The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-30

Dom Pedro has been elected an honorary
member Of the Bunker Hill Monument Asso-
citation.
The President has appointed General VIM.
Leduc Commissioner Of Agriculture, vice
Judge Watts.
Nearly all the silk ribbon weayers Of Pate r
son, N. j., except those Of the Phoenix Mill,
are on q strike. II has been decided that the
strikers shall receive no aid from the Bureau
of Outdoor Relief
The Governor of Pennsylvania issued q
warrant on Monday for the execution, on
September 10th, ofThos. p. Fisher, convicted
in Carbon county, in December last, of the
murder of Morgan Powell.
Revenue Agent Crimson telegraphed Mon.
day from Uniontown, Pa, 10 the Commits
sioner Of Internal Revenue that an illicit dis
tllery was captured in that neighboThood on
Saturday, which had been running for two
years, with q capacity OF 40 gallons per day.
The dstller was arrested.
The steamship Batavia, which arrived at
Boston on Monday from Liverpool, reports
that on the 10th instant, in latitude "A, longi-
tude i9, she spoke the little sail boat New
Bedford, which sailed on June I'd for Eng.
land. Captain Grape and his wife were well
and in want of nothing.
A dispatch to the New Orleans board Of
health states that there have been one hun
bred and eighty.six deaths in the past two
weeks from yellow fever at the military hos.
pital, hundred miles from Havana. This is
the only place in the tropics where the fever
has made its appearance so far this season.
William Brown has been arrested in Eliza.
beth, N. j., on the charge of forging the
name Of VIM. Il. Seeley, cashier Of the First
National Bank of Bridgeport, Conn, to u
check for $l45O on the Importers aud Trad.
ers' Bank Of New York. The check was de-
posted in Railway Bank, and on inquiry at
Bridgeport pronounced genuine. Subsequent
presentation Of the original check proved it
forgery
Collector Booth telegraphed to the Com.
missioner Of Internal Revenue from Mont.
gomery, Ala, on Monday, that he had seized
a large number of Illicit stills. A large mass
meeting of the citizens Of Cleburne county
had been held, at which resolutions pledging
aid in the enforcement of the revenue laws
were unanimously adopted. Since that meet
ing many illicit distillers have been arrested
and many are giving themselves up.
At the new sugar refinery in BROOKLYN on
Wednesday, while portion Of the large sugar
pan, weighing about eleven tons, was being
broke in two and the pan went with thun.
derous crash down into the cellar. Charles
Semmer was struck on the head by the
shears and instantly killed. John Corsiean,
carpenter, had his ankle and left arm broken,
and Henry Tom was dragged off the roof
and had his legs and ribs broken.
The noted bond forger, Williamson, has
escaped from Sing Sing prison, New York.
The keeper reports that plot had been dis
covered whereby several Of the convcts were
to have made their escape. The meat shop
OF the prison was set on fire by one Of the
conyicts, and in the confusion which prevail.
ed Williamson eluded the vigilance of his
keeper and fed. 1t is thought that the plan
was for several Of the convicts TO make dash
for freedom, but the close watching of the
Keepers prevented the full carrying out Of the
plot.
An important seizure Of struggled black
silks was made by the customs officers of New
York, on Tuesday afternoon, in the stable of
A. Dunlap. There were 40 pieces in all, ag.
gregating 300 yards, and valued at some
$4,000, The silk had been imported in bar.
rels, and consigned to an auction house. The
goods are now in the seizure room at the
Custom House. The news of the seizure is
making considerable stir among the trade.
Complaint has been making of late that some
dealers were selling this very class Of goods
at prices much under the market, and some.
thing OF this kind was suspected.
Mrs. Catharine Boudinot Atterbury, widow
Of Lewis Atterbury, died in New York city
on Sunday last, in her 06th year. She was
the daughter of Judge Boudinot, of New
Jersey, and niece Of Elias Boudnot, Presi.
dent OF Congress at the close of the Revolu.
tionary war, aud first President Of the Amer.
lean Bible Society. She was born in 1881.
When child she was held in the arms of
Washington and was associated in after years
with the families Of Revolutionary memory
the Bayards, Hamiltons, Stocktons, &c She
was married in 1903 and lived with her hus.
band 60 years, until his death at the age of
%, in 1872.
The Belair, Nd, 4Egis says "a young
man named Moulsdale, living on Swan creek,
was engaged in hiying swarm of bees, and
being unable to reach cluster of bees on an
upper limb OF the tree incautiously shook il,
when the whole swarm arose and attacked
him. he descended the tree as rapidly as
possible, and ran toward the house, the furi.
Gus little insects pursuing and singing him
at every step. Before he could reach the
house he fell exhausted, and would have been
stung to death If assistance had not reached
him in time. As it was he was severely hurt.
Several hundred stings were extracted from
his head and neck"