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S?aujjmau m? Soutes. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,1892. Dirt Roads. By this term is meant those roads which are formend of the oatarai soil found in the line of the roadway. They are so coin m on as to be almost oar only roads euteide of town and city limits, and jean be ased largely' io and especially on the Is which cc?neet the TjS ?Krt roads, at their best, aire~greatly inferior to Maoadam sad Teiford roads in every essential of a good highway; in durability, cost of maintenance, drainage tractive qualities, and,in many locations, in point of econo my also. Bert the dirt road is here, and the public hand most be directed to its treatment. The first and most important thing necessary for the maintenance of a dirt road may be stated in a single word ?drainage. It is the one thing that can neither be dispensed with nor neg lected. Most dirt is soluble, and is easily displaced ander the softening in fluence of rain, and this process is has tened in the dirt road by the passing of heavy wagonsover tbe wet surface. On every mile of roadway within the United State? there flls each year an average of 27,000 tons of water?s heavy, limpid fluid,always directing itself to the near est outlet and seeking the lowest level. Water is hard to confine and easy to release, and yet, through sheer neglect of the titrplest principles of drainage, water is the most active destroyer of our country roads. 2a providing for the drainage of a dirt road we should first consider the mate rial of which the roadway is composed. If a heavy, viscous clay predominates, the ordinary side-ditches should be of good depth, and will even then, in many oases, be inadequate for thorough drain age without the addition of a center drain running midway between and parallel with the side-ditches. The center-drain should of course be filled with loose irregular boulders, cobble tones, broken bricks or similar filling, covering a line of tiles or fascines at the bottom, and should be conneted with the aide-ditches by cross-drains carrying tbe water outward from the center-drain at proper intervals along tbe length of tbe road-way. Center drains, though often greatly needed for tbe improvement of country roads, are not in common use. They add somewhat to the cost of the roadway, but in most cases, considerably more to its value, and should be employed io all situations where sand or gravel cannot be had to relieve the heaviness and water-holding properties of the clay. If gravel, sand or other porons material can be conveniently or cheaply obtained, the center and cross drains many often be dispensed with by mixing the gravel or sand in plentiful quantities With the day roadway, so as to insure as nearly as possible a porons and self draining snrface-laver, which should not be less than ten inches in depth, and should be laid on rounded or sloped sub soil so as to insure easy drainage into the side ditches. In locations where tbe prevailing ma terial is of a loose, sandy nature, the difficulties of drainage are more easily overcome, and side-ditches, if found necessary at all, may be made of mode, rate depth and left open, without incur ring the risks and dangers of travel that prevail where the deeper open ditches are nsed for draining heavier soils. Bat, on the other band, the light and shifting nature of sandy road material destroys its value as a surface layer for an etxth roadway, and its defi ciency in this respect is most easily remedied by the addition of a stronger and more tenacious substance, such as iff clay. When mixed with sand m proper proportions (which hi each ease depends upon the nature of the clay and sand used, and which ean best be determined by experiment), this com position affords many advantages which make it superior to a roadway composed of either sand or clay wheo used abne. The sand served to quicken the drainage and to destry the sticky, tena cious qualities of the clay, while the clay supplies the quality of cohesion io tbe substance of the road-surface, counter action the shifting qualities of the sand, and making the roadway more easily packed and relied, and more likely to retain its proper grade and slope?From "Our Common RowltS* by J$aac B. Potter, in The Cmtury for April. Food Adulterations. Prom Harpers Weekly. The subject of the adulteration of oaf food supplies has been kept so con stantly before the public for fifteen years that it has become on old story, and those people who look out only for sensational novelties turn from any dis cussion of it as they do from an oft-told tale. And yet tbe