Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 27, 1897, Image 4
^tumorous Department.
Poetry and Mathematics.?It is
often the case that great mathematical
minds are incapable of appreciating
poetry. There "was once a mathematical
tutor in one of our great universities
who was in the habit of boasting
that be neither knew nor cared to
know anything about poets or poetry,
and considered it all "a lot of unpractical
rot."
A certain brother tutor was very
anxious to convert him to the admiration
of fine poetry, and by way of
accomplishing this gave him the famous
"Charge of the Light Brigade"
to read.
The mathematician took it up aod
beg?n to read aloud, thus:
"Half a league, half a league, half
a league," then he baDged the book
dowD, exclaiming, impatiently, "Well,
if the fool meant a league and a half,
why on earth didn't he 9ay so?"
How Old Is He??It became necessary,
in order to render a boy witness
competent, to prove that he had
reached the age of 10 years, aDd his
mother, an Irish woman, was called
for that purpose.
"How old is your son John ?" quoth
the lawyer.
"Indade, sir, I dunno, but I think
he's not tin yit," was the reply.
"Did you make no record of his
birth ?"
"The prast did, in the ould country,
where he was born."
"How long after your marriage was
that ?"
"About a year; may be lias."
"When were you married ?"
"Dade, sir, I dunno."
"Did you not bring a certificate of
your marriage with you from the old
country ?"
"Hey, sir ? And what should I nade
wid a certificate whin I bad the ould
znon himself along wid me?"
No further questions were asked.
A Little Too Smart.?An Irishman's
idea of what constitutes a successful
stratagem is sometimes most
amusing.
"And how is your wife after the
weddin' an all ?" inquired Mr. Murphy 1
of his friend, Mr. Doolan, whose
daughter had been married two days
before. I
"She's well enough, exceptin' that
she's grievin' over a pair of illigant
new kid gloves that got lost on her
that evenin'," responded Mr. Doolan.
"She's feelin' bad about thim, but I've
advertised in the paper, and I think
she'll get them back befoor long. They
cost Mrs. Doolan $2.45."
"Ain't you afraid whoiver got thim
will be slow to answer the advertisement?"
inquired Mr. Murphy.
"It's mesilf that knew how to fix
that," returned Mr. Doolan. "I advertised
thim illigant gloves as 'an
owld cotton pair, burrstin' away at the
seams, and worth nobody's keepin'!' "
fc&~ An oldish couple, who bad come
in by the Erie road, were crossing on
a Pavonia ferryboat recently, when
the wife asked her husband about the
time of day. It was about two o'clock
by the right time, but he looked at '
his big silver watch, and replied that
it was three. "But they said we'd get
nhnut two." she protested.
"Train might be late." "It wasn't
quite two by the clock in the depot."
He took out his bull's eye again for
another look, held it up to his ear to
see if it was going, and then suddenly
exclaimed : "Oh, pshaw ! I'm an hour
ahead. I've had her set for the hired
man to get up by, and forgot to turn
'er back."
VST Old Sam Kalleton was doubtless
one of the most ard> nt legislators
known to the history of Arkansas.
Every bill introduced by a well dressed
man he looked upon with suspicion,
and never failed to suggest an amendment.
One morning, after a night's
carousal, he entered the legislative
hall just as the chaplain was asking
Divine aid. The old man took a chew
of tobacco and listened attentively
until the chaplain closed his petition
with an effective recitation of the
Lord's prayer. "Mr. Speaker," said
the old man, arising, "I move to strike
out the words 'daily bread' and insert
'as much bread as may be necessary
for twenty days.' We have already
done enough for the flood sufferers."
Effectively Told.?Servant?0,
Miss, that Mr. Borem do be eomin'
here again. There's no use tellin' hiui
y'r not at home, fur he'll just push
past me an' say he'll wait till yez do
come back.
Miss Beauti?Tbsn, for mercy's sake
tell him plainly that I'm engaged.
Do it in such a way that he'll conclude
to leave.
Servant?Yes, mum.
Mr. Borem fa miuute later)?Is Miss
Beauti at home?
