The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-03-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

III the strikes IN America.
DR.. j. j. Caldwell, one Of the old.
est physicians of Atlanta, is dead.
1t is again rumored that the Presi-
dent is TO be married this
The sale OF the Morgan art collec-
ton in New York realized 81 1905. 400.
The treaty of peace between Scrvia
and Bulgaria has been ratified.
Prot. Fritz Heidcr, editor of the
Hudson county, N. j., journal, suicid-
ed last week.
1t is learned that tho health of ex.
President Arthur has lately become u
matter for serious concern.
j. o. Polk, a supposed horse thief
was lynched near Coppcras Cove,
Texas.
-EX-Govcrnor Hahn, Representa-
tive in Congress from Louisiana, died
last week.
Earthquakes have occurred i'm Ger
many and Spain, but no serious dam
age was done.
About forty per cent. of last years
grain crop is reported to be still i'm the
hands of the farmers.
OF the seven thousand bills intro
dnccd in the present Congress but
three have become laws.
-Four cadets have just been dis
missed from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis for the offence of hazing.
king Ludwig of Bavaria has again
raised a storm ofindignation by order
ing the erection of two new palaces.
DR.. Armstrong, of Atlanta, is now
associate editor of tho Sunday I'ele-
gfom and his congregation has gone
to pieces.
Diamonds worth 5000, 900 were
saved from the sunkcn steamer Orcg0n
but the owners have not appeared.
Struggled goods, doubtless.
Louise Michel intends TO make a
tour of America. She is mobbed
everywhere she attempts to speak in
public.
Express Messenger Nichols was
killed on n train near Chicago and the
safe robbed of about $4,000 in money
and jcwelry.
Tho unknown schooner which col
llded with the steamer Oregon had her
bows stove in and sunk aud all on
board persisted.
All the United States prisoners
have been removed from the Fulton
county, Ga, Jail, but not until four OF
them had died of meningitis.
The farmers in the northern sec.
ton of Ohio arc much alarmed over
the appearance OF swarms of young
grasshoppcrs.
-EX-Aitorney-Gencral Brewster IL
said to attribute his wite's death large
ly to ovcrwork in discharging social
duties.
= Police Sergeant Brooks, of Rich
mond, Va, was shot while attempting
to arrest a burglar who was trying to
board Il train.
The Duke of Portland, with a
million and q quarter annually from
ground rents alone, is the richest
noblcman IN Britain.
No settlement of the labor troubles
ON the Southwestern Railroads is i'm
sight; the striking contagion seems to
lie spreading.
Henry Scott, a negro, sentenced to
be hanged, at Wilmington, for rape has
had his sentence committed to impris-
mcnt for life.
Miss Cleveland will not rcsumc
her lunches to wives of Congressman
until after Lent. The stag dinners
will go ON all the same.
-"Old Sorrcl", Stomewall Jackson's
war horse, is dead; the skin is to be
stuffed and the skeleton mounted and
kept in the Confederate Soldiers Home
in Richmond.
The linseed oil mills of Varney,
Taylor ~ Co, Toledo, Ohio were burnt
last week, involving a loss of $1O0, 900.
An explosion occurred which damaged
buildings several blocks of.
John Gillespie, colorcd, murdered
the wife of Capt. Thos. Gray, near
London, Tenn, stole a horse and ran
of, but was overhaulcd and lynched
Mrs. Mary Wilcman, a comely
woman of forty, has been convicted OF
poisoning her husband at Little Valley,
n. Y, and sentenced to be hanged on
the 3Oth April.
1t is said that Secretary Lamar re.
Gently rebuked Colonel Ingersol! for
his aggressive infidelity, and expressed
n hope that he would some day become
II Christian preacher.
L. G.. Dewitt, n New York drum
IICi, 'cli iIOil the ice inOunu at Niagara
Falls and was killed, but his body
could not be recovered for two days,
although plainly visible.
"A si~x-year-old child of Joseph
Taylor, in Clay county, Tennessee,
accidentally killed her father while
handling II pistol in his presence last
Friday.
Emma Norman, a young m
shot and killed Henry Arnold, a grocer
in Memphis, Tenn, whom she charges
with her ruin. Arnold has recently
married another woman The muir
deress was arrested.
Canada has her first colored law.
yer, V. Delos Davis. He could no,
reach the bar In the regular way by
reading in the office Of an attorney, as
no attorney would take him, but q
special act admitted him.
Mrs. S. A. Coke will in a few DAYS
receive the keys of her handsome dwell
ling recently erected In Greenville. 1t
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