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- .1 terloo bridge and throujfh muea oi ’ i •nan aerer i •treets, until, to my astonishment, we He shrank still farther awu; as I found ourselaei back in the terrace in spoke, and.I could see on hit face that which he had boarded. I could not t he thought ! was mad. So I was for Imagine what his intention was in re-1 the time. The pulses in mj temples turning there; bnt I went on and beat like sledge-hammers, and I be- pulled up my cab a hundred yards oi Here 1 would hare had a fit of some so from the house. He entered it and sort if the blood had not gushed from mimM CHAPTER III-<’ommm.;r CHAPTER VI A ooimitDiTton or thb aiHimsesNczs or roan b. watsoh, a o. Our prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition towarti ourselves, for on finding himself powerless he smiled in an aifable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. "I guess you're go* ing to take me to the police station," he remarked to Sherlock Holmes. “My cab's at the door. If you’ll loose my legs I’ll walk down to it. I'm not so light to lift as I used to be.” Gregson and Lestrade exchanged glances as if they thought this propo sition rather a bold one; but Holmes at once took the prisoner at his word, and loosened the towel which he had bond! round his ankles. He rose and stret hed his legs, as though to assure hints If that they were free once mors. I re timber that I thought to myself, |ed him, that I had seldom seen ► powerfully built man; and his Sunburned face bore an expres- determination and energy caa as formidable as his person- fth. >'s a vacant place for a chief olice, I reckon you are the man he said, gazing with undis- dmiration at my fellow-lodger, ay you kept on my trail was a as I a mi dark sion whlcl al sti “If of the for gnii “The cautioi “Yo said “I “G with mi taken ai as well si I asse scended no attem| calmly ii his, and mounted horse, and time to c ushered In a police ii prisoner’s n the men wi' been chargi white-faced, went through ad better acme with me,” ies to the two detectives, rive you," said Lestrade. and Gregson can come inside You too, doctor; yon have merest in the case, and may k to us." id gladly, and we all de- ether. Our prisoner made at escape, but stepped the cab which had been followed him. Lestrade box, whipped up the ought us in a very short destination. We were small chamber, where ctor noted down our ne and the names of whose murder he had The official was a emotional man. who duties in a dull, me- •The prisoner will be magistrates in the ek," he said; “in the elTerson Hope, have >u wish to say? I chanical way. put before t course of the meantime, Mr. you anything tl must warn you taken down you. Te got a good deal to say," our prisoner said slowly. “I want to tell you gentlemen all about it" “Hadn’t you better reserve that for your trial?” asked the inspector. “1 may never be tried," he answered. ‘‘You needn't look startled. It isn't suicide I am thinking of. Are you a doctor?” He turned his fierce, dark eyes upon me as he asked this last question. “Yes, I am,” I answered. “Then put your hand here,” he said, with a smile, motioning with his manacled wrists toward his chest I did so, and became at once con scious of an extraordinary throbbing which was going on Inside. The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside which some powerful engine was at work. In the silence of the room I could hear a dull humming and buz zing noise which proceeded from the same source. ‘•Why,’’ I cried, “you have an aortic aneurism!” “That's what they call it” he said, placidly. “I went to a doctor last week about it, and he told me that it was bound to burst before many days passed. It has been getting worse for years. I got it from over-exposure and underfeeding among the Salt lake monn tains. I've done my work now, and I don’t care how soon I go, but I should like to leave some account of the business behind me. 1 don't want to be remembered as a common cut throat” The inspector and the two detectives had a harried discussion as to the ad visability of allowing him to tell his story. “Do yon consider, doctor, that there is immediate danger?” the former tsked. "Most certainly there is," I an swered. "In that case it is clearly our duty, in the interests of justice, to take his statement," said the inspector. “You are at liberty, «Jr, to give your ac count, which I again warn you will be taken down.” "I’ll sit down, with your leave,” the prisoner said, sniting the action to the word. “This aneurism of mine makes me easily tired, and the tussle we had half an hour ago has not mended mat ters. I’m on the brink of thejgrave, and I am not likely to lie to you. Every word I say Is the absolute truth, and how yon use it is a matter of no consequence to me.” With these words, Jefferson Hope leaned back in his chair and began the foUowing remarkable statement He spoke in a calm and methodical man ner, as though the events which he narrsted were commonplace enough. I can vouch for the accuracy of the subjoined account, for I have had ac cess to Lestrade's