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THEMANNING TameS Published Every Wednesday. S. A. NETTLES, EDITOR AND PRoprTOR. M. CLINTON GALLUCHAT, ADVERTISING AGENT. Terms: SEsCarmToN RATES.-One copy, one year, $1.50; one copy, six months, 75 cents one copy. three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable in advance. AMvERrIusnc, RATs.-One square. first in sertion. $1 00; each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of lespect charged for as regular advertise ments. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. CoXnt[NIcATioss must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communi cation of a personal character will be pub lished except as an advertisement. For farther information address S. A. NETTLES, Manning. S. C. Wednesday, May 22, 1889. Your Name in Print. -Mr. Geo. Hammell is home on a short visit. -Miss Lucy Barron spent several days at home last w Lek. -Mr. M. Kalisky left for Augusta yester day afternoon, to visit his father-in-law. Mr. M. Morris, who is dangerously ill and not expected to live. Daring Mr. Kalisky's ab sence his store will be closed. Be sure to read our prize offers in another column. Coats's spool cotton at 50 cents a dozen, cash only, at M. Levi's. Every one of the grand and petit jurors was in attendance at court last Monday. Col. J. H. Rice delivered, in the Court House, last Friday evening, a lecture on education. We want a pig, and any one wish ing to pay for the Tmrns in this way, will please do so at once. Re- 1Powden will preach in the Presbyterian clird-tipfe~ next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Lizzie Blackwell Stokes died last week in Florida.. She was a daughter of Mr. M. y. Blackwell, of this place. Court this week was the most quiet and orderly ever known in Manning. One could scarcely tell i _was..any WThg idZ than'an ordinary day. It is very dry all over the State. Crops are suffering much in this county, and in addition to the dry weather, the bud worms are doing considerable damage. If in need of a safe or other article of furniture get Mr. H. R. Meldau to make it for you. He does very fine and beautiful work, and does it very cheap. He makes a beautiful safe. The ladies of the town and country are asked to bear in wind that the stores close at 7 o'clock. If they can munage to do their shopping prior to that hour, they will receive the pray ers of the clerks. Reader, we shall very shortly pub lish an honor list, the names of those whose subscription is paid up and who are entitled to tickets for our gift dis tribution. Will your name be on the so. I ndler, of i e. Manninson of w ong the wo were ad SaeSupreme Court, last week, to practice law in this State. There was no regular preaching in the Methodist church last Sunday. Rev. H. M. Mood and B. P. Barren, Esq., made addresses in the morning; and Mr. Mood, J. D. Alsbrook, Esq., and M. C. Galiuebat, Esq., in the af ternoon. We have enlarged our paper and this issue is printed on the new cylin der press. We were so much engaged, however, in getting the press up last week, that we neglected other parts of the paper. Next week we shall en deavor to get things all right. It is fearfully dry, and the com plaint comes from from every side that crops and gardens are nearly -ruined. A few drops of 'rain fell in this place yesterday morning, but last night it was fair. The wind has been blowing more or less all this month. Fernoline Balsm, for sale at Dinkins & Co's drug store. Roof Connors, a negro who a few years ago was sentenced to the pani tentiary for twenty years for attempt ring to commit an outrage on a white lady of this county, and who a few months ago was pardoned by the Governor on account of ill health, died in the Sammy Swamp section abr i twto weeks ago. Shakers Extract, or Seigel's Curative Syr ip, for sale at Dinkins & Co's. drug store. The Sumter Advance says: The dry weather still continues as we go to press, and has become alarmingly serious. The earth is as dry as ashes, and late planted cotton fielda look like a desert waste and the cotton cannot come up until it rains. If we get rain soon there is plenty of time yet to make a good crop, but pros pects now are somewhat blue. The oat crop has been very seriously in jured by the weather. California sugar cured hams, 10 cents, at M. Kalisky's. Also a lot of fine lemons. Joshua Arnold was tried by a jury last Saturday, in the court of Trial Justice Benbow, on a charge of tres Spass after notice. The prosecution was represented by R. A. Stewart, and the defense by A. Levi. The jury found a verdict of guilty. The sen tence of the court was fifteen dollars or twenty days. Arnold refused to pay the fine, and was committed tc jail, where he spent one day. .Sunday~ he was released, his fine having beer yrup of "Figs," for sale at Dinkins J Co's drug store. Invitations are out to the 15th An. nual Commencement of the Sumtei Institute, Thursday evening, JunE 13th, 1889. The literary address wil be delivered by Rev. J. W. Flinn, o the State University. Rev. W. W Mills, of Camden, will preach th< baccalaureate