The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-04-21

e"'iS wv su0 uiS uunlileSS VI tilc COuEt-
try, They arc the pushers in great
Germans have the stores and shops.
Mccormick, the well known reaper
manufactures of Chicago, refuses to
%rcinstatc the GOO men discharged dur
ing the recent strike. The committee
of tho Knights of Labor who waited
upon him will recommend b~oycotiing
the establishment. Il
The majority and minority reports
on tie Payne bribery case are before
the Ohio Legislature. The majority
being Republicans their report is
against Payne, and the minority being
Democrats their report is in favor Of
Payne.
Nj. dc Lcsseps says that the build
ing of the Pyramids, which occupied
thirty thousand men ton years, was
boys, play to building the Panama
Canal. He estimates the power of tho
machines employed as equal to the
labor OF five hundred thousand men.
Amos j. Cummings, of the New
York San, and one of the strongest
men of Tammany Hall, will in oil
probability succeed Joseph Pulitzer, of
the New York World, in Congress.
Cummings is said to be the only mar
upon whom the Democratic factions of
New York city can unite.
During o fight in Harlan county,
Ky, between about q dozen desperate
characters with rifles, sheltered behind
trees, Sol Burkhart was killed,
Jacob Burkhart seriously wounded
and Silas Bogg shot in the head. The
parties were all arrested and lodged in
Jail.
The largest strike ever known in
Milwaukee, has been inauguratcd by
the shop Tailors' Uniun. 1t il assert
cd that four thousand operatives are
affected, althougha large minority of
these have noittcrtSt in the strike, aud
arc, in fat, opposed To it. The strike
Is to secure the adoption of Il new scale
of prices.
MIR. Iicmphill's bill directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to deliver 10
the proper claimants aud cer-
tain silvcrware, jewclry, etc, cap.
turcd during the war and deposited in
the Treasury, has passed the House.
The Senate will, doubtless, pass it ut
once, rs a bill Of n similar nature
passed that body last session.
The use of cocoaiuc j. said to be
alarmingly prevalent in Detroit, aud
the mos extraordinary deluSions have
bccu caused by it.. Persons knowing
little or nothing Gifts properties began
taking it to allay pain, used it inju-
diciously and have become mentally
incapacitated from taking care Of
themselves.
In Russia the Gar has enforced
the decree Of the HOLY SYNOD forbid.
ding wrcaths and secular cmblems in
funeral professions, on the ground
that of late the priest aud the holy
pictures have been wholly hidden by
the wrcaths, flowers, secular banners
and flags, thus giving the solemn cere-
mony n worldly significance.
-Thirty-two men and l40 women
are busy in the agricultural department
at Washington, supplying the Congress
si0nal demand tor seed 5000 puck
ages of vegetable seed, 800 Of flower
seed, 300 of tobacco, 20 quarts sor-
ghum, 20 of corn, so of grass, % of
sugar beet and b of cotton seed is tho
allowance of each member of Con-
gress.
= The committee on public lands
will, during the present session, call
up Tor consideration bills reported
from that committee for the forfeiture
Of land grants to railways and other
corporations, to prevent speculation in
public lands, and for the reservation
of public lands for the benefit OF actual
6Ond.fde settlers.
The Norfolk (Na.) papers tell of a
colurcd man in that citv who, previous
to the war, agreed with his maStrrto pur-
chase his freedom for SLIGO. When
liberated 10y President Lincoln's procla-
nation he had paid $500, but feeling
bound by his promise he has laborcd
all the years since to earn the remain
i < $3.50, and hc has just succeeded in
paying the last instalmcnt. His name
is Joseph Billups.
"A famous "mudstonc," owned by
Mrs. Il. l.. Milan, at Waterford. Miss,
and which she calls the "Chinu snake
s%tonc," is said to have been applied to
1928 persons bitten by cats, snakes,
dogs, spiders and horses without %
failure in any case, though the skin
over healed wounds had to be scarified
in some of the cases. She refers,
among others, to physicians, members
of Congress, Secretary Lamar and
others.
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