The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-04-21
Il NEWS yTEBIs.
Facts of I"derpst. Gathered from vRrion,
Quarters.

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days vacation.
Mexico is to have a colony OF Co.,
0oO Cinnamon at an early day.
The ninth death growing out of
the East ST. Louis riot has occurred.
-EX-Prcsident Arthur is still quito
feeble and has not been out since Feb
ruary.
When q modern newspaper man
pronounces Il story n. z. he means that
1t contains no gore.
A mass meeting was held in Lon
don on Thursday for the purpose of
c%ensuring Glads,one's Irish bill.
North Carolina, formerly called
South Virginia, wa once sold to the
Kings agent for a house and f2OO.
The school boysin Troy and Green
Point, n. Y, have struck for "shorter
hours"
$4,000, the forfeited bail of Geo.
q. Cannon, the Mormon Elder, has
been paid.
The upper House of the Prussian
Diet has adopted bills for Commanding
Poland.
--Thad. Fairbanks, The scales manu-
fncturcr, died in St. Johnsbury, VT,
aged ninety years.
"A New Zealand coasting steamer
was recently wrecked and twentv-nine
persons were drowned.
The tactics used against Virginia
are to be tried in North Carolina
suing the State through its officers.
The Boston block, in Minneapolis,
Mimi, was Quilted by fire OH Monday
loss about $4,000, fully insured.
Mail bags from the lost steamer
oregon continue to be picked up; 256
OF the j9S on board have been rccov.
cred.
The arrests of New York Alder
men of 1884 continue. Eleven were
Sobblcd up on Wednesday.
john NJ. l%tuuntrce, an aged law
yer and sporting man Of Chicago, com
United suicide with y pistol in Il gun
store.
Two individuals who were about
to leave for Bolivia with large Quanli-
ties of well executed counterfeit money
have been overhaulcd in New York.
If General Lord Wolseley has no
better success in fighting Mr.. Glad.
stone than in smashing the Maidi,
home rule has nothing to fear.
There has been u reduction of 2G7
in the clerical force of the United
States Treasury Department under the
present administration.
Tho Democratic State Executive
Committee of North Carolina met last
week and called the State Convention
to meet ut Raleigh on August 20.
Grand Master Powdcrly has called
| 1nnh fha Entrrhte rs II alN. Al.
country to subscribe to the fund for
maintaining the strike i'm the West.
John Wagner, Al farmer in Lin
coin, Wis, shot and killed james Moe
in Il dispute about land, aud, fearing
l%ynching, shot himself dead.
The convicted Cluverius is making
some narrow escapes from the yallows.
The latest theory is that tie murdered
girl was the victim Of malpractice.
The Liberal Association of New
Castle, Sunderland, Tyncsmuth, Liv.
crpooi and many other bodies in Eug-
land have resolved to support Glad
stone.
The East st. Louis Deputy Sl,cr-
ifs arc good samples of United States
Marshals heretofore employed bv Re
publicanS to guard elections in the
West.
r. Ii. Harris, Superintendent Of
the Methodist Sunday School ut Sag
Harbor, n. Y, and Treasurer of the
Savings Bank, is $4,000 short in his
accounts.
The Earl of Shaftcsbury killed
himself in Il cab in London on Wednes-
day. He succeeded last year to the
title OF his father, the noted plIilan-
thropist.
who keeps a hotel ut Hickory, N. c.,
attempted to cross the railroad track
i'll front of a train, fell, was run
over and killed.
Tho military have entirely sup
pressed the rioting in East st. Louis,
II u Monday everything was quiet.
Business has been partially resumed
and railway trains are running.
The Paris MOrning News O
that Mr.. T%horndikc Rice, tho proprie-
tor " editor of the North Imertcun
ReCieW, Won 100, 900 francs the either
day in w sittings at Monte Carlo.
The cars of the Capital City Rail.
way of Montgomery, Ala, commenced
running last week by electricity. The
trips are regularly made and every
thing works perfectly.
One of the BARRIERS who was M.
rested in Washington the other day
for Keeping his shop opon on Sunday
had employed a part Of the day of rest
In shaving President Cleveland.
Last year the expenses Of India
exceeded the revenues by $4,000 900,
owing mainly t" The war in Burinah.
They figure out n surplus Of 800, 900
for the next fiscal year.
According to Commissioner Por.
ter about one per cnt. Of the popula-
ton of New York city is in the institn
tons under the care of the commits
sioncrs of charities and correction.
The New York House of Repre-
sentatives has passed complimentary
resolutions on Gladstone and Irish