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tumorous department.
DESIGNED FOR A DETECTIVE.
A colored man came out of an alley
off Michigan avenue yesterday and inquired
of the grocer on the corner:
"Say boss, has you had a watermellyon
stole away today ?"
"Why, I declare, if some one hasn't
stolen a big one which laid on the end
of this shelf!" exclaimed the grocer.
"Did you see a white man and a
cull'd feller hangin' 'round yere?"
"Come to think of it, I did."
"Dem ar' de chaps who stole dat
mellyon."
"Did you see them ?" asked the grocer.
"Nebber did, sab."
"Then, how do you know ?"
The colored man took him down the
alley and showed him two heaps of
melon rinds, and exclaimed :
"If de mellyon wasn't dun stole nobody
would come in beah to eat it.
Dat pile of rinds hain't half gnawed.
Dat's jist the way white folks eat 'em.
De odder pile am gnawed right down
to the bark. Dat's de work of a cull'd
man, an' doan' you forget it. Down
dar' am a rind all alone. De chaps
got scar't an' run'd away afore dey
was dun."
"Say, maybe you are sharp enough
to catch 'em," said the grocer.
"Wall, I dunno," was the reply, but
in the course of half an hour the man
brought in a hang-dog looking African
and turned him over with the remark :
"Heah's one of 'em, but de odder
has skupped."
"How do you know that this fellow
is guilty ?"
"Kase I dun looked for a darky wid
a mellyon seed on his shirt bosom, an'
heab he am. He's dun guilty and has
got 35 cents to settle wid ye."
The Disobedience of Parents.?
T-> nraaforl a conanfinn
J (J LI LIU V VI&Htvu u
in school by readiDg the following
composition:
"The disobedience of parents is often
the source of a good deal of uneasiness
to their offspring. Men who
commit the darkest crimes generally
begin by being disobedient to their
children.
"Disobedient parents are often the
result of indulgent children, who intend
it for the good of their progenitors,
but are aware too late that it is
not beneficent. Of course, parents
have their privileges, and do not relish
having them interfered with, but
it is the duty of every conscientious
child to see that they do not assume
too much authority. Parents are naturally
presuming, unless they are
checked up once in a while. How often
do we see a home where there is
no peace, no harmony, no love ? The
indulgent kid allows not only his parents
but his grandparents, and relatives
who may be in the bouse to have
their own way and follow the dictates
of their own foolish desires. The child
who fails to keep a tight rein on the
11 -* lotnr
recaiess parent i?, suuuo v> ???.,
sure to have his gray hairs, if he lives
loDg enough, brought dowD in sorrow
to the cemetery. Parents who obey
their children are the first, to obey
their Heavenly Father. What a wise
old adage it is, <Bring?up a parent in
the way he should go, and when be is
old he will not depart from it.' Obedient
and good parents make useful
men and women when they grow up."
An Amicable Arrangement.?
"How is it, Uncle Rastu^," said a gentleman
to an old darkey, "that you
never married ? Aren't you an admirer
of the softer sex ?"
"I fo't er duel wunce 'bout er gal,
sah," replied Uncle Rastus.
"A duel ?"
."Yes, sah; yeahs an' yeahs ago.
Sam Jackson an' myse'f we bof lubbed
same gal; we were bof boun' ter git
her, and de business climaxated in er
duel. We bof wah a trifle nabvovs,
sah, an' 'sted ob me bittin' Sam, or
Sam bittin' me, we brought down a
vallyble mule dat wah standin' neah
de fence."
"And did you fire again ?" asked
the gentleman, very much interested.
"No, sah ; dat was a very vallyble
mule, boss, an' we bof got kinder
skeart like. So we entered into an
americable prearrangement."
"How did you settle it?"
"Sam tuk de gal an' 'greed to pay
fo' de mule, an' I hain't nebber lubbed
sence."
S6T Pretty Cousin (to young doctor)?
