The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Etens Of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Nicholls's majority in Louisiana is estl-
mated at over so, 600.
DR.. Cornelius R. Agnew died in New
York city yesterday afternoon.
DR.. Agnew, of New York, is now be-
Eeved to be in hopeless condition.
The Chicago brewers strike is over and
all the breweries have resumed work.
The New York Assembly has passed by
a vote of Sc to 8, the bill which substitutes
electricity for hanging.
The chief clerk of the Greek treasury
has been arrested for embezzling 5000, 600
francs of the public funds.
A block of buildings was burned in
Branchville yesterday. Loss about $9,ooO.
Origin of fire not known.
A bill to legalize marriage with de-
ceased wife's sister was passed by the Eng
lish House of Commons yesterday.
The Bundesrath yesterday voted to expel
from Germany the three editors and the
publisher of the Social Democrat
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Honor of this State held their eleventh an
| nual session in Beaufort yesterday.
All Brandon. Miss. yesterday, the jury
| in the case of Hamilton, for the murder OF
Gambrell, returned verdict OF not guilty.
An avalanche has destroyed fifty metres
of railway between Gossensass ard Schel
lenberg on the Queens route to Berlin.
The Ohio Republican State Convention
has adjourned after nominating State
ticket and declaring its preference for John
Sherman for President.
Mr.. Arknah S. Abel, founder Of the
Baltimore Sun, died shortly after o'clock
yesterday morning, in the SD year OF his
age.
Ellis Ancrum, colored, was shot twice
| Yesterday afternoon in Aiken by another
colored man named Jake Kelly. Ancrums
wounds are serious.
A Berlin dispatch, dated l o'clock this
morning, says the condition of Emperor
Frederick has changed much for the worse.
His lifeis considered in danger.
Part of Senator Stanford's stables at San
Francisco we're burned Tuesday night and
some of his best horses roasted. The loss
is about $100,00A.
Secretary Sufert, of the New York
Brewers Association says that the brewers
are getting all the men they wanted, and
that the strike will be short one.
The Washington Territory Democratic
Convention yesterday chose delegates to
| the National Convention and endorsed
President Cleveland's tariff message
The London Chronicles correspondent at
Rome says that the Pope has instructed
Archbishop Walsh to compile report on
the National League for comparison with
Mgre. Persico's report.
The body of Mr.. Gillette, who was
buried in Augusta, Ca, four years ago,
was exhumed yesterday and found to be
petrifed. 1t required the united efforts Of
eight men to lift it.
The village of Fremont, Wis, is entirely
under water. The stores are closed, the
goods having been removed to places Of
safety. Many families are residing in the
upper stories of their dwellings.
The Republican State Convention ol
Georgia organized yesterday and elected
delegates to the Chicago Convention. The
delegation is regarded as for Sherman.
The Indiana White Caps whipped two
men and woman in Crawford county or
Tuesday night. The men received 12i
lashes each and the woman Is. All three
tainted dead away.
The jury in the suit of David S. Fother
ingham of St. Louis against the Adams
Express Company for damages for false
imprisonment after being out three hours
and half agreed upon verdict of $40,
| 600 for plaintiff.
! The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
proved the selection of North Chandelier
as a quarantine station instead of ShiI
Island, and the necessary authority for it:
use has been obtained from the Secretary
of the Interior.
At Dublin yesterday the sentence of the
Rev. Father McFadden, who was con
demned to three months imprisonment fol
holding an anti-landlord and anti-poGct
meeting, on bis appeal was increased to siz
months.
| Republicans have renominated William
Mckinley, Jr., 10 Congress from the 18Th
| Ohio District, and Charles II. GrosVenol
from the 18th District. Resolutions en-
dorsing Sherman were adopted by the con
ventions in both the above districts anc
also In the 1st and I'd Districts.
| The Governor General of Cuba has de
clared the provinces of Havana, Pinar De
Rio, Mantanzas and Santa Clara undel
martial law. This measure has been taker
owing to the increase of brigandage II
those sections.
Partial returns from the Louisiana elec
ton indicate that the entire Democratic
ticket will have not less than 40, 900 ma
jority, and that the Legislature will b.
Overwhelmingly Democratic The Repub
lican ticket was not voted in many parishes
and in others it was badly cut
| It was midnight, and an impassionec
lover in an uptown drawing-room kneelee
at the feet of his hearts choice and ex
claimed, "Gertie, I will do anything in til:
world to make you happy" ''Do yol
mean it, George?" II do, do, darling.
Then for Heavens sake 60 home and le
me go to bed"
The marines and blue jackets partici
pated in a sham battle at Pensacola, Fla.
! yesterday, and two blue jackets and ma
rine were wounded. 1t is supposed tha
the material in the cone Of shell had har
dened and tore off the metal cone, wound
| ing the men.
! The Republican committee Of Harris
burg, Pa, has unanimously y and with grea
enthusiasm passed resolutions in favor o.
the nomination of Senator J. Don Cameron
L for President Rarrishurr is the home O1