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tumorous department. HEAVY ARTILLERY. Lieutenant Derby of the United States army tells this good story : One of our western forts was in command of a major of artillery who was constantly lamenting that his favorite arm could not be more frequently used against the Indians. Finally one day he took one of the small howitzers which defended the fort, and had it securely strapped to the back of an army mule, with the muzzle prqjecting over the animal's tail. * With this novel gun carriage he proceeded >with the captain and the sergeant to the bluff on the bank of the Missouri, near which was encamp.ed a band of friendly Indians. The gun was duly iloaded and primed, the fuse inserted And the mule backed.to the edge of tbe bluff. The major re .marking something about the moral effect the exhibition was likey to produce upon our {Indian allies, stepped .forward and applied stmatch to the fuse. The curiosity of the mule was Aroused. He jerked bis head around to see what was fizzing on his back, and the next second his feet were ' bunched together aad he was making 40 revolutions a minute, while the gun pas threatening everything with- 1 in a radius of half a mile. The cap- < tain .shinned up the only available tree. The sergeant threw himself flat on the ground and tried to dig a hole 1 with his bayonet to crawl Into, while the fat major rolled over, alternately 1 invoking the protection of Providence j and cursing the mule. - Finally the explosion earn?, the ballfweot,tb rough , ttttf rtfof-of"the foit, Anc^ the r?o6il-of , the gun and the wild leap of the terrified mule carried both over the . the bluff to a safe anchorage in the | river. The diseomfitted party returned sadly to the fort. j Shortly after, the chief of the In- 1 dians appeared and announced, briefly, ' "Injun go home." 1 Questioned as to why,' he thus explained: "Injun ver' brave; help < white man. Injun use gun, use bow ' arrow, use knife; but when white ' man fire off whole jackass, Indian no understand." ] After Many Days.?On a Michi- j gan Central train the other day a prominent citizen of Detroit, who had a seat in the smoking car, crossed 1 over Pf> a young man who was vigorously pu$ng away and asked for a light. Xae faV.of was granted, and the prominent Petroit?f observed: "Live in this city "Yes." ' "Going to Chicago ?'? "Yes." "Aren't you in the grocery business?" ^o, sir." "Ah 1 I thought I had met you before at some time or other. Your face looks familiar." , "I?I used to court your daughter !" stammered the young man. "Oh-ho ! About three years ago ?" "Yes." "And I gave you the bounce ?" r "You did. t "Ah I I believe I do recall the cir- j curastance, * ^tm't know but I kiok- . ed you?'? you did I } "Ah! Well, I bounced and kicked so many that I can't be expected to remember names and faces. I take !j advantage of this occasion to beg your pardon and hope you've fully recovered from the effects, Have a cheroot I" ' ? =? j ClabsrooM HtJMoft.?No professor I is more kindly remembered by the i "boys" who graduated from Wesleyan University a generation ago than Pro- i fessor Johnson, or "Uncle Johnnie," j as he was more familiarly known. Be- j side having a profound scientific mind ( far in advance of his time, he had a I keen relish for a good joke, whether on himself or another. j In order to aid the students of geol- ( ogy in grasping the essential distinc- ( tions between the various classes of ( rock, he requested them to bring in ( cnppimpnn and nlace them on his desk wrvv * before the recitation began. I One day a student brought in a piece of brick, secured from a building being erected near the college, and placed it on the table among the other specimens. "Uncle Johnnie" came in a few moments later, and, apparently unsuspecting the hoax, began the recitation as usual by picking up the specimens, one at a time, naming them, and