8 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1889. v - - . -.. , r- --"j THE DAY OF JUBILEE. Two Hundred and Forty Persons Ee ceived Into Communion AT THE BROOKLYN TABERSACLE. Dr. Talmage Draws a lesson From the Re turn of the Prodigal. UlMEASUEABLE JOIS OF A CHRISTIAN rerccux telegram to the zisfatcjp.i Brooklyn, February 3. A jubilee ser taon was preached this morning by the Rev. 3". DeWitt Tnlmaj;e, D.D., at the especial communion for the reception of 240 persons, making the present communicant member ship of the Brooklyn Tabernacle 4,408. This is also moving day in this church. The annual rental of pews has just occurred, and to-day many of the congregation oc cupy new places. The pews brought higher premiums this year than ever before, and the income of the church this year will be $33,804. But both plans are observed in this church. A vast space is kept free from all expense, and only a part of the building is mapped off for rent Dr. Talmage took his text from Luke ST., 23: "Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it" Dr. Talmage said: Joy! Joy! Joy! "We banquet to-day over this accession of a multitude of souls. In all ages of the world it has been custom ary to celebrate joyful events by festivity the signing of treaties, the proclamation of peace, the Christmas, the marriage. How ever much on other days of the year our table may have stinted supply, on Thanks giving Day there must be something bounteous. And all the comfortable homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful events by banquet and festivity. THE PRODIGAL SOX. Something has happened in the old home stead greater than anything that has ever happened before. A favorite son whom the world supposed would become a vagabond and outlaw forever has got tired of sight seeing and has returned to his father's house. The world said he never would come back. The old man always said his ton would come. He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come back. Now, having returned to his father's house, the father proclaims celebration. There is a calf in the paddock that has been kept up and fed to utmost capacity, so as to be ready for some occasion of joy "that might come along. Ah ! there never will bea grander day on the old homestead than this day. Let the butchers do their work, and the housekeepers bring into the table the smoking meat The musicians will take their places, and the gay groups will move up and down the floor. All the friends and neighbors are gathered in, and extra supply is sent out to the table of the servants. The father presides at the table and says grace, and thanks God that hjs long-absent bov is home again. Oh ! how they missed him; how glad they arc to have him back. One brother indeed' stands pout ing at the back door and says: "This is a preat ado about nothing; "this bad boy should have been chastened instead of greeted; veal is too good for him!" But the father says: "Nothing is too good; nothing is good enough !" There sits the young man, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of sorrow flitting across his brow at the remembrance of the trouble he had seen. All ready now. Let the covers lift Music He was dead and he is alive again ! He was lost and he is found ! By such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merry-making when a soul comes home to God. THE CONVERT'S JOT. First of all there is the new convert's joy. It is so tame thing to become a Christian. The most tremendous moment in a man's life is when he surrenders himself to God. The grandest time on the father's homestead is when the bov comes back. Among the great throng wh.o in the parlors of this church professed Christ one night, was a young man who next morning rangmy door bell and said: "Sir, I cannot contain my self with the joy I leel; I came here this morning to express it I have found more joy in serving God than in all the years of mv prodigality, and I came to say so." You have seen, perhaps, & man running for his physical liberty and the officers of the law alter him, and you saw him escape, or afterward you heard the judge had par doned him, and how great was the glee of that rescued man; hut it is a verv tame thing that, compared with the running for one's everlasting life the terrors of the law after him, but Christ coming in to pardon and bless and rescue and save. You remem ber John Bunvan in his great story tells how the Pilgrim put his fingers in his ears, and ran, crying: "Life, life, eternal life!" A poor car-driver in this city some years ago, alter having had a struggle to support his family, suddenly was informed that a large inheritance was his, and there was joy amounting to bewilderment; but that is a email thing compared with the experience of one when he has put in his hands the title-deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors of heaven, and he can truly say: "Its mansions are mine, its temples afe mine, its songs are mine, its God is minel" Oh, it is no tame thing