The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-01-27
News Of the Week.

Esancisco, have suspended.
Irish Potatoes are selling 10 the Balti
nore market at $3.50 and So per bushel.
Captain RichaId II, Lock, veteran of
Iel2, and one Of the Dartmoor prisoners,
lied at Rye Beach, N. H., on Saturday.
The number of Moody aud Sankey con-
serts in Chicago is set down at 2, 1886, one
fourth of whom are reported ns stray sheep
faturned to the fold.
Twenty-Five hundred men are kept out
IL work at the Chester, Pa. ship yard by
inclement weather. There are nine new
Sleamships under contract.
j, N. Farrer, cashier Of the Abingdon
Mass. National Bank, had $4,000 be-
lopping to the bank stolen from him
4hile in Boston eating saloon.
Comptroller Woolford thinks that, not
outstanding tho shrinkage of values, the
hssis of taxation in the State will be in.
sfeased by the new assessment.
III. G. Bennett, defaulting pension
gent, was sentenced in San Francisco on
saturday to pay fine of $4,000 or suffer
sBo years imprisonment in jail.
The steamer Lotus sailed from New
Haven. Conn, Tuesday, for Constantine
Be, with cargo Of arms and ammunition
lbr the Turkish government valued at sl,-
$4,000.
The Warren, (Me.,) Manufacturing
Company, wooden manufacturers, suspend
"a Saturday The liabilities are not as.
certaincd, but include si5, 900 outstanding
bonds
The furniture factory of Upham & Her.
lick at Rockford, ILL.,, was burned early
Sunday morning. Loss $4,000. The
Watchman is supposed to have persisted in
he building.
Some Of the small snakes which fell
during the recent remarkable "showcr"
81 reptiles in Memphis, have been sent to
Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian In-
stisution, for examination.
The funeral of the unidentified victims
% the Ashtabula disaster took place at
Ashtabula on Friday. Nineteen bodies
we're inferred. Joint services were held
At the grave by Evangelical clergymen
and the Masonic order
At Eden, VT, Sunday, John Flanders,
Bet fire to the barn of Norman S, Adams,
called to Adams to save his horses, and
then attempted to shoot him. Flanders
surrendered to the police, said he meant
10 kill Adams, but assigned no motive.
The first Of the Wall street prayer
meetings for the conversion Of bankers
and brokers was held Monday afternoon
OF Underwriters Hall, New York. Ser.
vices were conducted according to the
Episcopal ritual. The meetings will con
tinue every afternoon.
Information has reached Ottawa that
Eve hundred families of Sioux Indians,
recently hostile to the United States, have
crossed the Northwest boundary into
u Canada, aud encamped near Wood Noun
tain. They are now pcaceably disposed.
Two colored South Carolinians fought
duel at Pine Bluffs, N. c., on Friday.
One was Democrat, the other Repub-
Il lican, and politics caused the deadly feud.
Four shots were exchanged and both com.
batants wounded, one of them dangerously.
This is doing something better than May
and Bennett.
Charles Collins, Chief Engineer of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
way, committed suicide, at his residence,
in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday. His family
were absent at the time and his body was
mot discovered until Saturday morning
1t 3 supposed the shock Of the Ashtabula
hinster had unsettled his mind.
The trial of Samuel ii. Thorburn for
the, lapoeny of $4,000 from the Bank of
Petersburg, Va, and making false entry
( in the books Of the Citizens Bank in favor
of Richard Bagby, whereby the bank was
,defrauded of $4,000, resulted on Monday
in his conviction The jury fixed his i'm
prisonment at FIVE years, the shortest term
allowed bylaw, and unanimously signed
Recommendation for Executive clemency.
Henry N. Williams, ex.deputy collector
of customs at New York, has been arrested
for completely in the Lawrence smuggling
frauds. The civil suits against Lawrence
having been discontinued, he has agreed
TO tell all he knows, and this is the first
arrest in connection with his disclosures.
Williams claims that his arrest is ',job'
On the part of ex-United States District
Attorney Bliss to revenge himself for
Williams lobbying at Washington against
his rcsppointment
Some twenty years ago Mr.. A. Z.
Harris weut with bis daughter, Miss Sell
ma Harris, on tour to Egypt. He found
under the floor OF an old tomb in the
Thebes large roll Of papyrus, covered
with inscriptions. 1t was l39 feet long
by l6l inches broad, and looked something
like stair carpet. Alter his death Miss
Harris sold it to the British Museum for
large sun. 1t proved to be u complete
record of the life and works Of Rameses
III, and statement Of the condition of
things at Thebes 5000 years ago.
The ice in the Potomac River broke up
on Thursday night week, aud did much
damage. At Georgetown, d. c., tug
boat, tive, schoopers, two bargcs, aud
seven or eight scows were cut through and
sunk. Two tugs were left in a sinking
condition, two schooners were lifted high
aud dry on the wharf, two boat houses we're
demolished, and all the wharves were
damaged The river was falling but ap-
prehensions were still felt on account of
the vast banks of ice which the current
was unable to carry down piecemeal.
Suit has been commenced on capias in
the United States District Court at New
York against ex Gov Samuel ]. Tilden to
recover sl50,000 alleged balance due of
income tax. The capias was issued and
served on Mr.. Tilden on Monday. It's re-
turnable on the sixth of February. Uni
ted States District Attorney Bliss says he
was directed some time ago by Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue Baum to CON-
mence suit against all parties who have
failed to pay their income tax, but that
he (Bliss) delayed bringing this suit on