The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-11-04
NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.


Rear Admiral j. g.. p. DeKraht
died at his residence in Washington
last week.
Carl Schurz has offered to buy tho
Boston Post, with q view of running
it as ali "Independcnt" paper.
Fire in New Hartford, Conn, OH
Thursday destroyed eight buildings.
Loss $4,000. Partly insured.
According to the Japan Gazette
the process of Latinizing the Japanese
alphabet is making great progress.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, spe-
ciai British envoy, arrived at Cairo OH
Thursday afternoon and had q semi
royal reception.
DIR. Noah Porter, for the past thir-
teen years president of Yale College,
has resigned, to take effect from the
next commencement.
The Great Eastern, the largest
steamship in the world, has been sold
ut auction for EGG, 200 less than half
what it cost 10 launch her.
"A boat containing a whole family,
father, mother and child. was capsized
in the st. Lawrence on Thursday, OBJ
poslte the Isle dc Grace, and all were
drowned.
Louis p. %IIavcr, publisher of
IhompSon's Bank Note Reporter,
who was last week convicted of black
mailing, was fined $500, which Inc paid
n was released.
The postotfices at Middleton, o.,
and Harper's Ferry, w. Va, were
broken open by burglars on Wcdnes-
day night and robbed of fifteen dollars
in each case.
-Boston is going to take a new
census, under its w direction this
time, and The police are to be the
enumcrators. The whole cost is not
to exceed 8 1000.
The application of the white of an
egg to n snake bite wound saved the
life of a little girl in st. Joints county,
Fla. She was bitten twice on tho
foot by q ground rattlesnakc.
"A female sea lion, supposed to be
the one that escaped from Druid Hill
Park, Baltimore, a few weeks ago, was
killed in Satilla River, 75 miles south
of Savannah, on Sunday.
The solicitor of the treasury has
decided that men engaged on fishing
vessels are legally entitled to treat,
mcnt in marine hospitals, and here
after they will be allowed that priyi-
lcgc.
The Legislature of Alabama has
passed an Act requiring the public
schools to give instruction in phvsiolo-
! gy and hygiene, with especial refer
cncc to the effects of tobacco and of
ardent spirits.
"A Pittsburg paper publishes q list
OF "a persons III that city worth So
00O,0 each, Is worth between ST.
100000 and 81, 800, 900, and 81 worth
$1,000, 900. Mrs. Schcnley heads the
list and worth $50, 900, 900.
Tho Medical ReuieW, in an cdilo-
rial on "triplcts," a V that plural
births occur most frequently in Russia,
and that when they do occur i'm this |
country the fathers and mothers arc |
generally found TO be OF Russian birth |
or descent.
AT a tournament" at Spearfsh, |
OAK, a running start of seventy yards |
was given to a steer, and Cowboy
Driscoll overlook him, lassoed and
threw him, and, ~dismounting, tied his |
feet, in forty-onc seconds.
The condition Of the landowners
in East Lothian, Scotland, is u~ncnyia-
bic, and the prevailing depression ia
making itself felt all over Scotland. |
One noblcman with q rent roll of
$35O,O0O per annum has received lust |
$780, net.
In Colusa county, Cal, about a
year ago, a youth shot himself because |
a young woman refused his offer of
marriage. The girl said he was a fool. |
but the boy recovered. The other dav |
the girl committed suicide because the |
same boy refused to marry her.
Tho tramps have ovcrrun the town
OF Pnssaic, Nd, and the police arc
powerless to prevent their raids and
robberies. When the citizens COM
bined with the police to break up the
gang, the tramps fired upon them and
retreatcd to the woods around the
town.
"A poor woman came into the dis
secting room of the New York Univcr-
slty Medical College last week and
offered to sell her body to the curator
In order to get money to secure food
for her children. The students raised
a purse for the poor dcmcnted and re-
lieved her pressing necessities.
-Escorting Archdcacon Farrar
about the White House one day last
week it is said the President, all by
accident, entered the conservatory
for tho first time in his life;
not, he explained TO his visitor, that
he does not care for flowers, but that
he has been too busy to indulge his
taste in that direction.
The appropriations for the next
fiscal year in New York city amount
to S3O,OOO,O00. Most of the tax falls
on the real estate. The personal prop
erty of the city in q great measure
escapes taxation. Men possessing mil
lions arc the tax cvaders who shift the
burden they ought to bear on to real
estate.
james Hodges has been elected
Mayor OF Baltimore on the regular
Democratic ticket, defeating Judge
George w. Brown, the Fusionist nomi-
nee, by a majority of about 1000. The
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