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Columbus, tieorstia.
SUN''AY ....MAHCIH OT 18*5
Death i y buiniug is bioutniug very
common of late. Bridgeport Cju.,
and Pittsburg, Penn., lost two Ud?
citizens on Fridayjiy burning.
“Arkansas and Illinois seema to be
bard to please In the matter of select
ing new senators to take the places
of Gen. Jno. A. Dogan, whose term
has expired, and Mr. Garland who
has accepted a seat m the cabinet.
The legislators have made severs,
fruitless billoiings and an election
seems as far off now’ as at first.
Jab. H. Berry, Esq , has been elect
ed to the D 8 senate bv the legfsla-
Arkansas to fill the vacancy
created by the reiegnation of Mr.
Garland. We Know nothing of Mr.
B< rry, but feel safe in saying that be
is a proper man. The people of Ar
kansas are judges of good men foi
important places, and have seldom
made mistakes.
Pitt-burs dispatces tell us of the
extension of tbe coal miners strike.
Feeling as wedoat this writing—cold
as a wedge—and it /•p’ting colder
outside, and the fuel supply getting
low, we can’t help bu'i hmk t lat the
coal miners who would sttike with
such weather chilling them and then
families on every side, are blind a
bats, an i green as we are down ibis
way in the pine woods.
A Fight between tbe English
troops and the Arab forces of Osman
Digui near Hesheen proved disas
trous to tbe Arabs. They fought five
hours with great stubbornness. Ttie
English claims to have secured bet.
ter positions and stronger protection
for the forces. The Arabs have a
new prophet who is trying to dis
credit Ele Mahdi. If the English can
split the heathens up into fractions
they will be safe.
Failures in business last week
were in the United States 231 against
282 the week before. Dunn & Co., are
live reporters, and are always careful
to inform the world that a large per
cent of the failures are in the south
and west. In numbers this may be
true, but Dunn &Co., hardly ever
think to say that one failure in New
York or New England amounts to
more in dollars and cents than a
dozen southern failures, as the aver
age ranges.
The New Orleans exposition peo
ple have the lib rty bell from Phila
delphia, and the first church bel
tba ever rung west of the Mississippi
river, and many other ancient relics,
but tbe last reported is the tailor’s
goose used by President Andrew
Jackson when be worked at that
honorable trade. We do not know
what the next curiosity will be. but
suppose it will be an oar with which
President Abe Lincoln pushed his
boats along the Ohio river when he
was a flatboatman.
The telegraph reports the condi
tion of General Grant as better, but
the picture given of him in Frank
Leslie is a most sad one of a hope
less misery. His bitterest enemy can
not look on that picture without
being moved with pity. We have
never loved General Grant or ad
mired him, but we would never have
called upon him such afflictions as
beseems now robs suffering from.
Poor mortality! What was it that
Byron said of Napoleon after his
downfall? Turn to the page and
read it
Oub weaiern.wtieut aui other grain
growing friends are now trying to
impress the world with the idea that
the acreage in wheat is many mill
ions short of an average, and that
the damage by frost and other ene
mies will reduce tbe year’s yield to a
point that will put the price to fabu
lous figures. The farmers are aided
in this gloomy picture by the holders
of the present large surplus of last
year’s crop, who are anxious by this
or any other means to “bull” the
market for present stock. We wish
onr cotton raisers were as well
backed as the grain raisers of the
west are. But, after ail, the eondi
tions of the ground workers of tbe
south and west are about the same—
both are poor; loaded down with
mortgages and in debt two years
ahead. The chief differance, we are
told, is that the western man can
borrow his money a little cheaper
than tbe southerner, but that, per
haps, is a misfortune since it tempts
him to borrow the more and there' y
add to his burdens. The western man
cannot raise cotton, but the southern
man can raise grain or anyother
money croptbatthe west can, though
not so abundantly, and when bi
does it, hie prosperity will be assured
and hie interest account will cease.
