The Manning Times, 1885-12-23

THE R ISE OF UEt CrESTNUT It is a matter ofl reproach to our so social - cial social scientists thag the habits and cus customs - toms customs of the joke have received so little attention. It is at error of the vulgar to suppose that a J ke is a literary me meteor - teor meteor that :inhes a --oss the intellectual skv for a moment ind then disappears forever. Even trained observers have been deceived inti expressing much the same opinion; and a celebrated scientist, whose services to mankind justify us in conceiing his name iV connection with the charge, was heard to declare that a joie was "an instance of intellectual abeitation unworthy of serio, attention." i Nothing could be further from the fiets. Leaving aside any discussion of tik first cause of the joke, which would ivolve us in the obscurities of metauysical discussion, we may state boldi that the joke has well-difined habits nd peculiarities, and a study of its hotory and develop development - ment development is weil worthithe attention of the foremost minds i science. If is evident to an: jobserver that the joke may be accuirsely divided into racas ad-nationat. i No one who had paid the slighte- attention to the subject could possib mistake a Ger German - man German joke for a F ach joke, or a Frenen joke for a Br h joke. In fact, they are as plainly arked off from each other as any .t breeds of dogs. and each undoubted has its different habits. An adequa iscussion of the subject can not eve outlined in this column. Neverthel as a small con con. - . con. tribution to an imp ant -subject, we offer the following - int of a single member of the nr ad interesting family known as tiie Crican joke: It is eight months. more since the chestnut'joke first s the light. Its birth is involved in o urity, in spite of earnest efforts to . e its ancestry. in the early days of, s existence it gave no sign oI coMi: greatness. We know the story of tiv hool at Brien Brienue, - ue, Brienue, where Bourieine k the prizes over N.poleon; Bou- ne is now re remembered - membered remembered not as "prize boy," but as Nepolcon's se ~ V. In a like manner tie tin-pan j or the nigger niggerbaby - baby niggerbaby joke of even da ith the chest chestnut - nut chestnut set med surer of i At the time the-chestnut appeare e paint-the paint-thetown-red - town-red paint-thetown-red joke was at height of its lame. Its monthly a ance in Jan Jannary - nary Jannary was twenty-six usand seven huudred and forty-six,' hen is sur surpassed - passed surpassed only by its unp edented No November - vember November record of thirty lit thousand nine hnndred. due to th ocal disturb disturbing - ing disturbing cause of a Democra victory that month at the polls. r the same month the chestnut app d in public but a beggarly one hund and eleven times. Yrevious to that to it was so insigninant as not to worthy cf record. Starting from -t point, we see the gradual rise of t hesnert and the corresponding declin f paint-the paint-thetown-red.; - town-red.; paint-thetown-red.; In February e chestnut appeared twelve hundr. and forty fortyfour - four fortyfour times. and the paint e-town-red appeared twenty-five sand nine hundred and fourteen tim This does not necessariiy indieate a falling off in the popularity of the I r, forL the effect of hard times was t severely feltthat month, the tot output of jokes being six per cent u er that of January; but the increase the chest chestnut - nut chestnut joke under such unf rable cir circumstances - cumstances circumstances is truly sig ant. The following month paint- -town-red nearly ield its own, appe twenty twenty,ive - ,ive twenty,ive .thousand seven hundre ad nine ninetegn - tegn ninetegn times, but the chestn increased to thirty-two hundred. Th ollowing monthi it increased by elev hundred, while the' paint-the-town-r declined by nearly the same numi But in the month of May the ches' leaped at one astonishing bound t fourteen thousand seven hundred an ghty ap appearances, - pearances, appearances, its only one riv coming down something less than e same figure. It is scarcely necessary to further into details. The August as give a total of more than twenty- thous thousand - and thousand appearances for theches it,while its rival is all but as extin as Mr. Crawford's "dado." The rts for the first half of the present uth in indicate - dicate indicate that the total will fa ittle if any below that of August, though the return-of-the-summer-b- .'cr has acted. as. a disturbing ele t. We may assume however, fron: e fore foregoing - going foregoing figures that the ch ut has reached its full de'velopmea and is doomed to a speedy decline. I is dan dangerous - gerous dangerous to generalize from bt two or three instances, but from try brious similarity of the careers of tl uccess uccessful - ful uccessful American joke, it is almo ''ertain that their existence is dete d by fixed an4d immutable laws. have not the -figures at had to v this statement, but we pronounc in all confidence.p We may suppose, therefo at tae chestnut -must follow the