renting place, 7777
And he has made me glad.
Though you came in children of the *erld,
you may go away heirs of heaven. Though
you were devouring the prey, now, all
worlds witnessing, you may divide tho
spoil
RELIGIOUS OPINION.
(Saws of ^bought
Each man has bnt a limited right to the
good things of this world ; and the natural
allowed way by which he is to compass the
possession of these things is by his own in-
dnstrioos acquisition of them.—South.
The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are
discovered in its proverbs.— Lord Bacon.
That which seemeth most oasnal and sub
ject to fortune is yet disposed of by the ordi
nanoe of GKid.—Sir W. Raleigh.
Prudence is one of the virtues whioh was
called cardinal by one of the anoient wri
ten.—Fleming.
Command and force may often oreate, bnt
can never onre, an aversion ; and whatever
any one is brought to by compulsion he will
leave as soon as he oan.—Locke.
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom
and perverse oraft the merest shallowness.—
Barroiv.
Let those who would affect singularity
with Boooes9 first determine to be very vir
tuous, and they will be sure to be very sing
ular.—Colton.
That peonliar law of Christianity which
forbids revenge, no man can think it griev
one who considers the restless torment of i
malicious and revengefnl spirit.—Tillotson
The more a man denies himself, the more
he shall obtain from God.—Horace.
Resolve rather to err by too much flexibil
ity than too mooh perverseness, by meek
ness than by self-love.— Hammond.
I would out off my own head if it ha 3
nothing better in it bnt wit; and tear out
my own heart if it had no better disposition
to love only myself and langh at all my
neighbors.—Pope.
Nothing bnt a steady resolution brought
to praotioe, God’s grace used, his command
ments obeyed and his pardon begged—
nothing bnt this will entitle yon to God -
acceptance.—.flaks.
Remorse of conscience is like an old
onnd ; a man is under no condition to fight
nnder such ciroumstances. The pain abates
his vigor, and takes up too much of his at
tention.—Jeremy Collier.
©urious acts.
Bishop Henry C. Potter, writing on his
own office in The Church Eclectic, says:
To remember that the church is a church
and not a sect, a whole and not a fragment,
Catholic before all, and therefore not Angli
can, or Evangelican, or Protestant merely—
this is something that belongs pre-eminently
to one who would exercise the true
power of the Episcopate in days like
these. I would not be misunderstood here,
and I will not be. For that loose-jointed
optimism which accounts one man’s credo as
good as another’s; which disregards or dis-
esteems the sacred obligation of the church’s
historic formularies; which forgets that be
fore the life that is to bo lived there is not
only a faith, but the faith to be kept. I have
the scantiest respect. But we may not for
get that, as in Apostoltic days, there was the
Pauline and the Petrine presentation of the
truths of the gospel, and in primitive clays the
theology of a Clement of Alexandria on the
one hand and of an Augustine on the other,
so ever since then there have lieen those
great schools of thought and opinion in the
church, neither of which, I believe, may
ej;ist without the other, and to welcome
viliose activities a wise bishop may well de-
jfre that he may have that breadth of
vision and that openness and candor of mind
which shall freely acknowledge their right
to be, and if so, their right to think and to
speak.”
The American Catholic Quarterly Review
says: The church has little faith in the good
intentions of the men who are urging the
theory ami practice of cremation. In the
mind of a few there reigns no un-Christian
sentiment, but a bona fide scientific opinion,
whether well found' 'd or not matters little.
But these are only the few. The great army
of crematiouists in Europe is made up of
atheists and infidels, professed euemies of
God and His revelation. It is clear ei ough
that, though some of them advance scientific
pretexts lor their purpose, most of them
argue on irreligious grounds, and re-echo the
spirit, if not the words, of the pagan crowds
who burnt the martyrs; Could the church
be supposed to listen with any confidence or
respect to such men anti their theories. And
of some men of doubtful faith among our
selves it may well be asked: If they are so
intent upon benefiting the public and avert
ing infection, why is it that they have ever
on their lips cremation, and cremation only?
Why is it that they do not champion the
cause of pure water and good drainage? The
water men drink in our big cities is an
abomination. Drainage was perfectly un
derstood 2,U00 years ago aud more; it is now
one of the lost arts. Bad water and bad
drainage are daily slaying thousands.
Where is the loud cry of our benevolent
philosophers?
