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liw T THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., SEPTEMRER “4, 1890. LIFE’S BIUGHT SIDE. REV. DR. TALryiAGE'S WO«DS OF HOPE AND CHEER. Ho TrtkoM “A ;irolls Ontlook” For the Subject of a Scriiioii That Shows Chris tian C'onrnjco —The Sunlight of Progress Is Fast OVrf>|ireading the World. Wasiuni.ton, Sept. 20.—Ifthcclnrlon note of this Bormon, delivorodat the nn* i tional capital, conld smind through | Chrietcudom, it woud givo everything good,a new start. Dr. Talmage's text was Bom an s xiii, 12, "The day is at hand. ” Back from tho mountains, and the seaside, and the springs, and the farm house, your checks bronzed and your spirits lighted, I hail you homo again with the words of Gehazi to the Shu- | n am mite: “Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with ; the child?" On some faces I see the mark of recent grief, but all along the i track of tears I see tho story of resurrec tion and reunion, when all tears are done; the deep plowing of the keel, fol lowed by tho flash of the phosphores- i cence. Now that I have asked you in regard to your welfare you naturally : ask how I am. Very well, thank yon. Whether it was the bracing air of the mountains, or a bath in tho surf of Long Island beach, or whether it is the joy of standing in this great group of warm hearted friends, or whether it is a new appreciation of tho goodness of God, I cannot tell. I simply know I am happy. It was said that John Moffatt, the great Methodist preacher, occasion ally got fast in his sermon, and lo ex tricate himself would cry “Halleluiah!" 1 am in no such predicament today, hut I am full of tho same rhapsodic ejacula tion. Starting out this morning on a new ecclesiastical year, I want to givo you the keynote of my next 12 months’ min istry. I wazit to set it to tho tunes of “Antioch,” “Ariel” “Coronation.” I want to put a now trumpet stop into my sermons. We do wrong if wo allow our personal sorrows to interfere with the glorious fact that tho kingdom is coming. Wo are wicked if wo allow ap prehension of national disaster to put down our faith in God and in the mis sion of onr American people. The God who hath been on tho side of tliis na tion eiuco tho 4th of July, 1770, will soo to it that tins nation shall not com mit suicido on Nov. !i, 1S!)(5. By tho time the unparalleled harvests of this summer get down to the seaboard we shall bo standing in a sunburst of na tional prosperity that will paralyze the pessimists who by their evil prophecies are blaspheming the God who hath blessed this nation usjic hath blessed no other. Note* of Gladncs*. In all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. No man had a rigid to say that Christ never laughed. Do j’ou suppose that ho was glum at tho wedding in Cana of Galilee? Do you suppose that Christ was unrespomiivo when tho children clambered over his knee and shoulder at his own invitation? Do you supposo that the evangelist meant nothing when he said of Christ, “He rejoiced in spir it?” Do you believe that the divine Christ who pours all tho waters over the rooks at Vernal falls, Yoscmito, docs not believe in the sparkle and gal lop and tumultuous joy and rushing raptures of human life? I believe not only that the morning laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and that tho seas laugh, and that tho cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover, take a laugh and a tear into an alembic and as say them and test them and analyze them, and you will often find as much of tho pure gold of religion in a laugh as in a tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows itself in facial illumination. John Wesley said lie was sure of a good religious impression being produced be cause of what ho calls tho great glad ness ho saw among the people. Godless merriment is blasphemy anywhere, but expression of Christian joy is appropri ate everywhoro. Moreover, tho outlook of tho world ought to stir us to gladness. Astrono mers disturbed many people by telling them that there was danger of stellar collision. Wo were told by these astron omers that theroaro worlds coming very near together, and that wo shall have plagues and wars and tumults and per- hap;’ the world’s destruction. Do not bo scared. If you have ever stood at a rail road center whero 10 or 20 or 80 rail tracks cross each other and seen that by the movement of the switch one or two inches the train shoots this way and that without colliding, then you may understand