The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-08-25
New. Of the Week.

The passenger railway companies Of Now
York use 1000 horses.
New York has, so far realized $2s, 5ss from
the tax imposed on dogs.
Ex-Governor Groome has been appointed
receiver Of the Maryland and Delaware rail
road.
At the tender age of 10 Mrs. Lafayette
Maulin, of Athens Ga, finds herself "a lone
lorn widow
A Texas paper reports that all over that
state military companies are being organized
with amazing rapidity.
Charles Strunk, Of Reading, has Just been
arrested for stealing ian acre Of potatoes III
Muh|enberg township, Pa.
AT last accounts Senator Morton was rest.
ing well land his condition was very encour.
aging to his physicians
Owing TO competition between rival gas
companies Harrisburg is enjoying gas atsSl
per thousand feet.
Glencoe Springs, 20 miles from Baltimore,
on the Northern Central railway, is very
| popular with Ballimoreans this season.
The shiprights and sparmakers in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard have struck against n
reduction Of their wages from $3.50 to SO. 90
per day.
Mrs. Anna Katrina Freund died at Cumber.
land, Md, recently at the advanced age Of
nlnety-nlne years, four months aud twenty.
four days. She nearly reached par.
Fanny Preston, daughter of the late Der.
nard Preston, of Hartford county, Nd, died
Mt her late residence, near Belair, aged lO3
| years. She was born in IVA.
! Since June /, 1876, 10000, 900 pounds Of
dried apples have been exported from this
country-nearly twenty times as many pounds
as the year before.
An Atlanta, Ca, girl whose father is worth
500, 700, makes all her dresses with herown
hands and is withal one Of the most stylish
members of Atlanta society.
The Wytheyille, Va, Enterprise saws that
snow fell on Walkers Mountain, Bland county,
that State, on Thursday, August 9th. Ii
rained below in the valley at the same time.
1t is estimated that the total cost of the
recent strike in New Jersey, counting mill
tary, special police, sherif's deputies, sup.
plies, etc, was $4,000 day for twelve days,
or total of about Sls0,O00.
Mr.. John Link, residing on the Belair road
above Herring Run, several miles from Bal.
tim0re, has lost six out Of nine children from
diptheria and scarlet fever, in less than three
weeks.
The striking employees of the Newark Silk
Mill, at Newark, N. j., $50 in number, will
will resume work They have accepted a
compromise reducing the highest wages and
increasing the lowest.
James Smith, aged eighty seven, has Just
finished his third term of imprisonment at
Barnstable, Observation-Disclosures years for
lnTranV Ia tun tbara
and again quatrer of a century later.
The Windsor Savings Bank at Windsor,
VT, was robbed of $1,000 ON Saturday after.
noon. The thieves climbed into the window
OF the back room, and took the money from
the drawer, while the bank people we're look.
ing ut the Presidential procession.
Nineteen of the thirty eight Governors
have accepted invitations 10 be present at the
Permanent Exhibition on the 2gth inst. 1t
is said that the Western Governors are
specially Interested in the proposed meeting,
as they want to have similar one aiterward
in some Western city.
A telegram from Salt Lake City say that
the hostile Indians still hold the stage road
and telegraph line on the Montana stage
route, thirty miles south of Pleasant Valley.
They turned back a stage coach and the tele.
the Indians are not the main body, but most.
ly wounded and women and children.
An attempt was made Sunday to throw the
New York and Saratoga through train to the
White Mountains from the track near Little.
ton, N, II. piece of rail was driven be.
tween the rails at the switch, but the train
passed over it safely. 1t is thought the inien.
ton was to catch the Presidential party, as
there was a rumor that they would be on that
train.
There was recently quarried, without the
use of powder, at the Barre granite quarries,
in Vermont, block weighing about six hun.
dred and eighteen tons-being forty feet long,
seventeen feet high, and ten feet thick. This
immense stone is said to be perfect in every
respect and is believed to be the largest block
OF granite ever quarried in that State.
One the largest women in the world, Fan.
mic Wallace, died on 10th inst, at Ephrata,
Lancaster county, Pa. She was tifty.iour
years old, seven feet four inches in height,
and weighed $50 pounds. Her coffin was
seven feet eight inches in length, three feet
six inches in depth, four feet wide at the cen
tire and two feet wide at the foot. 1t re-
quired eight men with block and tackle to
lower her remains at the grave.
Two negroes on Thursday Of last week in.
duced Jas Smith and his wife, tramps,
from Philadelphia, TO go into cornield with
them near Middletown, Del, for the ostensi.
Bile purpose of getting work. When they had
gone q short distance one of the negroes
Knocked Smith down and ieloniously assault.
cd his wife. The affair created considerable
excitement and the negroes were arrested and
lodged in Jail.
| The fiity-third annual session of the Grand
| lodge Of the independent Order of Odd Eel.
lows in the United States will be held in Bal.
timore, September IL. Representatives will
be present from all the states and territories.
The session will be held in the room Of the
Grand lodge, in the temple of the order on
Gay street. The order is reported in -four.
fishing condition. The receipts by the last
report were $I,7l4, 242, and the expenditures
for the relief of the sick, burial of the dead
and education Of the orphan were Sl,79S, 500,
On the 18th inst, General Howard tele.
graphed from the vicinity of Bannock City,
that he would enter the Department of the
Platte in pursuit Of the hostile Indians. The
latter were near Lake Henry, apparently
going eastward tothe buffalo country, through
the Yellowstone Park. Generals Sheridan
and Crook have also been advised of Ho.
wards pursuit Of the Indians. Il telegram
| from Salt Lake says thlrty-fye Shoshones
have left their agency for Fort Hall, to assist
Howard.
The Permanent Exphibition Philadelphia,
was open for the first time on Sunday, and
was attended during the afternoon by an au.
dience of II 900 people, composed largely OF
the working classes and business men for
whose special accommodation it was opened
A grand sacred concert was given in the great
| muaie hall which waa arnWdpd N the m Utmost
capacity. Every thing was conducted in the
most orderly manner, and there was nothing
to offend the most exacting moralst. No