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PENITENTIARY SCANDAL Colombia, Aug. 12 -Members of the board of directors of tbe peniten tiary called OD GOT. McSweeney today and bad a long talk with him. ttor ey General Ballinger was present caring moat of tbe interview. Go?. McSweeney and Mr. Bellinger : are going carefully over the testimony, bot no n a i action will be taken for a few days. CHAIRMAN STEVENSON'S LET TER. Chairman Stevenson, of the investi gating committee, bas sent the following self-explanatory letter to G otero or MeSweeney : Tate Spring, Tenn., Ang 0, '99 Gov McSweeney-Dear Sir : The report of tbe penitentiary investigation commit iee, as published in the papers, has just reached me, and I see that in my efforts to condense the figures on the farming operations for 1898 we left ii unintelligible I fear. This results from the fact that we tried to condense ia dictating to the typewriter, and didn't use the tabulated statement, which bad been made up and carefully .^verified, I give the statement below io tabular: form, and it should be placed with the report as Exhibit B, attaching ibis letter io toto. The obscurity arises from failure to mention that we charge the management with balance of crop OD band January 1, 1898, from fcc crop of 1897. From the 1897 report it would appear that there was band then about $30,000 worth of at year's crop, aod only $1,435 82 was reported as cash from the sale of the same-page 24, report of 1898 80 we thought it was safe to charge em with $9,000 worth of crop of 1897, being about one-third of the amount the report apparently'shows. We then credit them with $9,475 of cf crop on band January 1, 1899, by a liberal estimate. Statement. 1898. Crop reported raised on DeSanssore farms, $41,013 95 Cash reported from same, $12 735 55 Crop en han! Jan. 1, 1899,' 9.475 00-22,21015 ? ? ... - H| Balance consumed, $1 3,803 40 Expense. Billi paid for said < ferma, $20,069 00 Beni, one-quarter crop, 10,250 03 Convict hire, 6,950 00 Crop of 1898, consum ed io makins and gathering same, 18,803 40 Interest on $25,000, > 0>; equipments, stock and tools, 1,500 00 Crc p 1897 on band Jan. 1, 1898, and coo sumed, 9,000 00-66,572 80 .Crop reported, $41,013 95 Apparent deficit, $25,558 85 Deduct. Improrements claim* .ed, $10,000 00 Corn, etc., furnished the penitentiary (lib eral estimate), 5,0C0 00-15,000 00 DeScit, $10,558 85 Respectfully, -~ W. F, Stevenson, Chairman. Man Kiiled Near Malolos. Gen. 0;ts' Sanguinary Campaign in the Philippines not Very Thrilling Yesterday. Manila, Aug , 16 -S 35 a. rn -A force of United States troops from "Qcioguia, four miles northeast of Ma lotas, and from Baliuag, near Postes, about sis miles northeast of Qaicguia, encountered a body of insurgents, esti mated at about 500, half-way between Ess tes and Qainguia In the engage ment that ensued the Filipinos were severely punished and scattered. The Americans lost one man kiiled. The insurgent force is believed to have been ander the command of Gen. Pio Bel Pilar, aod to have had in view the tearing op of the railroad at Bjoave and Bigua, about three miles northeast of Bulacao. A battalion of the 21st infantry will be sent tc these points this afternoon to strengthen the railroad guard, and to reconnoitre the country in the direction of Norxsgaray sod on the Bastos road. . Geo. Wheaton, with the troops at Calulet, made a reooonoissanoe on Angeles, about four miles to the north east, where he found 500 of the enemy. He silenced their fire ard then returned to Calulet. FILIPINOS NOT UNMERCIFUL Washington Aug. 14.-The Secre tary of the navy received a cable mes sage from Admiral Watsor , at Manila today eonfirmiog the press reports an nouncing the safety of Lieut Gilmore and party, captured by the insurgents at Baler many weeks ago. The message is si follows : Escaped Spanish prisoners report Gil more and thirteen other Americans, eight sailors, confined at Yigan, Joly 27. Four sailors io hospital with sore egs. Gilmore well treated. Supplies sent by admiral never reached. "Watson." Leghorn, Italy, Aug. 14 -Admiral Dewey today remained on board his iagsbip, the Uoited States eruiser Olympia, which arrived bare at noon yesterday from Naples, feeing iii with fever. The oaptaio jA e vessel re COLUMBIA WANTS IT. The Columbia State comments as follows on what The Item said Satur day concerning the removal of the Telephone factory : We can understand Sumter's feel ings regarding this enterprise, over whose birth it presided and of whose remarkable growth it has been the gratified witness ; and we can sympa thize heartily with that city's desire that it shall