The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-17
News of the Week.

The Emperor of Germany is suffering
from dropsy in the feet.
1t is reported that The Allentown, Pa.
hat and shoe firm have received large
order for their goods from Russia.
The small towns in France are already
preparing, with avidity, their goods for
the Paris Exposition next year.
Paul Du Chaillu, the well-known tray
eller, has returned to the United States,
and is spending a few days in Philadel-
phia,
Over $4,000 were paid out last year by
Blair county, Pa, for fox scalps, and
s44l.77 by Cambria county for the same
purpose.
DR.. Damatta, Commissioner from Bra
I'll, is at present inspecting the schools of
Pennsy lvania, by order of Dom Pedro.
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture
report an estimated loss for the last year
in that State through the hog cholera of
sS,00O,OOO,
Eight thousand tons of copper from the
Lake Superior mines were sent to Europe
last year to be manufactured into car
tridges.
Ex-President Lerdo of Mexico, General
Escobedo, Manuel Romero Rubio, and
others of Mexican notoriety, arrived in
New York on Saturday.
Mrs. Gottleib Vogul, aged 80, was terri
bly, mangled by dogs while going to her
home, near Newport, Ky, on Saturday
night. She is not expected to recover.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Railroad
Company have settled with a Hartford
widow named Crane, who lost her husband
by the Ashtabula disaster, for s5l75.
A requisition of the War Department
in favor of Captain Eads for half million
in bonds on account of his work on the
Mississippi jetties has been honored by
the Treasury.
Temperance reform clubs are being or
ganized in all parts of Rhode Island. In
recent week there were twenty reform
temperance meetings in the towns and
villages,
As the gold yield of Australia decreases,
the wool crop grows more valuable. Last
year the wool product of that country was
S70,U0O,O00, more than four times as
much as its gold product,
II. j. Razier, a merchant of Sparta,
Ga, was assaulted with sling shot aud
robbed of 500 and watch, while going
home from his store on Saturday night.
He has since died of his injuries.
Samuel Smith, farmer, had his skull
fractured, and was robbed by young man
named Cochran, near franklin, Ind, on
Sunday. 1t is doubtful if Smith will
recover, Search is making for Cochran
Mrs. Mary S. Oliver, a widow and a
clerk 10 the Treasury Department, has
sued Senator Simon Cameron for breach
of promise of marriage, placing the damage
upon her lacerated affections at $50, 900
A party Of young Wheeling mecbani,,
is organizing for the purpose of emigrating
to Brazil, Dom Pedro, while in this coun
try, having extended general invitation
to American mechanics TO visit his do
mains.
At Gloucester, Mass, some sixty fishing
vessels are at present preparing for sea
some twenty have already sailed, and the
feet this year will probably number one
hundred and sixty, employing sixteer
hundred men.
A former employe at the Pennsylvania
railroad yards, at Harrisburg, while wrest
ling with friend in saw-mill, near New
port, few days ago, accidentally fel
against buzz saw, which severed hi:
head ia twain.
The San Francisco Alta says that, frou
causes not easily explained, California
and perhaps San Francisco in particular
furnishes more cases of paralysis than
does any other section OF the country, i
not of the world.
Ayoung man named George Sehlamp, o.
Plainheld township, Northampton county
Pa, lay down on a bench to take nap
A pistol fell out of his pocket and wa.
discharged, the ball entering his left breast
and lodging in the pit Of his arm.
CALIFORNIA; import trade last year
amounted to $4,000, 900, her export t.
$50, O00,0 900, and the manufactures L
Sol 100000. The yield of gold and sill
yer for the whole Pacific coast was 500,
100000, making s1,7OO,OO0,OOO since
1913.
Frederick Douglas has resigned his pc
sition as police Commissioner for the Dis
trict of Columbia. The President re
quested him to do so, in order that the
law might be obeyed which requires the
appointment Of one member Of the Board
from Georgetown.
The strike Of the potters in Trenton, n
j., continues, and the strikers hold meet
ings every afternoon. About 1900 mer
refuse to work at the reduction. Forty
have gone back to work at the reduced
rates, and the strikers are making strong
efforts to induce them to quit.
A "grand fox chase" in which owe
one hundred hounds aud as many horse
men participated, took place Monda,
morning at Bryn Mawr, Pa. Among thu
hunters were Governor Hartranft, Stat,
Treasurer Rawle, Senator Lawrence, anC
Messrs. Cassatt aud Thomson, of thu
Pennsylvania Railroad
The U. s. Consul General at Berlil
informs the State Department that tn,
riuderpest has appeared in various parts o
Germany, aud is spreading and increasin,
throughout the country. The Trcasurl
Department has forbidden the importation
of neat cattle and hides from German,
until further notice.
Alexander II. Stephens completed hi
65th year Monday. He has improved 5,
much that he acknowledges himself, 70
the first time since his illness, to be better
His physician states that he has suffere
from an attack of pneumonia followed b
acute bronchitis, aud is now rapidly i'm
proving.
Near Augusta, Me-, few days ago,
man crossing a frozen river on the ic
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