About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1887)
r 6 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA- 8ATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1887. Clems of thought. THE BROOK’8 SOHO. King Frost soaes ul tort* **• np, The ennehtas HU me frro; I trolle with *>• *™v*old tree* And (lac rfgbt cheerily. I aotc»"* the lady (I ewers, Tad aiak* their dlamend spray; The bird* dowa to cbat with me, Tb* child rea come to play. i an the bias sky’s looking-glass, I hold the rainbow bar.; The ssoon eotass dowa t* rlslt me, And brings the little star*. •h. merry, merry I* my 111* A« a rrpn'e nut o( Spain I Till grim Ktsg Froet eoa.ee (ram the North And looks me np again. —tin. tt. F. Butt* In St. KleheUs. A thirty-two-foot spruce log was recently sawed into boards in a Puget Sound mill and made 6,400 feet of lumber without a knot. Planting preparations in the lower Mississ ippi ralley are now under full headway, all dangers of an overflow having been dispelled. Congress having appropriated .$50,000 to make experiments with sugarcane, the Com missioner has gone to Louisiana to select a plantation for the purpose. The amount of cotton in sight last night as posted on the boards of the Cotton Exchange was 6,009,903 bales, an increase as compared with last year of 107,811 bales. Large numbers ol persimmon logs are being shipped to the north from Norfolk, Va., to be manufactured into shoe lasts, for which they are said to be particularly adapted. Up to the present date the Georgia Depart ment of Agriculture has issued 1,643,189 in spectors’ tags, which indicate that 104,310 ton* of fertilising material have been shipped into the State so far this year, and the season is not yet over. Miss Jennie Gray, an energetio young wo man who works a 160-acre farm in Dakota, says she could work another just as large if the men who want to marry her would stop bothering her. The Texts drouth commission visited thirty - foar counties in the forty days they were in ofioe, and distributed $93,721.45 to 27,760 people. After the expensee of the commis sion were paid about $5,000 of the unex pended balance was returned to the State. Johnston, the great pacing horse, who low ered the record to 2:00 and one-fourth in Chi cago, in 1884, the best record ever made, was sold a few days ago. Commodore Kittson, of St. Paul, Minn , was the owner of John ston and received $12,500 for the rattling pacer. The first beans—two crates—were shipped from Micanopy, Florida, on the 18th, and Erins ton follawed with five crates the next day. The last shipment was by a gentleman who has an acre of white and red Bermuda onions now over two inches diameter, from which he expects a yield of three hundred bushels. A botanical curiosity in a garden at Ealing, England, is a rose tree whose blossoms are en tirely green, the flowers, in fact, being com posed of similar leaves to the ordinary foliage. This is evidently a reversion to the earlier stage of terrestrial plant life in which flowers had not yet become specialised organs. The huccpbs which the melon growers of Lee county Ga.,met with last season has induced the planting of a larger nutjjJjer of acres this year. Several large growers have their melons up and report a good stand. They appreciate the importance of getting their melons early into market , and this year they expect to put them in earlier than ever. During the frosts of the past week many growers covered their plants with pine straw. The Currycomb for Cews. Who that has seen a cow stand and rub her self against a post will not agree that currying roughly and thoroughly is as agreeable and necessary for cows as for horses. They get comparatively little of it, as horses are usually the pets, and the cow, if she has food and shel ter, is expected to look after her own comfort otherwise. But the brush and currycomb, using the former on cows thin in flesh and on the more sensitive portions of their bodies, are a great advantage to cattle of every kind. Destroying Rubbish in Cardens. Gardens are commonly viiited very early by the various kinds of noxious insects that de stroy the vegetables grown in them. One reason for this is that they remain dormant in their hiding places under weeds, pieces of board or clods of manure. It is a common practice to change the garden spot occasion ally, so that the plants when they appear will not be immediately disturbed by their insect enemies. The better plan is to remove all weeds, litter and rubbish from gardens. Then late in the Fall plow the soil, leaving it as loose as possible, and some time during the Winter cover liberally with manure. This will givs plenty of time for the soluble fertility of the manure to leach into and be incorpo rated with the soil. Cara of Horses’ Feet. [Spirit of the Turf.] It is generally conceded by horsemen that lameness originates chiefly in the faulty treat ment of the horse’s foot. This fact suggests several recommendations for the mitigation of the evil. Firat, bare feet. It may be stated as a general proposition that any horse with fairly good feet need never be shod at all. In the barefooted horse the heels spread out, the frogs descend, ridge form, upon the soles, giv ing to the bottom of'the feet a good purchase upon either a rough or smooth surface. He soon learns to rely upon himself, and so ad juste his equilibrium to motion that he neither strains himself nor slips nor stumbles. Horse men have often given this plan a short, faint hearted trial; but on the first manifestations of foot soreness at the end of a few weeks, and before the feet have become inured to the change, usually have the shoes replaced again. Eggs as Faad. The Boston Journal of Chemistry says that eggs, at average prices, are among the cheapest and most nutritious articles of diet. Like milk, an egg is a complete food in it self, containing everything necessary for the development of a perfect animal, as is mani fest from the fact that a chicken is formed from it. It seems a mystery how muscles, b^nes, feathers and everything that a chicken requires for its perfect development are made from the yolk and white of an egg: but such is the fact, and it shows how complete a food an egg is. It is also easily digested, if not damaged in the cooking. Indeed, there is no more concentrated and nourishing food than eggs. The albumen, oil and saline matter are, as in milk, in the right proportion for sus taining animal life. Two or three boiled eggs, with the addition of a slice or two of toast, will make a breakfast sufficient for a man, and good enough for a king. A hen may be calculated to consume one bushel of corn yearly, and lay ten dozen or fifteen pounds of eggs. This is eqaivalent to saying that three and one-tenth pounds of corn will produce, when fed to a hen, five- sixths of a pound of