The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 24, 1888, Image 3
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Wednesday, OCT. 24, 1888.
Year same in Print.
-Mr. W. D. Rich, of Lanes, is attending
medical lectures in Baltimore.
-Lastweek we said C. H. Pack was at
tending medical lectures in Charleston.
We should have said W. S. Pack.
Cotgress adjourned last Saturday at 1
o'clok P. M.
M. Fox Brunson, of the Fork section,
died last Saturday.
Mr. G. Alexander has placed a large clock
in front of his store for the convenience of
the town.
Dave Tucker has promised us a letter
very shortly. Our readers may expect
- ig good,
Mrs. Edwards furnishes ah excellent meal
at her bakery, and at a small cost. Be sure
to get a meal from her.
Mr. P. T. Drayton has our thanks for a
lot of nice things from his fruit stand on
the Court House Square.
The barn of Mr. Morgan Davis was burn
ed last Saturday night about 8 o'clock, de
tyng all his forage and a quantity of
corn. It is a heavy loss on him, and is evi
dently a case of malicious incendiarism.
0. Alexander, our popular jeweler, has
made some improvements in his store, and
will very shortly open out a beautiful line
of plush holiday goods, The ladies are
specially invited to call and see his beauti
ful goods.
Tom Peterkin, the colored dude who
painted the town so red last Monday a
week ago, broke toe restraints placed on
his liberty last Friday, and at once silently
stole away to seek other conquests, or pos
aibly guard-houses.
The following Democratic supervisors of
electron for Clarendon county have been ap
nointed: A. J. Walters, D. J. Bradham,W.
T Sprott, J.Brough to ope. cFad
din, W. S. Briggs,P P oper, . & .
Chandler, R. H. Belser.
An interesting revival meeting of several
dajs at the Home Branch Baptist church
closed last Sunday. There were twenty
four acessies to the church, sixteen of
whom were baptized Sunday. Rev. D. E.
Hardin conduced the meeting, and preach
ed someable and soul-stirring sermons.
A mule, evidently laboring under an at
tack of momentarg inseniry, attempted last
turday, at the depot in this place, to com
mit suicide by placing himself on the rail
road track, in front of an incoming freight
rin. He had to be driven off the track
mere than once, and the tra.in had to sto
to prevent this dire consummation o
Purpose.
Rev. T. P. Burgess, pastor of the Pres
byterian mission church in Charleston, has
eigned the pastorate of tha church, be
eause he was severely criticised by a num
ber of prominent members of his church
for his vote in - the recent action of the
Charl-ston Presbytery in regard to the
aijudiationi of Dr. Woodrow's ease by the
General Assembly.
' Mfr. Gee. E. Pritchett, of Goeieyville,
lied a serious accident to befall him last
Thursday, that came near proving fatal
Theoe that he was driving ran away,
trowing him out of the buggy. He lay in
an inann~ible state for two hours or more.
It was at first thought he was seriously
and probalAy fatally injured, but at last
acounts he was much improved.
K. of P.
A lodge of Knights of Pythias was organ
ed it thispac last Thursday. Forty-aix
membrswereinitiated and several more
will be ge next regular meeting. Grand
suemk Henry T. Thompson, asisted
4 aboi sen other members of the or
ewftmo diiret parts of the State, in
atitted the lodge. The following is a list
of theeOZloeama for the present term:
50past ebancellor, A. Levi; chan
ee~m omanderna, W. J. Clark; vice chan
tl . &. Wilson; keeper of records and
eam), J. H. Lesesne; master of exchequer, A.
Wibr; master of fiame, B. A. John
son; prltW. H. Ingram; master at arms,
A Bad State o[ Affhirs.
We make the following extracts from the
reetent of the Sumter Grand Jury:
The Grand Jury think there is nothing
iore pertaining to the county deserving
he apecial attention of, or mention to the
Cort, except the presetent of one 3. E.
toex and Laura Atikins for living in
fornication. Other eses of this nature
ae been reported to. and considered by
the Grand Jury, but the Grand Jury while
stisfied the charges are true, have not con
ieting evidence,- and therefore think it im
proper to bring charges. Two of said esses
are against white men of some social posi
tion, and high connections, who have and
are raising families of children by colored
women, in deflamee of deeent society and
law. The Grand Jury will give informa
tion in their possession in reference to said
ame to the succeeding Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury recommend the estab
ishment, by law, of the whipping poet for
hpunishment of petty ofinces and here
by ask the Legislative delegation of Sum
ter county to introduce and urge the pass
age of such a bill at the next session of the
L a5UO Jury would also reet at
this stage of the Term, Willis .Brown,
and~annie White, for living itt adultery,
the said Willis J: Brown, having a livig
wife the sister of said Fannie White, and
ising children by both womei, under the
smm. roof, a conlhitioni and practice worse
than Mormonismr, and ask that the parties
be brought before, and tried by this Court,
as the outraged entiment oi~ the immediate
Ammunity and the county demand it.