We entertain well grounded fears that the
day will come when cremation will be forced
upon unwilling people by law. It will begin
in Europe, where the worst elements of
society are fast growing into Dower. It will
not be done with the benevolent view of pro
viding for public health, though this pretence
may be put forward. Or perhaps they may
be cynical enough to incorporate in the law
their true motives, just as the French Repub
lic attempted a hundred years ago to abolish
by law the immortality of the soul. As to
our own country, it will be done much later,
’■ ever: though we are filled with misgivings
hen we remember what has happened
ithin the la-t forty years. One thing is
certain. Should cremation ever be made
compuLsory by the civil power, the church
will yield obedience to the law, and adapt
her prayers and funeral rites to the new
method of incineration.”
By a Japanese process seaweed is made
into paper so transparent that it may be
substituted for window glass. When oolor
ed it makes an exoellent imitation of stain
ed glass.
A Frenoh geographer reports that all the
peaks of the Alps, extending over a distance
o? more than lf>0 miles, are easily visible
from the snmmit of the Dole, which has an
altitude of abont 5500 feet.
It appears that there are now inhabited
cave dwellings in Saxony. They are dug in
a sandstone hill, have different rooms, hght
and dark, ss well as chimneys, windows and
doors, and are said to be very dry and hab
i table.
White animals have been observed to an
onoommon extent of late in Germany. A
white obamois was shot in the Totengebirge,
a white flBh otter was caeght near Lcxem.
bnrg, white partridges were shot near Bruns
wick and a white fox was killed near Hessen
It is deolared by the New Orleans States
that heavy buildings oan be put np in that
city, despite the popnlar idea to the contra
ry. They drive piles twenty to thirty feet
long, leaving the top a foot below the sur
face, and lay a bed of imperishable concrete
on which they bnild.
Dry parts of plants take np water with
great force. In 1882 a steamship with a par
tial cargo of peas went ashore and spruDg
leak. By the swelling of the peas the deoks
were thrown apart. The same extraordina
ry force has been exhibited, too, frequently
by cargoes of oorn or wheat.
A naturalist writes : “We put in oor cana
ry-bird’s cage every day a tittle mirror, as
large as the palm cf onr hand, taking care
that neither son nor lights shall dazzle him
and he will look at himself for hours togeth
er, with as muoh happiness as any yonng
gentleman yon ever saw. When we want
him to stop singing we have only to give him
the mirror.”
A standing antidote for poison by dew.
poison oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handfnl of
qniok-lime, dissolve in water, let it stand
half an hour, then paint the poisoned parts
with it. Three or fonr applications will
never fail to onre the most aggravated cases.
Poison from beeB, hornets, spider bites,
eto., is instantly arrested by the application
of equal parts of common salt and bicarbo
nate of soda, well rubbed in on the place
bitten or stnng.
In the construction of a tunnel at Stock
holm cold air has been applied in a novel
manner. In passing nnder a hill of light
wet gravel it was found practically impossi
ble to underpin the houses overhead. It was
therefore decided to freeze the gravel by
means of cold air, and put in the lining
while the material was solid, the undertak.
ing having now been successfully carried
ont by the use of cold-air machines. None
of the houses passed nnder have been in
jured.
;JpstoncaI.
The marigold was a gTeat favorite with
old writers from a curious notion that it al
ways c-pened or shut its flowers at the sun’s
bidding.
Witotea were formerly supposed to be very
fond of beer, and were very fond of tasting
what their neighbors brewed. On these oc
casions they always masqueraded ns cats
Dymond states that for 200 years not a
Christian soldier was to be found in the Bo-
mm armies ; and that only in the third cen
tury, when Christianity was more oorrnpted,
they began to be enrolled.
In every part of Europe there was a pref
erence for male heirs for many oentnries.
In France it was 1719 before all children
were assured of eqnal rights in the family.
The Code Napoleon abolished all legal dis
tinctions of sex.
Pliny mentions the belief that when the
ouokoo oame to maturity it devoured the
bird whioh had reared it, a superstition sev-
evernl times alluded to by Shakspeare. Thus,
in ‘ King Lear,” the Fool remarks:
Tfce hedge sparrow fed the ccckor so long,
That it had its head bit i ff by hie your g.
One cf the most wonderful refinements cf
Greek architecture was the attention paid to
optical deceptions, and the correction of
these by the curvature of all straight and
horizontal lines. Hoffen, the architect, in a
publication givsn to the world in 1838,
maintained that no perfectly level line ex.
isted upon the entire Dorio temple.
Lammas Day ccours in August, according
to some antiquarians. Lammas is a cor-
ruption of loaf mass, as it was once custo
mary to make an offering of bread from new
wheat on this day. Others derive it from
lamb mass, because the tenants who held
lands under the Cathedral Church of York,
England, were bound by their tenure to
bring a live lamb into the church at high
mass.
