The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-07-08
The crops in the st. Paul section
ora enffarino for want of rain.

The crops IN tne 81. aoi see'1oN
are suffering for want OF ram
The town council is having the
grass in the streets moved down
The reports from Salem give -, that a
section fine crops and plenty OF fruit.
Tares were formerly associated with
wheat, but now they seem to animate
chiefly with rye.
The spirit of '76 must have been
very taugling stuff since it made our
first day Of independence the Fourth
The saying, Nothing succeeds like
success" was probably invented before
the modern cuisines failure system
of succeeding was discovered.
Mrs. E. A Ramsey, OF Wedgefeld,
died on the 21st of June IN he: f9th
year She had a large number OF rel
atiyes and friends in this county.
It is against the law for persons to
sell pistols and pistol cartridges with
out having obtained a license. Inc
new law went into effect the 23rd OF
June.
Owing to Capt. D. J. Bradhan,s 5 re-
cent illness, the readers Of the LINES
will have to forego the pleasure OF
reading another of his interesting let
ters until next week.
For Ia grippe, coughs, colds, etc, use syr.
ND of rock candy, horehouna' ana toiu'
SIC. a bottle at Dinkins j. Co.'S drug store.
The annual meeting of the State
teachers association will be held at
Anderson on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th
of this month. The teachers will be
entertained by the citizens OF that
city. oo ..... :
Fresh gilt edge butter, only 80 cents a
pound, at NJ. Kallskys.
Trial Justice A. ]. Richbourg, OF
summerton, was engaged last Friday
in hearing a case of assault and bat
tery between S. A. Br:nson, prosecut-
or, and J. H. Kelly, defendant, and
the Jury rendered verdict OF not
guilty. This case is a second edition
of the case that was tried IN the last
term of the sessions court, where
Brunson was indicted by Kelly and
convicted of the charge OF assault ana
battery and Of carrying concealed
weapons.
Corviz Sarsaparilla is the best blood pu
rifier. I2S doses for q dollar at Dinklns
j. Co.'S drug store.
Sheriff Bradham sold at public out
crv last Monday 5000 acres OF un-
known swamp land in St. James
township for nine hundred dollars
and 4,50O acres in Santee .ownsh1E
for eight hundred dollars Col. Jas
G. Gibbes representing the sinking
fund commission was the purchaser
He, also, sold house and lot in the
town of Manning, for four hundred
and five dollars. This piece OF prop
erty was sold as matter OF form II
order to perfect title.
Granulated sngar. pounds for % cents
or l6 pounds for dollar, at NJ. haIlsky $.
Last Saturday Trial Justice Tim.
mons tried Joe Cash, a one Legged
colorea youth, on the charge OF lar
ceny The prisoner pleaded guilty te
the charge and asked the court to be
mercisul to him. He was SENTENCED
to pay fine of twenty dollars o.
90 to iail twenty days. Owing te
the stringency in the money marke
the young man concluded to serve
the twenty days. Joe Cash is young
in wears, but veteran IN crime
He has served his State in the penn
tentiary one term.
magnificent line Of ladies slippers a
NJ Lewis.
Complaints are being made by
number Of the school commissioners
that notice of the examination for tn
scholarship in the Winthrop Trainin:
School was entirely too short, ant
that it was not sufficiently advertised
Clarendon county can make the sam
complaint. The school COMMISSIONS
received the official notice on Satur
dav, and on the following Thursda
tbe examination was to have take
Mace. The notice had only one IN
sertion in the county papers, and tha
insertion was issued the evening be
fore the day set for the examination
It is very likely that number c
Young ladies would have appeare
for the examination, had they had nc
tice of the opportunity, and by nc