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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
Accidentally Killed.

GREENvILLE, S. c.. April 8.-Walte1
King. the little nine-year-old son OF
John King, of Piedmont, S. c., and
his sister, started to enter the store Of
J. H. Simpson at that place about {
o'clock yesterday afternoon. As the
little fellow stepped on the thresh,
hold, pistol Mr.. Simpson was show,
ing to customer in some way was
discharged, the bullets entering little
Walters temple. killing him instantly
EIr. Simpson did not realize the
awful effect of the discharge until
the little girl screamed and cried tc
him that he had killed her brother
As soon as he did so he became al
most frantic with grief, and it was
feared by his friends that he would
do himself some great injury.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
Queer Scenes in a Maine Court.

The Skowhcgan correspondent of
the Fairfield Journal gives the fol
lowing description of the home-ike
appearance of the Maine Supreme
Court room during the present term
OF court: Ladies in the gallery
bring their needlework and sit out
the long hours of the session. It is
interesting to watch them threading
needles, tieing knots, basting, occa-
sionany pausing to catch some por-
ton of the evidence and again to
confde in a neighbor something rela-
tive to some newcomer, interspersed
with the slight click of the scissors,
all of which tends to impress the
lookers-on with the solemnity OF the
occasion. and adds perceptibly to the
.home-like' appearance OF our judi
cial residence.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
Practical Jokes Of Students.

When the breakfast bell at the
North Carolina Agricultural and
Mechanical College rang on the
morning of the 1st of April not q
student appeared, and when q careful
search was made not one could be
found. Nor were they in the college
grounds or in the park adjoining or
in the city. Their disappearance was
absolute and their whereabouts a
mystery. In the afternoon it was
discovered that before daylight they
had left the college in the quietest
manner and gone to Carytown, ten
miles distant. There they remained
all day and at noon had parade,
with banners and music. The faculty
had day of leisure and were very
heartily riled at the 1st-of-Aprl joke
Of which they were made such COM
plete victims.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
The Farmers Alliance Demands.

In Georgia the Farmers Alliance
has now formally determined to re-
quire all candidates for Congress in
that State this fall to pledge them
selves to vote, if elected. for the sub
stitution Of legal tender for national
bank notes; for taxes, State and ma
tional, to be levied only for revenue;
for such revision of the protective
tariff that the burdens now resting
on tie agricultural and laboring
classes shall be lessened to the great
est possible extent; for antitrust
laws, and for the ''Sub-Treasury bill"
nov before Congress, by which the
Federal government is directed to
store farm products and loan money
to the owners of them to eighty per
cent. of their market price. The Al
lance in other States is proposing the
same pledges, and we notice such
prominent Republicans as Senators
Sherman, Cullom and Stanford are
getting ready to step up on the Al
lance platform. Unless the Alliance
blows over," the candidates this fall
are going to do some curious pledging.
New York Herald.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
4 Horrible Story.

A horrible story comes from Mo
rocco. A large box was recently re-
ceived from the interior of the coun-
try at the port A1azagan for ship
ment. It was addressed to q person
unknown, and was opened. when d
ghastly sight wat revealed. Closely
packed in a box were the bodies Of
sixteen young women, one man and a
negress. All the victims had been
decapitated and the heads were miss
ing. The bodies were embalmed.
and had evidently been a long time
in the condition in which they were
found. It is believed the slaughter
was the work Of some pasha, who
had taken vengeance on his harem.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
APICKPOcKET IN CHURCH.
An Unexpected Incident at the Service of
the New York Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference.