From the earliest period the owl has been
considered a bird of ill-omen, and Pliny
tells ns bow on one occasion even Rome it
self underwent a lustration because an owl
strayed into the capitol. He represents it
also as a fnnereal bird, a monster of the
night, tfce very abomination of human kind.
Virgil describes itB death howl from the top
of the temple by night, a circumstance in
troduced as a precursor of Dido’s death.
Ovid, too, constantly speaks of this bird’s
presence as an evil omen ; and, indeed, the
same notions respecting it may be found
among the writings of most of the anoient
poets. Mention this paper.
Hailroad Snide.
PIEDMONT A1K-LINEK0UTE
Richmond d Danville System.
CONDENSED SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY
2d, lsS6.
Trains ran by 75th Meridian time—One hour
fatter than mn h Meridian time.
Northbound, Daily.
No
51.
No.
53
ive Atlanta
5
00
p
m
8
4<i
a
in
■ive Gainesville
.. 7
03
P
m
1U
37
a
in
“ Luis
3U
p
m
11
00
a
m
“ '1 occoa
.. 8
54
P
m
12
03
p
m
“ Seneca
P
m
12
hi
P
in
“ Easley
04
P
m
2
05
p
m
“ Greenville
11
32
P
m
SO
P
m
“ Spartanburg —
..12
45
a
m
i
43
P
m
“ l-aflney
.. 1
3->
a
m
4
«ii
P
m
“ Gastonia
51
a
m
5
41
P
m
“ Charlotte
.. 4
06
a
m
6
25
P
m
“ Salisbury
.. 5
48
a
m
8
01
P
m
“ hr*-ensboro
.. 7
35
a
m
9
35
p
m
“ Raleigh
.. 1
35
P
m
“ Goldsboro
.. 4
40
p
m
11
26
“ Danville
42
a
m
p
m
“ Richmond
. K
37
P
in
V
uu
a
Ql
“ Lynchburg
..12
45
p
m
2
10
a
m
“ (harlotttesville..
.. 3
15
P
m
4
a
m
“ Washington
.. 8
311
p
m
45
a
m
“ Bh Inn ore
.11
25
P
m
lb
a
m
“ 1'hiladelphia...
.. 3
uo
a
m
12
35
P
m
“ New York
.. 6
20
a
m
3
20
p
m
Southbound. Daily,
54
o
o
No.
52-
New York
. .12
00 n’gt
4
30 p
m
Philadelphia...
. 7
20 a m
h
p
n
Baltimore ...
.. 9
50 a m
9
45 p
n:
Washington... .
.. 11
• 5am
11
OOP
n.
Charlottesville..
.. X
50 p m
9
(X) a
EC
Lynchburg
. rt
15 p m
5
15 a
IT
Danville
... 0
v5 p m
8
04 a
m
Richmond
25 p re
2
CO a
n
Goldsboro... ...
.it
50 a, m
Raleigh
.. 5
10 D m
Greensboro
21 p m
9
59 a
n
Salisbury
li a m
11
23 a
n.
Charlotte
.. 3
CO a m
1
00 p
ip
Gastonia
.. 3
49 a m
1
42 p
in
Gaffney s
.. 5
14 a in
2
48 p
m
Spartanburg....
.. 5
56 a m
8
84 p
n.
GreeuviU.
. 7
14 a m
4
49 p
A
Easley
.. 7
42 a m
b
Up
m
Seneca ...
...
55 am
6
12 p
m
Toccoa
.. 9
56 a m
7
19 p
m
Lula
.11
08 a m
‘at) P
m
Gainesville
84 am
5U p
m
Atlanta
.. 1
4o p m
10
40 p
m
8LEPIXG-CAR SERVICE.
On trains 50 and 51 Pullman Buffet Sleeper be
tween New York and Atlanta.
On trains 52 and ES Pullman Buffet Sleeper be
tween Washington and New Orleans; Washing
ton and Augusta. Pullman bleeper between
Greensboro and Richmond.
Through tickets on sale at principal stations,
to all points. For rates and information, apply
to any agent of the Company, or to
K. .B THOMaS, C. W. CHEARS.
Gen’l Manager, As6’t Gen. Base. Agt.,
Richmond Va.
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY,
Office General Manager,
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 21st, 1885.
Commencing Sunday, 72d proximo, the follow
ing passenger schedule will be operated:
Trains run by 90th meridian time.
