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THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1SJU. NATIVITY OF CIIRIST. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A CHRIST MAS SERMON. Jcsua Was Born In tlio Winter, anil Will Be a Help In Time nf Trouble Tlio Wiso Men of the l'.nst uml the West How t) Him. ?Kooivi,vx. IV:-. Dr. Tulnwire's sermon today was appropriate' to the season. Its subject was tho Christum jubileo. A crowd which filled the .Academy of ilusic in every part list rned to it in the mortii:i! and anothor enormous ntuiienco tlmnivtl thv? New York Academy of Music to hear it in tlio evening, when the doctor preached Tinder the auxpieeM of The Christian Herald. His text was Luke ii. t:: '"Let us now !-o oven unto 1-iethleheni." Atnnl a thousand mercies we pivo each other holiday congratulations. "!y Km;: established custom we ex hort each other to healthful merri ment. Uy ijift, by Christmas trees which l l'issoi'i and fruit in oik? nii.'lit. by early niornini' surprise, by clusters of lighted candles, by children's proces sion, by sound of instruments some times more blat.'-.ut than musical, ve wake up the ni'.-ht and prolong the day. I wish you all in the grandest, noblest and best sense a merry ( 'hristmos. The event commemonte l U the gladdest of the centuries. Christ's cradle was as wonderful as hi i cross. Persuade me of the first and I am not surprised at the l ist. Tlie door by which he en tered was as tremendous as the door by which he went out. I was la-t winter at the hous.) where Jesus lived whik he was in Africa. It was in Cairo, Lgypt, the terminus of that terrible journey which ho took when Joseph and Mary lied with him from Bethlehem to Hgypt to escape the, massacre of ITerod. All tradition, as well as all history, points out this house in Cairo as tlio one in which these three fugitives lived while in Af rica. The room is nine steps down from the level of tin; street. I meas ured the room and found it twenty feet long and seven and a half feet high. There are three shelvings of rock, one of which I think was the cradle of our Lord. There is no win dow, and all the light must have come from lantern or candle. The three ar rived here from Bethlehem, having crossed the awful desert. A TEKKIBLK .IOIUXKY. On the Mediterranean steamer going from Athens to Alexandria I met the eminent scholar and theologian, Dr. Lansing, who for thirty-live years has been a resident of Cairo, ami he told me that he had been all over the road that the three fugitives took from Beth lehem to Egypt. lie says it is a desert way, and that the forced journey of tho infant Christ must have been a terrible journey, (ioing up from Egypt, Dr. Lansing met people from Bethlehem, their tongues swollen and hanging out from the inflammation of thirst, and although his party had but one goat skin of water left, and that was im portant for themselves, he was so moved with the spectacle of thirst in these poor pilgrims that, though it ex cited the indignaf! -: of his fellow trav elers, he gave wa.i : to the strangers. Over this dreadful route Joseph and Mary started for this land of Egypt. No time to make much preparation. Ilerod was after the:;:, and what were these peasants before an irnte king? Joseph, the husband and father, one night sprang up from his mattress in great alarm, tha beads of sweat on his forehead and his whole frame quak ing, lie had dreamed of massacres of his wife and babe. They must be off, that night, right away. Mary put up l few things hastily, and Joseph brought to the door the beast of bur den, and helped his wife and child to mount. Why. those loaves of bread are not enough ; those bottles of water will not last for such a long way. But then; is no time to get e.nyihing more. Out and on. (lood by to the dear homo they opeet never again to see. Their hearts bre.ik. It does not need that ours be a big house in order to make us sorry to loavo it. Over the hills and down through the deep gorge they urpe their way. By Hebron, byduza,, through hot sand, under a blisterin.j sun. the babe crying, the mother faint, the father exhausted, llow slowly the days and wicks pass! Will the weary three ever reach the banks of the Nile? Will they ever see Cairo? Will the desert ever end? When at last they cross the l!;i beyond which old Ilerod has no right to pur sue, their joy is unbounded. I'ree at last! Let them dismount and rest. Now they resume their way with less anxiety. They will find a place some where for shelter and tho earning of their bread. Here they are at