The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

opened on Saturday.
England is expected to take the lead in
restoring order in Bulgaria.
kcne Bros. dry goods. San Francisco,
CAL, have failed for $3.50, coo.
Two little boys. brothers, were drowned
near Lancaster, Penn, on Saturday.
The threat Of an instruction Of negroes
in Laurinburg, \. c., is not believed.
New York banks now hold $6,g01, i]G in
reserve in excess of legal requirement.
\ Socialist has been nominated for Con
gress in the Second Connecticut District.
Russian newspapers still advise Prince
Alexander not to resume tie Bulgarian
throne.
Lawrence Donovan, q Young pressinan,
Jumped the Brooklyn bridge 10 win $500.
He was Unhurt.
Near NickShurs, Miss. negro boy killed
the wife Of his employer. Hc was immc-
diatciy lynclled.
A wild steer III Bridgeport, H., gorcd Il
man IN the nose, Saturday, iaiiic;!ng !nju-
rieS which may prove fatal.
Sunday evening there was some firing OF
pistols and throwing Of stones, and lew
persons injured in Belfast.
Three men were fatally injured by the
fall of a bridge over the Elm fork Of Trim,
ity river, near Dallas. Texas, on Friday.
Two ladies were drowned in the surf at
Jacksonville, Fla. on Saturday, and trav-
cling man at Poala beach, near same place.
In railway collision at Madling. eight
miles from Vienna, seven persons were
killed and twenty-five woundCd.
Mrs Elizabeth Rodgers has been ap-
pointed Master Workman Of District AS
scmbly No. p, Knights of Labor, Chicago.
The President has appointed Judge Man
ming, of Louisiana, as Minister to Mexico,
to succeed Gen. Jackson. resigned.
Alabama has over 32,000,0O0 acres of
land, and little over 5000, coo are under
cultivation There is room in the old land
yet, it would seem.
The national debt statement, issued Tues.
day. shows the decrease 70: August to be
$l9l ,069. .902; cash in the Treasury, S4i4,
70,G51.14.
An article contributed by Miss Cleveland
to Septcmcr Literary Lie will be on ''Fa.
cation Reading Miss Cleveland will dc
justice to her theme in q unique style.
Charlie Bierman accidentally shot and
killed Victor Butler. of Augusta, Ga, on
last Sunday morning, while both were
hunting near that city.
\ colored woman and her two children
were burned to death six miles from Au.
gusta on this side of the Savannah River
on Saturday.
Six hundred lives were lost and q thou,
sand persons injured by the earthquake in
Greece II least six towns were entirely
and a score partially destroyed.
4 magnetic storm ragged all the morning
of Wednesday ct Rochester. y. y. The
swaying Of heavy magnetic needles for the
detection of earth currents was very great.
Zankoff and Grueff, conspirators against
Alexander. have been sentenced to death,
and their co-conspirator, Clement, to i'm.
prisonmcnt for life
Margaret Meagher, over 10 years CID, OF
New York, drove her husband to suicide
and allowed her baby to starve to death
while she INDUCED in q aprotractec dchauch.
! frcdamp explosion occurred at Fair
Lawn, near Scranton, Pa, on the 30th.
Seven dead bodies have been recovered, and
it is reported that ten men are still in the
mine.
W. X. Terry, who was shot in streel
fight in Martinsvillc Va, May II, died last
night. His nrothcr, J. X. Terry, was
killed in the fight, and B. X Terry was
shot through the body, bat recovered.
Prof. W. j. AIcGcc. OF the Geological
Survey, has left Washington for Charles
ton. to make q scientific study of the effect
of the earthquake al What now appears TO
have been the centre OF disturbance.
Fifty thousand Socialists, workmen and
idlcrs met in Trafalgar square, London,
Sunday and adopted a resolution derounc
ing the tyranny Of the police and action of
the authorities in imprisoning the Socialist,
Williams.
1t is stated that the Russian Prince Dol
gorouki's journey to Bulgaria to restore
order has been postponed because of q re-
por: that the revolution in Bulgaria had no
leader. and was initiated without any guar
antec that the whole nation approved it.
The Treasury Department has decided
that cotton ties cut from bales in foreign
countries ard returned 70 the United States
cannot be admitted free of duty, as they
are not returned in the same condition as
exported, but being cut must be regarded
as old scrap iron.
The captain of 4 steamer just arrived at
Malta SAYS that on August 30 when the ship
was fourteen miles to the north of the
island of Galita, of Tuais, in the Mediter-
ranean, he noticed that the highest peak on
the eastern end of the island was in Il state
of eruption, ejecting smoke from the crater
like Mount -Etna.
A dispatch from Wilcox. Arizona, dated
August 80. states that Colonel Wade has
rounded up all the Chirachuas and Warm
Spring Apaches, numbering 420. He has
them under guard, and will, unless some
accident occurs. carry out General Milcs's
plan Of moving them out Of Arizona.
The bark Lena from Aspinwall for
Philadelphia, is off the entrance to this
port. She had lost one of her crew with
fever On tie passage and las seven more
down with it. She was seeking assistance.
The Board of Health officer ordered a
steam tug to tow the vessel to Ship Island
quarantine.
Reports have gone out from Augusta,
Ga. that The race feeling against Chiuamen
had prompted an attempt to assassinatc
them with dynamite. 1t is true that an
attempt was made Sunday nightto blow Up
Charlie Loo Chong, in the heart Of the
city, but the investigation shows that the
motive was revenge by a negro for a fan
cied personal wrong, and not the outgrowth
of race prejudice. The attempt proved