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tumorous department. HE DECLINED TO DIE. This is a great place to hear the veterans of the war recount their experiences, says a Washington correspondent of the Northfield, Minn., News. I was present the othe day when Captain W. H. H. Wasson and Captain Wise met. Captain W?sson is one of the few men who enlisted when the first gun was fired, and stayed until it was over, and he was mustered out in 1865. Although he carries the scars of wounds made by several rebel bullets, be is today one of the most active veterans I ever met. Captain Wise is of the Confederate army. After spirited relating what great satisfaction each had experienced in chasing one another's commands over various battlefields, Captain Wise was reminded of an incident which he witnPQQprt in a Confederate hospital. A Yankee bad been brought in whose leg was shattered by a ball. The surgeons were about to amputate bis leg, but paused to listen to bis story. He had been a preacher; but when be enlisted be did not feel that he would be doing bis duty if he went out as a chaplain, so he served us a private, and was now fearfully wounded. He closed his story to the surgeons by saying : "If I could only know that the Stars and Stripes were waving over me, I could die happy." A Confederate soldier was standing near, and bad listened to the talk of the Yankee, and he reached over and took a Federal flag and waved it over the wounded man, and said, "Now die, d? you, die; why don't you die?" The man declined to die, and is alive today. The flag which was waved over him is now a prized relic carefully guarded in a glass case, which stands in the capitol of a northern state. His Longest Day.?A serious mannered Irish member named Blake, relates Henry W. Lucy in The North American Review, is remembered for a brief correspondence he read to the delighted bouse. It was introduced in a speech delivered in debate on the Irish Sunday-closing bill. Mr. Blake ' had, he confidentially informed the house, an uncle who regularly took 1 six tumblers of whisky toddy daily. 1 This troubled him, and after much thought he resolved to write and re- ' moDstrate with his relative. The fol- 1 lowing was the letter; "My Dear 1 Uncle:?I write to say how pleased I 1 should be if you could jee your way 1 to giving up your six glasses of whis- J ky a day. I am sure you would find ; many advantages in doiDg so, the greatest of which would be that, as I am persuaded, it would be the means ' of lengthening your days." The un- ' cle replied: "My Dear Nephew :?I am ! obliged to you for your dutiful letter. 1 I was so much struck by what you said, and, in particular, by your kind wish to lengthen my days, that last ' Friday I gave up the whisky. I believe you are right, my boy, as to my days being lengthened, for, bedad! it was the longest day I ever remember." His Sign Manual Known.?Mr. S., the theatrical manager, though in other respects a thorough business man, could neither read nor write, but kept a private secretary, who had strict injunctions not to betray the secret. One day the manager was dining at the hotel when a gold watch was raffled for. Each of the guests staked two shillings, wrote his name on a scrap of 1 paper, and threw it into a hat. Our manager was dreadfully per- < plexed when bis turn came to sign bis oame. However, in order not to expose I himself, he pretended to write, rolled 1 up the blank piece of paper, and threw 1 it into the hat along with the rest. As 1 chance would have it, this very paper 1 was drawn. Great was the astonishment when it was fouud to be Mank. But B., the low comedian, who was present, asked to have it shown to him, and when he had examined it carefully, he gravely exclaimed : "That is our manager's handwriting. I should know it among a thousand !" t8P A Kansas farmer, who simply could uot get harvest hands, put this sign upou his fence, says the Kausas City Journal: "Harvest hauds wauted. WirpH air) hlnnde and eenial. Cabinet organ music in the evening. Pie three times a day. Three spoons of sugar with every cup of coffee. Hammocks, feather beds, or leather divans at your option for sleeping. Rising hour nine o'clock in the morning. Three hours' at noou. Come one, come all." t | \ t8F They were out driving, and had come upon a fine stretch of shady couutry road. "Do you believe in palmistry," he asked?"the reading of one's