eggs; but five-sixtbs of a poind of pork requires about five pounds of com for its production. Taking into account the nutriment in each, and the comparative prices of the two on an average the pork is about three times as costly a food as the eggs, while it is certainly less healthful. Caad Breeds ef Cattle. [Times-Democrat. ] There are sundry breeds of fine cattle which have adapted themselves to our Southern cli mate, but the most prominent are the Jersey, the Devon and the Brahma. Much has been said and written about the Jersey, p.nd it is pretty well understood that they are unsurpassed as a dairy and butter cow. They produce milk qf a better quality than any known breed. They make more butter and of a better quality. They cost less to keep, and the cows are kind and docile. They, however, are considered too small to be profitable to the butcher, although the flesh is of the best quality. The Devon, however, seems to possess many good points that must not be overlooked. liirst the color, always deep red, without The man who procrastinates straggles with ruin.—Uemid. Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.—J. Petitt Senn. I hate hypocrites, who put on their virtues with their white gloves.—Alfred de Musset. What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.—Atierbury. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator is the very extensive ness of his bounty.—Paley. History, is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfort unes of mankind.—Gibbon. Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.—George Eliot. The love of reading enables a man to ex change the wearisome hours of life, which comes to every one, for hours of delight.— Montesquieu. Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself it justly under valued by others.—Hazlitt. Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial ac quaintanceship?—Charles Buxton. One of the stongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditaiy right in kings is, that na ture disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.—Thomas Paine. He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a de termined party man.—Lavater. One misfortune of extraordinary geniuses is that their very friends are more apt to admire than love them.—Pope. Jewels! It’s my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.—Douglas Jerrold. I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.—George Eliot. Chance opportunities make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.—Roche foucauld. (SfUtions J? arts. The fourth case of the successful removal of a tumor from the brain has been reported in England,the weight of the tumor being four and a half ounces. These cases of brain sur gery, with the exact location from the symptoms of the spot affected, are feats of which science may well be proud. It has been discovered in France that the fatty matter of wool may be transformed into a substance, which has been named” ceroid,” having the consistency and several properties of wax. The habit of administering medicine in cap- sales has received a set-back in the announce ment that, if there is any forn of alcohol in the stomach at the time of swallowing the capsule, its gelatine is rendered iasoluble. When the stomach has been rendered irritable from ex cesses in strong drink, medicines should not be given m capsules, as they are not likely to be dissolved. The longest tunnel in the world, commenced in 1782 and finished in 1878, drains the schem- nitz mines, in Hungary. It is 10.27 miles in length, or about a mile longer than St. Goth- arc, with a height of nine feet ten inches and a breadth of five feet three inches. A recent visitor to a Mexican silver mine relates that he was shown a mass of mercury, weighing two pounds, taken from the stomach of a horse that had worked in the patio. He says: In this primitive Mexican process, which seems to be well suited to the wants of the country, the ground ore, or silver mud, is mix ed with salt, mercury, etc. The horses that tread this mud for weeks, in order to mix the chemicals, attracted by the salt, lick up the mud, and take in the poisonous quicksilver. This, accumulating in the system, finally kills them. I was informed that the bones of these animals are ground up, in order to obtain the mercury in them.” The walls of a sick-room should be finished in plain, subdued color, instead-of papered in fancy patterns, as patients are liable to be ren dered irritable and sleepless by prolonged men tal perturbation induced by vain efforts to traee problems or in counting combinauons. A case of tempoary insanity is reported as occa sioned by a morbid disposition to solve the possible combinations into squares of certain figures on the wall paper of a patient’s room, as his mutterings implied, which ceased at once when he was removed to a room with plain walls. An assistant to Fro. Virchow, Dr. Grawitz finds that about one-tbird of the cases pro nounced in life muscular rheumatism are shown by post-mortem examination to be due to nr ■—*1 .‘$r> trichinae, or pork worms. In iastances ob- XL “£3?? «; rved parasites must have been present in the muscles for many years. Show animals are cheapjthis Spring, judging from the prices prevailing in Philadelphia the other day, when O’Brien’s Menagerie was of- ered at auction. Three elephants brought TALMAGE’S SERMON. treacded in the Brookyn nace. What Some Farmers Have Done. G. M. Bacon, of Mitchell county, Ga., sold a large four-horse load of sweet potatoes in Camilla iast week. This is a profitable crop and can be sold the year round. A Mr. Peale, of Franklin county, Texas, raised 2,500 bushels of sweet potatoes last year which he has ready cash sale for. The same land might have made two bales of cot ton. Mr. Sandy Guskins, of Thomas county, Ga., sold a wagon load of bacon and lard in Thom- asville a few days ago. That beats hauling bacon and lard from town to the farm. Yield of Crapes from an Acre. An acre of vines, in rcws six feet one way and eight the other will give in round num bers nine hundred vines per acre. In three years they will average enough over two pounds per vine to yield a ton of fruit per acre, and when in full bearing may be kept at this distance apart, to an average crop of ten pounds per vine. This is nine thousand pounds, or four and a half tons. Even at two cents a pound, for which grapes may be prof itably bought for making into wine, this would give $180 per acre; or far more, after deduct ing expense of management and cultivation, than can be made from ordinary farm crops. Soap Suds as a Fertilizer. It is a remarkable fact, that, in mentioning the various things which possess neanurial val ue and ought, therefore, to be saved in the compost heaps or elsewhere, account is seldom taken of soap suds. In point of