The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-07
TIE DEMOCRATIC ADVOCATE,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ny
MILAN II. VANDERFOIsD,
oRRiog. NO. .. oARRoLL HALL.
News of the Week.

upper, the philosopher and poet sailed
ior home on Wednesday from New York.
Prince Bismarck has rendered his resgna
lion Of the Imperial ChancellOrship of Prus e
Ma.
There we're % failures in New York city
during March. Assets S9s4, 1892, liabilities
s., 6l2,69G.
John s. Smeck, Treasurer Of Liberty Town
ship. In Ohio, is reported to have abseonded
on saturday with $500.
Thirty thousand a year is the pay Of the
british minister at Washington. The Amer
icnn minister at London receives Sl7, 500.
The city Of PttsDurg has failed to make
provision for the payment of large portion
Of the April interest upon its public debt
on Monday evening a concert was given in
philadelphia aud distinctly heard in New
York BY means of the telephone.
The fire at Eminence, Morgan county,
Indiana, on Friday, destroyed thirteen houses
and the Masonic Hall. The loss is $50, 600.
Twenty employees of the Pension Bureau
we're discharged on Saturday Nineteen were
female copyists aud one male messenger.
Boss Tweeds statement uncovering the
secret workings Of the N. Y. Ring is looked
for with great interest. He was to be liberated
this week.
The Secretary of the Navy has refused to
confirm the sale of the United States ship
Sabine at Portsmouth, n. II. She was pur-
chased by Bostonians.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
issued orders for the discharge OF 200 men
dong The line of the road in New Jersey on
account of the shrinkage in business.
The last China steamer from San Francisco
took ten thousand barrels Of California flour.
China is said to be substituting wheat for
rice.
Daring the three months ending March
1lst, there were 1872 detections and arrests
Tor robberies from the mails and other viola.
tiQns Of the Post.office law.
Bv fall Of rock in Pine Brook shaft, at
Scranton, Pa on Saturday, John Hopkins was
killed and David Morgan and Patrick Ruddy
we're fatally injured.
Nr. BENJAMIN Davis aud wife, of New
IpsN5ch, n. H., celebrated recently the list
anniversary Of their marriage. Mr.. Davis is
IL his both year, and Mrs. Davis in her 81.
The male members of the Swedish colony
ia AroOstook county, Me-, were all naturaliz'
"a seTeral DAYS ago The colony now num-
bets about 600 persons and is said to be
hourshng -l
Portland liquor dealers have been evading
the law BY emptying eggs of their natural
c0utenis and filling the shell with liquor.
The eggs thus prepared sold readily for Sl.S0
per dozen
A man named Mccarthy, IS years of age,
was arrested in Washington on Sunday night
for attempting to feloniously assauttwo girls,
after giving them drugged liquor to drink.
tVhau are i'm n critical condition.
A two.story brick house, in Alexandria,
Va, tumbled down suddenly on Sunday night,
while the occupants were in bed. \ young
nan was killed, aud four persons were injur,
ed, one perhaps fatally.
A deficiency of about $500 has been found
III The accounts Of Robert Reysert, postmas.
ser a Bethlehem, Pa. He is also charged
with having tempered with the mails and mis-
managed his office generally.
Martin Brand, having been declared owner
..of piece of land near Covington, KY, by
4hE N'ourts, attempted to take possession of
Il on Friday, and was shot dead by John
Donald, who occupied the premises. Don
aid Is IN Jail.
A huge rhinoceros got loose in the steamer
Colon 10 storm off Cape Hatteras, and
killed two dogs and horse before being re-
captured. It seemed to be iniuriated by the
rocking of the vessel, but became tractable
when . calm ensucd.
Plans are now being prepared by the ar.
chitect Of the Capitol for the improvement of
The hall of the House of Representatives with
ksnw 10 perfecting its ventilation, which of
late wears has been the source Of much com.
plant Congress at the last session appro'
pgisted $4,000 for this purpose.
Full exposures have been made of the con.
spifhcg of the Labor Union, at Chico, Cal,
10 murder the Chinese and all persons em-
ploying them. Plots were laid for burning
and blowing up buildings and for murder by
the Wholesale. The chiefs Of the order are
under arrest
Six companies of artillery, ordered to
Washihgton by President Grant two months
ago, will leave this week for various posts in
New England. Six other companies, which
will remain after their departure, will nearly
all be ordered to different posts after the set
clement of the Southern troubles.
il turns out that there was no truth in the
report telegraphed from New York to the
Associated Press, that at the railroad confer
ence Oh Saturday, ian alliance offensive aud
Defensive" was concluded against the Balti-
more and Ohio Company. The report is
<ohitadicted both by Mr. Jewett and Col.
Scott.
Joseph T. Miller, who resided near Schaf.
HefsloNn, in Lebanon county, Pa, was found
dead IN the woods near his house, on Monday.
The tQm Of $500 which he had in his posses
sion when he left home, was gone, and il is
supposed he was robbed and murdered. He
8aA Ut one time Commissioner of Lebanon
county.
An incendiary FIRE at Rineclif, near POUCH.
keepaie, N. Y. on Saturday morning, de-
siroYed Thomas Riley's tenement house,
occupied by three families. Mrs. Margaret
Barns, aged 40, and four children, aged re-
speciitely IL, ., s, and 81 years, were burn
ed 70 Death The FIRE was started in a flight
q stairs leading up from the basement
The State Bank of Brunswick, N. j., sus.
pended on Saturday. The President, A. Voor-
bees, refused to be seen, and nothing Of the
hanks condition could be ascertained II is
understood, however, that, owing TO the dull
ness Of The times, notes have been renewed,
instead of being paid in full. The bank sus.
pended Temporarily about year ago.
Francis Murphy the celebrated Temper
Hnce advocate is in Philadelphia, doing a
most remarkable work through moral sua-
sion. he says he knows he shall be ostracis.
I'D Tor saying it, but moral snasion is the
tt||N tMNtuuu W Iuibt VIC
lasion couldnt do it, and he didn't believe in
meddllng with law and politics. Prohibitory
leeislhtion was all farce.
The schooner Addie Todd, which arrived
at Bosion Monday from Surinam, reports
that On he 9th ult she fell in with the wreck
of ihe brig Roanoke, from Porto Cabello, and
took oif William Maguire, a seaman, who had
been oil the wreck for nine days. The rest
Of tin rev, eight in number, and three pas
sensefa Mr.. and Mrs. Dallett, of New York,
and i Spanish gentleman-had been washed
ossrboA5d and drowned.
Ihe southwestern section of Chicago, for a
snafe oI about seven miles square, has been
iioodtd BIZ the recent heavy rains aud melting
= ssQNe. be sewers and drains being unable to
'esIfy nf the water with sufficient rapidly.
A'e4t 81 Western avenue and south OF Harri.
&qn 4tfeet the lower stories Of the buildings
nte 'enadated, aud the food extends into the
. Nounff4 Communication in the submerged
. f''silei Is had by means of boats and RATS.
4 A. freight train was crossing bridge
n User HiIiicult Creek, on the Richmond and
! UI"UtI|In. Railroad In Halfax countv Va.