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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
Cause Of Wakefulness.

The primary cause Of wakefulness is an IN.
crease in the quantity Of blood circulating IN
the brain: hence any condition or cause capa-
bic of inducing this state Of the cerebral cir
culation may give rise to it. AS these causes
are more or less under the control Of the in
dividual, it is important that they should be
generally known. First-Excessive and long
continued intellectual action or powerful
mental emotions Second-Those positions Of
the body which tend to impede the flow Of
blood from the brain and at the same time
do not obstruct its passage to the brain.
Many physicians have noticed the connec-
ton existing between bodily position and
wakefulness 1t is evident that the recun-
bent position is more conducive to state OF
congestion Of the brain than the erect or
semi-erect Dr. Forbes Winslow, DR.. HAM
mond and other physicians have noticed an
increase in the number and intensity Of hal
lucinations Of insane patients, or persons suf-
fering from delirium trenens, as soon as
they assume the recurnbent position These
patients have been found to sleep quietly for
some time in an armchair, but to be annoyed
by hallucinations as soon as they lie down.
Third-Certain substances used as medicine
or food.-Medical Classics
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
Campanini's Hard Fate,

In an italian restaurant on Union square
observed a short, stout, very red faced man
eating his macaroni in the most skillful for
eign style, and began to study the changes
that time had made in the appearance Of an
artist whose operatic triumphs are without
equal in the history Of the lyric stage. He
was roughly dressed, his hair disordered, his
n,ustache scraggy, and his skin almost purple
from the hea. and the labor Of eating. Across
one check was long scar, said to be the
honorable mark Of saber received in battle
for freedom. In the room whore be sat were
several youns and beautiful girls, but not
one Of these ever turned her eyes to the mac
aron: eater He finished his dinner and left
the room, and only q few people present
knew that not many years ago this was the
greatest tenor singer in the world, the recipi-
ent of hundred perfuned notes day and
one Of the most picturesque figures in the
glitter of New York Bohemia. Only few
Italians and myself were aware that the
purple, shors necked macaroni eater was
Campanini. York Letter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
FELL SIXTY FEET IN HIS SLEEP.
Death of New York Man by ROLLING
from His Bed Into an Air Shaft.

John Harper, the janitor Of the build
ing at Sixty-third and sixty-fourth
street and Ninth avenue, went to his
fiat at 1873 West Sixty-second street late
Saturday night, and the night WAS so
warm that he opened wide the window
of his bedroom and pulled his bed close
up to it. Then he vent to bed. An
hour or so later tenants in the house
beard body falling down the air-shaft.
The janitor of this building was awak-
ened, and going out to the bottom of
the shaft found Harper lying there Gov
cred with blood and dead. A hurried
investigation was made and it was found
that Harper.s bed was just on a level
with the sill of the window, which
opened on the shaft. 1t is supposed
that the unfortunate man had become
restless in his siecp and had rolled out
IF the open window to his death. The
room was on the fifth floor and about
sixty feet above the ground. Harper
was 80 wears old
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
THE TERRY TRAGEDY.
Some Doubt as to Whether Deputy Nagle
Should be Tried in the State or the
Federal Courts

Some Doubt as to Whether Deputy Nagle
Should be Tried in the State or the
Federal Courts.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 22.-It has
been arranged between the lawyers on
both sides that when Deputy Marshal
Nagle's case comes up a continuance
will be asked for till Wednesday next:
to give counsel for defense an opportu-
nifty to investigate the law. The lawyers
are beginning to fear that Nagle cannot
be tried by the United States authori-
ties. Judge Sawyer is reported to be
doubtful of their right to interfere in
Nagle's case, as he claims Nagle cannot
claim to be an officer of the Circuit
Court, as Judge Field can. II be refuses
to recognize the Federal right to inter
fere, Nagle will be promptly returned
to Stockton Jail and will be tried there.
Sentiment here in regard to his ac-
ton is still divided, but in the country,
judging from editorial opinions, three
fourths of the people believe that he
showed great eagerness to kill Terry.
There is no way of proving or dis
proving Porter Ashes statement that
Judge Reydenfeldt of San Francisco re-
ceived letter from Judge Field offering
his support to Terry if Terry would
agree to support him for the Presidency.
Field denounces Ashes statement as a
malignant liz, but Heydenfeldt refuses
to say word.
Mrs. Terry reached here last night,
and is expected to be present in court
to-day when Nagle's case comes up.
The State Supreme Court yesterday
denied a rehearing in the Sharon-Terry
case of its last decision, in which Judge
Sullivan's judgment was reversed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
A Simple Relief for Lung Troubles.

