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^tumorous Department. PLEASED WITH THE CHILLS. Down in certain sections of the Mississippi river bottoms there is such 1 an air of unconcern that the first thought of a traveler is : "These peo- 1 pie are too lazy to entertain a hope." It is, however, not wholly a condition of laziness that produces such an appearance of indolence. Laziness may play its part, and, moreover, may play it well, hut it cannot hope to assume a leading role. What, then, is the principal actor? Chills. There are men in those bottoms who were born with a chill and who have never shaken it ~er U&l. Some time ago while ridiDg through the Muscadine neighborhood, I came upon a man sitting on a log near the roadside. He was sallow and lean, with sharp knob cheek bones and hair that looked like soiled cotton. The day was intensely hot, but he was sitting in the sun, although near him a tangled grapevine cast a most inviting shade. , "Good morning," said I, reining up my horse. "Hi." "You live here, I suppose." "Jest about." "Why don't you sit over there in the shade ?" "Will when the time comes." "What do you mean by 'When the time comes'?" "When the fever comes on." "Having chills, are you ?" "Sorter." "How long have you had them ?" "Forty-odd year." "How old are you?" "Forty-odd year." "Been shaking all your life, eh ?" "Only half my life; fever was on the other half." "Why don't you nlove away from here ?" "Becaze I've lived here so long that I'm afeerd I might not have good health nowhar else." "Gracious alive, do you mean to say that having chills all the time is good 1 l.U 05? UCOl l/U t "Wall, health mout be wuss. Old Nat Sarver moved up in the hills some time ago, was tuck down putty soon with some new sort of disease and didn't live more'n a week. Don't believe in swappin' off suthin' that I'm used to fur suthin' I don't know nothin' about. Old-fashioned, everyday chills air good enough for me. Some folks when they git up in the world, 1 mout want to put on airs with dyspep- 1 sia and bronkichus and glanders and catarrh;-but as I 'lowed to my wife I the other day, old chills and fever war I high enough fur us yit awhile. A chill may have many drawbacks; out it has its enjoyments, too." , "I don't see anything about a chill , that can he enjoyable." , "Jest owin' to how you air raised, as ( the feller says. When I have a chill it does me a power of good to stretch, and I tell you that a fust rate stretch 1 when a feller's in a humor ain't to be sneezed at. I'd leave watermilon most any time to have a good stretch. Higho-hoo!" He gaped, threw out his legs, threw back his arm^ and stretched himself across the log. "It's sorter : like the itch," he went on. "The itch ! has its drawbacks, but,what a power of good it does a man to scratch. Had a uncle whocotch the itch in the army < and he lay thar and scratched and smiled and scratched agin. In order to keep up with the demand of the occasion, he sprinkled a lot of sand in his bed and tuck off all bis clothes, so that every time he turned he'd be i scratched all over. He kep' this up i till the itch killed him, but be died J :! _> ?1 T a-SCraiCDIIl auu il-SUJIIIU , auu X Itvnuu he was about as happy a dead man as ever lived. Wall, my fever is comin' on now and I reckon' I'll git up thar under the shade." He moved into the shade and stretched himself again. "How long will the fever last?" I asked. "Wall, I don't know exackly ; three hours, mebby." "Then what ?" "Wall, I'll funter around awhile, cljop up a little wood to get a bite to eat with, swap a hoss with some feller, mebby, and then fix myself for another chill." "Have you much of a family?" "Wife and grown son. He's about the ablest chiller in the country ; w'y, when he!s got a rale good chill on he can take hold of a tree and shake of! green persimmons. W'y, he wins all the money the niggers have got, shakIn' dice. Wall, have you got to go ?" "Yes." "Wait till my fever cools down a little, and I'll beat vou outen that nag you're ridinV' "No, I don't care to walk." "Goodbye, then. When you git tired livin' up thar among them newfangled diseases, come down here whar everythiug is old-fashined and honest." 8?" "What a fine little fellow," said the patronizing old geutleman who hpon plpftpd representative for four successive terras from his congressional district. His remark was addressed to a kind-faced lady, who held in her arms a little fellow who blinked gravely at all that was going on. "Yes," replied the lady. "His father and I set a great deal in store by him." "W.ell, he is a bright looking little fellow. Maybe he:ll be a congressman some day." "Maybe he will," said the mother. "But," she added earnestly, "I'm going to do my best to raise him right." 