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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Drunkenness as a Crime.

ST. PAUL, May Ex-senator Scheifer
received the following letter yesterday
on the drunkenness question from a
New York physician:
NEW YORK, May aa.
The Hon. Senator Schefer::
DEAR SIR: A friend of mine brought
to me this afternoon slip from news
paper dated Minneapolis, Mimi, May
II, stating that Senator Scheffer'S drunk
enness law went into effect yesterday
and giving its provisions. l congratu-
late you as the first legislator in the
world since the days of Moses who has
the wisdom to deal with drunkenness
as crime. I have long thought that
the only effectual way of SuppreSSing
drunkenness would be to treat it as a
felony and infict upon it a severe and
ignominious penalty. l regard PRO-
hibition as wrong IN principle and ut
terly impracticable. was travelling in
Maine two years ago and reached a ho-
tel in Portland about II o'clock at night.
I said to the proprietor: 81 suppose,
sir, it would be unreasonable for man
to expect to get anything to drink down
here stronger than tea or coffee, but l
hope that I shall be able to get some
thing to eat" Just the reverse" he re-
piled. "Our hour for supper has passed,
but 1 can give you just as much to drink
as you like" He escorted me to room
in the rear of the house, where man
was engaged IN making various alcoholic
beverages for a number of guests.
Yours very truly, HENRY A. HARTT.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
RAN OFF WITH TIE BRIDE.
Miss incl Had Two Lovers and They
Both Married Fer.

CAssvILLE, Mo-, May 29.-The rapid
Young MiSsourian, who on last Saturday
ran off with another mans wife half an
hour after the marriage ceremony had
been performed, is now in the hands Of
the Sheriff on the charge of abduction.
The young woman is under arrest on the
charge of bigamy. Her name is Mamie
Incl, and she is not quite II years of
age. She was a belle of Carthage, and
she performed the unusual feat of be-
coming engaged TO two lovers and mar
rying them both. J. S. Pritchett was
first chosen, and he went away to Idaho
and all details of the marriage were per-
fected by mail. \ young farmer named
Ullmer made such progress during the
last six months that Miss Incl made a
second engagement.
Last week Pritchett came on to secure
his bride, and on Saturday they were
married. Ullmer was quickly notified
of what had taken place. He induced
the bride, about an hour after the cere-
mony, to step out in the street and have
talk with him. His buggy was stand
ing near by, and few minutes after the
conversation began he grabbed the bride
up in his arms, deposited her in tae
buggy, and, taking seat beside her,
drove off at full speed. \ hot pursuit
was organized, but Lochinvar escaped.
1t is alleged they were married on Tues
day. Hence the Sheriff arrested them.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
LYNcEERs BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
Prominent Citizens Of Galveston County,
Texas, Arrested for Murder.

GALVESTON, Texas, May 30.-Consider-
able excitement was occasioned here
yesterday by the arrest of Judge Henry
Weyer. a Justice of the Peace OF Calves
ton County, and " 7. Allen and
Charles Juneman, well known citizens
living several miles down the island, on
an indictment found by the grand jury
charging them with the murder Of
Richard Fleischig in this County on the
goth of August, 1884 The indictment
also included Fred Koehler, late con-
stable in Justice Weyers precinct, but
at present absent from the city, and
Cliff Porter, who left Galveston very
suddenly and mysteriously soon after
the lynching of young Fleischig.
Juneman is engaged in the dairy busi-
ness. Allen has been recently employed
in the. Farmers Alliance Exchange.
kochler was constable of the third pre-
-cI2ct. Weyer, Allen and koehler are
all pros2iqent members of the Galveston
County Alliance
As soon as the~i9dictment was found
an officer left Galveston for Kentucky to
arrest Porter. taking the necessary re-
QUESTION papers from Governor Ross to
make an arrest in another State. He
also got a similar requisition from the
Governor of Kentucky. Porter was
found at Latonia, Ky, where, as owner
of the Creole stables, be was engaged
in the races now in progress at thar
place.
The crime with which these men are
charged is the lynching Of young Ger
man, Richard Fleischig, in this County
in August, 1884, for an assault made
upon the wife Of Juneman. The present
indictment was found upon the disclos-
ure of new evidence, namely: an affidavit
made by Henry Heinroth, who afirms
that about month after the lynching cf
Fleischig he secreted himself under the
house and listened to conversation be-
tween the persons now under arrest, the
substance of which was practically a
confession on the part of Weyer, June
man, Allen and Koehler, to having com
mitted the murder. The recent grand
jury ordered the body of Fleischlg to
be cxhumed, which was done on
May 81, under the auspices of Justice
Spann and County Physician, Burk. AS
soon as the indictment was found, Officer
Jordan took a train for Kentucky, in
search of the fugitive Porter. Nothing
was found in Fleischig's coffin but lot
of dry bones. One peculiar circumstance
was that the thigh bones of the leg were
found at the lower end of~the> coffin,
where the knee bone sh9dld have been,
and the knee bones Were up toward the
+ thign:7-finis disarrangement could not
have resulted from natural causes, and
it leads to the conclusion that the bones
must have been tampered with. but for
what purpose is not known. unless it is
to recover a piece of wire that may have
been left in the body after it was used
for laceration. 4 badly decomposed
rope that had been left around the neck
of Fleischig was also found in the coffin.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
L. Edwin Dudley in Georgetown.

