The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-02
News Of the Week.

sShf " 1Nehes
The Supreme Lodge of knights OF Pythial
ofthe world meets in Cleveland Ohio OF
the l4th of August.
General Butler as trustee for English CAPT
talists has purchased $4,000 acres Of lane
from Colonel Craig, in Southern Colorado
Joseph Zeller well known citizen OF
Hagerstown, committed suicide by hanging
on Wednesday Of last week. He had beer
, unfortunate in business.
Fletcher Harper, the youngest and last sur
yiving member Of the original firm of Harper
Brothers, died at his residence in New York
city, ON Tuesday morning, aged ~.
Patrick Maldon was arrested In Chester
Pa, on Sunday, for robbing the mail.
mail bag containing a large number of letter.
was found in his possession.
The Inman steamship the City of Brussels,
about which 30 much anxiety was felt, arrived
safely at Liverpool on Tuesday morning
about 10 O'Clock, having been out thirty nine
days.
Attorney General Deyens has made Simms,
the fugitive slave, whom, as United States
Marshal for the District of Massachusetts, he
surrendered to his master, messenger in his
office.
Miss Hadlock, of Troy, N. Y. taking offence
at an article in the Palladium, met the editor,
Mr.. 7. Hatch, on the street, threw a hand.
full Of red pepper in his eyes, eiIectually blind
ing him, and then cuwhided him severely.
The Youngstown Rolling Mill, at Youngs
town, Ohio, was destroyed on Saturday night
| by fire caused by the explosion Of an oil
can. The loss is about 500, 900, and three
hundred men are thrown out Of employment.
Rev. +. C. Fraker, ex.president of the
suspended First National Bank, Of Wichita,
Kansas, who disappeared with SOL 900 of tho
banks funds has been arrested on the Mexi.
can border, and will be taken to Leavcnworth
| for trial.
-Four hundred of the young ladies of Vas.
sar College visited West Point on Saturday,
| by permission of General Schofield. They
witnessed the review aud parade of the cadets,
and returned to the College by the light Of
the moon.
The Secretary of the Navy on Saturday
sent a letter to the commanders on foreign
stations instructing them when xPresdent
Grant reaches their vicinity to show him
proper attention and facilitate his means of
observation abroad.
The Hartford H;gis attributes the scarcity
Of shad in the Susquehannah this year to the
black bass. The stream is now teeming with
the latter fish, and in their voracity they have
eaten immense numbers of eggs and young
shad. Such, at least, is the opinion OF the
fishermen.
The Omaha Bee publishes crop reports
from forty-nine places in Nebraska, which
show an increased acreage especially of corn
All the crops look well, and are growing, the
grasshoppers not seeming to be doing any
damage. A large increase is also reported
in stock cattle and hogs.
In San francisco, on Tuesday, George NJ.
Pinney was held in 5000 bail on still another
charge-that Of forging naval certificates of
Indebtedness. Being unable to find sureties
on the various charges, he is in Jail. 1t is
supposed that he will waive an examination
on most of the charges
According to the Albany Lar Journal
there are thirty three thousand lawyers in
this blessed country, New York city leading
off with 1888, Philadelphia following close
with 800, Brooklyn with 100, Chicago with
500, st. Louis with 59i, San Francisco with
1873, Washington with $40, Boston with 3is
and Baltimore with 3i2.
The celebration of Decoration day at Nor.
folk on Friday week, was in striking contrast
with the sentiment recently expressed by
some OF the ex-union soldiers Of Baltimore
II was confederate celebration, but no par.
TALLY was shown in strewing the flowers over
the graves of the brave, and the United States
troops wed with the local military in honor
ing the day.
A growing demand is noted abroad for
American leather. Large shipments are be.
ing made from the American ports, chiefly to
England, but also to Germany and Russia.
In England the American article is known as
ttraI daathar y hain4y hafnlnnLs tapunl -,
contradistincton TO the oak tanned English
Its color and quality are liked for many kinds
Of work.
A Finch riaed gun, the first made
for this Government, will be cast at
the South Boston Foundry on Wednesday
next When finished it will weigh 10000
pounds. 1t will carry a 700 pound projectile,
requiring charge of 40 to 40 pounds of
powder, and is expected to pierce u solid
mass of iron, II to 10 inches thick, at dis.
lance of 1000 yards.
A horrible murder was committed in the
neighborhood of West River, Anne Arundel
county, on Saturday. A young married
woman named Norfolk went out to gather
salad for dinner, and not returning at the
time she was expected, search was made for
her. Her body was found in the field where
she had filled her basket with salad. There
were wounds upon the head which showed
she had been beaten to death with club.
Her husband is suspected of having perpetra,
ted the murder, and is in prison.
The report Of Mr.. John jays Commission
for investigating the New York Custom. house
and promoting reform therein, recommends
a reduction of clerical force amounting to 20
per cent OF the present staff, which, excud.
ing the appraisers department, comprises
l,03S men, deducting 20 per cent from which
leaves a force Of $50 men. This is something,
but not in proportion to the reduction in bus.
mess. The receipts from customs have fallen
| about 40 per cent. since 1872, and the actual
work Of the Custom.house from handling i'm.
ports has declined still more.
The Commission appointed to inquire into
the management of the New York Custom
House has made a preliminary report to the
Secretary of the Treasury suggesting certain
reforms, which Secretary Sherman has order.
| ed to be carried out. The most important
one is the reduction of the force twenty
per cent, which is to be effected before the
10th of June. The Collector is directed TO
put on the list of the employees that are to be
| dropped all who have been guilty of receiv.
ing gratuties or brides, or oppression or in.
science in office, or even the want of common
courtesy, drunkenness or other bad habits
tending to degrade the office, or absence or
neglect Of duty
Washington Cemetery of Confederate dead
at Hagerstown, Nd, will be dedicated and
fiorally decorated on the 18th of June. The
cemetery contains the dust of about twenty.
FIVE hundred Confederates who fell at Antietam
and South Mountain, and it was incorporated
by the Legislature of Maryland, receiving ap.
preparations from the State, and from vir
GINA and West Virginia. Judge Black, of
Pennsylvania, has been invited to deliver the
dedicatory Grafton, and ID. b. Lucas, of Char.
lestown, W. Va, will recite an appropriate
poem. The trustees of the cemetery are: II.
Kyd Douglass, George Freauer and James II.
Gambrill, of Nd. Il. W. Hunter, Of Va, and
W. A. Morgan, Of W. Va.
The sailing vessel Saratoga recently com.
missioned at the Washington Navy Yard,
will take on board about l25 boys to be trained
for the naval service. She will soon sail for
Boston, where she will have her hull cleaned,
then cruise along the Eastern coast until DC
tober, and then go to Port Royal to spend
the winter. After the boys have gone through
a course Of training for one year they will be