remain in its maturity the Sumter institution it was in its infancy The Sumter people are Columbia's good friends and we would not seek to rob them of anything that contributes to their prosperity. Bat our understanding is that the company sseks certain advantages which are not to be had except in a city with better freight rates and larger facilities for distribution, and that interest, not sentiment, wiil de termine the location of the new fae tory. This, indeed, is the statement of Mr Mason to The Item as it was that of Mr. Blow to The State. If, therefore, the owners of the enterprise determine to remove it from Sumter we want it to come to Columbia, and we believe the Sumter people themael-ve8 would name this city as their second ohoice. Be tween Sumter, where Mr Mason woud prefer to keep it, and Knox ville, where Mr. Blow, who there has large brass and Iron works, would like to take ir, Columbia ought to be a^ satisfactory compromise. Indeed, its advantages over Knoxville in certain respects are admitted. Could the bent wood factory pro perty be purchased at a reasonable price we have little doubt that the owners of the telephone company would seek no farther than Columbia: Should it be impossible to secure this building, whose possession would enable the company to enlarge their operations with the Ieaat possible loss of time-which in this case is money, and lots of it-Columbia wili have to compete for the location of a . new building. Our advantages, great as they are, will not count for the city unless a convenient site can be had at a fair price. The land owners who by offering indocements on this line can assure the factory to Columbia will do an excellent public work. This city already exempts new factories from taxation for a term of years. It is a great distributing point. It has already the best freight rates in the interior of the State and is assured of lowering them greatly. It can furnish abundant electric pow ana ail the labor required. There should be no great trouble, therefore, in 8ecuriug this factory if the ques tion of a site can be satisfactorily solved For such work as this the Merchants and Manufacturers Club was estab lished. A committee of that club should be put in charge of the matter at once, and act energetically, for a decision as to the location of the factory must be reached in a few days We urge the attention of President Jones and the governing committee to the importance of prompt action. MARK TWAIN'S LITER ARY SUCCESS. There is a certain editor io New York with whom the power of the daily press ts snob a bobby that He raised the salary of a sub-editor ho suggested a * "Sunday special" on "Famous Qradu ates of the Reporters' fbom," and at ooce assigned his best dressed reporter to ioterview leading authors along this line, it happened that Mark Twain was in New York, and the editor counted oo bim as a striking example of the literary value of newspaper training. The reporter was ordered not to spare space for the ioterview Yet wheo the article appeared Mr. Clemens' name was conspicuously ab sent. It was this way : Mr. Clemens received the reporter with his customary urbanity, though he shrugged bis shoulders when be learn ed what paper the young mao repre seated. As usual Mr. Clemens was a most elusive man to pin down to an ioterview but at last the reporter gath ered his wits and asked the question which he meant should point his article. "Mr. Twain," he asked, "to what one thing most of all do you owe yonr marvelous soeoess io literature ?" He bad counted on "my newspaper train ing" as the answer. The famous humorist half shut his eyes, thought a few moments io sileooe, aod then said, decisively : "To the fact that when I was yonog and very ambitious I lost my job." "May I ask what was your job, Mr. Twaio ?" exclaimed the puzzled report er. "Certainly, sir, certainly," replied Mr. Clemens, with great suavity, "I was a reporter."-Philadelphia Post London, Aug. 15 -The Daily Mail publishes the foilowiog dispatch from Oporto, .Portugal : "The suspicious disease which broke out here receotly has become epidemic. Its symptoms are identical with those of the bubonic plague. Doctors disagree as to its pre cise character, but admit that it must be allied to the dreaded eastern malady. Sanitation and thc water supply here are bad, sod the wildest rumors are current. The authorities, however, are Relief For Porto Rico. HOW STORES MAY BE SHIPPED. WaehiogtOD, August 14.