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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29
wIGGINs's LATEST DISCOVERY.
The Canadian Astronomer Claims that
the Earth is Recedins from the Sun.

the Eartn Is heceOnS 1Ioo tAe Dun.
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 81. Professor
Virgins to-day said he considered his
discovery that the earth is receding from
the sun the greatest astronomical event
of the century. This recession, be de-
clares, is proved by what is known as
the procession of the equino1es, which
causes the tropical year to be shorter
than the sidereal, the latter being the
real measure of the earth's increasing
orbit. His second proof he sees in the
moons secular acceleration, for 1t Is
agreed on by all astronomers, so he as
serts, that the moon travels faster now
in her orbit than two centuries before
the Christian era.
When tie earth approaches the sun, as
she does when moving to her perihelion,
the moon recedes and travels in larger
orbit, and when approaching aphelIon'
the satellite approaches our planet, and
thus not only moves in a smaller orbit,
but moves more speedily. The earth,
therefore, in retreating from the sun,
causes the moon to move in constantly
decreasing orbit, and therefore with in
creased rapidity.
AS the earth, therefore, is recedlng
from the sun it is getting less and less
subject TO solar attraction, and must,
therefore, be constantly expanding, so
that our oceans are gradually becoming
more shallow, because they are covering
a constantly increasing surface, and the
time will come when it will be necessary
to carve up the continents by canals as
we see on Mars, and the same is no
doubt true of the planets Saturn and
Jupiter.
Trees will be planted along these
canals to produce aerial moisture, as ap-
pears to be the case along the canals of
Mars, which accounts for their apparent
great breadth when viewed through a
telescope.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29
1t Don't Pay

to use uncertain means when suffering
from diseases of the liver, blood or
lungs, such as biliousness, or ''liver
complaint, skin diseases, scrofulous
sores or swellings, or from lung scrofula
commonly known as consumption of
the lungs when DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is guaranteed to cure
all these affections, if taken in time, or
money paid for it will be promptly re-
funded.
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Fortunately. there were no fires IN
any of the cars and the jolt extingulshed
the lights Immediately; otherwise con,
flagratlon would have been caused and
there is no telling how many lives might
have been lost. As it was, most OF the
forward cars were smashed into smith
Greens.
The explanation given by the train
men 10 the passengers was that the
spikes and fshplates had been removed
from rail at curve, thus leaving the
rail loose on the ties. The forward por-
ton of the locomotive passed the place
all right, but the tender jumped the
track and was thrown part of the way
down the embankment.
Who removed the spikes and plates IS
not known, but the suppoSitlon is that
the work was done by train robbers.
Still no robbers put in appearance and
if the accident was caused by them they
must have either weakened in their pur-
pose. or have thrown the wrong train.
The road officials claim it is q clear case
of train-wrecking.
On the train was large body Of
physicians returning from Springfield,
where the State Medical Convention is
oeing held, aud they rendered valuable
assistance in caring for the injured.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29
A Youth Marries an Old Woman.

A curious wedding has just taken
place at Lodz, Hungary. A young man,
is years of age, and of good position,
for some unaccountable reason married
poor wideT with a numerous family.
The 'blushing" bride is in her 74th year.
The happy. bridegroom mas now eleven
stepsons and daughters, the Oldest of
whom is SO, besides twenty-three grand
children and twenty-three great-grand-
children-and all that al 1s
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29
Thinks Cane Will Maintain the Lead.

The New Orleans TSmes-Democrat
thinks that the beet sugar interest, under
the stimulus of the Spreckles of Cali
fornia, with their large capital and the
extensive plants for the manufacture
which they are about to establish, will
90 ahead Of the sorghum sugar interest.
It also predicts that ''cane in Louisiana,
Texas and Florida, beets in California
and sorghum in Kansas can be relied
upon to soon furnish the country with
its entire consumption in the early future
of 2, 1000, 900, 600 or 1000, 100000 pounds
of sugar. But it thinks that cane can
and will maintain the lead.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29
THE WooDRow.w WAR AGAIN.
An Inquiry that Sets the Presbyterian
General Assembly by the Ears.

