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iixc TO THE (moss. dr. talmage preaches a power ful SERMON. M**n of Tnli*nt SpiM'Inl Opimr- tniiMIrN 1’or lloiiiK (• oo<l—ll<>r<>«*K nt Homo <ih Well iim oil the niitllelieitl. The (<r« :.:<'Mt Wnrrloi* of All. [Copyright, 1 3, l.y Anicrlean I'rostt Asso- ciatioa. ] Wakiun-gton, Jnn. 8.—From a text probably iii ver before tlisooursed upon Dr. Talmago in tins Kennoo kIiowh bow eome peoj lo multiply tluiir resources for uscfnlmsa and in n novel way urges tbo putting forth of more energy in rifiht (lireetious; text, II Samuel xviii, 3, “Then art worth 10,000 of us.” One of the most wondrous characters of his tit:'" was David. A red haired boy, bo could shepherd a flock or carry ‘‘ten | loaves and tn slices of milk cheese to bis brothers in tbo regiment,” or with latbern thong, stone loaded, bring d >wu a giant whose armor wt iybed two linn dredweight t.f metal, or cause a lion i which reared at him in rage to roar with | pain as hu flung it,dying, to the roadside, ! ( r could marshal a host, or rule an cm- ! pire, or taumb a harp so skilltully Unit it cured FuuI’h dementia—a liarj) from ; whose strin;:sdripped pastorals, elegies, lyrics, triumphal mar hes, hensilktioi's. i Kow. t.his man, a combination of music i and hd; i(s, of dithyrambs and battle- I fields, of country quietudes and states manship, i - to fit out a military expedi tion. Four thousand troops, according to Josephus, were sent into the li Id. The captains were put in command of the compuiiks, and the colonels in com mand of tbo regiments, which Were (Im posed into right wing, left wing and center. (leneral Jonh, General Ahishai and Gener; 1 Ittai are to lead these three divisions. F.ut who shall take the field as commander in clii.f: David offers his s: rvic s and prop -es to go to tho i tent. He will lend them in the awful I charge, f r In has not a cowardly m rvo in all his body. Ho did not propose to have his troops go into perils which he himself would not brave, and tho bat tlefield r 'pared an much courage then as now, for tho opposing forces must, in ordir do any execution at all, come up to within positive read) of eaher and spear. Hut there came up from tho troops and from civilian;; a mighty prote-t against David’s taking tho fi; Id. His lifo was too important to tho nation. If ho went down, tho em pire went clown; whereas, if tin; whole 4,000 of tho ranks were slain another army might bo marshaled and rho de feat turmd into victory. The army and the nation practically cried out: ‘‘No! No! You cannot go to tho front! We estimate you as 10,000 men! ‘Thou art i worth 10,000 of us!’ ” That army and that nation then and there reminded David and now remind ns of tbo fact which we forget or never appreciate at all that some people are morally or spiritually worth far more than others, and some worth far less. The census aud statistics of neighbor hoods, of churches, of nations, servo their purpose, but they can never ac curately express the real statocf things. The practical subject that I want to present today is that those who have especial opportunity, especial graces, especial wealth, especial talent, espe cial elotinenco, ought to make up by especial assiduity and consecration for those who have less opportunities and less gifts. You ought to do ten times more for God and human uplifting than those who have only a tenth of your equipment. Tho rank and tho file of tho 4,000 of the text told the truth when they said, ‘‘Thou art worth 10,- 000 of us.” In no city of its size are thero so many men of talent as aro gathered in this capital of the American nation. Some of the states aro at times repre sented by men who have neither talents nor good morals. Their political party compensates them for partisan services by sending them to congress or by se curing for them position in the war or navy or pension or printing depart ments. They were uobodiee before they left home, and they are nobodies here, hut they are exceptional. All the states of tho Union generally send their most talented men aud men of exemplary lives aud noble purposes. Some of them have tho gifts and qualifications of ten men, of a hundred men—yea, of a thou sand men—and their constituents could truthfully employ the words of my text aud say, “Thou art worth 10,000 of us.” Power For Good. With such opportunity, are they aug menting their usefulness in every pos sible direction? Many of them are, some of them aro not. It is a stupendous thiug to have power—political power, social power, ollicial power. It has of ten been printed and often quoted as one of tho wise sayings of the ancients, “Knowledge is power.” Yet it may as certainly be power for evil as for good. The lightning express rail train has power for good if it is on the track, but horrible power for disaster if it leaves the track and plunges down the em bankment. Tho ocean steamer has power for good, sailing in right direction aud in safe waters and under good helms man and wide awake watchman on the lookout, but indescribable power for evil if