The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings Of Interest in This and
in Other Countries.
THROUGH THE SOUTH.

be connected by an electric railway.
Unknown parties cut the Red river
levee sixty miles below Shreveport, La.
The Atlanta exposition has been en-
dorsed by New York's chamber Of com
merce.
The Liberty bell will start from Phil
adelphia for the Atlanta exposition on
Septem Der II.
The Southern passenger agents
have failed to fix the rates to the At
lanta Exposition.
The Mississippi populists met at
jackson Wednesday and nominated a
full state ticket.
An old cooking pot, containing sS, 00C
in gold. was found in an excavation for
building in Mobile, Ala.
A movement to make the Missouri-on
Wheels advertisement q permanent
feature has been started.
The members of the Society of Chris
tian Endeavor contributed last year tor
the cause of missions S420, 900.
The Louisville and Nashville rail-
road will call in existing Mobile and
Montgomery railroad bonds.
The rate war is off betweeea the
Ocean Steamship Company and the
Merchants and Miners Transports
ton Company.
The Algernon cotton mills at Au-
gusta are to be improved. Two hun
dred and fifty additional horsepower OF
water has been applied for.
David English was arrested at Jer'
seyville, H., and taken to Springfield,
where he confessed to robbing post
offices at Grafton and Risedale.
There was small war at mining
town near Birmingham, Ala, over the
arrest of miner. Au officer was killed
and several negro miners arrested.
The negro eolonists who left Geor-
cia and Alabama for Mexico are on
their way back sore and distressed.
The government extended aid to them.
The returning negro colonists who
left last spring for Africa bring ter
rible reports Of the harships encoun-
tered and advise the race to stay in the
south.
Spain threatens to forbid the expor-
tation to this country Of leaf tobacco.
Such a course would throw thousands
of cigar makers out of employment in
Florida.
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train
jumped the track at Cochrane's Mills,
Penn, Saturday. Engineer Funk was
killed, and Fireman Fryan fatally
scalded.
The collector of internal revenue for
the district of Florida, at Jacksonville,
reports the sales Of cigar and cigarette
and tobacco stamps during the month OF
July to be s44,659.55.
At Norfolk, Va, in the Massey-Pilot
libel suit, the jury returned verdict OF
$1,000 against the Pilot, S. W. Small
and E. r. Hurt and found the other de-
PENDANTS not guilty.
Hog cholera is playing havoc with
the swine crop in Marshal county, Ala.
Major Carlisle has lost several hundred
on his place near Guntersville, and
others. have lost large numbers.
Charles E. Thomas, colored physi-
clan at Annistou, Ala, has been Sc
lected as one of the colored represen.
tatives Of the state of the medical pro
fession to the Atlanta Exposition.
The reunion of the Thirteenth Geor-
gia regiment, held at jackson last Fri
day was the twelfth annual reunion Of
that regiment The next meeting will
be held at Orchard Hill on the last Fri
day in July, 1898.
The insurance companies allege that
people have been killed at Beaufort,
N. c., to defraud the companies out OF
the amount Of the policies. Several ar.
rests have been made and an investi-
CATION will follow.
Lieutenant Charles P. Echols, of the
United States army, who has for a
year past been on duty in Montgomery
with the Alabama river and coast sur
vey, will leave in few days for the
military academy at West Point.
DR.. Eugene Grissom, who was for
twenty years the superintendent of the
insane asylum in North Carolina, and
who has for several years lived in Col
orado, is now at an asylum at Denver
under treatment for the morphine
habit
The negro Baptist S. s. Convention
at Augusta, Ga, adopted an urgent and
eloquent warning 10 the negroes OF
the United States to stay away from
Africa. and to turn deaf ear to the
allurements Of the colonizing enthu-
siasts.
W. H. Weller, a capitalist of St.
Louis, has taken charge of the pipe
works at Gadsden, Ala, and they will
be started in about ten days, after ly.
ing idle for nearly two years. The ca.
pacity of the works vii! be doubled in
a short time.
James W. Tufts, of Boston, who has
bought 5000 acres of land two miles
from Southern Pines, n. e., has put
l4O men at work there, preparing she
land for settlement. and adyertises for
200 carpenters to put up buildings
which he is to rent to Northern set
tiers.
Postmaster McElrath has in his pos
session hook which is over seven hun
dred years old. The book is of He.
brew language and was printed in
Sulzbach. Germany. in the year 1868. It
contains Biblica. quotations and pray
ers in Hebrew Mr. McElrath keeps
his treasure wrapped carefully and
prizes it very highly.