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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12

WebelieYe there should be a thorough
investigation by some competent
authority at the earliest possible mo-
ment of The manner in which this cen
sus has been conducted. At present
there is so much reason to suspect the
integrity OF the count that the question
is likely to grow into an important
political issue, if the Republicans at
tempt to prevent such an lnvestlga-
tion.
We alluded last week to some of the
facts relative to the management of
the Censns Bureau that are we'll known
to good many people in Washington.
We believe thatin the expenditure of
the money appropriated by Congress
there has been a vast amount Of cor
ruption. which will be discovered and
exposed in due season. Reports come
to US every day which convince US that
Porter's subordinates, if not Porter
himself, are making a great deal Of
money out of their places. We know
that men who had buildings to rent,
which were fitted for the occupation OF
the Census Bureau, were approached
and asked how much they would pay
to secure lease, and if a committee of
Congress were to make the inquiry it
would probably find that money was
thus paid by some Of the owners Of the
buildings now rented for the Census
Bureau.
We belived that money has been cor
ruptly made by census officials out Of
the electrical machines Of which %
much has been written in the news
papers. Weare informed that no less
than 80 persons now employed in the
Census Office are compelled to pay a
part of their salaries every
month to person who has intimate
relations with both Porter and Chief
Clerk Childs.
In view of the fact that Childs while
chief clerk Of the Government Printing
Office amasSed a fortune Of over $1,000
which he subsequently lost in busi
ness venture in this city there is moth
ingsurpriSing about this report. There
used to be splendid opportunity to
make money in the Government Print
ing Office. and favored contractors paid
large sums to the men in that office
who favored them.
There are graver rumors Of immor- 4
atty on the part of certain persons in I
the Census Bureau, which we prefer
not to repeat at this time. The cur
rent gossip Of Washington if it were (
verified would certainly lead to the
immediate retirement from any en-
ployment nnder the government Oh
Mr.. Robert P. Potter, and number
of the men whom he has employed in
responsible places in the Census Office.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12
A Pistol in the Legislature.

GUTHRIE, Oklahoma, Oct. 3O.-ln the
lower house OF the Legislature To-day
Mr. Terrili Of Payne not being sustained
on a point OF order. drew a pistol and
flourished il over his head. The Ser
geant-at-Arms relieved him Of it. Ter
rill then ran toward the door, which
had been locked to prevent interfer-
ence from the lobby, and giving 1t
several hard kicks broke it open. Rush
ing out into the street, bareheaded, he
procured another revolver and return
I'd, this time keeping it concealed. So
fercelv did he oppose the capitol re-
moval bill that ali action is postponed
on it until November 10.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12
SMITH, OF BRYAN, TEXAS.
He Played Lone Hand and the Law
Euchred Him.

