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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Uses of the Phonograph.

The phonograpt seems destined to play an
important part in the future, and 1t is being
utilized in all sorts Of ways, both useful and
ornamental" II half Of what the inventors
clam, for it comes true, the children Of the
near future are going to have some wonder
full toys. Inventors are now at work on a
long list of nursery wonders, In all Of which
the ,ew mechanism is to be the main feature.
The photographic doll will talk, laugh, cry
and sing like human being. Noah's ark
will contain drove Of neiShins, braying,
owing, barking, uewing, Kissing, cacklns
creatures that will rival menagerie The
song notes of fine singing birds have been
preserved on metal slips and the results com
bired, 50 that one may have papier inache
canary which will require no attention and
which will sing with many tilues the volume
and at many times the length Of any bird
that ever lived Mothers, too, have the prom
ise Of phonographic cradle at the hea'! OF
which the wonderful mechanism is placed that
will sing sweet lullab!es by the hour 10 the
trstful infant, soothing 1t anG its tired parent
to sleep at the same time.-Frank Leslie's
Newspaper.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Paris Green and the Cotton Worms

That one drug house in Vicksburg
should receive orders for fifteen tons, or
80, 900 pounds, of Paris green in one
day demonstrates the extent of the ap-
prehensio1 felt by cotton planters, con-
cerning the cotton worms in the large
area of country tributary to or trading
with that city. With the cotton worms
apparently 50 formidable in their second
generation, the third generation, which
forms q vast increase over its progeni-
tors, may do very serious damage. 1t
is extremely unfortunate, if it be true,
that the available supply of Paris green
has been already exhausted. 1t is likely
that far more than the amount already
used will be needed for a month to come.
Where these pests are unchecked by
poison, in their third generation, they
have been known to raTage cotton fields
and leave the stalks as bare of foliage
in the latter part Of August and Septem-
Der as they are in early February before
being pulled up and burned, prepara-
tory to the planting of new crop
". 0. Isnees-Dom0crdt.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Valuable Discovery Near Pickens.

Colonel j. E. Hagood has had some
men at work in mica mine near this
place. and went out last Monday to see
how the work was progressing, when To-,
they had unearthed valuable marble
quarry Right under their feet was a
mine of untold wealth. The marble
taken our rivals in purity and texture
that of any of the famous quarries of
the East. 1t is whittier than that pro-
duced by the famous Beaver Dam quar-
ries near Baltimore, and will compare
favorably with that put on the market
by the noted Proctor quarries of Yer
mont. Colonel Hagood says the supply
is almost Observation-Disclosures Sen
tineZ
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Stealing Democratic Thunder.

The St. Louis Globe Democrat, the
leading Republican paper West of the
Mississippi River, in an editorial article,
under the caption 1.-The Tariff Out of
Politics" says: 1.-THE Republicans have
an opportunity to take the tariff out of
politics and keep it out for the next
dozen years at least. They can do this
by making an honest, intelligent revision
of the customs schedules, coupled with
such modification of the internal taxes
as the people desire, or as sound con-
servatiye policy dictates. This Is eX-
actly the position assumed by the plat
form of the national Democracy in the
last campaign. for which the party was
denounced as the advocate of. free
trade. But the concession is inevitable.
and 10 the Democratic party is due all
the credit of the battle for tariff reform.
-Baltim0re SIN.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
A Small Family.

An old lady os Is or more met an acquaint-
ance in Boston horse car, and impaired 10
her the information that she was intending
to start shortly for California my only
daughter lives out there" added the old lady,
land want to be with her. You know I'm
an orphan"
Moro surprising even than this woman,
case was that Of ''contraband" who came
into the Federal lines in North Carolina, in
1863 He reported himself to the officer of
the day, and the following dialogue ensued:
What's your namep
''My names Sam"
''Sam whati'
mo, sab, not Sam Watt; I'se just Sam"
whats your other name"
II hasn't got no oder name, sab! Ise
Sam-dat's ALL"
What's your masters name2"
'Ise got no massa now-massa runned
away. Yah! yahl Use free now."
"Well, what's your fathers and your
mothers namel"
"Ise got none, sah-neber had none fse
just Sam-ain't nobody else"
Haven't you any brothers and siSters'"
'No, sah-neber had none-no brudder, no
sister, no fader, no mudder, no massa! Moth
in but Sam. When you see Sam you see all
dere is of us. youths Companion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
ToLBERT DISGUSTED.
Vain Guest Of a South Carolina Republi.
can in Search Of an Office.