-Geoeral Weston, chief commissary, ia establish ing supply stations at Savannah, Atlanta, New York and Chicago to reoeive Puerto Rican relief stores. Ail relief supplies for Puerto Rico wiil be admitted free of duty by special order of the president. The steamer Evylin of the New York and Puerto Rico Steamship Com pany, sailing for New York OD Friday, Aug. 18, for Ponce direct, will take ali relief supplies the company has room for free of charge. Steamer "Mae," sailing Aug 31, will do the same thing. These vessels will take from 200 to 500 tons of supplies' each and the shipments for them should be marked "relief supplies'7 and should be prop erly packed and delivered at the pier of the steamship company referred to, Expire stores, Brooklyn. N. Y., on or before noon of Wednesday, Aug. 16. Washingtoo, August li.-Secretary Root today received a dispatch from ex Secretary Alger saying the latter bad forwarded his check for 3100 for the Puerto Rican storm sufferers. Secre tary Root acknowledged the donation with thanks The coajmittee organized iiere to forward relief to the people of Texas have decided to give way entirely to the Puerto Ricans and will solicit no more aid for Texas. Commissioner Wight of the District of Columbia wiil at a meeting tomorrow to organize a Puerto Rioan relief commission. A FOILED AMBITION. "Aristocracy" in the United Slates, if not one of our most important institutions, is certainly one of the most amusing-. The antics it cuts and the devices to which it resorts in order to estab lish its claims to superiority may not make the angels weep, but they certainly do make sober minded men laugh One of the iatest and most ludicrous assumptions of our own peculiar aristocracy was put forth by William Waldorf Astor, put forth, alas ! only to be blighted and tram pled upon, and that, too, by a little Spanish count ! Not satisfied with being permitted to trot around after a few representa tivee of English nobility, Mr. Astor has endeavored to show that he is entitled to walk abreast and sit at the table with those whose recognition and favor he has so industriously sought since he renounced bis native land and became a veneered Brit isher After profound research and in vestigation, aided by designing indi viduals, who for liberal compensation engaged to get him up an illustrious pedigree, Mr. Astor came forth with the thrilling announcement that be was a lineal descendant of Jean Jacques D'Astorga, a member of one of the noblest and most ancient houses of Spain ; that this ancestor, in 1664, turned Huguenot, fled to Germany and changed bis name to plain Astor, and became the founder of the family that now owns the finest bash foundry in New York. As a rule, citizens of this country pay DO attention to claims of illus triona ancestry. They believe, and with good reason, that those who boast most of such tbiDgs usually have a poor ti tie to the lineage which they claim. But io Europe the old aristocrats are rather sensitive. They are apt to resent tire pretensions of parvenus who try to cuddle up to them. No sooner were Mr. Astor's claims to kinship with the D'Astorgas made public than Count D'Astorga came out in an indignant denial of the alleged relationship. He declared that there had never been any Jean Jacques D'Astorga in his family, and that Mr. Astor is no more of kin to him than is sultan of Suis. This would seem to settle the case, but additional evidence against Mr Astor's presumption is given by Mr. Lathrop Whittington, the most fa mous of European genealogists He says that "Jean Jacques D'Astor ga, the Huguenot, is a myth, and that in order to make room for him in the pedigree the date of the marriage of the D'Astorga whose son he is alleged to have been has been falsified-has been pushed back from 1682 to 1652 is order to let io a spurious son said to have been born in 1664 As the Jean Jacques through whom Mr. Astor tried to hitch on to the D'Astorgas never ex isted, William Waldorf Astor has no crusading ancestors. The exposure of his bogus claim and the defeat of his fond hopes for an antique crest probably caused Mr. Astor deep pain. Why should he not console himself with honest pride iu those ancestors whom nobody will refuse to concede to him ? It is well known that he can date back to a sturdy and honest butcher of Wal dorf, near Heidelberg, and that the son of that worthy sausage maker, John Jacob Astor, came to America, did a thriving business in bides and left a large fortune. This John fine character and unusual ability. He never made any false pretensions to high birth and was proud of bis honest butcher father. He would have been very much ashamed of any son or descendant of his who attempted to tag on to the coat tails of any titled family or who sported a spurious coat an arms. Atlanta Journal. FROM THE WIRES. Nowport News, Va., Aug. 14.