to become a Christian. It is a merry-making. It is the killing of the tatted calf. It is jubilee. You know the Bible never compares it to a funeral but always compares it to SOMETHING BRIGHT. It is more apt to be compared to a banquet than anything else. It is compared in the Bible to the water, bright, flashing water; to the morning, roseate, fireworked, mountain-transfigured morning. I wish I could to-day take all the Bible expressions about pardon and peace and life and comfort and hope and heaven and twist them into one garland, and put it on the brow of the .humblest child of God in this assemblage, and cry: "Wear it, wear it now, wear it Jor ever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God Almighty's. Oh, the joy of the new con vert! Oh, the gladness of the Christian service! You have seen sometimes a man in a re ligious assembly get up and give his ex perience. He arose in the presence of two churches, the church on earth and the church in heaven, and he said: "Now this is my experience: Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, yet possessing all things." If the people in this house this morning knew the joys of the Christian religion they would all pass over into the kingdom of God the next moment "When Daniel Sandeman was dying of cholera his attend ant said: "Have you much pain?" "Oh," he replied, "bince I have found the Lord I have never had anv pain except sin." Then they said to him: "Would you like to send a message to your friends?" "Yes, I would; tell them that only last night the love of Jesus came rushing into my soul like the surges of the sea, and I had to cry out: 'Stop, Lord, it is enough; stop, Lord, enough!'" Oh, the joys of this Christian religion! Just pass over from those tame joys in which you are indulging joys of this world into the raptures of the "gospel. Tin world cannot hatisfv you you have found that out Alexander longing for other worlds to conquer, and yet drowned in his own bottle; Byron whipped by disquietudes around the world; Voltaire cursing his own soul while all the streets of Paris were ap plauding him; Henry IL consuming with hatred against poor Thomas a-Becket all illustrations of the fact that this world can not make a man happy. The very man who poisoned the pommel of the saddle on which Queen Elizabeth rode, shouted in the street: "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!" One moment the world applauds and the next moment the world anathematizes. Oh, come overinto the greater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude. The night after the battle of Shiloh, and there were thousands of wounded on the field, and the ambulances had not come, one Christian soldier lying there a-dying under the starlight began to sing: "There is a land of pure delight" and when he came to the next line there were scores of voices uniting: "Where saints immortal reign." The song was caught up all through the fields among the wounded, until it was said there were at least 10,000 wounded men re uniting their voices as they came to the verse: "There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flow ers; Death like a narrow stream divides . That heavenly land from ours." Oh, it is a great religion to live by, and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart-throb between you and that re ligion this morning. Just look into the face of your pardoning God and surrender yourself for time and for eternity, and He is yours and heaven is yours and all is yours. Some of -you, like the young man of the text, have gone astray. I know not the history, but you know it, you know it When a young man went forth into life, the legend says, his guardian angel went iorth with him, and, getting him into a field, the guardian angel swept a circle clear around where the young man stood. It was a circle of virtue and honor, and he must not step beyond that circle. Armed loes came down, but were obliged to halt at the circle they could not pass. But one day a temptress with dia monded hand stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand, and the tempted soul took it, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Some of you have stepped beyond that circle. Would you not like this day by the grace of God to STEP BACK? This, I say to you, is your hour of salva tion. There was in the closing hours of Queen Anne what is called the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow in helpless sick ness she could not move her head or move her hand. She was waiting for the hour when the ministers of state should gather in angry contest, and worried and worn out by the coming hour, and in momentary ab sence of the nurse, in the power, the strange power which delirium sometimes gives one, she arose and stood in front of the clock, and stood there watching tho clock when the nurse returned. The nurse said: "Do you see anything peculiar about that clock?" She made no answer, but soon died. There is a clock scene in every his tory. If some of you would