remarking their peculiarities. "This, gentlemen, is a piece of sandstone ; this is granite; while this, Rnmftwhat similar in its formation, is quartz. And this," takiDg up the last bit on the table and gravely surveying the expectant class over the rim of his glasses, is a piece of impudence." What He Would Like.?She blushed prettily as she told the sister of her best young man that she thought she would buy a birthday present for him. "You know him better than I do," she said, "so I came to you for advice." "Yes?" said the sister, inquiringly. "Oh, yes, indeed. What would you advise me to get?" "Oh, I don't know," replied the sister, carelessly. "I could only advise you in general terms. From what I know of him, however, he will appreciate something that can be easily pawned better than something that cannot." tGF A farmer lost his wife, and out of love for her called the estate "Glenmary." A neighbor, having met with the same affliction, and equally desirous of keeping before him the image of his dear departed, followed his example, and his farm is known by the name of "Glenbetsy." IST "Lend me $10, will you, old chap?" "In gold or in silver?" "Either. I don't care which." "Get out! I won't lend a cent to a man who straddles on the financial question in these troubled times." Wayside <$atitenttg$. Wef There is not an oath in the Japanese language. I&" Only 1 man in 208 is over 6 feet in height. 19" A railway is to be made across the field of Waterloo. |9 He who borrows trouble has to pay a heavy interest. 19 Ah excellent quality of sugar is now made from watermelons. 09" Show may easily be purchased; but happiness is a home article. |9 A good, habit is a faithful servant ; a bad habit is a hard master. I9 Moles are expert swimmers. Their broad paws operate as paddles. 19 An Ashland (Me.,) child only 2 years old can sing several tunes correctly. f9 Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. IV It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are. 19* A man was arrested in New Jersey the other day for digging his own grave. 19* A clerk at the Fort Hall Indian has a mnotopVlO thnf, TT1AAWI1 TftS 9 feet from tip to tip. 19 A rancher of Sheridan county, Wyo., claims to be able to raise 1,200 bushels of potatoes to the acre. ftST Russia proposes to abandon Siberia as * place of exile. She has found a colder spot. I9 Why are people who stutter not to be relied on ? Because they are always breaking their word. 19 A few grains of salt sprinkled on the coffee before adding the water i>rings out and improves the flavor. MT The jawbone of the average whale is ?5 feet in length. The tongue jf such a monster will yield a ton >f oil. 19" The piles of old London bridge, iriven 800 years before, were found to in good condition when the new )ridge was erected, 19" There has never been proof of an [ndian being killed by a cyclone. People who are killed in cyclones live n brick or frame bouses. 19* While some cows were passing ;he house, one of them lowed. "Ob, namma," exclaimed Clark, "one of the lorns blew. Which one was it?" 19 A carpet in the room of the English mint, after being in wear iuiijo yftroi Dj woo icvcumj uutuuu ?u jaoa, and yielded $2,500 worth of {old. If The raogt remarkable oaoal in he world is the one between Woreley ind St. Helens in Lancansbire. It is ,6 miles long, and underground'-from, jnd to end, IfiT "It ii totlgh, hut true,'* said the 2umminsville sage, "that a man generally does not get any foresight until he 3 too old to have anything to look orward to." tf The empire of Christ is a moral, tot a material empire ; it is a realm, lot^of bodies, but of souls instinct with ntelligence and love. Its seat of mwer is the conscience of mankind. 19" In Wales the people claim that i^elsh is the most ancient language on larth, and that Adam, Eve and the terpeot chattered Welsh together in Paradise. 