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Humorous jgrpftitment. HIS DAY UF TROUBLE. A traveler in the central part of Ker tacky, while riding through a woods, sa^ an old fellow standing with his bac against a tree, striking matches and hole lug his finger in the blaze. "What on earth are you doing there? the astonished traveler exclaimed. "Go on an' mind your own business, the old fellow replied. "Yes, but I want to know why you war to destroy yourself that way?" "Jest as well destroy myself this wa as any other." "But why should you destroy yourse anyway ?" He struck another match, and, as h held his finger in the blaze, replied: ". great trouble has come on me, an' I air flttentolive no longer." "What is your trouble?" "It is so great that I am holdin'm finger in this blaze to take my mind offe it, I can tell you that." "Then you are burning yourself to tab your mind off the trouble?" "Yes, that's about it." "Tell me what the trouble is, and pe haps I can help you." "No, don't think you can. Am beyon earthly help now." "May I ask if it is a family affair?" "Oh, no, it's much worse than that." "I don't see what it can be." "No, I reckon not, fur mebbe you ne^ er was in sich a ftx." He struck another match and held h finger in the blaze. The traveler, amuse in spite of himself, could not help smilin] "Oh, it's nothing to laugh at," said th native. "It may look funny, but if yc was in my fix you would grin on the oth< side of yo' mouth." "I am not smiling at your trouble, bi at your peculiar method of taking you mind off it. Come, tell me what it is." "I don't like to be paradin' ray 'flictioi round, but I will tell you as your 'pear 1 be a putty sympathetic sort of a felle Some time ago 1 seed a colt that I wante mightily?wanted him so bad that couldn't sleep none at night for thinkii about him. Wall, I didn't have muc money an' was in debt anyhow, an' couldn't see no way to git the object of m great desire till my old uncle he ups ai dies an' leaves me three hundred dollar an' they hadn't more than got that des old soul buried till that colt was mine. ' J ?-? i. Winnkaatc nu mm at at a rate uuwu av *? iuuuvow the next day after I got him an' won tt race as smooth as a ribbon, an' thar I stoo the pride of the community an' the joy < the wife of my bosom. I come home ai the neighbors crowded around an' almo smothered me with their congratulation and I 'lowed to myself that the day of m stren'th an' pride had come. But whi tuck place the next day?" He struc another match, and applying the bias to his finger, continued: What tuck plat next day ? That colt that I had been ke] awake over?that colt which had brougl me so much joy and pride?that co that?." He broke down and had tostrit another match. After awhile, and whe he had struggled with himself, he contii ued: "That colt run agin a barbed wii fence and?and killed himself. Go 01 stranger. Thar ain't no human sympath nor words of wisdom that kin comfort mi My light has dun went out." CAME DOWN A FEW PEGS. One morning scarcely a fortnight aft< General Jackson's arrival at the Whi! House, says the Yankee Blade, a shabb; genteel-looking man presented himself i his parlor and, after the usual salutatic and shaking of hands, expressed his joy j seeing the venerable old gentleman at lai hold the situation of chief magistrate < the country, to which his bravery, his ta 1 * 1 * - * li. l!i 1 _ f 1 t ents ana nis unimpeacnaoie recuiuue iuu entitled him. "We have had a hard time of it," sai he, "in our little place; but our exertiot were unremitting; I myself went roue to stimulate my neighbors, and at last tl victory was ours. We beat them by a m: jority of ten votes, and I now behold th result of that glorious triumph !" The general thanked him in tones studied politeness, assuring him that 1 would resign his office in an instant if 1 did not think his election gave satisfactic to a vast majority of the people, and i last regretted his admirer's zeal for tl public weal should have been so severe] taxed on his account. "Oh! no matter for that, sir," said hi "I did it with pleasure?I did it for mysa and for my country," (the general bowed "and I now come to congratulate you c your success." (the general bowed again "I thought, sir, that, as you are now pre ident of the United States, I might, pe haps, be useful to you in some official c pacity." (The general looked somewh embarrassed.) "Pray, sir, have you a ready made a choice of your cabinet mil ters?" "I have," was the reply of the genera "Well, no matter for that; I shall 1 satisfied with an embassy to Europe." "I am sorry to say there is no vacancy. "Then you will, perhaps, require a hea clerk in a department of state?" "These are generally appointed by ti respective secretaries." "I am sorry for that; then I must I satisfied with some inferior appointment, "I never interfere with these; you mu address yourself to the heads of depar ments." "But could I not be postmaster at Wasl ington? Only think, general, how worked for you!" ait -~ ikn JL aiii luuuu uuii^cu IU yuu IUI tuc ^ui. opinion you entertain for me, and foryoi kind offices at the last election, but tl postmaster for the city of.Washington already appointed." "Well, I don't much care for that; should be satisfied with being his clerk. "That is a subje * you must mention the postmaster." "Why, then, general," exclaimed tl disappointed candidate for office, "haven you got an old black coat ?" You may well imagine that the gener gave him one. DID THE SQUARE THING. The train was just pulling out of We ton, Mo., for St. Joe, when one of the pa sengers in the smoker put his head so ft out of the window that a man near hii felt it his duty to utter a note of warnini "Yes, it is a little risky," replied tl man, as he pulled in his head and st down, "but I was looking for a grave i that field. Reckon it has been ploughe under and forgotten." "How did they happen to bury hii there ?" "It's a sad story, gentlemen?very sat It was ten years this month, and I w? living here then. A stranger came i from the West with three horses to sel and he acted so queerly that we clappe him in jail. He never denied that h stole 'em, and one night the boys turne out and hung him to a tree over then That used to be our way of discouragin the business, and I believe it is practice farther West. We buried him near th tree, and it was his grave I was lookin for." "Never denied it, eh?" queried one < the listeners. "Never, did, although we gave hit every chance. Just a week from the tim he was hung we found out that he was a honest, honorable farmer, living aboi forty miles below us. While he hadn stolen the horses, he had killed a mai and he no doubt believed that we wei hanging him for that. We felt mea enough when we discovered that he w? no horse-thief, and that all he had don was to pop a man over, and a Kansas ma at that, and he must have been sadly pu; zled over our conduct. We made sue reparation as we could, however." "In what way?" "O we rounded up the grave, passe resolutions of sympathy for the wife, set the horses on home, and a few month later I went up and married the widov She's in the next car behind." V&T Smithton?I declare, I don't believ any man ever had such luck. Nothin ever goes right with me. Mrs. S.?Whs an old grumbler you are, John! I vow, believe you'd find fault if you were i heaven, where everything is perfec "Everything perfect! Nothing to fin fault with! Why, Mrs. S., I wouldn live in such a place ten minutes; couldn't." ? No Wonder.?'The conversation ha turned on the healthfulness of two local ties. "In our village," said one, "w don't average over a death a year. "Why, that's a terrible mortality," re plied the other; "in our town we onl had one death in five