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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
HANGING FOR FUN.
A. Miner Finds How it Feels to Daa9le
from the End Of Rope.

DENVER, September ga miner
employed IN one of the mines at Lead
vile is in Denver undergoing peculiar
treatment at one of the hospitals. Sew
eral weeks ago three miners, while cat
ing their morning lunch, discussed
various topics. In the course of the
talk death by strangulalion came up,
and one of the men, Frank Leahey,
expressed the opinion that by the exercise
cf little judgment and nerve man
could sustain life for a considerable
time, even when suspended by the neck.
To a challenge to illustrate his theory in
his own person, he replied that he was
perfectly willing to do 50, and wager
of $50 was made and accepted.
The foolhardy theorist at once de-
scended the shaft and commenced pre-
parations for his experiment. Tying a
rope around his neck he gave the sig
nal, and in an instant he was swinging
in the air. A few seconds afterward
Leahey became painfully aware that ne
was sacrificing his, life to an idiotic
theory. The rope contracted, the blood
in its passage filled his head almost to
bursting, his eyes protruded from their
sockets, his swollen tongue began to
make its way between his lips, and then
he became unconscious. His friends,
having no faith in the experiment, let
him down with alacrity. At first it
was thought that the young man was
dead, but after an hours hard work
consciousness was restored.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
FOUR MARRIED At ONCE.
Remarkable Coincidence in the Courtship
Of Lansdale Maidena.

By series of strange condolences
eight young people living in Hatfield
township, near Lansdale, became en-
gagged to each other at the same time,
fixed upon the same date for their mar
riage, and were married by the same
minister at the same place and hour
Saturday last, says the Philadelphia
Record. Up to the hour of the cere-
mony each of the four couples had been
totally unaware of the intentions of the
others as to when, where, and by whom
they should be married, although the
fact of their engagement was known.
The names of the young people who on
tered upon married life under such unu-
sual circumstances we're: Allen N. Hill
derbrand and Miss Mary E Rickert,
Hiram J. Minninger and Miss Kate
Bechtel, Isaiah N. Funk and Miss Annie
+. Detweier, and Jacob Kunn and Miss
Lizzie Sewers, and the Rev. J. L. Becker.
pastor of the Lansdalc Lutheran Church,
was the clergyman who performed the
ceremony.
The homes of all four couples were
within a radius of two miles, while a
still more singular coineident was that
the young husbands were all related to
each other, while the young spouses
we're all brunets. Three of the hus-
bands-Detweiler, hildebrand and Min
ninger-are also of the same age, 81
years, while Funk is on the verge of his
legal manhood. Two of the young
ladies s-Miss Rickert and Miss Bechtel-
are 20 years old, and the remaining two
are within six months of that age.
It appears that the young people, who
were perfectly we'll acquainted with one
another, went to a picnic near Lang
horne early last August, and it is said
each couple there resolved to he bound
together for life. On the ride home
from the picnic the young people ex-
changed condolences, and were greatly
surprised at the news. The engagements
we're of short duration, but the couples
had no understanding about the time of
their marriage. When they lined up in
a row in pastor Becker's study there
was broad smile all around. The
minister read the marriage ceremony to
them all at once, and in his parting
blessing said it was good omen that
they should start out all at once.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
MRS. MAVERICK IN PRISON.
What She Is Doing-How Female Con-
victs Are Dressed

Mrs. Maybrick- almost forgotten now
is doing her nine months of solitary
confinement, and daily does an allotted
task of needlework, says the Pail Mlzll
Gazette. Those who follow the wretched
woman's career, as it may be studied
from time to tine by the prison bulle-
tins, will learn with interest that there
is considerable thought as to dress in
this prison, and as BELTS a lady's es-
tablishment. Even in prison, accord
ing to F. W. Robinson, variety of toi-
lets is customary. There is the probation
class, in which women for the first nine
months wear a lilac cotton skirt in sum-
mer, with blouse bodice, a square of
serge for the shoulders, a check blue
and white apron, small white linen cap
with goffered border, and a plain, un-
trimmed, coarse white straw bonnet Of
what is termed the cottage shape" and
a very hideous shape, to our masculine
mind, it appears to be. On Sundays
white aprons and neckerchiefs are worn.
In winter the lilac dress is replaced by 4
thick blue serge, with a neckerchief of
the same material, and a thick fawn-
colored circular cape is also allowed for
the shoulders.
In the second nine months the
prisoner is woman of the third class,
and wears IN summer plain blue cotton
skirt with stripes, and u square of brown
serge for the shoulders. The bonnet and
linen cap remain the same in style or
distinguished, as it may be, for want of
style, and white aprons and necker-
chiefs again smarter up the women on
the Sabbath. In winter the third class
women wear brown serge dresses and
tawn-colored capes. In the third nine
months female convict becomes a
woman Of the second class,
and is allowed the distinction
Of wearing a full blue cotton
skirt with white spots, blouse bodice
Of the same material, aud a square of
green serge for he shoulders. In winter
she wears a thick green serge gown, the
other details of the dress being the
same as in the preceding class. In the
fourth period Of nine months she be-
comes woman OF the first class. with
little if any distinction from the second,
and this remains till she is within nine
months of the expiration of the SEN
tence, when-happy time for the female
convict, with liberty Sc close at hand
again-she is dubbed woman of the
special class.
The two children of Mrs. Maybrick
have, by the consent of their deceased
fathers brothers and of the Baroness
Won Rogue, been adopted by a lady and
gentleman in London who are in good
circumstances and who will see to their
maintenance and education. The chill
dren (boy and girD will assume the
names of their foster parents, and thus
it is hoped in future life escape the stain
attached to the name of their mother.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09