19" Electricians aver that it is possi)le for those inured to the business to eceive with impunity double'the volts ;hat would kill any one who was in nr.rt.tti final* nf the m.vsterious fluid. 1ST ^he Chicago postoffice building, which cost over $4,000,000, 16 years igo, is now being demolished, it having settled so much as to be unsafe. Chicago's correspondence must have been heavy. f&* The syllable Li is pronounced Lee. A suburban laundryman whose original sign Yeu Li made him the abject of satirical inquiries, calmly enlightened the populace by putting aut a new sign, You Lee. f6T A shoemaker was taken up for bigamy, and brought before the sitting magistrate. "Which wife," some one asked, "will he be obliged to take?" "He is a cobbler, and, of course, must stick to his last," replied the magistrate. f?" There are 75 national cemeteries, in which there have been 334,453 interments. The largest number, 16,938, is credited to Arlington, and others coming closely upon it are Vicksburg, with 16,656; Nashville, with 16,558; and Fredericksburg, with 15,285. Toads in such numbers came with a shower at Topeka, Kan., recently that a freight train in charge of Engineer Charles Bates was unable to make a grade just west of the city, and had to back to a siding until a J 1 3 train Q UOWD UUUUU ptlSSCUgci Viniu ? cleared the track. W3T About a year ago a Wichita (Kan.) man was a juryman at the trial of a man accused of counterfeiting. The implements of the counterfeiter were in evidence, and the juror examined them closely. After the trial was over he went home and made some counterfeiting tools himself. He was caught, was recently tried and is now in prison. VST An aged man, sauntering across a Cleveland street the other day, says The Plain Dealer, was rudely jostled by a youthful wheelman. The collision tumbled the rider off, and the old gentleman promptly grabbed him by the ear. "Durn you," he said, with considerable asperity, "I've a great mind to take you across my knee and spank you good." But he did not do it. He just held the young fellow a minute, and then let him go. "Why didn't you spank him uncle?" said a bystander. "Well," replied the old man, "I certainly would, if I hadn't been a leetle afraid that mebby it was a girl." ?hc #torij Setter. J TRUE STORY OF LAFITTE!' , 8 It does not seem just the right thing * to go about in an iconoclastic way shattering the historic and traditional ^ idols of our school days, but truth is jj mighty and must prevail. I have g been giving some attention to our time-honored pirates of late, and after t much research have been forced to c the conclusion that America has very j little reason to be proud of her pirates, t as such. I never did have any faith ' in the piratical genuineness of Captain r Kidd, and as for Jean Lafitte?well I g am going to expose Jean right now, as v a very poor quality of pirate. It is true Jean has had a great reputation a on the Texas and Louisiana coast, ^ w tie re most or toe people case it easy ^ and work their imaginations only. For every bay, inlet, swamp, bayou *2 and island of that waterlogged coun- ^ try, there are hundreds of yarns of ^ sea fights, cruel murders, scuttled ^ ships, captive maidens, all beautiful, tj though aatf, scuppers conning over h with blood, and buried treasures. Ac- ^ cording to report, enough treasure e is buried along these shores to everlastingly break the gold market, and, as for silver, there is too much of; it ^ to deserve notice. There are guardian jghosts galore and piles of buried lucre, ^ the location of which is known to old ^ Negroes, Mexicans, swamp-dwellers Q and parties With maps, who, strangely f enough, never profit by their knowl- a| edge. In every one of these old tales, l Jean Lafitte appears, towering preeminent over all. w As a matter of fact, these stories ^ b&ve no more of truth for their basis e] than Sir Walter Raleigh's old fable of a the golden city of Manoa. It