subject has been exhausted by no means, and will not be until public opinion shall express itself io laws, and demand that these laws be enforced as rigidly and vigorously against this crime as against other felo nies. The adulteration of food is now practised to such an extent that fifteen per cent, of all that is consumed in the United States is augmented by treat ment for the purpose of making it cost less to the producer and purveyor, or rendered impure and something else than that which tbe consumers think they are buying. It has become so common a practice that many merchants indulge in these adulterations as a mat- j ter of course, and with no thought that I it is dishonest in itself and made orimi- ! nal by the laws of 21 an y of the States. j Many of these adulterations are not | particularly unwholesome, but they are j dishonest in the same sense as scll.ng ; calico for silk would be. It is swiad i Hog in the same sense that the parsing j of counterfeit money is eo. In the j aggregate this fraud upon the Ameri can consumers amounts annually to 1 $700,000,000. This is an immense sum of money, but the estimate of Mr. H. W. Wiley, the chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, appears to be well within the mark. Selling Eggs by Weight O. R. Scott in New York W'toess. Atnocg tbe strenge customs that have come into nse is that of selling eggs at so much per dozen or half-dozen. Why they ev> r came to be sold in that way is something I cannot understand. If eggs were all the same size then it would be well enough; but they are not and never will be. Large fowls lay large eggs s s a rule Lirge eggs cost more to the owners of fowls than small ones, and are worth a great deal more to the consumer. To sell eggs by the dozeD or half-dozen is an injustice both to the purchaser and to the poultry breeder. A writer in The Poultry Monthly says that his grand-father?now 92 years of age?when a *'provision store keeper** bought eggs by size, and adopt ed the plan of keeping a board, with three sizes of holes in it; and graded the eggs by putting them through these holes. That was not a bad plan ; bat weighing them is quicker work, and every man and woman would then have an opportunity of seeing what they get fer tbeir money. It ig no uncommon thing to hear people say to a store-keeper "Pick me ont large eggR** and the reply "Of coursef1 But somebody has to take tbe small ones all the same. Some of the customers get more meat in two eggs than others get in three eggs out of tbe same box. Large eggs are the result of keepiog certain breeds of fowls and seeing that they are well fed. Improvement in "hen-fruit." like other luxuries, are not brought about by idleness or incompe tence; but are tbe reward of attention to details and tbe liberal expenditure of money, and such effort and liberality should be appreciated and paid for. Gilt-edge butter is at a premium and why not guilt-edged-eggs? Government Ownership Will Believe Railroads From all Taxation. It seems that some old fool will always urge objection to any good pro* position which the Alliance makes. The railroad wreckers in South Caro lina are trying to confiscate tbe rail roads for State, County and School tax es>, but there are a few people in the Third party or Alliance ranks who want the Government to own tbe railroads. A North Carolina gold bug and pluto crat, being opposed to the people and friendly to the corporations, makes the following idiotic objeotion to placing the railroads into the hands of the Gov ernment. : When the government owns tbe rail roads as demanded by tbe third party people, no taxes will bs collected from them. Had you thought of that ? If not, just stop and think for a mo ment. Of course everybody knows that government property is not taxed at all, and therefore when the railroads become the property of the government they will not be taxed. The railroads now pay many millions of dollars every year as taxes to the States, counties and towns through which they run. But when the government owns them, no State, county or town will get one cent of tax from them ? Now isn't this "financial reform and relief' with a vengeance ? . In order to give relief to the farmers, in order to lighten their taxes, the third party people propose to exempt the rail roads from all taxation. And in order to dc this Democrats are urged to desert and disrupt their old party ! Of course the more property that is exempt from taxation, the higher must be tho rate of taxation on tbe property that is taxed. And therefore when railroads are owned by the government and are exempt from taxation, of course