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A SHIP OF ’49. By BRET IIARTE. (OopJTlghtivi by IIouKhC^ri, Mifllln 6 Co., and pablisbcd by tmo£«ment with them ] mmm CHAPTER L It had rained so persistently In Snn Pranclsco daring the first week of Janu ary, 1854, that a certain quagmire In the roadway of Long Wharf had become Im passable, and a plank was thrown over its dangerous depth. Indeed, so treacherous was the spot that it was alleged, on good anthority, that a hastily embarking trav eler had once hopelessly lost his portman teau, and was fain to dispose of his entire interest In It for the sum of |‘2.50toa spec ulative stranger on the wharf. As the stranger’s search was rewarded afterwards only by the discovery of the body of a casual Chinaman, who had evidently en deavored wickedly to antlci[>ate him, a feeling of commercial insecurity was added to the other eccentricities of the locality. The plank led to the door of a building that was a marvel even in the chaotic frontier architecture of the street. The houses on either side—Irregular frames of wood or corrugatol iron—bore evidence of having been quickly thrown together, to meet the requirements of the goods and passengers who were once disembarked on what was the muddy beach of the infant city. But the building In question ex hibited a certain elaboration of form and design utterly inconsistent with this Idea. The structure obtruded a bowed front to the street, with a curving line of small windows, surmounted by elaborate carv ings and scroll work of vines and leaves, while below, in faded gilt letters, appeared the legend “Pontiac—Marseilles.” The “THE BHI»" effect of this Incongruity was startling. It is related that an inebriated miner, im peded by mud and drink before Its door, was found gazing at its remarkable facade with an expression of the deepest despon dency. “I hev lived a free life, pardner,” ho explained thickly to the Samaritan who succored him, “and every time since I’ve been on this six weeks' Jamboree might have kalkllatcd it would come to this. Snakes I’ve seen afore now, and rats I’m not unfamiliar with,.but when It comes to the starn of a ship ristn’ up out of the Street, I reckon it’s time to pass In my checks.” “It is a ship, you blasted old soaker, ” said the Samariran curtly. It was Indeed a ship. A ship run ashore and abandoned ou the beach years before by her gold seeking crew, with the debris of her scattered stores and cargo, overtaken by the wild growth of the strange »tty and the reclamation of the muddy flat, wherein she lay hopelessly imbedded; her retreat cut off by wharves and quays and breakwater, jostled at first by sheds, and then impacted in a block of solid warehouses and dwellings, her rudder, port and counter boarded in, and now gazing hopelessly through her cabin windows upon the busy street be fore her. Bat still a ship despite her transformation. The faintest line of con tour yet left visible spoke of the buoy ancy of another element; the balustrade of her roof was unmistakably a toffrall. The rain slipped from her swelling sides with a certain lingering tonch of the sea; the soil around her was still treacherous with its suggestions, and even the wind whistled nautlcnlly over her chimney. If, in the fury of some southwesterly gale, the had one night slipped her strange moorings and left a shining track through the lower town to the distant sea, no one Would have been surprised. Least of all, perhaps, her present owner and possessor, Mr. Abner Nott. For, by the irony of circumstances, Mr. Nott was a far western farmer, who had never seen a ship before, nor a larger stream of water than a tributary of the Missouri river. In a spirit, hjilf of fascination, half of ■peculation, ho had bought her nt the time of her abandonment, and had since mortgaged his