The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-02-10
E NEWS ITEMS.
Facts or Interest, Gathered frori Various
Quarters.

Quarters.
Another cold wave has struck the
Northwest heavily.
The New Orleans Exposition will
remain open until May.
Three children wcro drowned at
Douglastown, n. b., whilo sliding.
Tho profits from Sing Sing prison
last month were sc ,002.17.
Greece protests against Interference
by the European powers.
Tho total effective force OF the
British regular army is POI 900.
Counterfeit silver dollars arc in
circulation in Charlotte, n. G..
--lnitiatory steps are being taken
in Louisville to abolish lotteries in
Kentucky.
The private banking house of
Ritscinger Bros, indianapolis, Ind,
has failed.
Alexander IIcinowskI, a painter,
was burnt to death in Charlotte, n. e.,
by his bed accidentally getting on fire.
Alexander Henderson,, husband of
tho famous comic actress, Lydia
Thompson, died recently.
"A fire at Cochruu, Pulaski county,
Ga, caused the loss OF $4,000 worth
of property insurance about onc-half.
The wine crop of France for 1885
was the smallest known in thirty
years.
Gen. David Hunter, u retired
army officer, died suddenly in Wash
ington.
-Ex-Presidcnt Roberts of the Au-
gusta, Ca, Bank has been released
from Jail in New York on $40, 900
bail.
The heaviest snow storm ever
known has occurred in Kentucky: in
some places it was twenty-scven inches
deep.
"A Northern man can now start Il
row in five minutes in Florida, by
carrying Il pair of skates across his
shoulder.
C. NJ. Beck and j. Nj. Barnett,
"society men," have been arrested i'm
Fort Wayne, Ind, for robbing trunks
ut the railroads.
Senators Butler and Logan had n
slight tilt in the Senate last week but
"BIack John" had to retire without
scoring a point.
Casper Auch, n wealthy resident
of New Orleans, recently deceased,
left 100000 to several Presbyterian
charitable societies.
Mrs. Harriet Brewer, Of Caldwell
Station, n. G., was burnt to death by
the explosion of II Kerosene lamp on Il
table at which she was sitting.
The residence of Samuel Williams,
,nn,. N,n,t ~ $50, hmm, -.
week, and Williams and his wife per-
ished.
An explosion ofa powder house
of the new Croton A~qucduct on Thurs
day killed one man and fatally wound
cd another.
Boiling Parker, a farmer, murdered
his wife aud sister with an axe, near
Suffolk, Va. lie is thought to be in
sane.
London is considerably like New
York, iHasmuch as there arc a good
many in%irccunious Americans there,
it is said.
The cost of maintaining the dcs,i-
lule in the poorhuusc in London was
less during the latter half year Of 1885
by Eos, 456 than for the same period
Of 1888.
A fire in Brentwood, Texas, dc
strol ell the p~ostoflicc and Almost the
entire business portion Of the town.
Loss about 5000; insurance $3l 900.
Henry Lambert was attacked bv Il
huge owl in II barn in Connecticut aud
was badly clawCd about the face belol c
he succeeded in killing the bird with Il
pitciifork.
Gladstone is greeted by the people
with vociterons applause wherever lie
appears. In II speech at Portsmouth
last week he said his future life was
certain to be short.
Col. Wm. Markham, of Atlanta,
has ju>t returned from his orange
groves in Florida, and says there ~
not II sound orange in that state. TIC
trees, ho viewer, are all right.
-Ex.Prcsidcnt Roberts, of the Au-
gusta Bank, charged with hyp0tllcca-
tion of bonds of the Bethlehem Iron
Works, has as last been surrendered TO
the New York officials.
"A freight and passenger train col
lidcd on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, near %Staunton, Va, on
Thursday. Fireman Cuttings was
killed and several persons wounded.
Snow falls all around Salifa, Col
orado, but seldom in the town. AT
present the surrounding country is
white, while the streets of the town
are dry and dusty and the sun shines
bright and warm.
Dogs src to be trained to duty
with scnlincls in the German army at
night on outpost duty it is believed
these sagaciouS animals would moro
readily scent danger than n man and
sooner give warning.
"A man named Henry Warner was
run over aud Killed by n Marylanl
railroad train the day after The birth
of his thirty-third child. The road
ought to be made to pay heavy dam
ages to the General Government.
The Knights of Labor Of Troy,
n. Y, having b%oycotlcd a stove firm IN
that city, the engineers Of the Dele
ware and HnUson RniIrnnI rGIsn IN