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THE LEDGER! GAFFNEY, S.X., DECEMBER 1, 1898 5 THE COM IXG CENTURY DR. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT THE NEW CYCLE WILL USHER IN. Thf \il\ n ii>'pn That llnvp Ilcpn Made. Ho»v Bporba !Iave lleen Marked. The Needa of the %e,v Aue—When i War Shull Be A'o Bore. [CopyriKht, 1S58, by A morlcan Press Asso- datlcn.l Wasbingtos, Nov. 27.—This sermon of Dr. Talmage i.i an anticipation of things near at hand and ur^es prepara tion for stirring events; text, I Chron icles xii, 82, “The children of Is.-achar, which were men that hr.d understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.” Great tribe, that tribe of Issachar! When Joab took the census, there were ]45,(500 of them. Defoie tho almanac was born, through astrological study, they knew from stellar conjunctions all alwut tho seasons of the year. Before agriculture became an art they were skilled in th t raising of crops. Before politics became a science they knew the temper of nations, and whenever they marched, either for pleasure or war, they marched under a three colored flag —topaz, sardino and carbuncle. But tho chief characteristic of that tribe of Issachur was that they understood the times. They were not like the political and moral incompetents of our day, who are trying to guide 1898 by tho theories cf 1828. They locked at tho divine in dications in their own particular cen tury. So wo ought to understand tho times, not tho times when America was 13 colonies, huddled together along tho Atlantic coast, but tho times when tho nation dips one hand in the ocean on one side tho continent and tho other hand in the ocean on the other side the continent; times which put New Y’ork Narrows and tho Golden Horn of tho Pacific within one flash of electric teleg raphy; times when God is as directly, as positively, as solemnly, as tremen dously addressing us through the daily newspaper and tho quick revolution of events as he ever addressed tho ancients or addresses us through the Holy Scrip tures. The voice of God in Providence is as important as the voice of God in typology, for in our own day we have had our tiinais with thunders of tho Al mighty, and Calvaries of sacrifice, and Gethscmanes that sweat great drops of blood, and Olivets of ascension, and Mount Pisgabs of farreachiug vision. The Lord who rounded this world (5,000 years ago and sent his Sou to redeem it near 1,900 years ago has yet much to do with this radiant but agonized planet. May God make ns like tho children of Issacbar, “which were men that had understanding of tho times, to know what Israel ought to do.” The grave of this century will soon be dug. Tho cradle of another century will soon be rocked. There is some thing moving this way out of the eter nities, something that thrills me, blanches me, appalls me, exhilarates me, enraptures me. It will wreathe the orange blossoms for millions of wed dings. It will beat tho dirge for mil lions of obsequies. It will carry tho gilded banners of brightest mornings and tho black flags of darkest mid- nights. Tho world will play the grand march of its heroes and sound tho rogues’ march of its cowards. Other processions may halt or break down or fall back, but tho procession led by that leader moves steadily on and will soon ho here. It will preside over coronations and dethronements. I hail it, I bless it, I welcome it, tho twentieth century of the Christian era. The Cradle of (he Century'. What may wo expect of it, and how shall wo prepare for it, aro the mo mentous questions I propose now to dis cuss. As in families, homan nativity is anticipated by all sanctity ami kindli ness and solemnity and care and hopeful ness, so ought wo prayerfully, hopefully, industriously,confidently prepare for tho advent of a new ceutuiy. Tho nine teenth century must not treat the twen tieth on its arrival as the eighteenth cen tury treated tho nineteenth. Our cen tury inherited tho wreck of revolutions and tho superstitious of ages. Around its cradle stood tho armed assassins of old world tyrannies; tho “reign of terror,” bequeathing its horrors; Ho- bespierre, plotting his diabolism; tho Jacobin club, with its wholesale mas sacre; the guillotine, chopping its bu- headments. Tho ground quaking with tho great guns of Marengo, Wugram and Badajos. All Europe in convulsion. Asia in .comparative quiet, but the quietness of death. Africa in the clutches of tho slave trade. American savages in full cry, their scalping knives lifted. Tho exhausted and poverty struck people of America sweating un der tho debt of $300,000,000, which tho iievolutiouury war had left them. Washington just gone into the long sleep at Mount Vernon, and the nation in bereavement; Aaron Burr, the cham pion libertine, becoming soon after the vice president. Tho government of the United States only an experiment, most of the philosophers and statesmen and governments of the earth prophesying it would bo a disgraceful failure. No poor foundling laid at night on tho cold steps of a mansion, to he picked up in the morning, was poorer olf than this century at its nativity. The United Htates