ranch at Petaluma, with his live stock, to defray ths expense of filling In the land where she stood and the improvements of the vicinity. He had transferred his household goods and his only daughter to her cabin, and had divided the space “between decks” and her hokl Into lodging rooms and lofts for the storage of goods. It could hardly be said that the investment had been profita ble. His tenants vaguely recognized that his occupancy was a sentimental rather than a commercial speculation, and often generously lent themselves to the Illusion by not paying their rent. Others treated their own tenancy as a joke—a quaint recreation born of the childlike familiar ity of frontier Intercourse. A few had left, carelessly abandoning their unsala Me goods to their landlord with great cheerfulness and a sense of favor. Oc casionally Mr. Abner Nott, in a prac tical relapse, raged against the derelicts, and talked of dispossessing them, or even dismantling his tenement, but he was easily placated by a compliment to the "dear old ship,” or an effort made by some tenant to idealize his apartment. A photographer who hud ingeniously uiil- Ized the forecastle for a gallery (accessible from the bows in the next street), paid no torther tribute than a portrait of the pretty face of Roecy Nott. The super stitious reverence in which Abner Nott held his monstrous fancy was naturally enhanced by his purely bucolic exaggera tion of its real functions and its native element. “This yer keel has sailed, and •ailed, and sailed,” he would explain with Mine incongruity of Illustration, “in a be* line, matin’ tracks for days rnnnin’. I reckon more storms and blizzards hez tackled hdr then you ken shake a stick at She’s stampeded Whales afore now, and eloahed round with pirates and freebooters in and outer the Spanish main and across lots from Marcelleys where she was rared. And yer she sits peaceful like just ez if ■he’d never been outer a purtatcr patch, and hadn't plowed the sea with fo’s&ils and studdln’ sails and them things ca vortin’ round her masts.” Abner Nott’s enthusiasm was shared by his daughter, but with more Imagina tion, and an intelligence stimulated by the scant literature of her father’s emi grant wagon and the few booka found on \ cabin shelves. But to her the strange 1 she inhabited suggested more of the ; world than the rude, chaotic dvlll- I saw the cabin ». irdow.-s or met in tne persons or ner Atner s jougers. Shut up for days In this quaint tenement, she hiui seen It change from the enchanted playground of her childish fancy to the theatre of her active maidenhood, bnt ; without losing her ideal romance In it. She hod translated its history In her own way, read its quaint nautical hieroglyphics after her own fashloit ami possessed her self of its secret!}. She had In fancy made voyages in it to foreign lands, had heard the accents of a softer tongue on its decks, and on summer nights, from the roof of the quarter deck, had seen mel lower constellations take the place of the hard metallic glitter of the Californian skies. Sometimes, in her Isolation, the long, cylindrical vault she inhabited seemed, like some vast sea shell, to become musical with the murmuring* of the dis tant sea. So completely had it taken the place of the nsnal instincts of feminine youth that she had forgotten she was pretty, or that her dresses were old in fashion and scant In quantity. After the first snrprise of admiration her father’s lodgers ceased to follow the abstracted nymph except with their eyes—partly re specting her spiritual shyness, partly re specting the jealous supervision of the paternal Nott. She seldom penetrated the crowded center of the growing city; her rare excursions were confined to the old ranch at Petaluma, whence she brought flowers and plants, and even extemporized a hanging