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Humorous gqiavtmrut. Had Suffered Enough.?A gentleman was arraigned before an Arkansaw justice on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He had entered a store pretending to be a customer, but proved to be a thief. "Your name is Jim Liekmore," said the justice. "Yes sir." "And you are charged with a crime that merits a long term in the penitentiary ?" "Yes, sir." "And you are guilty of the crime?" "Iam." "And you ask for no mercy ?" "No, sir." "xoa nave naa a great aeai 01 irouuie within the last two years?" "Yes, sir, I have." "You have often wished you were dead ?" "I have, please your honor." "You wanted to steal money enough to take you away from here ?" "You are right, judge." "If a man had stepped up and shot you justasyou entered the store, you would have said 'thank you, sir?'" "Yes, sir, I would ; but, judge, how did you find out so much about me?" "Some time ago," said the judge, with a solemn air, "I was divorced from my wife. Shortly afterward you married her. The result is conclusive. I discharge you. Here, take this fifty-dollar bill. You have suffered enough." Straightening Things.?Patrick Maginis went to confession, and, among many other sins, confessed to the good father that he had stolen Mrs. Mulcahy's pig, the loss of which had been a great blow to the Door woman. The priest looked at Pat very severely and said: "Stole Mrs. Mulcahy's pig, did ye? That's very bad, Patrick?very bad. Don't ye know, Pat, that to steal a pig is a haynioos sin, and to steal Mrs. Mnlcahy's pig is worse ? What will ye say on the day of judgment when Mrs. Mulcahy confronts ye before the Lord an' charges ye with stealin' her pig?what will ye say?" Pat looked rather glnm at this onslaught, bat at this point he peked up and said: "Sure, yer riverince, Mrs. Mulcahy won't be there." "Indade; an' why not, Pat Maginis? Mrs. Mulcahy will be there and the pig'll be there, an' when yer asked why ye, stole the wlday's pig, what'll ye say, I'm wantin' to know ?" "Will Mrs. Mulcahy be there?" asked Pat, a great idea illuminating his face. "She will," said the good father, severely. "And will the pig be there ?" "Certainly." "Then, begorra," said Pat, "I'll say Mrs. Mulcahy, there's your pig.'" Advice Free.?A woman with her jaw tied up in a handkerchief was standing in the doorway leading to a Woodward avenue dentist's yesterday when a boy came along, caught on, and stopped to inquire : "Ache very hard?" "Yes." "How long?" "For si W66k?" "Goingto have it pulled?" "I?I?guess so." "Tried peppermint, camphor, hot salt, ashes, lauaanum and so on, I suppose." "Yes." "Kicked over chairs, spanked the children and jawed your husband?" "Yes." "Lemme see." She opened her mouth and put her finger on me tooth, and he made a brief inspection and said: "I was going to advise the faith cure, but it is too far gone. Advise you to have it pulled. Deleterious to your general system in present state. Won't hurt over thirty seconds. Go home smiling. Brace up and be a man. No charge?good day." ?[Detroit Free Press. "There, Gol Darn Ye!"?Deacon Blank, of the town of Lee, Me., owned a large farm, and hired, among other hands, a man by the name of Jacob. The deacon had bargained that Jacob should have bread and milk for supper every night, but" took good care that the milk was first carefully skimmed, the cream for the cream pot, and the skim-milk for Jacob. Jacob ate his bread and blue milk three evenings without a murmur. The next morning the deacon was awakened by a great commotion in the barn-yard. Looking out, he saw Jacob hanging to his best Jersey's tail with one hand, while with the other he belabored her with a beanpole as she flew around the inclosure. "There, gol darn you," said Jake, "don't you ever dare to give another drop of skim-milk as long as you live." And the deacon took good care that she didn't. I?-"Would you like to buy a dog-skin, sir?" "If it is a good one I will buy.it." "A good one? Why, it was taken off the fattest dog you ever saw. He was dreadful fat?oh, you never did see anything like it! He was as fat?as fat?oh, he was almighty fat!" "But I don't know about fat dogs' skins being so very good. I have heard they were tender." "Oh?but?wall?I don't know as I can say he was so durned, thunderation fat after all." Not a Nickle.?"I knew that man when he wasn't worth a nickel," said a man to a stranger, pointing at a passer by. "Is that so? How long ago ?" "About a year ago." "Men rise suddenly in this country, I suppose ?" "Yes, sometimes." "So you knew him when he wasn't worth a nickel. How much do you suppose he is worth now ?" "He ain't worth a nickel." J^* "No, William," she said coldly, with a side long glance to note the effect of her words, "I cannot be your wife. You smoke and sometimes drink. I have registered a vow not to marry a man who has either of these vices." * ' * ** ?' ? t- ?- " 11 ??" 4t*/\ LiivmVVIA MA "All HgUb, iuunw, was me uuuiuio ic ply. "And now you will please ask your younger sister, Lula, to come down stairs a moment? She said, when she kissed me good-bye last night, that sho would gladly have me if you refused."?Philadelphia Inquirer. One of our exchanges speaks of a millinery store kept by an estimable lady, and says the editor "was gratified to see her stocking up." The editor says he never was so astonished in his born days as he was, when the paper came out, to meet the millinery lady, and have her strike him across the brow with an umbrella, and tell him he was a liar, and that she would tell his wife. He didn't know what she was mad at, and he had to read the item over a hundred times to see if there was anything spiteful in it. A lady who owned much real estate one Sunday saw one of her tenants at work in his garden. She reproved him?asking if he did not know he was breaking the third commandment. "I break it no more than yourself, my lady." "Why!" said she in astonishment. "You never saw me at work on Sunday?" "No," was the answer; "nor on any other day, and don't the commandment read, 'six days shall thou labor' ?" MGr Gazley (presenting his card)?I represent my friend, Mr. Dolley. You gross ly insulted him last night, and he demands an apology or satisfaction, sir. Tangle?I don't remember insulting anybody. "You told him to go to Jericho, sir." "0, yes, I believe I did. So Dolley feels bad about it, does he?" "Yes, sir. He demands an apology." "Well, I don't want any ill feeling between us. You may tell him that he needn't go." I?- The Rev. Dr. Sutton once said to the late Mr. Peech, a veterinary surgeon: "Mr. Peech, how is it that you have not called upon me for your account?" "O," said Mr. Peech, "I never ask a gentlemau for money." "Indeed," said the vicar; "then how do you get on if he doesn't pay?" "Why," replied Mr. Peech, "after a certain time I conclude that he is not a gentleman, and then I ask him." 1^* During a recent thunderstorm near Memphis, Tenn., a negro was severely kicked by a vi ous mule; and, just as he was picking himself up, a stroke of lightning hit the mule, and killed him dead on the spot. "Well, dar," exclaimed the negro, "ef dis chile hain't got pow'ful frens to venge his insults, den. der's no use trying to nab faith in any t'ing!" A Father's Feeling.?He?What did your pater say when you told him we were engaged. She?Oh, you must not ask me to repeat such language!?