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THE IIOANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 18.01. DR. TALLAGES SERMON. HE PREACHES ON THE WATERS ' OF MEROM. Continuation of Ills Series Descriptive of His Trip Through the Holy Land A Beautiful Series of Word Paintings A Discourse That Will lte Hememberrd. Brooklyn, 1c. 21. Dr. Talmase preached tlie following sermon this morning in the Academy of Music in this city, and again in the evening at The Christian HeralJ service in New York. His text was Joshua xi, 5: "And when all those kings were met together they came and pitched to gether at the waters of Meroin to light against Israel." We are encamped tonight in Pales tine by the waters of Meroni. After a long march wo havo found our tents pitched, our llres kindled, and though far away from civilization a variety of food that would not compromise a first (-kiss American hotel, for the most of our caravan starts an hour and tt half earlier in the morning. We detain only two mules carrying so much of our baggage as we might accidentally need, and a tent for the noonday luncheon. The malarias around this Lake Morom are so poisonous that at any other season of the year encamp ment here is perilous, but this winter night the air is tonic and healthful. In this neighborhood Joshua fought his last great battle. The nations had banded themselves together to crush this Joshua, but along the banks of these waters Joshua left their carcases. Indeed it is lime that we more minute ly examine this Joshua, of 'whom, we have in these discourses caught only a momentary glimpse, although he crossed and recrossed Palestine, and next to Jesus is the most stirring and mighty character whose foot ever touched the Holy Land. A TRADITION OK THE DEATH OF MOSKS. Moses was dead. A beautiful tradi tion says the Lord kissed him, and in that act drew forth the soul of the dy ing lawgiver. He had been buried, only one Person at the funeral, the same One who kissed him. But God never takes a man away from any place of usefulness but ho has some one ready. The Lord does not go looking around amid a great variety of candi dates to find sonio one especially fitted for the vacated position. He makes a man for that place. Moses has passed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the platform of history so solidly that all the ages echo with the tread, lie was a magnificent light er, but he always fought on the right Bide, anl he never fought unless God told him to light. lie got his military equipment from God, who gave him the promise at the start, "There shall not any man bo able to stand beforo thee all tho days of thy life." God ful filled this promise, although Joshua's first battle was with the spring freshet, and the next with a stone wall, and the next leading on a regiment of whipped cowards, and the next battle against darkness, wheeling the sun and the moon into his battalion, and the last against tho king of terrors, Death five great victories. For the most part, when the general of an army starts out in a conflict he would like to have a small battle in or der that he may get his courage up and rally his troops and get them drilled for greater conflicts; but this first undertaking of Joshua was greater ;han the leveling of Fort Pulaski, or the thundering down of Gibraltar, or fc'io overthrow of tho Hostile. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the spring freshet. " The snows of Mount Lebanon had just been melting, and they poured down into the valley, and the whole valley was a raging tor rent. So the (Janaanites stand on one bank, and they look across and see ' Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh and say, "Aha! aha! they can not disturb us in time until the fresh ets fall; it is impossible for them to reach us." Liut after awhile they look across the water and they see a move ment in the army of Joshua. They say ; "What's the matter now? Why, there must be a panic among these troops, and they are going to fly. or perhaps they are going to try to march across the river Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic." But Joshua, tho chieftain, looks at his army and cries, "Forward, inarch!" and they start for the bank of the Jordan. TIIK ARIC OK TII1C COVKXANT. One mile ahead go two priests carry ing a glittering box four feet long anj two feet wide. It is the urk of the eovMriiHit And they coec down, and no sooner do they touch the rim of the water with their feet than by an id mighty flat