The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, January 08, 1896, Image 3

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PUBLISBES ALL COU'NTY AND TOWN OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. MANNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15, 1896. TO OUR MANY FRIENDS: We wish to extend to you our sin cere thanks for the hearty support you have given us during the past year, and now ask for a continuance of your patronage. We have opened up business in one of the Leonard stores, just across the street from Dr. Brown's drug store, a little below Rigby's store. We will only remain here a short while, as we expect to remove back to our old stand just as soon as it is completed, which we trust will be ready for us by the first of March. We have now in stock a large line of farmers' supplies, such as flour, bacon, sugar and coffee, and a full line of plows and plow stocks of all kinds. There will be only one radical change in our business, and that is we will credit no one and will sell for the cash, and for the cash only, or its equivolent, and you know what this means: it means that we are going to sell goods cheaper than they have ever been sold before. We are also pleased to announce that we have secured the services of Mr. P. B. Mouzon, who has served the public so long i.) the store of Mr. S. A, Rigby. Mr. Mouzon asks that all of his old friends look him up and give him a portion of the patronage they have so> freely given him in the past. Yours truly, W. E. JENKINSON. Mrs. H. T. Avant, of Camp Ridge. is vis iting Mrs. 0. E. Webber. We are sorry to learn that Mr. Felix H. Chewning. of Silver, is very ill. Mleasles are raging all over the country and the doctors are reaping a golden harvest. Hon. W. J. Montgomery. of the Marion bar. was in town to-day on professional business. Thomas & Bradham got in a car of fine mules and horses to-day. Come at once and see them. Coon suppers are now the go among the young men siree they cannot enter the portals of the Tea Club. Last Monday there was a big arrival of druwmirs into the town, all bent on sell i:: goods to onr merchants. Died last Wecesday at his howe near Jordan Mr. Jasnes Alsbrook. aged about fiftv vaars. The dpeeased leaves a widow and four aildren. Mr. ChNiarles J. Epps, who has been con ducting Doctor Brockinton's drug store, left last evening for Walterboro where he goes to enter the druk- business. Miss Mamie Harvin while assisting in moving so -e fnrnitura yesterday met with a serious accident which resulted in her getting one of her fingers broken and her hand badly hurt. Yon will find at the Racket Store a lot of Hamburg and Linen Torchon in very hand some patterns. Teewill be an elaborate church wed ininthe Manning Presbyterian cuc on the evening of February 6th. The con tracting parties will be Dr. D. D. Salley, of Edisto, and Miss Nonie Harvin, of this town. D. M. Bradham says bring your rice on and have it hulled now while his huller is running in Manning. The Lloyds Insurance Company, repre sented in this county by Mr. F. C. Thomas, has settled the fire loss of Hon. C. M. Da vis, whose gin-houso was recently de stroyed. Mr. Davis received a check for $945. The policy was taken out only a few days before the fire. You can buy J. & P. Coats' thread for 4e a spool or Rouss' cotton for 2c, at the Racket Store or a hatt for just a little more. The Legislature is now in session and our representatives should be asked to have the town charter so amended that the council can levy a snffcient tax to cover the run ning expenses of the town. When the present charter was made a two mill tax was sufficient, but it is not sufficient now. If you want an early garden plant Wood's Premium Tested garden seed. R. B. Lory. a, the druggist United States Commissioner Norris, of Samter, was in town last Monday, and held 'a preliminary examination in the case of Thomais Ha'rdee, colored, charged with perjury. Hardee was committed. We are informed that a young white man living near Manning will also be tried under the same charge. Go to the Raeket tstore for shirt waist stud buttons, scarf pins, tablets, red and blue pencils, and birthday cards. The News and Courier deserves lots of praise for the hog industry it has been the cause of promoting in this State. There was mor e meat raised in South Carolina last year thau in any preceding year since the war andI many a man was induced into the business by the prizes offered by the News and Conrier. Wood's Premium Te-ted mced are the best for the Sooth. We have the agency for these seed, R B. Loryea, the druggist. We are qnite anxious for a good, live, and newsy correspondent in every neigh borhood, and we see no reason why such a desire can not be gratified. When we speak of a correspondent, we do not mean a com munication occasionally, made up of some joke on some one in the neighborhood. News that everybody-is interested in, is what we want. Who will take the initiative step towards bringing the schoel property out of debt. Will our citizens stand by and see it sacri ficed, after so much has already