[Life. ?he |iiriu <tud |ut$idr. HOW TO CUKE A COLD. When one becoms chilled, or takes cold, the mouths of myriads of little sweai glands are suddenly closed, and the impurities which should pass off through the skin are forced back to the interior of the body, vitiating the blood and putting extra work on the lungs and other internal organs. Just beneath the surface of the skin, all over the body, there is a net-work of minute blood vessels, finer than the finest lace. When one is chilled, the blood is forced from these capillary vessels into one or more of the internal organs, producing inflammation or congestion, and thus often causing diseases dangerous to me. The time to treat a cold, says a writer in the Youth's Companion, is at the earliest possible moment after you have taken it. And your prime object should be tc restore the perspiration and the capillary circulation. As soon, then, as you feel that you have taken cold, have a good fire in your bedroom. Put your feet into water as hot as can be borne and containing a tablespoonful of mustard. Have it in a vessel sc deep that the water will come up toward the knees. Throw a blanket over the whole to prevent evaporation and cooling. In from five to ten minutes take the feel out, wipe them dry, and get into a bed in which there are two extra blankets. Just before or after getting into bed, drink a large glass of lemonade as hot as possible, or a glass of water containing a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, with a little sugar if desired. Should there be pain in the chest, side or back, indicating pleurisy or pneumonia, dip a small towel in cold water, and wring it as dry as possible. Fold the towel sc that it will cover a little more surface than is affected by the pain. Covei this with a piece of flannel, and both with oiled silk, or better, with oiled linen ; now wind a strip of flannel a fool wide several times around the chest. The heat of the body will warm the towel almost immediately, the oiled linen and flannel will retain the heat and moisture, and steaming the part, will generally, cause the pain to disappear. Should there be pain or soreness in the throat, you should treat it in a similai manner with wet compress and flanI nel bandage. 1 T1_ 1 : 1 - oinonln fnAfl xjul bp.irillgiy ui uiiupic iuwu. Baked apples and other fruit, bread and butter, bread and milk, milk toast, baked potatoes, or raw oysters may be eaten. By following the above directions intelligently and faithfully you will ordinarily check the progress of the cold, and prevent serious, possibly fatal illness. Uncle Sam's Whitewash.?Excursionists who travel along the sea-coast in summer are often attracted by the remarkable whiteness of the light-house, beacons and keepers' dwellings, and they wondei how these guides to the mariner are kepi in suchshining condition during the wintei as well as summer. The material used is simply whitewash, and here is the United States government formula for mixing a whitewash, that when properly made and applied, gives a white that does not easily wash or rub off: "To ten parts of freshly slaked lime add one part of the best hydraulic cement. Mix well with salt water and apply quite thin." 9 Sylvester's process for excluding moisture from external walls is in using two wasnes or solutions ior covering me surface of brick walls, one composed of soap and water and one of alum and water. The proportions are three-quarters of a pound of soap to one gallon of water and half a pound of alum to four gallons of water. Both substances must be perfectly dissolved in water before using. The walls should be perfectly clean and dry, and the temperature of- the air should not be below fifty degrees Fahrenheit when the compositions are applied. The first, or soap wash, should be laid on when at boiling heat with a flat brush, taking care not to form a froth on the brick-work. This wash should remain twenty-four hours, so as to become dry and hard before the second, or alum wash, is applied, which should be done in the same manner of the first. The temperature of this wash when applied may be 60? or 70?, and it should also remain twenty-four hours before a second coat of the soap-wash is put on, and these coats are to be repeated alternately until the walls are made impervious to water. The alum and soap thus combined form an insoluble compound, filling the pores ol the masonry, and entirely penetrating the walls. Four coatings will render bricks impenetrable. Farmer Bell.?Farmer Bell did not believe in moral or mental sugar plums in his own family circle, He was quite willing to commend friends or acquaintances, but he had a theory that his own family would be best improved by a Spartan discipline. The children must learn to do their duty without praise; and for his wife, she had toiled for fifteen years without having once been told that she was a satisfactory housekeeper. One night the two came home from a tea party at a neighbor's house, and Mrs. Bell, with the courage of the meek, said: "Ezra, it seems to mo I heard you praisin' the mottoes the Smith girls worked." "Yes, I did," said Mr. Bell. "Real pretty they were for such nonsense." "Your own girls have made some just like 'era; Yeu'd better praise them. It'll tickle 'em to death. And didn't I heai you say that squash pie for supper was powerful nice?" "Well, Miranda, 'twas a good pie." "Was it a mite better'n mine, Ezra?" "Well, no, can't say as 'twas." "When have you ever said one word tc praise a pie or a cake I've set afore you?" "Maybe I ain't praised you much, Miranda, but then I ain't complained." "Yes, you have! sayin' nothin's complainin' sometimes. It's just like pushin: _ t- i 3 .? v:ii u? i , n neavy iuau upiiiu ucaiucs wimtyuu uavc agreed to carry, to go along day after daj and not hear a word o' praise." Ezra began to think, and although he bj no means changed his spots entirely, he did from that time try to act on the theory that "women folks" are fond of commen' dation. Danger in Newly Built Houses.? There is too great haste in occupying g house after its completion. In manj places there is such demand for dwellings and often business apartments, that as soon as finished, they are occupied. This is especially true of small dwellings There is more danger in this than is generally supposed. There is no health ir dampness and mould under any circum stances, and in living apartments, where the tendency is toward poor ventilation the dampness of newly finished houses contributes largely to ill-health In the town of Basle, Switzerland, a regulatior has been adopted which prevents newlj built houses from being occupied until four months after completion. Undei many circumstances, so long a time as above specified is not necessary, but it is often best to err on the ode of safe ty. The size of the house, its location surroundings, the material used, and th( 4U/v nAn4l\/\M AM i r? 111 A A/Ml SlHltJ Ui lilt; weiiiiici cuiti in in iuo vnu sideration of the time necessary in which a building should become sufficiently dr^ for occupancy.?[Scientific American. Manure Oats.?Few farmers think o manuring oats. The common idea seem.' to be that oats are intended forse'ectec lands of medium quality that will produce a fair crop high enough to cradle, and bu few reflect for a moment that oats will re spond as readily to the application of anj good manure as any of our field crops In fact, it pays to manure oats on uplands Stable manure is best if it can be had Cottonseed meal is excellent, but is im proved by the addition of nitrate of sod* in reasonable quantity. Few crops require more nitrogen than oats, hence w< find the ripened grain containing a large proportion of the muscle-making element! that impart strength and bodily health t( the labor: ng man and beast. It would b< a great improvement on the diet of the laboring people of the country if thej would eat more oats and less white whea flour. The want of machinery for husk ing the grain accounts for the absence o oat meal on our tables. A highly nitroge nous manure for oats will be found tc pay.?[Cotton Plant. We are often asked why farmers an | organizing ? We reply, To attend to theii I own business, something they have nol been doing in the past. Other people have been attending to our business for us, anc just for a change we will swap bosses, anc try bossing ourselves awhile.?