-The yellow fever situation continues to im prove. No deaths and no new cases ip the report again today from Soldiers' Home. Atlanta, Ga , Augus; 14 -Mayor James G. Woodward, against whom impeachment proceedings have been contemplated for some time by the city council and whose resignation has been asked for by that body, made a solemn promise to the councilmen and aider* men at a meeting this afternoon that he would uot take another drink during bis term of ofnae. He further stated that he would cease his indiscretions, and if he did not sustain his promises he would resign. Acting upon these avowals, the city couocii has dismissed the committee appointed to investigate the mayor's conduct and ali differences ! betweeo them have been righted. Hong Kong, Aug. 14.-There were 33 deaths from (he plague during the past week and 25 new cases were reported. Denver. Coi., Aug 13 -Two police officers were killed here at 1 o'clock this morning b? a recruit belonging to Company L, 34th volunteer infantry ! now stationed a: Fort Logan. - Shanghai, Aug. 13 -The Bubonic plague, has appeared at New Chwang, i in the province of Leao Tong, oe tbe River Liauo, near the Guif of Pe Chi Li. WILL RESORT TO ARMS Johannesburg, Aug 14-The Standard and Diggers News today says : "The Boers are convinced that there is nothing for it uow but the arbitrament of arms." Ail sorts of warlike rumors are in circulation. It is alleged tbat the field coronets have received orders to sup ply all unarmed burghers with rifles gratuitously and to substitute Mau sers for Martini-Henry's wherever the latter are still in use. Capetown, Aug. 14.-The reported shipment of $400,000 from London banks is believed to be due to the enormous purchases by the Transvaal government of ammunitions, provis ions and forage, the supplies exceed ing those of many European nations The field cornets are distributing aims to the burghers. IN THE TWILIGHT OF LOVE. If years ago you told me, dear, That on a day our dreams would fado To these halt hearted fancies drear, I should have grieved and felt dismayed. But yet so softly has the rain Of dead years' ashes settled on Each glowing passion that the pain,, Was smothered ere all light had gone. Ah, be it thus with love's decease! Its day is done; its shrine too high To brave time's destined tragedies. Let us steal down ere night comes by. -Thomas Walsh in Bookman. EYES LIKE TELESCOPES. Tbe South African Besamen Are Gift ed With Marvelous Sight. It has often been remarked that civil ized people tend to become short sighted. This is because in towns and cities their vision is mostly confined to short dis tances. Savage races, on the other hand, are generally gifted with remark ably keen sight, and few tribes^are more noteworthy in^ this respect than the African bushmen, whose eyes are veritable telescopes. This power is no doubt a wise provision of nature, for the bushmen are a small race, and if they were not able to see danger a long way off they would soon be exterminated by their various enemies, whether sav ages of other tribes or wild beasts. A traveler in South Africa relates that while walking one day in company with a friendly bushman the savage suddenly stopped, and gazing across the plain cried ont that there was a lion ahead. The traveler gazed long and earnestly in the direction indicated by ^ the bushman, but could see nothing, j "Nonsense, " he said, "there's nothing there. " And he went forward again, with the bushman following at his heels, trembling and unwilling and still asserting that he could see a lion. Presently the native came to a dead stop and refused to budge another inch, for this time, he declared, he could see a lioness with a number of cubs, a fact ! which made the animal more danger ous than ever. But the European, who could see no lioness, much less its cubs, pushed ahead, declaring the bushman was dreaming. After walking a quarter of a mile, however, he could dimly make out an object moving across the horizon. Still doubting that it could he the object which tho bushman said he had seen, he continued to advance, and I at last was able to distinguish a lioness, | with her cubs around her, walking leisurely toward thc woods.-("hums. Thc Worst Ever. Runrling Bill-Is ho lazy? Why, honestly, if dat feller wuz goin tor commit murder, he'd do it In Now York state so's he could sit down whea he died.