THE MANNING TIES Published Every Wednesday. S. A. NETTLES, ErITo aD PRoPnro. M. CLINTON GALLUCHAT, ADVERTISING AGENT. Terms: SUsscRrrzos RxrEs.-One copy, one year $1.50; one copy, six months, 7 cents, one copy, three months, 50 cents. Al] - subscriptions payable in advance. AnvarrBsmo lArEs.-One square, first in 'sdrtion, $100; each subsequent insertion, :50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertise ments. Liberal contracts made for three, six, aid twelve months. ComxusIcTros must be accompanied by the real name andaddress of the writer in order to receive attention. No communi cation of a personal character will be pub lisbed except as an advertisement. For further information address S. A. NETTLES, Manning, S. C. Wednesday, May 16, 1888. , our Name in Print. -Co!. H. L. Benbow spent last Sunday in town. -Mr. Frank Benbow, of Mayesville, was MrsJ. E. Barnette, is visiting at her father's, Ir. A. Loryea. -Miss Sallie Jervey, of Sumter county, is on a visit to friends in Manning. -Mr. Henry Appelt, of Darlington, is on a visit to his brother, Judge Appelt. -Capt S. E. Conyers, of Foreston, has been quite unwell, but is much better. -B. Pressley Barron, Esq., was in at tendance at court in Kingstree this week. -Mr. Henry F. Windam, of Elloree, is quite sick at the residence of Mr. James B. Bowe. -Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Richardson, of Green ville, were last week visiting Mrs. Richard son's relatives in this county. -Mr. V. H. Phelps. of Sumter, and Mr. John Stork, of Columbia, were on a short visit to Mr. Gustave Alexander this week. -Mrs. Nancy J. Roberson, who has been visiting relatives in town, leaves for her home in Chester county next Thursday -Mr Geo. T. Rowe, telegraph operator at Cartersville, Darlington county, is very sick with fever at that place. His brother Jim mie, of our town, is at his bedside. -Dr. Henry McLauren, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jervey, Mr. and Mrs. R. 0. Purdy, Mr. C. Stubs, and several other parties from Sumter were in town yesterday, to attend Dr. np m's funeral. -Miss Rea, who bas been teaching in the Calvary section for the past two years, will close her school on the 16th inst., and leave for her home in Danville, Pennsylvania. After a short stay; with her brother, she ex pects to join friends in New York on the 3rdinst., and take passage for Europe, on asix, or eight months' pleasure- trip. She expects to land in France, and spend one month in Paris, and then take in every place of interest in Austria, Germany, Rus sia, Italy, Spain, an4 -a portion of Africa. She looks forward yith special pleasure to a drift on the Nil and Gydnus in Egypt. Miss Rea is a young lady of rare attain ments, blessed with a kind and affectionate disposition, and has endeared herself to a hoast o *ue, and loyal friends in this-coun - ' Those who know her best, will miss 'her most. That she may have smooth ..sailing. realize her most sanguine expecta ion have a safe return to Ame:ca, visit M dn 'asiatn one more pic nidatFlud's1mill, is the earnest and most Friendy wish of. OCCASIONAL. -3.CLINTON GALLUJCHAT, .. W HEREAS, JAMES E. DAVIS, Clerk vVof Court, made suit to me, to grant him letters of administration of the Estate of and effects of HUJLDA A. THAMES. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said HULDA A. THAMES, decased, that they be and appear, before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Manning, on the 31st d.ay of May ncxt, after pub lication hereof, at 11 o' cloch in the fore noon, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said Administrationi should not be granted. Given under my hand this eighiteenth day of April Anno Domini 1888. [L. s.] LOUIS APPELT, Probate Judge. J. J. BRAGDON, Real Estate Agent, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business Iportion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable Jots; on Manning ad R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and 6 rooms; and a number .of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. Registration Notice ! I WILL BE IN THE COURT HOUSE, (Clerk of Court's office), 'the first Mon sday in every month, to allow persons comn sing of age since the last election to Register 1and to attend to other official business. S. P. HOLLADAY, Supervisor of Registration, C. C.