how ">0 worlds may come within an inch of disaster and that inch be as good as 1,000,000 miles. If a human switch tender can shoot tho trains this way and that without harm, cannot tho hand that for thousands of years has upheld tho universe keep our little world out of harm’s way? Chris tian geologists tell us that this world was milliounofyears in building. Well, now, I do not think God would take millions of years to build a house which was to last only 0,000 years. There is nothing in the world or outside tho world, terrestrial or astronomical, to ex cite dismay. I wish that some stout gospel breezo might scatter ail tho tnu- laria of human foreboding. Tho sun rose this morning at about 0 o’clock, and I think that is just about the hour iu tho Grid's history. “Tho day is at hand.” The first ray of the dawn I see in the gradual substitution of diplomatic skill for human butchery. Within the last 2a years there have been international dif ferences which would have brought a shock of anus in any other day, hat which were peacefully adjusted, the pen taking tho place of tile sword. The Venezuelan controversy in any other age of the world would have brought shock arms, hut now is being so quietly ad- (i that no one knows just bow it is dtled. kMubama question in any other world would have caused war between the United States and Eng land. How w:.-. It eetth d? By meu-of- war off tho Narrows or off the Mersey? By the gu’f strc.v'i of tho ocean crossed by a gulf stn :h:i of hu.’.ian blood? By the pathway t f ms(io;i;i incarnadined? No. A ft w wise in u go info a quiet room at Geneva, talk the maUn - over and telegraph to Y/ashiughri and to peace -co, London, “All r< tthd.” i England pays to ti e United States the amount awarded—pays really moro than she ought to have paid. But still, all that Alabama broil issettl- —settled forever. Arbitration instead of battle. . So tho quarrel about the Canadian fisheries in any other age would have caused war between the United States and England. England raid, “Pay mo for the invasion of my Canadian fisher ies.” The United .States raid, “I will not pay anything.” Well, the two na tions say, "l guess wo had bettor leave the whole matter to a o nmuission.' ’ The commission it appointed, and the commission examines the affair, and the commission reports, and pay we ought, pay >vo must, pay we do. Not a pound of powder burned, no one hurt so much as by the scratch of a pin. Arbitration instead of battle. So the Samoan coutrov rsy :n any other age would hav • hi g!it < Jerniany and the United Stm :■ into Moody col lision. But all is settf ‘l. Arbitration instead of buttle. Franco will iicvt again, I think, through the peccadillo of nn embassa dor, bring on a battle with other na tions. .She sets that God, in punish ment at Sedan, blotted out the French empire, and tho only aspirant for that throne who had any rip,.it of expecta tion dies in a war that ha; w-t even the dignity of being r< >ct:ie!o. What is the loaf that England would like to tear out of her history? The Zulu war. Down with tho sword and np with tho treaty! We in this country might bettor have settled our n otional c.itv. nhif s by ar bitration than by the trial of the sword. Philanthropy said to tho north, “Pay down a certain amount of inottoy for the purchase of tho sl iver, and let all those born after a certain tin > be born free.” Philanthropy at tl i sumo time said to the south, “ and get rid of tliis test and trouble. ’’ I Y a s 11 the slaves gnat national cou- Tlie north replied, “I won’t pay a cent.” The south re plied, “I won’t sell.” War, war! A million dead men, and a national debt which might have ground thi. - .nation to powder! Why did w’o not let William H. Howard of New York and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia go out and spend a few days under the trees on the banks of the Potoinao and talk the matter over and settle it, as settle it th y could, rather than tho north pay in co.-t of war $4,700,000,000, and tho south pay $1,- 750,000,000, the destroying ang< 1 leav ing tho first born d> ad in so many houses all the way from the Penobscot to tho Alabama. Ye aged men whose sons fell in tho strife, do yea not think that would bavo been le t; Oh, yes, wo have come to believ , I thin!:, in this country that arbitration is better than battle. A For Poor I.o, 1 may be mistaken, but I hope that the last war G twei n Clni-hinn nations is ended. Bai barium may mix their warpaint ami Chile :e and Japanese go into wholesale massacres and Afghan and Zulu hurl poi. oned arrows, but I think Christian nations have gradually learned that war is d: • inter to victor as well as vanquished mi l that almost anything bought by blood is bought at too dear a price. 