The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
GENERAL NEWS STEMS.
Facts of Interest Ga hercd from Various
Quar- ers.

Facts OF Interest Ga hercd from Various
Quar- ers.
The grand lodge of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows Of the
State of North Carolina will meet in
Wilmington, Tuesday, May 18th.
In the past fifteen months 1000
negroes have left North Carolina.
This estimate is made on reliable
data, and upon careful Investigation.
On Sunday night two Italians
walking on the West Shore railroad
track, in Newburg, N. Y, got into a
fight, and paid no attention to an
approaching train. They hammered
each other till the train struck them.
One was killed. The other will die.
1t is reported that Prophetown.
Illinois, has been swept away by a
cyclone. Twenty freight cars were
blown to atoms, the whole town has,
been wiped from the face of the
earth, and many people have been
killed.
The Gainesville, Fla, Sun learns
that a company owning big deposit
OF phosphate in the Trenton region
is negotiating for the construction OF
4 railroad to the Suwanee river, to
connect with boats to transport
phosphate rock to Cedar Keys for
shipment.
Richard Proctor, Jr., son Of the
late famous astronomer of that name,
is supposed to be wandering of st.
Louis in deranged condition. Proc
tors insanity takes the form of an ex-
aggerated idea of great wealth. He is
without money or friends, and if not
speedily found will run the risk of
getting into serious trouble.
-Postmaster-General Wannama-
ker has prepared for publication in
the forthcoming monthly postal guide
q circular letter addressed to all post
masters, asking for contributions to a
postal museum to be established IN
connection with the Postofice De-
partment at Washington, to contain
q permanent exhibit of such articles
as will illustrate the growth of the
postal service in the United States
and the methods employed therein.
The Farmers Alliance of North
! Carolina has passed the following
resolution: sResolved, That we here
| by pledge ourselves not to give our
support to any candidate for the Leg
islat,:re who is not known to be In
favo,. OF a railroad commission for
Norii Carolina, nor any candidate for
Cons ess who will not pledge himself
to e. IT his best efforts to secure the
earl enactment Of the bill before
Cor ass known as the sub-treascry
bill
- N the farm of Mrs. S. E. Jones,
nea Murphy, n. c., there was well
forn / by nature on land that has
been n cultivation ior fifty years Or
moro. It was cultivated III cotton
last al, since which time this well
or b. Ie, two feet in diameter and
fourteen feet deep, has formed.
Water rose ten feet in it. It is at
least fifty feet above the bed of the
nearest stream.
There was fire under the North
River at New York Sunday morning,
caisson of the big tunnel under that
stream being ignited by an employees s
| carelessness. When the fire had
drowned out the question was how
; to stop the hole made in the caisson
as men could not get in. The trouble
was solved by catching number OF
water rats and turning them in with
punches OF oakum tied loosely to-
their tails. In following the air and
crawling through the holes they
left the oakum and plugged up the
leaks.