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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-30

NEW YORK CATTLE MARX Ell Nov 29--Rceves.
Market dull and deuresscd at decline equal 10
strong Zoe per 100 lbs; poor TO prime native
steers sold at So 25a5 % few extra and fancy
do at S. 4045 80; 9 carloads Of tidy Texa snd
Colorado Cattle brought 50 60; bulls aud dry
COWS $2s3 %. Sheep and Lam5s-gocd Sheep
steady and fairly firm Lambs dull snd easier
common to good Sheep sold at S3a5 l2i2 suo
common to extra Lambs at a 50a6 so not many
Sheep went above 50 nor many Lambs for more
than SO %. Hops-dull feeling, with a nearly
nominal trading in live Hogs at So 6Oa3 10.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21
4 Circular to South Carolina Farmers.

Copies of the circular given below
have been sent out by Mr.. D. K. Norris,
President OF the Farmers Association
OF South Carolina:
The farmers Of the State through their
association asked the Legislature to es-
tabEsh separate agricultural college IN
behalf of the languishing agriculture of
the State and for the control of their
money in the custody Of the State, viz. /:
The inspection fee on guanos and the
two donations from Congress, amount
ing to upwards OF $4,000 annually.
Both Of these demands were denied us.
Is public opinion, as voiced by the
farmers of your neighborhood, satisfied
with the action of the Legislature on
these questions?
Is 1.-THE sentiment Of your community
of farmers to acquiesce in the action of
tie Legislature, whereby the South Car
olina University was enlarged and the
separate agricultural college denied us?
In your Judgment, as made up from
such expression of general opinion as
you have been able to gather, can your
county be carried for e separate college
if the question is submitted to the farm
ers in the approaching canvass?
Please give the names and postotfices
of one or two farmers who are actively
interested in the aims and objects of the
Farmers Association in your vicinity.
Please answer and return as soon as
convenient.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21
.GENrLEa1EN TO LET
One of the Queer Features OF Washing
ton Life.
Philadelphia Telegraph

(Ph:lade!phia Telcgraph)
The complaint at Washington, as IL
many other cities, is the scarcity of men
compared with the number OF ladies ct
all social gatherings. The deficiency is
supplied by e number of young men
possessing the requisite dress suit, who
let themselves out for the evening. They
are not exactly hired as the walters, nor
are they ordered from one supply sta
tion, so many for the night. They are
regularly invited guests, but they have
no especial standing exceptin their dress
suits about the refreshment table, or to
fill up the floor in ballroom, and they
fully understand their position, acting
accordingly. The only compensation
they get is the refreshments and the
pleasure Of enjoying good society. The
former seems the more weiguty consid-
Grafton. These young men are gener-
ally, though not always, OF very limited
means, and they have not had the best
advantages of early training. They have
dress suits and laundry bill, aspire to
good society, and are found present on
almost every great occasion. They have
little else to do, and extend their circle
of acquaintances further than one to the
manner born could find time, if inciina-
ton, to do. They feel that society is in
q manner dependent upon them, and
they are exacting in their demand for at
tention and consideration. They are
not marrying men" and the young So
ciety bellies, to whom they are most as
siduous in their attentions, never think
Of them in matrimonial way. They
are merely of the general society make
up, as are the candles, and the flowers,
the music, the punch or the digniied
man servant who receives cards at the
door.
They have from six to dozen invita-
tions every evening. They get into
their dress-suits Immediately after the
dinner hour, and forage or feast until
after midnight. They fit from house to
house, leave their cards, mingle IN the
company few minutes, and then make
for the supper-room, where they give
way to their natural instincts, showing
that if they are butterflies in other par
ticulars they are not so in appetite. They
do not travel together in droges, but
when it comes to the refreshment table
it frequently happens that enough of
them have got there at the same time to
get control of the table, which they sur
round and attack in quite business
like way. They are very useful persons
'sto fiji up with, and they never neglect
to fill up.
They get out of their dress suits about
/ o'clock in the morning with the satis-
faction of having fed well and Of being
"quite SWELL and in the morning 50
late and languidly about their various
employments-those who have any.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21
FACTS ABOUT HENS.
Where Eggs Come From and Why South
ern EGGS are small.
(From the New York Telcgram)


