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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-26
4 Dude and Els Trousers.

"Bagging at the knees ise matter,
confess. which has caused me more un-
easiness than can tell you. 1t has done
moro TO turn my hair gray than anything
else But do not have SO much trouble
now as used to have. You know they
are wearing trousers larger now than q
couple of years ago. In fact today well
made pair has hardly a legitimate excuse
for bagging unless they are worn con-
stantly myself never wear a pair two
days in succession. A little while ago,
when We wore trousers almost skin tight,
thought I should have to go into an
asylum A pair worn half day showed
O decided inclination to expansion at that
r1ost critical point. l found myself at
tempting to ward off the evil. tried
every method could hear of and every
one ! could invent. but they did little
good. Finally invented one Of M own
l used to hang the trousers up by the bot
toms, being particular to have them hang
straight. and then dampened the incipi.
ent bags. After that attached weight
of some sort to the waist band, so as to
bring the strain over the knees. The
cloth in drying came back into shape and
remained so.
Your tailor or your furnisher has no
doubt tried to sell you the device known
as pants stretcher Don't waste your
money. have tried every kind known.
and they don't give satisfaction They
don't stretch the cloth evenly enough, nor
is tho cure permanent. That little scheme
of nv own is the best ever found. Oh,
yes; you may try it. haven't patented
it. But if you really want to know the
best and most satisfactory way of remov-
ing bags from the face of your trousers
let ne whisper it to you. Go to your
tailor For 10 cents or quarter he will
press them, and nothing works SO well.
But when you are on the top of Mount
Washington the tailor is not there. AL
ways hang your pantaloons up carefully.
have known fellows who would go home.
take off their coat and waistcoat, throw
them into chair, remove their trousers,
dump them in a heap on top of the coat
and vest, and then pile the shirt and
underclothing on top Of the trousers: This
is all wrong. A mans underclothing IS
always little damp even in winter. The
coat and waistcoast at the bottom, the
trousers between them and the under.
clothing. the pantaloons are certainly In
regular sweat box There they are, all
crumpled, creased and in heap, and, OF
course, when the wearer comes to- put
them on in the morning he wonders what
the deuce makes his trousers look SO out
of shape. Boston Cor. New York World.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-26
WOODCHUcK'S BURROWS.
A Sportsman Who Examined Them Tell!
HOW They Are Constructed.

how They Are Constructed.
Through some parts of the State Of
Connecticut it would be hard to pick
out clover field of any size that did
not have a woodchuck burrow in some
part of it. Sometimes they choose a
site somewhere under the stone wall
which surrounds the field, or if there
is a large rock, as IS often the case,
anywhere about the middle Of the
field, the animal will burrow under
this as very choice location. Finally
the roots of an old apple tree or other
tree are often chosen for its strong
hold, the burrow being dug down
among them, the owner seeming to
possess a realizing sense that no one
would ever dream of attempting to
dislodge him from such quarters. AS
is the case with the excavations made
for their habitations by most fossorial
mammals, the burrow Of a woodchuck
at first descends obliquely into the
earth, then passes nearly horizontally
for several feet, rises moderately for
the last half Of its length to terminate
in quite spacious and round chamber,
which constitutes the Giving room" Of
the entire family. In it the female
brings forth her litter and the young
remain there until they pair off and
dig their own homes elsewhere.
Such burrow may be at least thirty
feet in length, so long that one never
thinks of digging woodchuck out,
but I have seen farmers bring up two
or three barrels of water on a cart and
drown the occupant of this subter-
ranean establishment on short notice
and rejoice most heartily if the pair
and perhaps seven or eight quarter
grown young are caught in at the same
time. Very often have captured
them In steel traps set at the mouth Of
the burrows, taking the precaution to
sprinkle it carefully over with fine
dirt One old woodohuck, remem-
Der, constructed his burrow almost in
the center of a twenty-acre clover lot,
and every attempt to capture him in
any kind of trap utterly failed. It was
the rarest thing in the world to even
catch him standing up at the entrance
of his burrow during the day, but fre-
quently we would see him just head
and shoulders out of it. It seems to
me I must have fired thirty or forty
times at him under such circumstances
from the outer side OF the stone wall
which surrounded the field, and that,
too, with a heavy old-fashioned muz-
zle-loading Kentucky rife, which at
seventy-fve to one hundred yards was
good nearly every time for all small
game. But here every shot failed; a
cloud of dust would pull up at the very
entrance of the burrow each time and
I would confidently walk over to pick
him out, but no, next day at noon he
was there again, looking out as sml-
ing as ever. He was captured finally
by my cruelty tying a Colts revolver
to a stout stake driven down within a
few feet OF the burrow and training the
aim down the entrance and then tying
a long string to the trigger. waited
behind the wall till he again showed
himself, when the success Of the device
sealed his doom.-Forest and Stream.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-26
FULL OF FUN.