sermon in the Presby terian church, on the evening of JunE 9th. The graduating class consists o nine young ladies: Misses Lucy Bar ron, Lou Chandler, Lizzie Cuttino Bessie Howard, Bessie Ingram, Lot LaCoste, Anna Lee, Fannie McCol nd Mattie Mills. Efficient Court Officers. Solicitor Wilson is a hard-working go-ahead oficer. He did an'unusual amount of work Monday, kept the business of the court well up, and to his efforts it is largely due that the business was finished in one day, and the juries discharged,-a saving of more than a hundred dollars to the county. Judge Wallace is a fine judic ial officer, and appears to have the in terest of the country at heart. Judge Wallace will do more in two days, and do it quietly too, than most Judge; would do in three. Crime-Flight. It having beenrumored in tlfe town for some time past that the conduct of Daniel T. Legg and his step daughter, Miss Crawford, white resi dents of this place, would be brought to the attention of the Grand Jury at this term of court, they left town to gether last Friday morning, on the north-bound passenger train. As stated in the account of the court proceedings, true bills were found against them. A Colored Postmaster for Manning. IR. A. Stewart, a colored lawyer and school teacher of this place, has been appointed postmaster for Manning. Few more competent men than S. J. Bowman, the present incumbent, could have been appointed, but the politi cal machine is working, and Demo crats :gust go. Stewart is an intelli gent colored man, quiet in his de meanor, and will probably make a good postmaster. The postmaster for Manning has to give a certified bond for $8,000. A Good Chance for a Young Lady. The scholarships in the Winthrop Training School for female teachers are for one year. Miss Alice Connor won the scholarship last summer, and will finish her course next month. Early in July there will be another competitive examination to fill the vacancy from this county, and it will be - a good opportunity for some young lady who desires to fit herself specially for teaching. The scholar ship is worth $150, of which M80 is for tuition, boo k ts ad 20 is for bo . examination will about the same as for a teacher's first grade certificate. Mr. Len isits Rutherfordton. Mr. Moses Levi returned last week from a visit to Rutherfordton, N. C1., where hbatbeen on a shortv s'to his son Meyer, who is merchandising in that place. Mr. Levi is delighted with his visit, and speaks in glowing terms of the place. He says that while it is in appearance an old fash ioned country town, yet the railroads have given it an impetus and air of progress that has made and is making it a live town. It has two railroads, the 20's and the 30's, running through the town; about seventeen or eighteen stores; a large hotel and a number of boarding houses; etc. The people are clever and hospitable. The country is very fine, containing some magnifi cent mountain scenery, and embrac ing some excellent farming lands. The, water is. excellent, and severaVfizie mineral springs are copgarnient to the town. The air is 96' and bracing, and fires werg-comfortable every morninevi advises his friends to s place this summer for a ummer resort, if they wish to get good board and get it very dheaply. He says board can be had for $4 to $10 a month, and good board too. Rutherfordton is near the moun tains in Western North Carolina. It is on the line of the 30's; and leaving Manning at 10 o'clock in the morning, the train arrives in Rutherfordton that evening at S o'clock. Camden, Lancaster, and Chester are on the 3C's railroad. Only .one change of cars is made, at the Camden crossing on the W. C. & A. R. R. We are pleased to liarn that Mr. Meyer Levi is doing well. He has' until recently been running a store in the mountains near Rutherfordton, but he now has a general merchandise store in the town. Parasols in endless variety 25c up. Ball's celebrated corsets for ladies and misses. Complete line of laces, cambric and lawnc embroidery. Cambric and lawn flouncing and allovers. At F. Levi's, Sumter, S. C. Killing Negroes for their Blood. The negroes of this and adjoining counties have, for several weeks past, been in a state of abnormal fear and trembling. They claim that there is a white man, a doctor, who at will can make himself invisible; and who then approaches some unsuspecting darkey, and having rendered him, or her as is generally the case, insensible by throwing chloroform in her face, he proceeds to fill up a bail bucket with his victim's heart-blood, for. the purpose of making medicine. After having drained the last drop of blood from the victim's heart, the body is dumped into some secret place where lit is impossible for any person to find it. It is surprising how some of these ignorant black people believe such things, but it is a fact that they, the women especially, believe it so firmly, that they will not venture out at night, or in the day time in any se questered place. They greatly fear to cross a branch or swamp, and will not dare to go alone. One old colored woman in speaking on this