nnder full headway it strikes the breakers. As steam power or electricity or water forces may he stored in boil ers, in dynamos, in reservoirs, to bo employed all over a town or city, so God sometimes puts in one man enough faith to supply thousands of men with courage. If a man happens to he thus endowed, let him realize his opportuni ty and improve it. At this time mil lions of men are a-tremble Jest this na tion make a mistake and enter upon some policy of governmenf for the is lands of the sea that will founder the republic. f God will give to a few men on both sides of this question faith and courage for all the rest. There are two false positions many are now taking, false as false can he. The one is that 1* we decline fe take under full charge Cuba rud For to Rico and tho Philip* pine i \v ■ make a declination thai will I e dis.t'.itmus tonr.r nation, and other 1 nations will lake crntrol of those ar- ; chip! lagocs inil rule them, and perhaps to our humiliation and de.-triu tion. The ; other theory is that if we take posses sion of those once Spanish ( 1 mb s we invite foreign iuterfcicnce and enter upon a career that will finally he tho demolition of this government. Both positions are immeasurable mistakes. God has set a; art tins continent for fr>'" government and tho triumphs of Uhri-tiauity, and we may take either tho first or the second course without ruin. \Vo may say to those islands: "We do not want you, but wo have set you free. Now stay free, while wo see that tko Spanish panther never again puts its paw on your neck.” Or we may invito the annexation of Cuba and Porto Kieo i.nd say to the Philippines, “Get ready by education and good mor als for free government, and at the right time you shall lo oneof our terri tories, on tho way to ho one of our states.” And there is no power in Europe, Asia or Africa, or all combined, that could harm this nation in its world wide endeavor. Gcd is on the side of the right, and lyoinn -t iiuploration for divine guidance on the. part of this nation wo will he led to do t!:o right. Wo aro on tho brink of nothing. There h no frightful crisis. This train of Re publican and D< n oeratio institutions is a through train, and all wo want is to have tho engineer and tho brakemeu and the conductor attend to tin ir busi ness and tbo passengers keep their places. We want men in this nation with faith enough for all. Wo want hero and thero a David worth 10,000 men. (on(1«!onoe I.nckiiiK. A vast majority of nn u have no sur plus of confidencu for others and hardly enough confidence for themselves. They go through life saying depressing thing;; and doing depre ssing things. They chill prayer meetings, discourage charitable institutions, injure commerce and kill churches. They blow out lights when they ought to he kindling them. They hover around a dull lire on their.own heart!) and Dike up so much room that no cue can catch the h ast caloric, in stead of stirring the hearth intoa blaze, the crackle of whose backlog would in vite the whole neighborhood to come in to feel the abounding warmth and see the 1 transfiguration of the faces. As we all have to guess a great dial about tho future, let us guess something good, for it will he more encouraging, and the guess will ho just as apt to come true. What a lot of ingrates the Lord has at his table! People who have had three meals a day for ol) years and yet fear that they will soon have to rattle their knife and fork on an empty dinner plate. How many have had—winter and spring and summer aud fall—cloth- iug for (10 years, hut expect an empty wardrobe shortly! How many have lived under free institutions all their days, but fear that tho United States may ho telescoped in some foreign col lision! Oh, but the raxes have gone up! Yes, hut thank God, it is easier with money to pay the taxes now that they aro up than it was without money to pay tho taxes when they woro down. Wo want a few’ men who have faith in God aud that mighty future which holds several things, among them a millennium, Columbanns said to his friend, “Deicolus, why are you always smiling;” The reply was, “Because no one can take my God from me!” We want more men to feel that they have a mission to cheer others and to draw up the corners of people’s mouths which have a long while been drawn down, more Davids who can shepherd whole flocks of bright hopes, and can play a harp of encouragement, and strike down a Goliath of despair, and of whom wo can say, “Thou art worth 10,000of us.” I admit that this thought of my text fully carried out would change many of the world’s statistics. Suppose a vil lage is said to have 1,000 inhabitants, and that one-half of them—namely, fi00—have for years been becoming less in body, and through niggardliness aud grumbling less in soul. Each ono of these is only one-half of what ho once was or one-half of what sko once was. That original o00 have been reduced one-half in moral quality and are really only 200. Suppose that the other fi00 have maintained their original status and are neither better nor worse. Then