(From the New York Telcgram)
eggs begin to come from the South
in January, ssid Dey street dealer to a
Telegram reporter, "and they ruu up
lust like snad or strawberries. 4 few
come from Texas. There is big money
in the business there if it is only devel-
opeG, Int there is the trouble. North
Carolina Starts in first. In about four
weeks after that ws get some from Wash
ington which come from the Shenandoah
valley, in Virginia. Then come the
eastern shore eggs. PennsylvaEla eggs
are next, and then come Ohio, West
Virginia and Kentucky. Ohio usually
drops in q month after North Carolina,
but this year she was even with her.
The far west and southwest, by way Of
Kansas and st. Louis, are next in the
procession; after that Iowa and Illinois.
Then come northern Indiana, Minnesota,
Dakota, northern Iowa and Michigan.
We get some eggs, though not many
from Dakota.
s'How about New York?
'This State has SO many large towns
that most of her eggs are consumed Ill
the interior markets. After they get
through picking, however, New York
State dealers send US some fresh eggs IN
the summer. Canada comes next to tine
far west. Foreign eggs have been barred
out this season because prices have been
better in England. They took very we'll
where they could be sold for enough less
to make it an object for the people to
use them"
"Why are Southern eggs so much
smaller than others?"
s.Because they raise game fowls down
there. The difference IS not only IN
size, but in the quality OF the meat. The
Cochins, Plymouth Rocks or any other
Northern breeds afford altogether more
nutriment i'll their eggs THAI the South
ern fowl.
s.The best way to ship is in free cases
with patent dividing pasteboards, unless
the shipper is very skillful, when the best
way to ship them is in barrels packed IL
cut straw. There are firms II this State
that pickle from 100 to 1000 barrels, $40
eggs to the barrel. Iowa has single
picklers that put away from 800 to 5000
barrels, and SO has Minnesota. Chicago
has refrigerators that can hold $4,000
cases; in this city refrigerators are only
used in cases Of emergency.
s.But talk about picking eggs, Ger
many takes the lead. There are some
yats in this country that hold $4,000
eggs, but one German picker has vat
that holds 500 barrels, or 420, 600 eggs.
He pickles yearly from $4,000 to 100000
barrels of eggs, or from $4,000, 900 to
"a, 600, 900 eggs"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

A few nights ago party of negroes were
hunting coons near Ocala swamp, in the
southern part of Georgia. Zeke Mason,
one of the party, while attempting to cut
tree that coon was supposed to occupy,
cut deep cash in his leg His first act
was to run to marshy stagnant pool near
by, and, gathering haudfals of Shiny mud.
poulticed the wound, thereby obstructing
the flow of blood The next day the
wound had healed. and the entire part Of
the leg on which the mud had been placed
mad turned almost white. Negroes from
far and near are now making pilgrimage
to the pool daubing themselves with mud,
in the hope of turning white
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21
TIE STORM IN TIE NORTH.
Some Features of the Weather Prevalent
Around New York.


A dispatch from New York to the
Charleston World says that Broadway
has been thronged with people making
their way home through the slush and
water which have been collecting from
piles of snow shrinking under the sun
shine. Broadway is sea OF mingled
snow and slush, through which wagons
drawn by two and four horses splash
and reel along with difficulty.
The Broadway cars are not running
below twenty-third street. Some OF the
principal avenues are partially cleared
and traffic is resumed under great
difficulties. Cutters run rivers, and
streets are generally flooded. Fears of a
famine are checked, though the scarcity
of milk and some other articles is still
felt.
President Coleman, of the street clean
ing department, is the busiest man IN
the city. The work to be done by the
department exceeds any call ever made
on it before. The day force employed
is over three thousand.
One of the most distressing circum-
stances connected with the blizzard was
the inability to bury the dead. 1t is es-
timated that 800 bodies are at present
living in the hands of undertakers in the
city, who are entirely unable to convey
them to interments. Some We're taken
to the cemeteries Tuesday, and Thursday
but few. It will be the end of the week
before all can be buried. Meanwhile the
corpses are on ice at the undestakers'
shops through the city.
IT is impossible to estimate the loss OF
life during the storm. Scores of casual
ties are reported, and many persons
missing are stillunaccounted for. Almost
hourly reports are coming in from the
State and immediate surrounding coun-
try of fatalities resulting from the storm.
The total number of deaths is said to be
more than one thousand.
It is feared that over two hundred
lives have been lost in Essex county,
New Jersey.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21
Assassination in Columbia.

