The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-05-26
News Of the Week.


News Of the Week.
A New York piano company h ave sent 1
thno as a present to Mrs. Hayes,
A Broadway, New York, fruit dealer, ex
k|bits pineapple weighing 20 lbs.
Ten murderers will expiate their crimes or
I1s gallows, in Pennsylvania, June q.
firm in Nashville, Tenn, promises "a
IN 10000 bushels OF Strawberries this sea
s..
A large white whale, taken in the st. Law.
tnce below Quebec, is on the way TO New
1brk.
Greece is getting ready 10 take hand
.tainst the Turks in behalf of the Greek sub.
|stts of the Porte.
The late John b. FELTON,, of San francisco
4alifornia, received nearly $4,000 900 in less
IN twenty years as attorneys fees.
h is reported that silver mine has been
ascoyered in Upper Mount Bethel, North.
Ampton county, Pa.
Dn account of the drought, two thousand
Ekeep were lately sold IN Adelaide, South
#ales, at twenty-five cents head.
Thursday, June Il, will be the one hun.
13sdth anniversary of the adoption of the
Shrs and Stripes as national ensign.
HE sum of $4,000 has been subscribed
s. The people Of Hartford county, Nd, in aid OF
Railroad from Baltimore to Bel Air.
Frank Stringfellow, the Confederate Gen.
ID. b. Stuart's fayorite scout, has entered
Is ministry Of the Protestant Episcopal
Hnrch.
Az a meeting of the coal producers and
srriers in New York on Monday it was
freed to suspend mining from June 10 to
tSiy 10.
while four men were frescoing the ceiling
IN church in Baltimore on Tuesday, the
&aiIod fell, killing one Of them and injuring
ia others.
Zen Beaureguard writes that his sympathies
II with the Turks, because they are the
Esaker party and are defending their homes
III fresides.
: letter from Kossuth is published urging
al alliance between Hungary and Turkey 10
1bfend their independence against their com.
Ion enemy, Russia.
-Four men and three women were drowned
II Malaquanasek, Cape Breton, last Sunday,
81 the upsetting Of u boat, in which they
nc going to church.
Mrs. Sype, OF Baltimore, aged 9s, who
,nhde the lace curtains for the White House
men President Jefferson occupied il, called
81 President Hayes Monday
Brisuoli sang at Providence, r. l., q few
t|rh,s ago, and his voice was transmitted by
vocal telephone 10 Boston, forty miles
bay and was heard by an audience there.
After New York il is rumored that the
1|ber Custom Houses will be searched with
shted candles, and the hair OF the weigher
in, oil ria Of nj Ia
Idly turning gray.
Il is stated that the New York pool sellers,
nee the passage Of the law prohibiting pool
Sling, have removed their establishments to
Rrsey City and Hoboken, where there is no
~ against the business.
The delinquent tax list of the Treasurer Of
box county, Illinois, occupies eleven hun
he'd and eighty columns in one issue of the
Bicago Infer. Ocean. This Is what they call
Nosperity out that way, we suppose.
Rev John c. Simpson, OF Oregon county,
H., was convicted in the U. s. Court ut St.
pus, on Monday, of illicit distilling. Simp.
kn is minister OF twenty years standing
d he was County Judge for two years.
Two companies Of troops, with fly deputy
&arshals, left New Orleans on Monday for
BIKE Charles, La, on revenue cutter, with
Hirty days provisions They are going to
e about those apochryphal log troubles.
IN connection with the fact that Russia has
4Archased the 56-ton Krnpp gun shown at
Philadelphia, il may be mentioned that the
ltan has obtained from Herr Krupp a du.
caie gun for the defence Of the Bosphorus.
A balloon inflated and just ready to ascend
n Hull, England, ON Monday was blown
sainst gas jet, and immediately exploded
ith such violence as to injure more or less
eriously eighty'six spectators.
At the instance of the Board Of Health, in
fOson. Ave prominent manufacturers of
<pndy have been indicted for adulterating
ber candies with poisonous ingredients.
4hey have each given bail in $1,000 to answer
y the Criminal Court.
One hundred and fifty vessels were in the
Arbor Of Pensacola, Fla, at one time last
heck. They were from all quarters OF the
obe, aud loaded with lumber. The timber
{hterest Of Florida promises to be an increas
Hg source OF revenue TO that State.
A severe thunder storm, accompanied by q
gh wind and hail, passed over Washin gton
b Sunday night. In the northwestern part
a the city houses were unroofed, trees and
Rlegraph poles were legeled and wagons
I'D carriages overturned and demoli shed.
Thir,y.fve thousand Philadelphians have
&nlis,ed in Mr.. Murphy's cold.water army.
IBIS Is the work Of few weeks. II is GER
hinly the most successful temperance move.
ent on record, yet reports from other parts
the country indicate that 1t has hardly
hgun.
The preliminary work for the great tunnel
thder the British Channel is going on very
Ayorably. So far n depth Of some 40 yards
rs been reached on the English side, and the
esults Of the examination Of the rock strata
Corresponds with the estimate that had been
brmed ofihem.
The floods in Kansas continue, and have
%opped travel on the Kansas Pacific and
kanta Fe Railroads. The Kansas river at
&awreuce is higher than il has been since
Is5S. The Cottonwood and Arkansas rivers
pc also oyerfowed. Bridges on all the
rOaus have been carried away.
In Oregon, Holt county, No., few days
go Miss kingsbury, u school teacher, at.
Rmpted TO punish l3.year.old pupil, named
Filiam Paine. He struck her several blows
h the breast with his fst, when she fell and
tRpred A post.mortem examination re.
fealed such serious disease Of the lungs and
| arart that death might have been caused by
Excitement at any time.
At public meeting Of the Grand Army Of
Pc Republic IN Baltimore on Wednesday
hlght, Colonel Adreon offered a resolution d.
fecting the Executive Committee TO have
prepared a suitable floral memorial, to be
laced by the Committee upon the Confeder-
Nte Monument 10 Loudon Park cemesry, as q
fstimonial to the gallantry Of the Confeder-
fte dead. The resolution was lost by vote
| U u TO so.