JOKED WITH ? BEAK.
2EB WHITE HAD A HEAP OF FUN
WITH THE VARMINT.
*ffee Poe?cm Hunter's Story of the
Tricks He Played on Poor Brain
> ?nd the Way the Unforgiving Teast
Beat Him Ont of the Hide.
ICopyright, 1900. by C. B. Lewis.]
"One September day." said tho oh!
possum hunter of Tennessee as I asked
him for a story, was sittin on tUes;
yere steps smokin my pipe when a v a;
suddenly appeared ont thar by the eo
Beroi' the pigpen. I didn't ?it C; .?:
ed. I seen the b'ar was pore in Ces
and I knowed his fur wasn't prince,
ain't no use to kill a b'ar jest fur th.
sake of killin. Besides, thar was some
thin sort of cute lookinlin his fate
As we looked at each other be cocked
his ears and seemed to say:
".Hello, Zeb White! I've called
around to see yo'. I won't be wuth
killin fur two months yit. and mea:;
while., if yo' don't mind, we'll her some
furn*
"I took it that he said that and the
old woman took It that way. too. and
so I didn't skeer him off. He saunter?
ed around fur a spell and then disap?
peared, but I knowed what he was up
to. I had two hives of bees, and he
"WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER. '
had marked 'em down and would be
back some night arter honey. It wasn't
an hour befo' I moved them hives out
~>t his reach and replaced 'em with two
hives filled with straw. "I shet the old
dog up in the house that night and
*long 'tout midnight he begun to whine
and growL I jest got to the winder
when the b'ar showed up. He was
arter that honey, and he hadn't nc
time to waste. One hive wasn't 'nuff
fur him, and he knocked both over as ;
soon as; he got within reach and then
made ready fur a feast When he
found them hives hard packed with
straw, he knowed It was a joke, and
he sot ap and looked so sheepish and
meas ever it that I laughed fur half j
an hour. That b'ar went away feel in
hurt In his feelin's, but I was suah
he'd come back ag'in some other night
and try to pay me ofT.
"I had jest penned up a likely pig.
and that b'ar was bound to hev pig
meat If be couldn't nev honey. He
was suah to be back the next night,
and so I spent two hours greasin the
roof of the pen with soft soap. When
I was through. It was so slippery that
-even claws wouldn't take hold. On
the second nlfbt, 'bout ll o'clock, the
Var showed up ag'in. He had bin
thinkin of fresh pork ail the afternoon
and baot got hungry over it and arter
"one look around he climbed upon the
roof of r.he pen. It had a steep pitch to
lt, and lt dropped off Into a gully, and
that b'ar had skassly got up before he
was slidin down like a log of wood.
^He shot off the roof Into the gully like
a big hall, and me and the old woman
laughed till the tears came. Three
times the b'ar tried It and three times
he was dumped. I yelled at him and
called him names, and his feelin's was
*kart ag'in. He was so 'shamed 'bout
things that be wouldn't even fight the
?og.
< "J knowed the varmint wouldn't gin
Nap that way. but would keep comin
beck till he got sun tb in. lt struck me
that he'd go fur the chickens next, and
so 1 had a trap all ready fur him. He
was too cute to step into it, and arter
roamin around fur awhile he went off.
1 laughed at him and called him a
mighty pore b'ar. and he appeared so
.lonesome over ?t that 1 almost pitied
him. He didn't come back the next
Sight or the next but on the third
night he showed up ag'in. and 1 had
another joke ready fur him. 1 had
headed fae old dawg up in a stout bar'l
and then wrapped the bar'l around
with barbed wire. I used up 200 feet
.f wire around that bar'l. and the
barbs stuck out like quills of a porcu?
pine. As soon as the b'ar appeared the
?ld dawg begun to bark and raise a
fuss. I don't reckon that varmint had
ever heard of a dawg in a bar'l befo',
and I'm suah he hadn't never met with
so barbed wire. He jest walked around
to make sartin of things and then
jumped In.
"Lemme tell yo' that thar was mo'
fun in tte next ten minits than most
b'are and dawgs and folks hev in a hull
?'ar. Bruin started in to bust that
bar'l by huggin, but he soon gin it up.