subject recently insisted that she believed it. She says that she knows the white man makes castor oil out of negroes' blood, and that in slavery timnes a negro would die before he would take a dose of castor oil. We have not heard how many wo bpen have been killed and spirited away by this doctor, but we suppose he is running his business on a small scale. As soon as he gets up hi factory, we shall, if he wvill permil us, give our readers a full descriptiot of his modus operandi. What von need is a medicine which is pure, efficient, reliable. Such is Hoodi Sarsaparilla. It possesses peculhar curatin4 powers. Dress goods in the latest shades fron: 123.c up. D~ress linens and linen drills from 12F. up. New line of sateens. All shades of albatross 25c. Check nainsook 8, 10, 12),. 15, 20, an' Checked a-nd striped lawns 10, 12i, 15 20, and25c. A1t F. Levi's, Sumter, S. C. IA beautiful line of parasols, 25c. t( M3 at U Levi's T EIGHT PRIZES GIVEN AWAY. How the Manning Times Proposes to Cel ebrate the Fourth of July. . Every subscriber to THE MANNINC TIEs, ?ewi or old, whose subscription is paid to of beyond July 4, 1889, will be given a ticket to THE MANNINO TIxEs Fourth of July Grand Gift Distribution. The Distribution will postively be made July 4th. WHO ARE ENTITLED To TICKETs. Every paid 'p subscriber to the TIMES will have a chance for one of our elegant prizes. Our old subscribers who never fail to renew promptly and who always pay in advance will be given a ticket: those who for any reason are in arrears, and who pay up to or beyond July 4th, will be given a ticket: every new subscriber whose subscription does not amount to less than fifty cents will be given a ticket for the drawing. THE TIMES TO BE ENIARGED. THE TDIEs will, beginning with its issue of May 22d, be enlarged to an eight column paper: the subscription price remaining the same: one year $1.50; six months, 75 cents; four months, 50 cents. Anybody and every body can raise fifty cents for a trial four months' subscription, and every one of these subscribers will have an equal showing in the grand distribution. or EIGHT PRIZES. Read the following list of beautiful and useful prizes: SEWING MACHINE. A $10 sewing machine, beautifully enam eled, large space under arms, loose balance wheel, new automatic bobbin winder, fur nished with casters, complete set of attach ments in velvet lined morocco case, manu factilred by the New Home Sewing Machine Comp: ny. On exhibition in the MANNING TIMES office. SILVER PLATED CASTER. One beautiful best silver plate five bottle caster,-on exhibition at G. Alexander's jewelry store, where all kinds of solid and silver plate ware, watches, rings, and all kinds of jewelry are sold at lowest prices. Best repairing department in the county, and all work warranted. BABY CARRIAGE. A caIopy-top baby carriage,-on exhibi tion at M. Levi's mammoth mercantile em porium, where will be found every kind and class of goods any one does or may need, and all sold at lowest living cash prices. CADDY "OLD RIP" TOBACCO. "Old Rip" tobacco, for chewing or smok ing, is one of the finest grade tobaccos made, free of grit and stems, the best chew on the market. On exhibition at S. A. Rig place in town where it can be bought. LEMONADE SET. A beautiful glass lemonade set, consisting of pitcher, goblets, finger bowl, and waiter, -on exhibition at Mrs. Edwards's confec tionery store, where all kinds of good things to eat may be had; also, a nice lot of glass ware, fancy and toilet articles, etc. LANJO CLOCK. A one-di.y lever time banjo clock, some thing new and attractive,-on exhibition at M. Kaliskv's general merchandise store, where yon can always get goods at lowest cash figures. BOX CIGARS. One box "Manning Guards" cigars, one of the best five cents cigars on the market. On exhibition at Dinkins & Co.'s drug store, where all the best and purest medicines are sold. A selected stock of fine cigars always on hand. AXE. A steel axe, one of the best on the mar ket,-on exhibition at H. A. Lowry's cash store, where the best and freshest groceries can alwayg.8-bad. .HOW IT wnf.L RE DONE. NivS prominent gentlemen from different sections of the county will be requested to give away the prizes, in the following man nr: These gentlemen will place in one box a number of tickets equal to the number of paid up subscribers, all of which tickets will be blank except the eight prize tickets. They will then place in another similar box an equal number of tickets, containing the names of the paid up subscribers, one name on each ticket. After the tickets have been carefully inspected and placed in the boxes, they will be thoroughly shaken up and mix ed together, until the committee is satisfied that everything is fair and just. Then the drawing will begin. Two little boys about four or five years old will be blindfolded, and one will draw from the box containing the names of the paid up subscribers and the other from the box containmng the tick ets. The committee will at every drawing (one from each box) inspect the tickets that have been drawn and announce the result. For instance, suppose the little boys have each drawn a ticket from - their respective boxes. 