The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-07-17
News of the Week.

Tha President uuuBnecii VIE pArtoflsi
,.,se birth to sou on Sunday last.
Thu o. s. Steamer Frolic, now ut League
I.land will be put in commission to-day
nd soon afterwards sail to join the South
Atlantic fleet.
Mrs. Dunn was kicked to death by her
a,nnLon husband at Lowell, Mass, on
Tresday afternoon She had refused to
give him money.
The War Department has ordered the
military 10 continue to keep intruders out
81 ,be Black Hills country until the result
Of,be conference with the Indians is known.
The Japanese Minister has informed
Secretary Fish of the arrival in Washing
ION of two Of the Japanese Commissioners
10 the Centennial, aud has requested that
thew be placed in communication with the
proper officers Of the Exhibition.
Leila Hebb, aged, 10, aud Ceeia Kel.
bert aged II, we're killed by lightning in
81 Mary's county, Md, on Wednesday of
last week. They were seated at the door,
when tree, about ten feet distant, was
struck, and they were killed by the same
bolt
There was a tremendous thunder storm
at Portland, Me-, on Saturday morning.
The Catholic Cathedral, First Baptist
Church, New Payson Memorial Church,
and Chestnut street Methodist Church
we're all damaged by lightning. The city
of Vergennes and It's vicinity in Vermont,
were damaged by violent thunder storm
on Friday.
The Atlanta Cotton Mills of Lawrence,
Mass, have been closed for eight weeks,
or longer, il the present stock Of manu-
featured goods is not marketed. The mills
employ 1850 operatives, who will lose
$4,000 by the shut down. Mill No. 2,
of the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Com
pauy at Salmon Falls, n H., has also been
closed for two months.
The crops in Kansas aud Missouri are
reported to be splendid; even in the grass
hopper districts there will be two-thirds
corn crop. A new kind Of buffalo grass is
springing up in the fields ravaged by the
grasshoppers, and the farmers are greatly
excited thereat, The crop prospects in
Arkansas are described as better than ever
4 before known in that State. .r..F0.
The Right Rev George d. Cummins Of
the Reformed Episcopal Church has re-
turned to Baltimore after an absence of
several weeks. Nearly all the money
necessary for the building of the Bishops
new church has been subscribed Mrs.
Cummins and her daughter are arranging
for concert in aid of the church building
fund at Lutherville, Md. where the Bish,
op aud his family are spending the Sum
mer.
The organization Of the new National
Telegraph Company at San francisco was
perfected on Saturday. Its capital stock
is Fixed at s25, 900, 900, in 250, 900 shares
of 500 each, and 81 800, 900 have already
been subscribed. 1t is said the company
purpose to extend lines "all over the Uni
ted States, and to leading points in the
British Provinces" and that within ninety
days they will open n central construction
office in New York
A farmer living near Quincy, Mich.
was painting horses hoof recently, when
sudden explosion occurred near him,
which threw him on the ground and
stunned him severely. Several persons in
the neighborhood received shocks stimuli
Itaueously with this occurrence. 1t is
supposed that large accumulation of
electricity in the air must have been sud
denly discharged, though the sun was
shining brightly at the time, and there
were hardly any clouds in sight. The
shock may have proceeded from theearth,
A council Of the Cabinet officers called
4 by Secretary Fish to consider our relations
with Venezuela, was held Tuesday in
Washington. The trouble arises from the
h refusal of the Venezuelan Government TO
pay the deferred instalmeuts of the awards
made under the convention Of 1866, unless
4 il shall have the privilege of designating
the particular parties to whom the money
shall be paid. Our Government will not
consent to this, and unless the money be
paid as the stipulation requires, our Min
lister to Venezuela will probably be with
drawn.
Il At GAINESVILLE, Tennessee, on Sunday
morning, two men, named Conners and
Jeffcoat, who had assaulted a colored boy
Il with knife, were attacked by mob of
twenty colored men, and compelled to seek
refuge in grocery. They were afterwards
taken to the station house by the police
for safety. The same night the negroes
mobbed and nearly demolished the grocery,
and also attacked several houses of ILL
repute. The alarm bells we're rung, and,
while the police were Investigating the
ALARM the friends Of Couuers and Jeffcoat
broke down the doors Of the station house
and set the two men free.
The telegraph brings information Of an-
other strike in the Pennsylvania mining
region. 1t is stated that great deal dis
Satisfaction has existed since the recent
resumption among the miners employed
Ply the individual operators, they alleging
that compromise would have been the
proper mode Of adjusting the previous DIFF
hculties, instead Of the ten per cent. redac-
ion, The discomfort eliminated Tuesday
IN strike at st. Clair and Vaudeville,
the miners and outside laborers, to a man,
auitting work. II is not known how far
this action will influence operatives in other
quarters, as no advices have been received
from other mines.
A telegram from Lawrence, Mass gives
particulars Of disgraeeful riot in that
Pity on Monday night, at the anniversary
pf the Battle Of the Boyne. The members
pf an Orange Lodge, returning with their
wives and children from picnic, were
essaalted in the streets by mob. The
Nlayor endeavored, unsuccessfully, to res
bore peace, and the mob charged upon the
Oangemen and knocked them down. AT
fhis point the Orangemen drew reyolyers,
bud fired at and dispersed the crowd.
Two men, woman aud boy were woun-
ded by the Ere, while twelve 0rangemen
hnd nine policemen were injured more or
less severely by the mob.
At noon, July IL in New York, two