garden on the quarter deck. It was still raining, and the wind, which had increased to a gale, was dashing the drops against the slanting cabin window? with a sound like spray when Mr. Abner Nott sat before a table seriously engaged with his accounts. For it was “steamer night”—ns that momentous day of reck oning bef to the sailing of the regular mall ster.mcr was briefly known to com mercial (V.n Francisco—and Mr. Nott was subject nt such times to severely practical relapses. A swinging light seemed to firing Into greater relief that peculiar encased casketliko security of the low timbered, tightly fitting apartment, with Its toylike utilities of space, and made the pretty oval face of Rosey Nott appear a characteristic ornament. The sliding door of the cabin communicated with the main deck, now roofed in and partitioned off so as to form a small pass age that led to the open starboard gang way, where a narrow, Inclosed staircase built on the ship’s side took the place of the ship’s ladder under her counter, and opened In the street. A dash* of rain against the window caused Rosey to lift her eyes from her book. “It’s much nicer here than at the ranch, father,” she said coaxingly, “even leaving alone It’s being a beautiful ship instead of a shanty; the wind don’t whistle through the cracks and blow out the candle when you’re reading, nor the rain spoil your things hung up against the wall. And you look more like a gentleman sitting in his own—ship—you know, looking over his bills and getting ready to give his or ders." Vague and general as Miss Rosey's com pliment was, it had its full effect upon her father, who was at times dimly con- scions of his hopeless msticlty aiyl its in congruity with his surroundings. “Yes," he said awkwardly, with a relaxation of his aggressive attitude; “yes, in ararse It’s more bang up style, but it don’t pay —Rosey—It don’t pay. Yer’s the Pontiac that oughter be brlngln’ in, ez rents go, at least $300 a month, don’t make her taxes. I bln thinkin’ seriously of sealin’ her.” As Rosey knew her father had experi enced this serious contemplation on the first of every ®onth for the last two years, and cheerfully ignored It the next day, she only said, “I’m sure the vacant rooms and lofts are all rented, father.” “That’s It,” returned Mr. Nottthonght- fully, plucking at his bushy whiskers with his fingers and thumb us if he were re moving dead and sapless Incumbrances in their growth, “that’s Just what it Is— them's ez lu It themselves don’t pay, and thorn ez haz left their goods—the goods don’t pay. The feller ez stored them iron sugar kettles In the forchold, after trying to get mo to make another advance on ’em, sea be believes he’ll have to sacrifice 'em to me after uil, and only bogs I’d give him a chance of buying buck the half of 'em ten yeers from now, at double what I advanced him. The chap that left them five hundred cases of hair dye ’tween decks and then skipped ont to Sacramento, met me the other day In the street and ad vised mo to use a bottle ez an advertise ment, or try it on the starn of the Pontiac for fire proof paint. That foolishness ez all he's good for. And yet thar might bo suthin’ in the paint, if a feller had nigger luck. There’s that New York chap ez bought up them damaged boj^ of plug terlsiker for $50 a thousand, and sold ’em for foundations for that new building in Sansome street at a thousand clear profit. It’s all luck, Roecy.” The girl’s eyes had wandered again to the pages of her book. Perhaps she was already familiar with the text of her father's monologue. But recognizing an additional querulousuess in his voice, she Laid the book aside and patiently folded her hands in her lap. “That’s right—for I’ve suthin’ to tell ye. The fact is Sleight wants to bay the Pontiac out and out Just ez she stands wMh