a higher rate must bo levied on laud and personal property. What sort of relief will this give our people ??Press and Banner. Some Absurdities in Spelling. Far be it from me to appear as the defender of the "American spelling" which the British journalists denounce This "American spelling'* is less absurd than the British spelling only in so far as it has varied therefrom. Even in these variations there is abun dant absurdity. Ouce upon a time most words that now are spelt with a Ena! c bad an added k. Even now both British and American usuage retains this h in hammock, although both British and Americans have dropped the needless letter from havoc ; whi'e the British ret?o the k t>t the end of almanack and the Americana have dropped it. Dr. Johnson was reac tionary in orthography as in politics ; and in bis dictionary he wilfully put a final k to words like optick, without being generally followed by the publick ?as he would have spelt it. Music was then mutick% although, even as late as Aubrey's time, it bad been musique. In our own day we are witnessing the very gradual substitution of the logical technic for the form originally imported from France? technique. As yet, so far as I have observed, no attempts have been made to modify the foreign spelling of clique and oblique. I am inclined to think that technic is repfaoing technique more rapidly?or should I say less slowly ??in the United States than in Great Britain. We Americans like to assimilate our words and to make them our own, white the British have rather a foudness for foreign phrases. A London journalist recently held up to public obloquy as an "ignorant Americanism*' the word j>ro9ram> although he would have found it set down in Professor Skeats "Etymological Dictionary": '* Programme was taken from the French, so a recent writer rcmiuds us, 'and in violation of analogy, seeing that, when it wa.t imported into English, we had already awigram cryptogram, diagram, epigram, etc.' " The logical form program, is not common even in America, and British writers seem to prefer the French form, -.a British speakers still give a French pronun ciation to charade, which in Ainc:ica has long since been accepted frankly as an English word. So we find Mr. Andrew Lang, in his Angling Sfctchcs^ referring to the asphahe : surely in our language the w ?rd in either as phaltam or a.<pn d*.~ Brandcr Muthews, in Harper*& M ?gHzine. -?? ? - - b> - The president has appointed George D. Jobjston, of Louisiana, to he a civil service commissioner, viee Hugh S. Thompson, resigned. Mr. Johnson was a brigadier general in the late war, ! serving from A ?ab* m a. After the war I he settled in Louisiana, and later in Alabama, taking charge of the agri cultural college at Tu-c<i!o<>sa. He was for several year* superintendent of the Citadel academy in Charleston, being succeeded in that position by Colonel Coward. This appointment gives entire satisfaction to the Democrats of the South. The Georgia blacksuake is hard to get away with. lie is good on the jump. Some boys saw one recently take a good running start down a steep hill, jump ten-feet and capture an unsuspecting sap-nek er which wus busily engaged iv boring a piue tree fur hi> diene* Nut Orchards?Why Not Nuts are healthful, nutritious and agreeable food. The market is not overstocked, indeed the demand is great er than the supyly: this fact is being re cognized. Florida is now planting large ly to pecans, and Texas has some or chards oft his nut in bearing. The chest nut, English walnut, butternut, black walnut, pecan and hickories in variety, besides the hazel nut, or, better, its im proved form, tbe filbert, are all valuable. The pecan, chestnut, English walnut, and hazel nut bring the best prices. The small, thin shelled, sweet meated hickory nut always finds a market. This variety may be recognized by its having uniformly, five leaflets to a pet iole; other species have from five to seven; others seven to nine leaflets. Nut bearing trees do better from tho seed, planted where they are to stand. Nature has given then a strong hold on mother earth with their tap roots, that may not broken or even injured without a check to the best after development of the tree. Plant nuts as soon as ripe; they will not germinate readily if allowed to dry, and often not at all. One fall I sent a bushel of black walnuts to be planted on a Nebraska farm. It was about three weeks after the nuts were gathered before they were planted; tho next spring only a few stragglers appeared, but the second spring from planting at least a third of the bushel sprouted. ? part of the little trees were