The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-27
Grains from GreeieyYiiie.

GREE1EyvILLE, Mar. 23.-The spring
of the year is upon US, but the spring
ing of vegetation is checked by too
much water and cold air. The warm,
bright rays of the sun yesterday and
to-day give promise of a change of
conditions. Change, motion, progress
forwards or backwards, to develop
ment OF decay, is the rule; periods Of
rest the exception. The present is
time of change, and nothing escapes
it.
The United States wants to annex
Canada, Canada wants to annex the
New England States, and to cap the
climax somebody wants to build a
Court House at Lake City because the
top OF the one at Kingstree has been
destroyed by fire. If this is accom-
plished another new county will be
in order. Remoteness of inhabitants
from court of justice is now being
used as an argument in favor of in
creasing the number Of houses in
which to hold them. This will be
good argument with the people living
between Black River and Santee in
the county of Williamsburg. There
are other arguments which may be
properly used. In advocating the
bi..l . make Clarendon county Chen
a part of Sumter district) judicial
district, MI. F. D. Richardson, mem
Der of the Legislature from Charles
ton, said, ga court house is a public
educational institution" or words to
that effect. Look around you, Mr..
Editor, and behold the proof of the
truth of the declaration. In address
ing a jury in a court house Mr.. Rich
ard Dozier said: Railroads are sym
bols Of civilization" In charging a
jury in court house Judge Shaw de-
livered full and lucid exposition of
the legal term felony" closing with
the well remembered words, styou
al! know what stealing is" (He was
addressing colored jurors.) The ter
ritory between Black River and San
tee River, within the county of Will
liamsburg, does not, probably, con-
contain the requisite number ofsquare
miles to form new county. omake
good the deficiency we must borrow
from our neighbors, who, no doubt,
will generously accommodate us.
Berkeley and Georgetown would read
ily give US their portions of the San
tee River and swamp, and the State
her right to narrow strip of the At
lantic Ocean. This would add con-
siderable number of square miles OF
territory, with an abundance of wood
and water for the use of the inbabit-
ants, such as ish, sharks, eels, cooters,
gators, craw6sh, coons, and pos
sums; besides largely increasing the
food resources, without the slightest
interference in the matter of suffrage.
If the Santee quota should be in
s.ficien Mt to complete the required
area, then it might be supplied by
changing the course of the Clarendon
line at a point between st. Marks
church and DR.. S. P. divers, so as to
make it follow the highest, highest,
and driest' road to the Florence coun-
ty line somewhere in Salem, thus in
Guiding large number of valuable
citizens, and supplying a handle to the
pan, corresponding to the Santee
sprout. True, these citizens would be
a long distance from the new court
house, but they could probably learn
as much in other court houses nearer
to them, and it would be some conso-
lation to them to know that they We're
living in a county built after the
fashion of some Congressional dis
tricts
Ex-President Cleveland recently
passed this place on his way to Cuba.
While opposite the station it is esti-
mated that the rate of speed at which
he was travelling was sufficiently slow
to allow him to catch at least half a
breath of air.
Measles still prevail hereabouts.
Rev. W. H. Workman is just recov-
ering from an attack of the disease.
Your notice of successful men and
their business operations in your coun-
ty is to be applauded. In Missis-
sippi county paper there are frequent
brief notices of business enterprises,
and annually one issue is almost who'll
ly devoted to a full account of all the
business men and places in the coun-
ty. j. NJ. B.