CHATTANOOGA, May 2O.-The General
Assembly of the Southern Presbyterians
met this forenoon. The standing COM
mittee on Sabbath observances submit
ted it's report, which was, on the whole,
encouraging. It denominated the great
est foes to the Sabbath Sunday trains,
Sunday saloons and Sunday newspapers.
A motion that each member Of the
Assembly be allowed five minutes time
to discuss the report to be submitted to-
morrow on the cooperation of Northern
and Southern Assemblies excited con-
siderable discussion, being opposed by
large number Of delegates, who did not
think that any restriction should be
placed upon the expression of opinions.
The motion was finally adopted.
Asheville, N. c., was selected as the
next place for meeting, Charleston, W.
Va. being second choice.
The Rev. E. J. Latham presented the
report of the committee appointed to
examine the minutes of the Synod OF
South Carolina. This report preclpl-
tated warm discussion of DR.. Wood
row and evolution, which has been
brewing since the beginning of this
session. This committee recommended
that the minutes be approved, with one
exception, and this related to the
Synod's action with reference to the
Presbytery of Charleston.
This Presbytery, after the meeting OF
the last General Assembly at Baltimore,
passed resolution announcing that the
Assembly had declared the views held
bv DR.. Woodrow as to the origin OF
mans body to be contrary 10 the stand.
ard of the church, that the decision OF
the Assembly was conclusive, and that
ali further contending against that decl-
sion should cease.
A committee appointed by the Synod
of South Carolina to examine the MIN
utes of the Charleston Presbytery re-
ported that the action of the Presbytery
in passing this resolution was ''urwise,
irregular and unconstitutional, being an
infringement of the rights of free
thought and speech"
The report was adopted by the Synod.
The committee of the General Assem-.
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came along and graciouSly went beyond
the decision of the Assembly and raised
a new issue. If the law Of the Church
is criticised as it is, why should a judi
cial decision be above criticism? Am I
to be tried for hercsy, and speaking my
thoughts here? The interdiet is without
precedent. 1t Is left for this Presbytery
to initiate the most tyrannical rower of
Rome
DR.. ]. L. Girardeau spoke in behalf of
Charleston Pres5ytery, and said he
thought the Presbytcry had some reasons
for its action.
The Rev. D. Adger of..South Carolina
made an able argument to show that the
Presbytery passed the resolution by a
small majority; that it offered no ex-
planation of its action until the protest
was made; that the resolution was un-
necessary, and that it exceeded its
authority.
The debate of the afternoon was
temporarily suspended at night. Devo-
tional exercises and addresses by mis-
sionary from Brazil made the evenings
programme. Adjourned till tomorrow.
CHATTANOOGA, May 22.-In the South
ern Presbyterian Assembly this morn
ing, the report upon the minutes Of the
Synod of South Carolina, which was so
warmly discussed yesterday, was called;
Elder james Lyons OF Virginia moved
that the Assembly, instead Of approving
the action of the South Carolina Synod
in eondemning as unwise, irregular and
unconstitutional the action Of the
Charleston Presbytery in forbidding
public contending against the decision
of the Baltimore Assembly in the Wood
row evolution case, should disspproye
of the Svnod's action, because Of the
fact, as he alleged, that an examination
of the full records of the Presbyterys S
action showed that the so-called inter-
dict was not intended to limit either
private Judgment or the constitutional
right of proper discussion.
In support of his amendment Mr..
Lyons began reading criticisms OF
the Assembly's decision in regard to
DR.. Woodrow's case, which appears III
DR.. Woodrow's paper.
Dir. Woodrow arose and said that If
his private character was thus to be dis
cussed he wanted the protection of the
Assembly, OF full opportunity to defend
himself.
The moderator declared Lyons In
order.
DR.. Woodrow appealed from this
decision, but was not sustained. a
recess was taken.
Ata o'clock Mr.. Whaling continued
his reioinder to the report on the
minutes of the Synod of South Carolina.
->--7--r,,--l slIrosS
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29
White Settlers Must Move On.

