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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18
THE DEADLOCK BROKEN.
Sunset Cox Moves to Adjourn, and "Apri
9Th, is Passed Over.

Sunset Cox Moves to Adjourn, and april
18th" is Passed Over.
WASHINGTON, April l2.-The House
convened at HAS, and Mr.. Cox imme-
diately moved an adjournment and called
for the yeas and nays. The Republican
members were nearly all present and
voted ssnay." The vote proceeded on
party lines. The House, by vote Of
l3O to l33. refused to adjourn, and the
legislative day of Wednesday, april 4,
still continues.
The scene which followed the an
nouncement Of the vote resulting IN q
failure to adjourn the House was the
most exciting that has taken place dur
ing the long deadlock. Naturally the
Republicans expected defeat after the
caucus action of last night, and the re-
fussl of the House to adj burn was great
surprise. As one man the 1872 Repubh-
cans began to applaud, while their roars
of laughter, intermingled with yels,
rang out into the corridors Ike storm.
The Speaker pounded on his desk for
order. It was scene fit for Bedlam.
There was crowd about Mr.. Sawden, OF
Pennsylvania, the only Democrat who
refused to stand by the caucus action,
and he was implored to move 8 recon
sideration of the vote by which the
House refused to adjourn. The motion
for call of the House was withdrawn,
and unanimously the ayes and nays were
ordered on the motion by Mr.. Cox that
the House adjourn. The motion pre-
vailed by AS to l37. When the vote
was announced both sides began almost
deafening applause. Members rose ano
hurled documents, letters and scraps o:
paper in the air and screamed with de-
Light.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18

It is interesting to learn that Mrs.
Cleveland always calls her husband "Mr.
President" MIR. Cleveland addresses
his wife as "Frank." Martha Washing
ton in her younger days called her hus-
band "aeorge, but in the last twenty
five years of her life she always addressed
him as General" While in the White
House Mrs. Hayes called her husband
"Mr. Hayes" Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs.
Garfield always addressed their husbands
respectively as "Abram" and "JIn."
Now the question is: What should q
Presidents wife, according to etiquette,
call her husband? Precedent seems to
give no answer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18

According to NJ. Blavier's theory, the
great earthquake disturbances Of l7o5,
1884 and 1885 are to be associated with
the abnormal accumulations of ice about
the North Pole. He supposes such &C
cumulations to have caused q detection
of the Gulf Stream away from Europe,
producing great climatic changes and a
Slight disturbance of equilibrium IN the
sea bottom, followed by a possible local
fracture along the line of least resistance.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18
Kissed Her Child to Life.

On the 9Th of April the little daugh-
ter of A. O. Swift, Deputy Postmaster
at Nebraska City, Neb., was pronounced
dead from typhoid pneumonia, and nad
all the appearances of death. The
mother could not be persuaded to leave
the little one. About 3 O'Clock the next
morning her screams of JOY swoke the
whole eneighborhood, and several persons
entered to find the child sitting on its
mothers lap, refreshed and apparently
we'll. 1t has improved steadily since
then, and is now doing excelently. The
mother says that she was weeping over
the inanimate form and was kissing the
cold Ups in al agony of grief, when sud.
denly the little one opened its eyes and
the next instant threw its arms about her
neck.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18
"rhe Last Victim of the War"

