The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-20
TIMELY TOPICS.


ino He was in charge of Fort Sumter
when it was attacked By the Yankee
monitors.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. now in session, in Chicago is al
ter Vice President Morton with ven
eeance because he owns and has leased
q fine hotel and signed his consent to the
sale of liquor in its saloon. 1t is pFee-
ty issue between the Christian. Union ana
the Vice President of "the grand ola
party of moral ideas
At the Paris Hippodsome the c:e-
attraction for the season has been the
spectacle ST lion taking equestrian ex-
erc;se. the animal really mounting on
the hack of a horse and being earned
several times around an iuclosure. Inc
receipts accruing from this novel per-
formance are stated to amount up to the
present to more than $4,000
Heavy rains fell at Johnstown, IA, /,
last Friday night, and the river rose
about five feet. The temporary bridge
crossing the river at Cambria City was
swept away. Saturday morning the
bridge crossing from Millvale to Johns-
town was in danger of going out. All
other bridges arein great danger. WOOD.
vale was overhowed, and several houses
were surrounded BY water.
Elmer Labodie, Frenchman about 40
wears old, while on trial at Franklin,
Mass. last Saturday, for assaultlng his
daughter, killed himself By cutting his
throat with jack-knife. The testimony
had been concluded, and the justice
said: s:This matter is beyond my Jurls'
diction.'' ssMine, too!' exclaimed Laoo-
die, as be drew knife from under ms
clothing and slashed mis- throat before
the officer could interfere, severlns the
jugular vein, and died before assistance
could be rendered. His three daughters
witnessed the tragedy, one falntlng
away.
A dispatch from Washington says
"The question as to whether North OF
South Dakota was admitted first into
the Union by the Presidents signature,
cannot be verified. The Star tonight
says the President, in order to create no
jealousy in the states, took both proc!a-
nations, covered them with paper, then
shufied them together in three-caro-
monte style without uucovering them,
signed each in the proper place; then
there was more shutting. Thus he or
no one else knows which proclamation
was sisurd nrs5.' -Tla.-s.~Ssreos esos<S
of America had to be pacifed like two
spoiled children, or that the president
of this great Republic could descend to
such jugglery is ridiculous if not mortlfy-
ing.
Postmaster General Wannamaker
has awarded the contract Tor furnish
ing adhesive postage stamps for four
years, beginning on the first of Janu'
airy next, to the American Bank Note
Company of New York. The award
was made for stamps Of q reduced
size, the new stamps being about one
eighth smaller than those in present
use. The designs will be changed to
conform to the reduction in the size of
the stamps, and new engravings will
be made throughout The new con-
trsct also calls for some changes in the
colors. The one cent stamp will con-
tinue to be printed in blue; the two
cent stamp, now printed in green, will
be prin.ed in bright carmine, and
changes will be made in some OF the
other denominations.
Latham, Alexander & Co., in their
sCotton movements and Fluctua-
tions," just out, indirectly call atten-
ton to the change that may result in
the cotton business from the steadily
increasing prosperity of the Southern
farmers, which enables them to hold
their cotton and sell it as they like
Their publications are standard in the
cotton trade, going all over the world
and this statement will probably turn
the thoughts of persons seeking profit
able employment in agriculture in
this direction. It comes in sharp con-
trast with the universal complaint ot
the discouraging conditions on the
farms in all parts of this country both
the South and throughout the old
countries. Tho Southern farmer has
a good deal to complain of, but al
the facts and figures indicate that he
is in better position and has more tc
hope for than any farmer IN the world
WESTWARD THE STAR OF EN-
PRE-
Has anybody taken notice that tn:
Republicans have won in every Fed
eral election since the war by running
a western man for President agains
an eastern man, and that the only
general election they have lost il
thirty years was that in which the.
ran an eastern Republican agaipst al
eastern Democrat?
Lincoln, of Illinois, defeated Nc
Clelian, Of New Jersey; Grant, o
Illinois, defeated Seymour, of New
York and Greedy, of New York; Haye
49, ooo+ >x-o. a.