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. Humorous Department.! He Proved He Was a Plumber.?"The plumber joke is worked to death, but I will tell you one anyhow, just because it is true," began a friend of the Louisville CourierJournal, recently. "The young woman that figures in the story lives on Broadway, near Flovd street. She was snrinklinir the street J 4 - o this morning, and used a hose that was sadly in need of repair. An itinerant plumber came; along with a kit of tools slung over his shoulder. He asked the young woman if she j wanted the hose fixed. 'What will you ! charge?' she nrfewered. "The man looked at the hose critically, and j then said he would repair it for 15 cents. "This was contrary to all traditions relating to plumber's prices, so the young woman ! told the man she did not believe that he was : what he represented himself to be. 'Still,' she said, 'go ahead and fix the hose.' "The man took out his tools, and soon had j the hose nearly as good as new. The miss gave the man 15 cents. He shook his head, I and said he wanted 45. "'Why,'said the young woman, in sur-j prise, 'you said you. would do the work for 15 j cents.' " 'Yes, I know,' he returned, 'but there was more work than I thought.' "Well, I was afraid you wasn't a plumber when you first came up, but now I know you are, and am willing to give you a certificate ; to that effect,' was what the young woman i said when she gave the man his pay." That Wonderful Baby Boy!?The proud young mother had come to pay her first visit, accompanied by the infant son and heir and his nurse. "I don't wish to appear in any way partial," said she, "but really for a child of 1G months I consider Algernon a marvel of intelligence. He understands every word that is said, and joins in the conversation with a sagacity, that almost alarms me at times. Speak to the lady, Algernon." "Boo-boo," said Algernon. "Listen to that!" cried the delighted mother. "He means how do you do ? Isn't j it wonderful ?" "Now, Algernon, ask the lady to play for you (he adores the piano). Now, Aigie, dear" (very coaxingly). "Boo-boo !" said Algernon. "He means music by that! 'Boo-boo'? music. Isn't he too smart for anything? Now love, tell the lady mamma's name?" "Boo-boo!" said Algernon. "That's right. 'Boo-boo'?Louise! My name's Louise, you know. Oh, dear, I do hope he isn't too clever to live! Now, say by-by to the lady, precious." "Boo-boo" said Algeruou. ' " 'Boo-boo'?by-by. Why, upon my word there's hardly any difference. Bless his little darling heart! Isn't he a wonder?" Change of Programme.?There is nothing like being methodical, but sometimes everything does not follow in order, and you have to make a change of programme. "I really believe in being business-like," said Jack Rattleby to Tom Easy at the club. "Now, I have an engagement with a youug lady this evening to take her to the theatre. At 11.20 I am going to meet half a dozen fellows up here at the club, who will congratulate me. At 12 I shall go to bed and dream of her. At 9 in the morning I shall meet her father going down town and ask his blessing. At 10 I shall go and see her """" ?? mother and tell her about. At 11 I shall be at the jeweller's, selecting the engagement ring. So you see how systematic I am." "Well, I should say you were," rejoined Tom Easy, bewildered by the string he had just listened to. "I wish you luck, old man. Good-by." The next day Tom Easy met Jack walking ' slowly along, and stopped him. "Well, old chap, did you manage to keep ' all those appointments and engagements! you were telling me about ?" "No," replied Rattleby, sadly; "I kept J the 11 o'clock one. The others were not; necessary." No Depravity There.?I heard a funny misuse of words the other day in one of the waiting rooms of the Louisville Southern depot. A very large and very oiuck and ; very gorgeously dressed American lady of African antecedents entered. Every seat was occupied.. In one of the seats was a well-dressed and pronouncedly pompouslooking colored gentleman?apparently a preacher, judging from his high silk hat and loug black coat. He saw the swell-looking sister standing, and, arising with a great air of "doing the polite," said : "Take my seat, madam ; no gentleman will sit while a lady is standing." "Nevah mind, sail; nevah mind. I don't want to deprive you of yo' seat, sah," said the ebony queen of fashion. "You take the seat, ma'am ; I give it to you," was the response with a great wave of his hand holding the silk hat, and a low j bow. "There's no depravity at all, madam,! I assure you ; no depravity at all." And she took the seat, while the parson i posed for the delectation of the crowd. Western' Methods.?The dispenser ofi the finest brands of Western justice sat on a | soap-box with a law-book spread before him | on an up-ended whisky barrel. "Who arrested this man?" he asked, as the prisoner stood up before him. "We did," responded half a dozen eiti-i zeus standing around. "What's the charge?" "Hoss stealin'," "Kin you prove it ?" "You betcher life we can ; we ketched him iu the act." The judge looked ugly. "Will you swear to it?" he asked. "Course we will; didn't we jist tell you I we ketched him at it?" "All right, gents," said the judge, blandly, as he laid his gun across the law -book. "I 'll fine each and every one of you ten dollars and costs for contempt of court in fetchin' him here, and dismiss the case agin the prisoner. You oughter strung him up when you ketched him." A Real Estate Joker.?An up-town real estate man had sent the facetious man to look at a house he said he wanted. The | prospective tenant found it in need of extensive repairs, and went back to the agent's] office. "I didn't want a six-room house," j he said solemnly. "That isn't a six-room ] house," retorted the agent. "Yes. it is." But' I say it is not; and the agent began counting I them: "There's the kitchen, two bedrooms, reception-room, and dining-room, that's five, ain't it ?" "Yes, and there's room for improvement; that's six," added the facetious man, and wanted to see something! C ISCi Bof Traveling in an Knglish second-class railway carriage, a gentleman had a small misunderstanding with a lady in reference to the opening of a window. "You don't appear , to know the difference between second and third class," the lady said, cuttingly. "Oh, madam," he replied, "I am an old railway traveler. I know all the class distinctions. In the first class the passengers behave rudely to the guard. In the third the guards behave rudely to the passengers; in the second," with a how to his fellow-passenger, "the passengers behave rudely to each other." ? ? o - > ! B&F Please, sir," said the bell-boy to a Texas hotel clerk, "No. 40 says there ain't 110 towels in his room." "Tell him to use one of the window curtains." "He says, too, there ain't 110 pillows." "Tell him to put his coat and vest under his head." "And j he wants a pitcher of water." "Suffering Cyrus! But lie is the worst kicker I ever! struck in my life. Carry him up the horse pail." "He wants to know if he can have a j light." "Here, confound him ! (Jive him , this lantern and ask him if he wants the earth, and if he'll have it fried 011 only one side or turned over." SBfiC Magistrate?You arc accused of break- J ing into a house, and? Prisoner?It was all an accident jedge. I jest felt a sort 'o tired like, an' leaned agin the wall fer a rest, an' it fell in, an' I tumbled through th' hole. "Nonsense! The idea of a side of a house fulling in with only a man's weight against it." "Please remember, jedge, it was one of these here suburban houses wot's put tip by contractors by the hundred, and sold on installments." "Oh! Von may go." ? ? An Indiana lady asked Hank Lawse, j of Brookings, South Dakota, how he could tell a blizzard. "That's easy enough," said j Hank, with the dignity for which he is noted. "Just g(*und bore a gimlet hole in the door, and so long as four men can hold a blanket! over the hole it ain't a blizzard." Itfaasitlc #athmugs. SaT" It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. 