-Kansas City Independent THE CENTER OF POPULATION I Where It Has Been and "Where the I \ext Census May Show It to Be. I By the first national cousus taken in j 1700. when the population of the coun try was not much greater than of New York city today, the center of popula tion was 23 miles east of Ballimore. It was still in the neighborhood of Balti more, though to the west of that city, in 1S00. In 1810 it was near Washing ton. In 1820 it was at Woodstock, Va., and in 1830. 1840 and 1850 in the pres ent state of West Virginia. In 1S00 it was a little to the south of Chilicothe, O.. this being the first official appear ance of Ohio as the center of popula tion, though it has remained the polit ical co ter of population steadily ever since. In 1ST''1 the center of population was on a line in Ohio between Chilicothe and Cincinnati; in 1880 it was ic the neighborhood of Cincinnati, and in 1860, the year of the last national cen sus, it was in Decatur county, Ind., near the Ohio boundary and on a line between Cincinnati and Indianapolis. The government estimate of the pres ent population of the United States, exclusive of countries over which its sovereignty has been extended, was j 75.000.000 on June 1. and all sections j of the country have participated though not equally, in the growth of population since 1800, when it was 62, 600,000. By the coming census the Ohio and Mississippi valley states will probably be shown to have gained less from di rect foreign immigration than in any previous decade, while the citizens of the middle and New England states have, relatively, gained more. There has been a substantial increase in pop ulation, larger probably than in any period since the close of the civil war, in the southern and south border states and a much larger increase in those of the southwest, most notably in Texas, the total voto of which in creased from 230.000 in 1SS0 to 340,000 in 1890 and 550.000 in 1S96. The popu I lation of Texas (2,200,000 in 1800) is j probably near 3,600,000. A state census taken of Ka usas in j 1S05. on tho other hand, showed thc I population of that state to be less than in 1S00. while in the same period the population of New Jersey had increas ed 10 per cent. Between 1S90 and 1805 the population of Florida increased, from 300.000 to 4G5.000, while the pop ulation of South Dakota (323.000 in 1S90) was returned as 330.000 five years later. The growth of population in Ameri can states between 1800 and 1000 will be in accordance with the increase < f the urban population in each rather than with the gain in agricultural dis tricts. As a majority of the cities are in the north it appears likely that the "center of population'' in 1900 will be on or near the banks of the Wabash, in the state of Iudiaua. at some point northwesterly from the present center and nearer the Illinois than the Ohio state line.-New York Sun. A Queer Investment. j As a money making scheme a nonu i ment in a graveyard would ordinarily be considered a queer investment, yet in the Williamstown cemetery there is such a monument that has answered its purpose well. Twelve years ago a marble works company made a proposition to W. G. Cram, one of the rich men of Grant county, to erect a monument in his private lot, to be paid for at once, but to pay interest at che rate of 10 per cent upon the cost jprice to himself as long as he should live. It was to cost $1,500. The company's terms were accepted and the monument was built, a space being left vacant whereon to chronicle the birth and death of Mr. Cram, to gether with his good deeds. Mr. Cram is yet alive and bids fair to live many years more, though he has passed the age of threescore and ten, and the monument has already paid him in dividends $300 more than the original cost of building.-Williamstown (Ky.) Dispatch. An Obligrinfr Policeman. One of the smart sportsmen who were arrested during the row at Au teuil after being conducted to the tem porary lockup persistently cried: "Let me go for a few minutes. I will come back." Finding that the officers were obdurate, the young gentleman eventu ally took one of them aside and said: "At all events do me a little favor. The third race is about to be run. Go and put these 10 louis on horse No. 7." The officer wont and presently returned with the ticket.