The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-03-24
News Of the Week.


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Expresident Grant has been sued for $780,
600 damage by lunatic whom he caused TO
b inpFiaoned.
Cnrdlnal McCloskey's name Is mentioned
among those from which the next Pope may
81 selected I'D.
The Russian Minister has officially inform
"a the Secretary of State that the Grand
Duke Alexis will visit Washington next week
Boslonis imports since the LIST Of January
have been nearly half million dollars IN ex.
cess 81 the imports for the same period last
year.
Hon. Emory Washburne, Ex-Governor of
Massachusetts,, died in Cambridge on Sunday
Of pneumonia, aged II years. He was Gov.
ernor Of Massachusetts, in 1854.
James White, detective convicted of
completely In the election frauds IN Cincin'
natl, was sentenced on Saturday to thirteen
montbs Imprisonment In the penitentiary.
A locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad exploded at Keyser, W. Va, on
Saturday, killing the fireman and scaldlng
the engineer, conductor and brakeman.
lsttle eirl Of Shamokin, Pa, was penned
Ia dark closet by school teacher, and from
the fright resulting she was put to bed, and
Al last accounts was lying very i'll with brain
itver.
IN the suit of Mary f. Oliver, against old
senator Simon Cameron for S50,OO0 DANA
aes for breach Of promise, the venerable de.
ieudant has filed a plea that he ''neyer prom
ised. Is alleged"
A six hours obstinate fight took place be-
tween he Turks and Bosnians on Saturday,
bolWeen Bonaventura and Drezgnia. Both
sides suffered heavily. The Turks retired
upon Lenno.
Il Il said that sixty thousand persons have
a,rnaa the temperance pledge in Pittsburg,
pa. since the first Of December, unde the
hbors Of Mr.. Murphy, and very few back
sIides are reported.
pdtnioes are coming in great quantities
from Prince Edwards Island, Bermuda and
Halifax. 10 supply the current demand. 1t
& ssid We have in the West large quantities
NJ farmers cannot send to market on account
II III Nigh freights Eastward.
N,s. Fish will not allow smoking in the
Mouse 30 General Grant has to enjoy his
.rirHr 81 the streets. She says Mr.. Fish
,,,frSf would think Of such thing as smoking
sn.d0ofs; il damages the lace curtains and
gives ne house an unaired odor.
kllhe iron.clads at Port Royal, except
ma Dictator, have been ordered to Savannah,
svh.f6 lhey will remain in fresh water for two
0r thsee months, to get rid Of the barnacles
ntcnmnlated on their hulls. They will leave
two Il time for Savannah.
A thief entered the Indiana National Bank
a Indianapolis at noon on "Wednesday,
placed a small box which he carried on the
iIoox. stepped up on it, reached over the rail
inr. erabbed $4,000 and fled before those
pfsz6nt could get glimpse of his face.
A comet, not on the regular twisting list
oftke worlds astronomers, is now attracting
iheir telescopes. II was FIRST noticed by
Dorsily, Of Paris, who was also the first to
disoorer the unexpected visitor of 1874. 1t
may be seen in the evening just below the
pole star.
A iuror in the Sullivan murder trial, in
Chitaeo, named Swan, has been arrested on
th1 chargeof perjury. He swore, before be-
INK juror, that he had not expressed or
formed an opinion, but there is said TO be
strong evidence to the contrary.
The bank of Lansingburg, New York,
rasnended on Saturday, and receiver Tor
4 vas appointed. Its liabilities are stated at
1A55, 900, and its nominal assets at 81 100,
1n0.s Speculation in New Jersey Central and
tlheF railroad stocks is believed to have
taused the failure.
Twelve persons were killed by the boiler
bxplosion in the saw mill Of Hunter, Bros,
near Worthington, Indiana, on the 10th inst.
4 new set of corn-burrs was being tried, and
The neighbors gathered to witness the expert
ment, hence the unusual loss OF lite. Seven
other persons were injured.
The ice on the Upper Hudson, from Stock,
uoff northward, continues firm, and ut Cox
sackie people cross the river on foot Be
tween Catskiil and Hudson there is large
eofre; and everywhere south Of Rinebeck
felds of new ice have formed. At Pough.
ktepsie, Monday morning, the temperature
uAsl0 degrees above zero.
Tho Red Star line steamship Rusland, from
Antwerp for New York, went ashore at Long
Branch on Saturday night. The passengers,
crow and baggage were landed safely and well
cared for at the hotels. There were cabin
aid 100 steerage passengers. II IS feared
Tie steamer may become wreck, but with
good weather the cargo may be saved
-Four tramps called for dinner at house in
dcbenou, Pa. the other day, while only
xosnen we're about, and were given meat and
ootatoes bread and pie. Asking for coffee
1heF were told that it had all been drunk,
az Of the rogues drew a pistol and threaten.
I'd 10 shoot the lady of the house II she did
not have some made Immediately. Thu:
&aests with coffee.
On Sunday night last some ten acres Of
4f1nud over what was known us the Diamond
1,ine, one of the collieries of the Lehigh and
Wslkesbarre Company, suddenly dropped
dtsn from eight to ten inches, wide seams
orening in many places. The people who
vent down with their houses with which the
pIAce is pretty thickly studded, rushed out
into the cold, dark night in wild alright anc
led in every direction. There were, fortu
nsiely, no fatal results.
There is great excitement at Chico, Cal
afising from the fact that citizens employing
Chinese have been warned through the mail
10 discharge their help within 10 days, 30
Salfer the consequeuces.m A policeman re
.esived warning that il he attempted to dis
.toser the murderers of the Cinnamon h
a1onld himself be killed. The people Of Chi
~ are talking OF forming vigilance commit
,tees Meantime, rewards aggregating $500
,zke been offered for the arrest OF the mur
<iafers, and two young men have been arrest
- on suspicion.
h now comes TO light that the refusal Of thu
Nbrman Government TO take part in the Pari
&hibition Of 1878 is intended not MS q sigt
81 hostility to France, but as snub aud
chastisement for the German artists and man
afhcturers who made such a discreditabl'
how at Philadelphia. Prince Bismarck ha
sery plainly expressed his opinions on the
inject, and given those who bothered hin
bout il to understand that he would be nj
nArty to making German art and industry
H4ieulous for a third time in the sight o
aggregated mankind.
tbs steamer Great Eastern has general.
ieen a losing craft for her owners, and ha
hanged hands several times. During lat
gaars she has chiefly been employed in layinI
~ repairing telegraph cables, but even tina
occupation seems now to be gone. She ha
III some time been offered at Liverpool fol
barter and the chief proposals made for he
efe from Americans anxious to send liv,
4aftle to England. She is said to be wei
1iapted to this trade, and ''if S250,0OO ca
- raised to fit her with modern engines an'
tbilers," we are told ''she would be able tt
&rry goods across the Atlantic at a lowe
pfiee than any vessel anoat." She is con
<tant source of expense, and is at presen
1hving two iron masts put in her to replac
&he wooden ones. Her treasury contain