The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-04
News of the Week.
MIS-. Van Colt, the New York revival.
list, is at work in Texas.

The population OF Chicago, as Just de
termined by the school census, is 4O7 ,66l
The Austrian Government has declined
to take any official part in the Paris Ex
position of 1873.
At Easton, Pa, Monday, Allen G., La.
ros, convicted of poisoning his father, on
the 3lst of May last, was sentenced to be
hanged
The dyeing of animals is now quite com
mon in Paris. A lady in that city re-
Gently drove four horses dyed in brilliant
magenta.
Russia is taking steps to promote cotton
culture in Asia, where the annual product
is now about $4,000 pounds. American
seed is to be introduced
Six inches of snow fell in Western and
Northwestern Ontario, on Friday night u
week. In many places the storm was ac-
companied by thunder and lightning.
The report, telegraphed from st. Adams,
that preparations for Fenian raid into
Canada are making in Northern Vermont,
is contradicted by telegram from Boston
The Fort Stanwix Knitting Mills, at
Rome, NY, were burned on Friday night.
Loss, about S65, 900. About 100 opera
tives are thrown out of employment by
this FIRE.
About thousand pieces of old pottery
dug up in Missouri and supposed to be
from fifteen hundred to two thousand years
old, have been received at the Peabody
Museum of Yale College.
A magazine of nitroglycerine, in a crib
at Port Colborne, Ontario, exploded Mon
day, blowing man named King to atoms,
shattering the crib and damaging a mum.
Der of houses in the neighborhood.
William Hawthorne, aged ~, was killed
by his son-in-law, Thos. Stevens, at Ha-
gerstown, Nd, on Sunday. Stevens was
quarrelling with his wife, and while at
tempting to eject him, Hawthorne received
fatal wound.
Under the English law wife is now Sc
cured in her right to all earnings derived
from any occupation she carries on sepa-
rately from her husband Previous to
1870 the wife was obliged to apply to the
courts for this privilege.
Suits have been entered at Washington
by the United States, against Gen. o. o.
Howard as a defaulter of funds entrusted
to him in connection with the Freedmans
Bureau and the Howard University. One
OF the suits is for $3.50, 900, and the other
for $4,000.
A brick building, in course of erection
at Manchester, New Hampshire, tumbled
down on Saturday afternoon, injuring four
workmen, one Of them very seriously.
Forty heavy granite window caps, which
had been placed on the second floor,
proved too much for its strength.
At Washington, on Saturday, johanna
Turpin, colored, was convicted of the muir
der Of her husband, but the jury recon-
mended that her death sentence be CON-
muted to Imprisonment for life. She killed
her husband on the 9th of July last, cut
up the body and concealed it in an ash
pile.
The nine o'clock train from Scranton,
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad, consisting of seventeen cars,
was run into by coal train, near Colds
boro' station, Monday night. One of the
cars was burned and two were telescoped.
Five persons were killed and thirteen were
injured.
The mate of the American schooner
George has written latter ~ CoIloo,o,
casey, OF New Orleans, reporting the seiz-
ure aud Imprisonment of Captain CANDY
by the Mexican officials at Coatzacoalco.
de says the schooner's papers were cor
rect, and had been approved by the GUS
toms officials.
An old man, who died about four months
ago in Maysville, KY, hid 81 200 worth
of United States onds in two mustard
boxes and buried them in pile of scrap.
wood in his shanty. The wood was sold
about ten days ago to a rag-pickcr for rs
cents, and while he was gathering it TO-
gether a bystander picked up the mustard
boxes ana found the bonds.
Three Methodist ministers, while riding
circuit in Pope county, Arkansas, ON the
morning of the 26th ulto., were shot from
the bush by two illicit distilIers, named
Hughes and Hale. One of the unfortu.
nate clergymen died in two hours after.
wards the others were seriously If mt
fatally wounded. 1t is believed thew were
mistaken for revenue officials by the as
sassins.
Twenty persons were trampled To death
and about the same number wounded in
panic which occurred in Chinese thea.
tire in San Francisco on Monday niobt
The panic was caused BY false alarm Of
fire, and the crowded audience made
Simultaneous rush for the single means of
exit; hence the disaster Tbe Chimes
actors kept ON with the performance not.
withstanding the excitement until thew
were stopped by the police.
In the limited States c;rcr;, Cow, :.
Trenton, New jersey, on SATURDAY. case
involving the question of the forfeiture of
real estate ON account of Illicit d;s,;llat;on
was disposed of. The pronertv WAS All
tillery on the Hudson, and Il was insisted
that the real estate. which BELONGED 10 a
Mr.. Mcneil, of New York oupbf not 10
be forfeited, as it was used for 2 d;st;lIarv
without his knowledge. The Jury how.
ever, rendered verdict copdemping both