The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-03-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts oflpt"rest, Gathered from vavious
ouarters.

Iii" loss 10y ifiC wreck or the DC
2on amounts TO So, lG6 QUO.
"a Republican coalition has been
formed in tic Spamish CortcS..
Spring irrshrts are getting in their
USUAL work III GeIminy at present.
lie Pirs!drut ave bis second
hihi'rr % congressman on Thursday
night last.
-Scn"r Antonio Mayner, Il sugar
planter in MalanzaS, has freed his
slaves.
AT Wilmington, Del, tho striking
morocco men have returned to work,
professionally.
-lhc trial of Alderman Jachnc, Of
New York, ON the charge Of bribery,
has been fixed for the 18th April.
A cotton ship at New Orleans was
struck by lightning, the cargo set on
fire and damaged $4,000.
-Geronimo, tho Apache Chief, has
surrendered to Lirt. Maus, who de-
Tended him against the Mexicuns.
Gen. Frccdmcn's Bureau Howard
has occn nominated as Major General
IN the army, rice Pope, retired.
The new Roman Catholic Bishop
OF Georgia is master OF fourteen Ian
gu22cs. He is said to be indeed very
learned.
w. W. Vance, formerly OF Able
vile, has been nomina Q | by the Dem
ocrats for the Louisiana State Senate.
-McssrS. ID. G.. Zciglar and r..
Copcs, of Orangcburg, have "curcd
patents for a hocing machine and u We
hiclc shaft.
"A. j. Twiggs, who lives on Beach
Island, has set up Il distillcry, and il
making whiskey out Of his large corn
crop.
The sum Of $l,O05.10 was the
amount paid witnesses, jurors and
constablcs for service at the recent
erm of Eigciialr court.
Paris has been authorized bv the
Chamber of Deputies to build public
works in order to employ hcridlc pop
ulation.
-Tln I'oU NuN Gnzettc denies the
alleged opposition to Gladstone in his
Cabinet, except ~ 10 Chamberlain and
Trcvclyan.
Three valuable blocks in Helena,
Ark, including the Opera House,
were burnt last we ok, loss 1925 900
half insured.
There were three failures in Rich.
mond, Va, ON Thursday, tie liabilities
a~ggregating about sixty thor.and dol
lars.
The case of Cluvcrius, convicted
of the murder of Lillian Madison, is
set for hearing this week, before the
| Cpurt Of Annenlc of Niruinio
The Pan-Electric investigation was
continued in Washington last week.
Nothing new ~ startling was dcvel-
opod.
AT latest accounts the situation
among the strikers in the West wus
serious. All attempts to run freight
trains seem to have been fruillc-s.
-ltis nov said that Sccrctar, Man
Mug is stricken with paralysis. and
he will have to abandon his place IN
the Cabinet.
Ex.Justicc Ward Hunt of the
United States Supreme Court died IN
Washington last week. He was s.v.
cnty,Sin Years old.
Hon. VIM. II. SAITH, Of Lcxiny-
ton, Ill.,, committed suicide last week
He was worth $500, 900. lie was 81
years old and Il native ri Kentucky.
Hon. Charles =. Mattlrwson.
President of the Norfolk, Ncb., Nation.
al Bank, has d%isappcarcG. financial
cmbarrassments.
Alderman Jachnc, of New York,
arrested on Il charge OF bribcr,, has
been logged in Jail one Of his bun,Ismcn
declining to hold.
james McIIenry, of Erie Railway
ia'nc, has been declared n bankrupt in
London, he having dcfaultcd on an
instalmcn; u to creditors. He will
appeal from tho decree.
Randolph ChurchilI's dcscription
of Mr.. Gladstone as "thc Ossiicn,ion
OF inconsistency was made to match
the Presidents "Innocuous Dcsuetude"
may be.
AN electric lincmam was killed ia
Philadelphia on Saturday by holding
to n wet iron awning post with one
hand while he held the wire in the
other.
In Nanscmond county, Va, the
l7-ycar.old son OH. Van I"urrcll dan
gcrously shot Thomas Bigwood, be-
cause of his Too Intimate relations with
his mother.
Two negroes were drowned in
savannah River opposite Il point in the
CITY where an inquest was being held
over NEGRO drowned Il few dn>s be-
fore.
The Democrats have Governors ia
t"rntN.ouc States. They have Gov
errors ih all the sixteen Southern
states ,andin New York, Pennsylvania,
California, New Jersey and Nevada.
The Rev. L. r. Walker and family
left Edgcti field last Thuroduy for Wan
d~arvillc, near Charleston. Mr. Walk.
er goes u assume the r~cctorship Of the
Episcopal Church at Wandarviilr.
M. Blasso, postmaster at IIuspuck-
anr, Mis-, ninety miles soul, of
Memphis, was murdered by unknown
persons, who robbed his store and
riilcd the postoticc Of all the money
and stamps.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad
will be completed to the Pacific Coast
carly I'm hnriI and a l;no 80