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THE PIEDMONT SLOPE.
|lY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN.
July_for you the souks are sung
B* birds tne leafy trees amone :
With meriy caroling* they wane
Tne meadows at the morning's break.
And through the day the lisping breeze
Is woven with their tree-top glees.
For you the prattling, pebbly brooks
Are full of tales like story-books.
For you a fragrant incense burns
Within the garden's blossom urns
Which tempt the bees to hasten home
With honey for their honey-comb.
The river, like a looking-glass,
Reflects tlu lliecy clouds that pass.
I ntll it makes us almost doubt
if earth and sky aren't changed about.
July- for you. in silence deep
The world seems fallen fast asleep,
Save on one glorious holiday.
When all our books we put away
And every little maid and mau
Is proud to be American!
—SL A icholas
The Coming Wine Region.
We invite special attention to an article in
another column entitled, “The l’ieclinont
Slope ” as worth an attentive reading and
careful consideration. The possibilities of this
richly endowed portion of the Union cannot be
over estimated as to the diversification of its
pursuits and industries or the magnitude they
may grow to.
Frank Noland, of Spring 1’lace, Ua., reports
a duck that is not yet a year old that has laid
11'.' eggs. Certainly a “duck” of a fowl.
Layering.
Lay old wood of grape vim s under the earth
now and you will have a lot of fine vines this
fall.
Beos are Profitable.
T. 15. Clegg, of Schley county, G t. has 150
hives of bees, and has sold this year *100 worth
of honey.
Ro-thatching Bald-Heads.
The close of an interesting article on “Jute
and its Uses” will provoke a smile when the
reader is told that “the finest jute of all Is used
for re-thatching bald heads, or for making
those beautiful switches which till the scant
places under the ladies’ big hats.”
Copperas for Crapo Rot.
I believe that copperas is a preventive of
grape rot. In a vineyard in 11 liio, where a
quart to the square rod has been sown in July
for three years, there has been no rot, while
other grapes in the same neighborhood have
retted more or less every year. They former
ly rotted here, too.—M. Crawford, in
mul Fruit Growing.
Tho Famous Cow Electra,
For which her owner, A. J. Cowan, of Ven- I
ango county, I’a , once refused sliiJM'o, was j
sold by him to an I >il City butcher the other
day for Sol), she having been ruined by over-
feeding. Although this cow lias stood at the ,
head of all milk producers in this country a
few years ago, her pedigree was never known. |
She came to Cowan’s farm an estrav- She
was a famous prize winner.—JioaOni lindget
Senator Colquiit's Address.
Senator Alfred If. Colquitt recently deliv- j
ered a lengthy, able and interesting and in- I
structive address on agriculture before the an
nual meeting and barbecue of the Richmond |
County Agricultural Society. Ilis effort had a
perceptibly good effect on h
sincerity and heartiness of f
delivery invests all his addre
impressiveness.
THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1887
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Silk Culture.
Silk culture seems t > have become a leading
industry in various portions of tho country
owing to the heavy demand for good cocoons.
There is no secret in rearing silk worms; all
that is nec ssary is to buy good seed and have
an abundance of food. Leaves from the white
mulberry are the best. Keep the eggs dormant
until the trees leaf out in the spring, after
wards an even temperature, proper feeding and
cleanliness.
The worms thrive on the black mulberry or
osage orange, but the silk is not of so good
quality as that derived from the white species.
Come Back to the Rule of Our Fathers.
< )ur farmers are planting less cotton and to
bacco, more grain and «.rass and clover. This
road if followed will lead back to the good old
days and the good old times of our fathers.
Let them follow without deviation—turning
neither to the right nor left, until they shall be
able to pay cash for what they buy. Pay the
merchant cash—he can then buy his goods
cheaper. Let him keep only his cash book,
and he will not be forced to charge you a long
and ruinous profit on what you buy, in order
that he may save himself in tli9 bad accounts
he bad made with your neighbor, who cannot,
or who will not pay him. Pay cash and keep
your neck out from under the galling, slavish
yoke of liens and mortgages—pay cash and
save the enormous interest which you pay in
profits—nay cash and be independent —Pro
gressive Farmer.
The Inter-State Convention.
That the farmers and planters of t lie South
are beginning to take more interest in their
own afuirs, and to bestow more attention to
both State and Federal legislali )ii as affecting
their interests, we think it to be very clear.
We are glad that it is so. The Progressive
Farmer, published at Raleigh, North Carolina,
speaking of the Inter-State Agricultural Con
vention, which will be held in Atlanta next
Angus*, says:
The indications are most encouraging for a
large convention of farmers at Atlanta, Ga.,
on the Mill of August. (Questions of vital im
portance to the agricultural interests of the
country, and
pecially to those of the ten
Southern States, therein represented, are to be
considered, and we doubt not, most important
results will follow its deliberations. The
broad tiehl of investigation may be compre
hended briefly in the consideration of the evi
dences of depression in agriculture—the causes
of depression and tho remedy for the depres
sion. In the present condition of this greatest
of all our great industries, no theme of greater
magnitude can engage the best thought of our
best minds, or enlist a more patriotic service.
We hope to see every county in our Suite well
represented in that convention. We assume
that special rates will be secured on the vari
ous railroads. Col. Henderson assures us that
the big-hearted city of Atlanta will do its full
duty towards the convention.
And bearing on this important convention,
and matters it may discuss, the New Orleans
Times-Democrat has the following, from a well-
known successful Georgia planter:
Colonel John H. Dent, of Georgia, writes to
the Country Gentleman in reference to the
later-State Convention of farmers, which will
meet at Atlanta, Ga., and advocates a diversi
fied system of agriculture. Our Georgia
friends, it seems, own too much land and do
not keep up with the new methods and im
provements. He advises the division of big
farms into smaller ones, selling them to others,
and thus increase the farming population, im
prove and keep up the fertility of the land.
He says: This is our wisest course, and it
will be done in time, and when done the agri
cultural wealth of the South will be fully de
veloped,. and show to the world the finest agri
cultural country under the sun. I have always
looked upon this all-cotton system of planting
as great a drawback to Southern prosperity as
ever slavery was. The one has been aban
doned; let the other be so also, and the diver
sified system of farming be adopted. The ten
dency is now in that direction, and increasing
every year.
The Future Bordeaux District of
America.
