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

Harper's Ferry, West Va, has n Vigilance
| Committee.
The population of Altooua, Pa, accordin
to recent census, is 1884.
Rev. Z. D. Hopkins was convicted of for
gerry at st. Johnsbury, VT, on Monday night
The New York Board of Aldermen ha
decided to expend $4,000 in fireworks TO
the "Fourth.n
The stove moulders Of Louisville, Ky, arr
all on a strike, and the foundries are close,
in consequence.
George Fister, the sufferer from hydrophobi
IN Mahanoy City, Pa, died on Sunday morn
ing, after two days agony.
Robert Dale Owen, noted spiritualsl
and anthor, died at Peerless Point, LAX,
George N. T., on Monday.
From the LIST of January up to and includ
ing the 2lst ofJune, As persons have beer
hung in the United States.
Lieutenant Catesby Jones, formerly of the
Confederate ram Merrimac, was killed re
Gently in a street fight in Selma, Ala.
The strike Of tho ship laborers irpMontrea
has ended in the men being taken back al
their own request, to work at reduced rates
Boys are engaged by farmers in the north.
ern and western portions of the State of
New York to pick potato bugs, at FIVE cent,
a hundred.
Governor Carroll will deliver an address
on the Fourth of July on the occasion of the
transfer of the Catholic Centennial Fountain
to the city of Philadelphia.
Two lots of new wheat, including l2G bush.
els Virginia and l25 bushels Maryland, sold
on Tuesday at the Baltimore Corn and Flour
Exchange for ST., per bushel.
A man at Pawlet, Vermont, recently lost
fourteen cows, which broke into his potato
field aud ate vines that had been annointed
with kerosene to keep of bugs.
During the past year 5,07l 400 hogs were
killed and cured in the Western packing hous.
es, yielding 1908, 33O,74 pounds of cured
meat and l73, 783,30S pounds Of lard.
The silk weavers strike at Patterson, n .
D., continues, and the strikers, who demand.
ed ten per cent. increase, have been locked
out until they accept Il reduction Of 20 per
cent.
Mrs. Hubbard, of Brooklyn, n. Y, shot
herself and her child, in fit of insanity, at
Sing Sing, on Saturday night. She had re-
Gently arrived at Sing Sing to spend the
summer there.
A whirlwind in Battle Mountain, New, on
Tuesday the 10Th ultimo raised Judge Scott S
hall from the ground and carried it two feet
while not breath of wind touched another
house in the town.
A frost in the northwestern section of
Ontario on Friday night, 22d inst, did con.
siderable injury to the crops generally.
There was q slight frost in the vicinity Of To
ledo the same night.
Dead dogs are sold in San Francisco for
gloves, the hair is used in plaster, the bones
are ground for clarifying sugar, and the fats
manufactured into oil.
A party of drunken Molly Maguires made
an attack upon some miners near Nanticoke,
Pennsylvania, on Monday night, injuring
several Of them severely, and so badly wound.
ing one that he died Tuesday morning,
In Ridley township, Delaware county, Pa.
Monday night, W. II. johnson shot his cousin
John Worrall, and blew out his own brains.
Worralrs wound is probably fatal. Jealousy
was the cause. Both were married, and
johnson leaves two children,
A telegram from Rome, on Monday, says
"At consistory held to-day the Pope ap.
pointed Right Rev, James Gibbons, d. D.,
present Bishop Of Richmond Va, as success,
sor of the Most Rev. James Roosevelt Bayley
ID. D., Archbishop Of Baltimore"
A fight occurred between some of the
Reading Railroad strikers and the men who
had taken their places, in Reading, last Sat,
urday night. Pistols and knives were used
freely, and one man was shot in the head and
leg, while another was stabbed in the arm.
The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau at the
War Department has ordered the issue, to.
gether with the necessary ammunition, of
1000 stand Of arms to the State of Oregon,
and 800 each to the Territories of Washing.
ton and Idaho, on account of the Indian
troubles.
The most notable departure among the
steamers leaving New York on Saturday for
Europe was the French steamer "L'Ameri.
que, for Havre. Thoroughly reconstructed
since her mishap at Long Branch, she carried
out full cargo and 1876 passengers, and her
departure was marked by unwonted festiyi
ties.
One Of the most formidable strikes which
has occurred has ended, as almost all have, in
the total failure of the strikers. The Moul.
ders' Union, Of Troy, one of the strongest in
the country, resolved Tuesday night TO allow
members to work in any shop on any terms
"a virtual dissolution of the Union. This
ends strike of eight months duration.
An armed force of fifteen men, under Re-
venue Detective McCready, left Uniontown,
Pa, on the 22d instant, for a raid on illicit
distilleries in the mountains, sixteen miles
from that place. Within twenty. four hours
the force made ten arrests and seized four
stills. Six of those arrested are the persons
who attacked Agent Crimson and Deputy
Houseman on the 18th inst.
Diamond cutting, which has heretofore
been carried on almost exclusively by the
Jews Of Amsterdam, has been taken up and
successfully prosecuted by class Of 90 young
women of Roxbury, Mass. The girls cut
aud polish the diamonds in superior man.
ner, and are found to be admirably adapted
for that branch of industry, which seems to
open new field for female operatives.
The body Of Mary Ella Harrington, who
was abducted from Boston year ago, was
found in the Merrimack river, six miles from
Lowell on Wednesday night. 1t was tied
with ropes into the smallest possible com.
pass, sewed up the in a sack, and weighted
down. On Wednesday of last week the body
of man, sewed in blanket, and bearing
evidence of murder, was taken from the
Merrimack river at Tyngsboro', Mass.
In San Francisco, on Sunday morning, the
OF Grace Church found the
church doors closed, and when they were
forced, the sexton, John T. Gamerston, was
discovered lying on the floor of the chancel,
with his throat cut. 1t is supposed he will
recover, Trouble with members of the
church, which led to the acceptance of his
is supposed to have caused the
deed.
President Hayes arrived in Boston Tuesday
and was received by the Governor
Of Massachusetts, and escorted to the hotel
by the military, the procession occupying
about forty minutes in passing given point.
The streets along the route were thronged
with people, and the President was loudly
cheered. There followed a review of the
militia, reception at Fa1euil Hall, a ban.
quet given by the Governor, concert at
Music Hall, and a reception by the Loyal
League.
A despatch from Fort Lapwai, dated the
oath instant, reports that Gen. Howard has
been joined by Col. Perry and his command
at Norton's Station, Little Cottonwood, about
sixty miles from the fort. The troops at Lap.
wal were to start to join Howard on the 25th.
Gen. Howard intended to move that day
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