been in vested in it. About the only relief we can see to get out of the dilemma is to push for ward and get the graded school. People, think of it, and do not listen to the croak ings of those who are unwilling to be taxed for the general good. Now is the time to work up the graded school. Curling Irons for the ladies, Needle Books for the mothers, and Chewing Gum for the children you'll find at the R ieket Store. We are informed that The Bank of Man ning, who holds a mortgage on the Man ning Collegiate Institute property, has given the trustees notice that if the said mortgaged debt is not settled within the next sixty days. the mortgage wzlI be fore closed and the property sol.. X e sincer6 ly hope the monecy will be raised, as it would be a misfortune to lose the' property. The ctizenas of this to'wn who are intecrested in the education of their childieu should get together and devise some mieans by which this debt can be paid. Garacn seed and onion s.ts at R B. Lorea's, next door to old stand. Trhe county lbo r. of commi~ssioners met the first Mondaty in this uwsoth anid they granted a 1etit:on to open a new pubbei road to rou frmui the Kingstoee road to the Satee road. They also decided to open all the publiic roads to 16 feet wide 1)octors Brown and Dickson were eleted physi cians to the poor house at a sidary of S90. 8. L. Steadham was re-e~eeted superintend et of.the poor hou.se. The board in ac cordanee with section 1451 of the General Statutes adopted a schedule of licences, which will be seen elsewhere in the su pesor's notice. Wo still have a number of Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries on hand for sale cheap. * Red Rooster" smoking and chewing to bacco, 5c a twist, at Brockinton's. The insurance companies represented here by Mr. F. N. Wilson have paid up the losses on the stocks of goo.ts belonging to E. C. Horton. W. E Jenkinson, and Dr. R. B. Loryea. For that torpid liver try "Thedford's Black Draught" at Brockinton's. We have received a few of Webster's Unabridged dictionaries and we will sell them at astonishingly low prices. A dic tionary of the english language containing 1281 pages can be purchased from this office for $1.50. Every family should have one as it is next in importance to the great est of all books, the bible. The finest line of five cents eigars in Manning. at R. B Loryea's next to his old stand. We are under obligations to Mr 0. E. Webber for one of his b-antiful "official re ceipt holders." The holder is intended to keep a lodge receipt, and it is abont the s'ze of a half dollar, very convenient and ornamental. On one side is the emblem of the order of Knights of Pythias snr rounded with a wreath, and on the reverse are the words, 'In Case of Accident" 'Offie ir.1 Receipt Holder,' "See Inside." and the edges are milled similar to that of a coin. The whole affair is handsome, useful, and made of silver and alominum. Mr. Web ber is the patentee and we are sure if prop erly managed he will sell thousands of them. "It is a good thing." Everybody says so. "Pick Leaf" smoking tobacco, 10c a package, at Brockinton's. T. W. Wood & Sons' new seed catalogue an-l guide for the farm and garden for 189G is now ready. It is one of the bandsomest publications of the kind issued, and its seed information if fully up to date. Wood's Descriptive Catalogue has long been noted for the fnil and valuable inf.,r mation it gives abont all farm and garden crops, and the issue for 1,90 is fuller and more complete than eve-r before.. It is a most valuable reterence book for the farm er and girdener at all seasons of the year. telling the best crops to grow and the best way to grow them. Mailed free on appli cation. Don't fail to write for it, to T. W. Wood & Sons. Seedmen, Richmond, Va., mentioning The Manning Times when you write. DOWN WITH RHEUMATISM. "I was down with rheumatic pains from the 28th of March until the 22d of Angust. I tried a great many medicines which failed to do me any good. I finally began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills an A they did nwe a great deal of good nd increased my weight fifty pounds." imon Turner, Greenville, S. C. 'Hood's Pills are easy to buy, easy to operate. Preserve your sight by having your eyes properly fitted with a pair of "Crystal Lenses." Spectacles or eyeglasses. R. B. Loryea, the druggist, next to my old stand. How about that pair of spectacles you are eeding so bad ? Now is your time to get them at Brockinton's. The nicest line of fresh candies to be round at Brockinton's. D. M. Braiham'i rice huller will com mence hulling rice in Manning next Mon. day, the 6th in-t, and will hull rice hire or three weeks; then it will be run in Sum nerton again. For writing paper, pens and ink, at the owest prices, go to Brockinton's. Why suffer with coughs, colds and Ia grippe when Laxative Bromo Quinine will ure you in one day. Does not produce he ringing in the bead like Sulphate of Quinine. Put up in tablets convenient for taking. Guaranteed to cure, or noney re 'nded. Price, 25 cents. For sale by R. B. Loryea, the Lruggist. The international exhibition for navi gtion and fisheries to be held at Kiel fm May 13 to Sept. 30. 