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Beret vy.
A Common Thonght.
Souiewlrero on tills earthly planet
' In the dust of flowers to he,
In the dewdrop, !:: the sunshine,
bleeps a solemn day for me.
» this wakeful hour of midnight
‘ I liehold it dawn in mist,
\ud 1 hear a sound of sobbing
Through the darkness — hist! oh,
hist!
In a dim and musky chamber,
1 urn breathing life away ;
Some one draws a curtain’ softly,
And I watch the broadening day.
As it purples in the zenith,
As it brightens on the lawn,
There's a hush of death about me,
And a whisper, "He is gone!”
• [Henry Timrod.
BY BRET HAUTE.
[Copyrighted by Houghtou, MlflUa & Co., and
published by arrangement with them.]
CHAPTER V.
The speed and fury with which Clinch’*
cavalcade swept on in tho direction of the
mysterious shot left Hale no chance for re
flection. He was conscious of shouting in
coherently with tho others, of urging his
horse irresistibly forward, of momentarily
expecting to meet or overtake something, but
without any further thought. The figures of
Clinch and Rawlins immediately liefore him
shut out tho prospect of tho narrowing trail.
Once only, taking advantage of a sudden halt
that threw them confusedly together, he
managed to ask a question.
“Lost their track—found it again!’’shouted
tho ostler, as Clinch, with a cry like tho bay
ing of a hound, again darted forward. Their
horses were [‘anting and trembling under
them, tho ascent seemed to be growing
steeper, a singular dorknoss, whicl. even the
density of the wood did not sufficiently ac
count for, surrounded them, but still their
leader madly urged them on. To Hale’s re
turning senses they did not seem in a condi
tion to engage a single resolute man, who
might have ambushed in the woods or beaten
them In detail in the narrow gorge, but In
another mstant the reason of their furious
haste was manifest. Spurring his horse
ahead, Clinch dashed out into the open with
a cheering shout—a shout that as quickly
changed to a yell of imprecation. They were
on the Ridge in a blinding snowstorm! The
road had already vanished under their feet,
and with it the fresh trail they had so closely
followed! They stood helplessly on the shore
of a trackless white sea, blank and spotless of
any trace or sign of the fugitives.
“’Pears to me, boys,” said the ostler, sud
denly ranging before them, “ef you’re not
kalkilatin' on gittin’ another party to dig ye
out, ye’d better be huntin' fodder and cover
instead of road agents. 'Skuso me, gentle
men, but I’m responsible for tho bosses, and
tills ain't no time for circus ridiu’. We’re a
matter o’ six miles from the station In a bee
lino.”
“Back to the trail, then,” said Clinch,
wheeling his horse toward the road they had
just quitted.
“ ’Bkuse me, Kernel,” said tho ostler, laying
his hand on Clinch's rein, “but that way only
brings us hack the road wo kem—the stage
road—three miles further from home. That
three miles is on the divide, and by the time
we get there it will be snowed up worse nor
this. ‘The shortest cut is along the Ridge. If
we hump ounselvcs wo ken cross tho divide
afore the rood is blocked. And that, ’skuse
me, gentlemen, is my road.”
There w:is no time for discussion. The
road was already palpably thickening under |
their feet. Hale's arm was stiffened to his
side by a wet, clinging snow wreath. The
figures of the others were almost obliterated i
and shai>eles8. It was not snowing—it was !
snowballing! The huge flakes, shaken like
enormous feathers out of a vast blue black
cloud, commingled and fell in sprays and |
patches. All idea of their former pursuit
was forgotten; tho blind rage and enthusi- ’
asm that had possessed them was gone, i
They dashed after their new leader with only
an instinct for shelter and succor.
They had not ridden long when for- j
tunately, as it seemed to Hale, the character
of tho storm changed. Tho snow no longer !
fell in such large flakes, nor as heavily. A j
bitter wind succeeded; tho soft snow began |
to stiffen and crackle under tho horses’hoofs;
they were no longer weighted and encum- j
bered by the drifts upon their bodies; the :
smaller flakes now rustled and rasped against j
them like sand, or bounded from them like
hail. They seemed to be moving more easily
and rapidly, their spirits were rising with
the stimulus of cold and motion, when sud- 1
denly their leader halted.
“It’s no use, boys. It can’t be done! This
is no blizzard, but a regular two days’ snifter! j
It’s no longer moltin’, but packin’ and drift- j
in’ now. Even if we get over tho divide,
we’re sure to be blocked up in the pass.”
It was true! To their bitter disappointment !
they could now see that tho snow hod not !
really diminished in quantity, but that the !
now finely powdered particles were rapidly
filling all inequalities of the surface, packing
in long furrows across tho levels. They
looked with anxiety at their self-constituted
leader.
“We must make a break to get down in
woods again before it's too late,” he said
briefly.
