The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-01
General News.

in the back of the head with bat,
from which he died.
President Cleveland's salary per
month is S4,166.66, which he draws
regularly the last.of every month. The
Presidents Buffalo friends say he
was worth between $4,000 and SIS, 900
when he was elected.
A negro from Atlanta, claiming to
be a doctor, is now practicihg medi-
cine about Laurens. Many OF his pa
tients have not survived his treatment.
He examines his patients in the palm
of their hands for all diseases.
Governor Alger of Michigan,is ac-
cused by his enemies of seeking to
further his political prospects by giving
presents to hundreds of pretty girl
gradutes. But although the pretty
girl graduates can do almost anything
else, they can't vote as yet.
Ex-Mayor Dabesoss, of Long Island
City, has been released from the Queens
county Jail after three years imprison-
ment by the New York law putting
an end to imprisonment for debt. He
was confined under a judgment for
over one hundred thousand dollars.
A check for the full amount of his
expenses at Deer Park was on Tuesday
sent by President Cleveland to the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company.
In the letter enclosing his check the
President expressed his appreciation
Of the attention himself and Mrs. Cleve-
land had received. =
The British bark Arklon collided on
the 2Sth of May with an unknown yes
sci and was abandoned by the crew.
The mate has been picked up at sea. He
was eight days without water, food or
clothing. The captain, his wife and
son and ten seamen got off in another
boat, hut it is feared they are lost. .
4 story comes from Oconee that on
Tuesday a colored man named Bill
Boston grossly insulted an elderly
and respectable white woman while
she was alone. On the return Of her
son, Mat Scurry, a youth, he Was in
formed of the facts, and he sought. the
negro and attacked him with a knife,
cutting his jugular vein in twain.
John p. st. John, John L. Sullivan
and other famous Johns have been in
vited to the John picnic to be held at
Ross Grove, Allegheny county, next
Wednesday. Every town represented
has been invited to send it's largest and
smallest John. jain Lawrence, of
Canada. weighing 4S0 pounds will be
there. Hundreds of men named John
will attend.
The elections in Nova Scotia were
carried overwhelmingly in favor of
dissolving the union with Canada.
Upon hearing the news wealthy old
sea captain trimmed up the highest
tree on his place, and, raising the United
States flag at the top, exclaimed "That
is our next question to vote on, and you
will find before long two-thirds of us
that way of thinking" . ~
At Vincennes, Ind, on the 18th there
was a single graduate of the public
schools, q colored girl named Grace
Brewster. Eight white girls who were
in the same class refused to graduate
with her, and she appeared on the
stage alone and read her essay to q
great crowd which, tPsssE nam n RI
festations' OF approval. Five OF SMe
white girls are &ughtcrs of Republi-
can fathers.
Herman Reedle was digging well
at McAlister, I. IT. He arranged a
charge for blasting, lighted the fuse
and was hoisted toward the surface
forty feet above. When half way. up
the rope broke and he fell to the bot
tom. He tried to grasp and eXtinguish
the fuse, but too late. The charge ex-
ploded, Herman was blown nearly to
the top Of the well and fell back dead
with every bone in his body broken.
Charles Patterson, a notorious chicken
thief of Richmond, Va, was in the
habit of killing and dressing the chick
ems he stole before quitting the premi-
ses. Unfortunately for him he fell as
leep while picking chickens on Monday
night, and in the morning the owner
found him calmly snoring by the side
of eight well dressed fowls and pile
Of feathers. Richmond roosts will not
be disturbed by Charles for many
moons.
\ Clinton, Iowa, special says in an
encounter between saloonists and pro-
hibitionists four of the former, named
Forsee, Fedderson, Hart and Rhodes,
were shot, none of them being fatally
wounded. The marshal, judge and
Frank Hillerman was jailed, charged
with doing the shooting. The saloon
element were threatening to lynch the
Judge and Hillerman, and declare the
Jail will be blown up if necessary to
get them.
General Gordon is increasing his lead
over the Hon. A. o. Bacon for the Geor-
gia Democratic Gubernatorial nomina-
tion. Saturday week Gordon had fifty
four instructed delegates and Bacon
forty-four. Last Saturday the score
stood Gordon sixty-eight and Bacon
tifty-two. Sixty delegates will be
chosen this week and the friends of
both aspirants will put forth their best
efforts to capture the County delega-
tions. 1t will require ITO votes to
nominate.
John p. Chase, of Augusta, Me-, is a
veteran of the last war who has, per-
haps, more wounds than any other