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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
financial scheme, not alike beneficial

financial scheme, not alike beneficial
to all our people, or that any one
should be excluded from a common
and universal interest in the safe
character and stable value of the cur
rency Of the country In our relation
to this question, we are all in business,
for we all buy and sell; so we all have
to do with financial operations, for we
all earn money and spend it. We
cannot escape our independence. Mer-
chants and dealers are in every neigh
borhood and each has its shops and
manufactures.
Wherever the wants of man exist,
business and finance in some degree
are found, related in one direction to
those whose wants they supply and in
another to the extensive business and
finance to which they are tributary.
a fuctuation in prices at the seaboard
is known the same hour or day in the
remotest hamlet. The discredit Or de-
probation in financial centres of any
form of money in the hands of the
people is signal of immediate loss
everywhere If reckless discomfort and
wild experiment should sweep our cur
rency from its safe support, the most
defenseless of all who would suffer in
that time of distress and national dis
credit will be the people, as they reck-
on the loss in their scanty support,
and the laborer and workingman, as
he sees the money he has received for
his toll shrink and shrivel in his hand
when he tenders it for the necessaries
to supply his humble home. Disguise
it as we may, the line of battle is
drawn between the forces of safe cur
rency and those Of silver monometal-
ism. I will not believe that if our
people are afforded an Intelligent op-
portunity for second thought they will
sanction schemes that, however cloak
ed, mean disaster and confusion, nor
that they will consent by undermin
ing the foundation of safe currency.
to endanger the beneicient character
and purpose Of their government.
Yours very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
The Price ofPeace.

LONDON, April IA dispatch to
the Star from Tien Tsin says an impe-
rial proclamation has been issued au-
thorzing Ii Hung Chang to sign a
treaty with Japan, guaranteeing the
payment OF 200, 900, coo taeis indemni-
ty. By proclamation II Hung Chang
is empowered to cede to the japanese
the Island of F'ormosa and the PENN
sular Of Lao to the 40th degree of lat
itude, to saction opening five new
commercial ports, including Peking
and to give Japan power to- open cot
ton factories and other industries in
China. B. the terms of the ptocla-
nation, import duties at open ports
are not 10 exceed : per cent. The
Central News correspondent IN Toxic
learns that the Chinese indemnity to
Japan is to be paid in silver il five
years iuStalments also that by the
terms of the treaty Of peace, Japan is
to receive possession of f'ormosa, the
Pescadore Islands. the Peninsular of
Lao Tung from Yin kow 10 Au Ping.
on the Yalu river and an indemnity
of POO, 600, 000 taels in silver. Several
important commercial concessions are
also made by China, but these Japan
is to share with other nations. No
territory is to be occupied by Japan as
a temporary guarantee, except, per-
haps. Liu kung Tao.
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4 Double.DYed ScoundreI.

Rock HILL, April 17.-For several
days past there has been much excite
ment in Ebenezer and Bethel town
ships on account of the brutal conduct
of j. F. Shuford, who has been teach
ing at Allison Creek school house.
The fact has developed that recently
he made indecent overtures to two or
three young girls who have been at
tending his school, and in the case of
one she was saved from his lust only
by her screams and making a promise
that she would not tell of his conduct.
Shuford was arrested at his home in
Sharon last Saturday and Monday he
had preliminary hearing in York
vile when the heinous and inhuman
conduct Of the man was related by the
girl, whose young life he attempted to
blast. He was held by the trial jus
tice on his failure to give bond in the
sum Of 81, 900.
The community is very much stirred
up on account Of the atrocious con-
duct Of the monster and on Monday
night the sheriff and lis deputies
guarded the jail, being apprehensive
of violence, and it will not be at all
surprising if an attempt should be
made to take him out Of the sheriff's
hand and infict summary punish
ment
Shuford is married man. His wife
with one child has been living at
while he and his other child,
a little girl, with him at Allison Creek.
He has very bad reputation and it
is rumored that he was whipped by
crowd Of indignant citizens for sim
liar otfense at Sharon last fall. 1t is
also said that he had to leave Geor-
gia, where he taught school, on ac-
count Of his lustful conduct, He is a
native of Catawba county, n. c.,
where his reputation was bad, for the
same reason.
The girls whom he attempted to ruin
At Allison Creek are all young. His
overtures in the case of two of The
number did not become known until
lately, because he told tae girls he
would kill them if they should di-
vulge. He is very bad man and has
got himself into a pretty serious
.rouble.-Herald.
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Struck BY an Elevator