rise from tho bed of lethargy and come out from your delirium of sin and look on the clock of your destiny this morning you would see and hear something you have not seen or heard before, and every tick of the minute, and every stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum would say: "Now, now, now, now!" Oh, come home to your Father's house. Come home, oh, prodigal, from the wilderness. Come home, come home! But I notice that when the prodigal came there was the father's joy. He did not greet him with any formal "How do you do?" He did not come out and say: "You are unfit to enter; go out and wash in the troueh by the well, and then you can come in; we have had enough trouble with you." Ah! no. When the proprietor of that estate proclaimed festival, it was an outburst of a father's love and a father's joy. God is your father. I have not much sympathy with that description of God I sometimes hear, as though He were A TURKISH SULTAN, hard and unsympathetic, and listening not to the crv of His subjects. A man told me he saw in one of the eastern lands a king riding along, and two men were in alterca tion, and one charged the other with having eaten his rice; and the King said: "Then slay the man, and by post mortem examina tion find whether he has eaten the rice." And he was slain. Ah! the cruelty of a scene like that Our God is not a Sultan, not a Czar, not a despot, but a father kind, loving, iorgiving, and He makes all heaven ring again when a prodigal comes back. "I have no pleasure," He says, "in the death of him that dieth." If a man does not get to heaven it is be cause he will not go there. No difference the color, no difference the history, no dif ference the antecedents, no difference the surroundings, no difference the sin. When the White horses of Christ's victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph you may ride one of them, and as God is greater "than all, His joy is greater, and when a soul comes back there is in His heart the surging of an infinite ocean of gladness, and to express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the thrones of pomp, and all the ages of eter nity. It is a joy deeper than all depth, and higher than all height, and wider than all width, and vaster than all immensity. It overtops, it undergirds, it outweighs all the united splendor and joy of the universe. Who can tell what God's joy is? You remember reading the story ofa king, who on some great day of festivity scattered silver and gold among the people, and sent valuable presents to his courtiers; but methmks when a soul comes back, God is so glad that to express His joy He flings out new worlds into space, and kindles up new suns, and rolls among the white-robed anthems of the redeemed a greater hallelu jah, while with a voice that reverberates among the mountains of frankincense and is echoed back from the everlasting gates, He cries: "This, my son, was dead, and HE IS ALIVE AGAIN." At the opening of the Exposition in New Orleans I saw a Mexican 'flutist, and he played the solo, and then afterward the eight or ten bands of music, accompanied by the great organ, came in; but the sound ol that one flute, as compared with all the orchestra, was greater than all the combined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding heart of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot His son went off in ag gravating circumstances, but the father said: "He will come back." The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and three times a day the father went In the early morning he watched the train, its arrival. the stepping out of the passengers, and then the departure of the train. At noon he was there again watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. At night, there again; watching the coming, watching the going for ten years. Heiwas sure his son would come back. God has been watch ing and waiting for some of you, my broth ers, 10 years, i'U years, JO years, 40 years, perhaps 50 years waiting, waiting, watch ing, watching; and it this morning the prodigal should come home, what a scene of gladness and festivity, and how the great Father's heart would rejoice at your coming home. You will come, some of you, will you not? You will, you will! I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is the joy of the ministers of re ligion. Oh, it is a grand thing to preach this gospei. I know there has been a great deal said about the trials and the hardships of the Christian ministry. I wish somebody would write a good, rousng book about the joys of the Christian ministry. Since I en tered the profession I have seen more of THE GOODNESS OF GOD than I will be able to celebrate in all etern ity. I know some boast about their equi librium, and they do not rise into enthu siasm, and they do not break down with emotion; but I confess to you plainly that when I see a man coming to God and giving up his sin, I feel in body, mind and soul a transport. When I see a man who is bound