years, and that wa the doctor." "Couldn't he cure himself? "No, poor man; he died of starvation." J&* A woman fell in a fit in a big dr goods store in the city a few days age When she reached the bargain counter sh suddenly discovered that she had left he pocket hook at home. $Itc Jfatm audi ^fireside. PROPER CARE OF CARRIAGES, i- There is no varnish made that will hold v its brilliancy more than six months. A b carriage should be revarnished every six I- months to keep it exactly in fine order. If revarnished once a year, it will preserve " the undercoats from damage. But there are circumstances that render revarnish? ing necessary at more frequent intervals. If one has not a suitable carriage house it separate from the stable, the ammonia from the stalls or the manure pile, or pery haps from decaying vegetables, has united with the oil in the varnish and gradually If dissolved it or burnt it. We have known - * J ? ? - * "rt tK A nlo 11 UOIie III ULltJ Ul^ilt, au mai uio nuviv e surface exposed to theammonia wasshrivk eled up in small brown, crisp rolls. We it know a case where a gentleman left his horse and buggy standing in front of a distillery for half an hour, and when he rey turned one side of the buggy was com pleten ly covered with what looked like rust, but which was simply the remains of the dee cayed varnish. The oil had been consumed, leaving only the gum crumbled up in burnt crisp flakes. Some people do not r- take the pains to wash the mud lrom a carriage soon enough after using, but permit d it to dry, when the mud acts like a sponge and absorbs the oil from the varnish. Some people wash the carriage with soap, and we have even known hot water used. For such acts of stupidity there are no /- words to express disgust. Some people seem to regard varnish as a kind of high is polish, put on by hard rubbing, and the d more rubbing it gets the brighter it ought tn lnnt. The number of Deople who are fe absolutely ignorant about Varnish is someiu thing astonishing.?[The Stable. iT "STOP THE* LEAKS." jt Let's see. You complain that times are ir hard and that it is out of the question to make any money farming. You say you )g work hard and practice the most rigid ;o economy and at the end of the year you r> can hardly meet your obligations. Yes, ;(j such is the case in many instances. There I is still something wanting. Don't you know what it is? There are three things :h essential to success in any avocation. They I arejudgment, economy and industry. The y last two you have and practice, but what about the former? Is it good judgment 3) to raise cotton to buy flour at six or seven dollars a barrel when your lands will make I fifteen or twenty bushels of wheat to the ?r acre? Is it good judgment to have to buy ie oats every year when your land would d yield twenty-five or thirty bushels per jf acre? Is it good judgment to paysevena> ty-five or a hundred dollars for a mule 8t that you could have raised for twenty-five ? S| And what about the bacon and lard and y other things you go in debt for every year it that might be raised at home? The monk ey spent annually in the lines indicated -e aggregates thousands of dollars every year ?? and it goes to other parts. Wheredoesthe 0> money come from? Why, the farmers it make it by growing cotton and then selling It it at or below cost. Is it a wonder that :e times are hard? If you would save any n money at farming or anything else the leaks must be stopped. Make a living on re the farm and let the proceeds ol the cotton a crop be clear money. In such a case the iv farmer is the most independent man in 0. the world. He has a good living no matter what the yield or price of cotton is.? [Pittsburg Gazette. Jr Stimulants.?There are times when the [e pulse lies low in the bosom, and beats slow y. in the veins. At such times the spirit tt seems to sleep the sleep that has no wak,n ing. It goes to sleep in its house of clay it and the blinds are drawn, and the doors 3t are hung with the invisible crape of mel0f ancholy. Without the sunshine is sheath1_ ed, and we fancy clouds in all the air. jy Whatshall raise the spirit from its terrible thralldom? Whatshall make the heart id beat music again, and the pulses throb 18 with joy through the myriad halls in the l(j house of life? What shall make the sun ie kiss the eastern hills again with all his old a. awaking glances, and the night overflow ,e with moonlight and love and flowers? We answer, go resolutely to duty. Duty is the of only stimulant that never intoxicates. It ie banishes clouds from view, and puts a ie clear sky over every man in which the >n skylark of happiness goes floating and at singing. ie Men may fly to the wine cup and try tc |v bury the floating dead of their spirit in its enticing flow, but the corpses rise again tc view and we see their ghastly fi .es in the df bubbles. The intoxication of drink sets I); the brain whirling again and the pulses tc ,n playing music, and wild fancies to gallopi). ing, and time to fly away with unwonted s. fleetness. But the clock runs down the r. sooner, and the unnatural stimulant leaves a- the house that it filled with revelry more at 3ilent, more sad, more deserted.?[Morgan J. H. Looney. _ Q* Hurried Dinners.?It is a mistake to eat quickly. Mastication performed in haste must be imperfect, even with the best of teeth, and due admixture of sali? vary secretion with the food cannot take , place. When a huge mass of inadequately crushed muscular fibre, or undivided solid material of any description, is thrown into the stomach, it acts as a mechanical irritant, and sets up a condition of the mucous ,, membrane lining of that organ which ' greatly impedes, if it does not altogether ,?1 prevent, the process of digestion. When the practice of eating quickly and filling , the stomach with unprepared food is habj itual, the digestive organ is rendered incapable of performing its proper functions. , Either a much larger quantity of food than would be necessary under natural " conditions is required, or the system sufr; fers from lack of nourishment. Just as a man may go on for years with defective t teeth, imperfectly masticating his food, and wondering why he suffers from indi - L.L.'i U-_ I! , gesuon, so a man may nauuuauy live t0 under an affliction of hurried dinner, and endure the consequent loss of health, without knowing why he is not well, or how 1 easily the cause of his illness might be j remedied.?[Hall's Journal of Health. Pitching the Ckop.?As quickly as possible the crop should be pitched, as we g. understand the import of the word ; i. e., g[ it should be determined how much area and what particular fields or sections shall ^ be planted in corn, cotton, spring oats, po, tatoes, cane, etc., and what portions shall 'g "lie out." ^ If a good system of rotation has hereton fore been practiced, and is to be continued, the crop is already pitched, so far as the general rotation is concerned. If no rota^ tion has been adopted it is a good time to adopt such a system. As a rule, we would j follow cotton with fall-sown small grain, ^ or grass, and if all the cotton land be not n thus appropriated, let the remainder be j put in corn. Corn will do well after any J clean cultivated crop, but should not fole low itself where wire worms and bud d worms and blast have been seriously desa tructive. These general rules should be modified according to circumstances. Low ^ lying rich lands generally should be put ie in corn or oats, and the thiner uplands in t, cotton and well fertilized.?