"So you are a full fledged doctor, are
you, Tom?"
Young Doctor?"Yes, I got my diploma
last week."
Pretty Cousin?"Have you any specialty?"
Young Doctor?"Yes ; I shall make
children's disease a specialty."
Pretty Cousin?"Ah, yes, I see; and
as you gain experience in your profession
you will be able to attend older
people. That's right, Tom, begin at
the bottom and \vorkyour way up."?
Drake's Magazine.
#6?* "Yes stranger," said a passenger
from Texas. "I am goin' dowu east
on an important errand. Don't mind
telling you that I am going to be married.
You can imagine how good natured
and jolly i feel." "Yes; but
don't you feel a little anxiety, a little
trepidation about taking such an important
step in life?" "Narry trep,
stranger." "Have you ever been married
before?" "No ; but I've been in
one fight with Injunr, two scrimmages
with cowboys, and went through four
cyclones. I'm no tenderfoot."?Chicago
Herald.
8ST" "Huh ! snorted the husband who
had been inveigled into attending the
rendition of a sermon. "Call him a
boy preacher ! He is forty if he is a
day." "He does look that way," said
the wife. "But," she continued, in
her anxiety to plead, "don't you think
he has the mind of a boy ?"
She ^tory Seller.
TucsoirsTftMEST man.
Exciting Career of Jim Dupree, a
Kentucky "Tenderfoot."
Special Correspondence of Globe-Democrat.
"Speaking of bad men from Bitter
Creek," said Colonel David Alston, of
Arizona, at the Hofman House, last
night, "I knew a young fellow in Tucson
in the early days of that town
who was my ideal of a bad man. I
don't mean he was one of those fellows
who are always looking for trouble;
in fact, he was almost always trying
to keep out of trouble, but tie was a
chap who, when forced to fight, shot
first, and never talked about it afterward.
He's dead now, poor fellow.
His life has never been written, and ;
there is no monument to his memory,
but when he passed in his checks the
men of Tuscon gave him the biggest i
funeral that town ever saw. i
"Jim Dupree was the name of this 1
particular bad man, and he came from i
somewhere in Kentucky. The title of I
'Rattlesnake Jim' was conferred on i
him shortly after his arrival in the
territorry, owing to a circumstance i
which I am going to relate, and the i
name stuck to him to the end. It was j
an appropriate one, too, for, like the i
rattlesnake, be was harmless until
aroused, and then he was death to
anything that crossed his path.
"Tuscon was only a frontier village
or camp when Dupree arrived there. \
Talk about tenderfeet 1 ' He was the
greatest specimen of the class I ever '
saw. He was about 20 years old at 1
the time, with a face as smooth as a
girl's and blue eyes that look mild 1
enough until he was aroused, and then
they could flash blue fire. His whole
life until he left Kentucky bad been
passed on a farm, and, really, he did
not know enough to go in when it
rained. He would accept any sort of
a wild varn as eospel truth; in fact,
be was too ignorant to distrust any- 1
body.
"The fellow bad left home with a
few silver dollars in bis pocket and a 1
change of clothiDg tied up in a handkerchief,
to seek bis fortune in the
west. It was accident, I suppose, that
led him to Tuscon, as be bad no definite
idea of where he wanted to go or
what be was going to do when be got
there.
uAs soon as be struck town the boys
gathered him in. They had no end of
fun with him for a time. He apparently
did not know enough to get in
out of a cyclone. Some of us were
sorry for him, and tried to help him
out, but instead of appreciating our
efforts be seemed to take kindly to the
rough fellows who were all the time
playing pranks on him.
"He did not have a gun, and such a
thing as showing fight when the jokes
were rough apparently never entered
his head. For a week the boys had
fun with him, and then, as they were
getting tired of it, they decided to get
rid of him. When Dupree finally '
made up his mind that he would go to
work, and began to make inquiries
about places to prospect, the boys put
up a final job on him. They sent him
out to some wild bills about 30 miles
away, where no one had ever been
able to find any paying ore, and the
whole country was overrun with rattlesnakes
and Apache Indians.
