The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-10-21
NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Various
OuarterH.

quarters.
The trial of Ferdinand Ward COM
menced OIL Monday.
bullion in the Bank Of England
increased ESl,206 during The past week.
New York city is to spc I'd 81, ZOO
for water lilies to be placed in it parks.
There were reported throughout
Spain on Thursday l67 new c'ses of
cholera aud 56 deaths.
-"Libcrty Enlightening the World"
wants $4,000 more for chains and
anchors TO keep her stcadfast.
The Porte has issued u circular to
the Powers stating that tho ornaments
OF Greece are Il menace to peace.
jay Gould's family have an income
of 81 10000 a year from their invest
mcnt in Missouri Pacific Railroad stock.
The Democrats of Dakota have
determined to take no part in tho cleo.
ton for a Constitution for South Da>
kota.
1t is understood that the sentence
of death of the leader of the hali-brecd
rebellion in Canada will be committed
to lifelong scrvitude.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has
drawn up special prayers for use in his
diocese with reference to the approach
ing general election in England.
Capitalists from Dunlap, Iowa,
have formed n company with $3.50, 900
paid up capital for a private savings
bank at Chattanooga.
The Swedish bark Zncharias,
Capt. Endrcscn, which left Whining
ton, n. e., on April II, for Hull, is miss
ing, and it is feared that she is lost.
The President has appointed G..
Meyer Zulick, Of AgiZaYa, to be Gov
ernor of Arizona, rtcc Frederick a..
Tritle, resigned.
"Josh Billings" died at Monterey,
Cal, on tho 18th inst, of apoplexy'
The body was cmbalmcd and sent East.
-Iaalan and Lee won tho Pleasure
Island boat race near Albany, N. Y,
by three lengths in Is minutes and 243
seconds, defeating Comlcy and Court
ney.
In st. Louis all the street car lines
arc running nearly il not quite a full
complement of cars without molcsta-
ton, and the police guard has been
reduced onc-half.
The marine hospital bureau is in
formed that cholera is inc, easing in
fatality in Palermo, and that yellow
fever is Oh the increase in Quay mas,
Mexico.
The Court of alabama Claims has
refused to rcinstatc j. f. Manning, the
attorney whose d%cnunciation Of the
Court led to the recent official iuvcsti-
cation of its expenses.
There are at least twenty cases of
smallpox in Marinettc, Wis the dis
ease having been brought there by n
Montreal citizen. Four deaths have
already occurred.
Thirty counties in Kansas have
nominated Prohibition tickets, and it
is expected that at least an equal num-
Der of Prohibition tickets will be
chosen in additional counties.
There were forty-onc deaths from
smallpox in Montreal OH Tuesday,
eight in st. Cuncgondc, five i'm ST.
Henri, five in ST. jean Baptiste, one i'm
st. Gabriel and two in IIachelaga.
George f. Gill, aged scvcnty.five,
who recently removed to Chattanooga
from Wilmington, Del, was killed by
a freight train at the outskirts Of the
city last week while taking a walk.
The Harvard College annex, so.
called, opened its seventh year on
Monday with sixty-fivc Young women
ohr"lled. 1t now, for the first time,
has a house Of its own, and its endow-
ment amounts TO $4,000.
Bids were opened ut the Treasury
Department last week for tho brick and
stone work on the new Federal build
ing ut Lynchburg, Va. A. NJ. Nc
G0wan, of Washington, was tho low
est bidder at 1926, 700.
The land Office at Washington has
received a communication stating that
DIR. Powers, who was II Government
witness in the prosecution Of II fraudu-
lent land case in California, has been
slain by j. F. Pruitl, one Of the de-
PENDANTS.
The Georgia Legislature adjourned
on Thursday, after a summer session
of one hundred days. The most i'm
| portaut bill passed was the general
local option law, under which many
temperance elections will be held in
| various counties.
The Wayne county, Micl, CouQ,
last week, decreed that the law pro.
hibiting the manufacture and sale of
alcoholic liquor is unconstitutional for
technical reasons, and because il pre-.
vented mel from engaging in legiti-
mate business.
-Harncr Il Roberts. coal operators,
Of Pittsburg, Pa, have decided to start
their Elizabeth mine at the three.cent
rate. This is II Of the largest mines
on the river, and the concession Of the
rate demanded is all important victory
for the strikers.
An effort is soon to be made to in.
duce the State department. to take some
action in the matter of the consul
general at Paris. This is ono of the
most sought of the %consulatcs, aud
there arc said To be fonr hundred ap.
plicants upon file for 1t.
The New York g~ubernatorial cam
paign brings oil n renewal of silly
attention to matters that have nothing
tn do with ihn iccnop Tbo oo.