1898, under the auspices of the German govern mnt, has begun to attract attention in Wahington. Within a few days an estimate for $20,000 will be submitted to congress to enable the war depat ment to make a river and harbor exhbit simiar to that displayed at Ohicago, and to enable the fish commission to make an exhibit. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. The best saive in the world for cuts, ~ruies, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever ores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, orns and all skin aruptions, and positively ures piles or no pay required. It is guar nteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money efunded. Price 25c. per box. For sale by Rt. B. Loryea. A HOUSEHOLD TREASUltE. D. WV. Fuller, of Caniajoharie, N. Y., says hat he always keeps Dr. King's New Dis overy in the house and his family has al ways found the very best results follow its se; that he would not be without it if pro ~urable. G. A. Dykeman, druggist, Cats sll, N. Y., says that Dr. King's New Dis overy is undoubtedly the best cough rem dy; that he has used it in his family for ight years, and it has never failed to do dl that is claimed for it. Why not try a emedy sc- long tred and tested. Trial otles free at .R. B. Loryea's drug store' Eegular size 50c. and $1.00. DID YOU EVER ry Electric Bitters as a remedy for your :roublos? If not. get a bottle now and get elief. This medicine has been found to e peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure >f all female complaints, exerting a won erful direct infiuence in giving strength td tone to the organs. If you have loss of ippetite, constipation, headlache, liainting pells. or are nervons, sleepless, excitable, nelancholy, or tronbied with dizzy spells, letric Bitters is the medicine yt u need. Realth and strength are guaranteed by its se. Large bottles only fifty cents at R. B. [oryea's drug store. LOOK OUT FOR THIS SIGN! R. B. LORYEA. DRUG STORE. Owing to the late disastrous tire I have removed io the store adjoining my old stand. I have replenished my stock and re placed goods destroyed and now have as complete a stock as ever of Pure Durgs and Medicines, Patent Medi. ines, Paints. Oils and Glass, Spec tacles and Eye-glasses, Toilet Soaps and Perfumery, Fancy Goods, Segars and Tro'nacco, Garden Seed, and every thing else usually found in a first-class drug tore. I hope to merit a continnance of the liberal patronage so generously bestowed on me in the past. Don't forget the place, next to my old stand. R. B. LORYEA, The Druggist. Notice. P ARTIES HAVING ACCOUNTS A gainst the town of Mauning will please hand them in to the clerk amnd trear rer that the sime imy be andited, ap proved and paid. LOUIS APPELT, (Cl.r'k .nd Treasurer, SUBSCRIBE TO TH E M ANNT~i TIMES. barrelled shotgun, and it is believed the wound will prove fatal. The young er brother was arrested and immediate ly lodged in jail. The affray was pro voked by a severe whipping that Ander son Harrison gave his brother a few minutes before tile tragedy occurred. A most horrible accident occurred at Gethsemane Abbey, four miles from New Haven, Ky. The monastery has a grist mill which does the work for the monks and surrounding country. At noon, Brother D'minic, the miller, while oiling the machinery, had part of his habit caught among the machinery and was almost instantly killed, having his brains dashed out as his body was rapidly whirled around. Reliable information from Dunkey Hamlet, on Powell river. Wise county, Va., states that William Wells and Gus Osborne fouglt a hand-to-hand duel with knives with James Cox and Henry Williams over two women. The fight lasted for 30 minutes, when Wells and Osborne fell dead, and Cox v-as mortal ly wounded. Williams was not hurt. Great excitement prevails, as the men were of prominent families. The board of county commissioners has decided to immediately rebuild the courthouse, recently burned at Murphy, N. C. Bruce & Morgau of Atlanta, the architects, are preparing plans and spec ifications, and the cost of putting the structure as it was before the fire is es timated at $15,000. The courthouse originally cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. The exterior wall and fire proof vaults are as good as when put up. ork of clearing away the debris has already commenced. Three robbers went to the residence of A. C. Shields, in Meeklinburg coun ty, N. C., in order, it is believed, to get $2,000 insurance money hc had just re ceived. The thieves proceeded to ran sack the house. They went into Miss Shield's room and tried to choke her. She screamed and her father ran to her aid. The burglars at once opened fire and wounded Shields and his daughter. The only other person in the house was Shield's invalid wife. Some months ago there was a great sensation at Wilmington, N. C., caused by the seizure by the United States of the steamer Commodore, on the ground that it was taking arms to the Cuban insurgents. Though there was no