Joseph Smith, breezy young man
from Bryan, Brazos county, Texas,
was tried in the General Sessions yester-
day for stealing a gold ring, valued at
two dollars, from the finger of Henry
Alichaclis, q school boy, Of 1O5 east
Fourth street, Judge Cowing asked
Smith if lie had counsel.
''Oh, no" he answered. iauntily. Il
guess can handle this outfit alo1e.'
''Hadn' you better have counsel, ,"sug-
gcstcd Judge Cowing. Il will assign
lawyer 10 defend you, If you can't pay
one. The criminal law in the State of
New York is humane to the last degree
whatever it may be in Texas. Every
man tried here has the right to counsel
fee. ii he can't pay for counsel"
Smith looked the lawyers who were in
the courl-conm over, and then said that
he guessed he could go it alone. Never
thelcss Judge Cowing requested lawyer
James \. Mclaughlin to see that all of
Smiths rights were preserved.
Young Michaelis told plain tale of
robbery in the street. Then smith tried
his hand at crosse examination.
did run away after, as you say, I
stole your ring" he asked.
No. sir" responded the boy.
Didn't you hit me on the knuckles
with an iron bar. and didn't l take it out
Of your hand, that's the reason you
charge me with stealing Your ring"
No, sir" was the reply; you stole
my ring
He did hit me. gentlemen" COM
mentcd Smith, turning to the jury. ''I've
got the marks on myknuckie yet"
You must not sum up yet, Smith,"
said Judge Cowing. That's not the
practice in New York. You must cross
examine now. Later you can give your
own testimony, and then You can sum
up"
"All right. judge" observed Smith,
trauQuilly. That's one on me. I'll do
better next time"
"If had been q thief and had stolen
your ring, wouldn't l have run away,
NIchaels:" he asked.
Il don't know about that" was Young
AIchaell's doubling reply.
"Weli, 1 would have, j" reioined Smith.
Thieves always run away"
Now, there You are summing up
again, Smith," interposed Judge Cow
ing
Beg pardon again, Judge" was the
| prompt answer.
Henry Gust, schoolboy, who was
with young Michaelis when the ring was
stolen, corroborated HIM. Policeman
Mccarthy testified to the arrest. Smiths
cross-eXamiration Of both these witness
ses was also an endeavor to show that,
beceui : he did not run away, he could not
have stolen the ring.
Don't thieves always run away, off,
cer::" he asked Policeman Mccarthy.
L don't know about that, "replied the
policemen. II suppose they do, if they
get a cbance-but YOU didn't get a
chance.'
The spectators laughed, and Smith be-
gan to weep. But then he recovered his
composue, and, going on the witness
stand, he denied that he had stolen the
ring. He insisted then upon summing
up in his own behalf. He virtually
confessed his guilt in his opening SEN
tcnce.
Judge. your honor. and gentlemen OF
the jury" he said. please pardon me
this time, and I'll show you better be-
havlor next time. I'ye taken out papers
to vote here, but l don'tcarc about that.
Let me 90. and pll go back to Texas
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12
Nearly Wiped Out.

PEORIA, Ill. Nov. THE business
portion of the town of Chillicothe was
almost entirely destroyed by fire last
night. The fire originated in Hancock s
livery stable and spre2d rapidly in all
directions. The mayor OF this city was
appealed to for help and in response a
special train with fire engines was dis
patched to the scene, but as there were
no means of unloading the machines
they could not be utilized. The tele-
graph and telephone offices were burn
ed and all communication was cut off
so that it is impossible to obtain details
as yet. The loss will not fall short of
100000 on which there is only r'ial
insurance.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12
VIII serxe Nine Years for S1e. 900.

New YORK, Oct. 30.-Cassin. the
young bell boy who robbed the Hotel
Eendcme safe of a tin box belonging to
Bookmakers Sanders and Carlin, con-
tanning nearly $1,000, was sentenced
to nine years at hard labor il the State
prison by Recorder Smyth yesterday IN
the General Sessions.
The Recorder asked him what he
had done with the $4,000 that has not
yet been recovered, and he replied
rather hippantly that the thief who
stole it must have it, The Recorder
sternly informed him that he was the
thief and said he would make an eX-
ample of him. He then imposed
sentence.
When Cassin heard the sentence he
walked back to the pen" with d self
satisfied air. He got one year less than
ten years that he told John O'Brien,
who refused to Join him in the theft,
that he was willing to serve in order
to have the stolen cash at the close of
his imprisonment.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12
PORTER'S FIGURES.
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES
PLACED AT 62, ,43O.5lO.

Lame Excuse Why the Figures of the
Popululntion Are Not Is Large as An
ticirated-He Claims That tho Census of
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12

Extraordinary Inaccuracies in All Parts
of the Country-A ScandalouS State ot
Things in the Census Ohice--Will it be
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12

TIE Philadelphia Press is candid
enough to admit that the next House
may be Democratic. In view of this it
may become necessary for Mr. Reed to
formulate new rules whereby two Dem
oGrats will be required to cast one vote.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-12

TIE Socialist Congress, at Halle. las
resolved that no one shall be received in
its new party who may have been OF
shall be guilty of any diShonorable prac-
tices. This is extremely edifying, and
will keep the members from being un-
comfortably crowded.
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-20
HORTICULTURAL HINTS.