1 wish to God this na tion might lie a mod' 1 ef villi;.guess for arbitration. No need of killing another Indian. No need of sacrificing any more bravo General Custers. Stop exasperat ing tho red man, and there will he no more arrows shot oat from tho ambush- ments. A general of the United States army in high repute throughout this land, and who perhaps had been in moro Indian wars than any other officer, and who had been wuunfii d again and again in behalf of cur government in battle against tho Indian:;, told mo that all the wars that had ever occurred be tween Indians and white nun had been provoked by white men, and that there was no exception to tho rule. While we are arbitrating with Chistian nations let us toward barbarians curry ourselves in a manner unprovocativo of contest. Lot mo put myself in their place. I inherit a largo estate, anil the waters are rich with fish, and tho woods are songful with birds, and my cornfields are silken and golden. Her is my sis ter’s grave. Out yonder, under tho large tree, my father died. An invader comes and proposes to drive mo off and take possession of my property. He crowds mo back, he crowds me on and crowds mo into a closer corner, until after awhile I say: “.Stand bai k! Don’t crowd mo any more, or I’ll strike! What right have you to come hero and drive me off my premises? I got this farm from my father, and he got it from his father. What rigid have you to come here and molest me?” You blandly say: “Oh, I know more than you do. I tx'long to a higher civilization. I eut my hair short er than you do. I could put this ground to a great deal better use than you do. ” And you keep crowding me back and crowding mo on intoacloser corner and a closer corner, until one day I look around upon my euffi ring family, and, fired by thtir hardships, 1 how you iu twain. Forthwith ail tho world comes to your funeral to pronounce oulogium, comes to my execution to anathematize me. You n o tho hi ro. 1 am the cul prit. Behold the United States gov< ru- mciit and tho North Ann rieun Indian! Tho red uiun has stood moro wrongs than I wonld, or you. Wo would have struck sooner, deepi r. That which is right in defense of a Washington homo is right iu defense of u home on top of tho Hu rra Nevada. B* fore tins dwin dling red race dies completely out I wish that this generation might by common justice atone for the inhuman ity of its predecessors. In tho day of God's judgment I would rather be a blood smeared Modoc than a swindling United Staten officer on an Indian res ervation! One WRR a barbarian and a savage and never pretended to ho any thing hut a barbarian and a savage. Tho other pretended to he a representative of a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all this the general disgust with war and the substitution of diplomatic skill for tho glittering edgeot keen steel is a sign unmistakable that “the day is at hand. ” DiHtam'c Conquered. I find another ray of dawn in ths compression of the world’s distances. What a slow, snaillike, almost impossi ble thing would have been the world s rectification with 1,400,000,000 of pop ulation and no facile means com munication. But now, through teleg raphy for tho eye and telephonic in timacy for the ear and through steam- boating and railroading, the 25,000 miles of the world’s circumference are shriveling up into insignificant brevity. Hongkong is nearer to New York than a few years ago New Haven was. Bom bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, with in speaking distance. Purchase a tele graphic chart and by tho hluo lines see the telegraphs of tho land and by tho red lines tho cables under the ocean. You see what opportunity this is going to givo for the final movements of Christianity. A fortress may bo months or years in building, but after it is con structed it may do all its work in 20 minutes. Christianity has been planting its batteries for 19 centuries and may go on in the work through other centu ries, but when those batteries arc thor oughly planted those fortresses are fully j built. They may all do their work in 24 hours. Tho world sometimes derides tho j church for slowness of movement. Is science any quicker? Did it not take | science 5,052 years to find out so simple 1 a thing as the circulation of the human blocd? With