6&T Talk about sensational trials ; wait until you hear the recording angel's testimony. Over 4,000,000 people in this country live upon the wages paid by railroad com pa intra. A cynic remarks that it generally puzzles a horse to know what a woman is driving at. 5^" There is a Hebrew tradition that Kve survived Adam, and was, therefore, the first widow. BttTKobert 0. Winthrop, of Boston, is the oldest living ex-speaker of the house of representatives. 86T" Venezuela is said to have 50 authorized national holidays each year. Mexico has 13 and Brazil 22. Germans are the most prone to suicide ; the Irish and Negroes rarely resort to self-destruction. 8S?" It takes one hundred gallons of oil a year to keep a large-sized locomotive in runniug order. BaT" A clockmaker is the only one who can wind up his business affairs and have them continue to run. 8?" The great hardship is not iji doing your best, but in convincing others that you are not doing your worst. B8T It is a peculiar expression, "The marriage was solemnized." Why not also say, "The funeral was made joyous?" 8?* Scientists believe that Nebraska, Kansas, and a part of the Indian Territory are situated over an underground sea. BfcaT The gold production of this country for ten years past has varied but little from thirty-two million dollars annually. BEIT 1 lie IUSieSl Sliuri muiu mull in mc world is said to be George Runbary, of Dublin. He can write 250 words in a minute. SST" Scientific men have demonstrated that a speed of two hundred miles an hour can never be attained by anything that moves on wheels. figT" Young women in Denmark'are able to insute against being old maids. Should they remain spinsters at 40 they receive a weekly allowance. ffST Young man, don't be afraid to push your way in the world. Remember the richest man now living was born without a penny in his pocket. fig?" God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed ; and that employment is only our Father's business. figy Statistics prove that nearly two-thirds of all the letters carried by the postal service of the world are written, sent to and read by English-speaking people. SgT" If there he no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false. Every one thinks that others around him might make his work easier for him. The thought that he might make the work easier for others never enters his mind. BST The man who talks very much is something like a blunderbuss. He wastes a great deal of ammunition, but he is certain to hit the centre once in a while, fig?" June was named in honor of Juno, a Roman divinity, who was worshiped as a ^ueen of the Heavens. It is called the "month of marriage and of suicides." figy Every one in the world can teach us something ; the greatest men have generally been the most eager learners, and have despised no source which might supply the want. figy It is worthy of note in these times of abusing the men, that there are more men able to earn potatoes and beef steak than there are women who know how to cook them. S?F This is the season of the year when the loafer tells of how many cords of wood he split in the winter. In the winter he tells how many tons of hay he raked in the summer &3T Mr. Moody receives a royalty of 20 per cent, from the publishers of "Gospel Hvmns " !\n<l since the first miblication of the collection this royalty amounts to $1,250,000. fiST" Iu recent legal proceedings in London, regarding the noise and vibration caused by a neighboring factory,. a phonograph was used to record these noises and reproduce them in court. ftST" Nelson's old battle ship, the Foudroyant, is being exhibited at various ports in Great Britain. It is said that every timber of the old ship is as sound today as when she was launched, a hundred years ago. S&F No receptacle has ever been made strong enough to resist the bursting power of freezing water. Twenty-pound shells have been burst asunder as though made of pottery. teaT" The only monstrosity mentioned in the Bible was the giant who had "six fingers on every hand and 011 every foot six toes, and four and twenty in all." See II Samuel xxi, 20. 8t?F"When mails are distributed at the postotlice in the City of Mexico the namesof receivers of letters are posted on a bulletin board. When a person calls for his mail his first act is to consult this board. 8^" Arizona Indians brand cattle by shooting arrowsat the beasts, to the points of which are affixed steel brands with a knife edge. When the wound heals it leaves a scar which looks as though burnt with a branding iron. An Englishman recently had his life saved by a $500 wad of greenbacks, which warded oil' a bullet aimed at him. With such simple means of precaution as this at our very elbow, everybody should be prepared for an emergency. "One oh de average man's greates' mistakes," said I'ncle Eben, am payin' too much 'tention ter de mistakes dat comes undali 'is notice in udduh people. I>ah aiif no sense in gittin' ober an' pullin' tip de weeds in anuddah man's gyahdcn." "Beg your pardon, sir, but you seem to be staring at me in a strange fashion. Do you see anything about me that is familiar to you?" said an irate old gentleman in a street car. "Yes, I do," replied his neighbor. "I see my umbtella that I lost at a restaurant last week." ?a?* In a case in which a man was accused of forgery, a witness for the defense managed to say: "I know that the prisoner cannot write his own name." "All that is excluded," said the judge, "the prisoner is not charged with writing his own name, but that of some one else !" A conceited young country parson, walking home from church with one of the young ladies of the congregation, said, in al1 - i : : i: ul ......... 1US10U IU Ills rilMie iiuuiniu', i jn iaiin??, this morning, to a congregation of asses." "I thought of that," observed the young lady, "when you called them beloved brethren.'' fiQT Mary?Don't you dislike to have a man talk "shop" when he comes to see you ? Jennie?Indeed ! do. Who's been talking "shop" to you? "Oh, my young man. He's a horse-car conductor, you know, and every time he comes to see me lie gets oil' his 'shop' talk." "What does he say?" "Sit close, please.'' &aT" There is one widow to every lli.l of the population of Washington : the whole number of widows, as appears by the recent census report, is In,000. The excessive proportion is accounted for by the fact that employment in many branches of the government service has been found for the widows of soldiers. fta?" Mexico produces anything that can be raised in any otliei country. So varied is the climate that in the same State can be raised any product of the tropics and of the polar regions. Cotton, whe;it, rye, silver, silk, cocoa nuts, bananas, rice, cocoa, vanilla, logwood, mahogany, hides, and wine are the principal products. A collection of tools used by workmen in building the pyramids of Kgypt that is owned by a famous Kgyptologist indicates that many tools credited to modern ingenuity were in use when Moses was troubling the Pharaohs. It is also announced that a furnace has been unearthed along the Nile in which hot blast was used centuries before the modern Neilson formulated the same idea. BSeiT Additions to rented premises, when made by the tenant, should never he fastened with nails but with screws. Should lie wish to move away and take with him the lumber composing the improvements he has made, he can simply draw out the screws and take the planks. If he fastens them with nails, the improvements become the landlord's property. Iltr itoi'n itrUcr. CAST ADRIFT. Ail In?