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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
THE WEATHER AND CROPS.
What the Young Crops Are Doing in
this State,

The following is the weekly bulletin
of the condition of the weather and
crops of the State issued last week by
Director Bauer of the South Carolina
section of the United States weather
bureaus weather and crop service:
The week ending S a. NJ, July 9th,
was extremely hot, with the average
temperature between FIVE and six de.
erees higher than usual, and for the
first time this season the maximum
rose to 100 or above, while the lowest
minimum was 81 degrees.
The rainfall was largely local in char
acter, with many localities that had no
rain, while others had from trace to
nearly two inches. The hot sun dried
uplands rapidly, and nearly all cores
pondents report red lands and clayey
lands baked and hard to cultivate, and
that showers would prove beneficial on
such lands, while bottom land gener.
silly are still vet, and more rain at this
time would cause further injury.
Farm work made rapid progress and
was in the main devoted to cleaning
staple crops of grass and weeds, some.
what to the neglect of the less import
ant crops. Much grass was killed, but
another full week Of dry. hot weather
is required to thoroughly rid the fields
of weeds and to put crops into good
condition.
The general condition Of corn is i'm
proved, but it is scalding on wet bot
tom laDds and firing on sandy lands to
considerable extent. Old corn is be-
ing rapidly laid by, while young corn
is very grassy. Some overfowed bot
toms being replanted to corn, The ma
turing portion Of the crop needs rain.
Cotton fields that have been cleaned
Of grass are doing we'll, but many re-
main grassy on which cotton is turn
ing yellow. The hot, dry weather vas
favorable to cotton, and in general this
crop is decidedly better than it was last
week. There is some complaint OF
rust and blight, the latter most Sc Tere
on sea island variety. The plants are
growing too much to weeds in places,
and in many instances are not fruit
ing we'll. A few localities report cotton
very promising.
Wheat thrashing is now being hur-
ried vita continued heavy yields, but
some grain is slightly damaged by rain
usually only the top bundle Of the
shock.
Early rice is doing well in all regions
except in the upper Combahee where
rice is about ten days late and is not
doing well.
Tobacco improved in most sections
and is fine crop, with cutting and cur.
ing under way, but the bulk Of it will
be cured during the coming week.
Sweet potatoes, pastures, cane and
gardens are promising. Melons are a
partial failure. Many peaches, grapes
and other fruits rot as the ripen. Figs
and LeConte pears are ripening. Iege.
tables for local use are plentiful. Field
laborers are scarce in many counties.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
a Train Robbed.

The Illinois Central fast train from
New Orleans to Chicago was held up
and robbed Wednesday noraipg two
miles south of Wickliffe, KY. The
train was tagged, and when it stopped
the bandits entered the cab. The fire.
man was knocked in the head with the
butt Of revolver and badly hurt. The
robbers, six in number, cut of the
engine and express car and ran mile
and half to Fort Jefferson, near the
Chic river, and within sight Of the
Missouri shore. Here they blew open
the express safe and secured all the
valuables it contained. The robbers
overpowered the express men and made
them get off the train, but did not at
tempt to molest others on the train,
which carried a large load Of passengers.
This morning special train with blood
hounds and an armed posse left Jack
son, Tenn, for the scene. 1t IS under
stood that Missouri officers are hot on
the robbers trail. About SO, 900 were
secured.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
a Big Job.

Some Of our rampant imperialists are
reminded, by the Salt Lake Tribune,
that no foreign army can advance into
central China except perhaps by her
great river. No army could exist in
that country. 1t would have to be in
daily connection with its base, or starVe
and then if million Cinnamon were to
be killed, that would be nothing. 1t
would be as when ship goes down at
sea and the waters close over it, giving
up no sign that any ship ever sailed
there. Every Well-wisher of his race
hopes that, Notwithstanding the provo.
cation, some satisfactory adjustment
can be made without general war.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
a Fatal Plague.

A dispatch from New Orleans says
President Souchan, Of the Louisiana
State board Of health, last Wednesday
received telegram from the president
of the parish board Of health fer Cald-
well parish, Of which Columbia is the
seat urging that an expert, quantity
Of tents, disinfectants and sanitary in
Spectors be sent to that place at once
as mysterious plague had broken out
there which was fatal in every instance.
The telegram stated that fully forty
people, mostly negroes, had already
succumbed to the disease. President
Souchon sent DR.. Beard, the state ex-
pert, to the scene. 1t is believed that
the epidemic is a very malignant
form Of smallpox.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
After Negro Labor.