During visit to the home of a most
estimable lady living on Indian River
this editor was told of discovery that
had been made which may prove a boon
to sufferers from lung or bronchial
troubles. This lady having heard that
there was peculiar virtue in a pillow
made from pine straw, and having none
of that material on hand, made one
from fine, soft pine shavings, and had
the pleasure of noting immediate bene-
fit. Soon all the members of the house
hold had pine shavings pillows, and it
was noticed that all coughs, asthmatic
or bronchial, abated.at once after sleep
ing few nights on these pillows. An
invalid, suffering with lung trouble, de-
rived much benefit from sleeping upon a
mattress made from pine shavings. The
material is cheap and makes a very
pleasant and comfortable mattress, the
odor of the pine permeating the entire
room and absorbing or dispelllng all un-
pleasant or Objectionable odors.-Cocoa
(FyG.) Spirit.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
NEGROES ON WAR PATH.

a White Boy Accidentally Kills Colored
Woman.The Negroes Threaten to Lynch
the Unfortunate Youth and Burn the
Town.
CHARLESTON, August 23.-[Special to
The Register. To-day has been one of
intense excitement in Charleston. At
II a. m. a telephone message was re-
ceived from Mount Pleasant asking for
assistance. Mount Pleasant is suburb
Of the city, across the river, in Berkeley
County, and near the scene of the Cain
hoy massacre in 1876. The negroes
outnumber the whites in the proportion
of about thirty to one.
The message came from the Sheriff.
1t seems that about 8 a. m. a negro wo-
man named Mollie Holmes entered a
grocery store in the village aud made
some purchases. The clerk, Fred
Schaefsr, boy of about II years of
age, had been cleaning gun, which is
invariably kept in such stores. The wo-
man passed in front of it while the boy
was handling it, the gun Went off and
nortally wounded her.
As soon as the news got abroad, the
negro women, as is their custom, started
out on crazy crusade. They aroused
the men, and in a moment the whole
population was in ferment. The boy
ran to the Sheriff and gave himself up
aud was locked up in the Jail
The women surrounded the jail and
demanded his blood. The men Sent out
to the surrounding plantations for arms
and ammunition, and threatened tie take
the prisoner, Sheriff and jailor and
hang all of them unless the boy was
given up.
The Sheriff had half-dozen deputies
sworn in and stood the siege, in the mean-
time sending to Charleston for help.
Bv order of the Governor, two compa-
nies of white militia, the German Fusi-
liers and the Sumter Guards, were dis
patched to the scene of the disturbance.
They left the city at p. m, and forty
five minutes later were at the Jail.
The woman died at about : p. m.,
having made an c,ate mortem statement
TO the effect that the shooting was acci-
dental. This, however, did not appease
the infuriated negro men and women.
The prisoner was sent under guard
over to this city at ! p. M; but in the
meantime the reiuforcements from Cain
hoy and the surrounding country had
come in and the crowd threatened to
burn the town.
The Charleston troops thereupon were
ordered to encamp on the scene, and
will stay there all tonight.
The negroes in this city are very
much excited, and the lower classes are
talking boldly of embarking in small
boats for Mount Pleasant to go to the
aid of the rioters.
Seven of the ringleaders in the demon
stration were arrested about 5 p. m.
and lodged in Jail.
It was clearly a case of accidental
killing, and the bloodshirsty feeling of
the negroes is somewhat difficult to
understand.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
A BABY'S LEAP.
Through the Window Of Railroad Car
Going at Full Speed.