Jordan parts. The army ot Joshua marches right on without getting their feet wet over the bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the oleanders and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank tliirty or forty feet high, and having gained the other bank they clap their shields and their cymbals, and sing the praises of the God of Joshua, But no sooner havo they reached the bank than the waters begin to dash and roar, and with a terrific rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. Out yonder they have stopped ; thirty miles of distance they halted. On this side the waters roll off toward the salt sea. But as the hand of the Lord God is taken away from the thus uplifted waters waters perhaps uplifted half a mile as the Almighty hand is taken away, those waters rush down, and some of the unbelieving Israelites say : "Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why could not those waters have staid parted? Because, perhaps, we may want to go back. O Jxird, we an en gaged in a risky business. Those (Janaanites may eat us up. How if we want to go back? WtAld it not have been a more complete miracle if tho Lord had parted tho waters to let us come through, and kept them parted to let us go back if we are defeated (" My friends, (rod makes no provision for a Christiiui's retreat. He clears the path all the way to Canaan. To go back is to die. The same gatekeepers that swing back the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to let Israel pass through now swing shut the amethystine and crystalline gate. But this is no place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command, "Forward, march!" In tho distance then- is a long grove of trees and at the end of the grove is a city. It is a city of arbors, a city with walls seem ing to reach to the heaven, to buttress the very sky. It is the great metrop olis that commands the mountain pass. It is Jericho. That city was afterward captured by Pompoy, and it was after ward captured by Herod the Great, and it was afterward captured by the Mo hammedans; but this campaign the 1ird plans. There shall be no swords, no shields, no battering ram. There shall be only one weapon of war, and that a ram's horn. The horn of the slain ram was sometimes taken and holes were punctured in it, and then tho musician would put the instrument to his lips, and he would run his fingers over this rude musical instrument and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take these rude rustic musical instruments, and they were to go around the city every day for six days once a day for six days and then on the seventh day they were to go around blowing these rude musical instruments seven times, and then at the cIomi of the seventh blowing of tho rams' horns on the sev enth day the peroration of the whole scene was to bo a shout at which those great walls should tumble from cap stone to base. TI1K FIRST DAY A FAILUIK. The seven priests with the rude musi cal instruments pass all around the city walls on the first day, and a failure. Not so much as a piece of plaster broke loose from the wall ; not so much as a loosened rock, not so much as a piece of mortar lost from its place. "There," say the unbelieving Israelites, "didn't I tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around the city with those musical instruments and expecting in that way to destroy it. Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks be cause he has overthrown and destroyed tho spring freshet he can overthrow tho stone wall. Why, it is not philosophic. Don't you see there is no relation be tween tho blowing of these musical in struments and the knocking down of the wall? It isn't philosophy." And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knitted, and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of the left hand, arguing it all out and showing it was not possible that such a cause could produce such an effect. And I sup pose that night In tho encampment there was plenty of philosophy and caricature, and if Joshua had been nominated for a:iy high military posi tion he would not have got many votes. Joshua's stock was down. The sec ond day the priests blowing the musi cal instruments go around the city, and a failure. Third day, and a fail ure; fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, and a failure. The seventh day comes, tho climacteric day. Joshua is up early in the morning and examines tho troops, walks all around about, looks at the city wall. Tho priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, and a failure. SIIOLT, FOR TIIK LORD IIATII UIVICN YOU TIIK CITY! There is only one more thing to do, and that u to utter a great shout. I see the Israelitish army straightening: them selves up, tilling their lungs for a vo ciferation such an wai never heard be fore and n ver heard afier. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he Cries out t his host: "Shout, for the Lord hath given ui the city!" All the oople begin t'M-ry, "Dnvn, Jericho, down, Jericho!" and tho long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under! : She lulls! Crash! go tho walls, (lie j temples, the towers, tho palaces; the i air blackened with the dust. The 'huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of tho conquered Canaanites Commingle, and Joshua, standing there in tho debris of the wall, hears a voice saying, "Thero shall not any man be able to stand before theo all the days of thy life." Only one house spared, there? Some great king I woman distinguished for kindlv deeds? "o. She Who lives No. Some her great had been conspicuous for her crimes, It is the house of Rahab. Why was her house spared ? Because she had been a great sinner? No. but because she repented, demonstrating to all tho ages that there ! is mercy for tho chief of sinners. The red cord of divine injunction reaching from her window to the ground, so that when the people saw that red cord they knew it was the divine indication they should not disturb the prem ises, making us think of the divine cord ot a Saviour's deliverance, the red cord of a Saviour's kindness, the ; red cord of a Saviour's mercy, the red ' cord of our rescue. Mercv for tho ! chief of sinners. Put your trust in that God and no damage shall befall you. When our world shall be more terribly surrounded than was Jericho, even by the trumpets of the judgment day, and tho hills and the mountains, the metal bones and the ribs of nature, shall break, they who have had U:iliab's faith shall have Italian's di'veranee. When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow. And heaven's lasi litinler shaUes the earth be low: Thou i.imlismaycl shalt o'er the ruins smile, And tight thy torch at nature's funeral pile. But Joshua's troops may not halt here. The command is "Forward, march!" There is tho city of Ai; it must be taken. I low shall it be taken? A scouting party comes back and says, "Joshua, we can do that without you; it is going to bo a, very easy job; you just stay here while we go and capture it." They march with a small regi ment in front of that city. The men of Ai look at them and give one yell, and the Israelites run like reindeer. The northern troops at ruil Run did not make such rapid time as these Israelites with the Canaanites after them. They never cut such a sorry figure as when they were on the retreat. Anybody that goes out in the battles of God with only half a force, instead of your taking the men of Ai the men of Ai will take you. Look at the church of God on the retreat. The Bornesian cannibals ate up Munson, the missionary. "Fall back!" said a great many Christian people "fall back, 0 church of (rod! Borneo will never be taken. Don't you see the Bornesian cannibals have eaten up Munf'on, the missionary?" Tyndall delivers his lecture at the Uni versity of Glasgow, and a great many good people say: "Fall back. O church of God! Don't you see that Christian philosophy is going to be overcome by worldly philosophy? Fallback!" Ge ology plunges its crowbar into the mountains, and thero are a great many people who say: "Scientilic investiga tion is going to overthrow the Mosaic account of the creation. Fall back!" Friends of the church have never had any right to fall back. JOSHl'A HUMAN LIKK TIIK RKST OK US. Joshua falls on his face in chagrin. It is the only time you ever see the back of his head, lie falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says: "Oh, Lord (foil, wherefore hast thou tit all brought this people over Jordan to de liver us into the hand of the Anionics to destroy us? Would to God we had been content .and dwelt on the other side of Jordan! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round and cut off our name from the earth." I am very glad Joshua said that. Be fore it seemed as if he were a super natural being, and therefore could not be an example to us; but I find he is a man, he is only a man. Just as some times you find a man under severe op position, or in a bad state of physical health, or worn out with overwork, lying down and sighing about every thing being defeated. I am encour aged when I hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in the dust. God comes and rouses him. I low does he rouse him? By complimentary apostrophe? No. Be says: "Get thee up. Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?" Joshua rises, and I warrant you with ti mortified look. But his old courage comes back. The fact was, that was not his battle. If he had been in it he would have gone on to victory. He gathers his troops around him and says: "Now, let us go up and capture the city of Ai; let us go up right away." They march on. He puts the major ity of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends comparatively small regiments up in front of tht1 city. Tho men of Ai come out with a shout. The small regiments of Israelites in stratagem fall back and fall back, and when till the men of Ai have left the city and are in pursuit of these scattered or seemingly scattered regiments. Joshua stands on a rock. I see his locks flying in the wind as he points his spear toward the doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it is put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city march down and the flying regiments tif Israelites return, and between these two waves of Israelitish prowess the men of Ai are destroyed, and the Is raelites gain the victory, and while I see the curling smoke of that destroyed city on the sky, aiul while I hear tho Imy'ii of rot' Israelites and the trrojin of the Canaanites, Joshua hears some thing louder than it till, ringing and echoing through his soul, "There shall not any man be able to Maud before thee all the days of thy life." FORWARD, MARCH! But this is no place for tho host of Joshua to stop. "Forward, march!" cries Joshua to tho troops. There is the city of Giberm. It has put itself under tho protection of Joshua. They send word, "Thero ar3 fivo kings after us; they are going to destroy us; send troops quick; send us help right away." Joshua has a three days' march at more than' double quick. On the morning of the third day ho is before the enemy. There are two long lines of battle. Tho battle opens with great slaughter, but the Canaanites soon discover some thing. They say: "That is Joshua; that is tho man who conquered tho spring freshet, and knocked down the stone wall and destroyed tho city of Ai. Thero is no use fighting." And they sound a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing them over the rocks, and as those Canaanites with sprained tinkles and gashed fore heads retreat tho catapults of the sky pour a volley of hailstones into the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens with bullets of iron pound the Canaanites against the ledges of Beth heron. "Oh!" says Joshua, "this is surely it victory. But do you not see the sun if. going down? Those Anionics are going to get away after all, and then they will come up some other time and bother us, and perhaps destroy us." See. the sun h going down! Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in this climate! What is tho matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apoplec tic tit? No. He is in prayer. Look out when a good man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face, radi ant with prayer, and looks at the de scending sun over Gibeon and at tho faint crescent of the moon, for you know the queen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the de scending sun and the other hand at tho faint crescent of the moon, in the nanio of that God who shaped the worlds and moves the worlds ho erics, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon: and thou moon, in tho valley of Ajalon." They halted. Whether it was by refraetion of the sun's rays or by the stopping of the whole planetary system I do not kno and do not care. I leave it to the Christian scientists and the infidel scientists to settle that question, while I tell vou I havo seen the same thing. "What !" say you, "not the sun stand ing still?" Yes. Tho same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and the sun sets at noon. But let a man start out in battle for (foil and the truth and against sin. and tho day of his useful ness is prolonged and prolonged and prolonged. TllortUl DKAD THKIR WORKS 1)0 FOL LOW THKM. John Suinmerfield was a consumptive Methodist. He looked fearfully white, I am told, as he stood in old Sands Street church, in Brooklyn, preaching Christ, and when he