'Ihe name drawn by one little boy is Always Loseum, and the ticket drawn by the other is a blank. That means Mr. A. Losea has failed to secure a prize. .The little boys draw again. The name is Lucky Fellow, and the prize ticket has sewing ma chine on it. That means Mr. L. Fellow has secured the sewing machine for his prize. The drawing will thus continue till all the prizes bave been given away. This plan seems to us as fair as possible, 'and to have the least objections. Our sub scribers may rest satisfied that everything will be done in fairness. THE HONOR IS'T. We shall publish between now and the 4th of July the names of all the paid up subscribers wvho will be entitled to a ticket in the drawing. We are working our sub scription list to a cash basis. On the fifth day of July wve shall strike off our subscrip tion list the names of all subscribers who are as much as one year in arrears. PERsoNA.. W.e trust our friends will appreciate this enterprise on our part, and promptly pay up all their back dues and a year's subscrip tion in adv ance. We shall greatly appreci ate all such. We have just bought a large cylinder press, and it must be paid for. If ur subscribers will pay up, we can pay for it; if they do not, we shall have to borrow sever al hundred dollars. Our intention is jto give the people of Clarendon a good read able county paper, with the news from ev ery section. But with a good, lively, cash patronage we can and will work with better hert, and can get out a better paper. If you have never taken the paper, send us 50 cents, 'and w~e w ill send the paper for four months on trial. 'We wvant three hundred new sub sribes by the 4th of Jaly: will we gel them? There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other dist-ases put to. pgether, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed loc.d remedies, and by con stantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has prover catarrh to be a constitutional disease, anc therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh cure, manufactured by F. JT Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constit utional cure on the market. It is taker internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea spoonfull It acts directly upon the blood and mucus surface of the system. They of fr one hundred dollars for any-case it fail; to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials Address F. JT. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. paSold by druggists, 75c. The best 50c corset in Sumter at Levi's Complete stock of shoes for gentlemen, I: dies, misses and boys. Samples sent on application. Southern Baptist Convention. This body representing over one million two hundred and fifty thous and white Baptists, met in convention at Memphis, Tenn., on the 10th inst. Perhaps it may be well to state at the outset that this body differs from the great gatherings of every other Christian denomination, in that it is not clothed with any legislative power, that power residing wholly in the lo cal churches. The character of the convention is only advisory, and the only object properly coming before it for its consideration is missions. This for convenience is divided into home missions and foreign missions. So great was the outpouring of the Baptist host on this occasion, that it was evident before the hour for the meeting of the convention had arriv ed that no church in the city was large enough to accommodate it. When the hour for organization ar rived, hundreds were compelled to remain outside because of the impos sibility to secure even standing room in the church. The crowded condition of the house necessarily gave rise to some con fusion, which for a time delayed the organization. This however was at last effected, by the election of Judge J. M. Haralson, of Alabama, Presi dent, and Rev. L. Burrows, D. D., of Georgia, and Rev. 0. F. Gregory, D. D., of Maryland, Secretaries. Immediately after the organization the report of secretary of foreign mission board was read. This report was highly encouraging, showing that a great advance had been inade along all the lines of our foreign mission work. 1st. In increased contributions. The amount expended this year being about $150,000, an increase over any previous year of nearly $30,000. 2nd. In the enlargement of the missionary force. Although many have died on the foreign field during the past year, still such has been the growth that the number of mission aries have increased fifty per cent, during the last year. Thirty-five missionaries having been sent out during the year. - 3rd. In the increased number of converts, especially in Mexico, where e e i-o ambgabout 600. 