The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-03-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts Of Interest, Gathered from Varions
Quarters.

-I'he OATS crop in Marion looks very
promising.
The loss BIZ the wreck of the Ore
gon am"r;nts to s., l66, 900.
"A Republican coalition has been
formed iii the Spanish Eortes.
Spring freshet> are getting in their
u-uai Work Iii cimauy III present.
the President gave his second
| dil'ncr 10 'on4r->Stueu on Thursday
ni4iIf las.
->tu.r Antonio Mavncr, q sugar
planter IN Ma;alZa>, bias freed his
slaves.
AT Wilmington, Del, The striking
morocco mcn have returned to work,
Professionally.
The trial of Alderman Jaehne, OF
New York, on the charge Of bribery,
has been fixed for the 18th April.
a cotton ship at New Orleans was
| struck bv lightning, the cargo set on
fire aud damaged Slo, 900.
-Gferunimo, the Apache Chief, has
surrendered to Lict Maus, who de-
fcnti"d him against the MeXicsns.
--Gc!,. Freedmcn'> Bureau Howard
has ocen nominated as Major General
in the ARMY, ricc Pope, retired.
The new Roman Catholic Bishop
of Georgia is master OF fourteen Ian
guages. He is SAID to bc indeed very
learned.
w. W. Vance, formerly Of Able
vile, has been ,.omi"a e.i by the Dem
ocra,s for tie Louisiana State Senate.
-MessrS. y. G.. Zeiglar and r..
Copes, of Oralgcburg, have secured
! patents for hoeins machine and We
hicle shaft.
"A. J. TwigSS, who lives on Beach
Island, has set up a distilIery, ana Is
making wli>kev ont of his large corn
crop.
The sum Of Sl,0O5.l0 was the
amount paid witnesses, jurors and
coil>tablcs for service at the recent
erm of Eigetielc court.
Paris has been authorized by the
Chamber Of Deputies 10 build public
works i'll orderto employ her idle pop
ulatioI.
The Pull Mall Go-ette denies the
alleged opposition to Gladstone in his
Cabinet, except rs 20 Chamberlain and
Trevclyan.
Three valuable blocks in Ilclcua,
Ark, Including the Opera House,
were burnt last week, loss 1925, 200
half insured.
There were three failures in Rich
mond, Va, on Thursday, lie liabilities
aggregatimg about sixty thousand dol
lars.
The case of Cluverius, convicted
Of the murder Of Lillian Madison, is
set for hearing this week, before the
Court of Appeals of Virginia.
The Pan-EIectric investigation was
continued in Washington last week.
| Nothing new or startling was deTel-
oped.
AT latest accounts the situation
among the strikers in the West was
serious. All attempts to run freight
trains seem to have been fruitless.
1t is now said that Secretary Man
ming is stricken with paralysis. and
he will have to abandon his place in
the Cabinet.
-E1>Justicc Ward Hunt of the
United States Supreme Court died IN
Washington last week. He was stv-
euty.siI Years Old.
Hon. Wm. II. Smith, of Le1ing-
ton, Ill.,, committed suicide last week:
He was worth 100000. lie was 81
years old and 4 native of Kentucky.
Hon. Charles P. Ma:thewson,
President of the Norfolk, Neb., Nation
al Bank, has disappeared; financial
embarrassments.
-Alderman Jaehne, of New York,
arrested on charge of bribery, has
been logged in Jail Of his bondsmen
declining to hold.
james McHenry, of Erie Railway
fame, has been declared bankrupt in
London, he having dtfaulted on an
instalmen; due to creditors. He will
appeal from the decree.
Randolph Churchjll's description
of Mr.. Gladstone as "thc Ossifcation
OF Inconsistency" was made to match
the Presidents "Innocuous Desuetude"
-may be.
An electric lincman was killed in
Philadelphia on Saturday by holding
TO a wet iron awning post with one
hand while he held the wire in the
other.
In Nansemond county, Va, the
17-vear-old son of. Van IIarrell dan
gerously shot Thomas Bigwood, be-
| cause of his too intimate relations with
his mother
Two negroes were drowned in
Savannah River opposite point in the
city where all inquest was being held
over negro drowned few days be-
fore.
Tile Democrats have Governors in
twcnty-one States. They have Gov
cr.inr, in all the sixteen Southern
States, aid in New York, enh>vlyania,
California, New jersey and Nevada.
The Rev. E. T. Walker and family
left Edgcticld last Thursday for Wan
darville, near Charleston. Mr. Walk
er goes to assume the rectorship of the
Episcopal Church at Wandarvi!r.
M. Blasso, postmaster at. liaspuck-
air, Mis-, ninety miles south OF
Memphis, was murdered by unknown
persons, who robbed his store and