transplanted the succeeding fall, but never attained the size and vi gor of those not moved. Our native nut are slow about coming into bearing, trees reuquiring usually about eighi to twelve years. Little has been done by cultiva tion or selection to improve them. What may be done has been shown by the European chestnut; the number of varieties bave been increased, the nnts are larger and of better quality, and the trees bear earlier than our own. There is a dwarf Japanese variety that comes into bearing at four to five years, and bears larger nuts than the European, but it is not very hardy. Doubtless they could be made more hardy by grafting on our own native stock.?Tribune. It shows how very hard-up the so-call ed Reformers are for arguments against Sheppard, when the worst charge they can bring against him is, that he as president of a small bank in Edgefield, charged farmers and others ten per cent for loans^ They cannot assail his charac ter, for as Tillman himself has declared, "he is too well known to need any encomiums from my hands," and the speaker had no desire "to gild refined gold or paint the lily." His record as a Democrat and as Speaker of tiie House, Lieut-Governor and afterwards as Governor, is conceded on all sides to have been one of the best the State has ever had. They ignore all these facts and they likewise neglect to tell how grateful the farmers of Edgefield feel to him for letting them have the money to make their crops; but like drowning men clutching at straws, they retail this bank transaction with a great deal of gush for tbe "poor farmer,'' and franti cally endeavor to make some capital out of it. But they cannot fool sensible men by any such chaff.?Aiken Journal and lie view. ? ?I If you are suffering from liver complaint, kidney trouble, dyspepsia, sick headache or loss of appetite try G'?onn Spring Water. You can get it through W. R. Delgar, Jr. - t ? 4>? mm* A Leader* Since its first introduction, Electric Bitters h;i8 gained rapidly in popular ?aror, until now it is clearly in the lead am ng pure medicinal t??nii-'s and alteratives?combining notbis.g irbioh permits it* use as a beverage or intoxi cant, it if recognized as the be^t and purest medicine fr>r all ailment'* of >tom*cb. Liver or Kidneys.? It will cure Sick Headache, Indiges tion, Constipation, ;ind drive Malaria from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed with each battle or the m.ney rvill be refunded. Price only 50c. per bottle. Sold by J. P. W. De I.orme. 2 ?mmm> ? Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, III., writes "From persona! experience I can recommend ?e Wilt's Sarsapariila, a cure for impure blood aod general debility." J. S. Hughson k Ho Just Received A BIG ST?CK OF Colgate* s Fine Extracts FOR THE HANDERCHIEF, ALSO SUPERIOR TOILET SOAP. J. S. HUGHSON & CO., Monaghan Biock. MAIN' STREET, June 22. SUMTER, S. C. THE Mutual Life INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Is a Strictly Mutual And has no Stockholders to be enriched by the profits on your money. Its first cost for Insurance, is a little higher than that of "Cheap" Stock or Assessment Companies, but its Fill Results Cant lie Beaten By any Company anywhere. An Insurance Contract is not a thing of a day or a year. It i9 a lifetime investment, and you ought to be careful, how you muke such an investment. Cheap insurance is like a chsap plow or a cheap gin. It will work fairly well for a while, a Very Little While, and then, Vou Know How it is Yourselt? GERNAND & HYATT, I GENERAL AGENTS, COLUMBIA, S. C j A1 ta mont Moses, Special Representa tive tor Sumtei County. June 2'J?"Jni. NEW arble Works. COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE HAVE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the purpose of working Marble and Granite, manufacturing Monuments, TomMones. Etc., And doing a General Business in that line. A complete work-shop has been fitted up on LIBERTY STREET, NEAR POST OFFICE And wc are now re?dy to execute with promptness all orders consigned to us. Satis faction guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an order elsewhere. W. II. COMMANDER, <i. E. RICHARDSON. .Ju?-e 1 >' R:i :ui T;i?