note-book, in which the prisoners words were taken down exactly as they were uttered. “It don’t much matty to you why I hated these men,” he s£id; ‘Jt’senough that they were guilty of ifle death of two human beings—a father and a daughter—and tliat they had, there fore, forfeited their own lives After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was imoossible for me to secure a conviction against them in aay court. I knew of their guilt, though, and ( determined that I should be judge, jury and executioner fill rolled into one. You'd have done the same. If you have any manhood in you. If you had been in my place. “That girl that I spoke of was to her dead finger aud I vowed that ms dying eyes should rest upon that very ring and that his last thoughts should be of the crime for which he was pun ished. I have carried it about with me and have followed him and his ac complice over two continents until I caught them. They thought to tire me out, but they could not do It. If I die to-morrow, as is likely enough, I die knowing that my work in this world is done, and well done. They have perished, and by my hand. There is nothing left for me to hope for or to desire. "They were rich and 1 was poor, so that it was no easy matter for me to follow them. When I got to London my pocket was about empty and I found that I must turn my hand to something for my living. Driving and riding are as natural to me as walk ing, so I applied at a cab owner's office and soon got employment. I was to bring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself. There was sel dom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow. The hardest job was to learn my way about, for I reckon that of all the mazes that ever were contrived this city is the most confusing. I had a map beside me, though, and when once 1 had spotted the principal hotels and stations I got on pretty well. “It was some time before I fonnd out where my two gentlemen were living, but 1 inquired and inquired, until at last I dropped across them. They were at a boarding-house at Camberwell, over on the other side of the river. When once 1 found them out 1 knew that I had them at my mercy. I had grown my beard and there was no chance of their recognizing me. I would dog them and follow them until I saw my opportunity. I was deter mined that they should not escape me again. “They were very near doing it, for all that. Go where they would about London I was always at their heels. Kometimes I followed them on my cab auu NoajoLimes on root, out tue uirinei was the best, for then they could not get away from me. It was only early in the morning or late at night that I could learn anything, so that 1 began to get behindhand with my employer. I did not mind that, however, as long as I could lay my hand upon the men 1 wanted. “They were very S un- have thought that there was some chance of their being followed, for they would never go out alone, and never after nightfall! During two weeks I drove behind them every day, and never once saw them separate. Drebber himself was drunk half the time, but Stangerson was not to be caught napping. I watched them late and early, but never saw the ghost of s chance; but I was not discouraged, for something told me that the hour had almost come. My only fear was that this thing in my chest might burst little too soon and leave my work done. “At last, one evening I was driving np and down Torquay terrace, as the street was called in which they board ed, when I saw a cab drive up to their door. Presently some luggage was brought out, and after a time Drebber and Stangerson followed it and drove off. I whipped up my horse and kept within sight of them, feeling ill at ease, for I feared that they were going to shift their quarters. At Euston station they got out. and I left a ■ boy to hold my horse and followed i them on to the platform. I heard them ask for the Liverpool train, and the guard answer that one had just gone , and that there would not be another for some hours. Stangerson seemed to be put out at that, bnt Drebber was rather pleased than otherwise. I got so close to them in the bustle that I could hear every word that passed be tween them. Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him. His companion remonstrated with him, and reminded him that they had resolved to stick to gether. Drebber answered that the matter was a delicate one, and that he must go alone. I could not catch what Ktangerson said to that, but the other burst out swearing, and reminded him that he was nothing more than his paid servant, and that he must not pre sume to dictate to him. On that the secretary gave it up as a bad job, and simply bargained with him that if he missed the last train he should rejoin him at Halliday's private hotel; to which Drebber answered that he would be back on the platform before eleven, and made his way out of the station. "The moment for which I had waited so long had at last come. I had my enemies within ray power. Together they could protect each other, but singly they were at my mercy. I did not act, however, with undue precip