■■ ♦ ■
TheMicoq Telegraph is area
“job’s comferter. ’ The JTelegrapt
man is never happier than when
drawing blisters on the ( raw bide of
some poor mortal or other—and jus,
to show the temper of the Telegraph
man, we publish here a little scraj
which it selected for tbe benefit of
all concerned.
Those desiring postmasterahir may
profit by this: “Congressman Well
born, of Texas, is not plea-ed with
civil service reform. He wanted a
democratic consritutent appointed to
a poatoffiee. H-re is what he says
of his interview with Gene'al Vila-:
“The postmaß’er- general look-d at
me ae if I were a pubbc enemy, an'
aald that only tn one wav could anv
officer be removed who holds < fflee
for a four year farm, and that is by
filling, in due form, written chargee,
showing that be has either misman
aged bis position or else bas used it
in a partisan way. These statements
must be supported be proof.”
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
Subject— ‘ Doom of Sectarianism.”
Tarr—"let every rn»n be fully pw«u«d«d in bit
own mind.’ ■ Romsue, xlv., 1...
The opening hvmn was:
"Tbe morning light Is breaking.”
The lesson retd was Paul’s letter on
eating meat offered to idols, with ex
positions and comments bv Mr. Tal
mage, The following is the sermon In
full:
mere had been a hot discussion up
on the sul jct of a dlatetlce. There
were some vegetarians in Paul’s dat.
who thought it was right to eat noth
ing but herbs; others 'bought that
men ought to be unlmited In thedi
choice of food. Between these tw
parties there was a collision. Pau
comes in to decide the matter am
"ays: “Now, let this quarrel stop.
Y >u men who want to eat berbs, e t
herbs. You men who want to be un
limited iu your choice of rood, be un
limited In that choice. Your own cm -
science mustd-ci 'e the matter. *L t
V‘ry man be fully persuaded in bi
>wn mind.’ ” That is the connection
of the t'xc,and it lays down aprinclpa
applicable to ten thousand cases cl
conscience. The religious world is
divided into a great variety ot partier
and sects, tome of them were estab
lish' d by good men. and some by ven
bad men. I have no time to name tto.
Oa viniste, and the Ai'timooians, ai d
the Bocini.rß, atm Sabbatarians, and
Bwe tenborgians and Armt' ians anc
B xteriaos, and 0 u'pb-llites anti
Duukers and Bnak- is arm Parkerites,
.nd s ores of other ileuorn natiai.e o
religionists. Be'w »>n some or these
'here is only a difference f words:
between others 'here is a difference ae
wile as between truth and error, bt
twe.n light a- d darkness, betweer
neaven and hell. While ui cor science
will not allow us to cno.se someol
these eliefe, we must allow o others
the liberty of conscience whicn wi
demand tor ourselves remembering
that they no more differ from ub than
we differ from them.
I wish to auvocate the very largest
liberty in matters of religious belief
and discussion, in an questions o!
art, ana social lite, and politics, and
relktou, let there be nu intolerance,
no moving of the previous question,
no gag law, no persecution. You
know toat the air and the sea keep
pure by constant circulation, and
there is a tendency io religious dis
cussion toward purification and
moral health. Between the fourth
and sixteenth centuries tbe church
of Goo proposed to keep down al
erroi by prohibiting free dLcuseion,
ami by the b no’ censcrship of the
press, and by r- ca and gibbet, and
hut. lead down m n’s throats to keep
then orthodox; but the world hie
found out that ycu
CANNOT CHANGE MEN’S BELIEFS
by wistwg of their beads, or make
hem see things d ff reutly by put
ting an awi through tneir ey< s.
There is io every man a con
science which will upheave tti<
mcuutaio with which you try
to crush it, and, u> etngea
ot the tire, 1: will make red wioss out
of the flame on which the mar’yr
mounted to glory. We must let men
nave differences of theol >gici*l beiM.
In those very times that I speik of,
between the fourth and sixteenth
centuries, when all religious discuss
ion was prohibited, members of the
church went publicly from the house
of God to the brothel, and along by
consecrated altars there flowed a tide
of drunkenness and iioentioußneße
and abomination, and the very
sew rsof perdition broke loose, de
luging tbe church with their filth
and rottenness. Then 'be printing
press came and it be ke these
shackles; but it has also p ured upon
tne earth a greir many bad bo ks.