pa- Ircady troduden by paint-the-town-re ad its predecessL and, after seein ' e rise of some sful rival that even now in the obscure throng, w' come extinct in about eight months. s rise has taken an equal length of in spite of a few well-known e tions where a joke has been able to rvive in a toothless, mumbling con a for two or three years. we ma afely state that the average life of suc successful - cessful successful American joke is sixtee , at the most, eighteen months. sub subject - ject subject is one of much interest.an ould attract some young and en - tic social scientist. "I am a very timid man," tes a subscriber in Ohio. '4 rnm ous. constitution:ly timid; a very ard, in fact. I am ashamed of it ut I can't help it. Now, what pr sion or occupation can I adopt in ti rac ractice - tice ractice of which I will be most p ctly safe from harm or danger?" to France, my son; go t-o Fmnce be a duelist. 'Or you milht rem in America and be a pugilist.-E lyn Eagle. -There'll he a pretty hio -do amon, Ne w jersey intwyers the Scourts folow un the pre ant ab ablished - lished ablished by V~ic.:-Chamncellor lsird his decision'that a lawyer who ind 4 a client to give :mu 6.000 liortg. for $975 and then sels it hi:net for 00 must turn the prolii: overto the .nt instead of pocketinz it vitelf. ey pettfogerswidfah to seg~ the of beig awyrsifthey hale to as honms as &ner men. -AUeltown )

-Hawikin & Si., Co il spllers. of Prest.o Englandl, have tailed. -PrIdc~;Cen: C(e-u.:'s lessage to Cona.resa, read .n the 6th inst.. is gen generallv - erallv generallv regarded as an unusually able paper. -- Snalr Coiquitt, of Georgia, has been .(( :teld for Vice-President by an Indiana clergymzan of the Northern Metlodi. cutirch. -Gen. Don Crios 1Uell, well known as Commander of the Army of the Ohio, has been appointed Pension Agent at Louisville, Ky. -Ne'son Stewart and Anderson Davis, colored, convicted of burglary, were hangecd within the jail enciosure in, Charlotte last Wednesday. -At Northanpton, Mass., Allen J. Adamsz, for the murder of Moses B. Dckiion, of Amherst, ten years ago, was sentenced last week to be hanged on March 12, 18IG. -At Akron, Ohio, last week, a sewcr beim' constructed caved in, burvinLr seven laborers. Four were cruShed to death and the other three were fatally injured. -The buildings of the Southern Illi Illinois - nois Illinois petnitentiary at Chester, Ill., were badly damaged and some of the in inmates - mates inmates seriously injured by a cyclone oil Tuesday tight, Nobody killed.. -The ten-year old daughter of James Dunn, of Xenia, Ill., died last week from trichinosis. It is said that two weeks ago the girl ate raw pork and that her death resulted therefrom. -The house of Wesley Greer, at Cannonsburr, Pa., was blown up by natural -as Tuesday morning and the Occupants, Greer and his wife and two children, severely but not fatally injured. -The faculty of Vanderbilt Univer University - sity University on Tuesday adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of the patron of the University, William H. Vander Vanderbilt, - bilt, Vanderbilt, and suspended exercises in the institution for one day. -An explosion of natural gas cc cccurred - curred cccurred at the supply station of the Philadelphia Company, at Sandy Creek, Pa., last week. The explosion was followed by a fire which destroyed the building. No one was injured. -Last Tuesday evening, at the crossing of the Texas Central Rail Railway, - way, Railway, at Bryan, Texas, the Rev. H. T. Wilson and two daughters were klled by an engine drawing a pay car. Their horz were killed and their wagon was demolished. -A special to the Chattanooga Tnzes says that W. D. Kellett, United States deputy marshal for the Northern dis district - trict district of Georgia, was waylaid on Look Lookout - out Lookout 3Mountain, thirty miles from Chat Chattanooaa, - tanooaa, Chattanooaa, last week by inoonshiners and murdered. .-Daniel McSweeney, the Irish "sus "suspect," - pect," "suspect," who loomed up in the last Presidential campaign, and has since haunted the Administration for re reward, - ward, reward, has at last received an inspec inspectorship - torship inspectorship in the San Francisco Custom hlouse, worth $1,800 a year. This place was created for him, but does not by any means come up to his ideas of what he ought to have had. -The cases of the Louisville, Ky., Law and Order Club against the gam gamblers - blers gamblers were on trial in the Circuit Court last week, and fifty indictments against eighteen local professional gamblers were indefinitely continiued in terro terrorem, - rem, terrorem, on the gamblers' confession of guilt and their promises never to en engage - gage engage in the gambling business again. Fines to the amount of $16,000 were assessed against the above gamblers. -At Richmond, Va., last week, the caucus of the Demrocratic members of the General Assembly re-nominated the heads of State departments. Th~e only change made was in the office of State treasurer, for which A. WV. Har Harmon, - mon, Harmon, of Runckbridge county, was nom