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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
A School of Devil Fish.

Old ocean pilots and seagoing people
who watched the school of devil fish
that played about the pilot boats and
the tug Cynthia before the boats got off
in the regatta yesterday, say thai such a
sight is very rare in the life of a ma
riner. They played about the craft for
fully half an hour, and We're principally
young devil fish, from four feet long to
six feet, and they looked like great bats.
Some of them had shed their tails,
while others had caudal appendages
fully a yard III length. As many as
twenty OF these misunderstanding marine
curiositics were seen at one time, and
one was shot by one Of the crew OF the
Neca, and after laShing the water of the
sound into a foam, it sank out of sight.
-,Sar0nna1 (GG.) Neus.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
THE APPOINTMENT OF WEBSTER
The Waterloo Of the So-Called Independ-
ent Republicans of South Carolina.

WASHINGTON, August 5.-The appoint
ment of Eugene 4. Webster to-day to be
the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
South Carolina District was the Water
loo of the "Independent Republican"
party of South Carolina, so called, and
of its leaders and promoters in Massa-
chuSettS, l.. Edwin Dudley, and the
members of the Massachusetts, Club. He
was the candidate of the regular Repub-
licans of his State, and. so far as the
party can be said to be organized, had
The party organization behind him. The
candidate of Mr.. Dudley and the 1nde-
pendents was first George G. Alex
ander, Democratic State Senator from
Kershaw County, and sorehead. When
it WAS ascertained that he could not
win, the Independents trotted out
other candidates, and it seemed for
a time that the dark horse would win.
Webster was really the only Harrison
man who came up prominently for the
place. He was a delegate at the last
| Chicago convention, and one Of the few
who didn't sell out to Gen. Alger He
voted six times for the Hoosier can
didate
The agents of the Massachusetts, Re-
publicans took only week IN South
Carolina to discover what a ground
swell reform movement the Independent
party represented. The come-outers
had never elected anybody to anything;
but Mr.. Dudley was satisfied that they
would if they had a little Federal pap
] for nouriShment. Some hundreds of
dollars of Massachusetts money were
sent down to support the Columbia
Daily Record, the State organ of the
party, and Senator Hoar and Cabot
Lodge spoke for Dudley and his cause
at tie White House. A column and a
half report was made to the MaSsachu-
sets Club, and the Republican papers
of Boston went wild over it. ". w.
Russell, a leading Independent, induced
Mr.. Clarkson to give him some dozen or
fifteen postoffices; but gradually, as the
truth came in from the localities most
interested, the work had to be all
undone.
Between the regulars and indepen-
dents, Chairman Brayton of the Repub-
lican State Committee was IN heap of
trouble. He was a Sherman man at
Chicago, and is well known, and didn't
sell out; but the supposition is that he
knew that his delegates were selling out
to Algcr right and left. That is, no
doubt, the reason why John Sherman
refused even to see Brayton when he
called at his K street house soon after
the inauguration. That was Brayton's
first set back. He went down and down.
First he wanted to be the head of some
bureau here in the city; then he wanted
to be the South Carolina District Attor-
ney, then United States Marshal, then
a Consul anywhere, and Snally, when
the Independents" seemedfo be making
it hopelessly warm for Wooster, he took
new hope and made break for the In
ternal Revenue Collectorship, his old
position under President Arthur.-N.
Y. SIN.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
The Rice Crops.

The reports as to the condition of the
rice crops on the upper Pee Dee planta-
tions are disheartening in the extreme.
There was universal hope that after the
disasters of last year the planters would
have one or more good seasons, but this
hope is doomed to disappointment. The
destruction by floods will probably be
more extensive this year than it was last
year. On Monday every plantation on the
river as far down as Enfield (Mr. B. W.
Cannon's place. was under water, hav-
ing been submerged for several days.
The Pee Dee River at Chcraw was re-
ported to be thirty-fo feet high and
rising. Before this immense volume of
water, which is now slowly descending
upon the doomed plantations, can run
off, the last vestige of the rice crops now
standing on them viii probably be de-
stroyed. THERE'S rise in the other
rivers also, as might have been expected
from the heavy and continuous rains
that have been falling for two or three
weeks, but it is probable that the dam
age on these rivers will not be very
great, if at all appreciable. e.-Georgetoun
Enquirer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
TELEGRAPH CHARGES.
Er. Wanamakec's Reasons for Demand
ing a Lower Government Rate.

