The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-20

Uc aSoSeSeu faludtlOu VI property
in Asheville, n. c., for 1889, is 81, ,153,
234, against S904,4 in 1880, an iu-
crease of nearly five hundred per cent.
in nine years. But few cities can
make better showing
Who would have thought that IL
cents on every barrel of beer brewed
in New York in one year would aggre-
gate $44G,000? There are, it seems,
4,4GO,O0O barrels of beer sold by the
New York brewers every Year, o.
about three barrels for each man,
woman, and child living in the city.
Large deposits OF ice, believed by
some to be relics of the glacial period
in this country, have been discovered
in Idaho. They are embedded in
earth and overgrown with moss, which
has prevented them from wasting
away. It is seriously proposed to
form companies to mine this ice for
sale in Western cities where ice is al
ways dear and scarce.
The Gear is said to be in constant
dread of assassination, and this state
of ever present fear, added to the he
reditary melancholy of the Romanof
family, has so utterly shattered his
nerves that for days together he is
practically not responsible for his ac-
tions. He also smokes incessantly.
and not only endeavors to sustain his
spirits by copious hbations of cham
pagne and brandy, but has taken to
drugging himself with chloral.
Capt. P. ". Mckinney, the Demo
cratic Governor-elect of Virginia, in
an interview few days ago, remark
ed that it was with great deal OF
pleasure he could say that through
out the campaign he met with not a
single indignity of any kind. No one
ever hooted or hissed him, and he
was confident that no man ever made
a more thorough canvass, he having
missed but one appointment. He
never saw the Democrats so thorough
ly organized and the Republicans so
disrupted in his life as they were, and
for full two months before the election
he hadn't had the slightest doubt
about the party's success.
The naval commission appointed to
select the site for the navy yard on
the Southern coast has submitted its
report to the secretary Of the navy,
recommending the establishment of a
dry dock, repair shops, and supply de-
pot at Port Royal, South Carolina
An estimate accompanying the report
fixes the cost of a timber dry dock,
similar to those now building for the
Government, at s675,000, to be COM
pleted in three years. The commits
sion also recommend the establish
ment of a construction yard at Algi-
ers, opposite New Orleans The re-
port of the commission now goes to
the secretary of the navy and he will
transmit it to Congress for such action
as may be deemed proper.
The revolution that was effected in
Brazil last week was one of the most
successful pieces of political work of
modern times. By the revolution the
| government is changed from mon
archy to republic. The Emperor,
Dom Pedro, quietly accepted the sit
uation and has gone with his family
to Portugal. A government similar
to that of the United States has been
established, and everything seems to
indicate that it will be stable and per-
manent. Dom Pedro, on leaving
Rio, was presented by the provisional
authorities with :e5S0,G00, and WAS
also informed that eS0.O0 per aunum
would be allowed him from the civil
list. It doesn't seem to be such bad
thing after all to be a dethrOned En-
peror.