The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-12-16
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Facts oG .nt.-c%:, Gathered from Various
Quarters.
Hawkins & Sols. cotton 50

Facts o: .:it." Gathered from Various
Quarters.
Hawkins & Soi.s, cotton spinncrs.
Of Preston, England, have failed.
Liabilities E71S,oQo.
President C!cveland's message to
Congress, read on the Sth inst. is gen.
orally regarded as az unusually able
paper.
Senator Cviquitt, of Georgia, has
been nominated .or Eicc-Prcsident by
an Indiana Clergyman OF the Northern
Methodist church.
Gen. Don Crrlos Buell., well known
as Commander of the Army Of the
Ohio, has been appointed Pension
Agent at Louisville, Ky.
Nelson Stewart and Anderson
Davis, colorcd, convicted of burglary,
were hanged within the Jail enclosure
i'll Charlotte last Wednesday.
AT Northampton, Mass, Allen j.
Adams, for the murder Of Moses B.
Dickinson, of Amherst, ten years ago,
was sentenced last week to be hanged
on March y, 1856.
At Akron, Ohio, last week,
sewer being constructed caved in,
buryin@ seven laborers. Four we're
crushed to death aud the other three
were fatally injured.
The buildings of the Southern Hi
nois penitentiary at Chester, Ill.,, were
badly damaged and some Of the in
mates seriously injured by cyclone
on Tuesday night, Nobody killed,
The ten-year Old daughter Of
James Dunn, of Nenia, Ill.,, died last
week from trichinosis. 1t is said that
two weeks ago the girl ate raw pork
and that her death resulted therefrom.
Tile house Of Wesley Greer, at
Cannonsburs, Pa, was blown u? by
natural gas Tuesday morning and the
occupants, Greer and his wife and
two children, severely but not fatally
injured.
The faculty of Vanderbilt Univer-
Sity on Tuesday adopted resolutions Of
respect 10 the memory of the patron of
the University, William H. Wander
bilt, and suspended exercises in the
institution for one day.
An explosion OF natural gas &C.
CURED at the supply station of the
Philadelphia Company, at Sandy
Creek, Pa, last week. The explosion
was followed BY fire which destroyed
the building. No one was injured.
Last Tuesday evening, at the
crossing Of the Texas Central Rail
way, at Bryan, Texas, the Rev. II. L.
Wilson and two daughters were Killed
by an engine drawing apay car. Their
horses were killed and their wagon
was demolished.
"A special to the Chattanooga Times
SAYS that W. D. kelett, United States
deputy marshal for the Northern dis
trict of Georgia, was waylaid on Look
out Mountain, thirty miles from Chat
tanooga, last week by moonshiners and
murdered.
Daniel McSweencv, the Irish "sus-
pect," who loomed up in the last
Presidential campaign, and has since
haunted the Administration for re-
ward, has at last received an inspec-
torship in the San Francisco Custom
House, worth S1,S00 year. This
place was created tor him, but does
not by any means come up to his ideas
Of what he ought to have had.
The cases of the Louisville, Ky,
Law and Order Club against the gam
blers were on trial in the Circuit Court
last week, and fifty indictments against
eighteen local professional gamblers
were indefinitely continued IN terro-
rem, on the gamblers confession Of
guilt and their promises never TO en-
gage in the gambling business again.
Fines 70 the amount of $4,000 were
assessed against the above gamblers.
AT Richmond, Va, last week, the
caucus OF the Democratic members of
the General Assembly re-nominatcd
the heads Of State departments. The
only change made was in the office of
State treasurer, for which A. W. Har-
mon, of Ruckbridge county, was NOM
mated in place Of Isaac R. Barksdale,
the present incumbent. The Hon.
Jno. w. Daniel will succeed Riddle
berger in the United States Senate.