FAST LINE.
NO. 27 WEST-DAILY.
Leave Angueta 7 40 am
Leave Athena 7 45 am
Leave Gainesville 7 55 em
Anive Atlanta 1 00 pm
NO. 28 EAST-DAILY,
Leave Atlanta 2 45 pm
Leave Gainesville 5 55 am
Arrive Athens 7 40 pm
Arrive Augusta - 8 15 pm
DAY PASSENGER TRAINS.
NO. 2 EAST-DAILY. I NO. 1 WEST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta.. 8 00 am | L've A ugusta.. 10 50 am
Ar.Gainesville 8 25 pm
‘ Athens 5 80 pm
‘ Washington . 2 20 pm
‘ Miiledgeviile 4 43 pm
‘ Macon ...... 615 pm
‘ Augusta..... 8 85 pm
“ Macon 7 10 am
“ Miiledgeviile 9 38 am
“ Washington. 1120 am
“Athens 9 00 am
Ar. Gainesville 825pm
“ Atlanta 5 40 pm
NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAIL.
NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. I NO. 3 WE8T-DAIDY.
L’ve Atlanta ..815 pm I L’ve Augnsta.. 9 45 pm
Ar. Augusta.. 5 50 am | 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 20 am
Ar. Covington. 8 30 pm I Ar. Atlanta... 7 55 am
DECATUR TRAIN.
(Daily except Sundays.)
L’ve Atlanta.. 9 03 am I L’ve Decatur... 9 45 am
Ar. Decatur... 9 30 am I Ar. Atlanta.... 1015 ain
CLARKSTON TRAIN.
L’veJAtlanta. .12 Hi pm I L’ve Clarkston 1 25 pm
L’ve Decatur. .12 40 pm L’ve Decatur.. 1 45 pm
Ar. Clarkston .12 52 pm | Ar. Atlanta... 2 20 pm
Train3 Nos. 2.1, 4 and 8 will, if signaled, stop
at .ny regular schedule Hag station.
No connection for Gainesville or Sundays.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passen
gers to and from the following stations only:
Grovetown, Berzelia, Harlem, Dee ring, Thomp
son, Norwood, Barnett, ( raw ford vilie, Union
Point, Greensboro. Madison. Rutledge. Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers. Stone Mountain and
Deca’ur. These trains make close conneition
for all points east, southeast, west, southwest,
north and northwest, and carry through sleepers
between Atlanta and Charleston.
Train No. 28 will stop at and receive parsen-
ers to and frem the following stations only:
&rovetown, Berzolia, Harlem, Bearing, Thomp
son. Norwood, Barnett, Crawfordvilie, Union
Point, Greensboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, Stone
Mountain and Decatur.
No. 28 stops at Union Point for supper.
Connects at Augusta for all points east and
souther st.
. W. GREEN, E. B. DORSEY,
Gen’l Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agent.
JOE W. WHITE,
Gen’l Traveling Passenger Agent,
AuguBta, Ga.
Cotton Belt
Route
TEXAS ft ST.LDU1S-RY.
THE MW THROUGH LIM
Between the
Southeast and the Great
Southwest,
BEST ROUTE to all points In
EASTERN ARKANSAS
And Southern, Eastern and Central
Texas.
The Equipment was built by the Pullman
Company, is all new and elegant. Pullman
Palace Sleepers, Pullman Parlor Cars, rnd Day
Coaches Specially good accommodations for
all classes of travel. Low Hates and Round
Trip Tickets to all principal points. For Maps,
Time Tables, &c., &c., apply to any Agent to the
Company, or to
A. S. DODGE, J. S. LEITH,
Gen. Pass. Ag’t, Southern Pass. Ag’t,
Texarkana, Tex. Nashville, Tenn.
W. P. ROBINSON, Traffic Manager,
St. Louis, Mo.
QUICKEST TIME
ATLANTA
—TO
MEMPHIS
—IS BY THE—
last Tenn., Va„ & Ga., R. R.
AND
MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R. K.
73 MILES SHORTEST LINE
FROM
CHATTANOOGA to MEMPHIS!
Only 17 Hours from Atlanta to Memphis
Leave ATLANTA every day, - 12:15 n’n
Arrive CHATTANOOGA, everyday, 6:00 pm
Leave CHATTANOOGA, “ 6:10 pm
Arrive MEMPHIS, “ 5:20 am
OVER 7 HOURS QUICKER
Than any other line leaving ATLANTA In the
afternoon.
