The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-08-07
News of the Week.

There are thirty-fve prisoners eonlin ed
in the Baltimore coun ty jail.
/. An American harvesting machine has
lust won the highest prize at a great trial
in Germany.
The first new bale of Georgia cotton was
received at Savannah on Saturday, 1t
was classed middliug
The ex- Confederate General George Il,
Pickett died at Norfolk, Va, on Tuesday
night, after u short illness, aged 30 years.
James NJ. Lyons, clerk in the Surgeon
f,enerals Office, at Washington, committed
suicide on Saturday evening by taking
laudanum.
During the past six months the fire
Insurance companies in the United States
have sustained losses amounting in the az
gregate to s26,OOO,OOO.
Eighteen thousand mill operatives are
out of employment at Oldham, England,
owing to the lockout. The feeling is very
bitter against the employers.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Min.
i lister, left Washington on Saturday morning
for Long Branch He viii spend part Of
Ibis month at Newport, X. |.
The Treasury Department has issued a
circular forbidding the importation of cat.
lie, sheep and goats from Spain, in conse-
auence of the prevalence of the hoof dis
Ease in that country.
An election has just been held in Texas
BIZ the question of calling State Consti-
lutonal Convention Returns from 81
soting precincts show that very light
vote was poled, and give u small majority
ibr the Convention.
Benjamin Rousseau was killed at Troy,
n. Y, on Thursday, in singular manner
He was grinding a stove plate, aud wedg.
III il against the emery wheel in such a
Nay that large fragment flew off and
Dashed out his brains.
Mrs. Fighter, aged 80, was fatally burn
ID at Wilmington, Del, on Friday night,
by her lresss taking fire from piece Of
burning paper which she threw on the floor
After using it to light lamp. She died
hext morning at six O'Clock.
Wheat advanced Eve cents per bushel
ID the Baltimore Corn Exchange Tuesday
prime Southern wheat selling up to 1855
fents per bushel. Medium and high
afades of Baltimore -four advanced TWEEN.
five cents. Western corn is also higher.
The body of Frederick p Towne, Of
petcrsham, Mass, who had been missing
kince the 18th of July, was found Monday
b field near his home The limbs were
Kissing and it was otherwise mutilated.
A. Frost, brother-in-law of deceased,
i suspected, aud has been arrested,
The returns Of the census of New York
Bly,, recently takeH under the authority
the municipal government, have been
1pbished, though not yet entirely com
fleted The aggregate population of the
<Ity, including portions recently annexed,
put down at one million and fifty thou
Ind
At ST. Michaels, Md, ON Friday night
NO last week, John Ford, an FISHERMAN,
b killed by some unknown person.
1one of the dcceased's family was home
4 the time, and on returning on Saturday
0prning he was found near the front door
his house with his skull mashed, and a
body axe lying by his side.
Thomas A. Kennard, War Department
|erk, was shot by John Fraumer, in the
rects of Washington, on Tuesday night
eek He was walking with Faumer'
ife at the time The wound was at fyst
&Hpposed to be slight, but Kennard died
its effects last night. Fraumer was
rested in Virginia.
Rev James d. McCabe, n wcll-known
piscopalian minister of Baltimore, died
that city on Sunday, aged 81. He did
long survive his younger brother, Rev
Din Collins McCabc, also a minister in
"a Episcopal Church, who died at Cham
7orsburg, Pa. in February last. They
&c both natives Of Richmond, Va.
The commissioners sent to investigate
"a Red Cloud agency made some discov.
ies on their way thither. While in
Inaha miller testified before them that
had put up 81 pounds of -four in Sacks
'&hich he knew were turned in at 100
4pnds." 1t was also testified that beef
6btraetor lost 700 head of cattle by frcez-
b., but got receipts for them from the
dian Agent.
Ben. Crook has arrived in the Black
|ills country to carry out the orders of
/||e President in relation to the occupation
lhe country by miners. He has order
! bill unauthorized persons to leave that
ESion by the 18th inst, aud two compan-
81 of cavalry and one of infantry have
tten dispatched to enforce the order. The
men have held meetings and resolved to
4Aandon their claims.
DE Mark Lane Express, in its weekly
low Of the condition Of the European
4F9ps, says the cereal crop, just reaching
thrifty, has been saved by fine weather,
*'1d there may yet be moderate harvest
y eood order. The French harvest is
assessing rapidly, but the general reports
13leate less than fair average yield,
b Belgian and German crops show a
<iaIilar condition to those of France, while
oH<ipl reports from Austria and Hungary
1e<|seate that there is more likelihood of a
infancy than surplus.
{hniel Brown, colored man, was shot
A<1a by policeman named Philip Nc
I'dnald at eolored ball in Baltimore, on
6etprday morning 1t was testified at
1taeoroner's inquest that the policeman
krocked at the door of the house where
Sc lance was going on, and said there
Ea> loo much noise. Brown replied that
Nas his house, whereupon Mcdonald
s|uck him with his club, and Their shot
t|a| ~ the head. Mcdonald alleged that
I|Forn caught him by the throat before
d 4sed violence. He was committed to
b await the action Of the Grand jury.
Tic Indian Commissioners -Messrs.
Illahnn, Collins, Ashby and Comingo--
MI are to treat with the Sioux, passed
||n'Agh the Black Hills on Saturday, on
'ae'r way to the Cheyenne Agency, on
|te Missouri river. They were accom-
<n'tl by eleven Indians, the principal
es|1t Red Dog. Their purpose is to per-
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