An Unexpected Incident at the Service of
the New York Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference.
New YORK, April 1O.-During the
session OF the New York Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
IN Calvary Church, at One Hundred
and Thirty-ninth street and Seventh
avenue, there have been several occa-
sions when the members Of the Con-
ference and others who attended the
meetings had occasion to complain
that either attempts had been made
lost money while entering or leaving
to pick their pockets or that they had
th" church.
On two occasions the acts of the
p;ckpockct We're so deliberate as to
leave no doubt that the criminal was
professional The Rev. DR.. Day,
pastor of the church, called the atten-
ton OF the police to the incidents,
and Captain Hooker detailed several
men in civilians clothing to watch
for the offender at the service on Sun
day morning The announcement
that Bishop Goodsell was to preach
brought together very large
audience, and among the attendants
was Mrs. Reed. one Of the most active
OF the ladies connected with the
church. When the services were
concluded Mrs Reed walked with
some OF her friends toward the cen
tral exit of the church. where there
are placed contribution boxes tC
receive money for the assistance OF
missionaries. Mrs Reed placed
some money in one OF these, and was
about to put her hand in her pocket
in order to get her handkerchief
when she found i hand there.
She turned quickly and discovered
IL neatly dressed woman, about forty
years old, wearing shawl of Paisley
manufacture and very jaunty hat
Mrs. Reed followed the arm of the
intruding hand and grasped the wo
mans shawl. exclaiming:
you thief, take your hand from
my pocket!
The woman mnttered something
and tried to take her hand away, but
in her hurry it became tangled IN the
dress and she could not e1t1icate il
without tearing Mrs. Reeds costume
She did not hesitate at this, however
| She ripped the dress down the side
and would have escaped at once had
not Mrs. Reed taken frmer clutch
upon the pickpocket's shawl and
clung with all her might, calling fol
assistance, her necessity being ap
parent to those who were leaving the
church. The thief, seeing that it was
likely she would be captured, scratch
ed and tore Mrs. Reeds hands tc
such a degree that from very pain
she was obliged to relinquish he,
hold.
The woman in her struggle to gel
away lost her shawl and hat. While
the confusion continued she succeed
ed in regaining these and made hel
escape, without any of Captain
Hooker's men appearing OF making
any attempt to pursue the woman anc
arrest her. Several members of the
Conference chased the thief little
way, but they lost her in the rapidly
moving crowd in Seventh avenue
Mrs. Reed saved her pocketkook, but
at the expense of badly scratched
hands. The pickpocket can be identi
| fed by Mrs. Reed and those who saw
the occurrence should the police sue
ceed in finding her.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
PEPPER FROM FEB VANCE.
4 Very Lively Speech on the Montana Sena-
| torship--Anecdotes Which FIT the Case.

In the United States Senate the
other day, when the Montana election
case was taken up, Vance, member
Of the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, made an argument in sup
port OF the minority report. declaring
Clark and Maginnis, the Democratic
claimants, entitled to the seats. In
the course of his speech he told the
story of a person who was once
schooling a country pumpkin to tit
him to be god father at christening.
The parson asked him what was the
outward and visible sign of baptism.
The pumpkin. after scratching his
head for awhile, answered Will. al
all of triumph. ''Why-the baby TO
be sure. And sohe sud, the outward
and visible backsliding Of the Repub-
Gcan party will be the Montana twins
not the baby but a couple of them.
Laughter. He also illustrated Hoars $
position that while none of the OBJ
iectiors to counting the votes Of
precinct 81 i'll Silver Bow County
was sufficient OF itself to justify re
lection OF the vGtes NIL of them to-
gather did constitute sufficient ground
for doing SO by an anecdote OF Il
Justice Ct the peace before whom u
case was tried in which eleven dis
tinct pleas in bar We're entered. The
justice took them up one by one and
decided as to each of them that it
was not worth one cent, but that
taking all Of them together they made
a good case for the defendant. He
| (Vance}had never heard 4 title to .
seat in the Senate based on such
slender technical, trifing grounds.
He had never known the public will
OF a community to be thwarted and
trampled underfoot on such tlimsy
pretexts He knew, he said, that the
nat had gone forth. He knew that
the Republican claimants We're to be
seated But in the wise regulation
of the moral world there was com
pensation for all things, The Re
publican Senators would be sicker
over this thing before they We're done
with it than he was. He once heard of
an old fellow who went out to Ohio
to speculate in hogs. He bought a
big drove Ct them and shipped them
to New York He found that hogs
We're cheaper there than they were
in Ohio. So he shipped them back
and sold them III Ohio and some
friend said to him: Jim, you made a
bad speculation. Yes, said he-"1
lost : good deal of money, but I had
the company of the hogs both ways" "
So he (Vance) thanked God that in
all future denunciations of the South
for the suppression of colored votes.
Southern Senators would have the
company of the hogs. Laughter. And
all that they would have to do was to
inquire of the Republican Senators in
their altitudinous cerulean flights OF
oratory for the purity Of the ballot,
"Who stole precinct No. 81 Of Silver
Bow County, Montana"
Edmunds inquired whether the ia
persons who had voted at precinct "a
were legal voters.
Vance asserted that they were. They
We're aliens who had declared their ID
tention to become citizens and they
were under the Territorial laws entl-
tied to vote
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The Lodge election bill is intended
to serve double purpose, namely, to
return Republican candidates to Con-
grsss, and supply campaign employ
ment for more than half a million Of.
fcials at FIVE dollars day.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The Msryisnd Senate recently pass
ed by an almost unanimous vote bill
to amend the law relating to official
oaths &c SIS to abolish the custom Of
kissing The Bible. For this ceremony
it proposes to substitute the raising Of
the right hand in formal recognition
Of the so!emnity of the oath and to-
oroit the words $50 help me Cod as
superfuous. The House killed the
hill On the idea that the present form
Of oath is familiar and that any inno-
vafiou might lessen its impressiveness
10 the average witness.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
The End Of u Libel Suit.

