The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-05-29
News Of the Week.

Colonel Edward Wilkins, OF Chester
town, Maryland, says the peach crop is
very encouraging.
Mrs. Gaskins, of Carteret county, N.
3 O.. weighs $40 pounds, aud one of her
stockings can hold bushei Of shellcd corn
The Chicago Inter. Ocean, Of the 2lst
instant contained 1876 columns of the
names of delinquent taxpayers in that
city.
Seven brothers aud sisters were buried
al the same funeral at Sandlake, near
Troy, n. y, one day last week They
all died of diptheria.
Post-lnortem examinations Of, horses
that have died from the disease now pre-.
vaent in st. Louis show that the disease
is cerebro spinal meningitis.
Ferdinand DudenhcfFer, receiving teller
Of the Germania National Bank at New
Orleans, was arrested on SATURDAY. on the
charge of einbezzling $4,000
Lightning struck twenty. thousand
& barrel oil tank at Harms City, Pa. Sunday
night, setting the oil on fire. The oil be-
longed to the United Pipe Line
While Mr.. and Mrs Mcpherson, living
in Nebraska, were visiting some friends,
on Sunday night, their house was set on
FIRE, and three of their children persisted
in it. The eldest, II years of age, escaped.
Six men, two of them coored, were pill.
loried and lashed at New Castle, Del, on
Saturday, for incendiarism and theft The
whipping, except in the case of one of the
colorcd men, was severe. A large number
Of spectators witnessed the spectacle.
The opponents of Prohibition in Rhode
Island eonsummated their victory at the
polls in the formal election Of their candi-
date for Governor by the Legislature on
+ Tuesday One of the first measures pro
posed was the substitution Of a liquor
license law for the.prohibitory statute.
One fthe largest professions ever seen
in Memphis, made up Of both Confederate
aud Federal soldiers, turned out Monday
to decorate the graves at Elmwood Gene
terry The tattered battle-Aags of both
armies were carried in the ranks, and the
very best feeling seems to have prevailed.
A special train returning to Richmond,
y Va, from the Mecklenburg Centennial,
ran off the track, near South Boston, Va.
+ on Friday night of last week. The bag
gage car, and two fats carrying the guns
k of the Richmond Howitzcrs, were smashed,
and five soldiers were injured, but none
seriously.
The Quartermaster's Department at
s. Washington has received sample of the
new cork helmets adopted by the British
. Movement for its troops in hot climates.
X II has been submitted to the Secretary of
War with Recommendation that il be
examined by the physicians, and that 500
Of the helmets be ordered for the troops
in Texas and Arizona.
A special dispatch from st. Louis says
that three children of family named
Fndlay, residing near Sedalia, died on
" Friday of last week from starvation. The
family have been in destitute circumstan-
ces all the winter Many other people in
q that neighborhood are suffering for food,
aud meeting of citizens has been called
10 OBTAIN feilel Tor them.
VI While some carpenters who had been
working in shaft No. of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Companys mines, near VIII
- kesbarre, Pa. were ascending the shaft on
Saturday, the carriage escaped from the
brakes and plunged downward one hun
dred feet. Three men were killed. Two
men were killed in the Boston mine at
Plymouth, the same day; one by fall of
coal, the other by premature explosion.
In the Supreme Council of the Knights
Of Pythias, in session ut Washington, last
week, resolution was unanimously adop.
ted recommending liberal contributions
n for the completion of the National Wash
ington Monument, of every Grand and
g Subordinate Lodge in the Usited States.
& A resolution was passed modifying the
4 travelling shield, and law was re-cnacted
L providing for universal password, TO take
effect on the LIST Of July next
= 1t is reported from Mauch Chunk, Pa,
that the miners at Summit Hill are going
4 to work next Monday, but the conditions
have not been made public. The mines
are owned by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company, BY the LIST Of June a
general resumption, it is anticipated, will
take place, at least in the Lehigh region,
and will be under a reduction of the 1874
basis The miners seem ready to resume,
as general thing, and all say they are
heartily tired of the long strike.
The annual examination of cadet mid
shipmen will commence at the Naval
N Academy on the 10th Of June, aud will
close about the Goth, after which the grad
uating class will be granted leave Of
absence preparatory to being ordered to
duty. The other classes will 60 on the
X usual cruise on the Constellation. The
u graduating class this year numbers thirty
two. There are about seventy-fvc candi-
dates for admission to the Academy; their
examination will begin about the 2lst Of
June, and will close about the end of the
month.
There is a great middle. in West yir.
ginia over the question of the removal Of
the capital from Charleston to Wheeling,
which was resolved upon by the Legislature
last winter. Governor Jacob commenced
TO make preparations for the transfer, when
the matter was taken into the courts by
some of tho residents Of Charleston, who
& claim that the Constitution Of the State
prohibits such removal, aud that having
built State house in their town, they
I have concluded contract with the State
which cannot be broken without the CON
sent Of both parties. Legal questions have
been presented before several Judges and
Various proceedings taken, the present
status Of the affair being that an injunc-
ton against the removal is granted, and
will hold until the case is argued before
the Supreme Court.
A horrible murder was perpetrated on
Sunday in Boston. Mabel Young, a child
of Eve years, living with her mother ia
that city, attended the Sunday school an
niverAsry Of the Warren Avenue Baptist
Church. After the. close Of the exercises