-itl?'ii( of tlu* Patriot llcliHIion. During the administration of President Van Huron, 1837 to 1841, there occurred in Dana da what was known as the Patriot Rebellion a movement headed by Louis Papineau ami William Mackenzie, and intended to separate the Canadian provinces from (Jreat Britain i and unite them in a republic. The scene ol j operations was the southwestern part of the now province of Ontario, the inhabitants , along the northern shore of Lakes Krie and | Ontario constituting the bulk of its adliej rents. A large number of secret societies were formed, called Hunters' Lodges, not a few j of them in northern New York, which held i their meetings deep in the woods, and drilled in the tactics of border warfare. Frequent collisions took place between these men and Canadian officials, a few lives were sacrificed ; and some rather startling adventures joccurred. In December, 1827, a small force of tliest 'so-called Patriots encamped on Navy island i in Niagara river, a few miles above the falls i where they were at once confronted by sev! eral thousand Canadian troops across a nar| row channel. On the twenty-ninth of that ! month a small steamboat, the Caroline, was used by the Patriots in carrying men and provisions from the American shore to the j island. The Canadians, fearing that the steamei would soon be employed in landing me ratriot force in their camp, determined to prevent it by destroying the boat. Accordingly at midnight a band of men boarded the Caroline, overcame her guard, towed her intc the current, and setting lire to her, sent hei I adrift down the river. In the morning the | charred and broken remnants of the steamei choked the eddies below the falls. But the Patriot Rebellion never assumed great proportions or promised success, and after a long period of political agitation, and j a few unimportant military skirmishes, it I collapsed in 1841. One of the most tragical incidents of the i movement occurred on the Detroit river, at j and near the city of Detroit. The Dart, a lumber vessel, John Beaman, ; master, lay at the wharf one evening while : the captain and all hands but one man and i\ \ boy were in the town on business or pleasure. The crew, all told, consisted of seven ' persons. At returning about midnight, the absen! tees were thunderstruck to find their twe j companions bound to snubbing posts 011 the j dock, and the Dart in possession of a gangol j strangers. While the sailors unbound the ! captives, the captain hailed the robbers, bul ' got no response, although quite a number ol men were visible in the dusky light moving j about the deck. Then all hands made c dash to board the vessel, but were roughly j ordered oil', and when they tried to chimbet up the side were beaten back with cudgels, I In those days pistols were not as common I as now, otherwise there would doubtless ! have been a lively shooting match right away. Neither was there such a force ol police as at present patrolling Detroit, and ready at call to prevent such high-handed deeds. As it was, Captain Beaman withdrew a few steps, and calling his men together, consulted what to do. From the two | who had been captive it was learned that ! there were 13 of the robbers, all armed with ' rifles and stout clubs, and from their talk I they appeared to be Canadians intending tc : use the vessel in the service of the Patriot | Rebellion, and yet were evidently unfamiliai I with sailing craft. It was plain that they were too numerous and well armed to be suecessfuly attacked by the captain's feeble force, but he and his crew were determined to prevent their getting oil' with the vessel. The first thing done was to send the boy into the town for reinforcements. This must be accomplished quickly, for a dense fop covered the river, and quite a strong current, then as now, ran toward Lake Erie, so , .? I I I.I |? WliU II 111U ruuuers I'Uiim unij" ['uic uiu nan i out into the stream even a lew feet, slit | would soon be swept out of sight, and perjhaps beyond recovery. Away sped the boy, while the crew moved ; up to the edge of the dock to prevent the j men on board from casting oil'the vessel's moorings. Scarcely were they in position, ! when several brawny fellows sprang over the side to loose the lines, and were at once engaged in a hot hand-to-hand encounter, I Clubs nourished, knives were drawn, grappling and throttling prevailed, oaths and yells rang out, but finally the Canadians were worsted, and awkwardly enough the sailors let them climb back on deck, instead j of going there themselves where they rightly belonged. Two of the sailors, however, followed them, and were instantly thrown overboard into the river. The Canadians refrained from using their lilies, probably lest it might cause a general alarm, and pre, vent their success. A moment later, howjevor, the lines were cut 011 the deck, and by means of long poles the strangers slowly pushed the boat out into the stream. By this time the fog and the night made everything invisible at an arm's length, j Desperate emergencies require desperate 1 measures. At this juncture, 110 help having arrived from the town, and no other method suggesting itself to his mind, Captain Bea| man proposed to his companions to swim after the schooner, and clinging to her by some means, await further opportunity to renew the light with the robbers. A lew strong strokes brought them to the vessel, and quicker than it can be told they had secured places, some on the rudder and others in the fore chains, their presence apparently unnoticed by the Canadians. Here too, were the men who had been thrown overboard. The fracas thus far had not occupied more than 15 minutes. As they drifted down the river through the darkness and fog, the captain reflected He bad led his men into a perilous if not i fatal position?death by drowning, or at ttic hands of the unknown and armed robber? who had seized the Hart, seemed almost in1 cvitable. This fact prompted his mind tu nervous fertility in contriving what to do : Finally he had a plan, the particulars ol | which will transpire in the telling. In the stern of the vessel was a lumhci ! scuttle some four feet square, sawed through the frame work of the hull. The section ' sawed out constituted a door, which (lie captain remembered was not fastened in very securely. It would require two men standing on the rudder, to remove this scuttli door, if it could be done all. The captain 'selected the tallest one of the crew to assist I him, and together they quietly undertook it, I employing a marline-spike, a stiff iron pin used in splicing ropes, with which to pry the i door loose. In half an hour they had it out, j and notifying the four outside, in a few mini utes all were safely stowed away below deck, Of course, every move was made with extreme caution, lest the men on deck should | hear and attack them. Hut in one thing tlu sailors had the advantage?they knew every S.w.l. ..('tli.. ciwjiil 1111vv ? iiiit while till Canadians were landlubbers with scarcely an j idea of a ship. From their position undei the deck the crew could readily distinguish | every movement and not a little of the talk above. The fellows were discussing how t<j manage the vessel. They had evidently not considered this point before taking possession After a while they began to speak of sending a man below, whore it was as dark a> pitch to see what it was like down there. 