Postmaster General Wanamaker has
written letter to President Green, Of
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
replying TO the latter's protest against
the reduction of the telegraph rate for
government business from one cent to
one mill a word. In answer to DR..
Green's assertion that the privileges and
benefits derived by his company from
the government are purely imaginary,
Mr.. Wanamaker says that under the
grants of the Act of 1866, and after
wards the supplementary Acts, the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
claimed the right of use, without COM
pensarion of any kind as to right
of way, ali the highways of the coun-
try, on the ground of their being
post roads 1t has broadened this
claim to the extent that the streets of
cities and towns are also post roads, and
therefore open and free to its occu-
parcv and use. The courts have SuS-
tanned it in this claim The company
has thus been able to occupy and use
the streets OF cities regardless of the
views Of the local authorities and almost
regardless Of public opinion. The streets
of all cities and towns in the United
States have been kept open for the use
of the company. Mr. Wanamaker says:
Il am sure that, on reflection, you will
hardly claim that such great benefits as
these are purely imaginary Confer
ring such great privileges and benefits
upon You, the government, in my belief,
expected and is entitled 10 receive not
simply your exceptionally low rates to
Others, but even lower special rate. "
Concerning President Green's state
ment that for messages transmitted to
a single customer, the government is
our only customer enjoying reduced
rates" Mr. Wanamaker says:
''By this | presume you mean that tals
government has the lowest rate given to
any single customer, its lowest rate be-
ing one cent u word for day messages
and three-fourths of a cent for night
messages: but this charge is made not
only upon the message itself, but upon
the address and signature as well, so
that for ten words in Il message and ten
words in the address and signature the
above rate is, in fact, two cents per
word in the daytime and one and q half
cents per word at night. Is it not true
that the large papers of New York, Chi
cago and other large cities have a half
cent rate for their special dispatches in
DAYTIME and fourth of a cent at night,
or a rate one half lower than the gov
crnment has been granted. Is it not
true, also, that this patronage from the
cntcrpriSins press is the most profitable
that you have, and that it would, in
fact, give you still more profit if made
still lower? Reduced rates bring in
creased business and enlarged profits.
Your testimony before committees of
Congress at various times has been
steadily to the effect that every time
your company has reduced prices it has
gained increased income" Mr.. Wana-
maker is in favor of 4 conference on the
subject with President Green.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
RasI,ful Originality.

An unpremeditated and bashful compi-
uent Is often the most fattering. A young
lady, who had gone to spend summer with
some country relatives, found 1t difficult to
get on with one cousin, boy Of 16, who was
50 shy that any chance remark directed to
him served to plunge him into dire embarras-
tnent.
One morning she proposed driving to town
with him, and on the way the conversation
waxed quite aourishing-at least, on one side
Presently pause es.sued, and the young
lady became aware that her companion had
turned and was regarding her hair, which
was OF The closely curling variety, lying In
small, deep waves.
II like your hair!" he announced, sudden
ly, as If determined to speak bis mind, let
what would cape Of it
"Whya" she asked.
because it's so rul Of them little jerks!'-
Youths Companion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14

New YORK, August 9.-Purser Squire
of the steamer Alyo of the Atlas Line,
which arrived from Hayti last night,
brings Haytian news. The Alyo left
St. Mare p. m. July 26th and arrived
at Port-au-Prince at p. m. of the same
day. When the steamer came to anchor
the noise of Hippolyte's cannon could be
distinctly heard firing at the town. The
attacking force was at the West of the
place, about two miles away. With the
aid of powerful glass Purser Squire
and the officers distinctly saw Hippolyte
on the seacoast. The United States man
ofwar Ossipee lay in the harbor of Port
au-Prince, and near her was
anchored an English and q Spanish
man-of war. A tugboat named the
Panama, formerly belonging in the
United States, of about 1870 tons burden,
was there too. She carried few heavy
guns and was in Legitlme's service.
During the afternoon of the 26th of
July the Panama was ordered around to
where she could attack Hippolyte's
bombarding party in the right flank.
AS soon as the little tug got within
firing distance she began to blaze away,
and kept it up until darkness set IN.
The bombarding by Hippolytes forces
was kept up all night. The Alvo left
the next morning. Legitime lost two
men during the iercest of the fight. One
was killed instantly; the other lived
day. Hippolyte's losses can be reckoned
in the hundreds, it is said.
The Gatling guns used by Hippolyte
played sad havoc with the outskirts of
Port-au-P Prince. The officers of the Os
sipee said to the people on the Alvo that
they (the Ossipee's of6cers) had become
used to the continued firing, and Go not
mind it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
HEfshiD' jimmy