government had taken only 12 steps on its journey, its constitution having been formed in 1789, and most of the nations of tbe earth laughed at our government in its lirst attempts to walk alone. Tho birthday of our nineteenth cen tury occurred in the time of war. Our sinull United Btates navy, under Cap tain Truxton, commanding the frigate Constitution, was in collision with the French frigates La Vengeance and L’lu- surgente, and the first infant cries of this century were drowned in the roar of naval buttle, and political strife on this Continent was the hottest, the par ties rending each other with puntberiue rage. The birthday present of this nine teenth century was vituperation, public unrest, tbvtat of national demolition, and horrois national and international. I adjure you, let not tho twentieth oen- ;ury be met in that awful way, but with all brightness of temporal and re ligions prospects. First, let us pat upon the cradle of the new century a new map of tho world. Tho old map was black with too many barbarisms and red with too many slaughters and pale with too many sufferings. Let us see to it that on that map so far as possible our coun try from ocean to ocean is a Chris tianized continent—schools, colleges, churches and good homes in long line from ocean beach to ocean beach. On that map Cuba must be free. Porto Rico must be free. The archipelago of the Philippines must be free. If cruel Spain expects by procrastination and iutiiguo to get back wbut she has surrendered, then the warships low’a and Indiana and Brooklyn and Texas and Vesuvius and Oregon must be sent back to sonth- ern waters or across to tbe coast of Spain to silence the insolence as decid edly as last summer they silenced ,the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and Mdria Teresa and Vizcaya. When we got those islands thoroughly under onr protecto rate, for the first time our missionaries in China will be safe. Tho atrocities imposed on those good men and women in the so called Flowery Kingdom will never be resumed, for our guns will be too near Hongkong to allow tbe mas sacre of missionary settlements. Ot: that map must be put the isthmian canal, begun if not completed. No long voyages around Cape Horn for the world’s merchandise, but short and cheap communication by water instead cf expensive communication by rail train, and more millions will bo added to our national wealth and tho world’s betterment than I have capacity to cal culate. Connectinic LinkH. On the map it must bo made evident that America is to he tho world’s civ ilizer and evangelizer. Free from the national religious of Europo on the one side and from tbe superstitions of Asia on tho other side, it will have facilities for the work that no other continent can possibly possess. As near as I can tell by the laying on of tbo hands of the Lord Almighty, this continent has been ordained for that work. This is the only country in the world where all religions are on tho same platform, and the peo ple have free selection for themselves without any detriment. When we pre sent to the other continents this assort ment of religions and give them nnhin- dered choice, we have no doubt of their selecting this religion of mercy and kindness and good will and temporal and eternal rescue. Hear it! America is to take this world for God! On the map which we will put on tho cradle of tho new century we must have very soon a railroad bridge across Be ring strait, those 3(5 miles of water, not deep, and they are spotted with islands capable of holding the piers of a great bridge. And what with America and Asia thus connected and Siberian rail way, and a railroad now projected for the length of Africa, and Palestine and Persia and India and China and Burma intersected with railroad trucks, all of which will he done before the new cen tury is grown up, the way will be open to the quick civilization and evangeliza tion of the whole world. Tho old map we used to study in our boyhood days is dusty, and on tho top shelf or amid tho rubbish of the garret, and so will tho present map of the world, however gild ed and beautifully bound, be treated, and an entirely new map will be put into the infantile hand of the coming century. Tho work of this century has been to get ready. All the earth is now free to tho gospel except two little spots, one in Asia and one in Africa, while at the beginning of the century there stood the Chinese wall and there flamed tho fires and there glittered the swords that forbade entrance to many islands and large reaches of continent. Boruosiau cruelties and Fiji island cannibalism have given way, and all the gates of all the continents are swung open witli a clung that has been a positive and glorious invitation for Christianity to enter. Telegraph, telephone and phono graph are to he consecrated to gospel dissemination, and instead of the voice that gains the attention of a few hun dred or a few thousand people within tho church walls the telegraph will thrill the glad tidings and the telephone will utter them to many millions. Ob, the infinite advantage that the twentieth century has over what tho nineteenth