The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-10-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

a short vacation. o..
Earthquake shocks were felt at Smith
vile, n. C., Monday night.
There was an earthquake shock in Au-
gusta, Ga. Monday afternoon.
Oliver Amos was nominated for GOV
ernor by the Republicans of the Bay State.
The Columbus Knights Of Labor have
nut a ticket in the field for both city and
county officers.
w. G.. Allen, of South Carolina, has
been appointed United States Consul Mt
Picdras Negras, Mexico.
The latest French operations in New He
brides indicate the permanent occupation OF
those islands.
Three men are cutombcd in Winthrop
mine, Mich, and it is not believed they can
bc rescued alive.
China intends TO issue a loan for fifty
million dollars, for the construction of rail
ways in the empire.
John Es,cn Cock, tho well known Nir-
ginia author and book maker, died Mon
day in Clark county, Virginia.
The cattle plague is proving most disas-
ttCuS out West. Several thousands have
been killed in order to stop the spread.
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Carlisle agree upon
one thing, the continuation of the internal
revenue tax On whisky and tobacco.
The Prohibitionists and knights of Labor
in Atlanta have united on a ticket for the
Legislature, called Tile Law and Order
Ticket
Secretary Manning will resume his duties
as head of the Treasury Department rs
soon as cool weather sets in.
Cluvcrius is fond Of flowers, and female
| Sympathizcrs are found TO crafty his taste
in that respect, while weeds arc rank, per
hapS, on Lillian Madison's grave.
J. Frank Burden was shot aud killed by
Caleb Jones Tuesday in Metropolis, III.
Burden had recently married Joncs's di-
voiced wife.
The Democrats Of New Jersey in "on-
vcntion yesterday nominated Robert {, cen
for Governor on the first ballot Owe. y
competitors.
4 threc.yenr.old son of J.. NJ. Robinson,
of Fishing Creek Factory, fell from M
upper story window, Wednesday, and was
painfully injured.
1t is said that between 800 and 1000
briCklaycrS and plastcrerS can secure work
in Charleston during the coming winter
and spring at 81 per day.
The Hartford C0uront says: Nothing
will keep Virgins from prophcsying us
long rs the newspapers will continue to
scare people by printing his bosh."
1t is said that bleeding a partially blind
horse at the nose will restore him to sight.
So much for the horse. To open Il mans
eyes you must bleed him in the pocket.
The Louisville C0uricIrJournn in dc
nouncing corscts tells of n post norton
which revealed n woman's liver actually
cut in two by tight lacing.
a band OF discharged Chinese soldiers
made Il descent on Il leading pawn shop in
Iluchong on August IL. and murdered the
proprietor and As of his employees.
The cholera is still raging throughout
Japan. Between August % and Scp,cm.
Der ) inclusive, nine days, 1898 new cases
were reported. Over G3 per cent. Of those
attacked died.
Superintendent Larkin, who has charge
OF the hosting and setting of the granite
on the capital building a, Atlanta was killed
last Monday by a piece OF stone weighing a
ton falling from the third story on him.
Tuesday night James Dohcrty. Of Brook.
lyn, y. y, pounded his wife till she fled,
leaving her children. The father then set
fire to the house, locked the door on his
children II went away. The children
were saved.
Mr.. Bartholomew, the Hartford default
or, was Il man Of very simple habits. He
lived mOd9stly and economically, and never
smoked or drank. He also wore shabby
clothes, pretended to be stingy and was u
piouS fraud.
y Galveston dispatch, dated the 29th,
says: AT moo there are no signs OF Wig
gins's predicted disturbance in This section.
The weather which has been rainy and dis,
agreeable for several days, to day broke
clear and continues pleasant.
Talk rs he may, nothing plcascS Il man
so much when he enters Il hotel ms to have
the CLERK behind the desk address him IA.
miliarly and ]anXiOusly inquire after his
health. 1t ticklcs his vanity and makes
him believe that he is a bigger man than he
really is.
Some days ago the managers Of the .Au.
gusta Factory sent Il special agent to New
Jersey To employ operatives, paying their
way IL Augusta. Saturday morning TWEEN
ty.tivc Of the new men arrived, but they i'm.
mcdiatcly joined the strikers and refused to
go to work in the mill at all.
The Chicago Times rl)scS IN article on
the apathy of that city in respect to the
suffering al Charleston ms follows. The
hog is II prominent element in the business
OF Chicago, and appears to be securing an
equally prominent position in the nature of
many of its people
In The belgian mines wOrkmCn are paid
80 cents a day; in the q~uarrics 80 cents
In the weaving industries full grown men
earned but 81 n week, though at Client,
by organization and strikes. costing some
Sl5 900, they had succeeded in getting
wages raised to So a week.
Geronimo cltims that, about four months
ago, he captured General Crook. and only
released him upon obtaining a guarantee
that, after indulging in one more raid. the
Ap"chcs might return to their reservation
unmolcstcd The story has given rise to n
good deal of gossip in army circles.
1t now transpircs that George Bartholo.
new, The 10 years old dcfaultcr, of IIaIt,
ford, has made away with two millions of
dollars, He has been Systematically rob
bling every corporation with which he had
any connection. Many failures are cx.
| pcctcd in Hartford on account of tile pccu.
lations Of this hoary old rascal.