B it they had already drifted away from
the fringe of larches and dwarf pines that
marked the sides of the Ridge, and lower
down merged into tho dense forest that clothed
the flank of the mountain they had lately
climbed, and it was with the greatest diffi
culty that they again reached it, only to find
that at that point it was too precipitous for
the descent of their horses. Renumbed and
speechless, they continued to toil on, opposed
to the full fury of the stinging snow, and at
times obliged to turn their horses to tho blast
to keep from being blown over the Ridge.
At tho end of half an hour the ostler dis
mounted, and, beckoning to tho others, took
his horse by the bridle and l>egan tho descent
When it came to Hale’s turn to dismount he
could not help at first recoiling from the pros
pect before him. The trail—if it could be so
called—was merely tho track or furrow of
some fallen tree, dragged, by accident or de
sign, diagonally across the sides of the moun
tain. At times it appeared scarcely a foot in
width; at other times a mere crumbling
gully, or a narrow shelf made by the projec
tions of dead boughs and collected debris. It
seemed perilous for a foot passenger; it ap
peared impossible for a horse. Nevertheless,
he had taken a step forward when Clinch
lakl his hand on bin arm.
“You’ll bring up the rear,” he said, not un
kindly, “ez you’ro a stranger here. Wait un
til we sing out to you.”
“But if ^prefer to take the same risks aa
you all I” said Hale, stiffly.
“You kin,” said Clinch, grimly. “But I
reckoned, as you weren't fsmiliar with this
*>rt o’ thing, you ivouldu’t keer, by any
foolishnrse o’ yours, to stampede the rooks
•head of us, and break down the trail, or
send down an avalanche on top of us. But
1°^ ex you like."
“I will wait, then," said Hale, hastily.
The rebuke, however, did him good ser-
Tlp e- It preoccupied bis mind, so that it ra-
“wined unaffected by the dizxy depths, and
enabled him to abandon himself mechanic
ally to tha sagacity of hi* horse, who waa
contented simply to follow the hoofprinta of
flio preceding animal, and in a few momenta
Uiey reached the brooder trail below without
• mishap. A discussion regarding their fu
ture movements waa already taking pbo* The
MqiuMUIlity ui i eg tuning lUe hsuuu m um
Summit was admitted; the way down the
mountain to the next settlement » os still left
i to them, or (lie aifjooeut wood., If they
i wUbed for an encampment. The reiki- onre
more assumed authority.
Skuse me, gentlemen, but them horses
don't take no pasecer down the mountain to
night. The stage road ain't a mile off, and 1
ku!labile to wait liere till the up stage mimes.
She's bnaod to stop on account of tho snow ;
and I’ve done my dooty when I hand the
horse* over to the driver.”
“But if slie hears of the block up yer, and
waits at tho lower station'” said Rawlins.
“Then I've done my dooty all the same.
’Skuse me, gentlemen, but them ex lax their
own horses kin do ex they like."
As this clearly jiointml to Hale, he briefly
assured his companions that he had no inteu- -
lion of deserting them. “If I cannot reach
Eagle’s Court I shall at least keep os near it
ns |>ossihle. I suppose any incuaenger from
my house to the Summit will loam where I
uni and why I mu delayed!”
‘ Messenger from your house!” gas|ied Raw
lins. “Arc you craxy, stranger! Only a bird
would get outer Eagle's now; and it would
hev to be ni eagle at that! Between your
house and the Summit the snow must he ten
feet by this time, to say nothing of the drift
in tho puss. ”
Hale felt it was the truth. At any other
time he would have worried over this unex
pected situation, and hi utter violation of all
his traditions. He was past that now, and
even felt a certain relief. Ho knew his fam
ily were safe; it was enough. That they
were locked up securely, and incapable of in
terfering with him, seemed to enhance his
new, half conscious, half shy enjoyment of
an adventurous existence.
The ostler, who hod been apparently lost
in contemplation of the stoop trail he had
just descended, suddenly clapped his hand to
his leg with an ejaculation of gratified aston
ishment.
“Waal, darn my skin ef that ain’t Hennick-
er s slide’all the time! I heard it was some
what about here.”
Rawlins briefly explained to Hale that a
slide was a rude incline for the transit of
heavy goods that could not he canted down
a trail.
“And Hen nicker’s,” continued the man,
“ain’t more nor a mile away. Yo might try
Hennicker's at u push, eh!"
By a common instinct the whole party
looked dubiously at Hale. “Who’s Hen-
nicker!" he felt conqiclled to ask.
The ostler hesitated and glanced at the
others to reply. “There me folks,” he said
lazily at last, “ez Ulceves that Hennicker
ain’t much better nor the crowd wo’re limit
ing; hut they don’t say it to Hennicker. We
needn't let on what we’re after.”
“I for one,” said Hale stoutly, “decidedly
object to any concealmeiC of our pui-pose.”
“It don’t follow,” said Rawlins carelessly,
‘that Hennicker even knows of this yer
robbery. It’s bis gincral gait we refer to.
Ef yer think it more jiolite, and it makes it
more sociable to discuss this matter afore
him, I’m agreed.”
“Halo means,” said Clinch, “that it
wouldn’t be on the square to take and make
use of any points we might pick up there
agin the read agents.”
