The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09

When Mexican editor was releas-
ed from jail last week, his friends got
up bull fight to celebrate the event.
It is fine thing to be an editor IN
Mexico.
It is said that the worlds fair is
more likely to so to Chicago than to
New York The latter city is SO very
slow about raising money for other
great enterprises of her own that it
is thought that she will be equally
penurious in regard to this great af-
fair.
A Brooklyn girl committed suicide
by hanging herself by her corset
string. The only thing unusual
about this is that she put the strings
around her neck. Lots of girls are
committing suicide every day, by the
same means with one diference-the
strings are around their waists.
Capt. William Quirk, OF Florence,
has gone to Washington on business
connected with a claim which he has
had against the government of Vene-
zuela for about twenty years. 1t is
rumored that the Captain has sued
the Venezuela government, and that
he has nearly succeeded in making
satisfactory terms
It is reported that one of the sub
alliances in Edgeield county expelled
one of their members not long ago
for using jute bagging contrary to
the direction of the club. Another
member ordered 500 yards of jute
bagging, and he had to ship it back
or be expelled. He shipped it back
and ordered cotton.
The Philadelphia Record says Gro
yer Cleveland grows as he gets far
ther away from the White House, just
as a mountain grows larger to the eye
a little distance from the foot. His
name is received with tumultuous
cheers at Democratic assemblies Ill
over the Union. The people do not
forget honest and capable service.
The Presbyterian Synod of South
Carolina viii meet this year in the
thriving city OF fSpartanburg 1t is to
convene in the handsome new Pres
byterian church at tnat place on Fri
day, the 25th instant, at S.p. NJ, when
the opening sermon will be preached
by the Moderator, the Lev. H. J. Nc
Kay, pastor of the Salem, Black Riv-
er, church in Sumter county.
We read about million bushels oi
wheat, but few people realize what a
vast amount it is But if million
bushels of wheat were loaded on
freight cars, 500 bushels to the car
it would eli a train fifteen miles long
III transported by wagons, the line Of
teams would be 142 miles long. And
yet We consume and export more than
400, ,o00, 900 bushels of wheat annu.
ally.
asSsspk 5haeenstitutions of the five
States in neSsosa@e@~anothel
{ recognizes the right of women to tie
suffrage. North Dakota, South Da.
keta, Idaho and Washington have
: each granted school suffrage to adults
of that sex. Montana gives them the
right to vote on local questions pro.
yided they are taxpayers, while Wash.
ington and South Dakota will submit
the question of unrestricted woman
suffrage to the voters.
No treasury in the world ever con.
tanned so vast a sum of money, boasts
the San Francisco Chronicle, as that
ef the United States. The last state.
,nent shows that there is in the treas
nry vaults over six hundred millions
in gold and silver coin and bul.
lion. OF gold coin and bullion
the amount is $303, 3,504,l1S; silver
coin and bullion, S315, ,343, $50. By
the side of this vast accumulation the
streasuries Of other countries, and
those recorded in history, sink into
insignidcance.
Prof. C. A. johnson, colored sci
enlist, is doing some tall predicting
concerning the antics which some o1
the principal planets will soon under.
go. The sun, be says, will be reduced
to cinder in a few years, and at the
end of eighteen years our globe will
explode. II the professor would kind
ly state which of these catastropEes is
to take precedence of the other ii
would have the effect to allay at least
half of the apprehension to w!,ich his
{ statements have given rise.
Disproportionableness, with 81 let
sers, is said to be the longest English
word. Other languages furnish nu-
merous examples of longer ones. For
instance: One of the villages in the
{ north of Wales is called Lllantairpw-
agyngllgogerpwlland On
the Isle OF Null, in Argy llshirc, there is
place called Drymtaidhorickhill.
chattan. The two longest words in
the German language are: Gesund-
acknowledgements,
chunssverhaltnisskundiser and Con-
stantinopolitanischerdude
Observation-Disclosures
A gentleman who sjust returned
from the West reports that in certain
portions of Texas the only reason a
wholesale exodus of the citizens to
South Carolina is not inaugurated is
poverty. In Texas South Carolina is
as Texas is in South Carolina, which