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“FORGIVENESS.”
jftev. Dr. Talmage’s Sermon Last
Sunday Morning
AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Brooklyn, October 23.—[Special.]—The
Dor. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in
She Brooklyn tabernacle this morning on the
Subject: “Forgiveness Before Sundown.”
.liter explaining some passages concerning
Hezekiah, Dr. Talmage gave out the following
try inn, which was sung by the congregation:
“This glorious hope revives
Our courage by tlie way,
While each in ex; ectation lives
And longs to see the day.”
Profesor Henry Eyre Browne rendered on
the organ an aria with variations, by Cramer,
trhe text o£ the sermon was from Ephesus 4:26
e—“ Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”
Dr. Talmage said:
What a pillow embroidered of all colors hath
the dying day I This cradle of clouds from
■Which the sun rises is beautiful enough, but it
Is surpassed by the many-colored mausoleum in
Which at evening it is buried. Sunset among
the mountain I It almost takes one's breath
away to recall the scene. The long shadows
Stretching over the plain make the glory of the
departing light, on the tip-top crags and struck
Sslant through the foliage, the more transpicu
ous. Saffron and gold, purple and crimson
commingled, All the castles of cloud in con
flagration. Burning Moscows in the sky.
Hanging gardens of roses at their deepest
blush. Banners of vapor, red as if from carn
age, in the battle of the elements. The hunter
among the Adirondack.,land the Swiss villager
among the Alps know what is a sunset among
ihe mountains. After a storm at sea
the rolling grandeur into which the sun goes
down to bathe at nightfall is something to
make weird and splendid dreams out of for a
lifetime. Alexander Smith in his poem com
pares the sunset to “the barren beach of hell;”
.put this wonderful spectacle of nature makes
toe think of the burnished wall of heaven.
Paul in prison writing my text remembers
•Some of the gorgeous sunsets among the mount
ains of Asia Minor, and how he had often seen
•the towers of Damascus blaze in the close of
the Oriental days, and he flashes out that
memory in the text when he says: “Let not
the sun go down upon your wrath.”
Sublime and all suggestive duty for people
then and people now. Forgiveness before sun
down. He who never feels the throb of indig
nation is imbecile. He who can walk among
the injustices of the world, inflicted upon him
self and others, without flush of cheek, or flash
Os eye, or agitation of nature, is either in sym
pathy with wrong or semi-idiotic. When
Ananias, the high priest, ordered the con
stables of the courtroom to smite Paul in the
mouth, Paul fired up and said: “God shall
Smite thee, thou whited wall.” In the sen
lenco immediately before my text Paul com
mands the Ephesians: “Be ye angry and sin
aot,” It all depends on what you are mad at
and how long the feeling lasts whether anger
is right or wrong. Life is full of
Saul after David. Succoth
after Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Pasquins
after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ,
And everyone has had his pursuers, and we
arc swindled, or belied, or misrepresented, or
persecuted, or in some way wronged, and the
flanger is that healthful indignation shall be
come baleful suite, and that our feelings settle
flown into a prolonged outpouring of temper
tflispleasing to God and ruinous to ourselves,
and hence the important injunction of the
text, “Let not the sun go down upon your
Avrath.”
Why that limitation to one’s anger? Why
■that period of flaming vapor set to punctuate a
flaming disposition? What lias the sunset got
to do with one’s resentful emotions? Was it a
haphazard sentiment written bv Paul without
special significance? No, no; I think of five
reasons why we should not let the sun set be
fore our temper sets.
toFirst; Because twelve hours is long enough
be cross about any wrong inflicted upon us.
is so exhausting to physical health or
{mental taeulty as a protracted indulgence of
dll-humor. It racks the nervous system, it
[hurts the indigestion, it heats the blood in
[brain and heart until the whole body is first
■overheated and then depressed. Besides that,
lit sours the disposition, turns one aside from
ibis legitimate work, expends energies that
jouglit to bo better employed and does us more
[barm than it does our antagonist. Paul gives
Itis a good, wide allowance of time for legiti
ilnate denunciation, from six o’clock to six
(o’clock, but says: “Stop there!” Watch the
'descending orb of day, and When it reaches
(the horizon take a reef in your disposition.