"Some of us tried to warn him, but
he would not listen to our advice. We
did induce him, however, to buy a pistol
and a rifle before he started out on
the foolhardy prospecting tour, from
which no one expected him to return
alive.
"The boys who induced him to go
out told him to come in at the end of
1 cr\f rvrntrl_
a weeK ior a iresu du^ij ui visions
and to report his success. Then
they fired a parting salute, and two of
the bullets from their pistols went
through bis hat brim; but he did not
seem to mind that in the least.
"A week passed, and Jim did not return.
No word had come from him,
and by the middle of the next week
the boys were sure that he had fallen
a victim to the rattlesnakes or the Indians.
But at the suggestion of Bill
Atkins, who remarked that luck rarely
deserted a fool, it was decided to
send out a searching party to make
sure of the fate of the young tenderfoot.
A score of the boys who were
loafing around town volunteered for
the expedition. A day's ride brought
us to the bills, where we supposed
Dupree had started in to prospect.
We camped for the night, and early
next morning started out to look for
the trail.
DEAD RATTLESNAKES.
"In an hour we began to find dead
rattlesnakes. There had been a long
spell of dry hot weather, and that had
brought the reptiles out of their dens
in swarms in search of water. It was
soon evident that a snake destroyer
had been around there. The dead
reptiles lay around in heaps. In a
distance of three miles or so we counted
more than 400 of them. Some had
been shot, but the great majority had
been killed with sticks or stones.
" 'Say, boys!' suddenly exclaimed
Atkins, who was in the lead, 'I'll bet
this snakekilling is the work of that
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tUDUtriUUt gUlUUt ; lie icaiu^u w ?...
snakes ou the farm, aud it looks as if
he had exterminated them in these i
parts.'
"Atkius was right. It was not long <
until we found where Dupree had been
prospecting, and a little further on in
the hills we came across a deserted
camp.
" 'Look here, boys, the Apaches j
have cleaned him out!' shouted Joe
Smith, who was the first to reach the i
deserted camp and dismount.
"Sure enough, there in the soft
ground were the prints of at least a ,
score of moccasined feet. On closer
examination we found a lot of empty
shells lying on the ground, which
shoved that there had been some
fighting. We took up the trail of the
Indians, expecting to find the scalped
and mutilated body of the young tenderfoot
close by. A hundred yards
from the camp we came across the
bodies of four Apache warriors lying
close together.
"Well, maybe those fellows who had
chased Dupree up into the hills didn't
stop and look at each other then.
" 'Guess there is some fight in that
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coap arter an, itiuai&cu auiuo, nnu
something like respect in bis tone.
"We followed on tbe trail, and a
half-mile away we found two more
dead Apaches. It was evident now
that there had been a running fight,
and that our young tenderfoot had
been taking a very lively part in it.
The bodies of the Indians looked as if
they had been dead at least two days,
but when we moved forward again it
was with more precaution. You see,
the whole affair so far had been such
a surprise to every one in our party,
we did not know what to expect.
"We followed the trail for 10 miles,
and in that distance found two more
dead Indians, making a total of eight.
Then the trail led into a narrow ravine
that was walled on both sides with
high cliffs that even a mountain goat
could not climb. A mile up this ravine
one of the boys who was scouting
a little ahead of the main party, came
running back and reported that he had
seen the smoke of a camp fire only a
short distance away.
STARVING THEM OUT.
"We dismounted, and creeping forward
cautiously soon came in sight of
a camp fire behind a big bowlder that
lay out in the middle of the ravine.
Sitting by the fire with his back against
the bowlder, smoking a pipe, was Jim
DuDree. the young tenderfoot. We
all ran forward and began asking questions
at once. Jim was glad enough
to see us, but not for the reason we at
first imagined.