[Farmers Exchange. A room with a low ceiling will seen higher if the window curtains hang to the floor. Lambrequins may be used to extent the curtains to the ceiling, and thuscarrj out the effect. !P$tcUiUtCMt$ |UMiug. TUNING PIANOS. , "In spite of all the efforts of the makers," ; said a piano tuner to a Philadelphia Press reporter, "I do not believe there is one i piano in a hundred that, with ordinary s parlor use, will stand in tune more than two months. An unskillful musical ear, it is true, will fail to detect any important discord in a piano for six months, or perhaps longer, but no cultivated ear can tolerate the discordant notes that the best piano will insist on giving out after two i months of use. When you think once that the steel wires and iron frames of a piano are alternately contracting: and expanding: i under the variations of the surrounding ? atmosphere, giving a constant movement of the wires and a consequent change in the pitch and tone of the instrument, the impossibility of a piano maintaining a perfect tone for any length of time must be at ? once apparent, and if you will but reflect ' on the surprising fact that the tension of the strings of a piano causes a strain on the t body of the instrument equal to the weight of 100,000 pounds, you will, doubtless, i agree with me that a piano that will re main in tune for a year is an instrument i that must necessarily be of extreme rarity, if not one impossible to make. A piano, i good, bad, or indifferent, when new, , should be tuned once a month. The longer ; an instrument remains untuned the lower i its pitch of tone becomes, and when it is desired to have the piano drawn to concert , pitch the strain on the body of the instrui ment is greatly increased, so much, in fact, , that the case is liable to yield gradually, 1 necessitating a second tuning within a I . week, or two weeks at the furthest. It is a ; > common error among non-professional pi, ano players to think that a piano should ( : remain in tune at least a year. Profes- t i sionals know better." j ! ? ?? Luminous Paint.?Until now the comi mercial manufacture of luminous paint * I has been confined to England, where a ? t single factory turns out a small supply at f the price of about $3 a pound. This enor. mous cost seems to have prevented the , , j use of the paint except as a curiosity, and j . it is iorcunate mat a certain nrui imuieu ( . Mahren, at Triesch, in Austria, has found a means to produce it and place it on ? the market at 50 cents a pound, or about , one sixth of the English price. Even at . 50 cents a pound, a substance composed of roasted oyster shells and sulphur might, , we should suppose, be manufactured at a I good profit, but at that price it is likely I to come into extensive use. Wherever it can absorb light during the day it will . give it forth at night, and it is said that a > railway car in England which had its . ceiling painted with it, was so brilliantly illuminated that one could see to read a newspaper in it during the darkest night without other light. With all due allowi ance for the enthusiam of early experi menters, there is no doubt that cars with i ceiling so painted would be pleasant to reside in, whether one could really see to : read in them at night or not; and for mak ing keyholes, stairways and sign boards i luminous, the paint would we invaluable. Its application to stairways is a particu, larly obvious one, and the Austrian manufacturers furnish'a kind of wall paper on ' which the paint can be used to better advantage than on the bare plastering. The paper, which is of a leathery texture, is first treated with lime water, and then > primed with a composition furnished by the same firm. After this is dry two thin coats of the luminous paint are api plied, and the whole may then be varnished.?Philadelphia Record. i Advantages of "Forty Winks."? Sleep is closely connected with the ques , tion of diet. "Good sleeping" was a no- J ticeable feature in the large majority of I Dr. Humphrey's cases. Sound, refreshing sleep is of the utmost consequence to the ( health of the body, and no substitute can i be found for it as a restorer of vital ener- ? gy. Sleeplessness is, however, a source ] of great trouble to elderly people, and one ? which is not easily relieved. Narcotic remedies are generally mischievous; their ? first effects may be pleasant, but the hab- ( it of depending upon ihem rapidly grows , - until they become indispensable. When j i this stage has been reached the sufferer 5 is in a far worse plight than before. In all cases the endeavor should be made to i discover whether the sleeplessness be due 1 to any removable cause, such as indiges- 1 i tion, cold, want of exercise, and the like. ( In regard to sleeping in the daytime, * there is something to be said both for and ( against the practice. A nap of "forty : winks" in the afternoon enables many aged 1 i people to get through the rest of the day j i in comfort, whereas they feel tired and < weak when deprived of this refreshment. ' If they rest well at night there can be no r 1 objection to the afternoon nap, but if sleep- \ i lessness be complained of, the latter should be discontinued for a time. Most old { i people find that a reclining posture, with i the feet and legs raised, is better than the { horizontal positiou for the afternoon nap. ( 1 Digestion proceeds with morb ease than ? 1 when the body is incumbent. ? i A Soda Locomotive?Four locomo tives to be run by soaa, wnicn lanes me < k place of fire under the boiler, have been built in Philadelphia. They are for ser; vice on the streets of Minneapolis, Minn., where steam engines are forbidden. The ' engine is about sixteen feet long, entirely 1 boxed in, with no visible smokestack or pipes, as there is no exhaust or refuse. : The boiler is of copper, 84} inches in di1 ameter and fifteen feet long, having tubes running through it as in steam boilers, i Inside the boiler will be placed five tons of soda, which, upon being dampened by a jet of steam, produces an intense heat. In about six hours the soda is thoroughly saturated when the action ceases. A > stream of superheated steam from a sta1 tionary boiler is then forced through the soda, which drives out the moisture and the soda is ready for use again. The ex haust steam from the cylinder is used to 1 saturate the soda, and by this means all J refuse is used. These engines are the first r of their kind that have been built in this country. They will have the same power r as those used on the New York elevated roads. Soda engines are used in Berlin r and other European cities very successfully, and they also traverse the St. Gothard tunnel, under the Alps, where the steam engines cannot be used, because the tunnel cannot be ventillated so as to carry off the rL noxious gases generated by a locomotive. i [Railway Age. j Not There When Wanted.?-"It is queer," said a traveling man, "that when ' 1 come back at the end of one of ray trips ' the train is always late enough for me to miss the last car, and I have to walk [ home." ' "And I have noticed," said another, ' "that when I have but one match in my ; pocket and go to my room after dark it al' ways goes out before I can light the gas." ! "As I have often remarked," chimed in , the exchange editor, "if there is any particular paper I am looking after, it is sure [ to be at the bottom of the whole pile, but if I attempt to corner it and commence by 3 looking at the bottom, that particular exchange is found at the top." j "Well," said a schoolboy, "when I go ' fishing Saturdays or during vacation I never get a nibble; but if I play'hooky'and 1 run away from school to go fishing, I al7 ways get a big string and then I dare not carry them home." f "Very true, gentlemen," said a minis3 ter, "and when I prepare an especially I good sermon one-half the seats are pretty i sure not to be occupied." I "And strange to say," remarked an old toper who had heard the conversation, 7 "when I am so dry that chalk would bo water compared to me, I can go the whole town over and not meet a man who seems inclined to buy the drinks." " The Best Man to Marry.?Don't be afraid to marry a poor man; be sure that j he has something besides his poverty to ' commend him. Be sure that he has two " strong hands, not only skillful, but ready for hard work. Be sure that he has an I occupation or a position that may reasona' bly be depended on to yield a good com3 kl a 11 Da oiiwa * V* r? I- K n ? a in/lno luruiuiu ii Viu^i lie ouid umi ue *o iuuud. trious and not self-indulgent; be sure that he is steady, working six days in the week, and about fifty-two weeks in the year. A good, true, faithful young woman * ought to have no "Yes" for answer to a proposal of marriage from a lazy man, or a man who has no fixed occupation, or a 5 man who has lived half his life off the r hard earnings of his mother or sister, t going about the streets meanwhile with 3 his cane and his cigarette and his fine I clothes, playing the gentleman. 