4th. In the extension of the work.' While continuing work on the fixe's already occupied, the bo d -has in addition established mission on the Empfin of Japan, azdd as a beginning of the work, appointed two mission aries to that promising field for Chris tian labor. In the discussion pending the adop tion of this report many things of interest were brought forth, one I would mention as it is a subject we are all likely soon to be interested in. On the report of the committee on papal fields, our missionary from Mexico, Rev. H. P. McCormick, called attention to the deplorable condition of Mexico as the result of the rule of Roman Catholicism, showing that its influence was to lead any nation to disregard both truth and virtue. - Theiisenssion on the extension of the work, resulted in The- doption-f, a resolution, requesting the churches represented, to try to raise at least $150,000 for the work during the present year. A mass ieeting was held on the 1st night of the convention for the bene fit of foreign missions, and about $1900 iaised, principally for the house to be built in Lacatecas, 31exico. The report of the home mission board was equally as encouraging in the evidence of success attending its labors which it exhibited. More funds had been collected, a greater number of missionaries employed, more points occupied and a greater number of converts, as the result of their labor. Home MIissions applies to work done in our Southern States, blut in addition to this, owing to peculiar cir cumstances, the work in Cuba has al so been assigned to this board. Per haps there is no mission point that excites a deeper interest, and awakens a livelier enthusiasm than the work in Cuba. It is indeed the wonder of modern missions. Rev. Alberto J. Diaz, after a wonderful experience, began work in Havana, about four1 years ago. Then there was not a Bap tist in the city. He pressed on in the face of many difficulties and persecu tions, and as the result of his labors there are now 1491 members of the church and 2245 Sunday scholars. The past year resulted in the conver Ision and baptism of 300. In addition to this they now occupy the 1st Bap tist church of Havana, one of the largest and finest buildings in that city, for which the sum of $65,000 is to be paid, $20,000 of which has al ready been paid, and $5,800 more raised for that purpose in a mass meeting at the convention. 1There are many things that I would like to say in connection with the work in Cuba, but cannot do so at present. Altogether the convention was highly enjoyable, as well as encour aging. It adjourned Tuesday, 14th inst. to meet at Fort Worth, Texas, on May 10th, 1890. There are many other points of in terest in connection with the conven-I tion which I may present at some other time. DELEGATE. A White Man Whipped for Stealing. GREELEYvILLE, May 18.-Hot, dry, breezy weather. Just the kind for the farmer who has his crops ready for cultivation, and who has noxious weeds and gr-ass to exterminate. Alliance farmers are too intently engaged on their farms, or are too busy hauling supplies, or are dream ing about cheap bagging, or something else, to bother with Alliance business. It is so much more convenient to them to let somebody else attend to it for them. Messrs. James McCutchen, J. F. Carraway, George S. Cooper, and B. S Smith are cultivating corn with a iew~ to the prize offered for the lagest yield on one acre of land. I hav seen no account of their crops, manner of preparation and cultiva tion, prospects, &c., but those of us who know these gentlemen feel as sued that they are earnestly, though quietly, "contending in a constitution al w ay, and will be heard from in due time. Recently a man claiming to be named Daniels, from Marion county, obtained employment at Boyle and Hogan's mill. He was accompanied by a woman who he said was his weWhen lie left he took with him some articles which did not belong to him. When he was overtaken he said he had not stolen them, only taking them to another lodging near by. He asked that rather than be prosecuted and sent to jail he would submit to receiving fifty lashes with a whip. After consultation the citi zens present concluded to apply twenty-five lashes as a warning and example to other wrong doers. Dur ing the castigation his wife showed great distress. The report of the punishment and the wife's trouble reached Mrs. Taylor who is a wife and mother. Her sympathy was aroused and she sent a request that the whipping be stopped, and her request was complied with, which saved him from ten strokes. Perhaps this culprit deserved this punishment, and more. Perhaps it may be. the best thing which could have happened to him; it may save him from a worse fate; yet it is nat ural that a wife and mother should seek to save him from the disgrace, as did Mrs. Taylor. Perhaps she thought of the throb of joy in the mother's heart when this man child was born; of the anxious care bestowed in his infancy; of the prayers which had been uttered for his prosperity and future happiness when he first went out into the world. Perhaps she thought he might have had parents, who, ignorant and vile themselves, had trained him in sin and wicked ness. Perhaps she thought of the pangs of heart this woman, this wife, must feel for one she loved, whom she followed, to whom she clung in obedience to her vows. J. 31. B. The Summerton Trial No a Trial. Editor of The Mannmng Times:-.An article appearing in the last issue of the Tnis, under the caption of "The Summerton Trial," contained some inaccurate statements, for the correc tion of which I ask the use of your columns; so much of the article re ferred to as I propose to notice, is as follows: On Saturday, the 11th of May, the case, "S. Rush Cole vs. Julia Bradford." cane up for a hearing, before Trial Justices Benbow and Mahoney, in the academy building. Mr. Rhame appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Galluchat for the defendant, the old colored woman above named, who has oc the house over twenty years. The case exci e' siderable interest and attracted quite a cro ti-..