[Southern ? Cultivator. The Quantity of Salt for Stock.While a certain amount of salt is abson lutely necessary for the health of stock, it e by no means follows that the indiscrimi1 nate use is either needful or safe. On the }' contrary, salt used in excessive quantities 1 is highly dangerous. It then acts upon the stomach and intestines as an irritant e poison, and cases of death have occurred n through permitting cattle and hogs to 13 consume too much of it. When stock are e allowed free access to it they will take a n small quantity very often, but if denied r'~ a frequent supply, they become raveuous h for it, and are in danger of eating it to excess. The safest way is to use a small quantity regularly in the food ; a quarter Y of an ounce daily being sufficient for a cow or horse, and a lourth of that quantity 18 for a hog or sheep. If stock are salted r' once a week, no more than one ounce at a time should be given to a cow, and a ,e quarter of an ounce to a aheep or hog. ? It should also be given in such a manner that no animal should eat more than its j share.?[American Agriculturist. ? Small Savings.?A rather irritable farmer annoyed by the fowls on his grain Jj mows, picked up a club and slaughtered a ' dozen of the hens. To his wife's remon* strations he declared that the fowls were a great damage and of so little value as to d be of no account at all. The woman was, j. however, able to show in reply a goodly ,e roll of bills she had stowed away as the ? receipts from the poultry and eggs she had sold. Chickens, as a rule, are wasted to a y great extent for want of care that might ^ easily be given to tl em, and as regards ? the little food they may steal, this is not one-tenth as much as is stolen by rats and mice without any complaint or notice, y Moreover, the waste of small grain and ). other food that might be turned into proe ducts, is sufficient to amount to a pleastr ant sura of money every year.?[American Agriculturist. Wansitlc <5atltmuj|si. 8??'There are four thousand American residents in Berlin. SoF A man who has common sense is a man who avoids as much trouble as possible. 8?aT Don't attempt to drown your sorrow in drink; you will find that sorrow can swim. 8^ The man who makes the longest prayers can't always get the longest credit on his purchases. HQ?- A planter at Monticello, Fla., has already shipped this season 40,000 pounds of watermelon seeds. 8^*It is said that of the sixty thousand Hebrews in New York city not one is ! keeping a liquor saloon. .8^-Andrew Carnegie is of the opinion i that a college education is of no use in as- i sisting a man to fortune. 1 8ST" "Life," says the Arabs, is of two parts: That which is past?a dream ; that which is to come?a wish." Icebergs as big as small mountains are reported from the Atlantic waters a few hundred miles out at sea. i BQT If a man really wants to know of how little importance he is, let him go with his wife to the dressmaker's. 8@" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience. SST The Dixon lead pencil manufacturing , company of Jersey City turns out about f l? lL -**'1 ! 11S ?-* 1 nn A nonnila artnil. Sixty lllUUSitllU limuuu icau f? | ally. 8?*Health is the only riches that a man ought to set a value on, for without it all men are poor, let their estates be what they will 56T In China, when the rain is too abundant, the officials set the images of native gods out in the rain to induce them to stop the down pour. 46T The best description of a Pharisee has been given by a little Sunday-school girl, i It is "The fellow who does a thing and then feels big over it." 5?* Edward Atkinson declares that the annual production of eggs in this country equals in money value the country's anuual total production of iron. , Siberia is said to haye a spot of ground about thirty miles square that has not thawed out for a hundred years, and is frozen to a depth of sixty feet. flST- If a man does not make new acquaint| ances as he advances in life, he will soon find himself aloue. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. JST Sam Jones says that he would not give ten cents to hear Ingersoll on "The Mistakes of Moses;" but he would give ten , dollars to hear Moses on the mistakes of Ingersoll. ; 86T Illinois has a new criminal law un; der which criminals who have been found guilty of robbery for the third time are t considered incorrigable and sentenced to life imprisonment. aST-John Fogarty, a youth of eighteen, of Bayshore, L. I., has become insane through the excessive use of cigarettes, of which, it is said, he usually smoked two or three boxes a day. aSTln a Philadelphia cemetery there is i planted the lower limb of a prominent Grand Army man, who visits the place on ; each holiday to decorate the resting-place of his deceased member. 86F As the word of God, well studied, will help us to understand his provinces, so the proviuces of God, well observed, will help us to understand his word, for God is every day fulfilling the Scriptures. now ovtrnrlitinn trPfltv with A&uJLS AHV IIV.? ^ , Great Britain, negotiated by Secretary Blaine, and now pending in the senate, adds forgery, embezzlement, and other crimes, to the list of extraditionable offences. i New York's vaunted Egyptian obei lisk is in trouble. It is still disintegrating, ; and notwithstanding any amount of treatment in the way of varnishes and weath! er-proof paints it continues to crumble and scale away. I6TA leading Chinaman in New York, ' being chaffed on his custom of spreading a 1 splendid feast for Joss, replied, with a | broad celestial grin: "Chinaman feedee ; his god; lazy Christian man waitee for his | god to feedee him." The path of truth is as straight as an [ arrow. It never swerves to right or left, j and will uo sooner bend to the mightiest i than to the meanest of mortals. The rao? ment truth tries to accommodate itself to j circumstances it ceases to be truth. AS?* The yield of corn in Illinois last year was 247,980,000 bushels, and from an in 1 vestigation made by the Illinois State board of agriculture it turns out that the 1 farmers have received for their corn $10,000,000 less than the cost of production. A Kansas City family named Frost, consists of five brothers whose names are i Jack Frost, Winter Frost, White Frost, Cold Frost and Snow Frost. As there i doesn't appear to be a Late Frost, it is inferred that the peach crop in that neighborhood is safe. J?-"Well, my dear madam, and how are you to-day ?" "O, doctor, I have terrible pains all over my whole body, and it seems impossible to breathe! Of course, I can't sleep at all, and I haven't a particle of appetite!" "But otherwise you feel all right, don't you ?" ! AST A Kentuckian believes he has struck it rich. He says he can produce a rain storm which will cover a whole county and last four hours at an expense of $11, for certain chemicals, and he is now impatiently waiting for next summer and a dry spell to try it. "Ma," said Willie, who had been to i the missionary sewing society with his mother, "I feel very sorry for the poor little heathen." "That's right, Willie. I i am glad to see you show such a spirit." "Yes'm. I'd feel sorry for anybody that has to wear the clothes that you people were making to-day." BSaT If every human being on the American continent were to be taken out of existence, said the late Professor Asa Gray, and the whole work of his hands were cleared away so that no trace remained, subsequent historians could prove that the Caucasian race existed by the flowers that would be fouud growing here. J^A woman deranged in her intellect stopped a clergyman in the street with this salutation: "There is no truth in the land, sir; there is no truth in the land." "You do not speak the truth, my good woman," replied the clergyman. "Oh, yes, 1 do," returned she hastily. "Then there is truth in the land," replied he as quickly. JQjr The oldest lawsuit on record is now being tried in the highest Itussian court at St. Petersburg. It was brought 500 years afro against the citv of Kamenez Podolsk by the heir of a dead nobleman to recover many thousand acres of his estate which had been confiscated by the municipality. The written testimony is said to weigh forty-five tons. Ifcif" According to a careful calculation, made by a British clergyman of note, and just published, Protestants have increased during the last one hundred years from I .'17,000,000 to 134,000, or nearly fourfold. Roman Catholics during the same period have increased from 80,000,000 to 103,000,000, or twofold. The Greek church, during the century, has increased from 10,000,000 to 83,000,000, also twofold. 