1 > K3T Spectator (to defendant)?Well, I guess the jury will find for you. The judge's charge was certainly very much i in your favor. Don't you think so ? De} fendant (moodily)?Oh, I knew all along 1' that the judge's charge would be all right. r It's the lawyer's charge that's worry-1 1 ing me. 1 ] Itteitlc fetftmttgs. tf?F William Nickel keeps a 5-eent store it Butler, Pa. I?* There are on the United States pen>ion rolls 230,478 widows. Our estimated foreign population is lot far below fourteen million. It takes longer for a man to find out nan than any other creature that is made. IgT-Set asmall box of lime in the pantry ind it will help keep it dry and the air pure. jgQr Georgia has doubled the length of, ler school term, so as to give six months ichooling. ! BtaTA silk factory with machinery for J00 hands is about to be set up in Fredericksburg, Va. BST Self-conceit isn't entirely to be de- v spised. Every man wants somebody to c ;hink well of him. 8?" Contentment is better than riches, ind when a man has both he has great " pjisnn tn hfi thankful. 1ST The battles and surrenders of the ;ivil war numbered 2,361, of which 519, occurred in Virginia. J8ST Reports declare that the corn crop ivill be much larger than had been anticipated by statisticians. '] SSF Here is a bit of practical street wis- l lom. If a man cheats mo once, shame on ] lim ; if he cheats me twice, shame on me. ^ fiST" "I'd rather be a wild turkey, and ive on the prairie," said a little boy, "than 1 ie a tame turkey, and be killed every 1 year." < fiSTDr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is quoted as saying that "death bears as pleasing t i face to an old man as sleep to one who is tired." 2 tSf Smokeless powder is said to be a juccess. Now let somebody invent a < jraokeless cigarette, and how happy we shall all be! ( S8T "You have broken the Sabbath, Johnny," said a good man; and his little jirl interrupted, "Yes, and mother's long 1 ;omb, too!" ( VST A Texas paper says: "The cotton dickers are on top. Many men are pay- < ng them the profits of the year's crop to gather it." ' Wag* The Greenville, Texas, Herald says i hat in many localities in that State the :otton crop is short and business is dull in ( xmsequence. , V3FThere were 2,192 buildings put up in ;he District of Columbia last year, adding ( >ver six millions of dollars to the value of :he real estate. 1 8$?* Elder Goodwin?Do you practice -hat sinful amusement of dancing? Wag- 1 :ey?Yes, but I don't dance well enough :o make it wicked. ] At what absurd trifles some women ( jet angry. A female book agent, who had ;ornered a poor fellow, the other day, look- * id daggers when somebody sang out, "Man . >verbored!" t *6T Abraham Lincoln was the tallest l ^resident in this country, being six feet bur inches. Benjamin Harrison is the ihortest, as his height is only five feet ive inches. The honeymoon is that part of mar- . ied life when the bride spends her time ? n trying to find out what her husband 1 ikes to eat, and he spends his time in try- 3 ng to eat it after she has cooked it. a?-Laziness grows on people; it begins c ivith cobwebs and ends with iron chains. ] The more business a man has to do the nore he is able to accomplish, for he i earns to economize his time.?[Sydney Smith. < &&T "Don't you know how to spell ?" the . jxasperated teacher asked the extremely . ihonetic boy. "Oh, yes," said the boy, ' 4I know how to spell well enough, but the Men that made the dictionaries don't < ieem to." ? fig?* A young woman in Massachusetts has 1 iued a recreant lover for breach of promise t )f marriage. She says he is the twelfth vho has jilted her, and she is going to t Make an example of him, because thirteen 1 s an unlucky number. { Nova Scotia is remarkable for the i lumber of its old people. It has a larger t lopulation of centenarians than any other ( iountry, there being one to every nine- J housand inhabitants, while England has ; inly one in every two hundred thousand. ? A veteran member of the house of 1 -epresentatives was recently asked which j s the great American game, baseball or t Iraw poker. His answer was: "Neither. The great American game is pomics. 1 That is a game at which millions play and few win." t 5?" A young Miss, whose acquirements j ire rather beyond her four summers, was, i i few days since, repeating the catechism i it her mother's knee. In response to the i juestion, "What did God create?" she < laid, "The earth, the sun, the moon, the itars?and stripes!" jgT A census of illiterates in the various countries of the world, recently published in a foreign journal, places the three Slavic States of Itoumania, Servia and Russia at the head of the list, with about ' jighty percent, of the the population un- . ible to read and write. , Two ladies were sitting by an open , window while the choir was practicing in i neighboring church. "How loudly * they sing to-night!" said one. "Yes," re- ! turned the other, thinking of the crickets ( in the grass ; "and it is said they do it with their hind legs." ] BST Notwithstanding trains are run over 1 Brooklyn bridge every minute and a half, ( they fail to accommodate the constantly ? increasing travel, and the bridge entrances s ire to be widened so that they shall not ] become so crowded and trains may be run j jvery forty-five-seconds. 1 IS?" The returns from the elections held s recently in the new States indicate that :he Republicans have carried north and jouth Dakota and Washington, while the Democrats have won in Montana. This is ibout the result looked for by well-informed political observers. BST Within the last three years the In- . lians have seen the folly of applyiug l lames a rod or so long to their children, ind in place of naming a young "pap" 'He-that-does-not-look-behind-him-until- 1 le-has-crossed-the-prairie," they simply t ;all him Joe, Tom, or Bill. ( SOT The Pittsburg papers speak of a roll l if paper among the exhibits at the ex- t libition there as the largest one ever i iiade. It is ninety inches wide, four- ( :een miles long, weighs two thousand 1 fix hundred and fifty-three pounds, and i s without a break of any kind. &arYou may sing and pray, repeat . isalms and give a few dimes to the hoa- ^ :hen occasionally, but if you don't deal lonestly with your fellowmen, pay your ] lebts and come right square up to your ibligations, you will go to h?1 faster than i jay bird can lly.?