The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-09-16
Items of News.

The story OF the Ayondale disaster
Is made little less hideous than was at
hrst supposed, by the discovery that
Instead Of two hundred and three men
but one hundred and eight were i'm
prisoned aud suffered a horrible death
10 the burning colliery. The closing
agony OF the death of these men will
never be known, as the mine has been
thoroughly explored, aud of all those
Who were below the ground when the
awful catastrophe occurred, not one has
survived to tell the secrets of their pri.
aon house. The researches through the
galleries of the mine have shown that
when the last hope of communication
with the shaft was cut off the men en-
.deayored to save their lives by erecting
barriers to shut out the smoke and gas,
but the effort failed. The use of the
steam fan to drive fresh air down the
shaft after the explosion, has been
found TO have been fatal mistake, the
smoke and gas being driven by it into
oil the passages Of the mine and away
from the shaft, its only method of es
cape. 10 New York and elsewhere
liberal subscriptions are being made for
8 the relief of the widows and orphans Of
the dead, aud very large sum will
undoubtedly be raised The miners
are reported rs firm in their determine.
tion To refuse again to enter a mine
with but one shaft and no other means
of escape, ard their resolution ought to
have the effect Of compelling the neces.
.sary improvements in all the mines.
The great storm on Long Island
iSound and the New England coast on
4 Wednesday and Thursday of last week
caused an immense amount of damage.
attended with the loss of several lives.
Tho city OF Providence was inundated
Shy the waters Of the Sound, a number
of buildings were washed away, and
others were blown down by the gale
Many vessels were beached, and the
coastwise navigation is entirely suspend.
ed. AT all points along the coast
sailing vessels are reported ashore, and
.ou the coast Of Maine the entire crew of
fishing schooner were drowned. La.
ter accounts say the loss by this storm
is larger even than at first supposed.
Its severity was felt over broad track,
mot less than two hundred miles long,
and every orchard and garden, and al.
.rmost every building on the land, and
vessel, large or small on the sea, in the
district wherein it prevailed, bears evi.
denee OF its severity aud power
David Gibson, Of Cincinnati, alleged
to be implicated in the celebrated SIo.
bile Whiskey Fraud case, in which tn,
Government lost SlS7 900, has arrived
in Washington aud had an interview
with Commissioner Delauo. He made
an offer to compromise with the Depart.
ment in the civil process by the pay
ment OF 500, 600 to the Government,
but the Commissioner is understood TO
have declined his proposition.
A destructive fire, which has extend.
ed out from near Suffolk for twenty
miles, is prevailing in the Dismal
swamp, burning up in its course thou.
sands OF slaves and shingles and much
Standing timber
Thomas Lee, Esq, sou of Judge Lee,
OF Halifax county, Va, remembers n
drought in 1888 in which it did not
rain on his fathers plantation from
June until December,
Atlanta rs havinga marvellous growth.
Already the population is between 80.
900 aud 10000, there are at leas,
twelve hundred buildings now in pro.
cess Of erection.
Since the completion of the Pacific
Railroad California has been visited
Wy eighteen United States Senators. and
'by members Of Congress and State
ofhcials without number-all wise men
from the East, And the cry is-still
they come.
The National Union Republican Con.
Tention OF Mississippi met at Jackson.
18th instant, and unanimously uomiua.
ted Judge Lewis Dent for Governor.
Judge II. i. Jefferds for Lieutenant
tGovernor and J. l.. Woodford and
Judges William Kellogg and Joseph
w. Field for Congress for the First,
Third and Fourth Districts.
Judge Jere. S. Black, Of Pennsylya.
ma, has brought suit 10 the sum of S25.-
100 against the Louisville and Nashville
hallroad Company for injuries sustained
some tue during the early part of the
summer.
A religious revival at Richmond. Ind.
Mhich has been in progress for about
SIX monnths, is one ofthe most remark.
able on record. About nine bundrea