The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-08-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

| tODcEI htllOFy,
OF Kentucky, is dead.
| England has consented to allow
Egyptian troops to rc-occupy Dom
COLA.
Tho cholera is on the increase in
France aud Spain, and the excitement
| is intense.
There have been seventeen deaths
from smallpox in Montreal during the
last two days,
Reports al, continually being re-
ceived in Loudon of the great massing
| of African troops at uerat.
Col. Fred. D. Grant is looming
up as q possible Republican candidate
for Governor of Now York.
1t is believed that the rice crop of
South Carolina and Georgia this year
will reach 100000 bushels.
Tho Governor Of Texas has issued
a proclamation ordering the enforce
mcnt of quarantine regulations on the
Rio Grandc.
AtMadrid some excitement has been
created by n report that Germany has
occupied the Caroline Islands, which
are claimed by Spain.
Tho relatives Of cholera stricken
patients in many Spanish provinces
assault the doctors i'm the belief that
they arc poisoning the patients.
Fire destroyed several tenement
houses in Jersey City, New jersey, on
Friday morning. Loss estimated at
$4,000. Many inmates narrowly es-
capped.
A Petersburg dispatch says that it
is positively denied that there are any
cases of cholera i'm the suburbs Of
Odessa. The town is enjoying perfect
health.
The Vienna IdgblaU reports that
the aristocratic citizens Of st. Peters
are donating money for the purchase
of silver tea service to be presented
to Gladstone.
Hop, Kcc & Co., the largest whole
sale Chinese manufacturers Of boots
and shoes on the Pacific coast, have
failed. Their liabilities are $4,000,
assets unknown.
1t is said that while Palatka boy
was seated in barber's chair in Jack
sonville the other day boy rushed in
and pasted some handbills on his feet
before he knew it.
Strikers at the Woonsocket rubber
works at Millvillc, Mass have ordered
boarding houses and hotel keepers not
to board men who arc working while
the strike is going on.
"A Georgia newspaper 10 authority
for the statement that Miss Lulu Hurst
has lost her magnetic power, but she
still retains a firm grip on that $4,000
she made out of her exhibitions.
JAS. w. Marshall, the discovercr
of gold in California, died last week
at his home in Vclsey, Colorado. He
was seventy-four years old, and died
poycrty-strickcn and disappointed.
Mr.. A. S. Abel, the founder and
proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, re-
| Gently celebrated his 10Th birthday.
Mr.. Abel is the richest editor in the
world, and made his millions honestly.
Franklin J. Moses, who was re-
Gently released from custody, has been
rc-arrcstcd OH q charge of obtaining
money from several parties in Boston,
by representing himsclfas "Col. Sims"
Of Charleston.
The Agricultural Convention of
| Georgia, at Marietta, has adjourned
| and will hold its next session at Co.
lumbus. Resolutions favoring tho
representation Of Georgia in London
in 1886 were adopted.
The president of the Montreal
Board of Health declares that smallpox
is now epidemic there. The Civic
Hospital is crowded with thirty-six
patients, and new wing is being built
which will hold fifty more.
The temporary resting place of
Gen. Grants remains must be forlorn
indeed-a kind of brick oven with a
tarrcd roof. surrounded by an iron
fence and hastily set turf. already
brown, and amid scrubby trees.
"A story has bccn set afloat in
Washington to the effect that the third
assistant secretary of State, Mr.. Alvey
| a. Adec, is to be asked to surrender
his place in order that Mr.. Anthony
M. Kelley may be provided for on his
return from Europe.
Tho Bishop of Quinhon, Tonquin,
reports that 10000 Christians have
been massacred in the provinces Cf
Biendinh and Phyyen, and murders
and incendiary fires are of daily occur
renee. Later accounts put the number
slain at very small fgure-not over
one hundred.
On Tuesday at Columbia, Tyrrell
county, N. C., beautiful young lady,
Miss Harriet johnson, was fatally
Dulncu Dy luC CAplOslOn VI Cun vi
kerosene oil. Her father, w. f..
johnson, prominent citizen, was
badly burned on the face, hands, arm
and wrist in attempting to save her.
-Georgc Turner, cx-United States
District Judge of Virginia, and cx-
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Nevada, committed suicide last week
by shooting himself through the head
with revolver. He left left letter
stating that his health was the cause of
his act. He leaves o widow and two
children.
Cotton crop reports from nearly
every part of Texas show considerable
damage from drought within the past
ten days. In number of places the
plant is reported as shedding freely and
being otherwise injured. Notwith.
standing this, there is no report froSo
any single section which does not - =
mate better cotton yield ~. E