Quite a commotion was created in
Georgetown last week by the visit Of
Mr.. L. Edwin Dudley of Boston, who
came to South Carolina to investigate
the political conditions here and espe-
cially for the purpose of ascertaining the
true status and strength Of the lndpen-
dent movement. Mr.. Dudley had inter
views with several of our citizens and
was put in possession of good deal of
information. He expressed surprise at
finding so little "independentism" in
Georgetown, as he had been led to be-
lieve that the revolt against the Democ-
racv had assumed formidable proper
tions here. He stated that in Charles
ton he had been waited on by delegates
representing nearly a thousand white
men, heretofore IN afiliation with the
Democratic party, who expressed will
lineness to sever their connection with
that party and to join any movement
having for it's object the advocacy and
support of protection for American in
dustries. es.-GeorgetocD1a Enquirer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Attica's Sleeping Woman.

ATTIcA, n. Y, May 29.-Mrs. Emma
Althouse awakened this afternoon from
a trance which lasted only two days, the
shortest she has had in the two years
she has been in the trance condition.
She now weighs only 81 pounds,
although she weighed 17s pounds before
she was taken i'll. In the last month
the only nourishment she has taken has
been about pint Of warm milk, which
has been given her in very small doses.
She is unable to speak and can hardly
move her head or hands. The rest Of
her body is rigid and physician who
saw her yesterday thinks that ossifca-
tion has set in. She is so weak that,
withos5 other causes, death from ez-
haustiy In cannot long be delayed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
a Terror to Sham Spooks.

DR.. Francis Buckner Of Covington,
Ohio, has. broken all modern records IN
his success in dealing with the class of
spirits which are conjured up by the
mediums of the present day. 1t ltappears
that DR.. Buckner's wife was a believer
in the pretcnslons of the mediums, bat
the doctor himself was skepticai One
daI he went home and found his par.
lor darkened, medium engaged in
holding a seance, with the assistance OF
two females. all for the special behooi
and benefit Of Mrs. Buekner. As the
doctor was at home, he could not prop
erlv be put out, so ne was invited to
Join in the exercises lie did so, and
was soon rewarded by the sight Of what
purported to be the materlaliZed form
OF his wife's deceased sister. Watching
his opportunity, he seized the alleged
sister-in-law by the arm, conducted her
with all convenient dispatch to the outer
room and threw her down the steps:
This would not have hurt her if she had
really been spirit, but she turned out
to be one of the female assistants. With
out any unnecessary loss of time the
skeplica] physicien seized the other as
sistant and threw her through the Wn-
dow, and then, falling upon the medium
himself, gave him sound thrashing.
This radical behavior on the part OF DR..
Bucbner has materially diminished the
activity of the spirits in Covington.-
Huntsville C0Mrler-LOlkINNl
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Fal .Sg6. .1JS.G

