The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-10-07
GENERAL NEWS Ir!sMs.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

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ed lis productions $500, 000, 900.
The Earl of Shaftcsbury died in
London last week.
The small poX in and around
Montreal is spreading considerably,
Her Majcsty's and Covcnt Garden
Theatres, London, are to be removed.
"A grandson of Grattan has been
selected TO represent Dublin in Parlia-
mcut.
Terrible floods are reported in
South Georgia and along the Florida
line.
The Bashi Bazouks have sacked
and destroyed several villages in ltou-
mclia.
The blacks of Virginia arc de-
claring their independence of the Re-
publican party.
The Bank of Philipopolis has
closed and general anarchy prevails i'm
commercial circles.
1t is again reported that President
Cleveland is to be married. This time
it is to Il young widow.
The introduction Of the Whipping
post in MARYLAND to punish wifr.bcat-
crS has had Il Salutary effect.
Henry Soukcc, u Chinaman, and
Mary Head, Il white woman, were
married in Augusta on Thursday.
The Prince of WaloS goes to more
balls and dances than any married
nan of his time Of life in London.
Experiments in growing bamboo
in Iuba and Suffer counties, CAL,
have proved successful.
The report that john kcll,, Of
New York, had been seriously i'll is
contradictcd.
Kansas brags that she has never
had a breach Of promise suit since the
State was admitted to the Union.
Chief Justice Waite was n passcn-
ger ON the White Star stcamcr Idriotic,
which arrived at New York on Satur-
day.
"A riot occurred at Bells Corners,
Ottowa, Canada, last week, Oven a dis.
putc whether Ricl ought L be hanged
or not.
Two hundred Pigeon Indians have
left their reservation in the far North
west, and arc now Oh a thicying cxpe-
dition in Southern Montana.
One of the buildings of the insane
asylum Mt Warm Springs, Montana,
was burned Oh Thursday and three
inmates lost their lives.
The cholera in Spain continues to
diminish. The number Of deaths
daily is less than two hundred, and
the number OF new cases less than five
hundred.
Mail communication between the
ftt,- of AfnNtN n,,l tlA .- ..-
was resumed last week. Nine DAYS
accumulation of mail matter was re-
ccivcd and distributed.
The subscriptions to the Grant
monument fund are still coming in,
but at n fcarlully slow ate. The total
amount Of the subscriptions OH Tues
day was $50, $40 a.
There was an interesting hog trial
in Georgia the other day. After
hearing al! the evidence the court de-
cidcd in favor Of the plaintin, and
then took the hog for costs.
Lieut.. S. a. Cook, of the revenue
cutter Corwin, died last Thursday at
the residence of j. +. G.. Smith, in
Martinez, Cal, whose daughter he
married the day before his death.
1t is reported that the commander
of Portuguese gnnboat is to buy
1,2O0 slaves from the King of Dah0-
mcy, to work on II coffee plantation in
ST. Thomas.
New Hampshire has followed up
liquor prohibition with tobacco prohi-
bition, Furnishing by Il fine of so the
sale OF a cigarette to a boy or Il girl
under sixteen years Of age.
John S. Wise and John Amber
Smith a claim agent Of Washington,
had n fight on II railroad train last
week. Smith called Wise n liar, and n
scutllc cnsucd, in which Smith was
worstcd.
The Philadelphia Ministerial
Union has adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the special postal delivery
system as involving violation of the
Sabbath by the carriers.
Major James Ralston, well known
farmer and extensive cattle dealer of
Rockingham county, Va, was run
over by n train and killed on the Bal.
timorc and Ohio railroad OH Tuesday
night.
The Central Park board of New
York is very much worried at the
%crumbling ofthc Egyptian obelisk. 1t is
said to be due to the severity of our
winters. Scientists ere trying to de-
wise some way to prevent it.
Miss Alice b. Jordinc, of Cold
water, Michigan, n graduate of the
academic and law departments of the
University of Michigan, entered Yale
law school last week. She is the first
lady even entered in any department of
Yale outside of the art school.
The Massachusetts State Republic.
can Convention met at Boston last
week, and nominated State officers.
Several speeches ~dcnouncing the South
in the old 'bloody-shirt" style were
delivered and applaudcd.
Services in memory of Gen. Grant
were held last Thursday evening under
the auspices of the local commandcry
of the Grand Army of the Republic in
the Metropolitan church Of Washing
ton, at which Gen. Grant was a regular
attendant.