CoLuMB1A, S. c., April 9.-The libel
suit foa $4,000 damages; ssoughtt-5T
Anna B. and George B. Mosely, Of
Chester, against Chas. A. Calvo, Jr.,
proprietor of the Columbia Register,
for publishing damaging reports
against the character Of Mrs. Mosely,
ended this evening, The jury in
twenty-one minutes rendered ver-
dict for the defendant.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
A EeaxY Storm.

UNION, S. c., April "a cyclone
passed over this section this after
noon at 5 o'clock, doing considerable
damage. Several houses were crush
ed by falling trees. A colored man
on . mule was struck by the cyclone
and was blown off his mule, and his
arm was broken. The worst OF the
cyclone was above the town, doing
more damage there than in this i'm
mediate vicinity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
4 Great Bridge.

The Congressional House of Rep
resentatives has passed the bill for
the big new bridge across the Hud-
son River between New York and
Jersey River. The bridge is to have
six railroad tracks, will capacity for
four more; is to be OF a single span,
and stand as high from the water as
the present Brooklyn bridge. It's
construction must begin within three
years, and end within ten years. This
bridge, if built. will excel the famous
Forth bridge.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The official organ Of the negroes
in North Carolina announces that a
State convention of negroes is to be
held soon to consider the question OF
cutting adrift from the white politi-
clans, who, it is alleged, have yeal
after year misled the negro, preyed
upon him and used him as tool.
The negroes are greatly stirred up,
and say that to save their manhood
they must take such action as that
proposed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The whole country will be glad to
know that Mr.. Randall is recovering
from his long and severe illness. The
Phjiadeiphia Times announces that he:
is now able to attend to his correspoa-
deace and hopes soon to resume his;
duties in Congress.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
Matilda Louise Shumack. tift

Matilda Louise Shumack, fifteen
years old, diedat ST. Johns. \. B.. on
Monday from an electric shock.
While at the Salvation Army bar
racks she touched an electric lamp
with an iron poker, and at the same
time she unconsciously caught an
iron post. this completing the circuit.
She received a heavy shock and after
a few hours illness died in great
agony.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
CHAPTER IN

The night passes: the next day
dawns, deepens. grows into noon, and
still nothing happens 10 relieve the
terrible anxiety that IS felt by all with
in the castle as to the fate OF It's miss
ing master. They weary themselves
out wondering. idly but necessarily,
what can have become Of him.
The second day comes and goes, so
does the third and the fourth, the fifth
and the sixth, and then the seventh
dawns.
Florence Delmaine. who has been
half-distracted with conflicting fears
and emotions. and who has been sit
ting in her room apart from the others,
with her head bent down and resting
on her hands, suddenly raising her
eyes, sees Dora standing before her.
The widow is looking haggard and
hollow-eyed Al her dainty freshness
has gone. and she now looks in years
what in reality she is. close on thirty
five. Her lips are pale and dropping,
her cheeks colorlesS; her whole air IS
suggestive Of deep depression, the re-
suit of sleepless nights and days filled
with grief and suspense OF the most
poignant nature.
Alas. how well she loves him too"
thinks Florence, contemplating her in
silence. Dora, advancing, lays her
hand upon the table near Florence, and
SAYS, in (, hurried impassioned tone
aOh, Florence. what has become Of
him? What has been done to him? I
have tried to hide my terrible anxiety
for the past two miserable days, but
now I feel I must speak to some one or
so mad.."
She smites her hands together, and,
sinking into a chair. looks as if she is
going to faint. Florence, greatly
alarmed, rises from her chair, and,
running to her, places her arm round
her as though to support her. But Do
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
An Edscfleld Murderer Captured.

COLUMBIA, S. c., April 9.-Whitfeld
Murrell. one of the convicted muir
derers of Paul Younce, who escaped
from Edgefeld jail several months
ago. was captured this morning in a
cave under his fathers house, six
miles from Johnston. 4 score of
men surrounded the house during
the night, and today two of them
crawled under and discovered him in
a cave. He clapped a pistol to the
head of one. but the other shot him
in the hand. Mnrell let fall the
pistOl and surrendered.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
Why the Farmer is Not Prosperous

