The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-05-26

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Mrs. JOS. ". Hodge, died last Sunday.
We are requested to announce that
there Will be preaching IL the Bap-
tist Church here next Sunday.
Tie picnic of the Grove Academy
has been postponed. Next Friday is
the time.
The TIMES to-day is filed up with
the news of the week from all over
tie State.
Indications are that peaches Will be
abundant in Manning and the Coun-
try this year.
Our Exchanges are unanimous that
Rachel McCaskell, colored, at Cam
den, aged 113, died on tie 3rd of May.
7lr. j. D. Witherspoou has accept
ed a position with Mr. NJ. Levi, where
he will be glad to see his friends and
patrons in this and adjoining coun-
ties.
See notice of the meeting OF the
Agricultural Society, Saturday, June
the 5th. The friends Of the Nonu-
ment enterprise will make another ef-
fort on the same day to hold a meet
ing in this interest VIII they fail?
The patriotism OF Clarendon must an
swer.
The Black River Union will meet
with the Home Branch Church next
Friday. Saturday and Sunday. Mess
IS. ". T. Touchberry, I. \. Bradham,
and S. Il. Bradham are delegates
from the Manning Church.
The pulpit of the Presbyterian
Church was filed last Sunday by Rev.
J. N. plcwden. of this county, who re-
Gently graduated at the Columbia
Seminary. The gentleman isa chaste,
fluent speaker, with style strongly
smacking OF the true orator. His fu-
ture promises q career of honorable
usefulness.
Crop reports from different Sec
tions Of the county since the late rains
are Aattering. Corn and cotton are
both reported up, well worked and
growing nicely. With a continuation
OF the present favorable season, a
plentiful harvest may reasonably be
evnacfed The oat crop will also
yield great deal more than the out
look at one time promised.
We learn from our correspondent
"Tom," that Capt D. v. Brailsford
was badly hurt last week By the ez-
plosion Of a kerosine lamp.
Also that, :'Norah Robertson, a colored
woman, LETT home on Friday evening
returning at late hour, went to bed
woke up Saturday morning and found
her infant dead-aged about two
months.
DEaoE-s1, Magazine for June is
filed with an unusual array of inter
estine articles. Jenny June contrib
utcs The American Drama and its
Typical Stars" ". Jennings Demon
est, THE signs Of the Times" and
Katharine Armstrong, art Work IL
Metal" Other good articles are
sEmanuel Geibel," Rose Hartwicl
Thorpe" and China Painting 6,
Home" ''That Other i2erSon is con
{inued ard the shorter stories arc o
interest. ]'he departments. Including
+! that devoted TO the cause OF Prohibi
/ ton, are quite full. ]'he frontispiec'
! IS steel engraving, The Love Sto
ry."
WoSprnrc1.-A trio boasting a dig
nitarv OF the law, a disciple Of Escu
lapius and gentleman of the yard
stick, related each in succession, be
! fore an astonisAed listener, the follow
ing:
The legal light whose love IS flowers
and who BY the way, is a shillful horis'
told OF a rose, the Paul Neyror
reared in his garden, winch measure
in circumference, II inches. This
he added, is the largest rose eve
grown, except one in California, tia
measured q small half inch more.
E,scu!api1s came next, remarkin
WITH complacent yawn, that anon
!, his possessions is a mill pond of tw
hundred acres, from which, with q Ii
lie notice lie can haul out someth;n
like 1,000 slIad
The man Of cloth, with dolightf,
| saagjto:d and modesty, told OF an az
qua;ntancc, an acrobat, whose usu;
, vauit was over fourteen horses an
: three large white elephants.
W@Gng to hear no more, the forrt
j, party vanished with a vision Of Dea
;. Swift tiooti,,o through his mind