hand and loot in evil habit emancipated, I rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. When to-day, in our com munion service, such throngs of young and old stand at these altars, and in the presence of heaven and earth and hell attest their allegiance to Jesus Christ, I feel a joy something akin to that which the apostle describes when he says: "Whether in the body I cannot tell, or out of the body I cannot tell; God knoweth." Oh, have not ministers a right to rejoice when a prodigal comes home? They blew the trumpet, and ought they not to be glad of the gathering of the host? They pointed tothe lull supply, and ought they not to re joice when souls pant as the hart for the water-brooks? They, came forth saying: "All things are now ready;" ought they not to rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the banquet? Life insurance men will all tell you that ministers of religion as a class live longer tnan any other, it is confirmed by the statistics of all those who calculate upon human longevity. Why is it? There is more draft upon the nervous system than in any other profession, and their toil is most exhausting. I have seen ministers kffpt on miserable stipends by PARSIMONIOUS CONGREGATIONS who wondered at the dullness of the ser mons, when the men of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood, and had not enough nutritious food to keep any fire in their temperament No fuel, no fire. I have sometimes seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergyman never accepting their hospitality, because they cannot afford it; but I have seen them struggle on with salaries of 5500 and $000 a year the average less than thatV-their struggle well depicted by the Western mis sionary who says in a letter: "Thank you for your last remittance; until it came we had not anv meat in our house for one vear. and all last winter, although it was a severe winter, our children wore their summer clothes." And these men of God I find in different parts of the land, struggling against annoyances and exasperations in numerable; some of them week after week entertaining agents who have maps to sell, and submitting themselves to all styles of annoyance, and yet without complaint, and cheerlul of soul. How do you account for the fact that these life-insurance men tell us that ministers as a class live longer than any others? It is because of the joy of their work, the joy of the harvest field, the joy of greeting prodigals home to their Father's house. Oh, we are in sympathy with all innocent hilarities. We can enjoy a hearty song, and we can be merry with" the merriest; but those of us who have toiled in the service are ready to testify that all these joys are tame compared with the satisfaction of see ing men enter the kingdom of God. The great eras of every minister are the out- S" ourings of the Holy Ghost, and I thank od I have seen 18 of them. Thank God, thank God! I notice also when the prodigal comes back, all earnest Christians rejoice. It you stood on Moutauk Point, and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing to ward the shore, and a vessel crashed into the rocks, and you saw people get ashore IK THE LIFEBOATS, and the very last man got on the? rocks in safety, you could not control your joy. And it is a glad time when the church of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of their sins plant their feet on the rock Christ Jesus. Oh, when prodigals come home just hear those Christians sing. Just hear those Christians pray. It is not a stereotyped supplication we have heard over and over again for 20 years, hut a putting of the case in the hands of God with an importunate pleading. No long prayers. Men never pray at great length unless they have noth ing' to say and their hearts are hard and cold. All the prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers: "God be merciful to me a sinner." "Lord, that I may receive my sight." "Lord, save me or I perish." The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple; less than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear them pray now that the prodigals are coming home. Just see them shake hands. No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to clench the fingers of one hand around the other hand. And then see those Christian faces, how illumined they are. And see that old man get up and with the same voice that he sang 50 years ago in the old country meeting house, say: "Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salva tion." There was A MAS OF KEITH who was hurled into prison in time of per secution, and one day he got off his shackles and he came and stood by the prison door, and when the jailer was opening the door, with one stroke he struck down the man who had incarcerated him. Passing along the streets of London he wondered where his family was. He did not dare to ask lest he excite suspicion, but, passing along a little way from the prison, he saw a Keith tankard, a cup that belonged to