mANNING TIMES. WEDNESDAY, JAN, 21, 1886 Mie at GFO. P. THIS PAPERROW= & Co's uIewspper .&dvertig Bureau(10 Spruce st.), .made or U.~ NEW YORK. TERMS OF SBS'CRIPTION: Me Year, in Advane $1.50 or $2.00 at Expirationi of Six "Months. Advertisements.---Per Square, first in Soion, $1.00. Each subseqent insertion. 50. par- Contract Advertising at reduced -Advertising in Local Colunin, 10c. per l-ine. ZV& Our Terms for all Transient Adver tiisements, are invariably in advance. Our columns are open at all times, for the expression of opinions on all subjectsof pub ie interest. but we are not responsible for vi2ws of our correspondents. Local Intelligence. cheap opportunity is offered at eTbms office to a purchaser of a pi ano, organ or sewing machine. Sales day next Monday. '-The Board of County Commission ers will be in session to-day. Mr. W. B. Bonham paid our office ! pleasant visit Saturday. Notice. I will visit Manning the 1st of Feb rary next, and remain 'till the 6th. hose desiring my services will call on me at the residence of Rev. L. D. Bass, or address me through the Man -ing post-office. B. RrImEDE, D. D. S. Attention. At the late meeting of the Agricul mIral Society, on account of the pres ence of Capt. R. B. Tillman, all bus iness was postponed 'till their n'ext meeting which was ordered for Mon day next. A full attendance is requested. Mr Walter Wilson, of Williamsburg, -ama town last week visiting friends. Our Reidville friend must excuse the welfhness which prompts us to keep his communication for the exclusive enjoyment of those in the Tmuis office The Daily Record facetiously re marks that bustles are never orna mental, but useful in slippery weath er. Just received a fresh supply of Landreth's and Ferry's garden seed at Dinkins & Co. Tax Levy for 1885-6. For State purposes 5j mills. For School. purposes 2 mills. Fo Ordinary County purposes 4 mills. DeficiencyV for fiscal year -com mencing Nov. Ist 1S84, - 1 mill. .onded debt + mill. Total 12{ millq. Mr. J. H. Fowler who has for a long time been a citizen of Clairendon has removed to Mullins in Marion County, the home of his parents. Mr. Fowler carries with him the good wishes of a host of friends who regret his leaving. Thefollowinlg appointment's are yet to be filled by the County Auditor : Midway, Feb'y. 2nd, Tuesday. Boykins, Feb'y. 3rd, Wednesday. hool House, (near J. J. McFad din) Feb'y 4th, Thursday. J. J. Dicksons, Feb'y 5th, Friday. . W. J. Gibbons, Feb'y 6th, Ssturday. After filling these appointments the Auditor will take returns at office 'till the 20th of February, when the opportunity closes. Dr. T. 31. Baitey, secreLary of the Home Mission Board of the Baptist Church, preached an interesting ser mon Saturday morning in the Baptist Church, and again Monday evening. The Dr. will attend the Union Meet ing which convenes h'ere next Friday. The residence of Mr. L. M. Brun on was the scene of a double wed ding on last Thursday. Mr. Brun sotwo amiable daughters, Misses . and S. M were married by Rev. f.. Bass to Messrs. W. H. and J. W. ~son, brothers, in the order Daamed. Mr. Brunson is the father of a large family of daughtets, and has lived to see them all happily married. John Garvin, who it will be remnem ered was arrested here some weeks ago, after an exciting chase~, and car ried to Charleston, subject to seal d .entence, has been discharged byr Judge Pressley, on a writ of Habea ors. The grounds of the discharge were that Garvin had been tried and convicted before ever having been ar rested or committed for trial. The growing of tobacco in the State is receiving full attention from the de prtment of Agriculture. Comnmis sioner Butler, on the recommnendatior of committees. appointed for that par p ose, has appointed one farmer ir every County to make practical test! of the adaptability of the soil of thei; respective Counties. Dr Jno. I. In gram has been selected to make th< eperiment in Clarendon. Dr. Ingran is a successful farmer wvith a large ex eeperience, and will be sure to sue ceed ifnm onai1 wil produce tnbacco our columns are largely occupie this week with official advertisements The reports of the Treasurer am School Commissioner should be o unusual interest to the reading public It is important that those who pay th< taxes, should know for what _purposei their money is expended, and for thi, reason these annual publications ar< required. It is to be hoped they wil receive attention, and if any one be lieves he detects extravagance or wil ful mismanagement, let him take ad vantage of the liberal opportunity of fered to expose the wrong. We can se( no wrong ourselves, and it affords ui pleasure to accord due praise to these officials.. The horse attached to Mr. Carr wagon became frightened to-day while passing near Mr. Stehle's bakery and dashed forward, driving one shaft into a mule standing in a wagon near by. The shaft penetrated to the heart and the mule died almost in stantly. Its owner was a colored man from Clarendon, we are informed. Watchman and Soulnern. We sympathize with the loser of the mule, who is one among the well to do and responsible colored men of thE County.