[Sam Jones. tfegr In a recent city election the Gentiles if Salt Lake City defeated the Mormons iy a majority of forty-one. While this s a very small majority, it should be, and J ind is, hailed with delight by moral, law t ibiding people everywhere as the beginling of the overthrow of polygamy in a this country. s Pita, the new remedy for hydropho- j lia recently discovered in Spain, seems to j le a name given to the ilower stalk of the j doe, a plant common in some pans 01 t Spain. The story goes that its virtues were ( liscovered accidentally by a man in a fit of lydrophobia falling upon an aloe plant and jnconsciously biting the stem. JKaf" Commissioner Rosevelt says the critcs of the civil service law are confined to ;hree closes of men : Those who cannot *et office, who comfort themselves by at:acking civil service reform; those whose political power depends upon nothing but ;heir capacity for peddling political patronage, and those dull people who are de- uded by the other two classes. j VST "A Hartford philosopher announces 1 :hat the dust of the streets is mud dried ind pulverized." The small boy who said ( :hat dust was "mud with the juice squeez- c Hi out," gave a better definition, and he wasn't a Hartford philosopher either. But s iither explanation shows the fallacy of :hose persons who contend that dust is what mud is made of. a&'The Fort Worth Gazette aptly re- ( marks: "The Union cannot exist half ilave and half free" was a shibboleth of _ ibolitionists. It is no less true that the government of these States cannot be ad- I ministered half by blacks and half by i whites. This is essentially a white man's a government, and this is no less true of the ( South than of the North, and the North c las an equal interest with the South in c maintaining the supremacy of the white s man as the goyerning force in the Republic. pffll CROYALMVM En bL.L vHKin~ POWDER Absolutely Pure Thin powder never varies. A mnrvel of purity, strength and idiolesomeneim. Moreeconwnicnl than the ordinary kinds, and annot be sold In compeiltinn with the multitude of low teat, hnrt weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in can*. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 Wall St., N. Y. April 24 17 47w NOTICE. Taxes Top Year 1888-9. OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER, York County, Yorkville, S. C., September 14th, 1S89. I" N accordance with law, my books will be I. opened for the collection of STATE, C'OUNL'Y AND SPECIAL TAXES, for the fiscal rear commencing November 1st, 1888, ON THE 5TH DAY OF OCTOHER, and will remain >pen until the 15TH DAY OF DECEMBER, .889. For the accommodation of Tax-payors, I will neet them at the following places, on the days lamed: At Yorkville, from Tuesday, the 15tli, until Jaturday, the 10th of October. At Tirzah Station, Monday, 21st day of Ocober. At .Newport, ruesaay, z^nu nay 01 uciouer. At Clay Hill, (Neely's Store), Wednesday, !3rd day of October. At Thompson's Mill, Thursday, 24tb day of October. At Bethel, (Glenn's Store), Friday, 25th day >f October. At Clover, Saturday, '20th day of October. At Bethany, Monday, 28th day of October. At Clark's Fork, Tuesday, 29th day of October. At Sharon Station, Wednesday, 30th day of October. At J. W. Carroll's Store, Thursday, 31st day )f October. At McConnellsville, Friday, 1st day of November. At Brattonsville, Saturday, 2nd day of November. At Yorkvillo, from Monday, 4th, uutil Monlay, 11th day of November. At Hickory Grove, Tuesday, 12th day of November. At Buffalo, (Moore'sSchool House), Wedneslay, 13th day of November. At Blacksburg, Thursday, 14tb, and Friday, 5th days of November. At Grover, Saturday, 16th day of November. AtYorkville, Monday, 18th day of Novern)er. At Coates's Tavern, Tuesday, lflth day of November. At Fort Mill, Wednesday, 20th, and Thurslay, 21st days of November. At Rock Hill, from Friday, 22nd, until WedtAar}n?? Wtk /lotf Af VAiramhftr At Yorkville, from Thursday, 28th day of November, until the 15th day of December, afer which day the books will be closed and the 5 per cent, penalty will attach. H. A D. NEELY, County Treasurer. September 18 38 tf ""TAX LEVIES FOR 1888-9. IX accordance with Section 0., A. A., No. 16, Approved December 24th, 1888, I hereby ;ive notice of the several TAX LEVIES upon he property of YORK COUNTY, for the fiscal ;ear commencing November 1st, 1888, to wit: Levy for State purposes, 5] mills on the $1.00. Levy for Ordinary County purposes, 3 mills >n the 91.00. Levy for C'hesterand Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, 1{ mills on the 81.00. Levy for Constitutional School purposes, 2 nills on the 81.00. Aggregating 1IJ mills on all property in the :ounty ; and in addition to the above? A special levy of two mills on all property n the Rock Hill School District, for local school jurposes, making a total levy of 13$ mills on til property in said School District. Also, a special levy of two mills on all proparty in the Yorkvillo School District, for local ichool purposes, making a total levy of 13j nills in said School District. Also, one dollar on all taxable polls, between he ages of 21 and 50 years. The attention of taxpayers is called to Secion 7 of the "Act to Raise Supplies," which eads as follows: "That all taxes assessed and payable under his Act, shall be paid in the following kinds of "unds and no other: Gold and Silver Coin, Unied States Currency, National Bank Notes, and Coupons which shall become payable during he year 1880, on the consolidated bonds of this itate knowu as 'Brown Bonds,' and the bonds >f the State known as the'Blue Bonds,' and on iny other State Bonds which may be issued by luthority of any Act of the General Assembly, he coupons of which are by such Acts made eceivable for taxes : Provided, however, that fury Certificates and the per diem of State Wit leases in tne circuit courts snau ue reueiveu or county taxes, not including school taxes." %Sr~ Taxpayers who own property in more nan one township, will please CALL FOR rHE SEVERAL ENTRIES, as the books are VIADE UP STRICTLY BY TOWNSHIPS. \.nd persons WRITING for amounts of taxes vill please state the several townships they nay nave property in, and also name the propirtv, in order that no entry maybe overlooked. H. A. D. NEELY, Treasurer of York Co. Yorkville, S. C., October 4,1889. 41 tf DISCONTINUANCE OF ROADS. Office of County Commissioners, ) York County, j Yorkville, S. C., August 28, 1889. NOTICE is hereby given that on the SECOND DAY OF DECEMBER, 1889, the lountv Commissioners of York county will DISCONTINUE the following public roads in i'ork county, S. C., to-wit: 1st. The "Patton's Ferry Road," leading 'rom the Doby's Bridge road, in Fort Mill -ownship, by Barber's (or Patton's) Ferry, on Catawba river, to the Nation Ford road, in Caawba township, atL. D. Child's place. 2nd. The "Moore's Bridge Road," in Cherokee township, leading from Blacksburg, by Moore's Mill, to the Shelby road. All persons objecting to the closing up or liscontinuing of said roads, are required to ippear before the board of County Commisitoners at their office in Yorkville, S. C., on the FIRST MONDAY IN DECEMBER, 1889, AT 12 O'CLOCK M., to make their objections cnown. By order of the Board of County Commissioners of York county. D. E. FINLEY, Clerk of Board. August 28 35 14w "SALE OF REAL ESTATEr~ South Carolina?York County. BY virtue of the authority conforred on us by the Will of WILLIAM CALDWELL, leceased, we will sell before the Court House loor IN YORKVILLE, on the FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, Within the legal hours of sale, at public outcry, lie following described REAL PROPERTY wir.n a \r pa r.hWKLT,. deceased, to wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of land lying, >eing and situate in the County and State iforesaid, bounded by lands of Benjamin Cald,vell, Cain's land, land of Joseph Smith, Rob>rt Caldwell, John Caldwell and Love, and ontaining ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YCRES, more or less. TERMS OF SALE-CASH. If tho highest bidder does not comply with lis bid within 0110 hour, tho land to be resold it his risk. JOHN CALDWELL, Jr., T. L. CARROLL. Executors of Will of William Caldwell, dec'd. October!) 