fortune by the lines in one's hand ?" "I believe," she said, "that if I could see 'he lines in one of your hands, I could foretell that we would have a very pleasant drive." He im mediately caugnt on, ana graspea me reins with one band ard the situation with the other. tlSF A parish beadle was lately much exercised at the appearance of a strange old gentleman who, when the sermon was about to begin, took an ear trumpet, iu two parts, out of his pocket, and begau screwing them together. The beadle watched him until the. process was completed, and then, going stealthily up, whispered, "Ye mauna play that here ! If ye dae, I'll turn ye oot!" JST" "I have just had a note from Willie's teacher," said Mrs. Parvenue ; "and she says that he is very deficient in spelling." "What in thunder is he studying spelling for?" demanded Mr. Parvenue, angrily. "Does his teacher mean to insinuate that he won't be rich enough to hire a typewriter ?" piSccUaitfous Reading. A PIONEER DRUG STORE. ' We bad four or five saloons and one grocery at Cedar Hill when the outfit of a man named Dayton arrived. He bad seven pack mules loaded with goods, and after a day or two be unpacked and set up for his business, and hung out a sign reading, "Dry Goods, Clothing, Hardware, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and Tinware; also Drug Store." The shanty which he occupied for a store was about 14 feet J -s. U?/l /vt?AM?f#kinnr nonlrorl square, auu uc uau ovoijvuiug ^uvaw. in a heap. The drug store was an innovation. It was not onlytbe first to be established at Cedar Hill; biit the only one for 200 miles around, and we were inclined to look upon the druggist with awe and respect, states a writer in The AmeriDruggist. We were a very healthy lot up there, and, aside from accident, no man bad lost a day for six months. No sooner was that drug store opened for business, however, than most of us felt a yearning. Hiram Davis hit the nail on the head when he said to the crowd : ' "Boys, that drug store reminds me of home and of the old woman and children. Jest think of pills and salts and calomel and quiuine! Civilization has come knockin' at our doors, and it's our solemn dooty to feel bad and buy sunthin'." Plenty of us began to "feel bad," but when we came to buying something, we found that the druggist was doing business on a line of his own. When Abe Smallman dropped in to eet a dose of calomel for his liver, which was doing business seven days in the week, and in need of no encouragement of any sbrt, Mr. Dayton said to him: "I bought this drug store outfit of a tenderfoot down at Grass Valley. He was sick and discouraged, and wanted to go back home. I don't know much about the business myself. I'll bunt up the calomel and sell it to you, but I won't be responsible for the results." "What d'ye mean by results?" queried Abe. "Wall, I've got calomel, arsenic, salts, and a lot of other things, all mixed up here, and I'm not going to guarantee anything. Mebbe it'll be calomel and mebbe not." We all shied off for a day or two at that, but when we came to uiiuk it over we rather liked the uncertainty, and the druggist was kept busy with our purchases. Some of his liquids and powders were in bottles and papers, duly labeled, and some of the _?.J ???? !? nn-nolo mitlinnt a la. pUWUCl 3 WC1C 1U ^/aiwvio t? ituvuv m bel on them. If anybody asked for Epsom salts, for instance, the druggist would fish around under the heap of boots aDd shoes and clothing till be got hold of a box or parcel, and bringing it out, he would say : 'All I know about this stuff is that it ain't copperas. I took a parcel of copperas on a debt once, and so I know the stuff when I see it. If you want to run chance9, you can take it along. Most everybody was willing to run chances, and for two weeks all went well. If nobody was made any better, nobody was made any worse, and the druggist did a rushing trade. Then came an afternoon on which old Joe Crosby laid down his working tools, and announced that he was "off bis feed," and bad got to have something to ward off a billious attack. "I can't say what's good for it," said the druggist; "but I'll fish up a lot of packages, and you can take your choice." He laid out ten parcels on the counter, and old Joe wet the tip of his finger, and tasted the contents of each in succession. He finally found one to 3uit his palate, at least, and he bought a dollar's worth, and