The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings Of Interest in This and
In Othe. Countries
THROUGH THE SOUTH.

THROUGH The SOO Sd'
Phosphate companies are trying to
organize trust.
The corn crop in Florida will be great.
Cotton not so good.
The Southern railway has acquired
Norfolk terminal facilities
The newspapers will have building
at the Atlanta Exposition.
The sugar interest will make Wig
orous fight for its privileges
Prospects Of the fruit crop have fal-
len considerably since June.
at Suswanee Shoals, Fla. Sam
Bsshead, aged ITO years, died.
Senator J. E Broome is we'll men
toned for governor Of Florida
The cruiser Atlanta has gone to Ha-
vana to enforce the neutrality law.
The Baptists have raised $4,000 for
their female college at Raleigh, N. c
It has been decided that Dallas is to
be the scene of the Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons ieht-
The Tennessee River Transportation
Company reports a large business for
the past year.
The four children of John Hicks were
cremated in burning building at Big
Stone Gap, Va
Southern coal mine owners have pre-
pared to combine and advance the
price rs per cent
Guerrita, the Mexican bull fighter,
wants $50, 900 for his services at the At
lanta exposition.
Two more murders were committed
in +ha Parish Of S.. James. La.. attrib-
uted to the Mada.
By the explosion Of dynamite bomb
at Mart, Tex, Ave people were killed
and four wounded.
The Little Rock ball team will be
dropped from the Southern League
1t will seek redress.
Il is stated that the grass crop OF 1894
was worth 500, 900, 900; more than the
cotton crop Of that year
The report of the earnings OF the
Southern Railway for the past eleven
months is very favorable.
The Memphis baseball team has dis
banded. Z deficit OF $500 in the salary
account caused the collapse.
The colored race are urged to make q
fine exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition
BY the negro commissioners
A cyclone visited New Mexico ano
killed thirty people at Silver City and
the whole town is destroyed.
The sales Of the huckleberrY crop in
Sampson and Dublin counties, n. e.,
this season aggregate SIS, 900.
A company with capital stock OF
S1s0, 200 will be organized to build q
cotton factory at Concord, N. c.
Nashville Tenn, is to have new
morning paper-the Sun. 1t will ad-
vocate the free coinage Of silver.
Confederate veterans are to build
monument to General Hancock, the
hero Of Gettysburg in New Orleans
1t is announced that the organization
of company to build an $4,000 cotton
factory at Concord n. c., is assured.
DR.. Nunnally has been elected presi-
dent Of the college at Lagrange, Ga
The college will remain at Lagrange.
The state of Florida has decided to
the United States Bowditch Point, on
Estero Island. for lighthouse purposes.
The storming of the post at Wei-Hai-
Wei is to be presented at the Atlanta
Exposition. 1t is also to have FarrIs
wheel.
Another mill will be built in Knox
Vile at once, capitalized at 100000.
Three business men have subscribed to
Afty-fve thousand of the stock.
The Macon, Ga, and Charleston, S.
c., grocers have declared boycott on
the Louisville and Nashville. They
want cheaper rates on carloads
The Florida farmers are hauling
in large quantities of last years corn
which readily sells for sixty cents a
bushel in the Tallahassee market.
The board of railroad commissioners
has ordered the abolition OF the bridge
arbitrary charged by the Missouri
Kansas and Texas at Rockville, Mo.
Improvements costing $40, 600 will be
made at once at the Brookside cotton
mills, Knoxville, Tenn. The capacity
Of the mill will be increased 50 per
cent.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia will
leave for Warm Springs He has writ
ten card thanking his constituency
for tneir prayers and sympathy during
his recent illness.
The Spanish mail steamers plying be-
tween Havana and New York have
been ordered to charge half the former
amount for freightaee on sugar, the
reduction to go into effect at once.
Assessments Of the railways in NORTH
Carolina was completed Monday. The
total Is ss4,50o,oOo the increase over
last year being s525,oo0. There are
5000 miles,a the increase during the
year ended June 1st, was ~ miles
Mr.. Louis Buer, head of the largest
wholesale grocery firm invest Florida
was found dead in bed Monday morn
ming. He retired seemingly in pertec,
health. 1t is supposed he was attacked
NV baor* Sail,,ra 1urino the niEht