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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-10
ARGOSAUT'S COMPLIMENTS TO THE
ssDEyIl..,'

FULTON, s. c., Nov. lst, 1886.
When we endeavored in language as
couched as possible, to call the
printers attention to certain words IN g
Communication Of ours, which appeared in
print mis-spels, we we're then disposed to
regard these mistakes as mere typographl-
cal errors, or perhaps the more technical, an
oversight of our own. From the tenor of
s'The 'DeYil's" Reply to Argonaut' it seems
that this was not the case. While we ad-
NIT that ''ths decl is not the only one that
makes mistakes" (for the Angels IN Heaven
sometimes fall) still the devils assertion
..that "Argonaut" has made, by his own &C.
count, six mistakes to the devTs one," is
met BY our most emphatic contradiction,
and our communications of Sth and 18th ult-,
and the devils" reply, as they appeared IN
the TINES, will substantiate our declaration
of denial. The '.smoN" number Of fifteen
mistakes which he so generously accredlts
Us with, We decline to confess until We have
better authority than the devil, for to be
candid we do not entertain the same conf
dence in the .'de7iIs" knowledge of orthog-
yaphy. that we hsve IN. Cleveland's admins
tration. We claim that the devil has
made three mistakes to our one, or four fol
the devil" including his reply to Argonaut,
the most ludicrous mistake of all. He does
not deny that "radient." ''amethist" and
.'eo.wtstical' are his original spelling, but
pleads in extenuation that we had it "ame
fhest" GRANTED; that's one mistake for US
but it didn't look nice to him, so he chang
ed it to .tamethist" because it hada o sweete!
cadence; q more dulcet sound. On the same
principle of spelling by the phonetic sys
tenn, why didn't you dab it egertistical? as i
sounds pretty much like egotistical, and IS
doesn't change the pronunciation Of tn
wogd' near 50 much as eeeeotistical. (which
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PATENTS GRANTED

to citizens Of the Southern States during
the past week, and reported expressly for
the TsNEs by c. 4. Snow i Co., Patent
lawyers, Opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washing
Ton, D. c.
E. D. Rockwell, Jacksonville. Fla. Sash
fastener.
W. Patterson, Madisonviile, Ky. We
hicle spring.
J. MeCord. Louisville. KY. Hane
fastener.
q. ". Matthews, Baltimore Md. Corn 4
cane harvester.
J.K. P. Shelton. CASTOR Ala. Cotton
chopper and cultvater: Portable house;
and Steering device.
F. Thau, Baltimore, Nd. Gate for watts.
W. II. Woodward, Sumterville, Fla.
Spring moter.
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A oav Of Thanksgiving and
PRAYER.

The President has, in the following
proclamation, appointed the 25th Of
the present month day OF thanks
giving and prayer:
It has long been the custom OF the
people Of the United States, on day
In each year especially set apart for
that purpose by their Chief Executive
to acknowledge the goodness and
mercy of God, and to invoke MS con-
tinued care and protection. In OBJ
servance of such custom, I, Grover
Cleveland, President of the United
States, do hereby designate and set
apart Thursday, the 25th day of No
vember, instant, to be observed and
kept as a day of Thanksgiving and
prayer. On that day let al our peo-
Die forego their accustomed employ
ments and assemble in their usual
places OF worship to give thanks to
the Ruler of the Universe for our con-
tinued enjoyment of the blessings OF
a free Government, for renewal q
business prosperity throughout oul
land, for the return which has re-
warded the labor of those who till the
soil, and for our progress as a people
in all that makes q nation great
And while we contemplate the infinite
power of God in earthquake, fooc
and storm, let the grateful hearts o
those who have been shielded IRON
harm through His mercy be turned II
sympathx,and kindness towards those
Tho-haye suffered through His 7isi
->sstions. Let US also in the midst o
our thanksgiving remember the poo
and needy with cheerful gifts ant
aims, so that our service may by deed
of charity be made acceptable in tn
sight of the Lord.
In witness whereof, I have hereto Sc
nv hand and caused the seal Of th
United States to be affixed
Done at the city Of Washington
this first day of November, in the yea
Of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-six, and Of the inde
pendence of the United States
America the one hundred and ele'
enth. =,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President
=. F. BAyARD, Secretary of Stat
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against
James Hudson, Thomas McD. Hudson,
Defendants.
Judgment for Foreclosure and Sale.
FINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AJUDG-
{ ment order to me, directed in the
above stated case, by Hon. W. b. Wallace,
Circuit Judge, and bearing date Oct, 2S'
1886, will sell to the highest bidder for
cash, at the Court House in the county and
State aforesaid, on Monday, the 9th day OF
December, 1886, being salesday, within 'e-
cal hours of sale, the following real estate:
All that tract or plantation of land situate,
lying, and being in County of Clarendon,
and State of South Carolina, containing for
tv acres, more or less, and bounded as fol
lows: North, By lands of T. N. Hudson
East, by lands of Thomas S. Coker; South
by lands of S. N. Coker, and West. by lands
formerly belonging to the estate OF John
Welch, Sr. Purchaser to pay for papers.
H. II. LESESNE,
Sheriff Clarendon County.
Nov IN 1895
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THE
EAR THQUAKE
Has lad no effect on the immense
s to ck Of @ O d S
Except to Shake the Prices DOWN Little.