>:tlos euro colic A Tune that Always Charms. "I have just como from the Globe Democrat bulletin wtodow, where I learned that when the band in the con vention hall at Chicago struck up 'Dixie' there was wild cheering by the 20,000 people present," said G. R. Sande, a keen vis3ged Yankee from Vermont, at the Southern. "Well, there is nothing unusual about that, though there is something strange. I am a Yankee, with perhaps a little more inherited prejudice against the South than the average amon^ my people, but I must admit that I never hear 'Dixie/ played by a brass band but that I feel an almost irresistible impulse to yell. There is something about the tune that is inspiring, and I don't wonder that it cheered the rebel soldiers into the jaws uf death tnan.y a time* Its stribent strains are greeted with nearly as much applause in the North as in the South. Even in Europe and in Mexico I have witnessed the same effect on crowds when Dixie' was played. Somehow or other the tune seems to go right into you and make you yell. It is more typicatly American any other musical production of the country. It embodies and expresses a distinct idea, and not one of secession, either. 'Marching Through Georgia,' "My Maryland' and other war or national songs are positively not in it with Dixie.'"?St. Louise Globe-Democrat. The Omaha Bee teils this, and we suppose it is well informed and gives facts: "There are twenty well built towns in Kansas without a singlo inhabi tant to wakeu tbe echoes of their de serted streets. Saratoga has a jj35 000 opera house, a large brick hotel, a $20, 000 school house, and a number of fine business houses, yet there is nobody even to claim a place to sleep. At Fargo a $20,000 school house stands on the hill side a monument of the bond voting craze. A herder and his family constitute the sole population of what was once an iocorporatedfc'city." Great advantages very frequently carry with them very serious drawbacks. The railway lines constrncted by Russia to conneot her Asiatic provinces have expedited the transmission of cholera, which travels by steam instead of by tbe slow process of the caravan, as it formerly did. ??-+t ? Abbeville Press and Banner : The speech of Hon. E. B. Murray which was delivered at Abbevi'ile last Monday is regarded as the best political speech that was ever delivered at this place It can not fail to have its effect upon all minds that are open to reason. It has been printed as a political tract for free distribution among the people, and any body can get a copy on application." ?I? Tbe Northern Republican press is giving out daily no uncertain sound as to their views about a Force bill for tho South. They favor it. They are mumbling over frauds in the South while pretending to know nothing of great frauds in the North and in their own party. They are simply advocat ing a revolutionary measure in 1892 for the South because they will sacrifice everything to keep in power. It is a truth in medicine that the smallest dose that performs the cure is the best. De Witt's Little Early Risers are the smallest pills, ^will perform the cure and are the best. J. S. Hughson & Co. Many Persons are broken Hovrn from overwork or household cares. Brown's Iron Bitters Rebnlias thb irstem, aids diction, removes excess of bile, and cures malaria. <iet the nenuine. Ripans Tabules arc of great value. SPECIAL RUN Nc. 10. GREATEST VAETE OJT EARTH. Tyler** Fumons Antique Oak Roll Car* tain Desk, complete, aee apodal clren?ars. Ko. 4004,3 ft. 6 in. long, net 81.6.00 No. 4009.4 ft. 6 in. . " '* $21.00 Ho. 4010,5 ft. lon?, - - *l 823.00 Also see new ISO page catalogue for 1892. Great cut of about 40 per centfrom former list. BOOKS FREE, postage lOc. Shipped from St Louis. Ko., er Indianapolis, Ind. BANK COUNTERS A SFEC2AETT. We refer to every Bank In Thirty States. TYLER DESK CO., St Louis, Mo. The Expenditure for Pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, as now officially stated, amounted to ?134,583,052 79. In the fiscal year -nding June 30, 1891, we paid $124, -15,951 40, while in the vear before that we paid ?109,357.534. In the last ten years our pension payments have amounted to ?776,282,100 07. The cost of the German army, it may be interesting to note, is for this year estimated at ?80,979.733. Beides our pensions our army costs ?30,000, 000. _ The City of Paris ocean steamer has made the trip from Queenstowm to Sandy Hook in five days, fifteen hours and fifty-eight minutes, breaking the record by thirty-three minutes. Before threo years it will be made in five days or les?i, we think. The City of Paris made 520 miles in one day's run and averaged 21.62 knots an hour. The first mistake of the campaign will be non-attendance at primaries, and every voter who fails to attend hie primary is negligent in his duty and cares nothing for his party's success: The importance of having Democrats at Democratic primaries was never so necessary as it is today. When Baby was sick, vre gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castorf* Bucklen's Arnica Salve* The Best Salve in the world for Cute, BrnisfS Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum. 