The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-09-08
News Of the Week.

Tor the election in France.
Lancaster county, Pa. claims TO possess II I
bridges within her limits.
Coal advanced on Monday in the city mar
kets about rs cents per ton.
New York city has FIVE lines of telephones
in complete working order.
L. l.. Davenport, the actor, died at Canton,
Pa, on Saturday morning, aged 81 years.
Senator David Davis, Of Indiana, weighs
S22 pounds. He is natiye Of Maryland.
General Jesse Lazear died Monday morn.
ing, at his residence, in Baltimore county,
Nd, aged 70 years.
The New York Sun dominates Henry Ward
Beecher to the vacant pulpit of Brigham
Young.
A tornado in Maysville, KY, on Saturday
morning, unroofed four brick warehouses
and damaged other property.
There are over eight hundred Chinese
laundries in New York City, giving employ.
ment to about 1000 persons.
Alvin Adams, who founded the Adams
Express Company, died in WATERFOWL, Mass
on Saturday night, aged 70 years.
The New Jersey cranberry crop will be
gathered the middle of this month, and is
reported to be the largest ever produced.
Western freights such MS grain and kindred
articles have advanced from 80 to 35 cents
per hundred between Chicago and New York
The citizens of Queen Anne's county are
hopeful Of the extension Of the Queen Anne's
and Kent Railroad to Queenstown since its
transfer.
Simeon Garnet, colored, committed for q
falnntnnu na0naIt xul 10
taken from the Jail at Oxford, Ohio, Monday,
and shot dead by mob.
Miss Belmont, daughter of Mr.. August Bel.
mont, of New York, will be united in mar.
riage with Mr.. s. S. Rowland on the 18th,
instant, AZ Newport.
The Potter Journal says that the farmers
in that part of Pennsylvania have discovered
that the thrush will not only eat the potato
bugs, but soon succeeds in exterminating that
pest.
The Associated Pioneers of the Territori.
al Days of California" will celebrate the 9th
anniversary of the admission of California
into the Union, ut Long Branch, to-day,
Sept. 8.
The Both of September will be the one
hundredth anniversary of the convening Of
the American Congress in York, and the
citizens are moving for the celebration of the
Centennial Of the event.
Robert Leitch recently arrived in New
York from Florida, died in the city hospital
on Saturday night from yellow fever. The
health authorities have taken precautions TO
prevent the spread of the disease
Henry Tyson, we'll known resident of
Baltimore, died in that city on Monday. He
was formerly one Of the Vice Presidents of
the Erie Railroad, and was also President of
the City Passenger Railway of Baltimore.
Joseph B. English was arrested in New
York on Saturday for offering to sell thous.
and dollar bond, which he had in his posses.
sion, for $3.50. The bond had been adver.
tised by the Treasury Department as lost or
stolen.
Cotton picking has fairly begun in Middle
Florida, and the FlOTididH is merry over the
anticipation Of heavily loaded wagons rolling
Business will revive, and everything assume
q liyelier air"
James Simmons, Sr., and Robert, James
and Samuel Goodrich, charged with the com.
mission of several murders in Owen and Hen.
ry counties, Ky, we're taken from jail at New
Castle, in that State, cd Sunday night and
hanged by mob.
Snow was falling on the summit and rain
at the base Of Mount Washington Monday
morning. The thermometers in the hotels at
the base indicated temperature of 30 de.
grees. 1t was the first snow storm at the
summit since the 22d Of June.
A grand temperance camp meeting is an.
nounced to be held shortly at the Mononga.
hela backgrounds, near Pittsburg. Among
those who are expected to be present and
deliver addresses are Messrs. Moody and
Sankey and Francis Murphy.
1t is announced by the Paper Trade Jour.
nal that the Commissioner of Patents has
extended for seven years more the Voelter
patent for reducing wood to paper pulp; also
that the patentees will raise the price Of such
pulp from three TO three,aud a.half cents per
pound.
Recently. Fleming, residing on a farm neal
Snow Hill, discovered three colored person:
robbing his melon patch. He fired upon
them, the whole load of shot taking effect in
the body OF colored woman. Her compan.
ions escaped. It is thought the woman vii
recover.
The supply Of logs for the mills on the
kennebec river, Maine, is giving out, owinl
to the failure OF part Of last winters cut tC
come down on account of low water. The
Kennebec Land and Lumber Company will
be compelled to discharge 200 hapds on this
account.
A steam threshing machine, at Westmin
ster, Ont, exploded on Saturday, blowing
itself to pieces, and making wreck of every,
thing around it. Five men were badly inur.
ed, one of whom has died, and two others are
not likely to recover. The safety valve haC
been tied.
In the archives of the Tennessee Histori.
cal Society is General Israel Putnam's com
mission, signed by John Hancock, and also
the commission of Daniel Smith, first Score
tary of the territory south of the Ohio river,
dated 1890, and signed by George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson.
Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor of the Treasury
and ID. A. Soteldo, editor OF the Ndtiona
Republican, engaged in fsticuffs on the step
Of the Treasury Building in Washington
Monday. The first blow was struck by Mr.
Raynor, who was provoked by editorials in
the Republican rejecting upon his efficiency
Mr.. Raynor was fined $50.
AT a meeting Of prominent ladies and gen
tlemen in Washington on Monday night
measures were taken for better organization
of the public and private charities Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. 1t was agreed to estab
lish labor exchange for the sale of the pro
ducts of labor, and to furnish machinery an,
tools in workrooms for those who canno
otherwise procure them. The object is K
dispense with the giving Of "mere aims ex
cept to the sick and helpless.
The liabilities of the Newport Manufactur
ing Company are stated at $244, 1868, of which
$23s, 1868 are in notes, and its assets at onl
$4,000. The Perry Cotton Mill, at Newport
r. L., suspended operations Tuesday, and i
was reported that the concern was involve,
in the difficulties Of the Newport Manufactur
ing Company. The officers of the Perry Mil
stated, however, that it was only closed TO
repairs, and would resume on Thursday
This mill employs large number of hands
At Harrisonburg, Va. on Saturday, Louis
LAWSON was convicted, after two weeks trial
of having been accessory before the fact t,
the murder of her husband, in East Rocking
ham, ON March 10Th, 1876. The murder wa
accompanied by circumstances of unusua
atrocity. Two Of the parties to it, one Q
them Mrs. Lawsons's brother, have bee
twice tried and convicted, aud sentenced h
be hanged on the 26th of this month. Sh
was sentenced on Wednesday to be hung o.
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