fact, soap suds from the laundry aad bath room, also all dish water from the kitchen, are of too much value to growing plants to be wasted. A part of the virtue of wood ashes, which every one acknowledges to be an excellent fertilizer, is taken from them by leaching, and the lye, when combined with the fats and oils used in soap making and the grease and dirt extract ed by soap suds frem various artioles cleansed with it, must of necessity have considerable value as a fertilizer. New Yerk Veterinary Cellece. The annual commencement of the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons and School of Comparative Medicine, was held at the Carne gie Laboratory, No. 388 East Twenty-sixth street last week. The hall was crowded. The address was delivered by Professor Joseph H. Raymond, It. D., of Brooklyn, and the degrees were conferred by William F. White, M. D., . - ■ , president of tne faculty. Samuel Atchinson gloves on the hand, of the gradaating class delivered the valedic- highly aromatic. , 8ry The name mandarin is commonly applied to Donald E. Watson, James McKee, Samuel j oranges of similar form and characteristics, shape, making them valuable as oxen; thirdly their weight, being second only to the famed Kentucky short-horns; fourthly the quality of the beef, being unexcelled for delicacy and beautiful marbled appearance. The cows are kind, giving a moderate and sometimes—when a milky strain has been bred—a large quantity of milk of fair richness. We do not think that the Devon is appreciated to the extent they should be, and solely for the reason that they are as yet comparatively unknown in the South. Taking all their fine qualities into consideration, including their adaptability to the far Southern climate, we think that we can safely recommend the Devon as the Southern farmer’s breed par excellence. The Brahma was introduced in various por tions of Louisiana end Mississippi for the pur pose of ir creasing the size and weight of the native stock, thus making them more profit able for beef. Being natives of a hot climate, it was thought that they would be more healthy and hardier in the Gulf States than the larger English and Kentucky breeds. And the resu t, when tried, seems more than to have justified the expectation. The cows are | not noted as milkers, though there have been exceptions. But the males make valuable oxen of good size and quality, noted for their extreme hardiness and vigor. Florida Oranges The Different Va rieties. In our last issue we had an item in regard to the oranges of Florida, to the effect that samples exhibited to and tested by the Board of Trade at Messina, Italy, were pronounced to be superior to any brought to their notice. The superiority of the Florida orange is now recognized the world over; but it is not gen erally known that there are several varieties of them, hence we publish the subjoined account, to which we invite attention: It is a fact very generally conceded that of all the oranges that come to the New York market the Floridas lead both as regards qual ity and the best prices received for this fruit. There are Floridas, and those known as Indian River Floridas—a choice sort. The ordinary Florida orange is by this time an old acquain tance; but there are varieties grown in Flori da which many persons outside of large cities hare never seen. One of these is the Tangie- rine orange, also known as mandarin, "kid glove and tomato orange. The Tangerine is much flattened in form, with fjroad, irregular cavity, stem obliquely set, and surrounded by a knotted eminence; the eye is set in a deep depression. In size this orange is medium, while the color is a dark, brilliant orange, with a decidedly red cast. The skin is irregularly ribbed or lobed; the color of the flesh is very dark orange. The pulp adheres to the skin by a few filaments. The latter is readily removed, however, and the sections of the pulp easily separated with out any Iobs of juice—hence the name “kid glove” orange, because it can be eaten with The juice is sweet and Atchinson and Joseph Biumenthal were the graduates. The faculty prize, a gold medal, was awarded to James McKee for passing the best general examination. The MeLance prize, a silver medal, was awarded to Louis E. Simpkins, who passed the best junior exami nation. Donald E. Watson carried off the Comstock prise, a pocket case of veterinary instruments, for the best examination in anat omy, and the Hamil prize for the second best senior examination was awarded to Samuel Atchinson. Certificates were presented to the following students, who have just passed the junior examination: David E. Magill, Thos. F. Fallon, William T. I. McLaughlin, August Jasme, Henry Henning, Michael Kenney, Patrick Burns, Joseph A. Kelly, Henry Van- der Itoest, Simon Moyer and L. E. Simpkins. but with skin of somewhat lighter hue. The navel orange, also termed umbilical and seedless orange, is in size from large to very large. The eye presents an umbilical appear ance (from which it obtains its name) while the stem is inserted in a shallow-ribbed cavity. The color of this orange is about the same as that of the usual Florida orange, while the flesh is fine, melting and tender, with juice sweet, sprightly and aromatic. The Tangerine and mandarin oranges bring higher prices in the New York markets than do the ordinary Floridas, being classed among “fancy” fruits; but for eating many persons prefer the latter. Many imitators, but no equal, has Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. §15590, $1360 and $1010; a black antelope, $400;a lioness, $250; a royal Bengal tiger, $360; a leopard, $190; a camel, $140; an emu, $100; an elk, $75; a hyena, $45, and a yak, $20. The chief veterinary surgeon of the British army, Dr. George Fleming, finds sufficient experimental evidence to convince him that smallpox and cowpox are not identical, as is generally believed, and that the virus af one will not produce the other. The telegraph line built by the French in Tonquin having recently failed to work, it was found, upon investigation, that the chief of one of the native villages had appropriated a quan- ity of the wire to his own use, and replaced it with a cord of vegetable fibre. He was very much surprised when informed of the damage he had done,and had no idea but that he had made “a fair exchange, and no robbery.” fpsttfrucal* The Erie Canal was opened in 1825; the old Middlesex Canal had been in successful oper ation for over twenty years at that date. What is now known as Harrison avenue, in Boeton, was formerly called Front street. The name was changed shortly after Presi dent Harrison’s death. The first paper mill in Massachusetts, and it is believed in the United States, was estab lished at Milton on the Neponset River about 1730. In 1731 Franklin established in Philadelphia