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t. THE HOAXOKK NEWS, THURSDAY, FKHKUAliY o, 18.01. DUKAD HANDWRITING DR. TALMACE PREACHES A SERMON ' ON BABYLON'S FALL. If You Do Not Fear God You May One Jiy Kxpeet to See the Hand writing on the Wall Yourself A Powerful Din course. Brooklyn. J:ui. 25. Dr. Taliiiage preached the following sermon this iuorniii? in the Ae;ulemy of Music in this city, and ho repented it to-night at The Christian Herald service in the Jsew York Academy of Music. His text was Daniel v. .'SO: "In that night wn. Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." After the site of Babylon had been selected, two million of men were em- I ployed for the construction of the wall ! nmi principal works. The walls of the : city were sixty miles in circumference. They Mi-re surrounded by a trench, out of which had been dug the material for the construction of the city. There were twenty-live gates of solid brass on each side of the square city. Hetween every two gates a great watch tower Sprang up into the heavens. From each of the twenty-five gates on either side a street ran straight through to the gate on the other side, ho that there were fifty streets, each fifteen miles long, which gave to the city an iinxariUK-o of wonderful regu larity. The houses did not join each other on the ground, and tetwpen them were gardens and shrubbery. From housetop to housetop bridges swung, over which the inhabitant were accustomed to pass. A branch of the Euphrates went through the city, over which a bridge of marvelous structure was thrown and under which a tunnel ran. To keep the ; river from overflowing the city in times j of freshet a great lake was arranged to j catch the surplus, in which the water j was kept as in a reservoir until times of ! drought, when it was sent streaming down over the thirsty land. A palace stood at each end of the Euphrates bridge; one palace a mile and three-quarters in compass, and the other palace seven and a lialf miles in circumference. The wife of Nebu- chadnez7.ar, having been brought up i among the mountains of Media, could ' not stand it in this flat country of! Babylon, and so to please her Nebuchad- ' nezzar had a mountain four hundred I feet high built in the midst of the city. This mountain was surrounded by ter races, for the support of which great arches were lifted. On the top of these arches flat stones were laid ; then a layer of reeds and bitumen ; then two rows of bricks, closely cemented; then thick sheets of lead, upon which the soil was placed. The earth here deposited was so deep that the largest trees liad room to anchor their roots. All the glory of the i read that writing. He comes in. He flowery tropics was spread out at that ! reads it, "Weighed in the balance and tremendous height, until it must have found wanting." seemed to one below as though the Meanwhile the Assyrians, who for clouds wero all in blossom, and the j two years had Immmi laying siege to that very sky leaned on the shoulder of the i city, took advantage of that carousal cedar. At the top un engine was con- and came in. I hear the feet of the strueted which drew the water from conquerors on the palace stairs. Massa tlie F.nphrates, far below, and made it ere rushes in with a thousand gleaming spout up amid this garden of the skies. knives. Death bursts upon the scene, All this to please his wife! I think she 1 ".nd I shut the door of that banqueting must have been pleased. I hall, for I do not want to look. There A CITY ok ltEVKMNOS. is nothing there but torn banners, and In the midst of this city stood also broken wreaths, and the slush of upset the temple of Behis. One of its towers tankards, and the blood of murdered was one-eighth of a mile high, and on i women, and the kicked and tumbled the top of it an observatory, wlu'ch gave carcass of a dead king. For "in that the astronomers great advantage, as, i night was Belshazzar, the king of the being at so great a height, one could Chaldeans, slain. " easily talk with the stars. This temple j I go on to learn that when, God writes was full of cups and statues and cen- anything on the wall, a man had better sers, all of gold. One image weighed j ad it as it is. Daniel did not misin a thousand Babylonish talents, which i tcrpret or modify the handwriting on would be equal to fifty-two million dol- j the wall. It is all foolishness to expect lars. All this by day ; but now night ! a minister of the Gospel to preach al was about to come down on Babylon. ! ways things that the people like