A dispatch from Honolulu says it is
to the colored people of the souther-
States that the planters CT Hawaiian
Islands will turn for relief in the mat,
ter of the 7exed labor question. John
Hind and J. B. Collins of Yohala
plantation, leave today for the south.
ern States in quest of negro laborers.
They have assurances that 300 or 400
can be recruited at New Orleans. The
planters will pay their expenses to the
country and give them $50 amonth. II
enough negro labor can be secured the
services Of the Japenese will be dis
pensed With altogether.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
The British Loses.

A dispatch from London says the wal
office has issued another casualty list
from South Africa, showing that dur
ing the week ending July Z, there were
killed, wounded or captured 10 officers
and lS0 men; accidental deaths, , men;
died of disease, I officers and 1874 men;
invalided home, Y officers and l,3O6
men. The total casualties as a result
of the war are 49. .189 officers ard men.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
A Tribute to Tillman.

One of the delegates from Virginia to
the late National Democratic Conven-
ton says Senator Tillman in reading
the plank ON imperialism sent thrill!
through the great convention hall
which is seldom equalled in such an as.
semblage. The spectacle which greeted
the South Carolina Senator's mastery
reading Of the plank, was one which
may not be witnessed again for many
wears to come
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
a Cotton Pest.

Mr.. L. D. Landrun Of Batesburg
writes the governor as follows: Dear
Sir: There is some kind of a pest that
has attacked the cotton ID this section
and in few days will destroy large
section Of the cotton. In fact, it is
spreading all over the country. The
botanist at Clemson has seen such
specimens of the infected cotton and he
suggested the use Of sulphur, but this
does not kill or stop the progress Of the
scourge. So at the request of a number
of prominent farmers, | request you to
have the botanist of Clemson to visit
this section and see if he cannot devise
a means to help US.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
FOREIGNERS KILLED.

The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail says the following story re-
garding the situation in Pekin emsnates
from Chinese official sources: "The
two remaining legations, the British
and Russian, were attacked in force on
the evening Of July 9Th, Prince Tuan
being in command. The attackers we're
divided. Prince Tuan commanded the
centre, the right wing was led by Prince
Tsai Yin and the left by Prince Yin
Lin. The reserves were under Prince
Tsin Yu. The attack commenced with
artillery fighting which was severe and
lasted until o'clock in the morning
by which time the legations were de-
stroyed and all the foreigners were
dead, while the streets around the le-
cations we're full Of the dead bodies Of
both foreigners and Chinese. Upon
hearing of the attack, Prince Ching
and Gen. Wang Wen Shae went with
troops to the assistance Of the foreign.
ers, but they we're outnumbered and
defeated. Both Prince Ching and
Gen. Wang Wen Shao were killed.
Two foreigners are said to have escaped
through the gates, one with a heavy
sword wound in his head. Prince
Tuan, in celebration of the victory,
distributed 100000 taels and huge
quantities of rice to the Boxers"
A dispatch to the New York Journal
and Advertiser from Che Foo says: A
courier from Sir Robert Hart, in Pekin,
has Just arrived bringing this message,
dated June %:
"Close to good bye. Near the end. y
A private letter from Pekin, dated
June p, and received at Tien Tsin
June 80, says:
''We are in danger Of death. Thirty
thousand troops are attacking. Only
three days food is left. No news
comes Of troops. If no relief comes sll
seems hopeless.
WHOLESALE MURDER.
A dispatch from London says news
agency reports that an official message
received in London states that all the
foreigners in Pekin we're murdered
July 6.
All the foreigners and missionaries
have evacuated When Chau and have
arrived at Ming Po. Large bodies Of
Boxers appeared at Wen Chau and
threatened to ezterminate the for
eierers and Christians. They also dis
tributed banners, badges and infam-
matory anti. foreign appeals.
The Tien Tsin correspondent Of The
Express, telegraphing under date OF
July 9, asserts that the Chinese are
daily driving in the allies. They have
mounted, says the correspondent, II
fresh guns in advantageous positions,
with which they are sweeping the
streets Of the foreign settlement, the
incessant fire rendering position after
position quite untenable.
The Daily Nails St. Petersburg cor
respondent says that in the last six
hours battle outside Of Tien Tsin, the
Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and
killed numbers Of fleeing Boxers. The
Chinese lost 5000 killed, including
Gen. Kek.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
q Queer Mixture.