Nan Eilled in Samter,
SUXrnE Oct. 16.-Early this morning a
fatal accident occurred at the Camperdown
Cotton Mills in Sumter. Joseph Jeffreys,
while employed; got his bleeve caught im
the shafting, and'in his efforts to get loose
was taken upby the shaft and killed al
most instnl.No one was in the room
ahe the afarhappened.- The body was
found hanging on the shaftng. A jury of
iquest was immediately summoned, whose
verdict was that Joseph Jeffreys came to his
iah bimeiderual strangmlation.
Rosin Hill Notes.
Ross HI., Oct. 20ti.-At the last meet
ing of the Connor Mounted ides Ca:t
W. S. Briggs having served as cap:_
eight years resigned. The three lieuten
ants also followed suit, and the company
elected a temporary chairman, and appoint
ed to-day to meet at Rosin Hill, for the
purpose of electing four eonmissioned
officers. Inasmuch as he had served so
long, Capt. Briggs most emphatically de
tmited to enter the race for re-electioi.
Private A. L. Lesesne being the next most
pd ular man in the company was enthusi
y elected captain without any oppo
sition. A very spirited and friendly elec
tion then followed for the lieutenants.
Ex-Lients. J. H. Diuglc and B. F. Weeks
were nominated for 1st Lieut.: Serg'ts W.
M. Butler and J. W. Mims for 2nd; and
Serg'ts Ed P. Briggs and D. E. Wells.
for 3rd. R. F. Weeks, W. M. Butler, and Ed
P. Briggs were elected respectively. TL
eandidates elect in regular order respoided
to the calls of their comrades in short, but
appropriate speeches.
J. Ashby Weeks, of Packsville, who grad
uated last June at the Porter Academy, will
enter upon a civil engineering course in the
South Carolina Colle"'e this week.
The survey of the $utawville R. R. is on
ly Ave hundred yards below here en route
for Sumter. Capt. Peake thinks it will
center Rosin Hill-Oh ! it makes our heart
bleed to think that the hopeful and beauti
ful town of Rosin Hill is now to be burst
by a B. R.
Oh! ever thus from childhood's hour,
We've seen our fondest hopes decay;
We never loved a tree or flower,
Rut 'twas the first to fade away.
OCCASIONAL.
Good Advice from Jordan.
Joan.r Oct. 19.-Things are moving on
quietly at Jordan; the mercantile business
presents quite a prosperous appearance, but
the farmers look sick and heart broken. A
great deal of their trouble has been caused
from over-planting themselves. This asser
tion will hold good from a common sense
view of the matter.
For instance, take a boy and send him off
to school; give him too much to do when he
first begins, and instead of advancing he
will begin to slip back, and will continue
to do so until his burden is lightened.
Just so it is with the farmers; just as long
as they continue to plant too much, they
will continue to slip back, and finally find
themselves at the foot of the hill, perhaps
never to climb it again. Now this fall there
has been a panic to get cotton picked, some
could not get hands, and some not able to
hire them. Whereas if they had planted
in the spring what they could have manag
ed independent of day-labor there would
have been none of this trouble.
A large per cent, of the farmers of our
county will not make a half-crop of cotton
this year. and it is not caused from the
flood of rain that has lately fallen (it is true
that has cut them off some), but it is sim
ply caused from planting their lands year
after year, without rest or manure, until
they have become so dead that they will
not produce anything. I have seen crops
in different parts of the county. not this
year alone but other years, that will take, on
an average, five acres of cotton to produce
one bale weighing five-hundred pounds.
Is that farming? No, it is simply working
and ogling yourself to death to keep
alive. And if there is not a change made. the
farmers will soon have to mortgage their
landsto get something to go upon, and in a
few years more the mortgagee will foreclose
and they will be left homeless. Then the
working class of our people will be nothing
more than lackeys for the wealthy.
I know comparatively little about farm
ing, though I performed six years of man
Ulabor on my father's farm, but my opin
ion is. that when the farmers of the South
come down to planting just what they can
manage themselves, and manure that high
ly. and beware of little expenses (for as
Poor Richards says, "A .mall leak will sink
a great ship"); and raise their own meat and
make their own butter and other necessa
ries of life, then our country will behold
with delght a near bricht future. Then
and not until then will . e see it.