8ST "It was very plucky of you, ma'am, to have set upon the burglar and so ably captured him," said the police inspector; "but need you have injured him so badly ?" "How did I kDow it was a burglar?" asked the woman. "I'd been up three hours waiting for my husband. I thought it was him." -Wayside gatherings. V3T The catalogues and'floral dictionaries give the names of 750 kinds of roses. SST A foot of newly fallen snow changes into only an inch of water when melted. In escaping from a fire, creep or crawl along the room with your face close to the floor.. J?* In Russia yot must marry before 80 or not at all, and you may marry only five times. A lowly origin does not preclude a lofty destiny. The carpenter's son was also the Son of God. B&T The man who has no business of his own to attend to will soon be found attending to the devil's business. 8Wheat that is grown in northern latitudes produces much more seed than grain grown further south. VST It is a principle of our holy religion to be diligent in business, fervent in spirit serving the Lord. Bass, who is versed in the Scriptures, affirms that in the beginning woman was but a side issue. Advice, like the doctor's doses, is easy to give but hard to take, and with most of us a little will go a long way. 8ST" In Colorado there once lived a gigantic lizard-like creature 80 feet IoDg and as large as the largest whales of today. ?ST He is happy whose-circumstances suit bis temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper; to his , circumstances. fiST Taking the whole land surface of the globe into consideration, there are 22} acres for each inhabitant on this planet. I?* Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands, that you may spend more time on the mountain-tops. tGF There are nearly 16,000,000 children in schools in the United States, nearlv 14.000.000 in Dubfic schools, and nearly 400,000 teachers. ft^Ohio has five and one-half times and Illinois five and four-fifth times the inhabitants of Maine, but Maine has more savings bank deposit than either. I?" "Oh, What Shall the Harvest Be?" is appropriately sung by the choir of a church in Scotland while the collection is being taken. tiST The city of Sidney, Australia, has imposed a fine of $5 upon any person convicted of spitting upon the floor of public buildings, or upon the street. 16T A countryman, on being charged by a rampagious bull, held his wife firmly in front, saying, "Stand steady, Maria; be can't toss both of us." I?* An ice marriage took place recently in Holland. The couple were married on the frozen Zuyder Zee, the ceremony being followed by a dance nn Rkates. f6T The best evidence that we can give that we are pious Christians, and heirs of eternal life, is the earnest desire of our hearts and labors of our 1 lives for the salvation of sinners. Sto?T The best men are not so good as they ought to be, and the worst men are a great deal more degraded and 3inful than they themselves or any one else supposes. 8ST The governors of only three States of the Union receive salaries of $10,000 each; namely, New York, , New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The least is $1,000 paid by the State of Rhode Island. SIS' An uncomfortably tight shoe may be made perfectly easy by laying a cloth wet in hot water across where it pinches, changing several times. The leather will shape itself to the foot. S&T Banana jutce is saia to maae a first-class indelible ink. A spot on a white shirt from a dead-ripe banana is marked forever, and the juice from bananas thoroughly decayed is a bright, clear carmine. S8P "See here, Mr. Grocer," said a Hartford housewife, "If you'r going to bring me any more goods, I want them to be the very best." "We keep none but the best." "I presume so; you must sell the worst in order Co keep the best." Mr. Chamberlain, the British statesman, once remarked to a member of the house of commons, who was notoriously lazy and vacillating. "My, dear boy, observe the postage-stamp; its usefulness and value depend upon its ability to stick to one thing 'til it gets there." fiST" It is a sad perversion of tears to be crying over the poor heathens in China, or over the sins and short-comings of other people's children, in your owu neighborhood, while you are neglecting your own children's spiritual interest. 