The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-15
An Epitome of the South.

cent on all stock.
The Brunswick (Ga.) Brewing and
Ice company's entire plant, q commo-
dious 2-story dwelling, four residences
and all outhuildings have been totally
destroyed by fire.
The large -four mill at North Middle
town, near Paris, KY, burned with 20,
900 bushels Of wheat. Curry q Co. OF
Winchester are the proprietors. Loss,
$40, COO; no insurance.
1t is now positively decided that the
cornerstone Of the monument at Char
lotte, N. O., to the memory of the signers
of the Mecklenburg declaration of in.
dependence shall be laid on May 20.
The yacht Talisman arrived at VII.
mington, n. O., for coal and supplies.
All well. This efectually disposes Of
the unfounded rumor circulated as to
the loss of this vessel off Hatteras.
The Whittier cotton mills, located on
the Chattahoochee river ,si1ssniles from
Atlanta, have been set in operation.
The mill has 10000 spindles and is one
of the finest equipped factories in the
country.
William Rogers, the inhuman father
who assaulted his 6-year-old daughter
at Athens, Tenn, few days ago, has
been captured and lodged in the Athens
Jail. The law will be allowed to take
its course.
The attorney general of North Caro-
lima has ruled that the physicians Of in
sane asylums are practicing physicians
and hence must pay the new privilege
tax law, as the law is so rigid as to make
no exemptions.
Hon. Richard Il Clark Of Mobile, the
present congressman from the First
Alabama district, formally announces
in the Mobile Register his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for COVER
nor of Alabama
Mr.. Ed McKelvey, a prosperous young
farmer 81 years old, who lived with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Nickel
3ey, two miles from Douglasville, Ca,
was shot and killed by his brother-in-
law at the home Of the latter.
Bills have been introduced in the Vir-
ginia legislature to repeal the charters
Of II insurance companies incorporated
in the state. This is an effort to weed
out the wild cat companies now doing
business under charters heretofore
granted.
The Birmingham Commercial club
will try to preserve the exhibits which
stood in the Alabama building at the
Atlanta exposition. The meeting was
brought up for discussion at the last
meeting Of the club and a committee is
low on the matter.
The report of the state labor commits
sioner contains an interesting statement
of new industry in North Carolina.
The roe Of the female sturgeon is now
shipped in large quantities to Russia
and Germany from the great fisheries
IN Albermarle sound.
Highland Davis, aged 80 years, lost
bis life in a horrible manner at his home,
near Columbia, S. G. The old man was
trying to get warm when he stumbled
and fell into the fire. Before help could
reach him he was so badly burned that
he died within few hours.
The Grand Army colony recently
started at Abbeville, Ga, by General
Fitzgerald and Ex-Governor Northen is
constantly receiving accessions. One
hundred and twenty-five colonists have
Just arrived at Fitzgerald, the colony
center, from the northwest.
A Louisville and Nashville freight
train ran into a rock slide two miles
south Of Middlesborough, Ky, and Hal
Looney, the engineer, was killed, and
Fred Jones, the fireman, had q leg
broken and his head cut. Both live at
Corbin The financial loss was small.
At the request Of Hector D. Lane,
president Of the American Cotton Grow
ers' Protective association, Commission
er of Agriculture Nesbitt has appointed
eight prominent planters Of the state to
represent Georgia at the meeting Of the
association to be held at Memphis on
JAN 81.
David Rogers, young man about %
years old, was killed near Quitman, Ga.
He was assisting his father about his
sawrnill, when his clothes caught in the
shafting. He was hurled round and
round by the machinery and literally
beaten to death. Not shred of cloth
ing was left upon him.
The grand jury returned ali indict-
ment against David L. Snodgrass, chief
justice of Tennessee, for felonious as
sault. The return is the outcome of the
judges assault in Congressman Browns
Office at Chattanooga, Tenn, on Attor-
ney John R. Beasley, who is still con-
fined to his room with fractured arm.
Edward Blackman, young man 16
years old, died at his home in Gravella,
Conecuh county, Ala, from njuries re-
ceived by a premature explosion. He
had bored hole in tree and filed it
with powder for the purpose of firing
last Christmas gun, when it ignited in
some way and exploded, wounding him
frightfullY.
Deputy Sheriff T. A. Scale killed Amos
Robertson, prisoner. at ColunbIana,
Ala. AS Scale unlocked Robertson's
cell door he and another prisoner ran
over the deputy, knocking him to the
floor. The deputy, getting on his feet,
opened fire on the fleeing prisoners and
Robertson fell dead. The coroner Ver-
dict was justifable killing.
A conference Of lumber manufac-
surers Of the states Of Alababama, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas and Missouri was
held at Birmingham The meeting was
for the purpose of bringing the Alabama
men into line with reference to prices,
grades and guages, and after accomplish.
ing this the conference adjourned until
Feb. 1S, when another meeting Will be
held in Memphis.
At New Orleans freight train on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, con.
sisting of 23 heavily loaded cars, south
bound, plunged through an open draw
on the bridge spanning the Rigolets,
and the cars piled on top of each other
IN conglomerated mass. The engineer
and fireman escaped. Three white men,
tramps, were crushed and mangled al
most beyond recognition.
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