-Ed. Note the Difference. You may be able to get a large city weekly filled with murders, scanda! cases, cock fights, etc., for the same money you pay for your local papers. but these city weeklies never adver tise your county, and make your prop! erty valuable. They do not heli along your schools and churches; they do not publish your county news; they say nothing of you and your town, and have no interest in you. A good news paper is as much of an advantage to a town as are good schools. If one o our farmer friends should step into one bf these city offices, he would find out in two minutes that he bad no cordial welcome there such as he would receive in a printing office at home. Stand by home papers. They stand by you, and are ever on the lookout for your interests.- Timnes an Denwevrat. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly For February is all that its patrons can desire. The articles vary in character and treatment, are all interesting and timely. and all well illn ate 1. Mr Co.t's article on the late William H. Vanderbilt gives a striking picture of the career and life of the greatest American millionaire, and the read er can judgefor himself of the man, his pal ac, his gallery, his stables and his tomb. Mrs. Lew Wallace, the talented wife of our genral and diplomatist, contributes a very striking romance, "A Fair Client's Story.' The well-known novelist. Christian Reid, gives one of her striking stories, "A Passing Idyl." "The Home of the Noted Indian Cief, Cornplanter," is very pleasantly des cribed and beantifully illustrated by Mrs. Calista Ingersoll Gara. In "The Story of the Man who wrote Robinson Crusoe," Noel Ruthven takes us back to England in the time of De Foe. "T1hibet," ias described by Charles H. Lepper, gives the reader a knowl edge of what will be England's next annex ation. R. S. Tarr describes the -'Past and Present of a New England Fishing Town ; Frank Norton. "Irregular troops." Mrs. M A. Denison (Author of '-That Husband 01 Mine.") C. L. Hildreth, Henry Tyrrell, Cathie JTewett, J. F. Nichol., contribute sto ries and p)OeCis. "Telpherage," the last ap plication of electricity for transporting freight, will be read with interest ; and all readers will follow Dta W. Pheree's novel. "Daughters of Cain. ' The illustrations of this umber are all striking and good. News From Sammy Swamp. Smtx Sw.tP, S. C., Jan. 18th '$6 Mr. Edlitor: I am really ashamed to write to you after such a long silence but hope that you will agree with me in thinking that "It is better late than never." There has been nothing toc write about, except the Tournament and Ball, given by the "Connor Mount ed Rifles" during the holidays, and] was unfortunately absent besides, you published a good account of it, o2 rather them. There were fewer entertainment. during the last holidays in this neigh borhood, than there have been fo: years past. Have you ever played "Move kitch en furniture ?" Well, that is wha1 the negroes in this community bave been doing since Jan. 1st, they seen to object very much to hiring therm selves this year, and some gentlemet of the neighborhood have not vel hired a farm hand. Capt. Briggs has hired all white men for this year, who so far, have given greait satisfaction Last Friday some person set a tur pentine tree on firec, on the place o Mr. Levi, formerly owned by' Capt Y. N. Butler, and the tire spreadint very rapidly, burn't up all the fence: and badly injured all the timber Misses Ella Butler of Manning, an< Carrie Hudson, of Greeleyviile, wet vising friends in this vicinity lasi Jweek--their departure was attended b many regrets. Public schools closed in this Town ship on the 8th of this month, after; session of two months--the longes term that they have lasted in Samm Swamp Township for a good man; years past. What a pity it is, thar they can not last for a full term, a there are so many deserving childre: who can't afo'ord to attend pay school -besides, it is very discouraging t -teachers to have their schools eithe broken up,. or sadly reduced in nun bes, by the closing of the free school: Colds have been very prevalet since the late bad freeze, and the fai mes have been very- blue becaum 1 besides the winter gardiens have beer ruined. 