PITTsBURG, Pa, April 17.-William
Dean was instantly killed and John
Reef and Harry Goshen were seriously
injured in a peculiar elevator accident
in the new Arrott building this morn
inc. George Ballman, the Pittsburg
manage for the Crane Elevator Com
pany. was testing the elevator, and
together with John Reef, who was
running the carriage, went up to the
seventh floor. Dean, who was plas-
terer. run board across the elevator
opening to finish some of his work.
He eveidently knew nothing of the
elevator being over him. When the
carriage started down, a carriage
slated down, a scream was heard
stop, stop The next instant the ele-
vator struck the board that Dean had
been standing on, fishing his work in
the hatch. Dean was thrown into the
cellar Of the building, distance Of
some sixty feet. His lifeAess body
struck Haray Goshen, who was work
ing in the cellar, and it is feared Gosh
en- may be also fatally injured. Reef,
the elevator man, man was injured by
jumping out of the carriage. Mr..
Ballman. manager OF the Crane Ele-
avtor Company, said the accident was
due entirely to Deans carlessness.
Deans neck was broken and his skull
cushed in the fall.
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Buried in the Ruins,

GLovERsvILLE, n. Y, April 10
The Tietz block, in process of construc-
ton, collapsed today, burying in the
ruins two painters and two plumbers.
The painters, two brothers named
Veeder, We're killed. One of the plum
bers, named Freeman, was seriously
hurt, but the other was but slightly
injured. What remains of the build
ing will nave to be torn down, and all
will be a total loss.
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4 Shin Wrecked Crer

CHARLESTON, April 17.-Schooner
Centennial, Captain Somers, which
left here for New York April Z, with a
cargo Of lumber, encountered heavy
gale and became water-logged and was
abandoned on the 18th in latitude SO,
longitude 74:2S. The captain and crew
We're taken on the schooner Almeda
Wiley, bound from New York to Fer
which arrived Off Charleston
this afternoon. They were transferred
to a tug and brought here.
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A Tennessee Editor who recently
retired after thirty years OF conseeu-
tive work, to prevent any erroneous
impressions, stated that he did not re-
tire to enjoy his accumulated wealth,
but retired because he was tired, and
had all the glory wanted.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24

Lie COululltlee Oh laws IcpOilCe, q +
proving all decisions which had been
made by the grand dictator duringth the
last year.
The committee on finance made re-
port containing recommendations
which brought out an interesting dis,
cussion, as financial matters lnvarl
ably do.
The per capita tax was fixed at 81
per member for the ensuing year.
A resolution favoring the admission
of women to membership in the order
was adopted and will be presented to
the supreme lodge at its session next
month in New York.
The question elected spirited dis,
cussion, many favoring the admission
of women to the insurance feature only
and debarring them from the business
meetings of the subordinate lodges.
while other representatives favored
their admission to full and complete
membership. The resolution, as adopt
ed, leaves these matters of detail
should the supreme lodge decide to adj
nit women at all, to that body.
The grand lodge then proceeded to
the election of officers, with the fol
lowing results:
Grand dictator, ]. Z. Holmes Of
Spartanburg.
Grand vice dictator, L. H. Wanna
maker, Orangeburg.
Grand assistant dictator, ?. +.
Ounce, Charleston.
Grand reporter, Rev. G. W. Hol-
land, Newberry.
Grand chaplain, \. Buist, Black
vile.
Grand guide, j. W. Todd, Seneca.
Grand guardian, J. J. Vernon,
Wexford.
Grand sentinel, J. B. Lewis, Ander-
son.
Grand trustees-G. E. 7. Sparkman,
Georgetown; J. G.. Tompkins, Edge
field, and B. NJ. Lebbv, Charleston.
Representative to supreme lodge
two years)-John Z. Holmes, grand
Dictator; alternate, Rev. G. W. Hol-
land
The usual resolution OF thanks to
the railroads of the State. the hotels
of Columbia that extended courtesies
20 the grand lodge, and the Knights Of
Pythias and Knights OF Honor Of Co
lulnbia were unanimously adopted.
At 10 clock G.. ". Hennies photo
graphed the grand lodge while il ses-
sion by the flash light process. This
kindness and courtesy on the part Of
the photographer was appreciated by
the representatives..
Speaking OF the election OF officers
it is said that neither the grand vice
dictator no. the grand assistant die
tator could have accepted the office Of
grand dictator had their names been
presented. Columbia was selected as
the place to hold the next session OF
the grand lodge.
The officers elected were installed.
Past Grand Dictators J. c. Sheppard,
J. w. Moore and L. w. Perrin acting
P. S. D., S. D. and T. G. respectively.
Grand Assistant Dictator L. II.
Wannamaker kindly looked after the
interests of the press in the matter OF
reports Of the proceedings, and his
kindness and courtesy are much ap-
preciated.
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Killed at the Bat,

