The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-08-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

yellow fever is reported in New
York.
The Grant monument fund has
not yet reached $50,000.
"A genuine Voodoc doctor has been
discovered near Atlanta, Ga.
The treaty of Ticn Tsin is a dead
letter. The Chinese refuse to leave
Tonquin.
The recent strike Of the strcct-cal
drivers III Memphis was ended by a
compromise.
Elias DAILY, the Grccnbacker, has
announced himself rs q candidate for
Governor of Iowa.
Queen Victoria and the Prince oi
Wales have started for Norway OH one
OF the royal yachts.
The youngest son of Gen. FitZhugh
Lee, of Virginia, died at Evergreen,
falriaX county, last week.
Germany has formally proclaimed
her seizure of the Caroline Islands.
formerly claimed by Spain.
Trouble is brewing between Spain
ana Germany relative to the occupa-
ton of the Caroline Islands.
-Ninc monuments to Grant will be
erected in this country unless some of
the present projects fail.
1t is said that Maxwell, the ALLEGED
murderer of Prcllcr in st. Louis. is
the son OF an English schoolmastcr.
The Rev. DR.. Farrar, Arcbdcacon
or Westminster Abbey, will sail for
the United States in q couple of weeks.
Gen. Goodc Bryan, a graduate of
West Point and hero of tho Mexican
and the late war, died in Augusta, Ca,
last week
Maxwell is very cool and Jokes
with the reporters about Prcllcr. saw
ing he killed him accidentally, or he
may be up in balloon, etc.
-Russian agents are reported as
intriguing i'll Macedonia to bring about
revolt in that country against Turks
ish rule.
-Minctt Mirrcll, prominent resi-
oeht OF Lynn, Mass, suicided last
week in London; the supposed cause
Dclng losses in land speculation.
Daniel Leroy, member of well
known knickcrbockcr family of New
York, died last week. His sister was
the wife of Daniel Webster.
The mos valuable present received
ny Princess Beatrice was a tea and
cofiec service of solid gold, richly
chased, which was sent by the Empress
Eugtnie.
Daniel Mccain, an old colorcd
man, living just across the North Caro-
lima line from Lancaster, dropped dead
ON Sunday last, just after eating a
hearty dinner.
The British ship Haldingtonshirc,
from Astoria, Oregon, for Liverpool
with cargo of flour and salmon, went
ashore OIL Point Reyes, Cal, last week.
Eighteen lives were lost.
Grand High Mass was celebrated
Iii Montreal last "Wednesday with the
intention of invoking the Almighty to
grant a cessation of the smallpox cpi-
dcmic prevailing there.
While Mcssrs. Charles Carr and
Amos Garland were cleaning out a
well in Union county, N. c., last Tues
day, they were overcome by foul gas,
from which the former died.
The story that one hundred and
eight convicts escaped last week from
the Spartanburg and Ashevillc Rail
road, near Arden Park, Buncombe
county, N. c., is baselcss.
"A fire broke out on Thursday
morning in the Bell Telephone Com
pany's works in Montreal, causing
damage estimated at $4,000, against
which there is full insurance.
The completion of the railroad
from Pembcrton's Ferry to Lakeland,
Fla, is the last link in the all-raii
route to Tampa, and extends the fast
mail system to Havana by steamer.
The Mississippi Democratic Con-
vcntion last week nominated Governor
Lowcry tor reelection, and full
State ticket. President Clcveland's
administration was warmly endorsed.
The spinning, drawing and comb
ing department of Richard Williamson
and Co.'s worsted mills at Camden,
n. j., was burned last week, The loss
is estimated at between $75, 900 and
100000.
The grain warehouse of O. II.
Wells, and also the residences of Ed
ward Dwyer, Of Washington, La, and
f.. o. Aldrich, at Sherman, Texas,
were bnrned OH Wednesday. The
total loss amounted to 100000 and the
insurance to $4,000.
Two ladies and two children of a
Columbia county, Fla, family died
from eating poisoned watermelons. A
planter, annoyed at repeated depreda-
tions on his patch, poisoned some Of
the fruit and forgot to tell his partner.
who sent onc of the poisoned melons
home.
An unskillful physician set the
broken arm of lad named Davie
Block, who was thrown from horse
near Marshall, H., but it was done so
badly that the bone protruded, morti.
fication set in and after great suffering
tho child died. The butcher has been
warned to leave tho country.
-Pleuro-pncumonia is prevailing to
an alarming extent among the fine
stock Of the Blue Grass region of Ken
tucky. Money is being raised to buy
up the infected cattle and have them
killed, as experience has shown that
that is the only way to stamp out the
disease.