8fca9~ The idea of carrying a potato in the pocket as a cure for rheumatism has it origin in the well-knowu fact that potatoes contain a good deal of potash, especially in the skin, and that is one of the reasons why potatoes are so much more wholesome if cooked in their skius and then peeled, instead of being peeled before cooking. 6SP An interesting ceremony is a Russian baptism under the ritual of the Greek Church. The priest takes the child in his arms, puts wadding in its pars and nostrils, and then plunges the little head three times into a huge wooden bowl of water, at the same time uttering prayers for the Czar's family. fOotF" Mr. Wilckens, of Vienna, has found that pure-blooded English horses transmitted the color of their coat to their progeniture in 5S(i cases out of 1,000. When the parents are of different colors the offspring are almost always of the color of the mother. With Arabiau horses the facts are more striking still. The white color of the coat of the mare was found to be clearly transmitted in 720 cases out of 1,000. In other cases there was a more or less marked mixture. the jStory (Teller. \ ? ~ v "DEAFSMITH/'THESCOUT. I t The history of "Deaf Smith" is one 8 of the most extraordinary in all the ? annals of the frontier. The memory of 1 that remarkable man is revered equally with that of any of the prominent 8 actors in the war for the independence v of the "Lone Star State," one of whose counties is named for him. He made his appearance in Texas suddenly, at c a very early period in the bloody history of its struggle with Mexico, 8 where he continued to reside until bis 8 death, which occurred about 1848. He I2 had a host of friends, and was the \ particular favorite of General Houston, yet none of these were ever able to learn the place of his birth, or gather 8 a single fact in relation to bis life pre- " vious to his udvent among them. "Deaf Smith" could write with as- j1 tonishing facility and correctness. Denied completely the sense of hearing, J! nature bad amply compensated him with the keenest vision and a power of a smell almost incredible. The rangers used to declare that D "Deaf Smith" could catch the scent of 8 a Mexican or an Indian at as great a ^ distance as a buzzard could distinguish the odor of a dead carcass. He always went wherever he was ^ sent, no matter how dangerous the duty, alone, almost invariably succeed- n iug in obtaining the information re- ^ quired. ? tllS private me was as ecveuini; aa that of his official. He never could , get persuaded to sleep under the roof ? of a house, or even to accept the friend ly shelter of a tent, no matter what D the condition of the weather might be. , Wrapped in a single blanket, on the ? coldest nights, he perferred to lie out in the open air, count the stars, or gaze n for hours at the moon, when at its full. a When not in the employ of the Texas army, he hunted constantly, frequent- a ly absenting himself for weeks, or even v for months, on solitary expeditions a into the vast wilderness of the great Southwest. Many stories of his heroic conduct a in battle, and his wonderful stoicism and utter absence of fear in frequent v desperate duels, are current among the people, among whom, or, rather, their immediate ancestors, he lived for 11 an manv voara Wp hnvp nnnnp Rfc nur J J ~ -x , disposal for only one. " About two years after the end of . the Texas revolution a difficulty oc- J1 curred between the new government ^ and a portion of the citizens. The * constitution had fixed the city of Austin as the permanent capital, where a the archives of the public were to be tl kept, with a reservation, however, of v a power vested in the president to order their temporary removal in case of danger from the iuroads of a foreign t enemy, or the force of a sudden insur- f( rection. The Comanches, the most important j, and powerful tribe of Indians in the ^ Southwest, began to commit their s characteristic atrocities within the very i sight of the young capital. Upon this v demonstration of what might become serious hostilities, General Houston, n the president, who resided in the town u of Washington, on the Brazos, dis- t, patched an order commanding those under him at Austin to send the State ^ records to Washington, which he declared to be, pro tempore, the seat of the government. It is impossible to describe the storm of excitement the promulgation of the order raised in Austin. Only those v who have experienced a "county seat fight" in Kansas are able to appreciate Q the magnitude of such a row. The owners of the monte-banks, faro-banks, and other devices for gambling, together with