Servant?Yes, sor, but she do be
ingaged ; an' the felly she's engaged to
do be waitin' in the pailer fur yez wid
a club.?New York Weekly.
W3T Citizen?What do you want
now ? My wife gave you a pie and
one of my old vests just now. Aren't
you satisfied yet? Tramp? Sst!
Speak low ! I don't want the lady to
hear it, but I've brought back a $10
bill I found in the vest. Here it is.
"You are an honest man. Why didn't
you keep the money?" '"Well, you
see, after I'd tackled the pie I got to
tbinkin' it all over, an' my conscience
hurt me. You'll have to eat them
pies as long as you live. I won't.
Besides my sympathy I haint got noth
ing to give you but the $10, unless you
want the vest back !"
IST "I'll teach you how to tear your
pants !" said an irate parent swinging
a strap; "I'll teach you." "Don't bit
me pa; I know how already. Just
look at 'em !"
Wayside ?atherinys.
t&" "Stick to me closely," said the
envelope to the stamp. "By gum, I
will!" replied the stamp.
V8T By a judicial decision in a New
York court, tobacco is held to be an
article of necessity rather than a luxury.
ti&T In California the railroads co-operate
with the people by carrying road
material at actual cost of transportation.
S8T In the Rocky Mountain ranges
there are about 2,000,000 wild horses
which anybody can have for the catchine.
Pair A young woman of Hillsboro, N.
H., finished a piece of funcy work, in
which, by actual count, there were
316,935 stitches.
8?" "Jones is a sly dog," remarked
Aiken. "He always has something up
bis sleeve." "Has, eh ; what is it?"
"The seam."
I@T When a man is sure i hat bis
friends never talk about him behind
his back, it is sure that all his friends
are dead, says the Sumerville Journal.
P&T One hundred years ago a man
was arrested in London for wearing a
tall silk hat, the first article of headgear
of that kind ever seen in the
world.
PS" A Boston antiquarian has in bis
posession a bottle of the tea which, ou
the night of December 16, 1773, was
emptied from the British vessel by the
Boston Tea Party.
PS" The man who cau't afford a new
dress for his wife and books for the
boys and girls, often has no difficulty
in finding money for tobacco and
whisky.
PS" The secretary of war is to have
a special flag to be displayed wherever
he is present in his official capacity.
It is a blood red flag with eagles and
things on it.
P&- A man will die for want of air
in five minutes, for waDtof sleep in 10
days, for want of water in a week, and
for want of food at varying periods,
dependent on circumstances.
V&T A Kansas young man has caused
the arrest of a girl on the charge that
she "did suddenly, forcefully and in^
tentionally hug him, thereby causing
him great confusion and mental anguish."
t&T The average man takes five and
a half pounds of food and drink each
day, amounting to one ton of solid and
liquid nourishment annually. In 70
years he eats and drinks 1,000 times
his own weight.
VST "William," said the teacher,
"can you tell me anything about the
shape of the earth ?" "Only what
my father found out in the newspaper."
"What is that?" "He says it's
in mighty bad shape just at present."
tiST "There is no occasion for you to
envy me," said the prosperous person ;
????? f*?aiiKloo oe vaii " "T
X uavc oa uuauj m vu u?vu wu j vu( _
allow you do, mister," admitted Dismal
Dawson ; "but the difficulty with
me is that I aiu't got nothing else."
8?* At Coggins' mill, near Sisson,
Cal., the loggers cut a tree a short
time ago which was estimated to be
just 404 years of age. It was 8 feet in
diameter aud produced 15,000 feet of
lumber.
t&T An exchange tells of the pitiful
case of two young men, one of whom
"has married a girl who can cook, and
thinks she can play the piano," while
the other "has married a girl who can
play the piano, and thinks she can
cook.
t8T An Oregonian has devised an
open-top thimble containing a small
sponge, to be placed on the finger and
used as a moistener in sealing envelopes.
Once moistened the sponge
may be used on many envelopes.