J. +. Pickelheimer was arrested at
Middleboro, Tenn, ON the charge Of
bigauy. II is alleged he has seven
wives, two of whom arein Mlddlesboro,
and others will arrive shortly. In
his grip we're found license to preach,
a teachers certificate from Franklin
county, KY, four marriage certificates,
deck of cards, bottle of whiskey and
a pistol.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
Made Him Sick.

The Chinese residents Of Berlin have
kept carefully under cover since the
news of Baron Won Kettelers murder
was confirmed. They have adopted Eu-
ropean attire, even sacrificing their
pitfalls, and are procuring wigs. The
Chinese minister is said to be frightened
worst of all. He is reported to be sick
abed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
Had to Paw for It.

The Columbia State says: Friday
morning white man giving his name
as G.. G. T. Enlow was before the mayor
on the charge Of attempting suicide.
He claims to be a Baltimorean, and was
arrested by Officer Bughson. HIS In
fatuatiop for a woman Of bad character
here is said to have caused him to put
a pistol to his breast and pull the trig-
ger, Only a flesh wound resulted.
Acting Mayor Stanley fined the man
500. which he paid. He was then re-
leased and nothing more has been heard
from him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18

clared in favor of the dispen5ary, with
allowances to the counties wanting pro-
hibition. Col. Hoyt had said that the
dispensary had brought the State into
degradation and dirt. Gary asked what
is the state Of degradation. God forbid
the day when free liquor will come into
South Carolina. Col. Hoyt might not
be in the coalition, but the result Of
his election would mean riot of blind
tigers. Gary was applauded when he
said that be was an original advocate
of the dispensary. and although it has
broken from It's original moorings it is
yet the best solution Of the liquor ques-
ton. He favored the common schools
and especially institutions for indus
trial training. He was literally ap-
plaudcd.
N'sWEENEY' S MESSAGE.
Gov. McSTeeney was not present at
the meeting. The following message
from him will explain why he was ab-
sent:
"A bouncing baby boy arrived at the
mansion early this morning. Request
county chairman to present my best
wishes ,c the Democracy Of Florence
and my regrets at lot being able to at
tend meeting
The reading Of the message was ap-
plauded.
The candidates for lieutenant COVER
nor then spoke. Each improves daily
il his exhorlstion for votes. Col. L;v-
iDgstou declared for prohibitioD Col.
Blease for dispensary; ditto Col. Till
man aud Col Sloan for local option be-
tween prohibition, high license and dis
pens ry. and Col. Winkler for dispen-
sary with prohibition local option
rider. Col. Livingston had the largest
share Of applause DR.. Zimmerman,
Capt. Jennings and Gen. Bellinger fol-
lowed. Banks.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
FEARS THE WORST.

Pekin and there is nobody but believes
the worst has happened. 1t is taken
for granted that all the powers have ex-
hausted every means to get direct news
from their legations, and the fact that
their efforts have been vain leaves but
one Interpretation.
Statements are in circulation in
in Shanghai accusing the Rus
slams Of indiscrininate slaughter of
friendly Chinese non-combatants, with
out regard to age or sex. The mana
ger of Chinese steamship company
who has arrived in Shanghai, asserts
that he only escaped from Tien Tsin by
cutting of his queue and donning Eu-
ropean clothes. 1t is said that the Tao
tai of Shanghai protested to the powers
against these Russian slaughter5.
News is circulating throughout the
Yang Use valley that Gen. Ma has in
ficted a crushing defeat upon the al
lies at Tien Tsin and that the foreign
army has been cut to pieces east Of Pc
kin. The actual impotence for the
moment Of the allied forces naturally
give color to these stories with the
worst results. The Shanghai cores
poudent Of The Express gives Tien
Tsin advices to July Sth, when the
superior range of the japanese artillery
enabled them to relieve the Russians,
who were hard pressed at the railway
station.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18
v SNEENEYS MESSAGE.

