The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-06-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Quarters.
The silver in a Bland dollar Is worth only
rs. 81 cents.
The total visible supply of cotton for the
world is g. liz, $50 bales.
Twelve thousand Orangemen are drilling
in Antrim.
The Conservatives AVE selected Colonel
Campbell Walker to oppose Gladstone.
Robert Robinson, aged 16, of Wades.
boro, N. c., died Sunday Of ~hydrophobia.
Conrad Miller, of Baltimore, aged 90,
suicided by jumping into the Patapsco
River.
The cholera continues to rage In Venice.
An average of 20 new cases and 10 deaths
occur daily.
Lord Derby and other prominent Liber-
ais have issued u manifesto to the electors
of Liverpool.
The Comte dc Paris has declined the
Queens offer of the use of the Claremont
Castle.
A severe shock Of earthquake, lasting two
minutes, occurred at Asbury Park, N. j.,
Saturday.
All the Republican nominees for State
offices In Arkansas have been withdrawn
from the ticket.
The brotherhood of Photographers have
resolved to fall in line under the banner Of
the knights of Labor.
Sam Jones has finished his work in Bal
timore, having converted 1000 persons out
of n population of $40, 600.
One hundred natives and ten English
people lost their lives through the eruption
of the volcano at Tarawcra.
Terrible storms and floods have prevailed
in the French provinces, and three shocks
of earthquake visited Poicticrs.
The %coroncr's jury has found another
verdict OF willful murder against the police
mt Belfast.
A dynamite bomb was hurled into the
carriagcway of the house of the Mayor of
Racine, Wis.
Roscoe Conkling is to get $40, 600 for
acting as government counsel in the Broad
way railroad investigation.
King Ludwig's old physician denies that
the King was insane. He maintains that
Ludwig was only eccentric.
Mrs. Wallace, of Knoxville, Tenn, was
frightened to death recently by Il runaway
horse.
The British troops are dying by hun.
drcds in Egypt. Ten dropped dead from
heat Sunday last.
a whole family was swept away by n
flood in Cheyenne, Wy, and enc of the
bodies found in the top of a tree.
At & fire in n mattress factory in Chicago
Monday afternoon a number of operatives,
mostly girls, were buried IN the ruins.
Dave Wells, of Macon, Ga, blew out his
brains yesterday with q pistol. Domestic
trouble and liquor was the cause.
1t is stated that Parliament will be dis
solved on thp o1th InSt nnI write for fln
new elections bc issued on the 25th.
The Augusta mill owners posted a notice
that all the mills will be shut down unless
the employees of the Algcrnon Mill return
to work at once.
The knights Templur of Richmond have
gone on II jaunt to Providence, II. l.. Their
train is a special, composed Of six Pullman
cars and one smoker.
A man named Summerkalb, aged IS
years, and his wife, aged rs. were burned
or suitocatcd 10y the explosion of a kcro,
scnc lamp in New York.
Nelson Palmer, of Baltimore, committed
suicide in jail, where he was incarccrated
on the charge of forgery last Friday. He
was respectfully connected.
McGraw, the Objectionable oversecr in
the Algcrnon cotton mill at Augusta, has
resigned, and the thrca' cned outlook in the
mills there has been avcrted.
A terrific storm al Crookston. Mimi,
wrecked the Gcrmania Hotel, iniuring
eight persons, me tho Catholic Church,
and seriously damaged two other hotels.
Abraham I.incoln'S tomb has hocn turned
into II money making machine, by making
visitors who desire TO sec il pay 21 cents
each.
The Vatican does not approve Of the en-
pulsion of the French Princes, but has de-
cidcd to take no action respecting the mat,
ter.
~ crazy negro woman attempted to hang
her thr~ee-ycar-old child in Yamacraw yes
tcrday. The child was rescued and the
woman taken charge of.
The convicts employed on the Pittsboro
Railroad, North Carolina, nave refused to
work, and the authorities are trying to
starVc them into obedience.
The heat in Minneapolis, MINI, Friday
and Saturday last was intense, the ther.
momctcr recording 90 degrees in the shade.
Three cases of sunstrokc occurred Satur.
day.
The Michigan Democrats have decided
to run I. b. Barry, of the knights of La
Dor Executive Board, for Lieutenant Gov
crnor
Alta meeting Of THE Brothers of the
Red Cross" n Socialistic organization,
held in Chicago Monday, anarchy, Mill.
ism, revolt and plumber We're advocated.
Winfield Lee Compton, of Kansas City,
Mo-, was married on June 2, and on their
wedding trip stopped in New York, where
he shot himself and wife Monday.
On and after August list, the seven prin-
cipal theatres of Chicago will abandon
window advertising. 1t will cut off an
average of 1000 dOadheads.
Representative Smalls has Mt last sue.
cccdcd in getting the House I pass his bill
providing for the redemption and sale of
the school farm lands now held in Beau
fort County.
Morrison's motion to go into committee
of tie whole to consider the tariff bill was
defeated yesterday by n vote of 1877 to $40.
The South Carolina Representatives voted
with the minority.
When the early train from Atlanta
reached Charlotte Tuesday, a stout built,
~gray-haired passenger was found to be dead