the two fifty vara lots she stands on.” “Sleight wants to buy herf Sleight?” echoed Rosey incredulous! y. “You bet! Sleight—ths hig financier, the smartest man In ’Frisco.” “What does he want to buy her for?" asked Rosey, knitting ha; pretty‘brows. The apparently simple question sud denly puzzled Mr. Nott. He glanced feebly at his daughter's face, and frowned In vacant irritation. “That’s so,” ho said, drawing a long breath; “there’s an thin’ in that.” “What did he say?” continued the young girl, Impatiently. "Not much. ‘You’ve got the Pontiac, Nott,’ sez he. ‘You betl’ sez L ‘What’ll you take for her and the lot she stands on?’ sez he, short and sharp. Some fel lers, Rosey,” said Nott, with a cunning smile, “woald hev blurted out a big Ag ger and Ijcen cotched. That ain’t my style. I jnst looked at him. Til wait fur your figgers until next steamer day,’ sez he, and off he goes like a shot He’e awfully sharp, Rosey.” “But If he is sluvrp, father, and ho really wants to buy the ship,” returned Rosey, thoughtfully, “it’s only because he knows it’s valuable property, and not be cause he likes it as we do. He can’t take that value away even if we don’t sell it to him, and all the while we have the com fort of the dear old Pontiac, don’t you see?” ’ Tfc° exhaustive commercial reasoning was so sympathetic to Mr. Nott’s insUnctt that he accepted it as conclusive. He, however, deemed it wise to still preserve his practical attitude. “But that don’t make it pay by the month, Rosey. Suthin’ must be done. I’m thinking I’ll clean out that photographer.” “Not just after he’s taken such a pretty view of the cabin front of »h» iVmHn* mmi-ine street, racnert rsol ttes going to give us a copy, and put the other in m * shop window In Montgomery street. ” “That’s eo,” said Mr. Nott, musingly, "It’s no slouch of an advertisement. ‘The Pontiac.’ the property of A. Nott, Esq., of ■ St. Jo, Mo. Send it on to your Aunt Phoebe; sorter make the <fld folks open their eyes—oh? Well, seeiu’ he’s been to ! some expense flttin’ np an entrance from I the other street, we’ll let him slide. But I as to that d——d old Frenchman Ferrers, j in the next loft, with liis stuck up airs and high falutin style, we must get quit of him; he’s regularly gouged me in that ere horsehair spek Ration. ” “How can you say that, father?” said Rosey, with a slight increase of color. “It was your own offer. You know those bales of curled horsehair were left behind by the late tenant to pay his rent. When Mr. de Ferrieres rented the room after- wur*ls, you told him you’d threw them in in the place of rejMurs and furniture. It was your own offer.” “Yes, but I didn’t reckon ther’d ever lie a bi? price per pound paw! for the darned stuff for sofys and cushions and sich. ” “How do you know he knew it, father?” responded Rosey. "Then why did he look so silly at first, and then put on airs when I joked him about it, eh?” “Perhaps lie didn’t understand your joking, father. He’s a foreigner, and shy and proud, and—not like the others. I don t think he knew what you meant then, any more than ho believed he was making a bargain before. He may be poor, but I think he’s been—a—a—gentle man.” The young girl’s animation penetrated even Mr. Nott’s Blow comprehension. Her novel opposition, and even the prettiness it enhanced, gave him a dull premonition of pain. IBs small round eyes became abstracted, bis mouth remained partly open, even bis fresh colyr slightly paled. “Yon seem to have been takin’ stock of this yer man, Rosey,” be said, with a faint attempt at archness; “if he warn’t ez old ez a crow, for all his young feathers, I’d think lie was ninklu’ up to you.” But the passing glow had faded from her young cheeks, and her eyes wandered again to her book. “He pays his rent regularly every steamer* night,” she said, quietly, as if