WASHINGTON, August 26-Anothel
Southern Republican, John Tolbert OF
Abbeville, S. c., has turned his face
homeward very mad and very much dis
gusted. He came to Washington with
bis clothes fairly padded with endorse
ments of his stalwart Republicanism and
ability to fill any position in the govern
meur from President down to a messen.
ger. He had no sooner arrived than he
brought all his influence to bear for the
Office of United States Marshal of his
district. His hopes in that. direction
were shattered in a day. The place had
been promised to a carpet-bagger
He caught his breath and concluded
that the position of United States Dis
trict Attorney was just his size, and SO
every day for four weeks Tolbert Wore
out the pavement between his boarding
house and the Office Of the Attorney
General, and tine latter's patience as
we'll, in his endeavors to capture that
valuable plum Friday last it was whis-
pered into his ear that it could not be
had. 1t had been promised to a North
ern carpet-bagger.
But Tolbert IVES not to be beaten. To-
day bright and early, and several min
utes before the ladies in the Postoficc
Department had adjusted their frizzes
and related in their entertaining way the
latest gossip, Tolbert was on hand and
filed his application for the position of
chief of division. He said be did not
intend to return home empty handed if
he got nothing more than cast-otf palr
of Clarkson'S trousers.
He got neither one nor the other, and,
as he left the department, he was Incl
dentally beard to remark that it was
some satisfaction for him to know that
neither the position nor the trousers had
been promised to Northern carpet
bagger. 1t was with such frigid encour-
asement that Tolbert took the first
homeward bound train this afternoon
without Office, without money and with
out anything worth speaking of except
his ticket, his luggage AMI his expert
ence, together with profound hatred
of the Northern carpet-baggers that lad
done him up so neatly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
An Extraordinary Will.

A remarkable will was recently filed
in the Probate's Office of this County.
Two bachelor brothers, Wakefield, lived
near ReidvilIe They were quite wealthy,
owning about 5000 acres of land around
that town They gave the land on which
the Reidville schools were founded. The
schools were named for Mr. Reid. 1t is
said the Wakeields never forgave the
trustees for not giving their name to the
schools. When one of the brothers died
he willed the whole property to his
brother. The surviving brother re-
Gently died. His will leaves the
whole property to his sister during her
life, then to the Judge of Probate for
Spartanburg County in trust for ninety
nine years, and after that time the
whole estate with the accumulated in
terest is to 90 to his heirs living one
hundred years hence. If his will could
be carried into effect the property
around Reidriiic would be tied up to a
very hurtful extent. But it is not pro-
bable that the latter clause Of his will
will be sustained by the courts. The
law in this State seems well settled that
Il man cannot direct the disposition OF
his property after death longer than the
life of person living and twenty-one
years after the death of that person.
Sp0rtd1a6ttrg Herald.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Thrilling Adventure of Somnambuist

Thrilling Adventure Of Somnambuist.
Residing on the South Side is man
whose physician has strongly advised
him to indulge in a regular exercise.
This young man has been troubled with
Insomnia, and is occasionally afflicted
%lth somnambuliSm. He believes, how
ever, that he has the making of an ath-
lete in him, and when he received his
physicians instructions he resolved to
bring it out. So he had horizontal bar
erected in the back yard of the house.
and upon this he prac iced daily. His
principal feat was to grab the smooth
bar with both hands and swing around
with great rapidity. One night last week
the young mans mother was awakened
by the noise of {; door closing. She
arose and tiptoed toward the back part
of the house. Looking out of the rear
window she saw her son, clad in his
nightgown, revolving on the horizontal
bar with lightning rapidity. Amazed at
the spectacle of the gyrating son and
his tapping night garment, she aroused
his father and told him about it, The
old gentleman arose, donned his pants
and went to the rescue. When be sue
ceeded in stopping the revolutions of
the flying boy he learned that he was
asleep and that he posed as a somnam-
bulistlc athlete. He awoke him with
some difficulty and led him back to his
bed. Now the young man has his pa
rents lock his doors and windows when
he goes to bed He is anxious to regain
his health, but he will not 90 so far as
to do horizontal act in his nightgown.
-lIic11O Herald.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
A ROMANTIC ELoPEMENT.
How Ed. Heiig Stole HIS Lady Love
from the Greensboro Female College.