the family from generation to generation he saw it in a window. His family, hop ing that some day he would get clear, came and lived as near as they could to the prison house, and they set that Keith tankard in the window, 'hoping he would see it; and he came along and saw it, and knocked at the door, and went in, and the long-absent family were all together again. Oh, if you would start for the kingdom of God to-day, I think some of you would find nenrly all your friends and nearly all your families around the holy tankard of the holy communion fathers, mothers, broth ers, sisters, around that sacred tankard which commemorates the love of Jesus Christ our Lord. Oh, it will be a great communion day when yonr whole family sits around the sacred tankard. One on earth, one in heaven. Once more I remark that when the prodigal gets back the inhabitants of heaven keep festival, I am very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart you have no idea how many cities are con nected together, and how many lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem articulated, aud news flies from city to city, and from continent to continent. But more rapidly go the TIDINGS FROM EABTH to heaven, and when a prodigal returns it is announced before the throne of God. And if these souls this morning should enter the kingdom there would he some one in the heavenly kingdom to sav: "That's my father," "that's my mother," "that's my son," "that's my daughter," "that's my friend," "that's the one I used to pray for," "that's the one for whom I wept so many tears," and one soul would say "Hosanna! and another soul would say "Halleluiah!" "Pleased with the news the saints below In songs their tongues employ; Beyond the skies the tidings go, And heaven is filled with joy. 'Nor angels can their joy contain, lint kindle with new Are; The sinner lost is found, they sing, And strike the sounding lyre." At the banquet of Lucullus sat Cicero the orator, at the Macedonian festal sat Philip the conqueror, at the Grecian banquet sat Socrates the philosopher; but at our Father's table sit all the returned prodigals, more, than conquerors. The table is so wide its' leaves reach across seas and across lands. Its guests arc the redeemed of earth and the glorified of heaven. The ring of God's for giveness on every hand, the robe Of a Saviour's righteousness adroop from every shoulder. The wine that glows in the cups is from the bowls of 10,000 sacraments. Let all the redeemed of earth and all the glori- Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of pur ity, strength and wholesomenesa. 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Each packet contains one Dottle of the Radi cal Cuke, one box of Catarrhal Solvent, and an Improved Inhaler, with treatise and directions, and is sold by all druggists for SL Potter Druq and Chemical Co.,Boston. m KIDNEY PAINS With their weary, dull, aching, life less, all-gone sensation, relieved In one mlnuto by the Cuticura Ami Fain Plngtcr. The first and only pain subduing Plaster. Absolutely unrivaled as an instantaneous and infallible antidote to pain, inflammation and weakness. At all druggists, 25 cents; flveforSl; or, postage free, of Potter Drug and Chemical Co.,Boston, Mass. mf e're Able to Do It. The rule of business in force with us always is the best for the least money. Just now, we're turning our attention to making Trousers to Order. $5, $6 50, $8. The $8 grades belong to the highest order of Trouser ings. Some merchant tailors don't think amiss of $16 a pair for them. We do. Wanamaker's price will be $8 a pair. We have set out to draw the Trousers trade here by an irresistible money's worth. Please bear in mind they are made to measure with tailor ing and fit that leave nothing to be desired. Wanamaker & Brown, Sixth street and Penn avenue. fel-D CHAS. PFEIFER, 3 SMITHFIELD STREET. 100 FEDERAL ST., ALLEGHENY. Men's Furnishing Goods. A full and complete line of E. & W. and C. & C. brands Collars and Caffs. Neckwear Our Specialty. SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER. Cleaninpr, Dyeing and Lannary Offices at above location. Lace Curtains lanndried equal to new. sel9-y49-MWF XH2J XOZ XSB rrm-r.n r.-rrrr. JJESX 13 TBS Stone. Building Blocks, real stone, . threa colorSL Tho BEST PRESENT for children and ftadolts. For 81.75 or sS&it l,feSsSs55 average box. Apply for Descrlptlvo Catalogue, sent post-free, to F. AD. RICHTER&CO 310 Broadway, New York. When tmc Deafness is cauied or SCARLET FEVER. COLDS, MEASLES, CATARRH, 4C. BTTHC USE Or THE INVISIBLE SOUND DISC which is the A&me to the e&rs as s-lfijuu are, tit tho eves, and mur be worn months without rexnoru. r gold only by U.A..TFALKStliridccport Conn. ja531 D. R. SPEER & CO., FRAME SASH, DOOR AND BOX FACTORY. THIRD STREET AND DUQUESNE WAY mhS-dSl Ar yK. immsMsmm WmflmMMM 5!!fil?l J ? .SXrf-' GRAND 1U1 SI REMNANT SALE. Bargains, Surprising, Startling, Convincing, Inej-Smg, DOUGLAS In announcing this great sale, to commence on FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8, wonid say that this is no antiquarian museum, but an overaccumulation of remnants made during the very busy season since opening their New and Elegant Stores. We have lust finished stock-taking. All goods of passing fashion, all odds and ends, wiU bo included in this, the greatest Combina tion, Remnant Stock-Taking Sale ever inaugurated in Western Pennsylvania, all at prices that speak in thunder tones of money saved by every purchaser. REMEMBER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. Following are a few samples. Prices no object. Remnants, Odds and Ends and Goods of Passing fashion. All, all, must go, let the loss be what It may. Remnants of Striped Plush to go at 15c a yard. Remnants of Black Brocade Silk Velvets at 2oc a yard. Remnants of Black Brocade Silks will be put out at 12c a yard. Remnants of Double-width Dress Goods as low as 5c a yard. Remnants of Sateens to be given away at Eo a yard. Then we've got about 3,000 more of those celebrated Curtain Ends at 10c, 15c and 25c each. They're simply wonderful. M ODDS AND ENDS IN CLOAK SALONS. Odd Sizes in Ladies' All-Wool Cloth Newmarkets for $1 each. Odd Sizes in Ladies' Cloth Jackets for SI and 51 50 each. Odd Sizes in Ladies' Seal Plush Wraps that were $22 50, now $9 50. And lots of others. Come early and get the pick. You'll be pleased. It'll pay you. 151 and 153 Federal Street, Allegheny. fetsrwr NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. No Reason Exists FOR HESITATING, And, Whafs More, You Know It When You Put Your Eye On the' Prica Youths' Sizes, 11 to 2, All Solid Leather, Tip, Button Shoes, $100. Another Blow. Boys' Sizes, 1 to 6, Tip-Toe, Solid Leather, Tap-Sole Bals, SI OO. UNEQTJALED FOB WEAR. Men's Buff Sewed Tip, Button, Lace and Congress Dress Shoes at SI 50. G. D. SIMEN, 78 OHIO STREET, Cor. of Sandusky st, near Market House, Allegheny. fe2-jrw Murderous Blow TO THE CLOTHING BUSINESS. Unparalleled Sweep-Out. AU$11, $12, Overcoats. 813 and 814 Suits or Pick them out now UTOIR $10- UNEQUALED SLAUGHTER. Any 815, 816, 81T or 818 Suit or Overcoat, you can pick out now POB $12. Awful Slaughter in Hats, Fur nishings, Boys' Clothing, Ladies' Cloaks, Wraps, etc.- SALLER & CO., Corner DiamiM aM SmitMeli Streets. le3-MWFSu A complete assortment of Optical Goods. The best stock of Artificial Eyes. Spectacles and Eye Glasses in gold, silver, steel, shell and aluminum frames. Glasses and frames per fectly adjusted at KOBNBLUWS Optician Store, jal3-MTWTFSuwk No. 37 Fifth ave. rj-A-TE XT T S O. D. LEVIS, Solicitor of Patents, 131 Fifth avenue, above Smithfield, next Leader office. (No delay.) Established 20 years. seZJ-hlO RAILROADS. PITTSBUEG XV D CASTLE SHANNON R. K. Co. Winter Time Table. On and after October 14, 1SS3, until further notice, trains will run as follows on every day except Sunday, Eastern standard time: Leaving l"lftsbnrg-:15 a. m., 7:15 a.m., 9:30a. m,, 11:30a.m., 1:49p.m., 3:40 p.m., 6:10p.m. 6:30 p. m., 9:30 p.m., 11:30p.m. Ar lington 5:45 a. m., 6:30 a. m., 8.00 a. m., 10:20 a. m.. 1:00 n. m.. 2:40 n. m.. 4:20 r. m.. 5:50 r. m.. 7:15 p. m., 10:30 p. in. Sunday trains, leaving z lltauur); lu a. m.. p.m., 9:30 p. m. Arlington 9:10 a. l.iJ II. Ul . 2:30 p. m., 8:10 a. in.. 12 m. 50 p. m 4:33 p. m., 6:30 1, m. JvJlliN JAilJN. MIDI. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD bchcdnle In effect November 29, 1888. Tor Washington, D. C, Baltimore and Philadelphia, 11:30 a.m. and 10:"J0p.m. ForWashlngton,-D.A, and Baltimore, t7:00a.m, For Cumberland, t7:00, '11:30 a. m and '10:20 p. m. For Connellsville, t7:00 and '11:30 a. m., fl:00L t4:00and '10:20 d. m. ForUnlontown,t7:00,tll:30a.m., tl:OOand4:00 p. p. ForMt. Measant. t7:00 and 111:30 a. m,, tl:00 and t4:00 p. m. For Washington, Fa.. 7:30. t9:30a. m '3:35, 15:30 and 'S p. m. For meet ing, 7:30. t9:30a.m., '3:35, 6:30 p.m. For Cin cinnati and St. Louis, "7:30 a. m 8:30p. m. For Columbus, '7:30 a.m., '8:30p.m. For Newark, 7:30, tt:30a. m., '3:35, '8:30 p. m. For Chicago, 7:30, t9:30a. m.. "3:35 and '8:30 p. m. Trains ar rive irom i-miaaeipnia, .Baltimore ana nasning- ton, 7:10 a. m. and Q-o: 50 n. m. From Columbus, Cincinnati and Chicago, 7:45a. m. and 9:10 p.m. xruui iiureunir, :w, -iu:aja. m., to:w, -v:iv irom Wheeling im wneeung, "7:40, ' Through sleeping fc m. Through sleeping cars to Baltimore, Was! lUKiuii anu Cincinnati. IK' For Wheeling, Columbus and Cincinnati. 11:55 p m (Saturday only. vonneiisviue ac. at 3fa 1IU. "UallT. fUallTriT(MntSnnrtnv SSunday only, The FittsburgTraniler Company will call for and check baggage trom hotels and residences npon orders left at B. A O. Ticket Office, corner Fifth avenup and Wood street. W. M. CLF.MENTS, CHAS. O. SCULL, General Manager. Uen. Pass. Agt. -piTTSBURO aND WESTERN RAILWAY jl -trains (uei'i stan'atlme) Leave. Arrive. Butler Accommodation DayEx.Ak'n,Tol.,Cl'n,Kane Butler Accommodation Chicago Express (dally; New Caatle and Greenville Ex Zellenople andFotburg Ac.. 6:00 am 7:3) am, 7:10 am 7:23 pm 4:00 Dm 9:3) am 12:30 pm 11:03 am i:ou pm 4:40 nm 9:33 am 5:30 am 2:10 pm xuuer Accommodation. 