After this, and right on toe heels <>i
these foes ot Ohristlauity, there cam.
a healthful literature such as the
world had never seen; and where
there was one man to malign the
Cnristian religion, there came
twe ty to defend It; arid in
reply to' the as-aults upon
Christianity, there were written
“Butler’s Analogy ’ and “Watson’s
Apology for the Bible,’’ ami “Oamp
h li’s Diss rtation > f Miracles.” and
“Newton on the Propmsies,” and
• Uaw's Theory of Bsilgion,” and 'he
“Bridgewater Treatise,’’ and scores
of other profo .nd, brilliant and im
mortal works which never would
have been written but for the assaults
of infidelity. lam rot afraid tnat in
this contest between truth and error
truth will be worsted. I am not
afraid of error if we place close be
hind it truth. Let error run! U’ged
on by sk ptic eh ut and trans ■r»
d< n'alist’s spur; It it run! Gai’s
angels of wrath are in no' pursuit,
and quicker than an eagle's b »k
clutches ou a hawk’s heart, God’s
vengeance will tear it to pi c a s. L-t
i' run, if vou only let tru' i run along
wt ' it. In this great fight between
right arid wrong the right will con
quer as surely as that God 1s strong
er than the d.vil The churcr
never has lost a ything by gen
erosity on this subject, and we can
not have our own rights of religious
belief respected unless we respec' the
rights of those w'o differ trona us.
I thank God men do not ad think
alike on rr ligiou» subjects Y>u can
not alt ate through mv eves. I can
not bear through ?• ur ears. No roan
shall lord it over our consciences
You mav here beard of a king who
nad a greet deal of trouble with his
subjects. He wsg afterward impris
oned. and to while away the time he
made watches and i ljcke; and, after
he had made them, he tried to make
the watches tick alike and all the
clocks strike alike. Os cjuree he
filled. Then he eaid to himself what
a very foolish king I w «s. H >w could
I expect to make all these watches
tick alike, aod all my subjects think
si i k??
I propose to spe ik of sectarianism,
i's causes, its evils and Its ett'e. M“r>
have tried to make ub believe that
this
MONSTER WITH HORNS AND BOONS
is religion. We shall try to hunt it
down and drag it out of the caverns
of darkness and rip off its hide. Dis
tinguish between bigotry and lawful
preference for any religious belief or
form. I have no faith in a nothinga
rian. In a world of tremendous temp
tation and vicisitude, and a soul ca
pable of gigantic joy or suffering—a
soul that will have to stand before a
throne of insufferable brightness in
the day when the rocking of the moun
tains and flaming of the heavens and
upheaval of the sea will be amid the
least excitements, to give an account
of every thought and wish and pref
erence and dislike. I say in such a
World, and with these considerations,
that man who has no religious pref
erence is mad. We will, by our early
education and by our physical tem
perament. and mental constitution,
nave proclivities toward certain
churches and certain forms of worship.
The psalmody which I like might dis
please you. Some people like to see
a minister of Christ in gown and
bandsand surplice; others prefer to
see him in plain citizen’s apparel.
Some people are more impressed when
they see a little child presented for i
baptism, and its white brow isj
sprinkled with water in solemn bene-l
DAILY TIMES: COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1885.
diction in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Ghost; while
others are more impressed when the
penitent comes up out of the river,
his garments dripping with the waters
that typify the washing away- of sin.
Some persons like no noise in prayer
—not a whisper, not a word ; others,
just as good, prefer by jeßticulntion
and exclamation to utter their devo
tional aspirations.
Now let there be no dispute on this
subject. You like one way best and
I like the other. I have no quarrel
with my neighbors. They have quiet
in their house ; I have quiet in mine.
