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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
The State Must Paw.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Nov. 11.-Infor-
nation was received here today that
Judge Nathan Golf, sitting in the
United States court of appeals in Rich
mond, had handed down decision in
the notorious Cantini dispensary case
which went up from Charleston on
an appeal taken by the attorney gen
eral Of South Carolina. The count Of
appeals affirms the decision of the
lower court giving Anania Cantini
So, 600 damages from the State and at
the same time some very sharp Ian
guage is used regarding Attorney
General Barber The court says it
was doubtful whether it should not
have taken steps against the attorney
general for uselessly delaying justice.
While an actual threat is not contain
ed in the language of the decision,
there is a decided reproof for the at
torney general of the State. The case
has been in the courts fer three years.
During the month of October, 1898,
constables visited the establishment OF
Antonia Cantini, citizen Of the city,
and seized quantity Of liquors upon
the pretext that he was violating the
dispensary law. In the seizure of the
liquor considerable damage was done
to Cantini's premises. Cantini sought
the legal services of Maj. Theodore G.
Barker, and Judge E. S. ?. Boil
ger and an action was brought for
the damages sustained and was imme-
diately entered in the United States cir
cult court. After elaborate argument
on both sides the jury decided that the
State was responsible for the damage
inflicted and awarded Cantini the sum
OF $1,000. Subsequently, Attorney
General Barber appealed from the ver-
dict of the court and the case went up
on demurrer of the circuit court of
appeals. The case was heard on May
tie 5th, 1896. Attorney General Bar
Der appearing for the State and Ma
ior Barker for Cantini. .-Greenyille
News
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Threatened Bellipger.

AIKEN, Nov. 10.-Your correspond,
ent learned last night that the words
threatening Solicitor Bellinger's life
had been standing out in black and
white ever since the week of the Brox.
ton Btidee trial. And this morning
went down to the passenger station
and found as reported, the words:
Duncan Bellinger be shot yet, on
the margin Of picture which sits on
the mantlepiece. These words seemed
to have been made by well educated
person, but in a disguised manner.
While there is not much attention
given to the words and while they do
not say much, yet when connected
with the Colleton county case, the riot
at the campaign meeting and their
being placed there at the term OF court
that the case was tried, and, as 1t
seems, in a threatening manner, why
should we not ask the question, who
did the writing and for what purpose:
State
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Splendid oners Made Bryan.

Messrs. Siegel, Cooper & Co., the
big New YORK and Chicago merchants,
have made a liberal offer to Mr.. Will
liam Jennings Bryan. They say in
their telegram: "You have so thor
oughly demonstrated your ability in
in the present campaign we would
like to know if you would accept an
offer of twenty-five thousand ($25, ,00O
dollars year to manage a law de-
partment in our store" Mr.. Bryan
has declined the offer as follows:
During the next four years l expect
TO devote as much time as possible to
the advocacy OF bimettalism, and
therefore cannot consider the PROPOSE
ton made by you. | . a'oreciate the
confidence which your offer implies. :"
Mr.. Bryan has also received an offer
of fifty thousand dollars year to de-
liver u series of lectures.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Murder in GreenYllle.

GREENyILLE, S. c., Nov. 10.-This
morning about O'Clock, in Dunklin
Township. ten miles below Greenville,
Thomas W. Austin shot and instant
ly killed.. B. Beeco. A year ago Beeco
moved from Piedmont to the Austin
neighborhood. Mr.. Austin alleged
thatimproper relations existed between
Beeco and Mrs. Austin, aLa ordered
Beeco to leave the neighborhood and
never return, under the penalty OF
death. Beeco had not been seen in
the neighborhood since, until this
morning, when he and his father
drove up to Austin's store, which is
part OF his residence. He called Mr..
Austin. The later saw him, grabbed
his double barrel shotgun, which was
loaded with buckshot. ran out to the
buggy and emptied the fist load into
Beecos breast, and as he fell fired the
other load into his head. Austin came
to the city this afternoon, bringing
the gun which he used, and surren-
dered to the Sheriff. lie is now IN
jail. Austin is 50 years old, his wife
30 and Beeco 25. Austin is not con-
sidered stong-minded. lie is said To
be OF a jealous disposition, and at one
time was thought to be insane. The
Beeco side Of the case has not yet been
learned.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
S2Yed a Train.