nominated - inated nominated in place of Isaac R. Barksdale, the pr'esent incumbent. The Hion. Jno. W. Daniel will succeed Riddle Riddleberger - berger Riddleberger in the United States Senate. THE annual address before the South Carolina Bar Association was delivered in the liall of Representatives on Wednesday by the Hon. John Dillon, one of the most prominent and suc suce-sful - e-sful suce-sful members of the New York bar. Hie delivered an address before the American Bar Association at Saratoga in 1884, which has been pronounced by comnpetent judf es all over the coun country - try country as a madterpiece of learning. He is the author- of work on municipal corporations, which is high authority both in England this country. The Association was fortunate in securing the services of so able a jurist. Tun grand jury have returned a true bill against the mayor of the city of New Orleans for cxtorticn in office. In their report they say that theo entire city governtment was found in a wretched condition, and that the police force, besides being insufficient for the service, are of very little protection to the inhabitants of the city. They ad advocate - vocate advocate a general reform in the city afairs. TuE Virgintia Senate has recently lassedi a joint resolution instructingv their Senators and Represent atives in Conaress to vote for the Blair educa educational - tional educational bill. or any other measure hav having - ing having for its pturpose andl object an ap appropriiation - propriiation appropriiation for thle benefit of the pub public - lic public schools of that and other States in comnmon. T'hey believe in a division of the surlius revenue of the Federal Government. Tusa Democratic caucus of the Vir Virsinia - sinia Virsinia Legislature has nominated the lion. John W. Daniels for United States Senator over John S. Barbour ba vote of sixty-five to thirty-one. In him Virginia will find a true ~repre ~represetative.- - setative. setative.I - I setative.I r is rumor'aed that neither Minister Pendletoni nor his wife are satistied with the German capital, and that ke will soon forward his resignation to

DRY GI DS .A NT31 CARPETS FALL AND WINTER 03;s. If you need any .ew Dry Goods, New Carpets, New Mattings, New Shades, New Rugs, New Oileloths and New Gent's Furnishing Goods, then FROM & NETL( Is the place to buy them. They have the largest assortment, and the prices they guarantee to be lower than any other House. Their European and American buyers re report - port report that they have purchased a large Stock and Superior Quality of Goods at very low prices, they hav having - ing having bought them before the recent advance. The following are a few of the many bargains they offer at present : One lot of English BROCADE DRESS GOODS at 20c. One lot of Changeable Dress Goods at 20c. One lot 34 Wool Cashmeres at l1e. One ease 64 French Dress Goods at 25c., worth 75c. These goods come in' combina combinations. - tions. combinations. 500 pieces of the Latest Novelty Dress Goods from 12% to $1.25. One lot of Real French and Italian Black and Colored Silks at 75c., $1, $1.25 and $1.50. These goods are imported by us, and other houses pay more for them at wholesale in New York than we retail them here. One lot of Black Surahs and Radzamas at $1, would be cheap at $1.25. One case of Black and Colored, all-Silk Ye] Ye]vets - vets Ye]vets at 97c., better qualities in proportion. Good Standard Prints at 4c. and 5c. Best Quality Fall Sateen Chintz at Sc. 80-Inch fine Ginghams at ,c. Engish Cretonnes at le., worth 33c., latest designs. One case heavy Brown Canton Flannels at S&c. One case extra heavy Brown Canton Flan Flannels - nels Flannels at S. One case Superior Brown Canton Flannels at 101., 124c. and 15c. Good standard 3-4 Brown Shirting at 3%c. Good standard 7-S Brown Shirting at 4%c. Good standard 4-4 Brown Shirting at 5c. 104 Brown Sheeting at 1ic. 104 fine Bleached Sheeting at 20c., 22c. andi Blue all-wool Flannels at 19c., 25c. and 35c. We guarantee that these Flannels are 10c. per yard cheaper than they can be bought at any other house. A good Jersey at 09c. An all-wool Jersey for $1.23. A full new line of Gents' Fall Undershirts and Unlaundried Shirts will be sold at a great svng to the purchaser. Another lot of Gent's Unlaundried Shirts at 47c., 59e. and 69c. Cannot be duplicated in any house for less than 75c. and $1. A new line of Tweeds and Caimaeres, very cheap, direct from Saxony. 200 pieces of Yac Laces from 10c. to 50c. per yard. We have them in every color, plain and tinselled. A new line of Beaded and Steel Laces; also Black and White Beaded Fronts. A new line of White Laces, very cheap, In all styles. A new line of Antique Tidies at l1e., worth A new line of Black Goods. Something remarkable in Handkerchiefs. 50 dozen 3-4 Gent's Linen Handkerchiefs at $1 per dozen, worth $3. Other Hanndkerchiefs In proportion. 