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    BaNNER-WATCHMAN ATHENS, HA., OCTOBER 2.°,, 1888.
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TABERNACLE PULI*IT.
REV. DR. TALMAGE’S SUNDAY MORN
ING DISCOURSE.
The Mutlu'iimtlcs of the Holy Scriptures.
Tlie Figure Sovcu Crowned Above All
Others—An Imperial auil Blnltlpotcnt
Numeral.
Brooklyn, Oct. 21. -This morning at
the Tabernacle the Bov. T. De Witt Tal
ma; o, D. !>., gave a running commentary
on t'.io twentieth chapter of Revelation,
oonren.ing the chaining of tiie Old
Dragon. Tl>.o congregation joined in
singing the lamilar hymn of Paul Ger
hart, Loginning:
Givi- io it»e winds thy fears,
Uupaund be undismayed.
Dr. TaLini.'e's rertnon was on “Seven in
the Bible,’’ and his text, Genesis ii, 22:
“God blessed the seventh day.” The
preacher said:
The mathematics of the Bible is notice
able; tlie geometry and the arithemtic;
tho square in Ezekiel; tlie circle spoken
of in Isaiah; tlie curve alluded to in Job;
the rule of fractions mentioned in Daniel; , „ , . .. „ ,
tlie rule of loss and gain in Mark where us ^ 9 ky _, „
Christ asks the people to cipher out by * '
that rule wliat it would “profit a man if
ho gain tlie whole world and loee his
soul. ” But there is
ONE MATHEMATICAL FIGURE
That is crowned above all otliers in the
Bible; it is the numeral seven, which
the Arabians got from India, and all the
following ages have taken from the Ara
bians. It stands between the figure six
and the figure eight. In tho Bible all the
other numerals bow to it. Over three
hundred times is it mentioned in the
Scriptures, either alone or compounded
with other words. In Genesis the week
is rounded into seven days, and I use my
text l >eoause there this numeral is for the
first introduced in a journey whidh
halts not until in the close of the
Book of Revelations its monument
is built into tlie wall of heaven in
chrysolite which in the strata of precious
stones is the seventh. In the Bible wo
find that Jacob liad to serve seven years
to got Rachel, but she was well worth it;
and foretelling the years of prosperity
and famino in Pharaoh's time the seven
fat oxen were eaten up of the seven
iean oxen; and wisdom is said to be built
on seven pillars; and the ark was left
with the Philistines seven years; and
Naainan for the cure of his leprosy
plunged in tho Jordan seven times; the
dead child, when Elisha breathed into
its mouth, signaled its arrival back into
consciousness by sneezing seven times:
to trie bouse that Ezekiel saw
In vision there wero seven steps;
the walls of Jcrloho before they
fell down were compassed seven days;
Zachariah describes a. stone with seven
eyes; to cleanse a leprous house the door
must l)e sprinkled with pigeon's blood
seven times; in Canaan wero overthrown
oeven nations; on one occasion Christ
cast out seven devils; on a mountain he
fed a multitude of people with seven
loaves, tho fragments left filling seven
baskets; and the closing passages of the
Bible are magnificent and overwhelming
with the imagery made up of seven
churches, seven stars, seven candlesticks,
seven seals, seven angels, nnd seven
beads, and seven crowns, and seven
horns, and seven spirits, and seven vials,
and seven plagues, and seven thunders.
Yea, this numeral seven seems a fav
orite with the Divine mind outside as well
as inside the Bible, for ore there not
seven prismatic colors? And when God
with the rainbow wrote the comforting
thought that the world would never liave
another deluge, ho wrote it on the scroll
of the sky in ink of seven colors. He
grouped into the Pleiades seven stars.
Rome, the capital of the world,
sat on seven hills. When God would
make tho most intelligent thing on
earth, the human countenance, he fash
ions it with seven features—the two ears,
tho two eyes, the two nostrils and the
mouth. Yea, our body lasts only seven
years, and we gradually shed it for an
other body after another seven years, and
so on, for we are, as to our bodies, sep
tennial animals. So the numeral Beveu
ranges through nature and through reve
lation. It is tho number of perfection,
and so I use it while I speak of the seven
candlesticks, the seven 6tars, the seven
seals and the seven thunders.
THE SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS
were and are the churches. Mark you,
the churches nevei were, and never can
be, candles. They are only candlesticks.
They are not the light, but they are to
hold the light. A room in the night
might have in it five hundred candle
sticks, and yet you could not see your
hand before your face. The only use of
a candlestick, and the only use of
church, is to hold up the light. You see
it is a dark world, the night of ein, the
night of trouble, the night of superstition,
the night of persecution, tlie night of
poverty, tho night of sickness, the
night of death; aye, about fifty
nights have interlocked their shadows.