CHICAGO, May PA dispatch from
Pierre. Dakota. says: Agent McChes-
ney at Cheyenne has received instruc-
tions to notify all white settlers now on
the reservation to leave, by order of
Secretary Noble.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29
ONE ESCAPED UNHURT.
FORTY-FIYE PASSENGERS SERIOUSLY IN
JURED IN A RAILROAD WRECK.
A Train Falls Over an Embankment
Thirty Feet High-Spikes and Fish
plates Removed from Rail-The Work
Of Train-Wreckers.

ST. LOUIS, May 24.-The West bound
train on the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad, which left St. Louis last night
at SIS, was wrecked three miles West OF
Sulllvan's, which place is sixty-eight
miles West of St. Louis. A single pas
senger escaped unhurt, and forty-dve are
known to have been seriously injured,
no deaths are yet reported.
The train was running at light speed,
when suddenly, without warning, the
track gave way, and the locomotive,
baggage car and FIVE coaches went over
a. thirty foot embankment. The train
men and those only slightly injured at
clce set to work to prevent the addl-
tional horror of fire, in which they sue
ceeded. and then turned their attention
to the more unfortunate injured, and IN
a very short time forty-fve passengers,
al. badly hurt, had been released from
the debris. A temporary hospital was
improvised at Sullivan, and the most
seriously injured were taken there,
while others were brought to St. Louis
on a relief train which was hurried to
the scene of the disaster. The wounded
are under the care of DR.. Mcintyre,
chief surgeon of the road.
1t was 1925 p. m. when the accident
occurred, and most of the passengers
had already gone to sleep, while the re-
mainder were about to DO so. a creek
is crossed by the road at that point, and
there is a steep embankment thirty feet
high. In an instant all the coaches ex-
cept two sleeping cars had been thrown
from the rails People were thrown
about in the cars in all directions, and
some of them were thrown from the
coaches and down the embankment.
The train proper was made up of the
mail car, an express car, baggage car,
smoker, ladies' car, reclining ehassesas =
and two Pullman -
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

The more God empties your hands foi
other wark, the more you may know he has
special work to give them.-Garrett.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

$500 offered for an incurable case Of
Catarrh in the Head, by the proprietors
of DR.. Sage's Remedy.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

The happiness Of love is in action; its
test is what one is willing to do for the
other.-Ben Hur.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

The world may be searched.fron pol
and no remedy found equal to 3,
Blood Balm for the cure
a remedy founded
edge, and its res>
by sue st
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pie in the penitentiary, and there would be
the road to he'll who would start on the road
to heaven.
But the financial ruin is a very small part
Of it. This iniquity Of which speak takes
every thing that is sacred out Of the family,
every thing that is holy in religion, every
thing that is infinite in the soul, and
tramples it under foot The marriage day
has come The twain are at the altar.
Lights fash. Music sounds. Gay feet 50
up and down the drawing room. Did sTer
vessel launch on such a bright and oesu1-
full sea- The scene changes. Dingy gar
ret. No fire. On a broken chair sorrow-
full wife. Last hope gone. Poor, forsaken'
trodden under ioot, she knows all the sor-
row of being drunkard's wife. "O," sho
SAYS, she was the kindest man that ever
lived, he was so noble, he was so good! 900
never made a grander man than ne was, but
the drink did it, the drink did it." Some
day she will press her hand against her tcm-
pies and cry: 20 my brain, my oralnI' or
she will go out upon the abutment OF the
bridge some moonlight night and Look Gown
on the CLASSY surface and wonder II under
that CLASSY SURFACE IAcIe 70 No1 9oH40 4S'V
for a broken hesrt.
A yonng man, through the intercesston OF
metropolitan friends, gets place in bank
or store He is going to leave his country
home That morning they are up early IN
the old homestead. The trunk is on the
wagon. Mother says: ''Ny son, put a
Bible in the trunk, hope you will read 1t
often" She wipes the tears away with her
apron. Co." be says, ''come, don't you be
worried. know how to take care Of N.Y.
self. Don't be worried about me-" The
father says: "My son, be a good boy
and write home often; your mother will
be anxious to hear from you" Crack!
goes the whip, and over the hills goes the
wagon. Five years have passed on, and q
;s;ss;as1ed life has done It's work for that
There Is hearse coming up in
~ Md ho7zsateaS The youpS men
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26
NINETY MILES AN HOUR.

