The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-10-20
News Of the Week.

~ H'V amusement OF luuatlcs.
The exports of grain from Boston last week
were unusually large. Saturdays steamers
took out 1885, 900 bushels Of wheat
Ex-Tireasurer Parker, of South Carolina.
arrested IN Jersey City on a requisition from
Governor Hampton, was taken to Charleston
by steamer on Saturday.
AT Waterford, Pa, on Thursday night of
last week, fifteen disguised men tarrcd,
ieathered and rode on rail, disreputabe
woman who had incurred their displeasure.
The Signal Service Bureaus tug Storm
Signal, which recently went ashore at Cape
Henry, will be total loss. Nothing will be
saved from her but the boiler of the engine
A hundred stone cutters left New York
! Ci;y last Wednesday for England. They are
engaged to work on the new Law Court build
lngs IN London. One hundred more will
leave some time next week
Adyices from Peru report that Henry
Meiggs, the great railway contractor, died at
Lima on the 10Th ult. He had been in of pa.
ralysis for three months, and his final maady
was sottening Of the brain.
The Congregational Association of Califor.
MIA, in session at Sacramento last week, pass
ed strong resolutions against Chinese immi
grafton, and demanding modification of the
Burllngame Treaty.
=, AMER the recent cyclone in tho Gulf of
heAlco thc beach, near galveston, Texas,
was strewn with human bones washed up by
the waves ana supposed to have been the
remains OF the persons lost with the City Of
Woco
Judge stump, when he opened court in
Denton Ma lastweek, told the GrandJ Jury that
there Is no county IN the State where there
are so lew VIOLATIONS OF the criminal law rs
IN eafolIhe' there was not single prisoner
on trlaI
Archbishop G,bbons preached his farewell
sermon IN the Cathedral at Richmond, Va,
,as' Sunuay' he WIN thls week enter upon
ms duties as Archbishop OF Baltimore and
pIIula'e OIL the Oathohc Church IN the United
states
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad Company have paid for sixty-fye of
tne elghty'one lives lost at the Ashtabula
9ls9Ster' at rate averaging hive thousand
uollar5 apiece. Inc most expensive life
SaeFiheeu cost the company $4,000.
1t is proposed in Cecil county, Nd, to test
the sense Of the people in regard to local on.
uoh at NE coming election by having the
words Por local option and Against local
oploh printed at the bottom OF all tickets
uSeu on 'hat OCCASION
\ society has been formed in INDIANAPOLIS,
with subordinate organizations in all the lead.
ing cities and towns Of the State, to relieve
the people OF the surplus laborers, by obtain
ing MONIES Tor them where land is cheaper
anu iaDor IN greater demand.
Among the models destroyed in the Patent
Office fire was that Of the "Fat Contributor
for stopping runaway horses-a crane and a
pulley attached to the dashboard of the buggy
Wy whlch the driver can lift the horse into the
ar wneh ne gets RISKY
The five mile sculling match between Evan
Morris and Pat. Luther, for one thousand
dollars n side and the championship of
America, was rowed on the upper Allegheny
course, near Pittsburg, on Saturday il was
won ny motifs by four lengths IN 81 minutes,
= secouuS'
DR.. William n. Hutchinson, of Oxford, Pa.
while returning from the Middetown Del. fair
to his home, drove into stream at Taylor's
iannery and was drowned The stream is
ordinarily but little riyulet, but had become
swlt, Heep ana dangerous torrent from
heaVy ram
The steamer John Middleton has arrived
at New Haven to load with ammunition for
the Turkish Government. The steamer +.
H. Walker is awaiting orders to start from
New. Haven with 2,l5O tons of ammunition
for the same destination. Her cargo is val.
ued at nearly TWO million dollars.
\ counterfeit $50 note on the Central Ma.
tional Bank Of New York has been discovered
in Baltimore. 1t had been taken by banker
without suspicion Of its genuineness. The
only difference noticeable between it and the
genuine note is that it is triae smaller, and
printed on slightly thicker paper.
The owner Of a building in which dram
seller Of Bloomington, ILL.,, sold liquor which
caused man TO lose his life by falling before
railroad train, was condemned several days
ago to pay the widow $500, the seller of the
liquor being himself bankrupt and unable to
respond to the Judgment ofthe Court.
Central American adyices to the 4tb inst
are more favorable, and the prospect of
permanent peace is at length considered
hopeful. Nicaragua has joined Guatemala,
Salvador and Honduras in the scheme for a
confederation and the adhesion of Costa
klea Is only needed to complete the compact.
The Episcopal convention now in session
in Boston has rejected, by a decisive vote
the proposition to abridge the morning and
evening service. This action will doubtless
give satisfaction to the great body of the
Episcopal laity. The veneration which they
feel for their beautiful liturgy is second only
to their reverence for the inspired volume
At Waterville, Me-, on SATURDAY.. while n
number of workmen. employed by Edwin
Noyes, were moving a line of fence separating
his land from that of Nathaniel Gilman, they
were fired upon by the latter, and three of
them were wounded. Gilman was arrested.
He shot his own brother on Broadway, New
York, last winter.
Major T. B. Ferguson. the MARYLAND F;sb
Commissioner, received in BaIt;more last
Friday, 2OO, OOD CaIiforn;o salmon orSs wh ''e
were at once taken to the Matching house at
Druid Hill, in that city. In about six weeks
the young fish will be- ready for distribution
in the waters of Maryland, where Others were
placed last Spring.
Thu bnsipe,s nort;on or ,ho ,.;uou, q
JamesvilIc, in OnpDdaga cn,n,r ''Ss' -,
destrovcd on Sunday Sorn;ng -, ~, - ; "ao
diary ire. which wos startof -; u" a.Iooi,
Three hotels, the nosto9co ,bo ,o,u, 'i vi
the EpiseopaI Church siy siores aUS J" sea- Na,
dwellings were consumed. Inc loss is esti.
mated at 100000.
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