dismissing an exhausted sub ject, “and he'll be here In a moment, I dare say." She took up her book, and leaning her head on her hand, once more became absorbed In its pages. An uneasy silence followed. The rain beat against the windows, the ticking of a clock became audible, but still Mr. Nott sat with vacant eyes fixed on his daugh ter’s face, and the constrained smile on* his lips. He was conscious that he had never seen her look so pretty before, yet he could not tell why this was no longer an unalloyed satisfaction. Not but that ho had always accepted the admiration of others for her as a matter of course, but for the first time he became conscious that she not only had an Interest In others, but apparently a superior knowledge of them. How did she know these things about this man, and why bud she only now accident ally spoken of them? Ho would have done so. All t his passed so vaguely through his unreflective mind, that he was nimble to retain any decided impression, but the far reaching one that his lodger had ob tained some occult influence over her through the exhibition of his baleful skill in the horsehair speculation. “Them tri cks Is likely to take a young girl’s fancy. I must look arter her,” he said to himself softly. A slow regular step in the gangway interrupted his paternal reflections. Hastily buttoning across his chc.t the pea jacket which he usually wore r.t home as a single concession to his nautical sur roundings, he drew himself up with some thing of the assumption of a shipmaster, despite certain bucolic suggestions of his boots and legs. The footsteps approached nearer, and a tall figure suddenly stood in the doorway. It was a figure so extraordinary that oven in the strange m.v qucrtule of that early civilization it wan remarh.-.blo; a figure vith whom father and daughter Were alivady familiar without abatement of wonder—(he figure of a rejuvenated old man, padded, po\< derc.l. dye-1 and painted to the verge of caficature, but without a single suggestion of Itnlicrnnsncss or humor. A face ,a>artificial ihat it noemed iilm'ist a imuik, but, like a mask, more pathetic than am a. ing. H.- was dressed lu the extreme oi fashion of a d een years before; his pta. 1 gray trouser-strapped tightly over his varni. ht-i ImoU, his voluminous di i cr; .at and high collar Lii.J d dyed !i) .:!y bausi.cd frock coat waist that eecucd .".cccutcd end r::iid bis ringed «h--c.,s whiskers, his dinging to : by stays. He advanced two step* into the cabin With an upright piecldonof mot ion that might 1 ave hid the Infirmities of age, and said deliberately with a foreign accent: “You-r-r ac-coumpt?” In the actual presence of the apparition Mr. Nott’s dignified resistance wavered. But glancing uneasily at his daughter, and seeing her calm eyes fixed on the speaker without embarrassment, he folded his arms stiflly and, with a lofty simula tion of examining the ceiling, said: "Ahem! Rosal The gemlcman’e ac count.” It was an infelicitous action. For the stranger, who evidently had not noticed the .presence of the young ifirl before, started, took a step quickly forward, l>ent stifily but profoundly over the little hand that held the account, rai-ed it to his lips, and, with “a thousand pardons, mademoiselle,” laid a small canvas bag containing the rent before the disorganized Mr. Nott and stifily vanished. That night was a troubled one to the simple minded proprietor of the good ship Pontiac. Unable to voice his uneasiness by further discussion, but feeling that his late discomposing interview with his lodger demanded some marked protest, he absented himself on the plea of hu»i- ness during the rest of the evening, hap pily to his daughter’s utter obliviousness of the reason. Lights were burning bril liantly In counting rooms and offices, the feverish life of the mercantile