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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
THE COTTON TIE OUTRAGE.
Senator IutIer opposes the Effort to
Treble the Tax.

WASHINGTON, August 8.-Senato,
Butter made a vigorous fight in the
Senate this afternoon against the pro.
posed increase il the duty on cotton
ties recommended in the pending tariff
bill. He was well fortified with facts
derived from personal experience II the
cotton-growing country, and it was re-
freshing to note the ease with which
he upset the theories of Senators Ed
munds, Hiscock and Aldrich.
In opening Senator Butler called up
on Senator Aldrich to explain to the
Senate and the country why an increase
of 35 per cent. to l03 per cent was pro-
posed, and who had suggested it. After
considerable backing and filing Sena-
tor Butler forced him to admit that
there had been no requests for an in
crease over the present duty, and the
advance was gratuitous on the part of
the Republican members of the COM
mittee. This admission appeared to
trouble the Republicans, and Senators
Edmunds and Hiscock rushed to the
rescue Of their comrade, and attempted
to show that the high rate of protec-
ton was necessary to encourage home
manufacturers to engage in the produc-
ton of cotton ties.
Senator Butler asked them if cotton
ties are manufactured in this country,
and they promptly replied in the mega
time. adding that they are all imported.
Senator Butler, with confident smile
on his face, drew from his desk pack
age of papers, and read statistics to
show that there was decrease of sever
al millions of pounds of cotton ties dur
ing the last fiscal year as compared
with the importations during the year
previous. He said that would indicate
that cotton ties are manufactured in
this country. Senator Aldrich remark
ed that the mere fact of reduction in
the quantity imported did not prove
that cotton ties are manufactured in
this country.
Senator Butler still had more am
munition in his locker. So he produced
letter recently received from Messrs. !
J. B. E. Sloan e Son, cotton factors in
Charleston, in which it was stated that
cotton ties imported from England cost !
S1.26h per bundle, while American
manufacturers are underselling Eng |
land at Sl.25 per bundle. Then Senator
Butler proceeded to show that, not /
withstanding the American manufac- |
turers are uuderselling Englishmen, so !;
far as this article is concerned, it was |
to make this enormous in
crease in the duty. He denounced it !
as robbing, and an attempt to discrimi- !
nate against one section of the country |
in favor of another. His remarks were
delivered in his admirable style and
with great force, completely using up
his adve-saries, who were not familiar
with the subject of cotton ties.-NeWs
and Courier.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
ON HIGH GROUND.
The Abbeville Alliance Stands Upon its
Merits.

At the quarterly meeting of the Alb
beville County Alliance that body as
suEled high ground in resembling the
existing boycott against certain news
papers, and in making unmistakable
declarations encouraging the brethren
to subscribe for as many newspapers of
their own choice, as their means would
allow. They recognize the value Of
newspapers as an educator, and believe
that in knowledge there is power
This action last Friday will commend
the Alliance to the favorable opinion
of the people of Abbevil!e county, and
Will do much to bring about harmony
and GOOD feeling among all the people.
The Alliance may sometimes swing
a little out Of plumb, hut she will H.
nally do the right, and By giving equal
rights to all. and special privileges to
none" will rise to the highest positions
among the best organizations of the
country.
They have done themselves and the
county honor by passing the resolu-
tions unanimously, while they propose
to stand or fall on the merits of their
order, fearing nobody, asking no favors
OF anybody, and yielding perfect free
dorH of thought, speech and action to
everybody.
Standing on this high ground, ALI
ancemen in every part of the State may
well follow the independent, wise and
sagacious course of the Abbeville Alli-
ance in proclaiming tor education,
newspapers, free speech, and untranl-
me.ed action FOR its members, as will be
seen in the following resolution. which
we re-publiSh for the reason that some
are not aware of the recent action:
Whereas, the Alliance of Abbeyille
county, relying upon the rectitude OF
its intentions and conscious of the
strength of its cause can afford to be
generous and fair to those outide of the
order. however ignorant they may be
of our benevolent motives and noble
purposes;
And whereas, the diffusion of knoWl-
edge is promotive of strength and hap
piness, while furnishing the surest
safeguard of a peoples rights;
And whereas, it is important that
every ldulIly WHICH IS Represented III
this order should enjoy the moral, re-
ligious, practical and intellectual ad-
vantages of schools and newspapers,
therefore be it
Resolved. That it is the sense of this
Alliance that its members should sup
port the schools and subscribe for as
many newspapers, of their own choice,
as their means will alloW.-Abbeyille |
Press and Banner.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
A Grasshopper War In Algeria.