stood on the an niversary platform in New York plead ing for the Bible until unusual and un known glories rolled forth from that book. When he was dying his pillow was brushed with the wings of the angel from the skies, the messenger that God sent down. Did John Suminerlield's sunset? Did John Suuimerfield's day end? Oh, no. He lives on in his burning utterances m behalf of the Christian church. Robert McCheyne was a consumptive Presbyterian. It was said when he preached he coughed so it seemed as if he would never preach again. His name is fragrant in all Christendom, that name mightier today than was ever his living presence. lie lived to preach tho gospel in Aberdeen, Edin burgh and Dundee, but he went away very early. He preached himself into the grave. Has Robert MeCheyne's sun set? Is Robert MeCheyne's day ended? Oh, no. His dying delirium was filled with praver, and when ho lifted 4iis hand to pronounce the bene diction upon his family tind the bene diction upon his country he seemed to say: "I cannot die now. 1 want to live on and on. I want to start an in lluenee for the church that will never cease. I am only !! years of age. Sun of my Christian ministry, stand still over Scotland." And it stood still. A long time ago there was a Chris tian woman, very consecrated, find she had a drunken husband, and so on came the night of domestic trouble. She l ist her children, and there came the ni. 'lit of bereavement. She was very ill. end there came the night of sickness. Her soul departed, and there came the night of death. But all these nights of trouble and darkne.i-iand sor row and sickness were illumined by the grace of the gospel, and people came many miles to see how cheerfully a Christian could be sick and how cheer fully a Christian could die. The moon that illumined that night of trouble was a rellection from tho Sun of right eousness. In the last hour of that night that night of darkness and sick ness ami misfortune, as she lifted her hand toward heaven, those who stood nearest her pillow could hear the w hisper- for she wanted to live on in the generations that were to follow, conse crated to (rod; she wanted to have an inlluenee long nfter she had entered upon her eternal reward, and while her hand was lifted and her I! ps were mov ing those who stood nearest her pil!ow poiild hour her say, "Thou moon, stand still in the valley of Ajalon!" FIVK MOKK KIXOS TO UK MUIKAliKD. But Joshua was not quite through. There was time for five funerals bo fore the sun of that prolonged day set. Who will preach their funeral ser mon? Massillon preached tho funeral sermon over Louis XVI. Who will preach tho funeral sermon of those five dead kings king of Jerusalem, king of Hebron, king of Jarmuth, king of La ehish, king of Eglon? Let it bo by Joshua. What is his text? What shall be the epitaph put on tho door of tho tomb ? "Thero shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." But before you fasten up the door I want five more kings beheaded and thrust in: King Alcohol, King Fraud, King Z,ust, King Superstition, King In fidelity. Let them bo beheaded and hurl them in. Then fasten up the dooi forever. What shall tho inscription and what shall tho epitaph be? Foi all Christian philanthropists of tillages are going to come and look at it. What shall the inscription be? "There shall not any man be able to stand be fore thee all 'the days of thy life." But it is time for Joshua to go home. He is 1 Id years old. Washington went down the Potomac, and at Mount Ver non closed his .lays. Wellington died peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest? Why. he is to have his greatest battle now. After 110 years he has to meet a king, who has more subjects than all the present population el t lie earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterre tho grave yards and the cemeteries of the world," his chariot the world's hoarse the king of terrors. But if this is Josh ua's greatest battle it is going to be Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers his friends around him and gives his valedictory, mid it is full of reminis cence. Young men ti ll what they are going to do; old men tell what they have done. And as you have heard a grand father or great -grandfather, seated by the evening lire, tell of Monmouth or Yorktown, and then lift the crutch or staff, as though it wore a musket, to fight, and show how the old battles were won. so Joshua gat hers his friends around his dying couch, and he tells them the story of what he has I icon through, and as he lies there, his w hite locks snowing down on his wrinkled forehead, I wonder if (tod has kept his promise all the way through. As he lies there he tells the story one, two or three times you have heard old people tell a story two or three times over and he answers, "I go the way of all the earth, and not one word of the promise has failed, not one word thereof has failed; all has come to pass, not one word thereof has failed." And then ho turns to his family, as a dying parent will, and says: "Choose now whom you will serve, the God of Israel or the (foil of the Amorites. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." A dying parent cannot be reckless or thoughtless in regard to his children. Consent to part with them forever at tht? door of the tomb we cannot. By the cradle in which their infancy was rocked, by the bosom on which they first lay, by the blood of the covenant, by the God of Joshua, it shall not be. We will not part, we cannot part. Je hovah Jireh, we take thee at thy promise. "I will be a God to thee and thy seed after thee. JOSHUA S DAYS M'MUKKKD. Dead, the old chieftain must be laid out. Handle him very gently; that sacred body is over a hundred and ten years of age. Lay him out, stretch out those feet that walked dry shod the parted Jordan. Close those lips which helped blow the blast at which tho walls of Jericho fell. Fold the arm that lifted the spear toward the doomed city of Ai. Fold it right over the heart that exalted when tho live kings fell. But where shall we get the burnished granite lor tho headstone and tho foot stone? I bethink myself now. I imag ine that for the head it thall bo the sun that stood still upon Gibeon, and for the loot the moon that stood still in the vallev of Ajalon. The Naming of Hit MuiiUik. In looking up the peculiar names given each of the twelve inonthsof the year it becomes necessary for ns to go hack to the old Romans who have im posed ii)on us a set f names eiinally as absurd a., those which tho Norsemen, the Scandinavians and Saxons applied to the week. January is name d from Jaims. the god of doors and gates, bo canso the month opens the year; some say that ho is a two faced god, and could look back on the bust year and forward to the coming. February is from iebrno, to purify. March was originally the first month, and was named for Mars, the god of war. April is from aerire, to open, because the buds open in that month. May is from Main, a goddess; Junt is from Juno, the patron of marriage, and is, therefore, the favorite month for weddings. July was named for Julius Ca'sar and August for Augustus Ca-sar. Originally August had but thirty days, and February twenty nine in the common year and thirty in leap years. Augustus was jealous that Julius' month should havo more days than his own; therefore, he took one from February and added it to August. September, October, November, De cember are so called because they were originally the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months of the year. Tho names are inappropriate and rank mis nomers as now applied. Exchange. !! Tlnn-s P,T;l!e. by !( I'rnlrle Schooner. : There was an interesting sight on Broadway hist week, and it brought back to many the thoughts of days long, long ago. It was nothing less than a "prairie schooner," with canvas top and sides, a barrel of water between tho wheels with a bucket dangling be neath the feed box, and all the other necessaries for a journey across tho plains. Tho picture was completo in every detail, for the cumbersome wagon was drawn by three horses, with rope harness, and a little colt trotted do murely behind. On tho st-at waa a brawny looking man in flannels and overalls, with hLs wife attired in cotton dress and big straw hat on ono sido, and a frecklo faced boy on tho other. Tho journey had evidently been a long one, for all w.ro travel utained, and wero watched J.nd commented on by all they met. They went Blowly up Broadway and San Pablo avenue toward the foothills. Oakland Tribune. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. To the Friends ami Patrons of the old and long establish ed firms of Tappey, Lumsdeti & (j0 Tappey & Steel and Tappey & Delaney. ' We desire to state that we have bought the Machinery, Patterns, good will, etc. and will continue to carry on the Foun dry and Machine busiuess at the stand occupied by them for the past 40 years, All inquiries and ordets will receive prompt attention and we trust to be favored with the patronage of the friends of the above mentioned concerns. Hay. ing been associated with thcun as foreman and book-keeper for about 30 years, e feel confident in entering upon this en terprise wc do so with a thorough and practical knowledge of the business. STEEL & ALEXANDER. W. &W. R. R. BRANCHES. Condensed Schedule. TKAINS tlOlXti HOl'TH. ATLANTIC COAST 111 No. ! l, No. 87, No 41, Dated Dec. Till lS'.ui. fast mall dallt Daily Daily. cxSun Leave Weldou lnnm ft 43 F M MO am Ar Kocky Mount.... HO" 7 10. " ArTarboro............. "'S17" I I ....7. Leave Tarhoro H2Iam . . . Arrive Wilson. . I ! IS I'M I 7 00 17 43 " Leave Wilson I "0 " ArriveSelnia 3 :ut " Arrive Kayetlevllle, i;so " Leave (iohlsboro 13 15 "17 40 " 8 35 " Leave Warsaw 4 10 " '. . 9 34 " Leave Magnolia .... 1 4 '24 " S 40 " 9 49 " Arrive Wilminttton 8 50 "19 55 " ) 11 20" TKAINS (I0ING NORTH No 14, No 78 No 40 ( daily ei dally, daily Huudaj Leave Wilmington IJOlaM 900am I 4 00 p m Leave . Magnolia I 1 1 " I10S4" ftSfi Leave W arsaw 10 M) " 5 83 " Arrive (ioMsboro..,. is I 11 :.i " 6 53 " Leave Fasettcvillt) I '!21" I Arrive Selina 11 IS" Arrive Wilson I 11 J l " Leave Wilson 3 03 " 1J f4 jm 7 47 " Arrive Kocky Mount 130" 818 " Arrive Tarboro.... LeaveTH rhoro Arrive Weldon .... 17 " lOJOBM 1 155pm 930 I 4 3" 'Daily except Sunday. Train on Scotland Neck Branch Road leaves Weldou at 3 15 p. m. Iln-ifim 3 37, arrive Scotland Neck at 4 tu.ni.tiruf!iville fiojp. m Kinston 7 15 p. in Returning leaves Kinston 6 00,'r. in. Oreenville 7iua in. Arro ini! at Halifax 10 10. a tn., Weldon 103oa in iimly except Sunday. 1 ocil Freight leaves We,, n at Hi 30 a. m Hill i lux 11 3e a. hi. Scotland Nh k J no p in., ( recti ville 5 :io. p in., Kinsliu 7 in p. in. Returning leave Kinston 7 cm h. m., Crcenvllle S an, am. Scotland Neck 1 lop in. Halifax t 35 p. in, arriv ing Weldon 4 00 p in., duly except Sunday. i min lrHve-Turtn.ro N. ('., via Albemarle, and Kale it: h I:. K Dally except Sunday 4 05 p. m , unilny : eo p. ni , arrive W illianiston X. ('. 6 30 P tn.. t Joi,. m. Plymouth 7 ."op. in , 5 JO p. m. Ucturnii tt leaven I'lymoiith (failv except Sunday it in a. ni Sunday '.I (in a. in W illianiston, N. C, 7 10 a. in. 9 5s'a. ni. arrive Turboro S 30 a. m, II ii'H. in. Train on Midland N. C Branch leaves Holds l.oro N f , diiily eccpt Sunday 6 (si a. m , arrive SniithOetd, N C,7 3n it. m. lieturninif leave suiilhtield, N. C, Mria. in., arrive (Joldbbom, K ('., V Ml p. in, Traill on Nashville Branch leaves Rocky Mount nt3 00 p tn , arrives at Nashville 3 40 p. in , sprint! llojie 4 l.'i p. in. ItcitmiiiiK haven Sprin Hope 10 00 a. ni., Nashville 10 85 a. m., ar Rocky Mount II IS a, in. daily except Sunday. Train on ('Union Branch leaves Warsaw for Clinton, daily except Sundav atfioo p. ni. an II lux. in Keturiiinn leave ( linton at 8 a a' ami 3 pi p. in , coinieetiiiK at Warsaw with Not. jo, II, i". and 7x. Soiiihliotuid train on WIIhoii and Fayetteville Branch is No. 51. Northbound is ;0. 'Daily ex cept Sunday. Train No.'i7 S-uth will only slop at Wilson (lohli-boroand MiiKiiolin. Train No. 7s makes close connection at Weldca for all points North daily. All rail via Richmond and daily except Stindny via Buy l.itic. Trains makes close connection for all points North via Richmond ami IVa.sliitniton. All trains run s lid between WilmltiKtnn and Wnsliliivloii and have Pullman l'alaoe Sleepers attached. J.U.KKNI.Y, J F. DIVINK, Sup't Trans (ieneral Sup't. T. M. KMKIiSON, den'I Passenger Ayunt. TO THE l'ATUONS ALBEMARLE STEA M NAVIGATION CO nillPtf TIMF Between NORFOLK and lUllsN I IMC. KASTKRN N. t'AROUN On uml after Monday, December 17tli, and until further notice, the Steatite! CHOWAN, Ctipti.m Withv, will LEA f 15 I'UANKI.IN oil Mondays, Wcd ncsdnys ami Fridays lor EDENTON, PLY MOUTH and Ail intermediate points on arrival of mail t ru'ii lVoni Portsmouth, say 10:i;i A. M. KETLUNING The "Cltownn" will reach Franklin on Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays at 9 15 A. M., in time tn connect with East Mail train from lialeigli to I'ortsniotitn mid with Express train for t lie South. Passengers, by this arrangement, taking the Steamer Chowan at any point on the river, will KEACII NORFOLK by 11 oclock 1. M., 4 and thus have the entire day for the truni action of busiuess in that city. GIVE THIS KOUTE A TKIAL. Respectfully, J. H. BOGART Franklin V., Dec. 15, 1888. Snpt'
Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.)
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