DURHAM, n. c., August 29.-The
Globe has information concerning ro-
mantle elopement which took place at
the Greensboro, N. c., Female College
a few days ago. Ed. Heilig of Mt.
Pleasant, n c., was the suitor for the
hand of Miss Matte Kindley of the
same place. Objections seemed to have
been interposed by the young lady's
parents, who dispatched their daughter
off TO a boarding school, hoping to
break off the attachment. Heilig went
to Greensboro, procured a ladder,
mounted to his lady loves window, and
in the darkness of night carried her off
to Salisbury, where they were married.
The last Legislature of this State
granted this institution special police
powers for the prevention of such dis
turbances and making it a misdemeanor
to enter the grounds for the purpose of
interfering with or inducing any stu
dent to violate the rules of the institu-
ton. As this is the first violation since
this enactment, it is thought that suit
will be instituted against young Heilig.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Raising Buffaloes.

A man named Jones in Kansas, who
is widely known as Buffalo" Jones, has
devoted twenty years to the study and
rearing of buffalo calves, and has an
immense range in Utah and one in Kan
sas from which he supplies parks and
private individuals. He says that his
large, fine brutes are free from the de-
jected appearance noted in circus ami
mails.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
DEATH PENALTY COMPLICATIONS
New York Murderers Stand Fair Chance
of Not Being Punished At All.

Of Not Being Punished At All.
NEW YORK, August 26.-What seems
sudden outbreak of murder and
violence, added to the wholesale hang
ings of last week, has started a general
chorus demanding more and imme-
diate victims to vindicate the outraged
majesty of the law. The brutal murder
Of the Grocer Luca in Brooklyn, in the
presence of his wife and family, is
specially exasperating to that law-abid-
ing community, all the more so as the
perpetrator was caught red handed and
admits his crime. Numberless calls have
already been made by the press and in
dividuals on the authorities to see that
this midnight assassin pay the penalty
of his crime within a month or sixty
days, at least, as an example of swift,
certain and severe justice. That this
man McElvaine richly deserves the
severest penalty the law could inhict
nobody doubts, but will it be believed
ne stands fair chance of not being
punished at all? Owing to the technical
mess into which the gush of the
sentimental reformers of the mode of
capital punishment has got the law, not
only McElvaine and three other Brook
lyn murdererS, but fourteen out of the
eighteen now imprisoned in the TombS
in this city have the same prospects be-
fore them. The law says that they must
be sentenced to death by electricity, yet
there is now great probability that, on
the appeal of the first sentence under
this new statute, the Court of Appeals
may decide that the electric method of
execution is unconstitutional, being
''cruel and unusual The sentence,
therefore, could not be executed. If the
penalty is changed the lawyers will con-
teud that the culprit cannot be resen-
fenced under return to the old method
OF hanging, and must, perforce, 60 free,
since the present law states that mur
ders committed since January 1 must be
punished under the electric execution
code. If the highest court says this
way cannot be used then there is no way
in which the death penalty can be legally
carried out. The Maybrick case. in
London, seemed to show the hardship of
the English law in not providing court
of appeal to revise capital sentences.
We reverse the experience, and exhibit
The malversion of justice in Court OF
Appeals that stays the execution of
criminals for whom even Koko's some
thing lingering, with boiling oil in ii"
would be none too gentle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
THE ALMIGHTY A REPUBLICAN.
Colonel Shepard Thinks God Defeated
Cleveland and Attacks the South.