ICjnloose your collar and cool off.
•ehauge the subject to something delightfully
'pleasant. Unroll your tight fist and shake
hands with some one. Bank up the fires at
the curfew bell. Drive the howling dog of
enmity back to its kennel. The hours of the
morning will pass by, and the afternoon will
arrive, and the sun will begin to sot, and I beg
you on its blazing hearth throw all your feuds,
invectives and satires.
Other things being equal, the man who pre
serves good temper will come out ahead. An
old essayist says that the celebrated Jolm Hen
derson of Bristol, England, was at a dining
party where political excitement ran high and
•the debate got angry, and while Henderson
■was speaking, his opponent, unable to answer
his argument, dashed a glass of wine iu his
fa e, when the speaker deliberately wiped the
liquidfrom his face and said: “This, sir, is a di
gression ; now, if you please, for the main argu
ment.” While worldly philosophy could help
but very few to such equipoise of spirits, the
(grace of God could help any man to such a
[triumph. “Impossible,” you say, “I would
?have cither left, the table in anger or have
knocked the man down.” But I have come to
believe that nothing is impossible if God help,
since what I saw at Beth-Shan faith cure in
London. England, two summersago, While
the religious service was going on, Rev. Dr.
Boardman, glorious man! since gone to his
[heavenly rest, was telling the scores of sicK
nedplc present that Christ was there as of old
io heal all diseases, and that, if they would
only believe, their sickness would depart. I
saw- a woman near me, with hand and arm
twisted of rheumatssin, and her wrist was
fiery of inflammation, and it looked like those
Cases of chronic rheumatism which we have all
Seen and sympathized with, cases beyond ail
human healing. At the preacher’s reiteration
of the words: “Will you believe? Do you
believe? Do you believe now?” I heard this
poor sick woman say, with an emphasis which
Soundedjthrorgh the building: “1 do believe.”
And then she laid her twisted arm and hand
out as straight as your arm and hand, or mine.
If 1 had seen one rise from the
flead I would not have been much more
thrilled. Since then 1 believe that God
•will do anything in answer to our prayer and
fn answer to our faith, and he can heal our
bodies, and if our soul is all twisted and mi—
ahapen of revenge or hate and inflamed with
■einful proclivity, he can straighten that, also,
and make it well and clean. Aye, you will
not postpone till sundown the forgive
ness of enemies if you can realize that their
behavior toward you may l»e put into the cata
logue of the “all things” that “work together
lor good to those tbatqlpve God.” I have had
multitudes of friends, but I have
Mound in my own experience,
that God so arranged it that the greatest
Opportunities of usefulness that have been
opened before were opened by enemies. And
when, years ago, they conspired against me,
that <>i>ened all Christendom to me as a field
In which to preach the gospel. So you may
harness your antagonists to your best interests
and compel them to draw you on to better
•work and higher character. Suppose, instead
of waiting until six minutes past live o’clock
this evening, when the sun will set, you trans
act this glorious work of forgiveness before
meridian.
Again, we ought not to let the sun go down
©n our wrath, because we will sleep better if
■we are at peace with everybody. insomnia is
getting to be one of the most prevalent of dis
orders. How few people retire at ten o'clock
at night and sleep clear through to.-ixin the
Dion.ing. To relieve thi&disoiderall narcotics
and sedatives, and chloral, and bromide of
potassium, and cocaine and into-.: ants are
but nothing is more important then a
■quiet spirit if we would win somnolence. How
ft a man going to sleep when he is in mind
pursuing an enemy? with what nervous twitch
ie v ill start out of a drAun! 1 hot new plan
Tor cornering his foe will keep him
Vide awake while the clock strikes eleven,
twelve, one, two, three, four. I give
♦ou an unfailing prescription for wakefulness:
fc i » <bkA awanine hmiM »ol»ociweil»<r VAtl»
wrongs and tho best way of avenging them.