Seen he roiled it 'bout but every time
ie struck it. he sot a prick. Sometimes
he'd chase it and sometimes he'd run
away from it, and he did hate to ?in
up beet It wasn't no use in him figut
in that bar'l. though, and he finally let
it go and sorter cried over it He went
off with bis head down and a homesick
shamble, and the old woman turns to
me and asks:
.* 'Zeb. what'll that b'arskin be wuth
when snow flies':'
' 'Bout SIG,' says I.
-/"Then yo' air $10 out of pocket
Thai b'ar ain't .irwine to furgive yo*
fur burtin his feelin's as yo' Lev.'
C 'But what kin be do?
" 'Dunno, but yo' jest remember what
I say.'
"The old woman was right." contin?
ued Zeb. "That b'ar never showed up
no uio' around my place. 'Long 'bout
the fust of November I started out
with my gun and dawg to gather him
In. and I was reckon in on the value of
his hide to git boots and shoes fur the
winter. I routed him out after a long
tramp, and what d'ye'think he did?
Findin that he must die. he beaded fur
Sam Harper's place, three miles away,
and he actually went righi up to the
doab and laid down and seemed to beg
Sam to come out and shoot hjn. He
was dead and bein skinned whrh I got
thar, and all I got was a piece of the
fresh meat. I had had a heap of fun,
but that b'ar had beat me out of my
winter boots to pay fur it"
M. QUAD.
BITTEN BY A NEYILLO
ONE OF THE TERRORS OF LIFE ON
THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC.
A Lizard From Whose Deadly Poison
Only One Man Is Known to Have
Recovered-The Treatment Which
Saved Him From Death.
"I guess 1 am the only living man
that has been bitten by the nevillo, a
venomous lizard of the isthmus of
Tehuantepec," said William W. Cloon,
a New Yorker with Central American
experiences. "This lizard is of the Gila
mobster family and is a horrid looking
reptile of a mottled Irver color and
is from six to ten inches long. Its bite
is deadly, and, as I said, I am tb^only
person known who has lived after be?
ing bitten. It was a case of nip and
tuck, though, and I didn't get over it
for two months or more.
. "The brute bit me out of pure' malice,
for I wasn't doing a thing to it. I had
a coffee plantation down on the isth?
mus several years ago and just be?
fore the hot season began, which was
in March, I had as my guest Dr. Fer?
gus MacDonald of the Smithsonian
institution, who was in that country in
the interest of science. While he was
with me we received an invitation to
visit the great plantation of Dr. Pedro
Arguilles, one of the most prominent
men of that co?ntry, and we went to
his hacienda near Minititlan. The
ladies of the family had all gone to
Mexico City, and as the weather was
hot we men loafed around in our py?
jamas, the upper garment of which is
a big sleeved affair called a camisa.
"One day Dr. MacDonald and I had
adjourned to the patio or court of the
building, and while I lay in the grass
talking to him he was busy greasing
and putting into shape his guns and
revolvers. He was six or eight feet
away from me, and I was lying with
my head propped up on my arm. from
which the sleeve had slipped, leaving lt
exposed to the elbow, which rested on
the grass. Of course neither of us was
thinking about reptiles or other dan?
gers right there in the court of the
building. Suddenly, as I talked, the
doctor threw his hand up in warning,
and I knew that whatever It was he
saw there was danger in my moving,
and I must keep still So I kept as
6teady as I could, and then I felt some?
thing go up my arm toward my head
and stop near my wrist.
"I couldn't see what It was, but 1
knew something about tropical reptiles
and I kept perfectly quiet while the
doctor caught up one of his revolvers
and threw a couple of -cartridges into
it. He aimed across my body and fired,
and as I jumped to my feet a nevillo
at least seven inches long fell writhing
to the ground, shot through the head.
The bullet had gone on into my arm
and came out at the elbow and I was
bleeding. Between the bullet marks,
though, were the fang marks where the
nevillo had stuck its teeth into my arm,
and I told the doctor I thought It had
got me. ?s soon as be saw It he gave
me some kind of a hypodermic injec?
tion in the left leg, the right arm har*
lng been bitten, and at once took his
knife and slashed me across the fang
marks. Into the wounds of my arm
he poured a bottle of concentrated
ammonia. Almost Instantly ..after J
had been bitten I began to grow dizzy
and to see what seemed to me to be
clouds of light smoke, and when the
ammonia struck me I keeled over In a
dead faint
'Tive days later I awoke in a mud
bath by the riverside, my body twice
Its normal size and my tongue sticking
out of my mouth. They had carried
me there as soon as 1 fainted, and
night and day my guide and his daugh?
ter bad been watching by me, with
fires at night to keep off the animals
from the jungle. Every 12 hours my
arm was lifted from the mud and
cleansed, and on these occasions it was
always found to be of a green color.