A tnOuSntfu1 Wf1tef In the april
Forum has an article addressed to
this question: why the farmer is
not prosperous The writer admits
the fact and deplores it. There are
ten million people employed in asri-
culture in the United States. The
greater portion Of these people are
unproftably employed. The farming
interest is in condition Of "unthrift.
The state of affairs is not the result
OF laziness, for the planter works
longer and lives more economically
than other people. 1t is not due to
the crop failures, for the land is pro-
ductive and seasons in the main salts
factory. When the farmer finds that
he cannot make faT remuneration
he concludes with justice that ''the
times are out Of JOINT. He attributes
his failure to the lack OF silver, to Il
high tariff. to prevalence of trusts. to
the railroads and to speculation IN
farm products. But these things
have prevailed to greater or less de-
gree since adam delved," and the
middle man has always existed as a
g-eaye.., or less evil.
The writer tnns his attention to
existing facts, and finds that wheat
sells at forty to fifty cents a bushel,
oats at nine to twelve cents, and corn
atten to thirteen cents. For thirty
nlle years ending 1889, the increase
in population was 175 per cent, and
the increase in the production Of corn
was 257 per cent, of wheat 3S9 per
cent, and of oats Ill per cent. Du-
ring twenty years the expectation OF
| corn has averaged less than five per
cent, and of oats less than one pei
cent, so the price of these grains
must depend on home requirements.
With such tremendous increase in
crops, the price is bound to fall. The
corn crop of 1889 exceeded that OF
1887 by more than 656.0O0,00O bush
els, yet, counting the cost OF the
extra amount handled, it will bring
the growers S100,000,O00 less. Again,
the crop of 1878 was 64 per cent.
greater than that of 174; and. allow
ance made for cost Of handling.
brought the farmers $40. 100000
less.
The history of American farming
for twenty years is, in brief, that as
the area in cultivation has increased,
so has the product per capita, to be
followed by eve"-declining prices and
diminishing returns per acre. Ii. IN
the period ending in 1874, with a
cattle supply Of 81 to 100 people, the
supply of corn less than 25 bushels
per capita. that Of wheat and oats
less than 6.5 bushels, and the domes
tic consumption of pork, IS pounds
for each inhabitant, all the require
ments of thepe Die for eadand meat
spirits and prore1der wee fully and
promptly met. it is quite apparent
that, estimating consumption per
capita as fifteen per cent. greater
than, then, the present supply OF beef
is sufficient for Il, 100000 people; that
OF swine of 76,O0O,0O0; Of wheat for
79.OOO.00O: of corn for 70,500, 900; and
of oats for more than 100,0O0.OOO.
The logical conclusion from the eT.
dence offered is that the trouble Of
the farmer are due to the fact that
there are altogether too many farms.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
The Wheat Crop.

The Louisville CoUrier--Journal
publishes reports on the growing
wheat crop from one hundred and
fifty of its correspondents in Ken
tuckv. Tennessee. Southern Indiana
and Northern Alabama. The outlook
in Kentucky and Alabama is for a
nearly average crop; while across the
Ohio and in Tennessee the prospects
are not so good This Is especially
the case in the border counties OF
Indiana. where cold and wet weather
has played havoc with the grain.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The Supreme Court OF the United
States has affirmed the decision Of the
Circuit Court in the case brought on
behalf Of Miss Isabella Lee 10 recover
possession of the Fort Hill plantation
devised 10 the State by The late Thom-
50 G. Clemson, for the estshiis: '"ent
of an agricultural college. IT. ,-.
cision settles tee States right TO the
property. "-->->-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The signs of dis"ontent among dc
Repub ublicans Of the Northwest aSe be-
coming so pronounced that evea sAe
stalwart ST.. Louis Globe-Demoezat ap.
prehsu:!s trouble for its party in that
quart. Speaking of the outlook in
lows It says: The Republican ma
jori;y. which used to be the largest in
any of the States, nss dwindled to fg-
u,es that imply early and complete loss
of power"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The New York Legislature LIST year
enacled q salute the like l.. which
should be adopted il every State. It
provides that persons Intending to en--
ter medical college s;all .rst pass AN.
examination in arithmetic, grammar:
geography, American history, English
literature and natural philosophy.s
This examination must be conducted,
Dot by the faculty Of the medical col
lege which the applicant proposes to-
enter, but by the regents of the State
university in accordance with fixed
r,,1a-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

1t is learned that Harper's Ferry
Henry county. Ky, was almost com
pletely destroyed by the tornado.
The village, composed Of less than
two dozen houses, is considerable
distance from the railroad.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

North Dakota has not been q Stale
msny months, but she has alreadyss~
tathshed gilt-edge credit. A few days
ago an issue Of S15O,0o0 of her bonds
bearing per cent. interest, sold at q
premium of nearly 10 per cent. Few
of the old States can match that
record
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
TIMELY TOPICS.

A Chinese party in this country is
among the possibilities, but theisssign 8
of the times do not point to its early
hirf h
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

The estimated amount of timber
seized in South Alabama and
Florida by the government is $780,
900.