The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-08
GENERAL SENS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
AuartcsR.

Quarters.
Florida strawberries arc selling in New
York at 81. SO 4 quart.
At Cornwall, Ont, 1900 cotton opera
tivcs are on strike against 4 reduction OF
wages.
The annual conference Of the McthodlSt
Episcopal Church (c"loreD is in session at
Grenada. Miss.
The German Government will take part
officially in the Paris Exposition by send
ing exhibits to the fine ait department.
The President has been formally invited
to attend the Florida Exposition to be held
in Jacksonville on the 22d inst
Mr.. Alvar G. Clark is still on Mount
Hamilton, his work on the Lick telescope
being greatly delayed by the intensely cola
weather.
Eugene Zimmerman, of the defunct
Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, has returned
from Europe, pleaded not guilty and gwen
10000 bail.
Governor McEncry, Of Louisiana, has
called q convention to meet in New Orleans
on March 5 to encourage immigration into
| the State.
Lord Spencer predicts that the scales will
soon fall from the eyes of the Salisbury
ministry and that they will adopt policy
of Cancellation in Ireland.
The base ball men of Greenville propose
to organize an amateur interstate league,
to include Augusta, Columbia, Sumter,
Grecuville, Charlotte and Wilmington.
A Chinsman named A. II. Fab was
hanged at Victoria, B. c., on Monday for
the murder of woman named Chney
Whey. He declared his innocence to the
last, and died in his Old faith.
Prof. Virchow has examined fragment
taken from the very centre OF the trouble
il the Crown Prince Frederick William
throat, and declares it shows no evidence
Of cancer.
The committees having in charge the
nroposed demonstration in Londonin honor
of OBrien and Sullivan, have been boy
cottei by all owners of large halls IN Thai
city.
Over half million pounds Of manufac
tured tobacco was shipped from Danvllle,
Va. during January, and more Than
quarter of a million pounds of old leat TO-
bacco was shipped Tuesday.
Mr.. A. B. Williams has severed his con
nection with the Charleston Sun, and VII
resume editorial charge OF the GreenVlile
Meas. Mr.. Stanhope Sans becomes inc
managing editor of the Sun.
The Washington Star says that Thoebt
hoe r,-Asen;4d to the House elections com
m!ttee bill amounting to $4,7O0 for bis
expenses in contnsting tho ooSiI or Carlisle
The largest amount allowed by law Is
$1,000.
The London Times correspondent al
Rome, in dispatch giving the text Of the
American pilgrims address, says that the
Pope has since been surprised to learn thai
the majority of the pilgrims were Protest
auts.
E. Short, railroad agent at Knoxville,
a station on the Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas railroad, was assassinated last
night a. Eicksburg. His wife, who was
with him, was shot IN the back by the sams
party.
DR.. J. B. McGee, connected with the in
ternal revenue service, shot and killed Eo
Hickman at Bardstown, Ky, yesterday
The latter had insul,ed McGee and assaulted
him with knife. The parties belong tc
| good families.
| At Buffalo, n Y, yesterday the large
dry goods establishment of Barnes, Hen
cerer & Co. was destroyed with the con
tents. Loss $3.50, 900. The total loss is
about million and quarter, probably
fully covered by insurance.
The committee of the General Assembly
of the Northern Presbyterian Church
having in charge q plan to unite the North
ern and Southern branches OF that denomi
nation, held meeting in Baltimore Tues
day night. Proceedings private.
The new military bill now before the
! Reichstag states that the loan asked is
needed for arming the zoo, ,0G0 extra troops
in order to be prepared beforehand for 8
declaration of war, and to avoid confusion
The karbor at St. Louis is now free OF
ice, with the exception Of an occasional
drift that is piled several feet high against
the bank, and ferry boats, tugs and all har
Dor craft have resumed their usual work.
The weather is fairly mild.
The Mississippi House of Representa-
tives has adopted u memorial to Coneress
protesting against tie passage Of the Sen
ate bill having for its object the prevention
of the use of cotton seed oil as substitute
for hogs lard.
| About 5000 men, women and girls en-
ployed in the shoe manufacturing business
are locked in Cincinnati, because the EN-.
ployccs of one firm struck on account oil
the firm keeping back the wages of twelve
girls claimed to be overpald.
The latest reports from the mountains OF
Manitoba indicate that there has been great
loss of life on the Canadian Pacific Rail
road, owing to snowSlldcs. Passengers
comm on trains from Calgary bring
m, agre particulars of the disasters.
Early yesterday morning fire broke out
in the Virginia penjtentiary at Richmond.
which is leased by the Davis Shoe Com.
| pary Of Boston. The Davis Company's
| loss is about $4,000, and the States about
$4,000 The State had no insurance.
A deal involving the reorganization OF
the Indianapolis Sentine! has been perfected
by which the paper passes into the hands
of Joint stock company with capital of
So, ,0C0. W. J. Craig, the present owiscr,
retains the majority OF the stock.
The Indianapolis Sentinel, the Demo
cratic State organ, has been sold by ". }.
Craig to Fort Wayne syndicate for $15,-
900. S. f. Morse will be editor and +. A.
X. Hackett, Of the Fort Wayne Sentinel,
publisher.
| At Danville, Va, the amount of leaf to-
bacco soli from warehouses In January
l q Il, bn