Immense sWarms of graSShopperS
have invaded parts of the country of AL
geria and are spelling lots of things.
Two thousand soldiers, aided by 1900
Arabs, have been employed to fight the
pest. The roadWays present the appear
ance of a battlefield, and extraordinary
effort are being made to rid the sur
rounding country of the insect enemy.
This is not the first time that this plague
has devasted Algeria. In 1S45 the har-
vests of almost the entire country We're
destroyed by grasshoppers. From 1147
to 1749 these insects desolated Algeria,
extending their ravages to parts OF Eu-
rope.
Millions on millions OF the dead bodies
of these insects are covering at present
the great roadway leading from Mascara
to Mostaganim, and filling the spring
and rivers. The task OF killing these
masses Of grasshoppers is no small one.
Imagine district of one hundred miles
in circumference, which not long ago
was covered with wheat, tobacco and fig
and olive trees, but now is so densely
covered with grasshoppers that not a
single green branch or leaf can be seen.
For three years a distinguished Partisan
naturalist, NJ. Kunkei, has been study
ing how to eXterminate these creatures.
The best plan seems to be that of stamp
ing the moving, quivering heaps with
the bare feet. ShoyelS and other sharp
instruments are used, but it has been
noticed that the elastic layers OF grass
hoppers tend to rebound after pressure
ana only the layers on top are crushed.
Large fires have also been lighted, but
the dense smoke arising from the flames
is only partly effective in preventing the
descent of these all-devouring SHarmS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
lT WILL COM
The South to Lead in Manufacturing Pa
per and Fibres.

Pa CLAW - A1ASos
The Manufacturers Record has spec
ial information from authoritive sour
ces which points to the early establish.
ment in the South of paper manufactur.
ing on large scale, and the develop.
ment Of great fibre interests. The
American Fibre Association of New
York, with capital of S5OOOO,OOO, has
been organized to take up everything
new and utilize everything old that
might be available in the fibre line
The company is perfecting plans which
in scope and Importance are in keeping
with its enormous capitalization. The
Judge Publishing Co.'S fibre business
on which it has been working for sew.
eral years, has been absorbed by the
Fibre Association. The latter is also
largely interested in the production OF
fibre from "cat tails" ranie and cot
ton stalk, and has recently taken up the
matter Of flax. It is manufacturing
at Fernandina plaster fibre from the
palmetto, which is to be used as a sub
stitute for hair
Paper manufacturing, however, is
the particular business upon which the
efforts of the company Will be concen-
trated for the time being, and this will
be done in such way that a revolu.
tion in the paper trade is predicted by
those in a position to judge. The AS
sociation has closed a contract, run
ming several years, with the Cotton Oil
Trust to utilize its 3O0,COO tons per an.
mum of cotton-seed hulls, from which
it's claimed, paper can be manufac.
tured by the Associations patent pro.
cess vastly superior in quality to that
in use for book and news print. and at
a cost hitherto unheard of. The best
part of it all is that the Association
will build its mills in the South, and
the South will enjoy the benefits of
cheaper and better paper for it's own
consumption, besides acquiring the
new population and wealth which will
come with the paper industry.
This great enterprise, which is back
ed by some Of the leading tinanciers of
the country, will prove source OF
enormous wealth to the South. In ad.
dition to utilizing 100000 tons of cot
ton-seed hulls annually for paper man,
ufacture, this company will develop
all branches of the fibre business.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
A Wroneed Husband justified.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 5.-The
jury of inquest on the body of W. II.
Ahrens, who was shot by T. D. Green
at Ten Mile Hill on Sunday last. rem
dered verdict of jnstifable homicide.
In the hearing some sensational evl-
dence was brought out which had not
yet appearded in print. Mrs. Green, in
her testimony on sunday Swore that
she was not in the room in which
Ahrens was shot. J. G. Dawdray, the
pump tender at the Hill, testified at the
inquest that after the shooting he went
with Green and Mrs. Green to the house
where the dead man lay. Both request
ed him to goin the room. Mrs. Green
told witness that she had been nervous
about burglars and had not gone to her
bed at all that night, but had sat in a
rocking chair beside the double couch
on which Ahrens was lying when Green
shot him. 1t was also proved that
there were two pillows on the couch
and that Ahrens was in his night
clothes when shot. There is a little
surprise expressed here at the verdict.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
CONVICTED OF BlGAMY.
Rev. Walter Dale's Notorious and Roman
tic Career.

