The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-08-11
NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

DohShiNh luillIlJ III SblCWSo CIV uOR .
flesh.
The total visible supply of cotton for the
world is 1,43S, 015 bales.
lIoar sprung a bloody shirt discussion in
the Senate Thursday.
Specials from all over Alabama show UNI
expected victories for Independents.
The elections in France resulted in q
complete victory for the Republicans.
llandbills demanding home rule are being
circulated throughout Wales.
The operatives in AZ factories ut Broclon.
Mass, struck Saturday.
The New Orleans Times. Democrat thinks
the postal note is q failure and q fraud.
Virginia has raised more hay this year
than for any of the preceding forty of her
existence.
AT Oakland, Ill.,, the mercury ut one
time last Thursday registered 112 degrees
in the shade.
William Hooper & Son, of Baltimore,
have made an assignment. Estimated
assets $500, 600.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Houtcn, of Watscs,
sing, n. Y, were poisoned recently from
eating canned lobster.
David Davis was not worth the six or
- ''ii'tNiio III W 10 SlCullttl Mlll, IL Has
been officially given at $3.50, 600.
j. G. Dobbins, a train shiftcr, was torn
literally to pieces by a freight train at Cen.
trail, Thursday.
The ground was covered to the depth Of
inches yesterday at Mount Washington,
\. H., with snow.
The four'stOry brick block, comprising
Nos, ZIG, 1lS and 800 South Eutaw street,
Baltimore, was burned last Thursday.
In the anarchist trials at Chicago, yes.
tcrday, the defence opened their case,
Mayor Harrison being one of their wit
ncSScS.
The Siblcy Mills operatives at Augusta
returned to work to-day. The situa-
ton at the Augusta factory remains UNI
changed.
By special order of Governor Ireland, Of
Texas, the parties concerned in delivering
:ArrcSurcs to the Mexican authorities have
been arrested.
The Governor of New Foundland saws:
Il have reason to believe that the report of
starvation in Labrador is absolutely un-
true
Two French sub.oflicers of the army,
stationed at Algicrs, fought n duel with
saDrcs. The head of one Of the combat
ants was cleft in twain.
There is said TO be another great boom i'm
Alabam" coal lands. Active life prevails
III the vicinity of Birmingham and through
out the Black Warrior belt.
The proprictorS of factories in Wcstpha.
lia and Rhcnish Prussia are dismissinr
Workmcn b. wholesale, owing to the ter.
role depression in trade.
In New Albany, Ind, on July 81, Prof.
j. G.. Strunk shot DR.. G.. l.. Hoover, n
prominent druggist, and his son Charles
lloovcr-domcstic difficulties.
The people of Texas have established n
Confederate Home in Austin, which they
propose TO make a model resting place for
the heroes OF the Lost Cause.
Entcrprising South Carolina editors are
beginning to admit that wisdom did not
die with Calhoun, McDunic and Waddcll.
The world movcs.-A"gHsta ChiOnice.
At the trial OF the Chicago dynamitcrs a
carload OF the explosives used by the an.
~arciliStS as well rs the %bloodstaincd clothes
OF the murdered policemen were exhibited
10 the jury.
In Louisville, on July 81, John Kochlcr,
a jealous husband, shOt John Carter, a
counicricitcr, through the heart and Peter
iiouph, Il bricklaycr, through the right eye.
In a recent autograph letter to Il New
FORK man, Jefferson Davis says: Il am
too old to quarrel, too old to boast. The
man of sense in his old age likes to be let
alone
Gov. lrcland's letter addressed to Secrc.
tary Bayard is approved all over Texas,
and has had the effect of intcnsifyinr the
war spirit by airording it u quasi authority
Tor It's existence.
Careful Republicans conccdc that the
next House will be Democratic by n re-.
duccd majority. Don Cameron admits that
the next Senate may he Democratic or pain.
fully close politically.
Mosquitoes are so thick at resorts on the
coast along Barncgat Bay that city people
are compelled to return home. The walls
of every house are literally black with the
insects, and the people endure almost un.
Dcara5Ic torture.
The aggregate appropriation made by
t!c regular appropriation bills passed at
this session Of Congress excluding the for.
ulications bilD is $3G5, 900, 600, which is
Sl0,OOO, 600 in excess of the appropriations
made by the bills passed last session.
In Cincinnati, Wednesday, a little bow.
barchcadcd and b%arcfoOtcd, rccling with
liquor, staggered before the merchants
along Race street, tlourishing q revolver.
lie fired at a gentleman who attempted to
disarm him.
1t is estimated that British capital invest.
ed in the United States amounts to $i75,.
GSG, 535; This money is in mortgages, cat.
tie, land, mines and manufactures. Some
Investments pay from l2i to 3 per cent.
Some pay nothing.
seventy acres OF land north Of Birming.
ham, Ala, were recently sold at the rate
OF 500 per acre. AS the same land was
purchased five years ago at about $50 per
acre, an idea of the increase in the value of
property in that rising district can he Oh.
tanned.
The Adjutant General Of Texas received
at Austin applications for permission to
raise volunteer regiments in case of war
with Mexico. He also received informa.
ton that the MeNicans arc reinforcing the
garrison at FL Paso del Nortc. Uncle Sam
has only one company ut FL Paso in charge
of Fort Bliss.
Ejthor Senators Hampton and Butler are
wrong in voting practically against the