Hohl a convention of friends on this subject
in your parlor, or office, at eight and nine
o clock. Close the evening by writing a bitter
letter expressing your sent inn nts. Take from
the d< k or pigeon hole the papers iu the case
to refresh your mind with your evening's
meanness. Then lie down and wait for tiro
coming of the day, and it will come before
sleep comes, or your sleep will be a worried
quiescence and, if you take the precaution to
lie flat on your back, a frightful night-mare.
Why not put a bound to your animosity?
V hy'ot your foes come into tho sanctities of
your dormitory ? Why let those slanderers
who have already torn your reputation to
piece:-, or injured your business, bend over your
midnight pillow and drive from you one of tho
greatest blessings.that God can offer—sweet,
refreshing, all invigorating sleep. Why not
fence out your enemies by the golden bars of
the sunset? Why not stand behind the barri
cade of evening cloud and say to them :
“Thus far and no farther.” Many
a man and many a woman is
having the health of body as well as the health
of soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit. I
have in time of religious awakening had per
sons, night after night, come into the inquiry
room and get no peace of soul. After a while
I have bluntly asked her: “Is there not some
one against whom yon have a hatred that you
are not willing to give up?” After a little
confusion she lias slightly whispered: “Yes.”
Then I said to her: “You will never find peace
with God as long as you retain that virulence.”
A boy in Sparta having stole a fox kept him
under iris coat, and though the fox was gnaw
ing his vitals, he submitted to it rather than
expose his misdeed. Many a man with a smil
ing face has under his jacket an animosity that
is gnawing away the strength of his body and
the integrity of his soul. Better get rid of that
hidden fox as soon as possible. There are hun
dreds of domestic circles where that which
most is needed is the spirit of forgiveness.
Brothers apart, and sisters apart, and parents
and children apart. Solomon says a brother
offended is harder to be won than a strong
city. Are there not enough sacred memories
of your childhood to bring you together ? The
rabbins recount how that Nebuchadnezzar’s
son had such a spite against his father that
after he was dead ho had his father burned
to ashes and then put tho ashes into four
sacks and tied them to four eagle’s
neck which flew away in opposite directions.
And there arc now domestic antipathies that
seem forever to have scattered all parental
memories to the four winds of heaven. How
far the eagles fly with that sacred ashes! The
hour cf sundown makes to that family no
practical suggestion. Thomas Carlyse, in his
biography of Frederic the Great, says the old
king was told by tho confessor he must be at
peace with his enemies if he wanted to enter
heaven. Then he said to his wife, tho queen:
“Write to your brother after I am dead that I
forgive him.” Roloff, the confessor, said:
“Her Majesty had better write him imme
diately.” “No,” said the king, “after lam
dead; that will be safer.” So ho let the sun
of his earthly existence go down upon his
wrath.
Again: Wo ought not to allow the sun sot
before forgiveness takes place, because we
might not live to see another day. And what
if we should be ushered into the presence of
our Maker with a grudge upon our soul?
Tho majority of the people depart this life
in tho night. Between eleven o’clock p. m.
and three o’clock a. m. there is something in
the atmosphere which relaxes the grip which
the body has on the soul, and most of people
enter the next world through tho shad
ows of this world. Perhaps God may
have arranged it in this way so as so make
the contrast the more glorious. I have seen
sunshiny days in this world that must have
been almost like the radiance of heaven. But
as most people leave tho earth between sun
down and sunrise, they quit this world at its
darkest, and heaven, always bright, will be
tho brighter for that contrast. Out of black
ness into irradiation. Shall wo then leap over
the roseate bank of sunset into tho favorite
hunting-ground of disease and death, carrying
our animosities with us? Who would want to
confront his God, against whom we
have all done meaner things than
anybody has ever done against
us, carrying old grudges? How can we expect
His forgiveness for the greater when wo are
not willing to forgive others tho less? Napo
leon was encouraged to undertake the crossing
of the Alps because Charlemagne had pre
viously crossed them. And all this rugged
path of forgiveness bears the bleeding foot
steps of Him who conquered through suffer
ing, and we ought to be willing to follow. On
the night of our departure from this life into
the next, our one plea wall have to be for mer
cy, and it will have to bo offered in the pres
ence of Him who has said: “If you forgive
not men their trespasses neither will
your heavenly Father forgive your
trespasses.” What a sorry plight if we stand
there hating this one, and hating that one, and
wishing this one a damage, and wishing some
one e.se a calamity, and we ourselves needing
forgiveness for ten thousand times ten thou
sand obliquities of heart and life. When our
last hour comes, wo want it to find us all right.