itation. My plans were already formed. There Is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him. and why retribution has come up on him. I had my plans arranged by which 1 should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged me understand that his old sin had found him ont. It chanced that some days before a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some houses in the Hrixton road had dropped the key of one of them in my cam'sge. It was claimed that same evening and re turned; bnt in the interval I had taken a moulding of it. and had a duplicate constructed. Ily means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city where I could rely upon being free from interruption. How to get the diffi- his hansom drove away. Give me a glass of water, if yon please. My mouth gets dry with the talking.” I handed him the glass and he drank it down. “That’s better,” he said. “Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour or more, when suddenly there came a noise like people struggling inside the 1 house. Next moment the door was flung open and two men appeared, one of whom was Drebber, and the other was a young chap whom I had never seen before. This fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to the head of the steps he gave him a shove and a kick which sent him half across the road. ‘You hound!' he cried, shaking his stick at him; Til teach you to insult an honest girl!’ He was so hot that I think he would have thrashed Drebber with hiscndgel, only that the cur staggered away down the road as fast as his legs would carry him. He ran as far as the corner, and then, seeing my cab, he hailed me and jumped in. ‘Drive me to Halliday's private hotel,' said he. “When I had him fairly inside my cab my heart jumped so with joy that 1 feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong. I drove along slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best to do. I might take him right out into the country, and there in some deserted lane have my last interview with him. I had almost decided upon this, when he solved the problem for me. The craze for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace. He went in, leaving word that 1 should wait for him. There he remained un til closing-time, and when he came out he was so far gone that I knew the game was in my own hands “Don't imagine that I Intended to kill him in cold blood. It would only nave oeen rigid justice it I r>.i;i uouc so, but I could not bring myself to do it I had long determined tha' he should have a show for his life if he chose to take advantage of it. Among the many billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once a janitor and swoep-out of the laboratory at York college. One day the professor was lecturing on poisons, and he showed his students some alkaloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant death. I spotted the bottle in which this preparation was kept, and when they were all gone I helped myself to a little of it- I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without poison. I deter mined at the time that, when I had my chance, my gentlemen should each pnvs n H--i- . >f one terrible ny 1 n- nv> tnese boxes, while I ate the pill that remained. It would be quite as deadly, and a good deal less noisy than firing across a handkerchief. From that day I had always my pill-boxes about with me, and the time had now come when I was to use them. “It was nearer one than twelve, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard and raining in torrents. Dismal as it was outside, I was glad within—so glad that I could have shouted out from pure exaltation. If any of you gentle men have ever pined for a thing and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, yon would understand my feelings. I lit a cigar and puffed at it to steady my nerves, bnt my hands were trembling and my temples throb bing with excitement. As I drove, I could see old John Ferrier and sweet Lucy looking at me ont of the dark ness and smiling at me. just as plain as 1 sec you all in this room. All the way they were ahead of me, one on each side of the horse, until I pulled np at the house in the Brixton road. “There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard except the drip ping of the rain. When I looked in at the window I found Drebber all hud dled together in a drunken sleep. I shook him by the arm. ‘It's time to go out,’ I said. “ ‘All right, cabby,’ said he. “I suppose he thought we had come to the hotel that lie had mentioned, for he got out without another word and followed me down the garden. I had to walk beside him to keep him steady, for he was still a little top-heavy. When we came to the door I opened it and led him into the front room. I my nose and relieved me. “ ‘What do you think of Lucy Fei- rier now?* I cried, locking the door and shaking the key in his face. ‘Pun ishment has been slow in coming, bnt it has overtaken you at last.’ 1 saw his coward lips tremble as I spoke. He would have begged for his life, but he knew well it was useless. “ ‘Would you murder mef he stam mered. “ There is no murder,' I answered. 