As soon as I returned to consciousness
I was carried to the house and put to
bed. and there for two weeks I re?
mained and then went down to the
coast and up to the well known hot
springs, where I was treated for two
months until every bit of the venom
had left my body. Duriug lt all I suf?
fered no pain, nor bave I ever felt the
slightest inconvenience since. What
effect tbe bullet wound In the arin had
I don't know. Possibly the blood thai
came from the bullet wounds saved
me. ''A ny how something iiapfvcned that
never happened to any ot ber person
bitten by :i nevillo, or 1 wouldn't be
here tc? tell the story."
Mr. Cloon bared his arm for the beu
e?t of the listeners, and if an arm ever
looked as if it had boen through a han!
campaign that one did. It was scarred
as if burnt with hot irons and covered j
from the elbow down with all kinds of
peculiarly shaped mottled spots of
about the same color as the lizard.
New York Sun.
L:npl?*anant Monotony.
Ugly Husband (snarling?-You mar
ried m" for lx-tjer or worse, didn't your
Wife (hesitatingly?-Yes, but I sup j
po? .1 I would ha\r some variety
Detroit Pr**e Press
CURRENT MISCELLANY.
One of the secrets of the success of
? Robert P. Porter, editor, tariff expect.
! superintendent of the United States
j census of 1890 and recently United
States diplomatic agent in the West
Indies and afterward in Germany, is
his wonderful memory for figures. Ile
fairly revels in statistics. In his hoine
in New York there are seve:ral rooms
filled with volumes upon volumes of
industrial statistics. Many of these
Mr. Porter can readily gu ote from
memory. An illustration of this oc?
curred not long ago, says the Philadei
phia Saturday Post. A Chicago man
was boasting of the rapid growth ol'
his city.
"We have 2,000,000 Inhabitants now.
You gave us 1,100,000 in 1890/' he said.
"Not as much as that," replied Mr.
Porter. "The exact figures were
1,099,850. Your school census of 1892
gave 1,400.000."
The conversation then turned upon
New York city.
"You underestimated that also."
"Yes, we gave New York 1,515,301,
and the state census of 1892 gave
1,801.739."
"Where do you carry ali "hese fig?
ures?" asked the Chicago man.
"I believe I can repeat from memory
the best part of the important figures
in my census." returned Mr. Porter.
"Can you tell me how many negroes
there were in this country in 1890V"
asked the westerner with an air of tri?
umph.
"There were 7,470.040." repeated the
statistician without a second s hesita?
tion. "And there were 107475 Chi?
nese."
The visitor took down the census re?
port from the bookshelf ar.d found
that Mr. Porter had not made; a single
mistake.
A Rattlesnake Eater.,
Moses Henderson is a sable son of
Africa and lives two miles from Amer
icus in a rocky field where rattlesnakes
are most plentiful, says the Savannali
News. Moses makes a living by cap?
turing snakes and selling them. When?
ever he cannot sell them he eats them.
This is the truth, strange as it may
seem. He recently killed a large one
with ll rattles on it. This was a fat
snake, and Moses ate it. The other
day he brought a very large snake to
Savannah, trying to sell its hide. There
were 23 rattles on it. The snake was
very poor, and Moses said it would not
do to eat, and he stuffed its hide and
sold it for a good price. Every year
Moses makes a great deal ol' money
selling snake oil. He says right down
the vertebrae of a rattlesnake is a fat?
ty streak of flesh that makes; an oil,
when fried, that will cure any case of
rheumatism. It is strange to how
many people he sells this rheumatic
snake oil. He has a long list of certifi?
cates from people he has cured. Some
of them are from intelligent whites,
who declare that the oil has cured
them when all other remedies have
failed. He sells a vial of the oil for
$1 and guarantees a lasting cure.
