The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-18
News Of the week.


The Csar took his cooks with him t.
England, afraid Of having poison in hi
pottage.
Col, Robert Tyler is spoken of for the
Office Of chancellor Of the Georgia State
University.
The levy for Talbot county for the pres
cut year viii be % Sic cents on the hun
drcd dollars.
A hog, weighing 1850 pounds, Is the
pride and admiration of Wayne county,
New York.
| Edward w. Phillips letter carrier IN
North Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been
arrested for stealing letters.
In Pike county, Indiana, most of the
land owners dig their own coal from the
veins that crop out along the creeks and
on the hillsides.
II is estimated that the colored people
Of Savannah, Ga. lose about $4,000 by
the failure of the Freedmen's Savings
Bank and Trust Co.
The last Of the broad gauge railroads in
England has disappeared, the Great West
ern Company having completed the alter
atoms Of their road.
Long Branch, this season, is decidedly
out Of favor, The hotels are comparative
ly empty, and, except on race day, the
place is almost deserted.
Sixty thousand young shad, which had
been Matched by Seth Green, at Holyoke,
Conn. were placed in the Rock river, at
Rockford, Ill. on Friday.
The bishops of the Southern Methodist
Church have appointed week of prayer,
beginning Friday, August 81, to be OBJ
served by the whole church.
A dispatch from Releigh, N. c. announ-
ces the death Of governor Tod. r. Cald-
well, of that State, at Hillsboro, Saturday,
evening, at 6.52 o'clock, of cholera morbus
Mary Ann Harmon, aged sixty.three,
died on Thursday, from genuine Asiatic
cholera at her residence in Brooklyn. She
was attacked by the disease on Wednes-
day night.
Gen. William S. Hillyer, of New York
died in Washington on Sunday, Of conges-
ton of the lungs, after an illness Of sever
al weeks. He was the last of the original
staff Of General Grant.
In order TO secure the circulation of its
paper at Saratoga on Sunday morning the
New York Herald establishment runs a
special train to that resort, leaving the for
mcr city at $50 in the morning Of Sunday.
The Rockville iSeatinet says it is repor
ted that John P. Austin, who was last
year sent TO the penitentiary from this
county, for robbing Mr.. Cross on the
highway, has been left large fortune by
a relative in England.
John Davis, fugitive distiller was shot
dead by Deputy Collector Mattinson, in
Anderson county, s. G. on Saturday.
Davis is supposed to have been one of a
party who recently drove off some revenue
officers, and rccaptured quantity of lille
it whisky
In Assyria, Mich. farmer, who was
plowing through mound, recently took
of in one furrow the heads Of seven buried
Indian skeletons. On a. further excava.
ton the remains of twenty two individuals
were found buried in a sitting posture,
with numerous silver ornaments upon them
On Sunday morning, Mrs. John Meats,
living ten miles south of McConnellsburg,
Pa. shot her husband dead while he was
asleep. She then dangerously wounded
one Of her children with razor and al.
most killed another with apicthfork. She
is stated to be temporarily insane.
Mrs. Connard, married white woman in
Bucks county, Pa. huddled up her three
children and elopcd about year ago with
u colored man named Kelsey. The out.
ragged husband caught them recently in
Chester county, but they could give no
account ofthe whereabouts Of the children.
During the thunderstorm on Saturday
the house of Levi Harrison, in Thrumbull
Connecticut, was struck by lightning, an
Mr.. Harrison, his wife and little daughter
were killed. They were sitting on feath,
err bed at the time. Another house in the
same town, which had lightning rod on
each of its chimneys, was also struck and
badly damaged.
Some time ago an inmate Of lunatiC
asylum in Maine disappeared mysteriously
and after the lapse of several months hi.
remairn, reduced to skeleton, were dis,
covered, and an inquest on them was duly
held by the local coroner. A few days ago
the man was found to be living on Deer
Island, Boston harbor, much to the dis
gust Of the coroner.
Eight or nine farmers Of Ogden town
ship, near Toledo, Ohio, spent Sunday il
a saloon. On their way home they got
into fight, in which one Of them named
Michael Smith, was killed, and another
named John Simmonds, was MORALLY woun
ded. All TIE rest were injured by knife
thrusts. IL seems that feud had foi
some time existed between several of tn,
party. Some of them have been arrested
| While everybody is sweltering under
100 degrees Newfoundlandcn complain o
a cold, chilling fog, which has envelopet
land and sea all through the month o
june, and which lifts occasionally to SHOW
them scores of cleaning icebergs gliding
ghostlike along the hore. Two Of th,
icebergs took position recently at the en-
trance Of st. Johns harbor, where they
remained for fortnight.
| At Boston, on Sunday evening a youn,
woman giving the name Of Miss Grinnell
took lodgings at hotel, and was given /
four-story back room overlooking the rear
of another building, which has glass roof
During the night she fell or jumped from
the window, and went crashing through
| the glass roof, distance Of three stories,
to hallway below. She was drunk when
she retired, and is supposed to have com.
mitted suicide in fit Of delirium tremens
| At Pembroke, Nc. on Friday, sail
boat containing four or Eve boys upset
The oldest youth, son of John Babcock,
aged Is, made the Others take hold ofthe
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