The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-05-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from various
Quarters.

Items OF interest 0atucEco ho-A>
Quarters.
The Missouri Republican State ConVen-
ton met at Sedalia and elected Blaine dele
gates to the Chicago Convention.
The Missouri Republican State Conven-
ton has nominated E. t. klmball, OF YER
non county, for Governor.
Senators Allison, Aldrich, uiscock, BECK
and Harris have been designated a sub
committee to compile tariff bill as sub
slitute for Millss bill.
The Republican State Convention OF Nc
braska has elected delegates to the Chicago
Convention. They are uninstructed, but
favor Blaine.
Secretary Fairchild has approved the de-
sign Of the new twcnty-dollar silver certlh-
Gates bearing an excellent likeness OF the
late Secretary Manning.
Nearly $9O0,0 had been raised up to
May 10 for foreign missions of that 81 ,OOV,-
O00 centennial fund which the Northern
PRESBYTERIAN Church has undertaken to
secure.
The National Convention of the Equal
Rights party in session at Des Moines, Ia.
nominated Belva A. Lockwood for Prcsi-
dent, and Alfred H. Love Of Philadciphla
for Vice President.
Capt Reagan, a former conductor of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Road, is now in Florida making a fortune.
He recently made $500 on a 81 800 In
vestment in real estate during the boom.
During the roll in the New York State
Republican Convention yesterday, when
the name Of Chauncey NJ. Depew was read,
it was received with q perfect Storm OF ap-
plause.
Melville E. Stone founder and editor Of
| the Chicago News, has sold his entire in
| terest to Victor F. Lawson, who has been
the publisher since shortly after the Daily
News was started.
The Republican Convention of the 7th
Virginia district at Charlottesville has
elected Senator Riddlebcrger and eX-Sena-
tor Lewis delegates 10 the Chicago ConVen-
ton They favor Blaine.
At Cincinnati the Union Labor Convcn.
ton has adopted q platform and nominated
A. J. Streeter, of Illinois, for President,
and Charles E. Cunningham, of Little
Rock, for Eice-President.
The third day Of the Texas international
and interstate drill and celebration was
| devoted to the dedication of the new State
capital building. The military and civic
demonstration in honor oi the event has
probably never been equallcd in any State.
Thomas Gresham, railroad employe, was
shot and killed in Atlanta yesterday by
George EddIeman, real estate agent.
Gresham had expressed himself as favora-
! bic to secret societies. when Eddleman,
who was drunk, pulled out q pistol and
shot him.
A New Iork business man has novel
method of refreshing his memory. When
he has something important to attend to
the next day. he writes himself postal
card, reminding him of the matter, and,
finding the card among the mail The next
morning, attends to it the first thing.
The thirteen-year-old son of H. NJ.
| Vaughn, well-todo farmer residing near
Jackson, Ga, hanged himself in the barn
| Tuesday night with the wagon lines. He
was the family pet, and grief over slight
whipping with switch, administered by
his mother, is supposed to have been the
cause of the suicide.
On Wednesday night Felix Jones called
at the residence of Mrs Stanford in At
lanta to escort her daughter to church.
Dan Stanford, brother of the girl, play,
| fully pointed pistol at Jones, when Ii
was discharged accidentally, the bullet en-,
| terinc Joncs's head Jones died in few
hours. The coroner's verdict was death
| by accident.
The employees of Singer, Nimick & Co.,
iron manufacturing company, OF Plttsourg,
Va, have been notified that their wages
| will be reduced 10 per cent. on May -.
The advance granted in February, 1887,
and the proposed reduction will make wages
the same as they were prior to that ad,
vance. About a thousand men are affected.
The Tennessee State Democratic Con-
vention, which has been in session since
last Wednesday, has nominated Governor
! Robert L. Taylor for reelection. The op-
position, which had been fighting him on
every occasion, surrendered and the fortieth
ballot resulted virtually in his nomination
by acclamation, as he received nearly every
vote cast.
A dispatch from Pittsfeld, ILL.,, says:
The break in the Mississippi levee increases
and 102, 900 acres of land that have been
protected will soon be in the bottom of an
immense lake. Owners and tenants are
hurrying to the uplands for personal
safety, leaving most of their property to
the floods Hundreds of families are
camped in the open fields out of reach OF
the water, having no place to 60. a cold
rain has set in, making their desolation
| more dreary and complete