doubt as to this fact, the case was not proved. The steamer has ever since laid at a wharf, and now it is discovered that a day or two before Christmas all of the great quantity of arms and equipments on board her were removed. it is said they were all sent to Cuba. Governor Evans of South Carolina has received a communication from W. 0. Shelby, major general commanding the Missouri division of the United Confederate Veterans, in regard to a proposed exposition to be held inKansas City in 1901. The idea of the expositlon is to bring about a grand reunion of the blue and the gray, and ultimately get congress to erect a magnificent monu ment to stand as a recognition of the fact that the war is over, that sectional ism is no more and which shall com memorate the past valor of the soldiers of both sides. Notes From North, EastWest and Abroad. A fire at Chicago did damage to the amount of $100,000. Herr Reclam, the well known pub Lisher, of Leipsic, is dead. Hon. Matt W. Ransom, United States minister to Mexico, is in Washington on eave. Ten thousand people attended the formal opening of the Leadville (0010.) ice paluce. Mayor Pingree of Detroit announces that Thomas B. Reed is his choice for president. Joseph W. Fritze, a Philadelphia elec trician, shot himself through the heart with an army revolver. Two severe earthquakes, causing the loss of 1,100 lives, have occurred in the halhal district of Persia. Fire caused the loss of two lives, the injury of one and the destruction of two houses with their contents at Wheaton, Ills. Major James Clarence Post of the United States army died at the house of is father-in-law, John T. Aultz, in New York city. Eight masked men dynamited the safe of the Farmers' bank at Verona, Mo., and escaped with $9,000 in cash, all it contained. Spalding, Jennings & Co., steel man afacturers at Jersey City, N. J., have assigned to Charles L. Hairland for the benefit of creditors. The Fayette, 0., bank was entered by burglars and $43,000 in money and 4,000 in bonds taken. There is no clue to the perpetrators. Associate Justice Peckham, the latest acquisition to the supreme bench, has taken his seat as a member of the high st court of the land. A decree has been gazetted prohibit ng the export from France or the French colonies of warlike munitions intended for the island of Cuba. The general pension bill for the year ndg June 80, 1897, as reported to the house by Mr. Blue of Kansas carries an ipprpriaton of $141,825,820, being $58, 50 below the estimatte, and $55,7o0 less han the appropriation for the present ~urrent fisca year. E. B. Wight, Washington correspnld mt of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, and for any years a prominent newspaper nan, has just died of heart failure. Mrs. Alva S. Vanderbilt. the divorced wife of Williami K Vanderbiat, was narried to Oliver Hazard Perry B3el nont in New York city, by Mayor strong. Secretary Launont has practically de ided to locate the Paget Sound army most, which is author-ized by the last ,ongress, at Magnolia Bluffs, near Se ttle, Wash. In accordance with Ithe joint resoln bien of congress, Secretary Herbert ima mediately upon his return from New ork, accpted t'he ram Katahdin in be mlf of the government. Advices received from Port Au Prince tate that there is an Increased feeling >f uneasiness throughout the Haytian republic, andi that the government of President Brppolyte is b~oeaking. A New York paper says: The mar riage of Olirer H. P. Belmont and M'rs. Alva Vanderbilt will be celebrated at the residence of the latter en Jao.- 28. Dn Jan. 29 they will suil for Burope. A moveinent is on foot among a num ber of prominent Americans and Britons in London to bring about the formation of a permanent court of arbitration to settle all disputes between the two na tions, as proposed by Justice Harlan in 1893. The emphoyes of W. J. Rlainey, the oke operascor, met at New Haven, Pa., and adopted resolutions demanding an advance in wages equal to that recently given by tho Frick Coal company, and threatening to strike if their demands are refused. At Ranscmville, N. Y., Robert Clap saddle, an aged. farmer, was brutally murdered by his profligate son-in-law, George H. Smith, and three hours later a posse meted out swift justice to the assassin, riddling his body with a score of bullets. The campaign of the government au thorities to suppress the poaching oper ations against the remaining buffalos in the Yellowstono National park is re ported on by Acting Superintendent Anderson i a communication to Sec retary Smith. The boundary dispute between Nica ragua and Costa Rica',is assuming a more serious phase. Costa Rica is daily be coing m. re r-gent in her demands. She now claims lands to which, it is said, she has never had a shadow of lawulnigt. __ TERSELY TOLD. The News of the Week From All Parts of the World. An Epitome of the South. The new Cannon cotton mill, at Con cord, N. C., has started up. The president has approved the act making Palm Beach, Fla., a subport of entry. The Patterson cotton mills near Con cord, N. C., just completed, have begun