Ah, Countess Glare! as sat last night
In your long, luxurious room,
Where gloves of amber and crimson burned
Mid banks of the rarest bloom,
A breeze from the Land of Memory blew,
And the perfume to me stole
From cluster Of roses, pink and sweet,
In dark blue china bowl
You looked queen in your violet silk,
With your breast in a foam of lace,
And diamond star in your golden hair
A queen in your bigh-bred grace;
But saw veil Of the Past divide,
And the seasons backward roll,
And slender girl in muslin gown
Bend over chira bowl
The ivory-white of your satin cheek
Grew roseate for my sake,
Your eyes looked love, and your lips were
ripe
With kisses for me to take.
But turned away from your jeweled arms,
For thought of sunny knoll
Where the roses grew on their thorny stalks
For the quaint old china bowl.
So, gay coquette. ynu will wait to-uight
On the terrace in vain for ne,
For shall 60 back to my sweet first love
Far over the turquoise sea
To my sweet first love in the muslin gown
AS white as her spotless soul,
And the roses growing in sun and dew
For the dark blue china bowl.
-Ninna Irving, IN, BeLf'rd Magazine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
ATEN-YEAR-oLD CONVICT.
he Was Sent to Prison FOR Life, But
Has Been Conditionally Pardoned.

FRANKFORT, KY, October Through
the efforts of the National Humane So
ciety, a conditional pardon has been OBJ
tanned from Governor Buckner for Linn
vile Combs, the young life convict.
Combs is to be placed in the Industrial
School of Reform at Louisville, to re-
main until he is of age. He lived with
bis mother and stepfather in Breathitt
County There was baby in the fam
lily, and one day the baby was missed.
Linnville was questioned, and finally led
the nelghbors to where the baby's body
was found in a creek, its head crushed
in. He said he had hit the child on the
head with poker and killed it, after
which be tried to burn the body.
It did not burn fast enough and he
threw 1t into the creek. He also said
his father had promised him a pair of
new red-top boots if he would kill the
baby. Being an infant in law, his testi
mony against the old man was valueless,
but he was sent to prison for life. He
had never heard of God or the alphabet
aud did not know right from wrong. AT
the time of his conviction lie was 10
years old and now, at the age Of II, he
can read and write and is very bright.
Every convict in the prison signed pc
tition for his pardon.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
A Leaf for A Cradle.

Visitors to Fairmounr park during the past
week have been much interested in the splen-
did specimen of Brazilian water lily, known
as the Victoria Regia, hourisning in the par
terre above Horticultural hall The leaves
of the plant are fully yard in diameter and
shaped like green circular tea trays, with an
inch high border about their circumference.
They rest lightly on the surface Of the water,
but are Of so strong a fiber that dog or a
small child could readily stand upon them
without sinking These leaves are often used
by South American mothers as resting places
fos-tlaeir babes, serving as cross betwesna
L.,--. 49, >-nai~ "L- q" - ~" iiituieuse
white lily Of wonderful purity and delicacy.
The first blossom that has appeared since the
plant was brought from South America last
spring appeared one day last week, but dis,
appeared beneath the water on Friday. AMI
other bud is expected to burst within few
Record.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
Planning to Insure Republican Ma
jority in 1892.