century had at the starting 1 The Evils of (be World. In preparation for this coming ceu tury wo have time in the intervening years to give some decisive strokes at the seven or eight great evils that curse tho world. It would lie an assault and battery upon the coining century by this century if we allowed the full blow of present evils to fall upon the future. We ought somehow to cripple or minify some of these abominations. Alcohol isin is today triumphant, and aro wo to let the all devouring monster that has throttled this century seize upon the next without first having filled his ac cursed hide with stinging arrows enough to weaken and stagger him? We have wasted about 25 years. How so? While we have been waiting for (he law of tho land to prohibit intoxicants we have done little to quench the thirst of appe tite in the palate and tongue of a whole generation. Where are the public and euthusiastio meetings that used to bo held 30 years ago for the one purpose of persuading tho young and middle aged ami old that strong drink is poisonous and damning? When willweh-uni that we must educate public opiuion up to a prohibitory law, or such u law will not be passed or if passed will not be executed? (■(Migrant that all state and national legislatures may build up against this evil a wall winch will beau impassable wall, shutting out the alco holic abomination. But while we wait for that, let us, in our homes, in our schools and our churches and ou our platforms and in our newspapers, per suade the people to stop taking alcobolie stimulant unless prescribed by physi cians, and then persuade physicians not to prescribe it it in all the dominions of therapeutics there may be found gome other remedy. Seven or eight years ago on the anni versary platform of the National Tem perance society in New Y'ork I deplored She fact that wo had left politics to do that which moral suasion only could do and said ou that occasion, “If some poor drunkard wandering along this street tonight should see tho lights kinuled by this brilliant assemblage and should some in, and, finding the character of the meeting, should ask for a temper ance pledge, that he might sign it and begin a new career, I do not believe there is in all this house a temperance pledge, and you would have to take out a torn letter envelope or a loose scrap of paper for the inebriate’s signature. ” I found out afterward that there was one such temperance pledge in the audience, hut only one that 1 could hear of. Do not leave to polities that which can bo done now in 10,000 reformatory meet ings all over the country. The two great political parties, Republican and Demo cratic, will put a prohibitory plank in tho platform tbe same day that sutuu joins the church and turns perdition in to a camp meeting. Both parties want the votes of the traffickers in liquid death, and if you wait for the ballot box to do tbe work, first yon will have local option, and then you will have high license, and then a first rate law’ passed, to be revoked ly tbe next legis lature. . Ob, save tho young man of today and greet the coming century with a tidal wave of national redemption! Do not put upon the cradle of the twentieth century a mountain of demijohns and beer barrels and rum jugs, and put to its infant lips wretchedness, disease, uiurdc-r and abandonment in solution. Aye, reform that army of inebriates. “Ah,” you say, “it cannot be dune!” That shows that you will bo of no use in tbe woik. “O yo of little faith!” Away hack in early times President Davies of Princeton college one day found a man in utter despair Iwcause of the thrall of strong drink. The presi dent said to him: “Sir, bo of good cheer. You can be saved. Sign the pledge.” “Ah,” said the despairing victim, “I have often signed tho pledge, hut I have always broken my pledge!” “But,” said the president, "I will he your strength to keep the pledge. I will he your friend, and with a loving arm around you will hold you up. When your appetite burns, and you feel that you must gratify it, come to my house, sit down with me in tho study or with the family in the parlor, and I '.vill be a shield to you. All that I can do for you with my books, my sympathy, my expe rience, my society, my love, my money, I will do. You shall forgot your appe tite arid master it.” A look of hope glowed ou tho poor man’s face, and ho replied, “Sir, will you do all that?” “Surely I will.” “Thou I will over come.” He signed tho pledge and kept it. That plan of President Davies which saved one man, tried on a large scale, will save a million men. The ComiueMl of Self. Alexander the Great made an imperial banquet at Babylon, and, though he had been drinking tho health of guests all one night and all next day, the sec ond night he had 20 guests, and ho drank the health of ouch separately. Then calling for the cup of Hercules the giant, a monster cup, he filled and drained it twice to show his endurance; hut, us he finished tho last draft from tbe cup of Hercules the giant, he drop ped in a fit, from which he never recov ered. Alexander, who had conquered Sardis and conquered Halicarnassus and conquered Asia and