The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-29
TERSELY TOLD.
The News Of the Week From
All Parts of the World. -.
An Epitome Of the South.

All Parts of the World.
An Epieome Of the South
A. J. McLaurin was inaugurated gov
ernor Of Mississippi at Jackson.
Ashby Stark Farrow, q promiaent
and popular young member Of the
Charleston. IS. c., bar, is dead.
On the last day of this month Lib:
erty bell will leave Atlanta for its old
home in Independence hall, In Philadei'
phia.
Bishop Haygood, the noted divine,
passed peacefully away at his home at
Oxford, Ga, after al illness Of several
days.
Governor Carr has revoked the COM
mission of the North Carolina naval re.
serves ''for harmony and tho good OF
the service"
A war Of rates between the steamers
plying the Chattahoochee between Co.
lumbus, Ga, and Apalachicola, Fla,
has been inaugurated.
At Lumpkin, Ca, F. D. Black, q
druggist, was killed in his store by
Jerry Carter. Young Garter left at
once for parts unknown.
Application has been made for the ap-
pointment Of receiver for the Hender.
sonville and Brevard railroad, wh1cn
was completed only last August. :.
Cotton mill building viii soon begin
in Charleston, S. @. A charter has been
applied for by leading capitalists. The
mill will have capital of $3.50, 900.
George A Lambeth. who was whole
sale liquor dealer at Raleigh, n. O.,
and who swindled so many other whole
salers and fed last week, is in Mexico.
The Maryland legislature, in joint
session. elected Congressman George l.,
Wellington to succeed Charles H Glib
son as United States senator on March
8. 1897.
An almost steady rain has been fall
ing in lower Mississippi for over week
and as result the creeks and rivers
have been converted into inland seas.
Great damage is reported.
The Alabama chautauqua assembly IS
now thoroughly organized. The session
of 1896 will be held in Talladega, Ala,
June 20 to July 26. The program will
be magnificent one. equal to the best.
At Selma, Ala, the case Of Shields
Underwood for the murder Of Alex Nc
Curdy, a negro, in 1892, was submitted
to the jury, and after celebrating 20
minutes, verdict Of not guilty was
returned.
Captain Hughes, master Of the steam
ship Laurada, who was charged with
violating the neutrality laws Of the
United States. has been acquitted at
Charleston, 8. c., In the United States
district court.
Lewis Redwine, defaulting cashier Of
the Gate City National bank Of Atlanta,
Ca, who Is now serving term In the
Ohio penitentiary, will soon be par
doned by President Cleveland On &C.
count Of failing health.
The Louisville, (Ky.) Paper company
fled deed of assignment in the county
court. Mr.. Il. B. Farusley was made
assignee. The liabilities Of the COM
pany are placed at S25, 900. The assets,
the attorneys say, will reach about
1000
At Newcastle, Ky, Miss Maggie
Waford. is years old, daughter of P. E..
E. Waford, was smothered to death
through a folding bed closing up with
the girl in it. When taken from the
bed life had evidently been extinct for
some time.
Twenty. three years ago a white man
named Bringe deserted his wife and
children in North Carolina. Friday he
returned without notice He had lived
all these years in South Carolina.
Neither his wife nor other relatives re-
membered him.
By an act of the South Carolina legis-
lature, the salary Of the chief justice
was cut from IS, 500 to 5000, and those
Of the assistant justices from s., 900 each
to s2,7OO. The court is also to be re-
ouired to hold three instead Of only two
sessions year.
The United States revenue steamer
Tybee arrived at Savannah, Ga, after
two months trip down the coast from
Camden, N. J. She was specially built
for use at Savannah to convey the Gus
tomhouse inspectors to incoming yes.
sells. The vessel will look out for SNUG
glers and filibusterers.
Hon. John z. Cowen. general counsel
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company and representative in congress
from the Fourth Maryland district, was
elected president Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad company to succeed MIR.
Charles F. Mayer, who resigned in No
vember last.
Charlotte, which now leads all cities
in North Carolina as to the number Of
cotton factories, having nine, adds an.
other. It is named the Charlotte Ho-
siery Yarn mill. It has $50, 900 capital
and II. s. Chadwick is president. It
will have 5000 spindles. Work on 1t
will begin March /.
A posse Of ten Hamilton county,
(Tenn. deputy sheritfs shot and killed
John and Thomas Massengale. two
mountain desperadoes, wanted for muir
der and horse stealing in the Raccoon
mountains. Both men were in jail
some time ago, but escaped, and have
since defied the officers.
J. F. Dason, young white man aged
about 20 years, was killed while on the
TOP Of freight train Oh the Georgia