The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18


In Cornellsville, Pa, coke region all Of
the coke producers have decided to close
down their works. From 5000 to 1000
men are thrown out of work by the shut
down.
During the first three months of this year
5000 more immigrants arrived at New
York than in the same time last year.
There were %, 945 arrivals in March.
1t is reported that Prince Alexander has
resolved to abandon his suit for the hand
of the Princess Victoria as the majority of
the memb bers OF the Imperial family oppose
him.
For every one person in 1901 engaged in
making stockings by hand, ten are now
employed on knitting ng-machines third less
number of hours, and receive three to seven
times greater wages.
An artificial limb maker said recently
that 'tafter the war it was thought that the
wooden arm and leg business was at an
end, but the locomotive and labor saving
machinery have continued to create aug
mented demands"
The London Lancet says that the condi-
ton Of the Emperors larnyx is unchanged.
His general health has suffered from his
confinement within doors, which was
necessary on account of the weather.
Recorder Smyth of New York, has rem
dered his decision in the uld-Sage mat
ter. He denies the application to submit
the complaint of the Kansas Pacific stock
holders to the grand jury.
Latest reports from Conklings sick room
are more encouraging. He has slept the
greater part of the afternoon and evening.
His principal physicians have paid but
short visits and the family and attendants
seem under no special concern.
A special from Ozark, Mo-, says that the
Jury in the Bald Knobbers' cases returned
verdict of murder in the first degree
against Dave Walker, and allotted short
! terms in the penitentiary to number OF
other members of the organization.
The locomotives on the mountain division
of the Central Pacific Railroad, which
have been using coal, are being changed
to wood burners, and the company has
Just let contracts for so 900 cords of wood,
at from 81. 25 to $3.50 per cord.
According to the Rev. DR.. DeCosta, 'the
commander of the Pinkerton force can
gather in days notice larger number of
armed men, either in New York, Pittsburg
or Chicago, than the General commanding
the army of the United States.
The Emperor William, during his life.
time, saw disappear from the scene six
Popes, eight Emperors, ffty-two Kings,
six Sultans, and twenty -one Presidents.
Four of these are still alive, but the re-
naming eighty-nine are dead.
A special from Winnipeg says that the
number of immigrants arriving is increas-
ing rapidly and that upwards of 1000 have
reached that point since the middle Of
March. Many are farmers from Ontario.
who bring their stock and farming impli-
ments with them.
The Georgia Railroad Commission has
refused the request of the colored people
that first and second-class PASSENGER rates
be established, and held that railroads must
furnish colored people accommodations in
every way equal to those furnished white
people.
There was filed yesterday in the New
Orleans Civil District Court an application
for mandanus to compel Registrar Patton
to give 70 the Republicans one commits
sioner in each precinct on election day. As
it stands now the Republicans have only
one clerk at each precinct, but no commits
sioner. The matter will be argued on
Monday net.
The Master Brewers Association OF New
York city publish an advertisement giving
notice that, unless the boycott placed on
them by the Central Labor Union OF that
city is removed, they will ''reorganize their
working force" by wedding out all NAL
contents, and they have opened an office
for registering the names of applicants for
work
The feud between the Banks and Monroe
families has broken out afresh. In Writ
County, Va, Silas Banks, armed with a
Winchester rife, met the three Monroe
brothers, Eben, George and Lemuel, who
had revolvers, on the road near Laurel. At
least twenty shots were fred, resulting in
the death of the three Monroes, while
Banks received four wounds, none of them
fatal.
A special from Youngstown, Ohio, says
that yesterday morning fire started from
natural gas in the foundry department of
VIM. Arson Woods mower and reaper
works, and the extensive plant is now a
mass of ruins. The concern employed 500
men. The loss is estimated at $3.50 0U0.
Insurance $4,000, divided among Eastern
companies.
The board of church extension of the
Methodist Church South is holding its
annual meeting at Louisville, Ky. The
following Bishops are in attendance: Hol-
land n McTyriere, John G. Keener,
Alpheus C. Wilson, John G. Cranberry,
Robert E. Hargrave, W. W. Duncan,
Charles B. Galloway, Eugene R. Hendricks, |
Joseph S. Key.
A gentleman of San Francisco, who has
Just returned there from Washington, and |
who is on intimate terms with Senator LIE.
land Stanford, stated to newspaper rep
resentative that Stanford haJ fually de-
cided to allow his name to go before the
Republican National Convention as candi-
late for the Presidency, and having reached
that conclusion. he desires the support of
the California delegation to the National
Convention.
DR.. Howard Simonds died at Allegar,
Mich, on Monday, of apoplexy, after an
illness Of u few hours. The funeral was
fixed for today, but owing to the peculiar
conditions which have followed his death, |