The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-10-27
News of the Week.

Moody and Sankey begin their work al
Manchester, n. H., November 4th, continu
ing through the month,
The Presbyterian Synod, at Newark, n. J.
has condemned preaching by women, by III Z
decisive vote Of 100 to IL.
Miss Alice Blaine daughter of Senator
Blaine, was wounded on Saturday by the
premature discharge Of u toy pistol.
A San Francisco firm offer to supply Chi
cagO with strawberries next month il the de-
mand justites shipments by the car load
A daily "oyster train" now leaves BALI.
more over the Northern Central Railway for
points west, northwest aud southwest.
-Four little daughters of a resident of Rob
eson county, n. c., died Of diptheria and
were buried in one grave on Sunday week.
Joshua Chandler, white man, was struck
by lightning Sunday night and killed, while
in small boat, at Chncoteague, Va, inlet.
Updegraf's factory ut Hagerstown, Nd. is
turning out 1000 dozen pairs of gloves per
month. They are the best gloves in the
market.
Diphtheria is prevailing in the neighbor.
hood of Port Deposit Nd. Franklin school
has been closed on account Of the prevailing
sickness.
Clintonylle, in Clinton county, n. Y, is
badly afflicted with smallpox. Twenty per.
sons have died of the disease there within a
few days.
Accounts received from all parts of the
United States show that the wheat crop this
year is thelargest that has ever been produced
in this country.
Mrs Sarah Waldorf and her daughter, the
wife of DIR. Devices, were suiioeated on Sat.
urday night by the burning Of the house they
occupied in Lebanon, Pa.
The cost Of carrying the inland mails for
the next fiscal year is estimated at so, SS9,.
2IO.13, an increase on the estimates for the
current year of S2,030,297.
Silas Morris aud Louisa Lawson, sentenced
TO be hanged in Harrisburg, Va, on the 23d,
for the murder of David G. Lawson, have
been respited until December 2lst.
On all the rivers of Maine larger logging
business will be done than for many years.
On the Penobscot aud kenebec twice as
many men will enter the woods as last year.
The Old Dominion iron and nail works and
the Tredegar works, Richmond, Va, are
driven to their full capacity, and are doing
HiN'N WIN NhHh az e'il bulc III Nhc past luuE
years.
Some boys in Pittsfeld, Mass, loaded an
old gun barrel with powder on Sunday, and
discharged it. The weapon burst, killing
two of them and tearing off one of the hands
Of the third.
Francis Murphy is lecturing TO large audi.
enceS in the West. His price is 500 night,
and managers find profit in him at that
rate. He seems likely to make fortune out
of temperance.
Mr.. Harms, Of Titusville Pa, started re.
Gently for China, where the government has
employed him to prospect for oil. lie is to
get salary of $4,000 and expenses paid for
the first year.
Says the Gettysburg Compiler "a NUN.
Der of cherries are just approaching the
ripening state On young tree in Mr. II. l..
Bream' S lot, Cashtown. Another tree near il
is yet in blossom
Rev. Dr. Munsey, the eloquent pulpit ora.
tor of the Methodist Church South died
suddenly at Jonesboro, Tennessee, on Tues.
day last. lie was greatly beloved, and his
death is serious loss to his church.
Horace D. Babcock, medical student in
the University at Syracuse, ~ Y, was ar
rested on Saturday for robbing Il grave. The
body was found in the dissectiug. room, and
restored to the friends of the deceased.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
on Saturday received twenty barrels of peach
kernels for delivery to Ii. N. Woodburn,
Dayton, Ohio. The stones are from the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland, and are being
sent West for use in chemical processes.
The Board of Army Engineers appointed
TO examine the foundation Of the Washington
Monument have agreed to report that il a
certain addition be made to the foundation
the monument may safely be completed.
The first shipment of fresh meat directly
from this country to France was made on the
Labrador last week. 1t consisted of 30 car.
casses of beef 90 sheep and 81 hogs. Two
hogsheads of Saddle Rock oysters were also
sent,
a drayman in Davenport, Iowa, who has
been hard worker for twenty years, owns
eight good dwelling. houses and has $1,000 in
bank. Another draymau there who was
trusted for his dray twenty.three years ago,
retired four years ago, worth $4,000.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs re.
ceived despatch from General Crook on
Saturday announcing that arrangements had
been made for the immediate removal of the
Indians from Red Cloud Agency to the Mis-.
souri, River. The Spotted Tail Agency In.
dams will be ready to move in six days
The commission to prefer peace to Sitting
Bull had conference with him on the l7t6
INST. at Fort Walsh, British Northwest Terri.
Tory, but utterly failed to obtain any satisfac.
uon or terms OF settlement from him. He
would not shake hands with the commission.
ers, received them with distrust and rejected
with disdain the offer Of peace. The com.
missioners are on their return.
Mr.. Dell Noblitt, of Wilmington, Del eel.
celebrated his centennial birthday ON the 10Th
inst lie is still enjoying good health and in
possession Of his mental faculties. He takes
his daily walk and delights in receiving social
visits. His neighbors decorated their houses
with flags in honor of the occasion, A salute
OF 100 guns was fired in the morning, and at
night he was rendered grand serenade.
A railroad war has broken out in Vermont.
growing out of disputed account between
the Passumpsic and Southeastern RAILWAYS
Col. Asa b. Foster ON Friday last was arrest.
ed ut Newport, Vt, on a charge relating to
the accounts, and on Sunday he headed a
party OF railroad men and tore up portion
OF the Southeastern Railroad at North Troy,
breaking the connection of trains from Bos.
ton to Montreal.
Samuel Humphreys and Edward Smith.
who plead guilty to burning the Lebanon
Valley Railroad bridge at Reading, Pa, have
been sentenced TO five years Imprisonment
and TO pay fine of one thousand dollars
The jury empaneled at Reading for the trial
oil thirty seven prisoners indicted for riot
were discharged on account of the bias man
Tested by two Of them after their selection.
The trial was therefore postponed.
A fire in Portland, suburb of ST. John
y. b., early on Saturday morning, DESTROYED
about $50 wooden houses, and made $500
people homeless. OF the homeless, 700 suf
tered by the great FIRE in st. John last June.
The loss is estimated at $500, 900, the insur.
ances aggregating $4,000. One man was
killed and several persons were injured dur
ing the progress Of the FIRE. After il had
ceased, two boys aud man were killed by
the falling OF the walls of vault. Ii issun.
posed the lire was started by an incendiary.
In Frederick County, Nd. Court. Tuesday.
lawyer secured a short imprisonment for bis
client in very ingenious manner. The
fellow was up for stealing last winter a IS
Dill from his room mate, and the evidence
must have been pretty conclusive, as II does
not appear from the Times report that anv
defence was made. The lawyer contended
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