operations. E. Whidden has been appointed post master at Neptune, Dade county, Fla., vice A. Clark, deceased. The Southern Railway company is rapidly relaying the eastern division of the North Carolina railway with 75 pound rails. The survey of the Carolina, Tennes see and Ohio railway, between Wil mington and Southport, N. C., is near ly completed. The German volunteers celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their organi zation with a parade and reception at their armory in Savannah. M. A. Braum of Albion, Mich., walk ed off a train on the Southern railway near Graham, Ga., while in a som nambulistic trance and was killed. Much pressure is being brought to in duce the navy department to grant the North Carolina naval reserves the use of a better vessel than the old monitor Nantucket. The Raleigh (N. C.) cotton mills. which last year doubled their stock and their plant by a stock dividend, have declared a semiannual dividend of 3 per cent on all stock. The Brunswick (Ga.) Brewing and Ice company's entire plant, a commo dious 2-story dwelling, four residences and all outbuildings have been totally destroyed by fire. The large flour mill at North Middle town, near Paris, Ky., burned with 20, 000 bushels of wheat. Curry & Co. of Winchester are the proprietors. Loss, $40,000; no insurance. It is now positively decided that the cornorstone of the monument at Char lotte, N. C., to the memory of the signersI of the Mecklenburg declaration of in dependence shall be laid on May 20. The yacht Talisman arrived at Wil mington, N. C., for coal. and supplies. All well. This effectually disposes of the unfounded rumor circulated as to the loss of this vessel off Hatteras. The Whittier cotton mills, located on the Chattahoochee river ,six*miles from Atlanta, have been set in operation. The mill has 10,000 spindles and is one of the finest equipped factories in the country. William Rogers, the inhuman father who assaulted his 6-year-old daughter at Athens, Tenn., a few days ago, has been captured and lodged in the Athens jail. The law will be allowed to take its course. The attorney general of North Caro lina has ruled that the physicians of in sane asylums are practicing physicians and hence must pay the new privilege tax law, as the law is so rigid as to make no exemptions. Hon. Richard H. Clark of Mobile, the present congressman from the First Alabama district, formally announces in the Mobile Register his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for gover nor of Alabama. Mr. Ed McKelvey, aprosperousyoung farmer 21 years old, who lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charley McKel vey, two miles from Douglasville, Ga., was shot and killed by his brother-in law at the home of the latter. Bills have been mntroduced in the Vir ginia legislature to repeal the charters of 11 insurance companies incorporated in the state. This is aneffort to weed out the wild cat companies now doing business under charters heretofore granted. The Birmingham Commercial club will try to preserve the exhibits which stood in the Alabama building at the Atlanta exposition. The meeting was brought up for discussion at the last meeting of the club and a committee is now on the matter. The report of the state labor commil sioner contains an interesting statement of a new industry in North Carolina. The roe of the female sturgeon is now shipped in large quantities to Russia and Germany from the great fisheries an Albermarle sound. Highland Davis, aged 90 years, lost his life in a horrible manner at his home, near Columbia, S. C. The old man was trying to get warm when he stumbled and fell into the fire. Before help could reach him he was so badly burned that he died within a few hours. The Grand Army colony recently started at Abbeville, Ga.. by General Fitzgerald and ex-Governor Northen is constantly receiving accessions. One hundred and twenty-five colonists have just arrived at Fitzgerald, the colony center, from the northwest. A Louisville and Nashville freight train ran into a rock slide two miles south of Middlesborough, Ky., and Hal Looney, the engineer, was killed, and Fred Jones, the fireman, had a leg broken and his head cut. Both live at Corbin. The financial loss was small. At the request of Hector D. Lane, president of the American Cotton Grow ers' Protective association, Commission er of Agriculture Nesbitt has appointed eight prominent planters of the state to represent Georgia at the meeting of the association to be held at Memphis on Jan. 21. David Rogers, a young man about 22 years old, was killed near Quitman, Ga. He was assisting his father about his sawmill, when his clothes caught in the shafting. He was hurled round and round by the machinery and literally beaten to death. Not a shred of cloth ing was left upon him. The grand jury returned an indict ment against David L. Snodgrass, chief justice of Tennessee, for felonious as sault. The return is the outcome of the judge's assaultin Congressman Brown's office at Chattanooga, Tenn., on Attor ney John R. Beasley, who is still con fined to his room with a fractured