DAILY ARRIVING AT MY STORE,

R year large and consists everything needed IN E
EWR county, returned from the Northern Markets. "nele
bought goods such large quantities get the lowest
expect sell them corresponding figures MY statesmen WI"
found polite and effort will be made to give my
e satisfaction OF cannot this anything IKE
the goods keep whatever WISH anything just call my store ana
nearly will find want No other store ID w
State keeps large stock Of General Merchandise as do
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The Seventh District was redeemed from
Radical misrule by the defeat OF Smaiis
(colored) and the election OF Gen; hiho''
20 Congress. This is an admirable COM
nentary on the wise administration OF the
Democratic Party in this State. The col
ered vote largely preponderates IN this DIS
tr;ct, and Gen Elliott'S election IS due 70
their desertion from the Republican ranks'
and voting for the candidate OF the Party IN
power.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-10
CLOTHING.

sOys Youths and Gentlemen stock be un-
usually large year. and specially adapted this market Be sure
examine my before purchasing also have u supply all hnos
of FURNISHING GOODS.
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DR. II BAER,

Wholesale Druggist, Nos. 131 & 1873
Meeting street, Charleston, S. c.
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Foreign
and Domestic Chemicals, Glassware,
Spices, Brushes, Essential Oils, Sur
gical instruments, Perfumery, Fancy
Goods, SHOW CASES, of all sizes,
and all articles usually found in a
First-class Drug House. Prices low
Quick sales and small profits.
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SHOES AND HATS

h Tho STYLES HATS and SHOES enough for all the county
and propose selling them For cheap and comfortable sho Ony
a of Ous warranted bOes sneS
endless styles stock OF the Zger Shoes always on hand
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-10
FAMILY GROCERIES.

Stock been selected with unusual care ana
EV customers them be the BEST useless tor me
tamn enueae what this newhat have ou
bacon by the 10000 pounds lowest market supply Oh
hand Try barrel OF ACNE F1oUR-rHE BEST MADE
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Indictment for Foreclosure.

Judgment for Foreclosure.
FINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A JUDO
L ment order to me directed. IN the
above stated case, by His Honor, ". H.
Wallace, Circuit Judge, will sell to the
highest bidder for cash, at the Court House
in Manning, in county and State aforesaid
on Monday, the 9Th day Of December, 1856,
being salesday, within legal hours OF sale
all that tract Of land situated in the County
of Clarendon, containing one hundred and
six acres, more or less, and bounded as fol-
lows: On the North by LANDS surveyed for
and occupied by James Cantey; on the
South and East, by lands lately belonging
to Levi F. Rhame, now said to be owned by
Mrs. Sarah L. r. Lesesne; and on the West
by lands surveyed for and occupied by John
Dove. Purchaser to pay for papers.
II. H. LESESNE,
Sheriff Clarendon County.
Noyennher TO- 1885,
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State of South Carolina, Court OF
Clarendon County. Common Pleas.
Susan q. Bradley,
Plaintiff,
Against
Burvell r. Bradley Gabriel +. Bradley,
Robert K. Bradley, Mary E. Abrittoa,
Sallie C, Peake, and Maude N. Bradley,
Defendants.
Order of Sale.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. THAT
IN under and by virtue of on order OF
this Court, made in the above stated case,
dated Octobe, 18th, 1885, will sell to the
highest bidder for cash, at the Court House
at Manning, in said county and State, with
in the usual hours of sale, on Monday the
9Th day of December, 1856, a certain tract OF
land situate in Clarendon County, in the
Stste aforesaid, containing one hundred
acres, more or less, adjoining lands Of R. G.
Richardson, J. J. Broughton, James D.
Weeks, and lands said to belongt to W. &
B. Richardson and others.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
HI LESESNE,
Sheriff Clarendon County.
November 10th, 1885.
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Tobacco and Cigar:

