The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-09-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from VarIo
Quarters.

Facts OF Interest, Gathered frop, Various
| Quarters.
The Great Eastern will be sold bv
auction next month, by order of the
Court.
--Ricl, the Canadian half-broed, has
been respitcd. He may yet escape the
gallows.
DR.. j. Ii. Hamilton, surgcon-gen-
eral of the marine hospital service, has
resigned.
Miss Matte Lee Price, fifteen
ycar-old girl, is another Georgia won
der of the Lula Hurst order.
The international yacht races in
New York harbor last week, resulted
In victory for the American boats.
Judge Alexander Rives, the old
est judge in Virginia and leading
Republican politician, died OH Thurs
day morning, aged eighty years.
The New York schools opened on
Monday. There were 5000 teachers
at their desks to instruct $4,000 chil>
dren.
The time from Atlanta to San
Francisco by the Southern Pacific
Railway-threc thousand milcs-has
been reduced to five days.
John l.. Sullivan, the Boston slug,
ger, made 5000 playing base ball in
Cleveland OH Sunday and was fined
$l.OO for breaking the Sabbath.
Tho cholera in Spain is still slight
ly Diminishing. The number of new
cases in the whole kingdom is about
nine hundred daily, and the number of
deaths about three hundred.
A severe epidemic Of flux is raging
in Lee and Scott counties, Virginia,
Many people have died from tho dis
ease and many more are sick. The
disease is on The increase.
"A New York detective states that
an organized scheme is atoot to flood
the large cities with counterfeit money
and that sit would be we'll for all who
are handling money to be very eau
tious."
"A man named William Lyons, a
car-buildcr from Chattanooga, commit
ted suicide in marble yard in Au-
gusta on Wednesday night by taking
tanned for the act.
The annual reunion of the National
Mexican Veterans Association was
held at Indianapolis last week. About
800 veterans, including representatives
of the majority of the States were
| present.
Judge Tourgcc, for some years
resident of North Carolina, author Of
"a Fools Errand" and other produc-
tions, is n candidate for tho State SEN
ate in the thirty-sccond district Of New
York.
The cotton factory at Chattanooga,
Tenn, is fairly booming with business.
1t is now working to its full capacity,
has heavy orders ahead, and will soon
make important improvements. One
day last week an order was received
for %, 900 pounds of yarn.
--Ex- Governor Seymour, of New
York, rather likes the "offcnsvc par
tisan." He says "the offensive parti-
san or strong party man is very good
sort of II fellow, and generally more
inclined to be fair Ian the cold-blood-
ed style Of politician"
The annual convention of the
American Bankers Association will
be held at Chicago during the present
week. Addresses on topics connected
with the business interests of the coun-
try will be delivered by members of
the Association and others.
Three cowboys met the Las Casas
stage south of Kansas City, Mo-, on
Sunday and began firing mt the pas
sengers. One of the occupants of the
stage returned the fire and instantly
killed one of the cowboys. The two
others rode away.
Mrs. Hester Ford, an aged lady of
Philadelphia, Pa, was SO affected on
Thursday morning by reading Of the
suicide of another woman i'm the neigh
borhood, that she went to her room
anC hanged herself in similar man
ner She was dead when found.
Judge Clough, of California, be-
came insane and while in that condi-
ton resigned his Office and another
Judge was appointed in his place.
Judge Clough has recovered his sanity
and disclaims his resignation, and the
new Judge has 10 give way to him.
In the election for school commits
sioncrs at Binghampton, N. Y, the
women generally voted. This had the
effect of bringing ont very large male
vote, and the total number of ballots
cast was twenty times as great as usual
Many young ladies tried to vote who
were neither mothers nor taxpayers,
and their ballots were rejected. The
scenes at the polls where women were
electioneering were novel. The women
generally voted for the successful can.
didates.
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Death OF Bishop Lay.
Bishop Henry G.. Lay, of the Protes-