Hardly anything affects me so much in the un
covering of ancient Pompeii as the account of
the soldier who, after the city had for many
centuries been covered with the ashes and sco
riae of Vesuvius, was found standing in his
place on guard, hand on spear and helmet on
head. Others fled at the awful submerge
ment, but the explorer, seventeen hundred
years after, found the body of that brave fel
low in right position. And it would be a grand
thing if, when our last moment comes, we are
found in right position toward the world, as
well as in right position toward God, on guard
and unafl'righted by the ashes from the moun
tain of death. Ido not suppose that lam any
more of a coward than most people, but I de
clare to yon that I would not dare to sleep to
night if there were, any being in all the earth
with whom I would not gladly shako hands,
lest, during the night hours, my spirit dis
missed to other realms, I should, because of
my unforgiving spirit, be denied divine for
giveness.
“But,” says some woman, “there isahorrid
creature that lias so injured me that rather
than make up with her I would die first.”
Well, sister, you may take your choice—for
I one or the other it will be—your complete par
■ don of her or God’s eternal punishment of you.
, “But,” says some man, “that fellow wiio
| cheated me out of those goods, or damaged my
I business credit, or started that lie about me in
the newspapers, or by his perfidy broke up my
domestic happiness, forgive him I cannot,
forgive him I will not.” Well, brother,
take your choice. You will never bo
at peace with God till yon are at
peace with man. Feeling as you now do, you
would not get so near the harbor of heaven as
to see the light ship. Better leave that man
with the God v, ho said: “Vengeance is mine,
I will repay.” You may say, “1 will make him
sweat for that yet, I will make him squirm, I
mean to pursue him to death,” but you are
damaging yourself worse than you damage
: him and you are making heaven for your own
| soul an impossibility, if ho will not be recon
ciled to you be reconciled to him. In five or
| six hours it will be sundown. The dahlias will
• bloom against tho western sky. Somewhere
I between this and that take a shovel and burry
I the old quarrel at least six feet deep. “Let
i not the sun go down upon your wrath.”
“But,” you say, “I have more than I can
bear; too much is put upon me and I am not
to blame if I am somewhat revengeful and un
relenting.” Then I think of the little child at
the moving of some goods from a store. The
father was putting some rolls of goods on tho
child’s arm, package after package, and some
one said: “That child is being overloaded
and so much ought not to be put upon her,”
when tho child responded: “Father knows
ho v much I can carry;” and God, our Father,
will not allow too much imposition on his chil
dren. In the day of eternity it will bo foimd
you had not one annoyance too many, not one
] exasperation too many, not one out
! rage too many. Your Heavenly
I Father knows how much you can carry.
Again, we ought not to allow the pas age of
I the -unset hour before the dismissal of all our
affronts, because wo may associate the sub-
• lnnc-t action of the soul with tho. sublimest
i spec'acle in nature. It is a most delightsome
thing to have our person tl experiences allied
with certain objects. There Is a tree or river
bunk where God first answered your prayer.
You will never pass that place or think of that
place without thinking of the glorious com
mum' n. There was some gate, or some room,
or s.iiir garden walk, where you were atlf a need
with tin companion who lies been your chief
joy in life. You never speak of that place but
memories connected with the evening star, or
tho moon in its first quarter, or witli
tlie sunrise, because you saw it just as
you were striving al haibor alter a
t-.rupestnowi voyage. Foiev-r and forever, O
I Laaso* oaoA/iiatA tl.a etitsHAf u/ltb VOtlF niftUlliAH*
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTIC GA„ TUESDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1887.
imous, out and out. unlimited renunciation of
all hatreds and forgiveness of all foes. I ad
mit it is the most difficult of all graces to prac
tice, and at tho start you may make a com
plete failure, but keep on in the attempt to
practice it. Shakspoaro wrote ten plays before
he reached Hamlet, and seventeen plays be
fore he reached Merchant of Venice, and
twenty-eight plays before he reached Macbeth.
