The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts Of Intc-est, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

France fears a Socialist invasion.
Secretary Manning's condition re-
mains unchanged.
The English Government is goiug
to experiment in tobacco growing.
The great railway strike came to
an end on Thursday, but the men are
dissatisfied.
1t IS estimated that the public
debt was reduced s14,250,000 in the
mouth Of March.
The riois in Belgium have been
suppressed aid some of the rioters are
returning 10 work.
john and Sam Levin, mail car
riers, have been arrested for robbing
the mail near Asheville, n. G.
II. r. White, q prominent and
wealthy merchant of New Orleans,
dropped dead in Stauuton, Va: on
Thursday.
The heavy rains of Thursday and
the day before extended generally
throughout the South and West.
"A tornado swept over Helena,
Ark, and vicinity on Thursday, de-
stroyins a number Of buildings and
other property.
Geronimo and three other Apache
chiefs, with twenty.line bucks and
forty-eight squaws, have surrendered
Internationally to Gen. Crook.
China has ordered two ironclaGs
from Stettin, to carry four hrupE,
seven Ho;chkiss and four torpedo
guns.
john Timmons, an old Kentucky
gambler, committed suicide in Lead
vile. He was in destitute circum-
stances.
Fred Vil!arosa, an Italian who
feloniously " assaulted a young girl, was
taken from Jail III Vicksburg, Miss.
and lynched.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
locomotive and car shops at Braincrd,
Minn., were burned on Monday; loss
over 100000, fully insured.
Two negroes who murdered
Daniel Guthrie, prominent citizen
of Crockett county. Tenn, were taken
from Jail and lynched.
Woods cotton press in New Or
leans was fired BY lightning and eight
hundred bales of cotton was badly
damaged; loss about $4,000, insured.
Augusta was within five feet of
being overfowed on Thursday. Sew
eral streets in the lower part of tie
CITY were under water.
"A decision Of the Secretary of the
Interior restores nearly 2,500,00O acres
of land along the line Of the Atlantic
IL Pacific Railway to the public domain.
County Treasurer Gourtv, Of
Granger, East Tennessee, was shot
dead as burglar while attempting TO
rob his ow: house ot s. 800 lax money
deposited there.
Three New York aldermeH are
now il, custody on The charge Of bav
ing been bribcd in connection with the
Broadway railroad-Jaeh::e, Kirk and
Pearson.
-Ihc bi.i iur tic erection OF Il sn1n-
u,n"nt in Washington 10 tie m.inoiy
vi Abraham Lincoln, at i cost of half
8 million dollars, has been passed by
the House.
George Shelton, Of Lebanon, Ind,
pui i bur Of lead in quart OF water,
boiled and drank it As a cure for bnil>,
and died from its effects in 4 few days
in great pain.
the opposition to Co.. Trenholm
is based TN his anti silver views &nd
is moi likely 10 be Successful. S.' says
the Washington correspondent OF the
Neps and Courier.
"A passenger train was iHr!ed
;lc;r Parsons, Kansas, and a Humber
oi persons were badly hurt. Dct'c-
tivrs have a clue as to who the train
wrcckers are.
A cotton factory ut Pratvillc, Ala,
was undermined by the high wafer
and is Il total wreck; two hundred
hands thrown ont of employ employ
rnent; loss abouf $4,000.
The steamer Burmore, while
saving the cargo and machinery OF the
Ma1y Lemis, exploded her boiler near
New Orleans; four men were killed
and five badly injured.
-Aldermrn Henry Douglass, of
Laredo, Texas, was killed III Il saln"t
by man named Mcnv. There Is
much excitement and threats Of lynch
ing are freely made.
A cyclone in Bullock county, Ala
bapa, struck negro church in which
!. funeral Was going on; the building
was blown down, four persons killed
and ten badly injured.
The steamer Baltimore exploded
her boiler last Tuesday on the Missis-
sippi River, near New Orleans. Four
men were blown overheard and
drowned, and five others were badly
injured.
The Brookhaven, Miss, Leader
SAYS it has authority for saving that
S. H. Whitworth, formerly of Brook
haven, but now of Lefore county, led
the armed mob that did the killing al
Carrollton.
AT Henderson, North Carolina, on
Friday morning, a freight train ran
opsr Thomas Arlington, veteran
cofSEtr>or, and cut off a portion of his
foot, and inflicted injuries on his head
which may prove fatal.
The principal part of the town Of
Key West, Fla, was burnt on Thurs
day, involving a loss Of fully $780,