1 ?y and by a hatch was lifted, and some one from above felt his way down the gang ladder. The captain was a powerful man and moving stealthily until lie felt the feilowV | breath, he suddenly seized him by the throat with both hands so that he could utter m outcry, and threw him roughly down on (hi j ballast at their feet. Here he held him till J his stillness was like that of death, when In whispered for his men to come forward and bind and gag him, a task hardly necessary perhaps, in the condition of the fellow, i In a little while the captain approached the open hatch, and nimbly climbed out,' the Canadians apparently not noting in the darkness that lie was not the same one wh<; had gone below. To some question he muttered a gruff reply about the smell down there, and instantly glided away in search of the robbers' guns. Soon he came upon three or four of them, which lie grasped and passed down to the crew, who were waiting for them under the hatchway. For several minutes he staid on deck, evading too close contact with his enemies, hoping to secure another batch of their guns; but at length, watching his chance, lie slipped below without having been detected. If he could have procured all or most oftheir guns, the matter [ of repossessing the vessel would have been I an easy task, but outnumbering him two to | one, and still having more than twice ash i many guns as he had taken from them, | y j their advantage continued too great to be!' overcome: he must wait further develop- 1 meats. t He hud been below but a short time when t the Canadians began to call for Maeguire, is which he discovered was the name of the is i fellow whom he had choked into silence, j r But Maeguire was not in condition to J i answer. Having satisfied themselves that c | he was not on deck, two or three of them 1 , came to the hatch and peered down into; ' | j the pitchy darkness, calling "Maeguire, | p Macguire." rutting tiis mouth in ins hands, j which gave his voice a smothered sound as! \ [ if in pain, the captain answered hack : j i [j "Here I urn. Come down, fellows, and j c j help me."' 1 j j Instantly three of them came down tliejl , ladder, and groped their way toward the s place where they heard a sound of moaning, t 11 When they had passed far enough from the ; I ladder, the crew attacked them fiercely with 1 lists, knives, and stones picked from among \ I the earth ballast. Quicker than it can he c i told, the three were disabled, but the yells t . and uproar of the conllict brought rein- t forcements from above, which was what the c ,; captain wished. v Another fight was at once under way with f ' these new arrivals, the crew being known i a ' from their enemies by constantly whistling, 11 j which was the captuin's plan to keep his < . ! men from fighting each other in the dark. ' u But the captain stood near the hatch, j li [ i gazing up as the Canadians came down, and 11 ,! as it was a trille lighter outside than in the ! a hold, he was able to count how many de-! } i scended. When four or five more of their [1 ; enemies had entered the hold, and he knew li i that bis men outnumbered the force left1 a above, lie gave a concerted signal, and as j J [ j fast as they could follow each other the crew : c (! clambered up the ladder, and stood again on . I the deck of their vessel, leaving their enemies below fighting each other in mistake j . II for the sailors. The captain was the last | man to come up, when the hatchway was I' closed and fastened. . Meantime the fight was being renewed ' i j along the deck ; several gun shots rang out, j J . i though the whistling crew were rapidly 'I - 1 !-- i gaining uie victory, naviiig now ucnc? , weapons gathered from the deck. -Within a f few minutes they were complete masters, |1 jtwo or three of the robbers having been ic thrown overboard, and the others overcome 1 | and bound. 1 11 Soon it began to grow light with coming 1 day, and they could see what they were ? ! ; about. The guns of their enemies were col: lected and locked away in the cabin, the injuries of all on deck on both sides were . ( looked after, and by-and-by attention was 1 , turned to the fellows in the hold. r] When the results of this night affray were j .x , I brought to light, two of the Canadians were J1 , found dead, and several others severely in- j1 p jured, while it was never known to any of, ^ , | the crew what became of the men thrown is [ overboard. The vessel had drifted several r , i miles from the Detroit docks, fortunately . without collision or harm. ! When a council was held among the crew J j as to what they should do with their prison. J ers, it was agreed that they had been pun- c ' ished enough, and that the cheapest dispos- s p al of them was to put them ashore, dead, C I wounded, and all. Setting a few sails, they \ I ran into a little bay on the Canadian shore,! t where Captain Beuman and the sailors helped j . bury the dead, and then, returning to the ' j (! vessel, proceeded about their business. Ic I i i B8T A land suit at Burkesville, Ky., has tie- I veloped a strange romance of the war, says } i: a recent dispatch of somewhat doubtful re- j < , liability : In the early days of the war, it is 1 i stated, there was a well-known band oflj guerrillas which made its headquarters in ! Bennett township. From the vicinity they ! r ! j made many raids in the surrounding coun- c try, and often attacked Federal troops. One J , of the boldest and most dashing of the: l j guerrillas was a young fellow named Jack ! t : Mason. He was slender in form and eflem- j(l ;; inute in manner, and but for the fact of hist well known courage, his comrades would e ?I have suspected him of being a woman. ( ; I One day, in a fight with yankees, Mason was 1 severely wounded and left at the house of a 1 farmer named Ortli. It was not long before | , Ortlrs wife found tliat Mason was really a I woman in disguise. The wound was slow .1 s in healing, and she was in bed several11 j j months. During that lime a baby was born., t , i When the mother became stiong and well, | \ 1 - - * ' ' f :11 ? 1 C ! j she rejoined ilie imtm 01 (,'uurvinas, u-jiviug . I the Imby, which was a girl, with the Orths.! c , | She did not return. The little j>iil was 1 adonted, grew up and married. Sometime < I ago her husband became involved in the t t land suit, and she had to go to court as a , r >| witness. While there she told her story. It 1 I was published in the local papers and copied j r widely. A few weeks afterward, a middle- j c , aged good looking woman came to Burkes-: e i j ville and explained that she was Mrs. John e i Mason, and was the mother of Mrs. May- j ' hew, who had told the story. She said she s had runaway from her home in Tennessee r and married her husband against the wishes r : of her parents. Afterward she became jeal- j t ous, deserted Mason, and joined the guer-j ] rillas. Subsequent to leaving the home of !j the Orths, she became reconciled with her! ! husband, and unable to again locate the t i, place where she had been so well taken care 1 ; of, she advertised for her child without sue-1 \ I cess. She was overjoyed at again finding t her daughter, Mrs. May hew. j . II t fcaT' Consol I'enfield, at Cario, Kgypt, says c > the shipping of cotton from Kgypt to the I United States is casually considered as ano-; r , malous and superfluous as the sending of coal 1 I to Newcastle, but the records show thati I I. Kgypt is aggressively competing in a small (t way with us, not only in Kurope, but at t , home, in supplying raw cotton, and the con-; c i sumption of Kgyplian cotton by New Kng- i land spindles has grown from nothing 10 ,ti ' years ago, to more than 40,000 large bales, ^ equivalent to 00,000 American bales, and 1 i valued at $3,000,000. The Kgyplian cotton < . area, which was about-802,552 acres in 1802, i > now equals 1,072,541 acres, an astonishing ! I advance. It is asserted