Cairo, Egypt. FUOM A II A UN TO A 'KM, All. They wind through the crooked streets, which are about ten feet wide, and enter the humbb house where I have been today. But the terminus of tho journey of these three fugitives was not as humble as their starting point at Bethlehem. If that journey across the desert ended in a cellar it started from a barn. Everything humble around that barn, but everything gloriovm overhead. Christ's advent was in the hostelry called tho house of Chim Ham; the night with diamond linger point - j iug down to the pkwe ; the door of heaven set wido open to look out ; from orches tral batons of light dripping the oratorios of tho Messiah; on lowest doorstep of heaven the minstrels of God discoursing of glory and good will. Soon after tho white bearded astrolo- . gists kneel, and from leathern pouch chink the shekels, and from open sacks exhali; the frankincense and rustle out tho bundles of myrrh. The loosened star, the escaped doxology of celes tials, the chill December night allush with May morn, our world a lost star, and another star rushing down the sky that night to beckon the wanderer home again, shall yet make all nations keep Chris. mas. Are there no now lessons from the story not yet hackneyed by oft repeat al? Oh. yes. Know, m tho first place, it was a sidereal appearance that led the way. Why not a black cloud in the shape of a hand or finger pointing down to tho sacred birthplace? A cloud means trouble, and the world had had trouble enough. Why not a shaft of lightning quivering and Hashing and striking down to the sacred birthplace? Lightning means destruction, a shat tering and consuming power, and the world wanted no more destruction. THK STAK )'-' Till: KAST. But, it was a star, and that means joy, that means hope, that means good cheer, that means c.scendancy. A star! That means creative power, for did not the morning stars sing together when the portfolio of the worlds was opened.' A star! That means defense, for did not the stars fig! it in their courses against Sisera and for tho Lord's people? A star! That means brilliant continu ance, for are not the righteous to shine as the stars forever and ever? A star! That means the opening of eternal joy. The day star in the heart. The morn ing star of tho Redeemer. The unusual appearance that night may have been a strange conjunction of worlds. As the transit of Venus in our time was foretold many years ago by astronomers, and astronomers can tell what will be the conjunction of worlds a thousand years from now. so they can calculate backward; and even infidel astronomers have been com pelled to testify that about the year 1 there was a very unusual appear ance in the heavens. Tho Chinese record, of course entirely independent of the Word of (iod, gives as a matter of history that about the year 1 there was a strange and unaccountable ap pearance in tho heavens. But it may have; been a meteor such as you and I have seen flash to the horizon. I saw a few years ago in the northern sky a star shoot and fall with such brilliancy and precision that if I had been on a hill as high as that of Bethlehem, on which the shepherds stood, I could have marked within a short distance the place of the alight ing. The University of Iowa and tho British Museum have specimens of meteoric stones picked up in the fields, fragments Hung off from other worlds, leaving a fiery trail on tho sky. So that it is not to me at all improbable the stellar or the meteoric appearance on that night of which wo speak. I only care to know that it was bright, that it was silvery, that it flashed and swayed and swung and halted with joy celestial, as though Christ in haste to save our world had rushed down with out his coronet, and the angels of God had hurled it after him! (tlJKIors ClIItlSTIAXlTY. Not a black cloud of threat, but a gieaniing star of hope, is our glorious Christianity. One glimpse of that stel lar appearance kindled up l lie soul 01 the sick and 'lying college student un til the words llash.'d from his pale fin gers and the star seemed to pour its light from his white lips its Kirke White wrote these immortal words: When marshal? 1 on tlia nizlitly l:iin Tin- trlitterinj? hosts bestud tin- sky, 0:u- star nlono i.f nil tin1 train Can Ox the dinner's w.m.l;'nn eye. llaik. liar!; uUil: the churns Lr ulcx I''rom every best, from every jtMii; rut one alone, the I'aviour, s-aks It Is the Star of U'-tlili-jcm Once on the rnin s.u T rode. The stun.i wa Liud, t'.ie t.iht was dark, And i mlely Llew the uiniis that tossed my foiiiHU'i in,- li.u'U. Peep horror then my vitals fro?", Death strut'!;, I ceased the tide to stem, When suddenly u f tar uroso It wai the Star of Ii.