The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-09-11
Nav, I'd The Week.


The Mercantile Bank Of Norfolk, Va
suspended on Saturday.
The Beeeher-Tilton trial will recon-
mence on the 10th OF this month.
The Hengehods, extensive coal dealers
of Cincinnati, suspended Monday.
The sea serpent is reported to have es-
tahlished branch Office in Lake Ontario
Fifteen thousand animals are said to be
affected by the foot and mouth disease at
Dorsetshire, England.
The damage to the Minnesota wheat
crop by the late rains is estimated at from
ten to twenty-five per cent.
The State Normal School, at Blooms
burg, Pa, was destroyed by fire on Satur-
day afternoon. Loss 100000.
Great depression is said to exist in the
lumber trade Of Canada and Nova Scotia.
Many mills in the latter section will shut
down for the season.
A disease resembling the opizOoty has
broken out among the cattle near Avon,
N. Y, and forty Of them have died within
two weeks. Twelve died on Sunday.
Five more postmasters have been dis
missed for nisappropriation Of postage
stamps, and the cases of about three hun
dred more are under advisement, many of
whom will be removed.
The statistics of immigration show the
total arrivals at the port Of New York for
the month ending the 31st Of August to
be S, 1858, being decrease, as compared
with the corresponding month of 1874, Of
$500.
Since the year 1900 England has waged
forty nine wars; France, thirty Rus
STA, twenty-five; Austria, twelve; Persia,
eight; and in spite of all the peace societies
and international conventions they all ap-
pear anxious for another,
The Wilmington Commercial says that
the quantity Of peach brandy manufactur.
ed in Delaware this season will be larger
than in any former year, There are now
over sixty small distilleries in operation,
and several more will be set up.
The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church has called special
meeting of the House of Bishops, in New
York, ON October 2S, to elect Missionary
Bishops for Africa aud China, and receive
the report of Mexican Commissioners.
The heat on the Southern Pacific rail
road grade, near the Colorado desert, is SO
intense that the thermometer often marks
l20 degrees in the shade, when shade can
be found A considerable number of the
laborers on the road have died of the heat.
A freight train ran into eight cars
loaded with slate, at Merton, Mass, early
Sunday morning, and the force of the col
lision wrecked the engine and twenty eight
cars. The damage is estimated at $40, 900.
The engineer, fireman and conductor were
injured.
Hon. Gideon Wells, Secretary Of the
Navy under President Lincoln, has pub
ished an elaborate article to prove that
New Orleans was captured By Admiral
Farragut, and not by Admiral Porter, as il
: indicated in some records Of the Navy
Department.
Tilton's woolleu mills, at Cayendish, VT.
which employed 1870 hands, were burned
IN Sunday night, and i: is supposed the
ire was caused by lightning. The loss is
the insurance 100000. The
Spelter Refinery Works of Elizabeth, n.
J !, were burned early Monday morning.
Loss about $4,000.
An extensive Indian outbreak Is reported
n Eastern Nevada and Western Utah. Al
lumber Of settlers and miners have been
Tiled The women and children are be-
NJ removed to place of safety. Troops
nd volunteers are going to the scene.
The military commander at San Francisco
las been asked for arms and ammunition.
)rders have been issued for infantry and
avalry TO proceed at once from San Fran.
isco and Benicis TO Eastern Nevada
he rising is attributed to Mormon inAu. |
Dces,
At Pottsyille, on Monday, Patrick Con-
oy, Valentine Benner and Moses Hipe.
commissioners Of Sehuylkill county, Pa, |
ere sentenced each to two years impris. |
nment and $1,000 fine for neglect aud
orruption in the discharge Of their official
uties. They we're convicted of frauds
nd oyercharges in the erection Of new
'unty buildings last year, the county
eing charged s25 900 for these buildings.
hen, according to the most liberal csti,
ates by competent builders, they should
OF have cost more than $4,000.
The peaches shipped from Philadelphia
the steamer Ohio for Liverpool were
'tten when taken from the ship. Tie
sntlemen who made the experiment how.
ier, are confident that If the quantity of
c contracted for (forty-two tonsl had
Zen put into the peach compartment that
icy would have reached Liverpool in good i
'ndition. Only fifteen tons Of 'ice were
'ed, which melted in four days. me
aches did not begin to aseayotilb Sep.
moer I'd There is talkefdaBuit flor H
images against the steamship. company,
The Cuba House and three barns. AT \
uba, n. T., were burned on Saturday h
orning. A man and six horses persisted
the flames The loss on property is
10000, A bridge on the Louisville.
CIV Albany and Chicago Railroad, near
edtord, Indiana, was burned on Saturday
ght, and It's destruction interrupted the
'ssage Of trains An ineendiary FIRE al
Ort Ann, n. Y, Sunday morning, de.
royed four stores, banking house and
yelling. Los, $4,000. Two hotels
I'd a carriage factory in South Deerfield.
lass, were destroyed, on Saturday night,
Z an incendiary fire. Loss. $50 900