went off to his shanty to dose. Half an hour later he was taken with violent cramps, and iDside of two hours he was dead. A move was made on the druggist, but the smiling and urbane Mr. Dayton replied: "Gentlemen, it might have been powdered borax, or it might have been arsenic. I can't tell the difference between the two, and I have been free to say so. I gave him good weight, and ne iook nis cnances. Our purchases were light for the next week, but in time we got over the scare, and went to buying again. A fortnight after the death of Crosby, a man named Healy was made terribly sick for two or three days by a dose of some uuknowu stuff, and the next day Sile Warner entered the drug store to say "I ain't feelin' jest as I orter, and I want suntbin' to brace me up. Kin ye recommend a bracer?" "I never recommend," was the reply. "Here's the bottles, and here's the packages. They may brace, or they may lay you out." "Wall, this is a world of chance," continued Sile, as he pawed the stuff over, "and I'll take a dollar's wuth of this stuff over, "and I'll take a dollur'e unith nf this stuff in the bottle. It'll wet the throat when it goes down, anyway." The stuff was probably laudanum, for Sile never woke up from that night's sleep. His chum went over to give the druggist fits about the matter, but Mr. Dayton headed him off with : "Dead, eh ? Sorry to hear it, but he took his chances. I will now lable that bottle 'Poison,' and should any of you wish to commit suicide, you will know what to ask for." We tried to brace up after the second calamity, and were gradually getting our confidence back, when a man named Grimshaw got something for chills. The druggist wouldn't recommend it, as usual, but it had been marked by the tenderfoot as "Good for chills." It proved to be. One dose removed Mr. Grimshaw from this chilly world, and over his grave we held a public meeting, and : "Whereas, It bein' only a question of time when our drug store will kill off every man in Cedar Hill; and, "Whereas, We owe a dooty to ourselves and them as has gone; now, tharfore, . . "Resolved, That one or the tother of us has got to git." The "tother" was the drug store. After a general consultation, we made up a shake purse of $50 to buy all the drugs left on hand, and after everybody had given himself one last dose of whatever he fancied, the remainder was thrown into a ravine, and Mr. Dayton turned his attentiou entirely to other lines. DON'T WEAR BLACK. A New York physician said recently ?/\ o notlont nf his a ladv of wealth. that he would refuse to treat her further if Bhe did not give up weariug black. It was not, however, until a discussion ensued that he found out how much he was asking; not only were her gowns black, but her underwear throughout was of the same color. The doctor then remarked that he had considered the alternative he offered her, to abandon black gowns or find another physician, an extreme measure, and only justified because of her peculiarly nervous and neurotic state ; but when it came to discovering that she had n'otbing but black clothes upon her person, he would refuse to treat anybody so dressed. The "peculiarly nervous and neurotic state" he considered largely explained by this dress alone. He succeeded in effecting a change in this patient's attire throughout, insisting on white, all white underclothes, and as much use of white in the outer garments as was practicable. There are hundreds of women similarly ill and dressed as she once was, who have no idea that anything but a question of taste is involved in the color of their garments. They would not expect a plant covered up from the sun by repeated layers of black cloth to flourish, but they do not know that light and sunshine are necessary to their bodies. They think if they see it, if their eyes are blessed thereby, and thus their minds cheered, that light has performed its good work upon them.. The whole body needs light, and sunshine is well recognized as having the most valuable healing properties ; upon the nervous system it acts with especial force, and sleeplessness, nervous headaches and irritability can often all be cured by sun baths alone. Sam Jones's Hit.?Some years ago Sam Jones preached at a campmeeting in Texas. The grounds were located near a little town where there were ten saloons to every church spire and schoolhouse. In his sermon the first night he told his audience that he