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Gentlemen : I have used your Mexican Mustang Liniment for over 30 years on ray trotting and stage horeesr for all kind of sprains and praises ttfat hprses aro liable to, and consider it the best Liniment in use. I recommend it to all farmers and persons using horses. I T.PAXSON. Formerly of "; , ' 7 ' " -Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va. Transporter of U.S. mails for J2 years between Buffalo Lithia Springs and Scotts h"rg, Va. Owner of the celebrated trot- ii ng horse " Twister." Now propnetor oi nfxei ormandie, Danville, vaj UU w ' ' idol: i I have knows it young, 1 have known it old, I have found an Idol cf pnmst gold. . - And yet there has always come a day - naen i saw tnat tne idol's feet were clay. - ' ''-if-. ' -' Of purest cold was fashioned the rest. la that old idol I loved the best. And, ah, that there should be this to say ,X ' That the feet were clay, the feet were clay. --" Ton may watch till watchintr tmdoea vrm imisht. - l Never the gold is a whit less bright. ' The idbl never shall lose a ray,: But the feet are clay, the feet are clay. - I had counted, half knowing, the cost before. "ix oniy.tne mot is mine taadnro I cried, "it is naught if the trumpets bray -That the feet are clay, the feet are clay. If the thunder's voice should hear it nfor - That the idol in what nil idols are; u i rage mem tot gold, what matters it, pray, If the feet of the idol are only clay?' And yd tne news some day must come -With the tune of han or the rattle of drain. In strife of sonadrons. on moonlit bav. - "That the feet are, after all, nothing but clay. tet the pedple tell it, and let them repeat What tales they like of the idol's feet. To this assurance my life I'll hold ' i " That the idol s heart is of purest gold. A worshiper must be brave and wise; ' The gold is a dauntless gazer's prize; Tia the blind who chant in the same doll way That the feet bf our idols are always clay. -; . j' . - . . f v! -' " liet the darkened eyes of the blind awake; - . Let them see the truth for the truth's own sake ; They shall know 'tis a foolish tale is told That even the feet are of aught but gold. " Xt the blind but open their eyes to the light. aay, ici mem see truth in their visions of ";- - Bight, v '-- - 1 -V So ahall they an idol fashioned behold -ThrouKh and through of the purest gold."' -Walter H. Pollock in Longman's Magazine. TAMING A SHREW. I have always had a slight suspioion that the following narrative is not qnite true. It -was related to pie by an old seaman, who, among other incidents of a somewhat adventurous career, claimed to have received Napoleon's sword at the battle of Trafalgar and a wound in the back at Waterloa I prefer to tell it in my own way, his being too garnished with, nautical terms and expletives as to bo .half unintelligible and somewhat horrifying. Our talk had been of love and courtship, and after! making me a present of several tips invented by him self, and considered invaluable by his friends,', he related this Btory of the courtship of a chum of his as illustrat ing the great lengths to which young bloods were prepared to go in his days to attain their ends. j It was a fine, clear day in June when Hezekiah Lewis, captain and part owner of the 6chooner Thames, bound JCrom London to Aberdeen, anchored off the little out of tb way town of Oxford, in Suffolk. Among other ; antiquities the town, possessed Eezekiah's widowed mother, and when there was no very great hurry the world! went slower in those days the dutiful; son used to go ashore mtiio snip's poat, ana after a filial tap at his mother's window, which often start leu the old lady considerably, pass on his way to see a young lady to whom he had already proposed for five times without effect j The mate and crew of the schooner, seven all told, drew up in a little knot as the skipper, in bis shore going clothes, appeared on deck add regarded him with an air of grinning, mysterious in terest - ' r ' "Now, yon all know what yon have got to do?1' queried the skipper. "Aye, aye," replied the crew, grin ning still more deeply. Hezekiah regarded them closely, and then ordering the boat to be lowered scrambled over the side and was pulled : swiftly toward the shore. A sharp scream land a breathless "Lawk a mussy me!" as he tapped at his mother's windowi assured him that the old lady was alive and well, and he continued on his wayi until he brought up at a small but pretty house m the next road. r "Morning, Mr. Rnmbolt," said he heartily to a stout, red faced man who sat smoking in the doorway. "Morning, cap'n, morning, said the red faced man. 1 "Is the rheumatism any better?" in quired Hezekiah anxiously as he grasped the other's huge hand. "So, so, " said