The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered rom Various
Quarters.

rtens Of Interest Gathered rom Various
Quarters.
In the Eleventh Michigan district Sey-
mour,s plurality is 4e2.
The mayor of Cork has been released
from prison.
There are twenty.seven japanese students
at the Michigan University.
The funeral services of the late Mr.. Cor
coran in Washington were simple and I'M
pressive.
At Meridian, Miss, the Ragsdale House
and It's contents were burned on Sunday
night. Loss, $4,000; insurance small.
Al Shreveport, La, yesterday eighteen
of the twenty five prisoners confined IN the
parish jail made their escrpe.
A fire in New York last night destroyed
the Union Square Theatre and badly dam
aged the Morton House. Loss $50, 600.
In the New York Court the.complsint
against Gould and Sage have been dis
missed.
Judge Gildersleeye, of, New York; has
decided that tdvcamiter Mooney must go 70
the Utica insane asylum.
Disorders in the St. Petersburg Universi:
ty have been renewed. Students hisseo
Rector. Vladislavof while he was deliver
ing lecture.
The wounded at Mount Vernon, Ill, the
cyclone.stricken town, are being well taken
care of. Ofseventy-fYe wounded only TWO
are expected to die.
Two bakers in Philadelphia have been
convicted of using chrome yellow in buns,
and have been sent to the penitentiary for
short terms.
The constitutional amendment, provid.
ing for an elective Judiciary, which passed
the Mississippi Senate, has been defeated:
in the House.
Sunday night was the coolest of the win
ter at Lynchburg, Va Yesterday morn:
ing at 6 o'clock the thermometer registered
eight degrees above zero.
George q. Clark s. Co., hat jobbers, of
New York, the Oldest and until recently
!. the largestin the business have suspended.
They recently claimed to be eworth s40O, 600.
Governor Green, of New jersey, has
vetoed the local option high license bill
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caucus measure.
49, 49, Five shares of the New York Sun Pub
& fishing Company, par value 81 900 each,
were sold at the New York Real Estate
Exchange for S3, $50 each.
The astonishing statement is recorded
that Justice Gray has drawn 1000 French
novels from the Congressional Library
since his accession to the Supreme Bench.
It's reported in Paris that the Sleeping
Car Company has been ordered to prepare
train to convey the German Crown Prince
from San Reno to Berlin.
The New York Senate committee inves
tigating trusts devoted yesterday to the
Standard Oil Company. John D. Rocke
feller was the principal witness.
An avalsnche in the valley of Morobia,
Switzerland, has killed ten persons and
many cattle and destroyed large number
of houses.
a London dispatch states that stakes for
the fight between Sullivan and Mitchell
have been deposited. Mitchell won the toss
and viii select the battle-ground.
Steel was made at Birmingham, Ala,
yesterday by the Henderson Steel Works,
being the first steel ever made from Birm
ingham ore. This marks new develop.
ment of the SoI:.t.
At Vallejo, California, yesterday the
ferry steamer Julia, plying between South
Vallejo. and Vallejo, about to start from
South Vallejo, was blown up and thirty
persons were killed.
At Carthage, Pamela county, Texas,
Thomas Forsyth, son of the sheriff, has
confessed the murder of County Treasurer
D. G. Hill, and has returned the $4,000
stolen.
Annie Jordan, an insane white girl, wan
6ered away from home in Montgomery
Ala. Her body has been found and it is
z thought she was murdered by negro
named Jake McBoye.
a large audience greeted Sir Henry
Grattan Esmonde, member of the British
Parliament, in Atlanta. He spoke forty
) minutes on the Irish question and made a
good impression.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de-
clared imperative the law enacted by the
last Legislature, which permitted habitual
drunkardsto be confined in an asylum not
to exceed two years.
Twenty-eight counties in Michigan have
voted for prohb hbition under the local option
3slaw. The first county to go wet is
Washtenaw, which voted yesterday by a
majority of 1850 against prohibition.
Many a man has come to his'senses after
marriage, and realized that what he took
for mutual love was merely community of
sentiment as to the quality Of the boarding
house table. -
Mr. Pyne, NJ. P, who was arrested in
London, has been convicted at Clonmel, of
offences under the Crimes Act, and SEN
fenced to six weeks imprisonment without
hard labor. BE gave notice of appeal, and
was admitted to bail.
The sales of leaf tobacco in Danville,
Va, for February, amounted to 400, 900
pounds. The total for the fvemonths was
1880, 900 pounds, or nearly 5000, 900
pounds more than for the same time last
year.
A constitutional amendment limiting the
Governors term of Office to four years.
without tbe. right of succession, has passed
the Mississippi House of Representatives
The amendments had already beeq passed
by the Senate.
The Mississippi Legislature has passed a
constitutional amendment providing that
no corporation for pecuniary benefit shall
hereafter be granted any special exemption
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