“Certainly,” said Hale. It was not at all
what he had meant, but ho felt singularly
relieved at the compromise.
“And ez I reckon Hennicker ain’t such a
fool as not to know who wc are and what
we’re out for,” continued Clinch, “I reckon
there ain't any concealment”
“Then it’s Ilenuicker’s!" said tho ostler,
with swift deduction.
“Hennicker it is! Lead on.”
The ostler remounted his horse and tho
others followed. The trail presflitly turned
habit It did not seem ungraceful to Hale,
already attracted by her delicate profile, her
Urge ilark eyes, and a certain weird resem
blance she had to some half-domesticated
dryad.
That’ll do, maw,” she said, dismissing her"
parent with a nod. “I’ll Uik to Dick."
As the door closed on tho old woman Ze-
uobia leaned her hands on the back ot a
chair, and confronted the admiring eyes of
Dick with a goddess-like indifference.
“Now, wot's the use of your playin' this
yer game on me, Dick! Wot’s the good of
your ladlin’ out that bog wash about huntin'!
“Hot’s the yood of your ladlin' out that
hog uash abml huntin't"
Huntin'! I'll tell yer the huntin’you-uns
hev been atl You’ve lieen huntin' George
I-ce and his boys since an hour before sun up.
You’ve been followin' n blind trail up to the
Ridge, until tho snow got up and hunted you
right here! You’ve been whoopin’ and yellin’
and circus ridin’ on the roaiis like ez yer wos
Comanches, and frightening all the women
folk within miles—that’s yer huntin’! You've
been climbin'down paw's old slide at last, and
makin’ tracks for here to save the skins of
them condemned government horses of the
keiniianyl And that's your huntin’!”
To Hale's surprise a burst of laughter from
tho party followed this speech. He tried to
join in, hut this ridiculous summary of tho
result of his enthusiastic sense of duty left
him—the only earnest believer- mortified and
embarrassed. Nor was he the loss concerned
as he found the girl’s dark eyas had rested
one* or twice upon him curiously.
Zcnohla laughed too, and, lazily, tunilng
the chair around, dropped into it. “And by
this time George Lee’s loungin' bock in bis
chyar and smokin’ his cigar somowbar in Sac
ramento," she added, stretching her feet out
to the fire, and suiting the action to tho word
with an imaginary cigar between tho long
fingers of a tbiu and not over clean liaud.
“Wo cave, Zeenic!” said Rawlins, when
their hilarity had subsided to a more subdued '
and scarcely less flattering admiration of tho
unconcerned goddess before them. “That’s
about the size of it. Yo kin rake down the '
pile. I forgot you’re an old friend of
George’s.”
“He's a white man!” said the girl decid
edly.
“Ye used to know him!” continued Raw
lins.
“Once. Paw ain't in that line now,” she
said simply.
There was such a sublime unconsciousness
of any moral degradation involved in this
allusion that even Hale accepted it without
a shock. She rose presently, and, going to
the little sideboard, brought out a number of
glasses; these she handed to each of the party,
and then, producing a demijohn of whisky,
slung it dexterously and gracefully over her
i arm, so that it rested on her elbow like a
huuct. cradle, and, going to each one in succession,
into a broader track, that bore tomoVglis"'^ • flUed tllcir e lasses - It ollli e id e » ch ono 40
rise to accept the libation, and as Hale did so
in his turn he met the dark eyes of the girl
; full on his own. There was a pleased curi-
tereacos, and formed byltsclf"a vast nichej in hcr 8 la “ co Ulat luade this married
or bracketed shelf, in the hoilow flank of the : of 35 color “ “'“kwardly as a hoy.
approaching habitations, and at tho cud of
five minutes they came upon a clearing. It
was part of one of the fragmentary mountain
mountain that, to Hale's first glance, bore a
rude resemblance I Eagle's Court. But
there was neither meadow nor open field; the
few acres of grounl had been wrested from
the forest by ax and fire, and unsightly
stumps everywhere marked tho rude and dif
ficult attempts at cultivation. Two or three
rough buildings of unplatted and unpointed
boards, connected by rambling sheds, stood
in the center of the ampitheatre. Far from
being protected by the encircling rampart, it
seemed to bo tho selected arena for tho com
bating elements. A whirlwind from tho
outer abyss continually filled this cave of
JEolus with driving snow, which, however,
melted as it fell, or was quickly whirled
away again.
A few dogs barked and ran out to meet the
cavalcade, but there was no other sign of
any life disturbed or concerned at their ap
proach.
“I reckon Hennicker ain’t home or he’d hev
been on the lookout afore this,” said the ost
ler, dismounting and rapping at the door.
After a silence a female voice, unintelligi
bly to the others, apparently had some collo
quy with the ostler, who returned to the
party.
“Must go in through the kitchin—can’t
open the door for the wind.”
