The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-03-03
anSHaALN NEWS ITEMS.
Ftcts OF Interest, from Various
Quarters.

throughout The North auu West.
The Pope had u tain,inx I'll last
week, the result ofoverwurk.
"A monument to George Peabody
is being talked about. H. deserves it.
Frank O. Dane, who died In Bus-
tom last week, had a life insurance of
$4,000.
Two city officials of Cincinnati
Who were tnund guiit> Of m~alirasancr
in office have disappeared.
The Lewis County Court House,
Va, Was destroyed by III iucendiary
tire. All the records were saved.
During II race between ice boats
ON IN, Hudson River u try day ago, a
mile II minute VAS reached.
The gas company war bet " g the
old and the prospective company is
still being wagcd in Augusta.
Fritz Brar, of Davenport, Ohio,
was 50 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. T., with two adjacent blocks, was
burnt on Monday.
MIR. A. Pope has been appointed
General f light Agent of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad.
In Wilkes county, Ga, a little
daughter of Mr.. Thomas Sis,on fell in
Il spring aud WAS drowned.
Henry Wattcrson's condition con-
tinncs to improve, and he is on his
way to recovery.
Several marine disasters have re-
Gently occurred in the South Paciti,,
and II 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 the
Hungarian organization has gone to
pieces.
The cornerstone Of a Confederate
monument was laid at Baton Rouge,
La, ON Monday, with imposing ccre-
monies.
Clarence j. Sears, aged so, near
Ottawa, ILL.,, had trouble with his wife
about religion and killed her with IL
iiaudsuw.
The Cigar makers International
Union are taking steps to do away
with the manufacture of cabbage leaf
and sawdust cigars.
Elijah Pate, of Doolv county, Ga,
q prosperous tarrner, aged n Years,
married Miss Bailey, a maiden of Is.
-Jamrs Mccoy, a desperate moon
shincr, mas been arrested IN Georgia,
charged with killing Deputy l.. 5.
Marshal Kellct.
DR.. Meade Kempcr, a prominent
young phy siciau of Norfolk, Va, and
son of cx Governor Kemper, died sud
denly last week.
-DeLcsscps met with a cordial re-
ccption ut Panama last week, thousands
of persons of all ~nationali,ics turning
out to greet the great canal protector.
The Western boys are making the
Cinnamon 'go." Sunday night last
Il party of Cclrstials were escorted ont
of the ownof Oregon City by ku-klux.
"A fire in Yokohama, Japan, de.
s,rnyed the Windsor Hotel and >evcraJ
other buildings. Loss 800 900; in.
surcd.
-S62, so il the cost of a fir.t-clas,
passenger ticket from New York tc
San Francisco, at the present ''cut'
rates.
There arc various and conflicting
stories concerning the whcrcabout, Of
The missing cX-Shcrif' Davidson, ol
New York.
The Grand Army of the Republic,
department of Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia, held its annual cncamp.
inert III Atlanta last week.
Ten thousand unlicensed dogs
have deem DESTROYED in London at The
Dogs Home alone since tic hydro
phobia scare began, a few weeks ago.
Three thousand strikers st Liam
bcris, Wales, have resumed work ar
employers terms. They have been
idle nineteen weeks and arc in ter
riblc distress.
Wesley Elliott, n temperance adj
vocatc in Shelby vile, H., has been
arrested for entering u saloon, turning
The faucets of barrels and allowing the
liquor to run out.
Gen. DclYado and his friends, can
iured on the steamer City of Mexico
as supposed flibuster, are detained ~
prisoners of war and not allowed 10
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 1872 balls in orderio catch a husband,
has caught instead bronchitis nineteen
times ,plrurisy thrice aud l2Ocoldsi in the
head. And still she is not discouraged.
the loss by the fire in Whining
'on, n. c., on Sunday last, il il now
thought will o exceed $5OO,OUO,
about three-tourths covered by insur.
unce The railroads arc all in running
order again.
SMALLPOX having been declared
epidemic In Fort Worth, Texas, The
mayor of Dallas issued n proclamation
quuranIining against that city, and all
the towns in North Texas will issue
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