The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-29

aEr. Dargan has presented a petl-
: ton Of citizens OF Florence to Con-
gress asking for an appropriation OF
$4,000 to build a road to the nation
al cemetery at that place.
Rev. Charles Spurgeon, the great
London preacher, having been re-
ferred to by Miss Abbott as favorng
theatres, writes that he never heard OF
her. He says: q am decidedly of the
opinion that the stage is the enemy
both of good morals ard religion"
The Panama Canal, ifit ever reach
es completion, will save 10000 miles
in distance between Europe and the
Pacific ports Its length is to be for
tv-six miles. The original estimated
cost is over 1882, 100000, but enough
has been done to show that the est
mate is too low.
A terrible accident recently occur
red in Broadlawn, Ill. John e. Hayes,
a well-known farmer, had just built a
corn mill and was making test Of the
machinery. The stones were run at a
high rate of speed, and becoming
heated, burst, fragments flying in
ali directions. John s. Hayes and his
son Andrew were Instantly killed,
Henry Butler, engineer, and ". O..
Bertner, carpenter, were seriously
injured. The men all have families.
TIE mill was badly damaged.
A Young woman in New York has
gone into court and sworn that she
married for money. A rich old man
offered her 800 month, two valua-
bic lots and $4,000 to marry his
drunken son. The object OF the faith
er was to redeem the son from his
worthless Efe and make man OF him.
When the old man died his executor
refased to pay the $4,000, and the
aauehter-in-law sued for it aud got it.
Here is one woman who Acknowledges
she sold herself. She got good price.
Perhaps others have sold themselves
for less.
There is q sirong probability that
four new States will be admitted dur
ing the present session Of Congress,
as the Democratic members OF the
House and Senate Committees on Ter
rito,ies have agreed to favorably re-
,ort q bill for the admission of New
Mexico, Montana, Washington, and
the whole of Dakata. It is thought
that tie Republicans cannot consist
entlv oppose the scheme for political
reasons, for though New Mexico IS
Democratic, Dakota is largely Repub-
lican, while IN the other two neither
party has pronounced advantage.
The Greenyille Carolinign says:
Louis R. Redmond, the well-known
mountaineer and moonshiner, was IN
Greenvil,e this week. He is suffering
GOOD deal from the effects OF the
wound he received when he was shot
several years ago By the deputy mar
shals, and also from the effects of the
cold climate of Albany,i where, it will
be remembered, he spent three years
in the government penitentiary and
was finally pardoned by the President.
Redmond is now living ct Walhalla,
running a licensed distlllery.
General Bradley 7. Johnson bas
been studying the last report OF the
commissioner OF pensions, and finds
that the aggregate sum paid out for
pensions since 1865 is s67o,O00,000,
the annual aggregate having now ris-
en-, in 1887, to S74,S15,4S6. Assum-
ing that the population OF the South
IS about one-third that Of the Union,
he reaches the conclusion that the
South is paving an annual subsidy OF
about s25, 100000 a year for pensions
to Union soldiers. Capitalized at I
DER cent this represents, be says, s
fund Of 1888 100000, which is the In
demnity for the civil war actually lev
led on the Southern States.
J. P. Smith, a farmer living few
miles from Conway, went to work
few mornings ago. The air was chill
" and he wore his coat, but after
blowing awhile he became too warn
and pulled off his coat and laid 1t Oh
a stump. When called to dinner be
picked up his coat and threw it on his
shoulder and was walking leisurel,
along. He noticed, however, that hi
cost was heavier than when he pulled
It off and instituted search for tn
cause. The Investigation revealed tn
fact that snake had coiled itself il
his coat pocket and was slowlyy y crawl
ing out. Mr.. Smith remained quie
and allowed his snakeship TO complet
his exit and then despatched him.
It does Democrats heart good t
read one of Sunset Cox's speeches. /
ought to be Sunrise Cox and no
the other. When he gets up to spea
TO 8 Democratic Convention there
light in his face, light in the faces c
I'll He IS as the sun as it climbs IN