The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-11-17
Nows Of tho Week. -.

Washington, With heavy storms.
The editor of the Mount Sterling Kv
Democrat has been presented with a sweet
potato FIVE feet long.
A young man tried 10 get a marriage eertif.
cate at the Registers Office IN Boston. ,he
other day on trust.
move will be made in the House next
week to divide the Territory OF Dakota ana
create new one to be known as Lincoln.
There are two cranberry boys at Salisbury.
Nd, upon which twohundred and sixty three
bushels Of berries were grown this season.
The President and family. aecomnanioa bv
Secretaries Evarts and Sherman and Attor,
ney General Devens, LEFT Washington Tues.
day morning for Richmond, Va.
Gen Cassius NJ. Clay is passing his old aoo
in stately mansion In the midst of an estate
Of 1920 acres in Kentucky, with His adonted
son, an intelligent young Russian, as com,
panion.
| General Bedford Forrest, the great cavalry
officer during the days of the Confederacy,
died Monday evening at the residence Of Lis
brother, Colonel Jesse Forrest, in Memphis,
Tennessee
Another effort will be made in Congress
this winter TO procure the abolition OF the
Pension Agencies, and provide for The nav.
ment OF Pensions by check directly from the
Treasury.
A white partridge was recently shot near
Eastoni Maryland, and has been stuffed and
| is now being exhibited by a sportsman's
house on Baltimore street. Such birds are
very rare.
In about. three weeks daily trains will be
irnn over the Maryland and Delaware Rail.
/ rad battyaan Ensfar. "A n
oyster trade will be greatly stimulated at the
latter point.
During the recent State Fair at Atlanta,
Ga., when the city was overcrowded, q clever
hotel keeper made 4 considerable sum by
renting three railroad sleeping cars and en-
pertaining his guests in them.
The Managers of the Philadelphia perma-
nent Exhibition say that, unless the people
closed very soon. They appeal for an extra
ordinary attendance on Thanksgiving day.
Wednesday last was the 359th anniversary
ofthe Lutheran Reformation. The occasion
was celebrated in Baltimore ut the first Eng
lish Lutheran Church, it being the Goth ami.
versary of the ministry Of Rev. j. G. Morris.
a '.Florida Colony" has just been organ.
lied in New York. Already it has 200
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large tract Of land in Nassau county, which
Il is proposed to farm on the cooperative
plan.
Al a meeting Of the principle barrel makers
in Pittsburg, on Saturday, twenty firms being
represented, it was resolved to reduce the
price Of barrels from $l.40 to S1.30, and the
wages OF the coopers from % 10 is cents per
barrel. A strike is expected.
Catur1ay .raa tba IaaA dov ~ tLr -,.,,s4r.
ton Of voters in New York city. Up to the
evening Of that day the total number Of voters
registered was 1876, falling off Of 39,6s9
from TIE registration of the Presidential year,
ani Of 1863 from that Of 1875,
Our Minister to Japan informs the State
Department that in Yokohama, on September
oath, fifteen new cases Of Asiatic cholera we're
reported and six deaths, 1888 cholera patients
being under treatment Ii was thought the
progress Of the disease had been checked.
Captain Ralph Trembly, who was associa.
ted with Audubon during his residence in
Florida, and accompanied the naturalist in
many Of his expeditions upon the Keys and
amid the Everglades in quest Of rare varieties
Of birds, died at Jacksonville Fla, q few days
ago.
The epizooty is reported to be very viru.
lent among the horses in portions of Atlantic
county, n. j. II is now attacking the swine
and killing them rapidly. In the vicinity Of
Port Republic the people are killing their
hogs to prevent them falling victims TO the
disease.
There are at present on file in the Pension
Office at Washington upwards of $4,000 un.
settled pension claims, andthenumber Is con.
stantly increasing. The Washington Union
says Congress will be urged at the regular
session to provide some means whereby the
claims Of this class can be promptly settled.
White digging we'll, near Fairbaplt, MINI.
few days since, the workmen struck a large
tree, eighty.two feet below the surface and
below the clay. The wood was not petrified
but was hard and solid. 1t is, Of course, dis.
colored, and consequently hard to tell the
kind Of wood; but nearly every one who has
Examined 1t pronounced it maple.
Gov. Carroll has fixed upon the 23d Of
November for the hanging Of James X. Haw.
kins, colored, who was recently convicte in
Howard County Circuit Court Of brutal out
rage on young white girl named Ida Schaf
fer, aear the Relay House, on the 23d Of
April The condemned mau is in Towson-
town Jail, and his execution will be had
there.
| At Columbus. S. c., Tuesday, the indiet
Congressman Smalls were taken up. Thurs.
last was assigned for the trial OF Cardozo on
the charge Of conspiracy TO defraud the State
| Treasury out Of $l00O and Monday next for
| the trial Of Smalls on the charge Of accept.
| ing bribe while a member Of the Legs.
lature.
| A passenger train on the Utah Central
road bound South was lifted from the track by
the wind and turned upside down on Tuesday
afternoon The Goals from the stoves were
scattered through the cars and set them on
| FIRE, but Though the exertions Of the passen-
gers they were saved from material damage.
Several paaeugers were hurt, bat none seri
ously.
A number Of convicts in the penitentiary at
| Carson, Nevada, on Monday made desper-
ate attempt to escape They seized Deputy
Warden Mathewson and rushed to the gate
holding their prisoner so as TO deter the
guards from firing. Mathewson gave the
order 10 FIRE three times before they obeyed.
Two Of Che convicts were severely wounded,
as was also Mathewson, but the conyicts sur.
rendered and none escaped.
l.. Cass Cupert, alias Carpenter editor and
proprietor Of the Columbia Union, of Co
lumbia s. c., was arrested in Morristown, N.
j., on Monday night, on requisition from
South Carolina. He Is charged with forgery,
in 'raising'i two notes from 5000 to $1,000,
and also with embezzling $4,000 from the U.
s. funds II appears that Cupert after his
indictment, fed north to Connecticut, then to
New York, and then 10 Elizabeth, N. j.,
where he lived two weeks.
The window glass manufacturing interests
is now one Of the principal industries of
this country, and is destined eventually to
check the Importation from France and
Belgium. In fact, large quantities of glass
and glassware have been exported from the
United States during the past year There
are in this country sevensy-two glass factories,
Of which twenty seven are in New Jersey, in
which State there is capital OF $4,000, 600
invested in the business
Reddy Waxter, notorious rough, convict
ed Of robbing railroad cars and shooting at
the policeman who arrested him. was senten-
fenced in Pittsburg Tuesday to seven years
Imprisonment 10 the pententiary. While he
was being taken back from the court house
to the Jail, gang Of his friends attack
ed the deputy sheriils having him in charge.