The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of interes. Gathered from various
Quarters.

Secretary Bayard has gone to Boston on
& short vacation.
Earthouakc shocks were felt at Smith
vile, n c., Monday night.
There was an earthquake shock in Au-
! gusta, Ga, Monday afternoon.
Oliver Amos was nominated for Gov
ernor by the Republicans OF the Bay State
The Columbus Knights of Labor have
put ticket in the field for both city and
county officers.
w. G. Allen. Of South Carolina, has
been appointed United States Consul at
Piedras Ncgras, Mexico.
The latest French operations III New lie.
brides indicate the permanent occupation OF
those islands.
Three men are cntombcd in Winthrop
mine, Mich, and 1t is not believed they can
( be rescued alive.
China intends to issue loan for fifty
| million dollars, for the construction OF rail
ways in the empire.
john Estcn Cock, the well known Vir-
; u!n;a author and book maker, died Mon
Gay III Siaih SouIilJ fASii'''t
Tic cattle plague is proving most oiSas-
trous out West. Several thousands have
beea killed in order to stop the spread.
lir. Blaine and Mr. Carlisle agree upon
one thing, the continuation OF the internal
revenue tax on whisky and tobacco.
The Prohib;tionists ard Knights of Labor
in Atlanta have united on ticket for the
Legislature, called The Law and Order
Ticket"
Secretary Manning will resume his duties
as head Of the Treasury Department as
soon as cool weather sets in.
Cluverius is fond ofS1lowers, and female
| svmDa,hzcrs are found to crafty his taste
in ;I:at respect, while weeds are rank. PER
haps, on Lillian Madison'S grave.
J. Frank Burden was shot and killed by
Caleb Jones Tuesday in Metropolis, III.
Burden lad recently married JCness oi-
vogced wife.
The Democrats of New jersey in con-
Tcntion yesterday nominated Robert Green
for Governor on the first ballot over six
competitors.
a threc-vearold son of J. II. Robinson,
of Fishing Creek Factory, fell from an
upper story window, Wednesday, and WIS
painfully injured.
! It is said that between 500 and 1000
bricklayers and plasterers can secure work
| in Charleston during the coming winter
and spring at 81 per day.
The Hartford Courant says: Nothing
will keep W;ggins from prophesyins as
| .6 RI
scare people by printing his bosh."
Ii is said that bleeding partially blind
horse ct the nose viii restore him 10 sight.
So much for the horse. To open a nan S
eyes you must bleed him in the pocket
The Louisville Courier-Journds in dc
rouncing co7Sets tells OF post mortem
which revealed woman's liver actually
cut IN two by tight lacing.
A band Of discharged Chinese soldiers
made descent on a leading pawn shop in
Huchong on August Is, and murdered the
proprietor and 46 of bis employees.
The cholera is still raging throughout
Japan Between August IS and Seplem-
Der inclusive, nine days, 13, 34S new cases
were reported. Over G3 per cent. of those
| attacked died.
Superintendent Larkin, who has charge
OF the hosting and setting of the granite
on the capital building a, Atlanta was killed
last Monday by piece of stone weighing a
ton falling from the third story on him.
Tuesday night James Doherty, of Brook
lyr, n. Y, pounded his wife till she fed,
leaving her children. The father then set
fire to the house, locked the door on his
children and went away. The children
were saved.
Mr.. Bartholomew, the Hartford default
er, was man Of very simple habits. He
lived modcstly and economically, aud never
smoked or drank He also wore shabby
clothes, pretended to be stiDgy and was a
| pious fraud.
A Galveston dispatch, dated the 29th,
says: At noon there are no signs Of Wig
girs's predicted disturbance in this section.
| The weather which has been rainy and dis
agreeable for several days, to-day broke
clear and continues pleasant.
Talk as he may, nothing pleascs man
so much when he enters a hotel as to have
the clerk behind the desk address him ia
miliarly and anXiouSiy inquire after his
health. 1t tickles his vanity and makes
| him believe that he is bigger man than he
really is.
/ Some days ago the managers of the Au-
susta Factory sent special agent to New
Jersey to employ operatives, paying their
way to Augusta Saturday morning twen-
| ty-tivc Of the new men arrived, but they i'm
mediately joined the strikers and refused to
90 to work in the mill at ali.
Tie Chicago Times closes an article on
the apathy OF that city in respect to the
suffering II Charleston as follows. The
hog is prominent element in the business
of Chicago, and appears to be securing an
equally prominent position IN the nature OF
many of its people"
In the Belgian mines workmcn are paid
3S cents day; in the quarrics so cents
In the weaving industries full-grown men
earned but 50 a week, though at Ghent,
by organization and strikes, costing some
! $15,G 600, they had succeeded in getting
wages raised to So a week.
Geronimo claims that, about four months
ago, he captured General Crook, and only
released him upon obtaining guarantee
that, after indulgjng in one more raid, the
| Apaches might return to their reservation
rnmolested. The story has given rise to a
good deal of gossip in army circles
1t now transpires that George Bartholo-
new, the 20 years old defaulter, of Hart
ford, has made away with two millions Of
| dollars He has been Systematically rob-
bing every corporation with which he had
anY connection. Many failures are ex-
! pected in Hartford on account of the pecu-