The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-01-20
Nrws 1TEsis.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from vario
Quarters.

ttiCt lkoIllCtCI III IkIIaIlIds Ca,.
was below zero last week.
There Is imminent danger Of q
water famine ia Cleveland, o.
On Thursday last navigation on
the james river was entirely stopped.
The new British Parliament is to
meet on Thursday Of the present week.
-Ralston Hall block, in Macon, Ca,
was burnt last week. Loss $4,000;
insurance $37 900.
There are nineteen foreign born
members of present Nationa! House of
The Chinese laborers arc being
supplemented by white men in Sacra-
mcnto.
Minnie Dishner, Nebraska's 'sleep-
ing beauty" has come to after a sleep
of seventy days.
The fashionable young man Of the
cold Northwest N a tall silk hat
and velvet ear muffiers.
Tho Office of the Western Union
Telegraph VI Marion, Ala, was burn
ed with all it's contents on Sunday last.
VIM. West, of Edgefeld, lost his
cotton house and nino bales Of cotton
by fire last week.
-Elmore Gunter and his three.
months-old child were buried on the
same day in Batesburg last week.
Phil Collum, colored, killed his
daughter Hattie in Edgefield by the
accidental discharge Of his gun.
Jesse Marlborough had his leg
broken by a piece of timber falling on
1t while digging a we'll in Lancaster.
The housc of the Rev. G.. Lee, of
Spartanburg, was burnt by an acct
dental fire; loss covered by insurance.
M. Devclle, the new French min
lister of agriculture, never saw q
plough, so they say.
In New York city within the last
twenty years there have been but
thirty -niic deaths from hydrophobis.
Tho proceedings by the Govern
ment against western cattle owners
for fencing public land will be pushed.
Tho dwelling Of Mrs. ID. Will
liams,, of Or%angcburg, was burnt,
with the entire contents u few nights
ago.
-Scipio Scabrook, &n old citizen Of
Charleston, was run over and badly
hurt by a car of the Enterprise Rail
way.
Mrs. Catharine Tassal, an aged
resident of Charleston, died on last
Wednesday from being accidentally
burnt the day before.
Mrs. Louisa Riddle, of Lancaster,
tripped on the ice and fractured her
lInhf ,.r rAar slA .l-,ll~. z-l I.l--
her collar bone.
While on a rabbit HINT in North
Carolina last week, Tom Mowery was
accidentally killed. His head was shot
from his body.
"A washcrwoman and her children,
named Dunbrisky, living in New
York city, recently fell heir to $780,
600 or 5000, 000.
Tho State Of Texas Ia covered
with snow and dead cattle are to be
found in every direction. The cattle
men will suffer heavily.
The Powers have summoned Ser.
via, Bulgaria and Greece to disarm,
promising them that Turkey will fol-
low their example.
Prince Bismarck ia the frat Pro-
Lestant that has ever received the
decoration Of the Order of Christ. The
badge is worth G600.
Sir Waller Raleigh's original to.
bacco pipe, which excited the disgust
of Queen Elizabeth, was sold recently
at an auction in London.
Mr.. Barnum has bought Alice, the
widow of Jumbo. Alice has been an
object of interest to little Londouers at
the Zoo for many years.
The editors Of several newspapers
of the City of Mexico have becn i'm
prisoncd for making libelous attacks
ON the authorities.
"A little boy named Floyd fell into
the race at the Camperdown Mills in
Greenyille during the freezing weather
and narrowly escaped drowning.
On account of ice blockadiug the
tunnels travel on the Western North
Carolina Railroad between Salisbury
and Asheville was for several DAYS
suspended.
President Grevy has signed a
decree granting amnesty to persons
convicted Of political Offenses since
80 H'A ''phSibS oOiittiCNO VI IllAllS
offenders agail Q the common law.
j: w. Bondurant a prominent cit
izcn of Staunton, Va, was decapitated
last Thursday at Goshen by a Chesa-
peake and Ohio train. His head and
one arm were severed from the body.
The rush Of negroes imlniyratine
from the Goldsboro section of North
Carolina to the Georgia turpcntine
districts continues. From ono 10 three
car loads leave every day.
- Hannah Edwards, an old colorcd
woman residing ut the Junction of the
South Carolina and Charleston & Su.
vannah Railroads., was burnt to death
oil Wednesday.
"A negro child was burnt TO death
in ~Spartanburg by it's clothing taking
fire, and MI. Steve Camp had his hands
badly burnt while endeavCring to ex-
tinguish the flames.
Gross carclessness caused the death
Of all engineer and three frcmen on
two freight trains on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, hear Coburg,
Mich, on Thursday.
The farmers In Wales are demand