The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-11-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from variou
Quarters.

The Indians in New Mexico are
again raiding ranches and numbering
the whites.
"A land rent collector named Myers
was shot last Wednesday in Kilbeggat,
county Wcstmeath, Ireland.
While attempting to repair an iron
bridge near Keithsburg, H., portion
of the work fell, killing and wounding
a dozen men.
All the gambling houses i'm Gin
cinnati were raided Monday night and
several wagon loads ofmen were taken
to the police station.
The Hon. A. A. Mckay, Judge of
the sixth circuit judiciary district of
North Carolina, died at his home in
Clinton on Thursday morning.
MIR. VIM. Jones, who lives in
Vonezucla 2,7OO miles away, came to
Virginia and voted at Richmond an
unscratched Democratic ticket.
The Eliza, vessel now loading
at Quebec, is declared by the Toronto
GLOBE to have seen century and u
half active service, and to be yet a
staunch and handsome craft.
There has been an alarming in
crease in the number of suicides i'm
Berlin within the past several months.
Cases arr 'cportcd daily, and some
days the lumber as high as ten.
-Th wall of the late Gen. George
B. Mcclellan was filed with the Pro-
bate Court last week. 1t gives his
property to his wife, and after her
death equally to his son and daughter.
ALI the public schools ofSavannah,
Ga, arc GRO wded to excess, and with.
in the past few days one hundred and
fifty applicants have been refused adj
mission for want ofroom in the schools.
Mrs. Martha Wilkerson, of Green's
boro, n. g., and her son had disa-
grecment about the widow marrying a
hired man. The next morning mother
and son were found dead from pistol
bullets. No clue.
The Rev. John Wides, colored, of
Plttsburg, Pa, is suing several persons
OF that town tor conspiracy with other
persons in Alabama, (wherc Knox
made hlmslf obnoxious as prcachcrl +,
to injurc his reputation.
The Empire Plaster mills, Nos.
2l and % Bcthunc street, New York,
a six-story brick building, was burned
on Wednesday, and the walls fell in,
the tiremcn and neighboring houses
having very narrow escape.
AT Montreal last week five men
were painting the ceiling of drill
shed when the scaffolding gave way
and two of the men were killed in
stantly, q third died shortly after,
and the two others are not expected to
live.
The wife Of Wilhelm Frcund, q
German farmer in Henry county,
Ohio, gave birth to five healthy chill
dren recently. She is thirty-six years
of age and during her married life of
nineteen years has given birth to
twcnty-onc children.
"A citizen of fAndcrsonvilc, Ga, i'm
1882 caught very small opossum.
marked it and let it go. a few davs
ago he caught the same opossum with
in two hundred Yards of where he
caught him three years ago, and he
now weighs eight pounds.
An Ottawa dispatch says that the
death sentence passed on those recent
ly convicted of murder in connection
with the Northwest rebellion, will be
commutcd in several cases, but will be
carried into effect With the remainder
on the date fixed, the 9th inst.
Secretary Endicott has sent in
structions to military commanders who
are stationed in the neighborhood i'm
which uprisings against the Chinese
are apt to occur to have their troops
in readiness to enforce the provisions
of the Presidents proclamation issued
Saturday.
Capt. M. o. McGuyer, of Cincin-
natl, who camu to Tennessee with
George III. Thomas Post, e.. A. r.,
was drowned in the Tennessee River,
near Coulterville, while out duck
hunting and while trying to save the
life of colored boy who was with
him when the boat capsized.
The apple crop this year in the
State of New York, as well as In sew
eral of the New England States was
the largest yield ever known. The
fruit is of excellent quality. The aver
age price is about $1.35 a barrel. Out
of this has to come the price of the
barrel, leaving the net price of the
fruit about 81 barrel.
The closing of the bars on election
day In Massachusetts worked like a
charm everywhere. In Boston the
police authorities were astonished.
During Octobert the number Of .drunks'
before the police courts averaged for
ty-two daily. On the morning after
the election 1t was found that only
seven arrests for drunkenness had
been madc--a smaller number than
had been presented for at least seven
years.
Near Kissimme, Fla, last week, q
gentleman riding along in buggy
noticed q largo hawk pounce down
upon and fix his talons in the Lody of
black snake. The snake Immediate
ly coiled itself around the hawks neck,
and the contest of life and death began.
After watching them for some time,
the gentleman got out, threw them
into his buggy and then drove to o
neighbours several miles distant. The
contestants each still retained the grip
On the other, though both were vet
alive. They were then dispatched.
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