tic Career.
ATLANTA, Ca, August6.-Rev. Wal
ter R. Dale, formerly pastor of the Sixth
Baptist Church of Atlanta, was to-day
convicted Of bigamy at Dallas, Ga, where
he has been on trial for several days
Dale's story is one of romance. Thetest
mony, as adduced upon this trial, founc
him in North Carolina at little place
called Concord. There, it stated, he was
raised, and there married a lady by the
name of Horton by whom he had foul
children. At that time he was known
as J. 0. Fl. Nutall. He was jeweler by
trade, one Of those rowing fellows who &C
about from place to place.
His second marriage was at Dallas, \
c., one of the places he yitited, and there
he staid at the house of man named
Rawlings. A daughter of Rawlings fell
in love with Nutan and they disappear
ed together. Nutall leaving behind his
wife and four children. He is next heard
from in Conyers, Ga, where, with the
Rawlings girl, !he turns up under the
name of Fontaine. The relations of the
girl find him there and succeed in In
ducing her to return to her home, leay.
ing her child with its father.
Fontaine, as he is now known, is next
heard of at Rockmart, where he appear
ed in company with young woman
whom he said was his niece. He became
involved in scandal there and dsap-
peared. About the same time there ap-
peared in Dallas, Ga, a jeweler named
Walter r. Dale. Another scandal in
which woman's name figured develop
ed and then came his conversion to the
Baptist Church and after while his ad-
mission to the ministry.
He married in Dallas girl who is his
present wife. After living there some
time they came to Atlanta, and here
Rev. Mr.. Dale was given little church
out in the surburbS of the city. He la
bored along faithfully, so far as is known,
until he was recognized by an old friend
from North Carolina, as J. o. H. Nutan.
He denies the charge bitterly, and has
fought the case through long trial, but
the jury found him guilty of bigamy as
charged.
Dale tells remarkable story about
his life. He says his first recollection
was OF beng a street ARAB IN New ork.
He drifted about until he came into the
hands of a gambler named Big Ned
McSweeney. With McSweeney he COW
cred a good part of the country, and was
known during this time as McSweeney's
kid or Bull Wofford
He denies ever having lived in North
Carolinn, but acknowledges having been
in different parts of that State, and
having been in different parts of Georgia
during his career.
He claims that he has been converted
and has been laboring faithfully for the
church.
His lawers will appeal the case, which
has already become remarkable in the
criminal annals of Georgia.
If Dale is not Nutall, then his is one
of the most remarkable cases Of mis-
taken identity ever known, for he has
been positively identified by dozens of
men.-AuguSta Chronicle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
Almost Killed by Hail.

WINDOW, Mimi, August 6.-Cashier
Smith and Vice President Collins of
the Cottonwood County bank of Win
dom barely escaped with their own and
wives lives in a hail storm at Spirit
Lake yesterday. They had driven from
here in the morning and were within
ten rods of Crandall's Lodge when the
storm struck them. The team was
driven by the hail into wire fence
while the people were pelted with hail
stones until they were black and blue
under their clothing and had great
gashes in their heads. The gentlemen
were the most seriously hurt, and the
aid of surgeons was necessary to stitch
up the gashes,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
Galvanized Tillmanites.

The Abbeyille Medium says: During
the war when a Yankee came over to
our side and took the oath of allegiance
he was known as a galvanized" Yankee.
Some of them were formed into bat
talions but they were never trusted
sufficiently to be promoted to high
positions or placed in the front ranks III
time of trouble. Neither will galYan-
lied Tillmanite do for the front in this
crisis.
Commenting on the above the Rock
Hill Herald says: Every fellow who has
ever been defeated for an office and still
hungers after the ieshpots is swinging
on to the Tillman wagon. They can't
all be elected; some will be defeated, and
then there will be weeping and wailing
and gnashing Of teeth. We hope the
simon-pure Tillmanites-the men who
are not seeking Ollice-Will throw al
the galvanized recruits overheard:
If they will 90 this the country viii
applaud TillraEism for is good sense,
as il Will teach the professional pap
suckers that they are not yet sharp
enough to 'balnbooZle' the farmers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13

SECRETARY Blaine has given the Nc
kinley tariff bill black eye and Re
publican politicians who have seen
President Harrison during the past few
days represent him as being in a great
state of mind over Secretary Blaine
course.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13

Col. NJ. B. McSweeny, editor of the
Hampton Guardian, has been put in
nomination by two Democratic Clubs
of his county for the Legislature. He
would make a good member, and we
would be pleased to see him elected If
he consents to run,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13

THE color line has been drawn at the
White House in a way that cannot fail
to be offensive TO the prescribed race.
Albert Hawkins, the negro coachman
who has driven every president since
the war has been dismissed. not for in
competency Or neglect of duty, but
simply because Mrs Harrison preferred
a white ccechman. Albert has a large
constituency, and its influence will
henceforth be irreconcilable against the
administration.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13

THE Republicans of the House are dis
gusted by the increasing number Of alb
Sentees. Cannon threatens to introduce
a resolution reyoking all leaves Of alb
sence but those granted for sickness.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
Twas Il Fatal Ride.

