The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-06-16

Il ibC IilutIldRS, uu6 pSlOiO w chhoh
of this fen dc .joio has cleared away comes
the report that 40, 600 British troops have
been ordered to Halifax.
Gen. o. D. Howard hes an article in one
of the magazines on what he knows about
the freedmen during the war. But an arti-
Gle telling what the freedmen know about
General Howard since the war would doubt
less be more interesting.
While ex-Jaehne now congratulates him
self that good conduct will shorten his
term as II prisoner 1t does not seem to have
occurred to him at the right time that good
conduct would have heightened his term as
an alderman.
Duelling still appears to be a favorite
pastime in France. Out of eight hundred
and forty-sevcn duels fought during the
past fifteen years, taking no reckoning of
the numerous military encounters, one in
every eighty-seven proved fatal.
The colored Presbyterians of Chcraw are
making arrangements to accommodate the
preachers and visitors to the South Carolina
Presbytery of the colorcd Presbyterian
Church which will be held there in Sep
lember mex
Some one discovers n likeness between
faster, and wonders thercat. There is only
a shade of difference between a butcher and
a tame after all-abOut skin thick.
Violent thunder storms, accompanied by
the bursting of w~atcr+spouts, have for sew
eral days past prevailed in the Thuringian
forest region in Germany and in the Hartz
Mountains. Many people have been killed
by lightning and floods.
A. j. Mcbride and wife were murdered in
Davidson County, n. c., Sunday while
eating their supper, and their house robbed
and burned, together with their bodcis. AL
fred Long and Walter Womack, his broth
crsin law, both colorcd, have been arrested
on suspicion.
The Masons of Anderson cont lplate
tearing down the present Masonic b ding
and erecting II larger and more substantial
one on the same sitc-the ground floor to
contain two large and handsome atorc-
rooms, u hall on the second and q lodge
room OF tho third floor.
p. ID. Davis, Master Workman of the
knights of Labor Assembly at Pacific, Mo,
has been sentenced to two years in tho State
pcnitcntiary and ined $500, for attempting
to wreck n freight train TINT left st. Louis
during the strike in March, and shooting
at the guards.
All our exchanges for the past five days
comc to hand with the usual heaviest rain
falt ever known" These Heaviest" rains,
it will be observed, occur regularly every
year, and the oldest inhabitant' invariably
fails TO remember anything equal to it in his
long life.
Mr.. Charles Dickens, the son of the great
novelist, began Il career as Il public reader
in England on Wednesday evening. The
| report is that he was weak in dialogue, but
strong and interesting in pathos and humor,
Initiating his father very closely. 1t is ever
said that he will further initiate him by
coming to America.
w. III. Glider, a brother of the editor of
the century, is going to start out on an
Arctic expedition this summer. He will
take the track of Lieut.. Lockwood. Engi,
necr Perry, of the United States Navy,
will also make an attempt to cross Green.
land in the direction of Francis Joseph
Fiord.
Mr.. Willie Driggers, of Summcrvillc,
while driving home in Il Wagon a few days
ago, said to a friend who was with him
that he thought he would kill himself, and
drew a pistol and fired five times, each shot
taking effect in his head. He is not con.
sidcrcd MORALLY wounded.
The Lancaster Ledger says: 1--WE arc re.
liahly informed that by II recent survey of
the State line m,'lr ", :; commissioner and
surveyor apr"iu'c ~ The Legislature of
North Carolirm, 2."tu .crcs of land hereto,
fore considered u y 1T OF North Carolina
really belongs TO = dI!i Carolina.
The mauuf ,clu eff wine from oranges
is becoming I'm cN!c;>ivc industry in FlOri.
da. Excellent sherry is said to be pro.
duccd from HE trait, AMI II large propOr
ton of the sherry Of has been
derived from this source since the phyiloN.
era has appeared in Europe.
Maxwell is cool and easy, regrctting that
his plans for the future are delayed by his
conviction. 1t is said that the principal
grounds for the motitn for n new trial
which will be pressed by the prisoners
attorneys are, beside the errors in the in
structions, the bringing in of q lot Of i'm
proper and incompetent evidence.
Chas. j. Reed, the lawyer who defended
Guilcau, has zone wrong. A fatality seems
10 have attended everybody connected with
the defense in that celebrated case. The
other lawyer. Guitcau's brother. in law,
aflcrward had trouble with his wife, scpa-
rated from her. and, If we mistake not, lost
his property.
The first post Office named in honor of
the late Miss Frank Folsom. now Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, has been christened.
Congressman Ellsberry had n fourth class
post Office in Highland County, Ohio,
named Folsom, in order to pcrpetuate the
maiden name of the Presidents bride.
The long-talkcd-o furnaces to be built
at Birmingham by Mr.. Samuel Thomas
and associates, of Pennsylvania, seem at
last to be definitely determined upon. Mr..
Thomas has advertised in the Birmingham
papers for 1000, 600 brick, and also for
proposals for erecting brick buildings at
the place where the furnaces are to be To-
Gated.
The brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joincrs held a meeting in Chicago ycstcr-
day to take action in regard to the impcnd
ing strike i'll the tcn.hour shops. There are
IS shops out of over 300 standing out for
the ten hour working day. Unless these
shops conform TO the time standard adopted
by the rest 1 600 men will lay down their
tools next Monday. :
The contest for the G%ovcrnorship of
Georgia has grown to an intensity which
threatens disregard for the action of the
July convention and an appeal TO the peo.