OBERL1S, o., April 17.-Gcorge
Cowan, aged twenty-one, While play
ing baseball yesterday was struck by a
pitched ball behind the ear and instant
ly killed.
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A Great Mass Meeting in Denver We'll
comes Sibley and Warner, Eastern
Worshipers at the White Metals
Shrine.
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Suicide of a Congressman's Daughtel
WOMAN'S NATIONAL COUNCIL.
American Girls Discussed by
Daughter of Brigham Young.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The session of
the National Council of Women this morn
ing was devoted to preliminary business
matters. The meeting was conducted be-
hind closed doors, but the questions dis
cussed were OF an unimportant nature.
There was no afternoon session.
Part of the evening session was held under
the auspices of the Young Ladies' National
Mutual Improvement Association, and was
presided over by Elmina S. Taylor. Three
ladies' from Utah addressed the meeting.
.sThe Ethical Side of Woman's Education
was discussed by Minnie ]. Snow. She took
the ground that in no period of woman's
history had conditions been so favorable
for her cultivation and advancement as at
present. The oppression she has felt in
the past, the powers that made her life
only one of sacrifice. now made it one Of
What Is Modern Education Doing for
American Girlss" was the topic discussed
by Mrs. Susan Young Gates. a daughter
OF Brigham Young. The American girl she
strong physically. but is improving. She
is cultivated intellectually to the verge of
idealizement. The remedy is for her to
grasp and cling to the old faith in the
saving grace. of maternity. and then in her
tutes in city and town where every girl
shall come out of the future cooperative
household and receive In the institute
such training as shall fit her to
oew s Is sooa wss ade
peculiar bent OF her own mind.
Lillfc r. Freeze. OF Utah. spoke of the
relative importance Of preventive to- cor
rectiys work in moral reform. The latter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-21
WARWICK'S MAJORITY
GREATEST EVER GIVEN A CANDI-
DATE IN PHILADELPHIA.
Nearly 81 1000 More Votes Cast for
Pattison-Stnte Legislatures.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2o.--It was after 4
o'clock this morning when the count of the
vote cast in this city yesterday was COM
pleted. Not only were there more ballots
put into boxes than ever before but the
ticket in every ward was cut up to such an
extent as to make the work of tabulating
the vote very difficult. In a total vote of
214,7d7 Charles F. Warwick, the Republican
candidate for Mayor had a plurality of
6o.9s9 over Ex-Governor Robert e. Pattison
the Democratic standard bearer. This is
the greatest plurality ever given a candi-
date in a municipal contest, the previous
record being 39065, received by Edwin S.
Stuart, in 1891, Democratic stronghods like
the Third Fouth Sixth. Eleventh. Twelfth
and Seventeenth wards, either going against
Pattison or giving n very much reduced
plurality in his favor All those wards are
represented by the late Samuel j. Randall
and The result shows that the McAleer or
anti-I[arrity Democrats still have the knife
out for any candidate whose election is ad-
yocated by the national chairman. William
J. Roney, MIR. Warwicks champion at the
head of the ticket, as candidate for re-
ceiver of taxes. ran only SS27 behind the
ticket. Women were voted for school
directors for the first time under a law
recently passed. There were seventeen such
candidates, scattered through the city, but
only one was elected
In the State the same story Is to be told,
the city and borough elections In the east
ern half resulting In most unanimous
Republican victory. Scranton councils be-
came Democratic on joint ballot and South
The Republicans captured almost everything
else in sight.
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GENTRY MAY RECOVER.
NIadge YOrlxe's Slayer In No Imme.
diate Danger of Death.