or the The shadows of her two hundred and I people chvse. Young men. what shall fifty towers began to lengthen. Tho i I preach to you to-night? "Shall I tell Euphrates rolled on, touched by the j you of the dignity of human nature? fiery splendors of the setting sun, and j Shall I tell you of the wonders that our gates of brass, burnished and glittering, opened and shut like doors of flame. The hanging gardens of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, began to pour from starlit flowers and dripping leaf n : fragrance for many miles around. The ' streets and squares wore lighted for dance and frolic and promenade. The theatres and galleries of art invited the wealth and pomp and grandeur of the j city to rare entertainments. Scenes of ' riot and wassail were mingled in every ' street; godless mirth, and outrageous excess, and splendid wickedness came to ; the king's palace to do their mightiest deeds of darkness. A royal feast to-night at the king's j palace r' Rushing up to the gates are j chariots, upholstered with precious j cloths from Dedan, and drawn by fire j eyed horses from Togarinah. that rear ! and neigh in tho gr.i.-p of the chariot eers, while a thousand lords dismount, and women dressed in all the splen dors of Syrian emerald, and tho color blending of agate, and the chusteness of coral, and th ) somber glory of Ty rian purple. a:id princely embroideries brought from afar by camels across the desert, and by ships of Tarshish acros the sea. Open wide the gates and let the guests como in. Tho chamberlains and cup bearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of t ho robes, and to the carol of the music! Sue the blazo of the jewels! Lift the banners. Fill the cups. Clap the cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let tho night go by with song and dance and ovation, and let that Babylonish tongue be palsied that will not say, "Oh, King Belshazzar, live forever!" NO COMMOUf BANQUET. Ah! my friends it was not any com mon banquet to which these great peo- pk e.inip. All parts of the earth had sent their richest vi:iids to that table. Brackets and ehandt liers Mashed their light upon tankards lyt burnished gold. Fruit.-, ripe and luscious, in baskets of silver, entwined with leaves, plucked from royal conservatories. Vases, in laid with emerald and ridged with ex quisite traceries, filled with nuts that were thrashed from forests of dis tant lands. Wine brought from the royal vats, foaming in the decanters and bubbling in the chalices. Tufts of cassia and frankincense wafting their sweetness from wall and table. (Jor geous banners unfolding in the breeze that came through the opened window, bewitched with the perfume of hanging gardens. Fountains rising from inelos u res of ivory, in jets of crystal, to fall in clattering rain of diamonds and pearls. statues of mighty men looking down fml nMlva in th( wal, u)im t,rowm and shields brought from subdued em pires. Idols of wonderful work stand ing on pedestals of precious stones. Embroideries drooping about the win dows, and wrapping pillars of cedar, and drifting on IKr inlaid with ivory and agalc. Music mingling the thrum of harps, and the chisli of cymbals, and the blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the wall, and breathing among the gar lands, and pouring down the corridors, anil thrilling the souls of a thousand banqueters. The signal is given, and the lords anil ladies, t lie mighty men and women of the land, come around the table. Pour out the wine! Let foam and bubble kiss the rim! Hoist every one his eup, and drink to the sentiment, "Oh, King Itelshazzar, live forever!" Bestarred headband and ca rennet of royal beauty gleam to the uplifted chalices, as airain and aimin and au-nin they are emptied. Away with care from the palace! Tear royal dignity to tatters ! Pour out more wine! (Jive us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to lord, captain ogles to captain. Goblets clash, de canters rattle. There come in the vile song, and the drunken hiccough, and the slavering lip, and the guffaw of idiotic laughter bursting from the lips of princes, flushed, reeling, bloodshot; while mingling with it all I hear, "Huiaa! huzza! for the great Helxhaz- zar! look', look! look! What is that on the plastering of the wal" Is it a spirit? Is it a phantom? Is it God ? Out of the black sleeve of the darkness a finger of fiery terror trembles through the air and comes to the wall, circling about as though it would write, and then, with a sharp tip of flame, engraves