The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
Items of News.

4 Catholic Church, at Trenton, \. j.. Mon.
Ioy morning. While the funeral services
If Rev. Father Maekin we're proceeding,
the church being densely crowded loud
cracking noise was heard in the gallery,
h caused by the breaking of knccling board.
The audience, supposing the gallery about
10 fall, became panie-stricken, loud screams
arose from women and children, and a rush
was made for the doors. Women and
children fell and were trampled upon By a
mass of people who became wedged in be-
tween the door and the front gate TWAS
ten minutes before an opening was effected
for the crowd to pass into the street. In
the meantime, strong men were engaged
in pulling out the women and children :;
and. in the excitement, ladders were put
nm against the walls and females and chill.
dren taken out by the windows. The
clergymen present appealed to the con
rregation 10 be calm and remain in the
church. assuring them that there was no
danger, but their appeals were unheeded
AZ last quiet was restored, and the services
1 in the church resumed. About twenty
persons were injured, three or four of them
dangerously.
Frank Hahn, drover, who resided at
Woodstock, Virginia, left Baltimore for
Washington on Friday by the 7.3O p. NJ.
train on the Baltimore and Potomac Rail.
road. He had sold lot Of sheen to
Macmillan Dietz, and received payment
in draft, which is supposed to be all the
money he carried with him. About 2
o'clock on Saturday morning he was found
near the Baltimore aud Potomac Depot in
diving condition, his head and face hay
ing been fearfully mutilatcd with Ratchet
or some similar implement. The impress
sion prevails in Washington that the
murderer followed his victim from Balti.
more. 4 negro man has been arrested
and confined in prison. A check belong
/ ing to the murdered man and some papers
we're found on him.
Two freight trains ON the Northern
Central Railroad ran into each other at
Liverpool Station, % miles above Harris.
burg Pa, on Friday night The collision
occurred at point where the road makes
a sharp curve among the mountains. Both
engines were shattered and n number of
the ears wrecked The fire in the engine
\ furnaces communicated to the wreck. and
twenty cars, with their contents, including
spirits and other combustible freight, were
consumed. 1t is reported that "a fireman
belonging to Duncannon. Pa, and another
man, name unknown, were burned
Contrary to what would naturally be
supposed, deep-sea telegraphs do not pay
Out of more than fifty lines, only five
pay dividends. The Anglo American and
French lines pay twelve per cent, while
the Eastern, Cuba and Chinese pay less
than five per cent The most plausible
theory for this state of affairs seems to be
that the length and corresponding charges
of these lines preclude the transmission of
social and other messages ofminor import
anee, from which so much money is made
by ordinary telegraph companies.
The Cleveland Ohio Bar Association
have before them resolution that the
testimony given by Judge c. T. Sherman
before the committee in the recent inyes-
tigation in Congress, and letters admitted
by him to be genuine, eyince such moral
turpitude as to destroy all confidence in
his judicial administration, and require
that he should at once resign. Action
upon the resolution is postponed to give
Judge Sherman an opportunity to commu-
nicatc with the association.
Gen. Fremont has been condemned TO
five years Imprisonment by the French
tribunal which tried the ease of the
Memphis, FL Paso and Pacific bond fraud,
for contumacy That is, if caught in
France, the authorities propose to keep
him there at the expense of the State, for
not appearing when cited, defending his
connection with this road aud submitting
to any decree that might be passed.
General Fremont wisely kept out of the
way.
The marine disasters that have occurred
since March :, up to spd including the 2Sth
Of the same month, number l0l, aud in
clude . steam vessels, Is ships, % banks,
10 brigs, q schooncrs, and 9 the rig of
which is not given. % of these vessels
were abandoned, II foundered or were
sunk 10 were wrecked, q run ashore, Z
were burned, four were sunk by collision,
and ten are missing. I3 persons are re-
ported to have lost their lives by these
disasters
Another interview has been held between
the Indian Commissioners and two Of the
recalcitrant Modocs. As usual, nothing
was done looking to settlement Of the
matter of the Lavabeds. The Indians will
not lay down their arms, nor move on to
the reservation, and the troops do not move
on the red men to compel obedience.
This halfway policy, will not do for such
tribes as the Modocs. They need posi-
tive policy, vigorously administered and
enforced.
Richard Staples died in Washington, on
Friday, of hydrcphobia He, had been at
tackled on the street in Chicago, four
months previously, by small dog, but as
no discernible wound was inflicted, he paid
no attention to the matter. The physi-
Clans, accepting his statement, and being
unable to find any wound, came to the con
elusiou that it was "a spontaneous case of
hydrophobia."
Cincinnati will send a very unique
contribution to the Vienna Exhibition.
1t consists of three charcoal drawings, each
thirty feet in length and FIVE feet in height,
illustrating the manner in which they kill
hogs ON the banks of the Ohio and prepare
them for American Kitchens. And, seeing
may the Viennese learn how they do this
sort of thing under a republican form
Of government.
j. II. Holmes, of Manchester, Michigan,
has Just sold FIVE trees on his land in Gin
ton county for 5000. Four Of these trees
were black walnut and the other was a
cherry. They were bought for Detroit
market and the same offered $3.50 for
eighteen walnut trees standing on the
same land, being the price that Holmes
paid for the eighty acres.