The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-01-06
Il NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.


Quarters.
Tho Berlin exhibition has been
fixed tor 1888.
Bulgaria will submit to the dccis-
ion ottlc Internal Commission.
"A case OF hN drophobia has been
curcdin milwaukee,, it is said by Turk.
ish baths.
Cholera has appeared in the prov
incc of Venice and twelve deaths have
occurred.
The money in the vaults OF the
sub-trcasury at New York amounts to
1856 ,OO0, 900.
Judge Yates, who is under indict-
ment in Peoria, H., for cmbrzzlcmcnt,
has fled, it is said, TO Canada.
AT Nanticokc, Pcen., all attempts
to rescue the miners caught in the
ruined mine have been abandoned.
The old hotel at Kittrcll, n. g.,
600. 1t had been ~unoccupicd for many
years.
Jim Startling of Chattanooga, Ga,
while attempting TO put Il dead hog in
a caldron of boiling water, fell i'm and
was killed.
Tho United Lrtlvnd is still hope
full of receiving homU rule from the
Tories in spite of the shricks of the
press.
M. De Frcycimct will probably
form II new Cabinet for France. lie
is reluctant, however, and has asked
for time.
Gen. Fitzhueh Ice, Governor
elect of Virginia, took the oath of
Office OH FRIDAY at noon in tho hall of
the House OF Delegates.
Lebanon, Tenn, has been visited
by q furious fire. Six OF the principal
stores were burned. No estimate of
the losses can be made at present.
The services Of six clerks in the
Office Of the Comptroller Of the Cur
rency were dispensed with Friday, and
the vacancies will no be filled.
Philip Brady and his newly made
wife, while attempting TO cross the
railroad track ut Goshen, n. v, in n
vehicle, were run over and Killed.
The total sales of all stocks dealt
in on the New York Stock Exchange
for the year 1885 amounted to 92,lll,-
O5G shares against about 50 900, 900
shares during 1854.
--Gov. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky,
speaks of the condition of the finances
Of his States us dcplorablc, and sug-
gcsts y remedy by alteration of the
States revenue system.
Says a Montreal special: ''Thc
inhabitants of st. Cuncgoudi arc still
opposed TO the adoption Of scientific
methods for the eradication of the
smallpox epidemic"
"A Salt Lake CITY dispatch SAYS
that the Mormon church papers print
the names and occupations of the
grandjurors just discharged for culture
reference"
The Orangemcn and Loyalists of
Ireland have issued a manifesto, de-
claring they see danger in the scheme
of home rule aud in relaxing the bonds
of the Union.
AT Chateau, Cherokee Nation, In
dian Territory, Jonathan Davis, n
white man married TO Il Cherokee
squaw, a shot and killed by Kit
Ross, Il Cherokee.
The Pope has converted his per-
sonal presents Of many year into
money and has given the proceeds,
f20, to the College Of the Propag-
anda.
j 1t is said that when the Scrvian
troops evacuated the Widdin district
they devastated the country, and loot
cd cattle and corn belonging to Bulga-
rian farmers.
Tho German trade reviews saw
that the new year opens with n gloomy
outlook, and the commercial world is
uneasy on account Ofthc Government:
project to monopolizc the spirit trade.
The Lake City (Minn.) First
National Bank will go into liquidation.
No dcpositors will lose, as the stock.
holders are able to meet all the de-
mands. The suspension was caused
by a run.
-Patrolman Copeland, of the Little
Rock police force, was found at the
corner of Commerce and Second
streets last Friday night, badly beaten
about the head aud unconscious. HC
died at one O'Clock.
Cashier Whitney, of the Trcasur,
Department, arrived in New York OF
Thursday as the representative o
Secretary Manning, to seal the sub
treasury vaults at the close of bust
ness. The ceremony was performed
oon after 5 o'clock.
On Friday morning Edward Me
han, who was under sentence Of i'm
%prisOnmcnt for four years, in Green
vile, Ohio, for arson, committed sui
eide in his cell in Jail by cutting hi,
throat with n razor, scvcring the Jug.
ular vein.
"A number ofthc Liberal members
of the House OF Commons have been
privately making ovcrturcs to Parncll
with the object Of having him iormu.
late distinct propositions for home
rule in Ireland, giving the limits OF
his demands with n view to further
negotiations.
-Wm. Mccormick, aged fiftv-ninr,
residing nj 81 Stiles street, Baltimore,
Md, got mp at 10 o'clock on Friday
morning, dressed himself and started
to go down stairs from the third 10 the
second story. In descending he tripped,
and falling hcadlong he broke his neck