on the plastering the doom of the king. The music stops. Goblet falls from the nerveless grasp There is a thrill. There is a start. There is a thousand voiced shriek of ! horror. Ijct Daniel be brought in to race has accomplished? "Oh! no," you say; "tell me the message that came from G.xl." I will. If there is ! nnv linnit writiru. on the w.all !t w tlila lesson, "Accept of Christ and be I might talk of a great many saved." other things, but that is tho message, nnd so I declare it. Jesus never flattered those to whom lie preached, lie said to those who uul wrong, and who wero oliensive in his sight. "Yc generation of vipers! ye whited sepulehers! how can ye escape the damnation of hell!" Paul the apostle preached bofore a man who was not ready to hear him preach. What subject did he take? Did he say, "Oh. you are a good man, a very line man, a very noble man?" No; he preached f righteousness to a man who was unrighteous; of temperance to a man who was the victim of bud appetites; of the judgment to come to a man who was unfit for it. So w must always declare the message that happens to come to us. Daniel must read it as it is. A minister preached before James I of England, who was James VI of Scotland. What subject did he take? The king was noted all over the world for being unsettled and wa vering in his ideas. What did the min ister preach about to this man who w as James I of England and James VI of Scotland? Ho took for his text James I, G: "He that wavereth is like a wave of tho sea, driven with the wind and tossed." Hugh Latimer of fended the king by a sermon he preached, and the king said, "Hugh Latimer, come and apologize." "I will," said Hugh Latimer. So the day was appointed, and the king's chapel was full of lords and dukes, and the mighty men and women oT the coun try, for Hugh Latimer was to apolo gize, lie began his sermon by saying: "Hugh Latimer, bethink thee! Thou art in the presence of thine earthly king, who can destroy thy body. But bethink thee, Hugh Ijilimer, that thou art in the presence of thcKingof heav en and earth, who can destroy both body and soul in hell fire." Then he preachi d with appalling directness at the king's crimes. Till" IIOKKOK OK TltlC K.MHMi. Another lesson that comes to us. There is a great difference between the opening of the banquet of sin and its close. Young man, if you had looked in upon the banquet in the first few hours you would have wished you had In-en invited there, and could sit at tho feast. "Oh! the grandeur of Belshaz zar 's feast !" you would have said, but you look in at the close of the banquet, and your blood curdles with horror. The king of terrors has there a ghast lier banquet, human blood is the wine and dying groans are the music. Sin has made itself a king in the earth. It has crowned itself. It has spread a banquet. It invites all the world to come to it. It has hung in its banqueting hall the spoils of all king doms and the banners of all nations. It has gathered from all music. It has strewn from it.s wealth the tables and the floors and arches. And yet how often is that banquet broken up. and how horrible is its end ! Kver and anon there is a handwriting on the wall. A king falls. A great oulprit is arrested. The knees of wickedness knock to gether, (rod's judgment, like an armed host, breaks in upon the banquet, and that night is Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain. Here is a young man who says: "I cannot see why they make such a fuss about tho intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating! It makes me feel well. I can talk better, think better, feel better. I ninnot see why people have such a prejudice against it." A few years pass on, and he wakes up and finds himself in the clutches of an evil habit which lie tries to break, but can not, and he cries out, "Oh, Lord God, help me!" It seems as though God would not hear his prayer, and in an agony of body and soul he cries out, "It bitcth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder." How bright it was at the start! How black it was at the last! Here is a man who begins to read corrupt novels. "They are so charm ing," says he, "I will go out and see for myself whether all these things are so.' lio opens the gate of a sinful life. He goes in. A sinful sprite meets him with her wand. She waves her wand. ami it is all enchantment. Why, it seems as if the angels of God had poured out phials of perfume in the atmosphere! As he walks on he finds the hills lecoming more radiant with foliage, and the ravines