The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-04-06
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
Gathered Frcn Our Exchanges OF tho
Past Wsek.
American harvesting machinery

! General L3ngstreet thinks he mas
| one more fight in him if war is de.
ciared.
a dispatch from London says that
| the Spanish torpedo tlatillo has been
ordered 10 proceed to Cuba.
William J. Bryan Is spoken Of a.
| tee next governor OF Nebraska. The
| Democrats claim 1hathe can be elected
/ oy 50, ,O00 majority
Wanamakar's turning states evi-
/ derce againss his Old chum, Matthew
Stantly Qlay, does not seem to give
the Boss much concern.
The Michigan congressional delega-
ton called upon President Mckinley
n body last Tuesday and begged
him 10 recognize Cuban.independence.
The king OF Siam has bodyguard
cf female warricrs-i. E., 400 girls
chosen from among the strongest ard
handsomest OF all the women in the
land.
St. Louis girls are so prompt at re-
parties! \ young man made teasing
remark to ore OF them the other day,
and she bit him with fstiron in the
neck.
Ats mass nesting held in Cleve-
land, OHIO, on Wednesday,, rssolu-
tions were adopted calling upon the
president to put stop to Cuban butch
cries.
The Southern railway, through
President Spencer, has just made a
handsome contribution of $1,000 to
the building fund OF the Y. NJ. G. a.
Of Macon.
Prominent Spaniards throughout
Mexico are raising large subscriptions
to give to the mother country to ens-
ble her to prosecute war with the
United States.
a Madrid newspaper says nothing
could prevent Spain from planting
soldiers in Florida. She may plant
them there, but they'll never come up
till judgment day.
a company of rs volunteers, organ
lied in San Francisco, sent in an ap-
plication to the secretary of war on
Tuesday, asking to be enrolled in case
OF war with Spain.
News comes that Ex-senator John
J. ingalls, may declare for silver and
become the candidate of the Populists,
| Democrats and free silver Repu ublicans
for congress in the first district.
Dieuxverloo, a Dutch village, has
passed an ordinance prohibiting wash
erwomen from hanging out under
clothing on the clothes lines in the
open air, as detrimental to public NOR.
ais.
Three terrific explosions took place
at the Sycamore powder mills at
Clarks7ille. Tenn, on Wednesday,
killing four employees. The explo.
sion was felt for radius OF fifty
miles.
The tributes to Fitzhugh Lee and
nominations for nigh place in the
army in the event of hostilities con-
tinue to appear in the press of the
country without reference to geogra-
phical lines.
On last Thursday the Charleston
business men declared against war
in set of resolutions in which Presi-
dent AcKinley's administration Of
affairs in the present threatening crisis
was endorsed.
| Adjutant General Male, OF Virgins,
is receiving numerous letters from
people all over the State desiring to
know now they can enter the Virginia
volunteers, and desiring to form mill
tary companies.
The first patent ever granted in
the United States" says the Indiana
polls News, lis believed to have been
granted to Miss Mary Kies. of South
Killingly, Conn, in 1909 for weaving
straw WITH thread.
CaptainPaine of the British staamer
B=lvldere, from Boston, March a,
| for Port Antonio, which has arrived
there, reports thar Spanish ironclad
is watching the Windward passage,
about 40 miles eff the coast.
| ASunter negro who was told the
other day that he would have to go
into the army when the war began,
replied that he. just couldn't doiI as
he was under contract and would be
pat in Jail if he broke it to join the
army.
| French postoffice employees are be-
tween the devil aud the deep blue sea.
They have just received an order for.
bidding them to read postal cards and
next directing them not to allow IN.
sulting Or lipellous postal cardsto pass
through the mails.
The navy department has received a
dispatch saying that the armored cruls-
ers Infanta Maria Theresa and Christie
bal Colon and the torpedo destroyer
! 3De;Iructor have sailed from Csrtha.
gena, Spain. Their destination is
supposed to be Cuba.
Affect of three Spanish battleships
lett Cadiz, Spain, on Wednesday for
Cuba. The feet includes the Infanta
Maria Theresa, the Cristobal Colon
aud the Destructor. The first two are
armored cruisers and the last named
is torpedo boat destroyer.
| RECORDER Calhoun, of Atlanta, after
imposing Inc on prisoner before
him, paid It himself to keep the fel-
low from going to the stockade. He
had once been kind to Judge Calhoun
when the latter broke his leg. The
evidence required the judge to ind
hin guilty, out he paid the fine for
him.
| We do not now remember where