And gradually you will come from tho easier
graces to tho most difficult. Besides that, it is
not a matter of personal determination so
much as the laying hold of the almighty arm
of God, who will help us to do anything that
we ought to do. Remember that ‘in all per
sonal controversies the one least to blame will
have to take the first step at pacification, if it is
ever effective. The contest between Aeschines
and Aristippus resounds through history, but
Aristippus, who was least to blame, went to
Aeachines and said: “Shall wo not agree to
be friends before we make ourselves the' laugh
ing stock of the whole country?” And Aea
chinossaid: “Thou art a far batter man than
I, for I began the quarrel, but thou hast been
tho first in healing the breach,” and
they were always friends afterwards. So let
the one of you that is least to blame take tho
first step toward conciliation. The one most
in tho wrong will never take it. Oh, it makes
one feel splendidly to be able by
God’s help to practice unlimited
forgiveness. It improves one’s body and soul.
It will make you measure three or four more
inches around tho chest and improve your re
spiration so that you can take a deeper and
longer breath. It improves the countenance
by scattering the gloom, and brightening tho
forehead, and loosening the pinched look about
the nostril and lip, and makes you somewhat
lilce God himself. He is omnipotence, and wo
cannot copy that. He is independent of all
the universe, and wo cannot copy that. He is
creative, and we cannot copy that. He is
omnipresent, and we cannot copy that.
But ho forgives with a broad sweep all
faults, and all neglects, and all
insults, and all wrong-doing, and in that we
may copy Him with mighty success. Go har
ness that sublime action of your soul to an au
tumnal sunset, tho hour when the gate of
heaven opens to let the day pass into the eter
nities and some of the glories escape this way
through the brief opening. AVo talk about tho
Italian sunsets, and sunset amid the Appen
ines, and sunset amid the Cordorillas. But I
will toll you how you may see a grander sunset
than any mere lover of nature- ever beheld—
that is by flinging into it all your hatreds, and
animosities, and let tho horses of fire trample
them, and tho chariots of fire roll
over them, and tho spearmen of fire
stab them, and the beach of fire consume
them, and the billows of fire overwhelm them.
The sublimest thing God does is tho sunset.
The sublimest thing you can do is forgiveness.
Along tho glowing banks of this coming even
tide let tho divine and the human be concur
rent.
Again; We should not let the sun godown
on our wrath because it is of little importance
what the world says of you or does to you
when you have the affluent God of the sunset
as your provider and defender. People talk as
though it were a fixed spectacle of nature and
always the same. But no one ever saw two
sunsets alike, and if the world has existed six
thousand years there have been about two
million one hundred and ninety thousand
sunsets, each of them as distinct from
all the other pictures in the
gallery of tho sky as Titian’s “Last Supper,”
Rubens’s “Descent from the Cross,” Raphael’s
“Transfiguration” and Michael Angelo’s “Last
Judgment” are distinct from each other. If
that God, of such infinite resources that he
can put on the wall of the sky each night more
than the Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and
the Vatican, and the Dresden and Venetian
galleries all in one, is my God and your Goa,
our Provider and Protector, what is the use of
our worrying about any human antagonism ?
If we are misinterpreted, the
God of tho many colored sunset
can put the right color on our action. If He
can afford to hang such masterpieces over tho
outside wall of heaven and have them oblit
erated in an hour, He must be very rich in re
sources and can put us through in safety. If
all the garniture of tho western heavens at
eventide is but the upholstery of one of the
windows of our future home, what small busi
ness for us to bo chasing enemies I Let not
this Sabbath sun go down upon your wrath.
