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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-07
EDITOR RooHEroRT.
The fmpdlsive French J0ufnallst 0f Whom
the Government Ii Afraid.

~
the Government II Afraid.
1.-THE Government Is not afraid of
General Boulanger, but Henri Rochefort
Is great troublo," said the French Am
bassador the other day to Count Herbert
Bismarcls; and everybody who knows
what sort Of position Rochefort held
In Paris will understand what the Am.
bassadot meant. 1t is no exaggeration
to say that the editor of LIntransigeant
gives away from $4,000 to $4,000 of his
income every year in charity.
He has long acted as relieving officer
TO all kinds of needy people, and both
his newspaper office and his private
apartments in Paris were places of pub
lie resort, whittier f1ocked all those who
had grievance. Prodigal of his talent
IS of his money Rochefort would at any
time dash of q paragraph or an article
Co denounce a peccant official, and in
rough and ready way he did much good.
Ofteu unnecessarily violent, and some
times unjust, he took up as arule cases in
which some palpable wrong had been
done to poor folk. He made the petty
oppress0r tremble, and his press tri-
bunal was one which frequently caused
Jo"OANO w bOuOhO dnu lullJ
for people who could have obtained no
remedy in courts Of law. The Paris cor
respondent Of the Cologne Gazette has
been talking with number of work
men, who all said to him: "u nous
taut RochGfrt'-the truth being that
Rocheforts exile had left gap which
can not be filed.
It was q great mistake to Include
Rochefort Ia the Indictment against
Boulanger, though no doubt BouIanger-
ism owes most of its success to Roche
fort. When the popular, openhanded
aurnalist pronounced for Boulanger he
drew after him an extraordinary nun.
Der of the wor king classes; but tits fact
; ought TO have made the Government
wary OF straining the press laws against
him. Every body knows that Roche
fort was prosecuted because M. Con.
STAINS, the Home Minister, whom be had
repeatedly accused of pecIt1ation. wanted
to be avenged of him; and the Senators
who condemned RocheforG we're also
actIated by the wish TO get rid Of q
pestilcnt fellow who had laid his lash
upon them ell more or less.
Nevertheless, Rochefort's condemns
ton was not justifaD1e according TO the
existing press laws, and it will place
any Republican government that may
come 10 Office after the next elections in
q troublesome position, forit will scarce
" be possible to revise Rochefort's SEN
tence without revising Boulanger's On
the other hand, the Gdvisability of re-
admitting Rochefort to Paris will APP
par so plain that the government will
not dare gainsay II. SO. probably, the
end Of the matter will be an amnesty
lextended to Boulanger az we'll az 70
iiRochefort. Berlin Cor. Glasgow Herald.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-07

--Ada--''So you have been 20 see your
husbands friends, have you, Lulu2 And
how did you like his mother?, Lulu---
"Oh, ever SO much, Ada. She made me
feel 80 much at home. Why, in less
than twenty-four hours after arrived
there she had mo in the kitchen wipina
dial,ea1
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-07

The Journal of Education says that
Little. Lord Fsnntleroy has made more
little boys graceful than all the schools
combined He ''has done away wlth q
deal Of boisterousaess and deal mere
awkwaFdnees,n u &.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-07
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-07
ADVERTISING RATES.

VIII be made as low as lie consistent with
s7und btstnsss principtos. Apply ut the Of
Gee for terms.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-07

rEPUTY U. q. LAyD AND MINERAL
l. Surveyor for NBysds, Mines laid oat
and snrveyed fer Pat Mt. Land surveyed, ap-
pIiessions, contracts. payments on land, ard
app raining 20 taking mp OF holding land Of
tle state or Government attsDasd TO. bhaII
keep fuJiy postsd ~ 30 al fands taken up srssi
yaesnt In tine essteEp part Of Hoysda. Ad
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
A South Carolina Negro in France.

