The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-05-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered nom Various |
Quarters.

So0H~AS3
Lord Stanley, of Preston, is gazetted as
Governor General Of Canada.
Three thousand persons were drowned
by the recent food in the Canton River.
A train of empty %" cars was set on
fire Sunday at Chicago by strikers and
nearly consumed.
The Delaware Democratic Convention
endorse Cleveland and favors the Mills
tariff bill.
The Emperor of Brazil is suffering from
pleurisy. Physicians attending him say
that his condition is serious.
The State mineralogist reports that Cali
fornia last year produced $13, O63, ,92S In
ores and bullion.
a fire in Georgetown, S. c., yesterday
morning. destroyed property to the value
of $4,000.
Lightning struck schoolhouse Wednes
day at Dayton, o., and two little girls were
fatally injured.
The President has nominated Robert 3.
Roosevelt, Of New York, to be minister
resident of the United States to the Meth
erlands.
The Brazilian Government has announced
its intention to submit to The Legislature a
project for the abolition of slavery in Bra
zil.
The President contributed 800 Wednes-
day towards the building of an orphan
asylum for colored children at Lynchburg,
Va.
Forty-six thoroughbred yearlings were
sold at Lexington, KY, on Tuesday, Tor
$2S, 40, an average of $4S7.
The Kansas Republican State Conven-
ton passed resolutions endorsing Plumb
and Ingalls,. The sentiment of the conven-
ton was decidedly IN favor of Blaine.
The Vatican has received a dispatch from
the Papal Nuncio at Paris stating that the
disputes between France and the Vatican
have been satisfactorily settled.
The schooner Ridgewood, loaded with
lumber, was burned Wednesday below
Jacksonville. Fla Loss on vessel and
cargo S2s,0o0.
Commodore Norman Wilson, one of the
wealthiest men in the Northwest, died sud-
denly yesterday evening on the train en-
route for his home in Minneapolis.
Geo. F. Montgomery, of Vincennes,
Ind, lumber dealer dealer, who has been
buying extensively in the South, has con-
fessed judgment in the sum of $SS, 800.
The expenses of living in the city OF
New York may be conjectured from re-
mark in the Mail and Express that man
on an income this side of $5, 900 finds the
country healthier than the city.
The Republican newspapers North are
diligently searching for something damag-
ing to Mr.. Melville W. Fuller. They say
they have discovered he was member of
the famous peace Legislature" of Illinois.
Dennis Mclaughlin, of New Haven,
aged 50, hung himself in his barn yester-
day. He owned considerable property.
Disappointment at losing situstion IN the
Derby railroad shops is the supposed cause.
VIM. Hopkins, who was to have been
hanged in Rabun, Ca, has been respited
by Governor Gordon. Hopkins is the man
who stoned a stranger to death at country
church because he wore 'tbiled shirt"
The National Bureau of Engraving and
Printing is engaged night and day in print
ing one and two dollar silver certificates
and to date has finished $26, 900, QUO Of ones
and ST., 100000 of twos.
Blakely Hale telegraphs to the New
York Sun from Berlin that cit is not to be
wondered at that his Majesty las deterio-
rated in health ct Charlottenburg. The
place is little more than swamp.
The golden rose sent by Pope Leo 10
Miss Caldwell will be tremendously pre-
sented to that lady at the laying Of the
corner stone Of the Catholic University in
Washington, D. c., on the 24th instant.
One thousand miners declined to renew
their working contract at Pratt mines,
at Birmingham, Ala, Monday. according
to the company's figures, and are now out
Of work.
a riot occurred at Dunmany, Ireland,
yesterday, as the police were removing a
number Of prisoners to Cork. The police
charged upon the rioters, and used their
batons freely.
W. C. Chamberlain, of Texas, who went
to Paris to be treated by Pasteur for wolf
bite, returned to New York on the La Gas
cogne Sunday, though man bitten by
the same wolf has since died.
Sunday afternoon at North Bend, o.,
during quarrel over game Of cards, in
which Lewis Brown, Joe Howard and
Harrison Stapleton were engaged, the lat
ter stabbed Brown in the heart, killing him
instantly.
After q one hundred and ninety days
voyage the schooner Edward E. Webster
arrived at San Francisco from Gloucester,
Mass., with her crew disabled with q
strange disease, and no provisions on board
but musty -four.
Nathaniel Watts, the last Of the "old
defenders" who defended Baltimore from
the British invasion in 1914, is dying at
the residence of his daughter in Baltimore.
he is "a years of age.
a terrible dynamite explosion occurred
Tuesday morning at Colly mine, Bessemer,
Mich, instantly killing Frank Robatsky
and fatally injuring three others. The en-
CINE house was burned to the ground.
Loss $4,000.
Three burglars entered the house Of Mrs.
Mary E. Reynolds, at Gresham, Pa, on
Monday night. She was alone, but she
kept the robbers at bay with hatchet.
One of them attempted to seize her arm,
whereupon she knocked him senseless to
the floor.
The Missouri Supreme Court has re-
yersed Judge Noonan's decision upon the
law of 1857 Sunday law. 1t holds that
the city government Of St. Louis never had
authority to grant permission for the sale
of wine or beer on Sunday.
Twenty-Five editions of the May number
of the North American Review have been