Colonel Shepard Thinks God Defeated
Cleveland and Attacks the South.
DETROIT, Mich August 2S.-The re-
doubtable Col. Elliott F. Shepard talked
to the National Editorial Association
last evening on the Ethics of Journal
ISM and particularly urged the
brethren against keeping alive the old
animosities.
Colonel Shepard is out this evening in
an interview IN the Detroit Journal, in
which he denounces everything in heave':
above and the earth beneath that isn't
Republican. He charges that Cleveland
intended in case of reelection to Sc
cure the admission of Utah, New. Mexico
and the division of Texas, whereby the
Senate would be Democratic, and that
accomplished ''The Son Of Destiny" was
to run for third term, and otherwise
act treacherously.
Mr.. Shepard said that through "the
good Lord God Almighty, Cleveland
was defeated" and the great conspiracy
thwarted. Of the Southern brigadiers
Colonel Shepard was especially denun-
ciatory. He charged that each and all
of them are still disloyal, that they are
waiting for a favorable opportunity to
make war again. and he closed his dis
course by urging the interviewer to
quote all the bitter things against the
South so that the visitors might know
just how be felt.
Colonel Shepard is quoted as saying:
~ frequently meet General Sherman
and he agrees with me that the Southern
people are as traitorous as ever, and
that there is no patriotism among them.
He does not think that they will take up
arms again during this generation, but
that it is only the sturdy, unfincbing,
patriotic spirit and superior strength Of
the North which keeps the country to-
gether." These remarks do not tally
with those addressed by General Sher-
man to his comrades at Milwaukee
to-day, saying: ''We have passed
through one crisis of our country's
history. l don't see any chance of an.
other"
At late hour this evening Colonel
Shepard requested that an authoritative
denial be given to the remarks attributed
to him. He says the tenor of his re-
marks were to the effect that he knew
General Sherman was very hopeful of
seeing assontinuous growth OF real pa.
bong the RsaSle of the South
e3Gse'e saes syerythlng
which could in any way be $idered as
disloyal might entirely disappssr from
among them.
Republicans and Democrats alike are
indignant over Shepard's break. An
effort was made to give the visitors a
pleasant time here, aud everything
passed off harmoniously except for the
talk from the Colonel.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Mr.. Cleveland and the Worlds Fair

New YORK, August 80. William Nc,
Murtrie Speer, secretary of the Worlds
Fair committee, to-day received the fol-
lowing letter from Grover Cleveland,
dated at Saranac Inn yesterday:
Il acknowledge the receipt of the no.
tice of my appointment as member OF
the committee on permanent organiza-
tion for the International Exposition of
1892. 1 shall be very glad to cooperate
as a member of such committee with
other citizens of New York to make the
exposition a grand success"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
DELICIOUS PURPLE WORMS.
Gathered and Eaten by the Ton by the
| Piute Indians.


Mr.. Keeler, who has lived almost con-
tinuouSly in California, but is now visit
ing this city, has brought with him many
fine neurological specimens. After
showing these to reporter, the other
DAY, he handed the latter small bottle,
saying, 'Do you know what those thinge
are2" In the bottle were a dozen or
more dark -colored objects, shriveled but
juicy looking. The average length was
about one inch, and they had the appear
ance of luscious raisins. The reporter
said he supposed that was what they
were. The Californian smiled too, as
he said, "No, they are not; they are
worms" Then he went on to SLY that
they were considered great luxury by
the Piute Indians. II call them the
nut-pine worm, because they feed on the
nut pine tree; what the scientific name
is do not know"
"On the Eastern slope of the Sierra
Nevada mountains in Southern Califor-
MIA, between Bodie and Bishops creeks,
is greal stretch of these nut-pine trees.
They bear small nut extremely rich in
oil. So rich are they that you don't
want to eat many of them. In August
the ground under the trees begius to be
covered with green worms as thick az a
mans finger and from one and half to
two and half inches in length. The
worms. soon grow wings and fly into the
trees. The worm, which should now be
dignifed by the name of butterfly, does
not leave the tree, but scars around
among the branches extracting the oil
from the nuts. In about month the
body is full of oil; so full, in fact, that
the entrails have been forced out Then
the wings fall off. 1t is about this time
that the Piutes make their appearance
and camp among the trees. They come
in large numbers and provided with
sacks. The worm having lost its wings
again, it crawls along the limbs of the
tree to the trunk and falls to the ground.
Incidentally it falls into trap prepared
by the Indians To prevent the worms
from escaping they dig trenches around
the root of the tree, the trenches having
coucave sides. have known of a bushel
of worms being taken from one of these
trenches.
"When the crop of worms has been
harvested the Indians build fires on fiat
stones or the hard earth. When the
bed has become hot, not hot enough to
roast, the worms are spread upon it aud
dried. They are then placed in sacks
and carried to the Piute camps. a
friend of mine once told me that he
had one season estimated that fifty tons
of these worms were gather and dried" "
"How do the Indians use the wormsT'
'In soups. The Piutes seem never to
tire of soup. They have it almost every
day. A buck is allowed two worms and
squaw one for each dish of soup.
Sometimes gallant Indian gives a
pretty or popular squaw one Of his por-
ton. The worms are not eaten until
the soup has been consumed, they being
reserved as final tid.bit. l tasted the
worms, and found them rich and oily,
like the nut upon which they feed."-
Netc York Tribune
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04