1o4A6 6t - o0 SpSSo.
There is one lucky baby and a happy
mother in California to night, says the
Stockton Independent. The mother and
babe were passengers on the South
ern Pacific North bound passenger train
Yesterday afternoon. The child, which
was about year old, was standing Ia
it's moyher's lap looking out of the open
window. 1t gave one of those sudden
springs to which babies are addicted,
and, before the mother could clutch it,
went out through the open window.
The Shrek of the mother brought a
brakeman to the spot, who pulled the
bell cord, and the train, which was
going at full speed, was checked as
soon as possible.
The conductor soon made his appear
ance, and when the case had been ex-
planned to him ordered the train to be
backed up slowly till the spot was
reached where the baby had made its
frightful plunge. To the surprise of al!
the sound of the baby's cries was heard,
for it was supposed that it would be in
stantly killed.
Nearly every man on the train jumped
off to search for the little one, which
was found sitting by the roadside, cry
ing Justify. 1t was soon placed in its
mothers arms, perfectly uninjured, not
even showing scratch as AL evidence
of its narrow escape from death.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
A Song for the Future.

Sing sweetly song for the days that are
gone.
They were M rry and glad and free;
But oh for the t.y. hl' are yet to dawn
And the joys hat are yet to be!
Fair is the East, when the Horning shines,
And the glad earth awakes from rest;
But lovelier far, when the day declines,
Is the glory that fills the West.
To morrow will come, with a brighter light
Than yesterday ever knew,
For pleasure unknown and new delight
"i!l gladden. it, through and through.
Then s're for the light. hearted, bygone
times
They were merry and gay and free:
But, Oh, sing in fuller and ha: pier chimes
., the joys that are yet TO be.
Boston Transcript.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
An Accommodating Boss.

A gang of men were at work on city
street when slight, beardlsss youth
laid down his pick, and, approaching
the foreman, said to him:
"Can I take a fit, Sir2''
Take what?" asked the foreman.
GA fl. I feel one coming on" re-
piled the young man, without emotion.
"Why, certainly" said the foreman.
So the young man walked over to a
bit of grass under leafy :ree-it was a
new street in the suburbs-and had fit.
Then he went and washed his face,
came back to his place in the line, took
up his pick and struck into work. AT
ter the days work was over the young
man said to the foreman: ''You don't
mind my having fts?'
"No-I guess not, if you do fair
days work"
"Well, you see, l used to work for a
butcher, an he wouldn't let me take
fits-said it interfered with business
an I thought you might feel the same
way about it.''
And the young man works hard with
pick and shovel and takes a fit once in
while as you or might take drink
of water. PttSburg Dispatch.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28

Gas for the battle, I remember very
little. 1t was nothing but fighting and
excitement. The Hanoverians were
splendid lot of men, and all of taem
fought we'll; but as for the Belgians, if
Wellington had only known what they
were he would not have given one of
them horse. We were short of horses.
and he would have taken theirs and
made every man of them tramp on
foot. They never fired shot, for as
soor as the first crack was heard they
were off as hard as they could go. All
day long the fighting went on, but the
smoke hang so thick around US that We
could see little. There was nothing but
firing and shouting on all sides. Some
times when the smoke lifted we could
see fighting going on around us, some
times in front. or to our right and left
where we could see the cavalry charg-
ing each other. Then a lot of horses
would come flying actoss the fields in
all directions, neighing and kicking
wildly. Their riders were gone; they
had been shot out of the saddles, and
the horses were galloping madly away
to escape. There vas an English regi
ment near US, and I remember seeing
the French charge at them. As soon
as ever they appeared the English would
yell, England forever, here they come,
get at them,' and then they cheered,
fired away, and off would go the
French.
Sometimes we lay on the ground
doing nothing We could scarcely see
twenty yards ahead of US for the smoke,
but then we would know something was
coming. We would hear the shouting
of the French, and out of the smoke
they would rush. We shouted and fred
straight at them, and away they went
and were gone in the smoke again. But
they would soon turn, aud back they
would come with another rush out of
the smoke, more firing. and they were
gone again. And so it went on all the
time was not frightened; l was too
excited for anything played my tri
angle and shouted Scotland forcverr
till / was hoarse, and could scarce:
speak word. l never got a scratch,
but think it must have been my height
that saved me. I was so little that I
had not much risk to run, but the Black
Watch was so cut up that it had to join
with the Seventy-seventh.
''But the French had no chance that
dav. They were no match for our army,
and the little Frenchmen could not
stand the big Englishmen. 1t was the
same with the cavalry, for our men could
ride over them. The English could
have fought al night, but the French
would not let them"
Scott maintains his contempt for the
French to the last. 'They hate US yet, :"
said he, ''but the English beat them at
Waterloo, and can always do it."-NeD
Vo,.Z- Ty;,oo
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
TIE FARMERS CONGRESS.
The Declaration Of War Against Jute
Continued Indefinitely.