the keepers of hotels, boarding houses, saloons, etc., were uearly distracted. The measure meant , tsi tbpm n Hpath-hlnw to the DrosDeritv in business. A mass meeting of the t citizens and farmers of the adjacent country was called. After many g fiery speeches, it was unanimously decided to prevent the removal of the c archives, by open and armed forces, if necessary. To that end a company of 400 men was organized, one moiety of which, relieving the other at regular * intervals, should keep* constant guard around the State bouse until the peril n passed by. The commander of this force in rebellion against the authori- ? ties was Colonel Morton, who had achieved considerable renown in the ? war for independence, and still more ? recently bad displayed a desperate !? bravery in two terrible duels, in both of which he had literally cut his an- 1,1 tagonist to pieces with his formidable P bowie-knife. .The colonel swore by * the honor of a Texan that if General Houston removed the records of the State from Austin, he would himself v hunt him down like a wolf and shoot him down with as little ceremony. He had the imprudence to write to the . hero of San Jacinto to that effect. ^ The general, whom nothing could intimidate, replied in the following note or characteristic Drevuy : "If the people of Austin do not send the archives, I shall certainly come and lake ? thcin; and if Colonel Morton can kill me, t he is welcome to my ear-cap." v On reception of the president's note v the "Committee of Safety" held a con- s tinuous session in the city hall, and everything betokeued the bursting of a a severe political storm. t One day, while matters were in this " boiling condition,, the committee in u the city hall was surprised by the sudden appearance of a stranger, whose n mode of appearance was asextraordi- 'J nary as his looks and dress. Climbing, f< unseeu, a small, bushy-topped live oak c which grew beside the wall of the g building, he leaped without the slightest warning, through a high window, s and was in the presence of the secret u guardians of the city's welfare. He v was dressed throughout in buckskin, ii the seams of his trousers and coat s heavily fringed, and the front of the r latter beaded and porcupined, after he fashion of an Indian chief's costlj ;arment of state. He carried a long rery heavy rifle in his right hand vore at a button on his coat an imuense bowie-knife, and in his belt a trace of flint-lock pistols half as long is bis gun. He was tall, straight as ar .rrow, active and quick as a panthei n all bis motions. "Who are you that dares intruds imong gentlemen without being in 'ited?" thundered out Colonel Moron, at the same moment endeavoring o cow down the stranger by the feroious glance of his eye. The stranger returned the colonel's tare with compound interest, at the ame instant lavintr a lona bouv fin ;er on bis lips, as a sigu, but of whai mport, the committee was at a loss tc letermine. "Who are you ? Speak, or I will cul .n answer out of your heart," yelled be incensed colonel, almost insane nth rage at the calm, sneering -roanler of the stranger, who now, at this ast demonstration of the irascible olonel, removed the finger from hie ips, and laid his hand on the hilt ol n immense bowie. The fiery colonel, upon this movenent, drew his knife, and was in the ct of advancing upon the stranger, vhen several friends interfered, and iold$ng him back, remonstrated : "Let him alone, Morton! Don't ou see the man's crazy ?" At this juncture, Judge Webb, a nan of fine intellect, and a courteous entleman in all his deportment, step>ed toward the stranger and addressed iim in the most respectful style : "My good friend, I presume you ave made a mistake in the house. ?his is a private meeting, where one but members are admitted." The intruder did not appear to unerstand the words of the judge, but e could not fail to comprehend the aild, deprecatory manner in which he ddressed him. His stern features reixed immediately, and moving toward table in the middle of the room on /hich were writing materials, took up pen and traced one line: "I am eaf." He then held it up before bis udience as a sort of apology for his pparent lack of politeness. Judge Webb took the paper and /rote a question : "Dear sir, will you be so obliging as o inform us what is your present husaess with the meeting?" The stranger responded promptly y handing him a letter inscribed : To the Citizens of Austin." The ? ? S J il.A jage Drone me seai anu reau mc wueats aloud. It was from President louston, and showed the terseness of