city was at its height. With a vague idea of enter ing into immediate negotiations with Mr. Sleight for the sale of the ship—as a di rect wny ont of bis present perplexity, he bent his steps toward the financier's office, but paused and turned hack before reach Ing the door. He made his way to the wharf and gased abstractedly nt the lights reflected in the dark, tremulous, jelly like wntci. But wherever he wont he was ac companied by the aheurd figure of his lodger—a figure he had hitherto laughed at or half pitied, but which now, to his bewildered comprehension, seemed to have a fateful significance. Here a new Idea seized him, and he hurried back to the ship, slackening his pace only when he arrived at his own doorway. Here he paused a moment and slowly ascended the staircase. When he touched the pas sage he coughed slightly and paused again Then he poshed open the door of Urn rturki'*-..*.! liln and called mifttn “What is It, father*” sold Rosey’s voice from the little stateroom on the right— Rosey’s own bower. “Nothing!” said Mr. Nott, with en af fectation of languid calmness; "I only wanted to know if you was comfortable. It’s an awful busy night in town.” "Yea, father.” "1 reckon that’s tons o' gold goln' to the states to-morrow.” “Yes, father.” “Pretty comfortable, eh?” "Yes, father.” “Well, I'll browse round a spell, and turn In myself, soon. ” “Yes, father." Mr. Nott took down a hanging lantern, lit It, and passed ont into the gangway. Another lamp bung from the companion hatch to light the tenants to the lower deck, whence he descended. This deck was divided fore and aft by a partitioned passage—the loft-i or apartments being lighted from the ports, and one or two by a door cut through the ship's side com municating with an alley on either side. Tills was the case with the loft occupied by Mr. Nott’s strange lodger, which, be sides a door in the passage, had this inde pendent commnnication with the alley. Nott had never known him to make use of the latter door; on the contrary, It was his regular habit to issue from his apart ment at 8 o'clock every afternoon, dressed os ho has been described, stride delilierately through the passage to the upper deck and thence into the street, where his strange figure was a feature of the principal promenade for two or three hours, re turning as regularly at 8 o’clock to the ship and the seclusion of his loft. Mr. Nott paused before the door, under the pretense of throwing the light before him Into the shadows of the forecastle; all was silent williu. He was turning buck when he was Impressed by the regular recur rence of a peculiar rustling sound which he had at first referred to the rubbing of the wires of the swinging lantern against his clothing. He set down the light and listened; the sound was evidently on the other side of the partitiou; the sound of some prolonged, rustling, scraping move ment, with regular intervals. Was it due to another of Mr. Nott’s unprofitable tenants—the rats? No. A bright idea Hashed upon Mr. Nott’s troubled mind. It was de Ferrieres snoring! He smiled grimly. “Wonder if Rosey’d call him a gentleman if she heard that,” he chuckled to himself as he slowly mode hi;} way buck to the cabin and the small state room opposite to his daughter's. During the rest of the night he dreamed of leiug compelled to give Rosey in marriage to his strange lodger, who added insult to the outrage by snoring audibly through the marriage service. Meantime, In her cradle like nest in her naut cal bower, Miss Rosey slumbered as lightly. Waking from a vivid dream of Venice—a child’s Venice—seen from the swelling deck of the proudly riding Pon tiac, she was so impressed us to rise and cross on tiptoe to the little slanting port hole. Morning was already dawning over the fiat, straggling city, hut from every- counting