In the April Century Judge W. NJ.
Dickson tells pathetic yet shocking
story under the caption, "The Last
Victim of the War The victim was
Thomas Martin, and he was shot near
Cincinnati, under the sentence of drum
head court passed year previous; the
date of his execution was May llth,
1865.
The boy, for such he was, had been
captured in Kentucky, brought to Gin
cinnati and sentenced as q guerrilla. He
was illiterate and claimed to be Con-
federate soldier, though he barely COM
pretended the difference between the
two. It was not expected that the SEN
tence would be carried out, and General
Which, who commanded in the city,
gave the boy his liberty and employment
about the military headquarters, and be-
came very much attached to him. The
story from this point is such shocking
revelation that one almost regrets its
publication, but it throws light lpon
the character of General Hooker and
adds one more chapter to the study Of
the men of the war and its publication
is proper.
Hooker in taking leave of this depart
ment to which he had been relegated as
defeated general, and bitter and re-
7engeful man, came across the papers in
the boys case, and learning that the
sentence of the court, intended only to
have quieting effect upon Kentucky,
and passed year previous had not been
carried out, ordered Which to execute
the boy. Willich was horrifed at the
idea Of executing boy who had served
him for year and with tears in his eyes
appealed to Judge Stsllo, now minister
at Rome, and to Judge Dickson to aid
him in changing Hooker's bloodthirsty
determination. Hooker had gone to at
tend Lincoln's funeral at Springfield,
and these gentlemen appealed to Stanton
in Washing gton. An answer was not re-
ceiyed until the boy was on his coffin
awaiting the fatal command, then cou-
rier arrived from the telegraph Office
bringing message suspendlng the exc
cution until further orders. All re-
turned to the city joyfully.
Hooker upon his return, however, was
enraged to .nd that his order had been
suspended. He hated the administra-
ton at Washington, and this renewed
interference. With savage satisfaction,
he demanded of Stanton the right to
control his department, and Stanton
yielded. The boy was shot on the 1lth
of May, after the war was over. Lee
had surrendered, and the guerrilla com.
mand to which the boy had belonged
had also surrendered, and been granted
the same terms as we're accorded to Lees
army; shot after his comrades had been
recognized as regular soldiers.
Year by year the history OF the war is
being written; year by year the heroes
and grand characters of the Christian
soldiers shine brighter. Hooker, the
incompetent coward, who sneaked away
like whipped cur from the front OF
Lees little army, the butcher and muir
derer, has no place among them.-Macon
Evening News.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18
POST-MORTEnI EULOGIEs.
Some Odd Addresses Made by Well-Mean-
ing, but Ignorant Ministers.

10000 Cneer.
Laughing at funerals is such a gross
violation of the rules Of good breeding
and common decency that the proVoca-
tion must be grest if one can be excused
at all for such scandalous conduct. The
writer owns up to several lrrepresslble
smiles and one or two wicked giggles
while attending several funerals in GER
tain rural districts. He offers the facts
in each case in justification Of his con-
duct.
An aged farmer had died from the
effects of kick from mule. The
clergyman officiating at the funeral was
an antiquated specimen of simplicity and
ignorance. His first words were:
"In assembling around this cold corpse
and in rejecting on the means by which
it became corpse, we air reminded OF
the uncertainty of life and Of the onex-
pected disasters by which cawpses air so
often created. Skeerce twenty-four
hours ago our dear brother was in full
possession of bis health and facilities.
Little did he think of his approaching
end at the hands of mewel hitherto
considered harmless and docle. But,
ali! my dear friends" and here he be-
gan to weep, sseven so ornery and tri6n'
critter as newell may be the means
of converting us from the rosy bamness
of health to the white paleness of q
cawpse. You have all seen both the
cawpse and the mewel in this case; may
the lesson they have taught never be
forgotten. May it make an impression
that will cause you to feel serious con-
cern for your own latter end whenever
you gaze on even q newel. "
At another funeral in q little Western
church the officiating clergyman said, at
the close of his discourse:
SIN accordance with the desire of the
family of the dead deceased, the coffin
will now be opened that his friends may
enjoy the felicity of gazing on him for
the last time," and the entire assembly
proceeded to s'enjoy the felicity" OF the
occasion.
A minister once called at the home OF
death to make arrangements for the
funeral of the husband and father who
had died suddenly. While talking with
the widow be asked:
ssIs there any particular hymn you
would like to have sung at the funeral?"
eyes," she said, wiping her eyes,
'thave 'em sing, sHallelooyer! 'tis done.
Pa allus liked that and I think it'd kind
O. tickle him to have it sung over bis cold
olsy."
The hymn was therefore sung over
pas "cold clay" Let US hope he was
where he could be ''tickled" by hear
ing it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18

A Boston daily has established the fact
to its own satisfaction that Job was an
Irishman, for it attributes to an irish
rosn the phrase, s'ska Of bis teeth"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18

The Emperor Frederick, in decorating
DR.. Mackenzie, said. '.When you came
the first time I confded in you, as you
were recommended by my German phy-
sicians. 7 have ssnce had occasion in
my own experieTT value your capa-
bility. I am 81 tow upon you
this order in ,nowledgment
of your mer >mory of my
accession to ,e Emperor
then shook Mackenzie
and with I
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18