is usual style: "Fellow Citizens:?Though in error, nd deceived by traitors, I will give yon bree days more to decide whether you rill surrenderthe public archives. At the nd of that time, you will please let me now your decision. Sam Houston." After the document bad been read he man waited a few seconds, as if ar a reply, then turned, and was about o leave the hall, when Colonel Morton aterposed, and sternly beckoned him ack to the table again, where he was till sitting. The stranger obeyed, 'hen the colonel took up a pen and rrote: "You were bnve enough to insult ae by your threatening looks 10 mintes ago ; are you brave enough now o give me satisfaction ?" The stranger immediately penned is reply : "I am at vour service." Colonel Morton wrote again : "Who will be your second?" The stranger answered with pen : "I am too generous to seek an adantage, and too brave to fear any on be part of others, therefore, I never eed a second." The colonel then wrote : "Name your time." Again the stranger traced, without moment's hesitation : "Time, sunset this evening; place, he left bank of the Colorado, oppoite Austin; weapons, rifles; and disance, 100 yards." Then, taking three steps across the loor, he disappeared. After he had gone, Judge Webb exlaiined : "Wbat ! is it possible, Colonel Moron, that you intend to fight that man ? le is a mute, if not a positive maniac. iuch a meeting, I fear, will sadly tarish the luster of your laurels." * I 11 l!-J iU a "you are misiaaen, repueu mc olonel, with a smile; "that mute is a eror whose fame stands in the records f at least a dozen battles, and at least alf that marry bloody duel^. Besides e is the bosom friend of General louston. If I have the good fortune o kill him, I think it will tempt the resident to retract his vow against enturing any more on the field of lonor." "Who is he?'' inquired half a dozen oices together. "'Deaf Smith,'" answered Colonel lorton, cooly. " 'Deaf Smith' was killed at the iattleofSan Jacinto," remarked Judge Vebb. "There again your honor is misaken," said the colouel. "That story f Smith's death was a mere fictiou, rinrtAH.il Unliof/tn r\ Cll \f ?j .mini U|l l/J UCIIL'UII IIUUOIVU IV ui*?v he life of his favorite from the sworn engeance of a certain Texan into rhose conduct he had inquired as py. I found that out a year ago." "Well, if what you say he true, you re a madman yourself, Colonel Moron," exclaimed Judge Webb, hotly. 'Deaf Smith' was never known to aiss his mark." "Say no more," answered the coloicl ; "I have agreed to meet him. ?here can be no disgrace in falling beore such a shot, and if I should sueeed, my triumph will confer greater lory." Toward evening a vast crowd asembled at the place appointed to witiess the hostile meeting. So great ras the popular recklessness concernng affairs of that character that large urns of money were wagered upon the esult. At length the summer sun reached r the edge of the horizon, covering it ' , with a crimson glow. Then the two i , mortal antagonists appeared on the < beach, armed with long, ponderous ri- s l fles, and took their stations, back to ' ; back. At a preconcerted signal?the j i waving of a white handkerchief?they < r walked off slowly and steadily in op- i posite directions, deliberately counting ' 5 their steps until each had measured 50, I when they wheeled. The face of Col- < onel Morton was calm, but it bore the ; smile of a most murderous meaning. "Deaf Smith's" countenance was as stern and passionless as ever. The coli onel was dressed in the richest broad; cloth; "DeafSmith" in the traditional smoke-tinted buckskin. There was a I, pause of several seconds, and then two > rifles were discharged with simultaneous voices. Colonel Morton gave a i 'remendous bound into the air and i j i ?- ?u? ,i j.._j <in..nr I uiuppcu tu tuc ^Juuuu urau, i/cai i Smith" stood erect and began to re load his rifle, which finishing, he turni ed into the forest that bordered the i river. i Three days afierward General Housf ton, accompanied by "Deaf Smith" and 10 other men, appeared in Austin, and without opposition removed the j archives to Washington. | ? ] A QUEER PUSTUFFICE. > A correspondent -writing from Cincinnati, says: A case without precedent in the history of United States i pos to Sices was reported from George- " town, Indiana, by Inspector W. T. ; - t 1. ?? j mi fietcner, wno nas just reiurneu. j/oe place has 600 inhabitants. For years its postmaster was a Mr. Motweiler, but he died 15 years ago, and his daughter, Miss Louise Motweiler, now 60 years of age, has been postmaster ever