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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-08-29
Monday, Aug. 10.

Monday, Aug. I'D.
Burglars got in their work in James
town the other night, taking $28 from
Frank Dellair's safe.
Track laying is in progress on the
Great Northern cutoff from Cassel-
ton to Fleming's station.
John Gillespie, who shot his uncle
near Milton. is in jail at Langdon-till
court .convenes Sept. "a.
Thieves broke into Whitney's hard
ware store in Grand Forks and got
$500 worth of plumber.
E George r. Stanwood Of st. Thomas
has been placed under $500 bonds for
sending an obscene letter through the
mails.
(, Thieves made an entrance in S. p.
Pratt's jewelry store at Glendale by
the rear window and succeeded III get
ting about $125 worth Of jewels.
City Marshal Newmans of Drayton
has been arrested on the charge of
illegal voting as result Of recent
blind pig arrests.
President Johnson, OF the Larimore
fire department, calls the citizens of
that place down for. kicks on the way
things are run.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
STRANGE DISCOVERY IN AFRICA
Ealzac's Dressing Gown in the Wardrobe
Of the King OF Dahomey.

Ealzac's Dressing Gown in the Wardrobe
Of the King OF Dahomey.
Unlooked-for things have been found
in unlikely places, says the Illustrated
London News. but there has probably
been no discovery more remarkable
than that of Balzac's dressing gown in
the possession Of the king of Dahomey.
Monarchs are rarely literary, and his
dusky majesty, one would think, was
the very last Of them to have set much
value upon the personal relic of nov
elist, however distinguished. Never
theless, the French found it in the
royal apartment at Abomey. There
were some ingenious theories founded
upon this circumstance. One of the
amazons, it was thought, might have
been a novel reader, and had sent to
Paris to secure the interesting memeuc
to, and, on the affair coming to the
knowledge Of her sovereign, had
hastened to say she had purchased 1t
for his own shoulders. For, indeed, he
always wore itupon state occasions. 1t
was not dressing gown, such as
literary persons in this country are
won't to wear (of second-class flannel
worn at the edges, but of purple vel
vet embroidered with gold. As mat
ter Of fact, it had been given to Balzac
by some of his admirers and after his
death had bee bought by a dealer in
curiosities, who had placed it, with
other showy articles, on the West
African market. 1t is sad to think how
q plain tale will put down"-that is,
destroy the materials of fine ro-.
nance.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
A GoldDuc AbSur(lity.


In mis- recent anti-silver speech at
Gainesville, Ca, Secretary Hoke
Smith reiterated a manifest absurdity
when he stated that there was an avail
ache of foreign silver waiting to swamp
our mints if we opened to silver. As
one Of his instances, and all are like
it, he mentions India as possessing
$3.50. 900. 900 of coined silver, which
the Indian banker and merchant will
be eager to recoin into silver dollars,
with the object of exchanging the sill
yer dollars thus procured for our gold
coin. Supposing, says the New York
Mercury, we concede these preposter-
our figures of India's coined silver, it
must be remembered that her silver
rupees constitute the whole of India S
money. Gold mohurs are coined in
India upon request but are not a
legal tender. Suppose they be made
legal tender, the mohur or fifteen
rupee piece, contains eaxactly the
weight of pure gold that the one rupee
piece contains of pure silver. Which
is to say, India's coin value of silver
is one-ffteenth her coin value of gold,
while our coin value of silver is about
one-sixteenth our coin value of gold.
Hence, if Indian merchants or bankers
contemplate recoining their silver ru-
pees into our silver dollars for the pur-
pose of exchanging these silver dollars
for our gold coin, they must deposit at
our mint sixteen of their silver rupees
for enough of silver dollars to yield
them the gold that will coin into one
Is rupee piece. Inasmuch then as their
Is rupee gold piece is the exact equi-
valent in their legal-tender money of
Is silver rupees, these astute Indian
bankers and merchants must be ex-
pected to sacrifice one rupee in IL
voluntarily, to satisfy Secretary Hoke
Smiths prediction, with nothing
gained by them in coined money by
the exchange. This is not a proceed
ing of bankers or merchants or indivi-
duals anywhere outside Of lunatic asy-
lums. India being every year the
creditor in her foreign trade with
all nations, the balance of trade
is every year in favor of India
as, against the United States and
the several states of Europe. There
fore, unless the Indian banker or mer-
chant can be imagined to fulfill Secre-
tary Hoke Smiths prediction, a sacri-
fee of l rupee in IL, at loss of about
4Scents on each s7.70, India will not
be denuded of her silver money in or
der to swamp our mints. And, final
ly, while the Secretary is alarming US
with the cataclysm to result from the
flight of our $67S, 900, 900 of gold, he
leaves us to assume that similar
flight of India's money, or the flight
of $500. 900, 900 more of India's money
from India, will occasion no distress
for money there. By what hocus-po-
Gus such exactyl similar causes are to
effect so divergent results Secretary
Hoke Smith does not, as yet, make
clear.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Personnel and Powers of Great Brttain's
Unpopular Legislative Branch.

