The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-03-03
GENERAL NEWS ITENS.
Facts Of Interest, Gathered ern,n Various
Quarters.

| lution i'll Spain.
"A suicide mania Is pre- vailing
throughout, the North and West.
| The Pope had tain,ing fiji last
| week, the result OF oTerwork.
"A monument to George Peabody
is being talked about. He deserves it.
Frank o. Da.,e. who died in Bos-
tom i;t~r week, had i life INSURANCE OF
$4,000.
Two city officials of Cincinnati
who were found guilty "f mai1easancr
in office have disappeared.
The Lewis County Court House,
Va, was destroyed by III inccndiary
! fire. All the records were saved.
During a race between ice boats
on tht HUDSON River few days ago, 3
mile q minute was reached.
The gas company war b"tween the
old and the prospective company is
still being waged III Augusta.
Fritz Brar, of Davenport, Ohio,
was SO affected by the death OF his
wife that he committed suicide.
Railroad rates between Chicago
and Francisco are being sill further
cut.
The Armonv Rink in Buffalo,
n. y, with two adjacent blocks, was
burnt on Monday.
MIR A. Pope has been appointed
General Freight Agent Of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad.
In Wilkes county, Ga, little
daughter of Mr.. Thomas Sisson fell i'll
a spriug and was drowned.
Henry WatterSon's condition con-
tinues to improve, aid he is ON his
way to recovery.
Several marine disasters have re-
Gently occurred i'll the South Pacific,
and number Of lives are reported
lost.
Three vessels loaded with coal
have been lost between Charleston and
Philadelphia during the past two
months.
The strike in the Pennsylvania
coke region is virtually over and the
Hungarian organization has gone to
pieces.
The cornerstone Of a Confederate
monument was laid at Baton Rouge,
La, on Monday, with imposing cere-
monies.
Clarence j. Sears, aged 50, near
Ottawa, H., had trouble with his wife
about religion and killed her with q
handsaw.
The Cigar. makers international
Union are taking steps to do away
with the manufacture of cabbage leaf
aud sawdust cigars.
Elijah Pate, of Dooly county, Ca,
prosperous farmer. aged IA years,
married Miss Bailey, q maiden of 10.
james McCov, desperate moon
sinner, mas been arrested in Georgia,
charged with killing Deputy Z. 5.
Marshal kelet.
DIR. Meade kemper, prominent
Young physician of Norfolk, Va, and
son Of ex Governor ketnper, died sud-
denly last week.
-DeLesseps met with cordial re-
ception at Panama last week, thousands
of persons Of all nationalities turning
out to greet the great canal protector.
The Western boys are making the
Cinnamon "go." Sunday nighl last
a party of Celes,ials were escorted out
of the town of Oregon City By ku-klux.
"A fire in Yokohama, japan, de-
struytd the Windsor Hotel and >everal
other buildings. Loss 100000; in
sared.
500. .5Ois the cost of a hrst-class
passenger ticket from New York to
San Francisco, at the present "cut'
rates.
There are various and conflicting
stories concerning the whereabouts OF
the missing cx.Shcs.;ss x.Sh.s t,ayioson, OF
New YrrIic
Tile Grand Army of the Republic,
department of Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia, held its annual encamp-
meut in Atlanta last week.
Ten thousand unlicensed
have deem DESTROYED in London at the
Dogs Home alone since the hydro
plobia scare began, few weeks ago.
Three thousand strikers at Liam
beriS, Wales, have resumed work on
emplo. ers' terms. They have been
idle nineteen weeks and are in ter
rible distress.
| Wesley Elliott, temperance ad-
vocate in Shelbyvilie, ILL.,, has been
arrested for entering saloon, turning
the faucets of barrels and allowing the
liquor to run out.
Gen. Delgado and his friends, cap
tured on the steamer City of Mexico
as supposed tilibuSter, are detained as
prisoners of war and not allowed to
coufer with legal advisers.
Several thousan3 Scotch women
have beeu thrown out of employment
bv the collapse of the skirt and rucli-
Jugs industry, due to the American
increase of duty Oil goods of that class.
"A French woman who has gone
10 722 balls in order TO catch q husband,
has hit Instead bronchitis nineteen
times ,pleurisy thrice and l2O colds III the
head. And Still she is not discouraged.
The loss by the fire in Winning
'on, n. c., on Sunday last, it is now
thought will not exceed $500,OO0,
about three-tourths covered bv in>ur
ance. The railroads are all in running
| order again.