THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH JO, 1891.
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COERUTT LITERATUEK
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A RINGING
SERMON ON A CRYING EVIL.
Imii Bad Old Are Halo- Mentally,
Morally and Fhyairally Infected by
Pernicious Book The Wrong Must Be
; Righted -How to lo It.
I Nkw Yokk. March 8. The plague
of pernicious literature formed the sub
ject of Dr. Talmagc-'s sermon today,
jwhich was the tliird of tho series he is
preacliing on the "Ten Plague of the
iCities." The Brooklyn Academy of
'Music was tilled in the morning by u
dense crowd eager to hear it. and at
night at Tho Christian Herald .service,
m the New York Academy of Music,
the doors had to be closed long before
the hour of service, there being no
space available within the building for
more hearers. 80 large is the number
of those every week disappointed of
gaining admission, that the project of
hiring the Madison Square Garden has
again been revived. One citizen ha
offered to pay all the expenses if the
Garden can be secured and Or. Tal
lage can be induced to preach in it.
iTho text of tho preacher's discourse
jwas taken from Ex. viii, 6, 7: "And
the frogs came up uud covered the
1 land of Kgypt. And the magicians
did so with their enchantments, and
. brought up frogs upon the land of
Egypt."
There is almost a universal aversion
to frogs, and yet with the Egyptian j
they were honored, they were sacred,
and they were objects of worship while
1 alive, mid after death they were em
Ibalmed, and today their remains may
.be found among the sepulehers of
'Thebes. These creatures, so attractive
Once to the Egyptians, at divine be
hest became obnoxious and loathsome,
and they went croaking and hopping
and leaping into the palace of the king,
and into the bread trays and the couches
, of the people, and even the ovens,
which now are uplifted above the earth
and on the side of the chimneys, but
then were small holes in the earth
with sunken pottery, were tilled with
frogs when the housekeepers came to
look at them. If u man sat down to
eat, a frog alighted on his plate. If he
attempted to put on a shoe it was pre
occupied by a frog. If he attempted
to put his head upon a pillow it had
beeu taken possession of by a frog.
Frogs high and low and everywhere;
loathsome frogs, slimy frogs, besieging
frogs, innumerable frogs, great plague
of frogs. What made the matter
worse the magicians said there was no
miracle in this, and they could by
sleight of hand produce the same thing,
and they seemed to succeed, for by
sleight of hand wonders may be
wrought. After Moses had thrown
down his staff and by miracle it be
came a serpent, and then he took hold
of it und by miracle it again became a
staff, tho serpent charmers imitated
the same thing, and knowing that
there were serpents in Egypt which by
a peculiar pressure on the neck would
become as rigid as a stick of wood,
they seemed to change the serpent into
the staff, and then throwing it down
the staff became the serpent. So like
wise these magicians tried to imitate
the plague of frogs, and perhaps by
smell of food attracting a great number
nf them to a certain noint. or bv slink-
ing them out from a hidden pla., the i
magicians sometimes seemed to ac
eninnlish the same miracle. While these
m.nricions made tho nla-nio worse, none !
of them tried to make it better. "Frogs
came up and covered the land of
Egypt, and the magicians did so with
their enchantment, and brought up
frogs upon the land of Egypt."
A MODERN PLAGUE.
Now that plague of frogs has come
back upon the- earth. It is abroad to
day. It is smiting this nation. It
comes in the shape of corrupt litera
ture. These frogs hop into the store,
the shop, the ollice, the banking house,
the factory, into the home, into the ;
cellar, into the garret, on the drawing
room table, on the shelf of the library. ,
While the lad is reading the bad book :
the teacher's face is turned the other J
way. One of these frogs hops upon
the page. While the young woman is ,
reading the forbidden novelette after ;
retiring nt night, reading by gaslight,
one of these frogs leaps upon the page.