MONTGOMERY, Ala, August 21.--The
Southern Interstate Farmers Associa-
ton closed its annual session here to-
day. The subjects discussed to-day
were: "The depression of agriculture,
causes and remedy" "Should farmers
organizations be encouraged2" Gen,
William Miller of Florida led in the
discussion Of the latter subject and
made strong tariff reform speech.
The committee on cotton covering,
Hon. ". J. Green OF North Carolina,
chairman, submitted the following report,
which was unanimously adopted:
Recognizing the fact that jute bag,
ging, which has heretofore been exclu-
sirelv used by cotton planters as cover
lpg for their product, was during the
last season most unnecessarily raised in
price nearly 100 per cent. by the manu-
facturers of the material, aud recogniz-
ing likewise that such an arbitrary and
cruel rise in price could only have been
made possible by what is known a, Il
trust, and inasmuch as under the Spur
of such wrong, suitable substitutes have
SllCo Utcu OlSCOSeESu lOt CCllOu C'Ntl- =
ing, your committee do most earnestly
recommend to every cotton producer
throughout the land the absolute diScon
tinuance of the use of jute bagsing,
whenever a substitute can be obtained.
s'Your committee goes further aud
proclaims that this recommendation,
whether viewed as retaliatory measure,
or simply as a measure of self-protection,
is equally justidable, and they recon-
mend like action or non-use when posi-
ble of every article which has been
placed or shall hereafter be placed un-
der trust for the purpose Of excluding
competition and thus enabling the
projectors TO fix their own price On the
same"
Col. L. L. Polk, of Raleigh, N. c.,
was reelected President of Tue Assoc!a-
ton, and the Hon. L. a. Youmans, of
South Carolina, was elected Vice Presi-
dent from the States at large. All the
vice presidents were reelected. G. +.
Andover, of Tennessee, was elected Sec
retary.
Resolutions were adopted urging the
Importance of securing legislation for
the advancement and protection of the
agricultural interests. The association
adjoured to meet in Nashville next
wear
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
a Romance for School Girls

A few weeks ago girl, who we will
say lived in Troy, was married there
under circumstances rather romantic
for this prosaic age. She was travelling
in Germany, studying art, and whatever
else pleased her sweet fancy, when she
lighted upon Heidelberg. One day she
was sitting in the cathedral there, copy
ing a picture, when a handsome young
man strolled leisurely by, and looked so
hard at the Troy girl that he could al
most be accused of staring. After about
an hour he came back, and in passing
the Young woman went so c'ose that be
accidentally knocked down an umbrella
which was leaning against her camp
stool. He picked it up, aud also several
scraps and sketches which had fallen to
the floor from her portfolio. After pro-
fuse apologies for his awkwardness, be
complimented the maiden on the 1eexS
cellence of rscepysand respectfully ex-
pressed thesG6pe that he might see the
work when it was done. This was the
end OF act one. The next day the girl
was sitting, as before, at her pleasant
task, and at about the same hour the
young man passed, deferentially lifting
his hat. The following day he managed
to make the acquaintance of the friends
with whom sne was staying, and thus
he procured an introduction to her. He
proved to be young Englishman, we'll
to-do, and of good family. 1t was case
of love at first sight with both of them !,
for within three weeks they were en-
gagged to be married. After the girl had
finished her studies she returned to her
home in Troy. A year later the young
Engllshman came over here with his
father to claim his bride. There was a
quiet wedding, a short bridal tour
through Canada and the States, and now
the girl is mistress of home in London.
Albany Express.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
THE CUSTER MASSACRE.
One Man Escaped. and He Blew His Erains
Gut to Avoid Capture