1OloI .'tDO, 1'S'ON'
Average State tax in mills. ......+ o.
Of these Southern States Kentucky
alone has sinking fund, and in her
cass It ncaly coyersr'tNf!e- snail s 1HdeDt-
ment. Three-quarters of the debt of
Texas and about the whole of MiSSis-
sppi's are due to the school funds of
those States, so that the net debt is in
significant in each case In round fig
ures. $110, ,000,0O is the Southern ag-
gregate, including the unfunded debt.
The remaining twenty-five States,
comprising all those of the North, the
Northwest and the Pacific slope, owe
less than $4,000, 900, funded and un-
funded, if the amounts in the several
sinking funds are subtracted from the
nominal aggregate.
1t appears, therefore, that ten South
ern States are loaded with more than
two-thirds of all the State debts Of the
Union. This heavy and enormously dis
proportionate burden is mainly due to
the years of misgoyernment and punder
which the South endured under Repub-
lican carpet. bag rule. That was broken
up by the efforts of the Southern DEM
ocrats aideG b the SUI taftst! other
newspapers, and the melancholy perfea
ended forever with the election of Samuel
J. Tilden as President of the United
States.
It is we'll to remember these things
once in awhile. The figures of the
Southern States debts even at the pres
ent time remain as Il reminder. The
wonderful energy and new prosperity OF
the South is steadily decreasing the
mountain of State debts piled up during
the eight evil years of Grant and carpet
bag rule-Nen York iSlAl.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
The Nicaragua Canal Begun.

The-stteeadtats5 dtatsttiiIf Alvena, sailed
from New York for Greytown last SatGsE
day, had on board a corps of engineers,
with material, machinery and supplies,
to begin the construction Of the Nicara-
qua canal Work, it is stated, is to be
begun at once in earnest, and proceed
without interruption until the ITO miles
of the canal route have been opened for
business. Every important preliminary
has been successfully concluded. A
charter has been obtained from the
United States government, agreements
have been had with the local government,
and the canal company's engineers have
completed surveys and Investigations
which enable capitalists to form an idea
of the practicabllity OF the proposed in
teroceanic waterway. What is of the
rirst importance, money, it is said, is
forthcoming to the extent of the COM
pany's present needs. Since November,
1887, force of engineers has been en-
gagged upon the line of the new
enterprise. This force is now being
largely reinforced with view to actual
construction. Several hundred laborers
are ready.>eesnpIoyed, but from this
time on their number VIII be greatly 49, t+a-
creased. Some thousands will be OBJ
tained in Nicaragua, but for the fifteen
or twenty thousand to be employed
when the work is fully under way the
company will have to rely largely upon
the negroes of the South and of the
West Indies. Southern commerce will,
it is thought, receive an appreciable
stimulus from the construction
no less than from the completion
Of the new trade route. Immense
quantities of Southern pine and other
supplies will be drawn from that section
during the progress of the work. The
cost of the canal, including 25 per cent.
for contingencies, is estimated at about
S66. 900, 900. This estimate embraces,
besides the construction of the canal
prism, the approaches to it and the
buildings, electric light, telegraphs,
railroads, &C., required to make it prac-
tically serviceable AS amended by the
most recent surveys the route will con-
slSt OF 364 miles. OF lake Navigation, o4
miles of river navigation and 204 miles
of basin navigation, leaving but 20 miles
OF canal to be constructed. Lake Mica
rasua, at the summit level, greatly facili-
tates the work. By the construction Of
dams its level will be extended to 154
miles. The height of the surface of the
lake above the sea will be 10 feet.
Vessels will reach this height and
descend again by means of SIX locks. A
vessel will require but forty-five minutes
for each lockage, SO that, allowing an
average tonnage Of 1,750 tons, vessels
Of an aggregate tonnage Of 2O,0OO,O00
tons could traverse the canal in cne
YEAR. About one.iourth of this tonnage,
it is believed. world use the canal from
the first, 50 that moderate charge per
ton would enable the canal company to
pay dividends An advantage the Mica
rausa route will have over the rival
Panama route is the sa!ubrity of the
country it traverses. Both for its
builders and its users this will consti-
tute distinct and permanent ground
of preference.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Disappointed With the Pacific Coast.