1 What has become of all your form f er correspondents ? They have bee: getting "beautifully less" for some time past. I do not feel quite so bad ly because of my unpardon able neg lect and laziness, when I see that some of my fellow correspondents have been I equally as remiss in their duty as my self. I hope they will join me in re solving to do better, and stand ur boldly for the welfare of our Tms and do all in our power to aid in its prosperity. Knowing that you objeci to lengthy articles, I will close. SAMfnY SwAMP. The Weather and Other Matters. FrLTo\, S. C., January 25, 1886. Mr. EDITOR : The terribly cold weathei which we have been enduring lately, and which the prophets predict will return thi, winter, seems to have proluced the same effect on news as on business-it has stop' ped them both. Such weather has nevei before been felt in this neighborhood-nol even by that INFALLIBLE (?) eharactor, "the oldest inhabitant," who heretofore has never been heard to acknowledge that in his ear. ly days --which are always beyond the Ken of anybody else living-he has not seen the thermometer at least ten degrees lower. It has entailed very serious losses on many of those who had'grain in the ground, and on those who own stock-which at this time of year are forced to repair for food to the swamps, where they subsist on the cane tops found there. The former was all kil led-and it will necessitate an entire re planting of the whole grain crop. -Numbers of cattle and hogs were caught unawares in - the swamps, by the unprecedented rapid rise of the water, and perished before they could be rescued. I am reliably informed that Mr. Jas. D. Weeks of this vicinity was so unfortunate as to lose all of his stock-in cluding 35 or 40 head of cattle, and a large number of hogs. By another gentleman whose loss was also very great, was told. that for several days, the carcasses of large numbers of hogs and cattle could be seen floating down the river alongside of ice bergs half the size of a house. "But it's an ill-wind that blows nobody good." and even this unpleasant snap brought pleasure and enjoymont to some, in the shape of delightful skating on the ponds of the neighborhood - -all of which were weli frozen over, in many instances, to the depth of six inches. Ice-skating had never been seen by many of the people in this section, and was apparantly much enjoyed by them ---large numbers congregating every evening to see it, and to laugh over the ludicrous at tempts of those novices who could be induc ed to get on the treacherous steel. Besides the weather, the only topic of con versation around Fulton for some time past, has been the recent amendment to the lien law. Various opinions in regard to it* are held. but all seem to agree in thinkin:: tha it is the operting wedge which will eventual ly split to pieces a law which has been pro ductive of much irreparable loss to our I' The public schools of this district, of which there are seven colored and three white, have been in a flourishing condition since the first of last Noveamber, but will close soon on account of lack of f'inds. Somet of them, however, will be continued as pri ate mistitutions. Saturday last was the day appointed by the Auditor for making tax returns at Ful ton. By the present system parties are re quired to certify to their returns under oath -fomamerly this oath was an understood mat ter. Trhe cold weather has been prod1uctive of much sickness up here, but nothing serious as yet. PHI ALPHA. BrOkeni BORcs. "I know a man whose bones are almost as birittle as glass," was remark ed to an Atlanta man the other day "His bones were so brittle that it. throwing a stone lie broke his arn: between the shoulder and elbo~w.] knewv another man," continued the speaker," who kicked at a dog an~ broke his thigh. Investigation showvec that both these men had been taking ltrge quantities of mereui-y, and foi quite a time. If they had been undel the treatment of good physicians t< regulate the dose and quantity, il would no doubt have been all right but they had been taking nostrtuma containing such poisonous drugs am mereury-, potash, cec., and had fatall impaired their- health." These eases ar< beyond the reach of S.S. S. or any other remedy, but they might have been sav-ed if they had taken the righ medicine. Mr. Thomas H. Morgan of Oglethorpe, Ga., says that he suf fered many years from mineral pois oning and had a terrible mercuria -sore on his leg which his doctoi thought would render amiputatior necessary. He objected to the cutting and took Swift's Specific instead The result is that he is entirely well has two good legs, and is in bette: ~health than for many years. IFor sale by all druggists. Treatisi on Blood and Skin Diseases mnaile< tfree. rThe Swift Specific Ca-, Dr-awer 3 . Atlanta, Ga., and 157 W. 23rd stree tNew York. s This question of "Evolution" o: a where man came from, seemns to us no half so important as "dissolution," o where he is to go. The latter shoul< certainly be the great matter of con r cern in a spiritual point of view, an under an American system in tempor al matters it makea very little differ ence where he camei fi-rm so he is man after he gets here. 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