The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-04-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

from the gout.
MOODY and Sankey arc meeting
with success in Atlanta.
The revolutionists in Buenos Ayres
have been completely defeated.
Statistics show that in Europe the
women have q majority of 1868, 900.
Europe is stated to have an avail
able military force of 100000 sol
diers.
Thousands of negroes in Alabama
will require active help for many
weeks.
The captured Apachcs have been
sent to Fort Marion, st. Augustine,
Florida.
Poker playing in the Kimball
House, Atlanta, has been broken up by
the authorities.
If the weather is favorable, q grand
naval review will come Off at Pcnsa-
cola on Wednesday.
-Rochefort and several ofhis French
Radical friends have been arrested on
charges of melting riot.
The naval evolutions at Pensacola,
OH Tuesday, were very successful and
NSiC COlltliluCNt SCNcltl NtNS.
Hon. VIM. l.. Forster, Chief Sec
rotary for Ireland under the previous
Gladstone Ministry, is dead.
The steamer Mountain Boy was
turned over at Owcnsboro, Ky, by a
gale and three men were drowned.
The Bland silver bill was defeated
in the House of Representatives on
Thursday, by vote Of 1872 to 1876.
w. G.. Alderman, the celebrated
"boy preacher" attempted suicide in
New York. Disappointed in love.
Thomas A. Thatcher, Professor of
Latin and Literature in Yale College,
was found dead in his bed last week.
The Mexicans are down on the
Chinese. An Anti-Chincsc demon
stration was recently made at Mazat-
Ian.
The Gem City Mills, Quincy, Ill.,,
tho largest flour mills in that section,
were burnt last week; loss nearly
100000.
Several prominent Mormons have
been arrested in Salt Lake City, charg-
ed with unlawful cohabitation. They
gave bail.
The people in portions Of Labra-
dor are suffering for food and are CON
suming their dogs. Actual starvation
is imminent.
DR.. Lucy G. Waite, Of Chicago,
has been admitted to the Univcrsary
of Vienna on equal terms with the
male students.
Representative lIouk, of Tcmcs-
10 a hnrpf,,1 H.,
supposes the Republicans may elect a
Governor there!
The past winter has been very
severe and Obstructive to birds in Great
Britain. Large numbers have died
from want of food.
-Harvard's 250th anniversary occurs
next October, and the students want
to celebrate it, but the faculty remain
silent on the subject.
Witnesses before the telephone in
vestigating committee last week were
not public men and the testimony was
of no general interest.
The King OF Greece and his Min
listers have decided to abandon war
preparations, as Prince Alexander has
yielded to the powers.
Gen. Pope left San Francisco on
his journey into retirement in special
train. Time was when he was glad to
retire with his baggage train.
The Republicans of Cincinnati
carried the municipal election by an
overwhelming majority, the Demo-
Gratis being kept home by bad weather.
"A Paris paper states that twenty
five 20 Of chn1nro haua -,
the town of Audicrne, in Fimistcrre,
and that one of them has proved fatal
-Dr. Printon II. Warner, well
known physician of Baltimore, died Of
hydrophobia, Oh Tuesday. lie was
bitten by small dog Christmas day.
-Four wild trains on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad came into
collision on the outskirts of Bcloit,
Wis. Three persons were badly in
jured.
Secretary Manning continues to
improve. He was permitted to get
out of bed and sit up a short time on
Thursday, the first attempt since his
attack.
Ex-senator Mcdonald denies hav-
ing grievance against the Admins
tration and says he has expressed no
opinion as to the effects of Clcveland's
policy.
--Rioting has been renewed i'm East
st. Louis and the police had to bring
their Winchester rifles to bear on the
crowd before they could be made to
retire.
-Th' IAnights Of Labor have issued
an address from st. Louis, signed by
three of the executive boards, in which
it is declared that Jay Gould must be
overthrown.
"A juvenile vagabond, who had
been convicted Of the murder of a
workman on the Champs de Mars, was
executed at Paris, last week, with the
guillotine.
Every railroad bridge between
Newport, Tenn, and Asheville, N. c.,
except the iron bridge near Warm
Springs was carried away by the
recent floods.
The General Convention of the
Episcopal Church will be held in Chi
cago in October. That city has already
subscribed $4,000 for the entertain
ment of the body.