On the "Big Four" railroad, between
Cincinnati and Indianapolis, is loco
motive that advances the maximum
speed enormously. IL is one of the FIVE
engines built according to the patent Of
an inventor named Strong and IS being
tested by the Big Four people. 1t il
claimed for it that 1t is capable of haul
ing heavy passenger train at the rate
of from 20 to 80 miles an per hour,
Superintendent Bender timed it on an
eight mile run, which was covered in
six minutes with perfect ease, not the
slightest evidence of straining being
perceptible.
The engine itself contains many novel
features in construction. 1t has cylin'
ders in which the escape OF steam, after
it has been used, IS so arranged as to be
a vast improvement over the common
arrangement. The boiler is very long
and there are two fire-boxes. An in
genious continuance consumes the gases
and smoke, 80 that economy IN the use OF
fuel is one of the advantages claimed,
The fireman has a cab to himself at the
rear of the boiler, while the engineer
occupies a separate cab perched on the
top of the boiler, little to the rear oil
the center. The engine weighs sixty.
five tons and rests upon eighteen wheels
Its drivers are sixty-eight inches in
diameter.
Probably the fastest run on record
was made recently on the Canada South
ern road by special train bearing the
Vanderbilt party. The track wa
straight and fine and the train ran 10I
miles in 97 minutes.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26
Undertaking ParIors.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES

For bedding, forest leaves cost only
the expense of gathering.
Poor soil for tomatoes produces more
angular and scrubby fruit.
Liquid manure ia exec llent for plants
but do not apply it too strong.
See that your flower pots have good
drainage. Plants may be ruined fol
want of this.
We shall get improved stock and i'm
proven farming as fast as we get i'm
proved farmers.
All other things being equal the mar
with the best cultivated brain will make
the best farmer.
Some day agriculture will stand at the
head of all professions and callings. /
will be the post of honor.
1t makes all the difference in the
world whether the man runs the farm
or the farm runs the man.
Experiments at Cornell University in
dictate that ten years are about the limi
of the life of variety of tomato.
A little-just little-ammonia in the
water will give them healthy stimulus
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26
THE AGE OF WORDS.

Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, read
the, book because it is talked about, and
they are ashamed to say they are not ac-
quainted with it. Not to have read the
"Washerwoman of the Pyrenese" or
1.-THE Jack of Trumps" or "Peter's Wife's
Sister" while they happen to be in vogue,
would Indicate want nf literary culture.
So the reader who has no time to make
acquaintance, and never does make &C
quaintance, with the really choice litera
ture of his language, who only knows
by name the great authors he has never
read, tolls in vain to keep up with the
contents of his circulating library which
offers him a fresh bill of fare every
month, quite unmindful that each one
of these butterfly celebrities after its nine
days of popularity disappears and is
heard of more, altogether eclipsed by the
equally ephemeral glitter of its success
sor,
II is undeniable that outside Of GER
tain limited class Of scholarly and
thoughtful people the great majority OF
all who read anything except the news
papers read books of this description
The statistics of popular and circulating
libraries show that 70 per cent. of all the
books taken out are novels OF recent pro-
duction. A library for the general pub
lie that did not furnish them could moi
be sustained, whatever real treasures OF
of knowledge and literature it might Of
fer. Probably the most numerous read
ers of novels are to be found among
women. perhaps because they have more
time and fewer other diversions than
II, ho Ia nlaao of than1 W hT
derive their ideas of life and of the world
from this source, the result is seen In the
enormous and increasing business OF the
divorce courts, of which they and their
husbands are the principal patrons.
Book-making has become a trade
Profit its chief end. The day OF studious
and self denying lives, devoted to study
and to thought, and regardless Of gain
are almost gone by. Literature is nc
longer cultivated upon little oatmeal,
nor for its own sake on any fare. Men
do not write because they are charged
with a message to humanity that has
been mellowed and tempered by long
reflection, by communion with nature
and the higher influence of the soul. TIC
catch the ear of the public by lucky
hit or device, to take popular tide al
the food, to dash off something or COM
pile something that will sell, and il q
success of this sort attracts attention Ia
the name of a writer, then push it fol
all it is worth by the most rapid produc
tion possible of whatever the name may
make market for-this is in the trick
and art OF what is called literature. Re-
putation depends on good management
much more than on merit, Not so were
the enduring achievements of the human
intellect brought forth. They were not
the product of any age Of words. They
came chiefly out of the great silence
when thought was migbtier than speech,
when words were few, but ht. Hon
=. J.Phelps in Scribners Magazine.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26

