The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-15
The jury box is being filed this


for sometime past.
The Treasurer complains that taxes
are not paid fast enough. He has
about 20 per cent. yet to collect.
We are told that Mr.. Jim Hodge,
near Jordan, got his corn house and
all his corn burned last Friday night.
The Eutawville railroad is complet-
ed, and trains can now be run through
to Sumter. No regular schedule has
yet been put on.
We shall next week have something
to say about our Charleston advertis-
ers. Several long articles crowd these
notices out this week.
The Manning Guards will drill next
Monday night, at S o'clock sharp. All
members must turn out, as it is to be
ore of the twelve drills Of the year.
Mr. Moses Levi says he will not be
undersold by any man or body OF
men, and that he will guarantee TO sell
goods and furnish supplies, for the
cash, at less figures than any one. Mr..
Levi means business, and it wonld be
well to see him on the subject.
Sir. J. Ebert Davis, business agent
for Clarendon County Alliance, tells
us th at his plans are not yet fully ma
tured, but that he proposes to see that
the Alliance people get Il full 100 cents
worth for dollar. He expects to es-
tablish all Office in this place.
Henry Robertson, the colored man
who died near Jordan last Monday, is
said to have been one of the best ne
groes in the county. His father was
native African, and Henry was as
black as polished ebony. He was a
good farmer, and was trusted and re-
spected by all who knew him.
We were in Charleston last week.
Business seems firm there. The fac
tors are disposed to help those who
help themselves, but seem very reluc-
|tant about carrying over any who
failed to pay out last year. We saw
4 great many Clarendon people down
there, and number went down this
week.
The County Treasurer has made
his reports regularly, and the amount
reported on hand Jan. 1st, is $6,052.-
'64. The county commissioners meet
tomorrow, and as this amount has
beer reported on hand for two weeks
we presume it will be paid out to-
morrow. It winH-pay about 50 per
cent. of the claims approved.
Mrs. R. Rutledge Dingle, of Sum-
merton, was seriously injured yester-
day, by being gored by a COW. The
COW had young calf, and without
any apparent cause, rushed on Mrs.
Dingle, goring her on the back OF
her ear, in her chest, and on her thigh.
| She is very seriously injured. The
COW had always been very gentle be-
fore.
Walter, a little son of Mr.. C. R.
Harvin, after witnessing lasso per
formance with some Texas ponies,
imagined himself a cowboy, and get
ting rope, began practicing on some
of his younger brothers and sisters,
substituting them for the Texas po-
MES. A little sister, Sarah, was roped
lin, and in falling sprained her arm,
but the sprain was not very serious,
and she was out again yesterday.
A little colored boy about two
years old, son of Joe Thompson, was
run over yesterday by Mr.. c. N. Da-
vis's tram engine. The child was
playing on the track back of the en-
gine, and the engine and truck pass
led over it. One leg was mashed of
above the knee, and the other was so
badly mashed and lacerated, that it
had to be amputated. Dr.. Pack am
putated the limbs. The child died
to-day.
Best stock of cigars in town, at H. a. Low
rvs cash store.
The South Carolina Poultry and
Pet Stock Exposition will be held in
Charleston from the 21st TO the Oath
of January. The Coast Line will sell
round trip tickets, including one ad-
mission to the exhibition for: from
Manning $3.50; from Wilson's s2.75;
from Foreston $3.50; from Lanes
$2.l5; from Sumter 1855. The tick
cts will be sold from Jan. 2lst to
oath, and will be good to return until
January 9th.
Cotton seed meal for sale a. very low 6g-
ures at H. T. Avants, Summerton, S. G. 1t
viii be to the advantage of the farmers to
see Mr.. Avant.
The Rev. Thomas II. Law, D. D.,
agent for the American Bible Society,
Will preach before the Clarendo n
County Bible Society, on next Sab
bath the 10Th inst. at II 1-2 o'clock
A. NJ, in the Presbyterian church in
Manning. After the sermon officers
will be elected for the following year.
All friends .: the bible canse are in
vited to be present. DR.. Law will al
so preach in the Methodist church the
same evening at 7 12 o'clock.
Fresh garden seeds, all kinds, for sale at
u. kalisky's. Also onion sets.
An advertisement in this issue of
the TNFs give notice of q big sale OF
town lots at Pinewood and Remini, in
this county. These lots are on the
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