the entire population of that village is 7o0. Hut suppose another village of 1,000, and GOo of them, as tho years go by, through mental and spiritual cul ture, augment themselves until they are really twice the men and women they Originally were, and the other GOO remain unchanged aud are neither better nor worse, then the population of that village is 1.G00. Meanness is subtrac tion aud nobility is addition. Accord ing as you rise in the scale of holiness aud generosity and consecration, you aro worth 5 or 10 or GO or 100 or 1,000 1 or 10,000 others. I Humble Het-oea. Notice, my friend, that this David, warrior, strategist, minstrel, master of blank verse and stone stinger at the giant, whom the soldiers of the text es I timated clear up into tbo thousandfold ! of usefulness on this particular occasion, staid at home or in his place of tem porary residence. General Joah, Ueu- I eral Ah'shai aud General Ittai, who commanded the boys in tho right wing ; and left wing and center, did their work bravely aud left 25,000 of the j Lord’s enemies dead on the field, aud ! many of tho survivors got entangled in the woods of Ephraim aud mixed up in the hushes aud stumbled over the stumps of trees aud fell into bogs and were devoured of wild beasts which i seized them in the thickets. But David | did bis work at home. We all huzza I for heroes who have been in battle and i on their return what processions wo form and what triumphal arches we spring and what banquets we spread and what garlands we wreathe aud what orations wc deliver and what bells wo ring and what cannonades wo lira! But do wo do jnslico to tho stay at homes? Divid, who v.is worth 10,000 of those who went out to meet the Lord's enemies in the woods of Ephra im, that day did hi- work in retirement. Oh, the world ii ods a day of judg ment. to give many of thestuy at homes proper recognition. In the different wars the sons went to tho front and on ship's d '( !: or battlefield exp iscd th ir lives ami earned tho » In:iration of tho country. hot how about the mothers aud fathers who through long years taught those sons tho noble seutiiooiits that inspired them to go and then gave them up when perhaps a few words of earnest protest would have 1: pt them on tlu farm and in tho homestead? The day of final reward will reveal tho self sacrifice and tho fidelity of thousands who never in all their lives received ono word of praise. Oh, yo tm ye faithful and Christian and ail known, ciiilur- 10 stiiv at home i I have no power now to do you justice, bat I till you of one who has the powirandof the day when he will put it forth. It will ho the day when the thimble, and tho la dle, and the darning needle, and the washtnh, aud the spinning wheel, and the scythe, and the thrashing machine, and tho bummer, and the frowel, and the plow, will come to as higli an ap preciation ns a 7! p lunder, cr th* sword, or the buttering rani that pounded down the wall or the flag that was hoisted on tho scaled parapets. A Crcnl Soluter. The worrier 'David of my text showed more self control and moral prowess in staying at home than ho could have shown commanding in tho field. He was a natural warrior. Martial airs: stirred him. The glitter of oppn-ing shields fired him. Ho was one of those men who feel at home in the s-ddle, patting tho neck of a pawing c . airy horse. But bo suppressed himself, lie obeyed the command of the troops whom he weald like to have commanded. Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus- tcrlit/es have been in backwoods kitch ens nr in nursery, with three children down with scarlet fever, soon to join the two already in the churchyard, or amid donnslio wrongs and outrages enough to transform aunds iuto (h vils, lr in commercial life within their own counting rooms in time of Black Friday panics, or in mechanical life in their own carpenter shop or on tho scaffold ing of walls, swept by cold or smitt n by heat. No telegraphic win s reported the crisis of tho conflict, no banner was ever waved to celebrate their victory, hut God knows, and God will remem ber, and Gcd will adjust, and by him the falling of a tear is as certainly no ticed as the burning of a world, and the flutter of a sparrow’s wing as the flight of tho apocalyptic archangel. Oh, what a God we have for small things as well av big things! David no more helped at the front than helped at home. Tho four regiments mobilized for the defense of the throne of Israel were right in protesting against David’s exposure of his lifo at the front. Had ho been pierced of an arrow or cloven down with a battlenx or fatally slung from snorting war charger, what a dis aster for tbo throne of Israel! Absalom, bis sou, was a low fellow and unfit to reign ; his two chief characteristics were his handsome face and his long hair— so long that when ho had it cut that which was scissored off weighed “200 shekels, after the king’s weight,” aud when a man has nothing but a hand some face aud an exuberance of hair there is not much of him. The capture or slaying of David would have been a calamity