a very large stock Of all grades and prices;
= Cigar-the best Sc cigars in the world
very fine ciga,.
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Plaintiff,

against
Thisbe E. Marley, W. P. Warley, Susan
Catharine Marley, AIoultrie Marley, Clara
warley, James Sanders Marley, Jared
D. Marley, Josephine Warley, and Eras-
mus H.Warley, (the last four named IN
fants, under twenty-one years Of age)
Defendants.
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State of South Carolina Court Of Common
Clarendon County. Pleas.
Aaron Weinberg,
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sEERI.lFFS SALES.

state of South Carolina, Court Of Common
County of Clarendon. Sleas'
Benjamin s. Dinkins,
Plaintiff,
against
James Hudson, Thomas McD. Hudson
Defendants.
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WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA And AU.
gAsta Railroad.

GENERAL PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
April 2G, 1886.
Y1IE FOLLOWING SCHEDU ULE will be
operated on and after this date:
Y, AZ D,IIY
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-03
The Sailors and the Hen.

Sailors are usually credited with good
deal of superstition. The following
story from the Eastport (Me.) Standard
is a case in point. The steamer New
Brunswick, of the international line, re-
Gently had succession of bad voyages.
Head winds and storms were encountered
on the trips between st. John and Bos-
ton. She was due in Eastport on Fri
day, but did not reach that port until
Sunday noon. The sailors and some Of
the officers at last concluded that there
was a Jonah on board and began to look
for the cause of the steamers ill-luck. It
seems that some time ago the steamers
freight included coop of hens. During
the passage one of the hens got out and
as the owner could not get her back into
the coop without danger of letting 9TH
ers escape, he gave the hen to one of the
deck hands, who kept her in q box on
the main deck. There is superstition
among the sailors that if hen is carried
under tub, bead down, the vessel will
encounter head winds as long as the hen
is aboard. Concluding that hen in box
was lust as i'll an omen as q hen in tub,
the crew began to mutter and the deck
hand was compelled to put his hen
ashore. Since that the steamer has had
favorable weather and the crew are happy.
Boston Irareler.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-03
Working Children In Germany.

According to the Conservative Monthly
(German) there are in Germany no less
than 6O,474 children under fifteen years
of age supporting themselves. Of these
14S, 262 are engaged in manufacture, 49,
e29 of them being girls. There is scarce
ly branch of industry in which chill
dren are not employed. In mines and
salt works alone, $500 children are en-
ploycd. Brick. porcelain and glass
large proportion of whom are employed
at home in glass blowing, kind OF
work especially hurtful for breathing ap-
paratus which is still in process of de-
velopment. In spinning mills there ara
6,942 children. The figures touching
the spinning industry are very complete,
and the conclusions which inevitably
follow from them are terrible. Beside
the 6,942 child spinners, there are 3d.
900 persons ronging in age from fifteen
to twenty years, 81, 900 In the years be-
tween twenty and thirty, and but. Is, 700
between thirty and forty. The majority
of these workers arc women. The natu-
raj consequence is the fearful mortality
of children in spinning and weaving dis
tricts such as Silesia, mortality which
has increased of late years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-03
How to Pop the Question.

