The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts Of Interest Gathered from EnIioI
Quarters.

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der.
Charles H. AIurphcy committed suicide
In Augusta few days ago.
Secretary Bayard is the only member OF
the Cabinet now in the city of Washington.
Prince Alexander Is on his way to his
parental home at Darmstadt.
The second international yacht race has
been postponed on account of fog.
Geronimo, the murdcrous Apache chief,
is to bc imprisoned at Fort Marion, Fla.
In Dakota butter is selling at eight cents
pound and corn at fifteen cents 4 bushci
The total capacity Of American mills
making steel rails is about l, 800, ,OO0 tons Il
year.
The BorSen C1nricr says: 'FWhat will be
the end of the unparalleled success of Rus
sian ambition
The Signal Service Office at St Paul,
Mimi, reports light snow at Helena Sun
day last, with the thermometer at 81.
\ negro man in Garden, Ala, murdered
his three children because he wanted TO gel
rid of them.
Pauline Mittclstacdt has been arrested
for the murder of an illcgitimatc infant, COR
which she was to receive $500 from lis
mother
The negroes at Flcmingtoli, q small town
a few miles from Savannah, arc terribly cX-
cited over the story that tic world is ccm
ing to an end on September 20.
The Ju'trnal des Dcbats at Paris publishes
| o sensational report about an alleged up
| rising of the people of Northeastern India
against British rule and il favor of Rus
sian invasion.
The Chronicle blamcs Bismarck for Gre
ating the present critical situation, and says
that the clouds in the Balkans arc darker
and more lurid than ever.
The Temps says: In q short time Eu
rope will have to accept the fact that tic
Russian outposts will be by procur&tion ii
the gates of Adrianoplc."
The .NoNngsJ7aN says: "Dc Gicrs las
] raised tic Gar to position which Hu>si;,
has rot known since the 1attcring days Of
come decisive in the fate of Europe"
A volume made its appearance Thurs
day last at Washington containing the
Presidents vctocs Of private pension bills.
| There are 101 vctocs in all, which with
| copies of the bills and the committee re.
ports thereon make a book Of $50 pages.
Mrs. James Potter Brown, who made
herself famous at Washington 10y reading
"Ostler Joe" hassmct the Prince Of Wales
and he is "her'n." She will soon return 10
America, and has big offers to so upcI Tic
stage rs a professional.
The Daily Telegraph says: g" Every one
| for himself is now the motto of European
concert, and the result is discord more Oh
less yelled We are maritime power.
| Looking TO the dark, lowering future, wc
cannot too soon take all necdful steps and
rely on ourselves.
The people Of the South few years ago
were paying from So. so to Sc an ounce for
quininc, that everybody uses. That was
when foreign Qu;ninc was heavily taxed.
The duty was taken off by a Democratic
Congress, and now it is quoted at whole
sale in the North at 81 cents an ounce.
| While Doriss circus was on its way to
Norfolk from Cape Charles on Sunday
some of the canvasmcn became involved in
a quarrel, when Frank Smith shot George
Taylor Thinking that he had killed Tay-
lor, Smith shot himself and died in Il few
minutes. Taylor will live.
The troops engaged in tie Woodford
evictionS, on their return to their barracks
at Birr, protested against the work Of fOrci.
bly, putting helpless, infrm and starving
pcoplc out of shelter into the roadway, and
declared that they would in future refuse
to perform such obnoxious duty.
A special from Washington says thai;
Secretary Bayard accepts the decree pro
mulgatcd by the Mexican Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, Nlariscal, in regard to the
arrest and treatment of foreigners, us a
complete vindication Of the position taken
by him in the Cutting affair.
The farmers of the South are bcginnin"
to reap the reward Of mortgasins their
lands to Northern capitalists for borrowed
money. especially those who wish 10 sell
Purchasers know that very soon TIC lands
! will be sold under foreclosure of mortgages,
and that they can tEcn buy them at "a mcrc
| song"
Rev. w. H. Harrison, Of Atlanta, pre-
dicted an earthquake, basctl on scic,lt!tic
calculation, on the South Atlantic coast
| during the month of August, 1886 This
| prediction was made in q letter written four
or five years ago. lie also predicted thu!
at no distant date after the present Shake up
the city of San Francisco would be totally
destroyed by an earthquake.
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