was going to preach to men only every morning at 5 o'clock, and that unless he had good audiences at every sermon he would pack his trunk and go home. For seven mornings the horn sounded at five, and, strange to say, nearly every seat in the big tent was occupied. In his farewell sermon he said: "I suppose that I should make some sort of an explanation as to why I have called you men out here every morning before daylight. Well, I'll tell you. If I gave you until nine or ten o'clock every day, you would be so full of Texas beef and whisky that it would take somebody bigger'n Sam Jones to get next to you. I have tackled you on empty stomachs when you were weak, and as two hundred of you have joined the the church, I think my system has worked pretty well." The Oldest City In the World.? i?nr iwm; in t.hft Chaldean Dlain there is a round hill, called "The Son of the Prince," by the Arabs, which has just been excavated by Professor Hilprecht, the eminent American arcbteologist, who has found it to contain the ruins of a city going back to the year six thousand B. C., or thereabout. It is consequently the oldest city whose remains have yet been disco\ered, and it proves that men were civilized at that remote epoch. The city of Nipur, as it was called, is mentioned* in the Chaldean records, but the excavations show that it bad a much more ancient origin than was thought. It is built of bricks, some of which are 8 feet thick, and each carries the imprint of the maker's finger as a kind of trade mark, which would please Mr. Francis Galton, since the ridge and furrow pattern of the skin is peculiar to each individual, and does not alter throughout life. If men lived in cities of this advanced order, with great temple and palaces, 8,000, years ago, the human race must be a great deal older than we had imagined from what we knew of history. Largest Regimental Loss.?The inrorpQt rporimftntal loss on either side ??? during the late Civil war was sustained by the Twenty-sixth North Carolina? Pettigrew's brigade, Heth's division. They had a full quota of 800 men on July 1, 1863, but in the single battle of Gettysburg lost 588 men, 86 killed and 502 wounded, not including the "missing," of which there were 120. According to Colonel W. F. Fox, in one company, 86 strong, every man was hit, and the orderly who made out the list did so while suffering from a wound in each leg. Surely those were times which not only "tried men's souls," but made heroes of those who survived and martyrs of the dead. HSf A burglar in Germany, passing through a room where a boy lay in bed, explained to him that he was the devil, and having thus frightened him, as he flattered himself, into a condition of silence and immobility, went his way after the silver. But the boy, who was a religious character, presently said to himself: "If I should kill the devil there would be no more sin," and creeping to where his father's gun lay, took it and shot the burglar. He now believes that the devil is dead. tfltc j^tory Seller. h liHH SUH'lliW1. Raphael Semmes, long dead, was in his day a terror of the seas. Commander first of the Sumter and then of the Alabama, northern commerce rotted in China ports for the dread of bim. He was called "buccaneer," "pirate," and other choice names, by the Federal press. The passions of the war have lessened, and men are now willing to grant that be was a regularly commissioned officer of a regular navy, belonging to a regularly organized government whose rights bad been recognized by many of the European powers. One man met him who preserves a vivid recollection of him. This is old "Cap'n" Strout, of Lewiston, Me., a grizzled seadog now in bis seventies, but still bale, and still hearts Ktrnnf. likp.fl to nit and craze over the tumbling waters that roar against Maine's rock-bound coast, and tell of the time that he saw Semmes. Incidentally bis tale is indicative of his own iron nerve. "I was master of the American brig Cuba," he told a Chicago Times-Herald man, "and sailed out of Trinidad on July 2, 1861. I bad a cargo of sugar, and was bound for London. The Cuba was two hundred and thirty-six tons burden, and with the wind dead astern she walked the waters like a thing of life. Which is poetry. Two days out?which is to say on July 4? we sighted a vessel on our star board bow. She was traveling nearly a parallel course, and pretty soon she veered in and fired a shot across our bows. Naturally I stopped. The Rebellion had broken out, and Confederate cruisers were scouring the seas snapping up our merchantmen, but I relied on our bills of lading to see us through. They bad the stamp of the British consul at Trinidad. I was ordered to go on board the Sumter, and Semmes took my papers. He was a sour-looking man enough, and when he saw the consul's stamp, be grinned. 