Moses says his father was an African
hoodoo doctor and taught him how to
cure all aches and pains with snake
oil. The negroes of Sumter county
venerate and fear him as a mysterious
doctor who can cure when all else
fails and look upon his snake oil sui
something enchanted.
A Rta* Wita a History..
A ring with a history has just been
handed over to the Numismatic mu?
seum of Paris by a Polish gentleman,
who purchased it for a small sum re?
cently in Warsaw. Shortly after he
formed the acquaintance of the lady
who was afterward Marquise de Pom?
padour, Louis XV presented ?er with
an Intaglio ring representing his own
apotheosis. It was pronounced at that
time to be a marvelous work of art
equaling anything of the sort produc?
ed in ancient Greece or Rome, says the
Ix>ndC2 Chronicle. Round the-edge was
an elaborate Inscription. One day Mme.
de Pompadour, to her distress, lost this
precious ring, which has now reappear?
ed after nearly 150 years' peregrina?
tion. If rings could speak, this oas
doubtless could tell a curious tal?.
Both Were Surprised.
The third time I changed cars at the
Hornellsville Union railroad station
and lunched at the little grillroom just
up the street the jolly lit tl*? proprietor
recognized me as a regular patron and
did his best to entertain me while my
special pot of coffee was coining to a
boil.
"Notice that fellow who just went
out?" he asked, chuckling contentedly
fo himself.
I hadn't noticed particularly, but I
knew it would l>e disconcerting io ad?
mit, so I nodded encouragingly, says a
writer in the New York Herald.
"Well," he continued, "that'* Jim
Smith - Long Jim Smith they call
him-conductor of the Erie, and. say.
he's laying for me. Greatest practical
joker you ever saw. Always getting
rigs on me, and I never could get back
on him until last week, and then I wai
about as much surprised a.s he was.
"I was coming down the street and
saw a crowd gathered around some Sal?
vation Army singers. Long Jim was
away on the edge of the crowd, Hind*
ing on his tiptoes so he t'ould *<.e over
the heads of the i?fii Ile had his
back to me. and, st Ukin?? out from un?
der his ajixj. wa* a big bag of lemons.
I saw my chance, and I sneaked quiet?
ly behind li 1 KI. hauled off and gave
that bag of lemons an av.-ful swipe
with my cane."
Here the little man went off into an
uncontrollable lit of laughter (ncr the
remembrance.
He laughed till his sides shook and
tears ran down Iiis face. I waited till
he had quieted down.
"Well?" I queried. "Scattered the
lemons all about, I supposer"
"Scattered! Ho, ho. ho! Ile! Iii.
hi. hi! He! Hum! Well. I should say il
so. Hut they wasn't lemons; they was !
CUBANS CAN DO NOTHING
_
Habao?, March 5 -Tbe Coban
amendment to the army appropriation
bill bas bees forwarded to tbe constitu?
tional convention by Gen Wood and
it was informally discussed this after*
noon by a large number of delegates.
Gen Sanguiliy and Senor Aiemen eon*
:ended that, tbe amendment bad beoome
law and that President McKinley could
do nothing other tbao enforce it They
declared that the suggestions from tbe
convention had been ignored, that thc
United States government evidently in
ended to do what it pleased with Cuba,
aod that the ooly manly thing for del
-.gates to do was to dissolve and to let
the United States call another conveo
tion.
Senor Juan Gualberto Gomez, al?
though radically opposed to the amend?
ment, f-aid he did not believe it was
the final decision of the United States
regarding the future attitude of the
(?overoment towards Cuba He thought
the convention ebould discuss the
amendment and return it to Gen Wood
with a careful opinion, as it was pos?
sible that President McKinley would
call an extra session io tbe hope of
bringing about a compromise.
A majority of the delegates favor
official aotion by the convention regard
tog the amendment and this question
will be deoided tomorrow.
Magistrate J. J. Gilmer, of Ander?
son County, who bas figured in the
slavery troubles, will probably lose bis
commission
CASTOR IA
For Infects and Children.
Tfie Kind You Kave Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
ATLANTIC COASTLINE.
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 13th, 1901.
Fast Line
BETWEEN
ia
j
AND
NORTH CAROLINA,
CONDENSED 8CHED?LE
CruiCg West.