WASHINGTON, September 30.-The
President is said to be giving much
thought to the problem Of securing a
Republican victory in 1892 without de-
pending upon the aid of the State of
New York. The friends Of ex-Repre-
sentative Goff, who was defeated in
the election of Governor of West Vir-
ginia year ago, are maneuYring to get
him into the Cabinet by representing
that he can control the electoral vote Of
that State for the benefit of the Republl-
can party. To make a place for him
they want to advance Attorney General
Miller to the Supreme bench. The
Erening Star has this about it:
"The fact that Mr.. Miller has sold out
his establishment in Indianapolis has
given rise to the impression that the
President has gone back to his old love,
and that Mr. Miller will 90 on the Su.
preme bench. This will give the Presi-
dent chance to do two things he is
credited with being desirous of doing
to crafty Mr.. Miller, and to place Mr..
Golf of West Virginia in the Cabinet.
The President, it is said, has ex-
pressed regret that his election was
dependent upon the vote of New York,
and is apprehensive that the same con-
ditions may exist at the next Presiden-
tial election. 1t is his desire, and that
of leading Republicans generally, that
the party should get itself in position
to be independent of the electoral vote
of New York, which is always on such a
delicate balance and subject to strange
influences. Taking the vote Of the
Electoral College as it stood, the six
votes of West Virginia transferred to
the Republican side would give the Re-
puolicans majority without New York.
The party is chaing some under the po-
litical tyranny of New York, and would
welcome anything that would make
them independent of Platt and other
New York bosses. Last fall Mr.. Cleve-
land got 1853 electoral votes and Mr.
Harrison 233 With the thirty-six votes
from New York Cleveland would have
been elected. But with the six West
Virginia votes Harrison would have had
the election without New York"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
The Miscarriage Of Justice.

1he multitude OF cases IN winch Jas
tice is baf6ed by the disagreement Of
juries in criminal trials throughout the
country is increasing to such an extent
that convictions for a capital ofense,
instead of being the rule, even where
the testimony is clear to the ordinary
mind, is becoming an exception. One
great difficulty of our criminal courts is
to get any jury at all. In the first
place, most of the men who are sum-
moned to do jury duty resort to every
possible plea to get excused. In the
next place, even when called upon to
serve, there is frequently an indisposi-
ton evinced by some of them to consent
to a verdict that shall involve the pen
atty of death. The young New York
ruffan who boasted that hanging was
''played out" did but express the belief
of his class, and especially of that class
which has "a pull'' on the politicians,
although in his particular ease the boast
was fatal to him, as it has been more
recently to several others. Our laws are
lenient to criminals. To have formed
an opinion with respect to the case e1-
cludes man from sitting on jury.
Intelligence and eonscientlousness aud
the ability and desire to bring in an i'm
partial verdict and to be governed only
by the testimony are but too often a
fatal bar to his acceptance. If the
prosecution will take him, the de-
fense will challenge and reject
him, and the process of wedding
out goes on until either the challenges
are exhausted or the defense has got
some men on the jury on whom it
thinks it may rely. If we add to this
the delays interposed in coming to a
trial and the not unfrequent spiriting
away of one or more important wit
nesses, it is obvious that when the ac-
cused person has friends in the com
munity interested in saving him from
the consequences of his crime, and who
have money enough to fee able counsel
in his behalf, his chances of going to the
penitentiary are small, and of his suffer
ing capital punishment infnitessimal
Even at the very worst, there is an ap-
peal to the Governor to commute the
extreme penalty into imprisonment for
long time or for life, with the ultimate
and by no means unfounded hope of a
pardon after serving some time in
prison. In fagraut cases the efforts of
the defense are to bring about dis
agreement of the jury, and the fire.
quency of such disagreements is one of
the most common facts in our criminal
annals. A chung" jury generally pre-
supposes a second trial, and a second
trial either an acquittal or verdict in
volying light sentence. It would mot
be true to say that it always implies a
miscarriage of justice, but in a majority
of such trials it is tantamount to it.
The only criminal on whom justice is
inpartially administered is the man for
whom nobody cares, who has no money
and no friends, and 1t generally happens
that those who have the friends and the
money to help them belong to the most
vicious and least desirable element of
the population. Sun.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
Dropped Dead While Milking.

Last Wednesday morning Mrs. Mary
Giles, wife of Mr.. Samuel Giles, who
lived near Fort Mill, went out to milk
the cow as was her custom, and shortly
afterward she was discovered lying on
the ground near the. cow in an uncon-
scious condition. The family supposed
at first that she had been kicked by the
COW, and at once dispatched a meSsen-
ger for physician. When the physi-
clan arrived he found Mrs. Giles dead,
and decided that she came to her death
from heart disease. Mrs. Giles ate 4
hearty breakfast before going out to
milk, and was supposed to be in her
usual health She was about ffty-two
years of Yorkrille Enquirer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
One OF Mrs. Surratt's Prosecutors.