8S3?" According to the British and Colonial Druggist, a German man of science has taken four heads of hair of equal weight, and then proceeded to count the individual hairs. One was of the red variety, and was found to contain ninetv thousand ! hairs. Next comes the black, with one | j hundred and three thousand hairs to its ! ! credit. The brown had one hundred and nine thousand, and the blonde one hundred and forty thousand. BfcaT "I want to employ a man to saw i wood," said an old farmer, at an employ; ment agency. "All right," responded an j agent. "We have an able-bodied young ! man who is looking tor just such a situation, and " "But I don't want a young man," interrupted the farmer. "I want a man about 07 years old. I have read in the papers about these old fellows sawing a cord of wood before breakfast, and it usually takes a young man all day to perform the job." In the Colorado desert, near Idaho,! j there is a large bed of rock salt, and the : I Southern Pacific railroad, in laying the < track to the salt bed, has been obliged to grade the road for 1,200 feet with blocks of1 these crystals. This is the only instance where the road-bed is laid and ballasted ! on salt. The sea, which once rolled over j this place, dried up and lejt a, vast bed of salt nearly fifty miles long.""~ The supply is < inexhaustible and the quality excellent. ! |Hi5ceUit?c0?5 ftcatlhhj. ah?o ? ? ? hfl.t CAPTURING LIONS. six, ? fr0i I/O W THEY A RE FURNISHED FOR MEN AG- 11,0 ERIE EEEl'ERS. 1110 , upr There is a farm in Hamburg, Germany, ' which supplies menageries in all parts of b, the world with captured animals. In or- be" der to do this the Hamburg house sends 8 .eI out the most brave and skillful hunters of "in wild animals to the countries where they are to be found, and in the business of cap- lhe turing these animals alive the hunters of- seai ten meet with adventures and perils more wei startling than those of the wildest romance, j a?.ft A man who has been in this business for j j"els many years relates as follows some of his j bur experience with lions: "While trapping lions in the Hottentot , country, for the Hamburg animal house, I 8. I had opportunities for seeing the king of {?ip beasts at his best, and for making close ob- ;ro' servations of his character. |a? "No two lions are alike, except in a few *?1 leading traits, any more than two men are !??r alike. Every lion is supposed to roar at night when abroad after prey, but not half y?1 of them do so. When you read of one charging into a camp you praise hiscour- ep? age, but for every one such case I can show ?lot ten where the lion skulked about like a }?D dog. You never find him twice alike. J"0 "There are plenty of instances where "ftr men have been seized by lions and lived yat a 1.1. ii i: .i~ it . i. i nV 10 relate me parucumra, uiuugn uu iwo agree as to sensations. I had been out "f01 one afternoon with some of the natives to prepare a bait in a rocky ravine. We had built a stout pen of rocks and logs . and placed a calf as a bait. The sun was mi? nearly down as we started for camp, and no one had the least suspicion of the pres- jf1? ence of danger until a lion which had been crouched beside a bush sprang out and tha knocked me down. In springing upon^ 5?^ his prey the lion or tiger strikes as he Bal seizes. This blow of the paw, if it falls on cav the right spot, disables the victim at once. ?oa I was so near this fellow that he simply j.UM reared up, seized me by the shoulder and i01"1 pulled me down, and I was flat on the D.y, earth before I realized what had happen- r,sl ed. I was on my back and he stood with ^ both paws on my wrist, facing the natives J.0 and growling savagely. The men ran off J11"? about a hundred feet and then halted, lru< which was doubtless the reason why I j. was not carried off at once. rjn "I can say without conceit that I was fairly cool. It had come so suddenly that I had not had time to get "rattled." I ? had been told by an old Boer hunter, if I ma ever found myself in this fix, to appeal to _n the lion's fears. Had I moved my arm to e get my pistol the beast would have lower- a^? ed his head and seized my throat. So ^ar long as I lay quiet he would reason that u I war dead and give his attention to the natives. All of a sudden I barked out . like a dog, followed by a growl, and that * beast jumped twenty feet in surprise, it He came down between me and the na- j tives, and I turned enough to see that his Dj' tail was down and he was scared. I ut- * [: tered more barks and growls, but without f, moving a hand, and after making a circle gta' clear around me, the lion suddenly bolted j and went off with a scare which would last him a week. If you had picked up a : stick and discovered it to be a snake you .l would do just as the lion did. He sup- ne posed he had pulled down a man. The ' man turned into a dog. He could not un- fu derstand it and it frightened him. "About four months later, on the Orange river, I left camp on horseback one day to ste( ride over to the pit, which had been dug rR( two miles away, and see what luck. I L was riding around a clump of trees on to j an open space, when my horse suddenly t00 started. Next instant I was on the ground the and a lion standing over me, and I could 0f? t n - i a : it I. iUa near me nurse ititriug a\vuy uiruugu me Q0t shrub like mad. The lion had pulled me q down, nearly tearing the back out of my q coat, vest and shirt, but not drawing blood q with his claws. q As in the previous case, I was not fright- q ened, because it had occurred so suddenly q that I had not time to lose my nerve. I q was on my left side, bareheaded, and the q lion stood for a moment with his right q Eaw on my shoulder, looking after the q orse. I had time to collect my thoughts huf in that single minute, and as I had routed q one lion by barking like a dog, I decided q to follow the same plan in this case. But, q as I said at the beginning, lions are as un- q like as men. At my first bark this fellow to growled savagely and gave me a terrible q bite in the hip. Had I cried out at that n0| or made any struggle he would have fin- pje ished me at once. vvil "I repressed my feelings and played wo dead. I had a revolver strapped to my back, but it would not do to reach for it. 1 After biting me the lion watched and cor waited for signs of life, and when he could Ne detect none he seized my right shoulder is s in his teeth, gave me a shake and a twist, dei and the next moment I was being carried a ] off on his back. His teeth did not touch gue my fle^-h, and as I lay almost across him tio: my right hand struck the butt of the dre revolver. I had it out of the holster in a sen second, and then I felt I had a show, risi Whether the beast felt any movement or try not, he growled at intervals, and his breath dri came back on me so strong that I was nau- for seated. I intended to fire into him as he to carried me along, but he was swaying filt about so that I dared not risk it. to i "After carrying me half a mile through one the scrub and over broken ground, the