Leaving their horses in the shed, they en
tered tho kitchen, which communicated, and
presently came upon a square room filled with
smoke from a fire of green pine logs. The
doors and windows were tightly fastened;
the only air came in through the large
throated chimney in voluminous gusts,
which seemed to make the hollow shell of the
apartment swell and expand to the point of
bursting. Despite the stinging of the resin
ous smoke, the temperature was grateful to
tho benumbed travelers. Several cushionless
arm chairs, such as were used in barrooms,
two tables, a sideboard, half bar and half
cupboard, and a rocking chair comprised the
furniture, and a few bear and buffalo skins
covered the floor. Hale sank into one of the
arm chairs, and, with a lazy satisfaction,
partly bom of his fatigue and partly from
some newly discovered appreciative faculty,
gazed around tho room, and then at the mis
tress of the house, with whom the others were
talking.
She was toll, gaunt and withered; in spite
of her evident years, her twisted hair was
still dark and full, and her eyes bright and
piercing; her complexion and teeth had long
since succumbed to the vitiating effects of
frontier cookery, and her lips were stained
with the yellow juice of a brierwood pipe
she held in her mouth. The ostler had ex
plained their intrusion, and veiled their
character under the vague epithet of a
“hunting i>arty,” and was now evidently de
scribing them personally. In his new found
philosophy the fact that the interest of his
hostess dbemed to be excited only by the
names of his companions, that he himself
was carelessly, and even deprccatingly, al
luded to as the “stranger from Eagle’s” by
the ostler, and completely overlooked by the
old woman, gave him no concern.
“You’ll have to talk to Zenobia yourself.
Dod rot ef I’m gine to interfere. She knows
Hennicker's ways, and if she chooses to take
In transients it ain’t uo funeral o’ mine.
Zceniel You, Zeenic! Look yer!”
A tall, lazy looking, handsome girl ap
peared on the threshold of the next room, and
with a hand on each door post, slowly swung
heraelf backward and forward, without en
tering. “Well, maw."
The old woman briefly and unalluringly
pictured the condition of the travelers.
“Paw ain’t here,” began the girl, doubt
fully, “and— How dy, Dick 1 Is that your
The interruption was caused by her recogni
tion of the ostler, and she lounged into the
room. In spite of a skimp, slatternly gow %
whose straight skirt clung to her lower limbs,
there was a quaint, nymph-like contour to
her figure. Whether from languor, ill health,
or more probably from a morbid consclous-
of her own height, she moved with a
ardly
The tender of refreshments being under- J
stood as a tacit recognition of their claims to
a larger hospitality, all further restraint was
removed. Zenobia resumed her seat, and
placing her elbow on tho arm of her chair, j
and her small round chin in hcr hand, looked j
thoughtfully in the fire. “When I say George !
Lee's a white man, it ain't because I know
him. It’s his general gait. Wot’s ho ever j
done that's underhanded or mean? Nothin’! ■
You can’t show the poor man he's ever took a
picayune from. When he’s helped himself
to a pile it’s been outer them banks or them j
express companies, that think it mighty fine
to bust up themselves and swindle the poor '
folks o’ their last cent, and nobody talks o’
huntin’ them! And does he keep their money?
No; he passes it round among the boys that '
help him, and they put it in circulation. He I
don’t keep it for himself; he ain’t got fine .
houses in Frisco; he don’t keep fast horses j
for show. Like ez not the critter he did that ;
job with—ef it was him—none of you boys
would have rid! And betakes all the risks
himself; you ken bet your life that every
man with him was safe and away afore bo
turned his back on you uns.”
“He certainly drops a little of his money at
draw poker, Zeenie,” said Clinch, laughing.
“He lost $5,000 to Sheriff Kelly last week.”
“Well, I don’t hear of the sheriff huntin*
him to give it back, nor do I reckon Kelly |
handed it over to the express it was taken
from. I heard you won suthin’ from him a
spell ago. I reckon you’ve been L until.’ him
to find out whar you should return it.” The
laugh w as clearly against Clinch. Ho was
about to make some rallying rejoinder when
the young girl suddenly interrupted him.
“Ef yo’re wantin' to hunt somebody, why
don’t you take higher game 1 Thar’s that Jim
Harkins; go for him, and I’ll join you.”
“Harkins!” exclaimed Clinch and Hale,
simultaneously.
“Yes, Jim Harkins; do you know him?”
■he said, glancing from tlie one to the other.
“One of my friends do,” said Clinch, laugh
ing; “but don’t let that stop you.”
“And you—over there,” continued Zenobia,
bending her bead and eyes toward Hale.
“The fact la—I believe he was my banker,"
said Hale, with a smile. “I don’t know him
personally.”
“Then you’d better hunt him before he does
you.”
“YVhat's he done, Zeenie?” asked Rawlins,
keenly enjoying the discomfiture of the others. '
“What?” She stopped, threw her long black
braids over her shoulder, clasped her knee |
with her hands, and rocking backward and
forward, sublimely unconscious of the appa
rition of a slim ankle and half dropped off |
slipper from under her shortened gown, con
tinued: “It mighn’t please him,” she said,
slyly, nodding toward Hale.