A Maine Yankee, who has been visit
ing the Pacific coast, says that nearly
everything disappoints him. The Palace
HOTEL in San Francisco, he found to be an
ugly wooden affair, most of whose rooms
are dark cells. The barrooms, however,
are excellent, and the furnishings are
gorgeous. He was especially struck
with the daring character of the oil
paintings in the barrooms, as instanced
in life-size portrait OF blonde lady,
dressed in a handsome pigeon lowering
in front of her. But even with all its
artistic attractions, he decides that San
Francisco isn't half so pleasant as Ban
gor. Ne.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Knows Nothing About the cronin Case.

TORONTO, May 30.-W. J. Starkey,
the lawyer who fed from Chicago to
this city some time ago to escape prose
cution for ramperiDs with jury and
who has been accused Of completely
with C. F. Long in the preparation of
dispatches about Longs alleged inter
views with Dr.. Cronin, visited the
newspaper offices this morning and said
he arrived in the city only Yesterday,
after months visit in New York. He
declared that he had had absolutely no
dealings with Long and had no knowl-
edge Of the Cronin case.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
A Prisoner Commits Suicide.

PITTSEIELD, Mass, May 30.-George
Wagner, a prisoner at the jail, who
took poison Tuesday night, remained un-
conscious until this morning, when he
died. He left letter to his jailerS, re-
questing them to make no investigation
into his death, stating that lie alone was
responsible and that no one would tiad
out where be got the poison. lie claims
innocence OF the crime charged, and
adds: IF they take Tom they will have
the right one" Sheriff Crosby has i'll
stituted rigid examination. Wagner
was charged with rape on Il 16-year-old
rirl
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
CLEVELAND FOR 1892.
Senator Morgan Sees in HIM the Only
Candidate.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 29.-Sen ator
John T. Morgan is in Montgomery, and
to day SAID:
g. ars net at all surprised but highly
gratifcd that Mr.. Cleveland has again
expressed his well-known views on the
question Of the tariff and other matters
of government policy so successfully in
auguratcd and pursued under his adj
ministration. I look upon Mr.. Cleve-
land as one of the best Informed and
most conscientious men in the United
States. His administrator Of the gov
ernment was one of integrity and great
ability, and will compare favorab!y with
that of any other which the country has
ever had. The government and the
people are certainly very much better
for having had the benefit and expert
ence of bis upright, honest, straight
forward, splendid administration of
public affairs for four years. His hon-
esty and upriShtness we're universally
acknowledged, and the people fully ap-
preciate the value of his great services"
"Do you think Mr.. Cleveland is a
candidate fer President or that he will
be the nominee in 1892 p
"Mr. Cleveland is not a candidate for
the Presidency. Personally he cares
very little about it But when the time
comes to select candidate for the
Presidency to lead the Democratic pal ty
to victory, unless there is some great
revolution of sentiment and change in
the popular mind, the people will rise
up in their might and name gMr. CIeve-
land. From the present outlook Mr..
Cleveland's will be the only name men
toned in connection with the Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency
in 1872
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Lord Salisbury on Bimetaliisn.

LONDON, May 3O.-Lord Salisbury. re-
plying to deputation in favor of the
bimetaLic standard Of currency, said
that he did not think a Parliamentary
decree would settle the question, but that
the opinion of the people, founded on
business interests, must decide it. He
hoped the coming congress at Paris
would be really an international one.
The final decision would depend upon
how far the nation would cooperate.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Pitchers Full Of Medicine.

