The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-05-20

The young ladies tea club at present IS IN
comatose state, but little later IN the
season new life will be PIT in the club and
We may lock for some fun, provided the
editor is not bribed with tarts. We have
been promised some interesting details
from a member and it will take greater
inducement than tarts to keep Us quite.
Mr., Z. L. Wilkins has been over to Dar-
| Iucton Inspecting the tobacco warehouse
with view of building here. lie Is a man
of in3omitable energy and he Will Pat
the tobacco warehouse project through 10
success If Manning had many such Cti-
zens as Mr. Wilkins, we would soon be
asking Sumter to turn herself into truck
farm 10 furnish our population with vege-
tables.
Any communications to this papc: op-
posing the candidates for office who are an
nounced in these columns must be signed
bv the true name of the writer, and they
ust be couched in gentlemanly language.
In each case the article Will be published
over the name ofthe writer, and the editor
reserves the right to reject such commun!-
catioas as he thinks proper without eX-
PLANTATION.
We have refused to publish a cemmuni-
cation with reference to a case to ee tired
in the coming court, first. because 1t was
not signed by the true name OF the writer,
and second, because It hal tendency to
create feeling in the case. We do rot
allow the use of the columns OF this paper
to prosecute or defend parties charged With
crime, the cour. house IS the place aud the
legal fraternity are the ones to attend TO
that business.
Last Sunday afternoon seven.year-old
SOD of Esau Levine, of the Fork, was going
from Albert Friersons house home, and
Sam Tomlin met him in the road; young
Levine had on his fathers overcoat. Tom
lin thinking the object he met was an imp
from the lower regions, became frightened,
dew his pistol and SHOT, the ball taking
effect in Young Levne's back. All the
parties are colored This is one Of the
evil results of young bloods carrying
pistols.
The county treasurer of Chester
county has besn Systematically rob
bing the people by overcharging
them when they went to pay their
taxes. He had the reputation Of be-
ing one of the best treasurers in the
State, and was always among the
very first to make his settlements.
The State nor county do not suffer
by this mans wrong-doing, but his
friends who gave him the office six
teen years ago were the ones ne
robbed.
A base ball team from Sumter came to
Manning last Friday and played match
game with scrub nine of this place. The
score was 25 to l6 in favor of Sumter. The
game was not finished on account of Sum-
ter quitting when they found the Manning
bows gaining on them. The local team
PLAYED at g great disadvantage, because they
were not organized and had not practiced
together and until the Sumter men replaced
their PLAYERS with giants the Manning boys
did them up badly The Sumters made
the most runs and they blowed about it
furiously. but when the next game is
PLAYED our boys will take the tarch out Of
these windy dudes.
"Pick Leaf" smoking tobacco, l0c q
package, at Brock;nton's.
A storm swept through Sherman
Texas last Friday and in the neigh
borhOOd OF 200 people were Killed. On
the list of killed appears the name of
r. L. Burns and two children, but we
do not believe this is the Burns that
used to live in Manning. His post
office used to be Bastrope, but re-
Gently we received a card from him
notifying us to send his paper to
Halettsville. Both Bastrope and
Halettsville are several hundred
miles from Sherman.EThe account in
the News and Courier gave the name
'sR. L. Burns and two Children but
in the Columbia Register itwas Il. L
Burns, two children, Joseph aged 3
years and Grover aged 10 years"
The Burns that left here carried to
Texas with him three children and
all of them were girls if our memory
serves US right. We hope by the
next issue of the Times to have posi-
tive information on the subject.