The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-04-24
ALL ABOUT THE STATE.

IS. E. Smith, colored, who was the
so-called Republican candidate for Con-
sress in the Second District last fall, has
been reappointed mail agent on the Port
| Royal Railroad, from which position he
was ousted four Years ago. Smith sup
plants NJ G. Jones.
Farmer Ben Tillman of Edgefeld is
Moses who believes in milk and meat.
From twenty half Jersey COWS he gath
ers seventy-fve pounds of butter a
week, for which he readily gets thirty
five cents pound He also sells annu-
ally in Charleston and Augusta six or
eight thousand pounds of home cured
hams at prices ranging up to fifteen
| cents.
Sam Nix, colored, ploughed up last
week on his farm four miles from Barn
well, on the Blackvillc road, an immense
Indian stone pipe The height of the
bowl was four and its circumference ten
inches. The stem was nearly five inches
long. 1t weighed two or three pounds
and would hold quarter of a pound of
tobacco. Several distinct and rude
carvings were on the surface. 1t prob
ably did service at many council fires in
aboriginal days.
In the Aiken court, last week, the
trial Of John Harden for the killing of
his uncle, Ebert Harden, in June, 1878,
resulted in a verdict of not guilty. The
nephew and uncle were near neighborS.
On the day of the killing Ebert went to
Johns house and began a quarrel with
him. As Ebert went away John shot
| him in the back, and as he was lying
helpless crushed his skull with the gun.
John left the country and remained
until he was arrested in Florida a few
months ago.
Miss Jane Blackman of Lancaster
County, young girl just blooming into
beautiful womanhood, was so seriously
burned one day last week, by her clothes
catching fire, that but little if any hopes
ale entertained Of her recovery. She
was with her stepfather in the new
grounds where brush heaps were being
burned, when her clothes caught fire,
and before the flames could be extin.
guished, famed by the brisk wind blow,
Ing at the time, her person was blistered
from foot to head. Her physician con-
sidels her condition hopeless.
The new Town Council of Edgeield
is confronted with a serious problem
viz: the levying Of a tax to pay a iudg-
ment in favor of Moore & Sinnot, hold
crs of certain. bonds issued by the towf
of Edgefeld to aid in the construction
of the Edgefeld branch railroad, nov
known as the Cumberland Gap. The
amount involved is 81, 800. To pay this
in one instaIment will require a levy o
20 mills on the dollar, exclusive of tht
regular State and County taxes, whicl
amount to III mills, and the Ch1onicl
says there are scarcely a half dozen fam
lies in that municipality able to pay it.
In Newberry County, last Tuesday
John and James McCarley went to the
plantation of I. ". Abrams to see {
negro, Nathan Epps, who was under con
tract with them for this year and hat
left, to get him to return. During the
interview the negro made an assault or
James McCarley, who was on his horse
with an axe, cutting his saddle ant
horse, ,whereupon Mr.. McCarley drew his
pistol and shot the negro in the leg
Alf Epps, the father of Nathan, came tt
the rescue and drew a hoe on John Nc
Carley, and he also received a wound IL
the leg. The negroes are not seriousl.
hurt, although the physician has beer
unable to get the balls.