The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-01-11
GENEnAL NEWS MOTIFS.
Items of Interest Gathered FROM Various
OuaTterA.

''r'~~ N'NN W.
Loss about $50, 600,
AT jacksonville, Tex, on Tuesday night
"rcformers" shot one man and hanged two
others. Tho sheriff has called for troops.
a heavy snow storm prevails in Bulga
ria. Railroads are bloCkrdcd and mails
due in Sofia on Saturday have not arrived.
Judge A. u. Aldrich contradicts the rc
port that he has contemplated rcsigning.
lie says he will serve out his term.
Tie Birmingham NuglanO Canal burst
yesterday at II point near Dudley. Hun
drcGS of Families were rendered homeless
by inundation.
The Democratic primaries in New Or
leans resulted III The election Of iifty-siX
Nichols delegates and forty eight McEncry
delegates.
n call has been issued from Boston for
the sixth annual meeting of the National
Law and Order League TO assemble i'll
Philadelphia on February ii and 22 next
At Los Angeles, Cal, on Tuesday the
workshop Of The Los Angeles Furniture
Company was burned. Loss 5000, 600; in
surancC 500, 00O.
1t is reported That the British Govern.
mont is about to offer ElJ, 0c0, 900 of new
3 per cent stock guaranteed from repay
mcnt at par for ut least twenty. five years.
The managers of'tlc Cincinnati Base
Ball Club have decided to have The club
spend the winter practicing and giving cX-
hibition games in the south.
The Court OF Claims has dismissed the
claim of the Mississippi Railroad Company
against the United States for compensation
for carrying The mails before the war.
The residence Of Dir. j. J. Dustin at
MI. Willing was burned on Monday morn.
ing, together with all his household furni-
tire.
Coal dealers IN Philadelphia arc raising
| the price of coal fifty 10 seventy five cents
! per ton, and many of them that
they will sell only one ton on each order.
The meeting of the ladies of Trinity
Church called at the request of the Rector
~ meet this afternoon, has been postponed
until next Monday afternoon ut 4 30.
senator Rlair'S bill to aid the ColorCl
National Industrial Exposition appr0pli-
atcS $500, 600, to he expended under the di-
rcctiou Of Il board of commissioners to be
| appointed by the President.
An 1,S00 ton bark. believed To be an
American vessel, has been wrecked at The
entrance of Waterford Urcland) llarbor.
Her crew, consisting of twenty-five persons,
! were all drowned.
The report of the arrival OF thcstcamslip
Tonawanda, from Savannah, which was
reported in distress OF the New jersey
coast, in New York is an error. The vessel
is still missing.
a special from the City Of Mexico saws
that an earthquake three seconds in dura-
ton was felt Tuesday night at 3 o'clock in
McNcalam, Guerrero. and one Of two sec
0nds yesterday morning at 5 O'Clock in Tc-
! nanCingO, in the same State.
senator Sherman has introduced Il hill
nHnr"pria'ing $200, @00 20 reimburse iupoG
itors for losses sustained 10y failure of the
Frccdman's Savings and Trust Company.
No part Of the money, however, is TO be
| paid 10 ]assignccs Of dcpositors.
John Foley, aged 20 years, has Just been
arrested in New York for tho murder OF
Denny kcarmcy on Christmas day, 1886.
lie couicsscS The killing, but says he acted
in self defence.
y violent storm has been raging i'm the
Irish Channel, and great damage has been
done TO property and shipping. \ portion
OF Fastnct Rock has tumblcd into the sen.
\ large vessel has been wrecked oil Dun.
cannon and all hands are believed 10 be lost.
The steamer Tonuw0.aa, from DaIiGn.
Ga December %, with lumber, Was towcd
into New York last night from Brignn,inc
Shoals, where she was rcpoT'c ! January T..
III distress with her piston rod broken. She
la" l"S' ho' h's' hi'"c anu one seaman.
4 party of negroes were dirpinc q crave
| last week near Robbins. in Aiken COUNTY
| and one Of them, Handy Sweat, uaS sent
| on a spirited horse for nm nXc To- rutu root
that impcdcd the digping. The horse threw
lis rider, killing him almost instantly.
Atlufuycttr. Ind, Judge Einton, sitting
! in the Circuit Court. has decided that tplr
| phone companies doing Il general telephone
| business were compelled by the statute To
| furnish instruments mt the legal rate of So
a month, whether they wished to do SO or
not.
A large dclalcation. covering ! uumbcr
of years, has been discovered in The nm
Of r. J. Allen, Son 4 Co., wholesale deal
crs in OILS, alcohol and chinawarc, in Phila
| dcl!hia The d~craultcr is Henry Hopes,
vino las hccp il The employ of the finn
| since bnyhood.
A sn,cial from. thc civ 81 Me-, ,o .oy.
that The earthquake felt there Monday
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