the other, "but it ain't the rheumatism so much what troubles me," he resumed, lowering his voice and looking round Cautiously. - "It's Kate." S "What?" asked the skipper. i "You've heard of a man being hen pecked?" inquired Mr. . Rumbolt in tones of husky confidence. The captain nodded. "I'm chick picked, " murmured the other. ! ; "What?" inquired; the astonished mariner again. . "Chick picked," repeated Mr. Bum. bolt firmly, ' 'o-h-i-k-p-e-k-e-d I D'ye un derstand me?" The captain said that he did and stood silent awhile, with the air of a man who wants to say something, but is half afraid to speak. At last," with a desper ate appearance' of resolution, he bent down to the old man's ear. "That's the deaf un, 'i' said Mr. Rum- bolt promptly. j Hezekiah changed ears,' speaking at first slowly and awkwardly, but becom ing more fluent as he warmed with his subject, while the expression of his lis tener's face gradually changed from in credulous bewilderment to one of uncon trollable mirth. He became so uproari ous that he was fain to push the captain away from him and lean back in his chair and choke and laugh until he near ly lost his breath, at which crisis a re markably pi-city girl appeared from the back: of ; the house and patted him with hearty good will j . ' , "That'll do, my dear,'"said thechok-; ing ? Mr. Rumbolt "Hero's Captain Lewis." ' ;- : ' ; .': rJ !- . "I can 6ee him," said his daughter calmly.- "What's he standing on tea leg for?" t '- : The skipper, who really was standing . '. - -. . .J.j.' in a somewnai consiraiueu utuuuuc, colored violently and plaited both feet firmly on the ground. "Being as I was passing close in, Miss Rumbolt," said he,, "and coming ashora to see mother" j ' ' To the captain's.discomfort manifes tations of a further attack on the part of Mr. Rumbolt appeared, but were promptly quelled by the daughter. ; 'Mother," she'repeated encouraging- "I thought I'd come-ojn and : ask yon just to pay a sort o' flying visit to the Thames." ..'. '-' - K i "Thank you. I'm comfortable enough where I am," said the girt "I've got a conple of monkeys and a bear aboard which I'm tikingto a men agerie in Aberdeen," coiitinued the cap tain, "and the thought struck me yon limight possibly like to see 'em." - - "Well, I don't aaw,r saw ine nam BeVin a flutter, i'ls it a big bear?" "Have you ever seeu an elephant?" inquired Hezekiah cautfonsly. "Only in pictures," replied the girL "Well, it's as big as. that, nearly," said be.. i .. . ; - ' The temptation was irresistible, ana Miss Rumbolt, telling ber father that she should not be long, jdisappeared into the bouse in search of her bat and jacket, and ten minutes later the brawny row ers were gazing their fill into her deep blue eyes as she sat in the stern of the fccfrt and told Iewia to himself. . .THE It . was but a,; short ; pull . out to the schooner, and Misr Rumbolt was soon ' on the deck, lavishing 'endearments , on ; the monkey and energetically prodding the bear with a handspike to make him growL . The noise of the offended ani mal as be strove to get through the bars of his cage was terrific, and the girl was in the fall (enjoyment of . it ,wben , she c became aware of a louder Uoise still, and r turning; rouad saw; the seamen at the " windlass.fS? iP::kgkf, -"if ' - V Why, what are they doingP'Uhe de manded. ' 'Getting nprunchor?"- .: . "Ahoy, there!" shouted Hezekiah sternly. "What are yon doing with that windlass?" . - As be spoke the anchor peeped over the edge of the bows, and one of - the seamen, running past .them, took the helm. . t "Now, then," shouted the fellow! "standby. Look lively there with them sailst" . . .- . . , Obeying a light touch of the helm, the schooner '8 bowsprit swung round from the land, and the crew, hauling lustily.cn the ropes, began to hoist the sails. " What the dev il are yon up to?' ' thun dered the skipper. "Have you all gone mad? What does it all mean?" Vlt means," said one of the seamen, whoso fat. amiable face was marred by a fearful scowl, "that we've got a new skipper." - ;-" . ... . . - "Good heavens, a mutiny !" exclaimed .the skipper, starting melodramatically against the cage and starting hastily away again. " Where's the mate?? ; f "He's with us," said another seaman, brandishing his sheath knife and scowl ing fearfully." He's our new captain. In confirmation of this the mate now appeared from below with an ax in his hand, and, approaching his . captain, roughly ordered him below. "I'll defend this lady with my life," cried Hezekiah, taking the handspike from Kate and raising it above his head. "Nobody'll hurt a hair of her beauti ful bead, " said the mate,' with a tender smile. "Then I yield,." said the skipper, drawing himself up and delivering np the handspike with