“Pray don’t mind me,” said Hale, with un- |
necessary eagerness.
i em Jon bet. YVell, you know Nod lias put
*11 liis money, ami all bis strength, and all
his sabe, ami”
“His good looks," added Clinch, mis-
! chievously.
“Into that ditch,” continued Zenobia, ig
noring the interruption. “It’s his mother,
it’s his sweetheart, it’s his everything! When
other chaps of his ago was cavortin’ round
Frisco, and havin’ high Jinks, Ned was in his
ditch. ‘Wait till the ditch is done,’ he used
to say. ‘\\ T ait till she begins to boom, and
then you just stand round.’ More’n that, he
got all the boys to put in their last cent—for
they loved Ned, and love him now, like ez ef
he wos a woman.”
“That’s so,” said Clinch and Rawlins sim
ultaneously, “and he's worth it.”
“Well,” continued Zenobia, “the ditch
didn’t boom ez soon ez they kaUriktad. And
then the boys kept gettin’ poorer and poorer,
and Ned he kept gettin’ poorer and poorer in
everything but his hopefulness an 1 grit
Then he loot* around for more capital. And
about this time that coyote Harkins smelt
suthin’ nice up there, and he gits Ned to give
him control of it and he’ll land him hi* name
and fix up a company. Soon ez he gets con
trol, the first thing he docs is to say that it
wonts $500,000 o’ money to make it pay
and levies an assessment of $200 a share.
That's nothin’ for them rich fellows to pay,
or pretend to pay, but for boys on grub
wage* it meant only ruin. They souldn’t
pay, ami had to forfeit their shares
for next to nothing. And Ned made
one more desperate attempt to save
them and himself by borrowing money
on his shares; when that hound
Harkins got wind of it, and let it be buzzed
around that the ditch is a failure, and that
he was goin’ out of it; that brought the
shares down to nothing. A* Ned couldn't
, raise a dollar the new company swooped
down on his shares for the debts they had
put up, and left him and the boys to help
themselves. Ned couldn’t bear to face the
boys that he’d helped to ruin and put out,
and ain't been heard from since. After
Harkins had got rid of Ned and the boys he
manages to pay off that wonderful debt, and
, sells out for $100,000. That money—Ned’s
money—he sends to Sacramento, for he don’t
dare to travel with It himself, and is kalkil
atin’ to leave the kintry, for some of the boys
allow to kill him on sight. So ef you’re
wantin' to hunt suthin’, thar’s yer chance,
and you needn’t go inter the snow to do it”
“But surely the law can recover this
. money ?” said Hale indignantly. “It is os in-;
famous a robbery as”—. Ho stopped as he
caught Zenobia’s eye.
| “Ez last night’s, you were goin’ to say.
I’ll call it more. Them road agents don’t
1 pretend to be your friend—but take yer
mouey and j*un their risks. For ez to the
law, that can’t help yer.”
“It’s a ski:i game, and you might ez well
expect to rojo.^r a gambling debt from a
short card sharp,” explained Clinch ; “Falk-
ner oughter shot him on sight.”
“Or the boys lynched him,” suggested
Rawlins.
“I think,” said Hale, more reflectively,
“that in the absence of legal remedy a man
of that kind should have been forced under
strong physical menace to give up his ill- |
gotten gains. Tho money was the primary
object, and if that could bo got without
bloodshed—which seems to me a useless j
crime—it would bo quite as effective. Of j
coui’se, if there was resistance or retaliation, j
it mighf be necessary to kill him.”
He had unconsciously fallen into his old
didactic and dogmatic habit of speech, and
perhaps, under the spur of Zenobia’s eyes, he
had given it some natural emphasis. A dead
silence followed, in which the others regarded
him with amused and gratified surprise, and
it was broken only by Zenobia rising and
holding out her hand. “Shake!”
Halo raised it gallantly and pressed his lips
on the one spotless finger.
“That's gospel truth. And you ain't the
first white man to say it.”
“Indeed,” laughed Hale. “Who wan the
other.'”
“George Lee!”
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edged to be the best ever sold in
this State ; when you buy one
of them you are satisfied that
you have made no mistake.
WRITE FOR OUR PRICES.
Cotton Gins & Cotton Presses
At Bottom Figures,
ter I can save you money ■'to*
Y. C. Badham,
General Agnet,
COLXTJVCBXA., S. O.
Home office and Factory,
Richmond, Ya.,
Juns 2(i, 1890—ly
A full line of Foreign and Do
mestic Canned Goods, Pre
serves, Jams, &c.
o
A Few Leading Articles:
Preserved Ginger, 30 and BO cts
per jar ; fresh salmon, 13 cts per
can; canned Beef, 13 cts per
can ; Milk, large can, 13 cts ; To
matoes, 8 and 10 cts per can ;
Crosse & Blackwell pickles, as
sorted, 35 cts per bottle; best
leaf Lard, 10 cts ; fine imported
Olive Oils.
We call particular attention
to our Coffees and Teas. We are
satisfied we can please. We
grind Coffee at store in our largo
and improved mill.
