The Democratic advocate., 1877-08-18
News Of the Week.


Annapolis by the Chesapeake Bathing Asso
eiatien.
Large forest fires are reported near Ros
common, Mich, which threatened house
and villages.
Chief Justice Richards, Deputy Govcrno
General Of Canada, has left Ottawa for a fe,
days visit to New York.
man near Pomeroy, Iowa, worth $40,
900, works at S25 per month the year rounI
taking care Of cattle. He is unmarried.
The President has been invited to attende,
the opening of the Industrial Exposition Il
be held in Pittsburg, on the 4th Of September
The Supreme Council OF the World Knight
Of Pythias is in session at Cleveland, Ohio
4 which will be continued the greater part o
the week.
The boiler Of portable steam threshe
exploded near l.awrenceburg, ILL.,, on FRIDAY
week, killing three persons and woundinJ
four others.
Since July LIST employment has been giyeI
to S4OO men at the navy yards throughou
the country, the new appropriations having
become available.
Dion Boucicault, the celebrated drama
tist, has appeared in an entirely new charac.
ter-that OF a candidate for Parliament fol
County Glare, Ireland.
A tornado at Coney Island, N. j. on Frida,
evening Of last week, demolished more than
four hundred lighthouses, and did consdera.
BILE damage to other property.
While two men were fishing near Glouces.
ter, Mass, on Saturday, their boat was run
down by schooner, and one of them, named
Frank Jackman, was drowned.
A new and fatal disease is reported anon
the horses in Jersey City. One stablema n
lost six horses from the disease last week, and
has three more in dying condition.
The Arnold Print Works at North Adams,
Mass, use twenty-five tons of coal under
eighteen boilers each day. The company
has just purchased 5000 tons of coal.
William Thompson, colored, who had felo.
niously assaulted little white girl, was
taken from the Jail at Culpeper Court house,
Va, on Tuesday nigh and lynched.
| A freight train on the Illinois Central Rail
road was thrown from the track near Decatur
on Monday morning. Several cars were
wrecked, and the engineer aud two brakemen
killed
The Supreme Court Of New Jersey has
confirmed the decision of the lower court,
declaring pool.seling illegal in that State.
This puts an eiTectual stop to the business in
Hoboken.
It is said that Sitting Bull who is now in
British territory, makes no secret Of his inten.
ton TO renew the war in the Yellowstone
country in the fall.
| Returns from the late election in West Vir.
! ginla seem to indicate that Charleston has
been chosen as the permanent capital of the
State. by law the seat Of government will
remain at Wheeling until 1885.
On Monday, September 18th, the iifty.third
annual session Of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of the United States will commence
in baltimore. This will be the first session OF
the body in that city since 1873.
| A dispatch received at Helena, Montana,
| from Bannock, reports that the hostile Indians
are making their way TO the Snake River
Valley since the fight with Gibbons. They
have killed three persons on their route.
The frigate Constellation, with one hun.
dred midshipmen from Annapolis, aud the
United States steamer Maytlower, with thirty
| cadet engineers, on their annual cruise,
arrived at Martha's Vineyard Tuesday.
The Adams Express Company have with.
drawn its agents aud messengers from the
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. The rail.
roAd company will carry on the express
business through its freight department.
| A swimming match Of one mile for $3.50 n
| side, took place ON Sunday last, at Bath,
! Long Island, between Lewis DeMott, Of New
| York, aud Samuel Nelson, of Brooklyn. De.
Mott was winner. Pretty sport for the Sab.
! bath.
| Fifteen men from Mexico on Monday raided
upon Rio Grande City, broke open the jail,
shot Judge Cox and the jailor and released
two notorious outlaws, They were pursued
Ivy a hundred United States soldiers, who,
however, failed to overtake them.
The body Of James Williams was found in
pond near Winchester Ky, on the 9th
inst, with a bullet hole in the head, and a
stone tied to the neck Felix Holden, son OF
widow with whom Williams had been living,
was arrested on suspicion, and he hanged
himself in Jail on Friday.
The ship N. 7. Hill, Capt Jabez II. Snow,
| has been at sea 1873 days from Rangoon, and
as she has not been reported since she left il
is feared she has been lost She was new
vessel, 900 tons burden, built at Bucksport,
Me-, and this was her first voyage. She had
full cargo Of rice for Falmouth, England,
for orders.
| During Sunday school services in n Swedish
church ut jamestown, N. Y. on Sunday after.
noon, lightning passed through the building,
killing Que boy and prostratng an old lady
and two girls. A dwelling in the town was
struck by lightning about the same time, and
a lady in it rendered insensible.
The swimming match between Thos Coyle,
of Chester, Pa, and George II. Wade, of
| Brooklyn, on Monday, from Red Bank to
Gloucester, near Philadelphia, q distance of
| 4 miles, resulted in an easy victory for Wade
| by two and half minutes. Coyle appeared
much exhausted. At least Ave thousand per.
sons witnessed the race at Gloucester.
A train carrying 500 passengers, aud run.
ming at a speed of 40 miles an hour, plunged
down an embankment at Seabrook, N. II.
on Friday night. The engine, three baggage
cars the postal car and Pullman coach,
were damaged TO the extent of $4,000. No
| lives were lost. Albert Locke, the depot
master, is blamed for the disaster.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's
steamer Eten was wrecked ON July 10, at Los
| Vilos about seventy miles north Of Valparai.
so, and about q hundred Of those on board
persisted. Many Of the survivors who reached
the rocks near the shore, were erased by ex-
posnre aud want of food, aud threw them.
selves into the sea to end their misery.
Subtenanean Telegraphs are being laid
between Berlin and all the frontier points Of
the German empire. A continuous line, 400
miles in length, has Just been put down be.
tween Berlin, Frankfort, Mayenee and Cassel.
Communication is more sure over the under.
ground wires, as they are not exposed to the
disturbing influences of open.air telegraphs,
and are not likely to be blown down or
broken by storms.
In New York Monday l2 conductors on the
Second avenue horse cars line were arrested
for conspiracy to defraud the company in
beating the bell punch used in registering
fares, and in knocking down. fares, which
| they pOcketed. These men have discovered
the mechanism of the punch and used it to
their own advantage. Warrants were issued
for about fifty other conductors Of the same
line who are in the conspiracy.
Edward Fulton, ex.tax collector of the
First Louisiana District, and Lewis Laun,
lately of the firm of Carr l. Iaun, have arrived
in New Orleans from San Francisco, in Gus.
tody Of special officers. Fulton is charged
III o..ka.,l,no, paart,, Cf0 0nn of tho Gtatafs