41 4t HIE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, York County. \\JU EREAS T. D. TURNER has applied Tf to 1110 for Lcttors of Administration on til and singular tho goods and chattels, rights md credits of Mrs. NORA BOYD, late of the :ounty aforesaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all tnd singular the kindred and creditors of the laid deceased, to bo and appear before me, at >ur next Probate Court for said county, to be lolderi at York Court House, on THURSDAY, THE 17TH DAY OF OCTOBER, A. I)., 889, at 12 o'clock M.,to shew cause, if any, why he said Administration should not be granted, liven under my hand and seal, this 3rd day of October, in the vear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and in the 114th year of American Independence. W. H. McCORKLE, Probate Judge. October!) 41 2t BRIDGE CONTRACT TO LET. IFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. VTOTICE is hereby given that tho COUNTY 1^| COMMISSIONER of the section in which be same is situated, will attend at CLINTON'S EORD, on the Armstrong's Ford Road, on leaver Dam Creek, eleven miles north-east of i'orkville, on TUESDAY, THE 29TH DAY IF OCTOBER, 1889, at 10 o'clock A. M., to let iut the contract for BUILDING A BRIDGE iyer said creek at that place. By order of the Board of County Conimislionors of York county, South Carolina. D. E. FINLEY, Clerk of Board September 25 39 5t BRIDGE CONTRACT TO LET. " )FFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. NOTICE is hereby given that the COUNTY COMMISSIONER of the section in which lie same is situated, will attend at LUCAS'S JILL, on Turkev Creek, on tho McConnellsrille road, on TUESDAY, THE 29TH DAY )F OCTOBER, 1889, at 10 o'clock A. M., to let >ut the contract for BUILDING A BRIDGE >ver said stream at Lucas's Mill. By order of the Board of County Commislioners of York county, South Carolina. I). E. FINLEY, Clerk of Board. Sept 25 39 5t ^ BPIMlL -j|^^9BH^B THE GOEBIN DISK HJ fpiIE CORBIN DISK HARROW baa now JL been in tbe hands of fanners for more than fifteen years, and is to-day perhaps the most popular farming implement of its kind that has ever been offered to them. It is used in every State and Territory in the United States, and in Canada, Russia, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, South America and Ireland. It has been awarded medals of superiority by the great American Institute Fair, The World's Exposition at New Orleans, and at every State anu local display of agricultural implements where exhibited. DESCRIPTION. The above illustration gives a correct idea of the general appearance of theCorbin Harrow ready for use. It has steel disks that are turned to a knife edge. They are firmly and substantially attached to tbe axle by means of a special nut and key which clamps them firmly in position. It is impossible to loosen this nut by any of the accidents or operations of field work, but if desired to take the Harrow to pieces, a few moments' work will readily detach those parts and enable the operator to take off or get out any of the disks in either gang. It has a wooden T beam?steel axles?wooden seat standards?wrought hand lever?anti-friction balls in bearings. The Corbin Harrow was the first to adopt and secure by letters of patent, case hardened anti-friction balls for the journals, to prevent the wearing of the boxes and to lesson the draft. The entire boxing is protected by sand bands and is furnished with self oiling boxes covered with a dust proof oil cap. The axle revolves in a bearing formed of eleven chilled iron balls, which makes the machine tbe lightest draft harrow in the world. Two sizes of disks are used. The smallest size is 13 inches in diameter and the largest 1G. The manufacturers make harrows with 12, 10, 20 and 24 disks each, but experience has demonstrated the fact that the 13-incb, 12-djsk, or the 10-inch, 12-disk, six foot cut, is best adapted to general farm work. The price of the 13-inch, 19-disk, Harrow is ?35.00 The price of the IG-inch, 12-dIsk, is 840. A Few Words of Praise for the Harrow. The following words of praise for the Corbin Disk Harrow are published for the information of those of our readers who are not familiar with this most valuable implement. As each witness is known by a large number of our readers, either personally or by reputation, we feel warranted in saying that their testimony will be convincing to the most skeptical: Mr. \Ym. II. Herndon's Endorsement. Yorkville, S. G\, July 10,1889. I have used a Disk Harrow for years, and would not be without one for four times its cost. I think the Disk Harrow is the most important implement used, and will do more work for its cost than any implement made. \V>r. H. Herndon. Mr. Rob't E. Guthrie's Evidence. Gutjiriesville, S. C.. July 5, 1889. Capt. L. M. Grist: Dear Sir:?I have a Corbin Disk Harrow which I have been using for several years, and consider it the most valuable farming implement of which I havo any knowledge. I use my Disk Harrow in sowing all of my small grain, and it does the work better than any implement I have ever used. Land that has been cultivated in cotton or corn, may be sown without any preparation whatever, and an ordinary hand, with two mules, can sow and cover six to eight acres in a day. All that is necessary is to sow the seed on the ground, and then run the Harrow over it one time; but better results will be obtained if the Harrow is run over the ground two or tTiree times. As a time and money saver, aside from the superior quality of work it does, its value can hardly be estimated at the seasons at which the small grain is sown. The Harrow is very useful in pulverizing rough plowed land ofany Kina, especially uoiioms, ami it wm pay any farmer to use one. Unlike the ordinary tooth, or Acme harrow, it not only pulverizes the surface, but will pulverize to the depth to which the plow has gone and often deeper. It can be used to advantage on land that is too wet to plow, without injury to the land. There should, in my opinion, be a Disk Harrow on every well regulated farm, and in my opinion no harrow yet introduced is equal to the Corbin in simplicity, durability ana thoroughness of work. Respectfully, R. E. Guthrie. I)r. W. M. Walker's Testimony. Yorkville, S. u., July 8, 1889. Capt. L. M. Grist: Dear Sir:?In reply to your inquiry as to what I think of the value of the Corbin Disk Harrow as a farming implement, 1 would say that 1 consider myself incompetent to do the implement justice, but will try to give some idea of my estimate of its value. I consider the Corbin Disk Harrow to be the most valuable farming implement I have ever used, or eyer expect to use. There is no SCTTTlDUii] From Camden t< In Effect Ma Going North. | No. 53 | No. 39 [ Daily STATIONS. Daily except Sunday p. M. A. M. ;. Leave Camden 12 45 9 00 Arrive Lancaster 12 40 Leave Lancaster 2 10 1 00 Leave Catawba June. 2 50 2 50 Leave Roddey's 2 55 3 00 Leave Leslie's 3 00 3 10 Leave Rock Hill 3 18 3 50 1 Leave Old Point 3 22 4 00 1 Leave Newport 3 30 4 15 ! Leave Tirzah 3 38 4 30 Leave Yorkville 3 50 5 10 ' Leave Sharon 4 10 5 40 1 Leave Hickory Grove 4 25 6 20 1 Leave Smyrna j Arriye Blacksburg ... 4 55 7 20 : Leave Blacksburg 5 00 ' Leave Shelby 5 40 Arrive Rutherfordton 7 30 ! p. m. p. m ! Connections.?At Camden, with South Cai R. R.; at Lancaster, with C. A C. R. R.; at Cati ville, with C. A L. R. R.; at Blacksburg with A. Blacksburg, S. C., March 20, 1889. GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kindsof ^ IRON ROOFING J&jwW: CRIMPED AND CORRUGATED SIDING, jgy Irou Tile or Shingle, FIRE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS AC., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 7&T Orders received by L. M. GRIST. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, York County, Yorkvir.r.K, S. C., Octobers, 1X89. TATOTIOEis hereby given thattlio ANNUAL MEETING of the Hoard of County Commissioners for York county, will be held at Yorkvillo, S. C., on TUESDAY, 5TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1S8D. Persons holding bills, accounts or demands of any kind against the County, which have not heretofore been presented to the Hoard, are required to deposit the same with the Clerk, duly attested aeeordingto law, on or before November 1, 188D. I). E. FINLEY, Clerk of Hoard. October 2 40 5t I'VE COT 'EM ! NOT blackberry jam, nor peach Jam, nor jim-jams, but a JAM UP LOT of the best SADDLES AND HARNESS, Of my own make, and for loss money than you pay for the machine work they call Saddles and Harness. Come and see mo. I will do you good, for the Alliance has spoken good concerning YOUR UNCLE MILES, Rock Hill, S. C. September 25 39 2m ESTATE OF B. T. WHEELER. PERSONS indebted to this estate who desire indulgence beyond the 15TII INSTANT, must apply to the undorsigned with an offer of Bufffcient security. This is a PLAIN AND SIMPLE WAKNiNU that they do not rely on any general forbearance after that date. C. E. SPENCER, Executor. October 9 41 ."It ESTATE OF DR, H. G. JACKSO\T THIS estate must be FINALLY SETTLED UP during the fall months of this year. After the 20TII OF OCTOBER, I shall endeavor to force collection from all such as may have forgotten their obligations to their deceased benefactor. Payments may be made to C. E. Si'KXckh, Esq. T. F. JACKSON, Administrator. October 9 41 3t MUSIC LESSONS. MISS ZORAIDA INGOLD respectfully offers her services, at her residence, as TEACHER OF MUSIC ON THE PIANO or ORGAN. Pupils received at any time. System thorough and practical. Prices reasonable, and furnished on application. September 18 38 tf t IRROff IN THE FIELD, i ! other implement of which I hav6 any knowl- J I edge that win no as many d liferent kinds of I I work, or do tho work so well. There is no im- f: ! plement whicli will do equal service that I ; have oyer seen, that is so simple in construe- ^ 1 tion or which is less liable to got out of order. It is one of the few improved farming imple; ments which can be used to advantage by the ordinary negro. The Corbin Harrow will more I than pay for itself in one season if given half j ! a chance. I now have on my farm a 10-inch, j | 12-disk Corbin Harrow, tho original price of j i url,w.l, ...ooiiM -.,.1 ?i.I..i.~ :... -i ? I--" - j " iftt.ii.-iu, ?uu aimuu^ii uu: una j j been in uso nearly live years, if it was impos- j j sible to get another, I would not take live times j I its cost for it. In conclusion, let me say that j j some of my assertions may sound extravagant j I to some of my brother farmers who are not j familiar with the Corbin Harrow, but ,1 will j j say to those who may doubt any of my state- [ : ments, that I will take pleasure in demonstrat- j j ing the truth of each and every assertion to j 1 the entire satisfaction of all who will call at my j ' farm near town. I hope to see, or hear, at an j early day, of a Corbin Harrow being on the ^ ; farms of hundreds of farmers in this section. Very Respectfully, VV. M. Walkkr. Mr. F. H. Dover's Verdict. ( Grovkr, N. C., July 10, 1880. Cai'T. Ij. M.Grist: Dear SirI haveowned t a 16-inch Corbin Disk Harrow for the past four ? ; years and haye put it to every possible test and 1 I it has given entire satisfaction. I had long felt ! the need of a harrow that would pulverize the / | soil thoroughly from four to six inches deep, v i and realized that this could not be done by ; any drag or tooth harrow, for they only pul; verizethe surface, leavingmany clods or lumps j untouched, and these clods would bo worked I to the surface in cultivating the crop ; and all > ; intelligent farmers know that cloddy land J j does not give the best results. Hence the great e I importance of a harrow that will pulverize the soil as deep as the plow goes. My harrow will thoroughly pulverize to a depth of .seven inches. 1 I want nothing better in stalk land in putting in 1 wheat or oats than the Corbin Harrow, for it 1 not only does better work than a plow, but is 1 so much taster, cutting six feet at a time, and 1 all farmers know the importance of saving i time at the season when these crops aro usually 1 sown. I venture the assertion that no farmer 1 who owns a Corbin Harrow would be without 1 it fortwice its cost. Two great advantages the 1 harrow possess over most improved farming 1 implements is its simplicity and durability. 1 Any sleepy-headed free negro can operate it if i he has sense enough to drive a wagon. I have prepared stubble land for planting, where there ] I was no rocks or stumns. with mv Harrow, bv i harrowing it twice, crossing tho first work with ] the last, as well or better than I have ever (lone j with a plow. Much moro might be said about ] the Corbin Harrow but I think I have said ^ enough to induce fanners to inquire into its i merits. All who investigate will bo converted. ] Very Respectfully, Felix H. Dover. j Speed, Tliorongliuess and Economy. Whartkn, Ga., July 29. ^ I prepared a great deal of my cotton and corn j lanct this season with a Sixteen Inch Corbin Disk Harrow, and the crops, after thedisk preparation, areas good or bettor than that on land prepared in the ordinary way. The disk preparation is decidedly cheaper. They are the machines for thoroughness of breaking and dispatch of work. Taos. Whartkn, Sr. Bill Arp Makes No Exceptions. The best labor saving implement ever introduced in the South. Hill Arp, Calhoun, Ga. By an especial arrangement with the manufacturers of the Corbin Disk Harrow, we are enabled to offer the farmers of York and surrounding counties this most valuable implement at unusually low prices?lower than they have ever before been offered. Wo make the following proposition : To any one who will secure FIFTEEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS at ?1.75 each and pay us $24.50 in addition, we will fura 13-inch, 12-disk Harrow, or for FIFTEEN " NEW SUBSCRIBERS, and ?20.50 in cash, we . will furnish a 10-inch, 12-disk Harrow. To persons who do not desire to make a club * we make this proposition : We will send The F Enquirer for one year and furnish a 13-inch, a 12-disk Harrow for ?30; or a 10-inch 12 disk for ?32, which amounts iucludo one year's subscription. * C In every case the money must bo paid when S the name of the subscriber is returned, (under a the first offer) and tbe'c&sh must be paid before a the Harrow Is ordered under either proposition, s The Harrows will be delivered, free of any t: further cost, to persons who have complied with s our terms, at any railroad depot within one e hundred miles of Yorkville. This offer will rotnain of force until the loth p ; of NOVEMBER, 1889, at 12 o'clock. LEWIS M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. 33? OF THS ] ii PH. In n!1 h** w tnr . t D Rntherfordtoii. 5 rch 31, 1889. II | No. 38 | No. 52 | Going South. I 11 Daily I * ' except Daily STATIONS. a 11 Sunday! J : | a. m. i a. m. i t ' | 9 00 ! Leave Rutberfordton * 10 50 | Leaye Shelby 1 1127 ...Arrive Blacksburg 0 1 8 00 11 30 Leave Blacksburg a | Leave Smyrna 9 00 12 00 Leave Hickory Grove ' 9 30 12 15 Leave Sharon ^ 1 10 30 12 30 Leave Yorkville 8 11 00 12 45 Leave Tirzah 1 11 20 12 50 Leave Newport ' 11 40 1 00 Leave Old Point l | 12 30 1 15 Leave Rock Hill \ j 1 00 1 25 Leave Leslie's j 1 10 1 29 Leave Roddey's 2 50 1 34 j Leave Catawba June. j 4 10 J Arrive Lancaster | j 4 30 2 10 Leave Lancaster 7 40 3 27 Arrive Camden I i r. m. i\ m. rolina Railway; at Rock Hill, with C., C. it A. j? iwba Junction, with G., C. it N. It. R.: at York- ,5 , &. C. A. L. R. R. 0 JOHN F. JONES, Superintendent. [ OFING COMPANY, E? IRON ORE PAINT * Bggjjgjfc, And Cement. t 152 TO 158 MKRWIN ST. Cleveland, O. aga^ ' rUg*ar jar ?enu ior uirciuiir auu -?*TJ N Pri(.e List No> 75< * iF IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. i] ii | DUE WEST FEMALE COLLEGE, # OPENS OCTOBER7th, 1S89. Full corps of accomplished and expe- || rienced teachers. Located In one of j; the prettiest towns in the I'iedmont s region. Splendid advantages in Art, | Music and Literary departments. Moral tone 0 J of community and school all that could ho de- v j sired. Threo'hundrcd and ninety-three gradu- ? | ates. Hoard, with regular tuition for the year, a | $1(15.