No 52
ia Effect Jan'y
13tb. 190'.
Going East.
No t3
*a m
6 25
8 02
9 28
11 00
p m
12 17
12 30
1 13
1 35
3 IO
3 10
Lv Charleston, SC Ar
LT Lanes, SC Ar
LT Sumter, SC Ar
Ar Colombia, b C LT
Ar
Ar
Ar
Ar
Ar
Prosperity, S C
Newberry, S C
Clinton, S C
Laurens, S C
GreeoTille, S C
LT
LT
LT
LT
LT
Ar Spartao'ourg, S C LT
*p m
8 30
6 43
6 35
4 15
2 49
2 34
1 53
1 35
12 Ol
a m
ll 45
pm am
7 13 Ar WiooBboro, S C LT 10 18
9'iO Ar Charlotte, N C LT 8.0
pm am
6 11 Ar Hendersoville, N C LT 9 02
7 15 Ar Aebeville, NC LT 8 00
.Daily.
Nos 52 and 53 solid trarc bttween Charles?
ton and Greenvale, S 0.
H M Emerson,
Qeo'l Passenger Agent?
J R K?o!y, T U hmerson,
Gea'l Maaager. Traffic Maaager.
North-Eastern R. R. of S. C
?CONDENSED SCHEDDL?.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Dated
lao 14, 1901
No.
35?
No.
23?
No
53*
No.
51?
?* Florene?
Lie Kingatret
Ar Laces
Lc Lanes
a m
2 34
3 38
3 38
p m
7 46
146
9 04
9 30
p m
6 45
ar Charleston 5 04 10 55 8 30
a m
9 4C
ll 2i>
11 2C
1 OC
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
No. No. No. Nc
TH? 32* 62? 50*
Le Charleston
Ar Lanes
Ce Lanes
Le Kiagstrae
A r Florene?
am pm
6 33 4 49
8 16 6 15
8 16 6 15
8 32
9 25 7 25
am pm
am pm
7 00 4 00
S 32 5 39
5 3S
7 05
am pm
.Daily. -fDm?j except Sunday.
No. 62 runs through to Colombia Tia Can
tral R. R. of S. C.
Trains Not. 78 aDd 32 rou Tia Wilson anc
Fayetteville-Short Line-and make c'os?
connection for all points North.
T'?ins on C. * D R. R. leave Florene?
3bPT except Sunday 9 50 a m, arr ve Darlinp
tou 0 15 am, Hurtsville 9 16 am, Chers *
1130 a m, Wadesboro 2 25 pm. Leav.
Florence daily except Sunday 7 55 p m, ar
rive Darlington 8 20 p ra, Bennettsville 9 1*
om, Gibson 9 45 p m. Leave Florene
^oodAy only 9 30 a :u. arrive DarliDgtor
10 05 a m
Leave Gibeon daily except Sunday 6 0
\ m, Benoettsville 7 00 a tn, arrive Darin?
ton 8 00 a rn, leave Darlington 8 50 a rn,
rire Florence 9 15 s n?. Leave V^degbor.
3uily except Sunday 3 00 pm, Chem?- 4 4!
pm, Barterille 7 00 am, Darlaten 6 2f
? tn, arrive Florence 7 00 p m. Leave Dar
inpton Sunday only fi 50 a m, arrive Fl J
nee 9 15am
J. R KENLEY, JNO. F. DI YINS.
Gei'l Manager. Gen'l Sup'i;
5. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
T. M EMERSON. GenM Pass. ??eirt
Sonti Mi ai Georgia fi?
fi, fi.
Schedule No. 4-ID effect 12.vi a. m , 8un
"? December 24, 1899.
Between
Camden 8. C.. and Blacksbnrg, S O
WEST. EAST.
2d cl 1st cl |l8t cl 2dc
*3? *33 Bastero time. *32 ?34
pm pm STATIONS. pm pr
8 20 12 50 Camden 12 25 5 3o
8 50 1 15 Dekalb ll 02 4 50
9 20 1 27 Westville 11 60 4 SC
10 60 1 40 Kershaw 11 35 4 lo
11 20 2 10 Beatb Seringa ll 20 3 If
11 35 2 15 Pleasant Hill 1115 3 OC
12 30 2 35 Lancaster 10 55 2 3!
