The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-13

4AS &ECtoS O'tu CVSi eo' So@40 S'@AS
ago offered eight cash prizes, amount
ing to $50, to the school children Of
Charleston for original stories, to be
equally divided among the white and
colored children. The names of the
winners were announced last Sunday,
and the prize stories viii be published
soon: the four stories of the white
children next Sunday; and the four
stories Of the colored children the fol-
lowing Sunday.
The North Carolina legislature has
passed bill to pension ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers from that State. It i'm
poses tax OF cents on Sl00 value
ton of property, and IL cents on the
poll, and win yield s105,000. There
Is no opposition to the bill The pen
sions are on scale according to the
extent of the disability. Widows of
soldiers killed in action, or who died
OF wounds or Of disease contracted
while in service, will receive S25 an
nually.
Only few shad have 60 far been
brought to this market, and these were
small. Great complaint is made
against the Georgetown fishermen,
who. it is claimed, keep their nets in
the river not less than seven days in
the week, although the law says only
three days can be used for this pur-
pose. The fish are thus all stopped at
Georgetown, and viii result in total
destruction OF our future supply Of
shad. This open and Aagrant viola
ton of State law ought to be stop
ped. The shad are daily shipped North,
by the carload.
Just before the close of the last
Congress, resolution was passed
making the salary of the Presidents
private secretary $4,000 year, in
stead of $500 as heretofore. Another
resolution was then passed to pay
Daniel Lamont, Cleveland's private
secretary, a gratuity of $4,000, "back
pay" This Lamont refused for the
reason that when he accepted the Of
fee he took it with full knowledge of
its remuneration, and he was not
therefore entitled to more. We shall
not see any such conscientious hon
esty for the next four years from Re
publican Office holders.
An exchange says when Bishop
Eeber's famous missionary hymn,
'From Greenland's Icy Mountains" "
which he wrote in 1924, when in Cey-
lon, first reached this country lady
in Charleston was much impressed
with it, and was particularly anxious
TO find tune suited to it She ran
sacked her music in vain, and then
chancing to remember that in bank
down the street was a young clerk
who had considerable reputation as a
musical genius, she sent her son with
the hymn to the clerk with the re-
quest that he write a tune to Sit it. In
Just half an hour the boy came back
with the hymn, and the melody thus
dashed off in hot haste is to-day sung
all over the world, and is inseparably
connected With the hymn. The young
clerk was Lowell Mason.
The Chicago Nesss, an Independent
psper, says: President Cleveland
yeires from Office admired by his
party and respected by his political
opponents. History viii write him
down as one OF the great Presidents
of the nation. On most occasions he
has acted on the principle that it is
better to be right than to be popular.
He has done what he conceived to be
his duty at the cost of much painful
labor, and has refused to leave GER
tain duties undone, although he would
have gained largely in popularity BY
so doing. a fearless, self-rehant man,
be has taught this country some valu-
sble lessons concerning the dangers OF
monopoGes, the injustice of granting
pensions to persons unworthy OF them,
Tae great wrong of unnecessary taxa
ton, and the evils of overriding the
law by hasty special legislation Of va
ious sorts. In leaving the White
House he has reason to be well con-
tent with the record which he has
made there"
Cleveland is man, every inch OF
him, and he has good, sound, Level
head, full of hard common sense. He
acts as his Judgment dictates. The
New York correspondent of the Phil,
sdelphia Ledger says: "Ex-President
Cleyeland's new address is IS William
street, which is within block OF
Wall street The name, Grover Cleve-
hnd,' already appears on the glass
door opening into the Offices Of
Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, l. McVeagh, ot
which important law firm Mr.: Cleve'
land viii now be the most important
member. His name is painted on the
door aboveuau the other names 1t Is
believed that he will take up his Ian
work Immediately. Most men, ate,
fou, years in the White Hoase, woulo
be glad to take vacation, but Mr.