-lhlcln-m. Notice also in this seene that other worlds seemed to honor our Lord and master. Bright star of the night, wheel on in thine orbit. "No," said the star, "I must come nearer, and I must bond and I must watch and see what you do with my Jesus," Another world that night joined our world in worship. That star made a bow of obeisance. I sometimes hear people talk of Christ's doming :t as though it were, t i bo mere ly the few thousand riibs of tho world's circuiin"; ;":ice; bin', I believe the mill ions and the billions an 1 tho quadrill ion.! of v.orids a:-,' all inhabited if not by such creatures its wo are, still such creatures as (iod deigned to make, and that all these worlda are a part of Christ':; dominion. Isaa? Newton and Kepler and Ilerchel only went on Columbus voyage to find these conti nents of oar King's domain. ONLY OXK MSCOUl). I think all worlds worn loyal but this. The great organ of the universe, its pedals, and its pipes, and its keys all one groat harmony wivo one injured pedal, savo one broken stop tho vox humana of the human race, the dis loyal world. Now you know that, how ever grand tho instrument may be, if there bo one key out of order it spoils the harmony. And Christ must mend this key. He must restore this broken stop. You know with what bleeding hand, and with what pierced side, and with what crushed foot ho did the work. But tho world shall bo attuned and all worlds will yet bo accordant. Isle of Wight, larger in comparison with the British .empire than our island of a world as compared with Christ's vast domain. If not, why that celestial escort? If not, why that sen tinel with blazing badge above the car avansary.' If not. why that iiii'lntght watchman in th balcony of heaven? Astronomy surrendered that night to Christ. This planet for Christ. The solar system for Christ. Worlds ablaze and worlds burned out all worlds for Christ, lutonsest microscope cannot see the one side of that domain. Far thest reaching telescope cannot find the other side of that domain. But I will iell you how the universe is bound ed. It is hounded on the north and south and east and west and above and beneath by (rod, and that (hid is Christ, and that Christ is (iod. and that (iod is ours. Oh, docs it not enlarge your ideas of a Saviour's dominion when I tell you that all the worlds are only sparks struck from his anvil? that all the worlds aro only the Hooey flocks following tho one shepherd? that all the islands of liLrht in im mensity are one groat archipelago be longing to our king? A Ii L WISH MKX BOW TO Ili.M. But this scene also impresses mo with the fact that tho wise men of the east came to Christ. They were not fools, they were not imbeciles. The record distinctly says that tho wise men cametoChrist. We say they were the magi, or they were the alchemists, or they were tho astrologists, and we say it with depreciating accentuation. Why. they were the most splendid and magnificent men ()f the cenrury. They were the naturalists and the scientists. They knew all that was known You must remember that astrology was the mother of astronomy, and that alchemy was tho mother of chemistry, and be cause children are brighter than the mother you do not despise the mother. It was the lifelong business of these astrologers to study tho stars. Twenty two hundred and fifty years before Christ wtis born the wise men knew the precession of the equinoxes, and they had calculated the orbit and the return of the comets. Professor Smith declares that he thinks they understood the distance of the sun from the earth. We find in the book of Job that the men of olden time did not suppose tho world was flat, as some have said, but that he knew, and tho men of his time know, tho world was globular. The pyramids were built for astrological ami astronomical study. Then the al chemists spent their lives in tho study of met lis and gases and liquids anil solids, and in filling the world's library with their wonderful discoveries. They were vastly wise men who came from the east, and tradition says tho three wisest came Caspar, a young man; Balthazar, a man in midlife, and Mel chior, an octogenarian the three wisest men of all tho century. They came to the manger. So it has always been tho wisest men come to Christ, the brainiest men come to tho manger. Who was the greatest metaphysician this country ever has produced ? Jonathan Edwards, the Christian. Who was the greatest astroiiomerof