Thev do not think that the prosperi
tvof their house depends on upsetting
the peace of mine, nor do I think
that the prosperity of my house de
pends upon destroying theirs. So it
ought to be in the Kingdom of Christ
—different religious homes but good
neighborhood. “Peace on earth and
good will to men.” That is the way
it was when the Quaker talked to
George Whitfield. They had some
hot words on unimportant things, and
the Quaker turned to George Whit
field and said: “George, I am as
thou art; lam for bringing all men
to the hope of the Gospel. Therefore,
if thou wilt not quarrel with me about
my broad brim, I will not quarrel
with thee about thy black gown.
Give me thine hand.” In the first
place, sectarianism often starts in
wrong education in the home circle.
There are very good people who edu
cate their children in the wrong di
rection in this respect saying things
about other denominations of Chris
tians, and caricaturing them and
throwing slurs upon them, which al
ways have a baleful influence in the
household. Sometimes children
come up and go out in the world and
look into these churches against
which they have been specially warn
ed, and find that in these churches
the people love God and keep His
commandments —and by a natural
reaction they go there. I could men
tion the names of promineht minis
ters of the gospel who once spent
much of their time in
BOMBARDING CERTAIN DENOMINATIONS
of Christiania, who live to see their
own sons preach the gospel in those
very denominations. But we must
admit the instruction in the wrong
direction in this respect is most bale
ful, and that there are little bigots
ten years old.
Then the “superior” power of any
one denomination in a community
often makes bigots. People think
that all other churches are wrong,
and that theirs is right, because it
happens to be more fashionable, more
wealthy or more influential, and they
talk about “our choir” and “our
minister” and “our church,” and
they toss their heads and have a
patronizing air, wanting other denom
inations to know their places. Now,
I think it is far better that in every
community the great denominations
have about equal influence, marching
side by side for the world’s conquest.
Let us remember that mere outside
prosperity and worldly power are no
evidence‘that a church is acceptable
to God. Better a barn with Christ in
the manger, than a cathedral with
arches like those of St. Michael’s in
Lucca, and traceries like those of Ba
yeux—magnificent harmonies rolling
through long-drawn aisles, and an
angel from heaven proclaiming from
the pulpit, if there be no Christ in
the chancel and no Christ in the
robes. That religion is a poor, mean,
starving thing which is made up by
bookbinders and upholsters. The re
ligion of Christ oftener sits on the
curbstones with Lazarus than in the
palace with Dives, and helps Naboth
cultivate his vineyard oftener than
Ahab rule his kingdom. Men often
do the opposite to what people sup
pose. They sometimes go up to hell
and down te heaven. Dives went up
and Lazasus went down. Do you
know where they came out? Trans
pose the position. Further,
IGNORANCE IS THE MOTHER OF SEC
TARIANISM.
Knowledge enlarges the mind. You
seldom find an intelligent man who
is a thorough bigot; it is the man who
thinks he knows a great deal, but
does not. In the far East there is an
obelisk, I have been told. One side
of it is white, another side of it is
blue, and another side of it is green.
The story says that once some travel
ers went to look at that obelisk. They
did not take the trouble to walk
around it, but each looked at one side
and came back. The travelers met
and then got into a fierce contest —
one saying that the obelisk was white,
another that it was blue and another
that it was green. “Stop this con
test,” said some one, coming in; “I
walked all around that obelisk and
find you are all right and all wrong.”
Lookout for a man who sees but one
side of a question and takes but one
view of anything. Better a man who,
by his intelligence and Christian
faith, can walk around the religious
subject and know all sides. If there is
any man to be pitied it is the man
who has only one idea in his head
no more, no less. Better an entire
blank, as we sometimes find it, over
throwing the philosophic theory that
an entire vacuum is impossible; better
vacuity than just one idea in the
head. It wanders up and down, seek-)
ing rest but finding none in perpetnag
loneliness and bachelorhood, wailin
through the desert of man’s intellect.
Let man give his life to the discussion
of the doctrine of election, or to the
doctrine of free agency, or
the subject of baptism, or the per
severance of the saints, and he will be
imbecile in body and in mind,
Bigotry puts its brand upon a man’s
head and flattens his skull and makes
him lean and cadaverous and ex
hausts him. Run up your colleges
and your schools and universities.
