The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-11-04
WEDNESDAY,, NOVEMBER l, 1884,

SuulGE udO GNO Od4 eAe ASIAN
last week. Progressive city.
The county commissioners were IN
session yesterday, and paid off a num-
Der of past-indebtedness claims.
The State fair meets in Columbia
next week, November 10 to IL, in
elusive. The railroads will sell tick
cts at reduced rates.
Tomorrow noon Mr.. Smith Nelson
Will be married to Miss Annie Plow-
den, at the residence Of her father,
Capt. Edgar Plowden.
Warrington Oliver, OF Foreston, 8
lad about twelve years of age, met
with a serious accident yesterday by
being thrown from a mule and break
ing his arm.
The town council at their meeting
Monday night extended the time for
the collection of street tax to Decem-
ber first. Those lot paying by that
date will be dealt with according to
law.
The town council have been consid-
ering the advisabiity of purchasing 3
lot and moving the market house out
of the street. This would be step
in the right direction, because the
present site of the market house is an
eye. sore, and ought to be removed.
Owing to the decline in the price
of cotton the receipts at this place
fell off considerably the past week.
Some of our farmers are unwilling to
sell at present prices, and are going
to hold. One prominent farmer
stored thirty four bales in Manning
last Monday, and had them insured
against fire, to hold for better prices.
What has become Of the canning
factory project? We hope that the
parties that were enthusiastic over
the project the past summer have not
lost their zeal, and will continue push
ING it. There can be no doubt that
if the matter is pushed properly it
will succeed and do lots of good, not
only to the town, but the whole coun-
ty will feel its benefits.
Buntin, split, and four-fold zephyr, in all
shades, at Rigbys.
Last night at ten o'clock fire was
discovered in the post Office by Mr..
R. NJ. Dean. He gave the alarm I'M
mediately, and in few minutes q
crowd gathered and extipguished the
flames. The fire is believed to have
an incendiary origin, as it was in the
mail boxes where there was a number
of newspapers. Considerable dam
age was done to the plastering and
the mail boxes, but no mail was lost,
as the postmaster had already given
the mail to the carrier, and had only
left the Office a few minutes before
the fire was discovered.
An elegant line of holiday goods such as
fine plush albums, decorated vases, cups
and saucers, toilet sets, lamps, and chill
drens picture books, at Dinklns & Co. S
drug store,
Last Thursday night the dwelling
house known as the White house, on
Santee, belonging to Mr.. J. Henry
Childers, was destroyed by fire. Mr..
Childers and his wife We're in Charles
ton attending the gala week festivi-
ties at the time of the fire, and knew
nothing of their misfortune until they
arrived home on Saturday. The col
ored people on the place saved from
the building a small amount of bed
ding that was in a front roorn, every
thing else in the house was destroy
ed. The house was insured by two
parties. Mr.. Childers holding bond
for title had g policy for seven hun
dred and fifty dollars, and DR.. S. G.
C. Richardson, who holds the title to
the property, had policy for five
hundred dollars. This state of affairs
may possibly compicate matters
when the companies go to settle the
claim. The question OF who will be
the proper one to settle with will
have to be decided.