the first subscription circulating library in America. John Mein opened the first circu lating library in Boston. The Boston Theatre (the ojd Federal street Theatre) was the only thoroughly appointed theatre in Boston from 1798 to 1827. This house was opened in 1794, and was the first regular Thespian temple to be erected in Bos ton. Father Wood, an English monk at Rome, constructed the first pianoforte in 1711. Fairs were established in France by Charle magne about 800, and encouraged in England by William the Conqueror about 1071. * The ill-fated Franklin expedition consisted of two ships, Erebus and Terry, commanded by Sir John Franklin, with Capts. Crozier and Fite James, consisting in all of 138 persons. The last heard from them was a letter dated July 12, 1845. In the Middle Ages the giving of a glove was a ceremony of investiture in bestowing lands and dignities. In England, in the reign of Edward II., the dispensation of gloves was a ceremony of degradation. The old name ot Hellespont, originally ap plied to the Dardanelles, was given in memory of Helle, daughter of Athamas, king of The bes, who was drowned here. Flax was first planted in England 1532-33. The origin of the Hohenzollem, the present reigning family in Prussia, is ascribed to Thassilo, who, about 800, built the castle of Hohenzollern. His descendant, Frederick, of Nuremburg, was made Elector of Bradenburg in 1417. The horse was first broken* for service in war by the people of Thessaly. The Immortals'’ was a name given to the flower of the Persian army, limited to 10,000 in number, and recruited from the nobility alone, about 500 B. C. The body guard of the emperors of Constantinople was also called by this name in the fourth and fifth centuries. The remains of Napoleon I. rest in the ehap- el of Hotel des Invalides, Paris, where they were deposited Dec. 15, 1840, on their removal from St. Helena. ‘‘A Broad Cospel.” DbsMoiss, Ia., March, 27.—Rev. T. De- Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in this city this morning, to a vast^congregation. His text was Genesis vii, 1: “Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” The eloquent preach er said We do not need the Bible to prove the del uge. The geologist’s hammer announces it. Bea shells and marine formations on the top of some of the highest mountains of the earth prove that at some time the waters washed over the top of the Alps and the Andes. In what way the catastrophe came, we know not; whether by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning, changing the air into water, or by a stroke of the hand of God, like the stroke of an ax between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catastrophe, God or dered a great ship built. It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was to be without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three Cunard steamers. It was the Great Eastern of olden time. The ship is done. The door is open. The lizzards crawl in, the cattle walk iu, the grass hoppers hop in, the birds fly in, the invitation goes forth to Noah: “Come thou and all thy house, into the ark.” Just one human family embark on the strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm sweeps along the hills and bends the cedars until all the branches snap in the gale. There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The blackness of the heavens is shattered by the flare of the lightnings, that look down into the waters and throw a ghastliness on the face of the mountains. How strange it looks 1 How suffocating the air seems! The big drops of rain plash upon the nptzAmed faces of those who are watching the tempest Crash! go the rocks in convulsion. Boom! go the bursting heavens. The inhabitants of the earth, in stead of fleeing to the housetop and mountain top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when God grinds mountains to pieces, and lets the ocean slip its cable, there is no place for men to fly to. See the ark pitch ana tumble in the surf; while from its windows the passengers look out up on the shipwreck of a race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe to the sea! I am no alarmest. When, on the 20th of September, after the wind has for three days been bio wing from the northeast, you proph esy that the equinoctial storm is coming, you simply Btate a fact not to be disputed. Nei ther am I an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming, compared with which Noah’s deluge was but an April shower; and that it is the wisest and safest for you and for me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears: “Come thou and all thyhouse into the ark.” Well, how did Noah and his family come in to the ark? Did they climb in at the’Vindow, or come down the roof? No; they went through the door. And just so, if we get into the ark of God’s mercy, it will be through Christ, the door. The entrance to the ark of old must have been a very large entrance. We know that it was, from the fact that there were mon ster animals in the earlier ages; and, in order to get them into the af& two by two, accord ing to the Bible statement, the door must have been very wide and very high. So the door into the mercy of Godds a large door. We go in, not two by fwn . hundreds, and by millions. thousands, and by millions. Yea, all the na tions of the earth may go in, ten millions abreast. The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now it is through the side of Christ—the pierced side, the wide-open side, the heart side —that we enter. Aha! the Roman soldier, thrusting hig spear into the Saviour’s side, ex pected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in. O, what a broad gospel to preach! If a man is about to give an entertainment, he issues one or two hundred invitations, carefully put up and di rected to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. But God our Father makes a banquet, and goes out to the front door of heaven, and stretches oat his hands over land and sea, and with a voice that pene trates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice-castle, and Brazilian grove, and English fac tory, and American home, cries out: “Come, for all things are now ready.” It is a wide door! The old cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the door posts, so far apart that all the world can come In. Kings scatter treasures on days of great rejoicing. So Christ, our King, comes and scatters the jewels of Heaven. Rowland Hill said that he hoped to get into Heaven through the crevices of the door. But he was not obliged thus to go in. After having preached the gospel in Surrey Chape), going up toward Heaven, the gate keeper cried: “Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let this man come in.” The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter and Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia, Afri ca, North and South America may yet go through this wide door without crowding Ho, every one!—all conditions, all ranks, all peo ple. Luther said that this truth was worth carrying on one’s knees from Rome to Jeru salem; but I think it worth carrying ail around the globe and all around the heavens, that “Goa so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Whosoever will, let him come through the large door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever, and then he said that he could move the world. Calvary is the fulcrum, and the cross of Christ the lever; and by that power all nations shall yet be lifted. Further, it is a door that swings both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on hinges, but this door of Christ opens both ways. It swings out toward all our woes; it swings in toward the raptures of Heaven. It swings in to let ns in; it swings out to let our ministering ones oome out. All are one in Christ—Christians on earth and saints in Heaven. “One army of the living God, At his command we bow: Fart of the host have crossed the Hood, And part are crossing now.” Swing in, O, blessed door, until all the earth shall go in and live. Swing out until all the heavens come forth to celebrate the victory. But further, it is a door with fastenings. The Bible says of Neah: “The Lord shut him in.” A vessel without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark they were very glad. With out those drors were fastened, the first heavy eurge of the sea would have whelmed them, and they might as weii have perished outside the ark as inside the ark. “The Lord shut him in.” O, the perfect safety of the ark! The surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire—deep to deep, storm to storm, darkness to darkness; but once in the ark, all is well. “God shut him in.” There comes upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble. He had hig thousands to lend; now he cannot borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York, and had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned four horses, and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach, phaeton, carriage and curricule; now he has hard work to get shoes in whieh to walk. The great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, and fore and aft and across the hurricane deck the waves struck him. But he was safe ly sheltered from the storm. “The Lord shut him in.” A flood of domestic troubles fell on him. Sickness and bereavement came. The rain pelted; the winds blew; the heavens are aflame. All the gardens of earthly delight are washed away. The fountains of joy are buried fifteen cubits deep. But, standing by the empty crib, and in the desolated nursery, and m the doleful hall, once ringing with mer ry voices, now silent forever, he cried: “The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” “The Lord shut him in.” All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. The broken vows, the dis honored Sabbath, the outrageous profanities, the misdemeanors of twenty years reached up their hands to the door of the ark to pull him out. The boundless ocean of his sin sur rounded his soul, bowling like a simoon, rav ing like an euroclydon. But, looking out of the window, he saw his sius sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of Heaven brought an olive branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow only pushed him toward heaven. “The Lord shut him in.” The same door fastenings that kept Noah in keep the world out. I am glad to know that when a man reaches Heaven all earthly trou bles are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family; there he will never hunger any more. Here he may Taber- ^ 7e we P*- bitterly; there “the Lamb that is " in the midst of the throne will lead him to liv ing fountains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from his eyes.” Here he may have hard work to get a house; but in my Fa ther’s house are many mansions, and rent day never comes. Here there are death beds, and coffins, and graves; there, no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no con suming fever, no chattering chill, no toiling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall cone up and knock at the door, but no admit tance. The perplexities of life shall come np and knock on the door, but no admittance. Safe forever 1 All the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarks of the ship of celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage, ye seas 1 The Lord—“The Lord shut him in.” O, what a grand old doorl so wide, so easily swung both ways, and with such sure fasten ings. No burglar’s key can pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell can shove back the bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask you to come aboard a crazy craft with leaking hulk, and broken helm, and unfastened door; but an ark fifty cubits wide, and three hundred cubits long, and a door so large that the round earth, without grazing the posts, might be bowled in. Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in which to live, and die, and triumph, come into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut the world out; and though, when the pitiless storm came pelting on their heads, they beat upon the door, saying: “Let me in! let me in!” the door did not open. For one hundred and twenty years they were invited. They expected to come in; but the antediluvians said: “We must cultivate these fields; we must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of cattle; we will wait until we get a little older; we will enjoy our old farm a little longer.” But meanwhile the storm was brewing. The fountains of heaven were filling up. The pry was being placed between the foundations of the great deep. The last year had come, the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the last moment. In an awful dash, an ocean dropped from the sky, and another rolled up from beneath; and God rolled the earth and sky into one wave of uni versal destruction. So men now put off going into the ark. They say they will wait twenty years first. They will have a little longer time with their worldly associates. They will wait till they get older. They say: “You cannot expect a man of my attainments and my position. to surrender myself just now. But before the storm comes, I will go in. Yes, I will, know what I am about. Trust me.” After awhile, one night about twelve o’clock, going home, he passes a scaffolding as a gust of wind strikes it, and a plank falls. Dead! and outside the ark! Or, riding in the park, a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horse becomes unmanageable, and he shouts, “Whoa! Whoa!” and takes another twist in the reins, and plants his feet against the dash board, and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the avenue that he flies as on the way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the crash his body is drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind a swifter courser into the great future. Dead! and outside the ark! Or, some night, he wakes up with a dis tress that momentarily increases, until he shrieks out with pain. The doctors come in, and they give him twenty drops, but no relief; forty drops, fifty drops, sixty drops, but no relief. No time for prayer. No time to read one of the promises. No time to get a single sin pardoned. The whole house is aroused in alarm. The children scream. The wife faints. The pulses fail. The heart stops. The soul flies. Oh, my God! dead! and out side the ark! I have no doubt that derision kept many people out of the ark. The world laughed to see a man go in, and said: “Here is a man starting for the ark. Why, there will be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable ship will not weather it. Aha! going into the ark! Well, that is too good to keep. Here, fellows, have you heard the news? This man is going into the ark." Under this artillery of scorn the man’s good resolution perished. And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The young man asks him self: “What would they say at the store to morrow morning if I should become a Chris tian? When I go down to the club-house they would shout: ‘Here comes that new Chris tian. Suppose you will not have anything to do with us now. Suppose you are praying now. Get down on your knees and let us hear you pray. Come, now, give us a touch. Will not do it, eh? Pretty Christian you are.” ’ Is it not the fear of being laughed at that keeps you' out of the kingdom of God? Which of these scomers will help you at the last? When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of them will be there? In the day of eternity, will they bail you out? My friends and neighbors, come in right away. Come in through Christ, the wide door the door that swings out toward you. Come in and be saved. Come and be happy. “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘come.’” Room in the ark! Room in the ark! But do not come alone. The text invites you to bring your family. “Come thou and all thy house.” That means your wife and your children. You cannot drive them in. H Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and the doves into the ark, he would only have scat tered them. Some parents are not wise about these things. They make iron rules about Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down the throat, as they would hold the child’s nose and foroe down a dose of rhubarb and calo mel. You cannot drive your children into the ark. You can draw your children to Christ, but you cannot coerce them. The cross was lifted—not to drive, but to draw. “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.” As the sun jiraws up the drops of morning dew. so the Son of Righteousness ex hales the tears of repentance. “Come, thou and all thy house, into the ark.” Be sure that you bring your husband and wife with you. How would Noah have felt if, when he heard the rain pattering on the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No; she went with him. And yet some of you are on the ship “outward bound” for heaven, but your companion is un sheltered. You remember the day when the marriage-ring was set. Nothing has yet been able to break it. Sickness came, and the finger shrank, but the ring staid on. The twain stood alone above a child’s grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes; but the ring dropped not into the open grave. Days of poverty came, and the band did many a hard day’s work; but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made it shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be lost? Will the iron clang of the sepulchre- gate crush it forever? I pray God that you who have been married on earth may be to gether in heaven. Oh, by the quiet bliss of your earthly home; by the babe’s cradle; by all the vows of that day when you started life to gether, I beg you to see to it that you both get into the ark. Come in, and bring your wife or your hus- bamd with you—not by fretting about religion, or ding-donging them about religion, but by a consistent life, and by a compelling prayer that shall bring the throne of God down mto your bedroom. Better live in the smallest house in Brooklyn and get into heaven, than live fifty years in the finest house on Madison ! Square, and wake up at last and find that one ; of yon, for all eternity, is outside the ark. Go j heme to-night: lock the door of your room: i take up the Bible and read it together, and ! then kneel down and commend your souls to ■ Him who has watched you all these years: i and, before you rise, there will be a fluttering j of wings over your head, angel crying to angel: | “Behold they pray!” But this does not include all your family. ! Bring the children too. God bless the dear ' children! What would our homes be without ! them? We may have done much for them. ! They have done more for us. What a salve j for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm ! of achili’s hand! Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child’s “good night?” From our coarse, rough life, the angels of God are often driven back; but who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around? They who die in infancy go into glory, but you are expecting JAMBS MOBTOH, Manager. J. J. OBVSUAIT, Proprietor. TO THOSE WHO INTEND PURCHASING THIS SPRINC. Flowers, Shrubbery aver A green, Sera wb-rry pl&nie, or Raspberry, G:»>4*h*rry Current o- Grape vi’e*. we extend »n invirSni to send lor our handsome Dew publication, "SOUTHERN PL4NT8 FOR SOUTHERN HOMES contains a description of onr stock and the prices, and is beautifully illustrated with cuts of our Si mJS Roses, Hhodendrons, Dahlias, Crysanthemnms, Carnations. LUiles. cuw 01 our #ne Our stock is unusually large and embraces every novelty of real merit, recently Introduced Send your address to “Evergreen Lodge Flower Garden.” CLABKSVILLE, TT ': ?. your children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question, then, that rings through all the corridors and windings and heights, and depths of your soul, what is to become of your sons and daughters for time and eternity. “O!” you say, “I mean to see that they have good manners.” Very well. “I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to go shab by.” Very good. “I shall give them an edu cation, and I shall leave them a fortune.” Very well. But is this all? Don’t you mean to take them into the ark? Don’t you know that the storm is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety? no pardon? no hope? no