might be asked why this dissemination of .J; untruth is so prevalent. The north: era visitor and the occasional corres- -]V pondent come down here, and they w want to know about Lafitte. The Q( native is of an accommodating dispo- U| sition, and hates to disappoint the in- jQ quirer, whether he knows anything or not. If he does not know, as is the Paha nparlv aIwavr ha nnnnnnU a tale _ to Bait the occasion, helping bis imag- ^ ination with a thousand fragments of remarkable stories he himself has heard from others. n< TALES OF LAFITTE. Ul , I have heard a tale about Lafitte w getting in a sea fight and running low on ammunition. The quick thinking z1 pirate immediately hauls out his treas- ^ ures of gold and silver, and molds them into cannon balls, etc.', fires away and re gains a hard fought victory. I read lately that ex-Governor Hogg ?. had accurate and unquestioned information as to a vast amount of treasure buried by Lafitte down la Mexico. *V All he had to do was to go, dig it up and " celebrate. Yet Governor Hogg is jj! strangely negligent, for he is at pres- ' ent in Wall street, New York, where 0 there is treasure sure enough, engaged in the laubable enterprise of coaxing , capital into Texas investments. Theje is a man even now down in Louisiana seeking information concern- 1 ing Lafitte. I last heard Of him from . the swamps around Lake Charles. He writes, and a newspaper, calmly pub- d( lishes it, that he Is there trying to find where and how Lafitte died. Of all the places in the world 1 He might as well go to Sagbalieuto get information . regarding the removal of the late Sitting Bull. He is just as far from the ? place of Lafltte's decease, as his pres- ? ent location is distant from Yucatan. Now the United States had various ** JnnHnnn n.UVl T.aflt>A OnH ftlP. APCOIltltS ucouugo mvu umuwwj ~ ? of these dealings were properly filed " away among the records at Washing- j" ton, mostly in the form of the businesslike repbrts of naval officers. The " contemporary historians of his times ai in Louisiana wrote of him, and they probably knew what they were writ- ? ing about. The Central American re- ai publics, also, Venezuela and Mexico, had various connections with this reputed pirate, and preserved the re- P* cords of thesame. Tehse things throw ^ so much light on Lafitte's record thut j? it is easy to form an accurate estimate *c as to what manner of man he was. ^ Judging from such evidence I can but arrive at one conclusion. Lafitte al never was a pirate in the ordinary c< acception of the term, and never could have been found guilty of piracy by w any competent and fair court. He w never buried any treasure in Texas and Louisiana, and I append a sketch st of his true history, to show the rea- o sons for such conclusions. b< TRUE STORY OF LAFITTE. tl Jean Lafitte was a Frenchman, from ?( Bayonne. His family left France and ef settled upon an estate in the island of Hayti. The Haytians rebelled against ei the French dominion, and, being tc successful, the Lafittes lost their prop- i? erty aftd were compelled to leave, tl taking refuge in New Orleans. About a< this time, the United States purchased ti the Louisiana territory from France, tl and New Orleans, of course, was part o of the purchase. Jean Lafitte and his brother were blacksmiths and opened a a shop on St. Philip street, between 1< ? J n ? T A o iiouroon ana Uttupuiu. oeau was a remarkably handsome man, of the tl tall, dark type. Just such a one that r< a person passing would turn to have a tl second look at. tl All the country in and around New c Orleans and along the gulf coast for a hundreds of miles is an intricate maze a of waterways, deep, narrow channels a running everywhere and utterly confusing to a stranger. These channels t afford the only highways, as all else is o an impenetrable tangle of trees, hang- c ing vines, and swampy growths. 