RooTs need to be kept where 1t Is
cool and dark. but not where it is wet
BE more careful of the potatoes than
ever, for potato this year represents
money.
THE seed pod of the nasturtium is
sometimes used for pickles and is
relished by some without picking
THE elm tree is declared to be very
exhaustive to the soil, and is not fit to
be grown where you desire to raise crops.
EVERY now and then somebody makes
a mean fling at the hardy catalpa. The
really hardy catalpa is grand good
thing.
ONE acre in ten for an orchard is the
rule that a recent writer lays down.
That is about fifty per cent. too large
for the West.
HAVE an interview with the orchard,
inquire into its needs. Especially ascer-
tain IL it is not hungry, and if it is feed
it with manure.
WE see IL stated that some people re-
gard the Canada thistle as an excellent
fertilizer. Praise for the Canada thistle
comes about as near ''sacrilege" as any
thing in secular affairs can.
WILL spraying fruit trees with the
arsenites pay2 asks a writer. 1t will if
you grow trees to produce fruit. II you
are maintaining an orchard for fun,
spraying would not be profitable.
Do you know that the roots of trees
show great instinct? How they will
shoot off here and there, and go down
into the earth in search of nourish-
ment. Make it easy for them to find 1t.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-20
The Nations Thanksgiving Table.

There is table spread to-day across
the top of the two great ranges of noun
tains which ridge this continents
table which reaches from the Atlantic
to the Pacific seas. 1t is the Thanksgiv-
ing table of the Nation. They com o
from the East and the West and the
North and the South and sit at it, On
it are smoking the products OF all lands,
birds of every aviary. cattle from every
pasture. fish from every lake, feathered
spoils from every farm. The fruit bas-
kets bend down under the products
plucked from the peach fields of New
Jersey, the apple orchards of Western
New York, the orange groves of Flori-
da, the vineyards of Ohio and the nuts
threshed from New England woods. The
bread is white from the wheat fields of
Illinois and Michigan, the banaueters
are adorned with California gold, and
the table is agleam with Nevada silver,
and the feast is warmed with the fire
CRATES heaped up with Pennsylvania
coal The hall is spread with carpets
from Lowell Mills, and tonight lights
will flash from bronzed brackets of Phil
adelphia manufacture. The fingers of
Massachusetts girls have hung the en-
broidery; the music is the drumming of
ten thousand mills accompanied by the
shouts of children let loose for play,
and the gladness of harvesters driving
barnward the loads of sheaves and the
thanksgiving of the Nation which
crowd the celestial gates with doxolo-
gies, until the oldest harper of Heaven
can not tell where the terrestrial song
ends and the celestial song begins
Welcome, Thanksgiving day. What
ever we may think of New England the
ology, we all like New England Thanks
giving day. II. De Witt Talmage, in n.
Y. Observer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-20

man went out to nnish up the chores,
Mr.. Holden spoke:
Il think that you were right about
giving more to the Lord, and aft r
thinking the matter over I have con-
cluded TO begin this Thanksgiving
morning to give more literally than We
have done in the past Here are five
dollars for the collection and five doll
lars for our pastor as gift Remember
IL is not TO be applied upon his salary.
| am going to purchase him a good,
warm overcoat to-day also, and then I
will increase the amount toward the
payment of his salary. You may ar
range that just as you please. wife,
about Mrs Deans potatoes Send her
as many as you wish, and also two bar
rels of those pippins; Dick knows where
they are; and tell him to carry two bar
rels down to the minister's and ten
bushels of potatoes, as l shall have TO
keep my engagement about delivering
the cows. You can send Mrs. Dean a
quarter of that beef, if you want to. 1
was going to let the minister have it
upon the salary. but will pay him the
money. Here is another dollar for Harry
Dean. Tell him It is the interest upon
what have been owing him so long.
Go down and see the family yourself,
Susan. We can not have re | Thanks
giving dinner. but We will have a whole
day of giving thanks in a practical way.
Yes, you were right, wife. see how il
is now and will try and Go my full duty.
l must go now, but l will attend the
service this evening at church. Good
bye, wife," and then Mr.. Holden went
out.
A grateful look came over the wife's
face, and then the glad tears filled her
eyes, and she retired TO the secret place
of prayer to offer thanksgiving to the
great Giver of good.
A happy Thanksgiving was passed in
the old farmhouse that day, and some
others were made very happy also by
the change that transformed 4 worldly,
money-loving soul to one filled with the
true spirit of love and benevolence.-S.
5 Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-20
PIeuro-Pneumonia in England.