ItY I*. M. WILSON.
A glance at any physical map of the States
of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia will prove the wonderful advan
tages of situation that they possess for grajie
culture. A study of tha geological formation
of the slope along its entire trend, and of the
chemistry of its soil, will satisfy the inquirer
that every variety cf soil of almost every grade
of fertility, is furnished by this sweep of
country, more than a thousand miles in length,
and varying in breadth from fifty to one hun
dred miles. Meteorological observations, ex
tended over a series of years, have demonstrate
ed the mean climate to be all that could be
desired for the growth of vines; and the fruit
ing and ripening of the various varieties of
grapes that are grown in this belt. Humboldt
gives the thermal lim ts of profitable viticul
ture as follows: The mean annual tempera
ture should exceed 111 degrees, the winter tern
perature 08 degrees, ami the mean summer
temperature (54 degrees. These Hunts are at Bor
deanx respectively-'>7 degrees, -1:5 degrees, 71
degrees. In the middle section of the Pied
mont region under consideration, in North
Carolina where observations have been made
in many localities for ten years, under direc
tion of the State Geological Survey, the cor
responding figures are oN degrees, 11 degrees,
71 degrees, and a very judicious French writer
on this subject, Chaveronvier, has observed
that the exceptionally good vintages correspond
to the years in which a high temperature char
acterized the vintage months, while tiie ther
mometer ranged 1 >w in those years which
were marked by inferior vintage; and it is well
known that in our South Atlantic region the
summer temperature usually reaches beyond
the middle of September, to that the average
for that month is 70 degrees. Another cir
cumstance which unmistabably indicates the
climatic adaption of this region, is the great
variety and luxuriance of wild gaapes. It is a
well-known observation that tho best wine
countries in Europe are those in which the
various native and original stocks are indige
nous and abundant.
Rut while climate exercises a controling in
fluence—excluding England, and, for example,
the Northern part of France and of middle Eu
’ rope, ami all of Russia except the Southern
| border, from the wine-producing zone—charac-
! ter of soil is also of the first importance. Thus
in the famous wine-growing district, Medoc,
| France, there are five different grades of wines,
; determined by the difference of soil. The most
! general statement of the relation of soil to
, grape culture is that the vine will thrive on any
1 soil which is permeable to air and water. The
1 French author already cited states that the best
I vineyards are found on soils derived from gran
ites, chists and traps—these rocks containing
j generally all the elements of a favorably con
stituted soil. The region we have described
belongs geologically to the first two classes of
rocks, from whose detrition all its soils are
formed. And the essential quality of permea-
1 bility is secured not only by the physical struct-
I ure of the soils of nearly the whole of this re
gion, but by the steep (lip of the rocky strata
and the rolling hills and broken character of
the surface. Rut that nothing may be wanting
to the complete demonstration of the extraor
dinary concurrence of conditions favorable to
viticulture—four of the most noted American
vines, the Catawba, Isabella, Scuppernong and
Norton’s Virginia originated in the middle of
the South Atlantic slope, not to mention sev
eral other scarcely inferior varieties. The
granites and schists, which are the basis of the
soils in the region we are considering, supply
all the chemical ingredients yf a good grape
soil, Potash, magnesia, lime, oxide of iron,
alumina are continually added to the soil from
the underlying rocks. Liebig calls attention
to tho drain or the wine production upon the
potash of the soil. Transforming some of his
figures—based upon the potash contained in
the wine taken from vineyards on the Rhine—
into our weights and measures, we find that
under average conditions twenty pounds of
potash are removed from eaefi acre of land in
the wine. This would gradually exhaust the
soil. In the Rhine land, Liebig says, “potash
must be used; otherwise the fertility of the soil
decreases.” The granite rocks of our region
are an inexhaustible source whence this im
portant element is continually supplied by the
voluntary offices of nature.
The lay of the land, the land itself and the
climate—not only of the region described, but
of the hills and hillocks into which it slopes
down to the flat lands of the tide-water that
stretch out at their feet—make the whole extent
of these Southern Apalachians the natural
home of the grape.
Southern Silos.
Silos may be built wholly under ground, or
partly below and partly above; when built be
low, the temperature is more uniform, and
that tends to the preservation of tho ensilage;
but, on the contrary, there is some risk of the
seeping in of water, and this necessitates the
having of drain pipes at bottom. A two or
three-inch iron or sewer pipe, with a trap to
prevent air from entering the silo, is called for.
In our climate, where there is little danger of
ensilage freezing in winter, we rather incline
to think that cheap plank silos, built mainly
above ground answer well enough—say four
feet under ground and six or eight above. Set
six or eight-inch posts four feel apart, putting
them at least three feet in the ground; plank
up closely b«*tli inside and outside, and fill up
space between with dirt well rammed in. The
dimension of a silo is quite an important mat
ter; it should be deep and narrow—length un
important—but it should be divided lengthwise
into compartments eight to ten feet long, so
that the ensilage may be taken out of one com
partment without disturbing or exposing that
in another. As ensilage is injured by long ex
posure it is to be avoided. Begin at the top of
a compartment and take off layer after layer
downward. This is the easiest method to get
it out and involves least exposure.—Dr. W. L.
Jones in Southern Cultivator for Mag.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the
bridge over which ho must pass himself; for
every man has need to be forgi/en.—Lord Her
bert of Cherbury.
It is with a fine genius as with a fine fash
ion; all those are displeased at it who are not
able to follow it.—-Pope.
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a
guide to win all the duties of life.—-Addison,
Conscience is at most times a very faithful
and prudent adjnonitor. —Shcnstone.
It is a mere idle declamation about consis
tency to repicsent it as a disgrace to a man to
confess himself wiser to day than yesterday.—
Whately.
Conversation is the music of the mind; an
intellectual orchestra, where all the instru
ments should boar a part, but where none
should play together.—Colton.
Love in modern times, has been the tailor’s
best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth
century spends more than his spare cash on
personal adornments.—Household Words.
It is an impressive truth that sometimes in
the very lowest forms of duty, less than which
would rank a man as a villain, there is, never
theless, the sublimes 1 , ascent of self-sacrifice.—
Dc Quincy.
Eternity, it is surely not necessary to remind
you, invests eveiy state, whether of bliss or of
suffering, with a mysterious and awful impor
tance entirely its own, and is the only property
in the creation which gives that weight and
moment to whatever it attaches compared to
which all sublunary joys and sorrows, all in
terests which know a period, fade into the
most contemptible insignificance.—Robert Hall.
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient,
since that can never be true expediency which
would sasrifice a greater good to a less.—
Whately.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
I reached in
the Brookyn Taber
nacle.
•Curious f ttettf.
A statistical work reports that there are in
Novia Scotia 205 lawyers, 2H8 doctors and 1*18
clergymen. According to this, every hun
dredth full-grown man in the province is en
gaged in one of these professions, one in a little
over 200 being a clergyman.
< >ne of tie strangest uses for snails has been
discovered by the London Adulterator. Bruised
in milk and boiled, they are much used in the
manufacture of cream, and a retired milkman
pronounces them to be the most successful im
itation kmwn.
“A merciful man is merciful to his beast.”
A good farmer of Swansea was on the road, a
few days sinco, and discovered that his horse
had lost a shoe. To prevent breaking the
hoof, he tied on a piece of canvas. When ar-
rivingatthe blacksmith's, lie discovered that
ho had protected the wrong foot.
A chestnut at the foot of Mount Etna is be
lieved to be tho largest and oldest tree in Eu
rope. It is hollow, and large enough to admit
two carriages driving abreast to pass through
it. Tho main trunk has a circumference of
212 feet. The grizzly giant is said to measure
ninety-two feet in height.
It is said that the largest organ in the world
has been built by Walck, of Ludwigsburg, and
placed in the Cathedral of Riga. It measures
thirty-six feet in width, thirty-two feet from
back to front and sixty-five feet in height. It
has not less than *>820 pipes, distributed
among 124 sounding stops.
When a Chinese boy is one month old his
head is shaved and a bladder is drawn over it;
and, as his head grows, the bladder bursts and
the cue sprouts forth. The first shave is made
the occasion of a magnificent banquet; and
the guests are expected to make the host a
handsome present in coin for the newly-shaven
baby, with which a bank account is started to
his credit.
A bridge at Lyons, France, has a stone par
apet, pierced at intervals for light, forming a
passage which plays tho part of a gigantic flute.
Tha rush of the air currents through the open
ings causes the bridge to emit such sounds of
music at different parts of its course that “one
might believe it haunted by legions of invisible
naiads pursuing the passengers with their
plaintive melodies. 1
Prof. Fischer, of Munich, is said to have ob
tained from distilled coal a white chrystalline
powder which, in its action on the system, can
not be distinguished from quinine. Its effica
cy in reducing fever heat is thought to be re
markable, though one of our wholesale drug-
guists says that the amount of the drug re
quired to produce this effect is so large as to
preclude any rivalry between it and genuine
quinine.
The top iz occurs frequently in New South
Wales. A portion of a large, bluish-green
crystal found at Mudges, and low placed in a
-colonial musourn. wcjgiu* several pounds.
()ther specimens weighing several ounces are
by no means rare. They are sometimes two
inches to three inches long and broad in pro
portion. The pale bluish-green tint is the
most prevalent, though crystals aie occasion
ally found of a slightly yellow color.
A fish auction in Holland is one of the odd
est things in the world. As soon as the boat
man reaches port with a load of fish, the fact
is announced by the sounding of a gong. Those
desiring to make purchases repair to the beach,
where ilie fish are piled up in little heaps. The
owner then proceeds to auction them off. In
stead of letting the purchasers do the bidding,
as is done in this country, ire does it himself.
He sings out a price at which he will sell the
lot. If no one takes it, he comes down by
easy stages till within what the purchasers are
willing to pay.
pistoriral.
The Opium Poppy-(Paparer Somni-
ferum.)
There is no difficulty at all in growing the
opium poppy, any more than any similar weed.
This is one of the small industries that The
TimeS'Democrat lias so often recommended.
Any light, well-drained soil moderate fertil
ity, will grow the opium, poppy. All varieties
will make opium, but the best has white blos
soms and white seeds. It should be planted
in rows about three feet apart and the
plants should be given a space of about ten
inches. Cultivation consists in keeping the
soil clean and well stirred. The gum is collec
ted by scarifying the pods or capsules with a
sharp knife and scraping off the hardened gum
which exudes. As it is gathered it is made in
to balls and is ready for market within three
days. It is said that a gentleman residing in
Florida has discovered a process whereby a
much larger amount of opium can be extracted
from the plant and also done so cheaply that
we will be able to compete with the East In
dian product. There can be no reason wiiy we
should not be able to supply our chemists with
all this drug they need, if the new process
turns out to be successful, which we have ev
ery reason to believe to be the case.
After the extraction of the gum the seeds
produce a valuable oil much used in the arts
and sciences. _____
One Acre of Sugar Cane.
There is no reason why every farmer or hor
ticulturist should not grow his acre of sugar
cane and make syrup enough for home use,
besides a surplus to cover expenses, which
could be sold to the neighboring merchants. A
small horse-power mill and evaporator, such
as is Hsed by Northern farmers in making sor
ghum, is all the machinery necessary. Cane
produced in our pine lands is not so large as
that grown in alluvial soils, but what it lacks
in size it makes up in sweetness.
The Vedic hymns are an old Hindostanee
collection of songs dating back probably 4,000
years.
1’rudentius, in the fourth century, set notes
to the breviary, and Flavianus established the
lirst choir at Antioch.
The first stocking frame was invented by
William Lee of Wood borough, Nottingham,
England, in the year 1-jffi).
Egypt declined with the rise of Greece; in
fact she never recovered from the effects ot the
atrocious Persian invasion under Cambyses,
525 R. C.
The earliest parliamentary roll extant is of
the eightetntli, Edward I. It is a grant to the
king, by several peers, for the marriage of his
daughter.
The English wars between the houses of
York and Lancaster are known as the “Wars
of the Roses.” The white rose was the em-
b.cm of York, and the red of Lancaster.
The first auction ever held was in Great Bri
tain in 1700, when Elishur, a Governor of Foit
George, in the East Indies, publicly sold the
goods he had brought home to the highest bid
der.
The first dukes were Edward
Prince, as Duke of Cornwall, and John of
Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. The title was ex-
tinc. in the reign of Elizabeth, and till James I.
made Viliiers Duke of Buckingham.
Geoffrey Hudson, .an English dwarf, was
served up to table in a cold pie, before the king
and queen, by the Duchess of Buckingham in
1020. The whole affair was of course a joke,
but Hudson felt sorely the indignity of his brief
immurement beneath pie-crust.
According to Herodotus, Babylon was a
square fifteen miles on each side, with 1*H) brass
gales. It was composed of twenty-live streets
each way, fifteen miles long and 150 feet broad,
crossing each other at right angles, besides four
half streets, 200 feet wide, facing the walls.
The first book in the Russian language was
printed in Amsterdam in 100'.), and the printer
was given a monopoly of Russian printing by
Peter the Great for fifteen years. It is a sigu-
lar fact that, while the record of the work and
its reward exists, the name of the fortunate
printer has passed into oblivion.
Brookl> .v, June 20—Many of the families
belonging to the church of which the Rev. T
DeWitt, Talmage, D. I)., is pastor, have gone
to the country for the summer, but still the
great throngs of people that for eighteen years
have been seen in and around Brooklyn Taber
nacle on Sabbath days, are found there. It is es
timated that about three hundred thousand
strangers have visited this church during tha
last year. The hymn sung this morning was
“Salvation, O, the joyful sound!
’Tis pleasant to our ears;
A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.”
Dr. Talmage’s text was: “He was a mighty
huntor before the Lord.”—Genesis: x. D. He
said:
In our day, hunting is a sport; but in the
lands and the times invested with wild beasts,
it was a matter of life or death with the people.
It was very different from going out on a sun
shiny afternoon with a patent breach-loader,
to shoot ree i-birds on the Hats, when Pollux
and Achilles and Diomedes went out to clear
the land of lions and tigers and bears. My
text sets forth Nimrod as a hero when it pre
sents him with broad shoulders and shaggy
apparel and sun-browned face, and arm
bunched with muscle—“a mighty hunter be
fore the Lord.'” I think he used the bow and
the arrow, with great success practicing arch
ery.
1 nave thought if it is such a grand thin
and such a brave thing to clear wild beasts out
of a country, if it is not a better and braver
thing to hunt down and destroy those great
evils of society that are stalking the land with
fierce eye and bloody paw, and sharp tusk ami
quick spring. I have wondered if there is not
such a thing as gospel hunting, by which those
who have been flying from the truth may be
captured for God and heaven. The Lord Je
sus in His sermon used the art of angling for
an illustration when ho said: “I will make
you fishers of men.” And so I think I have
authority for using hunting a* an illustration
of gospel truth; and I pray God that there may
be many a mail in this congregation who shall
begin to study gospel archerv, of whom it
may, after awhile, be said: “He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord.”
How much awkward Christian work there is
done in the world! How many good peoph
there are wli«> drive souls away from Christ
instead of bringing them to Him! religious
blunderers who upset more than they right.
Their gun has a crooked barrel, and kicks as it
goes off. They are like a clumsy comrade who
goes along with skillful hunters; at the very
moment he ought to be most quiet, he is crack
ing an alder or falling over a log and frighten
ing away tin* game. How few Christian peo
ple have ever learned the lesson of which 1
read at the beginning of the service, how that
the Lord Jesus Christ at the well went from
talking about a cup of w'ater to the most prac-
t cal religious truths, which won the woman’s
soul for God! Jesus in the wilderness was
breaking bread to the people. I think it was
good bread, it was very light bread, and the
yeast bad done its work thoroughly. Christ,
after lie had broken the bread, said to the peo
ple: “Beware of the yeast, or of the leaven,
of the Pharisees!” So natural a transition
it was; and how easily they all understood
Him! But hjw few Christian people
who understand how t9 fasten the truths
of God and religion to the souls of men!
Truman Osborne, one of the evangelists
who went through this country some years
airo, had a wonderful art in the right direction.
IIq came to my father’s house one day, and
while we were ail seated in the room, lie said:
“Mr. Talmas* v "are all your children Chris-
Then Truman oslorne looked down into the
lire plr.ee, and began to tell a story of a storm
that came on the oiountams and all the sheep
were in the fold; Jilt there was one lamb out
side that perishei in the storm. Had he look
ed me in the eye, I should have been angered
when he told me bat story, but he looked into
the lire-place, anc it was so pathetically and
beautifully done hat I never found any peace
until I was sure was inside the fold, where
the other sheep arc.
The archers of old times studied their art.
They were very precise in the matter. The
old books gave special directions m to bow the
archer should go, and as to what an archer
should do. He must stand erect and linn, his
left foot a little in advance of his right foot.
With his left hand he must take hold of the
bow in the middle, and then with the three
fingers and the thumb of bis right hand lie
should lay hold of the arrow and affix it to the
string—so precise was the direction given. But
bow clumsy we are about religious work! How
little skill and care we exercise! How often
our arrows miss the mark! *), that we might
learn tho art of doing good aud become
“mighty hunters before the Lord!”
In the lirst {dace, if you want to be effectual
in doing good, you must be very sure of your
weapon. There was something very fascinat
ing about the archery of olden times. Perhaps
you do not know what they could do with the
bow and arrow. Why the chief bitlles fought
by the Engli-h Piantagenets were witli the
long bow. They would take the arrow of pol
ished wood, a id feather it with the plume of a
bird, and then it would fly from the bow-string
of plaited silk. The broad fields of Agincourt,
and Solway Moss, and Neville’s Cross, heard
the loud thrum of the archer’s bow-string.
Now, my Chris.ian friends, we have a
mightier weapon than that. It is the arrow of
the gospel; it is a sharp arraw; it is a straight
arrow; it is feathered from the wing of the
dove of God’s Spirit; it Hies from a bow made
out of the wood of the cross. As far as I can
estimate or calculate, it has brought down four
hundred million souls. Paul knew how to
bring the notch of that arrow on to that bow
string, and its whirl was heard through tl
pate every slave, and ransom every nation. Ye
Christian men and women who go out this af
ternoon to do Christian work, as you go into
the Sunday schools, and the lay preaching sta
tions and the penitentiaries, and the asylums,
I want you to feel that you bear in your hand
a weapon, compared with which the lightning
has no speed, and the avalanches have no heft,
and the thunderbolts of heaven have no power;
it is the arrow of ihe omnipotent gospel. Take
careful aim. Pull the arrow clear back until
the head strikes bow. Then let it fly. And
may the slain of the Lord be many.
