The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14
Stolen Mule-See advertisement.

the recent heavy rains.
Rev. Jas. Mcdowell preached a
the Second Presbyterian church ii
Charleston last Sunday.
The annual reunion of the Sprot
Guards, 23rd S. C. v, will be helt
at Juneville, Friday, Aug. 23rd.
Caterpillars have appeared on The
cotton near Wedgefeld. Farmers
have most to fear from this evil.
Bland Hayes, who was SO badly Gu
last week by Pedro Meyers is improy
ing rapidly and will soon be we'll.
The examination for the Winthrop
Training sc; ool scholarship will be
held tomorrow morning in the cour
house.
The negro boy Frank Lively, o:
Foreston, who was so badly shot
some time back, is walking about
nearly well.
There is one thing that an editor
escapes, and that is lying awake
nights thinking where he will spend
his vacation.
The TIMES will have another Grand
Gift Distribution next October, when
we shall give away at least twenty-five
valuable prizes.
Aha, caught you at last! Reading
a paper that you do not subscribe and
pay for: sponging on your neighbor.
"Aren't you" ashamed?
When everything appears unusually
fresh, We say the season is forward,
and when person is unusually for
ward, We say he is too fresh. q
s1S cash will buy a beautiful new
Singer sewing machine, with all the
latest attachments and improvements.
A bargain. For sale at the TINES Office.
The regular prayer meeting in the
Presbyterian church in this place will
be conducted as usual, by the pastor,
Friday the 18th inst, at 5 1-2 o'clock
P. NJ.
If you admire this paper so much
as to borrow it every week, why in
the dickens don't you subscribe.
Hustle around and get $3.50, and send
it to US.
We published last week all the rules
and regulations of the proposed Farm
ers' Alliance Exchange. The TINES
will keep the people fully posted on
all matters of home interest.
A game of base ball was played in
Manning last Thursday, afternoon, the
9Th, between the Manning Bantams
and the Juneville second nine. The
Bantams won the game by score OF
40 to %.
The Manning Academy opens next
Monday two~weeks, and the princi-
pals anticipate a 7eryy~llargge school
this year. The Academy has an ex-
cellent course Of study, and ranks
among the best schools in the State.
D. NJ. Bradham is adding another 60
sawgin, feeder, and condenser to his al
ready we'll equipped ginnery, and says
be will be able to gin and pack a bale OF
cotton this fall in fifteen minutes and
as neatly as can be done in the county.
We learn that ". P. DuRant, an
ex-postmaster, has gone to Summer
tosl to induct j. R. Tarleton into the
mysteries of keeping a post Office.
We presume by this that Tarleton has
received his commission, and expects
to take charge of the Summerton
post Office at once.
A Missouri grocer advertises that
any man who takes two drinks of
whiskey day for year, at the cost
of ten cents each, can have for the
same money at his store thirty sacks
of -four, 22O pounds of grsnulated su-
gar, twenty-five pounds of good coffee,
and save $3.50 as a premium for max
ing the exchange.
John McFall, negro boy nearly
grown, was at the trial Justices Office
yesterday morning, with his head in
q bandage and his arm in a sling, to
swear out warrant for assault and
battery against John Williams anoth-
er negro. He says he was quietly
sitting in his house at Alderman's
mill, where he works, when this negro,
who claims to be from Wilson's Mills,
came to him and began cursing him
McFall protested he hadn't said o,
done anything to deserve a cursing:
and endeavored to get up, when vii.
liams stabbed him. with a knife, in
the side of his head. He then cut s
second time at him barely missing
his throat, and imbedding the knife
in the muscular part of his right arm
| just below the shoulder, making 6
cash about two inches long. vii,
liams then hastily made his departure,
and hasn't been heard of since. The
others who we're in the house were
afraid to follow Williams. The affair
occurred the ea,ly part of Monday
night. McFall thinks it was pure
devilish meanness that caused vii
liams to cut him.
One of the pleasantest social events
of the season was the Rainbow Party
at the residence of Mr.. Moultrie Bag
nal, on last Wednesday evening. Rain
bows are of somewhat ancient origin
but the social gatherings known al
"Rainbow" parties are comparatively
modern affairs. The manner in which
they are conducted is for each young
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