that the use of ?; Kgyplian cotton in the United States is in j no sense inimical to our own cotton interests, > for it is used mixed with our own cotton in ! . ways that would not be possible for an un-j I". mixed product. The Egyptian cotton plants * this year are strong and well rooted, and the ^ crop bids fair to exceed 1,500,000 American j i bales. Consul I'enfield says that should the ^ i i projected scheme for perennial irrigation, j i long considered and now almost assured, be . '{authorized and carried out, the amount of!, available soil in Kgypt can be doubled, y ' | Willi the Kgyptian cotton crop thus augment- s 11 ed, southern Russia entering the Held of com>\ petition and over production in India immi-' [ ,! nent, and the market ruling lower year by j ^ i j year, cotton economists and theorists in the ( ' I'nited States have material for serious re- j , licet ion. | A correspondent of the Charlotte Ob-1 : server gives some interesting points from a re-1 s i cent interview with Senator Jarvis. The 1 senator says that when he first went to lira- :l ;/.il as minister, that country was in a pros-;1 ! porous condition. The llra/illians had a cur-1' i rency that was neither abnormally inflated :( nor contracted. It was about such a eurren- ^ i cy as we had in the period after the war, 1 when our greenbacks were worth about SI.4(1 ' >' to one of gold. With this money the stores, t ; I in Rio Janiero did a thriving business, real 1 . estate sold readily at good prices, working 1 people found employment at good wages, and ! f i everybody was prosperous, except the idle ' ! and incapable. The situation was all that c i could have been desired until a new set of; t j ministers decided to bring the currency to a 1 I gold basis. A lot of it was called in and dc> stroyed. As the process of contraction went on times grew harder and harder. At stores I i whole 10clerks had been employed, the mini-j1 her was gradually reduced to eight, then six, \ I I 1 then four, then two. Real estate declined <" in value and was hard to sell at any price, n 1' Discontent increased with the hard limes, 'I . and finally revolution and anarchy came, i e All this, the senator says, is in process of re- t I enaction in the I'nited States. The story is u ! completed up to the filial result. , t ! . 1v ?> "* 111 "?* ** ? Af?n .. rni 1 I i mr ] lie id. new uugu .uiner i numpsou, i bishop of Mississippi, recently revisited the <i i North to preach the commencement sermon " i at Lehigh I'niversity. lie told a New York t i reporter regarding lynching in the South :! 11 "On this subject there is but one opinion J v ; in Mississippi. The people lynch for one j I j tiling anil for one thing only. When it >|coines to such a pass that a girl t! years old J ! cannot go from one neighbor's house to v , j another without danger of being carried j b 'away and torn to pieces by some Negro1 1 t brute, what else can we do ? There have a j been so many terrible cases. I must say, j < too, that in all the years I have lived in the | a > | South. I have never known of a doubtful j a ynching. The Negroes, when caught, always confess or arc absolutely identified, j Phc laws are slow, the jails are full and the | awyersare banded together to defeat justice,: | is they always are. The offence is a capi- ( al one all over the South. So the people < ;ave delay by simply resuming their natural ( iovereignty delegated l>y them to the courts f tnd hang the criminal/' Bishop Thompson | s one of the ablest minds in the Episcopal ihurcli in the South, lie was born in Ire- | and and was for many years editor of the , s'ew York Churchman. I i A I)k.si?kkatkI)l"kl xbak hlackvii.lk.? 1 > Ar. F. A. Holland, a Charleston detect-J j ve, on last Friday, gave the papers the story i ?f a desperate duel that occurred at Hair's i dill, five miles from ltlackville, on Thursday, iolland's story is as follows: "For some con- t iderable time there has been an old feud be-! i ween James Diamond, a farmer, and James < V. Minis, also a farmer, through the hitter's I laving ail undue intimacy with the former's ( vife ; and so last night, it appears, about 5.50 ' 'clock, Mr. Diamond met Minis going along 11 lie road towards his home, and an alterca- j * ion took place which ended in Diamond's if lischnrging his double-barreled gun, loaded | ] villi buckshot, into Mims's abdomen. Minis j t ell, and then raised himself upon his knees i ,nd drew a pistol and shot Diamond in the ell side, and he fell also. Minis then' r rawled up to the side of Diamond and fired j f mother shot through the centre of his fore- t lead, and another through his heart. Mims 1A hen got up and walked a few feet and died J Iso, both within 15 feet of each other. ( Iirns showed remarkable grit in killing , Jiamond after having his stomach full ofL luckshot. Both men were widely known s nd generally liked by their fellow farmers. | j dims was single, and Diamond a married j, nan.'' , - , Dkuwnkd Himself in the Catawiia.? j osiali Crawford, a Negro who lived in he eastern side of Chester county, commit-: ed suicide on Tuesday of last week by Irowning himself in the Catawba river. In I he morning he insisted on sending his fami- j y to churcii; hut did not go himself on the, - - > - - II ll.n r...?iw. >1011 IIIUI 110 WUS IIIMtCll. li inn iiiv ihuiiij i eturned they found him missing, and later ( n the day trucked him to the river, but :ould find no tracks returning or indications; hat anybody else had boon around. Later, he cow, which had been fastened by a long: ope to a stake, came home with only a; hort portion of the rope dangling to its i lorns. The rope had been cut with a knife.! The river was dragged without success. On iVednesday, a Mr. Kirkpatrick saw the body n the river. It was secured, and upon in-1 estigation it developed that the Negro had j round the rope about his neck and hands 11 such a way as to prevent any struggling.' t is thought that he then threw himself into . he river. The suicide of a Negro is con- j idered unusual. The Negroes of the com-! nuuity say that the devil forced theunfor-l unate man into the river, and not one of; hem will dare go near the spot. ? Prohibition Questions.?The executive lommittec of the prohibition committee has I ent out the platform recently adopted in Columbia, and published last week, to the' nrious candidates for State olliees, and atached the following questions for reply : j 1. Are you in favor of the State absolutely iroliibiting the salens a beverage of all sniritu>us or intoxicating liquors, and that any law so I irohibiting the sale should provide for its side nrly for medicinal, mechanical and sacramental j mrposes, and contain such regulations and pro- I isions for its enforcement and penalties for its dotation, as will prove efficient to carry into) fleet said purposes? 2. Will you advocate and support the princi- | >les expressed in the above quoted articles of j he Prohibition convention ? If elected to the olTiee of governor, will you J ccommcnd tothe general assembly the passage >f a law absolutely prohibiting the trallic in and I ale of, except for medical, mechanical and sac- | omental purposes, all spiritousaud intoxicating , iquors, and will you use all the power and auhorityof yourollicc, to enforce the provisions! if the same? As yet Dr. Sampson Pope is the only gub-1 irnatorial candidate who has answered the luestions. He says he is in favor of the dis- j HMisary or high license. The questions will ' dso he submitted (o county candidates. ? ? ? Wants a Separate Hox.?Under date of! bine 1(5, Senator Duller sent the following etter to Mr. I). II. Tompkins, secretary of! he State Democratic executive committee villi n request for an early reply: "Dear fir: I hereby announce myself as a candilatc for I'nitcd Stales senator, foi the term leginning on March 4, ISilb. I presume can-1 lidates for the legislature, which will elect he United States senator, will abide the esult of the primaries set for the JlOth of Vugust next. I hereby request that a sepaate box he provided by the State Demoratio executive committee at each and ivory voting precinct in the State, in which tuch voter may express by his ballot his ireference for United States senator; said j eparate box to be managed under the same! ulos as the other ballot boxes in the prima- j ies ; and I hereby pledge myself to abide ! 