The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-05-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
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Our Exchanges.
The Louisiana Prohibitionists have
nominated State ticket with DR.. Nj.
l.. Curl for Governor.
Mrs. Vance, widow of the late
Senator Zeb Vance, will soon publish q
volume of his life and work.
The Southern Presbyterian Cen
eral Assembly rejected the proposals
for union of the Northern Church by a
vote of 80 to IS.
HCongressman Bryan, of Nebraska,
delivered an eloquent address before
the State Normal School ut Greensboro,
N. C., last week.
AT Longview, Tex, five robbers at
the point of pistols intimidated bank
officers and captured $4,000. Citizens
pursued them. Three citizens and .
robber were killed.
1t is estimated that tho annual
consumption of wheat for food in tho
United States averages about four and
half bushels per capita. What pro-
portion OF people raise what they
eat?
Charles j. Noel, farmer near
Lynchburg Va, armed himself with a
shotgun and pistol to shoot prowling
dog, and in attempting to shoot the
dog, accidentally fired pistol bullet
through his own heart.
Three thousand printers have been
employed in the government printing
oihce at Washington. Mr.. Benedict,
the present public printer has dis
charged nearly one thousand of these
workmen, for the simple reason that
they have nothing to do.
Secretary Hoke Smith has appoint.
ed Judge James S. II. Hook, of Geor-
gia, chairman of a commission to con-
fer with tho Usage Indians. Judge
Hook Is man of distinguished ability
and will discharge his duties with
credit to the government and to him
SELF
Tho Senate has confirmed the
nomination of Chas. H..J. Taylor, col
ored, OF Kansas, to be recorder of deeds
in the District of Columbia. The vote
was "a to 10. Taylor comes from Kan
sas City, and was appointed through
the influence of Senator Martin of Kan
SaS.
-Rev. DR.. George Dana Boardman
has preached his farewell sermon to
the First Baptist Church in Philadel-
phla, of which he has been the pastor
so many years. He has been made the
honorary pastor of the church, and is
soon to receive from the congregation
a testimonial OF $4,000.
AT Green Bay, Ala, on the 23rd
inst, Silas Gilfillan, a young merchant,
blew his brains out on the stops at the
house OF James Lewis. He was en-
gagged to marry Miss Lewis, who is ill
aud was reported dead. The girl was
not dead, but heard of tho suicide and
is dying from the shock.
Col. Fred. G. Skinner, who was
colonel Of the old First Virginia Regi-
ment during the war, died at Char
lottesville on the 2lst inst, aged 81
years. He was born in Maryland and
was educated at West Point He was
for some years after the war on the
editorial staff of tho Turf, Field and
Farm Of New York.
Since Mrs. Cleveland returned to
Washington last fall, says the New
York World, she has devoted herself
almost entirely to her babies. She
has been almost invisible, it is said,
except to her intimate friends, and
there has not been as much hospitality
at the White House US there was when
the President was a bachelor.
"A new sect in Russia is known as
the Underground People, lately organ
ized in Saratov. When person falls
Ill the elders come in and baptize him
anew. Then they carry him down in
TO an underground labyrinth, where he
After week the elders como to in
spect the sick man, and if dead he is
duly buried.
That great stretch of country lying
between the Missouri river and the
Rocky Mountains from the Canadian
line to the Arkansas river was but little
known twenty years ago, and over its
vast plains roamed tens of thousands
OF bu1alocs. Today there remains of
these large hcards u remnant of barely
1000 head. and it is not known that a
dozen are outside tho confines of the
National Park, State parks and private
herds.
Edmund Yates, tho English move.
list aud editor, who died in London on
Sunday, was great lover OF the
United States. He was one of the
most thorough readers of American
newspapers and American literature
generally in Europe. In conversation
with the London representative of a
Boston newspaper in the Savage Club
one evening, Mr.. Yates said: ~ have
often regretted that | wasn't born in
the United States. | believe could
have expanded there little more fully
than l have in England. The Ameri
cans are indeed a great people"
Jefferson County, Alabama, Dir
mingham) has two South Carolinians
in its delegation OF six to the General
Assembly, James II. Montgomery and
John Mcqueen. Mr. Montgomery wa.
born in Clarendon County in 1862, wen,
to school in Spartanburg and was grad
uated from the law department of tho
south Carolina College in 1888 He
begun the practice of law at Birming.
ham in 1889. Mr.. Mcqueen was borr
in Darlington County, is 30 years ole
and is the son OF a United States and
Confederate Congressman from South
Carolina. Mr.. Mcqueen comes of d
distinguished family, his mother being
a agrand-daughter of Gen. Andrew Pick
ems of the Revolutionary war.