ane lion halted at the head of a ravine, in vie which he doubtless had his lair. He turned about as if to see if nursuit had J been made, and the muzzle of the pistol cen came against his left hip. I fired at once, gat and the next instant was flung in a heap to | on the earth, while the lion uttered a ing scream of pain. I was on my knees in a we flash, but the beast was ten feet away, bu: going round in circles and biting at the the wound. He did not notice me in the anc least, and I sent another bullet into him ma just back of the shoulder. He uttered sail another scream, and, instead of rushing at an( me, as I fully expected, made a leap into wo the ravine, and I could hear him for some the distance. I was badly shaken up, but I it. lost no time in getting out of the neigh- tak borhood and in the course of an hour hei reached camp. Nearly everybody was "T out looking for me. See now how incon- "N sistenly that lion acted when the party tw< discovered him. He came out into the open ground and charged the party of & over twenty men, although they had not nai disturbed him. He had run from me in tur surprise, and now felt ashamed of him- tud self. He knocked over a native as he alti charged, but was then riddled with bul- bo\ lets and gave up the ghost."?[Treasure anc Trove. stoi - ? nui MOONSHINERS. cle . arr INUEXIOVS TJlICKSJiY IF7/ r"Y TltEY HIDE the Til El It ILLICIT STi LLS. ma wit A United States marshal of much expe- att< rience has been talking with a Detroit mo Free Press representative about the tricks and devices of moonshiners. These men Sa display considerable ingenuity in the hid- ask ing places for stills. One fellow in Carter ma county, Tennessee, set up business in a tini small cave, and the smoke from his fire enc was narried into the waters of a creek bv mo an underground pipe. This creek was a not famous lurking place for trout. One lazy life summer day a deputy marshal took his ?irl rod and started down to the stream. He rise was walking along the bank when he son noticed that the surface of the water look- fort ed smoky. An examination disclosed the spo pipe leading from the still fire and the wily distiller was discovered. "A uoted char- a acter in llowan county, Kentucky," said aj?? the marshal, "was Squire Obadiah Sex- ' ton. lie was, if we believe his own words, a?cl terribly opposed to moonshining, and whenever we passed his house he would a come out and orate on his favorite subject, He was very comfortably fixed and his wn< wife always treated me to buttermilk, of which I am very fond. His farm ran back unl to a rocky ridge, on the other side of which nau was Mud Run, a noted place of resort for moonshiners. We arrested a great many Mud Runners. I really did not intend that as a pun, for they were 'runners,' and those that we failed to catch took to the brush. In working up evidence against our prisoners we secured nearly enough proof of our friend the Squire's complicity in illicit distilling for the issuance of a warrant of arrest, and thereafter we watchoH him u/nrilv Onfi hot mid-summpr dav I took three of my men and climbed the ridge back of Squire Obadiah's house without attracting attention. We had a powerful field-glass, and this was focused upon the little settlement along Mud Run in the hope of sighting some of the fugitives for whom we had warrants. As noon i approached the heat became almost intolerable and we nearly died with thirst, for, presuming of course, that there was plenty of water on the ridge, we had neglected to fill our canteens. Every stream and water hole was dried up, and when it seemed to T() me as though my tongue was baked to the W|,0ii roof of ray mouth I snatched up a couple canm of canteens and started down the ridge to 8hnrtj Squire Sexton's. A brush fence ran down aPi hill as far as the corner of his house, I being on the opposite side of itj none he inmates could see me. More from >itthan anything else I pulled out my 3hooter as I turned the corner. The it door was open and as I stepped across threshold a section of the kitchen tloor ose aud Obadiah with a quart measure uoonshine whisky in each hand stood ore me. There was a sixshooter in his t, but I covered him and made him jout into the room. After disarming II fired my revolver several times to act the attention of my bailiffs. When y arrived in response to the signal, we rched the house cellar. Set up there e four eighty gallon stills, and ranged inst the walls were about twenty bari of prime moonshine, besides several ldred gallons of singlings and three ;sheads of beer. The smoke of the still s went up the house chimney and the > was drained off through underground es to a natural basin about 200 yards Ti the house where it was caught in a k and afterwards carted away and fed U a (Cmiirn'o) V* '' Tf utill Y\Ck romom. lie uijuue o iiugo. j.l vt in ue a tinfilled that ten or twelve years ago Bald untain in North Carolina was thought >e in a state of actual volcanic eruption, urnbled and roared, heaved and retchbig seams opened in its sides and thick ids of smoke issued therefrom. The orant mountaineers in the vicinity ught that the end of the world was at id. A local revival preacher took ad* itage of the strange phenomenon, and vigorously appealing to the supersti13 fears of his hearers, made hundreds converts. Scientific men investigated alleged "eruption," and a great New rk newspaper sent down a special comssioner to write it up. The matter was 'er satisfactorily explained, but my nd, the deputy marshal, throws some it on the subject. "I was operating in t vicinity at the time." said he, "and men no doubt caused the 'eruption.' Id Mountain is honeycombed with es, and there are numerous veins of 1 running through it. The caves were of moonshine stills. Being naturally ;ified they were desperately defended their owners. We could not afford to c our precious lives in a contest so unlaled and we huilt big fires in the caves smoke out the moonshiners. These s ignited the coal seams and that's the e history of the eruption." low Gold Rings are Made.?Gold gs are made from bars nine to fifteen hes long. One of these bars, fifteen hes long, two inches wide and 3-1G of inch thick, is worth $1,000, and will ke 400 four-pennyweight rings. A dozprocesses and twenty minutes' time are uired to convert this bar into merchante rings. First a pair of shears cuts this into strips. Then by the turn of a eel a guillotine like blade attached to machine cuts the bar into slices, one, ) or three sixteenths of an inch wide, rolling machine next presses out the es and makes them either flat or groovEach strip is then put under a blow e and annealed. The oxide of copper aes to the surface and is put intoa pickle sulphuric acid, after which the gold is mped "14 k," "10 k" or "18 k," accord to quality. Next it is put through a chine which bends it into the shape of ng of the size required. The ends are n soiaerea wiman anoy ui inierior mms to the quality of the ring:. Many iple think that rings are molded because y can't see where they are soldered, e ring spins through the turning lathe, ounded, pared and polished, first with il filings, then with tripoli and rouge.? shoboth Herald. < -? s There Too Much Love??There is much love in the world, said some one 1 other day to me. Thero is too much I great many things in this world, but i too much of that. 'here is too much bad temper. '00 much scandal. '00 much evil thinking. '00 much hard judgment. '00 much impertinence. '00 much weakness unforgivcn. '00 much of bad puns. '00 many courses at dinner. '00 many chestnuts. '00 many women who support their ?bands. .'oo many liars. '00 many bores. '00 many tiresome plays. ?oo many books written to sell and not read. '00 many?no, thank God, there are ; too many babies, and while there are nty of babies, and plenty of love, there II always be plenty of happiness iu this rid.?