Bigotry cannot live under these in
fluences. You may kill it with sun
shine.
Look now at the evils of sectarian
ism. In the first place, investigation.
The different denominations were in
tended by holy rivaly and honest
competition to keep each other wide
awake. If one denomination of Chris
tians should garble the word of Gqd,
there would be hundreds to cry out
against the sacrilege. While each de
nomination of Christians ought to
preach all the doctrines of the Bible,
I really think that it is the mission of
each denomination more emphatically
to preach some one doctrine. For in
stance, I think it is the mission of the
Calvanistic Church to preach the com
plete soverignty of God; of the Ar
minian Church'to present man’s free
agency; of the Episcopal Church to
show the importance of order and
solemn ceremony; of the Baptist
Church to show the necessity of ordi
nances; of the Congregational
Church to show the in
dividual responsibility of its
members; of the Methodist Church to
show what holy enthusiasm and good,
hearty congregational singing can
accomplish. While, as I say, each
denomination ought to present all
doctrines, each denomination ought
to make one of those doctrines em
phatic. Now, sectarianism shuts one
out. from all these lessons. The man
will not make an impartial investiga
tion, and he cannot reason. “All
others are wrong, and I am right and
there the matter ends.” From the
glorious realm of God’s truth, over
which the archangel might fly from
eternity to eternity without
touching the limits, they
shut themselves out and die like
blind moles under a corn shock.
ANOTHER EVIL OF SECTARIANISM
is, that it prejudices people against
Christianity. The churches of God
were not made for war-barracks. This
perpetual bombardment of other sects
drives men away from religion.
People are afraid of riots. You go
down the street and you see a con
test, men fighting with men and
missiles thrown. You hear the re
port of fire-arms. You are not foolish
enough to gothrough the streets; vou
go around the block. Well, men
have looked off sometimes upon the
narrow path to heaven, and they havo
said: “I believe I will take the broad
road. There are so many ecclesiasti
cal brickbats being thrown in that
narrow path, and there is so much
sharp-shooting, I think I will take the
broad road.” Oh! my friends, that
religion is not worth much whi-h is
not tall enough to look over the fence.
I have more admiration for a Spanish
bull fight., and believe it to be more
merciful and honorable than the com
bating of these carnivorous ecclesi
astics. Francis the First wasso preju
diced aganst Lutherans that he said
if there was a drop of Lutheran blood
in his veins he would puncture them
with a knife and let that drop out.
If men have such hostility against
other denominations of Christians,
thev drive men from the cross.
So, also, sectarianism hinders the
church’s triumph. How much wasted
energy; how many men of large intel
lect, who have given their time to
abstract and controversal dispute,
when, if they had devoted it in the
right direction, they would have been
gloriously useful. Their books lie on
the shelf of college and state libraries
sleeping the long sleep of ages. Who
cares now which of the doctors of
divinity got the victory in that thirty
years’ war about a particle?
Suppose there were a common
enemy riding up the Narrows to
morrow morning, and our batteries
here around New York were to fire on
each other, you would cry out: “Na
tional suicide!” And yet that very
thing is often done in the Church of
Christ. While all the navies of dark
ness have been riding up the bay,
sect has been warring with sect, and
theological belief with theological
belief, and there has been suicide in
stead of conquest. 1 go out some
summer day and 1 find that there are
two bee hives quarreling with each
other. I come up toward them. I
do not come near enough to get stung
but I come near enough to hear the
contest between them. The one cries
out: “That field of clover is the
sweetest!” The other cries out:
“That field of clover is the sweetest!”
I say: “Stop this quarrel. If you
think that is the sweetest, go there; if
you think that is the sweetest, go
there. 1 want you to understand that
hive is the best that gets the most
honey.” I see different denomina
tions of Christians in contest with
each other, some preferring this field
of evangelical belief, and others that
field. Isay; “Take your choice. If
you like that evangelical belief the
best, take it ; if you like this evangeli
cal belief best,take it,but understand,
Christ thinks the most of that church
which gets most of the honey of Chris
tian grace in the heart, and the most
of the honey of Christian grace in the
life.”