We also call particular atten
tion to our
Imported Cigars,
We are making quite a run on
them ; give them a trial. Wo
also have a full line of Cigars of
other grades.
Our aim will be to sell goods
at the Lowest Notch.
A call is respectfully solicited.
West & Honour.
Sep,
PEARLE STREET.
4, 1890.
Weekly Market Quotations, Fur
nished by the
ENTERPRISE GROCERY,
Darlington, - - S. C.
D. 8. C. R. Sides, meat,
Molasses,
Syrups,
Lard, pure leaf,
Flour, Family,
Flour, Patent,
Ferris’ Hams,
Picnic Hams,
80 to 50
40 to 60
10
4.50 to 5.50
6.00
16
•
Sugar, granulated standard,
Sugar, Ex. C, white, 81
Coffee, Rio, 20 to 25
Coffee, Java, 80 to 33
Butter, Elgin creamery on ice,
Cheese, choice cream, on ice, 20
Salt, per sack, 75
Soap, 16 oz. cake, per box, 2.50
Soap, Frank Siddall’s, per box, 3.00
Tobacco, 20 to 60
Matches, per gross 75
Nails, Old Dominion, full wts, 2.60
Horse and mule shoes, 4.50 to 5.50
Horse Shoe Nails, best, 20
Paper Bags 50 percent, off list.
Im-
The Darlington Land
ment Company
Have desirftide BuiMingr Lois an 1 Inmis
for sale, Apply lo
.1 J. WARD.
President mid Tieaenrer.
Jan. 24, ’dfl-iy
Guards, Attention!
HEAD QUARTERS. )
Darlington Guards, [-
September 9, 1890. 1
General Orders No.
1 The Annual Inspection of this
■ Command is ordered to be held on
Friday, the 19th inst., at 8.80 P. M.
II. Regular drill meetings are here
by ordered for Friday 12th, Monday
15th and Thursday 18th instants, at
! 8.30 P. M.
III. All active members of |the com
pany arc expected to be present at
these drills, and all absentees will Vie
fined to the full extent of the law.
By order J. K. McIVER,
Captain.
S, S. BURCH, 1st Sergt.
Sep. 11, ’90—2t
Watches, Clocks,
and
Jewelry,
te"Repaired and Warranted,“toa
- AT -
MASON’S Jewelry Store.
Feb. 20. 1890.
THE
yfifty nftfisi
- OF —
!Red
Rust
u Pray don't mind m«," said Hals.
“Well,” said Zanobla, “I reckon yon ail *
know Ned Falkner and the Excelsior DitchP
“Yes, Falkner’s the superintendent of It,"
said Rawlins. “And a square man too. Thar
ain’t anything mean about him.”
“ShiU,” said Zenobia, extending her
ham! Rawlins shook the proffered bond
_ . , with eager spoctansousnssi, and the girl re-
sihrhtiv affected atom that hail bacomea I “He’s about «■ good satbevmaka
Proof
IS -
Oats
- BY -
Mllngl, Umll & Ci.
Darlington, S. C.
September 26, 1889—tf.
Creditors’ Notice.
All persons having claims against
the estate of B. W. Edwards, are re
quested to present them properly
proved, and all persons indebted to
said estate will make payment to
C. B. EDWARDS,
. J. L. EDWARDS,
G. H. EDWARDS.
Executors.
Sep 4, '90—3t
Undertaker’s Supplies'
We.have a large line of handsome
Coffins, which can be obtained as
cheaply as anywhere else in Darling
ton. We further offer the use of our
hqarse free of charge, provided the
distance from town he not too great.
N. L. HARRELL & CO.
April 10-tf
nOMPTifiTE GINNERIES.
Upon the most approved plans, with
Suction Fan of Spiked Belt Seed Cot
ton Elevator, furished at competitive
prices.
COTTON GINS and PRESSES of
best makers. Thomas Hay Rakes,
Deering Mowers, Corbin Harrows and
Planet, Jr., Cultivators.
A large stock of Portable and Sta-
1 tionary Ginning and Saw Mill En
gines on hand.
State Agents for
! C. & G. COOPER & CO’S. Corhss En
gines, Lane Saw Mills and Liddell
i Company’s complete line.
W. H. GIBBES.Jr. &CO.
Near Union Depot,
Columbia, S. C,
School Notice.
The Annual Examination for Teach
ers of the Public Schools will be held
in the Court House on the first Friday
in October next (Oct. 8).
By order of State Superintendent.
W. H. EVANS,
School Commissioner.
Sep. 4, '90—4t
Music, Music.
Our business increases. We are now
supplying homes with pianos and or
gans from Georgetown, on the sea
coast, to the Blue Ridge Mountains,
in North Carolina. Note our special
summer sale! Buy now at lowest
cash prices and pay when cotton is
sold Read our liberal offer and write
at once for catalogue and prices. Y’our
choice in Pianos—pay $25 cash and
the balance December 1st; select your
Organ—i>ay $10 cash and pay the bal
ance December 1st. Positively our
lowest cash i>rice given on the above
terms. Remember we stiil continue
to sell on the easy payment system.