[Bab in St. Louis Republic. 'he New Hampshire Schools.?The idition of some of the public schools in w Hampshire, says the Baltimore Sun, ilmost beyond belief. The superintenit of public instruction of that State in ecent report uses this striking lanige: "In a few sections the accommodans provided for the education of chilm indicate an intellectual and moral se but little above the level of barbam. In these localities, to save the palpittance of a school tax, the pupils are venintoa hovel of learning in which several hours a day they are boxed inan atmosphere reeking with invisible h and loaded with disease, or compelled sit in a chilling draft that drives out i devil to make room for seven others, 1 loads the churchyard with innocent tims of parental meanness." Jake a Guess.?At a grocery store reitly, while a number of persons were hered therein, the proprietor got them guessing on various things, finally com; to pea beans. A number of guesses re made as to how many were in a shel. The most reckless person in 1 party guessed as high as fifty thous1. From that there were various estiva nf ? smnllpr nnmher. "Well, sir." d the grocer, "there are one hundred i nineteen thousand." Of course no one uld believe him until he explained that re are sixty to a half ounce, and proved "Then how many bank notes will it e to weigh as much as a silver dollar?" said. "Onehundred !" "Seventy-five!" hree hundred!" cried out several, ot right," said the grocer; "j ust twenty which he illustrated and proved. iT" The circle around the moon, or lu rainbow, shows tho presence of moise in the air. Moisture at a high altile produces a large bow, and at a low itude a small bow. The smaller the v, therefore, the nearer the moisture, 1, consequently, the sooner will the rm develop. The old saying that the nber of stars to be seen inside the cirindicates the number of days before the ival of the storm is not reliable, as position of the moon in the heavens y make the number great or small, 'hout regard to storm conditions. All Bmpts at predicting the weather for nths in advance are mere guesswork. y* You have noticed it, haven't you, s Coleman's Rural World, that when a n rises from poverty to wealth and disstion, from humble beginning to affiue and honor, he is pointed out as a del self-made man. And you have iced that when a woman commences as a waitress, chambermaid, kitchen I, or any like position, and afterwards ;s in the world, by marriage or by peral effort, the rest of womankind never livelier. Why is it so? Is society rensible for this injustice? Iust See the Smoke.?-A peculiarity ut the blind is that there is seldom one ;liem who smokes. Soldiers and sailors ustomed to smoking, and who have lost ir sight in action, continue to smoke for lort while, but soon give up the habit, jy say that it gives them no pleasure sn they cannot see the smoke, and some re said that they cannot taste the smoke es.s mey see it.?loan r runejscu ^vr^upQWi, Croyalkww K RI 'Akin6 POWDER Absolutely Pure [s powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and ?someness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and it be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, weight alumor phosphatepowders. Sot.d oni.v in cans, i IOYAL BAKING POWDBR CO., IOC Wall St., N. Y. ril 34 17 47w 1 V HOW? "Can the world know a man has a good thing unless he advertises the possession of it."?Vandkkiult. I ^ne 'nstrument ,on 9UMI your own home. am paqu Drnnmrn fVIS \jri \Jl I i I Em *4 IS 111 tmU Until you have tested and approved. Our freight both ways if instrument fails to please in either style, price or quality. Ours the risk, yours only to give fair and full test, and buy if fully pleased. 40,000 Southern Homes Supplied by us since 1870 on this TEST TRIAL PLAN, first introduced in the South by us. Fairest method oi sale possible, and a great benefit to thoseat a distanccwho cannot visit our ware-rooms ALL RISK SAVED By this trial plan, and purchasers absolutely assured perfect instruments at the very lowest possible coat. Selling only the best instruments mad:, that will stand the most severe and comprehensive tests, we do not fcar to send them out on trial and let them stand solely on their merits. All we ask is the privilege of shipping on approval. No suit, no pay. Our freights if we fail. EASY TO BUY From us by correspondence. No matter whether you live either ten or a thousand miles from us. We ship to all Southern States. Our system is perfect. Prices in plain print and alike to all. One price only. No more, no less. Large Discounts from makers prices. All competition met. Complete outfits free. All freight paid. Easy installments. Every inducement that any fair dealing house can ofTer. Write for Valuable Information. Oa*olnr>ifoa OImmIom Cnonlol vn luivguu^i viiwviiui^i w i c* i Fall Offers-1889. Copy of new Paper-"Sharps and Flats"? ALL FREE. Address I UDDEN & BATES, L SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE, SAVANNAH, CA. Hviyson~ "Deal with the men who advertise. You Will never lose "Dy it."?Bbn. Fiiankun. JES* Write L. & B. S. M. H. about it. Hfc fo SUBSCRIBER should fall to read the Serial "Dunraven Ranch," Now Running in THE ENQUIRER. ROADS AND BRIDGES. To the Highway Overseers ol* Roads and Bridges in York County. YOU are hereby directed to put the roads and bridges of your respective highway sections in good order PREVIOUS to the THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 1890. The roads are required to be worked twenty feet in width, ditched on each side, made highest in the centre and sloped to the ditches. No "breaks" must be constructed across roads. All dead trees and hanging limbs on the roadsides must be removed, all loose rocks thrown from the roadbed, and mile posts lying on the ground replaced in position. The law makes it the duty of highway overseers to cause all roads in their respective sections to be posted and numbered, and pointers placed at each fork of said roads, declaring the direction of said roads. The following abstract of the road law is published for the information of all concerned: All able-bodied males between the ages of sixteen and fifty are liable annually to work the roads not less than six nor more than twelve days, under the direction of the road overseer, or pay one dollar per day in lieu 01 sucu lauor. The persons warned are entitled to twelve hours' notice of the place and hour of working, and of the kind of tool to be used ; and any one who neglects to appear or refuses to work, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before a trial justice, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, or be imprisoned not less than five nor more than twenty days. The residence of any person who has a family shall beheld to be where his family resides; and that of any other person where he boards. The overseers in the respective districts have full power to cut down and make use of any timber, wood, earth or stones, in or near the reads, bridges or causeways, for the purpose of repairing the same. Overseers shall not authorize the cutting down of any timber trees reserved by the owner in clearing his land or planted for the purpose of shade or ornament, nor the cutting down of rail timber. The board of County Commissioners will make just compensation to owners, when demanded, for all timber used. Teachers and Students of schools and colleges, Ministers of the Gospel who are serving a congregation as pastor ; members of the State Hoard of Examiners, appointed by the Governor; members of the County Hoard of Examiners, appointed by the State Hoard of Examiners; and members of the Hoards of School Trusteos, are exempt by law from work ing on the public roads. pir* Overseers are required to report to the Hoard of County Commissioners, in writing, so soon as they have put their respective sections in good condition. In the report, each Overseer is required to state on what road his section is located, and to indicate clearly where each section begins and where it terminates. Each and every section will be inspected by a member of the Hoard of County Commissioners. By order of the Hoard. D. E. FINLEY, Clork. February 2f> 9 fit DENTISTRY. 