The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-08-11
News of the Week.

NEWS OF the Woek'
Last year the State Of Maine paid 81, 72I
for bear scalps, s
A firm in West Troy, N. Y. shipped lei
horse.cars to Bombay last week.
Bartlett pears from Louisiana sell IN New
York markets for 70 cents and 81 dozen.
There is a farm in Page county, Va, on,
acre Of which raised so bushels OF wheat thi
/ year.
Senator Conkling is expected back frou
his European trip towards the close Of this
week
Farmers Of that vicinity are visiting Nil
waukee, Wis, every day 10 search of field
hnnds, and offering So per day.
The Wesleyan Female College, Murfrees
horo, N. e., was consumed by fire on Mon.
day. Origin of FIRE unknown.
/ 1t is understood that Spotted Tail and Red
Clond will be among the Sioux delegation to
be sent to Washington by General Crook.
The first shipments of this seasons wheat
from New York to Great Britain went in the
Anchor Lime steamers on Saturday.
s. II. Mann, an insurance agent Of Colum,
bus, Ohio, has disappeared, and is charged
with having embezzled $4,000 Of his compa.
ny's funds.
Eight or ten families from Michigan have
recently purchased farms and settled near
Petersburg, Va. They express themselves
as much pleased with the climate and the
people of Virginia.
Pestering's cigar box factory, in Cincinnati,
was burned on the I'd inst. Twenty-Five girls
were working in the upper stories, four of
whom, aud boy of 10, are known TO have
persisted.
The pOorhouse near SimcOe, Ontario, a
wooden structure, was destroyed By fire on
Saturday night, and seventeen of The inmates
persisted in the flames. Four men were Sc
verely injured.
Lieutenant C.. Il. Cooper aud twenty.six
soldiers are reported lost on the Staked
Plains, Ia Texas, and a party from Fort
Concho, under Captain Smithers and Lieu.
tenant Spear, has gone to search for them.
John A. Champacert, u cigar. maker, was
arrested in Providence, X. l., on the charge
Of defrauding the revenue. When placed In
n cell at the police station he committed sui.
eide by shooting himself through the heart.
All the stone cutters on the new Parlia.
ment building in Quebec struck on Saturday.
The contractors decided to pay 20 cents per
iboN VI pA'po per ne men ue-
manded 40 cents per foot, which, they say, is
about the equivalent Of their present wages.
A young lady lost wallet containing $43
lnayery foolish way yesterday. For safety she
buried it in the sand before she went into
battle, and when she came out she couldn't
find it, This is the second instance Of the
kind this summer.-4tdntic City ReUiep.
On Saturday the Spanish Government,
through its Minister at Washington, deposited
with the Secretary of State the sum OF $s0,.
900, being the interest on the invested claims
upon that government. Distribution will be
made to claimants by the Secretary of State.
A force Of Texan troops under Captain Hall
has invested Piedras Negras for the purpose
of capturing a number OF Valdez's men. It
is thought the latter will offer armed resist.
ance. The men sent by Lieutenant Bulls
into Mexico in search Of the last gang Of
raiders have returned without finding them.
The earnings of the St. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern Railroad last month, not.
withstanding the strike, were S39,Gi7 more
than during the corresponding month Of last
year The earnings of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad for July also show an in.
crease Of SIS, s26 on those for July 1876.
A terrible accident happened on the Sd
inst at the Lucy Furnace Company's Works
in Pittsburg While seven men were lining
furnace, and working on a scaffold supported
by ropes, these caught fire and the men fell
into the burning mass below. Two of them,
named Harding and Cusack, were taken out
dead, and the other Eve were not expected
TO recover
The striking ribbon weavers in Soleliac
and Pelgrim mills at Paterson, n. j., have
resumed work on new scale Of prices,
which is nearly the same as that Of last year
II is thought all but one Of the other mills
will agree TO the new scale. The broad silk
weavers of Soleliac's mill have struck, and
several Of them are charged with intimidation
of non strikers.
Advices from San Antonio, Texas, state
that Lieutenant Bulls crossed the Rio Grande
on the 4th inst, recaptured five stolen horses
and returned TO the American side next day.
Forty.fve of the Valdez 6libusters were
arrested at Eagle Pass by Major Schofeld.
Valdez was at Laredo, and wa rrant was
issued for his arrest but he escaped. Esco.
bedo and his party are at Laredo without
funds.
The employees Of the Mccullough Iron
Works, Wilmington, Del, struck for higher
wages last week, when the Company shut
down their mills, throwing 80 hands out
Of employment. The men we're mostly sheet
iron workers, and were receiving from Sl5 TO
SIS per week, but wanted an advance of
fifteen per cent, The company was slack Of
work but were running the mills merely TO
keep the hands employed. That was most
disastrous strike to the men engaged in it.
Within the past ten days the grasshoppers
seem to have been visited with plague them.
selves, for they have died by the thousand
In many fields they are found clinging to the
heads Of oats, weeds, or whatever they were
feeding on when struck with death. 1t is to
be hoped that this pest may be entirely clear
ed out the present season. Trenton N. j.
Gazette
Affairs in the Lehigh, Wyoming and Lack.
awanna have resumed their usual aspect. A
full resumption Of travel on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad and the branches of the New Jersey
Central is expected. II is said the miners
near Scranton and Wilkesbarre will hold
out for % per cent. advance The regular
troops now at Wilkesbarre, Scranton and
other places, which have been the scenes Of
riotous demonstrations, will remain for some
time.
The Mrs. Il. B. Hayes Temperance Society
Of Washington resolved on Monday night not
to change its name, having learned that Mrs.
Hayes was sin no way responsible for the
furnishing of basket of flowers to the
Schuetzenfest 1t is to be feared that the
good women who compose that society are
inst little too thin skinned. Mrs. Hayes
ought not to feel complimented that these
testy ladies have formed themselves into
society which bears her name. Let her beg
them to drop her name and select another