the earth and the sky full of electricity, science took 5,800 years ! before it even guessed that there was | any practical use that might he made of this subtle and mighty element. When good men take possession of all these scientific forces and all these agencies of invention, I do not know that there- j demptiou of the world will bo moro than tho worl: of half a day. Do we not read tho qnceu’s speech at tho prorogu ing of parliament tho day before in London? If that ho so, is it anything marvelous to believe that in 24 hours a divine communication can reach the whole earth? Suppose Christ should de scend on the nations—many expert that Christ will come among the nations personally. Suppose that tomorrow morning the Son of God from a hover ing cloud should descend upon these cities. Would not that fact he known all the world over iu 21 hours? Suppose ho should presi nt his gospel in a few words, saying: “1 am the Son of God. I came to pardon all your sins and to heal all your sorrow. To prove that I am a supernatural being, I have just de scend d from the clouds. Doyou believe me, and do you believe meuu.v?” Why, all the telegraph stations .of the earth would be crowded as none of them were ever crowded just after a shipwreck. I tell you all these things to show you it is not among tho impossibilities or even tho improbabilities that, Christ will conquer tho whole earth, and do it install ter, when the time comes. There are forotokenings in tho air. Something great is going to happen. I do not think that Jupiter is going to run us down, or that tho axle of tho world is going to break, but I mean something great for the world’s blessing and not for tho world’s damage is going to happen. I think tho world has had it hard enough. Enough tho famines and plagues. Enough tho Asiatic choleras. Enough tho wars. Enough tho shipwrecks. Enough tho conflagrations. I think our world could stand right well a proces sion of prosperities and triumphs. Bet tor bo on the lookout. Better have your observatories open toward tho heavens and tho lenses of your most powerful telescopes well polished. Better have all your Leyden jars ready for some new pulsation of might influence. Better have new fonts of type in your printing offices to sot up some astounding good news. Better have some new banner that has never been carried ready for sudden processions. Bettor have the bells in your church towers well hung ami ropo within reach, that you may ring out tho marriage of tho King’s Son. Cleanse all your courthouses, for tho Judge of all the earth may appear. Let all your legislative halls bo gilded for tho Groat Lawgiver may bo about to come. Drive off the thrones of despotism all tho occupants, for tho King of heav en and earth may bo about to reign. Tko darkness of tho night is blooming and whitening into the lilies of morning cloud and tho lilies reddening into tho roses - of stronger day—fit garlands, whether white or red, for him on whose head are many crowns. “Tho day is at hand. ” From Doin'rt to Canton. One more ray of the dawn I seo in facts chronological ami mathematical. Como now, do not let us do another stroke of work until wo have settled one matter. What is going to ho the final issue of this gicat contest between sin ami righteousness? Which is going to prove himself tho stronger, God or Diahoius? Is this world going to be all garden or all dee rt? Now, let us have that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and lio’ea and Mioah and Mahichi and John and Peter and Paul and the Lord himself, wo believe that it is going to be all garden. But let us have it settled. Let us know whether wo are working on toward a success or toward a dead failure. If there is a child in your house sick and you are sure he is going to get well, you sym pathize with present pains, hat all tho foreboding is gone. If jam are in a cy clone off the Florida coast ami the cap tain assures you the vessel ,\s stanch, and tho winds aro changing for fl better quarter, and lie is sum lie will bring you safe into the harbor, you patiently submit to present distress with the thought of safe arrival. Now l want to know whether we ar > coming on toward dismay, darkness and defeat or on to ward light uml blessedness. You and I believe the latter, and if so every year we le e;:,] is n\o year subtracted from tho v,i rId’s wee, and every event that p ei’CH, whether bright or dark, bring* U 5 one event nearer a happy consum mation, and by all that is inexorable in chronology and mathematics I