1 00 2 PO Riverside 10 40 1 OX
1 20 3 00 Springdell 10 30 12 4o
2 30 3 10 Catawba Jonction IO 20 12 20
2 50 3 20 Leslie . 10 10 ll Of
3 10 3 40 Rock Hill 10 00 10 40
4 10 3 55 New Port 9 35 8 2C
4*45 4 02 Tirzah 9 30 8 GC
5 30 4 20 Yorkville 9 15 7 3(
6 00 4 35 Sharon 9 00 6 5c
6 25 4 50 Hickory Grove 8 45 6 2C
6 35 5 00 Smyrna 8 35 6 Of
7 00 5 2C Blacksbnrg 8 15 5 3f
pmpm aman
Between
Blackebnrg, 8. C., and MarioB, N C
WEST. EAST
2d cl 1st cl 1st cl 2dc
.ll ?33 Eastero time. *32 ?12
am Dm STATIONS. am pu
8 10 5 30 Blacksbnrg 7 48 6 4<
8 30 5 45 Earls 7 32 6 2(
8 40 5 50 Patterson Springs 7 25 6 IS
9 20 6 00 Shelby 7 15 6 CC
10 00 S 20 Lattimore 6 55 4 5f
10 10 6 28 Mooresboro 6 48 4 4(
10 25 6 38 Henrietta 6 38 4 2(
10 50 6 55 Forest Citv 6 20 3 5*
1115 7 10 Rutberfordton 6 05 3 2
11 35 7 22 Millwood 5 55 3 0
11 45 7 35 Golden Valley 6 40 2 5<
12 05 7 40 Thermal City 5 37 '2 4?
12 25 7 58 Glenwood 5 17 2 2<
12 50 8 15 Marion 5 00 2 Of
pmpm am p n
Weet. Gaffney Divisioc. Eas'
1st Claes I .EASTERN TIME. : 1st Cit.:
15 I 13 I STATIONS. I 141 H
pm am
1 00 6 00
1 20 6 20
1 40 6 40
pm am
*! Blacksbnrg
Cherokee Falls
2 Gaffoey
am p t
7 50 3 0
7 30 24'
7 10 22
am pr
.Dany except Sonday.
Train No 32 leaving Marion, N. C., at
a m, making close connection at Blaeksbarg,
C, with the Southern's train No 36 for Chai
lotte, N C, and all points Bast ano connectin
with the Southern's vestibule goiDg to Atlante
Ga, and all points West, and will receive ps*
seagers going East from train No 10, on the C ?
N W R R, at Yorkville, SC, at 8 45 a m, an
connects at Camden, S C, with the Southern
train No 78, arriving in Charleston, 8 17 p n
Train No 34 with passenger coach attnch?
leaving Blacksburg at 5 30 am, and connectin
at Rock Hill with the Southern's Florida trai
for all points South,
Train No 33 leaving Camden, S C, at 12.5
p rn, after the arrival of the Southern's Chai
le8ton train connects at Lancaster, S C, wit)
the LA C R R, at Catawba Jnnction ?r?tl
the SAL. going East; at Rock Hill, S C, wit?
the Southern's tra?B, No 34, for Charlotte, I
C, and all points East. Ccnnects at Yorfe
ville, S C, with train No 9 on the C a N W 1
R, for Chester, S C. At Blacksbnrg with tt
Southern's vestibule going East, and the SoutL
em's train No 35 going West, and connectin
at Marion N C with the Southern both East ai
West.
SAMUEL HUNT, President
S. TRIPP, Superintendent
A.B. LUCKIN. Gen'i Patienter A/r-nt
Atlantic Coast Line
WILMINGTON? COLUMBIA AND ?
GUSTA RAILROAD.
Condensed Schedule.
Dated March 4, 1901.
TRAINS GOING SOUTB.
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marios
Arrive Florence
Leave Florence
Arriva Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
pNo. bb No. 3t
p. m.
.3 46
:. 49
f 25
fp. m. a. m.
.8 00 ?2 50
9 12 3 68
No. 62
9 12 ?9 23
10 35 10 55
No. 52 roos through trots Charleston *
Central R.R., leaving Charleston 6.25 a. r
Lanes 8 02 a rn, Manning 8 50 a m
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave Columbia
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
\ rrive Florence
.eave Florence
[.eave Marion
Arrive Wilmington
Ko. 54 No. 58
a. m. p. m
.6 40 *4 15
?8 06 6 35
No. 35
a. m. p. va
8 05 ?6 34
9 20 * 35
a. m.