The whole race goes stumbling over
prostrated hopes and fallen fortunes,
and empty flour harrels, and desolated
cradles, and deathbeds. Oh, how much
wo have use for all tho seven candle
sticks, with lights blazing from the top
of each one of them! Light of pardon
for all sin! Light of comfort for all
trouble! Light of encouragement for all
despondency! Light of eternal richness
for all poverty 1 Light of rescue for all
persecution! Light of reunion for all
the bereft! Light of heaven for all the
dying! And that light is Christ, who
is the light that shall yet irradiate
the hemispheres. But mark you, when I
say churches arc not candles, but candle
sticks, I cast no slur on candlesticks,
believe in beautiful candlesticks. Tlie
candlesticks that God ordered for the
ancient tabernacle were something ex
quisite. They were a dream of beauty
carved out of loveliness. They were
made of hammered gold, stood in a foot
of gold and had six branches of gold
blooming all along in six lilies of gold
each, and lips of gold from which the
candles lifted their holy fire. And the
best houses in any city ought to bo
the churches—the best built, the
best ventilated, the best swept,
tlie best windowed and the best
ebandeliered. Log cabins may do In
neighborhoods where most of the
people live in log cabins; but let there be
palatial churches for regions where many
of the people live in palaces. Do not
bans a better place for yourself than lor
your Lord and King. Do not live in a
' and put your Christ in a kitchen,
i seven candlesticks of which I speak
were not mode out of pewter or iron;
they were golden candlesticks, and gold
is not only a valuable but a bright metal.
Have everything about your church
bright—your ushers with smiling faces,
your musio jubilant, your baud shaking
cordial, your entire service attractive.
Many people feel that in church they
must look dull in order to be rever
ential, and many whose faces in other
ent phases of emotion, nave in enureft Ho
more expression than the back wheel of
a hearse. Brighten up and be respon
sive. If you feel like weeping, weep.
If you feel like smiling, smile. If you
feel indignant at some wrong assailed
from the pulpit, frown. Do not leave
your naturalness and resiliency home be
cause It is Sunday morning. If as
officers of a church you meet people at
the church door with a black look, and
liavo tlie musio black, and the minister
in black preach a black sermon, and
from invocation to benediction have the
impression black, few will como, and
those who do come will wish they had not
come at all.
Golden candlesticks! Scour up the six
lilies on each branch and know that the
more lovely and bright they are, the
more fit they are to hold tho light. But
a Christlcsa church is a damage to the
world rather than a good. Cromwell
stabled his cavalry liorsee in St. Paul’s
Cathedral, and many now use the church
as a place in which to stable their vani
ties and worldliness. A worldly church
is a candlestick without a candle, and it
had its prototype in St. Sophia, in Con
stantinople, built to the glory of God by
Constantine, but transformed to base
Built
out of colored marble; a cupola with
twenty-four windows soaring to the
height of 180 feet; the ceiling one
great bewilderment of mosaic; gal
leries sapjorted by eight columns of
porphyry and sixty-seven colurns of
green jasper; nine bronze doors with alto-
relievo-work fascinating to the eye of
any artist; vases and vestments encrusted
with all manner of precious stones. Four
walls on fire with indescribable splendor.
Though labor was cheqp the building
cost one million five hundred thousand
dollars. Ecclesiastical structure almost
itqiernatiiral in pomp and majesty. But
Mohammedanism tore down from the
walls of that building all the saintly and
christly images, and high up in the dome
tho figure of tho cross was rubbed out
that the crescent of the barbarous Turk
night bo substituted. A great church
nut no Christ! A gorgeous candlestick
hut no candle! Ten thousand such
-.Lurches would not give tho world
is much light as one homo made
tallow candle by which last night
some grandmother in the eighties
nut on her glasses and read tho Psalms
of David in large type. Up with the
hurches, by all means! Hundreds of
them, thousands of them, nnd the more
lie I jotter. But let each ono be a blaze
)f heavenly light making tlie world
irightcr and brighter till the last shadow
has disnppeared, and the last of the suf
fering children of God shall have reached
tho land where they have no need of
candlestick or “of candle, neither light
of the s"n, for tho Lord God giveth them
light and they shall reign forever and
ever.” Seven candlesticks, the complete
number of lights! “Let your light eo
■bine before men that they seeing your
voods works may glorify your Father
which is in heaven.”
Turn now in your Bible to
THE SEVEN STARS.
We are distinctly told that they are
tho ministers pf religion. Some of them
are large stars, some of them small stare,
some of them sweep a wide circuit and
some of them a small circuit, but eo far
;is they nro genuine they get their light
from the great central sun around whom
they make revolution. Let each one
keep in his own sphere. Tlie solar rys-
tem would soon lxs wrecked if the ctar3
instead of keeping their own orbit should
go to hunting down other stare. Minis
ter; of religion bliould never clash. But
in all the centuries of die Christian church
some of these stars have been hunting an
Edward Irving or a Horace Bushncll oran
Albert Barnes, and tho stars tliat wero In
pursuit of Uio other stars lost their own
orbit, and so^e of them could never
again find it. .Vlas for the heresy hunt
ers ! The best way to destroy error is to
preach the truth. The best way io scat
ter darkness is to strike a light. There
is in immensity room enough for all the
stars, and in the. church room enough
for all the ministers. The ministers who
give up righteousness and tho truth will
get punishment enough anyhow, for they
.ire “the wandering stars for whom is
reserved tho blackness of darkness for
ever.’’ But I should like as a minister,
when I um dying, to be able truthfully
to say what a captain of the English
army, fallen at the head of his col
umn and dying on tho Egyptian battle
field, said to Gen. Wolseley, who came to
condole with him: “I led them straight:
didn’t 1 load them straight, general ?’’
God bus put us ministers as captains in
this battlefield of truth against error.
Great at last will bo our chagrin if we
fall leading the people the wrong way;
but great will bo our gladness if v. hei
tho battle is over we can hand our sword
back to our great Commander, saying:
“Lord Jesus! Wo led the jieoplc straight:
didn’t we lead them straight?’* These
ministers who go oil at a tangent and
preach some other Gospel arc not stars
hut comets, and they flash across tin
heavens a fittlo while and make people
stare, anil throw down a few meteoric
stones, and then go out of sight if not out
of existence, Oh, brethren in tho min
istry, let us remember that God calls us
stars, and our business is to shine and to
keep our own sphere, and then when we
get done trying to light up the darkness
of this world, we will wheel into liiglici
spheres, and in us sliall be fulfilled tin
promise “they that turn, many to right
eousness shall shine as the stars forever
and ever.” Ah! the ministers are not
nil Pecksniffs and canting hypocrites, as
some would have you think! Forgive
me, if having in your presence at other
times glorified the medical profession
and the legal profession and the literary
profession—I glorify my own. I have
seen them in their homes and heard
them in their pulpits, and a grander ar
ray of men never breathed, and the Bible
figure is not strained when it calls them
scare; ana whole constellations of glori
ous ministers have already token their
places on high, where they shine even
brighter
ward
church
copal church: Matthew tjimnson.
Methodist church; John Dowling, of the
Baptist church; Samuel K. Talmagc. of
tho Presbyterian church; Dr. De Witt,
of the Reformed church; John Cham
bers, of the Independent church; and
there I stop, for it so happens that I have
mentioned the raven stars of the seven
churches.
I pass on to another mighty Bible
seven, and they are
until you break that seal; then yod go
until all the seven seals are broken, and
the contents of the entire scroll is re
vealed. Now, that scroll with seven
seals held by the angel was the prophecy
of what was to come on the earth; it
meant that tho knowledge of the future
was with God, and no man and no angel
was worthy to open it; but tho Bible
says Christ openml it and broke all tlie
seven seals. He broke the first seal and
unrolled the scroll, and there was a point
ing of a white horse, and that meant
prosperity and triumph for the Roman
empire, and so it really came to pass that
for ninety years virtuous emperors suc
ceeded each other, Nerva, Trajan and
Antoninus. Christ iu the vision broke
the second seal and unrolled again and
there was a painting of a red horse, and
that meant bloodshed, and so it
really came to pass, and the next
ninety years were red with assassina
tions and ware. Then Christ broko
the third seal and unrolled it
and there was a painting of a black
horse, which in all literature means
famine, oppression and taxation; and so
it really came to pass. Christ went on
until he broko all the seven seals and
opened all tho scroll. Well, the future
of all of us is a sealed scroll, and I am
glad that no one but Christ can open it.
Do not let us join that class of Christians
in our day who are trying to break the
seven seals of the future. They are try
ing to peep into things they have no bus
iness with. They try to foretell what is
going to come to them and what is going
to come on the earth. They know noth
ing about it. Christ is the only one
who can break the seal of the future.
Bible prophecy was not written to
help us to tell things in the future,
but to have us, when the things ac
tually do como to pass, compare them
with prophecy and so learn God’s fore
knowledge and the inspiration of the
Scriptures. But you go into tlie study
of the prophecies in order to find out
what is going to happen a year from
now, or twenty years from now, or one
thousand years from now, and I will
make a prophecy of my own, and that is
that you will have your brain addled, if
you do not positively get into a public or
private insane asylum, where the greatest
of expounders and preachers of prophecy
ended liis life a few years since, and
where you may regale the visitors of the
institution by incoherent mumblings over
something from Daniel or Revelations
about the leopard which means Greece,
and tho bear which means Medo-Pcrsia,
and the image with the great toes. What
a mental wreck did the persistent at
tempt to forestall events make of that
miracle of preachers, Edward Irving, of
London. It would take several mad
houses to bold tho demented victims of
the improper use of the prophecies of
Daniel and Revelation. What! are not
those becks to be studied? Yes. No
fart cf the Bible is more important.
Neither is there any more important
shelf in that apothecary’s store than tlie
shelf on which aro the belladonna and
the morphine, but be more careful in
using them than in the use of jiepper-
mint and ginger. Keep your liauds
off of the seven seals. Christ
will break them soon enough.
Don't go to some necromancer or
spiritualist or soothsayer or fortune teller
to find out what Is going to happen to
yourself, or your family, or your friends.
Wait till Christ breaks the seal to find
out whether in your own personal life or
the life of tho nation or the life of tho
world it is going to be the white horse of
prosperity or the red lioreo of war or the
black horse of famine. You will soon
enough see him paw and hear him neigh.
Take care of tlie present aud the future
will take care of itself. If a man live
seventy years, liis biography is in a scroll
having at least seven seals; and let him
not during the first ten years of his life
try to look into tlie twenties, nor tho
twenties into the thirties, nor the tliirtics
into the forties, nor tlie forties into
tlie fifties, nor the fifties into
the sixties, nor the sixties into the seven
ties. From the way tho years have got
the habit of racing along, I guess you
will not have to wait a great while be
fore all tlie seals of the future are broken.
I would not give two cents to know liow
long J am going to live, or iu what day
cf wliat year the world is going to be de
molished. I would rather give a thou
sand dollars not to know. Suppose some
one could break the uext seal iu the scroll
of your personal history, and should
tell you that on the 4th of
July, 1800, you were to die,
the summer after the next; how much
would you he good for between this and
that? It would from now until then bo
a prolonged funeral. You would be
counting the months and the days, and
your family and friends would be count
ing them; and next 4th of July you would
rub your 1 lands together and whine:
■ ‘One year from today I am to go. Dear
me! I wish no one had told me so long
before. I wish that necromancer had
not broken the seal of the future.” And
meeting some undertaker you would say:
•I hope you will keep youreelf free for
an engagement tho 4th of July, 181)0.
Fliat day you will be needed at my house.
To save time yon might as well take my
measure now, five feet, eleven inches.”
I am glad tliat Christ dropped a thick J {?GDt Et
veil over the hour of our demise and the ' o •, v
hour of tlie world’s destruction when he & IHltll
said: “Of tliat day and hour knowetli no
nan; no, not tlie angels, but my Father
inly.” Keep your hands off the seven
seals.
There is another mighty seven of the
lible, viz.,
THE SEVEN TfUNDERS.
Wliat those thunders meant we are not
told, and there lias beffb much guessing
ibout them; but they are to come, we
ire told, before the end of all things, and
lie world cannot get along without
hem. Thunder is the speech of light
ning. There are evils in oar world
which must he. thundered down, and
which will require at least seven volleys
o prostrate them. We
needdil, alid what* fviu cotoe, is tbs seven
thunders. There is drunkenness backed
up by a capital mightier than to any
other business. Intoxicating liquors
enough in this country to float a navy.
Good grain to tho amount of 67,050,000
bushels annually destroyed to mako the
•deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associ
ations, our nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty millions of dol
lars for rum, resulting in bankruptcy,
disease, pauperism, filth, assassination,
death, illimitable woe. What will stop
them? High license? No. Prohibition
laws? No. Churches? No., Moral
suasion? No.
THUNDERBOLTS WILE DO IT.
Nothing else will. Seven thunders!
Yonder are intrenched infidelity and
atheism with their magazines of litera
ture scoffing at our Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and night.
There are their blaspheming apostles,
theiiylrunken Tom Paines and libertine
Volfcures of tlie present as well as the
past, re enforced by all tho powers of
darkness, from highest demon to lowest
imp. What will extirpate those mon
sters of infidelity and atheism? John
Brown’s shorter catechism about “Whc
made you?” or Westminster catechism
about “Wliat is the chief end of man?”
No. Thunderbolts! The seven tliuu-
ders!
For the impurities of the world ein-
paiaced as well as cellared, epauletted as
well as ragged, enthroned as well as
ditched; for corrupt legislation which at
times makes our state and national capi
tals a hemispheric stencL; for supersti
tions that keep whole nations in squalor,
century after century, their Juggernauts
crushing, their knives lacerating, their
waters drowning, their funeral pyres
burning, the seven thunders.
Oh, men anil women, disheartened at
the bad way things often go, hear you
not a rumbling down tlie sky of heavy
artillery, coming in on our side, the seven
thunders of the Almighty? Don’t let us
try to wield them ourselves; they are
too heavy and too fiery for us to
handle: but God can and God will; and
when nil mercy has failed and all milder
means are exhausted, then judgment will
begin. Thunderbolts! Depend upon it,
that what te not done under the Cash of
the seven candlesticks will bo dono by
the trampling of the seven thunders.