'That's a Yankee trick,' he said. Then he added : 'I am sorry to inform you that you are a prisoner of war." I told him that he wasn't half as sorry as I was, and he seemed to believe me. He sent me back to my vessel along with a prize crew that was armed to the teeth. ' . "The Sumter took us in tow at 10 o'clock in the morning. At three the next morning the hawser broke. Semmes tried three times to refasten, but the sea was too high. He then ordered the captain of the prize crew to take the Cuba to Cienfuegos. We were only 60 miles west of that point. We were unarmed and allowed to walk the deck. I got a chance to talk to Jim Bebbage and Jim Carroll, my two mates, and we determined to recapture the vessel. On July 8 I found the prize master asleep on the roundhouse. Immediately we got possession of all the arms. The prize crew got on to the racket, and ran for their arras. Finding them gone, two drew their sheath knives and one got an axe, and they rushed aft where we were. The mainsail was down, and lav between us. One of them tried to jump over it, and I hit him on the bead with a cleaver that I bad in my hand. He fell, scrambled back, and did not attempt to return. My mates and my cook were now armed with revolvers, and one of my seamen had a cutlass. 'If you stir,' I shouted to the prize crew, 'I will blow your heads off.' They didn't stir. When I ordered them to surrender they yielded and went forward, followed by myself and the crew. "I bad ou board only four pairs of irons. I put one on the prize master and the others on three of the most dangerous of the prisoners. The rest we tied with ropes. That day I fell in with the brig Costa Rica, which took two of the prize crew. I then headed the Cuba for New York. "Nothing of importance happened till July 14, when the prize master, whose irons had been removed at his urgent request, managed to get hold of a pistol, and perched himself in the maintop. Then he rolled a cigarette aud lighted it, blew some smoke through his nostrils and called down that he had something to say tome. 'Do you iutend to carry me to New York?1 he asked. I told him that I did. He took some more smoke into bis mouth, blew it out, laughed and said : 'Well, you'll never do it alive.' 'All right,1 said I ; 'then I'll carry you dead.1 At that he yelled out, 'It's your lime to dodge,' and fired at me. The bullet struck the deck at my feet, and I did dodge. Johnny Reb told the truth that time. He fired again, and I did some more lively hopping. Then I rau below and got my pistol. As my head reappeared in the com panionway, he turned loose one more time, and the splinters flew into my hair. "I got on deck at last, and proceeded to even up things. He was swinging around up in the maintop, and I was dancing around on the planking. I suppose it was the funniest-looking duel that ever was. He used up all of his loads without hitting me, and I shot at him three times without coming anywhere near him. Then I lodged a ball in the mast just above his head, and the next shot I got him in the arm. It was his right arm, and was broken above the elbow. He dropped his weapon to the deck. All of this time he had been holding his cigarette in his left hand. He was the nerviest devil I ever saw. He threw the cigarette away and came down. I dressed his wound and locked him up. I kept guard over him until we reached New York, on July 21. It was Sunday, I remember, and, though we did not know it, the guns then were roaring at Bull Run, the first battle of the war. I delivered my prisoners to the United States authorities, but the prize master, whose name was Thorn as, went to Bellevue Hospital, whers some northern women nursed bim until he got well. He stayed in prison awhile, and there was talk of hanging him for a pirate, but I did the best 1 could for him, because he was a brave man, and finally they exchanged him and be went back south. UI began suit for salvage of the brig Cuba, and I got one thousand dollars for it. She was owned in Millbridge, Me., and