10 00.
10 35
1 25
.Daily, tDaily except Snndav.
No 63 rans through to Charleston, S. <
. ia Central R. R., arriving Mann.ng f 04
m .Lanes 6.43 p tr, Charleston 8 30 p ?.
Trains on Conway Branch leave Cbadboni
11.50 a m, arrive Conway 1 30 p m, retu
ing leavp Conway 3 40 pm, an ive Ct a
bourn 5 20 p rn, leave Chadbonrt; 7.CO a n
?rrive Elrod 10 25 a m, returniop ?f.*'f Biro
5 55 p m, arrive Chadbourn 8.3' p m, D^'
except Sunday.
J. R. KENLY, Gen'! Manager :
T. M EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
R - RRSON Qpn'lPftPS A tren
Vinegar.
I have on hand a lot o
Eome-made Vinegar of ver;
fine quality. The flavor is del
icate. while the strength ii
equal to any to be had.
Will be sold at my residenc*
for 40 cents per gallon.
Iff; ?. OfcTEKJV
ASK YOUR FRIENDS!
YOU FIND THAT THERE ARE MORE
SHEFF
PIANOS
Used by people who know a good piano that
any otter make Its because Stieff Pianos
are better ard cost lees than others.
Moving, Tuoiog and Repairing ; Accom?
modating Terms. Catalogue and book of
8Qgee8tIoo8 cheerfully giren.
CHAS. M. STIEFFj
Wardrooms, 9 North Liberty Street.
Aiken and Lan mle street?.
BALTIMORE, MD.
THE BANK OF SUMTER,
SUMTER, 8. C.
City and County Depositary
Capital stock paid io, . . $75,000 Od
Undivided sorplas, . . . 16,000 00
Individual liability of stockholders
ic excesa of their stock, . 75,000 Od
Transacts a general backing business; also
has a Savings Back Department Deposits of
SI and op ward received. Interest allowed a*
the rate of 4 j er cent, per annum, payable
ssmi-aoooally.
W F. B. HAYNSWORTH, President.
MARIOX Moisx, W. F. RBAJII,
Vice-President. Cashier?
Jan 31.
SASH ! - DOORS !
BLINDS ! ETC
I am agent for a reli?
able Sash, Door and
Blind Factory in the
State, and am prepar?
ed to fill such orders
with promptness and
dispatch?
You can save money
by giving me your or?
ders.
Respectfully,
A. D. HARRY,
Leave all orders at H. Har?
by's Stable.
Dec 12-3m.
The Commoner,
Issued Weekly,
William J* Bryan,
Editor and Publisher.
LINCOLN, - - Nebraska.
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Six Months, .60
Three Months, 35
Single Copy, 05
Nv traveling canvassers are employed
'erme for tocal egeote will be sent cpo?
tpplication. AH money should be sent by
P 0 order. Express order, or by back draft
to New York or Chicago. Do cot tend
individual cbecks or stamp?.
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ron eeo get the 4 Commoner" at club rata,
75 cents a y?ar
uiiii ru. m,
Fire Insurance Agency
ESTABLISHED 186?.
Represent, amoag other Companies
LIVERPOOL * LONDON * GLOBE
NORTH BRITISH k MERCANTILE
HOME, of New York.
UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. *
LANCASTER INSURANCE CO.
Capital represented $75,800,000.
Feb 28.
FIRST NATIONAL BINK OF
SUMTER,
STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DE?
POSITORY, SUMTER, S. C.
Paid op Capital.$ 75,000 Ot
Surplus and Profits - . - - 25,000 9i
\dditiooal Liability of Stock
- holders io excess of their
stock. 75,000 00
o'al protection to depositors, $175 000 90
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Special attention given to collections.
?SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Io
-reft aliowed at the rnte of 4 per cent, per
ncam. on amounts abov? $5 ?nd not exceed?
e $300, payable quarterly, on fi ? st days of
?i uary. April, July ?cd Octooet.
R M. WALLACE,
L. S. CARSOM, President.
Cashier.
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