Again, if you want to be skillful in spiritual
hunting, you must hunt in unfrequented and
secluded p'aces. Why does the hunter go
three or four days in the Pennsylvania forests
or over Raquette lake into the wilds of the Ai-
irondacks! It is the only way to do. The
deer are shy, and one “bang” of the gun clears
the forest. From the California stage you see,
as you go over the plains, here and there, a
coyote trotting along, almost within range of
the gun—sometimes quite within range of it.
No one cares for that; it is worthless. The
good game is hidden and secluded. Every
hunter knows that. So, many of the souls
that will be of mo3t worth for Christ, and of
most value to the church, are secluded. They
do not come in your way. You will have to
go where they are. Yonder they are down in
that cellar, yonder they are up in that garret.
Far away from the door of any church, the
gospel arrow has not 'been pointed at them.
The tract distributor and the city missionary
sometimes just catch a glimpse of them, as a
hunter through the trees gets a momentary
sight of a partridge or roebuck. The trouble
is we are waiting for the game to come to us.
We are not good hunters. We are standing
in Sjhermerhorn street, expecting that the
timid antelope will come up and eat out of our
hand. We are expecting that the prarie-fowl
will light on our church people. It is not their
habit. If the church should wait ten millions
of years for the world to come in and be saved,
it will wait in vain. The worid will not come.
What the church wants now is to lift their feet
from damask ottomans, and put them in t,he
stirrup*. We want a pulpit on wheels. The
church wants r.ot so much cushions as it wants
saddle-bags and arrows. We have got to put
aside the gown and the kid gloves, and put on
the hunting shirt. We have been iishing so
long in the brooks that run under the shadow
of the church that the fish know us, and they
avoid tho hook, and escape as soon as we
come to the bank, while yonder is Upper
Saranac and Big Tupfier’s lake, where the
first swing of the gospel net would break
it for the multitude of the fishes. There
is outside work to be done. What is that
I see in the backwoods? It is a tent.
The hunters have made a clearing and
camped out. What do they care if they
have wet feet, or if they have nothing but
a pine branch for a pilllow, or for the
northeast storm? If a moose in the darkness
steps into the lake to drink, they hear it right
away. If a loon cry in the midnight, they
hear it. So in the serv ce of God we have ex
posed work. We have got to camp out and
rough it. We are putting all our care on the
seventy thousand people of Brooklyn, who,
they say, come to church. What are we doing
for the seven hundred thousand that do not
come? Have they no souls? Are they sinless
tha' they need no pardon? Are there no dead
in their houses that they need no comfort?
Are they cut off from < iod, to go into eternity
—no wing to bear them, no light to cheer
them, to welcome to greet them' I hear to
day surging up from the lower depths of
Brooklyn a groan that comes through our
Christian assemblages and through our Chris-
tian churches; and it blots out all this scene
from my eyes to-day, as by the mists of a great
Niagara, for tbe dash and the plunge of these
great torrents of life dropping down info the
fathomless and thundering abyss of suffering
and woe. I sometimes think that just as God
blotted out the church of Thyatyr* and Corinth
and Laodicea. because of their sloth and sto
lidity, he will blot out American and English
Christianity, and raise on the ruins a stalwart,
wide awake, missionary church, that can take
the full meaning of that command: “Go into
all the world and preach the Gospel to every
creature. He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall
be damned.”
• 1 renlark, further, if you want to succeed in
gospel hunting you must have courage. If the
hunter stand with trembling band or shoulder
that flinches with fear, instead of his taking
the catamount, the catamount takes him.
What would become of the Greenlander if.
when cut hunting for the bear, he should
spiritual stature. In other words, the first
thing in preparation for Christian work is per
sonal consecration.
“Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and Heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the lamb.”
I am sure that there are some here who at
some time have been hit by the gospel arrow.
You felt the wound of that conviction, and you
plunged into the world deeper; just as the stag,
when the hounds are after it, plunges into
Scroon lake expecting in that way to escape.
Jesus Christ is on your track to-day, impeni
tent man 1—notin wrath, but in mercy. Oh!
ye chased and panting souls! here is the stream
of God’s mercy and salvation, where you may
cool your thirst. Stop that chase of sin to day.
By the red fountain that leaped from the heart
of my Lord, I bid you stop. There is mercy
for you—mercy that pardons; mercy that
heals; everlasting mercy. Is there in all this
house any one who can refuse the offer that
comes from the heart of the dying Son of God *
There is in a forest in Germany, a place they
call the “deer leap”—two crags about eighteen
yards apart, between, a fearful chasm. This is
called the “deer leap,” because once a hunter
was on the track of a deer; it came to one of
these crags; there was no escape for it from
the pursuit of the hunter, and in utter despair
it ga Jiered itself up, aud in the death agony
attempted to jump across. Of course, it fell,
and was dashed on the rocks far beneath.
Here is a path to heaven. It is plain; it is
safe. Jesus marks it out for every man to
walk in. But here is a man who says: 4 I
won’t walk in that path; I will take my own
way.” He comes on up until he confronts the
chasm that divides the soul from heaven.
Now, his last hour has come, and he resolves
that he will leap that chasm, from the heights
of earth, to the heights of heaven. Stand baek,
now, and give him full swing, for no soul ever
did that successfully. Let him try. Jump!
Jump! He misses the mark, and lie goes down,
depth below depth, “destroyed without reme
dy.” Men! angels! devils! what shall we call
that place of awful catastrophe? Let it be
known forever as “The Sinner’s Death Leap.”
It is said that when Charlemagne’s host was
overpowered by three armies of the Saracens
in tbe Pass of Roncevalles, his warrior, Ro
land, in terrible earnestness, seized a trumpet,
and blew it with such terrilic strength that the
opposing army reeled back with terror, but at
the third blast ot the trumpet it broke in two.