How are we to war against this bi
goted feeling which lingers in the
hearts of hundreds and thousands of
Christians? We do so by realization
of our own infirmities and weakness.
If we make so many mistakes upon
other things, ought we not to be a lit
tle modest in regard to our religious
belief? I suppose that the light from
the eternal throne in the last day will
show us that there was something
wrong in all our creeds.
WE WILL OVERTHROW SECTARIANISM
by dwelling chiefly upon those things
on which we agree, rather than upon
those in which we differ. Here is the
great, broad platform of the Gospel:
I see a man coming up on one side of
the platform. He says, “1 don’t be
lieve in baby sprinkling.” Must I
shove him off? Here is another man
coming up on this side. He says, “I
don’t believe in the perseverance of
the saints.”' Must I shove him off?
No! Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
Then come on! Brother now, brother
forever! The gospel platform is large
enough to hold all who put their trust
in my Lord Jesus Christ.
War against sectarianism by realiz
ing that all denominations of Chris
tians have yielded beneficent institu
tions and noble men, and therefore
are to be respected. One of the de
nominations gave to the world a
Robert Hall and an Adoniram Jud
son; another gave a Latimer and a
Melville; another a John Wesley and
the blessed Summerfield; our own
yielded a John Knox and the Alex
anders, men of whom the world was
not worthy. All these denomina
tions have produced noble men and
blessed institutions, and they de
mand our respect. So I say, come
on, ye ninety thousand communi
cants of the Episcopal church, ye
four hundred thousand of the Pres
byterian church, ye nine hundred
thousand of tbe Baptist church, ye
two millions of the Methodist church
—come on! Let us march shoulder
to shoulder, for there is a world to be
saved and God demands that you and
I have to do it.
But more than all will you over
come this evil of sectarianism by toil
ing in Christian work with men of
other beliefs. Here are two men in
hostility. Let them go and kneel by
that dying woman and commend
Christ to her soul. If they went into
that room with antipathies, they will
come out with love- Men who toil
together in Christian work can never
fight in bitter hostility. So I am
glad when the spring time comes, and
in the great anniversaries ministers of
Christ and layman of all denomina
tions gather on one platform and talk
in behalf of the same great cause, and
pray in behalf of the same beneficent
institutions. Men who toil together
must be somehow, somewhat in sym
pathy. Ido not know that
I MAKE THIS IDEA PLAIN.
so I will illustrate it by something
that happened four or five years ago.
One Monday morning at 2 o’clock,
when her nine hundred passenge
were sound asleep in their berths,
dreaming of home, crash went, the
Atlantic into Marls Head. Five hun
dred souls in ten minutes landed in
eternity. The rush through the gang
ways of agonized men and women,
the clutching for the rigging, the
plunge of the helpless steamer, the
clapping of the hands of the merci
less sea over the drowning and the
dead, threw two continents in an
guish. But I see there the brave
quartermaster striking out for the
rock with the “life-line” and in
another place you see the fisher
men coming out and picking up the
shipwrecked and carrying them into
cabins and wrapping them up in
blankets snug and warm. Here puts
out a lifeboat —in it a minister of
Christ and four oarsmen. Pull! pull!
They reach the wreck; they throw a
rope; another life saved. Oh! can the
men who toiled on that dark night at
the ropes, at the oars, evei forget each
other? If there should ever come a
time of animosity, would they not
think of that dark night and of the
life-line and of the boats and of the
fishermen? No animosity could be
retained in such a memory as that.