Indeed, they have hopped upon the
news stands of the country, and the
mails at the postolQco shako out in the
letter trough hundreds of them. The
plaguo has taken at different times
possession of this country. It is one of
the most loathsome, ono of the most
frightful, ono of tho most ghastly of
the ten plagues of our modern cities.
There is a vast number of books and
nowtipapi.rs printed and puLhViioJ
which ought never to see tho light.
They are filled with a pestilence that
makes the land swelter with a moral
epidemic. The greatest blessing that
ever came to this nation is that of an
elevated literature, end the greatest
scourge has been that of unclean liter
ature. This last has its victims in all
occupations and departments. It has
helped to fill insane asylums and peni
tentiaries and almshouses and dens o'
shame. The bodies Of this infection
lie in the hospitals and in the graves,
while their souls are being tossed over
into a lost eternity, an avalanche of
horror and despair. The London
plague was nothing to it. That count
ed its victims by thousands, but this
modern pest has already shoveled its
millions into the charnel house of the
morally dead. The longest rail train
that ever ran over the Erie or Hudson
tracks was not long enough nor largo
enough to carry tho beastliness and tho
putrefaction which have been gathered
up in bad books and newspapers of
this laud in the last twenty years. The
literature of a nation din-ides the fate
of a nation. Good books, good morals,
liad books, bad morals.
I begin with the lowest of all the lit
erature, that which does not even pro
tend to be respectable from cover to
cover a blotch of leprosy. There are
many whose entire business it is to dis
pose of that kind of literature. They
display it before the schoolboy on his
way home. They get the catalogues
of schools and colleges, take the names
and postofflce addresses and send their
advertisements, and theircireulars, and
their pamphlets, and their books to
every one of them.
SKNMXO OCT BAI BOOKS.
In the possession of these dealers in
bad literature were found nine hun
dred thousand names and postofflce
addresses, to whom it was thought it
might bo profitable to send these1 cor
rupt things. In the year 1S73 there
were one hundred and sixty-five estab
lishments engaged in publishing cheap,
corrupt literature. From one publish
ing house there went out twenty differ
ent styles of corrupt books. Although
over thirty tons of vile literature have
been destroyed by the Society for the
Suppression of Vice, still there is
enough of it left hi this country to
bring down upon us the thunderbolts
of an incensed (rod.
In the year 18(58 the evil had become
so great in this country that the con
gress of the United States passed a law
forbidding the transmission of bad lit
erature through the Tinted States
mails; but there were large loops in
that law through which criminals might
crawl out, and the law was a dead fail
urethat law of 1SC8. But in 1873 an
other law was passed by the congress
of the United States against the trans
mission of corrupt literature through
the mails a grand law, a potent law,
a Christian law and under that law
multitudes of these scoundrels have
been arrested, their property confis
cated and they themselves thrown into
the penitentiaries, where they belonged.
HOW CAN IT BK FOUGHT?
ow, my friends, how are we to war
against this corrupt literature, and how
are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to
be slain i First of all, by tho prompt
and inexorable execution of the law.
Let all good postmasters and United
States district attorneys and detectives
and reformers concert in their action to
stop this plague. When Sir Rowland
Hill spent his life in trying to secure
cheap postage, not only for England
but for all tho world, and to open the
blessings of the postofflce to all honest
business and to all messages of charity
and kindness and affection, for all
healthful intercommunication, he did
not mean to make vice easy or to fill
the mail bags of the United States with
the scabs of such a leprosy.
It ought not to be in the power of
every bad man who can raise a one
cent stamp for u circular, or a two cent
stamp for a letter, to blast a man or
destroy a home. The postal service of
this country must be clean, and we
mast all understand that the swift ret
ributions of the United States govern
ment hover over every violation of the
letter box.
There are thousands of men and
women in this country, some for per
sonal gain, some through innate de-
Pravity- mmc .trough a spirit of re-
venge,
who
wish to use this crrent
avenue
of
convenience and intelli-
KP,M for
revcngeful, sala
cious and diabolic. Wake up the law.