the world ? Herschel, the Christian. Who was tho greatest poet ever produced? John Milton, the Chris tian. Who was tho wisest writer on law? Blackstono, the Christian. Why is it that every college and university in the land has a chapel ? They must have a place fur the wise men to wor ship. Come now, let us understand in ounces and by inches this whole matter. In post-mortem examination the brain of distinguished men has been examined, and I will find the largest, tlio heaviest, tho mightiest brain ever produced in America, and I will ask what that brain thought of Christ. Hero it is, the brain weighing sixty three ounces, the largest brain ever produced in America. Now let me (hid what that brain thought of Christ. Ill tho dying moment that man said: "Lord, 1 believe, help thou mine tin belief. Whatever elso I do. Almighty (iod, receive mo to thyself for Christ's sake. This night I shall be in light and joy and blessnhit ss. " So Daniel Webster came to tho manger. The wise men of the east followed by the wise men of tho west. a r:tKsi::T m:i.r in tuouiilk. Know also in this i scone that it was a winter month that (iod chose for his son's nativity. Had it been the month of May that is the season of blossoms. Had he been born in the month of Juno that is tho season of roses. Had ho boon born in tho month of July that is tho season of great harvests. Had he boon born in the month of Sep tember that is tho season of ripo or chards. Had ho been born in the month of October that is the season of upholstered forests. But he was born in a winter month. It was in closing December that he was born to show that this is a Christ for people in sharp blast, for people under clouded sky, for people with frosted hopes, for jiooplo with ther mometer below zero. That is the rea son ho is so often found among the des titute. You can find him on any night coming oil tho moors. . You can see him any night coming through the dark liuics of tho city. You can soo him putting his hand under tho fainting head in tho pauper's cabin. He re members how the wind whistled around tho caravansary in Bethlehem that De cember night, and ho is in sympathy with all those wdio in their poverty hear the shutters clatter on a cold night. It was this December Christ that Washington and his army worshiped at Valley Forgo when without blankets they lay down in the December snow. It was this Christ that the Pilgrim Fathers appealed to when the May flower wharfed at Plymouth Rock, and in tho years that went by tho graves digged wero more in number than the houses built. Oh, I tell you we want a December Christ, not a Christ for fair wcitlier. Hut a Christ tor UarK days clouded with sickness, and chill ing with disappointment, and suffoca ting with bereavement, ami terrific with wide open graves. Not a springtime Chris! , not a summer Christ, not an autumnal Christ, but, a winter Christ. Oh, this sulTering and struggling world needs to lie hushed and soothed and rocked and lullabiod in the arms of sympathetic Omnipotence! No mother ever with more tenderness pet her foot on the rocker of the cradle of a sick child than Christ comes down to us, to ! this invalid world, and ho rocks it into i placidity and quietness as ho s:ys, "My j peace 1 give unto you; not as the world ! giveth give I unto you.'' MKIU'Y TO THK AXI.MAI.S. Notice also a fact which no one seems to notice, that this Christ was born among the sheep, and the cattle, and tho horses, ami the camels, in order that ho might be an alleviating influence to tho whole animal creation. It means mercy for overdriven, under fed, poorly sheltered, galled and mal treated annual creation. Haili tho Christ who compared himself to a dove no care for the cruelties of tho pigeon shooting? Bath the Christ who com pared himself to a lamb no care for tho sheep that aro tied and contorted, and with neck over the sharp edge of the butcher's cart, or tho cattle train in hot weather from Omaha to New York, with no water fifteen hundred miles of agony? Hath the Christ whose tax w;is paid by a fish, the coin taken from its mouth, no care for the tossing fins in the fish market? Hath tho Christ who strung with his own hand tho nerves of dog and cat no indignation for the horrors of vivisection? Hath tho Christ who said, "(io to the ant," no watchfulness for the transfixed insects? Haththe Christ who said, "Behold the fowls of the air" himself never beheld the outrages heaped upon tho brute creation which cannot articulate its grief? This Christ came not only to lift tho human race out of its trouble, but to lift