The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-28
GENERAL NEWS ITE0Is.
Facts Of Interest. Gathered from Various
Quarters.

-Ex-President Arthur is out again.
The loss by tie flood in Montreal
is said to be Sl,6S5,000.
"A prize fight audience has been
indi.ed i'll Louisville, Ky.
-Greek troops are being pushed to
the front as rapiply as possible.
John E. Benton, of Thomson, Ga,
suicidcd, owing TO financial troubles.
The cholera is spreading in Italy
and has appeared in Venice and Leece.
The Weaver brothers, DanviIle,
Kansas, murdcrers, have beeu lynched.
Over 81 100000 in gold was ship
ped on Tuesday from New York to
Europe.
Col. Wm. L. Trenholm has duly
assumed The office Of Comptroller Of
the Currency.
Capt. Burnham, the oldest light
house keeper on the Florida coast,
died at Cape Canoval.
The Russian Government has de-
cided to attempt tea cultivation upon
large scale.
"A bloody fight between Americans
and MeIicans occurred at atNurphyville,
on the Texas Pacific Railroad.
The British troops have met with
serious disaster in the vicinity of Man
delay.
An order prohibiting the circula-
ton Of Greek newspapers in Turkey
has been issued.
1t is said that the mouths of the
Mississippi are again filling up, not
WithStans!ing the jettics.
The tleSolation in Strvi, Gallicia,
is terrible. Murders, suicides and
robbcries are Of frequent occurrence.
The New York Legislature has
repealed the charter OF the Broadway
Surface Railroad. The Governor vii
sign it.
e. NJ. Hughes, l Young white man,
was fatally stabbed by i cOlored man
in Richmond, Va, without proroca-
ton.
&c. A. Bennett & Co. have noti-
fed the New York Stock Exchange
| that they cannot meet their engage
ments.
Gen. W. II. F. Lee, son of Gen.
r. L. Lee, has applied through Seua-
tor Butler to have his political disa-
bilities removed.
Portions of Montreal are six feet
under water and the city is in tota
darkness, the gas and electric works
being flooded.
George 7. Jackson, late president
Of the Enterprise Factory. Augusta,
Ca, convicted of cmbezzlenent, has
gone to the penitcntiary at last.
The Merchant bar mill of the
Pennsylvania steel works at Harris
burg, Pa, was destroyed By fire; loss
$3.50, 900, insurance $4,000.
John Carpenter, confined III the
Tomb., New York, under senteuce of
death for wife murder, committed
suicide by cutting his iugular vein.
Armour & Co.'S cannery at Chi
cayo has closed and nearly 900 hands
arc thrown out. Dulness of trade and
the large stocks on hand are the allcg.
ed causes.
An uitimatum has been sent to
Greece intimating that the Powers are
in perfect accord ia fixing limit 10
the time in which Greece must disarms
otherwise steps would be taken to ELL
force their demands.
An immense Loyalist meeting was
held at Cork last week, at which home
rule was denounced. a procession oi
Nationalist paradcd the streets at
about the same time. There was NO
disorder.
The Berlin North German Ga.
zctte admits that the feeling in France
against Germany has created a similar
feeling there against that country, and
warns France that her official relations
will suffer if the German ami-French
feeling be further aroused.
Three German BOYS disappeared
from Quincy, ILL.,, six months ago, snd
it was thought they had been kidnap.
ped, but their bodies were recently
discovered in sand pit-the supposi-
ton being that the sand caved in and
buried them while at play.
The fire at Stryi, Gallicia, is still
raging and the suffering is terrible.
Over 100 lives are known to have been
lost, including 50 children in a school
house. The authorities released the
prisoners, but not until about fifteen
had perished. a storm carried the
flames several miles in the country and
csuscd considerable loss. Peasants
looted the houses and shops after con-
tlicts with their owners.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is
said to have the most complete collec-
ton of newspaper clippings in Wash
ington, ali relating to himself. His
wife reads the entire daily press of
Georgia, and most of the leading
papers from other States, and, as she
has been at the work for about 25
wears, she is now all exceedingly ex-
pert exchange reader. She keeps two
scrap books, one for the good things
and one for the bad things that are
said about her husband. Both are
full.
"A London dispatch to GaHgnani's
Messenger says: Returns were issued
on Tuesday morning of the number Of
cases of rabies in dogs and of hydro
phobia in man that have been reported
from January, 1855, to the present
time, within the Metropolitan Police
District. The total number OF cases of