when the Alabama claims were up for adjustment her owners reaped the benefit. I don't like to say so, but I am afraid that first and last they got a deal more than she was - tf 4- J wortD. i was compiimenLeu suiue iu the papers, but I don't bold that what we did was especially brave, because we had all the guns you see. I tell you that the six chambers of a loaded revolver are powerful pacifiers. Not so long ago?four or five years, I guess?I got a letter from Thomas, who is practising law down in Georgia. He must be pretty nearly as old as 1 am by now. He said that his arm was all right; that I was the liveliest Yankee on my legs he ever saw ; that he would never forget how I hopped about the deck when he was shooting at me ; that he was something of a shooter, but he didn't think he could have hit me with a shotgun ; that he bad never heard of a man who could hold a candle to me when it came down to dancing, but that if I would come to Georgia he would show me some 150 pound gals that would give me all I wanted in that line. I am a Methodist," added "Cap'n" Strout, gravely, "and I don't dance. That Thomas is a reprobate and a brand still in the burnin', I know, but 1 would like to see him again, just the same. Seems that you kinder feel warm-hearted toward a man after you have shot him." I I M ? *AKlNp POWDER Absolutely Pure When You Want Nice Clean Job Printing You should always go to The Enquirer office where such printing is done. Excursion Bills, Programmes, Dodgers, Circulars, Pamphlets, Law Briefs, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill T??tro1nnpc and Parr\c ni liLaUJj Xyu WlV^/Wj UliU VMAvtw VI all kinds printed on short notice and at very reasonable and legitimate prices. A Snare And Delusion. IF you have taken out a life insuranct policy in an Old Line high price "leve premium" company with the idea thai you would at sometime in the future while you yet drew the breath of life, receive substantial cash returns or "bi| dividends," we are here to tell you thai you will be disappointed. Your policj will prove a snare and a delusion. It is all right for protection for your wife and children, as they will receive the face o: the policy in case of your death, as tbej would also in a company that charge.' you half as tnnch. A life insurance policy is a fraud as an investment for a livine man, and is the greatest blessing of whicE we or anybody else has any knowledgt as a means of protecting the widow anc orphans, after the breadwinner has beer removed by death. It You Will Lay Aside Your Prejudice . AND COME to us with a desire tc learn why it is not to your interest tr carry high priced insurance, and how w? 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 to vour satisfaction that the MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION of New York does business on s plan that is absolutely safe, and will protect your loved ones even better than they now are, at even a greater cost tc to you. Of course if you are too prejudiced to investigate ana imagine that the high price you are now paying makes your insurance better or safer, or bettei than it would be at less cost, we can't do anything for you ; but will be forced tc let you go on until time, the crucial tester, convinces you, against your will, that you have been deceived. 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 Iv TNI). It has paid about ?550,000 to the widows and orphans of deceased policy-holders in South C'arlina 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 be left in the state to help relieve the hard 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. A C. R. R., depot. The house contains six large rooms and a basement. The house is in good repair, and contiguous to water-works lire-plugs. Ou 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 ol good freestone water. L. M. GRIST. HlilltMliSTIIU TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway company, to take effect Monday, May 5tb, at 7.30 a. m. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. ' QOIXO SOUTH NO. 12. | Leave Marion - 4 45 pni; Leave Rutherfordton.. 8 20 pmi Leave Forest City 6 50 pm Leave Henrietta 7 10pm| liftvo Mnnrpstmii) 7 25 Dm i i Leave Shelby.. 8 25 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 8 40 pm 1 Leave Earls 8 45 pm i Arrive at Blacksburg 9 00 pm No. 32. | No. 34.' i i Dally Dally Except Except 1 ! Sunday. Sonday. ! Leave Shelby 7 30 am] . Leave Patterson's 8prings. 