The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-06-16

President s marriage DuI before lue suio>e
of this fen de ,joie has cleared away comes
the report that 10000 British troops have
been ordered to Halifax.
Gen O. O. Howard has an article IN one
of the magazines on what he knows ABOUT
the freedmen during the war But IN artl-
Gle telling what the freedmen know about
General Howard since the war would doubt
less be more interesting.
While ex-Jaehne now congratulates mm-
self that good conduct will shorten his
term as a prisoner it does not seem to have
occurred to him at the right time that good
conduct would have heightened his term rs
an alderman.
Duelling still appears to be- favorlte
pastime in France Out Of eight hundred
and forty-seven ducls fought during the
past fifteen years, taking no reckoning OF
the numerous military encounters, one IN
every eighty-seven proved fatal.
The colored Presbytcrians of Cheraw are
making arrangements to accommodate the
preachers and visitors to the South Carolina
! Presbvtery of the colored Presbyterian
Church which will be held there in Sep
| lember next.
Some one discovers likeness between
Phil Armour and DR.. Tanner, the famous
faster, and wonders thcreat. There is only
shade of difference between butcher and
a tanner after all-about skin thick.
Violent thunder storms. accompanied by
the bursting of water-spouts, have for sew
eral DAYS past prevailed in the Thurlnglan
forest region in Germany and in the Hartz
Mountains Many people have been killed
by lightning and floods.
A. J. Mcbride and wifewcre murdered in
Davidson County, n. c., Sunday while
eating their supper, and their house robbed
and burned, together with their bodelS. AL
fred Long and Walter Womack, his broth.
ers-in law, both colored, have been arrested
on suspicion.
The Masons of Anderson contemplate
tearing down the present Masonic building
and erecting larger and more substantial
one or the same site-the ground floor to
contain two large and handsome atore-
rooms, hall OH the second and lodge
room on the third floor.
p. d. Davis, Master Workman of the
Knights of Labor Assembly at Pacific, Mo,
has been sentenced to two years in the State
penitcntiary and fined $500, for attempting
to wreck freight train that left st. Louis
during the strike in March, and shooting
at the guards.
All our exchanges for the past five days
come to hand with the usual heaviest rain
falt ever known" These heaviest rains,
it will bc observed, occur regularly every
year and the ''oldest inhabtant' invariably
fails to remember anything equal to it in his
long life.
Mr.. Charles Dickens. the son of the great
novelist began career as public reader
in England on Wednesday evening. The
report is that he was weak in dialogue, but
strong and interesting in pathos and humor,
initiating his father very closely. 1t is even
said that he will further initiate him by
coming to America.
w. H. Glider, q brother of the editor of
the (cntnry. is going to start out on an
Arctic expedition this summer. He will
take the track of Lieut.. Lockwood. Engi-
necr Perry, Of the United States Navy,
will also make an attempt 10 cross Green
land in the direction of Francis Joseph
! Fiord
Mr.. Willie Drigeers, of Summerville,
while driving home in wagon few days
ago. said to friend who was with him
that he thought he would kill himself, and
drew a pistol and tire;i five times, each shot
taking effect in his head. He is not con-
sidcrcd mortally wounded.
The Lancaster Ledger says: eve are re-
liahly informed that by = recent survey OF
the State line iN"dr - :. commissioner and
surveyor ap;,::ic y, :he Legislature of
North Caroli::;:. 2.,Hs' .crcs of land hereto
fore considered :: ;,.rl of North Carolina
really belongs tc ) rlli Carolina.
The manufacture # wine from oranges
is becoming an cNiei,,i.c industry in Flori-
da. Excellent sherry is said 70 be pro-
duccd from Ike fruit, AMI a larry" proper
ton of the sherry Of commerce hls lccn
derived from this source since the phr!lnH-
era has appeared in Europe.
Maxwell is cool and easy, regrettin!g that
his plans for the future are delayed by his
conviction 1t is said that the principal
grounds for the motto for new trial
which will be pressed by the prisoners
attorneys are, beside the errors in the IN
structionS, the bringing in of lot of i'm
proper and incompetent evidence.
Chas. J. Reed, the lawyer who defended
Guitcau has gone wrong. A fatality seems
to have attended everybody connected with
the defense in that celebrated case. The
other lawyer. Guiteau's brother-in-law,
afterward had trouble with his wife, sepa-
rated from her and, if we mistake not, lost
his property.
The first post Office named in honor of
the late Miss Frank Folsom, now Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, has been christened.
Congressman Elisberry had a fourth class
post office in Highland County, Ohio,
named Folsom, in order to perpetuate the
maiden name of the Presidents bride.
The long-talked-of furnaces to be built
at Birmingham by Mr.. Samuel Thomas
and associates, of Pennsylvania, seem at
last to be definitely determined upon. Mr.
Thomas has advertised in the Birmingham
papcrs for 1000, 900 brick, and also for
proposals for erecting brick hn!l;iings at
the place where the furnaces are to be To-
Gated.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
.Joincrs held meeting in Chicago yestcr-
day 20 take action in regard to the impcnd-
in@ strike in the tcn-hour shops. There are
IS shops out of over 800 standing out for
the ten-hour working day. Unless these
shops conform 70 the time standard adopted
bv the rest !, 800 men will lay down their
tools next Monday.
The contest for the GovernorShip of
Georgia has grown to an inter Sity which