But I l“ave this imperial and multi-
potent numeral seven where the Bible
leaves it, imbedded in the finest wall
that was ever built, or ever will bo con
structed, tho -vail of heaven. It is
THE SEVENTH STRATA
of precious stones that make up that
walk After naming six of the precious
stones in tliat wall, the Bible cries out:
“The seventh chrysolite I” The chryso
lite is an exquisite green, and in that
seventh layer of the heavenly wall shall
be preserved forever the dominant
color of the earth we once inhabited. I
liavo sometimes been saddened at the
thought that this world, according to
science and revelation, is to bo blotted
out of existence, for it is such a beauti-
ful world. But here in this layer of the
heavenly wall, where the numeral seven
is to lie embedded, this strata of green is
to lie photographed, and embalmed and
perpetuated, the color of the grass that
cover; the earth, tlie color of the foliage
that fills the forest, tho color of the deep
sea. Ono glance at that green chryso
lite, a million years after this planet has
lieeu extinguished, will bring to mind
just how it looked iu summer and spring,
and wo will say to those who wero
bom blind on earth, and never
saw ut nil in this world, after they
liavo obtained full eyesight iu heaven:
“If you w.mid know how tho earth ap
peared in Juno and August, look at that
seventh layer of the heavenly wall, the
green of the chrysolite ” And while we
stand there and talk, spirit with spirit,
that old color of tho earth winch had
uu.ro sway than all the other colors put
together, will bring back to us our
earthly exjK-riences, and noticing that
this green chrysolite is tho seventh layer
of crystallized magnificence wo may
bethink ourselves of the domin
ation of tliat numeral seven over
all other numerals, aud thank God
that in the dark earth we left bcliiud us
wo so long enjoyed tho light of the seven
goldeu candlesticks, and were all of us
permitted to shine among tho seven stare
of more or less magnitude, and that all
tlio seven seals of tho mysterious future
have been broken wide open for us by
loving Christ, and that the seven thunders
having done their work have ceased rever
beration, and tliat the numeral seven,
whi ch did such tremendous work in the
history of nations on earth, has been
given such a high place in that Niagara
of colors, the wall of heaven, “the first
foundation of which is jasper; the second,
sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the
fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx
tho sixth, sardius; the seventh, chryso
lite.”
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HAS BEEN IN USE MORE THAN 20 YEARS,
And has always given entire satisfaction in all coses. Young Woman, if you are
suffering from painful Menstruation, try a bottle of Wine of Health,
and you will never be without it.
YOUNG GIRLS
lust turning into Wo iiinVi'l nil ‘li l t^iit t spnritl romvly in such earn. It
perf.-clly sate in nil stages ami conditions. It improves tho
appetite, and restores and builds up the system.
-:-F0R SaLE BY-:
G. W. RUSH & 00
be five si- p-r< tqnallydivfd/du der*th» I}"*
Fi.s>ri; g 10 be 2x12 13 -i le t long. securely JE
te‘>ed down wi-h spikes to door t-l rpes VlJL
be>msio b« fns-r.ed to i l o-igmal brldie,
be sx9,nche N iSfeetl.-JK; Re. fto extend ov»
j tide* 'ID- foot at end of rnt.-rs: One s-t ,f ur i n '\
! pat 1 ft rsupim eacn tie beams 10 be3zi i,, c T.."
All ratters betwo-n the principal rsiu ia .1. h
2x3 at one end. and 2x6 at the o.ner end- „ 11
ter* to be securely oh lied on so as (o’ pr-vJm
blowing oil; Roof to b j lathtd for ahlnaUn* with
:x3 airips, tho same to be covered with good hain
sawed shine le., erd ot foot to extend on •
over end of lattice and to d nish in a neat manniV
Sides to ba covered wuh 3-ixi2 lech p auks ami
joints to be coven d with strii s 3xiz3 iuchts all
securely nailed to each cord, and to • perlite in
center ot lattice: All pine lor lattice to bo m.d,
of best wbitc-oi.k 2 inches in diamenr holding
their size their entire l- n,ih. Tee wtrx to i
d ine in a good workmanlike manner and il.
job to be conpteted by the 15th or Dec" mi,®
next. All tho timh.rs to be gtod Claphrh'^
t mber, as good or b.-tter than the timber*'^
K^ d f c * A, d conir cuu ti
give bond in doable tue amount of his bid with
two good and soiv, ni securities for the lalthiui
performance ot his c mri-act, nnd to idem ji.
said county for any damag> s ot eatloued by a i.if
uro to perform th. s.ma wiMin the i.rc* r.b« i
time, and not to bo paid for until acceuie ■
me or perrons appointed by m e . The right iV
reserved to accept any or reject all bldm thu
29 h September 1883. *•
Asa M. J css st, Ordinary.
ATHENS
•9
GEORGIA
A FULL LINE OF
■SHOE S:-
IN— •
Fall and Winter Styles
From Uit Most Reliable Manufacturers now in Stock at the
One JPrice feslio© Htore
E. I. SMITH & 0< \
Administrator’s Sale.
G EORGIA '-f. kk County -Purs laid to an or
ur,1 ‘“»rToi r«id corny
will be s ad before t' e cum bouse doer 01 stifi
county, n the find T.-e-di.y in November n. It
during lhe legal hot is of sale, ore ioto, oarcVl
oeland Htu-t lying . n ; bell g in The cdy 0 |
Athena l D s id county, on Kota spring ti.
ro .ti. g 9H D ot 0,1 said Rock Spring s eeeiond
lunning hock 2)5 feet to .01 <-i Walter llcctnr
1 * t-g9s r ct fr • t *ttd 94 fed a- ,er ". j ',7 r :
i IS", J. F. .InCKt-n 0:1 «e ' aul Jul,.. vhtj
u • as,—io Ik - id »s ptopei y bebnutue u.
nle Of nobert S .nx-lll. it.-c a td ’.ruts e*.n
(iK'FFETU, ACm’r.