1 Smuggling was then, as it is now, a considered rather a respectable crime, ii and the people living along that t swampy border were one and all en- i , gaged in that business ; the city of J New Orleans affording a near at hand t i market. In the course of years the i i two blacksmiths, Jean and his broth- ] er, Pierre, became the agents and bro- j cere in New Orleans for smuggling m vessels that brought merchandise and tb laves into the bayous and inlets along ar he Louisiana coast. Of course, this hi ort of thing demoralized the legiti- m ate trade in the city, and complaints Ti vere many and lond, but the smug- a ;ling fraternity evidently possessed at [uite a pull, and it was a good while al efore any earnest steps were taken to uppress the illegal traffic. Meanwhile Jean Lafitte had ob- f0 ained such prominence that all the g. oast people looked up to him as their ^ Bader, and bis word became law among gu he smuggling gentry from Lake Pont- Wl bartain to the Sabine. The main ac endezvous of all these revenue dodg- gt re was on the island of Barataria, pr rhere there was quite a settlement mi - J - it^l- r? rru U a llLtIC lurt. 1UC UUIICU uiatco gQ uthorities took steps at last, and, tj, owing full well that the island and re, art were used simply as the headuarters of the numerous smuggling ne angs, they sent out Commodore Pat- m( sreon of the United States navy, who eri roke up the B&rataria establishment. be 'here was no other punishment than 8p bis. It stands to reason that if there qu ad been any real piracy, Lafitte and ou is BaratarianB would have been hangd from the yard arm, as pirates were co iven short shift in those days, All through Lkfitte's career appears is anxiety to stand well with the ev United States and to avoid any con- tUi ict with its laws. Just before the ^ reaking up came the British descent 0f n New Orleans. Lafitte was of- tj0 ired a commission in the British navy 0f ad a large sum of money, provided g( e and his friends would join with le invaders. As Chey were perfectly ell acquainted with every foot of that we ifficult country and were brave fight- ^ -s, their acquisition would have been avv matter of great moment, and in all m? robability would have changed the ^ ssult of the campaign. But Lafitte, pr( lough his smuggling business had ^ ist been broken up, joined Jackson ith all his followers, and fought with 0f stable gallantry in the battle of Jan- ] iry 8, 1815. In consequence of this ^ iportant service, President Madison aQ( ive him a full pardon for whatever far isdeeds he had committed at any j rior time. by THE FOUNDER OF GALVESTON. up, But evidently the smuggling busi- tar 388 on the Louisiana coast was effect- mo illy squelched and had no future, as bis e shortly after bear of Lafitte and a vis imerous following emigrating from se\ ouisiana and forming a colony on the alveston Island. His after career a q lows pretty plainly that be left to he turn to Louisiana no more. Now, at ould a man under ordinary circum- in ances leave any buried treasure be- lie d him? He had all the time be Me ? i 1 HI _1 C BUI/CU. 1UC were LIU UUIIl^CO a^aiuok * m. He left of bis own accord, and get ere was no necessity for any undue vei iste or leaving any valuables be- bin nd bim. Wouldn't Lafitte or any it \ her man of ordinary sense bave dug ths } his buried gold and takep it along ? me very thing points to J he conclusion Gl< lat Lafitte not only had cottimon M nse, but was shrewd beyond the ornary. Prior to Lafitte's arrival there bad ten one or tw6 settlements, on ,Gal J8tbd Island^ but they hid been aban- * )ned, and now oUr former black* aitb and smuggler comes out in a >w role. At that time Mexico, Central Amera and many provinces of South ? merica had fevdfted'against Spain. evolutionary republican governments id been formed and bad been accordI the rights of belligerents. Don Jose [anuel Herrera was commissioner to te United States from the revolution