CINCINNATI, o., Nov. IA special
from Washington, Ind, says tramp
saved an express train from being
wrecked by dynamite a short distance
east of Mitchell, Ind. The story is
that the tramp about 1 a. N. found
enough dynamite and nitro glycerine
placed on the track to blow the engine
to pieces as soon as it struck it. Hav-
ing no other mode of signalling he
ran to the nearest switch, tore off the
lamp, and returning signalled the ap-
preaching train. As he was doing SO
he was shot at by the wreckers and
was found unconscious by the train
men. The officers of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern are inclined to
doubt the tramps story as they have
no information of his being wounded
nor of his having shown any dyna.
mite. However, they have ordered
blood hounds to the scene and will in
yestioate the matter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
How to Get Rid of Stumps.

The stumps of trees left in fields in
tended for cultivation not only mar
the beauty of the fields, but seriously
incommodes farm operations. AL
stumps, roots and grubs should be re-
moved from the soil where the land is
cleared, because it is economy of time
and labor to do so. The land can be
cultivated more thoroughly, and Ia
bor-saving machinery employed IN
planting, cultivating and harvesting
the crops Twenty years ago, Hon.
Alfred Colquitt, President OF the
Agricultural Society of Georgia,
urged the farmers of the State to get
rid of stumps without delay, and sug-
gested a cheap, simple and effective
way OF doing so. The only appliance
required were a shovel, g little dry
kindling and a sheet iron cylinder
large enough to slip down over the
larger stumps, the top coned shaped,
and terminating in a collar in which
one or more lengths of six or eight
inch stove pipe may be fitted. A hole
is dug between the roots on one side
of the stump. and partially under 1t,
large enough to start a fire with the
kindling. After the fire is started, the
iron cylinder is Slipped over the stump,
the stovepipe is added, and the ar
rangement acts as stove, burning
the stump out completely. If the
stumps are old and dry, and the wea-
ther dry, the stumps will burn with.
out the addition Of the cone-shaped
top and stoYepipe. If the stumps are
green, a half gallon Of kerosene oil
poured over the stump an hour before
lighting the fire will facilitate ma,s
ters very much; bat the top and pipe,
acting as a draught, will do more, and
cause it to burn down in the roots.
This methods gaining great popularl-
ty in England and France. We call the
attention Of our farmers to it, as the
distinguished Georgian advocated it
twenty wears auO
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Oneninr tho CampaIgn.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Nov. 10.-Sen-
ator Pettigrew opened the campaign of
1900 last night and addressed one OF
the largest audiences eyer gathered IN
this city. 1t was anro:!nced as the be-
ginning of the bimetallic fight OF four
years hence. The Senator said that
he would render Mckinley every aid
possible for him to demonstrate that
the tariff was what allied the country,
but wanted to put hit>"if on record
by saying that he wcu,3 resist every
section of tariff bill that provided
for a tariff on any article controlled
by trust. This created s""sation,
and the demonstration that ;,.'iowec
was tremendous. The Senator receiy-
ed great reception at the close Of his
speech.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
An American Policy.

The one point Mr.. Bryan empha-
sized in his tour was that America
should decide her own financial policy
and not be forced to take such as for.
eicners force on US. The New York
Evening Post, the most English" Of
all our papers and the least American,
is candid enough to give figures which
prove that Mr.. Bryan was overwhelm-
ingly endorsed by the native born
Americans. The Post finds that: The
whites have among them only about
1 per cent. OF people of foreign par
entage in North Carolina, between 3
and 1 in South Carolina, Georgia and
Tennessee, and between 4 and 5 in
Virginia. Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas. about Is in Florida, 19 in
Texas and % in Louisiana. In the
section as a whole the foreign vote IS
very small, a-d in no one of these
last three has it ever been controll-
ing element. Turning 10 the States
that voted for Mckinley and the gold
standard, the Post finds: In New
England persons of foreign parentage
constitute from about 90 per cent. as
the population in Maine to 56 in Mas
sachusetts and SO in Rhode Island, in
New York about 81, New Jersey 50
and Pennsylvania 81, about 35 per
cent. in Ohio, A in Iowa, 50 in Lii
nois, So in Michigan, 81 in South Da.
kota, 73 in Wisconsin, rs in Minneso'
ia and 10 in North Dakota. In discus
sing this matter the World says edi-
torially: The Post demonstrates that
the Ignorant foreign vote" rolled up
the honest-money majorities, almost
saved Nebraska and made up the lar
gest part of the overwhelmed minori-
ties in Kansas and Missouri. ''The
foreign metropolis of Missouri went
for sound money by a large majority.
It was the native Americans wac car
ried it the wrong way. Wherever the
native American population predonai-
mates, the Post concludes, there the
free silver craze was craziest, while
the largely foreign-b born North went
overwhelmingly right"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Terrible Explosion.