100 dozen Ladies' regular Balbriggan Hose, Silk Clocked, at 23c.: also Ladies' Brown and Fancy Balbriggan Hose at the low price of 23c. per pair. 500 dozen Children's Imported Hose, fall styles, at lic., 19e., 23c. and 33c. The following goods, which were sli;ghtly damaged by the late cyclone, will be sold re regardless - gardless regardless of cost: A lot of White Blankets at $1.90, $3.90, $4.05 and $5.90. The Dankets are worth double the money. One leaso ied Twill flannels at 25c., worth One lot of fine Bleaching at 5%c. CARPET DEPARTMENT, 1,000 S3!YRINA RUGS, in all sizes, at less than the cost of the raw material. We bought these goods from a manufacturer for net cash, who has been pushed for money. One lot of full size smyrna Rugs at $3, worth New Carpets received and continually ar arriving - riving arriving in all ctyles. Fine Ingrains at 25c. and upwards. Extra Supers at O5c. and upwards. Fine Brussels at 65c. and upwards. Four and five frame Body Brussels at $1.10 and $1.25. A new line of Velvet Carpets at 37%, last year's price $2. 500 pair of fine Dado Shades, new patterns with Spring Rollers, at 89c. each. One lot of Hassocks at 25c. Country MIerchants will do well to examine our Stock before purchasing their Fall bills. All retail orders promptly agtended to, and samples sent on application. Parties ordering goods or samples will please state In what paper they have seen our adver advertisement. - tisement. advertisement. olli Eil in!!& ilololk t

THE American Publie flealth Asso Association - ciation Association has been in sessidn at Wasb Wasbington - ington Wasbington for several days, and essays upon important diseases have been read by a number of prominent physi physicians - cians physicians from all parts of the country. SEN SIBE P-EOPLE \ / ARE NOT EASILY DECEIVED, FOR they know quite well that good and bad clothing are alike made to sell: and who was ever known to advertise poor clothing? They know how nearly all clothiers keep the finest and sell-on paper-at less than it cost to make them. Honest prices, well made and nicely fitting clothes, together with a good name (justly deserved), are bound to tell. The above being a fact, 1 state it merely to enforce the point that I have ready for inspection the largest and best assorted stock of Fall and Winter Clothing for men, vouths and boys, that can be found in the State. They are peerless in variety and honestly good all the way through; even the underlinings are shrun'k and the trim trimmings - mings trimmings used are meant to wear, not merely to help sell the goods. a-, every, garment is warranted as represented. 'I here are un unassailable - assailable unassailable ramparts behind which I invite you to deal. I am not here for a season ly: I am lere to stay. My stock this sea season - son season is the largest I have ever carried, and it embraces every style and fashionable garment that is made. I am willing to compare them with the merchant tailor work, and it is with real pleasure to otate that the business of this EMPORIUM OF FASHION is steadily on the increase. My ,large and constantly increasing patronage testifies more forcibly than words than t~e values offered by me are not equalled by any house in the'State. To prove the truth of this I ask buyers to make their own comparisons, as I enjoy then a reputation above that and beyond that of all clothiers in this vicinity at least producing a superior class of regular Tailor-made Clothing and Genth' Furnish Furnishing - ing Furnishing Goods, Hats and Fine Shoes. This is the headquarters for the correct styles in men's and boys' attire. All orders sent to my care will be promptly attended to. Respectfully, M. L. KINARD. Columbia, .. q.: F. N. WILSON. MANNING, S. C. Dec 17 W E. BROWn, Physician & Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Manning and the surroundin couutry. Calls at attended - tended attended roiptly night or day. Office at D)rug Store J 8 , C. H. CLAUSSEN & C0., *CHARLESTON, S. C. W. AReckling, ARTIST, 1101 MAIN ST REET, COLUMfBIA, S. C. Portraits, Photographs, Ste Stereoscopes, - reoscopes, Stereoscopes, Etc. OLD PICTURES COPIED AND ENLAR.GED. Sept 16 EDE.L BROS., RICHMOND, VA., Manufacturers of Tobacco & Cigars, And Wholesale Liquor Dealers. FOR WALL PAPERS, CORNICES, CORNICE POLES, WINDOW SHADES, LACE CUR~TAINS. Call at the Leading House in the State for these ind of goods.I J. H. DAVs' Carpet Store, COLUMBIA, S. C. Bru oclsand W ool ape seece Beseill od the Fail trale nave already arrived and miany otters on t he way. 1,000 Smyrna Rugs IAnd M.ats, all New Patterns, also a ue selec selection - tion selection of Brussels Rugs and Mats. Cooa and Napier Matting%. nesw stock ja4 in store. _____ advertiser to con conIt - It conIt ontains lists of newspapers and estimates ofthe costof advertising.The advertiserwbo wants to spend one dollar. finds in Itthe in information - formation information he requires. whileofor him who will invest one hundred thousand dollars in ad advertising, - vertising, advertising, a scheme is indicated which will meet his eryrequirement, or can be made to do so by s hdanges euasily1 arived at by cor correspondence. - respondence. correspondence. 149 editions have been Issued. Set postpad to any addres for 10 cents.