Mahomet said: “Tho sword is the key of
heaven and licit, a drop'of blood shed Is better
than fasting, and wounds in the day ,of judg
ment resplendent ns Vermillion, and odorifer
ous as musk.” But, my hearers, in the last
day we will find just the opposite of that to bo
true,and that the sword never unlocks heaven,
and that ho who heals wounds is greater than
he who makes them, and that on tho same
ring arc two keys: God’s forgiveness of us and
our forgiveness of enemies, and those two keys
unlock paradise.
And now I wish for all of you a beautiful
sunset in your earthly existence. With some
of you it has been a long day of trouble, and
with others of you it will ho far from calm.
When the sun rose at six o'clock it was tho
morning of youth, and a fair day was prophe
sied, but by the time tlie noon-day of mid-life
had come and the clock of your earthly exis
tence had struck twelve, cloud racks gathered
and tempest bellowed in tho track of tempest.
But as the evening of old ago approached I
pray God tho skies may brighten and
the clouds be piled up into
pillars as of celestial temples to which you go,
or move as with mounted cohorts come to take
you home. And as you sink out of sight be
low tho horizon may there boa radiance of
Christian example lingering longaftor you are
gone, and on tho heavens be written iii letters
of sapphire, anil on tlie waters in letters of
opal, and on the hills in letters of emoraid:
“Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall
thy moon withdraw itself, for tho Lord shall
be thine everlasting light and tho days of thy
mourning shall bo ended.” So shall the sun
set of earth become tho sunrise of heaven.
Choked to Death by a Peanut.
From the Cortland, N. Y., Standard.
Two weeks ago last Monday, while Bessie,
the twenty-two months-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Hopkins, was eating peanuts, one got
Into tier windpipe and passed down into the right
bronchus. She began choking violently. Iler
mother tried to stop the choking, and sent for Dr.
White. Soon after ho arrived the peanut seemed
to come up into the tmehon, and she was at ones
relieved, although the peanut could not be gotten
out. On the following Sunday she had another
chokin’spell, caused by the peanut again passing
down Into the bronchus. Dis. White and Hyde, who
were called, could do little for her, and just ns they
thought she w< uid die, the peanut again came up
into tho trachea and site stopped clicking. Had tho
peanut been fixed, an Incision could bnvo been
made in the trachea and the nut could have been
remov'd, but It kdpt moving about arftl was Hable
nt anj'time to return to the bronchus. There was
no further trouble, however, until lust Monday,
when sud leifljr, while playing on tlie floor and ap
parently as well as over, Hie peanut again slipped
down into the bronchus and before she could le re
lieved -he diet!.
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ADMINISTRATOB’B SALE—BY VIRTT’E OFAN
oriJer from Hie ordinary of Fayette county, Ga.,
wifi be Bold at the court fiouvi door, In Fayetteville,
on tho first T uesday in Novemlier next, within tho
legal hours->f wfl-n lbs following prot.rty. towlt:
»c.*ea of laud, more of leM, of lot of land No.
-,fi, in tlw 7th dlntrtct of Mid county, Mid land di
vided rafoilowa: nercs, more or I';., on the
east cldc of aald lot, and too (w ret, more or low, on
the weft aide of said lot. h'u.h tract well Improved.
Kold a* the propert; of J. A. Whitlock, deceased.
T' nas < ft«h. Thli October tho lat, IM7. J. 1,. Whit
lock, tt'lmJnlatrator. wky lt_
•r’XB'.’UTOa'H SALK- riEGH'ITA, FAYETTE
count/. By virtue of an order from the ordin
ary of raid ern fiv, will 1»o sold belore the e<,u.*.
liousu iloor, OU the I ».-1 I'uobiiay n November next,
in Euy* tt.villo, within tho local hour« of mi e -the
following uro; erty: of land, more or lew,
ot Hie oa»t half of lot of lun 1 N I'K, In ttio ».lh
di t: le:, .raid county. Hold ax tbo prop' rty of V.. J.
Jone*, d ,, eeii«'d, for the p rfg*e of paying the
debt -. Term*, en h. 1 hi.OcViUer tlie Di, 1 -*7. G.