Well, my friends, earth has founder
ed in a worse shipwreck. Sin drove
it on the rocks. The old ship has
lurched and reared in the tempests of
six thousand years. Out with the
“life-line!” I do not care what de
nomination carries it. Out with the
life-boat! Ide not care what denom
ination rows it. Plenty of room for
all to toil, for all to pray, for all to
work. You do your work in your
way; Ido my work in my way. But
know this —that that church and that
denomination which is most fearless
of surf and of tempest, and that
brings the most souls to the shore of
eternal safety, will be the one upon
which God will put the brightest hon
ors, and the one that heaven will
greet with the loudest anthem. Toil
ing in such service side by side, what
though we do belong to different de
nominations, shall we not, by the
memory of common hardships and
common toils, and common prayers
and common tears, be sympathetic
with each other? Oh! that God would
hasten the day when all the great de
nominations of Christians shall join
hands around the cross of Jesus and
recite the creed, “I believe in God,
the Father Almighty, maker of
heaven and earth, and in Jusus
Christ, and in the communion
of saints, and in the life
everlasting. Amen and Amen.”
uilcF i h. . I.- ALABAMA
he Quickest and rtfost Direct
Route to
New V«rk. Philadelphia, Bal
timore, and Washlnjuui.
OL>se counectb us made wlih Flediaotit
Mi Line, A'lsutlo Lime, Kennisa”
» Cincinnati boutnein.
rralne leave a« follows*
TI.UE TABLE KO.
FA KIN 1 KFFKOT SDN DAY MARCH. 1
®ABTW*J<t
Lt New Ur eaus... 829 D u. BOU no:
uT. Montgomery. a id p m|
\-P<OIU(UbUB . 1 uj < in 646 » Hl
Lt OolUtcbos I B*4l I p m
v rr Weet Pc.ct .. >2 9 nil >• 27 » mj
irr Atonia ... ... 3 1 m| t-in. no I
WESTWARD. •*■(», ft'
Atlanta..—.. 1 30 paa lliiu pja
West Point 4:43 p m 3: 7 a nu
«rr Ooiumbur. ... 7: /v m a. an
Lv L'ulurubus ~2 80p m 9 u p u
rr. Vontgomrry.. ’ 7 45 p m * u
rr Mobile, 2 u a ftp
r v e* Orleans | 7 ai7 3 p
Hortb. ‘fovlh
NO, 81 NO. 6> NO 50 NO. »<
7:5? pm 10:» id Wanb'gt'n'li :<0 an. y. 10 pn
i:uft pm 12 /u anu Baitimct? 205 a m- ; J pu.
UlO a mi3:lopm Tbl’adt./* p.cl a uui 9*4 > i
<! 30 a in t6:l» pmi New lor- 3:40 a u *a;00 p
’’ullman Sleepers ou all iraiua
•53 between montgoinery ain't
♦Va-hiDgtou vv it bout *'liantre.
esleru liailroad bleepers ••
trains AM and S 3 between
Montgomery and lllnutn.
fralns 50, 61, 62 and 63, tasks close cunnectv
• ! Ui trtini to and iron: Mobile and OrUa
rain oonnecta at Montxomt ry with trait-•
ma and Sutai la. Conof.-tlune Did*
■ poltka with Paet Alabama and inctn?.* a«
n’Ambne and W(-«r«rn 'rot .. ■ . •» ■
: . t i - r. -•> . ■
rat I rowS,
rt - .s *’o f. a,fl iron -lyet'-x-. 5 I •
< HAS. 11. CBOMWKAI.
•i ” ■ * s , M«een4»*’’ Apen?.
STOCHOMPLETE!
PItCE GOODS FOB
Spring 1885
LEADING NuVELTIEd.
A OGAN AND FOREIGN G DCS
tOfl MAKING
SUUS TO ORDEIL
Stock Unrivaled 1
Prices Right I
A. FEW
BARGAIN SUITS
LEFT, AT
price.’
CALL AND HEE UH
G. j. PEACOCK
C.othing Manufacturer,
616 Mi St. Colmliis. • ft-.
P 8. A l ' <>OO’ 8 Strictly OA H.
MARL
FOR SALE.
A FEW HUNDREDJSACKS
OF MARL,
PhosphatE
ofllME
For sale, inquire at this
OFFICE. declltf
PIECE GOODS ARRIVED.
tWe offer special inducements this
week to cash buyers of Clothing, Hats
and Furnishings. Our Stock ofFor
eign and Domestic Piece Goods are
prettier, finer and nnre varied than
ever before Workmanship unex
celled. Satisfaction guaranteed and
prices right. Gall and be convinced.