house and magazine the votive tapers of the feverish worshipers of trade and mammon were still flaring fiercely. (To be ccnrinuH]) 1H U1DER Successor to J. P. McL'ARTHA. FEED. LIVERY, SUE AH EXClim STABLES. STARLING’S Od Stand. S T A SI LES OPEN AT ALL HOURS. o Carrirtjres, double siul single. itie* t nil trains j j) ■aseitgi'r* cnriit-tl in a.’i part* o 1 ihc city ; loigg.ig* faiitd rieil at short indue; cali.' lor Croiiiitje 1” unit it.ni'H pi imp ly a’t ixLii :o. Huggie*. iloubb- ur single, witiior w thout oiivei. at ie.ifcohable raies. Parlies wishing to Pm chase Stock will do w ell to give me ac .ll hi- ;liey \\ill always find at my sis bh-s drnv rs with large and sele«i ek. 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A full line of Branded Sets and Velvets at various prices and shades to match the large line of DRESS GOODS. -A. ETJXjXj LI-iTE OE GENTS’, LADIES’, AND CHILDREN’S SHOES. 12000 yards Plaids, bought below the market, and will be sold- accordingly. 500 suits Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s ready-made clothing, at Sweeping Bargains. Hats and shirts in proportion. 200 Barrels Flour bombt direct from the Mills before ad vance in the market, and being sold nt less than tegular prices. All heavy Groceries bought in Car Load quantities, and are (Id in bulk at prices that compare favorably with Charleston XX ^3^ dL^7£=t:r Uitr Hardware Deportment, in charge of Mr. J.. II. Early, has in stock ilie largest, as well as the best, assortment ol Stoves and Stov Furniture ever exhibited in Eastern South n . I a'Wj-, bought by ( nr Load eiit : rely, we are pre pared to make figures that defy competition. In Sewing Machines w : handle the White, A rerienn, House hold and Hartford, all striekly first-class ; also machine need les, oils and attachments lor ail machines. We carry a large line of Engines am Mill supplies, such as Belting, Packing, Lacing, and all kinds of Steam Fittings in iron and brass; Lubricating and Cylinder Oils, Tallow, etc. Machine Dolts in every size. Agricultural machinery, such as Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Presses, Mowers, Horse Rakes, Grain Drills, etc. Pumps tor driven wells, a specialty. We are agents for several first class Steam Engines'and Mills nnd would be pleased to give bottom tigures to those desiring to purchase a ginning or saw mill outfit. September 13, 1888. (i. i II,1U & Manutacturers -OF— Doors, Sasli, BhiiuS, IMKDTJEEIIKrGS —AND - Building Material, ESTABLISH ID 1842. CHARLESTON, 8. C. N«<»<-niber 6, 1886—Ij ir >• n t se IjiLJsJLM-hi. Foil C. (i D. AN 0 C. & . RAILROADS Pbsnidknt’s Ornea C.& D. and C. A S. RAILROADS. Cbai lcstou, S. C., Muy 1, 1887. t:\ •a an t after May 1, (tic Irnins ou ibese roadji will run ns follows (Sunday cx- cepletl) tTtry flay: J K.McIvci* — DEALER IN — ETJE.JSTITTJE.E AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, STAPLE and FANOY GROCERIES. Tallow, Engine and Machine Oils. BUCKEYE CORN SHELLERS. Sep. 6, ’88—ly. down train. L*!nTc Wndegboro 2.20 P Dennetts a 40 Morveu’R V oF rlnnd 3.40 Leave Cbernw 4 35 Cash’s 4 40 Society Hill 4 57 Dore’e C.20 Darlington 6.40 Palmetto 6 53 Arrire at Florence 6 10 UP TRAIN. Leaxe Florence 10.38 A At Palmetto lu 48 Darlington i, Do?e’« SocietyHill 11.44 0 12 01 LenTrlfijraw 12.20 PM AloFarUn •••••••■see*••••••••«e 100 Baeeeee •••••• ••••! 20 Dennett s......1 82 Lake Wadeiboro... ^..2 00 A. F. RAVENEL. Pres. 0 H,MaslerTranaporlaU#a. ^ ORTH EASTERS RAILROAD. Ohaxzwto*, B. C., July is On and after this date the folJowi. schedule will b# rua : )o *i*« GOING SOUTH. No. 27, Daily. Leave Florenee Leave Kingatree Arrive Lnuet Leave Lanes Arrive Charleston No. 2*. Daily, Leave Florence *g qq Le ve Kiugktree • 10 % * ® 30 a J *«8. b •180 a* 2 80 a • 2 60s* 260.