Gen. George Foster, who was one OF
the prosecutors in the trial of Mrs: Sur
ratt, was before New York police
court Saturday on the charge of raising
a disturbance while drunk. The charge
was not pressed and the Justice dis
charged him. at one time General
Foster had a practice in New York worth
5000 year. LESS than yearIago, :"
says the World, "the General began on
the downward grade, after some domes-
tic troubles. Mrs. Foster and her two
daughters now live down town some
where. From being unusually neat in
his dress the General has grown to look
like a tramp, and he has no money ex-
ccpt what he begs from those who have
known him in better days"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
Her Answer.

young man proposed to me last night"
You can't mean that:" ''Inde d it's
true;
Asked me to be his wife outright
Good gracious, dear! What did you do?"
Poor boy. He looked so handsome, Nell "
Handsome! A clerk on weekly pay
Asks you-a beauty and belle.
But tell me what he dared to say"
"Well-drst, he loved me,'' ooh, that part.
OF course. What ese?' "And that he
thought
was the sort Of girl whose heart
Won never let itself be bought"
'sHe said he was mau-tnat
Was just woman equal so
In youth, health, brain We stood, an why,
You'd think he never dreamed Of no
THAT he was POOR need be no bar"
We'll. what an attitude to take.''
''For Love will prove the guiding star
To fame and fortune, for my sake"
s'And then he begged my heart and hand"
such impudenee. who'd ever guess
| hope you made him understand
His placer" Il did told him Yes"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
A AWoMAN CIRCUIT RIDER.
Miss Alva Button is Commissioned as ar
Ttinerant Preacher.

4L10CS 101 = 3SoShoA.
BRAZIL, Ind, September SOTO the
Lower Wabash Annual Conference of
United Brethren in Christ, whose thirty
second session closed in Clay City to-day,
belongs the honor of giving to the church
It's first lady circuit rider in Miss Alva
Button of Greenup, III. The act author
izing the innovation was passed by the
session of General Conference held last
May. Only few days ago Miss Ella
Mishwanger, graduate of the Theolog-
ical Seminary, Dayton, o., was or
dained as an elder at the session of the
Central Illinois Conference, being the
first woman ordained. At the same
conference Mrs. Elliott was also admit
ted. Later Mrs. Bell, wife of an timer
ant preacher, was admitted to confer
ence. None of these were assigned to
fields of labor.
Miss Burton is young lady of more
than average attainments, common
sense and pluck, and it may be added
that she possesses beauty, being tall and
prepossessing in appearance. She is a
native Of Chicago. She learned to set
type in the Office of an Illinois newspa-
per when seventeen years old, and after
ward became successful school teacher.
When her call to the ministry came
she was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, but joined the United
Brethren, owingto the similarity of their
doctrine and in order to secure admis-
sion to Conference
The Westfeld Illinois Circuit, to
which she was appointed, is one of the
first in the Conference. 1t has FIVE ap
pointments, somewhat scattering, but
she will preach at the appointments
every two weeks. Bishop Kephart and
the Conference generally give her cor
dial welcome, and a bright future is
predicted for her.
"She may do all right said one Of
the older preachers, "until it comes to
immersing some, big six-footer in a
creek; then she will be left"
"Not bit of it," said bystander.
''There will not be a man in the crowd
but what will throw off his coat and
volunteer to do the ducking for her."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09

RICHMOND, Va, October s.-The fol-
lowing report was adopted by the anti
Malone conference this morning before
adjournment:
We, Republicans from all parts of
Virginia, in conference assembled, de-
clare that William Malone
l. Made it impossible for the Norfolk
ticket to be elected.
2. He has deceived the National Com
mittee by a pretended compromise, the
conditions Of which he has not only
made no effort to carry out, but violated
both in letter and spirit.
3. He has taken from the Republican
party their plan of organization, which
was founded on the will of the people.
4. He has adopted plan of organize
and tyrannical.
5. He has driven from the counselS of
the party the ablest and most popular
men in it.
6. He has removed County chairmen
in order to pack conventions to do his
will.
Z. He has tried to force the unit rule
to carry delegations to the National
Convention, to represent him and not
the people.
s. He has refused to abide by the de-
cisions of the National Republican party
in convention assembled.
9. He has refused to hear our griev-
ances aud treated our oyertures for peace
with contempt.
10. He has placed himself at the head
Of a ticket and labelled it Republican
without the consent of the Republican
masses.
II. He has debauched the party and
made loyalty matter of merchandise.
12. He has meddled with and in many
instances dictated County nominations.
13. he has forfeited his right to the
confidence of the people of Virginia.
Il. That the defeat Of William Ma
hone is essential to the salvation of the
Republican party.
Is. That it is the sense of this confer
ence that no recommendation be made
as TO the course to be pursued either by
the members thereof or those through
out the State who are in sympathy with
US, but each voter on election DAY be
advised to take action as his individual
Judgment approves, looking to the end
we all have in view.