The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-05-19

Advertising IN Local COlUnn, loc. per
line.
rs Our Terms for all Transient Adver-
tiSementseare invariably in advance.
Cterpillars are growing comfortably
less.
A picnic is talked of by the schol-
ars of the Grove Academy, for next
Friday.
A happy feature ofthe sitting Of the
Court, was the small number OF GRIM
inals to be tried.
RACHEL AIcKaskill, a colored woman
aged lis years, died in Camden, on
the 3rd inst.
McFaddin, the infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. Wentworth DuRant, died
on Thursday, the 18th inst.
The Sheriff lodged his three prison
ers in the penitentiary yesterday.
To dread no eye and suspect no
tongue is the great prerogative OF
innocence.
The editor is gratefully thankful
for the hberality of his correspond
ents in this issue of the TINES. Their
communications came at a time when
they are doubly approximations
week.
The scholars of the Manning Acad-
envy, with their friends, enjoyed a
picnic holiday among the grove of
oaks surrounding the residence Of
Capt. ". R. Croskrey, last Friday.
An exchange remarks that, as the
hart panteth for the shaded brook
in the summer time, so panteth a
newspaper man after delinquent sub
scriptions.
Gen. E. ". Noise and ". F. B.
Haynsworth, Esq, of Sumter, were IN
town this week.
The crop of corn and cotton, with
the gardens, have been seriously dam
aged in this County, by the protract-
ed drought.
Through Messrs. c. A. Snow & Co.,
patent solicitors at Washington D. c.,
MIR. j. C. Malloner, Of Charleston, has
been granted patent for mixed paint.
The more honest our intentions are,
the less suspicious are We Of others
designs.
The advantage of the stenographer
in expediting the progress OF the
Court, was clearly demonstrated at
the late session. By his assistance,
the Court was in session only one day,
without which, it would have lasted
two.
The extremely dry spell has seri-
ously interfAred with DR.. Ingram,s
experiment in tobacco growing. The
plants are superb, some of them being
as high as a foot and a half, but the
unfsvorable weather has detained
them being transplanted, and unless
it rains soon, they will be too large to
be set out with success.
Savannah Times says: Somebody
in South Carolina has spoken OF the
Citadel of Charleston as a military
dude factory" The cadets turned out
bv that institution are the most man
" set of dudes that we ever saw.
In fact they are men, all over, and sol
diers, every inch of them. The man
who calls them sssles don't know a
MON when he sees him.
AFFAIR D'AMoUR-The ahectionate
eAusion here given, was picked up IN
Manning and left at the TINES office
with instructions to restore on apph-
cation:
MANNING, S. c., August IA, 1885.
DEAR SANaiIE:: I write to let you
know that I am well, and hoping to
find YOU the same. I am very sorry
that T treated you very cold, but l
sill do it no more # you will do what
YOU promised. Please come to my
house Sunday night. I have some
th;no verv nice to tell you. You
mnst excuse this short letter. III close
Lr sav;no MARY.
On the least int,mation, the inter
esting little billet dour will be either
returned to sweet Oriana, or forward
ed to her signing Amadias,
TEACHERS ISsururE-The County
Roard of Examiners, at a meeting on
Saturday of last week, decided to con
vene the Institute for teachers, the
last two weeks in July next; the morn
inc hours of each day to be given to
the white teachers, and the afternoon
to the colored. This time, In the
Judgment Of the Board, is most con