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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22
A NOTED BANDIT KILLED
Brack Cornett, the Notorious Train Rob.
Der, Shot Down by a Deputy Shorih.

ST. LOUIS, February 14.-Brack Cor
nett, better known as Captain Dick, the
desperate and leader Of the notorious
train robbers, was shot and killed yester-
day afternoon while resisting arrest by
Sheriff Alice, OF Trio county, Texas,
eighteen miles west of Pearsal Station,
on the international and Great Northern
Railroad Cornett was noted outlaw
and year or two ago organized band
of horse thieves or ''rustlers," as they
are called in the Southwest, for the pur-
pose of robbing express and mail trains
in Texas.
Their first exploit occurred on the
Southern Pacific Road at Flatonia, Tex,
in the spring Of 1887, in which they
spared neither express, mail nor passen-
gers. They realized about S65, ,0W- u.
cash and other property, one item being
S35, 1000 worth of diamond jewelry be-
longing to an Eastern firm. Two weeks
later they captured a train at Mcneil, on
the international and Great Northern
Road, and secured about SIS, 900 from
the express, the mail and the passengers.
After this robbery large rewards were
offered for the arrest of the gang by
Wells, Fargo and the Pacific Express
Companies and the Southern Pacific and
International and Great Northern Rail
road, and also by the State Of Texas, and
great efforts were made to capture the
gang, but without success. Governor
Ross, of Texas, took very active inter-
est in the matter. The gang next struck
a train on the Texas and Pacific, west OF
Fort Worth, and secured valuable booty
from the express car. The desperadoes
then split up for while, but soon after
reorganized and commenced operations
again under their old leader, Captain
Dick, and pounced down on Southern
Pacific train second time. Since then
they have been scudding under bare
poles and running from place to place to
keep out of the clutches of the officers,
who have recently been closing IN around
them.
Cornett had been at Allee's ranch the
evening before, had eaten supper there
and then disappeared. Next morning he
showed up for breakfast and was given
meal. After eating he took chair IN
the yard by a campfire. Alice ap-
preached him and demanded that he
throw up his hands. Cornett replied,
.tThe e you say" and fred at Alice
with his left hand, the ball passing
through Allee's hat. Alice then fired
and continued firing for four successive
times, putting three shots into vital parts
of Cornett's body. All four shots took
effect. Cornett managed to fire second
shot, but missed his mark. Alice is
Deputy Sheriff of Trio county and has
been engaged in several scrimmages OF
this kind, but he has never before re-
ceceived the plaudits of the people to the
extent he is now receiving them.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22
What Liberal Education Means.

E. J. Lowell in the January Atlantic
says: A liberal education, which term is
often vaguely used, can be completed at
the age Of % years, and should include
training and positive knowledge. The
author says:
If either element be neglected in the
undergraduate course it is unlikely that
the deficiency viii ever be made good.
The years immediately following gradu-
alton are devoted, in the vast majority
of instances, to learning profession or
business, and these interests should be
shared with no others except by way of
recreation. If, therefore, a young man
begins the work of his Life while still
deficient in mental training his mind
will be trained by that work only in
those parts which are actively used in
the business or profession which he has
taken up. If he begins active life i'll
provided with positive knowledge of
facts he is likely to learn only those
facts which are useful in his branch Of
active life. In this way he becomes one
sided and narrow-minded; efficient, per-
haps, and useful, but not literally edu-
Gated, and probably less useful and
efficient than if he were so. For it is
the province of liberal education to
widen the mind, to make it turn more
readily to new subjects of interest, to
make it understand the ideas of others.
The man who is literally educated should
possess more varied pleasures, sounder
Judgment, more sympathy with his fel-
low beings, higher ideal of life and Of
its duties, than are held by other men.
No education which is simply intellectual
csn give all these, but proper intel
lectual education may assist young
man in acquiring them.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22
HONOR TIE FARMERS.
Show Them the Respect They so Right
fully Deserve.
George II. Sargent in the Epoch.l