I?* In India there are 100,000 boys
and 627,000 girls under the age of 14
who are legally married, while 8,600
boys and 24,000 girls who have not
attained the 4ge of 4 are under marriage
bonds as arranged by their parents.
(6?* Ail animals, domestic ones included,
become restless before a storm.
Cats and dogs scratch and move about,
while their fur looks less bright and
glossy than usual. It is always a sure
sign of rain when horses and cattle
scratch their necks, and sniff the air.
tffir The six wealthiest women in the
world are said to be Senora Isidora
Cousino, $200,000,000; Hetty Green,
$50,000,000; Baroness Burdett-Couts,
$20,000,000; Mme. Barrios, $15,000,000;
Miss Mary Garrett, $10,000,000;
?ff? cinnnnonn
ITU'S. ?T UlCOIVOj f AVjUVUJVVVI
8&F The state of Maine gives official
employment to a photographer who
devotes his time to securing enticiug
views of the sporting regions of the
state and distributing them broadcast
throughout the rest of the Union as
advertisements.
"Step right in, ladies and gentlemen
!" cried the showman. "Step
right in, and see the educated pig add
and subtract!" "Pshaw !" interrupted
Farmer Backlots. "My old hog at
home has got way over to square
root."
tSST The Cuban tobacco yield the
past year has been 75,000 bales, instead
of 500,000 bales, the yield the
year before. The sugar crop has been
reduced to one-fourth its former size,
and will be smaller the coming year.
ti&F A Kentucky man has named his
children as follows: The oldest, Daniel
Prophesier Yancaster Bustersquire
Hobbob Bush; the secoud, Charles
William Henry Harrison Dalton Houston
Austin Bush; and the youngest,
John Cornelius Edward Vanderbilt
Bush.
SSy Sacred concerts, as they are
termed, are given at the Chinese theatre
in Boston, on Sunday evening,
and a placard bearing this carefully
worded announcement is posted at the
door: "This being of a religious
nature, no Americans will be admitted ;
only Chinamen and their families."
?he ??onj ?cllcr.
TRAGEDY OF ROWM'sllI
Grewsome Story of a Kentucky Murder
and Its Consequences.
Correspondence of The Globe-Democrat.
Lawrenceburg, Ky., March 11.?
Several miles southwest of here, near
Bardstowu, at the junction of the
Springfield and Loretto turnpikes, is a
grewsome spot, given a wide berth by
the superstitious, as the ghosts that are
alleged to yet lurk there recall vividly
a revolting crime of the long ago,
ii-Ki/.li halt i?o narullpl nnlv in lhl> luiW
famous Pearl Bryan murder, that
Jackson and Walling were hung for.
It is a steep hill, probably a quarter of
a mile in length by 50 yards in width,
kjiown as "Pottershop Hill." Com
posed chiefly of yellow clay, it is a
dreary and desolate looking place.
The hill is hounded on the north and
east by pikes above mentioned, and
on the west by Rowan's creek, a goodsized
stream, which, in the early days
of the century, furnished power for a
fulling mill owned by Judge John
Rowan, in ante-bellum days a United
States senator, and noted as a lawyer
and statesman. At the top of the hill,
and extending far to the southward,
is a dense growth of cedars.
In the early days of the present
century there stood at the foot of the
Pottershop Hill a large weatherboarded
log house, which was occupied by
Walter Hays and family. Hays opern
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state road ran in a few yards of the
place, be did a lucrative business.
Years afterwards the old house was
purchased by one Joseph Price and
converted into a pottershop, for which
purpose it was used until the outbreak
of 'the civil war, when it was torn
dowu to prevent the federal authoiities
from using it as a smallpox hospital
for soldiers as they had planned to
do. The stone foundation and a few
moldering logs are all that remain of
the old building. After the house fell
into Price's possession, grewsome
stories became curreut among the Negro
laborers and the whites in the
neighborhood of a headless woman
who would nightly emerge from the
cedar thicket at the top of the hill and
carefully make her way along the
cliffs that bordered the creek to the
corner of the old pottershop, where
she would, after pausing a moment,
disappear entirely from view. Price's
Negro laborers were nearly frightened
to death by the uncanny appari
tion, and it was with difficulty that be
compelled them to work in the shop
after night. These Negroes knew of
the horrible murder that had been
committed there, and it required but
little imagination to make a ghost
stalk abroad at midnight's hour. The
story of the crime was well known to
the generation that has all but passed
away, and in this way it has been
handed down to this period.