Wake up all its penalties. Iet every
court room on this subject be a Sinai
thunderous and aflame. Lot tho con
j victed offenders bo sent for the full
I term to Sing Sing or HarrLsburg.
j I am not talking about what cannot
I be done. I am talking now about
1 what is being done. A great many of
j the printing presses that gave thein
i selves entirely to the publication of vile
I literature have been stopped or have
1 gone into business less obnoxious,
j What has thrown off, what has kept
' off the rail trains of this country for
; some time lack nearly all the leprous
I periodicals? Those of us who have
I been on the rail trains have noticed a
great changa in tho last few months
! and the last year or two. Why have
j nearly all those vile periodicals been
' kept off the rail trains for some time
I back? Who effected it? Theso so
1 cieties for the purification of railroad
! literature gave warning to the publish
ers and warning to railroad companies
and w infill'.; to conductors and warn
1 ing to newsboys to keep the infernal
! stuff off the trains.
1 ri ltlVYINQ THE. NEWS STANDS.
Many of tho cities have successfully
I prohibited tho most of that literature
' even from going on the news stands,
j Terror has seized upon the publishers
I and deal-.'rs in impure literature, from
' the fact that over a thousand arrests
I have been made, and the aggregate
time for which the convicted have been
sentenced to tho prison is over one hun
dred and ninety years, and from the
fact that about two million of their cir
culars have been destroyed, and tho
business is not as profitable as it used
to be
How have so many of the newsstands
of our ereat cities been purified? How
lias so much of this iniquity been
balked? By moral suasion? Oh, no,
You might as well go Into a junglo of
tho East Indies and pat a cobra on
the neck, and with profound argument
try to persuado it that it is morally
wrong to bite and to sting and to poi
son anything. The only answer to
your argument Would be an uplifted
head and a hiss, and a sharp, reeking
tooth stuck into your arteries. The
only argument for .1 cobra is a shotgun,
ami the only argument for these deal
ers in impure literature Ls the clutch of
the police- and bean soup in the peni
tentiary. The law! The law! I in
voke to consummate the work so grand
ly begun !
Another way in which we are to drive
bock this plague of Egyptian frogs is
by filling the minds of our young people
with a healthful literature. I do not
mean to say that all the books and
newspapers in our families ought to be
religious books and newspapers, or that
every song ought to be sung to the tune
of "Old Hundred." I have no sympa
thy with the attempt to make the
young old. I would rather join in a
crusade to keep tho young young. Boy
hood and girlhood mast not be ab
breviated. But there are goxl books,
good histories, good biographies, good
works of fiction, good books of all styles
with which wo are to fill the minds of
tlie young, so that there will be no more
room for the useless and vicious than
there is room for the chaff in a bushel
measure which is already filled with
Michigan wheat.
KtHNKD BY FKKNICTOUK KKADINO.
Why are 50 per cent, of the criminals
In tho jails and penitentiaries of the
United States Unlay under twenty-one
years of age? Many of them under
seventeen, under sixteen, under flft-en,
under fourteen, under thirteen. Walk
along one of the corridors of the Tombs
prison in New York and look for your
selves. Bad l)ooks. bad newspapers
bewitched them assron as they got out
of the cradle. Beware of all those
stories which end wrong. Beware of
all those books which make tho road
that ends in perdition seem to end in
Paradise. Do not glorify the dirk and
the pistol. Do not call the desperado
bravo or the libertine gallant. Teach
our young people that if they go down
into the swamps and marshes to watch
the jack-o'-lanterns dance on the decay
and rottenness, they will catch the ma
laria and death.
"Oh!" says some one, "I am a busi
ness man, and I have no time to exam
ine what my children read. I have no
time to inspect the books that come
into my household." If your children
were threatened with typhoid fever,
would you have time to go for the doc
tor? Would you have time to watch
the progress of the disease? Would you
have time for the funeral? In the pres
ence of my God I warn you of the fact
that your children are threatened with
moral and spiritual typhoid, and that
unless the thing be stopped it will be to
them funeral of body, funeral of mind,
funeral ot soul. Tliree Minerals in one
day.