George II Sargent in the Epoch.)
It has been said that there is nothing
about which the American will not joke,
and it may be affirmed with equal truth
that there is nothing in life too serious
to be ridiculed by the American news
paper. So when it is roS the sleepy
policeman, or the mother~in-law, or the
tipsy husband who comes home late at
night, it is the American farmer who is
made the butt of ridicrIle. One can
count on the fingers of ones hand those
journals which discriminate in their col
unns between legitimate humor or wit,
and that iu-timed levity which makes
ssfun" at the expense of higher and bet
ter things in our natures. I am glad to
see that the Epoch is one OF the carefully
edited papers.
This subject may seem trivial, but it
is more important than appears at first
sight. Not that the ridicule of the press
will injure the farmers Of the country,
but the constant harping upon the
mythical ignorance and jollies of this
class has tendency to place more rigid
barriers between the city and the coun-
try and create caste. And II anyone
considers this result desirable, let him
tell us how much caste has helped India
in her progress.
So long as the country villages and the
rural districts furnish the boys to make
the merchants and bankers and railroad
magnates of the city, every true Ameri-
can should scorn to speak derisively of
our agricultural population.
One thing is needed in this country
aud that is, an increased appreciation of
the real value of patient, plodding toll.
The average man has somehow formed
the idea that there is something very
ludicrous in the efforts of men content
with tilling the soil, and working quietly
and humbly in the lowly fields Of useful
ness.
We, as individuals, and as nation,
need better appreciation of the Ameri-
can farmers life and labors. The time
was, perhaps, when it was thought that
anyone had brains enough to be farm
er; but that time, in this country at
least, is past. Any useful class of citi-
zens working for the advancement of
our national welfare is not proper SUBJ
ject for ridicule; and the low humor
which finds for its object our agrieultur-
al laborers is not the best matter with
which to expand our literature.
It is the duty of the press to do all in
it's power to elevate and aid the farmers,
and to spread right ideas concerning
their social and intellectual position, and
not to belttle them. There are many
who do not care what they write. They
aim to construct readable" articles re-
gardless of principle. But surely We
ought to expect better things Of our
great metropolitan papers, which, from
their circulation of and their occasional
recognition of higher things, are styled
Representative American journals. :"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22
WAR ON THE TRUSTS.
Congressman Rayner's Fierce Attack on
the Monopolies.
(From the Philadelphia Times.)

the MonopolieS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Times.)
Representative Rayner, of Maryland,
in an argument recently before the COM
mittee on manufactures on his antitrust
monopoly bill, gave very Interesting
and lncisive presentation of this sys-
tematic robbery Of the people. After
showing that the bill is constitutional
under the power to regulate commerce,
''will you delay" said he, ''a report
upon this bill one moment longer, IN
view of everything that you know upon
these infamous combinations to bankrupt
private enterprise, to depredate upon
the business interest and to plunder the
people of this country? There is not a
day that some iniquitous trust of this
sort is not springing to existence. What
do you want to Investigate? You might
as well investigate as to whether larceny,
or highway robbery, or bribery is a
benefit or a detriment to the people.
They have never hesitated to buy Legis-
latures and courts whenever the occa-
sion required it and the opportunity
presented itself. / point to the history
of the Standard Oil Company and all the
other trusts that are now following IN
its track and emulating its example.
The wealth of this monopoly to-day Is
one hundred and fifty millions and still
growing. The profit last year was TWEEN
ty-fve millions Of dollars. Il started
with less than million dollars. How
did it acquire the one hundred and for
ty-nine millions? By system of high
way robbery and crime such as no
civilized country ought to tolerate. In
divilual enterprise, honest competition,
transportation lines, refneries and pipe
lines were all trampled to death under
its merciless march to aggrandlzement.
s'Look at the sugar trust to-day. Do
you want to investigate that? Summon
the Havemeyers with their books. Ask
them two questions; first, what was the
value of their plant when they went into
the trust; second, what are the profits
they are receiving out Of it? Why, the
total plant Of all the refnerles OILY
amounted to sixteen millions. To-day
it is sixty millions. And then when you
are done with the Standard Company
and the cotton seed oil trust and the
sugar trust, take up the rubber trust,
with a capital of fifty millions of dollars,
and then take up the lead trust and the
linseed oil trust and the slate trust, the
oil cloth, salt, steel and scores of other
trusts and combines organizing daily
with all the speed they can in order to
anticipate any action Of Congress in the
premises. The country is looking to Con
gress for relief. Realize the magnitude
OF the subject and listen to the voice Of a
suffering people resounding through the
homes and business centres Of this coun-
try and through the medium Of an en-
ightened press appealing to their repre-
sentatives to rescue them from the
clutches of the most dangerous monopo-
lies that have ever raised their forms
upon our soil. \ majority of both
houses of Congress are favorable to
action and are impatient to get the sub
ject in shape to give it prompt and
effective concurrence.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22
RAISE YOUR OWN HOGS.
Capt. Peterkin Says that the Best Meat in
the World Is Raised in South Carolina.
fFrom the News and Courier.)