Unpopular Legislative Branch.
The English house of lords Tor peers)
consists of the whole peerage Of Eng.
land and of certain representatives of,
the peerages of Scotland and Ireland;
but, according to the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, many of these last have also
English titles which give them seats in
the house. AS, for instance, the duke OF
Buccleuch, a Scotch peer, sits as earl
of Doncaster, and the duke of Leinster,
an Irish peer. as Niscount Leinster.
According to the latest official list, ex-
elusive of twelve minors and one baron,
whose claim is not established, the
present house of lords is composed as
follows: Five princes of the blood, two
archbishops, twenty-one dukes, twen-
ty-two marquises, one hundred and
fifteen earls, twenty-five viscounts,
twentyfour bishops, three hun
dred and four barons, sixteen Scot
tish representative peers elected for
each parliament, and twenvy-eight
Irish representative peers elected for
life. In all, FIVE hundred and sixty.
All peerageS are now hereoltary, oub
until 1856 there were occasional crea-
tions of life peerages. In that year,
however, it was decided that such peers
could not sit in the house, and since
then none have been made. Peerages
are lost by attainder for high treason,
and an attainted peerage can only be
restored by act of parliament-not by
the crown. The house of lords may
originate legislation of all kinds ex-
cept money bills, which must come
from the house of commons. The for
mer has also a veto power upon the
legislation of the latter, and can throw
out any bill from the lower house, nc
matter how large majority it has re
ceived there. 1t is this veto power
which, more than any and everything
else, makes the house of lords unpopu-
lar with the great mass of voters.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
Collide In a Fog.

MANCHESTER, n. H., Aug. S.-A
special to the Manchester Union from
Plymouth, n. H., says: The cannon
ball expressed train smashed into a
special freight just below Plymouth
village about o'clock this morning
with frightful results. Engineer
Frank Stevens and Fireman Geo. S.
Merrill and Henry G. Sines were in
stantly killed.
Several passengers were seriously
injured and fourteen new freight cars
just from the shops were in pieces
as were the locomotives.
Plymouth, n. H, Aug. S.-The
railroad accidentreported from Man
chester today occurred one mile south
of here on the Boston and Maine Rail
road. The southbound Cannon Ball"
express met on a curve and extra
freight, northbound. The crash was
plainly heard in Plymouth.
The engines We're completely de-
molished, both being thrown over a
twenty foot embankment and reduced
to kindling wood. The bodies Of the
dead were fearfully mangled and SO
scalded as to be hardly recognizable.
The killed are Frank Stevens, Of
Lake Port, engineer of the Cannon
Ball." George Merrill, of Lake Port,
fireman of the Cannon Ball Henry
G. Sines, of Woodsville, fireman OF
the freight, Arthur Austin, of Haver-
hill, freight breakman was so badly
hurt he will probably die. The morn
was foggy and the Cannon Ball"
was running thirty-live miles an hour
Telegraph poles We're destroyed for
several hundred feet and all but one
wire were cut off. Engineer Engineer
Eaton, of the freight, had .;':st been
transferred from the Northern to
White Mountain division Of the Bos-
ton and Maine, and was learning the
road between Concord and Woodsville
His escape was miraculous. The first
he knew Of the affair was a crash
and the next instant he was crawling
from beneath the wrecked locomo-
tives on his hands and knees. AL
though he is considerably injured,
the results will not be serious. The
orders for the movement of the two
trains were given by the dispatcher at
Woodsville and it is not known who
blundered.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
The Gold Man H9atcn.