more resonant with tho falling water. Oh, what a charming landscape he sees! But that sinful sprite with her wand meets him again; but now she reverses the wand, and all the enchantment is gone. Tho cup is full of poison. The fruit turns to ashes. All the leaves of the bower are forked tongues of hissing serpents. The (lowing fountains fall back in a dead pool, stenchful with corrupt'on. The luring songs Uecome curses and screams of demoniac laughter. Lost spirits gather about him, and feel for his heart, and beckon him on with: "Hail, brother! Hail, blasted spirit, hail!" He tries to get out. He comes to the front door where he entered, and tries to push it back, but the door turns against him, and in the jar of that shutting door he hears these words. "This night is Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." Sin may open bright as the morning. It ends dark as the night! DEATH AT THE KKAST. I learn further from this subject that Death sometimes breaks in upon a ban quet. Why did ho not go down to the prisons in Babylon ? There were people there that would like to have died. I suppose there were men and women in torture in that city who would have welcomed Death. But he comes to the palace, and just at the time when the mirth is dashing to the tiptop pitch Death breaks in at the banquet. We have often seen the same thing illus trated. Here is a young man just come from college. He is kind. He is lov ing. He is enthusiastic. He is elo quent. By one spring lie may bound :) heights toward which many men have been struggling for years. A pro fession opens lefore him. He is estab lished in the law. His friends cheer him. Eminent men encourage him. After a while you may see him stand ing in the 1'nited States senate or mov ing a jxipular assemblage by his elo quence, as trees are moved in a whirl wind. Some niirht he retires early. A fever is on him. Delirium, like a reck less charioteer, seizes the reins of his intellect Father and mother stand by, and see the tides of his life going out to the great ocean The banquet is coming to an end. The lights of thought and mirth and eloquence are being extinguished. Tho garlands are snatched from the brow. The vision is gone. Death at the banquet. We saw tho same thing, on a larger scale, illustrated at the last war in this country. Our whole nation had been sitting at national banquet north, south, east and west. What grain was there but we grew it on our hills. What invention was there but our rivers must turn the new wheel and rattle the strange shuttlo. What warm furs but our traders must bring them from the Arctic. What fish but our nets must sweep them for the markets. What music but it must sing in our halls. AVlint eloquence but it must sjx'ak in our sena tes. Ho! to the national banquet, reach ing from mountain to mountain, and from sea to sea ! To prepare that ban quet the hheepfolds and the aviaries of tho country sent their best treasures. The orchards piled up on tho table their sweetest fruits. The presses burst out with new wines. To sit at that table came the yeomanry of New Hampshire, and the lumbermen of Maine and the Carolinian from the rice fields, and the western emigrant from the pines of Oregon, and we were all brothers brothers at a banquet. Suddenly the feast ended. What meant those mounds thrown up at Chickamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South Mountain? AVhat meant thos:' golden grain fields, turned into a pasturing ground for cavalry horses? What meant the corn fields gullied with the wheels of the heavy supply train ? Why those rivers of tears, those lakes of blood? God was angry! Justice must come. A hand writing on .the wall! The nation had been weighed and found wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe to the north! Woo tothesouth! Woe to the east ' Woe to the west ! Death at the banqii' t ! Til I" DEATH OK THE WICKED. I have also to learn from the subject that the destruction of the vicious and of those who despise God will be very sudden. The wave of mirth had dashed to the highest point when that Assyrian army broke through. It was unexpeet ed. Suddenly, almost always, comes the doom of those who despise God and defy the laws of men. How was it at tho deluge? Do you suppose it came through a long northeast storm, so that people for days before were sure it was coming? No; I suppose the morning was bright ; that calmness brooded on the waters ; that leauty sat enthroned on the hills, when suddenly the heav ens burst, and the mountains sank like anchors