A. Jor.Cr, executor, and Nancy Jones, executrix.
wky 4t
L'KEt'CTOK'S BALE-WI.'J. BE KOLB BF.I OltE
l"j th. court boo's: door, In I nycttevllte. on tho
lint Tucrjluy in November next, within ti e bio t
hours of Mie, the lollowlng ptojerty, to wit: S V
enty-fl-e acres of lend, more or l<»», of lot iu land
No 117, in the 71 b district ofanld eountv; sold ojs tb<>
01 W. M.%lvcr«, 'beer- 'I. Tenn., rn»>i;
this Octobn the Ixt, 1887. B L. Johns >n, ex'-yfitor.
Wky 4t
/--fGORGIA, FAYETTE COVNTV—TO WHOM IT
AX may concern; A. E. Btoke., administrator of
Nancy Jnciitm, deceased, ha« in duo form nj plied to
the undereigned for leave to sell ihe land belonging
to the estgte of iHUd derwaiied, and mud application
will bo heard on the first Monday In November
Hext. TUI. October Ist, 1887. L>. M. Franklin, Or
dinary. wky-At.
G1 F/iRGTA. FAY ETTE <OL'NTY-TO ALL WHOM
I it may concern: L. C. Hcnfrow tas filed her
petition lo have letter, of administration de bonl.
non of the >■ tate of W. I'.lKlng, of sard county, de
ceood, vested in the clerk of ine superior court,said
application will Ire heard on the first Monday in No*
vember next, and if no Valid objection be made, the
prayer of tho petitioner will I>e granted. This Octo
tier Ist, 1887. I>. .M Franklin, Ordinary, wky-lt.
( tEOI'.GIA, FAYETTECOt’NTY—TOALLAVHOM
XJ( it may comnn B. J. Carlile, widow ol J. M.
Carlile, deeeivi'd, has tile I her petition fora twelve
mouth’s support for h>:rr<‘ll and three mluor chil
dren. The appraiser, for the same have met end
inuile ar< turn ot their ap| rulscineut to mx office,
mid II will pu-:- upon th<> raiiiii on ti e tint Monday
In N'.vi r.r’r r next. Tliis Oc'ober the Ist, Ifc'-7,1 fc '-7, D.
M. I fanklln, JUfXl'k-
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■ AT
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Trice Ruhjcct to ebnuge unless notified of oop •
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Mention this paper.] Box I.MJ, Cleveland, O.
SHERIFF’S 3ALEH-WJLL
Jr be su'd at the courthouse door in the town qi
Fayetteville, Fayette county, Ga.. on the I rd, TueA!
day In November next, within the legal hours or
sa!'!, the following described property, to wit:
Fifty aertfs of land in the southwert corner of lot
of hind No. LSO, in the upper seventh dletrictof twy
ette county, Ga.; levied as the property of .loha'
W. Smith by virtue of Justice court fl fa issued froui
Justice court of the Mlßh district, G M„ Fayettw
county, In favor of J. E. H. Waro vs. John W. Smith.
I’roperty pointed out by plaintl/F. Tenant in pot
scasion notified.
A Imo at the same tfmc and place, will be sold 100
acres, more or less, of land, it being the north half
of lot of land, No. IZI, in the lower seventh district
of Fayette county; levied «»n as the property of L. L.
1 andrum and Lticlnda J. Landrum, by virtue of a 0
falHiucd from Fayette superior court In favor of
St ;wart At Holl and R. T. D<*rsey vs. L. L. Landrum
and Lucinda J. iAndrum. Property pointed out by i
defendants. Tenant in possesslod notified thia Octo
her 3, JWI7. J. W. BROWN, Shertflt
__oct?>-d 1 w k yßt
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At home or to trav.liatut* vhioh 10-jfoma
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We sYixd By Ma II WSWaId WIR Y
rtrf<s tho nt in pl eat and t>c« forma of plain war
ranty land deeds, quit claim deeds, blank mortgage.;
nnd blank bonds for titlo at the following prices: 1,
blank, 5 cent*; 8 blanks, 10 cents; 1 dozen blanks,
80 cents; 100 bliuilu, 81.50. Address The Coiniftu.
tion, Atlanta, Ga. wkytf
L'JidS WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS. CM
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