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Watches, Diamonds, Sterling Silver, Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors, Machine Needles, &e. FO IjSO . SIGN OF THE DIG WATCH. HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES. JAMES AXliAJT & CO. Diamonds, Jewelry* Silv^nvaro, Specta cles, Drawing Instruments TOE FINEST STOCK LN THE STATE. RELIABLE GOODS AT REASONABLE PRICES. Watch Repairing a specialty. Chief Inspectors of Watches for South Caro ina Railway, Atlantic Coast Ltae and Southern Division of Three Cs Rail Koad. JAMEO ALLAN & CO., Kins S*.. Sisrn cf I>ruoi Clock '": irfcatoc S. 0 tin OHAS. E. KIM BALL, Receiver. IN EFFECT JULY 17, 1892. daily except sunday. North Bound | No. IjNo. 2I|No. 31 (No. 33 Lv Charleston Lv Pregnall's Lv Harleyville Lv Pecks Lv Holly Hill Lv Connors Lv Eutawville Lv Vance? Ar Vanc?8 Lv Snell's Lv Parlera Ar Harlin City Lv Merriara Lv St Paul Lv Summerton Lv Silver Lv Pack8ville Lv Tiodal Ar Sumter Lv Sumter Lv Oswego Lv St. Charles L7 Elliotts Lv Lamar Lv Syracuse Lv Darlington Lv Mont Clare Lv Robbins Neck Lv Maodeville Ar Bennettsville m 30 05 15 29 32 37 44 55 8 10 8 22 8 28 8 38 8 48 a. m. j a 6 50' 8 00 8 16 8 46 8 53 9 15 9 28 9 47 Ol. j p. Iii. 10 15 10 30 10 45 11 01 11 11 11 26 11 40 p.m. 10 15 10 37 10 50 11 05 11 25 11 45 12 10 p.m. 10 15 10 35 10 48 11 10 a.m. 8 00 8 16 8 28 8 44 p.m. daily except sdkday. South Bonnd. | No. 2 |No. 22|No. 32|No. 34 Lv Bennettsville Lv Maodeville Lv Robbin8Neck Lv Mont Clare Lv Darlington * Lv Syracuse Lv Lamar Lv Elliott Lv St. Charles Lv Oswego Ar Sumter Lv Sumter Lv Tiodal Lv Pack9ville Lv Silver Lv Summerton Lv St Paul Lv tferrtam Lv Harlin City Lv Parlers Lv Snell's A r Vanqes Lv Va rices Lv Eutawville Lv Connors Lv Holly Hill Lv Pecks Lv Harleyville Lv Pregnall'8 Ar Charleston a.m. 8 02 8 12 8 22 8 28 8 40 11 05 p.m. p m. 6 40 7 05 7 20 7 52 8 00 8 32 8 50 10 20 p.m a m. 8 00 8 17 8 30 8 47 a.m. p m. 5 25 5 47 6 00 6 20 d.m. POND BLUFF BRANCH. No. 43. 10 00 10 12 10 25 a. m. Lv Eutawville Ar Lv Belvidere Lv Ar Ferguson Lv No. 44. 7 55 7 42 7 30 a. m. No's 1 and 2 make connection at Sumter with A.C. L. to artd from Columbia and points West. E. D. KYLE, J. II. AVERILL, Gen'l Pass. Agent. General Manager. "OLD RELIABLE" LINS. South Carolina Railway AND LEASED LINES. D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Receiver. Passenger Department?Condensed Scb In effect Jan. 17, 1892. MAIN LINE. west?daily. A.M. A.M. P.M. Leave Charleston, 6.00 6.50 5.00 " Summerville, 6.50 7.28 5.57 " PregnalTs 7.30 7.58 6 39 '? George's 7.45 6 53 Arrive L'rap.chvUie, <[o.i5 8.30 7.25 Leave Branchville 9 00 8.35 " Bamberg 9.28 " Grahams 8.41 " Blackville 10.00 " Aiken 11.02 " Graniteville 11.15 Arrive Augusta, 11.50 east?daily. A.M Leave Augusta, Granittville ? Aiken " Blackville 14 GrahHins 11 Bamberg Arrive Branchville Leave Branchville, " Georges " Preguall's, 11 Summerv?le Arrive Charleston, 9.15 9.40 9 52 10.25 11.05 . P.M. 8.00 8 36 8.50 10.00 10.20 10.31 10.59 11 00 11.31 11.45 12.27 1.15 P.M. 4.30 5.05 5.25 6.28 6 48 700 7.30 7.40 8.15 8.28 9.07 9 50 sdule. P.M. 6.i5 6.54 7.25 <;s oo 8.15 8.41 8.56 9.15 10 23 10.37 11.15 P.M. 8.15 * 8.58 9.36 10.20 COLUMBIA DIVISION AND CAMPEN BRANCH. daily. P.M. 7 35 8 10 8 M 9.00 9.45 A.M. 8 35 9.11 9 32 10.00 10 05 10.30 10.45 11 25 10.50 A.M. 8 55 8 20 758 7.33 Lv Branchville Ar Lv Orangeburg Ar Lv St.Matthews Ar Lv Kingville Ar Lv Kingville Ar Lv Cam. June. Lv Lv Clareraont Lr Ar Camden Lv Ar Columbia Lv ?T6.50 P. M 8.10 736 7 10 6.43 6.19 5.46 5.33 5.00 6.00 [Meal statioaa. *Will stop to let off pas* Beugers. Additional trains daily leave Columbia 9.00 a. m., arrive Kingville9.50 a.m. Leave Kingville 6.43 p. m., arrive at Columbia 7 35 p. m. COLUMBIA, NEWBERRY k LAURENS RY. daily?except sukday. P.M. A.M. 3 30 Lv Columbia Ar 11.00 4.21 Lv Irmo Lv 10.09 5.37 Lv Little Mountain Lv 9.00 6.13 Lv Prosperity Lv 8 24 6.44 Lv New berry Lv 7.56 8.30 Ar Clinton Lv 6 30 CAROLINA CUM. GAP & CHICAGO R. R. daily?except sukday. P.M. A.M. 6.10 Lv Augusta Ar 9 15 G.49 Lv Graniteville Lv 9.15 7.05 Ar Aiken Lv 9 00 7.15 Lv " Ar 8.45 8.00 Lv Trenton Lv 8.00 8.15 Ar Edgefield Lv 7.45 THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE. Through Trains daily between Charleston and Augusta, between Charleston and Co lumbia and between Columbia and Cam den. Through Sleepers between Charles ton and Atlanta, leaving Charleston 6.15 p. ai.?arrive Atlanta 6.30 p. ra. Leave Atlanta 11.15 P. M.?arrive Charleston 1.15 P. M. Pullman Bullet Chair Oar daily be-, tween Chat lesion and Columbia?Leave Charleston 6,50 a. ra., arrive Columbia 10 05 a. m. Lea?e Columbia G p. m., arrive Charles ton 10.20 p. ra. Connections at Charleston with Ciyde Steamship Co. for Now York Mondays \Vpdnos?lay and Friday. For -T*<:ksonville Mondays. Thuisdays and Saturdays. At, j Columbia daily with II. k I). R. R. to and from Washington. New York and points East and North. At Columbia daily except with II. & I). R.R. (C. k (?. Div.) to and from Greenville and Walhalla. At Augusta daily with Ga. R. Il , Central R. R. and P. R. k W. C. Ry. At Camden daily with C. C.