The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-09-29

MI. J.. NJ. NcRoy, 1atler OF our to"HS
man Mr.. 0. W. McRoy, died in Sumte
last Monday, after an illness OF some
length. The remains were brought and ID
tered in the Manning cemetery yesterda.
afternoon with Masonic honors. Mr.. Nc
Roy was qniet and good citizen an
had reached the ripe age of seventy odd
years.
Every Democratic voter should turn oat
on October 18th and vote. Don't content
yourselves that there is no use IN voting
and that the candidates will be elected any.
how. The voters Of Clarendon will vote
for member in Congress from the Sixth
District and State Senator, and you
should not only give these gentlemen who
are the candidates Of the Democratic party
as complimentary vote as possible, but
voters should not allow themselves to be-
come Indifferent at any general election.
They should turn out and always show at q
general election that they are still together
and mean to remain so and main tain white
supremacy.
Harris Nicklr Plate show drew quite i
crowd here last Thursday aad everything
passed off quiet There was no drunken
uess. The show was on old-time one ring
circus and was good. The men connected
with the management were genteel setand
made good impression. Like with every
other circus fakirs follow in the wake to
catch SILLY BillieS" who have more money
than brains and they always succeed in
finding what they look for. We hear that
one man lost thir.y dollars trying to find
the shot under the shell and another lost
twenty-five at the same engagement. Both
of these 'damphools" expected to buy we'd
ding suits with their money, but they went
home without the clothes, aud if their girls
have good sense, these fellows will also be
required to look elsewhere for wives.
When cotton goes down to five and fve-
eighths cents pound. as 1t has done IN
Manning this week, it is hard on the farn1-
ers. Every one has been expecting cotton
to go higher, and in the face of nc surplus
from last year and the appearance of only
an average crop this year. the spectators
still succeed IN bearing the market. We
verify believe that we shall see better
prices later, but the trouble is that they
may come too late = do the farmers any
good 4 rise in the price of cotton after t
has all been gathere! and has left the
hands of the farmers will really 10 them
harm, as it will stimulate them to plant
larger crops next year to the neglect of pro.
visions, and then they ere liable to have
the same low prices again. 1t is not always
wisdom to advise the holding Of cotton, but
to all appearances if there ever was q year
to hold it this is one. II we were owing
money that was pressing US and had only
cotton to pay it with we do not think We
would keep our creditors out of it by hold
ing, but if we had cotton and were not
obliged to sell we certainly think the:e
would be little to lose in taking the risk of
holding.
Several parties were heeced here last
Thursday in their efforts to buck the
"greasy pig" on the show grounds; and the
surprising part of the business is. that
among the victims were men who should
have known better We saw young men
slip away from their sweethearts to get q
whack at the pig" Then we saw men
who have great responsibilities upon them
slip mp, and gamble with the fakirs; some
of these men were they to be exposed would
find trouble with their church affiliations
and others would not be pleased to have
the thing ''broke off into them on the
political hustings. We make the predlc-
ton that the woods will be full of the
squealIngs of the greasy pig" if ever again
q certain man who is afflicted with an
Office tapeworm runs for Office. lis bad
enough, yea. frightful for young men to
frltter away their earnings with sharpers,
but when it comes to men who are constant
y asking the people to entrust them with
public position it demoralizing in the
extreme. If people cannot resist tempta-
ton they should keep away from 8 show
ground; it would be far better for them to
seek riches in the yellow fields OF Klondike
and run the risk of freezing to death. No
man so simple as to run up against g
greasy pig" at q show is fit to be entrusted
with the confidence of the people, and were
the ones we saw, now holding any official
place we would not fail to expose them. be-
cause we regard man holding Office sub
ject to public criticism, bot fortunately the
people are spared this.