The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings Of Interest in This and
in Other Countries
THROUGH TIE SOUTH.

The Ala pama miners are Oh stE'he'
Hon. Bascom Myrick, OF Amerlcus'
Gs., is dead
DR.. henry NJ. Caldwell, OF Birning-
ham, Ala, Is dead.
Selma, Ala, has subscribed sloo,ooo
FOR cotton mill.
Rev. II. q. Parka, a prominent divine
OF Georgia, is dead.
North Carolina wants the Liberty bell
to pass through that state.
Port Royal, S. c.. now has the largest
dry dock in the United States.
The Georgia state agricultural secie-
ty meets at Cumberland next week.
The cotton crop is said to be greatly
damaged by recent foods and rains
It is said Senator Tillmau, OF South
Carolina, has presidential aspirations
Making a newspaper will be one OF
the features Of the Atlanta Exposition.
Justice Jackson's burial took place at
Belle Meade, near Nashville, Monday.
John D. Howell cut the threat OF
Lucy johnson, his paramour, at Tampa
The indieations are that Senator
Blackburn will succeed himseiS N Ken
tucky.
Five people were killed by cyclone
at Three States and one at Barnes
Ridge, Ky.
Key West, Fla. is TO issue $500, ,ooo
worth Of bonds to build railroad 70
Key Largo.
Thirteen defendants were bound over
in the insurance fraud cases at Beau
fort, n. C.
Two prisoners in the Arkansas peni-
tentiary were found to be coming ooun-
serfeis money.
Three Arkansas negroes have re-
turned from Liberia snG tell tales OF
great suffering.
The apple crop west of the Ale
gheny mountains is said to be the larg-
est in several years.
Senator A. J. McLaurin has been
nominated for governor by the demo-
Gratis Of Mississippi.
The Davis monument fund has reach
cd SaS,o 900. The monument will De
erected at Richmond.
Judge Gof rendered his decision In
the South Carolina registration law
case sustaining the law.
The Southern Pine Lumber com
psny was organized IN Savannah with
a capital stock Of 81. .250,0 900.
Rev. r. C. May, one Of the Oldest
Presbyterian ministers in the SOUTH
died in Savannah, aged TO.
An Alabama iron plant got a con-
tract to furnish Japan with iron over
the competitors OF all nations
The boycott against the Louisville
and Nashville will be continued by the
Southern Grocer's Association.
Two thousand acres OF land, crops
and all, were abandoned in Texas by
negroes who fear the whitecaps-
The legislative primary held at Win
chester, KY, resulted IN McCreary
beating Blackburn for the senate.
Texas fever, a disease common to
cattle, is raging in Tennessee. IL is
also prevalent at Huntington, Pa.
The railroads have adoptda the rate
of one cent a mile TO the Cotton
States and International Exposition.
The Huntsville. Ala. soap factory is
making an excellent article OF soap
and turning out about 5000 pounds a
day.
The Newport News Cotton Nanufac'
turing Co., has been Incorporated at
Richmend, Va. Capital stock oVes
s25, 900 and under s5o0,O00.
The state of North Caroline will loan
the Atlanta Exposition many hundreds
Of the finest specimens of minerals and
gold ores in the state museum.
The naval evolution extending from
Hampton Roads, Va, to Halifax. Nova
Scotia, will be the grandest ever at
tempted by this country.
A big wheat convention will meet in
Nashville September 8 and 4. 1t will
COMPOSE growers and millers Of the
Southern Millers' Association.
Mrs. +. C. Robertson, chairman OF the
woman's exhibit for South Carolina
issues an appeal to the women OF the
state to haye q creditable exhibit.