The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-06

Judge Hudson proposes that three
fourths of petit jury be authorized
to find a verdict.
Ban1berg had quite a small pox
scare last week, but it turned out to
be chicken poz.
Florence has eight barrooms, each
paying $500 town license, s100 State
license, and $25 U. S. license, grand
total of $4,000. The Florentlnes do
love liquor.
Tie custom of tolling the bells of
steamboats, while passing Grants
grave on the Hudson has been adopt
ed BY few boats, in imitation of the
custom among steamboat men on the
Potomac, when passing Washington's
grave at Mount Vernon.
/ The most fashionable slang phrase
of the day is, Gin the soup" 1t sim
ply means to be or to get in trouble.
For instance, in the face of what was
done in Washington last Monday, the
great Democratic party OF these Unit
ed States may enphatically be said to
be Sin the soup"
The principal watermelon growers
of this State have formed water
melon trust, and unless satisfactory
rates with the railroads can be made,
they viii not raise this year as many
watermelons as usual. The water
melon trust Of this State represents
more than FIVE thousand acres, and
they want to make more money than
heretofore.
Some persons imagine it an easy
thing to run a paper, and that there
is a fortune in it. May be so. Ev-
erybody thinks he could 10 better
than the one who does run it. May
be so again. But then experience is
a great thing. It's much easier to
start a paper, or buy one out, than it
is to keep it running, and make itpay
expenses.
And now comes the Richmond Dis
patch with this personal description of
President-elect Harrison: "Gen. Har-
rison is bomely, squatty little man,
with swayback nose, grizzly beard,
rotund middle ground, and short ex-
tremities. Of all the Presidents he
has the shortest legs, and when he
sits in Washington's chair his toes
viii not touch the first round"
The 1Tadesman published in: Chat
tanooga, Tenn, is one of the best
publications that come to our Office.
1t is devoted to the interest of the
/ manufacturer, and every issue con-
ltains valuable information. It is on.
| ly 50 a year. All our mill men
should be subscribers. Send to the
Office of publication for a sample copy.
Each copy contains about sixty or
seventy pages.
Charleston has now two artesian
wells and a third nearly completed.
This third we'll has reached a depth
of nearly 1000 feet, and when two
thousand feet is reached it is estimated
that the well will supply 1000 gallons
of water minute, or over million
gallons a day. When this we'll is
completed Charleston viii have wa
ter supply of more than two million
gallons day.
The novelty Of a large hotel built
on piles away from the shore, and with
the tidewatsrs of the Gulf Of Mexico
rising and falling under it, is materi-
alizing in Tampa Bay, Florida. The
hotel is being built by syndicate
headed by Mr.. Plant, the railroad king
of Florida. Later on, when the house
is opened, the guests will be able to
fish for tarpon and pompano from
their bedroom windows
The four new States will bring an
area aboutsequal to that OF Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Maryland, Virginia, West Viz
ginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana
! combined. It is an area three times
as great as the British Islands, more
than three times as great as Italy,
more than a hundred and fifty thou
sand square miles in excess Of Ger
many.
Il. q. Riddleberger, Republican
senator from Virginia, so disgraced
himself in the senate chamber last
Saturday, that he had to be forcibly
taken out of the senate chamber by
the sergeant at arms and deputy.
He was drunk, and had been drunk
for several days. He got vexed with
the president of the Senate, in the
morning, and all through the day by
his drunken conduct he hindered leg
islation. There was large crowd OF
visitors from all parts of the Union,
who witnessed this disgraceful scene.
The Bishopville Enterprise, spicy
little paper published in Bishopville,
Sumter county, by Shepard Nash, has,
for want of pecuniary support, sus-
pended publication. The Editor in