The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-03-13

The storm of Sunday did considerable
damage at Wilkesbarre, where snow fell
to depth Of twenty inches. The snow
was wet aud heavy, and damaged the roof.
( Of many buildings The roof Of the mar
ket-house partially gave way, while the
carriage. house of Wilson 4 Stark was crush
ed in. 1t contained nearly eighty carriages
all but six or seven of which were damaged,
aud the loss is estimated at $1,000. The
roofs of several private stables also gave
way. In New York aud New England
the storm was very severe, and railroad
travel in all directions was delayed. The
Erie Railway trains were detained from
three to nine hours, and two of them,
which got of the track, added to the OBJ
struclion of the road At Poughkeepsie
nearly eighteen inches of snow fell and
five freight trains were blocked for several
hours. The heavy, snow also increased
the fears Of disastrous flood. Trains
were also delayed in Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire
During the absence from home Of Elisha
A. Kingsley, a wealthy farmer o. Flat
Creek, Schoharie county, n Y, recently,
his barn was discovered to be on fire by
his wife, who with young woman, were
alone in the house With the hope of
saving the live stock the two women ran
TO the barm then nearly envcloped in
flames. While untying the cattle heavy
beam fell, wedging Mrs. Kingsley between
it and the manger Her companion was
unable to release her, aud was compelled
for her own life to force board off the
rear of the barn to escape. Mrs. Kingsley
was held fast by the beam about ten min
utes before the flames reached her, and
was burned to death
Charles S. Abel, one of the editors of
the Baltimore Sun, captured a rattlesnake
in Florida, recently, which was eight feet
in length had sixteen rattles, and weighed
twenty-five pounds. This is said to be
the largest reptile of the kind ever seen
in Florida. 1t was preserved in whisky
and is to be presented to the Maryland
Academy Of Sciences, Baltimore. 1t is
supposed to be nineteen or twenty years
old, as the first rattle appears when the
reptile is three years old.
The sixteen hundred Indians, under
Stone Calf, who surrendered recently, have
arrived at Cheyenne Agency They were
accompanied by Ella and Lizzie German,
survivors of the Smoky Hill massacre, in
which their parents and one sister were
killed by the Indians Ella, who is sew
enteen years Of age, was taken by Gray
Beard, and Lizzie, aged eleven, was taken
by Stone Calf On arriving at the agency
both were dressed in Indian garb, and
were nearly starved. They tell terrible
story of suffering,
The Philadelphia Ledger says there was
a male child born few days ago TO n
married couple in Gloucester city, the
father being in his cightieth year aud the
mother in her SEVENTEEN year. They had
been married twenty two years and this is
their first child This is prolific year
The Director General of the Centennial
Exhibition at Philadelphia was on We'd
nesday officially notified that Congress
appropriated 100000 for preparation of
the exhibition to be made by the Depart
ments of the Government and the erection
of a building to contain it.
The aggregate sum appropriated by the
twelve general appropriation bills passed
at the last session of Congress is sl75 ,0OO,-
900. Other bills were passed containing
specific appropriations,
The mortality of the District of Colum.
bia for the past week was at the rate OF
1896 per thousand per annum for the
whites, and $3.50 per thousand for the
blacks.
Last week the Chesapeake rolling mills
at Harrisburg were only able to keep six
Of their twenty-one steam boilers in use,
because Of scarcity of water.
\ couple at Adrian, Mich, celebrated
the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage
on the ID instant