The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-08-29
News of the Week. !

The further search for Charley Ross,
the abducted child, is TO be given over to
Pinkertons detectives, Of Chicago.
There was white frost in New Hamp-
shire on Sunday morning last. Overcoats
were in requisition,
Rev. Frederick Bell, a reformed pugilist
from England, addressed the camp-meot-
ing at Sing Sing Saturday
Albert Hayemeyer, brother Of the
mayor of New York, and WE'LL known SUI
gar merchant, died Saturday.
II the Carlists had not France for base
of supplies their barbarous warfare would
have been suppressed long before this.
A stalk Of corn on which were 40 dis
tinct ears was recently taken from Mr..
Rudy's corn field, near Carlisle, Pa.
George l.. Cornell, wealthy citizen of
Rye, N. Y. was trimming a tree on Satur.
day, when he fell from the ladder and
broke his neck.
There are twenty three counties in Vir-
GINA that grant no license to sell liquor.
Harrison county has had no license for
fourteen years.
William Howard and Margaret Wye,
colored, were run over and killed by
train while walking on the Northern Cen
trail Railroad, near Baltimore, on Saturday.
The First National Bank of Florida,
with capital of $50, 900, went into oper-
alton on Tuesday. This is the first insti-
tuition under the national banking act
organized in Florida.
The steamer Tagus, on her next trip to
England, viii take out ten locomotives for
the Russian government, and nine hun
dred stand of arms for the Turkish gov
ernment.
Hezekiah Scott, who was sent to the
penitentiary from Caroline county, Md.
six years ago for stealing from the preach
ers at camp meeting has become preacher
himself, and the Governor has pardoned
him.
The cricket match at Dublin between
Irishmen aud Americans was concluded
on Tuesday, resulting in another victory
for the latter. They won by score Of
l65 to 7s. A large number of spectators
witnessed the game.
A London telegram quoting from the
Mark Lane Ezpress, gives favorable ac-
count Of the wheat crop in England. The
crops 10 France are also good, as English
wheat is being reshipped from the former
country and prices in England are receding,
While an Austrian bark was being tow
ed to the Canton elevator at Baltimore, on
Friday 21st she fell over on her side and
her masts crashed through the wheel house
Of the tug. The mate and fireman Of the
tug jumped overheard, and the fireman,
August Flaggett, aged 81, WINS drowned
Russia, it is said, produces annually
1885, 900 tons Of fax; Austria, $4,000 ;
France, 10000 Belgium, 10000; Great
Britain, $4,000; Italy, $4,000; Bavaria,
5000 Saxony, 5000, other countries, 5000.
The total production in Europe is 35O, 900
tons.
All of the coal companies, doing business
in Wyoming and Lackawanna Valley, Pa.
stopped work on Saturday on account of
the market being oyerstocked. They ex-
pcct to resume on the LIST Of September.
Two thousand men and boys have no en-
ployment during the suspension.
The Governor of Kansas has been in
formed that the Usage Indians, at a recent
council, declared war against his State.
He Therefore asks the War Department to
furnish him with 1000 carbines and nc
coutrements and 100000 cartridges for
the defence Of the Kansas frontier.
The bark Evangeline, which arrived at
lower quarantine, New York, on Sunday
from Cuba, had three fatal cases of yellow
fever on the voyage. The captain buried
the victims at sea with his own hands, and
with but two men to help him brought his
vessel, after hard labor, into port.
Three negroes, Dick Cooper, Anthony
Grant, and Silas johnson, who broke into
the residence Of Mrs. Bernley, near Brook.
haven, Miss. Sunday last, and violated her
person, were taken from jail Saturday
evening and hung by the citizens, about
one thousand Of whom were present. They
all confessed their guilt. "
The propeller City of London wasburn-
ed on Thursday night while lying at her
dock in Collins Inlet, Lake Huron
Thirty passengers, who were in their berths
at the time, barely escaped with their lives.
A deck hand, named Campbell, pefished
in the flames. The City of London nan
between Chicago aud COllingwood, Ontario.
There is conflict of authority in Ar
Kansas between the Constitutional Con-
yention now sitting and the State Treasurer
The former by an ordinance appropriated
the sinking and school funds to pay the
expenses Of the State Government, but the
State Treasurer refuses to obey the ordi-
nance unless compelled by mandamus from
the Court.
George W. Claypoole, clerk in the
Baltimore Postofhce, was arrested on Sat
urday evening by Special Agents w. 7.
Henderson and Isaac Myers, on the charge
Of stealing from the mails. Some fifty
letters with valuable takes from them were
found on him, and he confessed to having
been engaged in purloining letters for up
wards OF year.
A child of George Schectz, aged IL
months, was strangled at Norristown on
Thursday 10th, in singular manner. 1t
was laid to sleep on slat-bottomed bed,
Of which the covering was too short The
baby rolled from the head to the foot
board, with its chin resting on the Stat.
When the mother went up stairs, some
time afterwards, the child was dead.
John +. Trumpler, Of Little Rock, Ar.
kansas, whose life was attempted on Jer-
sey City ferry-boat Wednesday night,
accuses United States Senator Powell
Clayton, Judge Mcclure, and Sheriff
Oliver, of Little Rock, of being the parties
to il. Trumpler is an agent Of Governor
Baxter, Of Arkansas, and was sent TO New
York to purchase s42, 900 worth offirearms.
The salary of the Governor of Louisi-
ana is $4,000, that Of his private secretary
So 800, Of his clerk 81 800, of two mes
sengers 81 200 each. Of his correspondinr