The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-12-18

Tennessee made $4,000, 900 bushels
of corn and 100, 900 bales of cotton this
year.
Col. ]. H. Rathbone, founder of the
order of Knights Pythias, died at Lima,
o., on Monday.
w. W. Russell has rented house
in Anderson, and will soon move his
family to that city.
The students of the State University
passed appropriate resolutions on the
death of Jefferson Davis.
Tho Tupper bill to regulate the
employment of children in factories
meets with general disfavor.
The flags over the State House
will foat at half-mast for thirty dav,
in homer of the late President Davis.
The Farmers Alliance of Oconee
county recommends Capt. J. L. Shank
lin, its president, as one ofe.the trustees
of the Clemson College.
The work of refining sugar was CON-
menced on Monday in Claus Spreckles'
new sugar refinery in Philadelphia. The
capacity of the refinery is 1000. 900
pounds OF sugar every twenty-four
hours.
1t is estimated that it will take
$500, 900, to carry the Three C's Rail-
road to Charleston. A committee OF
merchants Las been appointed 20 confer
with representatives of the Company on
the matter.
The Australian ballot is being
seriously considered by the Virginia
Legislature. In q column of interviews
printed by the Richmond Dispatch q
majority Of the takers favor system
where the citizen can cast his ballot in
secrecy.
| Charles a. Whitemire, who was ap-
pointed by the President last April post
master at Newberry, and his commission
'held up" because the people did not
want negro, has got from Postmaste!
General Wansmaker, position as labor,
in the postofice department in Wash.
ington at salary of $500 per year.
The Sumter cotton mills will soon bt
lighted with electric lights, the Electric
Light Company having taken the con
tract. The inside wiring has been com
pleted, so that by January I, at least
the operatives will be working by ths
new light. The cotton mill has beer
running on double time for many months
"A colored boy, aged "A, employed il
r the barber shop of Tom Ballard, alst
, colored, in Yorkville, attempted suicid
on Sunday by hanging himself to limb o
q tree. He was found, in an unconsciou
e condition, on the ground the rope hav
6 ing broken. He claims that Ballard's il
! treatment led him to the act.
Preparations for the ball atHote
r Chiquola, at Anderson on the night O.
T the 31st, are being made, and every
thing is on magnificent scale. On
thousand invitations are now bein!
made out. Visitors are expected fron
Charleston, Columbia, Augusta, At
; lanta, Greenville, and many othe
" places in this State, Georgia and Nortl
= Carolina. The banquet and ball will
y be given on the night of the 31st, an
y y will be followed by a german on tn
- 1st of January.
The contemplated resignation c
Congressman Cothran, to accept th
position of general counsel If the Rict
d Inond and Danvilie Railroad Company
it South Carolina, has already brought OF
% some candidates for the succession. N
d Benet, OF Abbevilie, has announced hin
,e self candidate for election to fill II
al vacancy, ard there has been q movene'
q in Newberry circles indicating the prol
ID able candidacy Of Mr. George Johnston
"a Senator: Murray, when asked what b
ID intentions were, said that he had NJ
o. made up his mind yet whether or not
n hoco,ne a candidate.