arm. Edward Blackman, a young man 16 years old, died at his home in Gravella, Conecuh county, Ala., from inf ries re ceived by a premature explosion. He had bored ahole in a tree and filled it with powder for the purpose of firing a last Christmas gun, when it i ted In some way and exploded, wounding him frightfully. Deputy Sheriff T. A. Seale killed Amos Robertson, a prisoner, at Columbiana, Ala. As Seale unlocked Robertson's ell door he and another prisoner ran over the deputy, knocking him to the loor. The deputy, getting on his feet, opened fire on the fleeing prisoners and Robertson fell dead. The coroner's ver dict was justifiable killing. A conference of lumber manufac turers of the states of Alababama, Mis sissippi, Arkansas and Missouri was held at Birmingham. The meeting was for the purpose of bringing the Alabama men into line with reference to prices, grades and guages, and after accomplish ing this the conference adjourned until Feb. 18, when another meeting will be held in Memphis. At New Orleans a freight train on the' Louisville and Nasnville railroad, con sisting of 22 heavily loaded cars, south bound, plunged through an open draw on the bridge spanning the Rigolets, and the cars piled on top of each other in a conglomerated mass. The engineer and fireman escaped. Three white men, tramps, were crushed and mangled al most beyond recognition. At Anderson, S. C., William Harrison, a youth, shot his elder brother, Ander on Hai.,4 in the hend with a dnnble The three territorial deegates, M-ssrs. Flynn of Oklahoma, Murphy of Arizo na, and Catron of New Mexico, are waging a very vigorous campaign in congress to secure favorable action upon their bills for the admission of the re spective territories represented by them to statehood. The battleship Oregon will soon be ready for sea. The last of the armor plates for the turrets have been shipped from the Bethlehem works in the east for the Union Iron works, and accord ing to the contract the vessel is to be completed within 90 days after the re ceipt of the plates. At the coming meeting of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers, which is to be held in Chicago Jan. 21, 22 and 23, it is probable that congress will be asked to create a 'secretary of commerce," so that the next president of the United States will have an ad ditional adviser in his cabinet. Mrs. Cornelia Soibels of Atlanta or Augusta, Ga., has been found wander ing in the streets of London and arrest ed. She has completely lost her mei ory and is now in St. George's work house. Mrs. Seibels is about 84 years of age, evidently a lady by birth, and has nearly L200 ($1,000) in her possession. Great excitement prevails at Boulder, Colo., over the new gold fields situated between South Boulder creek and Mag nolia, and there are rumors of riches being uncovered by prospectors in holes not over five five feet deep. One strike is alleged to be worth $100,000, and an offer of this amount is said to have beea made and refused. At Shamokin, Pa., while four work men were being lowered into the new shaft of the Luke Fidler mine the "billy" which balances the elevator and which weighs about 1,000 pounds fell upon them without warning. They were instantly killed, their bodies being crushed so horribly as to make them al most unrecognizable. A terrible accident occurred on the Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Electric railroad, near Bedford, 0. A heavy motor car and a coal car plunged through the trestle over Tinker's creek, hurling a large number of passengers a distance of 75 feet into the chasm be neath. Two men were instantly killed and a number seriously injured. Frank Denison of Rockford, Wash., unexpectedly returned home and found his wife in the company of Patrick Hickey. The enraged husband ran into another room for his shotgun. Hickey escaped from the house. Mrs. Denison was about to follow, and had reached the door when she received the contents of both barrels in the back, killing her almost instantly. In the statements made by the officers of the bureau of engineers before the senate committee on coast defenses, of which Senator Squire is chairman, the fact is brought out that that the engi neers department requires $2,500,000 to be spent immediately for torpedoes and torpedo mines for land defenses. This is independent of torpedoes and torpe do boats for the navy. The United States cutter Forward, Captain Roberts, accompanied by the Winona, has returned from a two months' cruise in waters about Key West. The Forwerd did valuable ser vice in checking filbustering expedi tions, and the cruise was fille with ex citing events. The news is brought that the Cuban revolutionists are gaining ground and prospects for their ultimate success are good. Notice. TN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION .1 1451 or the General Statutes of South arolina, the County Board of Comnmis ioners, at their meeting the 1st Monday in anuary, adiop-ed the following schedule of ienses for the year 1890: Hawkers and Peddlers......15.00 Stoves and R-mges............ 50.00 Lighti'ing Roas.............. 50.00 Clocks...................... 