The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-07
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST I. 1889.

from 1875 to 1880 is in Jail in Kansas
City for horse stealing.
Sullivan and kilrain have both been
arrested, and will be tried in MlsSls-
sippi for prize fighting.
The Bank of Florence has declared
an S per cent dividend 1t has been in
operation only nine months.
E. A. Webster, Republican ol
Orangeburg, has been appointed col
lector Of internal revenue for South
Carolina.
A shooting affair occurred in Co,
lumbia last Saturday, between two
white men, James I. Clark and w. b
Meetze. Clark was shot through the
brain and died. A woman was at the
bottom OF it.
Governor Ross, formerly OF Kansas
and one of the United States Senators
who stood by Andrew johnson IN the
impeachment proceedings, is now en-
ployed as printer in the Office OF the
Sante Fe New Mexican.
The Georgetown Times says that
since Josiah Doar, sheriff of that coun-
ty, assumed control of the Jail, he has
had one thousand and thirty prisoners
in his custody, and every one is ac-
counted for none has escaped, MOI
has there been a sjail delivery"
William Throckmorton, who resides
near Griffin, Ga, has a '''possuH
farm" In grove of persimmon trees
enclosed by high board fence he has
between 700 and 800 'possums. The
business of rearing them for the mar
ket is said TO be very remuneiatlve.
There has been q decrease in i'm.
migration during the last year. Ihe
total arrivals in June were only 46,O59
as compared with 6S,475 year ago
The total for the twelve months
ending July / was 4SS, ,619, which is
101.201 less than for tie preceding
twelve months.
It is said that man in Kansas
planted twenty acres with watermel.
ons and Manufactured from them 1000
barrels of vinegar. This story, coming
on top of the discovery that an excel,
lent syrup can be produced from the
watermelon, proves that its uses are
sour as well as sweet.
The rich American who pays
100000 for q painting which the
French don't want and won't pay nall
that money for, should also buy to
hang near it, that cheap but excellent
motto, printed in colors that will bring
pang to 1is heart oft as he reads it,
aAphul annis mum ar sunpar ted"
A hog, valued at two dollars, has
caused a.furious feud to break out be-
sInsher, GSISs asar Pine7ilie, KY, an
travel along the road passing thei
houses is cut of, while Smiths ant
Slushers, with guns and Winchesters
keep guard, watching for each othe,
When DR.. Napsen lectured in Lon
don recently about his trip acros
Greenland, he said his party did no
wash themselves for over two months
because they found that if they le
melted snow come in contact Will
their hands or faces the skin becam'
chapped. In this respect they follow
ed the custom of the Eskimos, to whom
abluticns are thing unknown.
It is not generally known that
newspaper in classical Latin is pub
lshed fortnightly in Italy. Its edito
is Carlo Ar1igo Ulnchs, a yount
scholar of Italiaz parentage on on
side, and of German parentagson th
other, AND he has the assistance o
5esaie learned contributors in bot
nations. It is full of anecdotes, jokes
and verses in classical dress. Th'
only thing as yet wanting to its per
feet consistency is the translation o
the advertisements into the tongue O
Cicero.
The finest and best sponges in th,
world are now obtained along th'
Florida Keys. Native Floridians dt
the principal gathering. There art
some Bahama Islanders also. The
sponge fishers are called ConSs. The!
do not dive, but tear up the sponge:
with three-tiEed forks on long poles
4 Greek came down from New York
year OF so ago and tried gathering
them by diving, using regular di.
ver's suit, but he made failure of it
The sponges grow rapidly. A bee
which has been fshed clean will be
covered with new growth in Sly
months. The product amounts to near
" balf million dollals annually.
In the course of selecting jury tc
try murder case whichis proceeding
zpat the present time in Baltimore,
Judge Stewart, the presiding justice,
pronounced a gentleman who was
presented and questioned, competent
to serve, Notwithstanding that he stat
ed be had formed an opinion adverse
to one of the accused from reading
tbe newspapers, which, however, he
said would not prevent his rendering
an impartial verdict according to the
evidence. Objections were raised by
the defendants counsel to this ruling,
but the Judge held to his decision,
replying to counsel: "If you want per-
sons to serve as jurors who have no
opinion you must go to lunatic asy-
lum or get persons who have not mix