7 42 am , Leave Earle's 7 48 am Leave Blacksburg 8 30 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 1 Leave Yorkvllle 9 35 am 10 20 am . Leave TIrzah 9 47 am 10 45 am ' Leave Newport- 9 51 am 10 55 am k Leave Rock Hill 10 20 am 12 55 pm [ Leave Leslies 10 35 am 1 15 pin ? Leave Catawba Junction.. 10 40 am 1 50 pm ! Leave Lancaster 11 22 am 8 55 pm | Leave Kershaw .. 12 05 pm 5 80 pm s Arrive at Camden 1 00 pm 6 50 pm I QOIMQ NORTH. | No. 83. | No. 85. I Dally Dally . Except Except 1 Sunday. Snnday. 1 Leave Camden 2 00 pm 9 00 am . Leave Kershaw 2 45 pm 11 10 am Leave Lancaster 8 25 pm 12 40 pm ' Leave Catawba Junction 4 00 pm 2 00 pm ? Leave Leslies 4 10 pm 2 10 pm Leave Rock Hill 4 30 pm 4 40 pm Leave Newport 4 45 pm 5 00 pm s Leave TIrzah 4 50 pm 5 20 pm Leave Yorkvllle 5 05 pm 0 00 pm Leave Sharon 5 20 pm 6 20 pm i Leave Hickory Grove.... 5 40 pm 0 40 pm Leave Smyrna - 5 50 pm 0 55 pm Leave Blacksburg 0 20 pm 7 80 pm Leave Earle's ' 0 85 pm Leave Patterson's Spring. 0 40 pm| Arrive at Shelby 0 50 pm * No. 11. | Leave Blacksburg 8 10 am Jieave Earls 8 30 am Leave Patterson Springs 8 40 am L?aveHneiDy v iu am Leave Mooresboro 9 SO am Leave Henrietta 10 00 am Leave Forest City 10 20 am Leave Rutherfordton 10 50 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. CABQLIIA ft MTOTO187. ; G. W. F. HARPER, President. Schedules in Effect from and After i May 2, 1897. f ' CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. ' GOING WORTH. | No 10. | No 00. Lea^e Chester 6 20 am 8 30 am Leave Lowrysvllle ...... 6 43am 9 05am Leave McConnellsville 6 58am 939am Leave Guthriesville.... 7 05am 9 56am Leave Yorkvllle 7 2} a m 10 50 a m Leave Clover 7 53 a m 11 33 am Leave Gastonia 825am 120pm Leave Llncolnton 920am 2 46 pm Leave Newton i 10 05 am 4 20pm Leave Hickory 10 50 a m 6 15 p m Arrive Lenoir... 1155 am 8 00 pm % GOING SOOTH. | NO. 9. | No 61. [ Leave Lenoir 3 10pm | 6 00am ? Leave Hickory 4 15pm( 7 50am Leave Newton 5 10 p m i 9 00am ' Leave Llncolnton 556pm 10 39 am Leave Gastonia.... 6 57 pm! 100pm Leave Clover i 7 42 pm 2 02 pm t Leave Yorkvllle i 8 11 pm 3 10 pm r Leave Guthriesville ... I 8 34pm 3 40pm , Leave McConnellsville! 843pm 3 55 pm i Leave Lowrysvllle I 9 05 pm 425pm j, Arrive Chester ' 9 30pm 5 10 pm r Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and i run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. . 60 and 61 carry passengers and also run r daily except Sunday. There is good con! nection at Chester with the G. C. & N. 5 and the C. C. & A., also LAC. R. R.; at | Gastonia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Lini colnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. * G. F. HARPER, Acting G. P. A., Lenoir, N. C. ESTABLISHED 1891. L. GEO. GRIST, ! FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY, ~ I Yorkville, S. C. I REPRESENT pver $27,000,000.00 of assets in my fire insurance agency, . and I am prepared to write FIRE and i TORNADO INSURANCE on short noi tice at the lowest prevailing rates. Each fire policy carries with it, without extra ? charge, a "lightning clause," which proi tects the insured against loss or damage 1 by lightning. I represent the Norwich , Union Fire Office of England, which is an absolutely fire tested company, having been "dragged oyer the coals'' since 1797. Then I have the .Etna of Hartford, which has been doing business at the "old stand" since 1819; the Pennsylvani ia is by no means a "squatter or experii ment," having been "hgbtin' fire in all ^ i its fury" since 1825. The Delaware Insurance company has been pretty severei ly burned several times, but has maini tained its motto?"Just, Prompt, Certain" i since 1835. The Old Continental, which is living in exile from the South-Eastern tariff association, thinks she can stand i alone and work in "single harness," and i since 1853 the "old lady" has helped her children to something over 835,000,000 and i she is always "at home." Insurance left i with my agency will always receive prompt ana caremi attention. L. GEO. GRIST, Resident Agent. $hc ^orkvitle <gnquircr. i Published Wednesday and Saturday. i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: i Single copy for one year, S 1 OO One copy lor two years, 3 50 For six months, * GO ; For three months, SO r Two copies for one year, 3 SO f Ten copies one year, 17 SO And an extra copy for a club of ten. c