1 AM again beforo the public asking their attention to the prices One Upper or Lower Sot of Teeth, ?10 00 Partial Sets, ono Tooth on Plate, 1 50 Partial Sets, two Teeth on Plate, .; 2 00 Partial Set, three Teeth on Plate, 3 00 All work guaranteed. I will have my Ofllce with Dr. CARTWRIGHT, who will at any time, in my absence, EXTRACT TEETII, TAKE IMPRESSIONS, etc., for mo. Come to see me beforo vou have your work done. W. M. WALKER, D. D.S. September 18 38 tf C. E. SPENCER, N. W. HARDIN, Yorkville, S. C. Black's S. C. SPENCER A IIARDIN. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, HIackttburg, S. ('. WE make a specialty of collections. All business entrusted to us will be given prompt and careful attention. D. E. FINLEY. J. S. BRICE' FINLEY A KRIt'E. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Yorkville, S. . ALL business entrusted to us will be given prompt attention. OFFICE OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. II EG I ST R AT ION NOT ICE. 1 S the law directs, the HOOKS FOR THE f\ REGISTRATION OF VOTERS will be open at my ollice, on the FIRST MONDAY of each month, until and including the first Monday in July next. F. IIAPPERFIELD, Supervisor of Registration. January 1, 1890. 1 2<iw MONEY TO LOAN ON IMPROVED FARM LANDS, in sums of ?300 and upward. LOANS REPAYABLE in small ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS, I through a period of 5 years, thus enabling the I borrower to pay off his indebtedness without I exhausting his crop in any ono year. Apply to C. K. SPENCER," Attorney, Yorkville, S. C. i October 16 42 6m I I CHATTEL MORTGAGES, | MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. I SCHEDULE From Camden to In Effect Mar Ooing North. | No. 531 No. 39 | !i | I Daily 11 STATIONS. i Daily | except Sunday P. M. A. M 11 Leave Camden 12 45 9 00 1 j Arrive Lancaster 12 40 [ j Leave Lancaster 2 10 1 00 Leave Catawba June. 2 50 2 50 i Leave Roddey's 2 55 3 00 1! ; Leave Leslie's 3 00 3 10 : Leave Rock Hill 3 18 3 50 i Leave Old Point 3 22 4 00 1 i i Leave Newport 3 30 4 15 1! Leave Tirzah 3 38 4 30 Leave Yorkville 3 50 5 10 1 Leave Sharon 4 10 5 40 Leave Hickory Grove 4 25 ti 20 ' Leave Smyrna Arriye Blacksburg ... 4 55 7 20 Leave Blacksburg 5 00 Leave Shelby 5 40 Arrive Rutherfordtou 7 30 p. m. p. M Connections.?At Camden, with South Care R. R.; at Lancaster, with C. it C. R. R.; at Cata\ ville, with C. it L. R. R.; at Blacksburg with A., < Iilacksburg, S. C., March 26, 1889. GARRY IRON RO< Manufacturers of all kindsof k IRON ROOFING CRIMPBU AND i.'ORRUGATED SIDING, Iron Tile or Nhingle, 4H||RfaS FIRE PROOF U00KS, SHUTTERS dC., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 01 Orders received by L. M. GRIST. THE CORBIN DISK HARROW." It is Simple in Constrnction and Does Its Work Thoroughly. It in Heartily Endorsed by Every Farmer Who Has Used It. THE COBIN DISK HARROW is the invention of a practical farmer, and is, as now ottered to the farming world, the result 15 years experience in the manufacture of Agricultural Implements and combines selctions from over two hundred patent claims. It is superior to all other harrows in its lightness of draft, perfect flexibility, regulating lover for adjusting depth of cut. and case hardened anti-friction ball bearings, easily oiled and sand proof. The following are some of the advantages possessod by the Corbin Harrow over all others : First, None other has independent gangs, either of which can tit any ridge or hollow without disturbing the other. Second, None other has chilled journal boxes; those of the Corbin Harrow are so hard that a file will not scratch them. Third; Noneother has anti-friction balls in its journal boxes and as a consequence none other has so light a draft. Fourth, Noneother can be set at so sharp an angle, owing to the severe friction on their journal boxes, and as a consequence none other will pulverize like the Corbin. Fifth, None other has a successful SEEDER ATTACHMENT, making it really two machines in one, at less than the cost of one. Sixth, None other is so simple is in construction or so durable. Numerous other advantages possessed by the Corbin Disk Harrow could be mentioned, but is unnecessary. WHAT IT WILL DO. The Corbin Disk Harrow will level rough land. Will soften a summer fallow. Will break up clods and lumps. Will pay its cost by increasing the yield. Will make" the best possible seed bed for grain. Will work around stumps, in hollows, or on knolls. Will mix rough manure with the soil as no other harrow can. Will lifl and turn the soil to bo fertilized by the sun and atmosphere. Will cut weeds, oAi?n ofolLru nnftAn atollra aiul rAAfu othI luiru them at one operation. Will incr^fce the crop at least twenty per cent, by reason of its thorough work, will prepare grain stubble and corn stubble and cotton stubble lands for sowing without using a plow. There is no implement in the world adapted to more uses, and none has been more successful in every locality where introduced. The Corbin Disk Harrow is intended to successfully take the place of the Cultivator, Drag, Smoothing Harrow, Spring Tooth Harrow, Drill, and on some soils the Plow, for it will do all that any, and more than most, of these tools will do. Used as a Seeder it will cover every seed to a uniform depth. Will pay its cost in seeding grain alone, as it covers every seed. Will enable the farmer to seed four times as many acres in a day. It will sow all kinds of grain more evenly than can be done by hand. Two sizes of disks are used. The smallest size is 13 inches in diameter and the largest 10. The manufacturers make harrows with 12, 16, 20 and 24 disks each, buc experience has demonstrated the fact that the 13-incb, 12-disk, or the 16-inch, 12-disk, six foot cut, is best adapted to general farm work. MEN WHO ENDORSE IT. The Disk Harrow is endorsed by the followiug gentlemen, each of whom is a practical farmer and knows the value of such an implement on the farm, and speak from experience: Rob't E. Guthrie, Guthriesville, S. C. ; Dr. W. M. Walker, Capt. R. H. Glenn and W. H. Herndon, Yorkville; Wm. S. Wilkerson, Hickory Grove, S. C.; Felix II. Dover, Grover, N. 0. ; Wm. 0. Guy, Lowrysville, S.C. ;and in fact by farmers of every State in the Union. iiy an especial arrangement wun tue manufacturers of the C'orbin Disk Harrow, I am enabled to offer the fanners of York and surrounding counties this most valuable implement at unusually low prices. I have several of the 16-inch, 12-Disk Harrows on hand and can till orders for this size without delay. I shall be pleased to furnish any further inmation that may be desired in regard to the Harrow. I have in my possession a number of testimonials as to the value of the Harrow, which were furnished by well known York county farmers, and will "bo pleased to submit them to any who desire more light than is given in this advertisement. Call on or write to SAM M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. READ THE OPENING CHAPTERS OF DUNRAVEN RANCH, A FASCINATING STORY OF AMERICAN FRONTIER LIFE, NOW RUNNING IN THE ENQUIRER. Ki IJ'I u| 311 n I l 13 SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE and PRICES < ATLAS ENGINE WORKS, i INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Octobor 30 44 oawly s MERCHANTS' HOTEL, 1j ELACKSBURG, S. C. rjlAHLES set with the best the season adonis. Neat and comfortable rooms. t Polite attention to guests. j Porters meet all trains. ' Ladies to and from oast and west-bound night . trains are assured courteous attention. Kates reasonable. 