The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts ofInterest, Gathered From Vnrioas

, J HIcts ci interest, Gathered From Tnrics.
Sources.
-'Ie Grippe" is still raging in vari.
: Gus parts Of the country.
s ALI the Jamaica railways have been
: taken by an American syndicate.
Nov South Wsles and Queensland
, have erected sS7 miles OF rabbit proof
fences.
1t requires twenty-five volumes to
j. register the different cattle brands of
: Arizona.
The Baldwin locomotive works eS-
pact this gear to turn out not less than
1000 locomotives.
Ice has been found on Mount Ne
Clelleu, California, which is computed
to BE $4,000 years old.
The commission of French engi-
1eers to Investigate the Panama Canal
aa7e arrived on the ground.
The Baltimore committee of one
hundred have fixed upon $1,000 as the
full retail license fee for that city.
-5lrs. Hannah B. Southworth, the
murderess Of millionaire Stephen Pettus,
died asG o'clock Tuesday morning in the
Tombs prison.
The engagement of George Wander
oilt to Miss Mary Johnston, daughter of
Col. VIM. Johnston, of Aunandale,
Georgetown county, is S. c. announced.
"A special cable 20 the New Yo.k
Herald from Nice says: Miss Mary An
de-son WIG is now staying here, emphat-
cally denies the report that she is engsg.
ed to be married.
The wedding of Wilson s. Bissell,
tie ex-law pratner Of Grover Cleveland,
! and Miss Louise Sturgss. of Geneva,
! viii be celebrated on February Sth.
| "A telegraph message costing S2.37
word was recently cent from Portland
| to Hong Kong, and au answer received
IT twelve hours. Il was first sent to
New York, thence to London, across the
Continent TO Yokohama.
Thus far twenty of the 211 presby-
teries OF the Presbyterian Church have
been reported as voting on the overture.
on revision os tie Westminster Stand
arcs. For revision, 10, against reyis-
ion, s.
The State Convention ofthe Young
Mems Christian Association of North
Carolina Will meetin Goidsbcro March
IS, Il Is, and l6, next. State Secre-
tary Coulter writes that 800 delegates
may be expected.
-Thos. a. Jones, employed in the
tool room at the gun foundry of the
Navy YARD, at Washington, has been
dismissed because it was learned that
ne assisted John Wilkes Booth to es-
cape after the assassination of Lincoln.
Thomas Nelson Page OF Virginia,
one OF the brightest literary men of the
day, has accepted 40 Irritation to deliver
al address IN Atlanta when the Society
e1-.t e, ee.e :. -
the birthday OF General Robert E. Lee
on January 18th.
Weller Wright. 2. member of the
provisional government of Brazil, but
ar Engl:shman BY birth, is in New
York. He says there is no question
that the republican feeling in Brazil is
strong ard solid, and runs through all
classes ofsociety.
While n. s. Pope and C. J. Poat
Of Columbia. we're out cunning on
Tuesday, stray shot from Mr.. Poat's
gun pierced 3Tr Pope's left eye near
tie centre. Its feared tie sight of
the injured eye will be permanently
lost.
Peter Jackson the colored Austria
Ian pugilist has senta cable dispatch
from London to the United States, an
bouncing his acceptace Of the challense
Of John 7. Sullivan to fight for $1,000
a side. He will sail for New York on
January Is, in the steamer "Adriatic."
B. 0. jenkins, owner oFa govern
me2t distillery uear Earls Station,
nine miles from Shelby, N. c., was
shot through thc body ard mortally
wounded by =. 81. McNeilly. store
keeper and gaueer at the distillery.
The cause Of tie quarrel is not now
known.
General T. c. Jordan, who was q
prominent Confederate officer, was
found dead on Monday in a house on
his ranch, 50 miles west Of Gainesville,
Tex, where be had lived alone foc
number Of f-ears. It is supposed he
Gied of heert disease. He leaves
large fortune.
--Sunda? right in tic Methodist
church at Fienirgsburg, Ky, during
uu:oa meeting, in observance Of the
| week Of prayer, one minister interrupted
| another 5uring bis prayer. 8 sharp
quarrel eHa-ad. and the Methodist minis.
ter drove the congregation out, saying
the scene wac 100 disg-sceful to oe toler-
ated.
1t is not likely that any war YES
seis viii be sent to Colombia at pres
ert as the result of tie recent alleged
seizure Of Americal vessels at ports in
! :hat country. IS the information in
ths possession cfthe Secretary ofStats
would seem to indicate that the Colon
biaa authorities were justified in re
fusing clearance to vessels at points
|; no: regular ports OF entry.
The American Bank Note Com
p&uE has commenced work on the
new postage stamps. The stamp will
| DC about oae-eighth smaller than those
rev IL Csa: end the designs will be
changed. She one cent stamp will
continue to be printed in blue: the two
ceDt stamp now printed il green, will
ke printed ~ carnine, and changes viii
hc made il soIlo Of the other denomi-
, astiors.
Ward -NcAlIister's New Years ball