At High Ridge, near Stamford, Conn.
there is a wife who is the mother of
fourteen children, all living, and none
of them twins. All but two live at
home, and these two, catching the scar
let fever. went home to he nursed. They
gave it to the other dozen, and the
whole fourteen were sick at cnce, and
medicine had to be mixed in pitchers
and mans
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05

- ssSszShs d @ essHappy hcme. We are
not surprised to find that Bryon's heart was
q concentration Of sin, when we hear his
mother was abandoned, and that she made
sport Of his infirnity and often called him
s:the lame brat" He who has vicious pa
rents has to fight every inch Of his way If he
would maintain his integrity and st last
reach the home Of the good in Heaven.
Perhaps your early home was in the city.
It may have been in the days when Canal
street, New York, was far UP town and the
site of this present church was an excursion
into the country. That dollhouse in the city
may have been demolished or changed into
stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you,
for there was more meaning in that plain
house, in that small house,Sthan there is IN
q granite mansion or a turreted cathedral.
Looking back this morning you see 1t IS
though it were yesterday-the sitting !,
where the loved ones sat by the plain lamp
light, the mother at the evening stand, the
brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago gath
cred into the skies, then plotting mischief
on the floor or under the table, your father
with FIRM voice commanding a silence that
lasted half a minute.
o, those were good days! II you had
your foot hurt, your mother always had
soothing salve to heal it. If you were
wronged in the street, your father was al
ways ready to protect you. The year was
one round of frolic and mirth- Your greatest
trouble was like an April shower, more sun
shine than shower. The heart had not been
ransacked by troubles, nor had sickness
broken it. and no lamb had warmer sheep
fold than the home in which your childhood
nestled.
Perhaps you were brought up in thecoun,
try. You stand now to-day in memory un'
der the old tree You dubbed it for fruit
that was not quite ripe'because you couldn't
wait any longer. You hear the brock runb,
ling along over the pebbles. You step agair
into the furrow where your father in his
shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. Yor
frichten the swallows from the rafters Of
the barn, and take just one egg, and silence
your conscience by saying they won't mis-:
il. You take drink again out Of the very
Aucket that the old well fetched up. Yo'
90 for the COWS at night, and find them waS
,eing their heads through the bars. Oftane'
IN the dusty and busy streets you ys3e<
Won were home again on that cool gThss, o.
in the rag-carpeted hall of the farm fhouse
through which there was the breath s& new
mown hay or the blossom Of buckwsest
may have in your windows nov
! ss,aats &c 5sfissngc,cs hrouSna. iron
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
The Debts Of the Southern States.

The figures relating to the State
Indictment which are presented in the
last Statistical Abstract issued by the
Treasury Department have drawn the
attention of our esteemed contcmpo-
rary, the Neec orleans Democrat, to a
very remarkable fact.
The thirteen Southern States, inclu,l-
ing Kentucky and Missouri, have funded
debts aggregatIng SO, ,S5S, GLIB, besides
an unfunded debt amounting to $20,-
600, 900 more. The funded debt of the
South is thus distributed:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05

The thought of Heaven is pleasant to US;
we believe that some place away above the
sky, ane clouds, and stars, there is home
into which we shall be gathered If we
feel like wanderers, pilgrims and soiourn-
ers, and our travels perhaps almost con-
cluded, it is restful to US to look and con.
-emplate that which awaits US in the better
land. 1t is not that we wish to escape what
is here, but, its fashion changing, we hope
for the better enjoymcnts that are beyond
United Presbyterian.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
She Beat the Matrimonial Record

SHELByv1LLE, Ind. May 29.-MrS.
Mollie Corwin, whose marital experience
beats the record, was granted divorce
yesterday from Joseph Corwin, her sew
enth husband, from whom she was di-
rorced last winter and to whom she was
remarked soon after.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
STORM SWEPT.
WILD WORK OF THE ELEMENTS IN
VARIOUS STATES.

A Terrific Tornado in West Virginia De-
stroys a Vast Amount Of Property and
Kills Several Persons-Fierce Gale on
the Lakes-Wind, Rain, Snow and
Frost,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Frost and Ice in Michigan.

CBEBoGGAN, May sO.-It froze hard
here Tuesday night, ice forming an
eighth Of an inch thick Early vegeta-
zza.a1lz-I tender plants were Killed and
es badly nipped by the frost.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05
Death Of H.sureeon General Moore.

RICHMOND, Va, May 31.-Dr. S. h.
Moore, who was Surgeon General of the
Confederate States, died suddenly at
his residence in this city this moEA
of congestion of the lungs. A
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05

-We must not be too fastidious about
psople forsaking their ugliness and'correct-
i,g their faults before our charity goes out
to them.-Bishop Huntington.