into the sea that dashed clear over the Andes and the Himalayas. The lied sea was divided. The Egyp tians tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through. Where they had gone why not the Egyptians? Oh, it was such a beautiful walking place! A pavement of tinged shells and pearls, and on either side two great walls of water--solid. There can be no danger. Forward, great host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and blow the trump ets of victory! After them! We will catch them yet, and they shall be de stroyed. But tho walls begin to trem ble. They rock! They fall! The rush ing waters! The shriek of drowning men ! The swimming of the war horses in vain for tho shore I Tho strewing of tho great host on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by tho angry wave on the beach a battered, bruised and loathsome wreck! Suddenly destruc tion came. One half hour before they could not have believed it. Destroyed, and without remedy. I am just setting forth a fact which you have noticed as well as I. Ananias comes to the apostle. The apostle says, "Did you sell the land for so much?" He says, "Yes." It was a lie. Dead! as quick as that! Sapphira, his wife, comes in. "Did you sell the land for so much?" "Yes." It was a lie; and quick as that she was dead! God's judgments are upon those who despise and defy him. They come suddenly. The destroying angel went through Egypt. Do you suppose that any of the people knew that he was coming? Did they hear the flap of his great wing? No! no! Suddenly, unexpectedly, ho came. Skilld sportsmen do not like to shoot a bird standing on a sprig near by. If they are skilled they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sports man, and ho loves to take men flying under tho very sun. Ho loves to take them on the wing. HEED WHAT FOLLOWS! Are there any here who are unpre pared for the eternal world? Are there any hero who have been living without God and without hope ? Lot mo say to you that you had better accept of the Ird Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your hist chance be gone. The lungs will eease to breathe, the heart will stop. The timo will come when you shall go no more to the office, or to the store, or to the shop, Nothing will bo left but Death and Judgment and Eterni ty. Oh! flee to God this hour! If there be one in this presence who has wandered far away from Christ, though he may not have heard tho call of tho gospel for many a year, I invite him now to como and bo saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold of the gospel! Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation. Good-night, my young friends! May you have rosy sImoo, gnnrdcl by him who never slumbers! May you awake in the morning strong and well ! But oh! art thou a despiser of Uod? Is this thy last night on earth? Should'st though be awakened in the night by something, thou knowst. not what, and there be shadows floating in the room, and a handwriting on tho wall, and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be a fainting at the heart, and a tremor in the limb, and a catching of the breath then thy doom would be but an echo of the words of the text, "In that night was Belshaz zar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." Hear the invitation of the gospel! There may be some ono in this house to mIioui I shall never speak again. and therefore let it be in the words of the Gospel, and not in my own, with which I close: "Ho, every ono that thirsteth! Come ye to the waters. And lot him that hath no money come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price." "Como unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and 1 will p,ivo you rest." Oh! that my I,ord Jesus would now make him self so attractive to your souls that you cannot resist him; and that, if you have never prayed before, or have not prayed since those days when you knelt down at your mothers knot1, then that to-night you might pray, saying: .lu.-t us t am. without one plea, itut thai. Ltiy blml u-.