My word is to this vast multitude of
young people : Do not toueli, do not
borrow, do not buy a corrupt book or
a corrupt picture. A book will decide
a man's destiny for good or for evil.
The book you read yesterday mav have
decided you for time and for eternity,
or it may be a book that may come into
your possession to-morrow.
TIIU POWKll OF A GOOD HOOK.
A good book who can exaggerate
its power? Benjamin Franklin said
that his reading of Cotton Mather's
"Essays to Do Good" in childhood
gave him holy aspirations for all tho
rest of his life. George I,aw declared
that a biography he read in childhood
gave him all his subsequent prosperi
ties. A clergyman, many years ago,
passing to tho far west, stopped at a
hotel. He saw a woman copying; some
thing from Doddridge's "Rise and
Progress." It seemed that she had
borrowed tho book, and there were
somo things she wanted especially to
remember.
The clergyman had in his sachel
copy 01 J'oudnges uise ana 1 rog
ress," and so he made her a present of
it. Thirty years passed on. The
clergvman came that wav. and he asked
where the woman was whom he had
seen long ago. They said, "She lives
jonfler in that Ix-autiful house." lie
went there and said to her, "Do you
remember me?" She said, "No, I do
not." He said, "Do you remember
man gave you Doddridge's 'Rise and
Progress' thirty years ago?" "Oh,
yes; 1 remember, mat boon saved
my soul. 1 loaned tho book to nil my
neighbors, and they read it and -were
converted to uod, and we had ft re
vival of religion that swept through tho
whole community. We built a church
and called a pastor. You seo that
spire yonder, don't you? That churc
was built as the result of that book you
gavo me thirty years ago." Oh, the
power of a g(Mxl book! But, alas! for
tho influence of a bad book.
John Angel .lames, than whom Eng
land never had a holler minister, stow!
in his pulpit nt Birmingham and said
"Twenty-live years ago a lad loaned to
me pti infiimoiis bnk. He would loan
it only fifteen minutes and then I had
to irive it back; but that Iniok h:
haunted me like a specter ever since.
I have in agony of soul, 011 my knees
before God, prayed that ho would ob
literate from my soul the memory of it;
but I shall carry the damage of it to
the day of my death." The assassin of
Sir William Russell declared tliat he
got the inspiration for his crime by
reading what was then a new and iop
ular novel, "Jack Sheppard." Homer's
"Iliad" made Alexander the Nvarrior.
Alexander said so. The story of Alex
ander made Julius Ciosar and diaries
XII both men of blood. Have you in
your pocket, or in your trunk, or in
your desk at business a bad book, a
bad picture, a bad pamphlet? In God's
name I warn you to destroy it. ,
ANOTHKR WAT.
Another way in which wo shall fight
back this corrupt literature and kill the
frogs of Egypt is by rolling over them
the Christian printing press, which shall
give plenty of healthful reading to all
adult. All thcM men and women ore
wading men and women. What ore
you reading? Abstain from all those
books which, while they had some good
things about them have aluo an ad
mixture of evil. You have read books
that had two elements in them the
good and tho bad. Which stuck to
you? Tho bad! The heart of most
neonle is like a sieve, which lts the
Small particles of gold fall through but
keeps the great cinders. Once m a
while there Ls a mind like a loadstone,
which, plunged amid steel and brass
filings, gathers up the steel and repels
tho brass. But it is generally just the
opposite. If you attempt to plunge
through a fenco of burrs to get one
blackberry you will get more burrs
than blackberries. You cannot afford
to read a bad book, however good you
are. You say, "The influence is insig
nificant." I tell you that the scratch
of a pin has sometimes produced the
ck jaw.