ANNA, ILLS, Aug. "a fatal acci-
dent occurred yesterday six miles north
west of here. \ farmer named Castle
and his wife and daughters were return
ing home in wagon drawn by mules.
Just as they reached home, a dog ran
into the road and the mules ran away,
overturning the wagon on its occupants.
The daughters were killed, the wife IA
tally injured, and the man so badly
injured that he will be crippled for life.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13

Mr.. George l. Cunningham, Of Char
lesion, the present Republican United
States Marshal, is seriously thinking
Of entering the Gubernatorial race, as
the Republican candidate. Let him en-
ter. That is about all he can do.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
ELECTRICAL EXECUTION
DOES NOT PROVE ALTOGETHER sue.
cESSFUl IN kEMMlER'S CASE.

After the First pplicatton Of the Current
Respiration is ReSumed--i Second Ap-
plication Necessary to Cause Death--The
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
A SENSATIONAL LETTER.
BASELESS CHARGE AGAINST THE
SOUTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE.

A Fair Sample of the Yarns and Stuff that
Is Being Sent Out About the Campaign
in South Carolina by Northern News
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The Newspaper in the School.

The principal of a plblic school al
Minersville thinks so well of the
newspaper as a public educator, that
he has determined to use it regular.
We think it would be great benefit
to teachers and scholars if half
hour every day were given in all the
schools of the county to the reading
of the newspaper and discussion Of
its contents. Pupils and recent
graduates of schools are usually
about as obiviliOus to what is going
ON in the world SIS they would be if
they did not form part Of it.
Their range of interest on reaching
maturity would not be so narrow as
they often are if the newspaper was
read to them daily, and if they were
kept informed of the important
movement in "art, science, literature
and politics" which newspapers re-
cord. This daily practice would also
keep the teacher up to time. He
couldn't rely upon text books and
keys when the pupils asked him to
explain something which they did
not understand, and he and they
could engage in a daily ransacking
of history, geography, gazetteer and
encyclopedia in order to come to an
understanding of the dispatch from
Washington, Berlin or London, that
would be to their commonly advan-
tage. Whatever knowledge the
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tents of the newspaper. Such talk
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examination without and examina-
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rectly to the store of school knowl-
edge and be the means of keeping
the schools in touch with the world.
Let more schools read the daily
newspapers.-Phaladelph Inquirer.
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INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY. APRTE29. 1890.


CHARLEsTowN, w. Wander the
caption of"A Romance IF the War"
Col. Frank A. Burr, in better dated
Charlestown, w. Va, March 20, and
published in the Philadelphia In
quirer, attempts to give the incidents
attending the burning Of the resi-
dences of Hons. Andrew Hunter and
A. r. Boteler, in jefferson county,
in 1864, by the order Of Maj.-Gen,
David Hunter, q cousin OF these gen.
tlemen The letter contains a num-
Der of inaccuracies as wei as an i'm
portant omission. Col. Burr states
that Mr.. Hunter was prosecuting at
torney OF Jefferson county when
John Brown was tried and condemn
ed. This is error number one. Mr..
Charles b. Harding was tine prosecu-
ting attorney at the time, and Mr..
Hunter was retained by Gov. Wise
to assist in the prosecution. Mr..
Hunter isrrepresented as having been
a member of the Confederate Senate
or House OF Representative, whilst,
in fact, he was never q member Of
the Confederate Congress. He was
a member of the Virginia House of
Delegates during the war and the
trusted friend and counsellor Of Gen.
Robert f. Lee. Col. Burr further
says that Mr.. Hunter Z" is now but a
sad reminder of what he was twenty
years ago" AsNMr Hunter has been
dead more than year, it would seem
that Col. Burr was not in Charles
town when he penned his war ro7
nance or failed ito make proper in
quiry. The historian further states
that "the Hon. Chas. James Faulkner
still lives at Martinsburg in the house
which was marked for destruction"
by General Hunter, but which was
saved by an order from President
lincoln. As thesHon. Charles James
Faulkner died bbout1the first of No
vember, 1884, more than five years
ago, it is clear that. Colonel Burr is
careless as to facts in weaving his
war romances. The omission which
he makes in his story should be sup
piled for the sake ofithe truth of his
tory. When Captain Martindale ap-
peared at the residence of the Hon
Andrew Hunter with. an order from
General Hunter to burn 1t he found
the wife of that gentleman an invalid.
She was given but few moments to
get,out of the house, and was carried
out on the highway and left in a
broiing sun, being permitted to save
but o few articles of clothing. When
an appeal was made for permission
to save some priced mementoes of a
lovely daughter who haG died a few
years previous Mrs Hunter was an
swered by Capt. Martinaale to the
effect Chat he was acting under or
ders, and that nothing was TO be re-
moved. And so this beautiful home
and valuable contents was given to
the famess and Mrs. Hunter was
carried by sympathizing friends 80 a
hospitable home in Charlestown.
Col. Burr was unfortunate in his Sc
lection of a war romance.-BaHigeGre
Sun.