have in my possession postal card
on which is the inquiry: (Which is the
best way to pop the question:" I have
had talks with several hundred men in
my time on this very point. These talks
partook very largely of the character of
experiences, and I may say that have
yet to hear of single happy connubial
union that sprung out of a purely COM
mercial proposal. Nor have known
anything good to come of a mar.
riage springing from proposal that had
been carefully prearranged. The happi-
est have known were those which grew
out of moment that seemed created on
the spot for the very occasion. A man
may have loved a woman ten years with
out having such moment as this burst
upon him-though I wouldn't give
much for love that couldn't
come to head sooner. But If
it is love, the moment will come.
It may be in the subdued light; or on
the steps of the portico; or on the gate;
or in the solitude of the forest, where
only bird is swinging and singing in
the tree-top, or somewhere by the sea.
The place is of no consequence neces-
sarily, but it ought to be secluded to
some extent; where the words are in
unison; where, when you say something,
no matter what it is about, it will touch
the invisible wire and send current OF
life into her soul. If she does not re.
spond by look or word you can depend
upon it, young man, that you are on a
cold trail. But if she doesl Then put
on some more fuel; as it warns, fan it,
and as the flames brighten her cheek,
and her eyes sparkle as If they were
breaking into fragments-and her words
wreath about your own, so that your
hand is as gentle in its stroke as the
step of fairy-so that she has to look
up at you from under the silken lashes-
thenl If you are not moved by this
time to forget where you are and who
you are-and if you do not say it then
YOU deserve to be toothless bachelor,
and you run the risk of making one
woman miserable all the days of her life:
But there is no fixed rule for it. And
when it is over-long years after, may
be when you are sitting by your freside
and the winds of cruel winter are
sounding death taps on your window, If
YOU cannot go back to the place and the
time, over and over and over again, and
sit down by it, and feel something like
incense stealing its way into your soul,
God pity you, in your winter OF loneil-
illness, for you didn't pop to the right
woman.-Chicago Herald.
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The Cider Curse.

About the ugliest, sourest, meanest
drunkard on the globe, is the cider drunk
ard. He does not need to visit saloons,
his saloon is down cellar; and he drinks
and guzzles, and scolds and swears, until
he makes his home a hell, and life a
burden to all around him. There are
some who object to drinking rum, or
brandy, but think there is no harm in
drinking cider. The stimulating and in
toxicating principle in cider, wine, brandy,
gin, rum, lager beer and all these other
intoxicants, is the same; it is alcohol,
and alcohol is the same poisonous and
deadly agent where it is found.
Distil the alcohol out of cider, wine,
beer or brandy, and what is left would
be simply dish-water. No man would
drink cider if the alcohol was taken out
of it. "But sweet cider does not do any
hurt" says one. No; and man puts a
barrel of sweet cider into his cellar; he
drinks glass of it, and it is sweet; he
takes another glass, and that is sweeter;
he keeps drinking and drinking until the
barrel is empty, and the last glass is the
sweetest of all, and then he is ready to
tap a new barrel. You can no more tell
when sweet cider becomes sour than you
can tell when a boy becomes a man, or
when pig becomes hog.
The man who commences with sweet
cider is likely.to proceed to sour cider,
and finish off with rum, gin, brandy,
whisky and all the catalogue of alcoholic
poisons which ruin mankind and desolate
the world. Boys, let cider alone!-zM
Pacific.
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LoMly, But Wcicomes

When have said my quiet say,
When have sung my little song,
Bow swee4ly, sveetly dies the day,
The valley and the hill along;
How sweet the summons, "Come away"
That calls me from the busy throng.
thought beside the waters flow
Awhile to lie beneath the leaves,
I thought in autumn's harvest glow
To rest my head upon the sheaves;
But lo methinks the day was brief
And cloudy; flower, nor fruit, nor leaf
I bring, and yet accepted, free
And blest, my Lord come to thee.
What matter now for promise lost,
Through blast of spring or summer rains!
What matter now for purpose crost,
For broken hopes, and wasted painss
What if the olive little yields,
What if the grape be bhghted! Thine
The corn upon thousand helds,-
Upon thousand hills the vine.
Thou lowest still the poor; Oh, blest
In poverty beloved to be!
Less lowly IS my choice confess'd,
love the rich in loving thee!
My spirit bare before thee stands,
I bring no gift, ask no sign;
I come to thee with empty hands,
The surer to be filed from thine.
Dora GreenWeu.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Great Trlunphs.

