The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-11-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts ofInterest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Rear Admiral j. G. P. Dekrafft |
died at his residence in Washington |
last week.
Carl Schurz has offered to buy the
Boston Post, with a view of running
it as an ''Independent'' paper.
Fire in New Hartford, Conn.,, on
Thursday destroyed eight buildings.
Loss S5O,000. Partly insured.
According to the Japan Gazette
the process Of Latinizing the Japanese
alphabet is making great progress.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, spe-
ciai British envoy, arrived at Cairo on
Thursday afternoon and had SEMI
royal reception.
DR.. Noah Porter, for the past thir-
teen years president of Yale College,
has resigned, to take effect from the
next commencement.
The Great Eastern, the largest
steamship in the world, has been sold
| at auction for f2G,20O-less than half
! what it cost 70 launch her.
"A boat containing a whole family,
father, mother and child. was capsized
in the St. Lawrence on Thursday, op-
posite the Isle de Grace, and all we're
drowned.
| Louis P. Haver, publisher Of
Thompsou's Bank; Note Reporter,
who was last week convicted Of black
mailing, was fined $500, which he paid
and was released.
The postofices at Middleton, o.,
and Harper's Ferry, w. Va, were
broken open by burglars on Wednes-
day night and robbed of fifteen dollars
in each case.
! Boston is going to take c new
census, under its own direction this
time, and the police are to be the
enumerators. The whole cost is not
to exceed coo.
The application of the white of All
egg to snake bite wound saved the
life of little girl in st. Johns county,
Fla. She was bitten twice on the
foot by a ground rattlesnake.
"A female sea lion, supposed to be
the one that escaped from Drnid Hill
Park, Baltimore, few weeks ago, was
killed in Satilla River, Is miles south
Of Savannah, on Sunday.
The solicitor of the treasury has
decided that men engaged oN fishing
vessels are legally entitled to treat
ment in marine hospitals, and here
after they will be allowed tha: privi-
lege.
The Legislature of Alabama has
passed an Act requiring the public
schools to give instruction in phvsiolo-
gy and hygiene, with especial refer
euce to the effects of tobacco and Of
ardent spirits.
"A Pittsburg paper publishes list
of "a persons in that city worth s.,
600, 900 each, Is worth between ST.
200, 900 and 81, 100000, and 81 worth
S1,0O0,000. Mrs. Schenlev heads the
list and worth 100000.
The Medical Recicv, in an edilo-
rial on "triplets," says that plural
births occur most frequently in Russia,
and that when they do occur in this
country the fathers and mothers are
generally found to be OF Russian birth
or descent.
AT a tournament at Spearfsh,
Dak., q running start OF seventy yards
was given to q steer, and Cowboy
Driscoll overlook him, lassoed and
threw him, and, dismounting, tied his
feet, in forty-one seconds.
The condition of the landowners
in East Lothian, Scotland, is unenyia-
bic, and the prevailing depression is
making itself felt all over Scotland.
One noblcman with a rent roll of
$3.50, 900 per annum has received just
$40, 900 net.
In Colusa county, CAL, about q
year ago, q youth SHOT himself because
young woman refused his offer of
marriage. The girl said he was fool,
but the boy recovered. The other day
the girl committed suicide because the
same boy refused to marry her.
The tramps have overrun the town
of Passaic, n. j., and the police are
powerless to prevent their raids and
robberies. When the citizens COM
bined with the police to break up the
SaIIS3 LllO u oillpo AACl upOu luCli ouo
retreated to the woods around the
town.
"A poor woman came into the dis
secting room of the New York Uniyer
sity Medical College last week and
offered to sell her body to the curator
in order to get money to secure food
for her children. The students raised
a purse for the poor demented and re-
lieved her pressing necessities.
-Escorting Archdeacon Farrar
about the White House one day last
week it is said the President, all by
accident, entered the conservatory
for the first time in his life;
not, he explained to his visitor, that
he does not care for flowers, but that
he has been too busy to indulge his
taste in that direction.
The appropriations for the next
fiscal year in New York city amount
to $50, 100000. Most of the tax falls
on the real estate The personal prop
erty Of the city in q great measure
escapes taxation. Men possessing mil
lions are the tax evaders who shift the
burden they ought to bear on to real
estate.
james Hodges has been elected
Mayor of Baltimore on the regular
Democratic ticket, defeating Judge
George W. Brown, the Fusienist nomi-
MOO nv q M ooiorit,- of ahnut . 000 The |