Dreams 60 by contraries. But
this is something a fellow never can
seem to remember when he is asleep.
-Bur!ington Free Press.
81 received two orders to-day
one for full morocco, the other to
get out wrote q book canvasser to
firm Of publishers employing MIN.
You have heard a cat purr, I
suppose?" asked the Judge. YES" !"
replied the Major. But, outside OF
poetry, you never heard Cowper. :"
Sweet Girl-"Mercy! It's ten
O'Clock. Has time ever passed so
quickly with you as it does now? De-
voted Lover "a travelling salesman)-
"Never, except at a railroad dining
station n-PhiIadelphia Record.
I'm so sorry you split the ink, "
said the poets wife. HAS it gone
over your poem?'' ''No, confound it,"
returned the poet, sadly, 'it went
over my postage stamps. Life.
--IIasher-''My dear Miss Rustic,
you have the most blooming cheek I
have ever seen. Let me congratulate
you" Miss Rustic-.sWell, you have
the most blooming cheek I have ever
seen, but l can't congratulate you on
the fact. "--London Punch.
Miss CIara-"Yes, l enjoyed the
opera last evening very much, Ethel,
and afterwards, the supper at Del
monico's. Mr. Featherly is delight
full escort" Miss Ethel Ca bosom
friend)-''Do you know, Clara, I think
you would make very skillful violin
player" Miss Clara-'.Why?" Miss
Ethel-"You have such a natural apti-
tude for working a beau. y Scribner's
Magazine.
Looking out OF the window into a
rainstorm, little Willie inquired:
Mamma. where does all the rain
come from?" From the heavens. :"
"And do people drink all that water:?"
continued the little fellow. Eyes, :"
was the reply. We'll" rejoined the
small wit, Il should think it would be
very unhealthy to drink, there are so
many dead people up there!-Bostom
Budget.
Guest Registering, to Hotel Clerk)
u an Editor Styggles, of the Buck
Vile Gazette, but I haven't-er-any
baggage with me-" Clerk Hospitality
-"Glad to see you, editor; that won't
make the slightest difference. Guest
My not having any baggage?"
'.No, your being Editor Styggles, of
the Buckville Gazette. Two dollars,
please. ."-Epoch.
-Briehess (entering the Office of a
fellow-disciple OF Coke and Black
stone)-'.How goes it with you, Quib-
BILE? It's as dull as ditch-water with
me; I'm not making cent?" Quibble
Same here. Nary client" Briefess
-'Suppose we go into partnership?
We might make more respectable
appearance as firm" Quibbie (for-
getting above mutual admissions
Him! don't know about that. You
see that scheme would divide profits
and double expenses. ."-Judge.
-Customer-'|That was splendid in
sect powder you sold me the other day,
Mr.. Gilman" Mr. Gilman (with justi-
fable pride)-"Yes, think it's pretty
good-the best in the trade" Gus
tomer-"rll take another couple Of
pounds of it; please" Mr.. Gilman
Two pounds?' Customer-"Yes,
please. I gave the quarter OF a pound
that / bought before to black beetle,
and it made him so i'll that think if |
keep up the treatment for about a week
I may manage to kill him. "-F'un.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-26
An ORIGINAL young Miss.

A little miss of this city, 5 or 4 years
old, was in one of our shoe stores the
other day, and after she had been fitted
she was asked by the salesman if she
wanted them put on. She replied: 81
Gess will wear 'em home in the box
Burlington Free Press.
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A H. of W.; T.

A lady of Wrightsville, Ca, put
up q lot OF preserves and seasoned
them with what she supposed to be
ginger. What was her horror to find
afterward that instead OF ginger she
had used snuff >s,...,sss.:ssss.~.
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Owing, as it is supposed, to tho syste'
matte robbery Of their nests, moc.lns
birds are heard less this year IL Florida
rnan ever before.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-12
State Hank Examiner.

