The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-03-03
NEWS rrssars,
Bacts of Interest, Gathared from vari,
QuRrtcrs,


Don Carlos is planning a new revo-
luton in spain.
"A suicide mania l. prt vailing
throughout tie North and West.
The Pope had n fainting fiji last
week, the result OF overwurk.
IA monument to George Peabody
is being talked about. H. deserves it.
Frank .. Dane. who died iu Bos-
ton last week, had a lite insurance of
$4,000.
Two city officials of Cincinnati
whn wcr" found guilty of ~malicusancc
in office have disappeared.
The Lewis County Court House,
Va, was destroyed by m inccmdlaly
fire. All the records were saved.
During u race between ice boats
on ih' hudson River u few days ago, a
mile II minute was reached.
The gas COMPANY war between the
old and the prospective company Is
still being waged in Augusta.
Fritz Brar, of Davenport, Ohio,
was so affected by the death OF his
wife that he committed suicide.
Railroad rates between Chicago
and Francisco are being sill further
cut.
The Arm0nv Rink in Buffalo,
n. y, with two adjacent blocks, was
burnt on Monday.
MIR. "A. Pope has been appointed
General Freight Agent of tho Norfolk
aud Western Railroad.
In Wilkes county, Ga, a little
daugh'cr of Mr.. Thomas Sis>on fell in
Il spring and VAS drowned.
Henry Wattcrson's condition con-
tinucs to improve, aud he is on his
way to recovery.
Several marine disasters have re-
Gently occurred in the South Pacific,
and u number of lives arc reported
lost.
Three vessels loaded with coal
have been lost between Charleston and
Philadelphia during the past two
months.
The strike in the PENNSYLVANIA
coke region is virtually over and tho
Hungarian organization has gone to
pieces.
The cornerstone Of n Confederate
monument was laid at Baton Rouge,
La, on Monday, with imposing ccrc-
monies.
-Clarencc j. Sears, aged 80, near
Ottawa, ILL.,, had trouble with his wife
about religion aud killed her with II
iiaiitiSuw.
1.-The Cigar. makers International
Union are taking steps to do away
with tho tnunnfnctn.a t,f ,,h1,,,,o I.,t
and snwdust cigars.
Elijah Pate, Of Doolv county, Ga.
a prosperous farmer, aged "a years,
married Miss Bailey, a maiden of Is.
-Jamcs Mccoy, a desperate moon
shincr, mas been arrested in Georgia,
charged with killing Deputy U. ).
Marshal Kellet.
DR.. Meade Kcmper, a prominent
Young physician of Norfolk, Va, and
son of tx Governor Kempcr, died sud-
denly last week.
-DcLrsscpS met with q cordial re-
ception at Panama last week, thousands
of prrsons of all n%ationaIirics turning
out to greet the great canal protector.
The Western BOYS are making the
Cinnamon "go." Sunday night last
Il party Of CcleS'ialS were escorted on
of the town of Oregon City by ku-klux.
"A fire in Yokohama, Japan, de.
slr"ytd the Windsor Ho,cl and several
other buildings. Loss 800. 600; in.
sured.
-$G2.5 o is the cost Of y first-class
passenger ticket from New York tc
u francisco, at the present ''cut'
rates.
There arc various and conflicting
stories concerning the whereabouts OF
the missing ex-Shcrif Davidson, OF
New York.
The Grand Army Of the Republic,
department of Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia, held its annual encamp.
ment in Atlanta last week.
Ten thousand unlicensed dogs
have deem DESTROYED in Loudon at the
Dogs ioine alone since tho hydro
phobia scare began, a few weeks ago.
Three thousand strikers at Liam.
bcris, Wales, have resumed work on
employers terms. They have been
idle nineteen weeks and arc i'm ter
rible distress.
-Weslc! Elliott, a temperance ad-
vocate in SheIbyvilie, H., has been
arrested for entering u saloon, turning
the faucets Of barrels and allowing the
liquor tc run out.
Gen. Dcl9ado and his friends, cap
iurcd on the steamer City of Mexico
a. supposed flibuster, are detained as
prisoners of war and not allowed to
confer with legal advisers.
Several thousand Scotch women
have been thrown out of employment
b! the collapse of the skirt and rnch.
inYs industry, due TO the American
increase of duty on goods of that class.
"A French woman who has gone
TO 722 balls in orderto catch a husband,
has caught instead bronchitis nineteen
limcs,pleurisy thrice and l20colds iu the
head. And still she is not discouraged.
tho loss by the fire in Winning
'on, N. c., ON Sunday last, it, is now
thought will not exceed $500, 600,
ABOUT thrce-fourths covered by insur.
a,lce. The railroads are all in Lining
order again.
-SimallpOx having been declared