The Chicago Inter Ocean, whose
editor was one Of the witnesses to the
Horr Harvey debate on the financial
question. Is of the opinion that Har-
vey, who represented silver, used
Horr. the gold representative, up pret-
ty badly. The Inter Ocean says the
discussion was not a stormy one, but
it cleared the atmosphere and was.
generally speaking, to the benefit OF
both sides to the controversy. Mr..
Horr made as good case, probabI y,
as any one could for the single stand
ard gold advocates. He presented
some points with remarkable force and
clearness and pushed every point for
all that it was worth He undoubted-
ly had the advice and suggestion Of
the best informed men Of his
way of thinking He may not
have convinced any of the double
standard men or any of the extreme
silver men, but he showed them that
there were two sides to the controver-
sy, and in doing this and in putting
his side of the question before men
who were disinclined to read argu-
ments in favor of single standard he
accomplished one of his purposes, but
in another particular, according to the
Int, Ocean, Mr.. Horr failed utterly.
1t is stating the case mildly to say he
was a great disappointment to the
gold men. He did the best he could,
but he failed to make his case. He
failed to satisfy even the men most
inclined to see him at his best. He
came West with the idea that he would
demolish Mr. Harvey and discredit
Coins Financial School He did
neither. Mr.. Harvey stands after the
experience of this debate stronger
with his friends and certainly stronger
with his opponents. He has met the
issue squarely, but treated the whole
question in serious, digniied way,
has demonstrated that he has at his
command a wonderful amount of in
formation, that he is as conscientious
and painstaking as any collector of
statistics Of the day, and that he ishon
estly and earnestly in favor of the
policy represented in his book. The
debate, it must be remembered, was as
to the reliability of the statistics pre-
sented in Coins Financial School
and as to the force of the arguments
made in that book The statistics
stand almost unimpeached, and the
arguments have been made stronger
instead of being weakened. Mr.. Har-
vey has been introduced to a larger
audience than he had before. In his
book Mr.. Harvey was in the position
Of man talking without Interrupt.
tion; in the debate he met an antago-
mist regarded as more able than him
self and certainly more experienced in
debate. He has acquitted himself as
well in this position as he did in the
book and this is saying good deal. "
This is the testimony of man who
was right on the ground and heard the
debate. It shows that the silverite
beat the goldite.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
MURDERS HER HUSBAND.
The Terrible Decd of All Cnfaithful Wife
and Her Par:Imour.

SpARTASBURG, S. c., Aug. 3.-The
mystery of the murder of J. O. Carson
is to be cleared away, and before
morning a youngman by the name of
Green, and Mrs. Carson, may be ap-
pretended. as warrants have been is
sued for their arrest The killing is
one of the blackest that has ever oc-
CURED in this county and the direct
cause which led to the deed is far more
black than the crime. It is rumored
that Mrs Carson and Green have been
on intimate terms for some time and
that Green became jealous Of her hus-
band and killed him to get him out Of
his way. 1t is said that the suicide
theory is all a myth and that it was
arranged to shield the murderers.
SPARTANBURG. S. c., Aug. 5.-Mrs.
J. O. Carson, Ed Green and J. B.
Page have been arrested for the MUIR
der of =. O. Carson, and if Judge
Lynch does not take hand in the case
Judge Benet will, perhaps, be called
upon to sit upon the most horrible,
-blooded murder case that has ever
been tried in this State. After the
killing Green fled into North Carolina,
but on Sunday night was captured
and brought back, getting off the train
at Landrum's. There they were met
by mcb of about $50 who were eager
to lynch Green on the spot and it was
with the greatest difficulty that the Of
ficers prevented it,
An investigation was begun today
at Fingerville. There is an enormous
and excited crowd present. The feel
ing is most intense Threats of lynch
ing are heard on all sides and the sit
uation IS serious
Page has turned States evidence
and told the story Of the killing. He
says that on that fatal night he slept
at Green's house and that Green
and Mrs. Carson went over to
Carsons home and on Green's
return he said: Me and Mrs. Carson
have killed Carson and if anything
ever Games from it l will give you
500 to swear that slept with YOU all
tonight"
Pages story, in the main, is true
yet ii is thought that he took hand
in the killing as some of his clothes:
all bes:neared with blood, were found
at his nouse. The prisoners will be
brought to Jail tonight if they can es-
cape the hands of the mob Sheriff
Dean and posse have just left here
for New Prospect, the scene OF the
killing to protect. if possible, the
prisoners from the hands ofan excited
mob of 600.
Later-The sheriff and posse have
just arrived in charge of Mrs. Carson
and her paramour. E. J. Green. Had
it not been for the timely y arrival of
the sheriff and posse they in all prob
ability would have been dangling at
the end of rope. Both woman and
man were very nervous and refused to
make statement. A large crowd is
now collected about the jail. No
trouble IS feared now that the murder
ers are within prison walls.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
CornerinS the Orange Crop.

