The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-01-20

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

was DelOW zero last Weeh.
There is imminent danger Of
water famine in Cleveland, o.
On Thursday last navigation on
the James river was entirely stopped.
The new British Parliament is TO
meet on Thursday Of the present week.
-Ralston Hall block, in Macon, Ga,
was burnt last week. Loss $4,000;
insurance S37, 900.
There are nineteen foreign born
members of present National House Of
Representatives.
The Chinese lahorers arc being
supplemented by white men in Sacra-
meuto.
Minnie Dishner, Nebraska's S "sleep-
ing beauty" has come to after sleep
of seventy days.
The fashionable young man of the
cold Northwest wears tall silk hat
and velvet ear nuffiers.
The Office of the Western Union
Telegraph at Marion, Ala, was burn
ed with all its contents on Sunday last.
-Wm. West, OF Edgefeld, lost his
cotton house and nine bales OF cotton
by fire last week.
-Elmore Gunter and his three
months-old child were buried on the
same day in Datesburg last week.
Phil Collum, colored, killed his
daughter Hattie in Edgefield by the
accidental discharge of his gun.
Jesse Marlborough had his leg
broken BY piece Of timber falling on
1t while digging we'll in Lancaster.
The house Of the Rev. G. Lee, Of
Spartanburg, was burnt by an acci-
dental fire; loss covered by insurance.
M. Dcvellc, the new French min
lister Of agriculture, never saw
plough, so they say.
In New York city within the last
twenty years there have been but
thirty mine deaths from hvdrophobia.
The proceedings by the Govern
ment agsinst western cattle owners
for fencing public land will be pushed.
The dwelling Of Mrs. d. Will
lians, of Orangcburg, was burnt,
with the entire contents, few nights
ago.
-Scipio Scabrook, an old citizen Of
Charleston, was run over and badly
hurt by car Of the Enterprise Rail
way.
Mrs. Catharine Tassal, an aged
resident of Charleston, died OH last
Wednesday from being accidentally
burnt the day before.
Mrs. Louisa Riddle, of Lancaster,
tripped on the ice and fractured her
right arm near the shoulder and broke
her collar bone.
While on rabbit hunt in North
Carolina last week, Tom Mowery was
accidentally killed. His head was shot
from his body.
"A washerwoman and her children,
named Dunbrisky, living in New
York city, recently fell heir 10 $780,
600 or $4,000
Tho State of Texas is covered
with snow and dead cattle are to be
found in every direction. The cattle
men will suffer heavily.
The Powers have summoned Ser
via, Bulgaria and Greece to disarm,
promising them that Turkey will fol-
low their example.
Prince Bismarck is the first Pro-
testant that has ever received the
decoration Of the Order of Christ. The
badge is worth s60o.
Sir Waller Rsleigh's original TO-
bacco pipe, which excited the disgust
of Queen Elizabeth, was sold recently
at an auction in London.
Mr.. Barnum has bought Alice, the
widew of Jumbo. Alice has been an
object of interest to little Londoners at
the Zoo for many years.
The editors of several newspapers
of the City of Mexico have been i'm
prisoncd for making libelous attacks
on the authorities.
"A little boy named Floyd fell into
the race at the Camperdovn Mills in
Greenville during the freezing weather
and narrowly escaped drowning.
-Ou account of ice blockading the
tunnels travel on the Western North
Carolina Railroad between Salisbury
and Asheville was for several days
suspended.
President Grevy has signed a
decree granting amnesty to persons
convicted of political ofenses since
1870, and reducing sentences Of many
offenders agails . the common law.
j. w. Bondurant prominent cit
izen of Stauntoi, Va, was decapitated
last Thursday at Goshen by Chesa-
peake and Ohio train. His head and
one arm were severed from The body.
The rush of negroes immigratine
from the GolGsboro section OF North
Carolina to the Georgia turpentine
districts continues. From one 10 three
car loads leave every day.
Hannah Edwards, an old colored
woman residing at the Junction Of the
South Carolina and Charleston & Sa-
vannah Railroads, was burnt to death
on Wednesday.
"A negro child was bnrnt 10 death
in Spartanburg by its clothing taking
fire, and Mr.. Steve Camp had his hands
badly burnt while endeavoring to ex-
tinguish the flames.
Gross carelessness caused the death
of all engineer snd three firemen on
two freight trains on the Baltimore