The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28
News Of the Week.

in Richmond. Too big pile for so small a
man.
The New York Aquarium has secured
marine monster that is supposed 10 be a
young sea serpent.
The extra session of the Legislature of
South Carolina, called by Governor Hamp.
ton, commenced on Tuesday.
A deficit Of SAT, 900 has been discovered in
the account Of A. G. jackson, late Receiver
of Taxes in Camden, N. j.
The Lancaster county, Pa, almshouse
cost last year $5I, 1861. 1t had an average
of 800 inmates during the year.
Morphine, n druggists mistake for quinine,
killed Mr.. Ried, Of Providence, r. l., who
had charge of the Corliss engine at the Cen
tennial Exhibition.
A daughter of Christian Peyer, FIVE years
old, died at Chattanooga, on Tuesday. from
| the effects OF an outrage committed on Friday
by negro, who escaped.
Baltimore is rapidly growing as grain
port, and as corn market it is fast ginning
on the other great exporting cities, thanks to
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Gen. Graut and wife have returned to
Washington from their western trip, and are
staying with their son.in.law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris.
| There is great complaint in Baltimore of
the stencil and fish.lke taste of the water in
the northwestern part Of the city, supplied
from Druid Lake.
Ed. F. Ramsburg, residing near Evansville,
| Frederick county, Md, was drowned while
attempting TO ford the Monocacy, on Satur-
day last He leaves a wife and three chill.
| dren.
| The Chicago Times publishes reports from
the great wheat growing sections of the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio Valleys, showing larger
acreage than usual Of winter wheat, with
good prospect of abundant haryests.
Judge Brown, of the Criminal Court of
Baltimore, one day last week ordered the
bailitf to take possession ola novel one of
the jurors was deeply interested in, to the
exclusion of his duty as juror.
Attorney General Lear, of Pennsylvania,
has decided that the State Treasurer must
pay out Of the Treasury the pension of $40 |
per annum granted by the Legislature at the |
last session to soldiers Of the war of 1872.
A large meeting was held in Yankton, on |
Monday night, to take steps towards forming |
State organization for Dakotah. Cover
nor Pennington was one Of the speakers. |
Committees were appointed to further the |
movement, and provision was made for other |
meetings.
Eight lodges Of the Cheyennes, comprising |
900 persons So of them fighting men, surren. |
dered to General Crook on Saturday. They |
gave up 600 ponies, GO guns aud about 30 |
pistols, They were destitute of the necessa-
res Of life, and were still suffering from the |
effects of frozen limbs.
In Boston, on Saturday, Dudley Kimhall |
aged years, and Stephen Cox, aged I, quar-
relied at play, and Kimball went home, and,
procuring his fathers pistol, shot Cox in the |
head, inficting wound which proved fatal |
in two hours. The fathers of the boys are
prominent business men.
The State Geologist of Wisconsin has just |
reported that the per.bearing rocks of
Lake Superior extend almost uninterruptedly |
across the State. In the Nemakagon river |
masses Of native copper have been found, and |
the prospect that the country will become a
rich copper region is very encouraging.
Lettis B. Steele died at Pascack, n. j., on
the 10th instant, at the age of l02 years, |
months, and Is days. He was born in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, September, 2, 1774. |
His father was Captain in the Massachusetts, |
line, and was with Washington at Yorktown.
Mr.. Steele retained the use of his faculties up
to five days before his death.
The residence and grounds of Ross Wi. !
mans, the Baltimore millionaire who recently
| died, occupied an entire square, and would |
have been very ornamental to the neghbor
hood had they not been enclosed by high |
brick wall. Years ago some of the staid
residents complained of the nude statuary
exposed in Mr. Winan's palace, and he show
ing his anger by building the wall.
Information has been received in New
York Of the murder of Rev. W. Ralfe, an
aged Moravian missionary, his son and two
daughters, at the settlement Of Lance, on the
coast of Labrador A large sum of money
belonging to the missionaries was stolen.
Four Esquimaux, who had been refused rum
at the mission. are suspected of the crime.
1t is stated statistically that there are in
New Hampshire 1875 Temperance Reform
Clubs, with n total membership of 65, 600, in. |
Guiding p, 200 men over twenty.one years of |
age. Over 10000 of the members are said to
have been habitual tipplers. In proportion
to her population New Hampshire has a
larger number of total abstainers than any
other State in the Union.
| In Deadwood, Dakota, on Tuesday, seven
men who could not agree about the title to a
town lot, drew revolyers and fred upon each
other. One Of them, named Brodoyitch, was
killed; another, named Conrieh, mortally |
wounded, and third slightly wounded. K
second shooting affray, also growing out of n
disputed real estate title, occurred subse.
quenty, but no one was injured by it. |
Gold hunting in the Black Hills has its trag
cal episodes, many of them.
The United States District Court in New Or.
leans has rendered decision sustaining the
claims of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines in her ia
nous suit against the City of New Orleans
The decree commands the defendants to ac-
count for all the income received from the
property during their long possesson-more
than sixty years. Heavy claims are also in.
voved in the decision for large amount of
the property which has been sold by the city.
The upper part of the New York Journal
Of Commerce building, corner of Hanover and
Beaver streets, was destroyed by fire on
Monday morning, The editorial rooms and
printing office were completely Quilted, and
the flames spread so rapidly that the
workmen had narrow escape with their
lives. The Journal had Just purchased a new
font of type, and this is among the property
destroyed. The bound volumes of the paper
from 1923 to the present time we're also dc
stroyed. The building was insured for $25,.
900, and the stock for $4,000. The disas.
ter did not prevent the paper from coming
out as usual.
Mrs. Mary Magdeline Gartman Klinefelter,
died at her residence in York, Pa on the 18th
instant, at the advanced age of 0s years,
months and % days. She was the widow of
the late Michael Klinefelter, and was, at the
time Of her death, the oldest person in the
community, with probably one exception.
She was the mother of two sons and three
daughters, all of whom are living She has
fifteen grand children living and seven dead
thirty seven great grand children living and
ten dead, and five great great grand children
living. Thus it win be seen that four genera.
tons OF her descendants mourn her loss.
The permanent international Exhibition
will be formally opened at Philadelphia on
the 10th of May. President Hayes will for.
mally announce the opening. The exercises
will include the music Of from eight hundred
to one thousand voices, accompanied by the
powerful Roosevelt organ, which still stands
in the northern gallery of the Main Building,
above the vast and magnificent auditorium
now nearly completed. Arrangements have
also been made for concerts in the same