'Who talks of murdering a mad dog? What mercy had you upon my poor darling when you dragged her from her slaughtered father and bore her away to your accursed and shameless harem?* “ ‘It was not I vMio killed her father,' he eried. “ ‘But it was you who broke her In nocent heart,’ I shrieked, thrusting the box before him. ‘Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.' “He cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but 1 drew my knife and held it to his throat until he had obeyed me. Then I swallowed the other, and we stood facing each other in silence for a minute or more, waiting to sec which was to live and which was to die. Shell 1 ever forget the look which came overhis face when the first warning pangs told him that the poison was in his system? I laughed as I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage ring in front of his eyes. It was but for a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his features; he threw his hands out in front of him, stag gered. and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the floor. I turned him over with my foot and placed my hand upon his heart- • There was no move ment. He was dead! “The blood hail been streaming from my nose, but I had taken no notice of it- I don't know what it was that put it into my head to write upon the wall with it- Perhaps it was some mis chievous idea of setting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light-hearted and cheerful. I remembered a Ger- round, suspecting no bam c no t ._ next thing I knew, this young man here hud the bracelets on try wrists, and as neatly shackled as -ver 1 was in my life. That's the whole story, gentlemen. You may consider me to be a murderer; but 1 hold that 1 am jnst as much an officer of justice as you are." So thrilling had the man's narrative been, and his manner was so Impres sive, that we hud sat silent and ab sorbed. Even the professional detec tives, blase as they were in every de tail of crime, ap[>eared to be keenly in terested in the man's story. When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade’s pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account. ‘There is only one point on which 1 should like a little moi- Sherlock Holmes said at last “Who was your accomplice w ho came for the ring which I advertised?” The prisoner winked at my friend Jocosely. “I can tell my own secrets," he said, "but I don't get other people into trouble. 1 saw your advertise ment, and 1 thought it might be a plant, or it might be the ring I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. 1 think you'll own he did it smartly." “Not a doubt of that," said Holmes, heartily. “Now. gentlemen,” the inspector re marked gravely, “the forms of the law must lie complied with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your attendance will be required. Until then I will be re sponsible for him." He rang the bell as he spoke, and Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple of warders, while my friend and I made our way out of the station and took a cab back to Baker street. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Clerk’s Sales. 8TA TB OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Darlington. IN COMMON PI.HAS. G. N. Hart, et al., vs G. H. Mima, et. ai. Order of Sale. H ART8VILLE RAILROAD. In effect Dec 3,1893. DAILY MIXED TRAIN Leave Hartevillc 8.00 a m Jovann 6.30 a m Floyd’s 8.35 a m Pursuant to an Order of Sale “‘il*; ArriveDwfl^'n7.'.V“"™."‘" 7.'20 a m in the above stated ease, I wilH T)lir , in £ toll fl.sOpm offer for sale in front of the; court house in Darlington county, State aforesaid, on the first Mon-, day in June next, the following de- scribed real estate, to wit: AH that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the county aud State aforesaid, containing one hundred aud three acres, more or less, and bounded as fol to wit; North by lands of D. W. Witherspoon, east by SparrowSwamp, south by lands of George Parnell and west by lauds formerly owned by . Madd Harris, once a part of the old ; Witherspoon tract. Also all that other tract or lot of land situate in the town of lamar, containing one half acres, more or less, and liouuded north by lands ot D. Reynolds, east by lands of I. G. Hutson, south by lands of 1. G. Hut son and public road from Lamar to Oartersville and west by lands of D. G. Reynolds. Terms of sale, one third cash; bal ance in one and two years; credit por tion to be secured by bond of purchas er and mortgage of the premises sold; purchaser to pay for all necessary pa pers. W. ALBERT PARROTT, May 14. 1894. Clerk. Leave Darlington.. Floyd’s 8.00 p in Jovann 8■ ?' p m Arrrive Hartsville 8.40 p m J. F. DIVINE, Gen. Bupt. OHARLKSTON, SUMTER AND ^ NORTHERN RAILROAD CHARLES E. KIMBALL Receive In Effect Jan. 16, 1894. NORTH. SOUTH. 1 8 A.M. P.M. 