The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-23
Wednesday, October 23, 1883.

A concise prayer said to have been
offered by an earnest New England
deacon was as follows: Lord give
us grace to know Thy will and grit to
do it.
Mrs. Mary Becker and Miss Julia
O'Connor fought a prize fight 'tor
blood" in Wilmington, Del, saloon
on Monday. The O'Connor woman
won in seven minutes. Both were
badly beaten. Where is our Doasseo
Civilization?
Germany has scheme OF its own
II is working practically in the mat
ter of an exposition. 1t is to con,
struct a monster floating commercial
exposition. It is to visit all the great
harbors of the world provided it is
not wrecked.
The Alliance men about Athens,
Ga, sre dissatisfied because the cot
ton bagging is stripped from the bales
and replaced by jute. They say they
will erect compress OF their own
and compress their cotton in the bag
ging they desire.
MIR. R. H. Rogers, of Darlington,
harvested his prize acre OF corr last
week. The result was ninety-seven
bushels and nine pounds. One hun
dred pounds of shucked corn contain
"A e;vtean nonnds of cobs and eighty
four pounds OF grain.
A man named Perry, an Indlanlan,
is loudly complaining OF bad treat
ment by the Administration, in not
rewarding him according to his work
for the party. He claims that he
took 1000 negroes from South Car
oina and voted them in Indiana IN
1880.
A professor of the University of
California asserts that be has discov-
cred process of tanning leather
which will make it almost indestruct-
ible. As the people of the United
States expend $3O0,000,000 yearly on
shoe leather, this is highly interesting
news.
The wife of the late S. S. Cox is
said to have been his inseparable COM
panion; she shared all his plans, and
made his life her own. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cox were not only devoted couple,
but she was like partner to him in
his business, sharing his confidence
in everything.
The costliest luxury in which ma
ton can indulge is one OF the modern
warships. A century ago s5OO,OOO
was a great price for a wsrship. En-
glands most formidable one, the
Royal George, cost less than s35O,0oO.
Now an ordinary naval vessel costs q
million and a half, while $4,313,970
was paid fer the construction OF the
Trafalgar, Of the British navy.
President Stiles, of Yale College,
in the way back-in 17s3-in a SER
mon made this prophecy: ut is prob
able that within century from our
independence the sun will shine on
fifty millions of inhabitants of the Unit
ed States. This will be a very great
nation, ,lnearly equal to half of Europe" :"
His prophecy was more than real
lied. In 1880 it had that population.
In 1883 it had more than 100000.
In 1890 it will have no doubt 65,OOO,-
900.
In Spartanburg last Sunday night
while Mr.. Williams the evangelist was
preaching demure and solemn goat
walked into the church. Mr.. vii
Hams remarked that he had seen the
devil assume many forms, but be new
er saw him in the shape of goat be-
fore. The young people were much
amused by the goat, and especially
when an attempt was made to exclude
him from the church.
The members of little colony Of
Germans who recently arrived in
Walhalla, have made the first sub
stantial step towards becoming citi-
zens. They have just closed negotia-
tons for two fine farms, located two
miles from town ,and aggregating in
value $500. They say that if they
are pleased with the county thou
sand more from their old home in
Germany will come upon their favor
able recommendation. Who knows
but this is the nucleus Of large Ger
man emigration to Oconee and the
whole of South Carolina
The suggestion made by Mr. Chas
Johnson, of Louisiana, in an article
to the Manyacturers' Record, to use
okra fibre instead of jute seems to be
a feasible one. After giving his ex-
perience in .cultivating jute he adds
that the farmers "can have their cot
ton covered with okra fibre, of which
there is enough trampled under feet
annually to cover the entire cotton
crop. With okra they can secure the
fruit first, and then the fibre. Okra
will produce about the same amount
OF fibre to the acre as jute. I have
found okra ten times easier to get the
fibre from than jute. I think it would
make a bagging superior to either
inte or cotton