-Cri de Paris. Liquid Air Power. Wide currency having been given to the statement that liquid air promises to do tho work of coal at next to no cost because au experimenter claims to have produced "ten gallons of liquid air by tho use of three gallons in an en gine." President Henry Morton of the Stevens institute has pointed out the fallacy of the claim. He shows that it really takes 12 times as much power to make a gallon of liquid air as that gallon could develop in an Ideally per fect engine. "Eaten a Mountain." A good example of the caustic humor of a Scotch examiner floats this way from we know not where. It seems that Scotch parish schoolmasters aro, ou their appointment, examined as to their literary qualifications. One of the fraternity being called by his ex aminor to translate Horace's ode be- j giuning "Fxegi mouumentum oere pe reuuius," began as follows: "Exegi j mouumentum." (I have eaten a moun tain.) "Ah," said one of the examiners, "ye needna proceed any further; for after caieu' sic a diuuer this parish I wad be a puir mouthfu' t' ye. Ye maun _irs- Q_me wider sphere,"-"Poet Lore." 1 Banff, N. W. T., Aug. 13.- Liea teoaDt Commander Percy St. John, of her Majesty's ship Peacock, is here and can scarcely contain himself with indignation oo account of his reputed critioism of Gen Otis and the Filipino campaign. American papers to band cootaioiog the reported interviews at Victoria have made the commander furious. He decies the correctness of hie interviews and ba3 through his attorneys demanded to be set right. I Line Sal of CONDENSED SCHEDULE. In affect November 20th, 1898. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 No bli I Lv Darlington, 8 02 an: I Lv Elliott, 8 45 am I Ar Sumter, 9 25 an Lv Sumter, '4 29 am Ar Creston, 5 17 am Lv Crestgn, 5 45 am Ar Pregnalls, 9 15 am Ar Orangeburg, 5 40 am Ar Denmark, 6 12 am NORTHBOUND. No. 32 No. 56J Lv Denmark, 4 17 pm Lv Oraugeburg, 4 00 pm Lv Pregnalls, 10 00 a=: Ar Creston, 3 50 pm Lv Creeton, 5 13 pm Ar Sunter, 6 03 pm Lv Sumter, 6 40 pm Ar Elliott, 7 20 pm Ar Darlington, 8 05 prr JDaiiy except Sunday. Trains 82 and 35 carry through Pullman* Palace Buffet Sleeping cars be! ween New York and Macon via Augusta. T. M EMERSON, H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt J. R. KENLY, G n'l Manager. ATLANTIC COAST LINE North-Eastern R. R. of S. G CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH Dated No. No. No. Apl. 17, '99 35* 23* 53 am pm Le Florence 3 25 7 45 Le Kingatree 8 55 Ar Lanes 4 33 9 13 pm Le Lanes 4 33 9 13 6 20 Ar Charleston 6 03 10 50 8 00 TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. No. No. 78* 32*: 52* am pm am Le Charleston 6 33 4 49 7 OG Ar Lanes 8 03 6 14 8 32 Le Lanes 8 03 6 14 Le Kingatree S 20 Ar Florence 9 20 7 20 am pm am ?Daily. |Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Cen tra! R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run 7ia Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make close connection for all points North. Trains on C. & D R. R. leave Floren daily except Sunday 9 50 a rn, errive Darling ton 10 15 a rr, Hartville 9 15 a m, Cberaw ll 30 a m, Wadesboro 2 25 pm. Leavt Florence daily except Sunday 7 55 p m, ar rive Darlington 8 20 p m, Bennettsville 9 17 p m, Gibson 9 45 p m. Leave Florence Sunday only 9 30 am. arrive Darlingtoc 10 05 a m Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6 OG a m, Bennettsville 7 00 a rn, arrive Darling ton 8 00 a rn, leave Darlington 8 50 a m, ar rive Florence 9 15 am. Leave Wadesborc daily except Sunday 3 00 pm, Cberaw 4 45 p rn, Hartsville 7 00 a rn, Darlington 6 29 p rn, arrive Florence 7 00 p m. Leave Da? liogtoQ Sunday only 8 50 a rn, arrive Flor ence 9 15 am. J. R KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't T. M. EMERSON, Traffic-Manager. H. M EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent Atlantic Coast Line, WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AF GUSTA RAILROAD. TT i a Condensed Schedule. Dated April 17, 1893. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Leave Wilmington Leave Marion Arrive Florence Leave Florence Arrive Sumter Leave Sumter Arrive Columbia Ko. 55 No. 35 p. ia. *3 45 ; 34 7 15 p. m. a. m. 7 45 *3 25 8 S7 4 29 No. VA 8 57 *9 40 10 20 ll 00 No. 52 runs through from Charleston via Central R. R , leaving Charlestos 7 a. m.. Lanes 8 34 a rn, Manning 9 09 a m TRAINS GOING NORTH Leave Columbia Arrive Sumter Leave Sumter Arrive Florence Leave Florence Leave Marion Arrive Wilmington No. 54 No. 53 a. m. p. m." *6 40 *4 00* 8 65 5 13 No. 32 a. m. p. m. 8 05 *6 06 .9 20 7 20 a. m. 9 50 10 30 I 15 ?Daily. tl*8'1! except Sunday. No 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C. via Central R. R., arriving Mann.og 5 41 ra, Lao?* 6-17 p tr, Charleston 8 00 p m. Trhin8on Conway Brar.ch leave Chacboorz 5 35 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 pm, retort ing leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrive Cbac bocrn ll 20 am, leave Chedcourn ll 50 a rn, arrive Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave Hn& 3.00 pm, arrive Cbadbourn 3 35 am, Daily except Sunday. J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent.