The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-09-29

II is said that the next winter will be the
worst that Ireland has had since 1879.
Gen. Butler is disguised with his job, and
has advised the Ministry that the people of
Kerry must either resist unjust rents or
starye.
The Seventh Day Adventists in Maine are
gcttiog ready for the termination of all
things terrestrial. They quote from the
Bible that there shall be earthquakes in
divers places In the last days" and from
| this deduce that the earthquake in Charles
ton is an omen and a fulfllment of the
prophecy.
Two freight trains collided on the Mis-
| souri, Palette road Thursday on q curve
30 miles east of Kansas City, No, and both
ditched. George CowlcS and John Light,
OF Scdalia, engineers, were killed and two
fircmen injured. The wreck took fire and
ten cars were burned with their contents,
consisting of hogs, cattle and sheep.
Baltimore has fewer colored people than
New Orleans and 5000 more than Wash
ington. Baltimore and Washington to.
gether have 1O2. 900 colorcd people, aud
Philadelphia has $1,000; Richmond, Va,
5000; ST. Louis. %, 700; the little city Of
| Petersburg, IL. 600; Charleston, $4,000;
Louisville, u, GOO; New York city, not 20,-
600.
Lately, in Tehcran, the ladies sent q dep
utation TO the Shah of Persia complaining
of the cafes, on the ground that their nus
bands stayed in them too long, and that
family life was rs q consequence being de
stroyed. Next day. by order O. his Aiujcs-
~, every cafe in his kingdom was closed.
So much for q patriarchal monarch!
The following officers were elected by
| tbn S0yproiOD Grand I CflCn NJ ODD Fol
lows, in session at Boston: Grandsirc, j.
III. White, of New York; Deputy Grand.
sire, j. G.. Underwood, Of Kentucky;
Grand Secretary, L. 4. Ross, of New Jcr-
sey; Grand Treasurer, A. Shepard, Of
Pennsylvania.
The Western frontier column Of the Brit
ish army Of occupation in Burnah has been
cut off mt T%aingdah from. communication
with the main army by D&coits under the
leadership of Boshwey and other noted i'll
surgents. Three hundred troops have been
dispatched to relieve the ~bclcagucyed corps.
Commodore ID. 3. Harmony, Acting
Secretary of the Navy, has directed the
Chief Constructor to prepare plans for the
two %sca-going, double ottOmed, COCO
tons, arnorcd cruisers authorized by the
Act of August 3. The heads of the seyc-
raj bureaus arc directed 10 enter upon the
work without delay.
Alden, a small mining own about nine
miles from WikcSbarrc. Pa, was visited
by a terrible 'Tind and rain storm on tho
night Of the 10Th. Every building in the
town was damaged. Several houses oCCu-
pied by Hungarians were swept away and
many other buildings unrcofed. The storm
caused the widest alarm and several people
were injured, but none fatally.
The Boston GIoJG says that whatever we
have to endure of business lethargy and in
dustrial distul bancc is tmceablc 10 the
malcvolcnt policy of England and Germany
in seeking 10 force the rest Of the world to
a gold standard, and thus, by wiping out
silver as an equal medium of exchange, to
contract values, double national and ali
other debts, and rob the millions who labor
TO enrich the few thousands who thrive by
usury.
Joe jefferson, the great comedian, is soon.
fined to his room at the hotel in st. Paul.
Mimi, with sickness, and us u consequence
he failed to I'LL his engagements in that
city. For nearly 40 years he has played to
delighted audiences; season after season he
cssuyCd his various roles aud never missed
an engagement until compelled to do so
last week by illness. This is a record that
few can equal and none excel.
About 5000 of the new one dollar silver
certificates, finished with the exception Of
the seal, which is printed in the Treasury
building, were delivered yesterday. More
will follow soon. and the handsome notes
will soon be in circulation. The plates for
the twos are not yet ready, and it is not
probable that any certificates Of that de.
nomination will be seen before the middle
Of October.
In 1856 William Buckles, of Holland,
saltcd the first barrel Of hcrrings, and now
his grateful cOuntrymcu are about TO Cvic.
bratc the fifth century OF his simple vet
memorable discovery. But England long
since did honor to his memory. Charles
V had a statue erected to the herring saltcr
who became the bcnefactor of his country.
Queen Mary of Hungary, however, paid
him even greater honor. During her resi-.
dcnce in Holland she discovered his tomb,
and, seated upon it, ate a sailed herring.
Secretary Bayard has appointed Scvcllon
Brown a jury Of one TO have absolute con
troll over all press communications To the
public from his department. Brown is nm
inheritance from the grand old party.
whose subservient tool lie has been for n
dozen years. lie made himself chiefly
conspicuous rs n lackcy for Blaine while
Secretary of State. Brown will bc of great
service to his old Republican friends in this
new capacity .-Neo YORK. World.
There Is a negro revival in progress at
utccrs oIatloh, twenty mics from spar
tanburg, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Rail.
way. On the night of the 18th, when the
north-hound passenger train passed through,
q gang OF hurly negroes boarded IL with n
determination TO cheat the road out of n
ride. Conductor Mooney, in charge of the
train, had somc trouble in o~jccting them.
When the train had made q start, after the
negroes had been put of. some one in thu
crowd fired a shot into the back door OF the
sleeper, but no one was hurt. The railroad
authorities are very quiet about the affair,
hoping to bag the whole gang.