The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-02-10
GESEHAL NEWS ITEMS,
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

fellall open uHlll May.
Three children were drowned al
Douglastown, n. B., while sliding.
The profits from Sing Sing prison
last month were Sc, ,002.l1.
Greece protests againstinterierence
by the European powers.
The tuGal effective force OF the
British regular army is POI 900.
Counterfeit silver dollars are in
circulation in Charlotte, y. e.
--Iuitiatory steps are being taken
in Louisville to abolish lotteries III
Kentucky.
The private banking house Of
Rilsci'gcr Bros, Indianapolis, 1nd.,
has failed.
Alexander Heinowsk,, 4 painter,
was burnt to death in Charlotte, n. c.,
by his bed accidentally getting on fire.
Alexander Henderson, husband of
the famous comic actress, Ly dia
Thompson, died recently.
"A fire at Cochran, Pulaski county,
Ca, caused the loss OF $4,000 worth
OF prnprrty; insurance about onc-nulT.
Tie wine crop of France for 1885
was the smallest known III thirty
years.
Gen. David Hunter, . retired
army officer, died suddenly in Wash
ingtou.
-Ex. President Roberts Of the .iu
gusta, Ga, Bank has been released
from Jail in New York on $4,000
bail!
The Heaviest snow storm ever
known has occurred in kentucky in
some places i; was twenty->eYen inches
deep.
"A Northern man ca;l now start I
row in five minutes in Florida, by
CARRYING pair Of skates across his
shoulder.
&C. n Beck and J. VI. Barnett,
'societv men," have been arrested in
Fort Wayne, Ind, for rob5ing franks
at the railroads.
Senators Butler and Logan .al
slight tilt in the Senate last week; but
"B!ack John had TO retire without
scoring point.
Casper Auch, 4 wealthy resident
of New Orleans, recently deceased,
left S275: 900 to several Presbyterian
charitable societies.
Mrs. Harriet Brewer, of Caldwell
Station, n. e., WAS burnt TO dratL by
the explosion Of a Kerosene lamp on
table at which she was sitting.
The residence Of Samuel Williams,
near Trenton, n. Y, was burut last
week, and Williams and his wife per-
ished.
An explosion Of a powder house
cf the new Croton Aqueduct on Thurs
day killed one man and fatally wound
ed another.
Boiling Parker, a farmer, murdered
his wife aud sister with al axe, near
Suffolk, Va. He is thought to be IN
sane.
London is considerably like New
York, inasmnch as there are a GOOD
many inlpecuuious Americans there,
i; is said.
The cost of maintaining the desti-
lutc in the poorhouSe in London was
less during the latter half year Of 1855
bv 96S, ,456 than for the same period
of 1883.
"A fire in Brownwood, Texas, de
stro, ed the pos;uffice and Almost the
eutire business portion Of the town.
Loss about S55, 900; insurance S3l 900.
Henry Lambert was attacked by a
huge owl in Il barn in Connecticut and !
was badly clawed about the face before
he succeeded i'll killing the bird with a
pitchtork.
Gladstone is greeted by Tic people
with vociterous applause wherever he
appears. In q speech at Portsmouth
last week he said his future life was
certain to be short.
Col. Wm. Markham, of Atlanta,
has Just returned from his orange
groves in Florida, and says there is
not SOUND orange in that state. The
trees, however, are all right.
-Ex. President Roberts, of the Au-
guSta Bank, charged with hypotheca-
ton of bonds OF the Bethlehem Iron
Works, has as last been surrendered to
the New York officials
"A freight and passenger train col
lided on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, near Staunton, Va, on
Thursday. Fireman Cuttings was
killed and several persons wounded.
Snow falls all around Salida, Col
orado, but seldom in the town. At
present the surrounding country is
white, while the streets of the town
are dry and dusty and the sun shines
bright and warm.
@i,lgs src to be trained to duty
with seninels III the German army at
night on outpost duty; it is believad
these sagacious animals would more
readily scent danger than 4 nun and
sooner give warning.
"A man named Henry Warner was
run over and killed by a Maryl,r 4
railroad train the day after the O:IiI
Of his thirly-third child. The road
ought TO be made to pay heavy dam
ages to the General Government.
The Knights of Labor Of Troy,
n. y, having boyco!tcd a stove iirn i'll
that city, the engineers OF the Dele
ware and Hudson Railroad refuse 10
haul car load uf the firms goods.
Trouble is nli3ipa;ed.
Tie Court of Appeals at Am:"rS