George Alfred Townsend found at
Nantes. in France, 4 South Carolina
negro named Sam Anderson. Townsend
says: "Sam is a negro from Conway
boro, S. c., who keeps dance house,
or rather concert dive, at Nantes, and
he is the only American citizen in town
except our two ConSuls. He has white
French wife, who is well fixed in other
things, as property, and jumped to
marry Sam Anderson, who has 4 fortune
in his heels. Said Mr.. Shackleford, our
Consul: 4 want you to see this negro as
a singular instance of force of character.
About three years ago a negro man
came to me and said that he. was an
American citizen who had no official
paper testifying to that fact, as was re-
quired in France. He said that he was
about to marry French widow and
that her family wanted it done like the
great nation of the United States would
have it done-by the Consul or by his
sanction. who are your l asked. Me?
Well, I'm just Sam Anderson, and was
born at Conwayboro, S. c. was a
slave. ! speak six languages and play
de bones Being myself from George
town, S. c., in early youth, I knew that
region enough to question him and test
him. So l certified him under oath to
be citizen of the United States and he
was married to as clean and neat a
French widow as you ever saw, older
than he, but he has settled down to con-
duct her business, and occasionally he
comes to see me.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
DEATH OF HENRY CARD.
Railroad Earnings for May.

From the tabulated statement of the
earnings of State railroads for the month
of May last, as compared with those of
the same month in 1888, the following
facts and figures are CLEANED: Of twenty
rine roads included in the statement,
twenty-one, all but eight, show an in
crease over the same month last year OF
$50, ,O6002, and subtracting therefrom
the decrease shown by eight roads, So
$50. 95, there is left as the net increase
$50. .4OO.07, or 11.5261 per cent. The
roads showing the largest amount of in
crease are: Atlanta and Charlotte
Air Line, $13, ,079.50, or 1887 per cent;
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, $S, 1855,
or 1888 per cent; the Charleston and
Savannah, $40, 142 Sc, or 90. sc per cent;
South Carolina Railway, SIC, ,2a7.14, or
14.45 per cent; Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta, $7,006.40, or 1927 per
cent. The Charlotte, Columbia and Au'
gusta showed an increase Of So, 2,O17.O6,
or 4.36 per cent. !; the Spartanburg, Union
and Columbia, $925.24, or 1913 per
cent. The total increase shown by the
roads of the Richmond and Danville
system was ST, ,7S1.3C, or 1914 per
cent.
The total passenger earnings fer the
month were $165, ,217.S6, against $685.
226.57 in the same month. 1888; in
crease, s., ,991.29, or 3.7626 per cent.
The total freight earnings for the month
were: May, 1889, 1923, 81; May,
1888, $2S3. 1876. 81; increase, $40, 716.46,
or IA. 40O7 per cent. The tonnage hauled
was $50, ,534 tons this May, against 201,-
112 tons May last year; increase, 49, 422
tons, or 24.56 per cent.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
Fanaticism and Sectionalism.
(AnguStn Chronicle. J

II anything is needed to show the fa-
natical spirit of hatred towards the
South still dominant in some narrow
Northern hearts, it has been supplied by
the letter of Mrs Garfield in Nashville
and the remarkable requisition case of
Yeldell in Pennsylvania.
The former may be easily overlooked,
for it was the lucuDration of thought
less woman; but the latter instance has
dragged its rancorous toggery into the
courts and has taken possession of the
people of a commonwealth. There is
no earthly reason why Yeldell should
not be surrendered to the authorities of
Carolina. The extradition papers are
regular and have been so recognized by
the District Judge and the Governor of
the State. The howl raised over the
surrender of Yeldell, alias Rev. E. F.
Elemon, is purely political. The negro
preachers in Pennsylvania have made a
long and lachrymose petition to the
President to overru'e the decision OF
that bold, bad man, Governor Beaver
dllu fCldlu lIOlu lllC ClulSliCo VI tbS
Carolina panther the lamb-like Ieldell.
Congressman Dalzell of Pittsburg, bettel
known as Carnegie's attorney, has been
entrusted with this delicate mission.
But stranger still, the white Republicans
have joined in this sensless clamor.
Subscription lists were circulated
throughout the city to raise money for
the defense of Yeldell, in case he was
brought back to South Carolina for trial.
In its own behalf the Pittsburg TSmes
publishes the following card:
''The PittSburg Times will guarantee,
-in-accoSdanee with the foregoing The
expense Fing the Z. 2. Flemon
case to and through the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania. Those who desire to
share in giving black man white
mans chance tor his life are welcome,
though not absolutely necessary.
''THE PITTSBURG TINES.
"W. II. SEIFF, Treasurer.
The North seems to be as much excited
over this case as it was over Dred Scott.
This is sectionalism run mad. 1t is
fanaticism of the meanest and basest
sort.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
Voices.