You may speak out more plainly to your
associates, but not less courteously than
you do to strangers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18

A girl should marry for protection, in
stead of for revenue only.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18
EDWARD McCRADT, JR.,
W. G. BENET,
Ca. RICHARDSON MILES,

We join the majority of the committee
in recommending that the deputies meet
at Anderson on the evening previous to
the date appointed for the Convention
to meet, in the hope that some settle
ment may be reached. But We dissent
from them as to the plan OF settlement
proposed.
W. Fl. CAMPBELL,
" ST lI-1IEN .IEEYEY
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

At the last session of our legisla-
ture the appropriation for lie Uni
ty of Virginia was reduced from
$4,000 to $4,000, and the appro
priation frcm the Central Insane
Asylum, (color.d,) was increased
$4,000 to $40 ,OO0-and yet despite
the fact that the aid to cur venera-
BILE institution Of learning was les
soned at the timethe appropriation
for the benefit of the uDfortunates
of the coloIed people was increased.
the d. mccrats will continue 10 be
considered by the colored brothers
as enemies OF their race. The old
promise of "iorty acres and a MULE
is still more highly treasured by the
most OF them, than all the fovors
which the, have received and are
daily receiving at the hands OF
their Dcmocl attic brother, and they
will ccntinueto listento and believe
all the stories of fomenters Of race
strife WHO will come among them,
seeking political preferment at
their bands.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10
The New Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March l.
The first official step in the direc
tion of tariff reform during the
present session was taken this
morning, when the Mills tariff bill
was formally submitted to the ways
and means committee. There is a
considerable reduction of duties,
for example, upon the cheaper sorts
of WOODEN and cotton goods, car.
pets, earthenware. glass and sugar,
such as the poor buy, while high
priced grades, such as only the
rich can we'll afford, are made to
pay high tax. The free list has
been enlarged in the same spirit.
While most of the articles included
in it are of Importance chiefly as
raw materials of manufactures, still
there are many, such as salt, tim
Der, vegetables, fruits and meats,
that enter at once into consump
ton. Articles in this list worth
special attention are: Tin plate, a
necessary material of our canning
industry, cotton ties, salt, flax, wax,
liquorice, borax, blue vitriol, cop.
peras, dye stuffs, needles, dates,
figs, plans, prunes, currants, beans
milk, cocoa, paper pulp, mineral
waters and books in foreign
tongues. The reduction effected
Gy the enlargement of the free list
is So, 100000. Sugar of grades net
above No. 16 Dutch standard is re
duced from LAO and 2.75 cents
per pound to 1.5 LOO cents per
pound; sugars ofthe highest grade
from $50 to 2.55 per pound. 1t is
provided, however, that these re-
ductions shall not take effect upon
sugar coming from countries hat
impose an export duty on sugar.
BIchromate of potash is re-
duced from 8 to 81 cents per
pound. On plain CHINA there is il
reduction from 90 to 35pc.advalorcm
The tax on pig iron is reduced to
70 per ton; on steel rails and rail
way bars to 81 per ton. There are
reductions Oh many manufactures
of iron and steel. The lower rate
is most noticeable in the cases of
certain kinds Of WOODEN and cotton
goods, glass, ready made clothing,
writing paper, envelopes, toys,ricc
matches, common umbrellas, wood
screws, nails, wire forgings, chains,
common china and earthenware.
ground spices, medicinal prepara-
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Entered at the Postoflice at Accomac
G Iva. rs second-class matter.

