The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-26
News of the Week.

selllhS III England AT prices no dearer than
the native fruit.
Weston concluded walk Of 500 miles
in six days, ut Newark, N. J on Saturday
night He was in good condition after
the feat.
a London paper felicitates itself upon
the fact that the Thames embankment is
rapidly becoming the handsomest boulevard
in Europe.
The Navajo Indians of New Mexico
presented President Grant with n yariega-
ted blanket of their own manufacture on
taking leave of him.
Mrs. Elizabeth jenkins, mother of the
late Mrs. Surratt, upwards of eighty years
of age, was seriously injured a few DAYS
since, by fall received at her home near
Surnttsville.
Horace Greeley, nephew of the late
Horace Greeley, founder of the New York
Tribune, is day-laborcr at the glass works
OF Stevens, Crondell & Co., Bernhard's
Bay, Oswego, county,
A new lamp has been patented for
taking photographs at night, in which BIZ.
sulphide Of carbon is burned in peroxide
of nitrogen. 1t is said to equal sunlight
in its effects and intensity.
Libbie Cochran, an unmarried young
woman, aged II, was arrested at Lynn,
Mass on Saturday, for drowning her two
year old babe. The father of the child,
youth Of 10, was also arrested.
The Easton Star learns that some Of
tho farmers of Trappe district fattened
their hogs this season on wheat instead of
corn, owing to the low price of wheat.
Wheat fattens hogs much faster than corn,
it is said.
Five thousand dollars was paid to Bishop
Alemany for performing the marriage
ceremony of Miss Sharon, the daughter of
the prospective senator from Nevada whose
annual income is said to be over s4,000,-
600 in gold?
Two hundred and forty-thee persons
persisted on the lakes this year, against
two hundred and twenty-one in 1873, and
two hundred and nineteen in 1872.
The estimated damage to property foots
up s3,O3l 900 against SO, 976, 900 in 1873
The dead bodies of two young men were
found on the track of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, near Kansas City, on Saturday
A coroner's jury decided that they had
been murdered, and it is supposed they
were Pinkerton detectives ON the hunt for
railroad robbers.
The weather through New England and
the Canadas, on Monday night and Tues
day morning, was extremely cold. At
Boston, the thermometer marked six de.
grees below zero; at Lancaster, N. II. 30
below in Maine it averaged Is below at
Montreal, IA below, and at Toronto, 4
below.
Two trains on the East Tennessee, Vir-
GINA and Georgia Railroad, came into
collision near Carter's Depot, Va. on Sat
urday morning. Both engines and several
Of the cars were smashed. J. Grouse aud
William Wyatt were killed, and five other
men fatally injured. The track was OBJ
structed for about twenty -four hours.
The schooner William Wilson, at New
York from Turks Island, reports that on
the 23d ult six miles faom Porto Rico,
she was hove to By Spanish war ,teamer,
which fired three blank cartri' 5es. The
Spanish vessel sent crew alongside, but,
after finding out the cargo and destination
of the schooner, allowed the latter to pro-
coed.
The signal service observer at Cape
Ilattcras announces the arrival there on
the 18th inst of Mr.. II. N. Bishop, who
made the trip from Quebec, Canada, in
his paper canoe, the "Maria Theresa. -
The canoe weighs only So pounds. Mr..
Bishop started from Quebec on the 4th
Of July. He expected to leave Hatteras
on Saturday, and reach Key West, his
destination, by the LIST of March.
At Dcsmoines, Iowa, Tuesday afternoon,
one hundred and City disguised and
armed men took Charles Howard, accused
Of murder, from the jail, and hanged him
from a lamp-post Towards wife was
sleeping with him in the jail, and her
shrieks are described as "horrible," while
she chung to her husband with such frantic
force that it required the strength of half
dozen men to tear him away.
Six or seven years ago Dr. Marshall, of
Knoxville, was married to Miss Parsons,
brilliant and beautiful young lady. They
lived unhappily together for several years,
when she made an application for d.
vorce, and was separated from her liege
lord. He married again, aud his second
wife was divorced from him in the same
manner as the first, and now he weds his
first wife a second time He now resides
in Brunswick, Ga.
At Chestnut Hill, near Boston, on Sat-
urday afternoon, a twelve year-old daught-
or of Judge Lowell, of the U. S. District
Court, was fcloniously assaulted and also
robbed by colored man named Williams,
"a years Of age. She was returning from
a skating pond at the time, and sue
eeeded in reaching home after the assault,
although very seriously, if not fatally in
jurcd, Williams was captured the same
night, and lodged in jail
Quartermaster-Gen Meigs reports in
relation to the distribution of disused army
clothing to the sufferers by the lower Mis-
sissippi foods, that there were shipped
from Jacksonville to New Orleans, under
instructions from the Secretary of War,
rs, 900 fatigue caps, 25, 900 pairs Of pegged
bootees, $4,000 flannel sack coats, and
1000 woolen blankets Of the old pattern.
There were no instructions to distribute
the clothing to the sufferers in Alabama,
and therefore no such distribution was
made,
A young woman in Baltimore, named
Maggie Dehl, was arrested on Monday
for throwing vitriol on Felix
Kennedy, street car conductor, whom
she accused of refusing to fulfil his prom
isc of marriage. Kennedy was severely
burned by the vitriol about the face and
neck, aud had his overcoat destroyed.
Henry A. Rodgers, of the firm of Coleman
& Rodgers. druggists was also considera-