-.1enty-four free holders were summoned to appea si:rs But, when the first name was called in the effort to empanel this jury, Mr. Galluchat interposed objection to the trial proceed ing, in consequence of having been brought under the wrong statute; the case presented being for "forcible entry and de detainer," when it should have been for "tenant holding over." After a somewhat prolonged -discussion between justices, and counsel for plaintiff, the ob jection was sustained and proceedings dis missed, which finale sent the old woman on her way rejoicing. The statement in the first para graph of the article above quoted, that the defendant was an old woman who had occupied "the house" for over twenty years, is obscure; but if the words, the house, therein contain ed, referred to the premises, the pos session of which Mr. S. R. Cole claim-j ed, then; in the first place, the state-i ment is not true, and your informant thaEt die-wasegrgiously mis-j taken; in the second place,;Ts ubi. that, as no testimony supporting theI statement referred to, was adduced on the ochasion, it should not have found a ilace in any account of the proceedings intended to be reported in y-our article, as such statement was calculated to' prejudice future pro eedings in the same matter, unfavor ably to Mr. Cole. Until I saw your article, I wats not aware that the proceeding which you have incorrectly termed a "Irial," ex-j ited so much interest as is claimed~ in said article, and I failed to see the "crowd" therein referred to: beyond the eighteen free-holders, (not "twenty four," as you have stated), I do not think there were more than four or five white persons present; there were present, perhaps, ten or a dozen col ored persons, among whom were the relations of Judy Bradford; these composed the "quite a crowd," men tioned in your article, and I thiuk, that, unwittingly you have magnified the importance of the, so-called, trial. There was nothing to distinguishI this proceeding from others of the same kind, so as to lift it into the im-, portance suggested in your account of it. When the name of a proposed jury man was called, Mr Galluchat, repre senting Judy Bmiadford, notified the Trial Justices that he objected to the proceedings, and on being asked to state the grounds of his objection, lhe said: That there had been, in is opinion, a mistake in bringing the proceeding under section 1817 of General Statutes; that to his mind, they should have been brought under section 1819 of said Statutes. Hay ing been retained by the relator, Mr S. R. Cole, only a few days before the time appointed for the hearing of his application for a writ of restitution of the premises rented from him by Judy Bradford, I had not seen any of the papers issued in the cause, and after the objection interposed, I ask ed to be allowed to examine such pa-: pers, and upon an inspection of the sum mons, discovered that it contained an inadIvertent statement-presulma bly a clerical error-which under a condition of facts different fron3 those which the relator expected to prove, would have brought the pro ceeding within the provisions of the: sections of the General Statutes 2290 to 2298, embraced in chapter xc. there of; considering the summons, there fore defective and incurable, I there upon, in behalf of Mr Cole, moved the Trial Justices to dismiss the pro ceedinig. There was no "prolonged discussion" between plaintiffs' coun sel and the Trial Justices, but after a* short consultation between them selves, there being no objection to my motion, they granted it, and the proceeding was dismissed on account of the defect in the summons which I had brought to their attention. The proceeding which the Trial Justices intended to institute under section, 1817, was the correct one for the purposes intended to be accomplish ed, and only fell through on account of the oversight I have mentioned. There was no trial, on the occasion referred to of aimy issue in the pro ceding, and the condition of all par ties to it, remains in statu qun. Very respectfully yours, JosEPH F. RH.AME. Manning, S. C. Mlav 17th 1889. Little Prospect for the Graded School. Mn. EDITo:-I saw in last week's issue of the Enterprise a letter written by a "parent" on the graded school question. As usual we find abuse in place of argument. Why will some people in Manning try to have their own way, and yet, when a man speaks out his honest convictions as