A short, simple story, pathetically told, Is
Annie Sloson Trumbull's "Fishin' Jimmy.
sFishin' Jimmy" was quaint, old W hlte
Mountain character, passionately fond OF
fishing, keenly sensitive to the beauties OF ma
ture and thoroughly good hearted, " whicf
IS another term for lovable ITO his simple
intellect the fsheruan's art was whole sys-
TEN of morality, guide for everyday life al
education and gospel. 1t was all any poor
mortal man, woman or child needed In this
world to make hin, or her happy, useful and
good" The old man is converted" oy
"fishing preacher" and finds great comfort
in the fact thnt the disciples were selected
from among fishermen.
when he was q choosin' the uie! to go
about with him an help him an' larn his
ways SOS to come a'ter him, be first O OIL
picked out the men he'd seen every day tshin,
and mebbe ished with hsself, for he knowed
en,, and knowed be could trust 'enl. !"
The poor old man meets with tragic end
ing to his simple, picturesque life, but his
faith and his ruling passion stand out clear
until be is half across the dark stream "
tween this Life and the next.-New York
Star
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
Indians in North Carolina.

T6e~sovcrnment schoo! at which the
children o. off-tsAse- Eastern band of Chero-
kee Indians are educated Cherokee,
on Yellow Hill. in Swain County, North
Carolina, aud is very interesting to Wis
itors. The Society of Friends established
the school in 1888, and now have charge
of it. There are eighty pupils. These
arc taught mechanical work by the prill-
cipal and seven assistants. There are,
during the fall and winter months, two
other schools in the reservation entirely
for Indian pupils. In Swain County are
800 Cherokces, andthere are 500 others
in the Counties Of Macon, Graham, Jack
son and Cherokee. There are possibly
some 200 or 800 in North Georgia and
East Tennessee. Their capital is Yellow
Hill, the residence of Tsa-la-te-he, or
Charles Smith, their chief The Office
is elective and the Indians vote for chief
every four years, and every two years
vote for councilmen. There are twenty
OF the latter; one for each 100 Indians.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
A Drowned oIan's Shirt.

August Melching was drowned III the Co.
dorus creek while swimming. His body could
not be found for some time, when one OF the
searchers suggested that his shirt be thrown
into the water, claiming that it would hoat
to where the body was. The suggestion was
acted on and the garment thrown into the
water where it was thought that he bad dis
appeared It instantly shot out, then stopped,
circled about a short time and in another
moment disappeared under the water.
A young man present on the creeks bank
then dived to where the shirt was seen to sink
and found the body of the young man whs-e
the shirt had disappeared. The singularity
Of the incident consists in the fact that the
shirt ives found clinging to the dead mans
body. Two gentlemen who were on opposite
sides Of the creek at the time this occurred
corroborate the truthfulness Of tho incident
This gives credence to the ancient idea that
the clothing Of drowned man when thrown
into tie water will float to the body.-Iork
Pa) Coz. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
Proposed Reunion Of Veterans.

A movement has been inaugurated in
Vicksburg, Miss, originating with Con-
federate veterans, to have grand re-
union of the veterans of the blue and
the gray from all parts of the country
in that historic city on next Decoration
Day, May 30, 1889. Letters have been
sent to the different State societies of
the Confederate Veterans Association
and to the various posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic, asking their Co
operation in carrying out the plan pro-
posed. A committee will be sent to the
meeting of the Grand Army of the Re-
public in Milwaukee, next September, to
lay the plan before the chiefs Of that
society for their consideration. The
most prejudiced Northern journal or
politician will be unable to discover any
thing disloyal in this proposed reunion
of the veterans of the armies which op-
posed each other in the late civil war.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
A Bedtime Song.