Gov. McSTeeney was not present at
the meeting. The following message
from him will explain why he was ab-
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
BITTEN BY RABID DOG.

Wilmington Star.
MOUNT OLIVE, N. c., June 9.-Mr.
S. A. Bowden, who llyes near Mount
Olive, in Duplin county, was bitten
Friday evening by his dog, which was
supposed to have been affected with
rabies. Mrs. Bowden had noticed that
the dog was constantly chasing the
cats and chickens, fighting the other
dogs etc, and told her husband he
would have to do something with him.
Mr.. Bowden took block attached tc
the dog and put it through a crack in
the fence. The dog Immediately
jumped the fence and was hanging
and Mr.. Bowden undertook to he|E
the dog lack over the fence, when the
dog seized him by the RICH. arm and
punctured the skin and bruised it con
siderably. The dog was left fastened
and died the next day, biting at every
thing in reach. Mr.. Bowden left ir
company with DR.. L. P. Abram thi,
morning for Baltimore, where he viii
take the Pasteur trea tment.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
BLOUNT ON KITCHIN.

Mr.. Henry Biount In writing up the
Congressional convention at Goldshoro
Tor the Rocky Mount Motor, said nice
things for all the candidates before the
convention. Of what be said of Mr..
Claude Kitchin, the successful candi-
date Tor the nomination, we give the
following, his closing paragraph:
Eyes, indeed gracious and generous
muses. stood around his cradle in bis
birth hour, and gave to his tongue
that power an / eloquence and fascina-
ton that none can resist or with
stand, for in his streams of inspiring
eloquence the senses are made drunk
with the Intoxicating rotations of their
inebriatlng witcheries. And so. he is
indeed most grandly panoplied and
magnificiently equipped for the high
position which he will adorn and
dignity with his shining virtues and
towering powers and respondent ablli-
ties. And the people will find in him
true and able champion, for with a
heart grandly strung and swee:ly tuned
it will be in fullest sympathy with all
the wants of the people and will be
quickly and warmly responsive to every
touch OF human sorrow and distress.
as such, he will the peoples rights
maintain, unawed by power and un-
bribed by GAIN"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
MR., KITCHIN THE NAN.

Rev. l.. NJ. Curtis, OF Aulander, in a
private letter to the editor Of THE
COMMONWEALTH says he is especially
pleased at the nomination OF Mr.
Claude Kitchln for Congress, and ex.
poets to aid In his election. He re.
cards Mr.. Kitchln cas- a four-sGuare
clear-handed Christian gentle man."
And such IS the feeling generally
throughout the district and indeed
wherever Mr.. Kltchin is known. His
nomination has met with general sat
istaction, and has created the enthu
siasm which THE COMMONWEALTH SO
often predicted before the convention
was held. Mr.. Kitchln will do bis
full duty in enlightening the people
between now and the August election
and after his own election In Ncyem.
Der he will do his full duty as repre-
sentative Of the people.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
WINTERVILLE NEWS.

W1NrERv1LLE, N. c., June IL 1900.
Elk. Gov. Jarvis addressed an at
tentiye crowd on the amendment here
Saturday evening. He brought out
its special advantages In very plain
aud practical manner.
A. G. Cox Mfg. Co. now has quite
an attractive building, with nice
large sign painted on their new front.
Winteryille Cigar Co. has man en-
ployed to thoroughly inspect every
cheroot made, thus making it impos-
slble for any goods to get out except
strictly first class.
The white supremacy cub at this
place has membership of over 80.
An old darkey went into Hunsucker
Carriage Factory the other day, and
asked if the buggies were just to show
He thought they were too pretty to
sell. Hunsucker buggies don't cos'
you any more for being pretty, how.
ever.
Winterville is going to have grand
Democratic barbecue and picnic June
29th.
Our Tar-Eeel wagons, worth from
$42. so up are the best to be had. We
sell pair of wheels of the same make
complete with axle and bed for $12. 5.
which Is rare bargain. Special dis
count to the trade.-A. G.. Cox Mfg. Co
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14