Nancv Havs. the onlv daughter of
Walter Hays, was a beautiful girl;
slender and graceful, with a delicate
wild-rose complexion and violet eyes.
As was natural, she had many suitors
for her hand, but the favored one was
Amos Molloy, the foreman of Judge
Rowan's mill. Noah Matheney, also
employed in the mill, was deeply in
love with Nancy, but his attentions
were obnoxious to her, and she had on
more than one occasion given him so
to understand. One day Nancy Hays
came to the mill and engaged in a long
conversation with young Molloy, the
favored one, during which a little lover's
quarrel arose. He was seen to
gesture angrily, and several bystanders
heard him say to the girl :
"Very well, then ; you will be sorry
for this. Mark well what I say."
Thus they parted. This was in the
morning. At dusk that evening a
number of people saw Amos and Nancy
together, walking toward the strip
of forest that bordered the creek near
the mill. At 10 o'clock that night an
old farmer living a short distance in
the country dashed into Bardstowu
with the horrible intelligence that a
young girl had been murdered on the
clifls near Rowan's mill. An excited
crowd surged to the place indicated,
and, near the edge of a high cliff, overlooking
the stream of water, the dead
body of Nancy Hays was found, dreadfully
hacked and bruised, and her
bead severed from her shoulders. A
terrible hush fell upon the crowd as
they gazed upon the spectucle. The
silence was broken by Noah Matheney
(Molloy's rival), who stepped to the
side of the dead girl, and lifted a
bloody haudkerchief from the ground.
"Perhaps this may give us a clew," he
said ; aud holding the linen where the
light of the moonjcould fall upon it he
scanned it closely for some name or
initial. Suddenly bis face brightened,
and holding the handkerchief high in
the air he exclaimed : "I find in one
comer of this handkerchief?which is
a gentleman's?two letters, 'A. M.' "
Then pausing and glancing around, he
added, with great significance : "Where
is Amos Molly ?"
"Yes; where is Amos Molloy ?" the
crowd repeated, and every eye searched
every face; but they found not
what they sought. Molloy was not
there. Then some remembered his
augry words to Nancy Hays that
morning; others of seeing them afterward
together, going in the direction
of the woods. A shout of rage rent
the air, and loud were the curses
heaped upon the absent man.
While this scene was being enacted
a blood-stained and apparently halfstunned
man staggered into the open
porch of a farm house a mile away
and, rousing the inmates, asked to be
allowed to rest. This was Amos Molloy,
and here he was found a short
time afterward by a body of angry
men. He was taken to where the
gory coprse of Nancy Hays was lying.
Throwing himself upon the body he
raved like a man bereft of his mind.
It was with difficulty that lit* was torn
away ami dragged under th? branches
of a huge oak tree. Here a rope was
tiirowii over an outstretching limb,
and a noose adjusted to the man's
neck. He was then giveu a few
[ minutes in which to explain his terrible
conduct. In the shadow of death
and without a tremor io his voice, the
loomed man told his story. He said
that he and Nancy were engaged to
he married ; that they had quarreled
because she hud wished to attend a
dance in a neighboring county against
his will; that they had made it up a
short time afterward ; that he meant
nothing by the threat. In the evening
they walked toward the wood ; when
near a bluff on the roadside a masked
milr. leaped from the bushes and assaulted
Naucy, hacking her with uu
ax. Id endeavoring to defend her he
was himself struck several times, and
then hurled from the bluff. He was
rendered uucouscious by the blows
and the fall, und must have lain lor
some time. In a half unconscious
state he had wandered to the farm
bouse where he was found. Of course
no one believed his story., and williDg
hands seized the rope, and Molioy
was hung until life was extinct. This
was the first lynching that ever oc
curred iu Nelson.
Years passed away. Noah Mathe
ney went to the west, and was never
heard from. Walter Hays, the heartbroken
father, moved to the "Yellow
Banks,'' uow Owensboro, Ky., where
he died, and the remainder of his
fumily was scattered far and wide.
One stormy night in the spring of
1830, a horseman galloped up to the
minister's door and bade him hurry to
the office of Dr. Harrison ; a man had
been thrown from his horse, and laydying
there, and bad requested the
presence of a preacher. What happened
afterward is taken almost veru_.:_
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"I found the man stretched upon a
mattress on the floor of the doctor's
office. The physician was bending
over him, and upon my entrance informed
him that -the minister had
arrived. I knelt by the man's side
and took his clammy hand in mine.
His face was bruised and mangled in'a
dreadful manner. There was nothing
about hitn that I recognized. He was
an entire stranger to me. 'My man,'
I said, 'what can I do for you ?' 'I am
dying,' he said, 'and I want to make a
confession to you. Do you think that
will help me any in the other world ?'
I made him an appropriate answer and
urged him to talk. He then narrated
what is put down here, speaking rapidly
for one in his condition :
" 'Years ago there yvas a murder?
an awful murder?committed out yonder
on the cliffs by Rowan's mill. The
victim was Nancy Hays. She had had
two lovers?Amos Molloy and Noah
Matheney. She loved Molloy, but did
not even like Matheney. He knew it,
for she had told him so a few days before
ber death, when he had asked
her to marry him. He was jealous of
Mollov and longed for revenge. His
time came much sooner than he expected.
Molloy and Nancy quarrelled
at the mill one morning. That
evening they went walking together.
Matheney masked himself and followed
them. They were a good distance
ahead of him, and darkness was fast
coining on. Secreting himself in some
bushes by the roadside, he waited for
them to return. When they did so,
Matheney assaulted Nancy with an
ax, hacking her to death. Molloy,
taken by surprise, could do nothing,
and he was hurled from the cliff.'
"Here the dying man paused and
gasped for breath. The storm without
still raged; the rain beat violently
against the windowpanes; the wind
would roar around the house in fitful
gusts and die away among the distant
hills, with a moan that was almost
human, and more than one shudder
convulsed my frame as I listened to
the dying man's dread recital. Finally,
he continued :
" 'It was easy for Matheney to steal
back in time to take an active part in
the search for the murderer. Molloy
was at once suspected, and through
Matheney's maneuvering he was arrested
and hanged. After this Matheney
went to the west; and after
years of torturing remorse, something
compelled him to return to his native
town. Minister, do you believe the
dead are ever allowed to return to this
world ? No ! Well, I do.'
"Another pause, and then?'In returning
to this town Matheney's road
led hira by the place where the murder
had been committed. He willingly
would have avoided it, but he could
not. The same incentive that caused
bim to return berealso Compelled bim
to pass that fatal spot. Tonight when
the storm was at its height he was on
that spot. Oh, how it did rain. How
the thunder crashed, and how the
wind roared ! It would have been
dark, too, but for the incessant dashing
of lightning! Matheney's heart
was frozen with terror. Suddenly his
horse stopped?right on that bloody
spot?with a snort of terror, and stood
trembling in every limb, and from out
the bushes?the same bushes from
whence Matheuey had stepped with
bis murderous ax years before?came
Amos Molloy. Yes. Amos Molloy,
for the lightning trembled and played
about him, and he was as plainly
visible as he was that night when
be was dragged under the tree to die
the death of a felon. How white and
determined his face looked, as be
stretched forth a shadowy hand and
grasped the bridle on Matheney's
horse and led him to the very edge of
the cliff'. Matheney was paralyzed i
with terror and could make no re- 1
sistance. The lightning still blazed, |
and the phantom, turning back a
white, revengeful face, led the horse i
with his rider over the bluff and they
were dashed far down into the darkness
below.' Again the dying man j
paused and lay almost motionless.
Suddenly?'Minister,' and he almost
shrieked. 'I am Noah Matheney and
I killed Nancy Hays! See ! See ! There
she is now !" Raising himself hull wuv
up, he cried again in piteous voice,
'God have mercy on me, and fell back
upon the oratress dead."
A half-mile south of the old pottershop
is a shelving cliff, which rises to
a considerable height above Rowan's
creek. The surroundings are bare and
drear, the locality presenting a very
forbidding appearance. This cliff is
the place where Nancy Hays met her
bloody and untimely end, and from
whence Noah Metheney was led to
his death by the shadowy hands of
Amos Molloy. The cliff is known as
"Murderer's Rock."
On the north side of the Springfield
turnpike, on the farm of P. H. Bowman,
is a giunt oak tree, which is
pointed out as the one upon which
Amos Molloy was handed for a crime
lie did not commit. The tree and the
immediate locality are regarded as
being cursed from the fact that the
old oak was blasted by lightning years
ago, and that within the memory of
the oldest citizen no verdure has since
grown within a radius of 30 feet of
the tree. Iu addition to this, two
men met untimely deaths within its
shadow. Oue, a young man, accidentally
killed himself while squirrel
hunting; the other, a man of mature
years, was throwu from bis horse aud
his neck broken. This tree is only a
short distance from and nearly opposite
the site of the old pottershop.
Some distance further up the Springfield
turnpike, on the farm of J. F.
Wood, is an old, neglected burying
ground, within whose precincts are
two sunken and. grass grown graves,
sjde by side. They are marked by
limestone rocks, bearing the initials,
"A. M." and "N. H." These graves
are reputed to he the last resting
places of the ill-starred lovers, Amos
Molloy and Nancy Hays.
3111VER All CHAflUSTOI O.
TIME TABLE oftheOhio River and
Charleston Railway company, to take
effect Monday, January 4th, at 8.00 a. ra.
STANDARD EASTERN TIME.
GOING SOUTH No. 12. |
Leave Marlon - 1 80 pm
Leave Rutherfordton 8 05 pm
Leave Forest City - 8 85 pm
Leave Henrietta 4 00 pm
Leave Mooresboro 4 15 pm
Leave Shelby ... 5 30 pm
Leave Patterson Springs.. 5 45 pm
Leave Earls 5 56 pm
Arrive at Blacksburg 6 10 pm '
No. 82. | No. 84.
Dally Dally
Except Except
. Snnday. Snnday.
Leave Blacksburg 8 80 am 8 40 am
Leave Smyrna. 8 50 am 9 05 am
Leave Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am
Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am
Leave Yorkvllle 9 85 am 10 20 am
Leave TIrzah..-. 9 47 am 10 45 am
a CI am lA Unm
UCavOilonr[A/lb a ui ?IU IV vy Hiu
Leave Rock Hill 11 00 am 12 5o pro
Leave Leslies 11 13 am 1 15 ppa
Leave Catawba Junction.. 11 30 am 1 50 pro
Leave Lancaster 12 05 pm 8 55 pro
Leave Kershaw 12 45 pm 5 80 pm
Arrive at Camden 1 80 pm 6 50 pm
QQiKG~yoRTH. I NoT~38~| No. 35.
Dally Daily
Except Except
Bnnday. Sunday.
Leave Camden 2 30 pm 8 30 am
Leave Kershaw 3 15 pm 10 45 am
Leave Lancaster 3 55 pm 12 05 pm
Leave Catawba Junction 4 80 pm 1 50 pm
Leave Leslies 4 38 pm 2 00 pm
Leave Rock Hill 4 54 pm 4 00 pm
Leave Newport 5 09 pm 4 20 pm
Leave Tirzah 5 15 pm 4 40 pm
Leave Yorkville 5 80 pm 5 40 pm
Leave Sharon 5 45 pm| 6 05 pm
Leave Hickory Grove.... 6 00 pmi 6 30 pm
Leave Smyrna 6 10 pm 6 40 pm
Arrive at Blacksburg 6 30 pm; 7 10 pm
No. 11. |
Leave Klacksburg 8 00 am
leave Earls 8 20 am
Leave Patterson Springs 8 30 am
Leave Shelby 9 10 am
Leave Moo res bo ro 9 50 am
Leave Henrietta 10 00 am
Leave Forest City 10 20 am
Leave Rutherfordton 10 60 am!
