The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-02-03
NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Yariou
Quarters.

proved.
eleven murders wero committed
in Paris last week.
Serious floods are reported i'm the
South of France.
"A fire in Opelika, Ala, last week
destroyed several stores and offices.
II. l.. Chambers, q merchant of
Chester, died in Florida.
Europe is covered with SNOW from
the licbridcs to the Arno.
Titled foreigners arc thick at New
York hotels.
Senator Ingalls, is said to be nurs-
ing a Presidential boom.
p. LoriIlard, the great racing man.,
has withdrawn from the turf.
The Iri6uneS of New York and
Chicago are calling each other NAMES.
-Ex-Congressman Rainey is run
ming a coal yard in Washington.
Morgan ODonnell was drowned
off Sullivan's Island beach OH Sunday.
The United States Bagging Asso-
citation in Charleston has been dis
solved.
This has been the hardest winter
Scotland has experienced in twenty
years.
Col. Ashbel Smith, a veteran of
the war for Texas independence, died
in Houston.
The weather has been So severe in
Pickcns that trees were split and opos-
sums frozen.
-Ecightccn bodies so far have been
brought ont of the Oral mine at New
burg, w. Va.
-Bloodshed ia feared by some on
account of the disagreement in the
Ohio Senate.
An Indiana mars diseased liver
was recently removed, and lie is now
doing we'll.
Greece still refuses to disarm. The
British Mediterranean fleet has been
ordered TO the port of Athens.
Two murdercrs, a Mexican and
al Indian, were lynched in Carson
vile. Cal, on Thursday.
The Mississippi River is blocked
by n mass of ice for over s~iXtv-fve
miles above and below st. Louis.
The heaviest snow for fourteen
years lies over England and all along
the Continent.
"A child of Mr.. John. Stockman,
of Ncwbcrry, was bitten by q mad dog
last week.
Each Congressman gets this year
$500 packages of vegetable seeds, be-
sides 800 packages of flower seeds.
White Il Mathews, fancy goods,
and Trim e. Spear, candy manufuc-
turers, of Charleston have suspended.
Last week Percy Siblcy, n white
boy, stabbed aud killed his father,
while in n fit OF anger.
The British Government is ready
to push the fighting in the House Of
Commons on the Irish question.
Calvin Simpson, the negro who
murdered Mrs. Graves in Henderson,
Ky, was taken from Jail and lynchcd.
-Servia is ~disheartcned by the an
nounccment that the great European
powers have decided to cocrce Greece.
"A small colored child was fatally
burnt on the premises of f. NJ. Bailey
on Edisto Island last week.
"A boy employed in a mill in
Youngstown, Ohio, dropped u lamp
into an oil pan causing u $4,000 con-
tlagration.
The ST. Cloud Hotel, Arch street,
Philadelphia, and several adjacent
stores were burnt last week; loss
heavily.
The County Poor House, at Jack
sou, Mich, was DESTROYED by fire last
week, and Il number of the aged ill.,
mates persisted.
The latest sensation in Chicago is
the marriage Of Il son to the bride-ex-
pectant of his father. The parties are
very respectable.
DR.. Sam. Price and VIM. Powell
quarrcled overs medical bill in Walker
county, Ca, fought and both were
fatally wounded.
1t is claimed in Washington that
leaders of both parties have arranged
for the admission of three new States
Washington, Dakota and Montana.
George Daniel last week eloped
from Griffin, Ga, with his sister-in-
law, and killed his wife who was in
pursuit.
"A fire in Brownsville, Ala, last
week destroyed six stores end four
dwellings. Loss about 100000; no
insurance.
Hon. David r. Atkinson, former
ly o Senator from Missouri and leader
of the pro-slavery party in Kansas,
died on Wednesday.
The two-story dwelling and store
of Robert Ward, colorcd, of Green
vile, was destroyed by fire loss 3d.
900.
President Cleveland is reported to
value "Auld Lang Syne" and Sep.
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other music.
According to the Baltimore Man.
Wdcturers' Record, the assessed value
of property in the South has increased
nearly $1,000, 000, 900 since 1879.
"A fire burned three buildings,
corne of Orleans and Linden streets,
Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday, and
Fred. Schmidt, a German, was burnt
to death.
Charles Howard, a colorcd watch