the air of a defeated admiral tendering bis sword, v "Good, " said the mate briefly as one of the men took itvs " "What!" demanded Miss Rumbolt ex citedly. "Ain't you going to fight them? Here, give me that handspike. " Before the mate could interfere the sailor, with thoughtless obedience, hand ed it over, and Miss Rumbolt at once tried to knock him over the head. Being thwarted in this design by the man tak ing flight, she lost her temper entirely and bore down like a hurricane on the remaining members . of the crew, who were just approaching. They scattered at onco and ran up the rigging like cats, and for a few moments the girl held the deck, Then the mate crept up behind her, and with the air of a man whose Job exactly suited him clasped her tight ly round tho waist while one of the sea men disarmed her. "You must both go-below till we've settled what to do with you, " said the mate, reluctantly releasing her. With a wistful glance at the' hand spike the girl walked to the cabin, fol lowed slowly by the skipper. "This is a bad business," said the latter, shaking his head solemnly, as the indignant Miss Rumbolt seated herself. "Don't talk to me, yon coward, " said the girl energetically. The skipper started. "I made three of 'em run, " said Miss Rumbolt, "and you did nothing. You just stood still and le.t them take the ship. I'm ashamed of you." The skipper's defense was interrupted by a hoarse voice shouting to them to come on deck, where they found the mu tinous crew gathered aft round the mate. The girl cast a look at the shore, which was now dim and indistinct, and turned sopiewhat pale as the serious nature of her position forced itself upon her. "Lewis, " said the mate. "Well," growled the skipper. "The ship's going in the lace and brandy trade, and if so be as you're sen sible you can go with it as mate, d'ye hear?" "An s'pose I do, what about the lady?" inquired the captain. "You and the lady '11 have to get spliced," said the mate sternly. "Then there'll be no tales told. A Scotch mar riage is as good s any. and we'll just lay off and put yon ashore, and you can get tied up as right as ninepence. " "Marry a coward like that?" demand ed Miss Rumbolt with spirit "Not if I know it Why, I'd sooner marry that old man at the helm. " "Old BiH'g got three wives a'ready to my sartiii knowledge," spoke up one of thu sailors. "The lac!y''s got to many Captain Lewis, so don't let's have no fuss about it " "I won't" raid thewlady, stamping violently. , The mutineers appeared to be in a dilemma, and following the example of the mate scratched their heads thought fully. "We thought you liked him," said the mate at last feebly. "You had no business to think, " said Miss Rumbolt "You are bad men, and you'll all bo hung, every one of yon. I shall come and see it " "The cap'n 's welcome to her for me," murmured the helmsman in a husky whisper to the man next to him. "The vixen!" "Very good," said the mate, "if you won't, yon won't. This end of the ship'U belong to you after 8 o'clock of a night Lewis, von must ga for'ard with the men. " ' "And what are you going to do with me after?" inquired the fair prisoner. The seven men shrugged their shoul ders helplessly, and Hezekiah, looking very depressed, lit his pipe and went and leaned over the side. - The day passed quietly. ; The orders were given by the mate, and Hezekiah lounged moodily about, . a prisoner at large. At 8 o'clock Miss Rumbolt was given the key of the stateroom, and the men who were not in the watch went below. The morning broke fine and clear, with a light breeze, which toward mid day dropped entirely, and the schooner lay rocking lazily on a sea of glassy smoothness. The sun beat fiercely down, bringing the fresh paint on the taffrail np in blisters and sorely trying the tempers of the men who were doing odd jobs on deck. The cabin where the two victims of the mutinous crew bad retired for cool ness got more and more stuffy until at length even the scorching deck seemed preferable, and the girl, with a faint hope of finding a 6hady corner, went lan guidly up the common ladder. . For some time the skipper sat alone pondering gloomily over the state of affairs as he smoked his short pipe. He was aroused at length from bis apathy by the sound of the companion noisily closed, while loud frightened cries and hurrying footsteps on deck announced that something extraordinary was happening.- As he arose to his feet he was confronted, by Kate Rumbolt, who, pant ing and excited, waved a big key before him. ' " ' ' ' ."I've done it," she cried, her eyes sparkling. "Done what?" shouted the mystified Bkipper. ' r - "Let the bear- loose, " said the girL "Ha, ha, you should have seen em run! You should have seen the fat sailor I' : "Let : the phew! let the good heavens, hero's a pretty kettle of fish, " . be choked.. . . i V-: . . "Listen to 'em shouting, ' ' cried the exultant.