Arrive at Marlon 12 20 pm
CONNECTIONS.
No. 32 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at
Catawba Junction.
Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek
and London, trains stop only on signal.
S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIPP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HUNT. General Manager.
CABOLIKA & IBBTHWESTEBIi RT
G. W. F. HARPER, Pres.
Schedules in Effect from and After
February 7,1896.
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.
GOING WORTH. | NO 10. | NO BO.
Leai e Chester 6 10 ami 8 30am
Leave Lowrysville 6 36 am j 9 05 am
Leave McConnellsvllle (?)am 9 39am
Leave Guthrlesvllle .... 7 02 ami 9 56am
Leave Yorkvllle | 7 22amll0 50aro
Leave Clover ; 7 52 a m 11 33 am 1
Leave Gastonla 8 27am; 150pm
Leave Llncolnton ! 8 45 a m 3 16 pm
Leave Newton 10 23 am 4 45 pm
Leave Hickory 11 10 am 6 15 pm ,
Arrive Lenoir 12 17 pm 8 00 pm
GOING 8QPTH. | No. 9. | No 61.
Leave Lenoir 8 30pm, 6 30 am
Leave Hickory 4 34pm! 8 10 a ro j
Leave Newton 5 14 p m 9 10 am
Leave Llncolnton 6 00 pm 10 40 am
Leave Gastonla 6 57 p m 1 00 p m
Leave Clover 737pm 2 02pm
Leave Yorkvllle 806pm 3 10 pm
Leave Guthrlesvllle ... 8 29pm 3 40pm 1
Leave McConnellsvllle 8 38 pm 3 55 pm
Leave Lowrysville 9 00pm 4 25pm
Arrive Chester 9 32 p m 5 10 p m ;
Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and .
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
50 and 61 carry passengers and also run
daily except Sunday. There is good connection
at Chester with the G. C. & N.
and the C. C. & A., also L & C. R. R.; at .
Gastonia with the A. <ft C. A. L.; at Lin- colnton
with C. C.; and at Hickory and
Newton with W. N. C.
Parties desiring tickets to all points
North, East, South and West, will find it i
much to their advantage to call at or cor- <
respond with the General Office of the ;
Carolina and North-Western Railway at
Lenoir, N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt. 1
S. T. PENDER, G. F. and P. A.,
Lenoir, N. C.
A $1,000 WORD. '
Two Papers at the Price of One and
a Chance at $1,000, Additional.
The Third Missing Word Contest of *
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution,
In Which $1,000 Will Be Distributed
to Successful Contestants on
the 1st of May.
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution has
inaugurated its third oonsecutive "missing
word" contest, which began on the
1st of March and close on the 1st of May?
sixty days.
It publishes the cashier's receipt for
the special deposit account of $1,000 to be
paid to the person, or persons, who, in
subscribing to The Weekly Constitution,
names correctly the missing jvord in the
following sentence:
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?ne tvtgnc or ? is me very
essence of the constitution."
The sentence is taken from a historical
publication, and the sentiment to wtiich
it gives expression is that of an eminent
writer.
Bv special arrangement with The Weekly
"Constitution, that great paper and
The Enquirer can be obtained for one ,
Sear at almost the price of one paper. #
Tot only that: but under our arrangement
with The Weekly Constitution
every person who takes advantage of this
clubbing proposition, subscribing for
both papers, will be entitled to a guess at
the missing word. All clubbing subscriptions
should be sent to The Enquirer
with each subscriber's guess at the missing
word plainly written. The guess and
the name and address of each subscriber
will be forwarded by us to The Constitution.
