The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-10-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.
Work on the Hudson River tunnel
is to be resumed this winter.
The mania now in Washington is
for bridal couples to call on the Presi-
dent.
The New York Crematorv is ready
for business. One can get burned up
for $25.
-Ex-First Assistant Postmaster
General Hay died in Pittsburg last
Tuesday.
-Bartholdi is coming over to super
intend the erection of his statue OF
'Liberty."
Morris Franklin, President of the
New York Life Insurance Company,
died last week.
Montreal is distributing smallpox
over the country with an impartial
and lavish hand.
"A Canadian crank says If you will
trim your nails every Friday you will
never have the toothache.
king Alfonso has pardoncd the
Cuban rebels Varona, Galano, Suinag-
vera and Rouman, condemned to be
shot.
A foot Of snow is reported from
nearly all parts of the northern penin-
sula of Michigan, blockading the rail-
roads.
"A woman scored the highest per-
centage ever reached in civil service
examination in this county. 1t was
ninety-seven.
The National Wholesale Druggists
Association met in Philadelphia last
week. The proceedings were Of no
public interest.
The Catholics object to the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Curry as Minister to
Spain, on occount of his denunciation
of their religion.
John S. Wise has figured in thirty
six duels, which is not so very bad for
left-handed man and repudiating
Republican al that.
John Jarvis, q we'll knowu turf
man eff New York city, dropped dead
from heart disease at the Jersey City
race track last week.
Secretary Lamar has Suspended
Chief Justice Vincent, Of New Mex
leo, for improper conduct. This is
taDtamount to removal.
"A vast Quantity of potatoes are
being worked up at the starch mills,
the product of which will be greater
than for three years past.
The Chicago Tribune, in its re-
view of the money market, insists that
the rate Of interest will decline, what
ever may happen TO commodities.
| Mrs. John Conway, wife of a
dairvman in Kansas City, and her
daughter Kate were murdered in day
tine on Friday, it is supposed by a
tramp.
Italian Opera appears to be geing
out of fashion in London. Patti has
been engaged for this season at the
ridiculously low price of $4,000 q
night.
Cadet Ralph Bailey, of Arkansas,
member of the third class at Annapo-
lis, found guilty of hazing by court
martial, has been dismissed from the
navy.
1t is stated that President Cleve-
land rendered the Chief Justiceship Of
New Mexico to Judge Benjamin Buck
ner, of Louisville, KY, but he will not
accept.
The bucket shop of F. 3. Fried
man, Broad street, New York, has
suspended, owing $s3,500. The ad-
vance in oil and stocks is assigned as
the cause.
"A man, aged about sixty, who had
carefully removed from his clothing
and effects everything that would lead
to his Identification, suicided in Will
mington, Del.
AT q meeting of the Irish National
League last week, in New York, pre-
sided over by Chas. A. Dana, Of the
Sun, $4,000 was subscribed to aid
Parnell in Ireland.
Governor Hill, Of New York, feels
confident of election if the Democrats
of New York city will come to the
scratch like the Democrats of the re-
mainder of the State.
John Chatham, of Pine Station,
Pa. had been on protracted drunk,
and being given pint Of whiskey,
drank it of at gulp and tell dead
Immediately afterwards.
"A negro named Ward was hanged
bv mob last week thirteen miles
south of Eufaula, Ala, for the attempt
ed murder Of g citizen and the sup>
posed murder of another.
Nelson, Stewart and Anderson,
Davis, colored, who burglarized the
residence of S. &. Stricklam, at Char
lotte, n. c., have been sentenced to
be hanged on November 25th.
Steel is constantly being put into
new uses. The latest noted is the
employment of eight thousand tons of
steel castings in the construction of an
immense block of bonded warehouses
in London.
DIR. Dio Lewis says that BRAIN
worker should not eat more than two
meals a DAY, but Edward Everett
Hale, one Of the hardest brain-workers
in the world, eats FIVE square repasts
in twenty.four hours.
The conditions of the landowners
in East Lothian, Scotland, is unenvia-