- Kate, clapping her hands. . "Just listenl" -. ."Those shouts are from aloft, ,said Hezekiah ""sternly, "where you and I ought farml&i. . "I've elosod the oompanionr' said libe girl reawnringlyi:.ny.:; r - "Closed the "companion," repeated Hezekiah as .be' drew bis .knife. T"He can smash it . like cardboayd if . the fit takes hiin. - Go in here. w'v r; i ; He opened' the door of bis stateroom. . ? "Shan't," said Miss Rumbolt polite ly. - -k: "Go in at once, cried the skipper, ."quick with you." ! . - ,' . : V " ' "Sha" began Miss Rumbolt again. Theiisbe caught his eye and went in like a Iamb. 'You come- too, ' she said pret- - -I've got to look after r my ship and my men," said the skipper. "I suppose you tnougnt tne snip would steer itself, didn't you?" v t iS..y i - S-A "Mutineers deserve to Abe eaten, " whispered .Miss Rumbolt piously, some what taken aback by the skipper's de meanor. -'.r-fsr -C J Hezekiah looked at her. ."They're not mutineers,; Kate," he said quietly." "It was, just a piece of mad folly of mine. They're as honest a set of old sea dogs as. ever breathed, and I only hope they are all safe up aloft' I'm going to lock you in, but don't be frightened; it shan't hurt you." -.- ' . He slammed the door on her protests and locked it, and slipping the key of the cage in his pocket book took a firm grip of his" knife, and" running up the steps gained the deck. " Then his breath came more freely, for the mate, who was standing a little -way np the fore rig ging, after temptingthe bear with his foot bad succeeded in dropping a noose over its head. The brute made a furious attempt to extricate itself, font the men hurried down with other lines, -and in a short space of time the bear presented much the same appearance as the lion in 2Esop's fables, and was dragged and pushed, a heated and indignant mass of f ur, back to its cage. ; Having locked up one prisoner, the skipper went below and released the other, who passed quickly from a some what hysterical condition to one of such haughty disdain that the captain was thoroughly cowed and stood humbly aside to let her pass. , - -, The fat seaman was standing in front of the cage as she reached it and regard ing the bear with much satisfaction un til Kate sidled up to him and begged him as a personal favor to go in the cage and undo it "i "Undo it! Why, he'd kill me!" gasped the fat seaman, aghast at such simplicity. "I don't think he would, " said his tormentor, with a bewitching smile, "and I'll wear a lock of your hair all my life if you do. ?nt you'd better give it to me before you go in. " ... "I ain't going in, " said the fat sailor shortly. : ."i ' 'Not for me?" inquired Kate archly. "Not for 50 like you, " replied the old man firmly. : "He nearly had me when he was loose. I can't think how he got out" "Why, I let Ram bolt airily. him out, " said Miss "Just for a little run. How would you like to. bo shut up all day?" The sailor was just going to tell her with more fluency than politeness when Ae was interrupted. "That'll do," said the skipper, who had come behind them. "Go frward, yon. There's been enough of this fool ing; the lady thought you had taken the ship. Thompson, 1 11 take the helm. There's a little wind coming. Stand by there," L He walked aft and relieved the steers man, awkwardly conscious that the men were becoming more and more interest ed in the situation,, and also that Kate could hear some of their remarks. As be pondered over the subject and tried to think of a way out of it the cause of all the trouble came and stood by him. . " Did my father know of this?' ' she in quired. . "I don't know that he did exactly, said the skipper uneasily. "I just told him not to expect yon back tonight" "And what did he say?" said sha "Said he wouldn't sit up," said the skipper, grinning despite himself. Kate drew a breath the length of which boded no good to her parent and looked" over the side. "I was afraid of that traveler; chap from Ipswich," said Hezekiah after a pause. "Your father told me he was hanging around you again, so I thought I well, I was a blamed fool anyway. , "See how ridiculous you have made me look before all these men," said the girl angrily. "They've been with mo for years. said Hezekiah apologetically, "and the mate said it was a magnificent idea He quite roared about it, he did. I wouldn't have done it with some crews, but we've had some dirty times together, and they've stood by me welL But of course that's nothing to do with you. It's been an adventure I'm very sorry for, very. " "A pretty safe adventure for you," said the girl scornfully. "You didn't risk much. Look here, I like