1 he result of the vote thus cast at the said i irimary." I * About the Dispensaries.?Although j he dispensaries tliroughout the State have, >een closed since the 21st day of April, ,'ery little has been said about them by j he administration, says Correspondent Vugust Kohn, of Columbia: . "The solution >f the problun seems to be as uncertain as! .'Ver. Tiic indications, nowever, comimie 10 >e that the dispensaries will he reopened. If lot in a short time, at least when the legis- ! ature meets. Of course the dispensary will \ ie a prominent issue in the campaign, and j he candidates will have to define their posiions on this question. Hereabouts there is ,'onsiderable talk about a dispensary law ninu.s the constabulary, the profit feature ind the present State board of control. I iVith these trimmings, there will be but ittle of the obnoxious law left. The cinasmlated law would lmrdh be recognized by ts old friends." i ?O? Senator Kyle is about to publish the; acts in the case of some gigantic frauds leveloped by an investigating committee of vhich he was chairman. It seems that lor rears back, congress has been appropria-j ing millions of dollars to pay claims of indduals on account of Indian depredations j n the West. The government is supposed 1 o be responsible for the good conduct of the; ndians, and pays whatever damage they; 11 flict to the properly of neighboring set-j lers. Through almost criminal laxity, the ecovery of money on these claims became tich an easy matter, that they soon grew at j in alarming rate. The committee claims to >o able to show that millions of dollars have een paid out to individuals and corporaions, who have never sustained a dollar of oss through the Indians or otherwise. It ? Henry <>. Havemcver, president of the ugar trust, was before the Democratic inves-j igating committee two days last week. In,*' mswer to a question, he stated that he had j, lever had any conversation with Mr. Clove- j __ and relative to the protection of sugar, and '. lainicd that he had never seen Mr. Cleveland. Ie admits that the trust was in the habit!,; if making contributions to the campaign ti iinds of the political party they considered he strongest, and said this was for the pro- J, .w.is.,11 ?? it< inicrests, lie also admitted i I. tl?UI? " - hat tin; trust had control of the price ol'su- < [ii r, and with the help of congress, sought to 1 emulate the same so as to keep out foreign j competition. The prolits realized by thet rust, he said, was three-eighths of a cent a J lound. j v .s ydf (iovernor ('arr, of North Carolina, has 11 teen called upon to wrestle with a rather Mizzling ease. Some time ago two men named lull and Iladley, while standing in Cherokee ountv, near the State line, shot and killed a nan named llryson, who was at the time in Tennessee. The North Carolina supreme , court disclaimed jurisdiction on the ground hat the crime was committed in Tennessee, ,nd the Tennessee authorities demanded exradition on the ground that the murderers * core fugitive from justice of that State, a fall ami iladley claim that they are citizens s II if Xorlh Carolina, have not Deen in lcnnes-ij ee, did not commit a crime there, and are, j herefore, not fugitives from justice from that ? hate, (iovernor Carr is in a quandary as to s rhat to do. j( Lois Trilloti, tiie last slave sold in New laven, Conn., died Sunday night of last reek at her home in that city. She was iorn in Halifax, Xova Scotia, Christmas eve, 7!l!l, and was a slave up to iSL'o, when she I ml her sister were sold on Xew Haven ireen, to Anthony 1*. Sanford, lor $10, under 11 execution issued on a former judgment | gainst her owner. SrHTKKK.wk.w LoNIioX.? It gives an! impressive idea what subteranean London is rast becoming, says the Daily News, to learn that on emerging from the river the new eitv and Waterloo line will, in its passage np Queen Victoria street, run for a part >f the way underneath (lie low level main) sewer, which in its turn runs along beneath lie District I'ndorgronnl Railway. So that i it this point in the city we shall have first a 1 insy main thoroughfare, below that a steam I railway, then a huge metropolitan sewer, lien an electric railway, reaching its termiius at a depth of about (i."> feet below the I streets, and here it will communicate with ! mother line?the Central London?which ivill lie at a depth of 80 feet. -*> fOTThc United Stales has more cultiva-1 ed laud within its limits than any other ountry in the world except Russia. Ac- j ording to the latest statistics there is in the I'nited States 208,000,000 acres under under j Millivation, while Russia is said to have >45,000.000. These latter li^urcs are how-1 :ver, open to suspicion. The collection of | statistics is not well understood in Russia,' ind it * is extremely improbable that even liussia has a greater cultivated area than his country. fitaT" During a strike on the North British , 'ailway much diflieulty was experienced in iuding engineers to keep the necessary ! ruins running. One of the substitutes, a roung fellow, run some distance past a staion, and then, putting hack, ran as much oo far the other way. He was preparing to 1' nake a third attempt when the station agent ihouted, to the great amusement of the pas-11 engers : "Never mind, Tammns: stay where , :ou are! We'll shift the station." j <ZW I Absolutely Pure A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening j strength.?[.atest United States Government Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall Street; N. Y. __________ Are You Interested j In this Young Lady? j Your interest will increase to positive oAfor.tir.n it' vnn fH?ul .ihntit her in Our New Copyrighted, Illustrated Serial. ******************** ******************** ******** ******** _ _ t ******* *********** ?****? ************** ************* A FIGHT FOR MILLIONS ******************?* It is a Great Story, full of striking situations and replete with human interest. We advise you to read it. IT WILL PLEASE YOU Subscribe today. THE ENQUIRER three Months for 50 cents. ! I i Sneaks through the Boothbay (Me.) Register, of the beneficial results lie has received from a regular use of Aycr's Pills. He says: " 1 was feeling siek and tired and my stomach seemed all out of order. I tried a number of remedies, but none seemed to give me relief until I was induced to try the old reliable Ayer's Pills. I have taken only one box, but I feel like a new man. I think I hey ure the most pleasant and easy to take of anything I ever used, being so finely sugar coated that even a child will take them. I urge upon all who are in need of a laxative to try Aycr'a I'ills. They will do good." For all discaseg of the Stomach, Liver, und Bowels, take AYER'S PILLS I Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer &Co., Lowell, Mass. Every Dose Effective j Cl,link's KOItl-K I.OSI Itl: SAM-:. itate of Soulli Carolina?County of York. cor in* or common pi.kas. IoIiii (j. Little, Plaintiff, against 'I'. B. Haulier 1 ami others?Notice of Foreclosure Sale. j1 I> Y virtue of a decree of foreclosure made in : ) the above cause, I will expose to public sale \T YORK CO!' KT IlolSK liooll on tbeii FIRST MONDAY IN JULY, NKXT, !