and as result have lately put over
800, 900 of their money in industrial
enterprises in North Carolina. And
these gentlemen told me that they
probably would never have come
within our gates had they not been at
tracted by the tlantic Hotel at More
head"
This Is pew way Of putting it, but
very Important additional argument
tor patronizing our home resorts and
trying to induce as many outside to do
so as possible.
ANENT TWO UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS.
II all elections or appointments to
positions of trust were met with such
universal approval as the selection OF
Drs. Venable and Vann to preside over
the University Of North Carolina and
the Baptist Female University OF
Raleigh, N. G., respectively, we
| would be happier than we some
times are. DR.. Venable has been lden-
tilted with the institution over which
he is now called to preside too long to
need an introduction to North Carolina
people, and yet he is a comparatively
young man and the young men are
particularly pleased at his election.
DR.. r. T. Vann, at present OF Scot
land Neck baptist church, is not only
talented and we'll qualified for the new
Office, but his is most remarkable
personality otherwise. He has neither
hands nor arms (both being severed
from his BODY by an accident in early
ilfe), and yet the small portion OF the
limbs left (vulgarIy called "stumps"
although ! know no better word to
use) have been educated to perform
many offices for him which one would
think impossible. For instance, he Is
one of the best shots with a gun In the
State, and annually taxes much delight
in hunting birds. His friends here de-
clare he will make a great success 81
president of the "B. F. u"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
70 DISFRANCHISED WHITE
VOTERS.

Wilmington Messenger.
Poor white men are not disfra nchised
in South Carolina, in Mississippi, in
Louisina and they will not be In North
Carolina. But the liars are active and
the fools are not yet all dead. There
is no occasion for misapprehension OF
what the amendment IS and how it
will affect the whites. No ignorant
unlettered white man will lose his vote,
for he will not be interfered with in the
least degree. The effort to deceive the un
lettered white men is made deliberately
and with purpose to gain votes by it.
The only plea of ignorance that has any
thing In it, is that boys now who are
white must learn to read in the course
Of eight years if they wish to vote in
1908. The public schools are free and
open to all and if white father who
cannot read but can always vote and
will vote without hjndrancs from the
amendment, is not sufficiently inter-
ested in his boys, one or two, to have
them taught to read in eight years,
then he Is an unfalthful parent and
the boys will richly deserve not to
have the ballot. The negroes will be
very sure to avail themselves In the
coming years OF the benefits OF educa-
ton. They will do this almost lnva-
riabIy, and by 1908, but very few boys
now from ten to thirteen years old will
not be able to vote. By 1925 there
will be probably among the negroes
an educated electorate or nearly so.
And so it should be with the whites.
There will be no excuse If in quarter
of a century all the voters cannot
read. The old ilIiterates of the whites
can vote without interference of lml-
tatiOn by the amendment. Their sons
should be sent to school in the eight
years 80 they can read also.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
UNLUCKY THIRTEEN.

The State Journal, Republican
paper published in Raleigh, but one CT
the boldest and most outspoken for
the amendment in the State, calls the
counties Of Halifax, Berthe, Chowan,
Craver, Edgecombe, Hertford, New
Hanover, Northampton, Vance, Cas-
we'll, Warren, Granville and Fender the
"unlucky thirteen" He says the 16,
755 white voters in these counties are
dominated by negro voters because the
latter are in the majority. 1t thinks
the amendment ought therefore to
pass.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
gu ESTION ANSWERED.

Yes. August Flower still has the lar
gest sale of any medicine in the civ.
lized world. Your mothers and v,o,,d
mothers never thought OF using nm,
thing else for Indigestion or B,ili,m.'
ness. Doctors we've scarce and they new.
or heard of Appendicitis, Nervous Pro.
tration or Heart failure, etc. Tho,
used August Flower to clean ont ,Ss
system and stop the fermentation 81
nndigested food, regulate the action ~ ~
the liver, stimulate the neryous 80
organic action Of the system. and th..
Is all they took when feeling bad VII. VII
the headaches and other aches W. W.
only need a few doses Of Graa' o J.
August Flower. in liquid form to ro..s
you satisfied there Is nothing .ar aons
me yr ma..er WITH you. For sale bv +
7. Whitehead 4 Co. Druggist. y =