irreparable. Unnecessary ex posure would have been a crime for Da vid, as it is a crime for you. Some people think it isa bright thiug to put themselves in unnecessary peril. They like to walk up to tho edge of a precipice and look off, defying vertigo, or go among contagions when they can he of no use but to demonstrate their own bravado, or with glee drive horses which arc only harnessed whirlwinds, or see how close they can walk in front of a trolley car without being crushed, or spring on a rail train after it lias stroke from the locomotive would put them backward or forward in the jour ney to the village grocery; traveler on a railroad bridge, hoping that he could get to the end ot tho bridge before tin* j train roache;’. it. You have no right to put your lifo in peril unless by such exposure something is to bo gained for others. What imbecility in thousands of Americans during our rcc nt Ameri- i co-Sjuini.-h war, disappointed because the Hnnvndcr came so soon and they could not have the ndvanlago of being shot ut Suu Juan hill or brought down with the yellow fever and carried on a 1 litter to transport steamers already so I many floating lazarettos instead of 1 thanking (hid tie;! they got no nearer to j the slaughter than Tampa or Chatta nooga nr tho encampment at their own state capital; mad. at the government, mad at God, because they could not get to tho front in time to join the -1,000 I corpses that aro row being tran.-ported 1 from the tropics to the national ceme teries of tho United States. Exposure , and daring airo admirable when duty | calls, hut keep out of peril when noth- ; ing practi il and useful is to he gained j ; for your family nr your country or your < rod. I admire the David of my text as he suppresses himself and enters the ' gate of liis castle as much as I admire him when with his four fingers and thumb clutched into the grisly locks of Goliath’s bead, which he had decapi tated, and Faul admiringly asks, ! “Whose son art thou, young man?” and David, Idu-hing with genuine modesty, responds, “J am the son of thy servant, Jesse, tho Bcthlchemite.” licit) Others. Now, hen' is another important point. As there are so many people in the world who amount to little or nothing I you ought to augment yourself, and if not able, like David, to be worth 10,000 times more than others, you can com mand God’s re-enforcing grace to make yourself four times or three times or twice as much as some others. Pray twice as much, read twice as mu< li, give twice as much, go to church twice as much. Instead of spending your time finding fault with others, substitute your superior fidelity for their dertiic- tion and default. In any church there aro ten members worth ail tho other thousand. In every great business linn there is one man worth the other three partners. In every legislative hall, stare or national, there are live men worth all tiio other GO or 1UU. Take the stig- gestion of my text and augment your self. Make your ono talent do the work of two, or your five talents do the work of ten, or your ten talents do the work of 20. Multiply your words of encour agement. Multiply the number of boosts you can give to those who aro trying to climb. Instead of being one man in a battalion by your faith in God aud new consecration he a whole regiment. I like the question of a general of a small army, when some one was counting tho number of officers and soldiers of the opposing forces and tho small number of their own army, and the general cried out in indignation, “How many do you take me tu her” David was 10,- 000 men. Yon ought to ho at least two men in this battle for God aud right eousness. The daily papers say that my old ; friend Jeremiah C. Lanpbier of New York is dead at 90 years of aga. But ; they are mistaken. That man can never | die. He will live as long as heaven ; lives. He was the father of vitalized, i vivified and arousing prayer meetings. | Ho established the noonday Fulton street prayer meeting, famous through- 1 out Christendom and more honored of God than any devotional meeting since tho world begun. Ho introduced the lit tle hell on the prayer meeting table which always tapped when prayers xvero too prolix or exhortations too long winded. Finding that many business men are from 12 noon to 1 o'clock at comparative leisure, he widely announc ed that at 12 o’clock of 23d of Septem ber, 1857, thero would begin a prayer meeting of one hour in the small upper room of the Reformed church, on Ful ton street, New York. Lanpbier went to that room at 12 o’clock and sat alone. At half past 12 a man entered, and oth- started, or leap off a rail train before it ers came until thero Wore six worship- bus stopped. Their lifo is a series of ers present. The meeting on tho follow- narrow escapes, careless of what pro- dicament their family would suffer at their sudden taking off or of the mis fortune that might come to their busi ness partners or tho complete failure of their life work, if a coroner’s jury must he called in to decide the style of their exit. They do not take into