The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-03-10
NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

mas an upward tendelICy Ill
New York.
Mississippi has repealed the lien
law after sixteen years trial.
Two almond-eyed Cclestials are
the social rage in Washington.
Intensely cold weather with heavy
snow prevails throughout Europe.
-Muine is experiencing the worst
snow known In II quarter of d century
cotton futures have advanced sew
eral points in New York.
Snow storms have been unusually
severe throughout Great Britain.
Mrs. Hawley, the wife of Senator
liawlcv, OF Conncctlcut, died in WaSti-
inston on Friday evening.
A mechanic Of Bolton, S.. c.,
claims TO have succeeded in getting
perpetual motion.
Three mel were found frozen to
death in the streets of New York one
day last week.
"A treaty of peace between Servia
and Bulgaria was signed at Bucharest
last week.
Many vessels arc detained in the
harhors along the English coast, and
numerous wrecks are reported.
Il. w. Nickerson 81 Co., large
West India importers Of Boston, have
failed.
1t is claimed that Iaborers on the
Panama Canal are dying ut the rate OF
forty q day or 1900 yearly.
Jenny Lind. who is now sixty. five
years OF age, will, it is said, give Il
>rries of concerts in London during
the coming season..
-MurInum Elders are making many
converts among men and wumr in
North Alabama. Where is Judge
LS nch?
"A crew Of eight persons in n life
boat belonging to the steamer IieWiId,
wrecked in Long Island Sound, were
drowned.
The extreme Left in the French
Deputies have formally declared il,
favor of the immediate expulsion OF
the French Princes.
Serena, u Sister Of Charity of
Providence Hospital, Washing.o ON City,
fell through an elevator aud was
fatally injured.
"A fire at Montgomery, Ala, last
Friday night, destroy e d$l50. 900 worth
of property, including $500 bales OF
cotton.
The Knights of Labor of Texas
were OH a Zig strike last week, and
the operations of the railroads were
gre atty embarrassed.
Senator E.lmuds will have a goo
chance TO tire himself out if he actual
~ proceeds with an attempt to cocrce
the President.
Tile Blair Educational Bill passed
the United States Senate on Friday by
a vote OF 36 to IL. There were !.
number OF pairs, and 'vcral abscntccs
Thursday the 2nd inst. was "Wo-
mans Day" at the American EXpu>i.
ton, New Orleans, and 10000 persons
participated.
The harbor Of Newport, II. l., was
recently frozen solid and travel is sus-
pended, The Hudson River was again
frozen over al Tarrytown and above.
The dry house of the Miami Pow
der COMPANY, near Icnia, o., blew
up, killing three men ana blowing the
building and machinery to aioms.
-Govcrnor McEncry, of Louisiana,
has signed the death warrants Of PAT,
rick Ford and John Murphy. Thri,
execution is ordered for Friday, l2il
inst.
The President has approved The
Acis removing the disabilities of a. p,
Stewart, OF Mississippi, Ed. 6. Butler,
of Missouri, and Ihos. l.. Rosscr, ol
Virginia.
A Kansas City man estimates thai
a stream of beer about two inches in
diameter and l0S miles long flows
through Kansas throats every ycar.
-EX-Spcakcr Randall on Marcel, !
had been in Congress for twcntv-threr
years. Thirty-two years ago lie wa,
elected to the Philadelphia city coun-
ell.
AT the Evangelical Conference in
Reading, Pa, the resolutions ON in
temperance, Sunday newspaI ers and
the use of tobacco were discussed at
lcn2th and adopted.
Theodore p. Rich, of Coblcskill,
n. Y, killed his runaway wife in ST.
Paul and then fatally shot himself.
DIR. III. ). Gale, who accom- panied The
crring wife, escaped.
There is u cool wave between the
Rev. Robert ). Rowe, of Baltimore,
and his congregation, because he re-
fcrred to charity balls as "godless hops
in the nalnc of sweet charity"
Although Senator Sharon was
supposed to have been worth about
$4,000, 900, his estate proves to be
only $4,000, 600. The general tenden
cy is evidently to ovel estimate greaI
fortunes.
The Cotton Oil Trust Company of
Cincinnati, Ohio, nov controls all the
desirable oil mills west of the Missis
sippi River and sixty per cent. of those
cast of it. They consequently control
the prica Of oil.
All the street-car drivers Of New
York were on n strike last week, but
they resumed work OH Friday. The
employing companies concedcd some
of their demands, and the others will
he submitted to arbitration.
-Thurber, Whyland 81 Co., whole
sale grocers of New York, have been
Sup1 nv q woman and RhO mo Iu,ponoe