since. "A complaint had been made to Inspector-In-Chief Salmon. Inspector Fletcher went down expecting to straighten things up. He found the postoffice in a cottage of two rooms, the front one being the office and the rear the living room for the postmaster and her 10 cats. The room was 18x20 feet, and the floor was covered with newspaper mail five feet deep. This accumulation of mail was hauled to the commons and dumped in a pile, where the villagers were allowed to sort ont what belonged to them. One man found 147 papers addressed to bim, some having been there zu years. Fletcher found 4,000 letters carefully tied up in an old dress skirt, made into bags by tying up the ends, and stowed away in comers. None of the letters bad been opened. When more than one letter had come for the same person she had given out one and kept the others. This collection of letters had evidently been begun by her father, for some bore the post ' mark of August, 1876. Many of. the persons to whom they were addressed . now sleep in the village graveyard. They were sorted out and the entire population lined up and filed through the office. The woman was greatly excited at the cleaning up wrought by the inspector and several times during the proceeding she fell on her knees . before bim and begged him not to | destroy her office. ! "There were some queer develop- ( ments when the letters were opened. k Thus a letter dated August 9, 1876, was from Superintendent French, of the railway postoffice, ordering certain letters forwarded. One man got an insurance policy he paid for in 1892, and another got a check for some strawberries he had sold in Chicago in 1890." f The Smallest Oxen In The ' World.?One of the curiosities among ] the domesticated animals of Ceylon is ] a breed of cattle known to the zoolo- j gist as the "sacred running oxen." j They are the dwarfs of the whole ox J family, the largest species never ex- j ceeding 36 inches in height. One sent J to the Marquis of Canterbury in the i year 1891, which is still living and is : believed to be somewhere near 10 ] vears of age. is only 22 inches high, ] and weighs but 109J pounds. In Ceylon they are used for quick trips across country with express matter and other light loads, and it is said that four of them can pull the driver of a twowheeled cart and a 200 pound load of miscellaneous matter 60 or 70 miles a day. They keep up a constant swinging trot or run, and have been known, , it is claimed, to travel 100 miles a day and night without either food or water. No one knows anything concerning the origin of this peculiar breed of miniature cattle. Thev have been known on the island of Ceylon and other Buddhistic countries for more than ' 1,000 years. v j ? ( 8?T Caricaturists in depicting a German are in the habit of putting a big pipe in his mouth. The pipe is national, indeed, but the Germans as a nation i are far from being the greatest smokers. They do not smoke more than Frenchmen, Russians, Swedes or Hungarians. The men of the United j States and the men of Switzerland are the most inveterate smokers on earth. In these two countries the consumption \ of tobacco a head is three times greater t i than in Germany. The United States f ; raise more tobacco than any other country on the globe. British Indiu i comes next, producing nearly as much. t Origin of "Uncle Sam" and , - "Brother Jonathan."?During the J Revolution, Jonathan Trumbull was \ governor of Connecticut and a close friend and adviser of Washington. J The latter would of'teu refer matters to "Brother Jonathau" lor his advice, so in time the expression, "I'll ask Brother Jonathan about it" became a saying in the army and from the army extended over the country. During the war of 1812 Elbert Anderson, an army , contractor, bought a large quantity of provisions in Troy. One of the in- s spectors there was Samuel Wilson, ? known generally as Uncle Sam. As ^ he passed on each barrel he marked it 'E. A.?U. 8.," for "Elbert Anderson?United States." Some one asksd what the letters meant. A bystander suggested that they stood for 'Elbert Anderson?Uncle Sam." The oke took among the workmen, many jf whom entered the army und carried it with them. In time, like 'Brother Jonathan," it spread over ihe country. ROYAL , Baking Powder Abftolutoly Pure JR OYgbJL 1 Absolutely Pure ROYALj Baking Powder Absolutely Pure AN ORDINANCE Fixing Licenses upon Public Sale, Feed and Livery Stables; upon Public Drays, Carriages, Busses, Buggies and other public vehicles, and, upon Tran- ' ' sient Horse or Mule Dealers (or drovers) within the incorporate limits of the town of Yorkville, South Carolina. BE it ordained byt the Intendantand ; Wardens, the Town Council of the .rown of Yorkville, South Carolina: Section. 