\V,
mg for ouuty purpose , Sept 2*d, isss, or
derail Lliat thu following levies, be ami art- her..
bv made upon tlie State Tax tor ls-slor tne t„i.
lowing comity purposes an 1 necessary county
expenses of said county. ’
. st, To pay tile legal indebtedness of lhe co
due or t<i become due during the year, nr past
due, 1 percent,
2d To build or repair court houses nr jails
bridges or ferries, or other public improvements
according to coutract 32 per cent.
3d To pay Sheriffs. Jailers aud other officers
the fees that they may be entitled to legally out
oi he county, including salary of 1 ity Ju. ge 14
percent,
4th To pay Coroners, .x 2 89 per cent
Mil To pay the expenses oi the county fur
Bailiffs at court nou resident witnesses iu
criminal cases, fuel, serv tils hire, statiouery
aud the like, 5 per cent
otli To pay Jur rs. 8 per cent.
Till To pay expenses incurred in support of tho
poor ana as otherwise provided by the ct
per cent
8th To pay other lawful cb
county 7 per cent. A ny surplus i
tlie above levies to be if uecessary apph
auy lawful charges againsttlie count'
a8AM.JAeKSON.
cooe.b
ful charges against the
surplus raised by any of
if uecessary applied to
oct2w3d.
It Leads! Others Follow
THE LIGItV-lUJNNING
“DOMESTIC.”
/ tOrYI V G it in form and style as nearly as
\ • possible, hereby tacitly acknowledging it the
standard of excellence iu sewing machines. No
matter what dealers may say oi their machines;
see tlie “DOMESTIC" before purchasing; ex
amine its simple. vet splendid mechanism, ob
serve its wi.iiderfidly simple set of attachments
and notice tl;c wide range of work, from the
simples anti most praeticai kind executed, to
the finest embroidery, as 110 other machine can
do it.
Agents wanted in unoccupied territory,
Address,
Domestic’ Sewing Machine Goirp* ny,
RICHMOND, VA.
aug28-Gtn
FOR THE FINEST
Golden Machine Oil,
GO TO
Wade & Sledge’s Drug Store,
The best article known for gin’s, saw mills, &c
than they shone on earth; Etl-
St John in vision saw a scroll with
seven seals, and he beard on angel cry:
“Who is worthy to loose the seals there
of?” Tako eight or ten sheets of fools
cap paper, paste them together and roll
them into a scroll, and have the scroll at
seven different places sealed with sealing
wax. You unroll the scroll till you oome
to one of these seals, aud then you can
go no further until you break that seal;
thon unroll again until you come to an-
entioi, ana many whose faces in omer umuu again unm you como to nu-
Hodi.Qt WgjnMjgftjfegy voi^.cwj iw uofuctapr
CURE
8itk lleadacho and relieve all the troubles incl
dent to a bilious state of the system, such us
_ GRAND
^Summer Sale
^■Organs
ssnuiiM
• -tn liprio... Buy
LUilDEN A R.jjj
I'VJWt!!. Cfl
C larke Sheriff’s Sale—Will he sold in the
city of theus, before the court house door,
on the first Tuesday iu November 1888, the fol
lowing property, to-wit: Ono house and lot In
the city of a thens, and lot containing one half
acre.more or less,and bounded as folmws, on the
south by Jordan < ox, on tlie east by .Vrs J. B.
1 rane. and on the north by Jessie Heard, and
rris street. Said property
iy virtuve of a justice Ufa
rlct G. M. in favor of E. H.
! 1 reiie, and on the north by Jessie Heard, and
i on . the west by Morris street. Said
•evled on under and b:
| sued in the 210 distrl ..
I Hale vs Isaac * iiliams. Said pro. erty levied
! on and to be sold to satisfy said flfa. Levy made
I by h - Porter lawful constable and bv him
u med ove- to me for advertisement and sale,
written notice served on tenant in possession
! t e**t. 29th 1888 J NO. W. WEI It, Sheriff.
Executor’s Sale.
G EORGIA Clabke Oousty:—Penumt to »n
order of t'.e Cou.t of Ordinary of aiiid c unty,
v ill be stud be ore the 'ourt ho ise door of s id
county on the first Tucsdav in November next,
durin the legal hours of shle. the folio viiif pro .<•
eity btlmgiug to tho estiteof Clarke W. Arnold,
line of saiu counts, deceased, to wit:—One ut<dl-
vifitd onemghih iutere-t in a->d to one tr-et
of land si ua e, lying n i b. iuu i. the iou; tv of
Mad is n iu 8aidtstaiecot.tair.bg uire huiidie 1
and »oveiitv-five acrea. On vaiu tract of iautt it
tne mill-house, mill mar him ry ttc—To be sold
for the pm pose 01 diviskn among lhe hi in tt
law and legatees of said deceased.
Terms of sale, cash.