CLOSE CONNECTION AT MEMPHIS
FOR Tt-.XAS, ARKANSAS. KAN-
KAS AND MISSOURI.
Call and see JACK JOHN, Tieket
Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
C. II. HUDSON,
General Mannger.
C.N. KNIGHT,
Div. Pass Agent.
B. W. WRENS,
Gen. Pass. & T. A.
THE
EAST Ml) WEST R. R. OF ALABAMA.
CHANGE of schedule.
O N and after Jan. 15th, 1886, passenger trains
will run as fo lows:
No. 1.—Daily Passenger Train going West
Leave Cariersville 9 55 am
bock mart 1110 am
Cedarto wn 12 01 pm
Cross Plains I 45 pm
Arrive Broken Airow 5 30 pm
No. 2.—Daily Passenger TrriD going East.
Leave Broken Arrow 6 55 am
Cross Plains 1130 am
Cedartown 1 25 pin
Roekmart 2 25 pm
ArriveCartersvil'e 4 00 pm
No. 3.—Accommodation. Goi"g West.
(Daily except Sunday )
Leave Cariersville 4 50 pm
■‘ Roekmart 6 35 pm
Arrive Cedartown 7 35 p m
No. 4.—Accom modatio". Goi ng East.
(Daily except Sunday.)
Leave Cedartown 6 15 am
“ Roekmart 715 am
Arrive Catersville 9 ro am
No. 4 makes c'ose connections at Roekmart
with E. T. V. & G. tr in reaching Atlanta 9:40 a.
m., and at Cartorsville with W, & A. train reach-
ing Atlanta 11:05 a. m.
No. 3 makes direct connection . t Cartorsville
with W. & A. train leaving Atlanta at 1:30 p. m.,
and with (? T. V. & **. train at Roekmart leav
ing Atlanta a' 4:23p. m.
No. 1 makes connection at Carterevllle with W.
it A. train leaving Atlanta 7 50 a. in., and with
Rome Express from the North.
No. 2 connects at Cartorsville with W. & A.
train reaching Atlanta at 6 - 87 p m.
FRED M. WILCOX. T. J. NICHOLL,
Gen. Pass. Agent. Gen. Manager
COMPA.YY.
General Passen er Department.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 1,1886.
SCHEDULE OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
WESTWARD.
No. 54. Mail snd Express.—Leaves Atlanta 80S
m. daily. Stops at ail stations. Arrives at
Birmingham 8:55 p. m.
No 50. Fast Line—New Orleans, VickBburg and
Shreveport.—Leaves Atlanta 4:30 p. m daily.—
Stops st Chattahoochee, Tallaioosa and inter
mediate reguD r s ations Anniston and Oxana.
Arrives at Birmingham 11:85 p. m.
No. 52. Night Passenger —Leaves Atlanta 10ft
, m. daily—Stopa at all stations. Arrives at Bir
mingham 9:50 a. m.
EASTWARD.
No. 55. Passenger and Mail—Leaves Birming
ham 8ft) a. m. daily—stopa at all stations. Ar
rives at Atlanta 8ft) p. m.
No. 51. Night Passenger—Leaves Birmingham
:45 p. m. daily—stois at all stations. Ar ives
: Atlanta 9:30 a. m.
No. 53. Fast T> sin.—Leaves Birmingham
1:05 a. m. daily—stops only at Anniston, Oxana,
Tallapoosa, and s ations east of Tallapoosa. Ar-
irves st Atlanta 7:15 a. m.
Mann Bondoir Sleeping and Dining Cara be
tween Atlanta and New Orleans via The Georgia
Pacific Railway and Queen and Crescent on trains
'land51. , „ „
Trains 51 and 53 Connect at Atlanta with F. T.
,, & G. B. B., C. B. R. of Ga. and Ga. B. B. foi
points in Georgia snd Florida and with Piedmont
Air-Line for points in the Carolinas, Virginia
and the North and East.
The fastest line to Washington, Baltimore Phil-
adelphia and New York. _
Pullman Cara, Atlanta to New York without
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 Shreveport
> all points in Texas. .
All trains arrive at and depart from the Union
Depot, Atlanta, and from Ga. P8C. depot, (20tl
"t, and Powell Avenue) Birmingham. Ala.
1.1. SAGE, GEO. 8. BARNUM,
Gen’l gnp’t Gen’l Paaa. Agent.
OPIUM
and Whiskey Hab
its cured at home with
out pain. Book of par
ticulars sent FREE.
B. M. WOOLLEY, M. D.
Atlanta, Ga. Office
65H Whitehall Street
(541)
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