considera tion what thiir lifo is worth to others. Taken olf through such recklessness they go criminals. There was not one man among those four full regiments of 4,0U0 Israelites that would have so much enjoyed being in the light as Da vid, hut he saw that he could servo his nation best by not putting on helmet and shield and sword, aud so he tool; the advice of the armed men aud said, “What seemeth to you best I will do.” I warrant that you will die soon enough, without teasing aud bantering casualty to see if it can launch you into the next world. Kerp Ont of I'erll. In nine cases ont of ten the fatalities every day reported are not the fault of engineers or brakemeu or conductors or cab drivers, hut of the stupidity and recklessness of people at street or rail road crossing. They would like to have the Chicago limited express train, with 3(J0 passengers and advertised to arrive at a certain hour in a certain city, slow up to let them get two minutes sooner to their destination, not one farthing of their own or any ono tlse’s welfare dependent on whether they arrive one minute before 12 o'clock or one minute after. You ought to get permission from a railroad superintendent tu mount be side the engineer on a locomotive to re alize how many evils of recklessness there are in the world—funeral proces sions whipping up to get across before the cowcatcher strikes the hearse; man of family, with wife and children be side him in a wagon, evidently having made close calculation as to whether a height and circumference all those who gaze into it until they can look no more, hut each succeedidg time you look it seems higher and wider and grander aud more supernatural. All the then known world taxed to furnish the splendor of the mosque, and many of the great blocks of stone brought from Alexandria, from Athens, from Thebes, from Baalbec. Marbles veined and slar- r«'il and striped and interlaced, aud tho wholo building adorned with depths of blue, aud whiteness of snow, and glow of fire, until all terms of magnificence aro a depreciation, aud years after your most extravagant dreams otrugglo to re build it. But, .after all, I cannot forget that it is a destroyed church, and that one day that building, which had been dedicated to God, was transferred to that religion which has Mohammed for its prophet. One day, centuries ago, 100,000 people had fled between its walls from tho devastating war of the Turk, but all in vain, for Mohammed II, on horseback and followed by in furiate mobs, rode into that church, tho hoofs clattering the sacred fleers, while the conqueror shouted the victory of superstition and invoked Allah, the god of Arabs and Turk , to accept the stu pendous pile in dedication. What a desecration and what worldwide de spair! But that which the nations now most need is a hero, a leader, a cham pion, an incarnated God, to tarn all tho mosques cf superstition and all the basilicas of sin into temples of right- eomness, aud to uiiedicat'' this world, so long given up to wickedness and sin, to th : (!od who in the beginning pro nounced it very good. Midi a h; ro, such a lender, such a champi u, each an in carnated God we have. He comes riding in upon tho white horse of eternal vic tory, and we can, in more exalted sc use than tha* which the soldiers of David felt, cry out, “Thou ait worth 10,000 cf us.” Con<ino;•»r of Worlu*. The world has had other conquerors, yet they subdued only a nation or a con tinent, hut here is one who is to he a ! conqueror of hemispheres. Other pbysi- j ciaus have cured sufferings, but hero is a Doctor who gave sight to those who were born blind aud without surgery straightened tho crooked I ack and 1 changed the numbness of paralysis into warm circulation, and who will yet ex- Ur; ate all the iiUruents of the world, until the la.-tery of tbo world's distress : shall change inrn a song of convales cence. Other kings have ruled wide realms, but here isa King that will yet reign in all the earth as he now reigns ! in In uveu. Thero have been other his torians who tdd the story of nations, : hut hero is one who tells us of things that occurred before tho world was. S There have been other generals who , commanded men, but hero was aGener- 1 al who commanded seas and hurricanes. | Thero have been other prophets, but here is one out of whove life aud earn r ; Moses and David and Jeremiah and I Ezekiel aud Micah and Malaehi and Zechariah dipped their inspiration. Thero have been other merciful lioartrs all up and down through the ages, but here is one who loves us with an ever lasting love and whose mercy antedates the birth of the first mountain, and the wash of the first sea, and the radiance of the first aurora, and the chant of the morning stars at the creation aud will continue after tho last rock lias melted in the final conflagration, and Atlantic and Pacific oceans have rolled out of their beds, and the last night shall have folded up its shadow, and our Lord shall have cried out in tbo same words that sounded through tho night of John’s banishment on Patmos, “I am , Alpha aud Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” Then all the mightiest of heaven will gather around the incarnated God of whom I» preach, each ono saying it for himsa f, hut ail together uttering it in mighty chorus, “Thou Sou of David, thou Son of Mary, thou Sou of God, thou art worth 10,000 of us.” But I must not close without com mending to you this wonderful Christ hero and now as your pardon for all sin and your solace for all grief aud your triumph in all struggle. 