The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-23
OUR SHOWING AT ATLANTA.
What South Carolina Contributes to the
Exhibition.


Naturally, the first thing a South
Carolinian wants to know is what place
his own State occupies in the picture.
While the Palmetto State has no
building as New York, Pennsylvania.
Alabama, California, Illinois aud
several other States, yet the display
she makes is very creditable indeed.
She has displays in four buildings
the agricultural, the woman's building
and the woman's annex.
In the agricultural building the ex-
hibit is in the care of Commissioner
Roche who deserves much credit for
the good taste and judgment shown,
as we'll as the energy used in getting
together so much with so little finan
cial backing.
AS to be supposed, phosphate rock
plays an important part in the South
Carolina exhibit. There aretwo large
pillars of it, made of alternate layers
of land and river rock. Then there
are large number OF specimens of
the fossils taken from the phosphate
beds.
Next in importance comes temple
OF grain 21x2lx35. 1t is made of corn
and wheat and oats and rye, all ar
ranged in a very attractive way. The
tower of rice comes next. The
Winnsboro granite quarries have a
display of their polished and upnol-
ished stone. The Walker, Evans &
Cogswell company have probably the
best bookbindlng and general station
ary supply display to be found on the
grounds. The Columbia Cotton mills
have, without question, the most at
tractive display Of products of any cot
ton mill display to be found at the ex-
position. The Courtenay mills of
Newberry have an attractive exhibit,
and a number of the other mills have
added to the general display of cotton
goods made in this State. The Caro-
lima Mining company of Blacksburg
with Col. ]. F. Black as its manager,
has most creditable display of min-
erals and South Carolinians will open
their eyes to find that so many valua-
BILE minerals are found in the soil of
their State. The Charleston College
museum has been drawn upon and
many Of its choicest specimens for
students of natural history are on dis
play. Then, too, there are stuffed
fishes of every variety found in the
waters of the State and stuffed birds.
many of which cannot claim South
Carolina as their home. The State
dispensary is to have a display, but it
has not been arranged yet, and Glenn
son College has been assigned a
corner.
THE CHARLESTON ROOM.
Mrs. Andrew Simonds will win
many plaudits for herself for the ad-
mira Bile manner in which she has dec
grated "Charleston Room" which is in
the woman's building. The room as
signed to Charleston was used as the
assembly hall and is about the largest
room in the building, but Mrs. Sim
onds has not only filled it with the
choicest paintings, tapestries, curious
and interesting heirlooms from Char
leston's homes, but her exhibit has
overfowed into the main hall, and
been distributed in other rooms in the
buildings. On the walls of the Char
lesion are over eighty portraits of CO.
lonial aud revolutionary governors of
South Carolina, leading men of the
State in later years, and representa-
titives of nearly all Of the leading
families in thu State. The ceiling of
one section of the room is decorated
with a handsome centrepice, freize,
the handiwork of Charleston ladies.
This is one of the few things in the
Charleston room which will be sold
when the exposition is over, aud the
hi CHEST bidder for this centre-piece
and frieze will have very handsome
decorations for room. The Charles
ton room compares favorably in dis
play with any room in the woman's
building. and in extent is hardly
equalled by any other.
IN THE woMANs's ANNEX.
Mrs. DR.. Robertson of Columbia
has s own her great taste and energy
in the South Carolina woman's room
in the annex to the woman's building.
Here are interesting exhibits too num-
erous to mention. Among the paint
ings can be found those of Mrs. Rob
ertson, Miss Earle, Mrs. Bachman and
Mrs. Kendall of Columbia, Miss More
land of Charleston, Mrs. Wynne OF
Greenville; china painting by Miss
Blondelle Malone of Columbia: tapes
tries from the Ursuline convent; the
Jackson vase and Palmetto regiment
flags tall head from the vaults Of the
Central National Bank, and mum
Der of pieces ofvery handsome entique
silver from Mrs. John E Bacon, Mrs.
Thomas Hayward and Mrs. +: A.
Miles. There is a tea cup used by
LAFAYETTE in 1902 at a tea party given
by Mrs. Eliza Green Earle. A num-
Der of Italian relics are shown, besides
hundreds of other articles which the
antiquarian could spend days in ex
amining This display does great
credit to the ladies.
Other South Carolina exhibitors
worthy of mention are: DR.. G. Z.
Shepard of Summerville, who has the
only American tea exhibit to be found
on the grounds. the J. Wilson Gibbes
Stationary company, which shows
number Of model typewriters' desks,
and other office fixtures of their partlc-
ular patent.
Altogether South Carolina makes a
Yerv creditable show and one of which
every one from this State can well be
proud. d.-H. H. McMaster in The State.
4 Murder Mystery.
PAcoLET, Oct. Is The body of Silas
Nancy, colored, was found early this
morning about one mile above the sta
ton on the railroad, terribly mutilated
The head was severed from the body
and one arm cut off. There was bask-
ct and two or three bottles of whiskey
hv the side of the body.