The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-11-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Ouai .ers.
War between Burmah and the
Indisn Government has been formally
declared.
The Indians in New Mexico are
again raiding ranches and numbering
the whites.
"A land rent collector named Myers
YVES shot last Wednesday in kilbeggat,
county Westmeath, Ireland.
While attempting to repair an iron
bridge near Keithsburg, H., a portion
of the work fell, killing and woundlng
q dozen men.
ALI the gambling houses in Gin
cinnati were raided Monday night and
several wagon loads ofmen were taken
to the police station.
The Hon. A. A. Mckay, Judge of
the sixth circuit Judiciary district OF
North Carolina, died at his home IN
Clinton on Thursday morning.
MIR. VIM. Jones, who lives in
Veaezuela 200 miles away, came to
Virginia and voted at Richmond an
urscratched Democratic ticket.
The Eltza, vessel now loading
at Quebec, is declared by the Toronto
Globe to have seen q century and a
half active service, and to be yet q
staunch and handsome craft.
There has been an alarming IN
crease in the number of suicides IN
Berlin within the past several months.
Cases are reported daily, and soma
DAYS they number as high as ten.
The will Of the late Gen. George
B. Mcclellan was filed with the Pro-
bate Court last week. 1t gives his
property to his wife, and after her
death equally to his son and daughter.
ALI the public schools ofSavaHnah,
Ca, are GRO wded to excess, and with,
in the past few days one hundred AID
fifty applicants have been refused ad-
mission for want ofroomin the schools.
Mrs. Martha Wilkerson, of Greens
boro, n. c., and her son had disa-
greement about the widow marrying a
hired man. The next morning mother
and son were found dead from pistol
bullets. No clue.
The Rev. John Wides, colored, OF
Pittsburg, Pa, is suing several persons
of th..t town for conspiracy with other
persons in Alabama, (where knox
made himslf obr ox:ol as a preacherl,
to injure his reputation.
The Empire Plaster mills, Nos.
81 and % Bethune st:eet, New York,
six-story brick building, was burned
on WeGnesda and the walls fell IN,
the fremen and neighborlng houses
having very narrow escape.
At Montreal last week five men
were painting the ceiling of drill
shed when the scafolding gave way
and two of the men were killed IN
stantlv, a third died shortly after,
and the two others are not expected to
live.
The wife of Wilhelm Freund, a
German farmer in Henry county,
Ohio, gave birth to five healthy chill
dren recently. She is thirty-six years
of age and during her married life OF
nineteen years has given birth to
twenty-one children.
"A citizen Of Andersonville, Ca, in
1882 caught very small opossum,
marked it and let it go. A few days
ago he caught the same opossum With
in two hundred yards Of where he
caught him three years ago, and he
now weighs eight pounds.
An Ottawa dispatch says that the
death sentence passed on those recent
" convicted of murder in connection
with the Northwest rebellion, will be
commuted in several cases, but will be
carried into effect with the remainder
on the date fixed, the 9th inst.
Secretary Endicott has sent in
strrctions to military commanders who
ere stationed in the neighborhood in
which uprisings against the Chinese
are apt TO occur to have their troops
in readiness to enforce the provisions
of the Presidents proclamation issued
Saturday.
Capt. NJ. o. McGuyer, of Cincin-
natl, who came to Tennessee with
George II. Thomas Post, 6. A. t.,
was drowned in the Tennessee River,
near Coulterville, while out dack
hunting and while trying to save the
life of colored boy who was with
~ ~, rybor tho hoot canSJZnl
The apple crop this year in the