The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-01-29
New. Of the Week.

Speaker Kerr says no more liquor shall
be sold in the Capitol.
Twenty-one miles in twenty minutes
was run, by rail, last week, between Clyde
and Palmyra, n. Y
It is said that the squirrel plague threat
Gus to be as fatal to California as the
grasshoppers TO Kansas.
The Minnesota Legislature will in all
probability decline to make any appropri-
alton in aid Of the Centennial.
The entire expense of the Moody and
Sankey meetings in Philadelphia, $3.50, 1000,
has been paid by private subscriptions.
General Babcock will leave Washing
ton the last of this month for ST. Louis.
His trial is expected to commence early
in February.
In the last five years there have been
PSI homicides in New York city, and
emily 81 convictions. What commentary
upon our Courts.
The Savannah Netos says there is no
portion of the South where industrious la
borers are not needed and where they
would not find immediate employment at
good wages.
f. W. McCorkle, aged 90, was acct
dentally drowned in Jones Falls, at Bal
timore, on Saturday evening He was
son of Judge MeCorkle, of Newton, N. G.
Archy Mathesou, negro who outraged
white lady in Marion county, S. c., has
been lynched Lewis Matheson, at whose
house the villain took refuge, was shot
and killed.
The first fruits of leap year shine forth
in the case of Miss Belle Harper, of Fair
haven, W. Va, who shot man because
he refused her offer of marriage. Boys,
do you hear that?
Seven hcifers, of the "Rose of Sharon"
breed, which were purchased in Kentucky
for $50, 600, for parties in England, arriy-
ed in Jersey City on Saturday, and will
be shipped this week
Over 100 bids for mail service impressed
with a fraudulent stamp have been dis
covered in the Post Office Department
husi vi lhcSb uluH ave III COuISt vi Iulnu-
ment in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Alexander II. Stephens writes to friend
in Washington that he will not be able to
take his seat in the House before spring.
Other adyices are that Mr.. Stephens is
rapidly declining, and that his recovery is
not looked for.
Henry c. Kibbe, Secretary Of four min
ing companies in San Francisco, was found
dead in bed recently, he having shot him
self through his head He had stolen
$4,000, mostly from the New York
Mining Company.
The Cincinnati Price Current publishes
reports from number Of pork packing
points which indicate n decrease in the
number of hogs compared with last season
of about $50, 600. The hogs are of supe-
rior quality at all points
The Insurance Chronicle states that
losses by fire in the United States, during
last year, amounted to $50, 1928, OBS, of
which loss $40, 631 1000 was paid by the
insurance companies the remainder fell
eAciusNeiJ upon the OWueIS.
The iron steamer Carondclet, from New
Orleans, sank eighteen miles below St.
Louis, early Monday morning, and lies in
nine feet of water She had 700 tons of
sugar on board, besides salt, etc., and her
cargo was valued at 100000.
The body of Elizabeth Trembacher, aged
IA, was found Friday week in thicket
near Youngstown, Ohio. A veil was tied
around her throat, indicating that she had
been strangled. A tramp named Sterling
has been arrested on suspicion.
Dock Mangum, said to have been
noted guerilla on the Federal side during
the war, has been assassinatcd while plow.
ing on his farm near Savannah, Tennessee,
by two masked men, who carried his body
of and probably threw it into the river.
The Boston papers publish particulars
of certain forgeries alleged to have been
committed by 4. D. Winslow, part owner
of the Boston Post and Daily Neus, who
is said to have left with his family for
parts unknown. The notes negotiated by
him are said to amount to $500, 900.
The iron bridge at Spring Grove avenue,
in Cincinnati, gave way on Saturday morn
ing, under the weight Of FIVE railroad ears
Overloaded with shelled corr" The en-
gineer, fireman and brakeman, we're killed,
and two men driving along the avenue
below were caught in the ruin and severely
injured.
Arthur P. Devlin lectured against Cath
olicism at Dover, N. H., on Wednesday
evening. Aiter the lecture he was follow.
ed by crowd, who compelled him to take
refuge in drug store, aud then hurled
bricks through the windows. The Mayor
read the riot act, and the police escorted
Devlin to his hotel.
Evidence is being taken in New York
city to be used in suit brought in Min
nesota by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.,
against VIM. S. King to recover large
sum Of money which passed through his
hands while Postmaster Of the House Of
Representatives for the alleged purpose OF
influencing members of Congress to grant
a subsidy to the Company. 1l'e3
The case of Raiser VS.. Raiser was be.
fore Master in Chancery Y. s. Joline, in
jersey City Monday, aud counsellor Har-
ney used violent language toward Charles
Schmidt, witness. The Master repri.
manded him. Despite the warning he
continued, and approaching one of the
parties to the suit shook his fist threaten.
ingly in the witness's face. Harvey was
knocked down, and fight ensued.
Forty buildings in Apollo, Pa, compris-
ing about half the town, were destroyed
on Wednesday night week by fire
caused by the explosion Of a coal oil lamp.
The same night, the Cape Cod Exchange
and Brett's Block, in Harwich, Mass.
were destroyed by similar explosion
An incendiary fire at Buffalo Tuesday
morning destroyed warehouse, with 1900
barrels of -four and 10000 slaves. Loss,
$40, 900
The news of the passage Of the centcn
nial appropriatioD bill by the House was