-vs Hhetl for me. Anl thai. thou Iml'rit me come to this;, ( I.ainl of I tint. 1 come! But if you cannot think of so long a prayer as that. I will give you a shorter prayer that you can say, "God be mer ciful to me, a Mn:ier!M Or, if you can not, think of so long a prayer as that, I will give you a still shorter one that you may utter, "Lord, save me, or I perish!" Or if that be too long a prayer, you need not utter ono word. Just look and live! ODDS AND ENDS. Seven hundred million oranges are exported every year from Europe to this country. The average number of murders an nually committed in England and Wales is 170. Bullock's sweetbread when decom posed yields a principle named collin dine. It is said to bo a curious fact that all of the girls in W'ellesley college who lead their classes arc blondes. Sixty thousand people are said to be out of work in the city of Berlin. Ninety thousand are out of work in tho east end of Imdon alone. Although among tho Bedouins a wife is considered as a slave, singleness is looked upon as a disgrace. It us try to give our children tho advantage of happiness, and though we have no personal motive we shall surely not go unrewarded. In large cities men rarely walk in the street in their dross suits without wear ing a very thin overcoat, even in sum mer. This is to avoid being conspicu ous. One of the simplest and most efficient means of fumigating a room is by drop ping vinegar slowly upon a very hot iron shovel; a cover from the kitchen stove will answer very well. In digging out an old well at Mur phys, Calaveras county, Cal., the other day, a skeleton with handcuffs on was found. Its history is unknown. Ex-Senator Bruee's 12-year-old son is named Rosooe Conkling Bruce, and is the proud possessor of a silver cup, knife, fork and spoon given to him by the late senator. The book of lamentations should never be opened in public. One's trou bles do not concern the world at large, and grief is too sacred a tiling to be poured out into unsympathetic ears. Married Acrou the Flood. Justice Weir received a message re questing his presence at tho hamlet of Blue Lick to marry a couple. He at once mounted and started, but was greatly impeded by the swollen streams that lay across his path. When ho reached Blue Lick Creek ho found that ordinarily placid stream a raging, roar ing torrent, impassable. While trying to devise some plan to get across ther.' was a clatter of hoofs on the opposite sidj of tho stream, and in a moment a horse was pulled up on the edge of the water. On its back was Harvey Taylor, who held on the pommel of his saddle Kate Newny. The couple wanted to get married, and that quickly. How to do it in view of the water barrier was a question. Finally the justice from this side of the creek suggested that the license be wrapped in a handkerchief and tied to a rock and thrown over to him for ex amination. This was done. Then the justice mounted his horse, and using his hands for a trumpet, shouted the words that are usually employed in marriage ceremonies at the hand in hand couple across the stream They shouted back the responses, and the justice declared the knot tied. About 200 feet of water separated Justice Weir from tho couple, and the roar of tho torrent and tho patter of the rain probably rendered the service and responses inaudible, but as all formalities were observed tho marriago is certainly legal. Louisville (Ky.) Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Fortunate Muilclan. A crippled musician is to be found in Scotland, traveling on the line of rails between Dundee and Hroughty Ferry. He performs on tho concertina, and has been in tho business for the last ten or fifteen years. He is known to every pasucr.gcr, and lias his regular customers, who never fail to subscribe to the entertainment. Traveling docs not seem to diminish his energy, for, with the aid of his crutch, he gets from one carriage to'anbthcr with as much agility as his moro fortunate fellow passengers.--London Tit-Bits. I'licle Sam's Powerful New Itlfle. The armed despots of the Old World who may be contemplating plundering tho United States are respectfully in formed that Uncle Sam has recently perfected a new Springfield riflo that speeds a bullet 2,200 feet per second, with force enough to penetrate at 500 yards sixteen pine boards of one inch thickness, each placed one inch apart. Any foreign despot who thinks ho is thicker than sixteen inches of pine boards will cheerfully be accorded a position as a target. New York Tele gram. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. mine oust hi ' W. & W. R. R. BRANCHES.1 Condensed Schedule. TRAINS (iOISO SOUTH. No. Dally N".7, ft mail nally. tinted Jan. 19th 18!H. eave Weldon r Rocky Mount r Tarlmro euvcTartioro, rrive Wilsiin, . rave Wilmiu 1 7 n. I 'S17" .....7 Hi:i.'UM . . I IS I'M I 7 00 , I " -tO " I I 3 TO " I ... I S "I I 8 IS " I 7 40 ' I i 10 " I I 4 24 "8 40 I8 60 "M 1758 Arrive KetnifL Arrive Kayetteville, Ieavetiolilslioro Ieave Warwiw I 840 " 934 19 49 " 11120" .pave MHLrtinHa Arrive WUminirtoii TRAINS UOINU NOKTH No 40 , daily et Hiniday Leave WilmliiKlnli Leave Miicnnlia Leave Warsaw Arrive (ioliislinro.. Leave Fayeltevillo Arrive Selma Arrive Wilson Leave Wilson Arrive Koeky Mount I Arrive 1 anion Leave Tarlmrn Arrive Weldon liaily except .Siiniiay. Train on Scotland Net It Brnneli Itnml VYIiIiim at : In p. in. Ha il'ax 3 "2, arrive Sc,tiani Mick at 4 l..iii.