conquered the world, could not conquer himself, and there is a threatening peril that this go d land of ours, having conquered all with whom it has ever gone into buttle, may yet bo overthrown by the cup of tho giant evil of the land—that Hercules of infamy, strung drink. Do not let tho staggering uui bloated and embruted host of drunkards go into the next cen- tnry looking for insane asylums and almshouses and delirium tremens and dishonored graves. Another thing we must get fixed is a national law concerning divorce. Wil liam E. Gladstone askjd me while walking in his grounds at Hawarden, “Do you not think that your country is in peril from wrong notions of divorce?" And before I bad time to answer he said, “The only good law of divorce that yon have in America is the law in Booth Carolina. ” The fact is that in stead of statu laws on this subject wo need a national law passed by the senate of the United States and the house of representatives ami plainly interpreted by the supreme court of the country. There are thousands of married peo ple who aro unhappy, and they ought never to have been wedded. They were deceived or they were reckless or they were fools or tbvy were caught by dim ple or hung by a curl or married in joke or expected a fortune and it did not come or good habits turned to brutality, ami hence the domestic wreck. But make divorce less easy and you make the human race more cautious about en tering upon lifetime alliance. Let peo ple uudcrHuud that murriugo is not an accommodation train that will let yon leave almost anywhere, hut a through train, ami then tin y will not step ou the train unless they expect to go clear through to the last depot. One brave man this coming winter, rising amid the white marble of yonder Capitol hill, could off er a resolution upon the subject of divorce that would keep out of the next century much of tho free lovism and dissoluteness which have cursed this century. The Jury of Kutlona. Another thing that we need to get fixed up before tho clock shall strike 12 ou that night of centennial trauaition is tho expulsion of war by the power of arbitration. Within the next three years we ought to have, and 1 hope will have, What might be called “a jury of nations,” which shall render verdict on all controverted international ques tions. All civilized nations are ready for it—Great Britain with a standing army of 210,000 men, Entice with k standing army of 680,000 men, Ger many with a standing army of (500,000 men, Russia with a standing army of 900,000 men. Europe with standing Xrmies of about 8,500,000 men, the United States proposing a standing army of 100,000 men! What a glorious idea, that of disarmament! What an emancipation of nations and centuries! The czar of Russia last summer proposed it in world resounding manifesto. Dis armament! What an inspiring and heaven descended thought! In some quarters the czar's mauifesto was treat ed with derisicn, and wo were told that he was not in earnest when be made it. I know personally that he did mean it Six years ago he expressed to mo the same theory in bis palace at Petorhof, he then being on the way to tho throne, not yet having reached it. His father, Alexander III, then on the throne, ex pressed to me in his palace the same sentiments of peace, and bis wife, the then empress, with tears in her eyes, said, in reply to my remark, “Your majesty, there will never he another great war between Christian nations,” “Ah, I hope there never will he! If there should ever bo another great war, I am sure it will not start from this palace.” What a boon to tho world if Russia and Germany and England and the United States could safely disband all their standing armies and dismantle their fortresses and spike their guns! What uncounted millions of dollars would bo saved, and, more than that, what a complete cessation of human slaughter! What an improvement of the morals of nations! What an adop tion of that higher and better manifesto which was set to music and let down from the midnight heavens of Bethle hem ages ago! The world has got to come to this. Why not make it the peroration of the nineteenth century? Are we going to make a present to the twentieth century of reeking hospitals iiml dying armies and hemispheric graveyards? Do you want tho hoofs of other cavalry horses ou the breasts of fallen men? Do you want other harvest fields gullied with wheels of gun car riages? Do you want tho sky glaring With conflagration of other homesteads? Ah, this nineteenth century has seen enough of war! Make the determination that no other century shall bo blasted with it. During the first half of this century wo expended .'