Our British cousins have had as much
trouble with this disease as we in Amer
lea have. Like ourselves, they have
their law. whose efficiency is being
tested. The Mark Lane Express says
that the first case of pleuro-pneumonia
in cattle since the pleuro- pneumonia act
Of 1890 came into force, on the LIST inst,
occurred at Long Ditton, Surrey. The
act in question, passed during the last
session, throws the duty OF slaughter
ing the diseased cattle, together with
those in contact on the Board of Ag-
riculture, and requires that the owner
should DO compensated out of the I'm
perial funds instead of the local rates.
as heretofore. In tho recent outbreak
of the disease at Long Ditton the dis
eased animal, together with all those
considered likely to spread the disease,
comprising in this instance the whole
herd, have now been slaughtered by d.
rection of the Board of Agriculture, the
slaughter, at the request of the owner,
having been completed as rapidly as
possible. Full compensation for the
value of the cattle was paid to the
owner Immediately on completion of
the slaughter, and in few days, when
the disinfection of the sheds has
been completed, hewill be enabled to in
troduce fresh stock. All the arrange
ments have been made with view of
causing the least possible inconvenience
to the owner or interference with his
trade, and it is hoped that this consid-
Grafton will induce owners OF diseased
cattle to give the earliest information
of the existence OF the malady.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-20
THANKSGIVING DAY.
The General Happiness It Brings to Al
-Reunions at the Farm.

The General Happiness It Brings to All
-Keunions at the Farm.
Everybody looks forward TO it, ex-
cept, perhaps, the turkey. and he ought
to feel especially proud and happy over
the part he is expected to play on the
festive occasion, for without him
Thanksgiving day would be Der TT of
half its charmed associations, and not
all the game, and ducks and chickens
in creation could atone for his absence
On Thanksgiving day old friends
meet and renew their youth. They
fight their battles over again. They
compare notes on the grayness OF their
hair, and the continuance of their teeth,
and assure each other that they haven't
changed particle since the last time
they met, and they believe 1t. too; and
the young folks smile. and wonder how
it is that Grandma Jones and Grandpa
Brown can not see that they are both as
old as the hills, and liable to drop OFF,
any time.
We do not know what the ancient
idea OF giving thanks was, but the mod
ern method seems TO lay great stress on
eating, and the Thanksgiving table
which is most lavishly covered with
eatables is the table from which go up
the most devout thanks.
1t seems to be ingrained in every New
Highlander that somehow, and some
way, he must observe Thanksgiving.
And no matter now poor he may be,
he will manage to do it. III he has to
economize for all the rest of the year,
he will have his turkey, and his cram
berry sauce, and his flour pudding. He
would feel mean and unhappy if he did
not.
Thanksgiving day brings home the
wandering sons and daughters to
gather once more around mothers table,
where pumpkin pie such as the world
can not supply elsewhere is to be found,
and where the pudding is always the
lightest and most delicious, and the
doughnuts are nectar fried in pork fat
pork raised on the farmland where
the mince pies do not suggest the odds
and ends left over. and where the
turkey is SO plump that he bursts open
with his own fairness. and where the fire
burns brightly on the broad hearth, and
the dear home faces are gathered, and
we 60 back TO happy childhood when
the world lay all before us, anu We went
out from that old home so full of life,
and strength, and courage, to conquer
fate in the bright and hopeful future
which stretched out so long before U.s.
To-day, having wearied of the strife,
SCARED and MANNED, perhaps, in the
fierce fray, we gather around the home
freside to celebrate our National festi-
val, to talk over the joys and SORROWS
past, to speak reverently of those loved
ones who have fallen out of the ranks
and Joined the silent majority; and
little sadness creeps in with our rejoic-
ing, and those of US who are left draw
closer together as the evening shadows
fall, and SO the day goes by, as many
another has gone before it, and next
week VIC shall settle back into the
old routine OF life, but we shall think
of Thanksgiving day as green oasis
in the desert of the year.-Kate Thorne.
in n. Y. Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-20
PITH AND POINT.

