The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-03-17

SIX persons, we're DlOWu 10 atoms.
The cylinder Of the engine struck a
passing Italian ship, q quarter of
mile dist',iil, and Killed LIie pilot.
As soon as "Oid Sorrel," Stone
wall Jsck>on's war horse dies, its frame
will Le turned over TO Il taXiderniss,
who vii! mount ii toT preservation.
A military friend of Gen. Jack-on's
has supplied The necessary money.
Matthew Arnold who is now trav-
cling on the continent making re-
searches in educational matters for the
English Goycrrrncll;, writes to a
friend III Bostun ti,al he intends to
revisit this country III May and will
remain here unil August.
An attempt was made on Thurs
day in Paris 10 assassinale Jules Verne.
Two shots were fired at him from a
revolver by IL young student, who
turned out 10 be the authors nephew,
and who had come Paris for the eX-
press purpose Of killing Lis uncle.
Secretary Whitney is a nephew of
the inventor Of the cotton gin. The
widow ofanother nephew is a aresident
Of Washington. She is :. descendant
Of the WollestoEecraft family, one of
whom, her giandaunt, was the second
wife of the puet Shelly.
-MasquiS de Aguilafucnte, a Span
ish noblcman, has been recognized by
the Mexican Government as dcsccld-
ant ofthe Aztec Emperor Montezuma
H., and has been granted an anual
pension of 81, 400.13, to be paid him
during his lifetime.
The report Of the Edmunds COM
mittee touching the refusal of the
President to furnish TO the ) S,natc GER
tain papers touching the remova! Of
the ALBANIA District Attorney, was
discussed last week. The Democrats
seem 10 have had tie better OF the
argument.
The German press loudly protests
that the proposed rebuilding OF Rome
will result in the destruction of it,
remaining antiquities. Memorials are
being Sisued bv artists and archaolo-
gists, everywhere, protesting against
the Sacriiege Of Rome by building
speculators.
The family ofthe Eing of Denmark
may not irrevercntly be termed rcl-
gjous curiosity shop. When next he
gathers his family around him, which
he is accustomed to do every year or
two, he will have before him Luth-
eranS, Ans slican>, Russian Orthodox,
Greek Catholics and Roman Catholics.
There is much excitement in Au-
gusta, Ga, Oh the Chinese subject on
account of the arrival Of several Celes-
tials and the expectation OF more TO
follow. There are several hundred
now in the city, some Of whom have
married American wives. The feeling
seems to be that the Chinese must go.
The Trade Council OF Los Ange-
les, Cal, has issued circular calling
on the citizens to aid in peacefully
removing the Chinese. a large num-
Der of employers in consequence are
dischargimg the Chinese. About nine
hundred Cinnamon has arrived there
from the surrounding districts since
the agitation began.
BY the death OF Senator John +.
Miller, of California, the Democrats
will gain 4 temporary seat in tie
United States Senate. The Legisla-
ture is not in session, aud Governor
Stoneman VITO is Democrat, will
appoint a Democrat to the vacancy.
The new Legislature will choose Il
Senator will be elected this fall
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during tie
last week, as reported to r. q. Dun u
Co., number for the United STATES pa,
and for Canada %. Total 239, against
249 last week and 24S the week pre-
vious. Business casualties are on The
decline in every section OF tic country,
especially in the Eastern and Middle
| States.
The Pan-Electric investigation
before the special committee Of the
House began in Washington on Fri
day. J. Ii. Rogers, the inventor teS-
titled that STOCK in the conct ri had b IN
given to Senators Garland and Harris
and others, free of COST Tic said the
Stock had no actual, but i purel!
speculative, value.
No man is more unfortunate i'll
his letter writing than Gen. w. l.
Sherman. He has just written letter
in which he said that his children could
no more enter 4 public school than Il
common tavern. OF course his usual
luck followed him, and the newspapers
have published the letter with severe
editorial structures.
| The latest novelty in the line OF
| boycotting comes from Chicago, where
the Knights of Labor have notified the
publishers eff the City Directly Of their
refusal to furnish the names Of some
10000 members OF the order unless hr
consents to the substitution OF unlou
printers in setting the type for the
non unionists who have hitherto done
| the work.
Joseph English, Of Boston. has
wasted ten and Il half valuable hours
in writing Oh Il postal card the enilre
address of the Hon. II. 3 Metcalf.
delivered at the General Convention Of
Uuiversalists, held last year i'll Brock
lvn. The address contains 4, 462 words,
aud Mr.. English wrote them all with
steel pen, b. gaslight, without the aid
Of inagnitying glass.
There is no landed class in France,
properly so-called. There are 6.O00,-
900 peasant proprietors. Entail and
primoycniture are unknown, and bit
of land can be bought and sold as