Columbia is still considerably excited
over the killing OF Jack Fenton, a negro,
on the night of the 1lth inst. Besides
killing him the murderers badly beat
Mr.. Buff, the keeper Of the Broad River
bridge, and his wife. They are IN a
precarious condition. The killing was
dope with the butt of rifle, found near
Fenton's dead body. The motive Of the
killing was manifestly robbery. Several
parties We're arrested on suspicion, but
upon being taken to the Bluffs these
failed to identity them. The coroner
and the police are still working on the
case.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

DEAR Mr.. ED1ToR:-Won't you please
tell your male readers that 8 will buy a
fine, strong and serviceable pair Of
pants, made to order by the n. Y. STAN
dard Pants Co., Of 66 University Place,
New York city? By sending cents in
postage stamps to the above firm, they
will send to any address 25 samples Of
cloth to choose from, fine linen tape
measure, full set Of scientific measure
ment blanks and other valuable irforma-
ton. All goods are delivered by them
through the I. S. Mails. 4 novel and
practical iGea. Advise your readers to
Try the firm. They are thoroughly re-
liable. Yours truly,
:: WILLIAM VANDERBILT.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

The cross-eyed man has found his prov
ince at last. 1t is love-making on the sly.
A farmer, whose daughter ran away with
a cross eyed Farmland, declared that he
never could tell when his hired man was
looking at his daughter, and therefore he
didn't suspect him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

The Countess de Chambrun, one Of
the leaders OF French society, gives
novel receptions. The guests are first
conducted to private chapel and, after
a short prayer by the chaplain, sacred
concert is performed By the organ cholr'
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

Cuban ladies do not talk to each other
when they go shopping. They do not
regard a store as the proper place to en-
tertain their friends. Cubans always
were unci7ilized and strange IN their
ideas, SIS this clearly proves.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

Such are but few of the interesting
points of Iceland. Its literature is so
voiuminous that We cannot even give
list of the more important of its books.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

1t would be a good idea to have about
$500 of those shiyering New Workers IN
Columbia. They would appreciate our
climate
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

a little boy recently informed us that
his father was suffering with imitation of
the lungs. We always thought he Yves a
terrible blower.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21
THE LAND OF ICE.
HARDY DYRESIDENTS OF ICELAND TALK
OF LEAVING.

A Movement on Foot to Remove toe En-
tire Population of $4,000 People TO
Manitoba--The Land and People.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-21
An Effective vaIedIetery.


 "n you would like to say fewsWords be- fore we string you up," said the spokesman ot the vigilance committee, sternly, "you may have the chance"
 There is something would like to say,'' responded the condemned horse-thief, pale but self-possessed. "All ask is that you will permit me to say it without interrup- tion.
 "Go ahead" said the spokesmen, laconi- eally. "Well let you finish"
 "Then, gentleman" began the condemned man, with deep emotion, ssI have few words of solemn warning to utter. In the innocent and happy days of my young man. hood, before came to Arizona and fell into evil ways, was engaged in a useful and honorable calling. Had never abandoned it might have been still respectable and upright citizen. Though have become 8 bad man and am about to receive my just punishment, have always kept memento of those happier days. In my valise gentle men, you will find copy of little work en- titled The American Voters Text Book of which sold nearly 1000 copies in one county in Pennsylvania alone. It is indis- pensable to every man who would keep him. self thoroughly informed as to those ques- tions concerning which 1t is the duty of every citizen to be fully advised. You will find in that little volume, gentlemen, full and accurate information as to the political platforms of all the parties, election returns from every State in the Union, names of members of Congress, Judges of the var 1ous courts, etc., with mass of miscellan- eous statistics and facts never before grouped together in one work Round in cloth or haf-calf, the price of this valuable book has always been" eas
 He paused moment to wipe the scalding tears from his eyes. When he looked about him again his audience had vanished. He was saved!
Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-21
RRITORIAL NOTES.

