The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-01-04
GENERAL NEWS NOEEs.
TENS OF interes, Gathered from Various
Quarter.

to start Il paper in Atlanta,
~ Minneapolis, MINI, yesterday, the
thermometer was twenty degrees below
zero ut / \. VI.
There has been serious troubled in sending
and receiving cablcgrams and kilograms at
and from New York.
The Government receipts for December
| amount to %2i. 26j, 259, and the surplus for
the month will reach $l5, O0J, GEO,
At Rockland, Me, a gale ragged Wcdncss
day night with unparalleled fury, doing
grca, damage to shipping in the harbor.
The Catholics of Richmond, Va, last
night held a mass meeting III The Cathedral
hal in celebration of the Popc's jubilee.
At Halifax, n. S, Il terrific gale pre-
vailed on Wednesday night, causing extern
sive damage to shipping i'll the harbor.
Roland Taylor, a colorcd prisoner, set
fire 10 the Toccoa, Ca, Jail Monday night
and was burned up in it.
\ fierce northwest blizzard has prevailed
throughout the upper Michigan peninsula
ON Wednesday, and bad blockades are an
ticipatcd.
Fire at Moss Point, Miss, on Wednesday
night, destroyed ten houses, including j..
IL. kribhc'S store. new hotel and glass fac
tory. Loss $2l 900.
At San Francisco yesterday Judge Hon.
man rendered a decision in the United
States District Court sustaining the right
Of Chinese TO import opium.
The British steamer Lord Cough. which
left Philadelphia, December 10, for Queens
town and Liverpool, has not yet arrived.
Considerable anxiety is felt.
MI. Geo. II. Ingraham, Sr., died Mt his
home in Charleston last night at n quarter
past II o'clock. He was in the Sith year of
his age.
The Morgan Wooden Mills near Winchcs.
ter, Va, were entirely burned on Monday
night. Insurance SOS, 600; loss much
greater.
The gift of Queen Victoria to the Pope
consists OF Il gold ever and basin. These
The Pope intends TO use in celebrating the
Jubilee Mass.
The Czarina has given an audience to
Lord Randolph Churchill, who presented
10 her letters from the Princess Of Wales
and Duchess Of Edinburgh.
The steamer Oceanic arrived ut San Fran
cisco from ChinG aud Japan yesterday and
was placed in quarantine, rs two cases of
smallpox were discovered among the Chi
ncsC Storage passengers.
\ Michigan man has bought 1000 acres
Of Tennessee bog lands, near Chattanooga,
which he proposes to drain md raise celery.
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me rope yesterday received hinS Leo
p,o'u repFcScntntivc VINO presented his
1,",ti'lS M'"' Jn''icc S'" Il" I'LL ""'o'
"''fm 'o
Hu'!i1nl ms cnhIlch&cu H"i'li' 10 llGh'
lor - ,UOo Il sac. INC affair to come OIL a
fortnight after SulliYan's match with
Mitchell has been fought. Sullivan has
deposited 500 forfeit.
The State Convention Of the Kansas
IFo'lolt'ohls'S was lelu IN iopcKn ucs,
Gay 4 vas occluG" I" n'Sii I" vigorous
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Nlr. w. W. Corcoran, the well known
phiIanihropist OF Washington, has just
celebrated his eighty.ninth birthday. Many
letters OF conEratuiatloH and tokens OF re-
@ntI were receiver ny 'he 'eNcF|pIc phlI-
"'Hn,"i''|
Calvin Goyan, colorcd, got on a spree IN
O~ranScburg on Saturday, and going tow
ards nome stopped on the road. The next
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