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Pursuant to an Order of Sale and Par tition made in the nliove stated case, I will offer for sale in front of the court house, in Darlington comity, on the first Monday in June next, at the risk of the former purchaser, the following described real estate, to wit: No. I connnects with Seaboard Air Line at Hamlet for Raleigh Wilmington, Charlotte, Shel by, Routherfordton ; and at Charlotte with R. Si D. Vestibule Limited for Washington and New York. Passen gers can take sleepers at Charlotte at 8 .89 p. in. No. 2 passengers by this train have through Sleepers. New York to Char lotte, connects with 8. A. L. at Ham let from Charlotte, Raleigh aud North, and from Wilmington, con nects with S. C. Rv. at Pregualls for Charleston, Columbia, Augusta aud the West. Dinner at Hamlet. C. MILLARD, Superintendent. All that tract of land lying, being and situate in the county of Darling ton, State aforesaid, containing one hundred acres, more or less, and bounded north by lauds of the estate of Henry McIntosh, east by Black Creek, south by Black Creek and west by lands of the estate of James Sum ner. Terms of sale, one-third cash; bal ance in one and two years; credit por tion secured by bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises sold; purchaser to pay for all necessary pa pers. W. ALBERT PARROTT, May 14, 1894 Clerk OOWEHED AWAT WITH WILD CRIES AND PRAYERS FOR MERCY.” have married ms twenty years ago. , front of roe, and he hailed It She was forced Into marrying that lowed it no close that the note of my same Drebber, S"tl broke her heart horse waa within a yard of his drivel ii j timV narriatre riiur from * t-h* whole wav. We rattled acrosa '?•, ’■ — - ■ - ■ * ;, ■ “HE GAZED AT MI DRl-XEES EYES A MOMENT.” give yon my word that, all the way, the father and daughter were walking in front of us. it’s infernally dark,’ said be, stamping about. ‘We’U soon have a light.* I said, striking a match and putting it to a wax candle which 1 had brought with me. ‘Now, Enoch Drebber,’ I con tinued, turning to him, and holding the light to my own face; ‘Blio am 1?* “He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eye* for i moment, and then I saw a horror spring up iu them and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me. He staggered back with a livid face, and 1 saw the perspiration break out upon Drebber to that house waa the diffl-1 his brow, while his teeth chattered, cult problem which 1 had now to aolve. At the sight I leaned my back against "He walked down the road and went the door and laughed loud and long. ( into one or two Jiqnor-shops, staying had always known that vengeance for nearly half an hour In the last o| j would be sweet, bnt had never hoped them. When he came ont he staggered ! for the contentment of son) which now in hie walk, and was evidently pretty ! possessed me. well on. There was a hansom Jnst in | “ ’Yon dogP I said; *1 hare hnnted I fob ; you from Salt Lake City to St. Peters burg, and you have always escaped man being fonnd in New York with ’rache' written up above him, and it was argned at the time in the newspa pers that the secret societies must have done iL I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners, so I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on a con venient place on the wall. Then 1 walked down to my cab and found that there was nolmdy about, and that the night was still very wild. I had driven some distance, when I put my hand into the pocket in which I usual ly kept Lucy's ring and found that it was not there. I was thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento that I had of her. Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Drebber's body, I drove back, and, leaving my cab in a side street, 1 went boldly np to the house—for 1 was ready to dare anything rather than lose the ring! When I arrived there I walked right into the arms of a police officer who was coming ont, and only man aged to disarm his suspicions by pre tending to be hopelessly drunk. “That was how Enoch Drebber came to his end. AH I had to do then waa to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John Ferrier's debt. I knew that he was staying at Halliday's pri vate hotel, and I hung about all day, bnt he never came out I fancy that he suspected something when Drebber failed to pat in an appearance. He was cunning, was Stangerson, and al ways on bis guard If he thought he could keep me off by staving indoors he waa very much mistaken. I soon found ont which waa the window of his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were lying in the lane behind the hotel and so made my way into hia room in the gray of the dawn. I woke him np and told him that the hoar had come when he was to answer for the life he had taken so long before. I de scribed Drebber’* death to him, and 1 gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills Instead of grasping at the chance of safety which that offered him. he sprang from his bed and flew at my throat. In self-defense I stabbed him to the heart It would Lave been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick ont anything bnt the poison. "I have Uttle more to say. and it's as well, for I am about done np. I went on cabbing it for a day or so. intend ing to keep at it nntil I could rare enough to take me hack to America. I was standing in the yard when a ragged youngster asked if there waa a cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and said that his eab was wanted by a gen- ‘the ^ aids Unattractive?” in the The Real Old Maid. The real old maid is like any other woman, writes Junius Henri Browne in an intersting as a !eo-T v —-e-, -'a- ^ \ V, '^4, - 1 "--suient.