heaven? How to get them in! Go in yourself. If Noah had staid out, do you not suppose that his sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, would have staid out? Your sons and daughters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ your self, and the probability is that your children will reject Him. An account was taken on the religious con dition of families in a certain district. In the families of pious parents, two-thirds of the children were Christians. In the families where the parents were ungodly, only one- twelfth of the children were Christians. Res ponsible as j on are for their temporal existence You are also responsible for their eternity. Which way will you take them? Out into the deluge,or into the ark? Have you ever made one earnest prayer for their immortal souls? What will you say in the judgment, when God asks: “Where is George, or Henry, or Frank, or Mary, or Anna? Where are those precions souls whose interest I committed into your hands?” A dying son said to his father: “Father, you gave me an education, and good manners, and everything that the world could do for me; but, father, you never told me how to die, and now my soul is going out in the darkness. ” Go home and erect a family altar. Yon may break down in your prayer. But never mind, God will take what you mean whether you ex press it intelligibly or not. Bring all your house into the ark. Is there one son whom you have given up? Is he so dissipated that you have stopped counselling and praying? Give him up? How dare you give him up? Did God ever give thee up? Whilst thou hast a single articulation of speech left, cease not to pray for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be standing on the beach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditating a return to his father’s house. Give him up? Never give him up! Never give him up. Has God prom ised to hear thy prayer only to mock thee. It is not too late. In St. Paul’s, London, there is a whispering- gallery. • A voice uttered most feebly at one side of the gallery is heard distinctly at the opposite side, a great distance off. So, every word of earnest prayer goes all around the earth and makes heaven a whispering gal ery. Go Into the ark—not to sit down, but to stand in the door, and call until all the family come in. Aged Noah, where is Japhet? David, where is Absalom? Hannah, where is Samu el? Bring them in through Christ, the door. Would it not be pleasant to spend eternity with our families? Gladder than Christmas or Thanksgiving festival will be the reunion, if we get all our family into the ark. Which of them can we spare out of heaven? On one of the late steamers there were a father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gentle man stepped up to the poor man to proffer some form of relief, and said: “You seem to be very poor, sir.” “Poor, sir,” replied the man, “if there’s a poorer man than me a troubling the world, God pity both of us!” “I will take one of your children, and adopt it, if you say so. I think it would be a great relief to you.” “A what?” said the poor man. “A relief!” “Would it be a relief to have the hands chopped off from the body, or the heart tom from the breast? A relief, indeed! God be gohd to us! What do you mean, sir?” However many children we may have, we have none to give np. Which, of our fami lies, can we afford to spare out of heaven? Come, father! Come, mother! Come, son! Come, daughter! Come, brother! Come, sis ter! Only one step, and we are in. Christ, the door, swings out to us; and it is not the hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hear, but the voice of a loving and patient God that addresses you saying: “Come, thou and all thy house, into the ark.” And there may the Lord shut us in. Satin RAILROAD 1 Showing the arrival and c Allan EAST TENNESSEE, VIB 'Day Expreee from Sav’h & Fla. No. 14* 10 60 am BoiaeExpress from North No.15. 645am •Cin. A Mew. Ex. from North, No. 11* 11 52 p m Day Express from North No. 13. 3 35pm •Day Ex. from Savannah and Brunswick, No. 16..— 5 35pm ■Cannon Ball from Jack sonville and Brunswick Ns 12 2 25 am •East Mall from Florida, No 16 7 25 pm iat)0. /'AAA'V,\'iAV\.\\VWXV».\VWV riME TABLE. epartnre of all trains from ta, Ga. gInia tt GEORGIA B. B •Day Express North, X. and West No 141215 pm •Cannon Ball, No. 12 •New York Lim. North N. Y. Phils, etc. No. 16 — 5 00 pm •Cannon Boll South for S’v’h tt Fla. No. 11 •Fart Express South tot S’vh&Fla. No. 13. 3 46 pm , ‘Day Kx’aS’thNolS 600am CENTRAL _ ARRIVE. From Savanna!:* 7 27 am ” Bam’sv’U* 7 37 am “ Macon* 12 15 am “ Maoon* 1 65 pm “ Savannah*.. 9 00 p RAILROAD. DEPART. To Savannah*.... 6 35am TnM.wMi> 2 00pm To Maoon* 8 00am To Savannah* ... 6 50 pm To Barnemile*.. 5 15 pm WFSTEBN AND ATI From Chste’ga* 2 15 am “ Marietta... 8 35 am ” Rome 1105 am “ Chata'go* .. 6 30 am “ Chata'ga*.. 144pm “ Chata’ga*.. 6 85pir -ANTIC BAILBOAD. ToChattaneoga* 7 50 am To Chattanooga* 1 40 pm To Rome ..... 845pm Te Marietta.... 4 40 pm To Chattanooga* 550 pm To Chattanooga* 12 30 Dir ATLANTA AND WES1 From ftTtge’ery* 2 15 am “ M’tjo’ery* 125pm “ Lasienge* 9 37 am | POINT RAILROAD. To Montgo’ery* 1 20 pm To Montgo’ery* 12 20 am Te Lagrange*.... 5 05 pm GEORGIA From Augusta* 6 40 am “ Covington. 7 55 am “ Decatnr... It 15am “ Aagnsta**. 1 00 pm *' Clarkston.. 2 20 pm “ Aagnsta... 5 45pm AILROAD. To Augusta*.... 8 00aa To Decatur 9 00 am To Clarkston.... 1210pm To Augusta*— 2 45pm Te Covington... 610pa To Augusta* 7 30 pm RICHMOND AND DAJ From La la 825 am “ Charlotte* 10 40 pm ** Charlotte* 9 40 pm IVILLL BAILBOAD. Te Charlotte*... 7 40 am To Lula 430pm To Charlotte*.., 6 00pm GEORGIA PACIFIC RAILWAY. From Bir’g*in*.. T 20am 1 To Btrming’m*. 1045 ate '* Bir’g’m*.. 545pnr | To Birming’m*. 5 05pm Trains marked thus (*) are daily. Ail other trams daily except Sunday. <lr ‘ > 7“’’boro 10 40 p. m„ Salisbury 12.a* a.bl, 2 25 *• m ** arming at Atlanta 1 20 p. m Kalelgl) 6 30 a. m., Goldsboro 11.20 a.m. Also arrive leansTma^m 15P ‘ M ° blle215 *• m ” Wew ^ B « l if S ^ a “ er 5? xpreM wni le8Te Washington at 5.30 p.m , arriving at Cbarlottesvtlle 3 00 a. m., 15 “• “L” Klchm °n<l 2.30 a. m., Danville 7.30 a.m., Greenesboro 9 48 s. m., Salisbury 11S n S” rinfmhi® -■,°° P m ” arr lvlng in Atlanta 10.3 p. m„ Columbia o 12 p m., Augnsta 9.20 D.m.. Ral eigh 150 p. m., Goldsboro 4.40p. m. P ’ The Western Express will leave Washington at 5 a , rr ll in 8 st Charlottesville 10:15 p. m., and Louisville via Ches tt Obi* By- J* DIOp. m., Cincinnati via Kentneky St Central By. 6:00 p. m., Bristol via Norforlk & Wfwtern B X at 9 ; 05 a m„ Chattanooga 5:45 p.m., Memphis at 6; 15 a. and Little Bock at 11:55 p. m. Tbs Washington Fast Mali will leave Atlanta 7:4* Angusta 9:20 a.m., Columbia 1:03 p. m , Charlotte 6-43 p. m., Golsboro 5:00 p. m„ Greenesboro