The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-05
News Of the Week.

ofeCteu III Il ibeobuik bulo year
The scarlet fever prevails in Baltimore
to an alarming extent, says the San.
The Chambersburg, Pa. Opinion reports
900 bushels of corn from 8 acres in
Franklin county.
The Citizens Oil Refinery of Pitsburg,
suspended on Saturday. Its liabilities
are stated at 100000.
A party of Holyokc (Mass. men are
fitting out TO try their fortune in the
African diamond mines.
A Frederick county girl has realized
over $3.50 this fall from the sale of par
tridges caught by trapping.
The Eureka mines in Nevada are turn
ing out bullion at the rate of nearly six
hundred thousand pounds week.
In Albany, recently, n man named
John Cumming, fell dead as he entered
court to answer charge of msdemeanor
Guthrie & Co.'S carriage factory at
Wilmington, Delaware, was burned Sun
day night loss, $50, 900 insurance, $780,
600. The fire was caused by an incen-
diary.
The smallpox is rapidly spreading in
New York city Sixty five cases were
reported last week, and many Others are
believed not to have been reported. The
Smallpox Asylum at Blackwell's Island
is crowded with patients.
The Alta California says "A photo.
graph was taken few days ago of Justin.
iano Roxas, aged l22 years, the venerable
Mission Indian, who is still alive aud en-
joying the Inequalities of the Sisters
Hospital, in Santa Cruz.
A Census of Michigan was taken, under
authority Of the State Government, this
year, and the official report makes the
aggregate population ,336,s0 This is
an increase, since the census of 1870, of
1885, or about ia per cent. Ton
years ago, in 1864, State census of
Michigan was also taken, and the increase
now shown over the population, according
to that census, is G6 per cent.
The Edinburg Scotsman says that the
present English Government are prepared
for political reasons chiefly, to be very
liberal in regard to arrangements for the
due representation of Great Britain at
the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. 1t
is not improbable that the Prince of Wales
will occupy the position he did at Vienna
as head of the British Commission, and
the list of nobemen and gentlemen who
have consented to their nomination is
distinguished and large.
Two hundred aud forty -two Mennonites
arrived at Philadelphia Monday on the
steamer Nederlander. They are in charge
Of the Mennonite Executive Aid Society,
and will be forwarded to Safe Harbor,
Lancaster county, Pa. where they will be
sheltered in about one hundred houses
belonging to the Phenix Iron Company.
There they will remain during the winter,
and in the meantime, says Philadelphia
telegram, locations for settlements will be
selected in the Western States and Terri
tories.
The jury in the Safe-burghry trial at
Washington came into Court Friday
morning and announced that they acquit-
ted Williams, but could not agree as to
Whitley and Harrington. The jury were
then discharged, and the rccognizanccs Of
Whitley and Harrington continued until
the next term Of Court 1t is stated that
in the case Of Harrington the jury stood
eight for acquittal and four for conviction;
in the case of Whitley nine for acquittal
and three for conviction, They were all
the time agreed upon the innocence of
Williams.
The report of the State executive COM
mittee Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, says that in the fall of 1873 their
secretary, Mr.. j, A. Houston, visited
number Of cities and towns in the State
and organized associations 10 ten of them,
his comment on their present condition
being as follows -" Aberdeen, dead or
dying; Frostburg, doing well; Cumberland,
prosperous; Union Bridge, dead and hope.
less; Uniontown, the same; Boonsboro'
said to be at work; Waverly, dead or dying;
Waynesboro, at work; Graceham, at work,
nothing definite"
A heavy snow storm prevailed through
out Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and
Kansas, on 9th ult. In some localities
snow fell to the depth of eighteen inches,
and trains have been considerably delayed
in consequence. In st. Louis the snow
was about four inches deep, and locomotion
and street traffic have been much impeded.
In Illinois the snow is about twelve inches
deep, and trains have been delayed and
traffic stopped on some Of the roads. The
province Of Ontario was visited by snow
six inches deep on Saturday. Snow to
the depth Of nine inches, fell at Cleveland,
Ohio, Saturday.
At Newark, N. j. on Friday, an acct
dent occurred in Clark's thread factory,
which, it is stated, will partially suspend
operations for six weeks, aud throw out of
work about 300 female operatives, The
coupling Of the main shaft by which pow
er is supplied was thrown off, and an
engine Of 700 horse power being released
from restraint acquired terrible velocity.
The driving wheel, twenty tons in weight,
split into fragments, one of which, weighing
two tons, was shot through the roof to a
distance Of fifty feet. Noone was injured,
but there were some narrow escapes The
damage is estimated at about 5000
A despatch from Colonel Miles, referring
TO the rescue from the Indians some time
since Of Adelaide and Julian Germon,
aged respectively three and seven years,
says they were captured in Kansas while
on the way from Georgia to Colorado
Their father, mother, brother and one sis
tor, were murdered by the savages, and
they and two older sisters were kept cap
tive. "Their story of woe and suffering"
says Colonel Miles, sis simply too horrible
to relate" When sufficiently recovered
they will be sent to Leavenworth Colonel
Miles recommends that the Government
make ample annual provision for these
children out of the annuity appropriated
for the Cheyennes, and his recommenda-
ton is approved by General Pope.
VIM. Ogle Key, native of Maryland,
but for the last fifteen years citizen Of