The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-19
News of the Week.

Thomas Taylor, aged l02 years, died in
Philadelphia, last week.
Alexander H. Stephens is to deliver the
Fourth Of July Grafton at Atlanta.
Senator BayArd, of Delaware, has written
to Gen Gordon that he will attend the Geor.
gia State fair next fall.
Secretary Delano his sent two entomoIogists
to the West to Investigate the grasshoppers
and report on their cause and cure.
The shaft of the Confederate ram Merrimac
has been raised and taken to Richmond, Va.
1t is p feet long and 10 inches in diameter.
The Maryland Horticultural Society will
holditsseco annual exhibition in Baltimore,
on the 22d, 23d and oath Of September next.
Josesh p. Gardner, wealthy citizen of
Boston, was found dead in the woods, near
that city, on Saturday, with revolver By his
side. Il is supposed he committed suicide.
Jesse Woodson, colored, has been commit
ted for the murder of Mrs. w. X. jarrett, near
Salem, Tenn, by strangling her with a cord.
IL is supposed his motive was robbery, as $63
was taken from the house.
Patrick Payne had difficulty at Dover,
Del, Monday, with John Gibney, who struck
him. Payne entered his house for a revolver,
and being in an excited state shot his wife By
accident She died in an hour.
William Henry Mason, coored, has been
arrested at Lafayette, in 0nondaga county,
| N. T., for felonious assault upon a respect.
able married lady. An attempt was made to
lynch him, but he is now safe in jail.
WIN. Taylor, superintendent of the city
burial grounds, Philadelphia, has been ares
ted, charged with traiheking in dead bodies.
Two cases Of his merchandise, it is alleged,
have been found at the Women's Medical
College.
| At Clearfeld Pa, Tuesday, the thirty.two
striking miners arrested for participation in
the recent disturbances we're convicted Of con-
! spiracy and riot, and sentenced to fine Of
SIS, and to imprisonment from sixty days to
one year.
At Portsmouth. h. l., on Friday evening,
Robert l.. Casey shot his wife dead, and then
shot himself, infeting a wound which Il was
supposed would prove fatal. He had recently
returned from Colorado, and found that his
wife had been unfaithful during his absence.
| A telegram has been received at Montreal
stating that nine of the crew and three Of the
passengers Of the Vicksburg, have arrived at
st. Johns, n. F. They were picked up by
an American fishing vessel The Canadian
Government has sent steamer from Halifax
in search of the missing boat.
L. =. Marshal jenkins and an Indian guide,
named Street, had desperate fight with a
band of Cheyenne Indians, in Rawlins county,
| Kansas, n few days ago. II is stated that
jenkins and Street fortified themselves at
the head of rayine and fought the Indians
four hours, killing seven Of them and finally
driving them off.
| At Pittsburg, ON Saturday, the libel suit of
| W. ID. Moore against the Pittsburg Post, re.
/ suited in verdict Of $40, 900 damages for the
| plaintiff. In February, 1874, the Post pub,
lished an article accusing Moore, who was
/ then Chairman of the Democratic County
Committee, of abandoning his trust and
being traitor to his party"
The Treasury Department is informed Of
| the seizure, at st. Andres, Columbia, Of the
schooner Mary Clinton, of New York. by her
mate and crew while the master was ashore.
She was seized on the 10th of May, and it Is
reported that she was at Hanks river, Hon.
dnras, few days later, and her mate was
offering her cargo for sale.
| The Board of Trade of Kansas City, on
| Friday, passed a resolution asking the Presi.
dent to define his policy in regard to the
Sioux Indians and also appointed commit.
tee to memorabilia Congress against the
blocking up Of civilization by settling all the
savages in the land upon one Of the richest
| portions of the national domain
The headquarters of the National Grange
of the Patrons of Husbandry have been re
moved from Washington, d. c., to Louisville,
! Ky. The official report OF the Secretary shows
the Order to be in aourishing condition,
there being %, 500 subordinate lodges, with a
membership of 100000. The Order has
! 200 invested in Government bonds, and
$4,000 on deposit in New York
The hardware store of Becker & RAIDERS, at
Easton, Pa, was entered by burglars on Sat.
urday night. They attempted to rob the safe.
but were discovered by policemen, and ran
off. The policemen fired several shots after
them and they returned the fire. One of the
robbers was subsequently captured in a stable,
and another, who was dangerously wounded,
was found Monday in a shed. They are
supposed to have come from New York.
Machias, Me-, ON Saturday, commemora.
| ted the centennial of the engagement which
resulted in the surrender Of the British sloop.
of.war Magaretta. The celebration opened
with national salute; there was procession
"a mile in length which included Is veter.
ans Of lSl2--one Of them 90 years of age;
Mr.. Talbot delivered an Grafton, and the day
concluded with a banquet, music, salutes, the
ringing of bells and display of fireworks.
The lost steamship City of vicksburg was
an IRON vessel of $500 tons burthen, built in
Scotland, and was valued at S825,000. She
was well engineered and fitted, and, it is said !,
commanded by able and experienced officers.
Her captain, Bennett, was recently employed.
by the Allan line Of Steamships. Her cargo
consisted of $1,000 bushels Of wheat, 1916
bushels OF peas, and 92 head Of cattle. The
agents Of the line at.Montreal say she had
only 10 steerage passengers on board.
A meeting of Communists was held Sunday
at Chicago, at which in1ammatory speeches
were made, advising the laborers ito arm
themselves and present forcible resistance
to the encroachments of their employers
also, ITO scuttle the incoming vessels before
they could be unloaded, and thus teach their
owners not TO trihe with their workmen.' -
Resolutions of sympathy with the striking
miners in Pennsylvania were adopted, and a
small contribution was taken up for their
! benefit.
For several months past registered letters
on the mail route to aud from Mauch Chunk
have mysteriously disappeared, and, the loss
increasing, detective was set at work. On
Saturday last, by means of a decoy letter
placed in the mail at Hauto, six miles from
Mauch Chunk, he succeeded in attaching sus-
picon to carrier named Sylvester Weston.
Weston was arrested, the missing letter was
found upon him, and he confessed that he had
been robbing the mail and destroying the
letters after he had rhed them.
The interior of Pennsylvania, New York,
the New England States aud Northern New
Jersey, were visited on Sunday night and
Monday morning by frost Of varying severi
iy. The more tender vegetables were dana.
ged or killed in many places, and some injury
was done in Maine and New Hampshire 10
the crops. At Windsor, N. Y, ''thiu ice
formed" The crops in Central Michigan
were slightly damaged by a frost on Saturday
night. Heavy cold rains fell in California on
Saturday night and Sunday. The cut and
standing grain was damaged in many places.
The Commission to treat with the Sioux is
composed OF the following gentlemen :--Hon.
WIN. d. Allison, Bishop +. r. Ames, +. W.
Palmer, Brig. General Alfred H. Terry, Hon.
Abraham Comingo, Rev. 8. ID. Human, G.
p. Beauyois and J. r. 0'Beirne, with Joe II.
Dryer as Secretary. II was originally inten.
ded that the Commission should consist of
six persons, but owing to the uncertainty as
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