Alas! if through curiosity, as many
do, you pry into an evil book, your
curiosity is as dangerous as that of the
man who would take a torch into a
gunpowder mill merely to see whether it
would really blow up or not. In a me
nagerie a man put his arm through the
bars of a black leopard's cage. Tho
animal's hide looked so sleek and
bright and beautiful. Ho just stroked
it once. The monster seized him, and
ic drew forth a hand torn and man
gled and bleeding. Oh, touch not evil
even with the faintest stroke! Though
it may be glossy and beautiful, touch
it not, lest you pull forth your soul
torn and bleeding under tho clutch of
the black leopard. "But," you say,
'how can I find out whether a book is
good or bad without reading it T There
is always something suspicious about a
bad book. I never knew an exception
something suspicious in tho index or
stvle of illustration. This venomous
reptile almost always carries a warning
rattle.
The clock strikes midnight. A fair
form bends over a romance. The eyes
flash fire. The breath is quick and
irregular. Occasionally the color dashes
to the cheek, and then dies out. Tho
hands tremble as though a guardian
spirit wero trying to shake the deadly
IxHik out of the grasp. Hot tears fall.
She laughs with a shrill voice that
drops dead at its own sound. The
sweat on her brow is the spray dashed
up from tho river of death. The clock
strikes four, and the rosy dawn soon
after begins to look through the lattice
upon the pale form that looks like a
detained specter of the night. Soon in
a madhouse she will mistake her ring
lets for curling serpents, and thrust her
white hand through the bars of the
prison, and smite her head, rubbing it
back as though to push the scalp from
the skull, shrieking, "My brain! my
brain!" Oh, stand off from that! Why
will you go sounding your way amid
the reefs and warning buoys, when
there is such avast ocean in which you
may voyage, all sail set ?
A book!
We see so many books we do not un
derstand what a book is. Stand it 011
end. Measure it the height of it,
the depth of it, the length of it, the
breadth of it. You cannot do it. Ex
amine the paper uud estimate the prog
ress made from the time of the impres
sions on the clay, and then on to the
bark of trees, and from the bark of
trees to papyrus, and from papyrus to
the hide of wild beasts, and from the
hide of wild beasts 0:1 down until the
miracles of our modern paper manu
factories, and then see the paper, white
and pure as an infant's soul waiting for
God's inscription.
. A book! Examine tho typo of it.
Examine the printing of it, und see the
progress from the time when Solon's
laws were written on oak planks, and
Hesiod's poems were written on tables
of lead, and the Siniatie commands
were written on tables of stone, on
down to Hoe's perfecting printing press.
A book! It took all the universities
of the past, all the martyr fires, all the
civilizations, all the battles, all the vic
tories, all tho defeats, all the glooms,
all the brightnesses, all the centuries to
make it possible.
A book! It is the chorus of the ages;
it is the drawing room in which kings
and queens anil orators and poets and
historians mid philosophers come out to
greet you. If I worshi)ed anything on
earth I would worship that. If I
burned incense to any Idol I would
build an altar to that. Thank God for
good books, healthful books, inspiring
txxiks, Christian books, books of men,
books of women, Book of God. It is
with these good books that we are to
overconio corrupt literature. Upon the
frog.-j swoop with these eagles. I de
pend much for the overthrow of In
iquitous literature upon tho mortality
ol Imx.ks. r.ven good books nave a
hard struggle to live.
Poly bins wrote forty books; only five
of them left. Thirty books of Tacitus
have perished. Twenty books of Pliny
have jK-rished. lavy wrote ono hun
drcd and forty books; only thirty-live
of them remain. vKschyhis wrote one
hundred dramas; only seven remain
Euripides wrote over a hundred ; only
nineteen remain. Varro wrote the biog
raphies of over seven hundred great
Romans. All that wealth of biography
has perished. If good und valuable
books have such a struggle to live, what
must be the fate of those that are dis
eased and corrupt and blasted at the
very start? They will die as the frogs
when the Lord turned back the plague.
The work of Christianiz&tion will goon
until there will be nothing left but
good look9, and they will take tho su
premacy of tho world. May you and I
live to see the illustrious day !