out of pang and hardship the animal creat ion. In the glorious millennial time the child shall lead the lion and play with tho cockatrico only because brute and reptile shall have no moro wrongs to avenge. To alleviate the condition of tho brute creation Christ was born in the cattle pen. The first bleat of the Lamb of (iod heard amid the tired Hocks of the Bethlehem shepherds. The white horso of eternal victory stabled in a barn. But notice also in this account tho throe Christmas presents that aro brought to the manger. Cold, frank incense and myrrh, (.old to Christ that means all tho alflucnco of the world surrendered to him. For lack of money no more asylums limping on their way like the cripples whom they helped, feeling their slow way like the blind people whom they sheltered. Mill ions of dollars for Christ where there aro now thousands for Christ. Railroads owned by Christian stockholders and governed by Christian directors and carrying passengers and freight at Christian prices. George Peabodys and Abbott Lawrences and James Lenoxes no rarity. Bank of England. Bourse of France, United States treasury, till tho moneyed institutions of the world for Christ. Tho gold for Christ, (iold not merely paid the way of Jo seph and Mary and tho divine fugi tive into Egypt, hut it was typical of tho fact that Christ's way shall be aid all around tho world. The gold for Christ, the silver for Christ, the jewels for Christ, Australia, Nevada and (iolconda for Christ. The bright, round, beautiful jewel of a world set like aixilitaire on tho bosom of Christ. But I notice that these wiso men also shook out from their sacks the myrrh. The cattle came and they snuffed at it. They did not cat it because it, was bit ter. The pungent gum rosin of Abys sinia called myrrh brought to the feet of Christ, That means bitterness. Bitter betrayal, bitter persecution, bit ter days of suffering, bitter nights of woe. Myrrh. That is what they put into his cup when he was dying. Myrrh. That is what they put under his head in tho wilderness. Myrrh. That is what they strewed his path with all the way from tho cattle pen in Bethlehem to the mausoleum at Jo seph's country seat. Myrrh. Yea, says the Psalmist, "All thy garments smell of myrrh." That is what tho wise men wrapped in the swaddling clothes of ;he babe. That is what tlio Marys twisted in tho shroud of a crucified Christ. The myrrh. Oh, tho height, the depth, tho length, the breadth of the Saviour's sorrow! Well might the wise men shako out tho myrrh. CUKISTMAS FKAXKIXCKNSK. Put I notice, also, from another sack they shako out tho frankincense. Clear up to the rafters of tho barn tho air is filed with perfume, and the hostlers and the camel drivers in tho farthest part of the building inhale it, and it floats out upon the air until passers by wonder who iu that rough place could have by accident dropped a box of alubastor. Frankincense. That is what they burned in tho censer in tlio ancient temple. Frankincense. That means worship. Frankincense. That is to fill all the homes, and all the churches, and all tho capitals, and all tho na tions, from cellar of stalactited cave clear up to tho silverjraftuiu of the starlit dome. Frankincense. That is what wo shako out from our hearts to day, so that the nostrils of Christ, once crimsoned with the hemorrhage of the cross, shall be Hooded with the per fume of a world's adoration. Frankin cense. Frankincense in song and ser mon and offertory and handshaking and decoration. J'rai.-o mm, mountains and hills, val leys and seas, and skies and earth and heaven ! 'yclono with your trumpets, northern lights with your flaming en sign! Morning with your castles of cloud, and evening with your billow ing clouds of sunset! Do you know how they used to hold the censer in tho olden time, and what it was made of ? Here is a metal pan, and the handle by which it was held. In tho inside of this metal pan wero put living coals, on the top of them a perforated cover. In a square b x the frankincense was brought to the temple. This frankin cense was taken out and sprinkled over the living coals, and then the perforat ed cover was put on, and when they wore all ready for worship then the cover was lifted from this censer and from all the other censors, and the per fumed smoke arose until it hung amid all the folds end dropped ninid all tho altars, and then rose in great columns of praise outside or abovo tho temple, rising clear up toward tho throno of (iod! So we have two censers today, of Christmas frankincense. Bore is tho one censer of earthly