A man died yesternight. To-day the town
Makes mention of his taking eff, and sums
His virtues and his failings On the street,
Mid: many barterings and lures of tr. dc.
In homes where he was known in busy m irtS,
Or public places where the common veal
Gather the town felix: up and down his name
Is spoke of in as various ways of speech
As are the voices various sounding it;
Gruff-throatcd bass, shrill treble of old age,
Soft sibilancy of wonan's tongue,
Or reed-like utterance of a little child.
Thus one, his mate in business: "Ah. a
shrewd,
Dry head was that; much loss to us, much
loss.
And as for heart''-wise shrug of shoulders
now
''We., tits but little quoted here on 'change."
Another, who had sumDered with him once
In leisure time: "a right good fellow gone.
'TiS true, he liked his ease; but who does not:
For me, give me the man that Horace loved,
Who deemed it wise to fool when seaSonablc." "
A tiny one who oft had found great store
OF sweetness in his hand, and, priced far
less,
Great stores of tenderness within his heart;
''Oh. wont he come and see us any more?'
His Su:pliced pastor, bound to save his soul,
Balanced a bit by inconsistencies
nc thouSHI NC saw. III pilSd.1 " his WY
"Alss, poor soul. if only be had grasped
That matter of the creed, and made us sure
But then-hs heart was right, and God is
good"
And one, a woman. who had found his arms
An a2l-protecting shelter through long years
Said naught, but kissed the tokens be haC
left,
And dreamt OF heaven for his sake alone.
Meanwhile. what was this man, and what hi:
place?
You ask, confused by all this Bable talk
or here and yonder, from his felloW-men.
am as igr GRANT as anyone
Whose speech you heard, and yet love hin
well.
Nay, ask me not; ask only God. He knows
-Xa11tr's !N0qa:ine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
A Foolish Furry.

Rev. E. F. Fiemon, alias John Vel
dell, colored preacher who committed
murder in South Carolina and fled to
Pittsburg to escape justice under an as
sumed name, has been ordered back to
South Carolina for trial in obedience to
a requisition from the Governor of that
State, and it has been made the basis of
a very foolish furry, simply because the
accused is a colored man.
Whether Flemon Is guilty of the crime
of murder is a question that belongs
solely to the State of South Carolina.
Ii he could be tried there by others
than his peers, there might be excuse
for furry over an adventurous criminal
who seeks to hide his crime in the
pulpit; but in South Carolina he must
be convicted, if convicted at all, by
colored jnrors, for there is no jury in
that State without colored men on it.
Every thieyeiag negro convicted of theft
with the old carpet-baggers of that
State-including Smalls, Cardoza and
others-was convicted by negro jurors,
and the furry about sending Flemon
back to suffer the vengeance of
whites is simply an absurditS.
1t is high time to stop the now COM
mon efforts of race to defeat the pun
iShment of crime. Johnson, one Of the
most cowardly of murderers, has
escaped the judgement of the law, after
having been convicted by every judicial
tribunal of the State, solely because he
is a negro and thereby enlisted race
sympathies and presumably race power;
and such exhibitions of race battles for
the gultieSt of criminals are now every
day occurrences in the land.
If justice is not to De greatly crippled
in the protection Of person and prop
erty, the question of race must be elini-
mated from judicial trials, and guilty
parties, whether white or black, be
punished without race protest.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
Some Unanswered Questions.

Whether there arc more great or
small people in the world.
At what precise point in life & man
ceases to be middle-aged.
Whethera hundred years hence George
Washington or some baseball hero will
appear the more glorious character
How much religious freedom there
would be under an Irish republic.
How Shakespeare could have been
so well informed without taking a news
paper.
How so many people can be satisfied
With themselves when they arc entirely
different from lis.
When you made your first, your
greatest, and your last mistake in lltc.
Who sows the seed, and what sort of
seed is sown, for that prolific crop,
ripening late in June in Northern
States, known as honorary degrees.
What DR.. Talmage thinks of his own
sermons.
Who is the most important and VINO
the least important person in Your neIsh-
borhood.
Why there arc not even more OF the
famous theological critics. seeing lt IS
so easy to become a famous theolos-
lcal .cyitic -Syrac'tse C'tst'"" dofo'
cate.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
Mountain Forests Proven. Floods.