brave men, If you go in the cage and undo that bear, I'll marry you. That's what I call an adventnra '.' "Smith, " called the skipper quietly, "Come and take the helm a bit. " The seaman obeyed, and Lewis, ac companied by tho. girl, walked forward. At the bear's cage he stopped, and, rum bling in bis pocket for the key, steadily regarded tho brute as it lay gnashing its teeth and trying in vain to bite the ropes which bound it "You're afraid," said the girl taunt ingly. "You're quite white. " The captain made no reply, but eyed ; her so steadily that her gaze - fell. He drew the key from bis pocket and insert' 'ed it in the huge lock and was just turn' ing it when a soft arm was drawn through his and a soft voice murmured in his ear, "Never mind about the old bear." And he did not mind. Chicago Trib une. BojTs Explanation of the Trinity. ' Sir W. H. Hamilton's domestio life was brightened by children to whom he was devotedly attached. . "That little boy, " he once said, point ing to a boy about 5 or 6 years old, "ran np to me the other day, and cross ques tioned me about the mysteries in. the doctrine of the Trinity. " 'How,' he demanded, 'can there be three, and yet only one?' I answered, 'You are too young for such matters; go back to your top.' , "He flogged it about the passages a score of times, then returned to me and said, 'I have found it all out this-is the explanation,' and propounded his theory. 'You are wrong,' I answered; 'you are too young to understand the matter; go and play. ' "He returned three tunes more, suc cessively, and each time propounded a new explanation, and received the same answer. "But now listen! His four explana tions of the mystery were the four great heresies of the first four centuries! He discovered them all for himself. I did not give him the slightest assistance. What an intellect!" Century Maga zine.; . . ".- Mummy Wheat. Candarolle says that -the "mummy wheat' that is, wheat taken from mummy cases has never been known to sprout Instances to the contrary are. believed to be the result of fraud on the part of Arabs who frequently introduce modern grain into the sarcophagi in or der to impose on the oulity of travel ers. . THE ARMADILLO. A Beast Odd and Wild Which Famishes iToothsofme ttepasttJ;:?:- With other strange forms of lifefound in far Patagonia la the armadillo, an ani mal with habits that cannot foil to Interest amateur naturalists. .There are two forms of the armadillo. - Roughly sueaklnar. one la like a hairy guinea pig with a pointed turtle shell over , its back and head, while .the other is like a thick turtle without any oreastpiate. xne iormer is very rare even In its haunts in the Andes. -The latter is everywhere abundant. : As described by - BARB ARMADILLO HAIRY ARMADILLO. ' all who have seen it the latter will eat and get fat very fat on anything from -I grass roots to decayed fish or cattle, from an' ant to a poisonous serpent, from straw berries to rats and mice. In the wilderness it roams about by day because the cats of the desert persecute It most at night . IN ear the settlements, where, . by the way, is thrives begt, it is abroad at night because man persecutes it In the day. Slow moving as it sejems to be when the trav eler sees it at sunset, it overtakes the ser pents of the region in a fair race and kills them by squatting on them and sawing its body to and fro so that the edges of its protective shell cut the snake to pieoes. It captures mioe by sneaking on them cat fashion and-throwing its body over them like a trap. ' It grubs for worms. It robs nests of eggs and fledgelings. Now, al though it eats a great many things that are repulsive to civilized tastes, the arma dillo is itself a most delicious article of food for any human taste, civilized or un civilized. The variety in its bill of fare seems but to add delicacy to its flesh. A writer in the New York Sun, who has in hiii journeyings eaten nearly every kind of" I fish, flesh and fowl served between Ivigtut,. Greenland, and Ushuala, Terra del Fuego, claims, to have found nothing . quite so much to his taste as an armadillo baked In the embers of an outdoor fire on the desert of Patagonia v Effects of Temperature. Experiments of Pictel, the French chem ist show that animals and Insects oppose a wonderful resistance to intense cold ob tained from liquefied atmospheric air. A dog placed in a copper receiver at a tem perature of 60 to 90 degrees C. showed a rise of bodily temperature of .5 in ten minutes, and after l'A hours had only lost 1 degree. A little later, however; nature gave up the struggle, the temperature fell rapidly, and the animal died suddenly. 