One price to all; 15 day's trial. We
can please you. Address,
J. B. KILLOUGH,
• Florence, S. C.
Aug. 7, 1890
111 Ms GimM
OEO.C.TOALE, HENRY OLIVER
Geo. E. Toale 4 Co,
MAN’ I’ACTUREKS
—AND—
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Doors, Sash, fthnds,
Builders Hardware,
AND
Hi
OFFICE AND SALESROOMS
10 and 12 Ilayne Street,
CHARLESTON, - - S. 0
Write for Estimates.
May 31, 1888.
If you don't like the
WATCH
You have, trade it off for anoth- Schedule of the Hartsville R. R.
er at
Mason’s Jewelry Store,
Key and Stem Winding Railroad
Watchesof All Kinds on hand.
Fob. 20, 1890.
Nothing Succeeds
Like Success!
The reason RAD-
AM’S MICROBE
KILLER is tho most
wonderful medicine,
is because it has nev
er failed in any in
stance, no matter
what the disease,
from LEPROSY to
the simplest disease
known to the human
system. The scientific men of to-day
claim and prove that every disease is
CAUSED BY MICROBES,
-AND —
Radam’s Microbe Killer
Exterminates the Microbes and drives
them out of the system, and when that
is done you cannot have an aclie or
pain. No matter what the disease,
whether a simple case of Malaria Fe
ver or a comliination of diseases, we
cure them all at the same time, as we
treat all diseases constitutionally.
Manutacturers
—OF—
Doors, Sash, Blinus,
TvIOTTLIDIISra-S
—AND-
Building Material,
ESTABLISHED 1842.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
April, 20 1889—1
Asthma, Consumption, Catarrh, Bron
chitis, Rheumatism, Kidney and
Liver Disease, Chills and Fever, Fe
male Troubles, in all its forms, and,
in fact, every Disease known to the
Human System.
Beware of Fraudulent Imitations!
See that our Trade-Mark (same as
above) appears on each jug.
Send for book, ‘‘History of the Mi
crobe Killer,” given away at
GARNER S DRUG STORE,
Darlington, S. C.
Jan 23, 1890
INSURE WITH THE
Mutual Life Insurance Co,,
OF NEW YORK.
EDW. L. GERNAND, Gen. Agent.
COLUMBIA, S. C.,
The Oldest, Largest, Strongest and the
Best Company in the World.
Cash Resources Over One Hundred
and Thirty Millions of Dollars.
— THIS —
Great Corporation
Has earned for and paid out to
its policy holders in cash
profits in twenty-one
years the enormous sum of
$73,000,000,
WHICH IS NEARLY
Eleven Millions of
DOLLARS
More than the combined returns
attained by tho next two
leading companies
LINDSAY & LATTA, Agts.
For the Counties of Darlington
Florence, Chesterfield, Cheste
and York, Yorkville, S. C.
Feb. 27, 1890.
Hartsvillk. 8. 0., Dec. 7, '89.
DAILY MIXED TRAIN
Leaves Hartsville, 6.45 A. M.
Leaves Jovann, 7.29 “
Arrive at Floyd’s, 7.45 “
Making connection with the South
bound jiassenger train on the Cheraw
4i Darlington Railroad.
RETURNING.
Leave Floyd's, 10.00 A. M.
Leave Jovann. 10.20 “
Arrive at Hartsville, 10.50 “
This train waits two hours, if necessa
ry, for the North bound freight train
on C. &. D. R. R.
J. L. COKER.
President.
FOR 0. & D. AND C. S S. RAILROADS
1’iisiDKXT’sOrricK )
C. it D. asdC. & 8. RAILROADS, I
Charleston, 8. C., May 1, 1890. J
On amt after May 12, the train! on
these roads will run ss follows (Sumla / ex
cepted) every day:
nows TRAIN.
Leave Wadesboro 5.25 A M
Bennetts 5.40
Morvcn’s 6.55
McFarland 6.10
Leave Cheraw 6.48
Cash’s .’7.00
Society Hill 7 18
Dove’s 7.80
Floyd’s 7.88
Darlington 7.60
Palmetto 8 00
Arrive at Florence 8 15
rr train.
Leave Florence 8.10 P At
Palmetto — 8 25
Darlington 8.85
Floyd's
Dove's 6X2
Cash’s tf 17
LcftyeCherftw 9*4** P M
McFarlan 10.08
Morven’s 10.20
Dennett’s 10.35
Lake Wadesboro -.11.00
Freight Train going up.
Leave Florence 8 lo a in
Arrive Darlington 0.05 a n»
Freight going down
Arrive Darlington 3-00 p ni
Leave Darlington 3.80 p m
Arrive Florence 4.10 pm
A. F. RAVENEL, Pres.
0 II Master Transportation.
N
ORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
Ohablkston, S. C., May 1, 1890.
On and after this date the following
schedule will be run :
GOING SOUTH.
No. 27, Daily.