5:40 pm Through coach and f iceper to Chicago dally. MI IYIACKIE, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOW FOR A BOOM Dull Miliary to be Turned Into the Busiest Month of the Tear. KAUFMANNS' GREAT ANNUAL House-Cleaning I1! oa'6, ii Will bring about the desired result. There will be no foolishness or child's play about this sale: we must have room to place our new spring stock, that's all there is to it, and we propose to have it at any cost In order to clear our coun ters, tables and shelves of winter goods we have decided on a thorough and radical markdown of our prices a plan that we never have known to fail. Treat ie Mlic to GGBnie Barns, don't be afraid to stand a loss, if it must be, and you have more cus tomers than you can attend to. This is Kaufmanns' rule, and it works like a charm. During this great House Cleaning Sale we will offer our entire stock of Men's and Boys' Overcoats at Half Price. Men's and Boys' Suits at Half Price. Men's and Boys' Pants, at Half Price. Ladies' Cloaks and Newmarkets at Half Price. Misses' and Children's Cloaks at Half Price. Men's and Boys' Hats and Caps at Half Price. Men's and Boys' Furnishing Goods at Half Price. Men's and Women's Shoes at Half Price. Boys', Misses' and Children's Shoes at Half Price. Trunks, Satchels and Valises at Half Price. Blankets and Carriage Robes at Half Price. And, charge your memory with this fact: We not only say: "At Half Price," but we sell at Half Price." You know from past experiences that we never make statements in the newspapers that we can not back up with deeds, and our present House Cleaning Sale will be no exception to this rule. Now, then, "put money in thy purse," be it ever so little, and attend this sale. We have made the reduc tions, it remains for You to take advan tage of them. This is the last chance ' of the season the last and greatest cut of prices, and, if you're wise, you'll make a bee line immediately to Kaufmann's Grand Depot. As is usual in such cases, the earliest purchasers will catch the best bargains. Don't defer your coming, therefore, but let's see you as soon as you possibly can. You will be surprised at how far your dollars will go. KAUFMANNQ I V 4X440444044440&00400 Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street RAlLTtOADS. PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY'S LINES .November 19, 1883, Central Standard Time. TKAINS 1JKPAKT As follows from Union Station: For Chicago, d 723 a. m., d 12:20, d 1:00. d 7:45. except Saturday. 11:20 p. m.: Toledo. 7:25 a. m., d 12:20, d 1:00 and except Saturday. 11:20 p. m.: Crestline. 5:43 a. in.; Clere- land, 6:10, 7:25 a.m., 12:50 and d 11:05 p.m. : N ew Has- tie and Yonnrstown. 7:05 a. m i.jj, ip,n,; Yonncstown and Mies, d 12:20 D. m jleadvllle. Erie and Ashtabula. 7:05 a. m 12.-20 p. m.; Niles and Jamestown, 3:1-5 p. m.; JUasslllon, 4:10p.m.; Wheeling and Bellaire. 6:10a. m., 12:50, S.SOp. m.; Beaver Falls, 4:00, 5.05 p. m., S 820 a. m.; Lcets dale. 5:30 a. m. ALLEGHENY-Kocboter. 6:30 a. m.; Beaver Falls, 8:15, 11:00 a. in.: Enon, 3:00 p. m.: Leets dale, 10:00, 11:45 a. in., 2.C0, 4:30, 4:43, o:30L 7:00. 9:U p. m.; Conway, 10:30 p m.; Fair Oaks, S 11:40 a. m.tLeetsdale, S8:10p. m. TRAINS AKK1VE Union station from Chicago, except Monday 1:50, d 6:00, d 6:15 a. m., d 7:J5 p. m. ; Toledo, except Monday 1:50, d 6:15 a. m., 7:35 S. m., Crestline, 2:10 p. m.; Youngstown and ew Castle. 9:10 a. m., 1:25, 7:35, 10:15 p. m. ; N ties and Younistown, d?:. m.; Cleveland, d 5:50a. in., 2:25, 7:45 p. m.; Wheeling and Bellaire, 9:00 a. m 2:25, 7:45 p. m.: Erie and Ashtabula, 1:23, 10:15 p. m.; MasslUon, 10:00 a. ni.; Nlles and Jamestown. 9:10 a.m.; Beaver Falls, 7:30 a. m., i:iup. m., a 8:25 p. m.: leeisaaie, ju:j p. m. ARRIVE ALLEGIIENY-From Enon, 8:00 a. m.: Conway, 6:50; Rochester, 9:40 a. m.; Beaver Fills, 7:10 a. m., 6:40 p. m.s Leetsdale, 6:50, 6:iv 7:15 a. m.. 12:00, 1:43, 4:30, 6:30, 9:00 p. m.: Fair Oaks, S 8:55 a. m.; Leetsdale, S 6:05 p. m.: Beaver Falls. S 8:25 p. m. Sunday. o, sunaay ouir; u, uaiijr; uiuct uauis, uicyy fef PrrrsiiDRG and lake erik railroad COMPANY-Schedute In effect January 13. 18S9, Central time: P. & L. E. R. R.-DEPAnT-For Cleveland, 5:23, 7:40 A.M., 1:20, 4:15, 9:30p. M. For Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, 5:25 A. u., 'IMC, 9ao P. 31. For Buffalo, 10:20 A. M.. 4:15 "9:30 P. X. For Sala manca, 7:40 a. M.. '1:20, 9:30 p. M. For Beaver Falls, 5:25, 7:40, 10:20 A. jr., 1O0, 3:30, 4:15, 5:201 "9:30 p. M. For Chartiers, 5:25, '5:35, 6:50, 57:00. 7:15, S:40, l.tA, 925, 10:20 A. M.. 12:05, 12:45, 11:25 1:4 1:30, 4:45, '5:10, 5:20, 8:20, 10:30 p. II. Aiimtx From Cleveland, 3:JO A. if., 1:00. 5:40, 8.-00 p. M. From Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, '1:00, 8:00 P. M. From Buffalo. 5:30 A. M., '1:00,5:40 P.M. From Salamanca, '1:00, '30 P. M. From Youngstown, 5:30, 8:50, 9:20 A. M., 1:00, 5:40. 