you have! done in this matter, be charged with selfishness and littlene.s. They must judge from their own standpoint, and, if so, thus expose themselves to be charged with what they unjustly charge against you. "Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel." Now the editor of the Enter;>rie in his reply used argu ment, and is entitled to be heard, but "Parent" has fallen short of the mark and ought to think twice before he speaks again. We want the graded school, and want harmony among our people. and if we ever get it we will have to have "a long pvll, a strong pull, and a pulltogether." Now let us see what the 2 mill tax will bring us. First, our share (graded school) of the constitutional 2 mill tax will be about $300, poll tax' about $120, and about $575 from this extra tax, $995 in all. Now let's see about the expense of running a free graded school: rent of house and equipments $500; principal of school $1000; assistant $600; second assist ant $400; in all $25,000. With $995 to commence with this will run the school just three months and twenty days. What about the other six months and ten days? If we ever get a free graded school in Manning we shall have to have special legislation on the subject. However, Mr. Editor, the whole thing falls through this year from bad management. The law requires the school trustees to call the tax payers together, and this call should be publised two weeks (14 days) be fore the first of June. Time is too short now, and the discussion might as well stop. PARENT No. 2. Gen. Moise's Prize Corn Acre. Gen. Moise's prize corn is coming up, and as the manner of planting is original we will try to explain. The field is in the deep rich soil of Tur key Creek. Gen. Moise had ditches cut about a foot deep and several feet wide, and as many feet apart. He has planted his corn in those ditches and will draw the soil to the corn up. A litle later in the season he expects to plant corn between the ditches and he will then have a solid field of corn. The whole has been most thoroughly prepared and with seasons we expect grand results from this field. It is well worth a trip to go out there and look at it. Our opin ion is that if farmers generally would try to get out of the "old ruts" and try new methods as Gen. Moise is doing, (though of course not always in the same way) many of them would be far better off and -would not feel the need (?) of a separate Agricultu ral College. The field of experiment is after all the best college that a farm er can attend, for there he is bound to learn something about farming. G~en. Moise has set our farmers a val uable example in this respect.--Sum A PLEASIN ENSE ' 3f health and strength renewed and of ease lnd comfort follows the use of Syrup of EFigs, as it acts in harmony with nature to ftectually cleanse the system when costive >r bilious. For sale in 50e. an d $1.00 bottles y all leading druggists. The Chief Benson for the great success of Hood's sarsaparina is foung in the fact that MIerit Wins. It is the best blood purifier and actually accomplishes all that is olaimed for It. 1 I'repared onlyby C. LHood &Co., LoweU, Masa $32--Will Purchase a Beautiful-$32 PARLOR SUYIT., --AT Brown & Co.'s Furniture Store, 295 King street, Opposite Society street CHARLESTON, S. C. u eolvers, Rfles, Seines, Nets, Tents, and Sporting Goods. Double Barrel Breech Loading .hot Guns, choke bored, $8 to $100. Single Breech Load ing Shot Guas, $4 to $25. Every kind of Breech Loading andi Repeiting Rifles, $3 to $40. Muzzle Loading Double Shot Guns, S5 to $35. Single Shot Guns, $2.50 to $12. Revolv'ers S1 to $20. Double Action Self Cockers, $2.50 to $10. All kinds of (Car tridges, Shells, Caps, Wads, Tools, Powder Flasks, Shot Pouches, Primers. Send 2 cents for Illustrated Catalogue. Address J. H. JOHNSTON, GREAT WESTERN1 GUN WORKS, Pittsburg, Pa. Hemme's Restaurant, 228 King Street, Opp. Academy of Music, CHARLESTON, S. C. D. W.ALDERM~AN &C0., MANUFACTURERS OF Yellow Pine Lumber. Flooring, Ceiling, Weather Board ing, etc., of best lumber, thoroughly kiln-dried by hot blast, dressed and' ready for use, for $10 per thousand~ feet, and upwards. CAPACITY 25,000 FEET OAILY. Our mills are supplied witde' best and most complete myabinery in the State, and we will.- use special care in tilling orders-,'iarge or small. Lumber furnisheatt short notice, and at low est -rices. Order by mail or tele D. W. ALDERMAN & CO., Alcolu. S. C. Important to Farmers. Every farmer in South Carolin: as well as in any other State in the Union, will next year be called upon by government officials in the servicel of the Census Bureau, and asked t( give the statistics of his farm, crops stock, etc., for the previous year which is the present one of 1889. Tc be prepared to answer these question; intelligently and satisfactorily, every farmer ought to begin now to keel accurate accounts of all farm opera tions, and 'continue it throughout the year. The agricultural statistics of this country will be gathered in this way and the sum total of the result will show the degree of prosperity at tained by every State and county. II is therefore of the utmost importance to each section and locality that these matters be correctly reported to the census takers. 