The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-03-25
Our tsreeleyYille Letter.

GREMEyvuLE, Mar. 20.-For weeks past
the people of this community have been suf-
fsring with the ep'1'en:c catarrh-Grppe,
(F1)-which ever and anon afiic.s the hu-
man race, without regard to age, sex, temper
ament, or occupation. Mrs. Ann Montgom-
cry and Mrs. Amarintha Lesesne, both bor-
6ering on four score years of age, hare been
quite sick with it.
Mrs. Stevens died here recently, just af-
Ter completing ninety-one years Of life.
Four generations of descendants survive
her.
Rev. James Mcdowell has been favoring
the congregation at Richmond church with
religious services recently.
Messrs. Mallard & Griffin have united
with Messrs. Boyle & logan, and the firm
win be known as the Mallard Lumber Com
pany. They will erect another saw mill,
put iron rails on extensive tram roads, and
Keep their commissary stores in the store
lately, occupied by C. Karesh. This, I am
pleased to say, is strictly temperance firm.
They will not allow iptoxicants,-n even
spiked cider-as supplies to their en-
ployees.
It is not known that whiskey is sold by
say person in this community, either with
or without license. The importation Of
Alcoholic liquors by private persons, for So
cia1 drinking, and TO be used incidentally,
gives the railroad and express companies
some business.
This is the season for busy preparations
for planting, hauling fertilizers, and COM
planning about bad roads. In the MANNING
TnEs and Watchman and s'5,aaron, I see
that some careless plowmen by not lifting
their plow. stocks while turning in or cross
ing the pnblic roads, have walked up the
5 Judge, grand juries, and county commission
ers, and, as consequence, Sc ne printers
ink has been used. Unless the e is great
change in the supervision of the roads by
the county commissioners and their agents,
The oyerseers, this is the only result which
VIII follow. E, however, it should happen
Shat in this record and custom-b: eaking age,
this awakening shall result in good roads,
kept open the lawful width. and free from
al distractions in field and forest, these care
less plowmen will deserve the lasting graft
tude of all travellers and beasts Of burden,
and will have accomplished what the Agri-
cultural Department, Senator Butler, and 8
host of ether able men failed to do. If, on
the other hand, these orders not to plow or
plant within space of twenty feet, and on
roads leading to Charleston. Georgetown,
Columbia, Camden, Cheraw, and the defunct
town Of Hamburg (see orders for Sumter
county, are carried out, thousands of acres
viii be left urcuitivated which are not nee
essary for the public, except while t velers
are passing each other. Besides these un-
used borders will soon be covered with q
growth Of bushes and briars, which will be
"a much greater obstacle than the crops now
erowu outside the travelled track, and disfg-
ure the farms, and furnish a nursery Of
weeds and grass. If the orders to keep the
roads clear had applied to those portions in
woodland which are usually obstructed by
trees, stumps, logs, and undergrowth, so as
10 put travellers 10 serious Inconvenience
sometimes while passing each other, there
would have been more reason and common
sense in issuing them. J.MB.