(.rccjivine 6o p. m Kin.non 7 liin.ro. Keturnlnit leavea Kinsion 7 mi (ireenville Kloa in. Arrlvlnir at Halifax' mis' ni Weldon Ho.') am dally except Sunday ' 'I mm leave Tarboro N. C. via Alhemnrl.' .i Raleiuli K. It. liaily except Sunday 4 u.t n tundiiy 3 00 p. m , arrive WIllianiMton N. 0. 6 Jo ji in.. ion. in. Plymouth 7.V)p.m., Mo p. m Returning leave riymoiith dally except Sunday 0 lla. m Sundiy a 00 a. m. Wllfianiston, N 710 a. m. i 5S . m. arrive Tarboro 1005a' m" mo a. m. ' Train on Midland N. 0. Brunch leavei CnM.. bnro N. (' , daily ecept Sunday 7 00 a. ni., arrlfa Sniithtleld, N .;., S nil a. m. Heturninn leavm "mlinfeM. N. C, 901a. in., arrive Goldslxim. K C, 10 30 p.m. ' iraiu on .HKiiYiiie iirancn leaves Fo ky Mount at3 00 p. m.. arrives at Nnahvllle am m., Spring Hope 4 15 p. m. Returning kai Spriu Hope 10 00 a. m.. Nashville 10 3i m ar Rocky Mount II IS a, m. dally except Sunday I Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw tot ( llnton, daily except Hunday at 6 00 p. m. and ii 1. 1 a. in ftciuniuiK leave l union at M0 a m i and 3 in p. m , coniiectintr at Warsaw wim jjoi Hi, 4l.i t and 7a. houtlilHiund train on W llano and FayetteTlllt Rranch ia No. 51. Northbound ia 60. liail cent Sunday. Train No. 27 Suth will only atop at Wilson GoldstKirnaud Magnolia. Train No. 7S makes close connection at Weldoi for all miiiits North daily. All rail via Richmond and daily except Sunday via Bay Line. i rams manes close connection lor all points North via Richmond and Washington. The New York and Florida hDocial will nin trl. weekly, commencing January 19th. leavint Weldon Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:1 n m., arriving Wilmington 100 a.m., returning leave Wilmington Tuesday. Thursday and Satur. day at 1 00 a in., arriving Weldon t 13 ah trnina run siiia between W ilmington anil Washington and have I'ullman Palace Sleenen attached. 1. R. KENLY, 1 F. DIVINE, Sup t Trans General SmVL T. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Passenger Agent. TLANTIC COAST LINE. PETIIRSIIURG WELDON R. R. Condensed Schedule. TKA1NS UOISU SOUTH. Dntod J.m. 19th, 1891. No. 23 Daily. No. 27 Daily. Leave Petersburg, Leave Stony Creek, Leave Jurratts, Leave Del Held, Arrive Weldon, 10.111 am 10.5:: um 11.11 am 11.1(0 a m 12.10 imi 3.45 pm 4.18 p m 4 49 p m 5-23 pra TKAIXS GOING NOKTH. I -HI dail, l tx.Sui f No 14, No 78 daily, dally 205 " 1067" s;tfiF 11 11 " lis;) 3( " 12 IK" 053 "'.IJ')" II IS" UJO" ,'.' a it m. s nil 71? I TO " I 8 IK -i 17 " I in :i;bm i .i I'.i " I D.V. urn I n an "I No. 14 No. 78 Daily. Daily. Leu ve Weldon, 5.10 a.m. 3.15p.m. I.e Heltield, 5 45 a.m. 3.52 p.m. LeJurrntt.s, 6.00 a-m. 4.00 p.m.. I.eMony Creek, (i l! a.m. 4.33 p.m. Arrive Petersburg, 0 51 a.m. 5.12p.m The New York and Florida Special will rim tri-weekly, commencing January 19th, 191, leaving Petersburg Monday, Wednes day and Friday 8.-15 p in., arriving Wel don 9:45 p.m. Keturning leave Weldon Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6:1H a. m., arriving Petersburg 7:55 a. m. All trains run solid Weldon to Washing ton. K. T. I. MYERS, T. M. EMEKSON, Gen'l Superintendent. Gen. Passenger agt TO THE PATRONS OF THK ALBEMARLE STEAM NAVIGATION CO fill I Pi TIMF Between KORKOt K and . IJUIUN I IMC EASTERN N. CAKOLIN 4 On and after Monday. December 17th, and until lurther notice, the Steamei CHOWAN, Captain Withy, will LEA VE FHANKL1N on Mondays, Wed nesdays ami Fridays lor EDENTON, PLY MOUTH and il intermediate poiuts on arrival of mail tru;n from Portsmouth, Bay 10.15 A. M. liETUliNING l'he "Chowan" will reach Frauklin on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 9 15 A. M., in time to connect with Fast Mail train from HaluigU to Portsnioutn and with Express train for the South. Pussengers, by this arrangement, taking the Steamer Chowan at any point on the river, will REACH NORFOLK by 11 oclock 1. M., and thus have the entire day for the trans action of business in that city. GIVE THIS ROUTE A TRIAL. Respectfully, J. H. BOPRRT Dec. 15, 1888. 8upt Franklin Va. MM
Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.)
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