An extract showing reductlons
nronosed in the tariff Dill
framed by a majority OF the
ways and means committee OF the
House of Representatives is pno'
lisbed in our issue of to-day. Ihe
bill constructed in accordance with
Democratic ideas provides that ar
ticles used by the poor should oe
taxed less heavily than those con
sumed by the rich-the du'les' ior
instance, upon the cheap sort OF
wooden and cotton goods, glass, su
gar, &c, such as the poor buy De
ING reduced, while high priced
goods such as only the rich can at
ford are made topay thigh tax. The
fee listenlarged III the same spirit
includes among other articles, va
rious kinds ofdye stuffS, salt, palnts,
oils. barks, beans, berries, nuts and
fruits. The total reduction pro-
posed by the bill will reach $780,
100000. The Democratic majority
of the ways and means committee
have not only taken this step IN the
right direction but since the tariff
hill was presented have supple
mented their laborS by adopting
an internal revenue bill, taking OH
the tax on all kinds of tobacco ex-
cept cigars, cigarette S, cheroots and
other things-a yearly reduction OF
so5.O0O,OOO more. The bill will be
reported to the House about the LIST
of April, and proposing asst does not
only to reduce the taxes on many
necessarics oflltc but also to remove
the burdens Oh one ofthe staple pro-
ducts of Virginia, will be watched
with interest by the great body OF
our people. The Democrats being
committed to tariff reform, and the
House being Democratic, its fate
in that body should not be uhcer-
tain. What the Republican Senate
will do remains to he seen.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The fourth annual convention of
Virginia Division, Of the Travellers
Protective Association, will be held
in the city of Stauntonon Wednes
day, May 1G, 1883.
The joint committee appointed
under a resolution of Legislature
to ingnile into the revenues de.
rived from the oyster interest, and
report at the next session, held
their first meeting today. The COM
mittee will go to West Point, and
go from there to the oyster beds.
The resolution under which this
committee was appointed provides
that its members shall not receive
any compensation for their SER
vices. Of course they will be al
lowed their expenses during this
lnvestigation.- Cor. Norfolk Ledg-
er, 9Th.
A shooting affray at Culpeper,
Va, on the 1st inst, between Ed.
win Barbour, editor of the Pied
mont Advance, and Ellis B. VII.
liams, son Of the editor of the Gull
pepper Exponent, resulted in the
death of young Williams anG the
serious woundlng of young Bar
bour. Both are very young men
and of families for generations
prominent in the councils of the
country. The deceased was ne.
phew of Gen. Robert Williams of
the U. S. army, and Barbour is
nephew Of Hon. John S. Barbour.
The cause of the trouble grew ous
of a newspaper article written by
Barbour containing offensive ala.
sionS to Mr.. Williams. The affair
eliminated in a visit of Williams
to the Advance office. Williams
struck Barbour when both drew
their reviewers and commenced
firing about six PAGES apart. Some
nine or ten shots were fired in all
with the result stated.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10
How Men Die.

If we know all the methods of
approach adopted by an enemy we
are the better enabled to ward off
the danger and postpone the mo-
ment when surrender becomes in
evitable. In many instances the
Inherent strength Of the body suf-
fees to enable it to oppose the tell
dency toward death. Many how
ever have lost these forces to such
an extent that there is little or no
help. In other cases a little aid to
the weakened lungs will make all
the difference between sudden
death and many years of useful
life. Upon the first symptoms ola
cough, cold OF amy trouble Of the
throat CT lungs, give that old and
wellknown remedy = Boschee's
German Syrup, 4 careful trial. 1t
will prove what thousands say of
it to be, the "benefactor of any
home."
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10
From the publishers, D. Lothrop

From the publishers, D. Lothrop
&Co., Boston,w we have received for
February, 1883, "Babyland" and
"Our Little Men and Women."-
They are both issued monthly; the
first at so cents a year, the latter
at 81 gear. "Babyland7 is ad-
mirabIy gotten up, full of pictures
and stories to delight the midgets
for whom it is designed. "Our Lit
tie Men and Women" is a gem. 1t
is chock full of delightful stories in
prose and poesy, and contains
many engravings of high charac.
ter. While we heartily commend
it to the papas and mammas for
their little men and women, and
almost wish we "were boy again.
that we might have one, we are
surely tempted to cry because we
are not "teensy" enough to crawl
up 10 it through "Babyland."
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10
Legislative Notes.