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Next Door to Post Office. Delicious ice cream, soda water, milk shakes, and lemonade for sale all the time, and everything as ecold as ice. Hot meals, the best the market affords, for sale at all hours, for 25 cents a meal. National House, 177 .1EETING STREET, 5 Doors South of Market Street, DiRECTLY ON LINE CITY RAILWAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. Irs, H, M. BAKER, Proprietress. Rates Per Day, S1.0.. SCHOOL NOTICE. TA l.MEETING OF THE BOARD OF Examiners for Clarendon county, held Lt the School Commissioner's ofiice on the ith May, 1889, the followrag resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved 1st. That there shall be no meet .ng of thc Board of Exatniners for the pur 3ose of examining teachers this spring, and he same be deferred until the regular fall examination, Oct. 4th. 2nd. That hereafter no licenses to teach nill be granted or allowed by this Board to eachers who do not make regular school papers. 3rd. That no certificates issued prior to :hp spring of 1888 will be recognized by his Board, and all paities holding sneh cer ificates will be required to meet the Board ~or re-examination. L. L. WELLS, Sch. Comn. &: Ch. of Board. I. I. BAGNAL, J. HI. LESESNE, Board of Examiners. ExTRACT FRtOM SCHOOL LAw. All Applicants before County Boards shall be examined on orthography, reading, writ ng, arithmetic, geography, English gram. nar, history of the United States and of this State, physiology, hygiene, and the theory and practice of teaching. The attention of the teachers of Clarendon county is directed to the a~bove. L. L. WELLS, School Commissioner. 30)3 King Street, Charleston, S. C. Two Doors North of Liberty, Shaving, Hlaircutting, and Shampooing SALOON. ARTF.SIAN BATHS, HOT AND COLD. Special attention paid to cutting of chil &ren's hair. Wholesale Bakery 464 &466: PROPRIETORS OF THE FAM F. W. CAP DEALER IN CH WINES, LIQUORS S. E. Cor. Meetin0 ~.aa Re Choice Flour a specialty. ' ,a sold n ered free to depot. Con .- orders p'roml F. J. PELZP~e, President A*rantic Phosi MANUFA( STANDARD Puiire G~erzE PELZER, ROD( MRt. M. LEVIr, of Manning, will be pleas wit eh ny of the above brands of Fer TRADE -MARK 0. and O.TEA The Choicest Tea Ever Offered. ABSOLUTELY PURE., A MOST DELICIOUS BEVERAGE. TRY IT. To will ever soe ay other. Qulity sever . It Is the HoNZST GtADz Lsai. picked from the best plantations and guaranteed absolutely pure and free from all adulterations or coloring matter. The packages are hermet.cally saed and warranted inn weight. It is more eeu omical in use than the lower grades. Oriental & Occidental Tea Co., L't'd:, Head Office, 35 Buwug Sup, New York. S. A. RIGBY, Manning, S. C. FORESTON DRUG STORE, FORESTON, S. C. I keep always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Medicines, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY, STATION ERY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS. and such articles as are usually kept in a first class drug store. I have just added to my stock a line of PAINTS AND OILS, and am prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS, LEAD, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, etc., in quantities to suit purchasers. L. W. NETTLES, M.D., Foreston, S. C. MONEY TO LEND! On five years time on IMPROVED FA&RMS --IN CLARENDON COUNTY, In sums from 500000. Attorney at Law. Manning, S. C., April 3, 1889. HOWARD FLIxo. Jso. H. DEVEREUZ; Jr. New York. Charleston, S. C. FLEMING &DEVEREUZ, -IMPORTERS OF' English Portland Corn L~ime, Plaster, Hair, &c. 276 FA ST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. Write for our special prices on full or mixed car load lots. . G. DINKINS,M. D. RB. LORYEA. i. G. Dinkins & C., Druggists and Pharmacists, --DEAIEnS IN PUJRE URUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, STATIONERY, FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Full stock of PAINs, On.s, G1.as uRNISHE~S and WHITE LEAD, also PAN and WHITEWASH BRUSHES. An elegant stock of SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSE j No charge made for fitting the e i Physicians Prescriptions feJ~ compounded, day or night. J, 6. Dinkins & Co., Sign of the Golden Mortar, MANNING, S. C. MULE LOST. A LARGE MOUSEFCOLORED JENNY mule, with white mouth, about six years old, strayed or was stolen from my stables Saturday night, May 4th. A reward will be paid for her return or information leading to her reo>GvERTy UBSE Fulton, S. O. ER BROS., Lid Candy Factory, Eing Street, BTN, S. C.. [US PUCK BRAND CANDY. PE ANN, T 100VERIES, 3ACCO AND CIGARS, id Sts., CHARLESTON, S. C. ar cost. No charge for drayage. Goods feliv t. .tended to. - F. S. RODGERS, Treasurer. hate Company, :mToxN, S.oC. ~TUERS OF FER TIL IZE RS, ORT~F.5S OF :an1. "I~ain it. -ERS~, & CO., General1Agts., BROWNS WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. d to supply his friends and the public gener ilizers