(From the News and Courier.)
Can't. J. A. Peterkin, the well-know1
planter from Orangeburg county, was II
the city Yesterday. He can always say
something that is interesting and in
structive in regard to agricultural mat
ters.
In conversation with o representative
of the News and Courier yesterday,
Capt. Peterkin said that there was no
doubt in his mind that as fine tobacco
can be raised in South Carolina as in any
other State in the Union. The soil and
climate and conditions Of temperature
are all elements in favor Of the crop in
this State, when it is cultivated with the
care that would ordinarily be bestowed
upon other crops.
Capt. Peterkin also said that there is
only one other place in the world, and
that is one Of the farming districts OF
England, where as fine meat can be pro-
duced as in South Carolina. The hogs
that we raise here are slops, are just like
slop hogs that are grown anywhere else,
and there is no difference in the flavor
Of the meat of corn-fed hogs in South
Carolina and of corn-fed hogs elsewhere.
But the ordinary farm-raised meat in
this State is superior to anything of the
kind produced anywhere else. Our hogs
here fatten on crabgrass; they are
grazers. and the food that they get
make their meat very sweet and of a
most captivating flavor. Our home
raised side meat always has streak of
lean and streak of fat, while the North
western meat is nothing but mass Of
fat.
The pity of it is that greater attention
is not paid to meat raising bT the farm.
ers of this State. In one of h. eestacies
of souse Henry Grady recently exclaim-
ed: "Why is it we cannot buy now the
sweet, old-fashioned country ham? Judge
Sambel Lumpkin lately sent to the
writer half dozen from his private
smoke-house of the vintage of 1884, that
are simply poems in ashes. Any self
respecting pig would have died gladly to
have been so idealized. In these hams
you catch the flavor of the smoke of the
half-covered oak chips above which they
drifted with the seasons into perfection.
nd the red gravy, clear, consistent,
davorous; it is the gravy you used to find
on your mothers table when you came
home from long days hunt in the De-
cember wind. l would rather have a
smoke-house with its loamy floor, its
darkened rafters, its redpepper pods, its
festoons of sausage odorous of sage and
hundred such hams suspended between
earth and roof, like small Mahomets,
than cellar OF dust-begrimed bottles Of
Madeira of 49,
Capt. Peterkin raises his own meat.
He thinks that smoke rather spoils its
favor, and believes in curing it after
another fashion, which makes it sweet
and tender the whole year round. What
Capt Peterkin succeeds in doing on his
model farm in Orangeburg can likewise
be done on every other well-conducted
farm in this State. When the time comes
that every farmer raises his own meat
and provisions, then will South Carolina
indeed be independent of Western
smo6e-houses and Chicago stock pens.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22

Truly this is an age of progress. Well
made pants from all woolen goods for
only s. 70 your own measured Scientific
blanks, 25 samples of cloth and liner
tape measure are sent to any address for
6 cents in stamps by the n. Y. Standard
Pants Co., of IS University Place, n. Y.
City. Goods sent by mail. This firm
is doing an enormous business from
Maine to California. You will actually
be surprised at the result, if you will
write them. x
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22
PIANOS AND ORGANS.

We are prepared to sell Pianos and
Organs OF the best make at factory
prices for CasL or easy Instalments.
Pianos from S2l0 up; Organs from S24
up. The verdict of the people Is that
they can save the freight and twenty-five
per cent. by buying of US. Instruments
delivered to any depot on fifteen days
trial. We pay freight both ways II not
satisfactory. Order and test in your
own homes. Respectfully,
n. W. TRUMP,
Columbia, s. G.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22

A meeting of Indiana Republican edi-
tors at Indianapolis drew out a large attend,
ance from all points of the State. General
sentiment favored making the campaign in
favor of protection, free ballot and fair
count, the latter features being given pre-
cedence. While no official expression was
given, it was plain that there was 4 strong
feeling in favor of pushing Ex-senator
Harrison as Indiana's candidate for the
Presidency
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22

"Ya'as,' said young MI. Sissy, sucking
the head of his cane; I'm an Angloma-
MAC, but only in mild form, y knaw.' ,
Yes" she responded, by way of keeping
up the conversation; ''sort of an Anglo
lunatic, as it were"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22