8:0O p. M. From Beaver Falls, 5:J0t 8:50, 7:20, 0:20A. M., 1:00. 1:33: 5:40, 8:00. P. M. From Chartiers, 5:10, 5:22, 5:30, 16:42, :, 7:08, 7:30, 8:40, 9;20. 10:10 A. jr.. 12:00 noon, 12:30. 1:U, 1:S5, '3:42. 4:00, 4:15, 5:00, 5:10, 5:40. 9:12 P. Jt. P., McK. AY.R. It.-UEPAnT-For New Haven, 5:40a. Jr., 3:55 p. H. For West Newiou. 5:15 p. M. For New Haven, 7:00 A Jr.. Sundays, only. ARRIVE-Frora New Haven. 9ril0 A.M.. "SrfHP. M. From West Newton, 6:43, 9.00A. M.,5:05p.M. Dally. ISundays only. E. HULBROUK, General Superintendent. A. E. CLARK, General Passenger Agent. City ticket office, 401Smlthfleld street. ALLEGHENY VALLEY KAILROAW Tralns leave Union Station (Eastern Standard time): Klttannlng Ac, 6:55 a. m.: Niagara Ex., dally. 8:45 a. rc.. llolton Ac. 10:10 a. m.; Valley Camp Ac, 12:05 p. m.: Oil City and JUnBols Ex press,2:00 p.m. ; HulUn Ac, 3:00 p.m. : Ivlttannlng Ac, 4:00p.m.; Braeburn Ex., 5:00 p.m.; Klttann lng Ac, 5:30 p. m. ; Braeburn Ac, 6:20p.m.: Hul ton Ac, 7:50 p. m.; Buffalo Ex., dally. 8:SOp. m.; Hulton Ac. :u v. m.t uraeburn Ac, ii mu p. m. Church trains Braeburn, 12:40 p. n. m. Pullman Sleeping Cars between and 9:35 p. m. Pullman Sleeping Cars between Pittsbnrf nrrana uunaio. x.. n. uj.i.j and Buffalo. E. H. UTLEY. G, F. & P. A. j DAVID MCCABGO, Gen. Bunt. 1 L ft, 1 ill YMf( o Y-S j ' 1 . o 1 I J - yf 1 III (llV vr!1X33 Bhrf fe4-D RAII.EOADS. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD ON AN3 alter November 26, 18!i trains leave Union Station, Pittsburg, as follows, Eastern Standard Time: MAIN LINE EASTWARD. New York and Chicago Limited of Pullman Ve UDUie daily at na a. m Atlantic Ex Mall train, t ixpress dally for tno East. 3:00 a.m. , dally, except Sunday, 6:55 a. m. Sua- dar. mall. 8:40 a.m. Day express dally at 8:00 a. m. Mail express dally at 1:00 p. m. Philadelphia express dally at 4:30 p. m. Eastern express dally at 7:15 p. m. Fast Line dally at 9.00 p. m. Greensburg expresa5:10 p. m. week days. Derry express ll:0O a. m weekdays. All through trains connect at Jersey Cltrwltli boatsof "Brooklyn Annex" for Brooklyn. N. Y., avoiding double lerrlage and Journey through N. Y. City. Trains arrive at Union Station as follows: Mall Train, dally 8:20 p. m. Western Express, dally 7:45 a. m. 1'aclUc Express, dally 12:45 p.m. Chicago Limited Express, dally 8:30 p.m. Fast Line, daily 11:55 p.m. SOUTIIWESr PENN RAILWAY. For Unlontown, a:5 and s:xSa. m. and 4:23 p. m.. without change of cars; 1.00 p.m., connect ing at Greensburg. Trains arrive from Union- town at 9:43 a. m., 12:20. 6:15 and 8:20 p.m. WEST PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. From FEDERAL ST. STATION. Allegheny City. Mall train, connecting for BlalrsvIIle... 6:45 a. m. Express, for Blalrsville, connecting for Butler 3:15 p. in. Butler Accom 8:20 a. m., 2:25 and 5:13 p.m. Sprlngdale Accom 11:40 a. m. and 6:20 p. m. ' rrceport Accom 4:00, 8:15 and 10:30 p.m. On Sunday 12:50 and 9:30 p.m. North Apollo Accom 10:50 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. Aiiegneny junction Accommodation, connecting for Hntler connecting for Butler 3:20 a.m. Blalrsville Accommodation 11:30 p. m. Trains arrive at FEDERAL STREET STATION: Express, connecting from Butler 10:35 a.m. Mall Train 2:35 n. m. Butler Accom 9:23 a. m., 4:and7:20p. m. Blalrsville Accommodation 9:52 p. m. FrcenortAecom.7:40a.m.. 1:32, 7:20 and 11:00 p. rn. On Sunday 10:10 a.m. and 7:00 p. m. Sprlngdale Accom 6:37a.m., and 3:02p.m. North Apollo Accom 8:40 a. m. and 5:40 p. m. MONONGAHELA DIVISION. Trains leave Unlonstitlon.PlttJourg, as followt: For Honongahela City, West Brownsville and Unlontown. fla. m. For Monongahela City and West Brownsville, 7:05 and 11 a. m. and 4:40 p. nu On Sunday. 1:01 p. m. For Monongahela City, 5:49 p. m week davs. Dravosburg Ac. week davs, 3.20 p. m. West Elizabeth Accommodation, 8:50a. n., 2:00, 6:20 and 11:33p.m. Sunday. 9: W p.m. Ticket oBlces-Corner Fourth avenue and Try street and Union station. CHAS. E. PUG1L J- R. WOOD, General Manager. Gen'l Pass'r Agent. PANHANDLE ROUTE-NOV.12, 1883. ONIOIC station. Central Standard Time. Leave for Cincinnati and St. Louis, d 7:30 a.m., d 8:00 and a ii:li p. m. uennison, z:u p. m. unicago. 12:05, d 11:13 p. m. Wheeling, 7:30 a. m.. 12.-05, 6:10 p.m. Steubenviue, sua a. ro. Washington, 6:53. 8:35 a.m.. 101. 3:i a.m. BurgetUtown,Sll:33a.m.. 5:25 p. m. Mans field, 7:15, 110 a. m.. 6:3a dS:35:10:4u, p.ra. Me- ;Ab ioa p. u. J3mger, iu:ia llnnnMo 1 4:1.-L il 1(1:00 n. m. Vmm th West, d 1:30. (I 6:00. a. m., 3:03, d 3: p.m. Denntsflu 9:35a.m. steuDenvllle, 3:( Whpplfnir ln. 8:45 a.m.. 3:OA 8:53 n.m. ltr rule. a:lfi r .. i. ....- - .-. z " " "5. - .. .. ..l .7 -O-"- beellnir. 1:50. 8:45 a.m.. J:u s:&n.m. . Burgetts- i n- m- town, 7115a. m., o :uo a.m. wasnington, 6:53,1:50. Mansfield. 5:35,, 9:00 .m. Bulger, l:40p. m. - 9:55 a. m 2:13, 6:20 p. To.. m 12M3 d 6:3) ana 10:00 p. MeDonalds. d(:35a. m.. Q9:0Od. m. 19: a daily; a aunosyoajy; ciner trains, except"" Sunday. 9 T : .. -.. .. -.. .T- :