The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-10-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

menced ON Monday.
-Bullior in the Bank Of England
increased Isl, 200 during The past week.
New York city is To spend 1000
for water lilies to be placed i'll it parks.
There were reported throughout
Spain Oh Thursday l67 new crses Of
cholera and Sc deaths.
-"Libcriy Enlightcning the World
wants $40, 900 more for chains and
anchors TO keep her stcadfast.
The Porte Las issued ! circular to
the Powers stating that the armamcnts
Of Greece are L menace to peace.
Jay Gould's family have an income
of 81 100000 a year from their invest
mcnt in Missouri Pacific Railroad stock.
The Democrats of Dakota have
determined to take no part in the cleo
ton for Constitution for South Da-
kota.
1t is understood that the sentence
Of death of the leader of the hali-breed
rebellion in Canada will be comnuted
to lifelong serritudc.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has
drawn up special prayers for use IN his
diocese with reference to the approach
ing general election in England.
Capitalists from Dunlap, Iowa,
have formed q company with $4,000
paid up capital for private savings
bank at Chattanooga.
The Swedish bark Zncharias,
Capt. Endresen, which left Whining
ton, y. c., on April II, for Hull, is miss
ing, and it is feared that she is lost.
The President has appointed C..
Never Zulick, Of Arizona, to be Gov
ernor of Arizona, rice Frederick a.
Trille, resigned.
"A. w. Shaw, better known as
"Josh Billings" died at Monterey
Cal on the l4th inst, of apoplexy.
The body was embalmed and sent East.
-Haplan and Lee won the Pleasure
Island boat race near Albany, n. Y
by three lengths in IS minutes and 24i
seconds, defeating Conley and Court.
| ney.
In St. Louis all the street car lines
are running nearly if not quite fnll
| complement Of cars without molesta'
| ton, and the police guard has been
| reduced one-half.
The marine hospital bureau is in
formed that cholera is inc. easing in
fatality in Palermo, and that yellow
, fever is on the increase in Guaymas.
Mexico.
Tho Court of -4hban,u Claims has
refused to reinstate j. F. Manning, the
attorney whose denunciation of the
| Court led to the recent official inycsti-
CATION of its expenses.
There are at least twenty cases OF
smallpox in Marinette, Wis the dis
ease having been brought there b:' a
Montreal citizen. Four deaths have
already occurred.
Thirty counties in Kansas have
nominated Prohibition tickets, and 1t
is expected that at least an equal num-
ber of Prohibition tickets will be
chosen in additional counties.
There were forty-one deaths from
smallpox in Montreal on Tuesday,
eight in St. Cunegonde, five in St.
Henri, five in ST. Jean Baptistc, one in
st. Gabriel and two in Hachelaga.p
George E. Gill, aged scycnty;;dye.
who recently removed to Chattanooga
from Wilmington, Del, was killed oy
freight train at the outskirts of the
city last week while taking walk.
The Harvard College annex, So
called, opened its seventh year on
Monday with sixty-fve Young women
enrolled. 1t now, for the first time
has house Of its own, ahd its ehdo"
ment amounts to $4,000.
Bids were opened at the Treasur& S
Department last week for the brick an
stone work on the new Federal bui!9
ing at Lynchburg, Va. a. NJ. " 8;
Gowan, of Washington, was the 10Y y
est bidder at S26,7OO.
The land office at Washington
received communication stating
Dr.. Powers, who was q Governm
witness in the prosecution OF 4 fratl
lent land case in California, has
slain by J. F. Pruitt, one of tn;
PENDANTS.
The Georgia Legislature adjoY
on Thursday, after summer Sc
of one hundred days. The mos
portaut bill passed was the 6
local option law, under which,:
temperance elections will be nd
various counties.
The Wayne county, Mich.
last week, decreed that the IL
hibiting the manufacture and
alcoholic liquor is unconstituti
technical reasons, and becaus
vented men from engaging i
mate business. !:
,--Harner 4 Roberts, sea. sea-. o ooperIlofSS
of Pittsburg, Pa. have decided to sta
their Elizabeth mine at the thrce-ceE s.
rate. This is one of the largest min s.
on the river, and the concession of t
rate demanded is an important victq g
for the strikers.
An effort is soon to be made to
duce the State department to take So
action in the matter of the con
general at Paris. This is one of ~;
most sought of the consulates,
there are said to be four hundred
plicants upon file for it.
The New York guI,s;:a1isS
paign brings on
attention to mattefS
to do with the issues.
of Governor Hills brotfS