It is gloomy in Democratic Georgia. When the Georgia house of representatives con vened few days after the election there was no opening prayer, the clerk, who called the house to order, explaining the omission on the ground that there was nothing to be thankful for after Clevelands defeat.
 There are some sensible ladies in Paris who have formed morning league. Its purpose is to reform the hours of social gathering, which are now detrimental to health. The members of the league suggest that all balls shall commence at and end at midnight. Dinner parties are to be discouraged and luncheons to be given instead.
 A correspondent of the Northwestern Rail- roader holds that the locomotives of America are largely responsible for floods and storms. Why soa O, because, says the correspond ent, they send into the air every week "more than 53, 900, ,000,0 cubic yards" of vspor, while 1000, GOO, GOO of that sort of cubic yards Is "quite enough to produce good rainfall every twenty-four hours"
 High license has worked well In New Jer- sey. In Newark they are building forty thousand dollar school house out of the pro- ceeds of high license, and have, at the same time, not half as many ''saloons." In Pater- son the proceeds of high license are used to pave one of the principal streets, and the law has brought in thirty-one thousand dole lars to be used for that purpose.
 It takes but little to start story. The tale that Mrs. Agnew, of the New York board of education, wanted to put the girls of the Normal college in uniform seems to have had only this foundation-that she ex- pressed the hope, in addressing the pupils, that they would wear the uniform of true womanhood, purity, truth, earnestness, etc., and that this would be shown in their dress as in other ways.
 The age of miracles is not past. In Vic- ! toria, British Columbia, young nobleman, Lord Ennismore, lay stricken with serious \ illness. It was necessary to have the best London advice. The land telegraph lines were switched into immediate connection | with the Commercial cable, communication 1 was established with Sir Andrew Clark in
 London, medical inquiries made and medical advice given. A conversation lasting three hours took place between the patients at-
 tendants in British Columbia and the physi-
 clan in London. And to questions replies came in three or four minutes.
 | At the auction sale in Washington of the personal effects of Lord Sackville funny in
 cident occurred. A writing desk was put up,
 handsome piece of carved wood, but the
 bidding on 1t was very slow. The auctioneel did his best to raise the figure to 8 reasona-
 ble sum. Pretty soon he whispered to his
 assistant, who disappeared. In moment
 the rumor, started in some mysterious way
 ran through the crowd that it was upon thii
 desk that Lord Sackville penned his famous
 letter to Murchison. At once large pric'
 was offered for the desk, and bid after bic
 followed in quick succession, until the arti ole was finally sold at an exorbitant figure. Il In the report of Lieussnans Laary on th
Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-21
Wednesday, November 2I, 'Isss.
THE sHAKY SOUTH.

There was good Republican vote in North Carolina at the last election. The secretary of the Republican State committee says that all the white counties from Raleigh to the Tennessee line showed handsome Republican gains, and that, with an unobstructed ballot box and honest counting in the black coun- ties, North Carolina would have given Harri- son at least twenty thousand majority. MT. James E. Boyd of Greensboro, confederate and formerly district attorney, confirms this statement. The back of North Carolina bour- bonism has been broken, he says, and the re- markable Republican gains in the white coun- ties prove it. Asked by g reporter how he accounts for these gains Mr. Boyd replies: There were two causes. First, North Caro- lima is an old whig State and the people there are protectionists by education and by trsdi- ton; second, a great many ex-eonfederate soldiers voted for Harrison iii preference to Cleveland. I think most of the Republican gain was due to this latter fact. Thousands of old soldiers said, since they had to vote for northern man anyhow, they would pre- fer one who had come out and fought in the field instead of remaining at home. Harrison
 
