The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-06-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts Of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

l lUptcCCtlCulCll HUI 'li.N " "lINo' ~ "" '-N
in Virginia.
The apple crop of Connecticut promises
TO be unusually large this year.
Ey-Vice President David Davis is lying
critically III and may die at any moment.
Parliament will be prorogucd on Friday.
Dissolution will take place on Saturday
Randall says tie Administration is not
the enemy Of the silver dollar.
\ horse was frightened 10 death in In
dianapolis, Ind, Thursday by Il fire steam
engine
Providence. II. l.. Thursday celebrated
the 250th anniversary Of the settlement OF
that city.
There is considerable grumbling in Ba-
varia regarding the treatment of the late
King.
The Treasury has issued q call for ST.,
600, 600 OF bonds for redemption. The call
natures August /.
\ French brigantinc sank Saturday on
the banks of Newfoundland and nine of
her crew drowned.
RcvivaliSts Jones and Small are said to
be planninga q New England seashorc cam
paign for the summer.
An unknown friend of Erin in New
York has contributed $1,000 to the relief
committee in Ireland.
The strike in the yarn mil of the River
side Mills at Augusta is at an end and the
mill is in full operation.
John Johnson, OF Brooklyn. n. y, COM
mittcd suicide by pushing handkerchief
down his throat with q long ruler.
Jacob Swinglcy, Of Crcston, H., cut tic
throats of his two children and committed
suicide on the 19th-insane.
The Board of Trustees of the University
of Alabama conferred the degree of D. ID.
upon S. Hecht, Jewish rabbi of MpntyGm-
cry.
The New York Times has determined to
make an attempt to find out the secrets OF
Alaska, and has sent an exploring eXpcdi-
ton
NewSmen in New jersey Brooklyn and
part of New York commenced % Boycott
the World Monday and killed $4,000 copies
in one day.
The New England Institute Fair build.
ing. Boston, was burned Thursday, and
four workmcn killed Loss $3.50, 900; GOV.
cred by insurance.
The Republican State Convention met in
Montgomery, Ala, last week, and decided
to put i ticket in tie field. Projection
principles adhered 10.
The British Museum has recently paid
eG55 for copy of the first edition of the
PtIgrim'x PrVgre&s Only three copies arc
known TO be in existence.
The plas,crcrs of Pittsburg and Ale.
ghcny City, Pa, some 100 in number, have
gone on, ca another strike, OF account Of
the bad faith Of the contractcrs.
The University at Athens, Ga, gets
IS. 600 per year from the State The AT
lanta University for the colored people gets
the same amount.
Ten Mcxicans attacked - Apaches in
Tccapodcpc Pass, near Sarachc. The In
di;,ns were defeated The MeNicans lost
three killed and one wounded.
Saturday morning J. H. Blackburn. Of
Atlanta. Ga. died. lie ovcrtayed his brain
in the cause q t:mpecanc@ or the dny ,!
election il Atlanta, and became insane
Young and healthy as the season IS, there
is already Il disposition to get up yellow
fever scare in New Orleans. in consequence
of the arrival Of Cuban doctor with some
E::c-ohcs
4 meeting Of 10, ,QG0 people Nas i,cili T,,fuEs
day ut Zurich to protest against the Gov
crnmcnt's action against the strikers The
reg ii,,ag was unfurlcd. but the police pre-
served order.
The Prince of Maics, who has decided
to become an amateur photographer. has
much displeasrd the English by ordering
his first camera from an American firm.
Over 200 persons were poisoned at fes-
tival at Pctersville, \. j., from eating sand
witches made of canned beef. Later news
attributes II 10 arssni4 s,!i!tuliy put ii tap
ice cream.
The Lake Shore switchmcn employed at
the Union stock yards quit work Thurs
day, owing 70 thu ruf,;s,.l CT t..2 r3ilroad
company to discharge eight non-union
men, at Chicago.
Judge Holman, of Indiana has just been
nominated for Congress, and if elected it
will be his l5h term. lie is knaYn in
Washington rs .thc wa:ch deg OF the
Treasury.
4 contract was closed Monday for the
completion of the Birminghan. and ShGf,
field Railroad and the erection at Sheffield,
Ala, of Il second iron furnace with 100
tons capacity.
Five men have been sentenced TO impris-
onmcnt for terms varying from four TO six
monIl.Z fpr joining tie 400 rioters who
felled kicked and stoned "a Catholic FAC
tory women.
-Four of the five saloons at Washington,
H., are Ownru by EsI:e;@,. Women are
rapidly fitting themselves foc political du:
ties in anticipation of the time when they
shall achieve tbs ballot.
Register Rosccrans says the war of the
revolution cost this country $4,000, 900:
the war of 1912, $115,000, ,000 the MeXi-
can war, $135, ,000, 900, and til" late un-
nleasantnc2s, SC, $50 500 sos.
The agitation of the question of >eces-
sion at the polls in Digby, y. S, has occa-
stoned more franknesS Of expression by the
people in regard TO their earnest desire for
annexation lp th5 United States.
H. NJ Hyndman, President Of the &C.
cial Democratic Federation of London, and
leader of the English party of so-called
Scientific Socialism, has decided to visit the
United States on i lecturing tour.
At the fire of the great exhibition build
ing in Boston one man was roasted in sight
Of the gazing crowd. Eight charred bodies
were taken from the ruins and more are
still in the ashes.
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