The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-11-18
Items of News.


the night Of Nov o he administered choroform
to his wife. Al about four O'Clock in the
morning she awOke from her stup0r, to see
her hvsband numbering their two little girls,
aged respectively two months and two years,
By driving nails into their heads with hatch
| ct. She gave the alarm and Flanagan was
arrested. letter from Flanagan to his rSla-
tives was found tackled to a wall, declaring his
intention to kill himself and the rest of the
| family, excepting his son Clarence.
| The lease of the Philadelphia and Trenton
Railroad to the Pennsy lvania Central com
pletes the great CorpoI atoms annexatious in
| New Jersey. IL now controls besides this
road four hundred and ninety eight miles III
railroad in that State, the Delaware and Kari
titan Canal, the Jersey City Ferry, the Camden
and Philadelphia Ferry and the Delaware
Bridge Company. 1t i. said that one of the
trst results will be reduction of fare between
| Philadelphia and New York.
| JouDpOr, fine native city of India o { the
second class, containing 1000 houses, and more
than $4,000 people, was ravnged by great
| food on the night of Friday, the 18th Of Sep
tembcr, the river CUNT, upon which the town
is built, having risen sud emily, and 0vci flowed
its banks. On moderate computation, be-
tween 1000 and !, 1000 houses were DESTROYED
and 10000 people rendered homeless by this
calamity.
AT Chattanooga, a square aud half Of the
business poitio of the city was destroyed by
an incendiary fire early Sunday morning.
Loss $4,000. Fires were started in two other
places In the city, but they were speedily ex-
tinguished The telegraph reports that fifteen
supposed Chicago desperad0s" arrived from
Memphis on Saturday night, and they are
suspected. number of persons were arrest
ed for robberies.
On Friday, two rear cars offs passenger trail
on the Northern Missouri Railroad were throw
from the track near Welsville by the break.
ing Of rail. The cars, which contained IS
recruits for the camp at Salt Lake, rolled
down an cmbankmcnt, turning over two or
three times. Two men were killed and over
thirty injured, several fatally. Two or three
OF the injured soldiers died on Saturday
stage was attacked by fifty Apache Indians
near Wickenburg, Arizona, few DAYS since
and i've OF the passengers were KILLED. Their
names are Fred. Shobolm, Y. n. Loring, n. i.
Solomon, y. W. lamel, and G. 5. Adams
L0rDg and Hamel belonged to Wheeler's ex-
plOring expedition. One account SAYS the
attack was made by highwaymen, not Indians.
No agreement has yet been arrived at be-
tween our Government and that of Spain re-
speoting the Hornet now mcnaced at Port-au-
Prince by Spanish vessels. Secretary Fish
has protested against the design to seize the
| Hornet, and he aud Senior Roberts are engaged
in correspondence on the subject
The U. 5. Grand Jury at Tucson, Arizona,
charge that the Apaches are allowed To leave
iHtll NutlOHH III ltTlitOfN ana 20 ON
the war path at will that the Indians are sup
piled by the agents with arms and ammuni.
| ton and that the Indian women are corrupt-
ed by the officers In charge.
Some Importance is attached to statcmcn;
which, it is said, has been lately authoritative.
| ly made by President Theirs, To the effect that
| when the National Assembly eets in Decen-
Der, the Government will propose 10 end the
provisional regime and establish a dvhnitiye
| Republic.
| The Charleston News says that the colored
members of the South Carolina Legislature.
in caucus last week, resolved to make no np.
| preparation for payment of the interest on the
State debt, and declared themselves in favor
OF repudiating the entire debt, old and new.
| The spread OF small pox in Philadelphia and
other cities is attributed to the sale Of buffalo
| robes taken from the camps of the Blackfeei
and Piegan Indians, two years ago 1t will
be remembered that these tribes were then
wasted by the dsiasc.
| No deaths from yellow fever have occurred
at Charleston for two days. A heavy white
| frost on Sunday ended all danger from the
pcstilence. The City Council has ordered a
day Of Thanksgiving for the cessation OF the
fevcS,
Ia Norfolk, Va. on Saturday night, two
colOred men were fired at and wounded by a
| crowd OF drunken men from Portsmouth. A
! colOred policeman interfered aud was shot
! dead. There was no provocation for the
firing. Several persons were arrested.
| The smallpox is decreasing in Philadelphia,
the number Of eases last week being eighty.
| five less than during the preceding week. In
New York the disease is growing. and instead
Of being confined TO any particular part OF the
| city, shows itself In every section.
The Supreme Court OF the District Of Colum.
| bia has decided that member Of Congress i.
not exempt from the service of a civil process
and that the Constitution does uot indicate in
any way that he Is so exempt.
The vintage Of Calil0rna is so abundant
there is difficulty of obtaining casks to hold it.
| Los Angeles county alone, where there was a
partial failure OF the yield, produces 1000, 500
gallons.
One Of the Russian Ducal fleet arrived in
New York bay on Saturday, but has seen moth.
ing Of the other hips since they were five
days out from Madeira. The Grand Duke
however, may be expected at any moment.
The Supreme Court Of the District of Colum.
bia, on Saturday, dissolved the injunction re-
| straining the issue of the four million dollar:
Improvement loan authorized by the Legisla-
tive Assembly. Lnok out for more stealing.
Philadelphia is the great drug aud chemical
market. Her productions in this class OF goods
are enormous, being u little more than seven
| Fights Of all manufactured in the United States
On Tuesday morning last, a family named
Parkes were found murdered in their house
near Henryville, Ind. The family consisted
| VI Mf. anu mrs. IuTkes, son ana TWO uhuKn
| tcrs. The murderers have been arrested.
A project for uniting the Black and Caspian
| Seas by canal, according to the plan OF Cap
tain Blum, is engaging the attention of the
Russian Government. The cost is estimated a
| about S50, 000, 900.
AT Towsontown, Baltimore county, the T. la
| of Joseph Leage for the murder o { an Il nknowr
woman, near Chase's Station, last June, ha,
resulted in the disagreement of the jury, after
being out IS hours.
Mrs. j. o. Ives, young married lady, killed
herself on Friday, by Jumping from a second
| story window OF her residence, in Brooklyn
! N. Y. She was suffering from puerp eral feyei
at the time.
The revenue Of the Queen Annc's and Ken
Railroad, for September and October, amour,
ted to s3,lI5.6O, equivalent to Sl9, 053 so per
year, more than sufficient to pay the interest OF
| the cost of the work.
The German steamship Franklin, from Stet.
tin, is quarantined at New York, having chnl
era on board. There were 100 cases and Il
deaths during the voyage.
| The Canadian schooner Juiette, loaded with
| grindstones, was sunk off Madison, Ohio, OF
Friday night. All on board except tn cook
WIN. II. Thayer, were lost.
In the Georgia House of Represen tatves, 1
bill has been passed providing for specia
election for Governor on the second Tuesday
| of December.
The First National Bank of Richmond on
Saturday paid check altered from $50 Il
| $4,000. The person who presented 1t and drew
the money had not been arrested.
AZ Minersville, on Saturday, while thre,
children were searching for coal in the gang
way Of an abandoned mine, portions of til,
roof fell upon them, and all persisted.
At Newark, n. j., on Saturday, Geo. Bolts
| convicted of the murder of Oliver s. Halstead
was sentenced to be hanged on the 2lst o
December, a new trial having been refused.
A New York belle proposes to appear at the
Alexis ball illuminated by a crown of gas jet.
spppiied from reservoir concealed in he
| ehigncn.
The U. s. Grand Jury of Baltimore ha
found indictments against 10 whiskey dealers
The cases will be tried at the December teru