COUXTKKACT TliK BAII WITH GOOD.
Against every bad pamphlet send a
good pamphlet ; against every unclean
picture send on innocent picture;
against every scurrilous song send a
Christian song ; against every bad book
send a good book ; and then it will be
as it was in ancient Toledo, where the
Toletum missals were kept by tho saints
n six cnurciies, ana tne sacrilegious
Ilomans demanded th'at those missals
lie destroyed, and that the Roniiui mis
sals be sutistituted ; and the war came
on, and I am glad to say that, tho whole
matter having been referred to cham
pions, the champion of the Toletum
missals with one blow brought down
the champion of the Roman missals.
So it will be in our day.
The good literature, the Christian
literature, in its championship for God
and tlie truth will bring down the evil
literature in its championship for the
devil. I feel finding to tho tips of my
Angers and through all the nerves of
my body and all the depths of my soul
tlie certainty of our triumph. (Hieer
up, oh men and women who are toiling
for the purification of Bociety! Toil
with your faces in the sunlight. '"If
God be for us, who, who can be against
us?"
Iady Hester Stanhope was the daugh
ter of the third Earl of Stanhope, and
after her nearest friends had died she
went to the far east, took possession of
a deserted convent, threw up fortresses
amid the mountains of IiCbanon, opened
the castle to the poor and the wretched
and the sick who would come in. She
made her castle a home for the nnfortu
nato. She was a devout Christian
woman. She was waiting for the com
ing of the Ixrd. She expected that the
Lord would descend in person, and she
thought upon it until it was too mucb
for her reason. In the magnificent
utjihlp-M nr npr niL Aeesne hurt t wn hnrsM.
and bridled and saddled ane
caparisoned, and nil ready for the day
in which her Ird should descend, and
he on one of them and she on the other
should start for Jerusalem, the city of
the Great King. It was a fanaticism
and a delusion ; but there was romance,
and there was splendor, and there was
thrilling expectation in the dream !
Ah! my friends, wo need no earthly
palfreys groomed and saddled and bri
dled and caparisoned for our Ixrd
wnen lie snail come. 1 no Horse is
ready In the equerry of heaven, and
the imperial rider is ready to mount.
"And I saw, and behold a white horse,
and he that sat on him had a bow ; and
a crown was given unto him; and ho
went forth conquering and to conquer.
And the urniies which were in heaven
followed him on white horses, and on
his vesture and on his thigh were writ
ten. King of kings and Ixird of lords "
Horsemen of heaven, mount! Caval
rymen of (iod. ride on! Charge I
charge! until they shall be hurled back
on their haunches the black horse of
famine, and ihe red horse of carnage,
and the palo horso of death. Jesus
forever!
ill Voice HI Fortune.
At a recent ' high jinks" of the Ten
derloin club a number of professionals
in the theatrical and musical Jino were
present and helped to enliven the occa
sion by their songs, recitations and
funny stories.
Among these were comedian Ed
Stevens, of the Casino company, and
Signor 'I ughapietra, of operatic fame.
Mr. Stevens regaled the assemblage
with a series of amusing anecdotes, and
the signor, in response to repeated calls,
sang "The Palms and other musical
selections in his own inimitable style.
Among the guests was an elderly gen
tleman from Schoharie county, this
state, whoso knowledge of tho stage
and its representatives, however, is
somewhat limited. At tho conclusion
of the signor's last song he turned to
his friend and innocently remarked
"That fellow there sings pretty well,
doesn't he? Why, I should think he
could make his living by singing songs.
That's what I'd do, at any rate, if I had
his voice. As for that other chap
there," he went on, referring to Mr.
Stevens, "he'd ought to study for the
stage. There's the making of a fine
comedian in him."
The countryman was very much dis
concerted at the laugh which followed.
He was reassured, however, when
Signor Tagliapiotra camo up to him
and said, "I am indeed obliged, sir;
that was the finest compliment I have
ever received in my life." New York
Herald.