THOMSON, Nov. 13.-Tbis morning
at s o'clock the 50.horse power boiler
at .he McDufIie mills, owned and op-
Grated by [. w. Shields, exploded with
terrific force, completely demolishing
the engine house and scattering frag-
mentS ofiron and brick quarter Of a
mile in all directions. Gordon (.
Wall, the engineer, and colored fire.
man were in the house at the time
and both men rniraculously escaped
with their lives. Mr.. Wall was blown
through the door of the engine room
into the middle OF the street and the
fireman was completely covered with
the ruins Of the building. A small
negro girl standing near was blown
10 feet against church, and received
injuries from which she will die. The
African Methodist church, a large
building recently erected, was COM
pletely demolished By the explosion,
and it is now mass OF ruins. a
schoolhouse for the colored people,
100 feet away, was likewise complete
]y destroyed. The wrecked boiler shot
about $50 feet in the air and fell near
the residence of Professor Gibson. The
explosion was heard for miles around
and the wonder is that no more lives
were lost. The cause Of the explosion
is not known, but the presumption is
that the blowoff valve refused to work.
The loss and damage to property of
Mr.. Shields will run up into the thous-
ands. The doctors now say that Mr..
Wall and the fireman will recover,
but the negro child is BOW in dying
condition.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
l:rYHn fOrIiln SrnA.tA.

SEATTLE, Wash. Nov. lQ.-A boom
has been started here for VIM. j.
Bryan for United States Senator from
this State. The silver fusionists will
control the senatcrship. The consti-
tuition of Washington provides that TO
be eligible to the Office the candidate
shall merely be an "inhabitant' OF the
State at the time of his election, so
that the fusion majority could elect
Mr.. Bryan without any trouble
Richard Winsor, Sr., the popuIlst
leader in Washington, and James
Hamilton Lewis, democratic fuSlonlst
and member. elect Of congress, are RI,
val candidates for the senatorshlp and
Mr.. Bryan has been suggested as a
compromise.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Fatal Saloon Fight,

LEADyELLE. Col, Nov. PA fight
occurred in saloon at an early hour
today, in which FIVE men were stabbed
and one at least will die The injured
are: Stephen Frankowitz, wound IA
tai; Jerry Dormondy, wound serious
Joseph Austerman, badly cut; John
Jackson, badly cut; unknown man,
wounded serious. Fifteen or twenty
men were engaged in the atfray, which
was an outcome OF the miners strike.
a party of Austrians who were en-
ployed in the smelters were followed
into the saloon by a crowd OF strikers,
who called them scabs. The Austrians
resented this and fgh! began.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
GREAT GAINS FOR SILVER.
The Gold sjority in the House Reduced
From l35 to 81 by the Ele ction.

The Gold MsjorIty in the House Reduced
From 135 to 81 by the Election.
II strikes the Boston Herald that
''tne free coinage movement was
never weaker than it is 1T this mo-
ment." II strikes US that tlis is mis-
take. Specifically at least the move
ment appears certainly broader and
nominally stronger than before in re-
cent years, and its depth depend entire
ly upon further financial and CONNER
cial developments. It will vary ac'
cordingly, becoming deep and strong
as business depression continues. or
shallow and weak as business activity
rises. Hitherto the movement has
been factional within the two parties,
and hence bound down by old party
conservatism and the strength OF old
party ties. Now it has burst these
bonds, and its first appearance IN the
open field free from all those entangle.
ments has certainly been impressive
for what is in fact new political ven
ture.
Compare the Democratic and Popu.
listic strength in the next house OF
representatives with that in the pres
ent house. We gave comparative
table soon after the election, based on
the returns so far as then heard from.
The later returns reveal still larger sill
YER gains. Counting Populists in the
next house as Democrats-there is no
very little to distinguish them-We
have the following disposition OF rep
resentatives by parties:
54th Congress. 55th Congress.
Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18