(10. For Catalogue, Address, Mrs. L. M. BONNER, Principal, fi or II. E. BONNER, Vice-Principal, ff Due West, S. C. 0 July 17 29 tf May 15 20 ly t< VNDERTAKINGi AM : 1AM handling a first class line of Co {fin and Caskets which I will sell at the very ? j lowest prices. Personal attention at all hours. V! I am prepared to repair all kinds of Furni- * 1 ture at reasonable prices. ? J. KD. JEFFEKYS. T i T D. K. FINLEY. J. S. BRICK* -A FIN LEY A It It ICE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Yorkville, S. C. " ALL business entrusted to us will bo given g. prompt attention. OFFICE OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. f< C. E. SPENCER, N. W. HARDIN, Yorkville, S. C. Black's S. C. f< SPENCER A HARDIN. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ^ BLACK'S, S. C. C( WE make a specialty of collections. All business entrusted to us will bo given cl prompt and careful attention. a Piedmont Air-Line. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE R. R., South Carolina DIvImIoii. COLUMHIA, S. CCONDENSED SCHEDULE In Effect August 18, 1889. (Trains run by 75tli Meridian time.) SOUTH HOUND. No. 50. No. 52. Daily. Daily. .eave New York, 12.15 Night 4.30 1'. M. .eave Philadelphia,... 7.20A.M. 0.57 I. M. .eaye Baltimore 0.45 A.M. 9.30 I. M. .eave Washington, 11.24 A. M. 11.00 1 . M. .eaye Richmond, 3.00 P. M. 2.30 A. M. ,eave Greensboro, 10.37 P. M. 0.50 A. M. .eave Salisbury,. 12.32 P. M. 11.23 A. M. ,eave Charlotte, 2.20 A. M. 1.00 P. M. /eave Rock Hill, 3.17 A.M. 1.57 I. M. .eave Chester, 3.58 A. M. 2.40 P. M. .eave Winnsboro', 4.59 A. M. 3.39 P. M. arrive at Columbia,.... 0.30 A.M. 5.10 P. M. .eave Columbia 0.55 A. M. 5.30 P. M? .eave Johnston's, 9.00 A.M. 7.33 P. M. ,eave Trenton, 9.1G A. M. 7.50 P. M. .eavo Graniteville 9.50 A. M. 8.20 P. M? .rrive at Augusta, 10.30 A.M. 9.00 P. M. irrivo at Charleston, 11.00 A. M. 9.30 P. M_ irrive at Savannah,. 5.40 P. M. 6.30 A. M. NORTH BOUND. No. 53. No. 51. Daily. Daily. .eavo Augusta 8.50 A. M. 0.10 P. M. .eave Graniteville 9.30 A. M. 7.10 P. M. ..eave Trenton, 10.04 A. M. 7.50 P. M. .eave Johnston's 10.21 A. M. 8.10 P. M. .eaveColumbia, 12.50 P. M. 10.35 P. M. .eave Winnsboro' 2.24 P. M. 12.10 P. M. .eave Chester, 3.33 P. M. 1.20 A. M. .eave Rock Hill, 4.10 P. M. 2.05 A. M. .eave Charlotte, 5.15 P. M. 3.13 A. M. .eave Salisbury, 7.05 P. M. 0.22 A. M. .eave Greensboro, 8.40 P. M. 8.00 A. M. .eave Richmond, 5.15 A. M. 3.30 P. M. .oave Washington, 6.53 A. M. 7.13 P. M. .eave Baltimore, 8.20 A. M. 11.25 P. M. .eave Philadelphia, 10.47 A. M. 3.00 A. M. irrive at New York 1.20 P. \f. fi.20 A. M. THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Pullman Palace Cars between Augusta and ireensboro, on trains 50 and 51. Pullman Bullet Parlor Cars between Augusa and Charlotte, on trains 52 and 53. . !OL. HASS, D. CARDWELL, JAS. L. TAYI.OR, "raffic Manager. D. P. A., Columbia, S. C. Cen'l Pass. Agent August 21 34 tf JT & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. CiCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains 5 from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., daily ixceptSunday, taking elfectSeptember22.1889: GOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir 8.25 A. M. l?eave Hickory 9.35 A. M. Leave Newton ? 10.10 A. M. Leave Lincolnton ,...11.00 A. M. Leave Dallas, i... 11.50 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 12.07 A. M. Leave Gastonia 12.10 A. M. Leave Clover, 12.40 P. M. Leaye Yorkville, 1.20 P. M. Leave Guthriesville 1.42 P. M. Leave McConnellsville, 1.49 P. M. Leave Lowrysville 2.05 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.30 P. M. GOING NORTH. 'jeave Chester, 3.40 P. M. Leave Lowrysville, 4.00 P. M. Leave McConnellsville, 4.22 P. M. Leave Guthriesville, 4.30 P. M. Leave Yorkville 5.00 P. M. Leave Clover, 5.35 P. M. Arrivo at Gastonia, 6.10 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 6.32 P. M. Leave Dallas. 6.40 P. M, Leave Lincolnton, 7.32 P. Ms Leave at Newton, 8.21 P. Ms Leave Hickory, 9.00 P. Ms Arrive at Lenoir 10.12 P. M, G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. October 2 40 tf AND Machine Shop. rHE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on lis lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDIY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is repared to do all manner of work in light iron nd brass castings, and general machine work. REPAIRING, )f all kinds, promptly done on short notice, iteam Engines, and agricultural machinery of ny kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, ny class of work that may be wanted in his hop, he will attend any call for repairing staionery engines, doing the work on the premies, thus obviating the necessity of moving the ngitie. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on the comlotion of the work. EDWARD THOMAS. THE OLD RELIABLE. [WOULD respectfully announce to my patrons and the traveling public generally that lOtwithstanding my occasional absence from Torkville during the next few months, my jIVERY AND FEED STABLES will be coninued as heretofore, and the business will bo onducted with tbo same promptness as if I /ere present in person. MY OMIBVS s still on the street, ready to convey passengers o all departing trains, or from tue trains to ny part of town. FOR FUNERALS have an elegant HEARSE and also a CLARCNCE COACH which will be sent to any part f the county at short notice. Prices reasonble. Buggies and other Vehicles )n hand for sale. Bargains in either new or econd-hand Vehicles. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED U the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables /here they will receive the best attention. F. E. SMITH. July 10 28 tf PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. rHOROUGHLY fitted up with new backgrounds, accessories, Ac., and with a lino ky-light, I am prepared to take a picture in ,uy style of the art, as well executed as can be lone elsewhere. JHILDREN'S PICTURES A SPECIALTY. Rv t.lm ilrv nlatfl nrocess I can take them ill tantly; makes no difference about fair or loudy weather. I do all my own printing and finishing, and here is very little uelay in delivery. ENLARGED WORK. Pictures copied and enlarged and finished in ho highest style to be had, and prices reasonble. Give mo a call and see specimens of work, at [iv Gallery on West Liberty Street, near the ill. J. R. SCHORR, TIIE BEST BOILER FEEDER. rilE undersigned informs the owners ofstationary and portable Steam Engines, that e is prepared to supply them with the REST (OILER FEEDER in existence. Itisstrong, itnple in construction, unfailing in action, IANNOT GET OUT OF ORDER, and can be perated by any one who can turn a throttle alve. These feeders are suitable for either TATIONARY OR PORTABLE ENGINES, nd works as well on one as the other. It is made in two sizes?one suitable for bollrs of from ti to 14 horse-power, and the other )r boilers of from 15 to :i0 horse power. Call n or write to me for further information. EDWARD THOMAS, Yorkville, S. C. EXCHANGE BANK, Yorkville, S. C, S. JEFFERYS President, us. jc. waijIjAuw, Vice-President. RANK A. GILBERT, Cashier. Ortfrtnlwcd September 1, 1S87. rHE BANK will receive Deposits, buy and sell Exchange, make Loans and do a genral Banking Business. The officers tender their courteous services ) its patrons and the public generally. $3r Banking hours from 0 A. M, to 5 P. M. Ehc ?otlu'iUc (Shujuim. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. TKUMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : ingle copy for one year, $ 2 00 ne copy lor two years, 2 50 or six months, 1 00 or three months, 50 wo copies for one year, 5 50 en copies one year? 17 50 .nd an extra copy for a club of ten. ADVERTISING RATES. 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