*
The Constitution's first "missing word
contest" closed on the 1st of January, and
but one person, Mr. M. L. Brittain, a
hardworking school teacher, guessed the
missing word, receiving therefor a check
for 91.000. Its second contest closed on
the 1st of March, and The Weekly Constitution
of Mouday, March 8tb, will contain
the announcement of the awards in
which 91.000 in cash is to be distributed (
among the successful guessers in that
contest.
The readers of The Enquirer who
subscribe jointly to it and to The Weekly
Constitution have free access into the
third contest, just opened; and it may be J
that some of them will get the 91.000 to be
distributed on the 1st of May.
The only condition of the contest is that
every guesser must be a subscriber ; and
taking advantage of The Constintion's
offer we present this opportunity to all who
wish to subscribe to both papers. Every
person should have bis county paper and
one great general newspaper; and The
vveeKiy ^onsiuuuon, wnn a circniauon
of 156,000, occupies the unique distinction
of being the the greatest American weekly
newspaper.
DaT THE ENQUIRER and The Constitution
will be furnished one year
for $2.50.
- aJ
A Snare
And Delusion*
IF you have taken out a life insurance
policy in an Old Line high price "level
premium" company with the idea that
you would at sometime in the future,
while you yet drew the breath of life, re- ' j
ceive substantial cash returns or "big
dividends," we are here to tell you that
you will be disappointed. Your policy
will prove a snare and a delusion. It is all
right for protection for your wife and
children, as they will receive the face of
the policy in case of your death, as they
would also in a company that charges
you half as much. A life insurance policy
is a fraud as an investment for a living
man, and is the greatest blessing of which
we or anybody else has any knowledge
as a means of protecting the widow and
orphans, after the breadwinner has been
removed by death.
If You Will Lay Aside A
Your Prejudice
AND COME to us with a desire to
learn why it is not to your interest to
carry high priced insurance, and how we
can furnish you just as safe insurance
for at least 40 per cent, a year less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
fa ttaii? ootSafaAtinn thaf tVio \(TT'PI T A T.
W\? JUII1 oavici(t?bi\ru wuuv vuv 4'* v & w
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION
of New York does business on a
plan that is absolutely safe, and will protect
your loved ones even better tnan
they now are, at even a greater cost to
to you. Of course if you are too prejudiced
to investigate and imagine that the t
high price you are now paying makes 1
your insurance better or safer, or better
than it would be at less cost, we can't do
anything for you ; but will be forced to
let you go on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that you have been deceived. t
If You Have
No Insurance,
And think you should have, we would be >
pleased to explain the Mutual Reserve
System to you. The Mutual Reserve is
the largest and strongest natural premium
company in the world, and the fourth
largest of ANY KIND. It has paid
about $550,000 to the widows and orphans
of deceased policy-holders in South Carlina
alone, during the past twelve years,
and if all the insurance now carried in
old line companies in the state was in the
Mutual Reserve, not less than $400,000,
which now annually goes into the coffers
of the former, would ne left in the state
to help relieve the bard times about which
we hear so much.
SAM M. <fc L. GEO. GRIST,
General Agents, Yorkville, S. C.
TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE undersigned offers for sale, the
HOUSE AND LOT in Yorkville,
known as the "Meek House," occupied
by Mr. O. E. Grist and situated opposite
the O. R. <ft C. R. R., depot. The house
contains six large rooms and a basement.
The house is in good repair, and
contiguous to water-works fire-plugs. On
the premises is a well of excellent freestone
water.
Also, a cottage on Madison street. It
contains four rooms. The house is in good
repair and on the premises is a well of
good freestone water. L. M. GRIST.
January 20 6 tf
MONEY TO LEND.
PARTIES desiring to borrow money
can be accommodated by applying
to the undersigned at his office, No. 5
Law Range, Yorkville, S. C.
W. W. LEWIS, Attorney.
February 27 17 s 3m
THETWICE-A-WEEK ENQUIRER
FURNISHES up-to-date news, fresn
and crisp every Wednesday and Saturday.
See your nearest clubmaker.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
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One copy for two years, 3 50 ^
For six months, 1 OO
For three months, 50
rwo copies for one year, 3 50
ren copies one year, IT 50 4
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