'Insects resisfca temperature of 28 degrees, but not 35 degrees. Birds' eggs lose their vitality at 3 to 3 degrees, ants' eggs- at 0. Infusoria die at 90 degrees, while hacteria are still virulent at 213 degrees. This last fact is perhaps the most signifi cant of all. Feeding Boiler Fires at the Bottom. According to The Manufacturers' Ga zette, not only can smoke be suppressed but a saving cf : SO per cent on fuel bills can be effected by feeding boiler fires from underneath Instead of from the top, as has been the custom ever since coal became a fuel. A mechanical 6toker introduces a uniform quantity of fuel at regular inter vals under the boiler, and the combustion thoroughly consumes all of the gases and smoke from tho green coal as it passes through the bed of incandescent coke above it. A Remarkable Performance. Place in the middle of your hand. stretched out. flat a piece of money say a 3 cent piece. Take a brush a clothes- THE COIN THAT CAKNOT BE REMOVED. brush will do put it into the hand of one of your friends and tell him he may have the coin if he succeed in brushing it off your hand. Your friend tries bis Dest, but his enorts are all in vain, for the coin sticks to your hand as if it were glued-there. Of course he is forbidden to strike your hand vio lently with the brush, which would cause the coin to fall instantly to the ground. He must be content to try to brush it oft as If he Were brushing off a spot from a coat There will be many who will listen with incredulity to the statement of this experiment. However, let them try it and see for themselves. , Scientific Brevities. The weight of the sea water of the globe is estimated at 560,000,000,000,000,000 tons. According to some recently published statistics, the United States produces near ly as muob copper as all of thereat of the world together. In Germany aluminium is used for nails In the boots of the soldiery. 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No. 40 Paiscoger Dae Magmlia 8.81 i DAILY", - v n t u p m, Warsaw 8.45 p m, -Go dsboio 9.10 p m, toiboa 10.S7 pm, Tartar. 8.58 a m, i Kocly Mourn 11.13 p m We dou 12.63-s m, . orfola 10.35 a m, Petersburg 3.45 a 5 m, Richmond 3.40 a m, Washington 7.00 .am, Baltimore 8.30 a m, Phiadephia : 10.4. a m, New York 1.83 p m, Beaton 1 8.80 pm. ! ' j - SOUTHBOUND: No. t6 Passenger Doe Lake Wacca mair 4.43 p m, thadb am 5.15 pai, Ma rlon 6.21 p m, Fl reace 7.00 p m, Aikin - &09 p n, Sumte 8.88 p m, Columbia 10.00 p m, Dcna-uk 6.18 a m, Acgosta 8.0J a m, Macon 11.14 a m, AtUnta 1S.15 p m, . Charieaton 11.18 p m. Savannah 119a m, DAILY S.SO P M j )- JaJIcsaaville 70J a m. St. Angnstine ; ' 13.00 nooa.-Tampa bM p m . ARR IV A LS AT W1LMI .GT QN FRO M THE i i ' -. NORTH. : Noi 47 Passenger Leave Boston 1.00 p m, New York 9.00 p m, FhLadelchia DAID i . 18.08am,aBaIiimote 8.59 a m, W.s4ing : ton 4.30 am, Richmond 9.(5 am, Fetcrs ; ! burg B 60 a m, Norfolk 8.40 a rs, Woldon .1 11.53 a m, Tarboro 13.30 p m, Rocky Mount I'jufi p m, Wilson 8.08 p m, Goids 1 bora 8.55pm, Warsaw3.49pm, Magnolia "i r4j03aia. , ! DAILY No. 41 Passenger Leave Boston 11.00 10.00 am p m, ,Neir York 9.00 m, Phil-delphia 1.11 88am, Baltimore 318 p m, Washhg- U?o 3.80 p m, JUchmond 7 11 p m. Peiers hurg p m, tJacr.oIk 3.10 p m, Wel doa 9.S7p m, fTaxboro 5.53 p m, Rocky Mount 10.30 p m, ai rive usUon 11.08 p m, Itave Wilson 6 85 a m, GouLboro 7 SO a mi 'Warsaw 8.16 a m, Magnolia 8.89 a m.- -FROM THE SOUTH. DAILY K6 ;E6PastengtT Leave Tampa 9 80 a 1 50.A m ta, Saoiord 1.6j a m, Jacksonville 6 SO p m Savannah 13 OOnighi.Cbarleston 4 13 a m, Commbia 6 Jt a m, Atlanta 7 1. a m, Ma con 9 00 a m, angnsta 3.10 p M, Denmark 4.87 pm, .umt.r 6.43 p m, Atains 7.04 a m, fiorence 8.35am, Mai ion 9.06 a m, Chadbouro 1.10 a m. Lake Waccamaw 10.3. a m.' Daily except ftunoay. Trains on Scotland Ncek Branch Road leave WeV ifc 8.40 pm, Hall ax 4.00 tftn, arrive Scotland Ned 4J55 pm, Greenville 6.87pm, Kinston 7 86 pm. R waning, leaves Kinston 7 SO a m, Greenville 82 a m Atevmg Halilaa at 11 00a m,Wel!on 11.80 a m, daU stpt Sondav. : SSiuns oa Washington Branch leave Washingtot 7M. m., arrive Parmele 8.40 a. m., Tarboro 9 60; re retfstting leaves Tarboro 4 50 p m; Parmele 6.10 p. m arrsaes Washington 76 p. m. Daily except Sunday. Connects with trains on Scotland Neck Branch. Tsn leaves Tarboro.N.Ci. daily except Sunday, at 5.00' Jtm j Sunday 3.00 p m ; arrive Plymouth 9 00 p m, Si p m. Returning, leave Plymouth daily except Sundjfjf 6.00 a al, Sunday 9 30 a -mi Arrive Tarboro 10 35 .am and If 45 a a. Txalmfu Midland N C Brsach leaves Gbldsbora, N Cm dallr except Sunday, 6 05 a m ; arrive SmhhfieU N. C, tJO a m. Returning, leaves Smlthfield, N. C; 8 00 a oti arrive Goldsboro, N. C, 9 80 a m. Trah- Nashville Branch leaves Rocky Mount at tSO p matTives Nashville 5.05 p m. Spring Hope 5.80 p m. Ratsnning, leaves Spring Hope 8 am, Naah llUe 8 85 -?n; arrive Rocky Mount 9 05 a m, dally xcept Stp$ay. r ; Train ofc Chnron Branch leave Warsaw for Clinton Dailyexcope,5unlayat410p m; returning leave Clin ton at 70' m., connecting at Warsaw with main line train. ; , i i Traiasoojputh and Nrrth Carolina Railroad leave Aikin at 9.4a m and 6 30 p m,arilve Lucknow 1.10 a m and $ pW Jn; iciurning have Lucknow 6.45 a m and 4 3J p marrive Atkins 8 15 a m and 5.50 p m. Floreni e Katfmart leave Pee Dee 749 a m, arrive Latta 8.10 a if Dunbar 7.50 pm, Dillon 8.23 a m. Leave Dillon 4 p m, Dunbar 60 a m, Latts 8.48 P m, arrive Pea Pee 6. '9 pm, daily except Sondav. i WDmingr'jChadJxmrn and Conway Railroad leave Hub 8.15 jn, Chadboum 9.00 .