I see your soul fiercely assailed by all powers
of earth and hell. I put tbe mightier trumpet
of tho gospel to my lips, and I blow it three
times. Blast tbe lirst—“Whosoever will, let
him come.” Blast the second—“Seek ye the
Lord while He may be found ” Blast the
third—“Now is the accepted time; now is the
day of salvation.” Does not the host of your
sins fall back' But the trumpet does not, like
that of Roland, break in two. As it was hand
ed down to us from tbe lips of our fathers, we
hand it down to the lips of our children, and
tell them to sjund it when we are dead, that
all the generations of men may know that our
God is a pardoning God, a sympathetic God, a
loving God, and that more to Him than the
anthems of heaven, more tD Him than the
throne on which he sits, more to Him than are
the temples of celestial worship, is the joy of
seeing the wanderer putting his hand on the
door-latch of his Father's hi use. Hear it, all
ye nations! Bread for the worst hunger. Med
icine for the worst sickness. Light for the
thickest darkness. Harbor for the worst
storm.
Dr. Prime, in his book of wonderful interest
entitled “Around the World,” describes a
tomb in India of marvellous architecture.
Twenty thousand men were twenty-two years
in erecting that and the buildings around it.
Standing at that tomb, if you speak or sing, af
ter you have ceased you hear the echo coining
from a height of one hundred -and Hfty feet.
It is not like oilier echoes. The sound is
drawn out in sweet prolongation, as though the
angels of God were chanting on the wing.
How many souls here to-day, in the tomb of
sin, will lift up the voice of penitence and
prayer? if now they would cry unto God, the
echo would drop from afar—not struck from
the marble cupola of an earthly mausoleum,
but sounding baek from the warm hearts oi
angels, Hying with the news; for there is joy
among the angels of God over one sinner that
repenteth.
An Eloquont Sermon by Rev. A. A. Lips*
comb.
Athens, Ga., June 27.—The Lucy Cobb
commencement opened on Sunday with an elo
quent sermon by Rev. A. A. Lipscomb, at oe-
ney Stovall Chapel. The music was very One.
The choir was composed of pupils of the scuool
and local talent. Monday was Longfellow day.
The programme, started by music, was a skuten
of “Longfellow,” Miss Huunicntt; “H'S hirst
I’oem,” Miss Iiorsey; “Rainy Day, Miss
llook; “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Miss Gray; An-
ecdotes of Longfellow," Miss West; "
of Hesperious,” Miss Harris; “Clock on the
Stair,” Miss Price. Kmay—“ Evangeline,^
Miss (tarter; “Recollections of Longfellow,
Miss Perkins; “Hiawatha," Mrs. Ilarr; Wed
ding of Hiawatha," Miss Rantgbar.; “Ihe Fam
ine,” Miss Bernard. Piano trio, Misses West,
Howell and Drake. Then followed the con
test for the sophomore elocution medal. Eleven
contested. Popular opinion favored Miss
Lumpkin. The evening programme was most
attractive, and drew a packed bouse. I he cal-
isthenic drill, in six parts, was the poetry’ of
motion, and “The Music of Grace,’ Miss Mell
organist, Miss Harriett pianist. A charming
operetta concluled the performance.
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Tbe South has not asked for tbe return of |
stand shivering with terror on an iceberg ?, heT captured battle flags. Let that fact be re-
Wbat would have become of DuChaillu and membered lastingly to her credit. If the l.egi.s- I
Livingstone in tbe African thicket, with a faint
heart and a weak knee? When a panther
comes within twenty paces of you, and it has
its eye on you, and it lias squatted f*>r the
fearful spring, “Steady there.”
Courage, () ye spiritual hunters! There are
great monsters of iniquity prowling all around
about tho community. Shall we not in the
strength of God go forth and combat them?
We not only need more heart, but more back
bone. What is the church of God that it
should fear to look in the eye any transgres
sor? 'There is the Bengal tiger of drunken
ness that prowls around, and instead of at
tacking it, liow many of us hide under tbe
church pew or tbe communion table! There
is so much invested in it we are afraid to as
sault i‘; millions of dollars in barrels, in vats,
in spigots, in corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble lloors and Italian-top tab es and chased
ice-coolers, and in the strychnine, and the log
wood, and tho tartaric acid, and the mix vom
ica, that go to make up the “pure’’ American
drinks. I looked with wondering eyes at the
“Heidelburg tun.” It is tbe great liquor vat
of Germany, which is said to hold eight hun
dred hogsheads of wine, and only three times
in a hundred years has it been filled. But, as
I stood and looked at it, I said to mysel:
“That is nothing—eight hundred hogsheads.
Why, our American vat holds four million five
hundred thousand barrels of strong drinks,
and we keep three hundred thousand men
with nothing to do but to see that it is filled.”
(>h, to attack this great monster of intemper
ance, and tbe kindred monsters of fraud and
uncleanness, requires you to rally all your
Christian courage. Through the press, through
the pulpit, through the platform, you must as
sault it. Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together, not for crack-
braiied fanaticism, but for holy Christian re
form. I think it was in 17'.*•'! that, there went
out from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign,
I the greatest hunting party that was ever pro
jected. There were ten thousand armed men
111 that hunting party. There were camels, and
horses, and eiephai ts. On some princes rode,
and royal ladies, under exquisi'e housings, ami
five hundred coolies waited upon the train, and
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the desolate places of India were invaded by
this excursion, and the rhinoceros and deer
and elephant fell under the stroke of the saber
and bullet. After awhile the party brought
back trophies worth fifty thousand rupees,
having loft the wilderness of India ghastly
with Lite slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to
God that instead of here and tiiere a straggler
iroinsr out to fight these great monsters of in-
je list, includes all the principal Souther
! papers. We can certify that not one of these
| has suggested the insuring of that order for the
I restore 1 ion of battle flags, which has been so
| promptly and wisely followed by its cancella
tion. The meteorite which was reported to
I have fallen in a Western State some days ago
j did not cause more astonishment among the
| farmers of the vicinage than tho promulgation
j of this order among those Southerners who are
living wholly in tbe present and trying very
I bard to forget the past. 'They are too much
preoccupied with their promising crops, their
mine openings, their new foundries and facto
ries, their real estate speculations, to take any
interest in sentimental questions. They have
as little time for sentiment as for sectionalism.
Business is the consuming passion of the
South just now. She leaves the North to ex
cite herself over the disposition of relics of a
bygone age, while she concentrates all her own
interest and energies ou practical and living is
sues.
We can not state this fact too emphatically,
for the tone of some of our Northern contem
poraries shows that they do not yet appreciate
the peaceful, passive and contented feelings of
the South in relation to union and brotherhood.