NEW SPRING GOODS
KIRVEN’S.
Wool Combination Suitings, Choice Colors in Cashmeres,
Good All-Wool Cashmere at 50 cents.
Choice tock iingb .iuh ano <; linos, C»i>iw inensTowels
and Nap in«. Nwis the lime o buy these Goods,
Handkerchiefs, Ham ken liiefs,
Good Haßckerchiets, Fast Colors, at 31. up to the Beet
Gr de»
10 000 Yards
More of thos» H\ VI BURG EVIBKOIDERIES at A-uonisningly low pricee.
ladies’ Underwear Dep art men*
Just opened. AH me B ock Freeh ami at Popular Prices.
J. ALBERT KIRVEN.
EMBROIDERIES!
AT
TRADE PALACE
ove« si oom worn if fmasoiwits
i SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR NON-PAYMENT
OF DUTY.
l’h> E i'ire Lit Thrown into the Auorion Ro ms and Bought by the Know
ing Ones tor 25 c«nts on tne Dollar.
BRAY ALWAYS ON THE ALERT FOR
BARGAIN S,
Takes the Insidf Track and Scoops in the LIEN’S SHARE.
We will have these GOOOB on Exhibition MONDAY and all during the
WEEK and Invite an Inspection of them ; thev are without Exception tbe
Finest Assortment ano the BESI' VALUE that we have ever handled—see
them and pass y ur Judgment.
THEY ARE JUST H ILF PRICE.
An Dflfl COLLARS WORTH OF LACES OF EVERY
(pZjUUU STYLE, QUALITY ANDTEXTI RF. FROM
5 Cent To'chon lothe Finest Egypiion al $2 50 and
$2 75 Per Yard.
$2,300 BOLLARD WOKCH OF
Para>ols, Loachings ai d Sun-Umbrellas,
Thes" GOODS are M rvels o' Beautv, Design and Workmanship.
D Z"o G nte’ It me e'ched. o>l 28 I) z-n Oenta’ UnlaundriedShirts
>ro i 1. n't" 1 ' H o dkvichi- fa »'25 I a 85 c " te, Wams-utta D meetieaud
cents, Wert 40 cents. I 21 Linen B sums and Cuffs.
The KI of th o I hern SIRV GOODS
flat kit m Com ng this Week
oi kout ton Slaughter, He Makes Tilings Lively
FOR COMPETITORS.
C. P. GRAY & CO.
IMMENSE STOCK
OF
Furniture, SCarUetintis, Curtain-Goods
Window-Shades, etc-,
REGARDLESS OF (OST
1,000 Ohhi’rs. from 50 cents to $lO 00 I Moquet Carpets $1.50 pr yd. best qtial
500 Bede teads from $1 75 to 4't 00 | Tapestry Oarpeta 65c to SI.OO pr. yd.
100 Imitation Wai. Sults,slß to 4" 00 ' Body Brussels “ 85c to $1 35 pr. yd.
100 Walmtr Sults.from $25 to $2 0 00 I Rugs 7tri to SIO.OO
15 Parloi Suits from S4O t $l5O 00 | Straw Mattings lOj to 40c.
Oil Cloths, 40c to $1 25 per square yard.
ArtSquars (Drugget's) including beset K-idemnster. all woo' $8.50 to sls
Will duplicate prices of any M'rket.
Upholstering Goods at your own Prices.
L.ROONBY
Up Stairs, 83 and 85 Broad St., Columbus, Ga.
ELEVA TOR ALWAYS READY. M5-v 3m.
Mitera lilial I»smb Ct
his Old aid ,B'liable leorgi« O> noa iy ■ mun ih in> tore Fire risks .a l mnm
Charter perpetua. . DIVIDEND No. 26 FOR 1884. 385* •> - iW.
The PHOENIX, of Hartford, Conn.,
ROCHESTER-GERMAN, of New York
All solid Cat"tian let. rajpresenters n’’thlq Azuuo? htv low. Ljeaa-j prompt!
MURDOCK, Ap’ent