commend foa to gcofi c!, ,'v and courage. If there n/./..filling in arithmetic, if you sub tract two from live and leave throe, then by every rolling sun we are coming on toward a magnificent terminus. Then every winter passed is one severity less for our poor world. Then every summer gone by brings us nearer unfading arbore-reuce. Put your algebra down on the top of your Bible and rejoice. If it is nearer morning at 3 o’clock than it is a^ 2, if it i.i uearrr morning at 4 o’clock than it i.i at 3, then we are nearer the <’. iwn of the world’s deliver ance. God’s clock seems to go very slowly, but tho pendulum swings, and tho hands move, and it will yet strike noon. The sun and tho moon steofi still once. They will never stand still again until they stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as well us your Bible, you must believe wo aro nearer tho dawn. “The day is at hand. ” I’liyiUcal r.n<l Spiritual. Them is a class of phenomena which makes mo think that tho spiritual and heavenly world may after awhile mako a demonstration in tliis world which will bring all moral and spiritual things to a climax. Now, I am no spiritualist, but every intelligent man has noticed that there aro strangn and mysterious things which indicate to him that perhaps the spiritual world is not so far off as sometimes we conjec ture, and that after awhile from the spiritual and heavenly world there may be a demonstration upon our world for its betterment. Wo call it magnetism, or wo call it mesmerism, or we call it electricity, bscausc wo want same term to cover up car ignorance. I do not know what it is. I never heard an audi- blo voice from tho other world. I am persuaded of this, however: That tho veil I etween this world and the next is getting thinner and thinner and that perhaps after awhile, at the call of God —not at tho call of tho Davenport brothers or Andrew Jackson Ds.vis— some of the old Scriptural warriors, some of the spirit ; tf othi r days mighty for (led—a Joshua, or a Caleb, or a David, or a Paul—may como down and help us in the battle against unright eousness. Oh, I how I would like to have them litre—him of tho Red sen, him of the valley of Ajalon, him of Mars’ hill! English history says that Robert Clayton of tho English cavalry at the close of tho war bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they should be turned out to drudgery ami hard work and bought a piece of ground ntKnaves- miro heath and turned out these old warhorscs into tho thickest and richest pasture to spend the rest of their days :.s compensation for what they had done in otln r days. One day a thunderstorm came up, and these warhorses mistook tho thunder of the skies for tho thunder of battle, and they wheeled into line, no riders on their barks—they wheeled into line ready for the fray. And I doubt me whether, when tho last thunder of this battle for God and truth goes booming through the heavens, the old Scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Methinks they will spring into the light and exchange crown for helmet and palm branch for weapon and come down out of the King’s gal leries into tho arena, crying: “Make room! I must fight in this great Arma geddon!" Tho old warhorscs mingling iu the fight. Bi loved people, I preach this sermon because I want you to toil with tho sunlight In your faces. I want yon old men to understand before you die that all tho work you did for God while yet your ear was alert and your foot fleet is going to he counted up in the final victo ries. I want all those younger people to understand that when they toil for God they always win tho day; that all pray ers are answered and all Christian work is in some way effectual, and that the tide is setting in tho right direction, and that all heaven Is on our side—saintly, cherubic, archangclic, omnipotent, chariot and throne, dcxolopy and pro cession, principalities and dominion, he who hath the moon under his feet and all the armies of heaven on white horses. Brother, brother, all I am afraid of is not that Christ will lose tho battle, but that yon will not get into it quirk enough to do something worthy of onr blood bought immortality. O Christ, how chiill l meet thee, thou of tho sear- red brow, and tho scarred back, and tho scarred hand, and tho scarred foot, and tho scarred breast, if I have no scars or wounds gotten iu thy service? It shall not be sy, I stop out today in front of the battle. Como on, ye foes of God, I daro you to the combat. Como on, with pens dipped in