1. That on and after the 15th day >f February A. D., 1896, it shall be unlaw- \ . > 'ul for any individual, firm, orcorporation >' \ o keep or maintain any Public Sale, Feed < >r Livery Stable; or any Public Dray, Bus Carriage, Buggy, or other Vehicle 'or the transportation of passengers, with- ' n the incorporate limits of said town, or, ronduct business of the above kind withn the incorporate limits of said town, vithout first obtaining a license from the aid town so to do. Section 2. That the license for every Public Sale, Feed or Livery Stable shall 1 je and the same is hereby fixed at twenty- * Ive dollars per annum. Section 3. That the license for every public dray, bus, carriage, buggy and >ther vehicles shall be and the same 'Is lereby fixed as follows to-wit: For every l-horse dray, eight dollars jefannnm; for every 2-horse dray, ten lollars per annum ; for every public bus, ?arrifl<rn or of.hor vohiola for Oia ti?n?w? ation of passengers to and from trains, five iollars per annum; for every single loree vehicle for hire, other than livery v business, ten dollars per annum; for >very two-horse vehicle for hire, other jban livery business, ten dollars per anlum. Section 4. That all transient horse or' roule dealers (or drovers) shall pay a 11:ense of one dollar per head for each and svery sale made within the incorporate imits of said town. Section 5. That any individual, firm or . :orporation violating the provisions of his ordinance, for each and every offense, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars lor less than two dollars, or imprisoned lot more than thirty days nor less than, f >ne day, or sentenced to labor upon the itreets or public works of said town for lot more than thirty days, nor lees than me da . Done and ratified in council assembled rocl, 1 in regular session, this 17th lseal.j day of Januair A. D. 1896. W. B. MOORE, Intendant of Town of Yorkville. P. W. Love, Clerk of Council. m no morn in* Schedules in Effect from and After October 31, 1895. G-. W. F. Harper, Receiver, i CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. GOING NORTH. | NO 10. Np 60. Leave Chester 7 20am 7 50 a m Leave Lowrysvllle ... ... 7 49 a m 8 25 a m . Leave McConnellsvllle 806am 8 50am Leave Gutbrlesvllle .... 8 13 am 9 05am Leave Corkvl lie 8 34am 10 05am Leave Clover 9 11 a m 10 50 am Leave Gastonla 9 50 a m 12 10 pm Leave Llncolnton 11 05 a m 1 80 pm Leave Newton 1154am 8 00pm* 1 Leave Hickory 12 80pm 5 00pm irrlve Lenoir 135pm 6 40 pm GOING SOUTH. No 61. No 9. Leave Lenoir 5 00am 3 25pm f Leave Hickory 6 42am 4 80pm ^ Leave Newton 8 10 am 506pm Leave Llncolnton 930am 5 55pm Leave Gastonla 12 06pm 6 55pm Leave Clover 103pm 787pm ^ : Leave Yorkville 2 26 pm 8 11 pm * * Leave Guthriesville .... 2 58 pm* 8 83 pm Leave McConnellsvllle 8 06pm 8 41pm Leave Lowrysvllle 330pm 8 58pm Arrive Chester ! 4 10 pm . 9 28 pm Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are flrst-class, and *un daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 60 ina 01 carry passengers aim mso ruu tumy jxcept Sunday. There is good connection it Chester with the G. C. <fe N., and the CM j. & A.; also at Gastonia with the A. AC. * A. L.; at Lincqjnton with the C. C.; and it Hickory and Newton with the W. N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Superintendent. SIXTY YEARS THE AGE. [HEREBY notify all MALE PERSONS UNDER SIXTY YEARS OP AGE, (Confederate soldiers excepted) that [ have been instructed by the comptroller jeneral to assess the POLL TAX under he provisions of the new constitution. VV. J. WATERS, Auditor. December 20 89 ftf PHOTOGRAPHY. J WITH many years experience in the business, I can give you work in he Photo line equal to any that can be tad. All the Latest Improvements * Jsed, and pictures taken in any kind of veather. Ido all my own PRINTING ind FINISHING and can insure early lelivery of the work. Wy Prices are the Very Lowest And are not affected by competition. Enlargements r-.i 1 1.1- r UUUtJ ill/ rawwiliiuio piiUCSf ?UU \/Uinuvu ? )ictures a specialty. Give me a call and I vill please you. Gallery on West Liberty street, near the ail Yorkville, S..C, J. R. SCHOHB. UNDERTAKING. [AM handling a first class line of COFFINS AND CASKETS which I wiU ell at the very lowest prices. Personal ittention at all hours. * I am prepared to repair all kinds of furniture at reasonable prices. J. ED JEFFERY.