*8.000,000 to educate tho Indians and $-100,000,000 to kill them. According to a reliable statistician, dur ing this century we have had the Cri mean war, which slew 785,000 and cost $1,700,000,000, and our American civil war, which slew 1,000,000 men, north and south, audeost $9,000,000,000, dig ging a grave trench from Barnegat lighthouse, New Jersey, to Lone Moun tain cemetery at San Francisco. And you must add to these the Zulu war, and tho Austro-Prussian war, and tho Dan ish war, and the Italian war, the Franco-Prussian war, Chiuo-Japanose war, Napoleonic war, and the Amer- ico-Spnnisli war. What a record for this boasted nineteenth century! It makes all pandemonium chuckle. Ithus called out all tbe realms of diubolus in grand parade, satau reviewing them from plat form of fire, as the demons in companies and regiments and brigades have passed with banners of fire and riding ou horses cf fire, keeping step to the roll of the grand march of hell. In tho name of the God of nations, let the scroll of blood be rolled up and put upon the shelf never to bo taken down. And by the middle of next century let the sword and the carbine and the bombshell be come curiosities in a museum, about which your grandchildren shall ask questions, wondering what those instru ments weie ever nsed ter, but let no one dare tell them, hut keep it from them an everlasting secret, lest they too much despise our nineteenth century and curse the memory of their ancestors. Tin- Ilyina; CVntury. Will it not he grand if on the first day of tho twentieth century the last will and testament of the nineteenth century shall he opened and it shall be found to read: “In the name of God. amen. I, the dying century, do make this my Just will and testament I give and bequeath to my heir, the twentieth century, peace of nations; swords, which I direct to bo beaten into plow shares, and spears, which mast be turn ed into pruning books; armories, to bo changed into school houses, and for tresses, to be rebuilt into churches, and I order that greater honors be pat on those who save life than upon those who destroy it, and if, amid the universal peace now attained, those two nations, Spain and Turkey, do not stop their cruelties, let the other nations, bunded together, extemporize u police force to wipe those countries off the map of na tions as a wet sponge wipes from a boy’s slate at school a hard sum in arithmetic. This last will 1 sign and seal and deliver on the 31bt day of December, in tiie year of our Lord, 19U0, all tho civilized nations of earth am’ all the glorified na tions of heaven witnessing." But what wo do us individuals, an churches, us nations, ns continents, wo must do very soon if we want tho transi tion from century to century to be a worthy transition, for I hear the trum pets of the approaching century and tbw clattering hoofs of tho host it leads on. For historical reminiscence there is no street in all tbe world like yonder' Pennsylvania avenue. Chumps Elyseea of Paris is more brilliant; Princess street, Edinburgh, more picturesque; Unter den Linden, Berlin, mure riohly foliaged; Piccadilly street, London, more populous; Nevsky Prospekt of 8t. Petersburg stands for more years; tho Corso of Rome is lined with more an tiquities, but for an intelligent and putriotio American yonder avenue has no equal for suggestiveuess. The other night, while thinking of this subject. as to tho way in which wo ought to meet the new century, so near at hand, I fell into a sort of dreamy state, in which the chronology of events seemed obliterated, and I saw on Pennsylvania avenue two processions, which seemed to meet each other as this century goes out arid another comes in. As near as I could tell in that dreamy state, it was tbe last night of tbe century, and I saw the spirits of the mighties in American history passing down the marble steps of the capitol on yonder hill and mov ing through that memorable Pennsyl vania avenue. There they come, the de parted members of tho supreme court of our nation, led ou by Chief Justice Marshall. There come tbo distinguished men of our national legislature, in which are Webster and Clay and Ben ton and Calhoun and Preston and Cor win and Edward Everett and John Quincy Adams and Samuel L. Southard and Rufus Choate and others—soino great for statesmanship, others great for wit, others great for eloquence, others great for courage. They pass on through the avenue immortal for those who in past times trod it Yonder I see the funeral pageants of senators and three presidents! Banners (Jraped in gloom, tossing black plumes following tossing black plumes. Catafalques, each drawn by eight white horses, while minute guns boom. Yonder a nation in tears follows tbe victims of the exploded Princeton, the slain secretaries of state and navy. Presidential inaugural processions, accompanied by vanished music that has returued, tho lips again on flutes and cornets long ago rusted, hut now repolisbed, and I hear tho beating drums, which, silent for many years, are again sounded, greeted by the huzza of hundreds of thousands of voices. Many decades hushed, but again reso nant. Regiments of the army of Ameri can Revolution followed by regiments of the army of 1812 and regiments of the army of 1804. They have come up from the encampments in the tomb to take part in this great parade in honor of, tho century on this night passing away. From the windows ou both sides —windows upholstered again, as in those olden days—the pomp and fashion of tho national capital looking out upon tbe passing spectacle. There Marquis do Lafayette passes, escorted by tho chief men of the