>‘.“ me sr J - ■" - StUi Mai June Ladies’ Home Journal. She has faults necessari. though not those commonly conceived of. She is often plump, pretty, amiable, inter esting, intellectual, cultured, warm-hearted, benevolent, and has ardent friends of both sexes These constantly wonder why she has not married, for they feel that she must have had many opportunities. Some of them may know why; she may have made them her confidants. She usually has a sentimental, romantic, frequently a sad and pathetic past, of which she does not speak, unless in the sacred ness of intimacy. She is not dissatisfied, querulous nor en vious. 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L. name and price on the bottom, which guarantees their value, saves thousands of dollars annually to those who wear them. Dealers who push the sale of W. L. Douglas Shoes gain customers, which helps to increase the tales on their full line of rood*. They can afford to sell al a less sad we hr** * - your foot helieve you can save money by of the dealer advertised )<ekn below. _ _ idress, a. Mass, hold by jr. BROOM, Darlington, S. C. Caukwuc frw upon appUntioa. Addrm. W. L. DOLULAA, Bruektu ■’ Febl—5m LAIYIKS Xmrftnf * Ionic, r r ctuldrca who Mac up. ahauld tuk# BtUlW VS I BUmmTldw' IKON HITTER*. Malaria, lndi«ml Wives and Daughters Often lose the benefit of life assurance, taken out for their protection, because of ill-ad vised investments. Again, the intentions of the assured sometimes fail of realization through the prodigality of a son to whom the sudden pos session of so much money proves too great a temptation. The Equitable Life has provided against these contingencies by offering The Tontine Installment Policy. The premiums per thousand are much less than under older forms of insurance, and the amount is payable in 20,25 or 30 annual payments, thus securing a comfortable income for the beneficiary. Write to W. J. RODDEY, Manager, Wav Um CarwUsas, , ROCK HILL. S. C. Now at last jour wanderings have come to an end, for sitker jqilK “I DLSCRILED LE-Sr.EE's DEATH TO HIM." tlaaaan at SUB Baker street I WMt If you feel weak and all worn out take BROWN'S IRON BITTERS • m Chad. *h* crM far (Marti, ■m Xlm. to (Mart*. J CAN be CMKB; isaatsz:-. _TUt HAU. I Mtcflici Mechanics! u . Liiero* N*w» oOee. at tuDaa- N ortheastern railroad. In effect Jan. 11, 1894. SOUTH BOUND. No. 61 Leave Florence 7.45 a m Klngstree 9.20 a m Lanes 9.54 a in Arrive Charleston 12.10 a in No. 85. ; Leave Florence 8.10 a m Lanes 4.20 a m Arrive Charleston 6.10 a in No. 23. Leave Florence 7.45 p m Klngstree 9.02 p m lanes 9.23 p u Arrive Charleston 11.18 p in No. 58. Leave Lane* 7.05 p m Arrive Charleston 8.40 p m Train on C. A D. K. R. connects at Florence with No. 61 Train. NORTH BOUND. No. 78. ..... 8.35 a m ... 5.40a m .... 6.00 a in ... 7.10 a m No. 32. ... 8.30 p m .... 5.38 p in .... 5.57 p m ... 7.05 p m No. 52. Leave Charleeton 7.00 a m Arrive lanes 8.35 a c No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S. C. Train Noe. 78 and 14 runs via Wilson and Fayetteville—Short Line—aud makes close connection for all pointe North. J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Snpt. Leave Charleeton Klngstree.... Arrive Florence..... Leave Charleeton.. Lanes Klngstree.... Arrive Florence .... i\ ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA * AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect Dec. 3, 1898. SOUTH BOUND. No. 55. Leave Wilmington 3.40 p m Marion 6 31 p in 7.10 p m No 50. 7.30 p a 8.45 p m No. 68. 7.45 a ra Arrive Florence.. Leave Florence Sumter Leave Florence.... Arrive Sumter 9 20 a m No. 69. Leave Sumter 9.53 a m Arrive Columbia 11.00 a m No. 39 rune through from Charlee ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lance 8.40 a m. Manning 9 18 a m. NORTH BOUND. „ „ . No. 51. Leave Columbia 4.80 a m Sumter 5 57 a m Arrive Florence 7.13 am No. 66. Leave Flore nee— 7.40 a m Marion 8 28 a m Arrive Wilmington 11.10am „ „ . No, 68. Leave Coinmbla... Arrive Sumter.—. 4.20 p m 5.45 p m No. 59. Leave Columbia.. Sumter 5-iS d m Arrive Florence.... 7.15 p m No 53 runs thiougu w <.uarlestou via central Railroad, arriving Man- _ 6.22 p m lanes 7.00 p m, charleston8.40 pm. Trains on Mauciiester and Augusta B. R , leave Sumter daily except Sun day, 10.50 a. m., arrive Rimini 11:50 a. u Returning leave Rimini 1.00 p. l. arrive Sumter 2:10 p. m. Train* on Wiimington, Ohadboura id Conway Railroad leave Chad- bourn at 10 10 a m. arrive at Conway 12.90 p m. returningleave Conway at 2 00 p. in, arrive Chad bourn 4;3o p. Leave Cbadboum 5.35 p m and 5.15 pm, arrive at HubflMpm Re- l “ ****** babbitt metal CtasIbourn^OO 1 a".Daily except Sun lay- JOB*