| luring the legal Iioiiin for sales, the following leseribed property, to wit: A certain building 'luxhcj feet, located in the own of Blaekslnirg, on tlie A trailroad ( ast of its track, about ball' way between the | run bridge on |{. ?v 1>. It. It., aiid the freight i lepot of Hie said I('. ?V <railroad and near t be \ n i 11 ami eolton gin of Augustus Bridges, and ] II machinery in said Itiiildiug, and machinery, ; ixtures and attaehinenls to be hereafter added h o said building. Tkkms or Sai.k?oNK-IIALF CASH, and be balance 011 a credit for twelve mouths, villi interest from day of sale. Credit portion 1 ecu red by a mortgage of the premises and bond if the purchaser, l'ureliaser to pav for papers. w. nimwN \vYijiK, Clerk of Court of Common IMeas, June l!? 21 .'!t Till! ST ATI: OF SOCTII ( Alton\A, York County. 117 II Kit MAS \V. BltoWN \V Y LI F? C. C. C. VT IMeas, lias applied to me for Letters of Mluiiuistration on all ami singular, the goods ml chattels, rights ami credits of J. \Y. tVKKY, late of Virginia, deceased: I These are, therefure, to cite and admonish all j ml singular the kindred and creditors of the j aid deceased, to he and appear before me, at our icxt l'rohate Court for the said county, to he | lolden at York Court House on the liitli day of i, FLY, 1MM, at 10 o'clock a. ill., to shew | nuse, if anv, wliv the said Administration 1 * ' ' i ' <" Mould uoi tie giuou-n. , liven under my hand and seal, this 4th day of June, in tho yoar of our Lord one thou-j' sand eight hundred and ninety-l'our, and in i1 the 11stli year of American independence. j W. II. Met'OltK LK, I i'rohate Judge of York County. J unci! i'.'! lit t W. ? . IJ AYIS, ATTOItXKV A'l'LAW, Yorkville, S. C\ ! j VLL Ill'SINHSS tJIVKN IMto.M I'T ANI> J i CAKKCt L ATTKNTIoN. June i! 'SI ly for Infants ; " Cnstorln !sso well adapted to rhildren tlmt I reeoinuiend it iissu|H?riiir t.iany prescription l.iiitwu to nil-." 11. A. Ahimikh, M. !>., Ill !'o. Oxford t'.t., llrooklyn, II. Y. "The n o of 'C'ostoria i; so universal and i a i:; so well known that it seems a work i f ;:::;>eivro;:utio:i to endorse it. l'ew are the i::!i Detent families who do not keep t'astoria v. i.l.iu en:y iv::i h." IV.i.tjos Mautv.v, I). I)., Hew York f'ity. TlIK t'estafr C nHHHBBHMi GA1MJ V IliOiV RO Manufactures nil kinds of ?5 IHOXItOOFIXG. L'KIMI'KD AXIK'Oltltt'ftATKl) SIDING, Iron Tile or Shingle, kiitk I'Kook noons, shi'ttf.kn, .ir., [__ THE LARUEST MANUFACTURERS ( Orders received hv I J. M. GKIST. CHESTER ID MAI. HAMM Schedules in Effect from and After March 25, 1S04. (*. AV. F. Harper, President. (SUING NORTH. I No 10. | No GO. I/OjiVL' Chester i> to a in It (X) u in Leave Lowrysville 7 07 a in 0 35 u in Leave SleConnellsvllIe 7 2ti a in 10 0:1 u m Ixtuvo (Jutlirlesvllle 7 35 a in 10 1") u in I/Cave Ynrkvllle 7 57 a m II 00 a in Leave Clover K 00 a in 11 SO pm Leave (tastonla o OS u in -1 -1) pin Leave Lineoltiton 10 10 a in 2 So pin I/eave Newton 11 12 a in S la pin Leave Hickory 1- -0 pin 0 20 pin Arrive Lenoir 1 00 pin S CO pm GOING soi'Tll. | No 111. f No 0. Leave Lenoir 5 00 a in :l 15 pin Leave Hickory 7 01 a in I SO pin Leave Newton S 20 a in 5 IS pm Leave Lincolnton 10 10 a m 0 12 pin Leave (Jastonia 12 .V) pm 7 .'10 pin Leave Clover I 70 pm S 00 pm Leave Yorkvillc 0 05 pm s S2 pm Leave fJutliriesville .'I 33 pm 0 02 jiin I/eave MeConnellsville :{ 15 pm 0 12 pm Leave Lowrysville s 12 jun 0 :H pm Arrive Chester ; S 55 j>m 10 0:1 pin Trains Xos. It and 10 arc tirst-class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Xos. i>0 and ill carry passengers and also run daily except Sunday." There is Rood connection at Chester with the <L C. A' X., and the C. it A.; also at (Jastonia with the A. A- C. A. L.; at Lincolnton with the and at Hickory and Xewton with the W. X. C. I.. T. XICHOLS, Superintendent. II. If. IlKAKI),(Jetiend Passenger Agent. March 2K t! tf THE "ENQUIRER" SEWING MACHINE. IMPROVED, HIGH ARM, PERFECTED. Shipped on Approval and Guaranteed to Give Mill ire Satisfaction, and if Not Satisfactory after a Test of TWUNTY DAYS in Your Home, the Ma chine Wilt he Taken Hack and Your Money Kefuiidod. nsisiiro is o.i k oit ir.4i.si r .is/t nr.iic.tstkho roic ri:s ykahs. This Hlegaut Machine Delivered. Freight Paid, at any Hailroad Station Hast of the Pocky Mountains, for $23.00. 1HNC KXHl'IRKU has sent out a largo nuin. her of the host grades of Sewing Machines in the past live years, and in view of the fact that the business has grown to such proportions as to warrant it, we have recently perfected an arrangement for the manufacture of THK KXtjriKKK SKWIXH MACHINE, and we are now prepared to furnish them to all who wish to buy a first class high grade Sewing Machine at less than half the price at which such a machine is usually sold by peddlers and dealers. A Few Fact3 About The Enquirer Machine. The accompanying engraving gives a correct idea of the machine. It is as near perfection as any machine on the market. Any kind of work can bo done on it that any other machine will do. All wearing parts are case hardened steel, and are fitted so accurately that these machines are as absolutely noiseless and easy running as line adjustment and best mechanical skill are possible to produce. No expense or time is spared to make them perfect in every respect. The Imlance-whcel and many of the line parts are nickel plated, with other parts finely enameled and ornamented, giving it a rich appearance. The machine is fitted with the Improved Automatic Dobbin Winder. It also has a self-setting needle and self-threading cylinder shuttle. The simplicity of the automatic tensions, sewing from Xos. 40 to I no thread without altering, recommends it not only to every beginner, but to ai.i.. Each machine is in perfect working order when shipped, and is accompanied with printed intructions and a complete set of tools and all necessary attachments, in a handsome plush lined case. The attachments are the best, //on- ro ui:r rm: m Army a. / mr o n r. i sr / m ro it.?/ i n o s. The price of the Machine istjiti.'i. We deliver it at your nearest railroad station free of freight charges, provided you live east of the Rocky Mountains. THK KXtll'IHKK will be sent free for one year to every purchaser of a machine. The cash must a the order. Send money by 10xpress, Money order. Registered better or New York Exchange. WARRANTED FOR TEX YEARS. The usual warrantee by which we replace any defective pan or any pari mm nmiRn <?i nut through the fault of the machine, except iliuttles, needles and bobbins, goes with every Machine. Alter the Machine has been received, you have the privilege of returning it within fWKNTY "lavs, if not satisfactory. Is that lair? NO V A It I AT I ON. We have endeavored to sjiv here all that "we otdd say in a letter. There can lie no change of lernts. Do not ask lor any variation. Machines ire shipped direct from the factory, and are not in exhibition at ourollice. We know you will be pleased with the machine when you get it, and you know if it should happen to lie unsatisfactory, you can send it back within TWIONTY DAYS and get yourAddress I.Kwis M. tiltlST, Vorkville, S. <\ COFFINS AND CASKETS. Dur Stock is Equaled by None in the County and Surpassed by But Few in the State. flASKKTS IN MIOTAldC, CI.OTII-plain L ' anddraped?Velvet, Waliuil, <>ak and (lloss White. Imitation Walnut, (>ak, Hurl and Roscivood. Collins in any slylcaud at any ]>ri?