They have seized upon this ‘‘battle Hag inci
dent,” as tbe sensation of an hour is called for
want of a better name, to say things about the
South which were perhaps true enough at the
close of the civil war, and belore time had be
gun to do its healing work, but which are
wholly inapplicable now.
That man must be unwilling to look truth in
the face who cannot see that the South is to
day as truly a part oi' the Union, one and in
separable, not only geographically ai.d politic
ally, but in tbe hearts and minds of her people,
as the North or tbe West. If an intelligent,
artial judge should carefully study th
Corinthian the a res, and through the court- ! iquity in our country, the million membership
A Terrible Shock.
Henry W. Grady does not want to be vice
president. All right, Grady, we won’t force
it on*you; but your refusal to take the office,
when all you had to do was to say the word
and it was yours, is a terrible shock to the
country.—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
A Printer’s Error.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, the printer’s
copy said, but he set it up, sweet are the uses
of advertising. Sweet, indeed, to those who in
sickness and suffering have seen the advertise
ment of some sovereign remedy, which upon
trial has brought them from death’s door.
“The best thing I ever saw in my paper was
the advertisement of Dr. Bierce’s ‘Golden
Medical Discovery’ ” is again and again the
testimony of those who have been healed by it
of lung disease, broLchial affections, tumors,
ulcers, liver complaints and the ills to which
tlesh is heir.
the Black j room, until the knees of Felix knocked togeth
er. It was that arrow that struck in Luther’s
heart, when he cried out: “O, my sins! <>,
my sins!” If it strike a mail in the head, it
kills his skepticism; if it strike him in the heel,
it will turn his step; if it strike him in the
heart, he throws up his hands, as did one of
old when wounded in the battle, crying: “O,
Galilean, thou has conquered.”
In the armory of the earl of Pembroke there
are old corslets which show that the arrow of
the English used to go through the breastplate,
through the body of the warrior and out
through the bacxplate. What a symbol of
that gospel which is sharper than a two-edged
sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of soul
aud body, and of the joints and marrow!
Would to God wo had more faith in that gos
pel! The humblest man in this house, if he
had enough faith in him, could bring a hun
dred souls to Jesus—perhaps five hundred.
Just in proportion as this age seems to believe
less and less in it, I believe more and more in
it. What are men about that they will no«t
accept their own deliverance? There is noth
ing proposed by men that can do anything like
this gospel. The religion of Ralph Waldo
Emerson is the philosophy of icicles; the relig
ion of Theodore Parker was a sirocco of the
desert covering up the soul with dry sand, the
religion of Renan is the romance of believing
nothing; the religion of Thomas Carlyle is only
a condensed London fog; the religion of the
Huxleys and the Spencers is merely a pedes
tal on which human philosophy sits shivering
in the night of the soul, looking up to the stars,
offering no help to the nations that crouch and
groan at the base. Tell me where there is one
man who has rejected that gospel for another,
who is thoroughly satisfied, and helped, and
contented in his skepticism, and I will take
the car tomorrow and ride live hundred miles
to see him. The full power of the gospel has
not yet been touched. As a sportsman throws
up his hand aud catches the ball flying through
the air, just so easily will this gospel after a
while catch this round w 0 r d flying from its
orbit and bring it back to the heart of Christ.
Give it full swing, and it will pardon every sin,
heal every wound, cure every trouble, ernanci-
- of our churches would band together and hew
in twain these great crimes that make tho land
1 rightful with the!r roar and are fattening upon
the bodies and souls of immortal men. Who
is ready for such a party as that? Who will
be a mighty hunter for the Lord?
I remark again: If you want to be success
ful in spiritual hunting, you need not only
bring down the game, but bring it in. I think
one of tho most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen is bis “Autumn.” It represents a sports
man coming home and standing under a grape
vine. He has a staff over his shoulder, and on
the other end of that staff are hung a rabbit
and a brace of birds. Every hunter brings
home the game. No one would think of bring
ing down a reindeer or whipping up a stream
of trout and letting them lie in the woods. At
eventide the camp is adorned with the treas
ures of the forest, baak and fin and antler.
li you go out to hunt for immortal souls, not
only bring them down under the arrow of the
gospel, but bring them into the church of God,
the grand home and encampment we have
pitched this side the skies. Fetch them in; do
not let them lie out in the open field. They
need our prayers and sympathies and help.
That is the meaning of the church of God—
help. O, ye hunters for the Lord !—not only
bring down the game, but bring it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well that for
seven years he never went in-doors, what en
thusiasm ought we to have who are hunting for
ininit rial souls! If Domitian practiced archery
until he could stand a boy down in the Roman
amphitheatre, with a hand out, the fingers out
stretched, and then the king could shoot an ar
row between the fingers without wounding
them, to what drill and what practice ought
not we to subject ourselves in order to become
spiritual archers and “mighty hunters before
the Lord!” But let me say you will never
work any better thaa you pray. The old arch
ers took the bow, put one end of it down be
side the foot, elevated the other end, and it
was the rule that the bow should be just the
size of the archer; if it were just his size, then
he would go into the battle with confidence.
Let me say that your power to project good in
the world will correspoudexactly to your own
deucie-j of sections, as exhibited by many signs
and tokens since I s 70, he would look for Urn
next movement of dissatisfaction and revolt to
tho West and not to the South < )ue thing is
certain. The South will not again, in our day,
attempt to shape tho policy of the Federal gov
ernment. The period of her ascendancy has
passed. Henceforth she will co-operate less
ambitiously and more happily with the other
great divisions of the republic.
But it is now probable that the mighty West
will develop a sectionalism more and more in
tense. If there is any danger of disintegration
it may be looked for in that quarter. It seems
to be now only a question of time when tiie
Western States will have working majorities
in both houses of Congress. New States are
being rapidly carved ou: of Western Territo
ries, and before many years they wiil equal, if
they do not oui-number, the States which may
be properly classified as Northern and South
ern. It may be expected that these Western
States, at no distant time, will be able to
choose a majority of the electoral coilege.
From that day forth, if united, they will own
or control Presidents as well as Congresses.
We do not speak of these indications in the
spirit of alarmist. N o man of sense will take
fright or borrow trouble from a possibility now
so far removed, as the triumph of Western sec
tionalism over the feelings aud interests of the
North aud South. If it is absurd to attach any
present importance to those signs of sectional
ambition w hich are cropping out in the West,
it is even more foolish to persist in imagining
that the South is dreaming of aught else than
a sincere and hearty concurrence with both
the North and West in all that can promote
the common good.