malignancy. Come on, with tongues forked and viperino. Come on with types soaked in the scum of tho eternal pit I defy you I Come on! I bare my brow, I uncover my heart Strike! I cannot sec my Leird until I have been hurt for Christ. If we do not suffer with him on earth, wo cannot lie glorified with him in heaven. Take good heart. On, on, on! See, tho skies have brightened! Sec tho hour is about to cornel Pick out all tho cheeriest of tho anthems. Let the orchestra string their t instruments. “The night is far LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS. North and South Carolina Mills Their Improvements and their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personis. [Tiik Lkiiokk invites correspon dence concerning mills and mill em ployes. etc. We reserve the right to reject any manuscripts sent us and in no case will any article that may be construed us an attack on em ployee or employer he published.) (.Southern ami Western Textile E.xcclslor.l The Fort Mill (S. C.) Mfg. Co. is I stopped for three days. The Crowley Towel I Mills; Ohar- | lotte, now have their 22(J looms click ing unceasingly. J. C. Bullard, formerly day over seer of spinning in the Lincoln Cotton | Mill, same place. The Albian Mills, Mt. Holly. X. C.. are starting up on double turn, run- j ning their loOO spindles night and : day. I II. G. McFulls is overseer of spin ning ami twist ing at the Laboratory Colton Mill, Lincoliitou, X. C., at night. Supt. \\. II. M. Woods of the Alpha Cotton Mills, Charlotte, is riding a new bicycle, finished iu a bright red. The Southern Card Clothing Co., of Charlotte, have made the card clothing for tho new napping machine of the Charlotte Cotton Mills. A beautiful monument has been | erected over the grave of J. Frank ) late Sec.-Trcas. of the i Mfg. Co., China Grove, Patterson, Patterson X. C. W. W. Owens, formerly' with the Highland 1’ark Mfg. Co., Charlotte, and the Monroe (X. C.) Cotton Mills, is now traveling, soiling the superior Geo. B. Hiss oils, of Charlotte. The Manchester Cotton Mills, Rock Hill, S. C.. ordered their loom reeds and harness from the Southern Card Clothing Co., of Charlotte, which were first class in every re spect. The Laboratory Cotton Mill, Lin- colnton, X. C., after having been stopped three weeks, has started up again, and in the time referred to new cards Pettoe re am! one lie spent; tho day is at hand. ” American File* In Rngland. A retail hardware dealer in England says that 90 per cent «.f tho files ho sells come not from Sheffield, but from Amer ica, and ho explains tho anomaly iu Tho Ironmonger. The American manufac turers, it seems, keep largo stocks in London and fill orders with great promptness. Tho American price lists give exact information regarding sizes and grades and promise delivery iu fhree days from London. A Sheffield prico lird requires prolonged study to comprehend it, and when an order is lent to Sheffield it mi.y not bo filled for four weeks, or oven eight weeks. This tardiness in filling orders has boon a matter of w<«okly experknoo for 20 yoara they have added 10 volving flat top speeder. The new Arcade Cotton Mills, Rock Hills, S. C., are making 7<>x72 inch sheetings, and these heavy white goods will bo their specialty. The new Manchester Cotton Mills make (18x72 brown goods their lead ing ticket. Chas. G. Montgomery', with his four sons, of Concord, X. C., has re moved to Alabama City, Ala., where he will have charge of the company store connected with the Dwight Cotton Mills. His sons will have positions with the company. The success of the hosiery mill at Flat Rock, X. C., has made neighbor ing towns desirous of having similar enterprises. J. P. Arledge and \V. A. Cannon of Columbus, X. C., pro pose to start a knitting factory, and want prices on machinery'. The Kesllcr Cotton Mill. Lincoln- ton, X. C., is still silent. The Elm Grove, same place, is running half time, and the Long Shoals Cotton Mill, four miles from Lineolnton, X. C., is also running half time, but will likely start up on full time next week. The Xims, Mt. Holly, Albion, and Tuckuseige, in fact all the mills at Mt. Holly, X. C., are patronizing the Southern Curd Clothing Co.. Char lotte. Also tin: mills at Maiden, Henrietta, McAdensville, ami Stanley Creek. X. C., and Piedmont, S. C.. and elsewhere. J. B. Boyd, formerly' overseer of spinning iu the Victor Cotton Mill, Charlotte, and of lute overseer of the spinning department of the City Yarn Mfg.Corporation, Xew Bedford, Muss., will, on or about the 18th inst., take charge of tlie Dover Yarn Mill, Pineville, X. 0., as its Supt. In the meantime the Dover Yarn Mill is only running half time, but will go upon full time on the 25111 of this month. Oliver Fletcher, an employee of the Vance Cotton Mills, Salisbury', X. 