There is an excursion running on the
Wilson and Summerton R. R., in conse
quence of the colored Baptist Association
held at Taw Caw. Last Thursday was the
first day. There seemed to be agreat many
passengers, and one of them received a ve
ry painful hurt in trying to jump from the
train as it passed Mr. Avant's store. He
got his shanks pretty badly skinned, Mr.
Avant's clerk is our informant. M
Why Wear Mou'rning?
Earron MIamauG Txm-You ask many
other questions pertinent thereto, stating
that it is an idle custom, expressing the
opinion that it should be abolished,
and the hop that some one will discuss the
sbject aving your kind permission to
doo inthe columne of your paper, Inow of
fr some redlections; premising that I have
long since been strongly in favor of reduc
ing the habhiments of mourning to a sim
ple badge, and the burial case and clothing,
stictly to what is necessary to decency and
serity.
The subject is naturally of a three-fold
chaetenr: first, mourning or sorrow for the
locs nee..innsd by death; second, express
ing that worow by clothing our persons in
gnant= eta specified color; and, third,
repesetto the bodies of the dead by cloth
'n md eneasing them in a decent manner.
human heart has ever been possessed
othe emncinneof love and sorrow, and it
is as natural to express the one as the other.
H'sbes Hebrews, and Christians have
mourned for their dead from the earliest
aea~ y more the dumb brutes were per
mutted by thei Creator to Share these emo
tions with the nobler creature man, and the
fall of Adam did not suffice to drive them
wholy from their breasts.
It was not dispeasing to God that the Is
raelites mourne at the death of Jacob, and
the Saviour in his humanity wept with the
weeng siaes of the dead Lazarus. In
our day exessive grief for the dead is
soetimes indulged in, but the tendency is
in the direction of indifference, near rela
tives of the dead making little or no break
in their social festivities.
D)ifferent colors have been adopted in dif
frent countries to express sorrow for de
patdfiends. In Europe the color is
laksgnfng privation of life, and
ence of lgt,. In China, white as denot
ing purity. -In Turkey blue or violet, blue
expreasng the happiness which it is hoped
the detased enjoys, and violet sorrow on
the e'ke aide and hope on the other. in
Egypt, yellow because death is the end, and
lowers and leaves become yellow when
thf~ fade arfd fall. In Ethiopia,' brown,
because it denotes the earth whither the
dead return.
3Mourning, or sorrow for loss byv death,
and the expression of that sorrow in some
form or ether, is not merely a custom, but
the expression of a noble Giod-like senti.
ment.
Yielding to e'eessive grief is wrong. Al
lowing the manifesxation of it to be govern
ed'by mere fashion, 'r respect for the opin
ios of the world is wrong. Wearing the
habiliments of mourning merely for show is
hypocritical. Purchasing costly garments
and burial cases is uiseless extr-avagar.ce,
and whien by doing Jo the survivors are
straiteid for food and clothing, or the
creditors are deprived of their just dues, it
is siinply dishonest. As it appears to me,
the t'endency now is to indifference to los
of friends by death, and increase of expense
in makinga show of sorrow which :s not
felt.
A little more than fifty years ago one of
the wealthiest men in Clarendon counity
died, and' one of his neighbors was paid five
dolars for making his coffin, and I have no
doubt his family mourned in heart more
~than many nowaday s who almost starve
'themselves to bury their des 1.
Th- se, t is one tlat sL>l12 have the
serious attentw:n of all persons. We should
be too sincere to pretend to a degree of sor
row we dio not feel. a'd the most of is are
t. noor to pit mech money in the grave of
otr dead. Respectfully.
J. M1. B.
~ Greeleyvilie, S. C., Oct. 10.
Greeleyville Notes.
GREEii.u.E. Oct. 2.--Col. Wm. Elliott,
representative from the 7th district, ad
dressed the people here yesterday. We
were much pleased with him, and with I
what he said.
TLomnas W. Kendall formed a Farmer's
Alliance here on the 16th.
Mr. George E. Pritchett was thrown from
his buggv by a running horse, and serious
I injured.
Rev. Mr. Workman has returned from a
visit to his father, who is sick at his home
in Camdei. J. M. B.
A Great Day for Wofford.
