The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Eucts OF lnterent Ga,krrcd from fari-
oVs sources.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest Ga,hercd from Fari- |
sources.
-Co!umbia is to have a new ice lac
tory with capacity Of ten t"us daily.
The equestrian statue of Robert E
Lee. bv Me1cie, the French sculptor, has !
been completed. 1t will be placed IN
Richmond.
The recent dooi near Phoenix, Ari-
zona, destroyed neariy a million dollars
WORTH of property, and cost The lives OF
about forty people.
A cyclone near Brownsville, Tena.,
onWeduesday uuroofed half the houses IN
the place, killed one woman, and wour-
d several other persons.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
just paid s57,sOO to the Richmond, Va,
Locomotive Works, for work done for
the battle ship Texan low building at
Norfolk.
The last time Stanley lectured at
Birmingham, England, he received
fifteen guineas for his fee. This time
the Birmingham lecture manager Of
fers 800 guiness, and is afraid dc csn't
get him at that.
Fred A.Waltop, who stole $35, 900
from the Express Company at Dallas,
Texas, has been captured at st. John,
N. 3. He had but $4,000 left, bunco
men having robbed nun Of The other
part of his stealage.
The Congressional redistrictipg
bill to make five out of six OF ths DIS
tricts of Maryland solidly Democratic,
which at first failed for want of one
vote, was passed by vote of II yeas
to nays. The Governors signature
has been attached.
A cloud burst Mood.y night caused
hlar.iudale Greek Iud., to rise so quickly
that the women and three children OF the
Hall family were drowned. They be-
longed TO party of gypsies eucauped
NJ the stream. The bodies hsve not
yet been recovered.
President Day, of the New York
League CLUB, vaiuly offered Buck Ew-
ing, who caught for the club last year,
SS3, 900 for q three years engagement.
Buck sticks TO the brotherhood.
Ward Richardson, Gore and Slattery
also declined big offers.
"A committee of the Texas Legis-
lature is hard at work on the accounts
OF ex-Treasurer Hemingway, who is
apparently S25O,000 short. 1t is de-
veloped, however, that he is entitled
to a credit of sos, $50 which he erro-
neously had charged against himself
1t appears from the two hundred
and forty or more petitions sent in by
the good people Of Massachusetts and
presented in the Senate by Senator
Dawes, that $780, 600 gallons Of intoxi-
cants are shipped annually from this
country to Africa. The petitioners
pray that this very wicked traffic be
stopped.
"A fatal shooting occurred Tues
day, seven miles fromHillsboro, n. G..
during raid on distillery by reve-
nue. officers. Revenue Agent Kirk
patrick, who was in charge of the
raiding party, was shotin the face ano
received q dangerous wound. The
shot was fred by negro who wa:
shot and killed by a member Of the
raiding party.
The Rev. DR.. Lorimer, Of the
Baptist Church at HoIyoke, Mass,
caused sensation on Friday by max
ing violent and indecent attack from
his pulpit on the Catholic Church
On Sunday he tearfully explained te
his congregation that he was drunk
at the time from an overdose Of qui
nine and unconscious Of wha. be said
aid he publicly retracted and apclo
gized.
SENATOR VOORHEES, is out in !ous
address urging harmony n the Demo
cratic party OF Indiana in the nonina
ton OF legislative and county can Ii
dates. Mr.. VOORHEES, says he vii
support ex Governor Gray for ,ht
Vice, Presidency in 1892. ss he did a
the St. Louis convention tme year
ago. 1t is understood that Mr.. Gray
will use his best efforts to secure
Democratic Legislature and the re
election of Mr.. VOORHEES, to the Sen
ate.
Chicago has WOE the fight for th
location 9: the Exposition in 1882
There were eight ballots ia the Hous'
the vote finally standing thus: Cni
ca go, l57; Now York, 1o7; St. Louis
25; Washington, IS. Whole numbe
of votes, 3O7; necessary to choice 154
When the Speaker announced the re
suit ofthe ighth ballot the supporter
of Chicago on the floor burst into
shout CT triumph, which found al
echo in the galleries. Speaker Reet
hammered away with his gavtl t.
quell the confusion, but was unable t.
obtain anything like order. Half tn
members rushed ell nell for tn
exits, and amid this disorder tn
Speaker, on motion, declared tn
House adjourned.