A mountain forest has more functions than
most people have considered 1t covers the
hills with vast mat or network Of living
root fbers, and holds in place tho ever &C
cumulating mass Of mold and decomposing
vegetable matter, which absorbs and retains
the water Of the rainfall and the melting
SHOWS. Such forest is great sponge, which
receives all the water that falls on the noun
tains, and allows it to escape gradually, so q.
to maintain the steady how Of the rivers
which it feeds a forest Is thus natural
reservoir for the storage and distribution Of
the water which falls upon it; and it is far
more efficient, ,as well as far more economical
than any system Of artificial storage reser
voEs that can be substituted for it. II the
forest Is removed, this mighty sponge IS de-
stroyed, and there Is then nothing to perform
its function Of holding back the water, which
will rush down in overwhelming foods and
torrents. The first thing to be noted is that
the water viii thus all run away at once, al
q time when but little Of 1t is wanted, and
there will be- little or none Of it left for the
season when it is most needed The rivers
which havo been fed by the mountain springs
will soon be dry great part Of the year
Century
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31

ate opinion. Other than this we have no
special comment to make. Mis-. Garfield,
We trust, has been treated with proper
courtesy during herstay in Nashville, and
tle american, ,atleast, will find no excuse
in anything she may have written or said
for any lack of defererce to her as
lady and a guest. After all, we are not
so dependent upon the opinions of those
who are taught to misunderstood us
Il at We need lose our tempers or forget
oar courtesy for harsh or hasty word.
If there are people in this country who
would enjoy the spectacle of black heels
and white necks,' let US be content in
the assurance that what they enjoy in
fancy they can never enjoy in fact"
Mr.. W. P. Harrison of Nashville writes
to the american in regard to the relative
increase of the two races, and shows by
figures from the United States census
that Notwithstanding the destruction of
human life by the war, the white ropu
lation Of twelve Southern States has IN
creased in greater ratio than the negro
race by nearly per cent. since 1860.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
Ushers' Robbipg.

Ushers in many Of the most prominent
theatres in this city have a new and clever
device foi victimizing theatre goers. If they
hold coupons fcr particularly desirable seats
the usher on going down the aisle will sub
stitu+e coupons for inferior chairs, frequently
without the knowledge Of the purchaser. If
people are not already occupying the stolen
seats they are waiting in the lobby, and when
the employe receives his consideration are
promptly satisfied This practice is spread
ing, but occasionally one Of the forward fel
lows is caught in the act, turn Of affair."
which does not worry the offenders in the
least The fees which ushers receive in this
manner and for selling unpurchased seats are
enormous. In one of the smallest houses IN
town at which strong attraction was run.
ming during the past season one young man
nlade from $40 to $40 per night.-New York
Evening Sun.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
Gath on Galil6a-

Not much improvement was made IN the
way Of mechanics upon Archimedes, who
died gig B. c., until we come down to Calico,
who cot to the base Of the laws Of motion
about the year 1888, Or some time after
Massachusetts, had been settled by the Puri-
tans.
Galileo was born in 1864 and died In 1912, a
few years before Charles was executed in
England
Calico was not perfectly educated man:
His father was musician and the SOD had
resolved to be a painter, but his father pue
him into medicine By loving to draw be
fell into the line Of geometry and let medi
cine so.
His first discovery was the isochronlsm OF
the vibrations of the pendulum, and he used
this principle to count the pulse of patients,
and in the course of time applied it to clock
work. He loved to read old Archimedes, and
from him got the idea Of the hydrostatic bal
ance, and of this he made description which
led to mechanic named Ubaldi, of high de
gree, becoming his friend
He now wrote paper on the center OF
gravity, which got him at the early age OF
"a a professorship Of mathematics at Pisa
He was loaded with antagonists, and at once
attacked certain perverse and current views
of science. His severe language was followed
by hatred; and these enemies, once raised.
never let him go-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
American Autographs in India