The two Houses adopted a joint
resolution providing for the mp
pointment of a joint committee of
i've from the House and three from
the Senate to prepare during the
vacation a memorial and present it
to Congress, setting forth why the
general governmenJ should as.
sume the debtof Virginia.
The Governor returned TO Tho
House of Delegates. Without his
signature, House bill for The protec.
lion of farmers against spurious
and worthless fertilizers.
The Governor in his communica
tion OH this subject says a careful
examination ofthis bill conyinces
me that the farmers will Get NO
more protection than they are get.
ting now, while injustice will be
done the manufacturers, because it
will be Impossible to comply with
its provisions. In con
gliding the Governor says: The
farmer has all the protection under
the existing act Of March 90, 1877.
as he would have under the proyls,
ions of this bill, while the latter if
it becomes a law would discrimi-
nate against Virginia manufacture
erS and dealers.
The House sustained the Cover.
nor by IL vote OF Ga to 3.
Mr.. Rhea introduceda JOINT reso
luton Monday, which was agreed
to that q committee composed
of three members of the Senate
and hve members Of the House OF
Delegates be appointed to 60 be-
fore the proper committees of the
Congress OF the United States at
an early day after the adjournment
of the present session of the Gen.
eral Assembly and urge upon said
committees the great Importance
to the educational, agricultural and
manufacturing interests OF the peo.
pie Of Virginia
l. VI u favorable report and the
early passage of measure known as
the Blair Educational Bill.
2. The abolition OF tie tax upon
tobacco and fruit brandy.
3. That no reduction whatever
should be made in the duty upon
foreign ore.
/. The said committee shall re
ccive no compensation or allow
ance for its service under the reso-
luton.
The Democrats failed to get suf.
ticient votes last Monday to extend
The session, and the legislature at
night, at 11.45, adjourned sine die.
Mi. Magruder was the only Demo
crat who voted against the resolu-
ton. The Republicans voted solid.
Is against 1t. MessrS. James Bar.
oour and II. L. Smith were absent.
Among the most important
measures adopted by the lesisla-
tnre at the session of the legislature
Whlcn Closed on last Monday night
were bills allowing pensions to dis
abled ContederateS who volun.
teered i'll this State, creating a
State agricultural bureau, and abo-
ililon OF compulsory inspection of
fiour-a law existing from time lm
memorial. The commerce bill was
hung up in the Senate committee
Oil roads and WAS never reported
back to that body.
The House bill providing for es-
ta6llshiDg a State board of agricul
ture, defeated i'll the Senate, WIS
reconsldeIed by that body and
passed. The appropriation for the
maintenance OF the board was re-
duced from $4,000 to S1O,OUO.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

Ferizng Ten
highest grade found the Peruvian.
James burlington
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

The old reliable fertilizer which has been constantly used by the
Northampton counties for
the last twelve the Market and now III the hands
by the following reliable gentlemen who would not dare
ask their their the fertilizer which
they themselves had not perfect confidence:
Selby Conquest Oak Ha; W. S. Nelson & A. Bnndck Nesona
r. Johnson eemon Stanley Lewis, Parkey Geo Foque "
Co., Powell Wapes Hopkins Bro, W. d. Lewis Son. Onancock
Fnney Co., Fnneys wharf Boggs Co, Boggs wharf Boggs
s. Waters, Nandua.
the last twelve the side leading
fertilizers Of the the Pocomoke has itself unequaed
the per Peruvian guano has
ceed that standard goods adapted the growth
beaus round and potatoes and all carly
prompt strong abundant yield
For further particulars apply the manufacturers Pcomoke City,
Md. Norfolk. VA
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lions aud proprietary medicines.
The bill is expected to be reported
to the House for action abont the
1st OF April. As Mr.. Randall is re-
ported to have pronounced it a "vi.
ciops bllln it's fate there may be re-
garded as uncertain.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

The first State election of the
presidential year will be that in
Rhode Island, April 4. The State
gave Blaine a plurality of6, 439, but
the Democrats elected their Gov
ernor last ear Ivy (: plurality of @
9S4.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

A young man named Edgar
Haney, and said to he u nephew of
the late w. w. Gorcoran, was bru-
tally murdered in Berkeley, Feb.
2Sth. Charles Cook, arrested on
suspicion has confessed that he
committed the crime.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

Emperor William, Germany's
great ruler, is lying extremely ILL.,.
and there is but Slight hope of his
recovery.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

Homo. @. Melnminger, secretary
Of the treasury in the Confederate
cabinet from 1861 to 1864, died at
Charleston, S. c., last Wednesday.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-10

The trial of the Exchange Bank
cases commenced in the United
States court at Norfolk, last Wed
nesday.