The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-12-02
JORDAN PENCIiINGS.
JoRnAS, S. c.. Nov. 23dlS,

JoRnAS, S. c., Nov. 23d 1885,
.Nr: Editor: The ancienj long-ago
worn out, and now oft repeated ex-
preston, Jordan is hard road to
travel" is lnanifestly inapplicable to
our Jordan.
Jordan is a remarkably healthy
place, with excellent water, and sur
rounded by fertile farming and finely
timbered lands, we'll watered and
drained by numerous streams. Much
of these lands can be rented or pur
chased at low prices, and no place in
the whole country offers greater IN
dacements to settlers.
There is, now, an excellent and
hourisliGs school here under the
charge of our promising Young friend
}. Harry Lcsesne, who lately grad
uated with distinction at the Man
ming Academy.
Now for the crops. Corn that has
been properly cultivated produced &
full average yield, and those who Ia
bored iIdustriously have the sutisfac
ton Of knowing they have harvested
enough for "man and beast" The
yield Of cotton-ahl here comes the
rub-is much less than last year, and
this coupled with very low prices has
somewhat discouraged the otherwise
happy farmers and greatly disappoint-
ed the expectations Of the merchants.
\ full crop of rice is made, bat pease
and potatoes are both less than ali
average in point OF yield. However,
no other crop is 50 disastrously short
as cotton. Some OF our farmers have
finished planting oats, while others
have just commenced to prepare their
land. Most of those who planted
early are they who, wisely, saved their
own seed-oats.
The game law, it seems, has notice
ably increased the game birds of this
section, as well as those regarded use
full from an chronological standpoint.
Bear, deer, and turkeys, for the same
reason, have rapidly multiplied in
Santee swamp, a few miles from here,
within the last Few years.
Pinckney Tindall, negro, killed
q bear, few nights since, near San
lee swamp, which weighed nearly five
hundred pounds. Pinckney had seen
many tracks under persimmon tree
and that night climbed it to watch for
Bruin He found an o'possum up it,
that weighed fifteen pounds, after Sc
curing which, lie resumed his watch,
and when the old growler approached
and commenced to eat the fallen per-
simmons, he shot and killed him.
A large buck approached very near
Dir. J. 4. Auld's school house, a few
days ago, and stood at the spring,
where Mr. Aud and his students get
drinking water, till he saw Mr.. AUD
in the door when he scampered-
Nh. J \. Sprott has pair of hogs
as fac as ever saw. They are thor
ough-bred Yolkshires purchased of
celebrated breeder of Phila., and,
although only nine months old, one
Of them looks as if it viii weigh al
least two hundred and fifty pounds
That pestiferoas class of swindlers,
pedlers and travelling agents, have in
tested this section this year and, in
multifarious ways, have Aeeced some
people in obtaining exorbitant prices
prices out of all proportion to cost
and value-for their articles. I am
heartily opposed to these glib tong
ued takers with their committed to
memory speeches, and believe they
are just as vile humbugs and perhde
GUS frauds, as the nocturnal seed cot
ton buyers, the "pop skull whiskey
venders, who ere the bane Of our land.
ECHO.