The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-26
News Of the Woak.

ahu employ lzO0 operatives
Ex-Treasurer Courtright, Of Luzerne
CO., Pa convicted of embczzlcmcnt short
time since, has refunded to the State SIC :
S68.
The failure of Hon. Josiah Quincy was
reported in Boston on Saturday. His H.
abilities were stated at $50, 900, his assets
at $50 900.
When the bill for the redemption of
fractional currency in silver took effect,
the amount of such currency outstanding
was forty millions.
The six Fcniau prisoners who escaped
from New South Wales short time ago,
arrived in New York on Saturday in the
whaling ark Catalpa.
President Grant and family arrived at
Long Branch on Saturday. In the even
ing the President drove along the beach
behind fast trotter and cigar.
Samuel Camden, colorcd, arrested on u
charge of felony, was taken from the jail
at Barboursville, W. Va, Sunday morn
ing, by masked mob and lynched.
The Ten Cents Savings Bank, of Ports.
mouth, N. H., has been placed in the
hands Of an assignee, its deposits having
been reduced $780, 200 by bad investments.
Henry Smith and Squire Hammond,
charged with murder, were taken from Jail
at Owenton, KY, early on Saturday morn
ing by a gang Of forty masked men and
lynched.
A farmer named Whitesidcs was MUIR
dered by his sou near Ballinafad, Ont, on
Sunday night. 1t is supposed that the
parricide wished to gain possession Of his
fathers property.
A fire at Brussels, Ontario, Monday,
destroyed twcnty-eight stores aud render
ed fourteen families homeless The loss
is estimated at 100000. 1t is supposed
the fire was incendiary.
The mother of Robert Gorrcll, Esq, of
Centralia, Schuylkill county, Pa, died a
few days ago, at the advanced age of l02
years. Her father died at the age of l06
years, and her other 107.
A telegram from Cheyenne states that
all but twenty-seven of the Utes who left
Fort Fetterman recently to fight the Sioux,
deserted on Friday last, taking the arms
which had been furnished them.
The lumber yard, sash factory and small
saw mill of Peter Helm 4 Co., of Cum
berland, Nd, was burned August 81.
Loss between $4,000 and 100000 1t
is supposed the fire caught from sparks
from the engine room.
In New York, on Sunday evening,
twenty bartenders were arrested ut Gil
more's Garden for selling beer: They were
ut ence bailed by the proprietors, aud
other bartenders were in readiness to take
their places.
James Bowman, Register Clerk in the
Post-officc at San Francisco has been ar.
rested for robbiug the mails. Gold notes,
which had been placed in a decoy letter,
were found in his possession. lie was for
merly member of the Legislature.
Eighty Chinese boys from Hartford, and
thirty from New Haven, left those cities
Monday for the Centennial Exhibition.
They are students receiving education in
this country under the superintendent of
the Chinese Educational Commission.
A swimming match between Frank
Prince, of st. Louis, and Thomas Sutcliife,
of England, took place in the Mississippi
river on Saturday. The distance was ten
miles, and the race was won by Prince in
one hour and forty minutes, Sutcliffe being
two minutes behind.
The engineers, conductors, breakmen
and trackmen Of the New York and New
Jersey Railroad struck on Sunday morn
ing, and travel ON the road was stopped.
1t appears that four months wages was
due them, and the notes of the company
given for the previous four months wages
were protested.
At Dallas, Texas, on Friday last, two
robbers entered the Office of the State
Savings Bank, fellcd L. II. Grubcr, its
President, with blow on the head snatch
ed up about 5000, and escaped on horse
back The President of the Bank offers
a reward Of $500, and the citizens $500
more for tho arrest of the robbers.
Hon. Michael c. Kerr. Speaker of the
U. $. House of Representatives, died
at Rockbridge Alum Springs on Saturday
evening. An embalmer was sent from
Washington to the Springs the same night.
The interment took place at New AL. |
bany, Indiana, on Thursday. Mr.. Kerr
is the first Speaker who died while holding
that office.
Three of the flock of wild geese from
California, recently placed in the Exhibi-
ton lake, Philadelphia, flew out of the
grounds on Saturday evening, and subse-
quently made their way down the Schuyl-
kill. In the attempt to recapture them,
one Of the geese was seriously disabled by
a stroke from an oar in the hands oc one
Of the party which pursued them.
As consequence of the forthcoming
discharge of over $50 clerks from the
Treasury Department, the usual monthly
leave of absence granted to employees of |
that department has been thus far with
held this season, except in few cases.
The vacations granted to the clerks who
are retained will be given after the list of
the discharges is prepared, and will be
shorter than usual.
On Saturday night, an attempt was
made to wreck an express train near Lin
coin Creek Bridge, few miles from Ro-
chester, NY. A rail was so placed us to
make it almost certain that the train
would be thrown down an embankment
seventy-fvc feet high. A man walking
along the track discovered the villains at
work and notified a farmer, who stopped
the train just in time by swinging q red
lantern. About three hundred passengers
were on the train.
Governor Chamberlain, of South Caro-.
lima, has issued proclamation, in view of
a threatened effort Of the colorcd politi-
clan Whipper to take forcible possession
Of Charleston Judgeship. The Governor
says that any such attempt will DO treated
as "a riotous disturbance of the public