 congressional district Mir. Brewer, our candi- date, received $50 majority, while Harrison received nearly ,0OO. In the Ninth or Ash vile districts. where the Democrats usually have about 1000 majority, Harrison received over 1 1000 majority. This is sufficient to show you what great changes are taking place in our State.
 The South is certainly getting less and less solid. It is interesting to see how the wild predictions that have been made concerning the course of the Republican party toward the South are received in that region. The Memphis Avalanche denounces the talk of the alarmists as t'idiotic'' and advises the people | of the southern States to wait until they are spurred before kicking. The New Orleans Times-Democrat tells it's readers that the dan- ger of "a new crusade against the South" is not imminent enough to justify them in lying | awake nights to worry about it. The Savan- nah News doesn't see ''any reason to appre- bend that General Harrison's administration | will be unfriendly to the South" The South ern Manufacturers' Record not only doesn't believe the South is going to suffer ia any way from the defeat of Mir. Cleveland, but ] thinks the simultaneous defeat of the tariff smashers means great increase in southern prosperity.
 And so forth and so on. Four years from now there will probably be still greater po- litieal changes in the South than there were at the last election. The southerners will find Republican rule good for them.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-21
MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1888.

military of Vermont that officer finds the First battery of Vermont the most efficient of the volunteer militie, an efficiency which he attributes entirely to the excellence ot the mount The same horses are always used and always in the same positions, and they are of the proverbial excellence of selected Vermont stock. One of the drivers owns his entire team, and twenty-two of the other horses in the battery besides. Several of the drivers are drivers by profession, and use in their military service the same horses they use daily. The result is familiarity be- tween the horses and men, and of both with their duties, which makes the drill very nearly perfect.
 The corporation counsel of Chicago has discovered way in which 1t is hoped that the gas trust, telephone, street railroad and all other monopolies can be brought to terms without the permission or interference of the State. It is found that the Supreme court of Illinois has, by number of decisions, sus- tained the position that city, while not having the right under it's police power to pass revenue ordinance or tax copora- tion's receipts for revenue, can yet regulate prices of gas, car fares. telephone rentals. etc, under the police power and without the authority of the legislature. The city can fix or regulate the price Of gas, for example, and the only redress for the trust would be to have it shown that the price allowed of no reasonable profit on the investment. in which case, according to recent court deciss ions, lha city would be obliged to modify the rates 5 zfsse
Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-21
9rls 6nnds.
Howe & StGtsOl HOLIDAYS NEAR BY! MUST HAVE ROOM ]! GOODS MUST GO l Sample Inducements l!

SO dozen Cream Damask Towels, with handsome borders, at Nc; worth more.
 85 dozen Misses Black Rib bed Wool Hose. in all sizes, at Ioc pair; worth a5c.
 5 pieces Zs wide fine white Wool Flannel at 25c per yard best ever offered at this price.
 40 Fancy Table Covers, GA sizes, in handsome raw silk pat terms, o5c each; usual price $I.25
 One case Ladies Black Wool Ribbed Hose at 25c per pair. Sold last season at 35c.
 Exceptional value in Ladies Black, Seal and Navy English Cashmere Hpse at soc pair:
 Great maekrduavn value in pure linen Cfieaff. Table, Dam asks at 65c and 75c per yard. !. These two lots are superior to anything we have ever seen-
 Big drive in Schopper's Chil- dren's Hose. We, offer 2xI Black Cotton Ribs, with Maco split afaot and spliced knee, iii all sizes ffem'a6s teS1zss ate 25e per pair,.ssThe stockings cost more to import.
 5 pieces Scarlet Twilled Wool Flannel at Ioc per yard, as a bargain.
 25 pieces 36 in. Dress Goods, in checks and mixtures, at Hc per yard; made to sell at 2oc.
 Ladies' Newmarkets in hand some stripes just received, at 88.5O each; regular $Io gar mentS.