The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-01-11
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.
Ice in the Rhine has broken the bridge
OF boats at Cologne and caused the suspen-
sion Of navigation on the rlVer.
\ special from Beaufort, \. g., says the
business portion of that town was burned.
Loss about SO, 600.
At Madisonville, Tex, on Tuesday night
'rctormers' shot one man and hanged two
others. The sheriff has called for troops.
\ heavy snow storm prevails in Bulga
ria. Railroads are blockrded and mails
due in Sofia on Saturday have not arrived.
Judge A. P. Aldrich contradicts the re
port that he has contemplated resigning
He saws he will serve out his term.
The Birmingham England Canal burst
Yesterday at a point near Dudley. Hun
dreds of families were rendered homeless
by inundation.
The Democratic primaries in New Or
leans resulted in the election OF flIty-slX
Nichols delegates and forty-eisht McEnery
delegates.
A call has been issued from Boston for
the sixth annual meeting OF the National
Law and Order League to assemble IN
Philadelphia on February q and % next.
At Los Angeles, Cal. on Tuesday the
workshop of the Les Angeles Furniture
Company was burned. Loss $500, 900; in
surance 100000.
1t is reported that the British Govern
ment is about to offer c15,Of0, 600 OF new
5 per cent stock guaranteed from repay
ment at par for at least twenty-five years.
The managers of the Cincinnati Base
Ball Club have decided to have the club
spend the winter practicing and giving eN-
hibition games in the South.
The Court Of Claims has dismissed the
claim of the Mississippi Railroad Company
against the United States for compensation
for carrying the mails before the war.
The residence of Dr.. J. J. Dustin at
MI. Willing was burned on Monday morn
ing, together with ali his household furnl-
tucc.
Coal dealers in Philadeiphia are raising
the price Of coal fifty to seventy five cents
per ton, and many of them announce that
they will sell only one ton on each order.
The meeting of the ladies of Trinity
Church called at the request of the Rector
to NEE: this afternoon, has been postponed
until next Monday afternoon at 4.3U.
Senator Biair's bill to aid the Colorcd
National Industrial Exposition approprl-
ates 5000, 900, to be expended under the Gil
recticn OF Z board Of commissioners to be
appointed by the President.
An 1900 ton bark believed to be an
American vessel, has been wrecked at the
entrance Of Waterford Qreland) harbor.
Her crew, consisting of twenty five persons,
were dsaSsssa.- sa.-~e--
The report of the arrival of thestcamship
Tonawanda, from Savannah, which was
reported in distress off the New Jersey
coast, in New \ York is an error. The vessel
is still missing.
4 special from the City of Mexico says
that an earthquake three seconds in dura-
ton was felt Tuesday night at o'clock in
Mcycalanl, Guerroro, and one of two sec
onls Yesterday morning at S o'clock in Te-
uancingo, in the same State.
Senator Sherman has introduced bill
appropriating 5000, 600 to reimburse depos
itors for losses sustained by failure of the
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
No part CT the money, however, is 10 be
paid to assignees of depositors.
John Foley, aged 20 years, has just been
arrested in New York for the murder OF
Denny kearney on Christmas day, 1886.
He confesses the killing, but says he acted
in self-defence.
A violent storm has been raging in the
Irish Channel, and great damage has been
done to property snd shipping. \ portion
of Fastnet Rock has tumbled into the sea.
A large vessel has been wrecked OFF Dun.
cannon and all hands are believed 10 be lost.
The steamer Tonawanda, from Darieo,
Ga, December 80, with lumber, was towed
into New York last night from Brigan,iue
Shoals, where she was reporte], January l,
in distress with her piston rod broken. She
had lost ner first mate and one seaman.
A party of negroes were digging grave
last week near Robbins, in Aiken county,
and one of them, Handy Sweat, was sent
on d spirited horse for an axe to cut root
tha. impeded the digging. The horse threw
its rider. killing him almost instantly.
AtLefayctte, Ind, Judge linton, sitting
in the Circuit Court, has decided that tele-
phone companies doing general telephone
business were compelled by the statute to
furnish instruments at the legal rate Of So
q month, whether they wished to do so or
not.
4 large Gefalcation, covering number
of wears, has been discovered in the firm
of Il. j. Allen, Son Il Co., wholesale deal
ers in oils, alcohol and chinaware, in Phila
delphia. The defaulter is Henry Hopes,
who has been in the employ of the firm
since boyhood.
A special from the City Of Mexico says
that the earthquake felt there Monday
morning was perceptibly felt throughout
southern Mexico, and at the city Of lgua-
lapa it was quite severe. Some damage to
property, consisting principally in the
cracking OF walls, is reported, but no loss
of life.
Mr. Ammi Baldwin, late cashier o.. the
Fidelity National Bank, died suddenly OF
paralysis at his residence in Cincinnati yes
terdav. Nr. Baldwin was indicted with
ether officers OF the Fidelity Bank, bat for
some reason Lis bond was placed at $40
600 and he was able 10 secure bonds:ncn
and has not been il jail.
Tie strike among the flint glass workers
hes extended from the Western to the East
ern factories, and men who left work III
tiEteen factories in Brooklyn, Philadclphia,
New Bedford, Boston, and Corning, y. J.,
have failed to return TO woEk. WITH TWO
executions. About $1,000 men are now
out
Two eypress trains On the Dutch State