" 'Say, boys, I'm starving 'em out!'
was bis first remark, when we asked
him to explain the situation.
"When we said we did not understand,
he explained that three days before,
on returning to his camp, he
found that 20 Indians had taken possession
of it during his absence. He
promptly opened fire before they saw
him or suspected danger, and brought
down four of them. Then when the
Apaches, or what was left of them,
ran away, he started in pursuit, dodging
about in the brush, keeping out of
sight himself and firing every time he
caught sight of a redskin.
"The result was that he got them
badly frightened, and they ran up the
ravine, thinking to lead him into a
trap. But the tenderfoot galoot had
already explored this ravine, while
prospecting, and knew that there was
no outlet, and no chance of escape at
the other end. He had followed to a
point where the ravine was so narrow
they could not slip by him, and then
he sat down to starve them out. They
were without provisions, and could get
no water in the ravine. Dupree was
on short rations himself, and had been
without sleep for two nights, but he
did not seem to think he had done anything
remarkable.
"Well, sir, the boys in our party
wfio bad led in all the pranks that had
been played on Jim, took off their
hats to him and shook his hand in silence.
Then they wanted to know
about tbe dead snakes we had found.
" 'Oh, the snakes pestered me when
I was prospecting, and I killed them.
I most always kill a snake wherever
I find it,' Jim answered, and then and
there the boys decided to call him
Rattlesnake Jim.
"But about the Indians he had
hemmed in there to starve. While we
were holding a council of war to decide
what we would do with them,
they suddenly made a charge on Jim's
camp. He had taken the rifles of all
those he had killed, and his camp was
a regular arsenal.
"When the redskins came yelling
down the ravine, Jim put down his
pipe, and taking up a Winchester, began
to shoot just as steady as if he
had been firing at a target. I never
saw anything like it. Every tine he
fired he brought down an Apache, and
in less time than it takes to tell it the
band was wiped out.
"Then Jim picked up his pipe, aud,
remarking that good tobacco was too
precious to waste, he went right to
smoking.
"Our march back to Tucson was a
sort of triumphal procession with Jim
Dupree, the tenderfoot, at the bead of
it. He was the hero of the towu for
a time, but somehow he could not understand
that he had doue anything
extraordinary, aud he was just the
same simple tenderfoot, so far as appearance
counted for anything.
"But the real interesting part of his
trip to the hills was that he had found
paying ore up there where everybody
else had failed to find it. He staked
out a claim and worked it for a time
with considerable success. A lot of
other fellows went up there then, hoping
to strike the same sort of luck,
but very few of them ever came back
with the price of their grub stake,
while Rattlesnake Jim was making
good money and salting it down for a
a rainy day.
THE TABLES TURNED.
"A year or more went by und Jim bad
not done anything else to distinguish
nimsen. ne was anil luc roue iuuucent,
verdant looking youth that he
was when he first struck the town.
Of course the boys had stopped playing
pranks on him for a time, but when
there was any fighting going on, Jim
would go away to keep out of it. He
rarely took offense at anything. For
a long time nothing would induce him
to follow the style of the country and
carry a guu all the time.
"Of course the story of his killing
the snakes and the Indians made him
a hero for a time, but as he never
talked of it himself, the newcomers in
the town all regarded him as a tenderfoot,
and he looked it. He had no
beard, and kept bis hair cut short.
"It was almost a year before Jim
again distinguished himself. ODe day
a lot of rustlers and all around thieves
and cut-throais rode into town, and
proceed to have fun. They rode up and
down the main street firing right and
left until they scared everybody indoors.
Then they went into the principal
saloon of the place for liquor.
Jim happened to be in the saloon at
the time, and as usual had no gun
with bim. Those fellows caught sight
of him, and as he was the freshestlooking
duck they had seen for many
a day, they started in to have fun with
him. The leader of the gang was a
ruffian called 'Long Haired Pete.' As
soon as he saw Dupree be pulled bis
gun and sent a bullet through the floor
right between Jim's feet.
