The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-09-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

The smallpox is OH the increase in
Montreal and is spreading to adjacent
towns.
Queen Victoria and the Princess
Beatrice and her husband have gone
to Balmoral.
The King Of Bavaria is to be
placed under guardianship, rs he is
undoubtedly insane.
An expulsion Of Polish subjects
from Austria has been begun. All
classes alike arc expelled.
-EX-Govcrnor Reuben E. Fcnton,
of New York, died suddenly at his
desk i'll buffalo, on Tuesday.
Many houses and other buildings
at Boston were damaged badly by
lightning and rain on Tuesday.
An earthquake shock was felt
through the Canary Islands on Thurs.
DAY, but no damage was reported.
There has been a remarkable fall
ing OIL in the importation Of diamonds
into the United States within the past
year.
After losing so of their 12O mon,
TIC Portuguese African exploring cx.
pcdition found the sources Of the
Lualaba River.
All the cmblcms of mourning for
General Grant have been removed
from the public buildings i'm New York
aud Washington.
Mr.. Alex. Vogclsang, of Philadcl-
! phla, Is about TO astonish the world
with lying machine with fans two
feet long instead of wings.
President Cleveland has not vet
returned from his summer vacation
The report that his health was falling
turns out to be Sroundlcss.
The Rev. Henry Ward Bccchnr
Indignantly denies the report that he
never pays his bills and that his con-
| grcgation are trying to get rid of him.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists
IN convention of three hundred and
fifty delegates, nominated straiehtout
Prohibition candidates for State treas
ulCr.
The people of Ohio vote at the
next election for an amendment to the
state constitution changing the ti.ar
OF State elections from October to
November.
There is no falling off in the raw
ages of the cholera in Spain. The
daily average of deaths is nearly fif-
teen hundred, and of new cases nearly
live thousand.
Col. John S. Mosbv, late United
states consul to Hong Kong, has been
presented with silver cup and an
address by the Chinese merchants of
San Francisco.
The Washington correspondent Of
the New Orleans Times Democrat SAWS
that the correspondence of President
Cleveland in reference TO the unfit
judge is bogus.
Floral offerings arc being sent to
the tomb of General Grant in such
proiusion that ii is thought that it will
Dc:omc necessary TO provide a place Of
deposit for them.
There seems TO be something in
Montreal that favors the propagation
of smallpo :. In 1872 it broke ont
there, and in the following nine Years
1000 people died of it. = :
IL. II. Day. Chippcwa chief
while en- rGItc to St. Paul last Wect
WIS taken from train at a way sta
ton, and so hrutally beaten that he is
not cXpcc.cd to recover
The commissioner in lunacv re-
ports that Mccullough, the actor, is q
dccrcpit old man, in condition Of
hopeless lunacy, and that his death is
onlya question of n few months.
Tho grand Jury of Buncombc
county, North Carolina, have returned
true bills against William III. ana 4. p.
Jones, father and son, for the murder
OF tho Joyce family Of four in April
last.
"A dispatch from jackson, Miss.
rcpo It's that six passengers were fatally
injured i'll an accident, on Fridav
morning, on Bayou Pierre. The
engineer, fireman and brakeman were
killed.
A Philadelphia man asserts that he
saw Prcllcr in that city in May, al
though he denied his identity. Max
wells claim that the so-callcd murder
was an insurance dodge may yet be
verified.
John Hughes, New York pod
dlcr, who wished to commit suicide.
adopted the novel plan of throwing a
stone III the air and letting it fall on
his bare head. The police stopped him
before he succeeded.
-ccCIc'utg Dayhru wants q consul
for st. Paul dc Loando, on the west
coast Africa, at salary Of $1,000.
Mr.. e. II. Davis, the consul, has re-
signed and returned home. He paid
over $1,000 for travelling expenses and
doctors bills last year.
Light frosts have fallen at various
points in Wisconsin and Iowa. The
damage to the crops is inconsiderablc.
The weather is c ceptionally cold for
the season throughout the West. Frosts
have also fallen at Staunton, Va, and
in diflc"ent parts of Pennsylvania.
The rush for vaccination at Mon
treal is so great that policemen are de-
tailed to keep back the candidates. 1t
is reported that small pox has broken
out at Richelicu, some miles from
Montreal. The proposed excursion
to New York has been postponed.
Miss Mcleod has arrived in Amer
lea to lay the claims of tho Scotch
crofters before her countrymen in the
United States and tn mako o,ronno