SP~u~dBRGOctober 20.-Yesterday the'
Founder's day was celebrated at Wofford
College. The Alumni Association deter
mine1 last summer to build a hal!. and the
corner stone was laid yesterday with impos
ing Masonic ceremonies, with Past Master
W. K. Blake, presiding. There was a large
procession which formed in town and
marched over to he college, headed by a
band. It was prposed that the 19th of Oc
tober be declared hereafter a holiday in the
college and fitting school. The students
applauded this motion with great earnest
ness. Judge Kershaw was prever ed from
attending the celebration, being in the
middle of an important trial. He regretted
it very much. as he wished to say a few
words to the Woflord boys. He stated to
your correspondent that he had found Wof
ford graduates all over the State and with
but one exception, they were filling posts of
honor and usefulness. This is a high trib
ute from a worthy man to a worthy instita
tion.
POWDER'
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never vares. A marvel of
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot be sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight, alum or
phosphate powders. -.id o/ O can.
Ron.n haxxXO PowDFrn Co., 100 Wall St.,
N.Y.
Annual Meeting
COUNTY COIISSIONERS.
OrcE or
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The Board of County Commissioners for
Carendon Co., will hold its annual me~et
ing at 12 o'clock, M1., on the sixth day of
November. 1888. in Manning, for the pur
pose of examining all claims that may be
presented against county. All persons
holding such claims are hereby notified to
present the same on that day, to this Board.
By order of Board -
J. E. SCOTT,
Clerk B. C. C., C. C.
Managers Federal
EectiOns.
The following is a list of the Managers of
Federal Elections, as appointed by the com
misioners of said election. Polls will open
at seven o'clock, on the morning of the
sixth of November next, and will close at
six o'clock P. M., the same day:
Fontsros--W. A. Sparks, P. W. Webber,
J. M. Mc~ov.
Mti-ssro--L L Bagnal, Calvin White,
Louis Appelt.
JonoDA-Joseph Sprott, Jr., W. G. Frier
son, R. P. Horton.
C.&zzozs-Isaac C. Ingram, S. P. Holla
day, A. S. Briggs.
Fuzros-H. B. Eichardson, E. M. Fraley,
J. B. Richardson.
Fonx-W. H. Gaillard, E. D. Hodge, J.
1. Montgomery.
Paczsv1...-T. A. Bradham, J. L. An
drews, J. W. McCauley.
WzEseoosr-R. R. McFaddin, E. S.
Kennedy, R. E. McFaddin, Jr.
Mors-J. W. Osborne, M. C. Moore, B.
B. Thompson.
By order of the Board of Commission
ers of Federal Elections. A. LEVI,
Charmnan and Secretary.
Manning, S. C.. Oct. 22, 1888.
Election Notice!
ITE, THE UNDERSIGNED) COMMIS
VVsioners of State Electior.s, hereby aip
point the following named persons as Man
agers of Election to be h'.-bl on Tuesday, the
sixth day of November, 1888, at their re-1
spective Polling Places.
ronEs-rox.
. A. Burgess, Ervin P'-ewden.
M1. S. Cantey, Jr.
MANING.
W. 31. Plowden, P. Bt. Thames,
J. R. Ridgill.
H. A. Tisdale, R. C. Plovrden,
J. Elbert Daevis.
T. H. H. Gentry. L. T. Fis~h4or;
P. H. Broughton, J. W. Weeks.
C. D. DesCh:.u~ps.
John C. Duratnt. W. B. Pla;den,
J. B. Tindal.
rAexsvu.1.r..
A. W. Tham'e , J. H . Edr:s,
C. P. Mc.Knight.
wIrEnusPoON.
H . Wheeler. J. M. P'i;er,
S. C. Turbeville.
R.B M. Thompson; -. T. Ch~aler. ,Jr.,
'J. F. Cole.
One of the above named in:n.agers at .-ach
Bo\ will call upon the Bo,:rd of Coxmis
soer% at tcraing, betnen Oct. 30th and
November 3d. 1Sas, to receive Ballot Boxes,
Poll Lise, and-izatructionls, and to be quali
W. J1. CT.ARK;
I Clairmaa,
,1. AND)ERN)N MILLS,
C. H. PA CK,
commissi.,oer of StteEietes
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS!
FERDIN AND LEVI,
togin's Old Stand. SUMTER, S. O.
Goods Well Bought Are Half Sold
AND
Pair Honest Treatment for All My $OstoHers
ARE
Two of the Ruling Principles in My Biusiness
AN IMMENSE STOCK
OF
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
SPECIALLY SUITED FOR THE
Fall and Winter.
MY CLARENDON FRIENDS
AAN ESPECIAL LY INVITED TO GIVE ME THE1liR 1AONAIEs
FERDINAND LEVI,
SUMTER, S. C.
Clothing! Clothing :. !_Clt g!!! ..
To The Po 1e cf Clarencoln. 3fI. ! Betlehem; A C.