The man who is too lazy to work
generally marries woman who isn't
Rams Horn.
1t was an editor who called on the
bartender for little more inside mat
ter.-Texas Siftings.
When a woman says any thing mean
about a man she always winds up her
remarks by saying: "And the men are
all alike. "-Atchison Globe.
He (sneeringly) Us it because
your memory is so short YOU have for
gotten me?" She (sweotly)-"No. it is
because | am told you are SO very
short Epoch.
Detective Indicating famous adj
ventures, shoplifter, etc. THAT sir,
is the wickedest woman in New York"
Acquaintance-"We WE'LL What was
it she wrote?"-Good News.
Can you give me thirty cents, kind
sir?" asked a beggar. II wish to buy
q ham sandwich" but you can get a
ham sandwich for a nickel?" "Yes: the
quarter is to fee the waiter with. IN.
Y. Sun.
But it is Expensive.-old Mr.. Close
-''Hello. doctorl Oh, by the way, what
ought l : take for bad cold?" Ply
stefan who knows Close) ought
to take medical advice. "-Munsey's
Weekly.
First Little Girl-"Don't you asso-
ciate with that little grip" Second
Little Girl-"No. indeed. We don't
move in the same set at all. Her family
is below u.s." First L. G-'Is they?"
Second l.. G.-''Yes. They live in the
fiat above Stood News.
Pullman Porter Ito train robbers)-
"What's de use OBJ stopping dhis yere
train? Yer might have knowed dc pas
sengers amt got a cent" Nevada
Mike-"How should we know?" Pull
man Porter drawing himself mp proud
ly)-"Ain't aboard?"-Harper's Bazaar.
-Tom-'Guess how much l paid for
this coat" Jack-"ren dollars" Tom
EXACTLY the figure. How did you
guess it?" Jack -"That is easily ex-
planned. You always pay for your
things twice as much as they are
worth. Yankee Blade.
-Dashley-"What do you think
fbout the question: Is marriage a
failure?" Cashley-''Well, the first
year / was married thought it was
failure; but We have a baby at our
house now, and now l think it's
'howling' success. America.
When night has let her curtains down.
with low and plaintive hum,
Mosquitoes thirsting for our blood around
our pillows come.
We watch, we wait with bated breath. while
strikes the midnight chime,
And hit our cheeks a singing slap. and
miss 'em every time.
Boston Courier.
Say, pa, Solomon was the wisest
man that ever lived, wasn't he?" ''Yes,
my son. he is so considered" "And he
had three hundred wives, hadn't hep"
81 believe that is the number" "Say,
pa, if Solomon was the wisest man that
ever lived how did he ever come to get
in such fix-you can't live peaceably
with one?" "Heml hawl heml he got
wise after he married them. You go to
bed. The Epoch.
Now you know hired you express
ly to mind that child" said Front
street lady to her nurse girl, land !
should like to know why you don't mind
her" well, l declared" answered the
nurse girl; "if that don't beat all. As
if didn't mind her! Why. she never
issued an order that didn't obey. Only
yesterday she ordered me to walk up to
the County Hospital and back, and did
1t, and left her playing for four hours
on the railroad track. "-Binghamton
Leader