One Man Escaped, and He Blew His Bruins
Gut to Avoid Capture.
In bis long service as Indian agent DR.. Bic
GilNcuddy learned from the Sioux many IN
:eresting facts about the Custer massacre.
For wears after that terrible affair the par
ticipauts in it were very 10th to talk of 1t to
white men, but as the agent gradually gained
their confidence they told him, little by little,
the whole story. Sitting Bull had 3,o0H war
r;ors on that occasion. That is said to have
been the largest force Of Indians ever encoun-
tered by American troops In a single engage
meot Custer had over 500 cavalry and some
Crow scouts He divided his torcc about
equally, and sent Maj. Reno with one body to
attack the lower end Of the Indian village,
while he charged at the upper end. Inc
Sioux all agree in their statements to Dr. NC
Gillicuddy that their surprise was complete.
They were engaged in repelling Reno at one
end. when the bugles at the OTHER end gave
them their first warning Of Clusters presence.
They were Disconnected, and were Oh ths
point Of giving way for general retreat
when Reno, to their asconlshment, dre" OIL
This permitted them to turn their whole a0-
tantion to Custer ''the white chief With tne
yellow hair"
They told how they managed to make sne
massacre complete The ground was broken
and Custer was unable to handle his men IN
cavalry formation. He disinounted them,
leaving every fourth man to bold the horses.
The Indians threw themselves first on the
men with the horses, shot them down and
stampcded the horses. They did this they
said, because they knew that the bulk OF the
ammunition which the soldiers carried was
49, Tbis Sora tha easy.
It was only the question of a few minutes Till
the cartridges in the belts of the soldiers gave
out. and then there was no more ammunition.
81 see," said Dr. McGilEcuddy, that every
now and then some man announces himself,
in the east, as the sole survivor OF the Custer
massacre You can always put him down as
an impostor. There was one man who might
have escaped He was q young surgeon
named Lord His body was not found until
long afterwards, and it was at first supposed
he wes captive The Indians told ne
strange story about Lords death. They said
that when he saw how things were going he
started off, Several young bucks followed
him, but he had good horse and kept ahead
Of them. Just as they were going to give up
the chase and intending to let Lccd escape,
he drew a pistol and shot himself dead. l
suppose he was craze2G Ct the ssset,Sht htAot>b Of BE-
coming a prssner. The only person with
Custer whs0 survived was a Crow scout.
When be saw that the fight had gone against
the cavalry he drew his blanket over his head
so that the Sioux might not recognize him as
a Crow, jumped about among them and
howled and gradually edged his way out of
the fight and made of. believe he is still
about the Crow Indian agency. y."-Sioux Falls
1attar
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
Considering the Bible.

The council of ministers Of the Turk.
isA Government have had under consid-
Grafton memorial from the American
Legation complaining that hindrarces
had been put in the way of circulating
the Bible in Turkish, on the ground of
its being an injurious book. The coun-
ell, finding that the books had been
printed in various foreign languages
and circulated throughout the empire,
and that apparently no harm had re-
suited, and that there was no proba-
bility that there would be any harm, de-
cided to instruct the foreign Minister
accordingly, to the end that the publ
cation of the books should not be inter-
fered with.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
Red Rain.

Red rain fell recently in the province
of Lublin, Russian Poland. The shower
lasted for about ten minutes. The
peasants, who mistook the red liquid
for blood, became panic-stricken and
crowded the churches, where they were
quieted by the priests. Several bottles
of the red rain were sent to chemists
and microscopists in Warsaw for exami-
nation. For several days after the
shower all the surface water in Lublln
was of dark pink color.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
Death of a Noted Negro Preacher.

Rev. Jim Steel, colored, of Biddle'
vile, died Sunday morning at eleven
o'clock He was noted character, a
prominent politician, and organizer of
secret society having chapters in the
Carolinas and Georgia. He at one time
served in Georgia chain gang. The
boy murdered in the cotton patch in
York County, S. c., some years ago met
his death by the members of this secret
society, and the murderers were hung
in Yorkville. e.-CNGrlotte Chronicle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
A Bad Guess.

a business firm in Chicopee, Mass,
offered prize for the best guess as to
the number of marbles in big boot e1-
hibited in their window. a shoemaker of
the town, anxious to win the prize, made
a boot, as he thought, of the same size
and filled it with marbles. Then he
counted the marbles and gave the num-
Der as his guess. He was over 1900 out
of the way.