dtate Danger of Death.
< PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2O-James b.
Gentry. the murderer of Margaret Winfred
Drysdale. or Madge Yorke as she was
known on the stage. who was picked up
unconscious on a doorstep near the Co
lumbia-avenue entrance to Fairmount Park
shortly after midnight by a policeman, is
resting easy in the hospital. The physi-
clan in charge says that Gentry is in no
immediate danger of dying, and the
chances are that he will recover. From
the time of the murder until he was adj
ritted to the hospital, early this morn
lips. He had wandered about the secluded
portions of the park, and frequently wet
his parched mouth by picking up a handful
OF snow and eating 1t. The search of his
clothing by the police officials disclosed the
following note scribbled on the back of an
ment from beginning to end All have to
say is goodbye to earth" 1t was signed
u. B. Gentry" In the pockets of his coat
were half dozen love letters from Madge
yorke, just such letters as one receives
from woman who loves a man. The last
was dated Feb. 10. and from the nature OF
it 1t was evident that even il she meant
to dismiss him her love for him was very
warm.
Gentry made n statement to Magistrate
Milligan at the. German Hospital this even
ing. He said he was insanely jealous Of
Madge Yorke. but that he had no intention
of shooting her when he left Boston. He
had borrowed the revolver from a member
Of his company. named Hackett. He said
that he thought II may have to shoot sGme
Romeo in the foot. He state he fully ex-
pected to find man in the actresses room
IA little blonde fellow
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HIS LIFE HISTORY.
Father a White Master and His
Mother n Slave.

Frederick Douglass was mulatto born
in Tuckahoe, on the eastern shore of Mary
land, some time in 1877, according to the
best information he was ever able to
acquire. He believed his first master was
his father and his mother was. of course,
a negro slave on the plantation, and whom
he never saw but few times in his early
life. He was reared as negro slave ON
the plantation of Col. Edward Lloyd, and
at ten years of age was transferred to a
relative of his owner at Baltimore. He
endured great sufferings as slave, which
were the more keenly felt on account of
his extraordinary intelligence. The story
is familiar how he first learned to make the
letters of the alphabet by studying the
carpenters marks on the planks and tim
bers in the shipyard at Baltimore. He used
to listen to his mistress reading the Bible
with curious interest. and he longed to
learn the secret which enabled her to read
and enjoy the Holy Book. One day he
asked her if she would not teach him to
read. The good lady consented, and he
proceeded with such aptitude and rapidity
that his master, who did not believe lin
an end to the good work In spite Of every
obstacle which thrown in his way, he
at length learned TO read, and In company
school. This excited the righteous indg-
nation of the church people, and the Sum
DAY ScnOOl was Tuuefy tDfOkGn up at one
of it's sessions. His sensitive nature began
to chafe under the hardships to which he
was subjected. and the ignominy which
rested on his race. His whole soul was in
rebellion and he resolved TO break away
from his bondage. Procuring what was
called sailors protection papers from a
friend who had been seaman. and making
himself up to answer the. description in It
as nearly as possible. he boarded the train
at Washington and succeeded In reaching
New York in 1888. Thence proceeding TO
New Bedford. Mass, he married a colored
woman and settled down. He worked here
until 1S41, when he attended an anti-slavery
convention at Nantucket and spoke so elo-
auently that he was Immediately employed
as a lecturer by the Massachusetts, Anti
slavery Society.
In lS45 he went to Europe and lectured
throughout Great britain to large and en-
thusiastic audiences. He remained two
years there and his English friends raised
a purse Of $50 to have him manumitted
in due form OF law. Returning In l847 he
started his newspaper at Rochester. N. ".
afterwards known as The North Star. He
(Continued On Second Pngel
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PEOPLE DOUGLASS KNEW.
Incidents of His Life from the Story
Which He Wrote.