A correspondent, writing from India, says.
Most Americans buy shawls in this part Of
India, and after sale is made the merchant
invariably demands that you write recon
mendation for him in his note book This he
shows to future travellers, and find scat
tered over India the autographs Of noted
Americans At Delhi found Grants auto
graph, and the merchant, WHO had It under
recommendation stating that his wares
were good, told me he had been offered one
hundred rupees for it, and that he would not
sell it for one hundred thousand rupees
James Gordon Bennett states that be finds a
certain mans shawls good, and be supposes
they are cheap" and the merchant who owns
the book tells me that Bennett bought q
dozen cashmere shawls, saying be wanted to
use them for making undershirts These
were of the kind called ring shawls, so fine
that you can pull whole shawl through the
wedding ring Of q lady.-Leslie's Newspaper.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
DisanDointed.

The true artist has an instinct for perfec-
ton, and as necessary consequence Is never
fully satisfied with his own work Some
times, however, he comes nearer to satisfying
himself than to meeting tue Taste OF his
patrons, especially if be is painter Of por
traits
a New York artist, who was In Charleston
on pleasure trip, painted the portrait OF
little darky. She was encouraged to sit pa
tiently by having seen beautiful picture
which the same artist had made Of the fair
haired daughter Of one of the proudest houses
in Charleston, In whose service tho youn1
darky's mother was laundress.
Patiently she posed and when the portrait
was completed the artist brought it round t.
show it to Its original Here you are, Janey.
he said.
Janey looked at her counterfeit present
ment and burst into shriels and howls. She
ran from the room to pour her SORROWS into
sympathizinS ears
20 Missey Gracem she cried, "Misey
Grace, never tink he would mex me look sol
didn't tink Mr. Waller would do me SO! He
tex and mex me orful little notify headed
niggcr, an fought was jes' a-goin' to be
beautiful little yaller headed gal, with blue
eyes and white face, jes' like Missy Ger.
trudel'-Boston Herald
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-31
KING VS.. PILLOW.
Spicy Answer Of the Widow to the Colo
neps Peculiar Innuendoes.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 20.-Some time
ago Colonel H. Clay King filed bill in
ss& CEasss.; Court against Mrs. Mary
4 Pillow, widow of the well known Con-
federate General, in which he alleged
that Mrs. Pillow had exercised an uDdue
influence over him and had induced him
to deed a large amount Of ms property
to he-, but that he did SO with the
exp: essed understanding between them
that she would not present the deed for
registration until after his death, which
obligation and agreement she had
violated. The object of his bill was to
get decree vestlng the title to the
property again in himself.
Within the past week Mrs. Pillow has
brought damage suits against him in
the Circuit Conrt for 100000, supple
menting this with her answer and
cross bill to the bill fled by Colonel
King. The bill is a very sensational
one, and contains wholesale denials of
all of Colonel Kings allegations ard
severe structures upon him. Among
other things she charges that com
plainant, upon hollow pretense, in
duced her housemaid, during her alb
sence, to get him the deeds in question,
and that, once in his possession, he
threw them in the fire, and that ''every
allegation of his bill putting any other
construction upon this transaction is an
ingenious falsehood The bill further
says:
Notwithstanding the complainant
wishes to destroy the respondents repu-
tation, ne has repeatedly, in conversa-
ton with his friends in Memphis, SOL
emnly declared her purity. In the first
years of their business connection he
told her he wished to get divorce from
his wife in order to marry her. Re,
spondent diSsuaded him. Afterward he
drew up bill of divorce, and sent it to
Judge r. J. Morgan of this city, to be
filed, and sent copy to defendants
son-in-law. }. S. Shield of Birmingham.
Shield at once replied that the dis
grace attached to his actions could only
be wiped out With blood, and asked for
a meeting in Memphis to arrange hos
tilitieS. Respondent came to Memphis,
and induced Judge Morgan to suppress
the bill. The complainant demanded that
respondent marry him, saying he was a
ruined man if she did not. Complain
ant has always averred that respondent
was chaStc woman, and that he is
under obligation to marry her on the
death of Mrs. King, or on the securing
of IN honorable divorce.