The Democratic advocate., 1875-02-27
News of the Week.

\ lhfVc-pouuI toau Is eAHlbiteu W inc
Mayors Office in Chicago.
The ship Olive, abandoned ON the voy
age from Singapore to Boston, had cargo
valued at 5000, 900.
\ Hartford county youth has killed
nearly thousand crows in two weeks by
the use Of poisoned corn.
\ despatch from Trenton, y. j., says
the hat of Charlie Ross has been found in
that city, and sent to Philadelphia by the
Mayor
The execution Of George Wheeler for
the murder of Mrs. Margaret Whitman,
win take place at EastoD, Nd, on Friday
18th Of March.
Ambrose Williams, colored, who brutal
ly assaulted the little daughter of Judge
Lowell, was sentenced at Boston, Monday,
to imprisonment for life.
The fishing schooncrs Joseph Chandler
and David Burnham, of Gloucester, Mass.
are reported lost, with their crews, mum
bering twenty-lour men,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have agreed to make reduction Of % per
cent. on pine and 35 per cent. on hemlock
lumber frcights from the Clearfeld lumber
region eastward.
Edward Smith, negro, on the jury of
the City Court at Montgomery, Ala, was
put on the city chain gang for one hun
dred days, for stealing hogs His place
on the jury is vacant
There has been destructive fire at
Port-au-prinee, Hayti, which laid a large
portion Of the town in ashes, and rendered
hundreds OF families homeless. The loss
is estimated at S2,000,000.
james Dougherty, hagman, was killed
on Saturday while attending a switch at
Bowie Station, on the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad He slipped on the ice
and fell under passing train.
Several coal cars and passenger train
ran into each other in the Erie Railroad
tunnel, at Bergen, n. j., on Saturday af-
ternoon. Patrick Savage, brakeman Of
the coal train, was killed.
Seven hundred head of sheep belonging
to Dr. Thomas Pollock, of Apache Greek,
Colorado, were killed the other night by
compound of salt and strychnine, sprinkled
in a corral by some unknown scoundrel
1t is stated on good authority that Ply
mouth Church gives Mr.. Eyarts s25, 900
and Yale College $4,000 for his defense
of Beccher Whether any part of these
fees are contingent upon his securing a
verdict of acquittal is not learned.
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Pc
king sailed from San Francisco on Satur.
day for Hong Kong, via Yokohama, She
carried out the United States mails for
China and Japan, a number OF passengers,
large cargo and $1,000 in treasure.
A sleeping car and two other passenger
coaches on the Chicago aud Rock Island
Railroad were thrown down an embank-
ment near Sheffield ILL.,, on Saturday night.
One person was killed, aud fifteen were
injured. The disaster was caused by u
broken rail
A negro lad who had made thirteen
attempts to burn buildings on the farm of
Colonel Ruilin, of Chesterfield county, Va.
and was successful five times. was conyic-
ted Of arson at Chesterfield Court House
Virginia. The punishment for this crime
by The Virginia statute is death.
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its details bears striking resemblance 10
the burning of the cotton mill AT Fall
River. Mass. some months since. A
match factory. filed with iufammatorv
materials. took fire. and filty.one persons
employed on the upper floors were burned
10 death
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