A OentU Hint.
Fred's mamma had trained him by
"example and precept to be courteous,
and he seldom forgot tho lesson, even
under very trying circumstances.
One afternoon a maiden aunt, who
was something of a trial to Fred, came
to tho house whilo his mamma was
away and insisted on his rehearsing all
the new versos and songs he had learned
at kindergarten since her last visit.
He went through his repertoire pa
tiently until ho was quite tired, and
still his aunt demanded another and
another.
At last Fred said politely, but with
considerable firmness, "I'll do just this
one more. Aunt Lucretia, and then"
looking anxiously at the clock "I am
afraid you'll have to go, if you don't
want to lose your train!"- Youth's
Companion.
The Chineso have their tombs built
in the shape of tho horseshoe, which
custom Is very curious, as it may be
fairly regarded as a branch of super
stition long prevalent among ourselves.
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TRAINS (iOINU SOUTH.
No.1.1, No.7, I No 41,
fast mall dally
Pally I Dally. eiHuJ
Dated Jon. 19th 1831.
Leave Weldun HWpsi I ft 43 P M
lesnam
1 1 . "
Ar KiK'Ky Mount 1 1 40 '
r Tarlwim . .7.7.1..... I Jlf" ..
Leave Tarboro (IOHIam! .
Arrive Wilson. . JI8r-M700
Leave Wilson i!J0"
7;3
Arrive Selma IS 80 " I ....
Arrive Fayettevllle, 5 30 "
I
8 40 "
984
949 "
11120"
Leave Goldsboro I 8 IS " 17 40 "
Leave Warsaw 4 10 "
Leave Magnolia .... 14 24 8 40 "
Arrive Wilmington Sft0 I 9 5S "
TRAINS (iOING NORTH
No 14,
dally.
No 78
dally
No 4
dally ex
Sunday
Leave W iliniiinum
Leave MaKiioha
Leave Warxaw
Arrive (iuldabaro...
Leave Fayetteville
Arrive Sulma
Arrive Wilson
Leave Wilson
I l'-'KaM
stiftAii 1 4 0(1 p m
1067 " bM
11 U " 15 83
12 05 6 53 "
910" I ..
11 1H-"
1110" I "'
UMpil 747 "'
I 30" 1818
17 " I ..
2 06 "
3 4U
Arrive Rocky Mount
Arrive larboro....
Leave Tarboro
Arrive Weldnn
10 85aM ( ....
I.Vipm I 930'
5 V '
V
Daily except Sunday.
Train on Scotland Neck Branch Road lii.
Welilon at 3 10 p. m. Halifax 3 31, arrive Scotlanc?
Neck at4 I p. m.Ureeuville dojn. m Kinut
7 10 p.m. Returning leaves Kinston 7 00, m
(ireenvillp SlOa in. Arriving at Halifax 1045'
a. m., Weldnn llaSa m itaily except Sunday
Train leuve Tarboro N. C, via Albemarla mj
Raleiiih K. K. Daily except Kumlay 4 oft n. m
kunday 3 no p. ni , arrive Williamston N. C. 6 it
p m., 4 top. m. riymoutn 7 nop. m., 610 p. m
Returning leave I'lvmonth daily excetit SnnH..'
(IJua. in Sunday 9 00 a. m. Wilflannton, N. C
7 40 a. tn. 9 58 a.m. arrive Tarboro 1005a. m"
110 a.m.
Train on MMland N. C. Branch leave (inld.
boro N.O., dally ecept Sunday 7 00 a. m , arriv
Smithfleld, N C, 8 30 a. m. Rutuminir Iputm
Hnilthtleld, N. 0., 90Ja. m., arrive Goldsborn. N
C, 10 30 p.m.