arched, and attuna the oceans 10 more
majestic doxologies than have ever
yet been attuued; but as near as I can
tell, and I speak it reverently, heaven
is the placs where God has done his
best. He can build no greater joys,
lift no mighiier splendors, roll no lof-
tier anthems, march no moreimposing
professions, build no greater palaces
and spread out and interioin and wave
no more transporting magnifcence.
think heaven is the best heaven God
can construct, and it is all yours for
the serious asking. How do you like
the offer! Do you really think it IS
worth accepting It so, pray for il.
Get not up from that, pew where you
are sitting, nor move one inch from
where you are standing, before you get
title forit, written in the blood of the
Son of God, who would have all men
come to life present and life everlast,
ing.
If you have been in military life
YOU know what soldiers call the long
roll" All the drums beat it because
the enemy is approaching, and all the
troops must Immediately get into liue.
What scurrying around the camp and
putting OF the arms through the straps
of the knapsack and saying goodby to
comrades you may meyer meet again.
Some of you Germans Or Frenchmen
may have heard that long roll just be-
fore Sedan. Some of you Italians
may have heard that long roll just be-
fore Bergamo. Some of you northern
and southern men may have heard it
lust before the battle of the Wilder
ness. You know its stirring and sol
emn meaning, and so l sound the
long roll today. I beat this old gospel
drum that has for centuries been call
ing thousands to take their places in
line for this battle, on one side Of
which are all the forces beatiic and
on the other side all the force demoni-
&C. Hear the long roll call, who is
on the Lords side: "Quit yourselves
like men," In solemn column march
for God and happiness and heaven.
So glad am l that | do not have to
wish myself accursed" and throw
away my heaven that..you may win
your heaven, but that we may have a
whole convention of heavens-heaven
added to heaven, heaven built on
heaven. And while l dwell upon the
theme begin to experience in my own
poor self that which take TO be some
thing like a passion for souls. And
now unto God, the only wise, the only
good, the only great, be glory forever.
Amen.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Suicide OF bridegroom

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 11.-Frank
Hamilton, for years a prominent bank
er here, took morphine this afternoon
with suicidal intent and died this even
ing. Up to few months ago he was
member of Raymond s. Co., bank
ing house, andis well known to New
York bankers. He took an active part
in the instruction Of the Austin dam,
in which he lost much money. He
was married Monday night to a Miss
Carrie Gray, of this city, his first wife
having died two years ago. Despon'
dency over losses is supposed to have
led to the act.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
In Spanish Honduras.

AUGUSTA, Nov. 1O.-J. Berrien
Walker, the absconding cashier Of
the Port Royal railway, has been 10.
Gated in Spanish Honduras. There is
no existing exuadition treaty between
this country and that, and consequent
ly, though discovered there, he can
not legally be brought back to the
United Safes. II was further learned
yesterday that near and dear friend
Of Mr.. Walkers has spent several days
in Augusta last week trying to effect
a compromise in order that Mr.. Walk
er might return there.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
: Fatal Mistake.

AIKEN, Nov. 10.-Mr. John Taylor,
% years OF age, was killed by the Coast
Line train due at Montmorenci at 3;3C
this afternoon. He was standing on
the main line looking at the Richard
son Guards who were fixing to leave
for Columbia on the 4:30 train. He
evidently thought be was on the side
track. His body was badly bruised
and his neck broken. Mr. Taylor
lived about two miles ouL OF Montrao-
renci.-State.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18
Burglars Shot.