The Beginning; of the Knd.
The beginning of disease is a slight debility
• or disorder of some of tiie vital organs, the
stomach, the liver or the bowels usually.
There are dyspeptic symptoms, the liver is
troublesome, the skin grows tawney and un
healthy looking, there are pains in the right
side or through Ihe right shoulder blade. Thu
climax is often an utter prostration of the
physical energies, perhaps a fatal issue. But
NO 15—WESTWARD
Leave Caaak 12 50 am J Leave Bacon o iu pm
Arrive Macon ... 6 4u am | Arrive C«un.ik....ll 00 pin
Trains Nos. 2. 1. 4 and 3 will, if signaled, stop at a j
regular schedule flag station.
No connection for Gainesville ou Sundays.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passengers f o
and from the following stations only:Grovetown,Har
lem, Hearing. Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford-
vi lie, Union Point, Greenes boro, Madison, Rutledge.
Social Circle. Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, Sto. e
Mountain ami Decatur.
Train No. 28 will stop at ».ud receive passengers to
ami from the following stations only: Grovetown Har
lem, Hearing, Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford-
villo. Union Point, Greeneeboro, Madison, Itut.'edge,
Social Ciicle, Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, bio. e
Mountain and Decatur.
No. 28 stops at Harlem for supper.
1. W. GREEN, E. K. DORSEY.
Gen’l Manager. Gen’l i’aas. Agent.
JOE W WHITE,
Traveling Fassenger Agent,
Augusta. Ga.
piKDMONT AIR-LINE ROUTE.
Richmond & Danville r. r co.
CONDENSED SCHEDULL IN EFFECT MAY 29, 1887.
Trains run by 75th Meridian tliiie—Oae hour faster
than 90fb Meridian time.
Northbound. No. 5 i - uailv- No . w .
Leave Atlanta - - 7 00 pm 8 40 am
12 pm 10; am
Arrive Gainesville - - - -
“ Lula - -- -- -- -- --
*• Toccoa 10 4o pm
“ Seneca - -- -- -- -- 11 as pm
“ Easley 12 37 am
“ Greenville 1 04 am
“ Spartanburg 2 l*j am
Leave Spartanburg 2 to am
Arrive Tyron - - - • 4 07 am
Saluda 4 57 am
“ Fiat It >ck ------- ;;7 am
“ Hendersonville : aoi
“ Asheville 7 • 0 am
“ Her Springs imm am
Leave Spartanburg - 2 1;' an.
Arrive Gaffney .--- 3 1 ♦; am
* 4 Gastonia - - - - 2» am
“ Charlotte - -- -- -- u5 am
“ Salisbury 6 -ts am
“ Raleigh - - 2 lu pin
“ Goldsooro’ - 4 ::•» pm
“ Greensboro’ ----- 8 is am
“ Danville 10 lu am
“ Richmond - 3 50 pm
“ Lynchburg ------ 1 13 p m
“ Charlottesville - - - - 3 40 pm
“ Washington 8 23 pm
“ Biltiinort 11 25 pm
“ Bhiladelphia
York ■
6 20
ith llostetter’.s
ivs effective as
►rted to at an
to ap-
pient effects
real
if the difficulty is met in tune 1
Stomach Bitters, which is alw
a remedy, and it should be res
early stage, there w ill be no
prehend those injurious subf
upon the system often entailed' by entirely
eureddiseases. Far better is it, also, to em
ploy this safe remedial agent in fever and
ague, and other malarial complaints, than
tjuifiine and other potent drugs, which, even
when they do prove effectual for a time, ruin
the stomach and impair the general health.
Southbound.
Leave New York 4 15 am
“ i’uiladelpula 7 20 am
“ Baltimore 9 45 am
“ Wasutngton - - h j 1
“ Cnarlottesville - - - - 3 35 pm
“ Lynchburg 5 50 pm
“ R.chmond 3 00 ora
“ Danville 8 50 pm
“ Greensboro’ 10 44 pm
“ Goldsboro’ 12 30 am
“ R ;lelgh - - 5 30 pm
8 tlisbury 12 39 am
“ Charlotte ------- o 25 am
“ Gastouia 3 24 mu
“ Gaffney’s 4 50 am
Arrive Spartanburg 5 iiril
Ls-ve Hot Springs 7 00 pm
•* Asheville y 4 j iiIn
HendersoDAllle - - - - 11 it pm
11 23 pm
“ Flat IFck - - -
“ Saluda
“ Tyron
Arrive rfpartauburg - -
Leave Spartanburg - -
•* Greenville - - -
“ Easley
“ Seneca - - - -
“ Toccoa - - - -
J; u ! a ‘ - -- -- -- -- 11 04 am
. Gainesville 11 26 am
Arrive Atlanta 1 20 om
* Daily except Saturn ay7
11 53 pin
12 39 am
- - - 2 10 am
- - - 5 36 am
- - - 6 50 am
- - - 7 15 am
- - - - - 8 40 am
9 46 am
4 48 pm
C 14 p:u
612 pm
7 08 j m
8 22 pm
8 46 pin
10 4<» cm
t Daliy * \cept Sunday.
SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE.
On trains 50 ana 5t Pullaan B iffat Sleeper tie-
tween New York aud Atlanta. L’jiltnau Sleeper be
tween Spartanburg auct Hoi Sprir gs.
On trains 52 and 53 Pudmau Ballet Sleeper be-
tween wasblugtoa aud Montgomery; WasTihgtob
Kmo •JSFnf'w Sleeper between Greens-
xk mon<1 * Greensboro’ and Raleigh.
aiirilSH- l, ® kel8 ou sale at principal stations, to
rates aQd Information apply to aay
agents of the Company, or to
JAS. L. TAYLOR.
xramc Manager. Gen. Pass. Ag’t,
WASHINGTON. D. C.
MUSIC:
Send io cents In sllva* or l cett
sumps for two of the following
r choice pieces of music or 20 cents for
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W*' z-s from Gjpsj Baron.S'rauxs, 7SC.
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EPPiar Tost).
Oar Jack s Corns Home To-day, - . - - Dsvers, i; :
catalogue conMnlne names of over _ uno pieces" 1
ohulcemuMc, soldai 10 cent, a ermv. mailed (ree.
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