SM p. m., Danville li:40 p. m., arriving at Richmond 6:40 A m., Lynch bur* 2:06 A D.. Charlottesville 4:15 Alexandria 7:43 a m., Washington 8:10 a. m. The Northere Express will leave Atlanta 7:*S p m Charlotte 6:15 a m., Salisbury 6:46 Am., Golds bo re 11:30 A ns., Raleigh 4:35 p. m., Greenesboro 1:51 a. m., rrrlvlngat Charlottesville 3:50 p. m., Alex andria 6:00 p. m., Washington 8:23 p. m. Additional trains between Washington ard Lynchbnrg will be ran as follows: Leave Waablna- ton 8:30 a m., arrive Lynchburg 3:30 p. m., with r 11 * No* 0 * * Western B X tor Bristol, Knoxville, Clevelmd. Rome, Oalero, Montgoarary, and New Orleans. Leave Lynchburfc ® J- anlvlngWashington 5:30 p. n, arrive “tongn connection via Norfolk AWeetern R R tor Bristol, Chattanooga, Memphis, etc. I^ave Lynchborg 3:M p. m., arma Washington 9:40 p.m. These additional trains af- tord through Pullman Bleeping Car service between Washington and Little Rock and Washington and new Orleans. Pullman Bleeping Cars South bound will be rea between New York and Atlanta on the New Or leans Fast Mall, and Northbound on the Northers Express. Pullman Bleeping Cars, Washington to Montgom ery and Washington to Aiken, will be run on the Southern Express aad Washington Fast Mall, and on these trains between Richmond and Greensboro, and also between Greenesboro and Raleigh. Pullman Bleeping Cars and through Coaches be tween Washington and Louisville on the Western Express. ^TLANTA A NEW 9BLEANB SHORT 1.1*4*- VICKSBUBO AND SHREVEPORT, VIA MONTOOMNRT. Only line operating double dally trains and Pull man Buffet Sleeping Oars between Atlanta and New Orleans without change. Takes effect Bnnday. Dec. 76,1888. SOUTH BOUND. Leave Atlanta Opelika No. 50. No. 52. Dally. Dally. 1 20 pm 12 20 am 2 08 pm 1 05 am 2 20 pm 1 17 am 2 47 pm 149 am 3 13 pm 217 am 8 52 pm 300 am 14 20 pm 332 am 5 04 pm 4 21 am 1.6 34 pm 11 01 am 7 15 pm 6 45 am 500 am 200 pm 215 am 210 pm 712 am 730 pm No. 2. Dally. SOB pm 614 pm 626 pm 658 pm 7 2«pa 8 N pm No 51. No 53. No L Lv. New Orleans “ Mobile Lally. Dally. Dally. 8 05 pm 7 55 am 12 55 am 1 20 pm “ Pensacola 10 20 pm 7 05 am “ Selma 4 00 am 10 20 am “ Montgomery Ar. Columbus 7 35 am 11 01 am 8 15 pm Lv. Cpellka 946 am 10 29 pm Ar. West Point 10 27 am 1112 pm “ La Grange “ Hogansvllle “ Grantvllle 10 58 am 11 44 pm 7 06 am 11 23 am 12 12 am 7 33 am 1137 am 12 25 am T 50 am “ Newnan 12 03 pm 12 52 am 8 28 am “ Palmetto 12 29 pm 118 am 8 56 am “ Folrbnrn 12 41 pm 1 31 am 9 li am " Atlanta 1 25 pm 215 am 10 00 am TO SELMA, Lv. Montgomery Ar. Selma VICK8BUBO AND Q an* C. Route. SHREVEPORT. No 8. 8 30 pm 11 30 pm No 54. 8 30 pm 5 50 pa 5 50 pm 8 20 pm 910 pm 12 30 am 7 30 am 6 46 pm ' Greensboro 1 Akron ' Meridian 1 Vicksburg 1 Shreveport THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Pultoan Buffet Sleeping car, No. 60, Atlanta to New Orleans. No. 52, Pullman Buffet Sleeping car, Washington to Montgomery, and Pullman Parlor car, Mont^nn- ery to New Orleans. No. 52, Famtl; ta to Texas wit! No. 51, Pullman Hnffet Sleeping ears New Orleans to Atlanta, and at Atlanta to New York. No. 53 Pullman Parlor car, New Orleans to Mont gomery, and Pullman Buffet Sleeping car Mont gomery to Washington. No. 53, Family Bleeping car tree ol charge Texas to Atlanta. CECIL GABBETT, CHA3. H. CROMWELL, General Manager. Gen. Passenger Agent. Montgomery, Alabama. A. J. ORME, Gen. Agt. M. C. SHARP, Pass. Agt. Atlanta. Georgia. I F YOU INTEND TO TRAVEL WRITE TO JOE W. White, Traveling Passenger Agent Georgia Railroad, tor lowest rates, best schedules and quickest time. Prompt attention to all communica tions. T HE GEORGIA RAILROAD. GEOBOIA BAILBOAD OOMPART, Office General Manager, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 18.1886. Commencing Bnnday, 19th Instant, the follow!as passenger schedule will be operated: Trains ran by 90th meridian time. FAST LINE. NO. 27 WEST-DAILY. I NO. 28 EAST-DAILY. L’ve Augusta. 7 45am I L’ve Atlanta ..__-2 45pm L’ve Washington. 7 20am I “ GainaeviUa .A 56om “ Athens..— 7 45am I Ar. Athena 7 40pm M Gainesville.. 5 55am I Ar. Washington.. 7 35pm Ar. Atlanta..—.1 00pm I “ Augusta.—.8 15pm DAY PASSENGER TRAINB. NO. 2 EAST-DAILY. L’ve Atlanta.—.8 00am Ar. Gainesville.. ..8 25pm, '* Athene 5 30pitt ” Washington 2 20pm ” MilledgeviUe...4 13pm “ Macon 6 00pm “ Aagnsta......... 3 35pm NO. 1 WEST-DAILY. L’ve Augusta. 10 BOam ” Maoon.......... 7 10am ’’ MiLledgevilIe.9 38am “ Washington. 11 20aa “ Athens... 9 00am Ar. Gainesville... 8 25pm “ Atlanta ...A 45pm CHANGE OF SCHEDULE —OX THE— PIEDMONT AIK-LINE, Richmond & Danville R. R. A change in the movement of the trains and through cars of the Richmond & Danville R. R. will go Into effec Sunday. March I3:h, at 8.00 a. m. The New Orleans Fast Mall will leave Washing ton at 11.20 a. m , Charlottesville 3 35 p. m., Lynch burg 5.50 p. in., Richmond 3 oo p. m., Danville 8 50 NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAIL. NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. I NO. I WEST-DAILY. L’ve Atlanta 7 30pm I L've Augnsta..0 40pm Ar. Augusta 5 00am I Ar. Atlas ta ......6 loom COVINGTON ACCOMMODATION. L've Atlanta 6 10pm | L’ve Covington..„.5 40am Decatur 6 46pm I “ Decatur .7 2Snm Ar. Covington 8 30pm I Ar. Atlanta. 7 55am DECATUR TRAIN. (Daily except Sunday.) L've Atlanta.«...9 00am | L’ve Decatur..— 9 45am Ar. Decatur 9 30am I Ar. Atlanta 10 15am CLARKSTON TRAIN. L’ve Atlanta 12 10pm I L’ve Clarkston 1 25pm “ Decatur ....12 42pm I “ Decatur.—. 1 48pm Ar. Clarkston... 12 57pm I Ar. Atlanta— ..2 20pm MACON NIGHT EYPRES8 (DAILY). NO 15—WESTWARD 1 NO. 16—EASTWARD. Leave Can. ak 12 50 am Leave Macon 6 30 pm Arrive Macon ... 6 40 am I Arrive Camak....ll 00 pm Trains Noe. 2,1 4 and 8 will, if signaled, atop atm: 7 regular schedule nag station. No connection for Gainesville on Sundays. Train No. 27 will stop at and reoeive passengers to and from the following stations only:Grovetows,Har lem, Dearing,Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Ciawford- ville, Union Point, Greenes boro, Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyem, Lithenia, Stone Mountain aDd Decatur. These trains make cloae con nection for all points east, southeast, west, south west, north and northwest, and carry through sleep ers between Atlanta and Charleston. Train No. 28 will stop at and receive passengers to and from the following stations only: Grovetowa Har- lem, Dearing Thomson, Nerwood, Barnett, Crawford- vilie. Union Pornt, Greeneeboro, Madieon, Rutledge. Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Li thorns. Stone Mountain and Decatur. No. 28 stope at Union Point for sapper. ^Connects at Augnsta for all points east and aonth- 1 GREEN, E. B. DORSEY, Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Pass. Agent. _ JOE W WHITE, ^ Traveling Passenger Agent, Angus: a, Ga.