41 'Give us a dance, and be live
ly about it," shouted Pete, while bis
gang gathered around to see the fun.
"Jim got up without a word, and
started in to dancing a regular old
Kentucky break-down. Those fellows
thought he was scared almost to deatb.
He danced around in a circle, and as
he came in front of the leader of the
gang bis foot suddenly shot up, and
caught Long Haired Pete squarely
under the chin. The ruffian measured
his length on the floor.
"Quick as a flash Jim leaped forward
and snatched the two pistols carried
by the leader of the gang. Then, with
a smile as innocent as that of a boy,
he covered the gang, and told them all
to dance.
"They hesitated for a moment. Then
Jim sent a bullet through the toe of
Pete's boot, and another through the
hat of Lon Spivey, a member of the
gang. They danced then, and at the
first sign of a let-up, Jim would shoot
a button off some man's coat, or clip
off a lock of long hair with a bullet.
1 "Without taking his eyes off the
gang, Jim told the barkeeper to send
out and get all the boys to come in
and see the fun. They all came quick
enough, and Jim kept that gang of
outlaws there dancing until some of
them dropped to the floor exhausted.
"Then he made every man of them
band over bis gun to the barkeeper,
after which he ordered drinks for the
crowd. When the fun was over, he
told Pete to take his gang and get out
of the territory as fast as possible, and
never come back. That gang rode
out of town the sickest looking lot of
tough men I ever saw, and that was
the last ever seen of them in that part
of the country.
"Soon after that Jim gave up mining
and took to gambling. He bad
learned how to play old sledge on the
V /iwtnnlr if ari/3 if rllll
mi ill uunu 1 LI HbCUVUVIkJj uuu <V uim
not take bim long to learn all the other
games played in the town. Jack
Otis ran the biggest gambling house
in the place, and he was a nervy sport,
but it was said that he was not always
on the level.
"One night Jim and Jack sat down
to a game of old sledge for big stakes,
and Jim won all the gamblers' money,
and on the last band won the entire
outfit of bis place. Jack was in a
rage, and making a charge of cheating,
he started to draw. He never got his
gun half way out of the scabbard.
Jim dropped him quick as a flash, and
when the body bad been removed, he
took possession of wbut be had wou,
the gambling house and all the money
in it.
A BLUFF THAT WORKED.
'He ran the game for a month with
fair success. Otis bad had a lot of
friends in the town, toughs, every one
of them, and they set out to do Jim at
the first chance. One night there was
a big game of faro going on, with Jim
behind the table dealing. The place
was full of the toughest fellows in the
territory, all of them friends of the
dead gambler.
"A chap known as Broncho Sam
was playing high stakes. He had
been losing right along for an hour.
Suddenly he got up and with an oath,
charged that Jim bad rung in a cold
deck. That was a signal that had
been agreed on by the gang for they
had decided that in the fight that was
expected to follow they would do Rattlesnake
Jim.
"When Jim looked up a dozen of the
gang had drawn their guns, and they
had him covered dead to rights. For
a secoud Jim faced them with that old
TTpntnckv farm smile on his face, and
then he spoke very quietly, at the
same time fixing his eyes on a man at
the back of the room : "I don't care
a for you fellows with your guns
out; you don't dare shoot, not one of
you ; but if that back
there makes a move to draw, I'll drop
him in his tracks !'
"It was a cold bluff, but it worked
like a charm. On the instant every
man who had his gun out turned to
see who the chap in the back of the
room was. That was just what Jim
wanted. When the gang turned again,
he had the drop on them with a gun
in each hand.
"But Broncho Sam was full, and he
tried to bring his gun up again. A
lead pill hit him between the eyes on
the instant, and he dropped out of the
game for good. The crowd then got
out of the place in a hurry, and that
was the last time the friends of Otis
ever made a crack at the tenderfoot.