The Advertiser last evening said: ut is
intimated that Hiram Knowlton, Esq, the
nominee for State Examiner of Banks, may
not succeed Mr.. Richards after all. The ex-
aminer is appointed by the Governor with
the advice and consent of the executive
council, and it is said that one of the coun-
cillors wants the place for himself and will
try to defeat the confirmation of Mr. Knowl-
ton for that reason. There is no.ground for
opposition to Mr.. Knowlton on the score of
qualification, but it would be easy to refer
the nomination to a committee and so allow
1t to go over until after the Inauguration Of
Governor Burleigh. who might then with
draw Mr.. Knowlton's name and substitute
the councillors. The matter comes up to-
morrow, and the action of the council then
will foreshadow the probable fate of the
nomination"
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claims to have loaned it. Other witnesses testi-
neo 70 admissions of Nicholas Hanson that he
owed MS wife over two hundred dollars.
Inc defendant admitted this all to be true but
put IN testimony to the effect that her husband
nan repaid the money with which she had pur
chased furniture for the house. The plaintiff
could not deny such conversation because OF the
statutory provision excluding her above stated.
Her husbands will gives her the house and farm
and provides that the executor shall pay off the
mortgage upon il so that she may have 1t free Of
encumbrance. Nothing Is said in the will about
any debt due her and this the defendant claims is
corroborative of his position that the debt was
paid.
Verdict for the defendant.
Strout & Gage for plaintiff.
A. +. Moulton for defendant.
Eliza j. Woodroffe vs.. Eliza A. Jones. The
defendant Is the owner of the Union House and
the plank walk leading from Joness wharf to II
at Peaks Island The plaintiff was guest at
the house last summer and while passing from
the wharf to the hotel stepped through the plank
ing which it is claimed was defective and out OF
repair, spraining her ankle so that she was laid
up for long time and has not yet fully recover
ed.
The jury was empannelled and took the after
noon boat for Peaks Island to view the place of
the accident. Upon their return they were wet
and cold and It was deemed advisable not to COM
mence upon the testimony until morning.
Inc plaintin places the damages in the wr. at
$4,000.
Drummond s. Drummond for plaintiff.
II. Q. Peabody for the defendant.
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BRIEF JoTTINCS.

hall l.. Davis has handsome counting
room calendars for 1889.
There was but one session of the schools
yesterday owing to the storm.
meeting of the Children's Christmas
Club will be held in the ward room, City
Building, this afternoon at 4.3O p. m.
Ann Crawford, lately deceased, has left
a bequest of one hundred dollars to the
Female Orphan Asylum.
The Paint and Oil Club monthly supper
will be held at the Preble House next Satur-
day.
About $3.50 was realized from the sale of
the wreckage OF the schooner Elizabeth w.
Smith.
The Druggists Association will hold their
second annual meeting and dine at the
Preble House this evening.
The Barrett Literary and Dramatic Asso-
citation have their first annual meeting and
election of officers tomorrow night.
We have received the Orient Insurance
Company calendar for 1889 from j. A. Mar
wick.
DR.. G. H. Bailey has disposed of his cele-
brated trotter Bodine, record 2.194. to parties
In Hartford, Ct The price paid is said to
be large.
The contract for plumbing the Maine Gen.
trail offices in Portland, will amount to be-
tween $1,000 and $1,000. Charles Greenwood
of Lewiston has taken it.
The entertainment to be held in the yestry
OF the New Jerusalem church this week will
be given this "wednesday evening, at 7.3o
O'Clock, instead of Friday as was announced
in the Sunday School.
The sociable and supper which was to have
been given in the vestry Of High street
church Wednesday evening of this week
will be postponed on account of the death of
DR.. Chickering.
Mr.. Phineas Aver, the we'll known wool
hat manufacturer of this city, has recently
leased lot of land at Oak Lawn, on Peaks
Island, where he proposes to erect an ele-
CANT summer residence.
The Maine Shore Line Railway has been
surveyed from Hancock to Calais, 80 miles
located and q miles graded The line is
projected in the interest of the Boston &
Maine and the Grand Southern as short
route to st. John.
The high fence fronting Presumpscot
Park has been moved back about one hun
dred feet. leaving strip of land on the road
to be cut up into house lots. The track still
remains in the rear for the exercising of
horses, but will soon disappear.
The English steamer Sarnia, of the Domin-
ion line from Liverpool via Halifax arrived
at her dock at 1890 p. IN. She left Liver
pool on the Goth of November The officers
report fair passage. She brought So pas
sengers. cabin, the rest steeragc.
S. III. Skillings & Co. have received about
5000 Holsters. Five barrels were received
yesterday morning from Jonesport by the
steamer City of Richmond A vessel with
more Is expected today These Holsters are
packed alive in barrels and are shipped to
New York, that is, all above eleven and
half inches in length.
AT meeting of the evangelical clergy and
some of the business men of Portland, 1t was
decided that the meeting approved the or
ganization of a branch of the Evangelical
Alliance in Portland and a mass meeting
was called at Y. NJ. G. A. hall, Thursday
evening. Dec. 9th, for the purpose of FORM
ing branch.
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PERSONAL.