Sway to and tlo i'll the twilight gray,
This is the ferry for Shadowtown;
It. always sails az tire end of the day,
Just as the r~Mess is closing down.
Rest, little head, on my shoulder-so,
A sleepy kiss is the only fare;
Drifting away from the world We go,
Baby and in the rocking chair.
See, where the fire logs glow.and spark,
Glitter the lights of the shadowland,
The pe!ting rains on the window-hark.
Are ripples tapping U: on its strand.
There where the mirror is glsncing dim,
A lake with its glimmering cool and still
Blossoms are waving above its brlu,
Those over there on the window sill.
Rock slew, more slow, in the dusky light
Silently lowe ring the anchor down;
Dear little passenger, say goodnight,
We've reached the harbor of Shadowtown
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
OF Interest TO Banks and Bankers.

WASHINGTON, August 9.-The Treas
nrerof the United States has issued the
following circular.
''The Assistant Treasurer of the United
States at New York will receive deposits
of gold coin or currency, or draft
payable to his order. collectable through
the clearing house, in amounts of not
less than 81 900, returns for which will
be made in small denominations of new
United States notes and silver certi-
fcates as may be available when de-
posits are made-shipments to be made
by the Treasurer of the United States on
receipt of the original certificate Of
deposit of the New York office. Express
charges will be deducted from such
remittances at government contract
rates wher the currency is forwarded" "
The above "notlce" is intended to
apply to all banks and bankers through
out the country who may see fit to
avail themselves of it's advantages.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
The Southbouad Railroad.

In the Superior Court or Saturday a
charter was granted ro the Savannah
Construction Company, whose specific
object is the building of the Southbound
Railroad. The capital stock is $3.50, 900,
divided into shares of 800 each, and,
under the terms of the charter, the COM
pany has the privilege of increasing its
stock to an amount not exceeding
S1,000,000 The charter members of the
construction company are Charles Wal
ters, John Lawton, Mike Brown. John
L. Hammond, Herman Myers, William
S. Tyson, Thomas +. StubbS and B. A.
Denmark. NemS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
Cotton Mills in the South.

The number of cotton mills now in the
South as compared with 1880 has
doubled, while the number of spindles
and looms has more than trebled, the
tendency being to build mills of greater
capacity than formerly. From 161 mills
having 667,s54 spindles and 1923
looms in 1880, this industry has in
creased until there are now S55 mills,
with 2,035s6S spipdles and 45,001
looms. Moreover, there are many mills
under construction and projected, and a
number of old ,nills are increasing their
capacity. Letters to the Baltimore Man-
utactaarers' Record from leading manu-
facturers in the South, as to the outlook
for the cotton industry, indicate that
the production of coarse cotton goods in
the South is temporarily in excess of the
demand, and that the South must make
the finer goods and also seek a foreign
market by means of direct steamship
lines to South America.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
MARRIAGE WAS NOT FAILURE.
An Interesting Family Now About to
Invade Europe.

INVADE Europe.
A large and interesting Mexican
family sailed for Paris to- day on the
steamship La Champagne, of the Com
pagnie Generate Transatlantique There
were twenty-three persons on the family
roster aud two maids. The father is Il
Mexican official, who is going over to
show his little ones" what Paris is like.
The eldest son, who is married and has
his wife with him, Is 35 years old, and
the youngest child in the family still
nestles fondly in its nurses arms. This
is the list Of names that graced La
Champagne's passenger list: Mr.. F.
Madero, Mrs. Madero and maid, Mr..
Daniel Madero, Mrs. Madero and maid,
Mr.. Raoul Madero, Mr.. Alberto Madero,
Miss Mercedes Madero, Miss Maria
Madero, Miss Magdelena Madero, Miss
Barbarita Madero, Mr. Alfonso Madero,
Mr.. Benjamin Madero, Mr. Emilio
Madero, Mr. Evaristo Madero, Miss
Rafaela Madero, Mr.. Salvador Madero,
Miss Gabriel Madero, Mr.. Ernesto
Madero, Miss Angela Madero, Mr..
Manuel Madero, Mr.. Julio Madero, Mr..
Jose Madero and Mr. E. Madero.-Nep
York EcenlhY Telegram.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
Poisoned by IobSterS.