Leave Florence *1 35 a ro
Leave Kingstree 2 29 a m
Arrive Lancs 2 50 a m
Leave Lanes 2 50 a m
Arrive Charleston 5 00 a ni
No. 23, Daily.
Learo Florence
*8 80 a m
Leave Kingstree
9 46 a ii
Arrive Lanes
10 07 a i
Leave Lanes
10 07 a k
Arrive Charleston
11 59 a in
No 63.
Leave Lanes
*7 50 P. M.
Arrive Charleston
9 30 p. ui.
Train on C & D R R conn
cts at Flor-
cnee with No 23 Train.
GOING NORTH.
No, 78, Daily.
Leave Charleston
•l 20 a m
Arrive Lanes
8 00 a m
Leave Lanes
3 00 a m
Leave Kingstree
3 17am
Arrive Florence
4 20 a m
No. 14,
Leave Cnarleilon
*4 30 p m
Arrive Lanes
f> 29 p ui
Leave Lanes
0 29 p ni
Leave Kingstree
G 40 p m
Arrive Florence
7 55 p ni
No. 52, Daily.
Leave Charleston
*T 00 a is
Arrive Lanes
8 27 a m
New Serial Story!
* Daily, f Daily except Sun
Nos 62 rune through to Columbia
via Central R K of S C.
Nos. 78 sad 14 run solid to Wilmington,
N. C., making close connection with W. &
W U K for all points north.
J. R. KENLY, J. F. Divin*,
Supt. Trane. Ocn'l Sup't.
T. M. Emerson, Oen’l Pass. Agt.
popular IIL1I.\GT0?I COLIMBH AM AltlSTA KAILKQA
May 1, 1890.
GOING SOUTH
No. 23.
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
Leave Florence
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
Question : “Who is the most
American author now living ?”
Answer : “Francis Bret Harte.”
Question : “Can his works be obtained
in cheap paper form ?”
Answer: “No; they are copyrighted,
and are sold only in bound volumes at $1
per volume.”
Question : “How then can a poor man
read them ?”
Answer: “By subscribing to The Dab- Leave Florence
•• Arrive Sumtar
lington News, which lias recently purchas
ed the
No. 60.
No. 27
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
No 52
No 58
*6 15 p m
9 33 p m
10 20 a m
3.20 a u
4. X a a
4 36 a m
6. 15 a m
•10.10 o m
12.40 p m
1 20 a m
f 9 46 a m
10 56 p m
f8 25 a m
9 35 a ta
Cbtrlestsn via
No 62 runs through from
v v • v • ' Central R R.
right to publish a series ot these D«v.n g Lancs 8 30 A m., M.nDiD g 9io
charming stories.”
K
iluVv
Bound at Eagles,”
one of the most celebrated of them all,
now running in The News.
Now is the time to Subscribe !
is
Train on C & D R R connects at Fiorencs
with No ub,
OOINQ NORTH.
No 61.
i.eave Columbia.
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Florence
No. 78.
(£|)c flank of* Parlingtim,
HAS OPENED A
sA-vriisras idef-A-Fitivi eistt.
And from and after this date will receive deposits of One Dol
lar and upwards, and pay quarterly interest on the same,
at the rate of five per cent, per annum, under regu
lations to be made known at the Bank. This is
a favorable opportunity for
Farmers, Clerks,
Mechanics, Laborers,
Factory Operatives,
To Save Their Earnings.
W. C. COKER, BRIGHT WILLIAMSON,
President. Cashier.
Darlington, S. C., June 18, ’SO.
Leave Florence,
Leave Marion
Arrive at Wilmington,
No. 59
Leave Sumter
Arrive Florence
,8.
No. 63,
Leave Columbia
Arrive Sumter
No 14
Leave Florence
Leave Marion
Arrive at Wilmington
•10 35 p n
11 58 p n,
11 58 p m
1 15 a in
4 35 a m
6 20 a m
8 35 a m
fC 37 p m
7 50 p a
•5 20p m
6 32 pa
*8 16 p a
8 65 p m
11 45 p m
•Daily, j Daily except Sunday.
No 53 runs through ta Charleston, via
Central K R, arriving Manning? 04 P K
Lanes 7 42 P M. Cbtrleston 9 30 P M.
No 69 conuecls st Florence with C & D
trsin for Cheraw and Wadesboro’.
Nos 78 and 14 make elose eonnection st
Wilmington with W & W K R for all psint>
North.
Train on Florenc* R. R. leave Pee Dc*
daily except Sunday 4.40 P. M., arrive
Rowland 7.00 P. M. Returning leave
Rowland 6.80 A. M., arrive Pee Dee 8,60
AM.
Train ou Manchester A Augusts R. R.
leaves Sumter daily except Sunday, 10.50
A. M., arrive Rimlui 12.01 P. M B.-
turning leave Rimini 12.16 P. M ar
rive Sumter 1.30 P, M.
JOHN F. DIVINE, Geu. Sap’t.
J. R. KENLEY. Aset, GenT Manager.
T. M. EMMERSON, Geu. Pas. Agt.