y government of Mexico. From | m Lafitte claimed to bave received le appointment of governor of Texas, id the probabilities are that he did iceive it, as be took possession of flTT alveston Island under such authority |;J1 id stayed there four years, exercising Jthority as governor all that time, ad be not in truth received such aplintment, .the Mexican government 63 ould surely have repudiated him. .e had a number of ships and quite a >rce of adventurers. He had letters Q . f marque and reprisal from the revoitionary government of Venezuela Jthorizing him to prey upon the immerce of Spain. This Venezuelan G ivernment, as was that of Mexico, as a recognized belligerent at war ? ith Spain. As governor, Lafitte required all per>ns on the island and the captains and Le wners of the vessels there in the baror to take the oath of allegiance to Le le Mexican republic. A regular overnment, with salaried officers, was Le ?tablished. ^ Vessals were manned by the islandrs and were sent out, soon beginning Le > make things lively for the Spanirds. The profits and excitemeut of Le iese expeditions attracted numbers of dveuturesome spirits from all direc- Le ons. At the close of the year 1817, le population of Galveston numbered Le ver 1,000, of almost every nationality. It can be seen how careful Lafitte ' Iways was to be acting under some *- * * * mi ;gitimate aucnoruy. jue gcuumcp- Cja te does no such thing. The troubles ne bat came upon Lafitte, there is every ?" eason to believe, were occasioned by ^ be reckless men under him breaking n, be restraints of his command. Of ourse Spain complained of him. But ( s to that government, h.e was no more pirate than was our own Paul Jones i nd Captain Semmes of the Alabama. There were complaints of him made 0 the United States, but the inaction A f this government proves that the ^ auses could not have been piracy. The character of the men gathered round him can pretty well be imagned. They were reckless, lawless and sc lard to keep under discipline. A little eo ncident shows them up pretty well. 11 1 party of them captured a squaw of he Caraucahua Indians. Orderly cit- co zens don't do such deviltry. These Indians were brave as lions, and they jro-mptly ambuscaded some of Lafitte's en out buntiDg and killed many of iinTf] em. They crossed over to the island UulU id made for the town. Lafitte and s men, with two pieces of cannoD, et them at a plaee called the Three rees. There was the hardest kind of fix* fight before the Indians retreated, id I imagine their women were let ? one thereafter by Lafitte's ruffians. SA THE END OF HIS CAEEEE. Everything went along smoothly effec? r the islanders and roughly for the )aniards until 1820, when an Ameri- ^ ,n vessel was taken, plundered and c nk in Matagorda bay. Lafitte's ???ve inderiDg cruisers were suspected, Leave id a commission from the United ates came down to investigate. The Leave obabilities were it was done by his Leave en entirely contrary to his orders Arrive id wishes. His whole policy negares any other conclusion. As a suit of this commission an armed in was sent under Lieutenant KWr- *?? y to break up the Galveston estab- Leave ent and make Lafltte and bis follow3 move on. If genuine piracy bad Leave en committed and Lafitte was reonsible or guilty, the orders without Leave estion would have been for dealing Lea? t far more severe punishment. Leave Lafitte met the lieutenant and esrted him to his mansion, known as Leave e red house, entertained him, Arrtve owed him every courtesy, offered oo ery reparation for the recent unfor> nate occurrence and endeavored by b exercise of his remarkable powers Leave fascination to obtain some mitigan of the sentence. But the orders Leave the United States were premptory. pave i had to yield. ' Se and his men were allowed to pave te away all their belongings. They Leave ire given plenty of time. It was no pave je of surprise and