&C. R. R. Through train to and from Marion, N. C. and Blacksburg. For futtber information apply to E. P. WARING, 0. M. Ward, Gen'l Pass. Agent. Gen'l Manger. "first class boarding _house. MRS. M. A EPPERSON is prepared to eniertaln hoarders, both regular and tra.iii?nt with the best accommodations. Persons from the country spending any time in the ri ? y will be entertained io the best man ner. Table supplied with the best the market j affords. Liberty Stroit n-^ar St. Joseph's Academy. March 16? o. Kipans Tabules cure nausea. Atlantic Coast Line 1W gs ? ? i WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dat*?i July"24. 1892 L've Wilmington... Leave .Marion. Arrive Florence-... Leave Florence. Ar*ve Suinter... Leavo Sumter. Ar'v? Columbia. (No ~~P. M. * 6 25 9 35 10 25 No. 50 A. M. *3 20 4 35 4 35 6 15 271 231N P. M *10 10 12 40 1 20 A M No 52 *9 43 10 55 A. at. A.M. No. 58 f7 57 9 20 Sec notes for additional truing. No. 52 runs through troio Charleston via Central R. R. leaving Lane 8:32 A. M., Man ning 9:09. A. M. Train on C. & D. R. R. connects at Florence with No. 58. TRAINS GOING NORTH. I No. 51 (No. 53|No. 59 Leave Columbia. Ar've Surater. Leave Sxmter.. Arrive Florence. Leave Florence. Leave Marion............... Arr. Wilmington. P M ; *I0 45 A M 12 04 12 0-1 1 15 A M No. 78 * 5 00 5 14 8 55 P M ? 6 le 7 05 No. See note* for additional trains P M t 7 38 S 40 No 14 * S 50 9 3* A M 12 20 Daily, f Daily except Sunday. No. 53 runs through to Charleston. S. C, via Central R. R., arriving Manning S:00 P. M., Lanes 8:40 P. M., Charleston 10.30 P. M. No. 59 connects at Florence with C. and D. train from Cberaw and Wadesboro. Nos- 78, and 14 make close connection at Wilmington with W. ? W. R. R. for all points North. Trains on Florence R. R.. and Southern Di vision, Wilson and FayettevHIfl Branch, leave Pee Dee Junction 6.33 a. m , arrive Rowland 7:35a.m., Fayettv?llo 9 20 a m Returning leave Fayetteville 5.30 p. m., arrive Rowland 7.12 p. in.. Pee Dee Junction S. 16 p. in. Daily except Sunday. Trains on Manchester & Augusta R. R. leave Sumter daily except Sunday, 10:50 A. M.. ar rive Rimini 11.59. Returning leave Rimini 12:30, P. M., arrive Sumter 1:40 P. M Tr ains on Ilartsville R. R. leave Hartsville daily exc?pt Sunday at 5 55 a. tn . arriving FUyds 6.40 a. m. Returning leave Floyds 3.25 p. m., arriving Hartsville 4 05 m. Trains on Wilmington Chadbourn and Con way railroad, leave Chadbourn 10.30 a. in. arrive at Conway 1.00 p. m , returning leave Conway at 2.30 p. m., arrive Chadbourn 5 20 p.m. Leave Chadbourn 7 15 a. in. and 5.50 p. m-, arrive Hub at S 00 a. m. and 6.25 p. m. Returning leave Hub 9 00 a. m. and 6.45 p. in. arrive at Chadb^nrn at 9 45 a. m. and 7.30 p. in. Daily oxcept Sunday. JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't. J. R KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. Atlantic Coast Line. rr ? ? ? a ? 9 ?"? * "C NORTH-EASTERN R. R. of S. C. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Apr 24 '92j LeFi'nce " Kingst Ar Lanes Le Lanes. Ar. Ch'n (No. 27|No. 23 j A. M.] P H. ' *1 35|* 8 05 9 30 9 55 2 50 2 50 5 00 A. M. 11 59 A. M. JNo. 53 P. M. * 8 45 10 20 P. if. Train on O. & D. R. R. ence with No. 61 Train. connecta at Flor ra'x^ going north. I No. 78|No. 14jNo. 52 Le. Ch'n A r Lanes | Le Laues.) " Kingst ' Ar Fl'n.j.! * Daily. j Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. ofS. C. Nos. 78. and 14 run solid to Wilmington, N. C, ranking close connection witb W. & W. R. R. for all points north. J. R. XKNLT, J. ?. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. CHARLESTON & SAVANNAH RAILWAY. Schedule in effect July !2, 1892. Time at Charleston, 75th Meridian. Time South of Charleston, 90th Meridian. SOUTHWARD. 35 27 P. M. A. M. Lv. Charleston 3 15 4 00 Arv. Walterbo' 5 35 Arv. Yemassee 4 40 5 04 Arv. Savannah G 40 6 44 NORTHWARD. 36 A.M. 6 50 6 40 8 50 P. M. Ar.Ch'lst'n 12 20 Lv.Savn'h Lv. Walt'bo Lv. Yem'8ee 14 P.M. 12 39 2 14 16 P.M. 2 50 3 55 5 06 7 20 15 A. M. 7 00 10 45 S 25 10 20 P. M. 78 P.M. 8.43 10 07 A. M. 1 51 Train? 