An anti-sewing machine guild has
been formed by the Chinese tailors of
Hong Kong A Chinaman who had
joined "the party of progress" and had
been using the sewing machine was re-
Gently waited upon by a deputation
from the guild and requested to pay to
its members 80 taels as compensation
for using the "foreign devil He re-
fused and was instantly assailed The
police saved his life, but he is not quite
so eager now to use the sewing machine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
Extent Of the Johnssown Calamity.

The full magnitude of the calamity
at Johnstown has been carefully cal
culated. The losses in Pennsylvania
alone from the floods of May 80 to June
amounted 10 S3O,OO0,0OO and $500
liyes.-PhilQ0ezpaiQ Press.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04

0d0T >1f1S dl Tue age 1olCy years. deten
was terribly grieved that her faithful
nurse, as she thought her, should be so
afflicted, and wrote to her unknown
guardian in New York, asking that she
might be received on her return and
kindly cared for.
There were yet five years to elapse
before the young lady,s education would
be finished, as her mother desired her to
be thoroughly accomplished. Mrs.
Richardson returned to New York, sold
out her business, placed her money in
banS and retired into strict seclusion in
q cheap boarding house. Meanwhile
money was freely furnished for her
daughter, who graduated, and after a
short season in society was married most
adyantageously. There was just one
thing more for Mrs. Richardson to do,
and that she did unhesitatingly. She
took all that remained of her money ex-
eept 81 900 and gave it to her daughter
for dover. She had never returned
to Paris, nor did she ever exnAct to. She
had expiated her sin by the sacrifice of
her life; so far as possible she had
atoned.
For the past twelve years she has
managed to exist, going from cheap
lodgings to cheaper ones until her last
abode was in one of the wretcbed shan
ties on Ninety-Third street.
This summer an old New Yorker Wis
ting Paris met Nine. Helen Desprets.
ssYou speak English remarkably we'll,
madame" said the gentleman.
II should do so," was the reply. s'My
father and mother were both Ameri-
eans.n
S'What was the names"
Mcbride"
.SsAh!" and Instantly there flashed into
theigentleman's mind the old story. Be-
fore he thought he said: 81 think knew
your parants."
The lady then began to ply him
eagerly with questions. The one desire
of her life was to know mere of her
parents. The result of the interview was
that the Lady discovered who her mother
was, but not what she was. So far as
was known she still lived, and the lady
determined if she did to find her. Ac-
companied by her husband and children
she came to New York and began the
search for her mother. Her husband,
of course, discovered the truth and told
it to her as gently as possible. Although
greatly shocked. the loyal woman per
sisted in ner search.
''No matter what she did, she was my
mother, and it was all for me. l will
find her if she is on the EARTH And she
did frd her-alone, sightless, helpless
and almost starving. Last week. an out
ward bound steamer carried back to
sunny France the reunited parent and
child.