"Behold / see the heavens open, and
the Son of Man standing on the right
hand of God"
Thus spake the proto- matyr in the
expectation OF death. And in all ages
have there been those across whose
vision, at their dying hour, similar
scenes of blessedness have passed. AS
orbs of light meet our. gaze when the
darkness of nightfall covers the earth,
so do scenes OF glory sometimes appear
to the Christian wnen the shadows OF
evening closes his day of life.
+ Christ angels "-"beautiful"
"magnifcent" "-''ielightful." was the
language of the expiring DR.. Hope.
"Home, home!" said Normand Smith.
Il see the New Jerusalem. They
praise him-they praise him."
"Now farewell, world" said Rev.
MIR. Holland, "welcome heaven; the
Day Star from on high has visited my
heart. Oh speak it when I am gone,
and preach it at my funeral. God
dealeth familiarly with man. l feel
his mercy. see his majesty. Wheth-
er in the body or out of the body l
cannot tell: but l see things which are
unutterable."
IL have been," said Walker of Trl-
70, "upon the wings of cherubim.
Heaven has in a manner been opened
to me. l shall soon be there"
"Do you see," said Edmund Anger,
"that blessed assembly who await my
arrival2 Do you hear that sweet mu-
sic, with which those holy men invite
me, that l may henceforth be partaker
of their happiness2 How delightful
it is to he in the society of blessed
splits! Let US 60. We must go. Let
me go!'
"You seem to enjoy foretastes of
heaven" said one to H. S. Golden.
'Oh, this is no longer foretaste," was
the joyful assent, "this is heaven. I
not only feel the climate, but I breathe
the ambrosial air Of heaven, and sooa
shall enjoy the company"
"IfI must die-and die must
Let some kind scraph come,
And bear mo on his friendly wing,
10 my celestial home.
Of Canaan's land, from Plagah's top,
May but have view,
Though Jordon should o'elfow its banks,
III boldly venture through.
-Independent.
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The First Two Disciples.


Memorable as Johns testimony was,
it seems on the first day to have pro-
duced no immediate result. But on
the second day, when the Baptist was
standing accompanied by two of his
disciples, Jesus again walked by, and
John, fixing upon him his intense and
earnest gaze. exclaimed again, as
though with involuntary awe and ad-
miration, "Behold the Lamb of God"
The words were too remarkable to
be again neglected, and the two Cali
laan youths who heard them followed
the retreating figure Of Jesus. He
caught the sound of their timid foot
steps, and turning round to look at
them as they came near, he gently
asked, "What seek ye?"
1t was but the very beginning of
his ministry; as yet they could not
know him for all that he was; as yet
they had not heard the gracious words
that proceeded out Of his lips; in CON-
ing to seek Him thus they might be
actuated by inadequate motives, or
even by mere passing curiosity; it
was fit that they should come to Him
by spontaneous impulse. and declare
their object of their own free will
But how deep and full of meaning
is that question, and how sternly it
behooves all who come to their Lord
to answer it! One of the holiest of
the church's saints, st. Bernard, was
in the habit of warning himself by the
solemn query, "Bernardi, ad quid
ce7.isti -"Bernard, for what pur-
pose art thou here2" Self-examina-
tion could assume no more searching
form; but all the meaning which it
involved was concentrated in that
quiet and simple question, what
seek YEP"
They came and saw where Jesus
dwelt, and as it was then four in the
afternoon, stayed there that day, and
probably slept there that night; and
before they lay down to sleep they
knew and felt in their inmost hearts
that the kingdom of heaven had CONF
that the hopes Of long centuries were
now fulfilled, that they had been in
the presen.e of Him who was the de
sire of all nations. the Priest greater
than Aaron, the Prophet greater than
Moses, the King greater than David,
the true Star of Jacob and Scepter of
Israel.
One of those two youths who came
earliest to Christ was Andrew. The
other suppressed his own name be-
cause he was the narrator, the beloved
disciple, the evangelist, St. John. No
wonder that the smallest details, down
even to the very hour of the day, was
treasured in his memory. never to be
forgotten, even in extreme old age
FaTrdr.