The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-02-17
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United States troops now occupy
Seattle.
Samuel j. Tilden was scyenty-two
years old on the 9th:inst. '.i'
Several deaths from cholera arc
reported at Tarifa, Span.
Major w, III. Brown, u prominent
citizen of A~shevilic, N. g., is dead.
Greece hasinformed the Porte that
she has no %inteution of attacking Tur-
key.
- Trouble, on the Mexican border is
anticipated and troops are being sent
there.
Archbishop Gibbom, of Baltimore,
to Us be made II Cardinal, says q Rome
dispatch.
Thomas o. Scales, who took an
overdose OF morphine in Augusta, is
recovering.
The silver debate in tho Senate
was converted into an attack on the
Administration.
George G. Bates, one of the found
crs OF the Wing party, died ut Denver,
Col, Iast week.
The Rev. Thomas T., Green, a
Presbyterian minister of Chicago, has
been converted to Episcopacy.
robert Donneliy suicidcd in Phil
rdc!phia 10y taking arsenic in tho
presence Of his wife and daughter.
The Kentucky State Senate at
Frankfort has passeda bill establishing
the whlpping-post tor wife-bcatcrs.
-Thcrc were fourteen ducls in Paris
during tho ten days previous TO Feb
ruary u; none OF them fatal, however.
The recent storms were terribly
disastrous in the panhandle of Texas
and great losses Of stock have oc-
o lrrcd.
The magnificent residence of JAS.
Courtland, near lIendcrsonville, N. G.,
was burnt on Thursday; loss about
$4,000.
The District Court in Salt Lake
City has convicted and sentenced q
number OF Mormons during the last
fow days.
&c. II. Kayncr and his wife, al
aged couple, were burnt to death aud
their house destroyed, near James.
town, n. Y.
King Milan has summoned the en-
tire Scrvian army to enter The field
tllilr equipped Tor war TO undergo six
weeks drill.
John Springs and Will Austin,
colorcd, were killed by tho fall OF an
elevator at the Mccklcnburg Iron
Works, Charlotte.
The coke syndicate in and around
Pittsbnrg where the miners are on a
strike Will make an effort to put
negroes to work.
John G., Thomas, Land Claim
Agent Of Washington Territory and
Chrirman of The Democratic State
Committee, is dead.
Tho people Of st. Paul, Mimi, arc
bowling because mildcr weather is dis
solving their ice castle. Somc folks
are never satisfied.
president Cleveland has issued a
proclamation warning the rioters in
Washington Territory to dcsist there.
from and di>persc.
The Rev. Il. G.. Pcrishing, Prosi.
dent of the Pittsburg Female College,
has been convicted Of dishonesty,
lying and immortality.
'fsihSSS lht.uIcS III Tue U1ltCO
states for the last week were 22S,
Caaada 81; total, 275, as compared
with 2So for the week previous.
General Sheridan has assumed i'm
mediate command of The Division OF
the Atlantic until the President assigns
Il successor to General Hancock.
The commerce committee of the
french Chamber of Deputies will ask
the Government to continue To pro-
hibit importation OF American pork.
-R. I. Garrett, the wounded dcs-
pcrad" who killed Deputy Sheriff Clay
Davis, was taken from jail in Lamar
coanty, Texas, by masKcd men and
hanged.
George Vcnablc and w. G.. Dam.
while attempting 10 attract the nttcu.
ton of Mrs. NJ. Harris, of Fnvct,c
county, Ga, yer fatally wouudcd bv
her husband.
-Rnchetort has tcnlcred his resio.
nation inihc French Chamber Of Den
utics because OF the rejection OF tie
proposition to extend amnesty TO
political offenders.
Pope Leo XIII. by Letters Apos.
tOlic, dated December %, 1885. has
proclaimed 10 tile entire world an cy-
t%raordinary Jubilee, extending over
the whole of the present year.
"A bill has been introduced into
the lower House of the Prussian Diet
to regulate tho schools of the eastern
provinces of Germany and to make
school attendance compulsory.
The mob of Socialists and work
ingmen made another demonstration
III LondoI. on Thursday but nothing
serious resulted. The damage to prop
crty by the mobis estimated at ESQ, 900.
The smallest tircarm in the world
is a gold watch charm in the form of q
revolver aboutan inch long. Cartridges
are made for it, and it is claimed that
it could do serious damage at short
range.
"A fire il Broad street, Augusta,
destroyed the stores and dwellings OF
NJ. Colelough, Mrs. 5. Meyers and f.
kaufman; loss about $12 900, inst red.
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