The proprietors of Ely's Cream Balm
do not claim it to be a cure-all, but /
sure remedy for catarrh, colds in hi
head and hay fever. 1t is not liquiC
or snuff, but Is easily applied into thu
nOstrils. 1t gives relief at once. AZ
Why will you allow your health t.
gradually fail ? If you are closely con
fined indoors with little or no exercise
and desire good health, you must take
care of yourself. Use Sulphur Bitters
and you will have a sound mind and {
strong body.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26
CARD OF THANKS.

If the proprietor of Kemp's Balsan
should publish card of thanks, contain
ing expressions of gratitude which com,
to him daily from those who have beer
cured Of severe throat and lung troubles
by the use of Kemp's Balsam, 1t woulC
fill fair-sized book. How much better
to invite all to call on any druggist ant
get a free sample bottle that you may
test for yourself its power. Large bot
ties so cents and $1.00.
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Salt Rheun

With its intense itching, hot skin, otter
broken into painful cracks. and the Int
tie watery plmples, often causes indies
cribable suffering. Hoods Sarsaparill
has wonderful power over this disease
1t purifies the blood and expels the
humor, and the skin heals without q
scar. Send for book containing many
statements of cures, to @. l. Hood & Co.
Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26
ARMED TO THE TEETH

Is a very common expression, but we think that
armed TO embellish and preserve them TO q ripe
old age is decidedly more appropriate. This can
be done by keeping yourself supplied with bot
DON'T, which will beautify the teeth and preserve
them from the ravages Of decay. SOZODONI
contains no acids or gritty substances which In
lure the enamel, but Is composed OF rare and an
tisentic herbs. which have a beneficial effect on
the whole economy OF the mouth. Sold by drug
gists' 1871
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26
ADVICE It'd MOTHERS.

Mrs. WRsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP, for children
teething, is the prescription of one Of the best 10
and has been used for forty years with never fail
ing success by millions of mothers for their child
rem. During the process OF teethng its value i
incalculable. 1t relieves the child from pain
cures dysentery and diarrhea, gripping in the bow
els, and windcolic. By giving health to the child
II rests the mother. Price % cents bottle.
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1T is FOOLISH

To send for the doctor every time yor
don't feel just right. My doctors bill
for years was over hundred dollars {
year, which made pretty big hole il
my wages. For the past two years,
only spent ten dollars, with hich
bought a dozen bottles of Sulphur Bit
tiers, and health has been in my family
since using them.-Robert johnson, ma
chinist. 49t2
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Outcast-Please mum could you help
an unfortunate man who was caught in
an elevator and laid up for six months ?
Old lady-Poor man here's a dollar
for you. How did you happen to get
caught (Pocketing the dollar)-The
police wus too quick for me, mum.
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Parties who were sent TO Lynn to &C.
cure one of the burned-out industrle,
for Richford, reports the applicants too
many, who have made m're offers than
can be- depended ON,