The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-07-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.


last year amounted to $4l 100000.
Cufee White, colorcd was mysteriously
murdered i'll Sumter County on Thursday
last
The Chicago strikers are still defiant and
threatening. The police stand their ground
armed with Winchester rifles.
The manifesto of the Comte dc Paris
meets with adverse criticism from the Ger
man Liberal press.
Murat's sword handle, set with precious
stones and gold was sold in London the
other day for $3.50.
The rains have done great damage in
Kcnt"c cky. Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina.
A Tcxarkana cotton buyer has swindlcd
Eastern purchasers out of $35, 900, selling
them by sample from St. Louis.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister Of
the President, will become editor Of Liter
arg Life, and make Chicago her home.
G. \. Kinncar, local mail agent at
Lynchburg, Va, was arrested Saturday on
the charge Of robbing the mail.
The rcdoubtable General Chalmers offers
himself as an independent candidate for
Congress in the Second Mississippi Dis
trict
c. D. Graham, q young cooper of Phila-
dclphia, has determined to shoot the Niagra
whirlpool rapids in cask on Monday,
July ).
John D. Saunders, of Hoboken, n Y,
and his wife and two children were pois
onel on Sunday from eating canned string
beans. They are getting we'll.
Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, one of the
wcalthicst widows in the United States, is
worth $10,000,000. She was Miss Fow
lcr, of Detroit.
Peter Harrison fatally shot Henry Frccr
parties colored. They quarrclcd over ten
cents while gambling.
Alex. Kennedy, who lives near Knox
vile, Tenn, is said to be the only living
eve witness of the battle of New Orleans
which was fought in 1915.
Deputy Marshal Mcdonald shot and
killed J. A. Brown and wounded Joe Over
ton, both moonshiners, near Atlanta, Ca,
Sunday.
It is said at the Treasury Department that
the public debt statement for June, will
show reduction for the month of about
SO, 100000
Two brothers, Adam and Alphonse Reed,
who live near New Orleans, had duel with
shotguns Sunday, in which Adam was
fatally shot.
The creates; length of Lake Michigan is
800 miles; its greatest breadth, 10S miles;
mean depth, $50 feet; elevation, SOC feet
area, %, 600 miles.
The outlook is squally in Chicago The
strikers have thrown freight train from
the track and the officers of the law and
the railroad authorizes are defed.
The first consignment of fire crackers
that Chinese workmen had manufactured
arrived in New York Sunday They were
made in the ancient city of Canton.
The Southern Lutheran Convention
which has been in session at Roanoke, Va,
for a week past, adjourned Saturday to
meet in Savannah, Ga, next year.
Mrs. Rose Merkiho1fer of Brooklyn gave
birth to a baby boy which had whiskcrs
half an inch long on each side of his face
1t died three hours after being born.
There arc $50 ocean steamers carrying
tourists from America to Europe, and not
one of that number flies the United States
flag. The more we look at our shipping
the smaller it gets.
Congressman Grosvenor, of Ohio, char
actcriZcs Bostonese culture as "the over
educated provincialism of the East" This
will strike the Hubitcs between beans and
water.
The Roanc Iron Mill, at Chattanooga,
the largest in the South, which has been
idle for the past five years, decided Thurs
day to start up, and will manufacture steel
rails.
The contract for supplying 100000
pounds of tobacco for the use of the navy
during the next fiscal year has been award
ed TO Meyer Bros. & Co., Of Richmond,
Va, at . cents pound.
Stone Basemorc, of BERTHE County, n.
c., had quarrel with his father Monday,
and shot him with shotgun loaded with
buckshot. He then broke open the safe
and took therefrom $500 and fed.
Rossctte, whose nomination as postmas-
ter at Dekalb, ILL.,, was rejected by the
Senate, is the man who said cditorially in
his paper that he was glad that Grant was
dead, and hoped he was in hell.
The striking switchmen of the Lake
Shore Railroad in Chicago still hold out
They held meeting Wednesday evening
and decided not to extend the strike to
other roads
Certain Southern Democratic Senators
do not take kindly to Governor Thompson's
nomination and are inclined to complain of
the distinction South Carolina is receiving
at the hands of this Administration.
A grand gathering of church dignitaries
at the cathedral in Baltimore, "Wednesday, |
conferred the bcretta on Archbishop Glib |
bons the new American Cardinal. There |
were many distinguished prelatcs present. |
Rev. Father J. Z. O'Sullivan, formerly
Catholic priest in Camilius, n T., found |
guilty of outrage on Abbic O'Connor, for
mcrly a domestic in his house. was sentenced
to eleven years in Auburn State prison.
St. John sdelivering prohibition speeches
in prohibition Maine This, following the
attack by the clergy of Portland on the
open Sunday saloons in that city, is an in
lication that prohibition does not prohibit.
1t is proposed to supply the city of Chi
cago with water by means Of shafts sunk to
,he limestone strata which undcrlies the
:ity at no great depth and the outcrops in
he bed of Lake Michigan about two miles
rom shore
The Cotton States Life Insurance of
Macon, Georgia, has come to grief. There