The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-14
HERE AND THERE.

The Republican National Convention
meets at Chicago, June 18th
Five negro children were burned to death
at Greenville, S. c., on Wednesday last in
a negro cabin, where there mother had left
them.
The bridge over the Pee Dee River on the
Wilmington, Columbia, and Augusta Rail
road has been rebuilt and trains ria the At
lantic Coast Line have resumed regular
schedules on that road.
A handsome shaft of granite in the Con-
federate cemetery at Winchester, Va, bears
the inscription Stranger, go tell 1t IN
Georgia that 1850 Georgians lie here IN
obedience to her laws"
The rumor that Senator Blair will intro
duce bill in the Senate calling on the Gov
eminent to expend S3.000,0O0 IN sending
copies of Shakespeare's work to the planet
Jupiter is now thought to be unfounded.
All Texas needs to become overpopulated
in short time is few women like Mrs.
McElmore, Of Texarkana. She has just CIV
en- birth to triplets, and this is her third
experience of the same sort. Although mar
ried but three years, she is the mother OF
nine children-a1 living.
It is said that Associate Justice Lamar
mas very curious way Of gripping ms
pen when he writes. His 6ugers are stiff
and when be gets started he plunges and
digs as if in hot pursuit of q rapidly retreat
ing bug. There are some Judges in South
Carolina who ought to be required either to
improve their handwriting or to use type
writer.
Isaac Salmond, colored boy, was recent
lyarrested near Camden fer attempting to
steal some money from white lady. When
he was about to be taken to Jail he proposed
that his captors whip him and let him 60.
His proposition was accepted, and one hun
dre6 and one lashes were laid on his back
IN good style When the whipping was
done he touched his hat to his captors and
left for parts unknown.
Al able bodied persons between the ages
Of sixteen and fifty years are required to
work the roads not less than six nor more
than twelve days in any year. Teachers
and students of schools and colleges and
ministers of the gospel, who are serv-
ing congregation as pastor, shall be ex-
empt from road duty. These liable can re-
Geve themselves by paying commutsSon
tax of two dollars to the county treasurer,
which payment will exempt them for one
year.
The Bon. C. G. Memminger of Charles
ton died in that city last Wednesday night.
Slr. Memminger was for years leading
citizen of South Carolina. He took lead
ing position at the bar, and besides held
several places of public trust. He repre-
sented Charleston in the House for several
terms, and took a leading position. BE
was Secretary of the Treasury Of the Con-
federate Government as first organized, and
held that post for two years, when he re-
signed. Mr.. Memminger was conspicuous
IN his advocacy of free common schools.
His death removes one Of the old land
marks, and closes most honorable career.
Prof. Seelye says in the Forum for March
that 'sthe President doesnot rule: neither
does the Congress nor the Supreme Court.
The people are the only rulers" That is
the theory. It used to be that the people"
bossed the machine, but it is not so now.
The Congress governs. The Speaker of
the House is the most influential man in
the Union. He appoints the Chairman Of
the Committees the Committees rule Con-
gress and the Congress rules the country.
If the Congress was not Big Boss it would
not dare to waste the peoples money as it
does. If the people were the rulers they
would soon clear out the wasters and spoil
erS.
The Comptroller General has issued the
following circular, which will be sent to all
the sherifs and county treasurers IN the
State:
sTo the county teasurers and sherias:
Wherever the treasurer has issued and
handed to the sheriff of his county an exc
cution or warrant, as required by the recent
forfeited land act and the sheriff, on pre-
senting said execution, finds that the tax
payer holds receipt properly issued and
signed by the county treasurer, the said
sheriff will stay execution and report the
same to the treasurer, who must examine
into the genuiness of the said receipt; and
if the receipt proves to be genuine, the
treasurer is hereby required to recall said
execution before levy"