D .I have been in Manning for a year, and
J. W IN N thepeople have had ample opportunity of Fall Sift Il2
finding me out. I feel proud of the fact
-Has Just Opened Up The Largest Stock of- that my trade has steadily increased, id
that I number among my reular custom- Instruction thiooofgb. giove {
~~A~NAU erac many of the best families in the town 6'd decisive, apnea~ia ffrtfy to die
MEN'S R and country, student's sense of honor 'nd S T
DRESSesad ar eiln the iprtat matter of den.
has been the cause of this. I desire to re- G o and bd.
Business Suits, School Outfits, turn thanks for the liberal patronage g
me, And to solicit its continuance. L OCATIOCN FIYE;
-A\-D- Breakfast strips, in canvass, 12i cents- Tition from S$1-00 to $. x.0 per mpnih.
PL N ATO CLO HIN vrbe~. C~hoic Hams, sugar cured,~ Board in ob3 families $7A0W per teonth.
PLANTTATION CLOTHING 1Acn- or rmMna oFi th
In Canned Goodls, I have all kinds, just $20 or frmx ody.o00d. rm~
Ever Brought to Sumter. bonght: Okra and Tomatoes, Tomatoes,
O ~~~~~~~~~Pease, Corn, Peaches, Apples, Salm~on, etc..fateI tcas a rsti
Cz- REA 0IETY OF B ]o.loun Sausagae, Creem Cheese, Macaroni. rniap.
Flour, Bacon. Lard, Grist, etc.
Ov'ercoats~. L.inen, Woolen. c'nd Flannel ULn&J'liCC(U. i aetets n haetsosi hsknmarket, and for quality, can beat the market. lN
-O0 500 Boodle Cigarsbest 5c cigar in town. U
Call quick, before allare gone. A
No trouble to show ouds o
t IBeforepurchasing call t my store, and 77fe> d
Q-AL F A TE ST Se my goods. Gi e inc chance to sell
B~r ]3JT BEs, TMRLL AN D 1-Ysm ni ylow prices. M.KALISb'Y ?g, e1o' e~1 i~~
AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. Opst .G i~n C. anzg8c
rremendous Stock Just in, Fresh From Northern Markets, 'and I B. D A NF EL DMANN C O d.
AT H
Lowest Prices L Peaig
AtsbeeheldeReli.bs Clothing House of re t r
turnh tl~hehasforh iera paroal givenies
D. J. IBN.reks siainp Streeti SUcnasER, S. C.cents
I AD 33IOSTEIs OF
ewJewelry Pal ee TEAS. Ci amES, BRA cDIE, ALES NJJ LIQUO
Is~~~22 eents.eeY 1.
282 nI Cnetreet, Of EVERY St, WOLs Al RETAL
CHARLESTOB, S: Cu ae o. Cra Ce K G eTsIfeE,
;- A 0AIEYO
OBetween Society amtd (ear CH AI "ST( 0;
TH3E LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK ~C?>ttrit order~s filled #fff care.
LOWEST PRICES i Fall Announanent.T
N THET SO lHEIN STATES.
0
SPECIA.I.~ BRHGAINS
GodWtlCSile Watches, Waterbury Watches; and LOUi1S CO HE'N C O
G o d W t h s1 rSecond H and W atches.[
F E CH CLOCKS.B CehhARem TON? S. CC
SILVER PLATED WARE, A D WEDDING PRESETS; Largest variety of fall and win'te* goods, from dll Che le tifi
SpectaecCS, Eye Glasses, manufactories, ever displ' *ed- if Soth Carolina:'
Gr~lDI8ADEDa
Gs.gDCANES,
W.ALKTNG"
AND &LL KINDS OF JEWELRY AT SILKS, SATINS, EMBROIDERY, LDE'JDEWkIVL
CO'MBIN .ION SUTITS, TRICOTS, E'LA2.'NtELS, CASHMERES,
McElree's New Jewelry Palace, , FUR, FEATHERS, AND ASTRAK.HAN,
207 King Street, CHARLESTON. S. C.AN)5A .
Sra re, Ti ae erct n _&ith 'tn
sJ]~ CLRTAINSCAa'ET Adeii, CttTflL th e'
At thehLoimptrtoistbmettercof'
Slate or Ti RoofingTdneipromptlmby 0i0stocass.0orkee.mConihtr.
rdes iledwit Dsptc. By ou SOVE a 234Kitg tretBoAR Eom ON to FrdC;e ~i
B. M. MASERS, CaFlouurn Bacon. LardHAIGrist,, etc.