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. THE British
steamer Jason, Capt. Frazier will sail
from here tomorrw for Jamaica, car
rying cargo of orange box material
and also many expert orange plckers
and packers. These orange picker
and packers are the employees of Will
liams & Hubbard Of the Boston Fruit
Company, which has cornered the ia
maica orange crop for three years to
come, or until they expect that the
Florida trees will be in bearing again,
and knock out trust prices. y shrewd
piece of business was done by this
concern. The moneyed men of the
country and the business men thor
oughly alive toa point of vantage, hur-
ried over to Jamaica Immediately after
the Florida freeze and secured leases
of q large number Of bearing orange
groves. These leases were obtained
for period of three years. The boxes
on the Jason are theirs and will be
used to pack the first part of the crop,
which will be ready for shipment in
September. The beauty of the orange
groves in Jamaica is that they bear
two crops a year, one in September
and the other in March. They do
not bear as proliically at time as
the orange trees in Florida, do, but IN
a year produce fullyas many oranges.
There is now on board the Jason Eng
lish material to manufacture into So
900 boxes. AS these are filed, the Jason
will come back for more. She will
probably bring back on her return
voyage the first shipment of Jamaica
oranges, which, on account of their
earliness, ought to command fancy
prices.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
The Deadly Bolt.

PIEDMONT, Aug. "a 14-year-old
son of Samuel Campbell. prosperous
farmer residing about four miles from
here, had a miraculous escape from in
slant death during a thunder shower
yesterday afternoon. He was on his
way from his home to this place. He
was riding on horseback, and when
near the suburbs OF town bolt Of
lightning struck him, giving him a
severe shock and rendering him un-
conscious and tearing and burning
most of his clothing from his body.
The horse that he was riding was in
stantly kill. Young Campbell was
discovered by some people soon after
his accident. He was carried to his
hcme in an unconscious condition.
Dr.. Donald went out to attend him
and spent all night in trying to revive
him and relieve him as much as posi-
bic from his suffering. The doctor
tntertains very little hopes fhis recov-
erv. The bolt struck his left shoulder
and extended, down his breast over
his stomach and bowels and down his
right leg. Young Campbell regained
at late hour in the
night.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
A Remarkable Fact.

Prof. Anton Berg, of this city, call
ed our attention the other day to re-
markable fact recorded by Swedish
newspaper. 1t looks impossible, but
the newspaper from which it was tax
en- vouches for it, that there has lived
in the world two half-sisters, daugh-
ters of the same father, who died one
hundred and seventy years apart.
This is a statement that all would
doubt unless the facts were given to
corroborate it. Here are the facts:
The English Secretary of Foreign At
fairs, Charles James Fox, married in
1854. He had daughter born to him
in 1865, the child dying the same year.
In the course of time his wife died also
and in his old age he married a second
wife, and the youngest of the children
of this marriage was girl who was
born in 1727. She lived to the ripe
old age Of ninety eight years, dying in
1926, her death thus occurring one
hundred and seventy years from the
time her half-sister died in 1855. 1t is
very possible, as this Swedish paper
says, that the youngest daughter saw
Queen Victoria, and it is also possible
that the eldest daughter saw Oliver
Cromwell. The most daring novel
writer would hardly go so far in his
as the facts above record
ed.-The Times and Democrat.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
Excursion Rates.