BATAVIA, N. Y, Nov. 2.--One bur
glar was shot to death and another
was wounded and captured at 2
o'clock this morning in EIba, Genes.
see county, while they were resisting
arrest, after entering w. a. Hundre
marks general store. The wounded
man is in jail and says his name is
George Stevens. but refuses to say any
more.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18

| between the chOir anG nlSh altar was
crowned queen, amid organs and
choirs chanting the "Te Deum'-I say
there was not much in all that glory
which dazzles the eyes ofhistory when
| it is compared with the heavenly y re-
ception which that ministering spirit
of the black alley shall receive when
she goes up to coronation. When
she goes in, what welcome on the riv-
er Of life, its banks Of pearl lined with
splenders seraphic and in temples of
of eternal worship, whose music is
commanded by swing Of archanglic
scepter and before the throne sit those
who nave reigned a thousand years
but have just begun their dominion.
Poor Anne Boleyn, in two years after
that pageant, lost life and throne by
one stroke of hea&smaE, but those who
on earth have divine passion for
souls shall never lose their thrones.
"They shall reign forever and ever y
But, after all, the best way to cult
vate that divine passion for souls is to
work for their salvation. Under God
save one, and you will want right
away to save two. Save two and you
will want to save ten. Save ten, and
you will want 10 save twenty. Save
twenty, and you will want to save a
hundred. and you will want to save
everybody. And what is the use of
talking about it when the place to be,
| gin is here and the time is now? And
while YOU pray will in one minute
| tell ali there is of it. Full pardon Tor
the worst man on earth If he will be.
lieye in Christ, whose blood can in
stantly wash away the foulest crimes.
! Full comfort for the most narrowing
distress that ever crushed human be-
ing. At your first moment Of belief,
process by which the whole universe
of God will turn clear around for
ycur eternal advantage. For the
mere asking, if the asking be in earn.
est, and you throw everything into
that asking, complete solace and help
fulness for the few years OF this life,
aud then wide open heaven, which
YOU can reach ia less time than 1t
takes to pronounce that imperial word :,
flashing with all the JOY that an infn-
ite God knows how TO bestow-heav-
en-.
In this world God never does his
best. He can hang on the horizon
grander mornings than have ever yet
been kindled, aud rainbow the sky
with richer colors thar lave ever been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-01
WHY ENGLAND HOLDS ALooF.
Her Arm Not Long Enough to Rcac;, and
Improve the Situation.

Her Arm Not Long Enough to Reach and
Improve the Situation.
'It was race faction and creed faction
driven to the highest point in the most
corrupt and most horrible form. which
brought upon the wretched Armenians
these terrible sufferings. If you ask why
we have not interfered can only answer
for England that we could have threat
ened what l may call annoyances in the
seizing of customs here and there; but
when you are dealing with the rising of a
whole fanatical population against a pop.
ulation with whom they have been at Bit
ter enmity for ages, and who are situated
in mountains Ear removed from the sea-
shore, you are deceiving yourselves if you
imagine that England's arm, long as il is,
could have done anything in mitigation.
Nothing but military usurpation
could have done it, and England does not
possess the power of military usurpation
at that distance. Mr.. Gladstone wrote a
letter that England could cope with five
or six sultans. That was most ill-judged
and rash observation. If the sultan would
meet us on the open, undoubtedly wc
could cope with five or six sultans. But
1t Is not worth arguing the posslolilty CT
England occupying these inaccessible
provinces. am not bound TO answer the
question why Europe did not interfere.
say confidently that none of the powers
wished to interfere, and l believe their
view is that, with patience, the sultan's
prestige, which is the only power left in
the country, will ultimately re-establish
order and allow industry and commerce
to take their usual secure course.
THAT is their view, and it is our duty
to give the sultan time. IL is not for me
to pass Judgment on that view, but no
other remedy has been suggested. 1t is
some encouragement to find that al
ready some degree of order is being ie-
stored. If you do not act with the great
powers you must act against them and
produce calamities far more awful and
terrible than the Armenian atrocities"
In conclusion Lord Salisbury referred
to the recent patriotic demonstrations in
the colonies in the face of the threatened
foreign complications and said: Il care
not how much we are isolated If We are
united. An example has been set which
will sned 4 beneficent light on the latest
generations of Englishmcn." AS he fin
ished his address ami resumed his seat he
was greeted with loud and prolonged
cheers