1t is said that wasps remember their nests
ninety-s six hours When boy gets near
wasrs nest he is apt to remember it for a
loDr { time than that.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22

for yield of twenty fold is pretty safe
general rule, unless the unexpected yield
or capacity of the land is small, in which
case the seeding should be somewhat
heavier than this rule would indicate,
and vice versa.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22

There is not so much failure to be charged
to "poor luck" as to bad management.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22

A dead beat-The mutled drums.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17

Are headquarters for d. Landreth y Sons
American seeds field, garden and flower;
wholesale and retail,
Agents for the Me kle Blue Grass sulkys,
the Brnly's celebrated Universal plows, the
Planet, Jr, horse hoes and cultivators, COM
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and butchers utensils; the Bell City feed
cutters; Harrison Bros, & Co.'s Town and
Country ready mixed paints and colOrs.
Just received 800 bushels Early Amber ana
Orange cane seed, 300 bushels of sorghum,
500 bushels German millet, 200 bushels of COM
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Johnson grass seed, 1000 lbs alfalfa, 30 bushels
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sunfower seed etc. 200 bushels choice and
select white and yellow gourd seed corn
3-5-6 mos
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
A Sound LegaIOplnion.

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trie Bitters with most happy results. My
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Mr.. d. /. wilcoxson, Of Horse Cave, KY,
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
Worth Knowing.

Mr.. W. X. Morgan, merchant, Lake City,
Fla, was taken with Q severe cold, attended
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drug store. k26ly
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
Wonderful Cures.

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
A Woman.s Discovery.

Another wonderful discovery has been
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seven years she withstood its severest tests:
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death seemed imminent. For three months
she ooughed necessarily and could not sleep
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night and with one bottle has been miracu,
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
Don't Experiment.

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Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds
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New Discovery, which ia guaranteed TO gtse
relief 10 all Throat, Lung and Chest affections
Trial bottle free at A. Dreiss' drug store
Large bottles 81, 90 lV+-ly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
The Verdict Unanimous

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10 Electric Bitters." Thousands Of others have
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
A FRIGHTFUL SKIN DISEASE.
Sufferings Intense. cad Nearly Ia"
Body CoverediWith Sores Cured
Cuticura Remedies. by the
MEssRs. STEVENS BRUNER. MONROE. C.

DEAR SIRS:-About two months ago, on
YOUR recommendation, l brought bottle of
CTTICURA REsOLyENT, one box Cuticura
SALyE, and one cake of CUTICURA SOAP, for
my son, aged thirteen years, who has been al
fiicted with eczema for long time, anu am
nieased 70 saw that believe the remedies have
cured him. His sufferings were intense, his
head being nearly raw, his ears being gone ex,
cept the gristle, and his body was covered
with sores His condition was frightful to be-
hold. The sores have now all disappeared,
his skin is healthy, eyes bright, cheerful IN
disposition, and is working every day. NY
cnre and the doubling ones are requested to
cali or write me, or any of my neigh6ors;;r
val " VIM S. STEPHENSON
WINCHESTER, p. y. UNION Co., n. Z.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17

the committee released the city from the
domination Of Tweed and his associ-
ates. Mr.. Roosevelt was one Of the
war democracy" giving active and
earnest support 70 the Union cause while
continuing democrat. He served as
one of the commissioners Of the Brook
Ign bridge, and has been an alderm an az
large OF his native city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
MONROE. N. c., Oct. 20, 1887.
, porrrR DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co:

MONROE, N. c., Oct. ~, 1887.
THE POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co
GENTLEMEN,-Mr. VIM. S. Stephenson of
this county brought his son to town today 10
let ms see him and to show us what CUTICURA
REMEDIES had done for him. This is the case
re ferred to in our letter to you some time ago.
To look at the boy now, one would suppose
that there had never been anything the mat
fer with him,-seems to be in perfect health:
we have written and herewith inclose what
his father has to say about the matter,-wrote
it lust as be dictated.
we are selling quite quantity of CUTICURA
REMEDIES and hear nothing but praises for
them. We regard the CUTICURA REMEDIES
the best in the market, and shall do all we can
to promote their sale Yours truly,
STEVENS & BRUNER,
Druggists and Pharmacists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-17
For Sale.

Frame house of rooms, on west side Of San
Pedro Avenue, bath hot and cold water, 2
large lots, 20x70 varas each, finely improved
with shade and shrubbery. Very cheap, at
1880. HANBLETON, HADLRY & Co.