frankincense. On that we put our thanks for tho mercies of tho past year, (he mercies of all our past lives, individual mercies, family mercies, social mercies, national mer cies, and our hearts burning with grati tude send aloft the incense of praise toward the throne of Christ. Bring on more incense, and higher and higher let the columns of praise ascend. Let them wreathe all these pillars and hover amid all these arches and then soar to the throne. But hero is the other censor of heav enly thanksgiving and worship. Let them bring all their frankincense the cherubim bring t boil's, and tho seraphim theirs and tho one hundred and forty and four thousand theirs, and all the eter nities theirs, and let them smoke with perfume on this heavenly censer until the cloud canopies the throno of (iod. Then I take these two censers the censer of earthly frankincense and tho censer of heavenly frankincense and I swing them before the throne, anil then I clash them together in one great hallelujah unto him to whom the wise men of tlio cast brought tho gold, and the myrrh, ami tho frankin cense. Blessed be his glorious name forever! Tliu l''orgotful Kmploye. A successful business man says there were two things which he learned when he was li which were afterward of great use to him, namely: "Never to lose anything, and never to forget any thing."' An old lawyer sent him with an im portant paper with certain instructions what to do with it. "But," inquired the voting man, "suppose I lose it, what shall I do then?" "You must not lose it." "1 don't moan to," said the young man; "but suppose I should happen to;" "But 1 say you must not happen to; 1 shall make no provision for such an occurrence. You must not lose it!" This put a new train of thought into the young man's mind, and he found that if he was determined to do a thing he could do it. Ho made such a provision against every contingency that he never lost anything, lie found this equally true about forgetting. If a certain matter of importance was to be j remembered h" pinned it down in his I mind, fastened it there and made it stay. He used to say: "When a man tells me he forgot to do something, I ' tell him he might ;us well have said: 'I do not care enough about your busi ness to tako tho trouble to think about it again.'" American Grocer. Value of Literary Ideas. A primitive literary worker said to ine a few evenings ago while talking on this subject, "Do you mean to say that literary ideas are really commer cial commodities today, and are paid for tho same as articles or stories?" I told her, as I write here: Most de cidedly, as those who aro in position to know aro well aware. I have known as high as $1,000 paid for a single idea a circulation idea for a periodical and again and again have I known $250 and $500 being paid. Said an editor in my hearing only recently: "I don't want people who can write. I can reach a score of such within an hour. What I want is ideas, sugges tions for striking features which will raise my periodical above the others and attract the public eye to it." And he voiced tho fooling of several whom I know. A creativo mind, capable of clever adaptation of an idea to a de mand, is a possession in tho literary world today which I envy any man or woman if put to good use. Edward W. Bok's U'tter. A IIoiihx Itulldlng I'Uli. In Lake Nyassa, in the interior of "Darkest Africa," there is a kind of black fish which every year builds what the natives term a house. In the mud at tho bottom of tho lake it makes a hole some 2 or ,1 feet broad, heaping up tho mud removed from tho hole so as to form a little wall around it. The depth of the hole and the height of the wall measured together make a basin from 15 to 20 inches deep. In this lake within a lake this queer little fish erects a mud house, tho aver ago sized specimen measuring 14 inches across tho bottom, rapidly coining to a point in the shape of a broad cono. A holo 4 inches in diameter, always ou the south side, serves as an opening for egress and Ingress. A dried specimen of this queer domicile preserved in the Royal Museum at Berlin has two doors and a partition separating it into two rooms.