-. m, arrive Con way at ltf.10 p5i leave Ccnway: 8 00 p m, Chad bourn h.ZS p m, rrive Hub 6.S0 p m, Daily except Sunday.! h-f j Cheraw and.4trHngton Bailroad leave Florence 7.88 a m. 8.8 a-, 8.53 pm.ar.ive Darlington 8.15 a m. 9.05 a m, 9il5 p m, Har sviUe 10.15 p m, Cheraw, S. C, 10.S5 a mWadesboro 13.30 p m, kave wades, boro 8.00 p m. Cfeaw8.45 p m, Hartsvil e 4.80 a m, DarlinKto 6.05 4.30 p m 5.35 am, arrive Flor ence6.4 pm,5m.6an. Daily except Sunday. O ntral of South; Carolina Railroad leve Sumter 5.50 p m, Maanin5.Sl p m, arrive Lane 7 p m, leave Ians8 88 a m. Wknning 9.15 a! m. arrive Sumter 9.44a m. Daty Georgetown aed fstem Railroad leave Lan s 9.50 a m. 7 10 p m, arrirwt Georgetown 13 a m , 8.30 p m, leave Georgetown m. 8 p m. arrive Lanes 8.35 a m, 6.35 p m. ' D.iVf xcept Sunday. W&oe and Fayetawilte B anch' leave Wilon 3 03 pm,1108pn.arriSefScIma3.53pm Fmithfield 3.f8 p m, Dunn 8.44 p mjjFaei teville 4 81 p m. 181.58 am, Bow and 5.5- pm. Wce Rowland 8 89 p m, Fayette villelO.lOa m. 9.lSn,Dunn U.iSa m, fmi bfitld li.M a m, teima u.Mia m, arrive Wilson . p m, aa p to. iits't H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Passenger Agent. J. R. KENLY, Gefl Manager. T. M. EMERSOJrTraflic Manager, jvn 5 tf Wl9W Eailwav. In Effect Eundiy, Jan. 27, I 'D " Dah. Itacrt Sunday. 1885. NOPTH ! BOUM 4 i ; P M ft M 380 700 715 4 88 17 4 64 tO 57 5 08 11 18 5 4 18 00 PM I M V. ' STATIONS SOUTH a I- n BOUND - . M 1 8 WjlillNGTON M If M Lv.. MulhTy street ..Ar 13 00 7 CO Lvm.Suny street... Ar 6 50 Lv..Jaciville......Lv 10 07 4 80 Lv..Mrre......Lv 9 8' 8 90 Lv..Poloesvfle Lv til 8 00 Ar..Newtfo Lv 8 4. 8 80 !' " SI. Tm p m Trains 1 and 4 make ckae connection with trains on A. ft N.C R. R. far Mimhead Citv and Beaufort. Steamers -n New KM leave Jackfon flle at 7 80 a m; returning leave Hiiae i IX m, arriving at jacr sonville 8.00 p m, connecgng with trains 4 and 8. I ; 1 Hi H. A. WHITING. i General Managr r j. W, MART EN IS, n- m Tnfhc'afanairM isn 29 tf Seasonable Goods. In store, and arriving daily, a choice selection cfeseasonable goods. We have on hand? RAISINS of etery variety, from 8c to 25c per pound. CITRON, fromi5c to 25c per lb. CURRENTS, m prices, all grades. NUT?, all pric, all grades. We wonld like to oall special at tention I to onr tassortment of the above goods. I CHEESE Swftker, ' Roqqefort, Neufchetel, Framage de Bnc, Edam, Pineapple, English Dairy and Ameri can Cream. All pesh and of finest qualityjjj ,.: ', M I Plum!: Pudding Spd Mince Meat. Cakes' and Crtlers. A beautiful variety of all kinl too great an as sortment to specify. Will have, to be seen to be appreciated. ' The I above arf 5oniy a few of our specialties. Our .assortment is com plete and we invite all to call and examine before purchasing else where..! ' " I - With four wagers we can deliver promptly. - l j THE JOHN L- iimi&HT CO. If WOJCINCrON, N. c Telentime No. li'r dec9tf There is Cometh ng in This I I,., .nrl milv he, tnv Personal Attentkin. -ee? i JAS. D. NUTT, . 'i a imggm. lf , . i ' i jaa37U - j Cane M & Taita Valley flauwaf Co. JOHN GllilW BcclTr fc - CO-SDJ!lNSD SCHEDUU-, IN EFFECT FEB. 1T tSHS south sound - - - Norm sotwa CUVU.T MAIN LINE. dailt - No.T ' No. i, ' : . T 65 p. u Ar... Wilmington. .-.Lvej . 7 85 a. -4 5 Lv... Fayetteville...Ar 10 8 . 4 88 Ar .. FayetteviUe... Lv 1U t6 ,r v 4 88 " Ar FayetteviUe June Lv 10 68 ' 8 17 "-. Lv,... SanJord..... Ar 18 18 " ' , i S3 - , Lv Climax... ...L 8 8J p. m" t 01 " Lv,... Greensboro... Ar 1 8 Si " !8 t8 - " - Ar....Greensboro.,.. Lv 8 " . UU : Lv....Stokesdale....Av i 8 65 11 15 am - Lv.. .Walnut Cove... Ar 4 i5 11 85 Ar.. Walnut Cove... Lv 4 .3 " 11 06 " . iv.. ..Rural Hall... L 5 01 . 9 45 Lv.....Mt Airy..... Ai 6 85 " SOWTB BOUND " ' InOETB SOUKO DAII.V BcauetsviUe Division. - daily No 8. " j 1 I No. 4! 7 5i p m Ar . . . Kennetisviile. .. Lv 7 0 a. m. 6 81'." Lv.,....Maxtoa.. . Lv 8 U7 " 6 40 w Lv...Red Springs., ..Lv 8 46 ' 4 59 ' Lv....Hope Mills.. ,.L 9 41 4 88 w ' Uv....Favettev.lle... Af 10 05 SOUTH SOUND (NORTH BOUND Daily except Factnrv and Mrdtson Daiiy except Sunday. ' , Bntncbes. Sunday. No. 15. - No. 16. M1XSD. MIXED. 