Train on Nashville Branch leave Rnckv
Mount at 3 00 p. m.. arrive at Nashville 8 40 n
m., Spring Hope 4 15 p. m. Returning Have
npnnt nope iuui a. ni . paanvuie 10 k, m
npnnt nope iu 11 a. ni., rasnviue 10
Train on ninum Branch leaves VVantaw f0?
ronton, aniiy except sunaay aicuo p. m. anl
ii la a. in Returning leave 1 union at 8 ) a v
and 3 10 p. m.. connecting at Warsaw with No?
40, ana .
Southbound train on Wilson and Favettevill
Hram b is No. 51. Northbound i 50. Dallv ex
cept Sunday.
Train No. 27 Snuth will only top at WlUon
Qoldsbornand Magnolia.
, Train No. 7K makes cloae connection at Weldnn
for all Mnts North dally. All rail via Richmond
and daily except Sunday via Kay Line.
1 rains males close connection lor all point!
North via Richmond and Washington.
Ihe New lork aim rlorliia Special will run
trUweekly, commencing January 19lh, leavhir
Weldon Monday. Wedncsdiy and Friday at 9 Ji
0 m., arriving Wilmington 1 00 a.m.. returning
leave Wilmington 1 uesday, Thursday and Satur
day at 1 00 a in , arriving Weldnn 13
All train run IM between Wilmington and
Washington and have Pullman I'alace Sleepers
attached.
J.R.KKNI.Y, J F. DIVINE,
Sunt Tran General Sunt.
T. M. KMKUSON, Gen'l Pasenger Agent.
TLAXTIC COAST, LINE.
PETERSBURG f- WELDON R. R.
Condensed Schedule.
TKAlNSUOlMi SOUTH.
Dated Jan. I'Jlh, lt91.
No. a;j
Daily.
No. 27
Daily.
Leave lVlerslmrg,
10.10 Hill
lO.fttam
11.11 inn
11. lit) am
12-1(1 pm
3.45 p ni
4.18 p ni
4 49 p m
5.23 p m
Leave Monv Creek,
Leave .lurnitts,
Leave lid Held,
Arrive Weldon,
TKAISS GOING NORTH.
mum
MAP
lima
No. 14 No. 78
Daily. Daily.
R. 10 a.m. 3.15 p.m.
5.45 a.m. 3.52 p.m.
fi.OOa.m. 4.09 p.iu.
0.1 9 a.m. 4 33prf.
(1.51 a-m. 5.12 p.m.
Leave Weldun,
Le Bel field,
Le Jarratts,
Lehtony Creek,
Arrive Petersburg.
The New York and Florida Special will
run tri-weekly. commencing January 19th,
1K91, leaving rt-tershurg Monday, Wednes
day and Friday 8:1") p. m., arriving Wel
don 9.-45 p. in. Returning leave Weldon
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday at 6.18
a. m., arriving Petersburg i:o5. to.
All trains run solid Weldon to Washing
ton.
E. T. D. MYERS, T. M. EMERSON,
Gen 1 Superintendent. Gen. Passenger agt
TO THE PATRONS
THE-
ALBEMARLE STEAM
NAVIGATION CO
QUICK TIME kaiTtRN N ca'koun'
Cttt n n il aftav f i. ti it n if fUnaniKn. Illl
and until further nntit-.-, the Steauiei
CHOWAN, Captain Withy, will
LKA r K KUAN KLIN on Mondays, Wed
nesdays und Fridays for EDENTON, PLY
MOUTH aud jil intermediate points on
arrival of mail tnvn lVoni Portsmouth, say
10:15 A. M.
KETUKNIXG ihe "Chowan" will
reach Franklin on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays at 9 15 A. M., in time to
connect with Fast Mail train from Kaleigh
to I'ortsmoutn and with Express train for
the South.
Passengers, by this arrangement, taking
the Steamer Chowau tit any point on the
river, will
REACH NORFOLK by 11 oclock A. M.,
and thus have the entire day for the trans
action of business in that city. i
GIVE THIS KOUTE A TUIAL.
Respectfully,
J. H. BOGftRT
I ranklin. Y., Dee. 15, 1888. 8opt'