The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-09-25
News Of the Week.

Three inches Of snow fell at Colorado
Springs, Colorado Territory, on Tuesday
last
The Chinese ia California consume
nearly million dollars worth of opium
yearly.
Col. John S. Mosby is going to practice
law in Washington during the coming
winter
The Catholic church at fremont, 10
Schuylkill county, Pa. was destroyed on
Friday evening by an incendiary fire.
Rev. +. J. Toby, Methodist minister,
has been murdered near CimaTon, New
Mexico. His murderers are unknown
Wheat fields in the neighborhood of
Newbern, n. c.. remain unreaped on ne
count Of the innumerable rattlesna kes
therein.
George X. Gather, an old retired mer-
chant of Baltimore, well known and highly
respected, died Saturday night in the nine
tieth year of his age.
The hull of the Lawrence Commodore
Perry's flagship in the battle of Lake Erie,
which has lain in Misery Bayin the harbor
of Erie since 1854, has been raised.
A boiler attached to a threshing machine
at Defiance, Ohio, exploded Wednesday,
killing three men aud injuring three
others, one Of whom will not recover.
The case of Tilton VS.. Beecher has been
postponed until the next term of the Brook
Ign City Court, and also the libel suit Of
Tiltou against the Brooklyn Eagle
The Richmond Iron Works at Stock
ton-upon-Tees, England, comprising TWEEN
ty-six furnaces, has suspended, throwing
three hundred hands out Of employment
A second suit has been entered in Wash
ington against the Pullman Palace Car
Go. for refusing sleeping berth to col
ored woman. Damages are laid in the
case at $500.
Rev. John Chambers, d. d., for over
half century pastor Of Presbyterian
church in Philadelphia, died on Wednes-
day, aged 7S, He was a man of ability
aud possessed great force of character.
The manufacturers of Fall River were
in conference on Saturday, aud it is un-
derstood that they decided to reopen their
mills on the 9th inst, with the reduced
wages offered before the vacation.
The banking house of o. NJ. Tyl4r &
Co., at Waukesha, Wis, suspended Mon
day, aud made an assignment Its failure
was caused by the sbsconding of Il. X.
Hendri, who was largely indebted to the
bank
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, since her arrival
in Springfield, ILL., has given many indica-
tons Of restoration to health, She rides
out frequently, is cheerful, and manifests
much qualification at meeting her former
friends.
The difficulty between the United States
and Tripoli has been amicably adjusted by
the Pasha apologizing and suspending the
Judge who summoned our Consul; also
guaranteeing the punishment of the sailor
who entered the Consulate.
Jacob Benjamin, a wealthy pawnbroker
of Baltimore, died Monday, at the age of
So, from the effects of hair dye. He used
the dye upon his whiskers, and, as it caus-
ed irritation Of the throat, he shaved them
of, which caused eryspelas to set in.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of Snug.
gled diamonds were seized by the customs
officers in New York on Friday On Sat-
urday seizures were made of meerchaum
pipes, kid gloves and silks, brought by
passengers in steamship from Bremen
The dead bodies of two colored men,
apparently about 35 years of age, were
found, Sunday morning, in the Cedar Point
Furnace, at Baltimore. 1t Is supposed
they sought shelter in the furnace from
the rain, and, falling asleep, were suffocated.
Much alarm is existing in the counties
of New Castle and Kent, Delaware, at the
appearance of sudden and in many cases
fatal disease among the horses The same
trouble has broken out in Central New
York, in the vicinity of Buffalo and Roch.
ester.
A report received at New York from st.
Thomas says an expedition was landed in
Cuba by the filibuster steamer Uruguay,
formerly the Octavia, and that General
Aguilera had also landed from Jamaica
The Octavia had TWO batteries of artillery
and large quantity of munitions of war
The fruit growers of Maryland and Del
aware are actively engaged in drying, by
a patent process, much of the peach crop.
II is claimed that by drying the peaches
better profit can be realized than BY
shipping them as plucked from the trees,
owing to the extent of the crop.
A farmer named Collins was murdered
by party of twenty Texan herders, at
Kearney Junction, Neb., on Saturday.
Collins had seized some Of their horses,
which broke into his corn6eld, and the
herders promised to settle the damage, but
got drunk and shot him. All but two
were captured the same day and lodged in
Jail.
1t is calculated that there are 10000
horses suffering in some degree from colds
and sore Threats at the present time in
New York, the symptoms being precisely
those manifested when the epizootic first
showed itself The leading feature Of the
present attack is a constant hacking and
coughing, with sore throat and a slight
running at the nostrils.
A number of prominent gentlemen, in
Guiding iron and coal operators, met at
Brownsville, Pa. Wednesday, organized a
company to build railroad to Mount
Braddock, and subscribed 100000 to the
capital stock. The new line will be com.
menced next week, it will connect with
the Southwestern Pennsylvania, and Bal
timore aud Ohio Railroad.
The bark St. Lawrence, which arrived
at Baltimore on Friday, from Dcmerara,
experienced an earthquake at sea, on Au-
gust 80, She was then in latitude 1850,
longitude 81 80, l40 miles from any land.
The shock, which lasted 30 seconds, oc-
Cured at $50 p. IN. in pleasant weather
The sensation was that Of striking heavily
against the bottom or a sunken rock.
At Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday, the
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