The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-06-24
News Of the Week.

5000, 900 to the Scottish Church died
Tuesday.
On Thursday morning the old Mud
Theatre corner Of North and Saratoga
streets, Baltimore, was burned. 1t was
built in 1922, and was fashionable re-
sort in those days
At Beacon Park Course, Boston, on
Saturday, Peralto, the Mexican horseman,
rode one hundred and ten miles ia four
hours, fifty minutes aud fortv-fve seconds,
using twenty mustangs.
At mass meeting Of the principal citi-
zcns of Nashville, on Saturday, resolutions
were adopted, thanking Commodore Van.
derbilt for his donation of 81 ,000 900 to
the Vanderbilt University.
William Moschusky was shot at High
landtown, in Baltimore county Nd, on
Sunday, and died of his injuries Tuesday
morning. Frederick +. Rechdewald has
been arrested for the homicide.
A telegram from Augusta, Ga, on Sat
urday, reported severe flood in the Sa-
vannah river as result of seven days
rains. All the crops on the bottom lands
had been destroyed, the river having risen
thirty feet.
AtTruckee, California, on Sunday night,
II mob of men, supposed to belong to the
"Circassian League set fire to a cabin
occupied by three Cinnamon, and as the
latter ran out fired upon them, killing one
aud seriously wounding another.
A fire in Virginia City Monday destroy
ed the Globe Hotel and twenty-five dwell
ings Loss 100000. 1t is rumored that
two persons were burned to death. A
block of buildings in North Arson, Me-,
was burned Monday morning. Loss $685.
900.
A reign Of terror prevails in and about
San Felipe aud Eagle Pass, Texas, by rea
son of the raids to and from the Mexican
side of the river. They are generally ac-
companied by murder and robbery, and it
is claimed that bad Americans are the
chief offenders
DIR. L. D. Dickson, physician to the
British Embassy at Constantinople, writes
to the London Times that the disease pre-
vailiug in Messopotamia is undoubtedly
the real plague. During the month Of
May the number of attacks at Bagdad was
2,099 and the deaths ,222.
indianapolis, which grew from 10000
people in 1870 to nearly 100000 in 1876,
is suffering the extremity of industrial de-
preston, the darkest since 1897. The
Journal says there is considerable want in
the city, and citizens relief committee
has been formed TO relieve the distressed.
A telegram from Knoxville, Tenn,
states that heavy freshet in the French
Broad river has destroyed nearly all the
crops. The fields and islands are submer-
ged to depth Of from FIVE to ten feet.
Some of the farmers will repant their corn.
Below Knoxville about one-fourth of the
crops will be lost.
Tho Grand Jury of the District of Co.
lumbia on the 10th instant, indicted Rich
ard ID. Harrington and Arthur b. Williams
for bribery. Williams gave bail in $4,000.
The charge is that Harrington, while AS
sistant U. s. Attorney, in October, 1873,
received 5000 from Williams us bride
to influence his action on motion for a
new trial 10 case of H. II. Slater.
A fire on Brooks Wharf, Upper Thames
street, London, on the 18th, destroyed
Robert Warmers bonded warehouse, con-
tanning large quantity of teas, gums,
hides, wool, and miscellaneous goods. Up
per Brooks, Lyons, and Smiths wharves
were also damaged. The loss is officially
stated at 950O,000. Among the goods
destroyed were 10000 chest Of tea.
The concluding exercises of the annual
examination at the Naval Academy, at
Annapolis. took place Tuesday. Among
those present was Dr. August Peterman,
the German Geographer. Prof Gilman,
of the Johns Hopkins University, deliver
ed the address to the graduates, and the
diplomas were distributed by Commodore
Ammen. There were forty one gradu-
ates.
Henry Screiber, the assistant cashier of
the New York branch of the Methodist
Book Concern, was arrested last week and
confined in Ludlow Street Jail, in conse-
quence of an entertainment of some $751;
900 having been discovered in his account
BY his employers. Screiber is about thirty
years of age, and until lately possessed the
confidence of the management of the Con-
Germ. He has made confession. The
money was spent in Wall street speculations.
A fire broke out on the 10th inst, in
the extensive carpet mandatory and
wooden works at Ayr, Scotland, belonging
to James Templeton. The fire was caused
by friction of the machinery, and spread to
all parts of the building. The operatives
were at work at the time. 1t is believed
that all the men, except one, made their
escape A number of women rushed out,
saving there were others inside unable to
escape Soon afterward the roof fell in.
Twenty-four women were buried in the
ruins and persisted.
A fire at the Albany and Schenectady
Railroad dock, opposite Hudson, N. Y,
on Sunday night, destroyed the propeller
John Tyler, the barge Hercules, loaded
with sugar, the canal boat Stephen War
rem, with cargo of merchandise, and the
greater portion of the "White Elephant
Depot" 1900 feet long, with its contents.
One hundred freight cars loaded with -four,
corn, oats and tobacco, were totally con-
sumed. The depot belonged to the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company The total loss is estimated at
81 900, 900.
The whole business portion Of St. Johns,
in the province of Quebec, was destroyed
by fire Sunday. The burnt district. is six
hundred feet wide and mile in length,
and the bulldogs consumed include 0
churches, Z hotels, the Custom House, the
Court House, the post-ofice, two banks,
the United States Consulate, St. Johns
Wooden Mills, and $50 houses and stores
Several docks and vessels in the river were
also consumed. A high wind and a scare