The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-30
OUT OF TIE BEATEN TRACK.
Some Curious Facts. Unusual Happenin,
and Ora llpipiopS.


Doctors of Lansing, Mich, have or
ganized against "bad-pay" people.
John Bright, who has been improving
lately, has suffered another relapse.
Railroad commissioners in New York
are abolishipg railroad crossings a
grades.
In San Francisco each hydrant has
meter wich registers theamount Of wate1
used.
At Parana, according to the Bueno'
Ayres Herald, textiles made from rushes
look like wool and silk.
Delaware now has big peach crop IL
soak. It is pity her political orchard
has rotten shoot.
Massey was defeated for the Senate IL
Delaware because he was Pennsylvania
railroad attorney.
Senator Morgan has as poor an opinion
OF the negroes SIS laborers as Congress
man Oates has OF them SIS voters.
The Herald has slang chat. The very
latest word is s'biddle." This means, il
aristocrstic circles, stip-top."
The Democrats Of Pennsylvania have
come up smiling. There is nothing
tougher than Penns5 .7ania Democrat
The masculine heart weighs more an6
is larger than that of the fair sex, accord.
ing to recent Investigations carried on in
Germany.
A Californian's will, disposing of S..
600, 900 is one of the briefest on record,
being expressed in something over l5C
words.
The United States, in the last eight
years, has spent about s., 600, 600, 900 on
new railroads and about 81, 900, 900, ,0OC
on new houses.
The Connecticut Legislature has elect
ed a governor of that State, an election
by the people having failed. NJ. G.
Bulkeley, Republican, was chosen.
Nitro-glycerire bids fair, say the doc,
tors, to become al important remedy fol
disease Of the kidneys; snd experiments
are now making in csses Of Bright's
disease.
Anew York jeweller says he has just
made pair OF garter buckles valued ST
$500. He refers to the fact as an illus
traaoro Of the extent to which the rage
for personal decoration has gone among
women,
DR.. Friedberg has resigned the Office
of Prussian minister Of justice in conse-
quence of the publication Of the indict.
ment against Prof. Gefcken.
The Rev. Henry White, of the Savoy
Chapel, London, states that out of l,00C
couples which he assisted to join together
only one pair had found marriage fail
ure.
Gen. Harrison does not understand
why prominent men of his party embar-
rass him by signing two or three recon-
mendations for diferentmen for the same
place.
Senator Evarts advises halt in the
New York scramble for cabinet place.
Senator Evarts wisely suggests that Gen.
Harrison be allowed to fight it out by
himself.
Six members of Harvard's of 1929 had
q reunion il Boston last last week. They
were: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel
May, Charles S. StorroW and the Rev.
Drs. Stickney, Devens and S. F. Smith.
MIR. VIM. E. Barrett, Tho has been
elected speaker OF the Massachusetts
Eouse Of Representatives, is one of the
youngest men ever selected for the
speakership in that State. he is hut
thirty years OF age.
The Roanoke News says that little
girl, when told for the first time Of the
identity Of Santa Claus, looked up il q
disappointed surprise, and, with a tear
in her little eyes, .hesitatingly asked,
Sand is it q story aboct Jesus, too?"
A New York Sun special says that
Fri Gray, of Roxbury, n. Y, was un-
doubtedly the Oldest voter IN that State
who cast ballot at ine Late Presidel. .tial
elsehol. Ee then lacked few DAYS OF
being l03 years old, having been born
IN Weston, Conn, Dec. Is, 17S5.
For three years past Massachusetts,
has been experimenting with the Scotch
system Of boarding out pait o. the in
sane patients of hat state. New York
is about to test the same system, and j,
is aIso to be tried In Canada. the system
is sid to have worked well wherever
honestly tried.
George Meadows, negro, was hung
SSy 1non at Prstt Mines, near Birmirg.
ham, Ala, on Tuesday. He was accuced
OF 4n outrage on white Lazy, but she
would not be quite positive In identifying
him. But it was shown that ne mad pre-
viously assaulted colored girl, and he
was hung. The proceeding was very
quiet.
TIE other day Col. a. <. Mcclure
sold.a reporter for the NJ York Graphic
that MIR. Cleveland viii be a strong
Presidential possibility for 1892 if the
next fight is on Ghe tariff. He says he
does not share she popular impression
that Hill is the strongest Democrat II
the party.
Judge Adams instructed the granc
jury in Savannah yesterday to inquire
into the violation of the election laws
Ee said that it had come to his knowl
edge through the newspapers, anc
through other sources. that votes were
purchased at both the county and city
elections. The grand jury will make
rigid inquiry into the charges.
The dinner of the American Protective
Tariff league at Delmonico's, New York
seems to have been q success. Hon
William Mckinley responded to the toas