Jrhr» T. Comer, Execute
flEORGIA, CI.ARKK CIUN'TY—Wher-as,
* Mrs. Lllzateih A. Thurtrsnd n.xs applied to-
mo in terms of the law for letters • f administra
tion on the estate ct Miss Salliu Thurmond, lats
ofaaldcoun'y deceased. There are tneretore to
cite and notify a'l couceni'.d to show c us • at
the regular term cf the Court of Ordinary, tc be
held in and for said county on the first Monday
in November next, why such letters shouli not
be rranted. Given und.s mv hand and ofiija
signature, this 27th d«v oi S.-pt. ms:
a8a M, JACKS >N, Ordinary
oc!2*28d.
GEORGIA, CLARKS CObNLY —Whereas,
71O. W. Reynold-, Administrator of toe eiists
of Mrs. Epsy Stafford, deceased, has applied to
me in terms of the law for .elters oi airmDslon
from said estate. These me therefore to ci e
and notify all concerned to show tans- at tne
regular term of the court of Ordinary, to be tel I
in and f ir said count;.- on the fiist M ,-jday in
November next why such dis i.issi .n sh.iul' d t
be granted. Given under my hai d aud . fficial
signature this29th day of tb-ptmab r 1888.
„ Asa. M. JaCKso-s O d narr.
Oct. 2-m-3m-
the ourt House door iu th city ol Atu us.
Clarke county, Georg a, on th t rat Tuesda iu
November 1 8% the following described proper
ty to wit. 0; e house aud 1 tin tlie city of Ath
ene, con aining 1-4 of an acre, more or les , and
bounded as follows: East by lauds of Nuali
Johnson; North by S. Marks estat ; South by
Andy Jackson, and on the W st t y Miller
ztreet. Said property lev ed on as th property
of Phe’-y August, ana by vlrture of a Justce
court flfa of 216 dis r ct, G M , u favor of An y
Jackson. Said pr perty levi d on by t w.
Porter, L C„ and turned over to me f r auver-
tls m ntan : sale ». ltten :■ tice served ou
tenant in possession. Oc.ober 8th. 1S88.
J. W. oE'B.
4t Sheriff.
* g.ATIgi, SoCTlTMtSaflSwlI
UfigThe Cnil P. «o. Dsn!el the I
am all doing Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress artel
led work in 1 ea-Mip. i’alu in thu Si lo, ie. While their miss:
. ^ . t.'markaUlo suectw* uas been shown iu curing
SICK
Res.lacho, Jb*. Carter's Little Liver fills art
equally valuable iu Constipation, curing and p: e
routing thizanuoyitiRcomplaint.while they al«
c trrort all disorders of Iho utomach.stiuinlate t
’iver aud regulate Uio bowels. Even if they o-
HEAD
Jiurclies aud reformatory
igainst the evils of the world, and
much of ft amounts to a teaspoon dipping
out the Atlantic ocean, or a clam shell
figging away at u mountain, or a tack
hammer smiting the Gibraltar. What is
needed is thunderbolts, and at least seven
ot them. There is the long line of
fraudulent commercial establishments;
every stone in the foundation, and every
brick in tho wall, and every nail in the . ... , . .
rafter made out of dishonesty; skeletons ! ™ ,a -V°•ta-fpHmtastottarewt
of poorly paid sewing girls* arms in every
beam of that establishment; human
nerves worked into every figure of that
embroidery; blood in too deep dye of
that coffered upholstery; billions of
dollars of accumulated fraud intrenched
in massive storehouses and stock com
panies manipulated by unscrupu
lous men until the monopoly is de
fiant of all earth and all heaven.
The Toy the Child likes Best
—IB THE—
“ANCHOR”
ta Mig BUi,
Real Stone. Thrco Colorn.
_j*gS“*SaS3sr“
P. Ad. Richter & Co.,
3>Q BROADWAY. NEW YORK.
OCtfiuSlW.UM.
I rum this <lktrcuiiig complaint; but fur:
oticly thelrf»x>du<Miiloca uotcud liere.z-ul thi- *
.• h-> •>!,co try thorn will find tbaae little pills vs! 1.
■...le ill HO many wsyz that they will not be wii.
ling Id do without them. But after all sick heed
ACHE
Is Ibe bane of so many lives that beta is »'\ir
tve uakeour great boast. OurplU»curei»wu...
others do not.
curler's Little Liver Pills aro very small am.
very easy Io take. One or two pills make a tlot-
How shall tho evil be overcome? By * They are strictly vegetable ana do n*»t K'lpp ot
treatises on the maxim; Honesty is toe
best policy? Or by soft repetition ot the
golden rule that we must “do to others
as we would have them do to ns?” No,
it will not bb&aoLe.KBSe-.'WhPiJs
purge, but by Ibelr gentle acUon plenseaU !n.
n«Mh»m. In vials at 25 cents; five fur 81. Sold
by druggists evary where, ur sent by a,iiL
CARTE.. MEDICINE CO., New York,
UM Ute Smallfnsft
G. NNAREAV-.et.ai.
TP.
