The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-06-06
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
ysems OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

The St. Paul, Mimi, knitting works
have been burned. Loss $4,000.
) John Bright has passed the crisis of his
sllness and his condition is more favorable.
\The six newly-elected bishops of the
Northern Methodist Church have been con-
secrated.
Three of the six nominees on the Ala
bama Republican State ticket have refused
to accept the nominations rendered.
Leprosy is spreading at dreadful rate
in Russia Thirty cases have been officially
reported in Darpah alone.
Parnell, much improved in health, has
returned to London for the reopening of
Parliament.
The Republicans in the Second District
of North Carolina have nominated u. A.
Mebane (colored for Congress.
Charles Bell, of Marlboro, Mass, was
accidentally SHOT and killed by a COM
panion while cunning yesterday.
Henry Kreutzer, of Covington, went to
the graves of his children near Cincinnati
yesterday and committed suicide.
Professor Virchow, after his last micro
scopic examination of Emperor Frederick's
throat, declares that the glands are per
fectly healthy.
The Hon. W. R. Morrison thinks the
Democratic Convention will nominate
Thurman for Vice President if he con-
sents to be a candidate.
Twenty-nine Social Democrats of Berlin
have been sentenced to Imprisonment for
| terms ranging from two to six months tor
| circulating seaitious prints.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, William Leslie, a
reporter, has been committed to jail for
contempt in refusing to testify before a
grand jury about prize fight
The project to build grand hotel in
Charleston is we'll in progress. at pub
lie meeting last night the subscriptions in
money amounted to Sill, $50.
| 1t is estimated that the reduction of the
public debt during the month of May
amounts to $4,000, 900, 81, ,0OO,O 900 having
been paid for pensions.
| In New York yesterday the Richmond
Grays, escorted by the 9th regiment, in
spected Castle Garden and viewed with
much interest the landing of ship load OF
immigrants.
At the annual meeting of the Nationa
Civil Service Reform League in New lors
Geo. VIM. Curtis, who presided, was re
elected president for the coming year
making his seventh election.
The National Prohibition Convention
, nominated Clinton B. Fish for Presiden
and John A. Brooks for Vice President
The South Carolina member of the eXecu
:: tive committee is James A. Tate.
Mrs. Lewis Wingo was killed by light
ming Tuesday afternoon, near Wexford
Spa1tanburg county, while she was sittin!
near the fireplace Two children were IL
the room at the time, but were not hurt
AS a rule everything eatable at tahll
{ should be eaten eaten with spaeeefh Of fork
:. LSSatewed prunes, however, may be take
s with pruning knife.
A reporter who attended banquet cor
8 cluded his description with the candid STATE
0 ment that 1T is not distinctly remembers
q by anybody present who made the las
t speech
: The word Birmingham, so common i
: naming towns and cities, is compounde
: of three words, which together mean eth
a hill which is the home of the BROOM a
4 English shrub.
eff it be true that the hairs of ones hea
are numbered" said the man after he ha
= escaped from his wife's clutches, tther
) will be one angel at least who will show u
. with big deficit.
e Horseradish yields from two to four ton
per acre and sells from five to ten cents
pound The worst drawback to its GU
ture is the difficulty of eradicating it whe
it once gets firm hold on the land.
Sir Henry Parker, premier, has consente
e to open the Austral1asian conference o.
Chinese labor at Sydney, Australia, o.
: July 10. Cinnamon recently released unde
writs of habeas corpus in accordance wit
the decision of the Supreme Court hav
returned to Hong Kong.
ct Chicago, Nelson Morris, dressed bee
= shipper and meat packer, has bought bacl
from the Cattle Trust the Fairbanks Can
ming Company, and has satisfactorily dis
solved all relations with the Trust. Th
consideration paid on the repurchase wa
: $4,000, ,OOO
"Did your son take the valedictory il
college?' said gentleman to a lady wh'
was enthusiastically praising the ability o
her offspring. "No, indeed, he didn't,
she replied, with pride; he didn't TAX
anything He is the healthiest boy yol
ever saw.
A wreck occurred three miles from
Louisville, KY, Tuesday, on the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad, in whibh En-
gineer Quinn was killed and Firemen Rich
ardson and Beckman Farley fatally injured
The engine boiler exploded and twenty-one
freight cars were demolished.
| Fire broke out yesterday morning among
the drapery stores in Edgeware road, Lon
don. The flames spread so rapidly among
the infammable material that many en-
ployes were hemmed in. Six women were
burned to death, and it is feared others
have perished. Search is being made
among the ruins
II could gaze at the moon for heurs,
Mr.. Sampson, she said, in voice full OF
sweetness and Pneumonia. 81 never tire
of it." "Ah," he responded, would that
I were the man in itr' Eyes, she assented,
softly. And why, Miss Clara?' he asked,
getting ready to take her hand. "Be.
cause, Mr.. Sampson" she said, shyly yell
ing her eyes with their long lashes, ''you
would be four million miles away"
Trial Justice-Had you ever saw this
man before? Witness-Yes. Had he
came before you had went?" "No." 'tIs
them your eggs what you say was stoleny'
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