- - -St. Louis Republic. NEW A DVKUT1SEMENTS. To the Friends and Patrons of the old and long fMtabIia od tiruiH of Tappoy, Lninsden & fj0 Tiippey & Steel and Tappey k DeluDey"' We desire to state that wo have buut the Machinery, Patterns, good will, cc and will coulinue to carry on the Konj! dry and Machine business at the stanj occupied by them -fur the past 40 jears All inquiries and orders will receive prompt attention and we trust to favored with the natronatre of tho t'rieu. of the above mentioned concerns. IUvi iru' been associated with them ns fem,-.. r r "j.iudj and bouk-keepcr for about 30 years, e feel confident in entering upon this en. terprise we do so with a thorough and practical knowledge of the business. STKKL & ALEXANDER. W. &W. R. R. BRANCHES. Condensed Schedule. TRAINS (iOINO SOUTH. ATUITIC IM 11 No 41. daily Leave Weldon Ar Kucky Mount..., at Turin ro Leave Tarlinrc Arrive Wilson. Leave Wilson Arrive Solum Arrive Knyettevllle, I.eavotioldidioro Leave Warsaw Leave Miik'iiolia .... Arrive Wilmington I U tiiM & 43 r M I HO " I I -SIT" i I K'2 AM . . . 7J0J I S IS I'M I i.10" I I a :) " I 8 IS " I 4 HI " HJI " r oo 7 43 I 7 40' 8S5 934 9 49 1 11 20 8 40 1 55 5o TRAINS (IOINO NORTH No 14, daily. No 78 daily No 40 1 daily ei buiidaj Leave Wilmington Leave MiikiioHu Leave Warsaw Arrive (inldslxiro.. . Leave Knyelteville lV'OlaM 900am 1400pm I I 'Jl " I 10 S4 " I ft 86 " I 10 M " S S.I " I in I 1 1 ;.: " 6 53 . '0 2')" I I 11 ISVI I 11 2H" l,")l PM 7 47 I 1 80 " 818 I 1? " I I 10 tn aM ID5pm 930 Arrive Selnia Arrive Wilson Leave Wilson Arrive !; k y Mount 0H Arrive Tarlioro LeaveTtirltoro Arrive Welti) in I i 4: Daily except Sunday. Train en Sootliuid Nook Branch Road leave Weldou at A 1.) p. m. Il l ifax u .17. arrive Scotland Neck at 4 i p. m.iirooiu'ill)' fi 2 p. m Kinstou 7 is p. m RcturuitiK ltav. Kmston 6 00, t . ra. Hreenville 72ua in. ArrOitiKiit Halifax 1U 10, a. in., Woldon union in )tiiily except Sunilay. 1 oo il Kreiuli ! nves Wei), n at lllllo a. in llnl ifiix 11 a. in. Scotland Neck 2ii0p m., Un-en-villi- ,'i :tn, p in., Kinstou 7i0 p. m. Returning 1) ave Kit ston 7 tm a, in., Oreeii'illp 9 80, a Hi. Scotland Nock 1 Mp m. Ilalilax 3 : p. m, arrii inn Welilon 4 00 p in., daily except Sunday. Train leave" 'I arbnrn N. via Alliemafle and ItulciKli K. R Diiily except Sunday 4 OS p. m, I unday " no p . m , arrive W'illianiston N. C. 6 31 Ii in.. 4 2 n. in. Plymouth 7 .'.op. in.. Mn p. m. ti'turnini; leaves Plymouth rlnilv except Sundaj n ii ' it. in Minimy a uu a. m. iinnniKinii, . u 7 1(1 a. m. lifts a. m. arrive Tarboro 9T.0. m, II Ula. in. Train on MHIaiirt N. C. P.rnm h leaves (jnldn Imro N" a; , dally ecept Sunilhv ii On a. ni , arrive Snilthflelil, N ,7"i a. ni. 'HcturniiiK leaven SuiitliHeld, X. ;., 8 00 a. ru., arrive Uoldaburn, K V.. U 80 p. 111. Train on Nashville Branch lenvct Rocky Mount m 3 00 p. m , arrives at Nashville 8 40 p. in., spring Hope 4 1.1 p. m. He UirniiiK Uavei Spriiu Hope 10 no a. m., Nashville 10 3ft a. m., ar Kooky Mount II IT. a, in. dally except Sunday. Train on Clinton Hriinch leaves Warsaw for Clinton, daily except Sundav at COO p. m. Mil II lOn.ni ReluniiiiK leave' Clinton at 820 a r, and 3 in p. ni . connecting at Wainaw with Noi. 4i, 41. H and 7H. Southbound train on Wilson and Favettevlll Branch is No. 51. Northbound la 60. 'Daily ex cept Sunday. Train No." 27 Suth will only top at Wilion (iol)lsboroand Magnolia. Train No, 78 makes close connection at Weldon forall points North daily. All rail via Richmond anil daily except SunilHy via Hay Line. Trains Biakes close connection for all poinU North via Richmond and W'ahhlniru-n. All trains run Hd between Wilmington and Washinirtoii and have Pullman Palace Klccpen attached. J. K.KKNLY, J F. DIVINE, ' Sup't Trans General Sup't. T. M. EMEUSON, (ien'l Passenger Agent. TO THK l'ATKOXS OF THE ALBEMARLE STEAM NAVIGATION CO -o OU1CK TIME Between NORFOLK and vi VfUIOr I line KASTKKN N. CAK0LI5 No. 2:1, No. 87, Putcd Doe. 7tli IS'jO. Cant mall Daily Daily. On and after Monday, December 17th, and until further notice, the Steuiuei CHOWAN', CuptMin Withy, will LEAE FKANKLIN on Mondays, Wed nesilny8 and Fridays for L DEN TON, I'LY MOU'l lI unci Ail ii'tormciliiite points on arrival of mail tra:n from Portsmouth, nay 10.1.-) A. M. KETCKNING ilie "Chowan" will reach Franklin on Tumlays, Thursdays and Satuidays at 9 15 A. M., in time to connect with Fast Mail traiu from lialeigh to I'ortsnmutu und with Express train for the South. Passengers, by this arrangement, taking the Steamer Chowan at any point on tbe river, will KEACH NORFOLK by 11 oclock A.M., and thus have the entire day for the tran I action of business in that city. GIVE THIS HOUT12 A TRIAL. Keapectfully, J. H. BOGftRT Dec. 15, imi. bupt Franklin Va. son istra CatJ ill To V befo cow Hal 189 salt wit t'ioi soli tie Wll rel 1 ins i tin
Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.)
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