Mayor Chapman will 60 TO Boston today
on business.
Ex-Governor Sidney Perham was in the
city yesterday. lie goes to Washington
Thursday. where he will spend the winter.
Bishop Healey of Portland, was in Au-
gusta Monday as the guest of Rev. Father
Plante. About o'clock in the evening the
Augusta Band rendered him a sercnade
Mr.. Rodney F. Foss. a well known. citizen
OF Auburn, died yesterday morning, aged "a
years. Mr.. Foss was justice Of the peace
and In 1886 was city clerk. He had been for
many years prominent member OF the
Court street Baptist church. He leaves
wife and two young sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Bates of Winches-
ter, Mass, celebrated their golden wedding
Monday evening There was pleasant
gathering of friends at their home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bates were both born In Brewer, Me.
They went to Woburn 40 years ago, and re-
moved to Winchester in 1870, where they
have since resided
The December number of the Cesmopo'i-
tan contains an interesting description If
Christmas in Sweden by the Hon. w. w.
Thomas. Dr.. Illustrated with engravings. A
curious custom among the farmers on Christ
mas day is the erection of tall pole on the
top OF which is bound sheaf of grain. This
is Christmas dinner for the birds, and, says
Mr.. Thomas, there is not peasant In all
Sweden who will sit down to Christmas
dinner with his children within doors, till he
has first raised aloft Christmss dinner for
the little birds that live in the cold and snow
without" ~s
Rev. d. B. Randall preached in Bath Sum
day. Father" Randall will be 50 years old
next July, and the people of Bath thought
they would give him reception that would
remind him Of the past, so they arranged a
service especially appropriate to old peoples
Several old chairs, tables, stands and other
articles of olden days were brought into the
church for the occasion. Among these was
chair $50 years old, from the Duncan fami-
ly; and old fashioned foot stove; while the
table containing the Bible, hymn book and
the preachers notes was over 125 years old.
DR.. Randall preached from Zechariah II: CT,
AT evening time it shall be light" A very
large audience was present In the evening
an old fashioned old folks prayer meeting
waS|held which was much epioyed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-12
SUPERIOR COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE BoNNEY.

TuEsDAY.-oliye S. Hanson VS.. Albert A. Ches-
ley, executor. The plaintiff is The wife OF
Nicholas Hanson. deceased, and the defendant is
the executor of his last will and testament She
claims that she loaned her husband 1928 II and
that It is still due her from his estate by the
statutes CT this State the plaintiff could not be
witness to any fact occurring before The decease
of her husband unless the executor first testified
20 something occurring before that time. In this
case the executor did not testify and therefore
the plaintiff had TO rely upon the testimony of
paying her the above sum about the time she
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-12
Whose Vessel Is II,

The Halifax Chronicle Of Monday last
says: "The Boston Marine. Capt. LaBlanc,
arrived at Tusket Wedge via Pubnico on
Tuesday last, after rapid passage of nine
days from Inagua. Capt LaBlanc reports
that on the Goth Of November, in lat. 50, N,
long. 70 W.. he passed the three masted
schooner Elizabeth, from Portland. Me-,
waterlogged and abandoned; fore and main
masts gone. one Of them lying across the
deck, bowsprit gone, and jib dragging in the
water, torn in pieces; also passed near by q
quantity Of cedar logs, supposed to be her
deckload."
There is no schooner Elizabeth whose hail
ing port is given as Portland, but there is q
schooner Elizabeth De Hart. whose man
aging owners are Miller and Woodman, who
reside in the Provinces, and this is her hail
ing port
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-12

The cast Of "The Rivals" at the Park, Bos
ton, Is remarkable one. The very names
gu1fica tn ehnv that.
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Or. Chickering's Funeral.