1 J. W. THOMSON, Proprietor. j February 5 fi tf ] May W ' 20_ ly | SOLE AGENT. ^ THIS will certify that SAM M. UK I ST, of Yorkville, S. G\, has been appointed as .'SOLE AGENT for the sale of CORBIN DISK i HARROWS, CORHIN ROAD CARTS, Ac., in and for the counties of YORK, CHESTER, LANCASTER and FAIRFIELD, in tiie State of South Carolina. ST. LAWRENCE M'F'G CO. December 18 51 tf UNDERTAKING^ 1AM handling a first class line of Cofiins S and Caskets which I will sell at the very C lowest prices. Personal attention at all hours. 1 lam prepared to repair all kinds of Furni- I ture at reasonable prices. 1 J. ED. JEFFERYS. T January 22 4 tf I IS OF THE O. R/. R/. Kiithcrfordton. ch 81, 1989. | No. 38 | No. 52 [ tioiiij; Koutli. I Daily I except ! Daily STATIONS. Sunday) a. m. | a. m. j I 1) 00 Leave Rutberfordton j 10 50 Leaye Shelby 1 1 11 27 '...Arrive JJlacksburg j 8 00 j 11 30 I Leave Blacksburg I Leave Smyrna ! 0 00 12 00 Leave HickoryGrovo I 0 30 12 15 Leave Sharon I 10 30 12 30 Leave Yorkville 11 00 12 45 Leave Tirzah 11 20 12 50 Leave Newport 11 40 1 00 Leave Old Point I 12 30 j 1 15 Leave Rock Hill x inj x ZD XjL'UVB JjBKUH s 1 10 1 20 Leave Roddey's 2 50 1 34 Leave Catawba Junc. 4 10 Arrive Lancaster 4 30 2 10 Leave Lancaster 7 40 3 27 Arrive Camden p. M. P. Jf. ilina Railway; at Rock Hill, with CM C. & A. vba Junction, with G., C. & N. R. R.; at YorkSi C. A. L. R. R. JOHN F. JONES, Superintendent. 3FING~COMPANY, y IRON ORE PAINT And. Cement. ^ 152 T0 158 MERWIN ST Cleveland, O. Mjty ^ Send for Circular and * Price List No. 75. ? IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE R. R. CO., Sonth Carolina Division. COLUMBIA, S. C. jpj?g?3gB& CONDENSED SCHEDULE j.r? ArrcuiiiAflUAHi o, IOW. (Trains run by 75th Meridian time.) SOUTH BOUND. No. 50. No. 52. Daily. Daily. Leave New York, 12.15 Night 4.30 P. M. Leave Philadelphia,... 7.20 A.M. 6.57 P. M. Leaye Baltimore, 9.45 A.M. 9.30 P.M. Leave Washington, 11.24 A. M. 11.00 P. M. Leaye Richmond, 3.00 P. M. 2.30 A. M. Leave Greensboro, 10.37 P. M. 9.50 A. M. Leave Salisbury, 12.32 P. M. 11.23 A. M. Leave Charlotte, 2.20 A. M. 1.00 P. M. Leave Rock Hill 3.17 A.M. 1.57 P. M. Leave Chester, 3.58 A. M. 2.40 P. M. Leave Winnsboro', 4.59 A. M. 3.39 P. M. Arrive at Columbia,.... 6.30 A. M. 5.10 P.M. Leave Columbia, 6.55 A. M. 5.30 P. M. Leave Johnston's, 9.00 A.M. 7.33 P. M. Leave Trenton, 9.16 A. M. 7.50 P. M. Leave Graniteville, 9.50 A. M. 8.20 P. M. Arrive at Augusta 10.30 A.M. 9.00 P. M. Arrive at Charleston, 11.00 A. M. 9.30 P. M. Arrive at Savannah,. 5.40 P.M. 6.30 A. M. NORTH BOUND. No. 53. No. 51. Daily. Daily. Leave Augusta 8.50 A. M. 6.10 P. M. Leave Graniteville, 9.30 A. M. 7.10 P. M. Leave Trenton, 10.04 A. M. 7.50 P. M. Leave Johnston's, 10.21 A. M. 8.10 P. M. Leave Columbia, 12.50 P. M. 10.35 P. M. Leave Winnsboro' 2.24 P. M. 12.16 P. M. Leave Chester, 3.33 P. M. 1.20 A. M. Leave Rock Hill, 4.16 P. M. 2.05 A. M. Leave Charlotte, 5.15 P. M. 3.13 A. M. Leave Salisbury, 7.05 P. M. 6.22 A. M. Leave Greensboro 8.40 P. M. 8.00 A. M. Leave Richmond, 5.15 A. M. 3.30 P. M. Leave Washington, 6.53 A. M. 7.13 P. M. Leave Baltimore 8.25 A. M. 11.25 P. M. Leave Philadelphia, 10.47 A. M. 3.00 A. M. Arrive at New York 1.20 P. M. 6.20 A. M. THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Pullman Palace Cars between Augusta and Greensboro, on trains 50and 51. Pullman Sleeping Cars between Augusta and Washington, on trains 52 and 53. SOL. HASS, JAS. L. TAYLOR, D. CARDWELL, Traffic Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agent. D. P. A., Columbia,S. (\ C. & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. y vrirjL/u IjILj ux luaii anu rwjsDu^oi hqjuo from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., daily except Sunday, taking effect January 5,1890: GOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir '. 8.25 A. M. Leave Hickory 9.35 A. M. Leave Newton 10.10 A. M. Leave Lincolnton 11.00 A. M. Leave Dallas, 11.50 A. M. Leave Gastonia 12.10 P. M. Leave Clover, 12.46 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 NOKTH. Leave 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, 5.32 P. M. /r Leave Gastonia, 6.11 P. M. Leave Dallas, 6.46 P. M. Leave Lincolnton, 7.32 P. M. Leave Newton..., 8.21 P. M. Leave Hickory, 9.00 P. M. Arrive at Lenoir, 10.12 P. M. SOL HASS, J. L. TAYLOR. D. OARDWELL. Traffic Manager. Gen. Pans. Agent D. P. A., Columbia, S. C. TIf EOLORELIABJLE. 1 WOULD respectfully announce to my patrons and the traveling public generally that notwithstanding my occasional absence from Yorkville during the next few months, my LIVERY AND FEED STABLES will be continued as -heretofore, and the business will be conducted with the same promptness as if I were present in person. MY OMNIBUS Is still on the street, ready to convey passengers to all departing trains, or from the trains to any part of town. FOR FUNERALS I have an elegant HEARSE and also a CLARENCE COACH which will be sent to any part of the county at short notice. Prices reasonable. Buggies and other Vehicles On hand for sale. Bargains in either new or second-hand Vehicles. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED a A. .U~ T Ctnhlnu At lilo l Ui A vinu uivoi v auu i' ouu uvoisiw** whore they will recoive the best attention. F. E. SMITH. PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. THOROUGHLY fitted up with new backgrounds, accessories, Ac., and with a fine iky-light, I am prepared to take a picture in my style of the art, as well executed as can be lone elsewhere. CHILDREN'S PICTURES A SPECIALTY. By the dry plate process I can take them initantly; makes no difference about fair or doudy weather. I do all my own printing and finishing, and ;hore is very little delay in delivery. ENLARGED WORK. Pictures copied and enlarged and finished in he highest style to be had, and prices reasonable. Give me a call and see specimens of work, at ny Gallery on West Liberty Street, near the ail. J. R. SCHORB. ~ SECOND-HAND IMPLEMENTS^ I OFFER FOR SALE AT REDUCED PRICES, the following very useful farmng implements, all of which have been used, nit are in good order and are practically as food as new: One MOFFATT COTTON PLANTER, one RON AGE CULTIVATOR and FIVE SETS >F POINTS, one No. D3ROLAND CHILLED fURNING PLOW?for two horses: two ONETADtJU DI f\\\r CJTAni'O nir a \ta t\td l wivoiv 1 IAI II o i uv,rvo, uiie UU U13" rRIBUTOR. Also, ?i HOLLOW AXLE MILRURN WAG)N of 3,000 pounds capacity. Tho Milburn is ecognized as one of the best wagons made in he I'nited States. My wagon is in thorough epair and will do more service than the averige new wagon sold in this section. Call and ee me. SAM M. GRIST. EXCHANGE BANK, Yorkville, S. C. r. S. JEFFERYS, President. fOS. F. WALLACE, Vice-President. fRANK A. GILBERT, Cashier. Organized September 1. 1887. rilE BANK will receive Deposits, buy and sell Exchange, make Loans and do a geniral Banking Fuainess. The officers tender their courteous seryices o its patrons and the public generally. Banking hours from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. She iJotlutUc inquirer. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. T1C11M.S OF SUBSCRIPTION : lingle copy for one year, % 2 00 )ne copy lor two years, 3 50 'or six months, 1 00 'or three months, 50 'wo copies for one year, S 50 Ten copies one year 17 50 Ind an extra copy for a club of ten.