* 600a* Arrive Lanes Leave Lanes Arrive Charles!on 1130 No 61. Leave Florence Leave Kingstreo Arrive Lanes Leave Lanes Arrive CharlesMa No 53. Leave Lanes Arrive* Charleston a ■ f«25p* 7 42 p * 8 05 p a, *8 05 p * »60p« •7 45 9 to Train on C A D HR eoaneet* * Kor enoe with No 61 Trwia. GOING NORTH. No, 78, Daily. Leave Charleston oio ik Arrive Lane. '2 J® ‘ ■ Leave Lanes 2 60 ! ^ Leave Kiugstreo 3 10 a S Arrive Flerenoe 4 20 a " No. 14. " Leave Cnarleston *4 30 n » Arrive Lanes a « Leave Lane. gjjjj Leave Kiugstrc# 6 41 p* Arrive Florence 3 m No. 62. Daily. Leave Charleston *7 00 * * Arrive Lanes » 30 a m No 60. Leave Lanes 6 80 a * Leave Kingetreo 8 10 a m Leave Lane* 3 |q Leave Kingstree g jg * Daily, f Daily except Sunday. Train Nn. 60 eoniiecia at Florence whh ain on C & D R R for Cheraw. 8. C..**4 udrsboro, N. C. - Nos 62 run* through to Columbia a Central R R ol 8 C. No. 64 leaves Charleston Sundaye only. 8 30 A. M., ana runs through via Cea- a! R. R. of 8 C , arrive Columbia, 3 C. I 10 P. M. Nos. 78 and 14 run solid lo Wiimington, C., making close couuectinu with W |[ R R Tor all poi> is north. •JR. KBNLT. J P. Dmss, Supt Trans. (i«n’| Snp’t. T. M. Enruscm, Gen’l Pose. Aft. ViiJUCIM CILriBfA in iKOSU KAIUM July 16 1888. GOING SOUTH No. 28. Leave Wilmington *8 06 p * Leave Marion )l IV p * Arrive Plorenee 12 19 e a Ne. M. Leave Florowso J.T0 a ■ Arrivt Snaier 4.40 a ■ Leave Sunuer 4 40 a * Arrive Columbia A 16 ■ ■ No. s7 Leave Wllmlngtow *10.10 » * Leave Marios 12.87 p ■ Arrive Florence 1 IP a * Ne AS 49 Ms* lu $o p * No. 15 i.save Wilmiorten, *2 4-1 p * Leave Mar:nn 5ZZp* Arrive Florence A It p * Ne 68 Leave at Floreses ft 8tt p « \rrive Sumter 7 10 p m Ne 54 Leave flnmier *7 47 p m rrive Columbia 9 06 p m No 62 nine through from Charl-rea vis Central R U. Leaving Lane* 8 22 1 M.. Msnuing363 A M No 66 runs tlirmigh from Charleston via i.'entrsl R K. leav'ng Lane* 0 85 P M. U»d- ning 7 12 P M. Train ou C & D 11 R connect* si Fltrvaoe v.ill. No 6 J . UOING NORTH. No 61 Lesve Sumter Arrive Columbia <,cave Columbia. Arri*e Sumter Leave Sumter Arrive Florence No. 78. L«nve Florence, Leave Marion Arrive at Wilmington, •1 25 pi I 552pi 1 62 m 2 20 a 1 4 35*i 5 22 a 1 8 85*i Leave Columbia No. 67 *7 00 am Arrive Sumter 8 16 a m Leave Sumter No 69 f8 25 • m Arrive Floreoco 9 40 a m Leave Florence, No 86 f10 00 a m Leave Marion 10 42 a m Arrive at Wilmington, 1 40 pm Leave Columbia No. 68, •6 S3 p m Arrive Sumter 6 46 p at No 14 Leave Florence 8 90 pm Leave Marion 8 66 p m Arrlvr at Wilmington H50pm *i'nily. f Dsily except Sunday. No 68 rnne through to Cbsrleetpn, via Central R R, arriving Manning? 12 P M, Lanes 7 43 P M. Charleston 9 10 P M. No 67 runs through to Charleston via Central R R. arriving Manning 8 60 A M, Lanes 9 29 A M, Charleston 11 80 A m. No 66 oonueeta nt Florence with CRD train for Cbernw and Wadasboro’. Ncs 78 and 14 make etose connection at Wilmington with W A W R R for nil point* North. JOHN F. DIVINE. Gen’! inpt J. R. KENLY, Sup’t Trana. T M. EMMERSON, Goa. Pa*. Aft. PATENTS^ Obtained, and nil Patent bnaineee at tended to Promptly and for Moderate Face. Our offica is opposite tho U. 8. Patent Office, and we can obtain Patents in loss time than Ihoae remote from Washlngtos. Send Model of Drawing. W# ndriee all to patentability free of charge; and WS make No Charge unices Patent is sssnred. W* refer, here, lo ths Poetntnater, the Supt. of Money Order Div, and to oReinls of the U. 8. Patent OOoe. Pot elwulnr, advice, terme and reference* U> actual oli- anta in yaur own State or Cooaty, write te C. A. SNOW * 00., Opposite Patent Cftoe, Washington. D. O. Nev 11. ’88 Old Clothis. old dent sattsfM- Dyelac, eWaahte and Mpnirihf clothes, of both Udloe aM «-¥•—>, in dret-olaas otylo, and thoroagh sail tloa guaranteed. _ H. T. SCOTT, Clothee Droeew,. Rear of the PoetoRoo, Darlington, v. July 6, ’88—4t,