The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-25
News of the Week.

composed OF young women.
All the nail factories but one at Ware.
ham, Mass. have suspended business.
The marriage Of Mr.. Frank Leslie, the
publisher, Of New York, is announced.
On a single train last week Rochester,
N. Y shipped eight tons Of cherries.
Fifteen miners were killed by colliery
explosion at Wigan, England, on Saturday.
A second advent prophet in New Hamp-
shire fixes the end Of the world for May
Z, 1878.
Between six and seven hundred rats
were killed in one barn in Talbot county,
Ga. recently.
Oliver T. Frankes, a notorious charac-
ter, was hanged by vigilance committee,
near Nevada City, Mo. last Saturday night.
Rev. Henry Boehm, the patriarch Of
America Methodism, was 100 years old
june s. He has been preacher 70
years.
Rumor whispers the betrothal of Lieu
tenant Colonel Fred Grant-the first en-
gagement in which he has taken part, we
believe.
During heavy storm at Monravia, Ind.
not long since, gun standing in the cor
ner ola room Of house there was fred of
by electricity,
Mrs, Sarah Kidder of Livermore, Me.
will be one hundred and three years old
in October next, aud is probably the old
est person in the State.
The New York Ship List says coal has
been shipped to Boston from ports in that
neighborhood, during the past week, at 81
per ton-the lowest rate for many years.
A novel procession Of steam tug boats
took place at Baltimore, on Monday morn
ing, in honor of an agreement among their
proprietors upon uniform rate Of charges
The Richmond Newspapers contain dis
eouraging accounts of the prospects Of
this years tobacco crop In that State. The
yield will be small and not of very good
quality.
Near Delphi, Illinois, on Saturday,
child of Mrs. Fred Chapman was cut in
two by railroad train. The mother upon
receiving the mutilated body became
raving maniac.
The Wool Clip, which is the first crop
that farmers market, has been sold at pri.
ces two or three cents above the rates OBJ
tanned last year, and the pay for it is the
profit of the farms.
Among the most perennial of old auth
ors, deserves TO be classed Mrs. Hester
Authors, of Pennsylvania, aged 112, who
was present at the signing Of the Declare
tion of Independence.
A few days ago little girl near Lin
coin, Nebraska, sat down among the grass
in field where her brother was moving,
and he not noticing her dccapitated her
head with his scythe.
They had ''mirage" at Catskill re-
Gently, when everything and everybody
seemed turned upside down. Many pec.
pie find the whole system of summer pleas
ure mirage in the end.
1t is reported that John P. Austin, who
was sentenced to the penitentiary last year
from Montgomery county, for highway
robbery, has been left quite a fortune by
relative in England.
A large stone from blast descended on
carriage on Friday in Gloucester, Mas
saehusetts, crushing in the top and instant
ly killing Miss Lucy Corless, and injuring
City Treasurer Corless
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury McCul.
Tough arrived at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
last Saturday from London, to spend few
weeks at his old home He is the guest
of his two sons who reside there.
A Dog belonging to gentleman in
Liverpool, England, is said to have been
carried to Africa and lost there last july.
Early in May the animal reappeared in
Liverpool, and nobody knows how he got
back.
Mrs. Lydia BIankinship of Marion,
Mass, died on Monday, July G, at the ex-
treme age of one hundred years, one
month and eleven days. On her hun
dreth birthday she was in good health and
attended church.
G. Il. Smith, who erected for the late
Prof Morse, the first line of telegraph
poles in this country, between Washington
and Baltimore in 1874, died at his resi-.
dence in Newfeld, Maine, few DAYS
since, at an advanced age.
The Washington Grand Jury have
found true bills against A. H. Underwood,
member of the late District Legislature,
and Thomas B. Warwick, CLERK in the
District Comptroller's Office, both negroes,
for forgery and uttering forged orders.
Two express trains on the Erie Railroad
ran into each other on the single track
road near Canaseraga, N. Y. on Saturday
morning. Robert Atkinson, baggage
master, was killed. and ten other men
were injured, some seriously. Among the
injured is Nathaniel Van Horn, who had
leg and an arm broken. The fault an
pears to have been with the Western train,
which should have waited at the mex, sta.
ton to let the other train pass.
On Saturday morning last brutal muir.
der was committed in Talbot county, Mary |
land A Mrs. Whitman was killed on the |
roadside by colored man, named George |
Wheeler, and her husband who acconpan- |
led her was left senseless. Wheeler was
in company at the time with colored man
named Hines. When Mr.. Whitman re-
covered his consciousness he gave the
alarm, and the citizens turned out en- |
masse in search ofthc murderer. He was
toand on Sunday on the farm Of DR.. Neal,
by whom he was employed, and had his |
throat cut. He confessed the murder,
and admitted that he had attempted sui.
eide. Tho lynching of the negro was pre-
vented with difficulty, but be was finally
lodged in the jail at Easton.
At St. Paul, MINI. on Sunday night,
ex-Attorncy-Gcneral Clarke, Of Mantle.
ba, was struck twice on the head with a
slung shot by an unknown rufIian as he
was standing in front of hotel Next
morning, as he was leaving the hotel
for the railroad depot, to come east, a
crowd Of rafians from Minneapolis, headed
by mike Hay, the chief of police of