"During the next six months Jim
had to put away two or three fellows
in self-defense, but he had been very
successful with his gambling business,
and gave the town money to build a
school house. He was always ready
to help any poor devil, and was very
popular with the boys.
"One day a lot of Mexicans came
to town and got drunk. Then they
started out to have fun. On the street
they picked a quarrel with an old peddler,
aud began to prick him with
their long knives, just to see him dance
about, and hear him yell. Rattlesnake
Jim heard the rumpus, and went
to the,rescue of the old man. Next
day the coroner started a new graveyard.
and the boys called it the Mexican
cemetery. But one of the greasers
got away, and did not come back for a
month. When he did come he slip
ped into Jim's place one night and be-,
gan to play faro. He lost his money
right along until he was down to his
last dollar. Leaning over the table as
if to place a bet, the cowardly greaser
suddenly whipped out a knife a yard
long and stuck it between Jim's ribs.
It went to the heart, but Jim somehow
got bis gun, and dropped the
sneak of a greaser before he keeled
over himself.
"Business was suspended in Tuscon
the next day, and the entire population
turned out to the funeral of Ratf
lnnnnL/\ Tl m T-T Q TITO Q tVlO nOmOCf
licouaau %j iuj ? juw nuo vuv guuivwv
man that ever lived in the town."
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SAM M. & L. GEO. GRIST,
General Agents, Yorkville, S. C.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Ot Kock Hill, 9. C.
ORGANIZED J ANUARY, 1887.
Capital, $75,000
Surplus and Profits, - - 32,0(1(1
Total Dividends Paifl, - - 54,750
THIS BANK is prepared to handle
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the accounts of Merchants, Farmers,
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W. L. RODDEY, President.
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T. L. JOHNSON, Cashier.
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DIRECTORS:
Jno. R. London, W. L. Roddey,
J. E. Roddey, T. L. Johnston,
A. F. Ruff, W. J. Roddey,
J. H. Miller.
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. ifc 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 011 Madison street. It
contains four rooms. The house is in good
repair and 011 the premises is a well of
good freestone water. L. M. GRIST.
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OHO SITES AID MOT11
TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and
Charleston Railway company,-to take
effect Monday, May 5th, at 7,30 a. m.
STANDARD EASTERN TIME.
OOINO SOUTH NO. 12. |
Leave Marion 4 45 pm1
Leave Rutberfordton_ 8 'JO pm
Leave Forest City 8 50 pm
Leave Henrietta 7 10 pm
Leave Mobresboro 7 25 pm
Leave Shelby 8 25 pm
Leave Patterson Springs.. 8 40 pm
Leave Earls .-. 8 45 pm t
Arrive at Blacksburg. OOOprm
No. 32. | No. 84.
| Dally Daily
; Except Except
I 8unday. Sunday.
Leave Shelby.. 7 30 am
Leave Patterson's Springs. 7 42 am
Leave Earle's 7 48 am
Leave Blacksburg 8 30 am 8 40 am ,
Leave Smyrna. 8 50 am 0 05 am
Leave Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am
Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am
Leave Yorkville 9 35 am 10 20 am
Leave Tirzah 9 47 am 10 45 am
Leave Newport 9 51 am 10 55 am
I -ave 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 3 55 pm
Leave Kershaw 12 05 pm 5 30 pm
Arrive at Camden 1 00 pm 8 50 pm
QQIMO north. | No. 33. | No. 35.
I Daily I Dally
I Except i Except
' Sunday. Sunday.
