The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-03-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.


Mrs. Bancroft, wife of the histo-
rian, died last week.
There are over fifty thousand
workmcn in the strikes in America.
DR.. j. j. Caldwell, one Of tie old
est physicians Of Atlanta, is dead.
1t is again rumorcd that the Prcsi-
dent is to be married this summer.
The sale OF the Morgan art colicc-
ton in New York realized 81 ,203. 400.
The treaty OF peace between Servia
aud Bulgaria has been ratified.
Prot. Fr!z Heider, editor of the
Hudson county, n. j., Journal, suicid-
ed last week.
1t is learned that the health Of cX.
President Arthur has lately become q
matter for serious concern.
j. O. Polk, supposed horse thief
was lynched near Coppcras Cove,
Texas
-Ex-Governor Hahn, Representa-
tive in Congress from Louisiana, died
last week.
Earthquakes have occurred in Ger
many and Spain. but no serious dam
aye Was done.
About forty per cent. Of last years
grain cropis reported to be still in the
hands of The farmers.
OF the seven thousand bills intro
duccd in the present Congress but
three have become laws.
-Four cadets have just been dis
missed from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis for the offence OF hazing.
King Ludwig of Bavaria has again
raised storm ofirdignation by order
ing the erection Of two new palaces.
DR.. Armstrong, of Atlanta, is now
associate editor of the Sunday Iele-
gran and his congregation has gone
to pieces.
Diamonds worth 100000 were
saved from the sunkcn steamer Oregon
bat tic owners have not appeared.
Struggled goods, doubtless.
Louise Michel intends TO make a
tour Of America. She is mobbed
everywhere she attempts to speak in
public.
Express Messenger Nichols was
killed or :. train near Chicago and the
safe robbed Of about $50, 900 in money
and iewelly.
The unknown schooner which col
lided with the steamer Oregon had her
bows stove in and sunk aud all on
board perished.
All the United States prisoners
have been removed from the Fulton
county, Ga, jail, but not until four OF
them had died Of meningitis.
The farmers in the northern sec
ton of Ohio arc much alarmed over
the appearance OF swarms of Young
grasshoppcrs.
-Ex-Attorney- General Brewster is
said to attribute his wite's death large
ly to ovcrwork in discharging social
duties.
Police Sergeant Brooks, of Rich
mond, Va, was shot while attempting
to arrest 2 burglar who was trying to
board train.
The Duke of Portland, with a
million and q quarter annually from
ground rents alone, is the richest
noblcman in Britain.
No settlement of The labor troubles
o.! The Southwestern Railroads is in
sight; the striking contagiou seems to
he spreading.
Henry Scctt, negro, sentenced to
be hanged, at Wilmington, for rape has
had his sentence commuted to impris-
lnent for life.
Miss Cleveland will not resume
her lunches to wives of Congressman
until after Lent. The stag dinners
will 90 on all the same.
-"Old Sorrel", Stonewall Jackson's
war horse, is dead; the skin is to be
stuffed and the skeleton mounted and
kept in the Confederate Soldiers Home
in Richmond.
The linseed oil mills of Varney,
Taylor & Co., Toledo, Ohio were burnt
last week, involving loss of 100000.
An explosion occurred which damaged
buildings several blocks of:
john Gillespie, colored, murdered
the wife Of Capt. Thos. Gray, near
London, Tenn, stole horse and ran
of, but was overhauled and lynched
Mrs. Mary Wileman, comely
woman of forty, has been convicted OF
poisoning her husband at Little VALLEY,
n. Y, and sentenced to be hanged on
the 50th April.
1t is said that Secretary Lamar re.
Gently rcbukcd Colonel Iugersoll for
his aggressive infidelity, and expressed
g hope that he would some day become
q Christian preacher.
i. G. Dewitt, g New York drum.
mer, fell from the ice mound at Niagara
Fails and was killed, but his body
could not be recovered for two days,
although plainly visible.
"A six-vear-old child of Joseph
Taylor, in Clay county, Tennessee,
accidentally killed her father while
handling Il pistol in his presence last
Friday.
-Emma Norman, young woman
shot and killed Henry Arnold, q grocer
in Memphis, Tenn, whom She charges
with her ruin. Arnold has recently
married another woman. The muir
! dereSs was arrested.
Canada has her first colored law.
yer, V. DcloS Davis He could moi
reach the bar in the regular way by
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