BoSToN, August G.-Something must
have allied last Thursdays Holsters, for
reports from various sections of the city
show that people who ate those crusta-
ceans on Friday were made sick. In
East Cambridge eleven families, number
ing thirteen persons, sent for the doctor
at the same time on that day, and in
Roxbury one death has occurred attri-
buted to the same cause. 1t is curious
fact that a lobster which was captured a
day or two ago in the waters off Minot
Light, where the Cambridge Holsters
come from, was entirely blue.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
SICKNESS IN JoHNSToWN.
The Doctors Unable to Respond to the
Numerous Calls Made Upon Them.

JoHNsToWN, Pa, August 7.-Notwith-
standing favorable reports are still sent
out from the Board of Health, there is a
great deal of sickness here. Doctors are
so busy that they cannot attend to calls
made upon them. \ man living several
miles in the country came to town to
get a physician to attend a member of
his family who was i'll, but they were all
too busy TO 60 Another case happened
yesterday, where a gentleman wanted a
doctor to make trip five miles to the
country to visit his child, who was very
sick. He called on ten different doctors,
but it was impossible TO get one of them
to go.
Typhoid fever, malarial fever, dysen-
terry and a genuine case of sclry; We're
reported to the Red Cross hospital dur
ing the past two weeks. The case of
scurvy was caused by salt pork diet
which the contractors men have to sub
SiSt on.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
The Case in Nutshell.

The administration is right in its
course in the Behring Sea matter and in
the seizure of the Canadian vessel Black
Diamond, because the administration
has no choice in the matter. Congress
makes the laws; the President executes
them. AS to the right of the United
States to exclusive jurisdiction in Beh-
rings Sea, that is something to be de-
termined by a conference. It has never
been admitted by England. England
may be justified. or the United States
may be. The diplomatistS must settle
the matter. - Washington Cupitai
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
The English spa,4sw.

For some on,ths Eaglisaescsrgow Tss
ret Is plentrm last year as it had been, ana
his ravages were not as notable. It was
thought that the millions that perished In the
blizzard Of the early part of the year 40
counted for the check But 1880 brings the
rascal to the front everywhere. The United
States commissioner of agriculture recon-
mends method Of poisoning them with
wheat soaked in an arsenical mixture. In
England this means is generally resorted to.
The poison IS distributed along highways
where sparrows resort and where other birds
are not liable to pick up the poisoned ma
terial No greater pest to agriculture exists
in the world than this pugnacious bird; all
the worse, as birds In general are our hest
eriends.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
To Be Seen, Not Initiated.

Much as we all admire the play Of Little
Lord Fauntleroy," IS there not wondrous
dearth Of small boys who would like to be like
Little Lord Fauntleroy? We have talked
with number Of little fellows about it, and
all have agreed that they couldn't be induced
to wear their hair long, to wear a girls hat
With plume in it, and to wear an enormous
silk sash The play interests all the boys, but
when it comes to introducing the salient fea-
lures Of Little Lord Fauntleroy's career into
their own lives-that is quite another thing,
and the boys will have none of it And We
do not blame them--Chicag6 News.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
Labor Reforms Demanded.

CHATTANOOGA, August 9.-The Trades
man has received authentic information
that the coal miners of Alabama are or
ganizing to fight the convict labor sys-
tenn and the company stores, and to
demand better mining laws. a conven-
ton will be held in September and the
struggle inaugurated. Leaders write
the Ir0r7eSns0ae that it will be a war to
the bitter end.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
A Black Confederate,

Eli Pickett, colored man, has made
application for a Confederate pension
from the State of Georgia. He rendered
valuable service. and was disabled in the
military branch of the Confederacy. The
Atlanta Constitution says Pickett will
find that he has plenty of Confederate
friends, and expresses the hope that his
case may meet favorable consideration.