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Requests for | prayer from all parts of the earth have come there, aud the prayers offered been answered sometimes with a resound that was heard throughout Christen dom. Hundreds of thousands of souls have stepped into that Betbesda and been healed. That meeting started the great revival of 1858, in which it is es- i timated 500,000 souls were converted. | When Monday morning, Dec. 20, his soul ascended, 1 think he was met at the gate of heaven hy a welcoming throng as mighty as that which has greeted any admitted soul fur live cen- | turies. Humble aud without any pre- tension aud without anything brilliant in his make up, through faith in God and concentrated prayer he shock the j earth and enraptured the heavens. He was worth 10,000, yea 100,000, ordinary Christian workers. Dear old friend Lauphier, how 1 loved you ! Worth Ten 1 honannd. When tho consul general came in bis official rowboat to take us off our gn at steamer in the harbor of Constantinople, there were many things 1 wanted to see in that city of multiform enchantments, but most of all 1 was anxious to sec that architectural charm of the ages, the St. Sophia—once a church, hot now a mosque. 1 do uot wonder that when Lamartine saw it he thanked God, and Pouqueville felt himself lifted into semu other world. What pillars of porphyry, and walls of malachite, aud hovering arches, aud galleries which seemed to have alighted from heaven instead of being built up from earth ! Mosaics and mother of pearl, and seraphim with wings hediamouded, and dome which •coops the sky aud staggers with Hj harbor some Christian ladies at much expense aud with fine taste bougiit aud furnished fer that war vessel a pulpit, from which the chaplain might read tho service aud preach while on ship board. The pulpit was made in the shape of a cross and it was beautifully damasked and tasseled. The ship got into the battle before Santiago, and the vessels of tbe/'uemy began to sink, and their crew were struggling in tho wa ters, when, from this ship I speak of, the officers aud sailors began to throw over chairs, planks, tables, to help the drowning save themselves. After awhile everything movable bad been thrown overboard, excejjt tho pulpit in the shape of a cross. After objection hy some that it was too beautiful and valu able to be cast into the waters, the cross was dropped into the sea. One of the drowning men seized it, hut let go, aud another seized, and tho shout went from many on deck to those struggling in the waves: “Cling to the cross! Cling to tho cross!” Several of tho drowning took the advice aud held on until they were rescued aud brought in safety to deck aud shore and home, and 1 say to all the souls today sinking in sin aud sorrow, now swept this way and now that: Though the guns of temptation aud disaster may splinter and knock from unler you all other standing, aud everything else goes down, lake hold the cross and cling to it for your present aud everlasting safety. Cling to the cross, for he who died upon it will save to tiie uttermost, and be is ho good and so lovely and so mighty that he ia worth infinitely more than 10,000 of ua. Fst.Mll Ve». jNo.ll No. 33 No. 37 Huily Dal I v. Dnil v. 1 Lv. N. Y..F. H. K. 1J 1) a 4 liU pi “ Pliilaaeljihia i 3 f>0 a, 6 5o pi “ Baltimore. 1 t> 31 a 1 9 80 p! 2 Washington.. *11 15 a 10 i.) r Lv. Richmond Lv. Danville Lv. Norfolk Ar. Greensboro. Lv Greensboro Ar. Charlotte ... Lv. 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Lady Yarborough, previous to her marriage the Baroness Conyers, is al most six feet iu height and is tbo most beautiful and stately of EuglUh peer esses. Chexapenke Line Stenmcrs ia daily servis* ; between Norfolk «nd ha timore. Nos. 37 ind Bb—Daily Washington nnd South- ' Westem Vestibule Limited. Tnrough Pullman Sleeping curs tutween New York and New Or- j lenim, via Washington, Ailnnts nnd Montgom ery, and ftho between New York andMctnpkm I viu Washingt < in, At lan t» « nd Bi rtninh:i m. Firm clive* thorongtlwe eokcncn Wurteii Washia^ • ton and Atlautn. Dining ears sei v« nil en route. Pullman drawing-tirnn Cceningoa^ between Greenelxiro and Norfolk. Close oak uection at Forfolk for OLD POiNT COMFORT arriving there in time for breakfast. Noe. 33 and A—Cnifod States Fast IfaR nine solid oeto i Washington and NewOs- Icane, via Sonthtrn kailway, A. & W. P. R. R» Slid D. St X. K K.. b-'i.r; com . led of baggage rar and coaches, through without change fsv pAssengcrT*of all clas-c*. 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