-t* IVom i plain home-made?painted or covered?to the est raised <). (i. lid with slide glass, Onrstoek >1' Caskets and Collins I'ol! CJIILIMtKN is dcgniit and complete. BURIAL ROBES AND SLIPPERS, For Ladies, < Jeiitlenicn and Children. They are nuch nicer, more easily adjusted and cheaper hail anything kept in stores. IIFARSK Fl'RN IS 11101) FRLF in town, and at reasonthle prices anywhere in the eountv. WK SIPKRINTKND A Id, f-TXKRALS iiruished hy us and give prompt attention to ill calls, dav or night. Your patronage solicited. S. T. FR FW A* C<>. Rock Hill, S. C. and Children. J l llsioriii cures i one, > iiumiiwiiuim Sour Stomach, Dlarrhajo, Eructation, fl Kills Worms, gives ssl****I>. a'"l promotes <!i ^ fl Rl'Stioll, M Without injurious medication. I " For several years I have recommended your 'Castoria,' ami shall always continue to do so as it luis invariably produced beneficial ,H results." . Fuwis F. Pardee, M. I>., fl l-itil Street and Ttli Ave., New York < 'ity. 9 'ohpany, 77 Mirray Rtrket, New Yoke City. fl OFING COMPANY, flrcflZAL And Cement. I 158 M KKWIN ST., ^ ami Price List No. 7"?. )F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. ???????????????? i Thirty-Fourth Annoal Statement EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY ^ For the Year Ending December 31st, 1S03. ASSETS. ^ Bonds and Mortgages $22,808,916,74 Heal Estate,including the Equitable Buildings ami purcliuses under foreclosure of mortgages 23,928,724.53 Untied States stocks, stute Stocks, City Stocks, & other investments 89,253,593.42 . Loans secured by Bonds and Stocks (Murket value, |9,449,24t) 8,934,463.33 ileal Estate* outside the Stats of New York, Including purchases under foreclosure 14,396,857.64 ^ Cash in Bank and In transit (since received and Invested) 5,294,483.13 interest and Hentsdueand accrued, B| Deferred Premiums and other J 8ecurltli'3.r..].".....7..7. ...T...... ?,439,378.11 Tola! Assets December 31,1893 (169,056,396.yu ' LIABILITIES. Reserve on ull existing Policies "v/ (-1 per cent. Standard) and all other liabilities II36.689.6-W.57 Total Undivided Surplus (-1 per ct. standurd). Including Special Reserve of (9.500,000 towards establishment of u 3 per ct. valuation .. 32,366,750.33 (169,056,306.00 We certify to the correctness of the above calcu- I9H "atlon of the reserve und surplus. From thlssur- ^H| plus the usual dividends will be made. Geo. \V. PitiLLira, J. G. Van Ciss, Actuurles. J INCOME. * Premiums (3-5,537,369.59 j Interest, Rents, etc 6,485,235.96 m j (-13,033,603.55 DISBURSEMENTS. 4A Claims by Death and Mutured En- ^Hj dowments (10,761,402.80 WU Dividends, Surrender Vulues, Annulties it Discounted Endowments 6,868,012.63 Total Puld Pollcy-Holders (17,650,315.43 ^ Commissions, Advertising, Postage I und Exchange 4,615,745.29 1 Generul Expenses, State, County and City Taxes 3,089,438,06 ; I _ (95,355,498.60 j 1 New Assurance written In 1893 (2u5728i>,237.00 J Total Outstanding Assurunce 932,532,577.00 W.J.RODDEY, Rock Hill, S.C. 9 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, " J ltocU II111, S. O. V . Cauital. $75,000 i Snrylns and Profits. 28,499 < ] Additional Liability of Stockholders. 75.000 J Total Protectian to Depositors, $178,499 "* 1 W. I.. ROIUIKY I'reslkleiit. J W. J. UODDEY Vice President. .1. II. MII.LKK Cnsliler. (fl K. LEE KERR Teller. ^ mills HANK offers its services to the public .A. generally and solicits uccounts from Farmcrs, Merchants, Corporations and Private In- V dividnals. 1 Wc shall he glad to furnish our terms upon application. I NT ICR EST BEARING CERTIFICATES OF DKFOS1T ISSFFI). March 21 12 dm REG I ST IIATIOV NOTICId. j Ollicc of Supervisor of {legist rat ion of York Count)*, 99 Yorkvii,i.k, S. March 12, lStM. "V^OTICE is hereby given that the Imoksof aN registration will remain open iiimyottiee, as the law directs, I N TII In < '< >CRT Hot SK AT TjM YOHKVII.I.F, on the FIRST MONDAY in ^ each month, eommeiieingon the FIRST MOX- i DAY OF .lANl'ARY, lsl)4, and eontiiming j until the FIRST MONDAY IN Jl'LY, 1?94, \ inclusive. Thisisforthepurpose of registering all persons who have become of an age (nullifying them to vote, or who may lie entitled from other ^ legal causes, since the last election, to register ; I to transfer voters so desiring from York to another county, or from one residence to another. Voters desiring to avail theinselvesof any of the above privileges, must make application before, or on the FIRST .MONDAY, 2ND DAY OF < i Jl'LY, 1NIM. i ('LAY HILL and THOMPSON'S MILL I precincts have been discontinued by act of the 1 legislature, and in their stead a voting precinct lias been established at FOREST hill. Electors att'eeted by the change are required to surrender their registration certificates in order that they may tie made to conform with the law. * 1 , Those who fail to have their certificates changed, i will not lie entitled to vote. A change of certificate will also lie necessary to enable electors to vote at the new precinct of SHARON. The location of TI R/.A 11 precinct having been changl ed from the Church to the railroad station, persons who have been voting elsewhere, and find it more convenient to vote at Tirzah, can have ^ their certificates changed accordingly. * I. R. GORDON, Supervisor of Registration, York County. MONTY AM-: STOCK FARM, Illnckshiii-g, S. C. Registered jerseys, welch and r SHETLAND PONIES. (Imported stock.) ESSEX AND REGISTERED CHESHIRE PIGS. Rred and for sale. ol'R JERSEYS are all of the celebrated Victor and Stoke ltogis strains, which have attracted so much attention throughout the i North. HULL CALVES FOR SALE AT FARMERS' PRICES. If you are thinking of ' starting a dairy herd don't overlook the Jerseys, j Thcv are tho best dairy cows known to the worid. I We guarantee our ponies to he perfectly safe for ladies and children to drive. CAN SELL SHETLAND PONIES AS CHEAP AS ANY BREEDERS IN THE SOUTH. Write for ? what you want. Address, Dr. J. G. BLACK, Hlaeksbiirg, S. UNDERTAKING. JlMS* I AM handling a first class line of COFFINS AND CASK ETS which I will sell at the very lowest prices. Personal attention at all hours. I am prepared to repair all kinds of Furniture y at reasonable prices. J. ED JKFPKKYS. .lainiarv 4 1 tf PLEASE HE A It IN MINI) ^ rpil AT I can Clean and Repair your Sewing 1. Machine, and furnish you with Shuttles, Bobbins, Needles, etc. I f you need anything in M this line, I should be pleased to serve von. A. M. CRIST. 1 May S', -Jl tf l>. K. KINI.KY. .1. S. It KICK FIN LEY Hit ICE, ATTOHN'EYS AT I,AW, Yorkrille. S. C. A I,I, business entrusted to us will be given prompt attention. OFFICE IN THE BCIl.DINti AT Til E BEAR OF II. C. STRAl'SS'S STORE. Ihr ^jovlu'tUc (Jhtquivrv. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. jf TEltMS OF SITBSCItl l?TIOX : Single copy for one year, $ 'i oo < )ne copy for two years, tit 5tl For six months, 1 oo For three months, AO Two copies tor t?ne year, 3 AO Ten copies one year It AO And an extra eopv for a club of ten. A I>\ EltTIWEM I'.NTS Inserted at One Dollar per square Ibr the first insertion, and Filly Cents per square for each f' subsequent insertion. A square consists of the space occupied by eight lines of this size type. Jkir- Contracts for advertising space for tliree. six, or iweive inomiis win no niauo mi reasonable tonus. The contracts must in all oases l>o confined to the regular Imsinoss ot' the linn or individual contracting. Parties w ho make qnar- j torly, soini-annual or annual contracts for a giv \ 011 space, and afterward order the discout iiiuanoo of the advertisement or a reduction of the space contracted for, will lie mini red to pay at the rate usually charged for the less space or shorter time as the case may lie. An increase of space or time w ill lie a matter for special contract. The advertiser will he at liberty to change the matter at will, provided the copy for the change is in the oilice not later than 12 in. on Monday preceding the day of publication.