The Northeastern Rai-
ro&d Company, the Rich
mond A Daniil e Rail
road Company.the Rich
mond <fc W.st Point
Terminal Railway and
Warehouse Company
and tho Central Trust
Company of New York.
It appearing to th -.court that two of the defeu-
da'-ts in the above stated cause to wit-—the
Richmond A West Point Terminal Railway and
Warehouse Cmnoa it, «nd the Central Itusu,
Company of Now York are non resident
corporations without the State of Georgia, and It
further appearing that the Sheriff of said county
has made a return of non est inventus, rs to
'hem, it It then loro eidtrod that said defendants
bo and appear in person, or bj attorney, at the
isxtteim of th-- Superior Court ofClarko coun y
0,1 'he. .eeond Monsanto Novem-
’•(.rlSS-t, then and thereto answer or arakedo-
f- n e to the b'U filed by complainants if a v
d tense they have. J
Or. orcd furh-r, that thi* order be publlehed
nc-: j month lot lour ra.-nths In the Baxn a-
’C**!’ 8 iiovareper t ublDh-d in *a'd 1 N. L. Hutchins
Fquliy in tho Superior
tk.urt ot Clarke Coun
ty, Georgia.
Equity in Clarke
Superior Court.
" UD Tot c;> rkn »ud th reupon s. rvfee oft d
ii »-ad an s.ibt teas be cuusldertd as luily - tr-
I *'.ed in said defendants.
v the Court. In open court, this May 81st.,
^ N. L. HUTCHINS,
Judge.
K. K. Lumpkin, W, B, Burnett, T. W. Rucker.
.1 it Lumpkin, attorneys for complainat tt.
At -uc extract from the mlnntes of Clark-
up r-,.-r Court. Thl» May Slat. 18881
JOHN I. HUGGINS, Clerk,
C L • BKE Sheriff S le.—Will be -old be ore
the t ourt Hous door i Athens, the first
Tuesday in no e her, 1888, tlie fol otvm des
cribed prop rtytowit. One 8-horse pow r At
las engine and boil r, said property levied o by
virtue o a tax flfa, ssuedbyH.il. Linton, Tax
• ollector of clarke • ou ty. lor toe year last.
Said property levied on a the propert of s.
Bexluger & Co., to satisfy th said flfa Property
pointed out by K K Hipkins, General Agent of
S. Itexinger & Co, This October 8th, 1S88.
J. W. W Lilt.
4t Sheriff.
GANN & RE VES,
VS.
The Northeastern R.R < 0.
The Richmond & Danville
Railroad t ompany.
The Piedmont & West
Point Terminal Railway
and Warehousef'o.andthe
Central Trust company of!
New York. J
, It appearing to the court that two of the de
fendants lu the above stated,case towifc: 1 he Rich
moud & West Point Terminal Railway & v» are
house Company, and the Central Trust Compa
ny of New York are non-resident coiporatious
without the State of Georgia. „ . ..
It further appearing that the Sheriff of said
county has made a return of nou est Inventum
as to them.
It Is therefore ordered that said defendants be
and appear In person or by attorney at the next
term of the Superior court of ■ larke county
Georgia to be he! 1 on the Second Monday lu No
vember 1888. then and t -ere to answer ami make
defense to tne BUI filed by tho complainants, if
an. defense they have. ,,, , ,
Ordered further that this order he published
twice a month for two months before said term
of Court In tlie weekly Banner-watchman
a newspaper published in said ounty of Clarke,
and that thereupon service of saidBUI and sub
poena shall be considered as fully perfected ou
said defendants.
At Chambers this a ugust IW B. Burnett,
27th m | t. w. Rocker,
J H. Lumpkin.
^' ounty, Georgia at Le> ington on th firs Tues-
.'', r ? a i!?n!s r court of ordinary 1,1 Novcmbe next, during tho legal ho rs of
Septoibw "»*I^fonowtag PfPp’trto-wtt^oBOact of
Judge Superior court W ■ | Ii K I.uhfkin,
of Georgia ( AUs for < omp's
A true extract from the minutes of lar»c Su
perior Court, This 30th day of August 1888.
John i hi coins,
i lerk C. 8. C.
K i ... ,.
i Monday In October 1888, wUl be-old
- • - -,
b fore tho Court House do
Oglethorpe
term of said couit, will be "sold bsfam tHk
s.S , JtS5o&,;sss, , 2i
pan^ tok sold ' ,ankln - com-
*- fti
l-ndsitu te, lyin and being in said county i f
O lethorue, t- ntaining four hundred and one
and one half acre , and on other tree of land
.situate, lying itn-i neing in said, Oglethorpe ,
containing-hirty-five a res. tcore or less. To be
sold as the property of John Eberhart, la e oi
Ciarke county, tit-ceated, for tlie purpose o*
division among tlie licit 3 a law of said deceased.
Terms <■ sh. Tills 5th day of Octo- er, 188*. ,
oct9w28d, G. IV. RU8H, Adnj’r,