2.00 Sewing Machnines............. 50.00 Pianos and Organs. .......... 50.00 All persons engaging in the above men toned ceenpationis mu~st procure a license r they will becomoc iiable to pnnishmuent nder the law. It shall be the anity of every Trial Justice and every C'onstable and of tbe Sberdi and f his regular Deputies, to, andl every citi en may, demand and inspect the license f any hawker or peddler in his or their Donnty, who shall conme under the notice f any of said officers, and to arrest or anse to be arrested, any hawker or pcd d1er fandu without a goo.l and valid li eense, and to brin~g such hawker or~ ped der before the nearest Trial Justice to be dea't with according to law. 1r order of bo.-rd. '. C.RI. FELDER., County Supervisor. January eth, 1896. STATEMENT OF the condition of TheBankof Manning at the close of business. DECEMBER 31, 1895. Loans and dis counts ......... 2,838 Due us by banks na casb....... 1999 Eeal estate and far niture ......... 8010 Dverdrafts ........2,63.32-S104,837.2~2 .LSLts. Ospita!...........S 30,300.00 Srplus and pro fits (nct)..... ...14.570 83 Deposits.......... 59.966.39-5104,837.22 State of South Carolina, ( Clarendon County. IL JOSEPH SPROTT, Jn., Cashier of the Bank of Manning, do solemnly swear that the above statement is truc to the best of my knowledge and belief. JOSEPU SPROTT, Ja., Cashier. Sworn to before me this 15th day of January, A. D. 1896. LOUIS APPELT, Notary Public. Attest A. Levi, W.E. Brown, . A. Rigby. Wood's Packets of Vegetable and Flower Seeds Contain more High-Grade Seeds -thain an-y other packets sold. Don't b uy half-size, poorly filled prekets and commission Eseeds, which are not to be comn pared, either in quality o r Squantity to Wood's Packet Seeds. If your merchant does not ha'ndle Wood's High-Grade Seeds send vour orders direct. We pay the p os ta ge, deliverimg packets, ounces and quarter pounds of seeds free to your post-office at catalogue rates. Ei Descriptive Catalogue and Guide to the Farm and Garden mailed free. Write for it. T.W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, RICHMIOND, VA. SFor sa'e by .! 13. Loryea, the Drnggist. Mauann, S. C. TZo te'" -,t Hood's Sarsaparilla has done for me. I had rheumatism in i =y leg3 and fre quently I h ad to get up at n-,- t C~d valk to reit_ the } /had stomach ron'ele. itook Nond'3 Sarza -M}a~~a, wh ich a 3 C ct- cd the - - r hI C Ulm a t I sm / :: hciped my j-o:nach trcu --. H ood's A. MELVIN, Sistas, Ore. ca. Ec-:cmber Is the One Tao Ilo-i P'r-i'i-. (I. Hood's Pius ; ;t TAX RET NS, OFFICE COUNTY AUDITOR, CLARENDON; COUNTY, Manning, S. C.. Dec., 18, 1893.-. The Auditor's office will be open from the first day of January, 1896, to the twenth day of February, 1896, to receive returns of personal prop erty for taxation in Clarendon county for the year 1896, and for the convenience of tax-payers will have deputies at each of the places named below to receive returns for the said year: Pinewood, Monday, January 6th, 1896. Packsville, Tuesday, January 7th, 10S96. Panola, Wednesday, January Sth, 1896. David Levi's Store, Thursday, Jan ary 9th, 18'6. Summerton, Friday, January 10th, [896. Brunson's X Roads, Saturday, Jan uary 11th, 1896. Jordan, Monday, January 13th, 896. School House in St. Mark's town ship, on Raccoon road, near Duffie's old store, Tuesday, January 14th, 1893. Foreston, Wednesday, January 1th, 1896. Wilson's, Thursday, January 16th, 1896. Alcolu, Friday, January 17th, 1896. W. M. Youman's, Saturday, Jan uary 18th, 1896. Saul's Store, Monday, January 20th, 1896. New Zion, Tuesday, January 21d, 1896. W. J. Gibbon's, Wednesday, Jan uary 22d, 1896, J. J. McFaddin's Store, Thursday, January 23d, 1896. Barrow's School House, Midway township, Friday, January 24th, 1896. Taxpayers return -what they own on the first day of January, 1896. All personal property, must be re turned this year. Assessors and tax-payers will enter the first given name of the tax-payer in full, also make A separate return for each party for the township the property is in, and where the tax payer owns realty, to insert the post office as their place of residence, and those who -only own personal prop erty, to give the party's name who owns the land they live on as their residence, which aids the tax-payer as well as the county treasurer in naking the collections and prevent ing errors. Every male citizen between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years n the first day of January, 1896, ex :ept those incapable of earning a support from being maimed, or from other causes, shall be deemed tax able polls. This does not apply to Confederate soldier over fifty years of age. All the returns that are made after the twentieth day of February will have a penalty of 30 per cent, added thereto, unless out of the county during the time of listing. Not knowing the time of listing is no ex use. The assessing and coilecting of taxes is* all done now in the same year, and we have to aggregate the number and value of all the horses, cattle, mules, &c., and their value, that there is in the county, and have sa~me on file in the Comptroller Genera's office by the thirtieth day of June each year. And from that time to the first day of October each year the auditor's and treasurer's duplicate has to be completed and an abstract of the work in the Comp troller's office by that time, which will show at a glance that the audi tor has no time to take in returns or do anything else much, between the first day of March and the first day of October each year, but work on the books and blanks. Therefore I hope 'that all tax-payers will do _us the favor of: making their returns in time. J. ELBERT DAVIS Auditor Clarendon County. State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. By Louis Appe-lt, Esquire. Probate Judge. 