confused getting Leave ay. To my mind this settles the p*ve itter of buried treasure on Galves- 6 i island. There was nothing to ?eave jvent Lafitte's digging it up and Leave ting it away, and it would be about fg , i first thing any man would think Leave: taking. Lafitte and his men loaded their ves- Leave s with all they could take away, Arri^e1 j, hoisting said, bid Galveston a last ewell. . ? For some years he continued to prey, virtue of his letters of marque, Noa on Spanish commerce, using Yuca- Nos. i and Margarita Island, at the ? iuth of the Orinoco, as a basis for an(j ^ operations. In 1822 he paid a it to Charleston, 8. C. and stayed 1 'eral days. This is certainly not ) act of a pirate. The visit was [uiet, peaceable one, and when over Af went away. In 1826 he .lay down Sisal, a town 80 miles from Merida, Yucatan, and died. His remains even now in the Campo Santo of rida. such was Lafitte, gentleman, refu- A/T^ >, blacksmith, smuggler, hero, aditurer, but never pirate. We love word. q so much for being true to us when Prettii vas his advantage to do otherwise, a raa? it we should at least defend his worldmory.?James Bee in St. Louis bicycl >be-Democrat. yar of con a case that tl ROYAL taking Powder Abftolutcf^ Fur? be haf TI ROYAL lakind Powder Abftolutoljr Pur? Deflar * Tl ROYAL shm a ^ m ? can fa lakind Powder Quick . ^ you w Jk hi oltftety Pur? or Bic asp hednles in Effect from and After Bjv^ August 30, 1896. J?gj . W. T. Harper, Receiver, g$?| CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. Dr^ GOING NORTH. | No 10. | No 60. at e Chester 8 2(7 a m 8 30 am j?n<q] ave Lowrysville 8 46 am team ? ? ave McConnellsvllle 9Mam 989am Kobei ave Gutbriesvllle .... 0 12 am 956am __ ave Yorkvllle 9 35am 10 60am Ine ave Clover * 10 18 a m 11 83 a m ave Gastonla 10 56 a m 1 50 p m And ^ ave Llncolnton 11 55 a m 8 16 p m that tl ave Newton 12 50pm I*?pm blade ave Hickory I 1 28 pm 6 to pm rive Lenoir- 1 2 80 pm! 8 00 pm see m GOING SOUTH. | No. 9. | No 61. f|| ave Lenoir 240pmi 6 30 a m ave Hickory 3 42 pm ; 8 10 am Incor ave Newton 5 08 pm 9 10 am ave Llncolnton 556pm 10 30am ave Gastonla 6 57 pm 100pm ave Clover 7 87 p m 2 02pm ave Yorkvllle 806pm 3 10 pm ave Gutbriesvllle ...' ,8 29 pm 3 40 pm ave McConnellsvllle 838 pm Kpm C1D ave Lowrysville "9 00 pm 4 25 pm iini rive Chester 9 32 pm ; 5 10 Pm rrains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and HJ - a~aaVi+ ?nn^Qxr Trains Nos. _ . IJ U till J CAViCJ/l- VUI.UMJ . ? and 61 tarry passengers, and also run X88? lily except Sunday. There is good con- Cash iction at Chester with the G. C. ?fe N. Losse d the C. C.<fc A., also LAC. R. R.j at ~ . istonia with the A. <ft C. A. L.; at Linlnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and ewton with W, if. C. recen L. T. NICHOLS, SupL G. W. F. Harper, Receiver, Lenoir, N. C. IUNTERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOTH SEXES. PRIMARY, English, Classical, fi4i% Musical, Business, Shorthand, Art, Typewriting. V This school has been adopted ^ as a Presbyterial school by the A First Presbytery of the Asso- I ate Reformed Synod of the South: 8(,ii _ ough it is not strictly a denominational attenl hool. Its pupils enter three of the best t _ lieges in the South without examination Trurn hojds fhree competitive scholarships in many colleges in South Carolina. Come and prepare yourself to enter liege, or for any profession. Send for Catalogue. nn\^ GRAY A CROSBY, Pkinotpals, 1 1 Huntersville, N. C. of th< July 18 58 -a 3m J MUEL HUNT, General Manser. IE TABLE of the Ohio River and Iharleeton Railway company, to take Monday, June 1,1896, a 7.40 a. m. rANDARD EASTERN TIME. ? K)INO SOUTH , NO. 12. | Marlon Z 2 00 pm Rutherford ton 8 85 pm rureai _ * uo puii Henrietta 4 30 pm Mooresboro 4 45pm[ Shelby 0 00 pm Patterson Springs.. 0 15 pmi Earls . 0 25pm; f 5 at Blacksburg _ 0 40 pm! No. 82. | No.1T Dally Monday , Except We'ns'd'y Snnday. Friday. 