The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-03-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered FROM Various
Quarters.

quarters.
Petroleum has been found in New
Mexico.
Cotton has an upward tendency in
New York.
Mississippi has repealed the lien
law after sixteen years trial.
Two almoud-eved Celestials are
the social rage in Washington.
Intensely cold weather with heavy
snow prevails throughout Europe.
Maine is experiencing the worst
snow known in q quarter of y century
.-Cotton futures have advanced sew
eral points in New York.
-Suow storms have been unusually
severe throughout Great Britain.
Mrs. Hawley. the wife of Senator
Hawlev, OF Connecticut, died i'll Wash
ington on Friday evening.
- \ mechanic OF Bolton, S. c.,
claims to have succeeded in getting
perpetual mo,ion.
Three men were fouhd frozen 10
death in the streets of New York ohc
day last week.
"A treaty of peace between Scrvia
and Bulgaria was sigued at Bucharest
last week.
Many vessels are detained in the
harbors along the English coast, and
numerous wrecks are reported.
IF. ". Nickerson e Co.. large
West India importers Of Boston, have
failed.
1T is claimed that laborers on the
Panama Canal are dying at the rate OF
forty day or 1900 yearly.
Jenny Lind, who is now sixty five
years of age, will, it is said, give a
series of concerts in London during
the coming season.
Mormon Elders are making many
converts among men ana women in
North Alabama. Whe:e is Judge
Lynch:
A crew Of eight persons in life
boat belonging to the steamer Idleaclid,
wrecked in Long Island Sound, were
drowned.
Tho extreme Left in the French
Deputies have formally declared in
favor Of the immediate expulsion Of
the French Princes.
Serena, q Sister Of Charity of
Providence Hospital, Washing. .on City,
fell through IN elevator and was
fatally injured.
"A fire at Montgomery, Ala, last
Friday night, destroyed Sl5O,000 worth
of property, including $500 bales Of
cotton.
The Knights of Labor OF Texas
were on big strike last week, and
the operations OF the railroads were
greatly embarrassed.
-.Seuator Edmuds will have good
chance to tire himself out if he actual
lv proceeds with al attempt to coerce
the President.
The Blair Educational Bill passed
the United States Senate on Friday by
vote of sc to II. There were a
number of pairs, and SEVERAL absentees
Tuesday the 2nd inst. was "Wo-
mans Day" at the American ExpoSi-
ton, New Orleans, and 10000 persons
participated.
The harbor of Newport, r. l., was
recently frozen solid and travel is sus-
pended, The Hudson River was again
frozen over at Tarrytown and above.
The dry house of the Miami Pow
der COMPANY, near Zenia, o., blew
up, killing three men ard blowing the
building and machinery to atoms.
Governor McEnery, of Louisiana,
has signed the death warrants Of Pat
rick Ford and John Murphy. Their
execution is ordered for Friday, 18th
inst.
The President has approved the
Acts removing the disabilities Of A. P.
Stewart, OF Mississippi, Ed. G. Butler,
of Missouri, aud Thos. l.. Rosser, OF
Virginia.
"A Kansas City man estimates that
stream OF beer about two inches III
diameter and los miles long flows
through Kansas throatS every year.
-Ex-Speaker Randall OH March i
had been in Congress for twenty-three
years. Thirty-two Years ago lie was
elected to the Philadelphia city coun~
Gil.
AT Tie Evangelical Conference in
Reading, Pa, the resolutions on in
temperance, Sunday newspapers and
the u-e of tobacco were discussed al
length aud adopted.
Theodore p. Rich, Of CobleSkill,
n. Y, killed his runaway wife in ST..
Paul aud then fatally shot himself.
Dir. II. 5. Gale, who accom- panied the
erring wife, escaped.
There is cool wave between the
Rev Robert S. Rowe. of Baltimore,
and his congregation, because he re-
ferred TO charity balls aS ''godleSs hops
in the name Of sweet charity"
Although Senator Sharon was
supposed to have been worth about
Sl5,0O0,000, his estate proves to be
only S5,500,000. The general tenden
cy is evidently to oyel estimate greal
fortunes.
The Cotton Oil Trust Company of
Cincinnati, Ohio, now controls all the
desirable oil mills west Of the MisSis-
sippi River and sixty per cent. Of those
east Of it. They consequently control
the price of oil.
ALL the street-car drivers of New
York were on a strike last week, but
thev resumed work on Friday. The