The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-12

Philadelphia, where he will join his wife,
and they will spend the summer at the
various pleasure resorts.
Protracted services are being held in the
Methodist Church, and the congregation
are large at each service.
A penitentiary guard came down last
Sunday night, and on Monday morning
carried up the four prisoners eonvi cted last
week.
A new trial has been granted c. L. Will
son and Noses Andrews in the counter
feiting case, and they will get out OF jail
as soon as they give bond.
Children's Day was celebrated at the
Baptist Church last Sunday. The edlhce
was handsomely decorated. and the exer-
cises consisted Of music, recltahons ana
an address.
Grams Unrivaled Family Atlas and En-.
eyclopedia of the World is the latest and
most valuable work Of the kind published.
Mr.. E. J. Browne is sole represe ntarve for
this county.
The brethren OF the Black River Union
will please bear in mind that the next reg
ular session of the Black River Union will
be held with the church at Summerson,
June 2Sth. E. D. WELLS. Moderator.
Fire broke out in the dwelling house Of
Mack Rich last Sunday night and came
near destroying the house and its sieeplng
inmates. The cause Of the fire is attrlo-
uted to o defective Aue. and when the hre
was discovered the roof was IN light
blaze. After hard work the building was
saved with remarkably small damage.
There will be an excursion to Charleston
on the 18th instant under the auspices OF
the lodge of Red Men of Sumter. Messrs.
3. o. Purdy, Frank O'Donnell, n. G.
O,teen, j. Frank Pate and B.C. Wallace are
the committee in charge, and it IS needless
for Us to say that ladies need not hesitate
to 90 on this excursion. Read the sdTer-
tisement elsewhere.
There is sufficient amount Of tobacco
being raised in Clarendon and Williams
burg counties to warrant our business men
in looking after establishing tobacco
warehouse in Manning and thereby get
the advantage of large sums Of money an
nus,ly spent by our farmers who are now
forced to carry their tobacco to other
towns. Merchants, think of this!
The 1swiy elected board of health is
looking after the sanitary condition Of the
town. They are soon to inspect the various
premises, and If they find them in an un-
clean condition they will act as the law
directs. Clean your yards before the
board gets after you. because the gentle
men composing this board are going to 90
their full duty regardless of who they
strike.
Baseball clubs, attention ! We have q
full line of base-balls and bats. r. B.
Loryea.
The closing exercises of the Summerton
high school took place last Wednesday
evening. Prof. +. G. Beckwitb. who hos
been the principal the past two years to
the entire satisfaction Of the patrons, an
nounced that he will not continue in charge
of the school, which announcement was re
ceived with much regret. Mr.. Beckw!th
expects to enter the ministry and join the
s. C. Methodist Conference.
Nice line of mems, youths, and chill
dren's clothing, cheap, at Risbys.
Died at the residence of his nephew. Mr..
S. W. Mcintosh, last Thursday morning, at
Workmans, Mr.. Lorenzo D. Player. aged
sbout seyenty-fve years. The funeral took
place the next day at Midway church. The
deceased was successful farmer and was
well known throughout the county, and
while he has always taken al active inter
est in public affairs he never could be per-
suaded to accept public Office.
The bondsmen of Henry Tindal, col.
oSed. late postmaster at Pack vile,
this county, and who is serving q sem
tence in the Columbus (Ohio] penitentiary,
have been arrested for making false oaths
as to their worth when they justified on
Tpdars bond. Two of them are IN the
Sumter Jail in default of bail. and the third
was released on bail All of them are COL
ored citizens of the Packsville section.
We were asked recently why we did not
boom Manning, and IN reply we showed
the gentleman copy of The TINES and
asked him to show US the encouragement
in our advertising columns from our busi-
ness men who are to be benefited by q
booming. He said. after looking: 'Oh.
well, your merchants must all be rich and
not" We told him he was mistaken that
oar merchants are striving to build up the
town, but that they expected a newspape.
man to work for his health and live on
promises until next year, when business
may get better.
Alpaca coats and vests for men and boys
at Rigby's.
4 party Of gentlemen from Manning
went to Brewington yesterday on fishing
expedition, and one Of them, Mr.. E. L.
wilkins. got capsized out of batteau and
was ducked He says that be killed thirty
seven snakes even if he did get ducked,
and, being a truthful man, no one should
doubt him. but whether he did or not is
nobody's business. The editor of the
Times is not a member Of 6 church and
was ducked at the same place the Friday
before, but the ducking did not have the
effect of making him see snakes as it did
Mr.. wilkins, who is devont member OF
the church. He also says that his pastor,
Rev. ]. o. Cough, was with the crowd and,
while the parson did not get ducked. be
saw snakes al. the same. Oh, brethren, il
YOU had had your good wives along, they
would have exerted their temperance infu-
o.,o oyar Won II Won cant 90 on q fishing