land, who have been author ized to welcome him in behalf of a na tion which he helped to set free. (Ju through that avenue pass the throngs toward the presidential residence,where, to greet them, come out on the platform built to review tbe passing century, Washington, and tho Adamses and Jef ferson and Madison and Monroe and Lincoln. As that long and brilliant procession, vanished, but now a resur rected and remarshaled host, passes be fore that reviewing stand, I see another procession coming from the opposite direction to meet this. They are the presidents, the senators, the legislators, the judges, tho philanthropists, the de liverers of tho twentieth century. They come up from the schools, the churches, tho farms, the cities, tho homesteads of the enutiuent. Their cradles were rocked on tbe banks of the Alabama, and the St. Lawrence, and the Oregon, and me Androscoggin, and the Potomac, and the Hudson. They have just as firm a tread, just as well built a brow, just as great a brain, just as noble u heart, just as high a purpose, just as sublime a courage passing in procession ouo way through that avenue as the other pro cession passes the other way. Yea, the men coming out of tbe twentieth cen tury in some respects surpass those com ing out of the nineteenth century, for they have had better advantage, uud will have grander opportunity, and will take part in higher achievements of civilization and Christianity. The Cendirjr’s Wa(ch M»;li(. What a meeting on this midnight 13 o’clock, tho two processions of the mighties of two centuries I Uncover all beads and bow reverently in prayer. Thank God for tbo good done by the procession coming oat of tho past and pray to God for good to bo done by the procession coming out of the future. Bnt liult, both processions! Haiti Haiti Break ranks! Back to yonr thrones, ye mighties of the nineteenth century and enjoy tho reward of your fidelity 1 Back to your homes, yo mighties of the twen tieth century, your congressional chairs, your judicial benches, your presidential mansions, your editorial rooms, your stupendous responsibilities and do the work for the twentieth century 1 Fare well and tears for tbo one procession. Hail and welcome to tho other proces sion. It has been a custom in all Christian lands for people to keep watch night as an old year goes out and a new year comes in. People assemble in churches about 10 q,'clook of that last night of tbe old year, and they have prayers and songs and sermons and congratulations until the hands of the church clock :;!• most reach tbe figure 13, uud then all bow in silent prayer, uud the scene is mightily impressive until tho clock in the tower of the church or the clock in the tower of tho city hull strikes 13, and then all rise and sing with smiling face and jubilant voice the grand doxology, and there is a shaking of hands all around. But what a tremendous watch uigb the world is soon to celebtnto! This century will depart at 12 o'clock of tho 81st of December, of the year 1900. What a night that will he, whether starlit or moonlit or dark with tempestl It will bo such a night as you uud I never saw. Those who watched tho coming in of the nineteenth century long ago went to their pillows of dust. Here and there one will see the now century arrive who saw this century enter, yet they were too infantile to ap preciate the arrival. But ou the watch night of which I speak, in all neighbor hoods uud towns and cities and conti nents, audit uces will assemble and how in prayer, waiting for tbe last breath of tho dying century, and when the clock shall strike 12, there will be a solemnity uud an overwhelming awe inch as has not been felt for 100 years, and then all tho people will arise and shtaut the welcome of a new century of joy and sorrow, of triumph and defeat, of happiness and woe, and neighborhood will shake hands with neighborhood and church with church and city witii city and continent with continent uud hemisphere with hemisphere and eartts with heaven at the stupendous departure •nd tbe majestic arrival. May we all be living on earth to seo the solemnities and join in tho songs and shake banda in the congratulations of that watch night; or, if between this and that any of us should be off and away, may we be inhabitants of that laud wheio “a thousand years are as one day,” and in tbe presence of that angel spoken of in the Apocalypse, who at the end of the world will, standing with one foot on the sea and the other foot oa tbe land, “swear by him that liveth forever ami ever, that time shall be no longer.” ^YSPEPSIA the cause of un- U told suffering. By taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla the digestive organs are toned and dyspepsia IS CURED. Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co., T I META RLE of (ho Ohio River and CharleK ton Railway Company, eonjunctly wiib the South Carolina and (ieorj-'la Railroad. Schedule in etTcet May Kith. Isas. •rn Time. :« a2 A. M. (S. C. ,V. G.) I*. M. Lv. r id CHARLESTON A r. * on •• 9 oo BRANCH VII.!.E •• 5 47 in in KINGSVILLE “ 4 2S I*. M. (<>. It. \ C.) P. 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