The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-09-10
Eaas are scarce and in great demand.

Don't read it.
Mannir, has now neat and convenient
post Office building.
Subscribe to the MANNING TINES II you
wsnt a good newspaper.
The new street lamps are being placed IN
different portions Of the town.
Chickens are bringing fne price IN
Manning, and are in great demand.
Miss Hennie J. Legg has received the
Winthrop Training School appointment for
this county.
The county commissioners would do well
to have the debris removed from the court
house passage.
The city of Sumter is soon to have q street
car line running from the A. G. L. railroad
to the c. S. Il n. depot.
James En- Davis, of Clarendon, was chair
man of the congressional convention Whlch
met in Florence last night.
People coming into town from across
Black River speak highly of the work OF
Commissioner E. C. Horton Oh the cause
way. 1t will be capital road
DR.. ". J. King one of the foremost ply
sicians in the Pee Dee section died at his
| nome IN Florence IdSl
Maria Coleman, the wife of Henry Cole
man, well-to-do colored farmer, died last
Monday night. after lingering illness.
Mrs. NJ. 0. Burgess is having an addition
built to her house and when completed WILL
give her house a frontage on two streets.
Mr.. T. r. Folsom familiarly known rs
pink" once resident Of this town. COM
mitted suicide in Wilmington, last Monday.
Miss Florence Hurst, of SHUTTER, has sent
in her application to the Southern MISSION
ary Board to be appointed as missionary
| to Mexico.
The Charleston cotton market reports to-
day, strict low middling 50, middllng u,
strict middling 10, good mlddhng lOs, with
the market firm.
Nh. J. S. Plowden, Of the Fork section,
now speaks of new member OF his family
as ..my son" with considerable emphasis
and broad smile.
Mr.. B. r. Thomas, formerly Of this coun-
tv, has been suggested as suitable person
for the position of superintendent OF the
State penitentiary.
Died in Manning on the 5th inst, Maxey
Gregg Thames, age twenty-four years. The
funeral service took place on the 9Th IN the
Manning cemetery.
If you want to enjoy good health and
drink pure water, come to Manning. we
have the finest water in the State, and case
Of sickness is rarity.
B. A. johnson is opening up q large stock
of goods in the new brick store opposite
the court house Look out for his adver-
tisement in the TINES next week.
Manning is one of the best cotton markets
in the State. The prices paid mere are
within q small fraction of the Charleston
market. Money is saved by selling here.
At meeting in St. Matthews Monday it
is said that W. J. Talbert, State lecturer for
the Alliance, and Capt. Frank Wannamaker
engaged in q fsticuf, on account OF the he
being passed between them.
M. Kalisky is opening as neat and COM
plete line Of clothing as we have seen IN
many day, and he says that the merchant
that wants to keep up with him in the cloth
! ing line this fall will have to wake up.
We received q postal few days back,
from Mai. Z. H. DesChamps, in which he
stated that the Sibley mills had dropped
two cents on cotton bagging, and would now
sell it at their mills f. o. b. for Ii cents.
It was amusing to note the number of
persons that would 60 into Kalisky's store
lnistaking it for Johnson's, and others
would go into Johnson's for kalisky's.
They both occupy the Galluchat twin stores.
This morning we asked o man to sub
scribe to the TINES, and he said 1t was no
use, as he could go to his post Office and
read the papers that his neighbors pay for.
If this is true we would say to the postmas-
tiers that they are violating the law as much
in allowing man to read some other per
sons paper as if they allowed them to read
other peoples private letters. Amans news
paper is private property.
! Monday afternoon Drs. j. S. and J. v.
Brockinton amputated the leg OF William
Fillmore, colored man in the jail at Kings
tree. The prisoner was shot several days
ago by Constable Browder, while resisting
arrest. Fillmore was charged with larceny,
and when the consts BILE went to make the
arrest Fillmore cursed and threatened the
officer, and while attempting to escape, the
officer fred upon him with o shot gun,
striking him in the leg.
The colored men of this town will soon
organize fire company, and they will need
some help to carry out their Intentions.
The town council will have the hook and
ladder truck overhauled and put in first
class condition before turning it over to
them, and the citizens generally and espec-
tally the property owners should give them
all the encouragement they can. An organ
lied fire company is an actual necessity and
should be encouraged.
It is said that one of Foreston's merchants
went to Asheyille few weeks ago, and ap-
piled at hotel for board, when the proprl-
etor informed him that he was sorry that he
could not accommodate him as his house
was crowded. The State Alliance was ID
session at the time and the hotels were over
run, the merchant walked to the door,
heaved heavy sigh, and remarked, great
scott is Hllman's influence reached North
Carolina as well as Foreston?
The Jewish holidays are near at hand.
Next Monday will be the first day Of the
Jewish new year, and on the oath inst. will
be the day of atonement. This day is
: strictly observed even by those who do not
observe the other holidays. Every Jew
that has respect for his parents religion will
abstain from food and drink and devote
this day in prayer transacting no business
whatsoever. Therefore every Jewish bust
, ness house in Manning viii be closed on
} the Oath inst.
The town council met Monday night, aid
appointed Monday, the 22nd inst, as the
day to elect warden to fill the vacancy
: caused by the resignation of DR.. W. S. Pack,
The voting will begin at s o'clock in the
: morning and close at o'clock in the after
noon. They also decided to turn the hook
= and ladder truck over to the colored people
2 as soon as they organize a company and
elect their officers They inquired into o
case of disorderly conduct and fined one ot
the parties charged one dollar.
About 12 o'clock last night some one tried
, to enter the premises of Mr.. E. Isemar