The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-08-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Hoar sprung 4 bloody shirt discussion IN
the Senate Thursday.
Specials from Ill over Alabama show un-
expected victories FOR Independents.
The elections in France resulted in
complete victory for the Republicans.
Handbills demanding home rule arc being
circulated throughout Wales.
The operatives in 42 factories at Broclon,
Mass, struck Saturday.
The New Orleans Times Democrat thinks
the postal note is q failure and fraud.
Virginia has raised more hay this year
than for any of the preceding forty OF her
existence.
At Oakland, ILL.,, the mercury at one
time last Thursday registered 1l2 degrees
IN the shade.
William Hooper & Son, of Baltimore,
have made an assi gnmcnt. Estimated
assets $500,0C0.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Houten, of Watscs-
eating canned lobster.
David Davis was not worth the six or
eight millions he was credited with. 1t has
been officially given at $3.50, 900.
J. c. Dobbins, a train shiftcr, was torn
literally to pieces by q freight train at Cen
tr;sl, Thursday.
The ground was covered to the depth Of
/ inches yesterday at Mount Washington,
n. H., with snow.
The four-storv brick block. comprising
Nos. 11G, 11S and l20 South Eutaw street,
Baltimore, was burned last Thursday.
In the anarchist trials at Chicago, yes
tcrday, tic defence opened their case,
Mayor Harrison being one Of their wit
ncSSeS.
The Siblcy Mills operatives at Augusta
returned to work to-day. The situa-
ticn at the Augusta factory remains un-
changed.
BY special order of Governor Ireland, Of
Texas, the parties concerned in delivering
Arrcsurcs to the Mexican authorities have
| been arrested.
The Governor OF New Foundland says:
Il have reason to believe that the report Of
starvation in Labrador is absolutely un-
true
Two French sub-officcrs of the army,
stationed at Algicrs, fought duel with
sabrcS. The head Of one Of the combat
ants was cleft in twain.
There is said to be another great boom in
Alabama coal lands. Active life prevails
in the vicinity Of Birmingham and through
out the Black Warrior belt.
The proprietors of factories in Westpha-
Lin ard Rhenish Prussia are dismissing
workmcn by wholesale, owing to the ter
riblc depression in trade.
In New Albany, Ind, on July q, Prof.
J. G. Strunk shot Dr. G. L. Hoover q
| prominent druggist and his son Charles
lIoovcr-domcStic difficulties.
The people of Texas have established a
Confederate Home in Austin, which they
propose to make model resting place for
the heroes Of the Lost Cause.
Entcrprising South Carolina editors are
beginning to admit that wisdom did not
die with Calhoun, McDutlie and Waddell
The world movcS.--1ugusta Chronicle.
AZ the trial of the Chicago dynamiters a
cai!oad of the explosives used by the an
archists as we'll as the bloodstaincd clothes
OF the murdered policemen were exhibited
to the jury.
In Louisville, on July 81, John Koehler,
a jealous husband, shot John Carter, q
counterfeitcr, through the heart and Peter
Houph, a bricklayer, through the right eye.
In & recent autograph letter to New
York man, Jefferson Davis says: Il am
too Old to quarrel, too old 20 boast The
man Of sense in his old age likes to be let
alone
Gov Ircland's letter addressed to Secrc-
tary Bayard is approved all over Texas,
and. has had the effect of intensifyins the
war spirit by atfording it quasi authority
for its existence.
Careful Republicans concede that the
next House will be Democratic by re-
duced majority. Don Cameron admits that
tie next Senate may be Democratic or pain
fully close politically.
Mosquitoes are so thick at resorts on the
coast along Barnegat Bay that city people
arc compelled 10 return home. The walls
Of every house are literally black with the
insects, and the people endure almost un-
bcarable torture.
The aggregate appropriation made by
tie regular appropriation bills passed at
this session of Congress Excluding the for
titications bilD is 1865 ZOO, 900, which is
81, 700, 900 in excess of the appropriations
made by the bills passed last session.
In Cincinnati, Wednesday, a little boy,
barehcaded and barcfooted, reeling with
liquor, staggered before the merchants
along Race street flourishing revolver.
He fired at a gentleman who attempted to
diSarm him.
1t is estimated that British capital invest
cd in the United States amounts to $175,-
CSC, 535. This money is in mortgages, cat
Tie, land, mines and manufactures. Some
investments pay from 12s to 3 per cent
Some pay nothing.
Seventy acres Of land north Of Birmipg-
ham, Ala, were recently sold at the rate
Of 500 per acre. AS the same land was
purchased five years ago at about $50 per
acre, an idea of the increase in the value of
property in that rising district can be OBJ
tanned.
The Adjutant General of Texas received
at Austin applications for permission to
raise volunteer regiments in case of war
with Mexico. He also received informa-
t;on that the Mexicans are reinforcing the
garrison at FL Paso del Norte. Uncle Sam
has only one company at FL Paso in charge
of Fort Bliss
Either Senators Hampton and Butler are
wrong in voting practically against the
Morrison resolution or the whole South
Carolina delegation in the House, includ
ing Mcssrs. Hemphill and Dargan, have
hlundnred Hnmnhill and Darnan heard