4HBEREAS, MR~S. MARGARET E. Lesesne made suit to me. to g.rant her letters of admijnistr-ation] of the estate of and e-ffcts of L.. F. R. Lesessie. Tuese are the-refore to sight and admon i.,i a: a:nd siugular the kindred andl cred itors of the said L. F. R. Lesesne, de ceased, that they be and appear, bet re nw*, in the Conrt of Probhate, to be held at Mlan ning, cn the 16th day of January, next, Iafter p..blication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shew canse, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand tlyis 1st day of January, A. D. 1895. sEAL. LOUIS APPELT, Judge of Probate. A. LEVI T A MANNING, S. C. JoSEPH F. RanDIE. W C. DAVIs ANNI;G,&S. C.N R.J. FRANK GEIGER, DENTIST; MANNING, S. C. OFFICE IN MANNING HOTEL. SOUTHERN W. H. MIXSON, Manager, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ruit aiid roduce, ETC., ETC. 217 E AST BA Y CHARLESTON, S. C. SAii~iERD SUPL G0. 0? U 232 MEETIN STRTEET, C "A R L E S T N, . C. State Agents US l StYlov an Size. for The Genuinell sear this Erezy Kid Of Fuel Trade.Mark. Beware ~i ,j ..C ~of Imitations. Tin Plate, Stoves, Tinwares, S Sheet iron, House Fur- T.nners' nishing Goods, Suppe Galvanized Gutter and Rainwater' Pipe in ten teet lengths. We Manufacture TOBACCO BARN FLUES and Deliver Them Freight Prepaid to Any Station. 22 Varieties of Oil Stoves anmd Oil Heaters. Percival Manufacturing Co. Doors, Sash and Blinds. 478 to 486 MEETING ST., CHARLESTON, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1868. -. W. F'OLSOlVM, Sign of the Big Watch, STJM ~ i~t. : : . C - A BIG LINE OF - SBirhday,Wedding and Christmas Presents WATCHES, DIAMONDS fire Stulling Silya Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, ScissorsndRazors, Machine Needles, etc Ail reipirir.g guaranteed. THOMAS WILSON, R. E. JAQUES, JOHN WILSON, President. Mamnger. Secretary and Treasurer. The Carolilla U'ro ery Comally SUCCESSORS OF BOYD BROTHERS, Wliolesale Groceis allt Coliriiissioii Merelia1ts, No. 195 'EAST BAY, C =A. ET O T - - - S. C MRS. E. C. ALSBROOK, Principal. Thirty-seccnd session Legcns Sept. 2, 1605. Prepare for college or Lusiness. Co-ed uicational. English, Latin, Frexceh, B okeping, Calisthenics. Elocution, Art and Music regulary taught. Threc gold meda!: awarded. Tnition SI to St. Send for catlogue. TO CONSUMERS OF LAGER BEER: The PalhMetto Brewing Company of Charleston, S. C., have made arrangnements - with the South Carolina State anthorities, by which they are enabled to OiN orders froma2 consnmers for shipments of beer in any quantity at the followicg prices: Pints (patent stopper).............................. 70c per dcz., Four dozen pints in crate...........................$2.80 per crate Eighth-keg ........ .......................... ....... ... 1.2.3 Quarter-keg ............... ............................. -2 25 Half-barrel......... ............. ......................150 Exports, pints, tbn dozen in barrel ....... .... ...... ---.-.-. $0.0 It will be necessary for consumers or parties ordering to state tha:: tie.beer is for private consumption. We rffor special rates for these sbipme:.ts. This beer is guar anteed pure, made of the choicest hops and malt, and is recowecrkd by the medica fateritY. Send to ns for a trial order. The Palmetto Brewing company, Charleston, S. C. FREELAND AND ROG-AN, Proprietors, Have got settled from the great rush of the holiday trade, and propose now to continue to otter bargains from tim~e to time on their speciai coun ters, as well as general stock, which will consist of China, Dinner, Tea and Chamber Sets, Open Stock in Plain White China of Haviland and Austrian Ware. L AMPS which will range from 20e., 25e.. :30c., 40.. 50e., and up to $5.00 each. Will keep in stock a ueneral line of the best TIN WARlE on the mar ket, WOODEN WAR.E, BROOMS, and a general hue of HOLSE FUR NJSIING GOODS 8 e havse ju3t received another car 1otd of the Home STVESTPride Cooking stoves an-l Rhange-, and our line of - toe is contIp3ete antd ran les in pr-ice fr'om $6.00 to $25.00. We invite inspection on this special lije, as our Stoves are cheap and good. FREEL AND & ROGAN, Opera Hobuse, Opposite Court House, Sumter, S. C. To Arrive During the Week! Say on JANUARY 15th, One car load HORSES. and, One car load HORSES and one car load MULES about JANUJARY I8th. Hr. Er AR-FB Suirrnater, 8. 0.