35, 36, 15 and 16, stop at all sta tions. 27, 14 and 78, 15, 36, 22 and 35, daily. From 32 daily except Sunday. Connection for Walterboro made by trains 15 and 35, daily except Sunday. Connec tion for Beaufort, S. C, made with P P. k A. Ry., at Yemassee by trains 15 daily, and 35 daily except Sunday. fe P. McSFINEY, C. S. Gadsdrn, D. P. A. Supt. i & D. H. Chamberi.an, Receiver. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. Schedule in effect FEBRUARY 27, 1892. North daily 33. 6 55 a m 9 00 a m 11 10 a m 12 49 p m 1 20 p m 1 44 p m 2 20 p m 3 16 p m Lv Charleston " Columbia 11 Camden " Lancaster. " CitawbaJct. " Rock Hill 41 Yorkville Ar Blacksborg South daily 32. At pni 10 20 p m p m p m ;> m p m p m P m 5 00 3 41 3 11 2 55 2 20 1 10 Dailv except Sunday. North No. 33. " South No. 32. 4 00 p m Lv Blacksburg Ar p m 12 40 5 00 p m " Shelby " " am 11 40 6 50 p m u Rutberfordton " a m 9 10 8 05 p m " Marion " a m 7 30 33. Sunday Only. South No. 32. Lv Bbicksburg Ar p m 12 40 " Shelby " p m 12 02 " Rutherfordton " ? m 10 5o " Marion " a m 9 40 No. 32 connects with R. <fc D. R. ?i. at R.?ck | Ililt. No. 33 connects with R. <fe D. R. R. at Biac?vshurg. C. M. Ward, E. P. WARRING, C^n. Man. G. P. A. North No. 4 00 p ra 4 35 p m 5 50 p ni 7 00 a m SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Compounding Prescriptions. ?ipans Tabules cure jaundice. BEST AND CHEAPEST. ALL GOODS GUARANTEED Estimates furnished by return Mail. LARGE STOCK. PROMPT SHIPMENTS. m ! MB 1 CO., -* MAN?FACTCRER8 OF AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN MOULDING-, ?amd? GENERAL BUILDING KATEBIAL Ofiice and Salesrooms, 10 and 12 HayneSt. CHARLESTON, S. C. Jan 25 e .1 ft NO, a i COLUMBIA, S. C. SASH & BLINDS, LATHS, L?ME, CEMENT, PLASTER, AND HAIR. Fncl ai AiricaiWMoi Glass, i PAINTS, OILS AND TARNISHES. CARTER WHITE LEAD, Tbe Best in the Market. OKatnotl, ati FATEXT tiV$tZ*>& at tended to tor MODERATE FEES <>?r office a .>i?wsite 5lu r.s. I^textt of?cc. and we can ob tain Patents m less time than thnsc n*nn?iv from IV iSTIIXGTOX. ScikI ?KAH JMr <* }-;>t);v; of invention. We sdv??e t?? nmcnt a?>; itv free <-Vt Large s^"t wc make A*0 CllAtWB UX] / '?' VaTEST IS SECURED. Kor circular advice, terms nn<l reforon<vs to actual clients in jwot'-mrn Stwte.r.mmr. ii;y <?r Town, write to C.A.'SNQW aco Opposite Fntcr.i Oftce, WnshiTujlon^ D C PLUMMER JOHNSON. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, S UM TER, S. C. IS PREPARED TO DO ALL WORK entrusted to bis care, either in the make jp of new work, or mending line and g-^aran ?es satisfaction. Term* low. Cai? and see ne at Shop, next door to Moisea ^ Lee:8 law )ffic?. _ WRIGHT'S HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. -o rH?S NEW AND ELEGANT HOUSE with all modern improvements, U now >pea for tbe receotion of guests. S. L. WRIGHT * SON, Prooriet'ors. Rip uis T Utiles : lire h^dache. Special Attention Given to Orden by Mail. C. O. BROWN & RRft, Opposite Post Office, ? COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct 5-0_ ?. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. ? Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON ? GLOBE. NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE. HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital reoresented, $75,000,000. -4 Feb.12 OTTO F. WESTERS, WHOLESALE GROCER And Liquor Dealer. OFFICE AND SALESROOM : 183 East Bay, Charleston, S< C, Nov. 7 o M I. STEMS & SOr Established 1847. WHOLESALE GBOCEBS, Auction and Commission Merchants t. and Liquor Dealers. agents fob The Philip Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee Beer, and the "Best" Tonic, a concentrated liquid extract of Malt and Hops. The Palest Brewing Ce., Milwau ? Beer. 187 EAST BAY ahd 50 akd 52 STATE Sn., (Auction Room State Street,) CHARLESTON, S. C Consignments Solicited. Jan. 23. o FERTILIZERS! FERTILIZERS! FERTILIZERS ! Having bought largely, fob cash, s fall as sortment of, Fsr?ita, Aci?s aM ote Gum We are prepared tc fill orders for such at low figures and on reasonable terms. C. W?LBERN & CO., Wholesale Grocers, 171 and 173 East Baj,^ Nov. 19. Charleston, S. 0. WILLIAM KENNEDY Fashionable Barber. MAIN STREET, Next door to Earle&Purdy's Law G See. S?MTER, S. C, IDESIRE TO INFORM the citizens of Sumter and vicinity that I have opened business on my own account at tbe above eld stand, and that with competent and polite assistants, I will be pleased to serve them in any branch of my business in the best styl? of the art. ' Give me r. call. WM. KENNEDY. Oct. 19._ SHAVING DONE BY ELECTRICITY ?AT?; <G. C. REDO _ Next door to T. C. Scaffc,^ Jan I