The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-20
ALL ABOUT TIE STATE.
Senator Sligh of Newberry says

Senator Sligh of Newberry says he
is not going to emigrate to Florida
Francis Murphy, the temperance
advocate, is opposed to State prohibitory
laws.
Many peach trees are already in full
bloom in Marion. Nevertheless, the
prospects for good full crop are said to
be excellent.
Miss Carter, a California school
teacher, took half a day off recently
and cleaned up $4,000 IN real estate
deal before the sun went down.
-Lucie Lafrance, of Montreal, lived
ten years next door to her sister without
knowing it. Their grocer introduced
them.
Robert S. Thompson of Clinton. has
been appointed Auditor of the Barnwell
Railroad and also of the Blackville,
Aston and Newberry Railroad.
j. B. Howe, lawyer of Beaufort,
has decided to 60 West and to locate at
Seattle, in the new State uf Washington,
for the practice of his profession.
The sheriff of Laurens has adver-
tised for sale the lot and buildings be-
longing to the Laurensville Female Col
lege on salesday in April, for cash.
"A section hand carelessly laid down
for a nap on the Air Line Railroad track
near Tugalo River. Both his hands,
which were lying across the rails, were
cut off by passing train, leaving only
his thumbs.
j. F. Burnham of the New Brighton
Hotel. Sullivan's Island, wants big
100000 hotel to be built in Barnwell,
and offers to take two-thirds of the
stock if the people of Barnwell will take
the remaining third.
The Car has ordered his painterin-
ordinary, Michael Won Zichy, to paint
picture of the railway disaster at Borki.
The artist was on the wrecked train, but
escaped unhurt.
-Ex-President Hayes is usurping the
prerogatives of Gen. Sherman. The
other night he concluded an address to
the Pittsburg Teachers Association by
kissing two of the prettiest young
''school ma'ams.'
The people of the village of McCor-
mick and surrounding country in Able
vile County are again agltatlng the
matter of organizing new County,
composed of parts of Abbeville and
Edgefeld. They find the distance to the
court house inconveniently far.
The final experiments by the New
York State authorities to ascertain the
best means of executing criminals by
electricity were made Tuesday. Four
dogs, four calves and horse were sub
jected to currents of roo to 1000 volts
and were instantly killed.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt depre-
Gates the publicity the press has given
of her intention to pay for a monument
over the grave of her ancestor, General
Marion, of South Carolina. She had
thought to honor the hero's memory
quietly and without credit to herself.
George Pittman, negro boy about
twenty years old, was drowned in a
ditch near his home in Marion County a
few nights ago. He wandered from
home at night and next morning a
search revealed his dead body in the
ditch where he had fallen while in the
convulsions of an epileptic fit, to which
he was subject.
A negro in Marion County cut or
pulled out by the roots, the tongue of
an OK which he was breaking for its
owner the other day. Of course the
animal was utterly useless and had to be
killed. The act is supposed to have been
done in fit Of passion.
"A young man named Bunton died
very suddenly at Pelzer one day last
week under peculiar circumstances.
Thirty hours before his death he was
hale and hearty, but suddenly he felt a
severe pain 10 his right hand, which be-
gan to swell, and in short tine the
pain went all over his body, causing
his death within the time mentioned.
"A party Of twelve or fifteen Nor
mon converts from the country boarded
the train at Westminster few days
ago, in company with Mormon elder,
all bound for the West. 1t is said that
there are still two Mormon elders in
Oconee County engaged in persuadlng
poor, silly women and children to join
their infamous band and emigrate tc
Utah and Colorado.
John Davis, aged 72 years, an in
mate of the County poor house, eloped
last Sunday morning with Mrs. N. W..
Compton, another inmate, aged So years,
and they we're married in Williamson
ownship that day by Rev. G. NJ: Ro.
gers. The officiating minister declined
to act until the consent Of County Com
sioner B. G. Martin was first obtained.
It is not known what plans the .venera-
BILE couple have for the future.-Ander-
son Journal.
Where Is James Taylor?
James Taylor, a young man about 70