The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-02
News Of the Week.

n. j., on December 26.
A new journal has appeared in New
Orleans, called The Empire, which favors
making Gen. Grant Emperor
A telegram from Montgomery, Ala,
says business there is at a standstill, owing
to the Presidential complications,
John Ness was fatally injured by being
caught in the machinery at Schall's car
shops, in York, Pa, Monday. He died
in half an hour
The steamer Britannia, from Liverpool
for New York, will bring out one million
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
American gold coin.
Major Cole, who is en- route to Chicago
to join Moody and Sankey in their evan
gclical work, sailed from Liverpool Thurs
day for New York in the steamer Britannia.
Miss Fannie Waters, governess. from
Maine, who was married to Chu All Wah,
proprietor of u wash-house, in San Fran
cisco on November 16, said that she loved
him and that was the only reason.
The Governor of Rhode Island called
an extra session of the General Assembly
to meet on Friday to elect Presidential
electOr in place of George H. Corlss, adj
judged by the Supreme Court to be ineli-
gible.
Later adyices from Lower California
confirm the overthrow of Governor Villa
grana, but say he was himsclfa revolution
list in favor OF Diaz, and has been arrested
and sent to Guaymas to answer charges of
rebellion, fraud, &c.
At Wilmington, Del, Tuesday, DR.. w.
d. Nolen, ex-collector of that port, was
sentenced to reimburse the government
S4,994.65, the amount of his embezzle-
ment, and be imprisoned six months,
from November 2S to May 2S.
Ralph L. ROLAND and b. johnson, con-
victed Of robbing the Chambersburg Ma
tional bank, and held for another trial,
escaped from the Jail at Chambersburg,
Pa, Monday. Two hundred dollars re-
ward is offered for the rearrest of ROLAND.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota ON
Tuesday sustained the constitutionality of
the Inebriate Asylum law of that State.
1t levics tax of $40 per annum upon
each liquor dealer for the maintenance of
an asylum for inebriates, which is now in
course Of erection.
The suspension of j. w. Sehermerhorn
4 Co., publishers, and manufacturers of
school furniture, in New York, has been
announced 1t caused considerable sur.
prise, as the firm was believed to be very
substantial. The liabilities will probably
amount to S150,00O.
| A little girl in Lewiston, Me-, was Or
dered by her stepmother to wear gloves to
school as means of curing her of biting
her nails The child returned home
barehanded, and the stepmother not only
replaced the gloves but sewed them fast to
the flesh at the wrists.
Last Friday night six masked robbers
entered the house of Il. ID. Winney, in
Saratoga county, N. Y, bound and gagged
the occupants, and took away $500. On
| Sunday morning four masked burglars
entered the house of Benjamin SIadc,
near Waterford, in the same county, and
secured $500 in a similar manner.
Mrs. Minnie Lehman has sued the
Western Union telegraph company at
Cumberland for $4,000 damages sustain.
ed by the killing of her son Willie by the
falling of telegraph pole on October II.
Employees of the company were hosting
the pole when the rigging gave way and
the pole crushed the head of the unfortu-
nate lad.
Charles Taylor, colored was arrested in
Baltimore, Md, on "Wednesday, charged
with burglary and felonious assault on
Kate Bichey, white, aged l | years The
negro entered the house about 2 o'clock
in the morning, packed up such goods as
he could conveniently carry, and in pass
ing through the room where the child was
sleeping made an assault upon her.
The school teachers of Philadelphia. to
the number of one thousand, held a meet
ing on Saturday to take action against the
proposed reduction Of ten per cent of
their salaries by the city councils. The
general sentiment expressed was that the
salaries now paid were not commensurate
with the brain power and labor given. A
reduction OF ten per cent would save about
100000.
j. Milton Turner, United States Minis
ter to Liberia, a colored man, has brought
suit for $4,000 damages under the civil
rights bill against the proprietors of the
Astor House, New York, for refusing to
permit him to stop there. The propretors
say on the day in question, fully one hun
dred white people were turned away from
the hotel for want Of Accommodation.
Wade Hampton's house, three miles
from Columbia, S. c., was destroyed by
an incendiary fire on the 24th ult The
flames burst at once from different parts
of the building, and the Generals two
sisters and two young sons had barely time
to escape with their lives. Hampton him
self happened to be in Columbia that night
The only thing saved from the house was
a bust of General Wade Hampton, of the
Revolution.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the goth ult.
says "a prominent dry goods firm of
Cincinnati has ordered all Of its Southern
statesmen to return home In fact it was
impossible for them to sell any goods, the
merchants of the South actually refusing
to examine their samples, and not a few
Of them publicly announced their intention
to quit business if Tilden is not elected
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