Fred Douslass undoubtedly the foremost
eolored man in the country as well as the
one of his race most talked about, has
lively and vivid recollection of those ago
nizing cruel slavery days" when he would
have been deemed incurably insane had he
dared to prophecy, even family, anything
of the possibility of his future greatness.
The idea, at one time, of his being permitted
TO perambulate the streets of Washington
on an equality with a white would
have seemed incredible, but what would
have been said of him who would have pre-
dicted that he would some day be United
States marshal in the District of Columbia,
a district scarcely second in Importance and
profit to any in the whole country. Again,
how strikingly absurd would have been the
proposition that this dusky ornament of his
race could have not only been permitted
to be married to and live unmolested with a
respectable white woman, but be welcomed
on a basis of social equality into some of
the leading families at the national capital
On the occasion of his visit to Boston to
attend the obsequies of his old friend Wen
dell Phillips Mr.. Douglass told some of the
story Of his life as it afterward appeared
i'm his wonderful book, 'The Life and Times
of Frederick Douglass There was some
thing touching in an instance of natural
feeling which Mr.. Douglass related in this
book:
My mother and / were separated when /
was an infant-before 1 knew her as my
mother. 1t is common custom in the part
of Maryland from which ! ran away to
part children from their mothers at a very
early age. Frequently before the child had
reached its twelfth month its mother would
be taken from IL and hired out at some
farm a considerable distance off. The child
would be placed under the care of old
woman too old for field labor. For what
this separation was done do not know.
unless It was to hinder the development Of
the child's affection toward its mother and
to blunt and destroy the natural affection
Of the mother for the child. This was the
inevitable result. i never saw my mother
TO know her such more than four five
times in my life, and each of these times
was of very short duration and at night.
She was hired by a Mr.. Stewart, who lived
about dozen miles from my house. She
made her journey to see me- performing
the whole distance on foot. after days
hard work. She was a field hand, and a
whipping was the penalty for not being in
the field Al sunrise, unless provided with
mission seldom given. do not recoilect
ever seeing my mother By the light Of day.
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Fairs northwest gales.
That "Tri1by" Foot

We hear about it, read about it, and see pictures
of 1.-THE 'Trilby foot" Not many men have
Trilby feet, which is probably good thing, for if
they had they wouldn't want to wear socks
TheR what good would it do to open that beautiful
line of mems fine embroidered Socks-a colors-at 25c
the pai But they would improve the looks of some rby
feet"
The biggest bargain you in socks is our genu-
inc Hermsdorf-dyed blacks, at lOc THE PAIR.
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Action on Various Measures.

A bill granting the right of suffrage to
women has passed the Washington Senate.
Governor Richards, of Wyoming has ve-
toed the bill providing for a board of arbi-
tration to settle labor disputes in Cheyenne.
He says it is unconstitutional
The bill to prevent the manufacture, sale
or other distribution OF cigarettes has
passed both branches of the California
Legislature, and is now in the Governor S
hands for his signature. 1t is believed that
Governor Budd will approve this measure
Woman suffrage was beaten in the North
Dakota House yesterday by vote of 80
to 90 The House refused to table the usual
open. 1t is understood that this was done
purposely by the high-license men .and Is
equivalent to an offer to trade woman
suffrage for high license. The new divorce
bill was defeated.
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part of the evening was devoted to the
Wimodaughsis Society. Ruth Havene pre-.
Columbia, spoke Of women as a factor in
organIzed charities. 4 study Of family and
the topic Of an address by Alice c. Fletch-
er, Of the District of Columbia. Rev. Anna
H. Shaw also spoke during the evening.
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion was largely attended. The business
DONE however, was nearly all OF routine
character.
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Kolbite. Not satssfsed.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. 2o-It has de-
veloped that the Populist leaders are by
no means satisfied with the contest laws
passed by the Legislature. 1t is even in
timated that another attempt to set up a
dual government will be made. Captain
Kolb's friends decided In December, that
they would let the dual government mat
ter rest until they found out what the Leg
islature would do with reference to passing
fair contest law. 1t is stated they con-
slider the law passed by the General As
sembly makeshift, and that a conference
of the leaders will be held in Birmingham
in a few days and a plan of action will be
determined uDon