The funeral of the late DR.. j. w. Chick
ering will be held at High street church at 2
p. m. today. The services will be conduct
ed by the pastor, Rev. DR.. William II. Fem,
probably assisted by Rev. Drs. Carruthers,
Dalton and Rev. Mr.. Southworth. After the
services the remains will be inferred at Ev-
ergreen Cemetery in the family lot with the
remains of his wife and children. All his
old time friends and Pensioners are invited
to be present.
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Sd. PauI's GUILD and Sister Dora,

Today and tomorrow, at Reception Hall,
the Ladies Guild and Sister Dora societies
of st. Paul's church will hold sale of USE
full and fancy articles, with an entertainment
each evening. Tonight the celebrated Mrs.
farley, whose wax work show is familiar to
both hemispheres, win present it to the in
spection of the audience. A hot turkey sup
per will be served from 6 to o'clock.
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Hindu Tabloaux.

The Willing Workers Of the Plymouth
Free Will Baptist church give an entertain
ment tonight OF novel interest. 1t is repro
duction of the Hindu object lessons, pre-
pared by Mrs. James L. Phillips, returned
missionary from India.
There will be a Hindu school with its
pundit, Midnapore home scene, the Ben
gall bubu and little bride waited upon by
the widow servant, a zenana room and Its in
mates, and various street scenes. showing
palanquin and bearers. banghy waller, a
dak waller and pahnce waller. There will
be singing in the Bengali, Santal and Oriya
languages. Tifin will be served at the close.
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Fire on Free Street.

The alarm from box 413 just before six
o'clock last evening, was caused by the up
setting of lamp at the Gordon House, near
the corner lof Free and Middle streets. A
lady seized the lamp and threw it into a
bath. tub'and the surrounding woodwork was
burned slightly. The damage done was not
serious. The "all out" signal sounded al
most as soon as the engines arrived, and
they were very prompt.
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The Powder MaoazIne.

1t seems that Mayor Chapman, just prior
to his illness, wrote the Secretary of War
asking that Fort Gorges might be used as a
powder magazine for this city. The Secre-
tary returned answer that such use could
not be made except by act of Congress. May
or Chapman therefore wrote Congressman
Reed to. If possible, obtain from the Secre-
tary the right to use the fort temporarily I'M
til other arrangements could be made. City
Clerk Burgess had written the Secretary
also by vote of the Board of Mayor and Al
dermen.
The Mayor received the following letter
yesterday in reply to one sent by him to
Congressman Reed:
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFIcE,)
PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. 18th, 1888.
non Charles u CHAPMAN Mayor Of the City OF
Portland, Portland, Ne:
Sir: am directed by Lieutenant Colonel
Smith toinform you that he has today received a
telegram from the Chief of Engineers authorizing
him Ito allow the Mayor of Portland to store pow
DER In Fort Georges under restrictions necessary
for safety, and that on his return from an exami-
nation OF the harbor OF belfast 10 which place he
was obliged to proceed on this date, he will ar
range the matter.
Very respectfully,
Your ObedienJ servant,
ID. orc. ODoNoGHUE, Clerk.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Manson G. Larrabee
&c 90.
246 Middle st.
DECEMBER 18th,

we shall open with the
largest line of Christmas
Goods ever shown at 246
Middle Street. Customers
will do well to postpone
their purchases until this
date, for we have no old
stock to show, as every
dollars worth of these
goods was purchased this
season for spot cash, and
will be sold at our popular
INV nkQu ODInrQ
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U. s. DISTRICT COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE WEBB.

BEFORE JUDGE WEBB.
TUEsDAY-Petit jury empaneled as follows:
William Morrison, foreman, Pennington.
Frank Kilgore, Lewiston.
Leonard Lord. Saco.
Charles Z. Libby, Scarboro.
Alfred IL. Patten, Hampden.
Andrew j. Nicholson, Hampden.
Jeremy P. Holley, Pennington.
Jeremiah Hurley, Ellsworth.
Andrew j. B0dwell. Lincoln.
Frank l.. Bradeen, Lincoln.
James Mlnot, Sidney
Lindley II. Wyman, Kidney.
Supernumeraries Samuel Thurston, Portland.
Joseph Varville, Lewiston.
U. s. by Indictment VS.. Patrick oMalley, alias
Patrick Mealy, for keeping clothing property OF
the Ms., United States In pawn from William ii.
White, q soldier a. Fort Preble. On trial.
Geo. K. Bird, U. S. attorney. d. A. Meaher.
f. g. A. Swanzy,of London, vs. Benz. Webster
and other owners of the brig Giles Loring.
Decision reserved.
Charles T. Russell, Jr.
Woodman & Thomson