5 40pm Ai kauiseur. .Lv 660 a.m. 4 00 " Lv..... Climax .....Lv 8 85 " g 05 " Lv ... Greensboro. .. At 9 80 w No. 16. KTXKD. NORTH BOUND. daily ex so Leave Green- boro, Leave Stokesdale, 5a. m .0 55 " Arrive Madison 11 15 " No. 15. MLXKD. - SOUTH BOUND. Leave Madison....,,.... Leave Stokesdale..,.,,,..., Arrive Greensboro. ....... daily ex an l.Sp'a 1 87 " 88 " SOStTH-BOUND CONNECTONS. Trains Vos 8 and 4 make close connectioa at Fy etteviile Junction with the Atlantic Coast Line or all Sints North and East. Train No, i connects at San d with the Seaboard Ail Line, Nc rth and South bound, and at Greensboro with the Richmond ft Dan ville tiailroud. North and south-bound, acul at Walnut Core with the Noriolk ft Western K. R.toi instoa Salem. Train No 16 connects at Malison with Nor folk ft Western Railroad .o Roano.. and all pothts North and West. SOUTH-BOUND CONNXCTIONS. Train No. 1 makea close omnectioi, at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk ft Western Kailroad toi Roanoke and all joints Norih and West.; and at Greensboro with the kichmond ft Danville Railroad, Noith and South bound, and atanford with theBeaboaid An I ice ioi all Points North and Souih, and at Fayeuevillr Junc tion with A tla 11 tic Coast Line tor Cbatleston Jackaon vJle, and all Florida points. Train No 8 connects at Maxton with the Seaboard Air Line let Char-one, Atlanta and all points South. ., . W. IS. Kkl-E Genl Passenger Area t. J. W. PBY. Gen'l Manager. eb H tf SEABOARD AIR LINh. Carolina Central E. E. C0RDlf8ED 8CHEPTJLI WHS'l BUuMi l RAirab Wilmington, N C. No 41 No. 23 No403 Jan. 80, 1895. uaily uaii; uailj I P.M. P. M A. M Lea-a Wilmington 8 80 7 8C Ah. Leave Max ten : 61 12 5' Arrive Hamlet 7 00 8 15 Leave Hamlet 7 15 3 00 7 54 Leave Wadesboro 7 55 . 4 SO 8 6 Arrive Monroe 8 55 5 50 9 8i Leave Monroe 9 20 6 3 9 87 Arrive Ctarlotte 10 10 7 45 10 85 ...... Leave Charlotte 10 St5 Leave Lincoln ton 11 47 P. M ..... Leave Shelby : 18 4 Ait Rpthertori-ton 8 1' EAST BOUND TR INS. N0.S8 N0.-6 No402 Daily Daily Daily - A M p M p M Lve Rutherfotdton 4 25 Leave Shelby i 5 58 Leave Lincolnton ...... ...... 6 55 Arrive Charlotte 8 80 Leaxe Chailotte 5 50 6 50 8 80 Arrive Monroe 6 80 10 4 9 0 Leave Monroe 6 6f 11 16 9 15 Leave Wadesboro 7 48 12 85 9 54 A M. Arrive Hamlet 8 4V 1 4J 10 34 Leave Hamlet 8 45 2 15 Leave Maxton 9 28 S 81 I P. M. Arrive Wilmington j 12 80 7 60 Schedule Between Wilmington i and Raleigh. Leave Wilmington 8 SO p m 7.S0 p ui Arrive Raleigh 1.8 a m 11 Oi a m Leave Ra'eiah 5 18am 3.43 p m Arrive llmi gtrn lgSOpm 75'am 8ciedul between Wuniington ! and Atlanta. Leave Wilmington - 8.30pm. 7.30pm ' Arrive Atlanta .52am 409pm Leave Atlanta 9.1 p m l.OOpm Ar.ive Wilmington 12.80 pm 7t0am Sleepers on 85 and 86 between Wilmington and Charlotte, i ' Close connection at Athens by No. 21 for Macrn, and close cua ection at Atl.n'a by Nos 55 and 41 lot Mcbile, New Oilcans, Na.hvi.le and al Southern Western and Northwestern points. Close cennectkn by -5 and 41 tor Augusta. Nos. 40b and 408,'" Atlanta i-pecial," last vestibule, daily for all point North, South and West. Connections made at Lincolnton for Western N. C Bointa. Junction Points At Maxton with C F ft Y V; at Wadesboro with Cheraw ft alh.burv R R; at Hamlet with K ft A, C S ft N, and Paimetto Railway, at Mon roe with G C ft N ; at Charlotte with R&D system; at Lincolnton with C ft L Narrowgase, and at Shalby and Ruthei lord ton with the Three C's. For information as to rates, schedules, &c, apply to THOS. D.MKARES, Agent SAL Wilmington.N C. V E McBEX, Supt, Trans. B St. JOHN, Vice Preadent. JNO. fa lNDtK, Gen'l Mrg. T . ANDERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agt. jan 80 tl PALMETTO RAILROAD Cu To Take said on' Sept. 23, 1884. i BSOfVIN O NOBTH. No. 8 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT. Leave Cheraw, S.C.,,, t,..,4. ...... 6 80 a Leave Kollock Station 60 a. m Leave Osnorne, N. C 7Ja. c Arrive Hamlet, N. C 7.40 a. r. ! MOVING SOUTH. No. 1 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT. Leave Hamlet, N.C.,.,,..,,..... 8.40 am Arrrive Osborne. N.C.... .... r 9 00a ro Leave Kollock Sutton...... 9 80am Arrive Cheraw, S.C.... ,, ........... . 9.50 am Close connection made at Hamlet with trains North South, East and West. . set25tf MONCVIK.. Sum . G-EECOIO-E Seed Potatoes. HOULTON Red Rust Proof Oats. COFFlk. SUGAR. FLOUR. Meat, Salt, - i- :.- " - . - ; MOLASSES, &c, Sec W0ETH & WOETHs janl7tf - - Cotton Hills a SFSClAXiTX. xiuik uauAiiiuii tun. I fitjrn.anduperintendeiicefntasfacdforallkiBdso. I Textile Mills. MM sites and powers examined and I Ifm iirkliMaiJ ImW . Exchange Building, 63 State St,. v , Boston, Maas. . iuMla EARLY ROSE - ii J . . " ! .- :'ik--' : J - 1 .-A ..