The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-02-17
GENERAL SETs ITEMS,
Facts of Interest, Gathered from !arious
Quarters.

Quarters.
United States troops now occupy
Seattle.
Samuel J. ridden was Scveuty-two
years Old on tie 9th inst.
Several deaths from cholera are
reported at rarita, SPAN.
Major W. II. Brown, prominent
citizen OF Ashev;Iie, n. e., is dead.
Greece haSinformed the Porte that
she has no intention Of attacking Tur-
key.
Trouble Oh tie Mexican border is
anticipated and troops are being sent
tAere.
Archbishop Gibbon, OF Baltimore,
to Is be made u Cardinal, says Z Rome
dispatch.
Thomas O. Scales, who took an
overdose OF morphine i'll Augusta, is
recovering.
The silver debate in the Senate
was converted into All attack on the
Administrations.
George G.. Bates, one of the found
ers OF the Wing party, died at Denver,
Col, ast week.
The Rev. Thomas z. Green, u
Presbyterian minister of Chicago, has
been converted to Episcopacy.
Robert DonnelIy suicided in Pill
pdelphia by taking arsenic in the
presence of his wife and daughter.
Tic Kentucky State Senate at
Frankfort has passed a bill establishing
the whipp!ng-post Tor witc-bcaters.
There were fourteen duels in Paris
during the ten days previous TO Feb
ruary 6; none OF them fatal, however.
Tic recent storms were terribly
disastrous in the panhandle of Texas
and great losses of stock have oc-
olrred.
The magnificent residence Of JAS.
Courtland, near Hendersonville, n. e.,
was burnt on TEuysday: loss about
$50, 900.
The District Court in Salt Lake
City has convicted and sentenced q
number uf MormoHs during the last
few days.
&C. t. Kayucr and lis wife, an
aged couple, were burnt to deatl, and
their house destroyed, near James
town, n. y.
King Milan has summoned the en-
tire Servian army to enter the field
fully equipped for war 10 undergo six
weeks drill.
john Springs and VIII Austin,
coloreG, were killed by the fall of an
elevator at the Mecklenburg Iron
Works, Charlotte.
The coke syndicate in and around
Pit,sburg where the miners are on a
strike will make an effort TO put
negroes to work.
John G, Thomas, Land Claim
Agent of Washington Territory and
Chrirman of the Democratic State
Committee, is dead.
The people Of ST. Paul, Mimi, are
bowling because milder weather is dis
solving their ice castle. Some folks
| are never SatlSleu.
President Cleveland has issued a
proclamation warning the rioters in
Washington Territory to desist there.
from andNisperse.
The Rev. +. G. Pcrishing, Prcsi-
dent Of the Pittsburg Female College,
has been convicted Of dishonesty,
lying and immortality.
Tho business failures in the United
States for the last week were 22S,
Canada 81; total, 275, as compared
with 2S9 for the week previous.
General Sheridan has assumed inn
mediate command of The Division Of
| the Atlantic until the President assigns
successor to General Hancock.
The commerce committee of the
French Chamber of Deputies will ask
the Government to coutinue to pro-
hibit importation OF American pork.
R. T. Garrett, the wounded des-
perado who killed Deputy Sheriff Clay
Davis, was taken frcln Jail in Lamar
county, Texas, by masked men and
hanged.
George Venablc and W. C. Dunn,
while attempting 10 attract the atten-
ton of Mrs. NJ. Harris, of Favette
county, Ga, were fatally wounded by
her husband.
-Rochciort has rendered his resig-
nation in the French Chamber Of Dep
utics because of the rejection Of the
proposition to extend amnesty to
political offenders.
Pope Leo XIII. by Letters Apos-
to!ic, dated December %, 1885, has
proclaimed to The entire world all ex-
traordinary Jubilee, extending over
the whole Of the present year.
"A bill has been introduced into
the lower House Of the Prussian Diet
to regulate the schools Of the eastern
provinces Of Germany and to make
school attendance compulsory.
The mob of Socialists and work
ingmen made another demonstration
IN London OH Thursday but nothing
serious resulted. The damage to prop
erty by the mobis estimated at ESQ.,
The smallest firearm in the world
is gold watch charm i'll the form of a
revolver aboutaninch long. Cartridges
are made for it, and it is claimed that
it could do serious damage at short
range.
"A fire in Broad street, Augusta,
DESTROYED the stores and dwellings of