The South Carolina and Georgia
Road announces the following rates to
Atlanta on account of the Exposition,
which is soon to be opened in that
city. Tickets will be on sale Septem-
Der 5 and -, and daily from the 18th
to December IS, limited to return be-
fore January 7, for 1885 for the
round trip.
After September Is tickets good for
fifteen day trip to Atlanta will be
sold for S10.25 for the round trip.
On the same date a third kind Of
excursion ticket, good for one week,
will be sold for S7.20 for the round
trip.
The South Carolina and Georgia
Road will also sell excursion tickets to
Louisville on account of the National
Encampment of the Grand Army Of
The Republic, which is to be held in
that city this year These tickets will
be on sale from September S to II for
$3.50 for the round trip, and they
will be good for a return passage until
October 5.
Round trip tickets will be sold over
the same road from September 13 to
the 6 to Knoxville on account of the
BATTLEFIELD encampment of the Sons of
Veterans, which is to be held next
month. These tickets will be good
for the return trip until October 10,
and will cost but $3.50.
Tie dedication of the Chickamauga
and Chattanooga National Park at
Chattanooga next month is another
event on account of which the South
Carolina and Georgia Road will sell
excursion tickets. These tickets will
be on sale September 16 to the 10,
limited to return trip on or before
October Is for SS.95.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
Fatal Boiler Explosion.

The Holly Hill correspondent of the
News and Courier says distressing:
accident occurred Thursday afternoon
week at the saw mill of Mr.. Peter
Minis, an estimable citizen, living near
that place, which has since resulted
in one death, and may result in one or
two more. Suddenly, without appar-,
emily cause and without warning, the
boiler exploded with terrific force.
telling to the ground beneath falling
iron and timbers and scalding water
Mr.. Fletcher Minis and his young
brother, Joel, sons of Mr.. Minis, and
a negro boy, who were at work
around the mill. The bodies of all OF
them were cut, mangled and scaldeG
by the boiling water in frlghttuI
manner. Little Joel, who was severe
ly cut about the head and rendered
unconscious, fingered until Saturday
afternoon, when be died. His funeral
services were held at Target Church
Sunday afternoon amid the tears OF a
throng of people. He was sweet
tempered boy and universally below
ed. The young man is in a critical
condition, and it is feared he cannot
live. Many were the wishes for his
recovery and restoration to his young
wife, formerly Miss Helen Claassen,
of Charleston. The casualty is pecu-
liarly distressing in that these were
the only sons of Mr. Minis.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
Evidently Il Gold Bug.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Aug. S.-"Oh, l
killed the devil with gold brick, ;"
was the exclamation Of ". n. Hurst,
an inmate of the Eastern lunatic asy-
lum, when discovered by the attend
ants this morning sitting on a bed
hugginga brick wrapped in a pillow
slip. At his feet was the lifeless body
of another lunatic, with his head
smashed to a pulp The murder had
been committed some time during the
night. Hurst secured loose brick
from the wall behind his bed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
HOW SHORT TIE SPACE,

How short the space, how much 10 oo
How few and brief the days or men
So much to learn of false ana true
And only threeScore years ana ten.
So little time to do things Wen.
So much-so very much to know;
And while we labor in our cell
The years do not forget to go.
So manv things that we may learn
lfonlv Time would stay its tide,
And once again our youth return
10 keep the shadow from our side.
But, ah! what cannot be cannot,
Wen do the little that We may,
And in some Time-ignoripg spot
Perhaps find what we leave today.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14

OK Sabbath the 2lst., DR.. j. B.
Hawthorne, of Atlanta, began spir-
tied crusade against the growing Gus
tom among women of. riding bicycles
Among other things he said those who
ride the wheel are possessed Of per-
sonal devils. The following Thurs
day a bevy of young ladies from the
city went out to Manchester where
the doctor resides and treated him to =
regular bicycle parade.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14

Up in New Jersey it costs a negro
twenty years in the penitentiary to
kill a student. John $. Collins, who
shot and killed friedrich Oil, the Prin-
ceton student, was convicted murder
in the second degree and sent to the
penitentiary twenty years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14

THE assassination of Stephan Stam-
bulotf, ex-prime minister of Bulgaria,
has created q considerable sensation.
Bulgaria is the storm centre of Wes-
tern Europe 1t is an Independent
province, but Russia, Austria, Ger
many, Great Britain and Turkey are
all interested in that government.
Neither wishes the other to gain un-
due influence over the rulers. SIAM
buloff when prime minister was the
power behind the throne.