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CANCER CURED — AND A - LIFE SAVED By tho Persistent Use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla “I was troubled for years with a sore on my knee, "Much several physicians, who treati d me, called a cancer, assuring me that nothing could he done to save my life. As a last resort, I was induced to try Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and, after tak ing a number of bottles, the sore ‘-j-a K ^ .S' / E -V $ J began to disappear and my general health improve. I persistod in this treatment, until the sore was en tirely healed. Since then, 1 u:;c Ayer’s Sarsaparilla occasionally a a a tonic and blood-piirilicr. and, in deed, it seems as though I could not keep house without it.’’ Mrs. S. A. Fields, Bloomfield, la. The Only World’s Fair Sarsaparilla. Ayer’s Pills Regulate the Liver. DR . M. HAIR, DENTIST, Oflicc In Seitlemyer buildinjr. Twill ex- tr;i<'le«l witlmul ]Kiin. Kiisl-rl:iv; work afc rcitsnnaMc tiriccs. Will lie ul I'iM.'oli't trom I hi'lot li to l/it li of curli moiitli. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, docs a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks and Bonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. riF.DMONr Ain i :ne. Comlncicd Schn.Iu’o of Train* Nortlibouti<l. Sept. ZO, 1890. Ly. Atlmitn. (’. T. •• Atlautn, R. T. " Norcro** . • Buford. “ ftatnenvlll*. m Luln “ Cornelia.. •• Mt. Airy. ” Tocooa ” Westminster ” Seneca. . .. " Central .... " Greenville " Kpartanlmru. “ Gaffneys.. " Blacksburg " King’s Mt •• Gastonia Ar. Charlotte “ Danville Ar. Richmond Vcs. No. as j Duily. •12 0) m 1 ID l> 2 29 j. 2 M p 8 85 j. 4 18 p 4 4.-> p 5 39 p r. is p 7 01 | 8 2J p 12 ft) a Iftt.M I Vo. .‘jc Daily. No. 13 Dully No.id Kx. Sun. ■ Ar. Washington •’ BultnTe PRR. 11 <0 12 49 1 14 2 11 2 21) 3 18 a 4 10 a 4 33 a 5 20 a ti 27. a 7 02 a 13 a 7 41 X 01 a 3 10 a 1 80 p ! 7 50 a. ! S 50 a 1)31 a 10 0! a in ;r> a 11 09 a 11 22 a II 23 a 11 :.4 nj 12 3) p 12 IS p 1 :io pi 2 31 p 3 47 p 4 28 p 4 47 p 5 11 p; 4 35 p 5 35 p 0 28p 7 OSp 7 43 p 8 nsp 8 33 p 8 37 p i> •' > P <1 20 p! 11 25 p C IK) a <1 40 p 1 0 00 a 9 40 « 42 n 8 DO id 11 25 -p! " Philadelphia J10 15 a 3 00 a " New York . 12 43 m, ii 20 a . ... Southbound. \r*. Kst.Ml! 'N'o.17 No. 37 No. 35 Kx. Dally. Dally.l Sm,. Lv. N. Y., P. R. B. 4 80 p 12 15 • “ Philadelphia 55 p 3 50 a “ Baltimore. 9 20 p (122 a 1 •* Washington.. 10 43 p 11 15 a; 2 09 a 12 55 pi 2 00 a pj «40 LV: Richmond .. Danville Charlotte .. ** Gastonia “ King’s Mt . “ Blacksburg ' Gaffneys ** Spartanburg. M Greenville.. M Central “ Seneca M Westminster “ Toccoa ... “ Mt. Airy “ Cornelia “ Lula “ Uainitsville " Buford ... M Noromis Ar. Atlanta, K. T. Ar. Atlanta, C. T. 5 50 l) 35 a 0 05 u lo 85 . 11 30 12 20 1 10 1 35 a 12 (» h| 2 0) 12 24 a 2 2d a 1 ftl n] 8 15 p| 1 50 a 4 20 p 2 35 a 5 15 pi 2 68 a 5 47 | 003 2 18 p 3 50 a 0 50 7 35 7 40 8 08 8 35 907 I114;) 0 20 a 1(1 :w 5 20 a 9 :ii> 10 49 11 :i7 12 23 1 15 1 35 ;i l:i 3 31 4 55 8 55 I 4 13 p! 4;«) p' 4 57 P P P P P P P P pi pi 0 a a (135 a 0 57 a 7 20 a 7 43 a 8 27 a 9 30 a 8 30 a •’A" a. m. "P” p. m. “M" noon. "K” night. Nos. 37 and 38—Washington and Southwest ern Vestibule Limited Through Pullman •IcoperK between New York and New Orleans, Via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery,and also between New York nnd Memphis, vta Washington, Atlanta and Birmingham. This train also carries Richmond-Augusta sleeping curs Isttwecu Dnnvtlle nnd Charlotte, first class thoroughfare coach between Washington nnd Atlanta. Dining cars nerve all meals on route. Non. 3ft nnd 88-Unltnd States Fast Mall. Pull man sleeping ears between New York, Atlanta and New Orleans. Pullman parlor cars l»e- tween Richmond and Danville. Pullman Hloe|>- tug curs between Uimilugliam and Charlotte. Nos. 11 and 18—Pullman sleeping ears between Richmond and Danville. The Air Line Belle train, Nos. 17 and 18, will, { rum June 1st to October 1st, 18!KI, lie operated lOtween Atlanta and Mt. Airy, (la., daily ex cept Sunday. V H OREKN, J. M Cl’LP. Truffle M'g’r., Geu'l Hupt., „ Washington, D. O. Washington, D. O. W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK, Gen'l Pom. Ag't , Aas'tGen'l Pans. Ag't., Washington, D. O.Atlanta. (4a.