8helby 7 40 am Patterson Springs... 7 GO am ' Blacksbarg; .. ... 8 30 am 8 40 am Smyrna. 8 GO am 9 06 am Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am Sharon . 9 20 am 9 50 am Yorkvllle 9 85 am 10 20 am \j Tlreah ... 9 47 am 10 45 am Newport . 9 51 am 10 55 am Rock HU1 10 80 am 12 65 pm Leslies......... 10 42 am 1 15 pm Catawba Junction. 10 51 am 2 00 pm Lancaster 11 17 pm 8 40 pm Kershaw 11 57 pm 5 25 pm i at Camden 12 45 pm 0 45 pm IWO WOBTH. | No7~88. | No. 85. | Daily I Tuesday. Except I Thursday I Sunday. Saturday. Camden 1 15 pm 8 00 am Kershaw *2 15 pm 10 16 am . Lancaster 2 55 pm 1150 am -* Catawba Junction 8 80 pm 1 20 am Leslies 8 88 pm ,140 am Rock Hill 8 54 pm 4 00 pm Newport 4 09 pm 4 20 pm Tlrzah 4 15 pm 4 85 pm Yorkvllle. 4 80 pm 5 00 pm Sharon 4 45 pm 5 80 pm Hickory Orove.... 5 00 pm 5 56pm Smyrna 5 10 pm 0 15 pm Blacksbunr. 6 80 pm 0 45 pm Patterson Springs. 5 50 pm at Shelby 8 00 pm No. 11. Blacksburg 8 20 am 1 Earls /...... 8 40 am Patterson Springs 8 50 am Shelby 9 80 am 1/AAM.kAWX 1A OH AM UWlCflUUIVtiHiMMiH IV **J out Henrietta 10 80 am Forest City 10 60 am Rntherfbrdton 11 20 am at Marlon 12 50 pm Dinner. CONNECTIONS. 82 has connection with Southern ay at Rock Hill. , 84 and 35 will carry passengers. "* , 11 and 12 have connection at Marion lonthern Railway. Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek ondon, trains stop only on signal. S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A. FRIPP, Superintendent. 8A3TL HUNT, General Manager. EX OF BICYCLE PERFECTION. NARCH Bicycles have, during the ast two or three seasons, come to'be ng of Bicycles in every sense of the It is the Lightest running, the set and the most Durable. It makes or woman happy to know that he 9 owns the BEST Bicycle in the ?the MONARCH. You see lots of ? b dealers who say the wheel they e far superior to the Monarch and rse they may think so ; but it is not of "think so" with us. We know 16 MONARCH IS THE BEST BI<E on the market. It has been igbly tested by the best riders of the y. Catalogue for a 2-cent stamp, of Monarch Bicycles range from $125. Ride a Monarch ana you'll' >py. , . IE DEFIANCE leaper wheel than the Monarch and y guaranteed. It is made by thercb Cycle Co. If you want a wheel % k. ^^..1 mah riV? /M, lrl V?n ?T a OO'lf COHl IIIUUUf jruu OUUUIU UUJ ??* ice. Prices range from $40io|75. RES-M. & W. lid your bicycle need tireing, wernish you with Morgan A Wright's Repair Tires. They are best. If ant a Monarch or Defiance Bicycleycle Tires, call on or write to GRIST COUSINS. ILL WITHOUT A. RIVAL E BUCKEYE MOWER has never 3t failed to vanquish every rival that "" d for first honors, and stands today did 40 years ago, WITHOUT A lL. It is the strongest machine, the st running when at work, the most le and therefore best adapted to the work in this section. I refer, withirmission, to the following owners of iEYE MOWERS: J. F. Lindsay, C. E. Spencer, L. R. ims, W. J. Gordon, B. N. Moore, Hall, T. F. Jackson, J. W. Law, G. L. Riddle, L. K. Armstrong, C. nith, A. M. Tittman, E. L. Gujy, rt Conrad;-Captain J. w. mars nan. Buckeye Won't Choke will do good work under conditionstie average machine will fail to cnt a of grass. If you want a machine,, e before buying. SAM M. GRIST. OMAS RAKES are the best. porated 1819. Charter Perpetual.. /ETNA E INSURANCE COMPANY F HARTFORD CONN. Capital 4,000,000 OOAsseis 11,000.000 OO s paid 77,000,000 OO) er strong reliable companies repreJ 1 l"(n 110 will i HUH UUOlllCOO CUlluovgu w Mw re our most careful attention. S. M. & L. GEO. GRIST, Resident Agents. UNDERTAKING. M handling a first class line of COF- * !NS AND CASKETS which I will ,t the very lowest prices. Personal tion at all hours. >m prepared to repair all kinds of iture at reasonable prices. J. ED JEFFERY. CORBIN DISK HARROWS. | TO 12-disk CORBIN DISK HAR- J tOWS for sale. The} are new and 3 latest improved paUerm to 1