Leave Camden 2 00 pm 9 00 am
Leave Kershaw 2 45 pra 11 10 am
Leave Lancaster 3 25 pm 12 40 pm
Leave Catawba Junction 4 00 pm 2 QQpm
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
Leave Tirzah .. 4 -50 pm 5 20 pm
Leave Yorkville 5 05 pm 6 00 pm
Leave Sharon 5 20 pm 8 20 pm
Leave Hickory Grove .... 5 40 pm 8 40 pm
Leave Smyrna 5 50 pro 8 55 pm
Leave Blacksburg 6 20 pm; 7 80 pm
Leave Earle's ' 6 85 pm|
Leave Patterson's Spring. 6 40 pm!
Arrive at Bhelby 6 50 pm
No. 11. |
Leave Blacksbnrg 8 10 am
Leave Earls 8 30 am
Leave Patterson Springs 8 40 am
Leave Shelby 0 10 am
Leave Mooresboro 9 50 am
Leave Henrietta 10 00 am
Leave Forest City 10 20 am
Leave Rutberfbrdton 10 50 am;
Arrive at Marion 12 20 pm
CONNECTIONS.
No. 32 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and thfe S. A. L. at
Catawba Junction. *
Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers.
Nob. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek
and London, trains stop only on signal.
8. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIPP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HOST. General Manager.
[ill ISOflTHlESTERI BY. =
G. W. F. HARPER, President.
Schedules in Effect from and After
May 2, 1897. '
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.
GOiyq NORTH. I No 10. I No 60.
Lea^ e Chester 620am 8 80am
Leave Lowrysvllle 643am 9 05am
Leave McConnellsville 6 58am 939am
Leave Guthriesvllle .... 7 05 am 956am
Leave YorkvilJe 723am 10 50am
Leave Clover 7 53 a m 11 33 am
Leave Gastonla 8 25am 120pm
Leave Llncolnton 9 20am' 2 46 pm
Leave Newton 10 05 am j 4 20 pm
Leave Hickory 10 50 am 6 15 pm
Arrive Lenoir 1155 am 1 8 00 pro
GQIWQ SOUTH. No. 9. | No 61.
Leave Lenoir 3 10 pm 6 00am
Leave Hickory 4 15 pm 7 50am
Leave Newton 5 10 pm 9 00am
Leave Llncolnton 556pm 10 30am
Leave Gastonla 6 57 pm j 1 00 pm
Leave Clover 7 42 pm i 2 02pm
Leave Yorkville 8 11 pm ; 3 10 pm
Leave Guthriesvllle ... 8 34 pm 3 40pm
Leave McConnellsville 8 43pm 3 55pm
Leave Lowrysvllle 9 05 pm 4 25 pm
Arrive Chester 9 30pm: 5 10 pm e
Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
60 and 61 carry passengers and also run
daily except Sunday. There is good connection
at Chester with the G. C. A N.
and the C. C. A A., also LAC. R. R.; at
Gastonia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Lincolnton
with C. C.: and at Hickory and
Newton with W. N. C.
G. F. HARPER,
Acting G. P. A.,
Lenoir, N. C.
ESTABLISHED 1801.
L. GEO. GRIST,
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY,
Yorkville, S. C. *
I REPRESENT over 827,000,000.00
of assets in my fire insurance agency,
and I am prepared to write FIRE and
TORNADO INSURANCE on short notice
at the lowest prevailing rates. Each
fire policy carries with it, without extra
charge, a "lightning clause," which protects
the insured against loss or damage 9
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 Pennsylvania
is by no means a "squatter or experiment."
having been "fightin' fire in all
its fury" since 1825. The Delaware Insurance
company has been pretty severe- '
ly burned several times, but has maintained
its motto?"Just, Prompt, Certain"
since 1835. The Old Continental, which is
living in exile from the South-Eastern
tariff association, thinks she can stand .
alone and work in "single harness," and
since 1853 the "old lady" has helped her
children to something over 835,000,000 and
she is always "at home." Insurance left
with my agency will always receive
prompt and careful attention.
L. GEO. GRIST, Resident Agent.
She |}nrhiritlr (Enquirer.
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