The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-05-19
News Of the Week.

Navigation ON Lake Huron is still much
Instructed by heavy ice.
BOSTON has been enjoying east winds and
|ls|f accompanying rain for seventy.One days.
NO San Francisco physicians disagreed on
t9Ilshlation and eaned each other The pa
fe1| laughed, perspiratiou was induced, and
Ne fecoyered.
nc farmers Of Atlantic county, n. j., are
a|iant to hold u prayer meeting TO avert the
no|Afo bug pest, which last year destroyed
1I' heir crops.
II house at New Bedford, Mass, were
4Iosntly gathered u boy, his mother, his
&IAhd mother and his great-grand mother,
t bitter being l0l years old.
ne Great Eastern, the enormous vesse,
I1aI has thus far proved an Improbable curl
o.|la, j. ", 10 transformed into a huge floating
i. Eefator, and used in the conveyance VI
ANkfican meatto England &A y pSk8
Aieegrara from ST. John, n. b., reports
hBbark Lothian iammed in the ice in Es
aaIfaux Bay, aud the pilot schooner Express
1IlSked at 'Shiptegan Island. Motives were
Mrs. Bachelor Of Scottsyille, Va, mar
I'<l when'l3 years old, her daughter, born
aI.Ar after, alas married nj ~; and few
days. ago the daughter bore a son, making
Nls Bachelor grandmother at %.
mere are in the town of Cavendish, Vt,
I46niy. eight people by the name Of Spaulding
no are ax.payers. Many years ago it was
Nported that seventy Of that name were legal
laiNrs in the town. 81 FlfN
foyernor Williams, Of Indiana, will take
11ls In Tan old.fhshoned log rolling" near
Nahsile, in that State, in few weeks. He
nIiI be dressed as a teamster, and will drive
3oke Of steers.
al Exeter, N. H., bull escaped from his
o..ture the other day aud made a charge on
locomotive. The attack was fierce and
hsl|liant, but brief and one.sided, owing to
~ heath Of the bull,
Inc inner walls of the new Court House in
1o,,fse of construction at Rockford, ILL.,, tum-
blsA down on the 18th inst, killing ten or
ri lRelye wOrkmen and injuring about four
ieth, some of them intally.
/. Evans Edings, young white man, was
n6,dered and robbed Of 5 200 near Charles.
la,. IS. C., last Friday. Two negroes were
nittsted, the money was found in their pos
sS'.lon aud they confessed the crime.
TIC committee appointed by the South
cafplna House Of Representatives to inSes-
tixale the charges against Associate Justice
Wfieht, presented report on the llth inst, +,
mtommending his impeachment for drunken
ntt aud incompe,ency.
The steamer City of Brussels is safe. She
heoke her shaft, the third day out, aud was
a4i IN mid ocean, on Tuesday the 9Th inst,
byihe city of Richmond, which supplied her
Viii additional provisions. All on board are
nt.l and in good spirits. The cargo Of fresh
mead, valued at $4,000, was thrown over.
h0ard owing to the ice giving out
Gnle and Fisher, owners of the cargo of
ia Norwegian bark Azow, sunk by the
aasmship Nurnberg, 10 the Chesapeake,
hsonrht suit against the steamships owners
III Baltimore, for S22, 900 damages, The
t1ents of the Nurnberg gave bond for S70,.
90. and the vessel was released.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange were Off.
calm informed ON Friday, 18th inst, that
litir cotton bale had been awarded a gold
n,&la at the international Horticultural Ex-
h'bition in Amsterdam, Holland. Memphis
al.o received first premiums at New York,
VIENNA, London and Philadelphia Exposi.
Iions.
Tho Commissioner of the General Land
Uiice has for some time been trying to stop
I1bredaiiOns on the public timber lands.
Ike u. $. Marshal at Lake Charles, La, has
liza seized 10000 logs of timber cut from
(;oyerument lands in that section, aud valued
At<l5O,OOO. Efforts are making for the stop
ptfe OF timber stealing in other portions OF
lIf Southwest.
Thomas p. Someryille, the New York law.
yer, acquitted of completely in the Harrington
sAie burglary with General Babcock, has
Nfiiten 70 the y. S. Attorney for the District
IL Columbia statement OF all the details OF
ihe crime, and the names of those concerned.
HE statement will be used in case Harrington
AAl the others, still under indictment, are
txer tried. N
On Saturday, Governor Hampton sent to
ia South Carolina House Of Representatives,
d Communication from President Hayes,
slAting that the Attorney General had been
Injected to prepare for trial in the cases Of
Ill Ellenton prisoners. II was for these
Drsoners that the Legislature asked Execu-
ia cemeney, and these proceedings will
~ bably end in their release.
President Hawley, Director General Cos.
Abrn and Assistant Secretary Asch, Of the
t1htennial Commission, have been created,
VI the King of Holland, Knights of the Order
~ the Golden ,Iion of the Netherlands, IN
tbnsideration Of their courtesy to the Duteh
representative at the Centennial Exhibition.
lhe insignia Of the order have been trans
n.iited TO the gentlemen by the State Depart
uent
The Laurel Cotton Factory, situated in
Fhnce Georges county, in this State, failed
o. the 18th Of April, by which some two or
tAree hundred persons, chiefly women, were
Brown out Of employment, The liabilities
III the Company are about $500, 900 while the
s|scts consist only of the mill property, which
build not bring oyar 100000, although its
efigiual cost was $300,O00. Its failure was
ia result Of the severe depression Of the
mes. t#a VIZ fttFt
An earthquake greatly agitated the Pacific
IN week Captain Patterson, of the CoasI
#rvey, in Washington, received telegram
Al the 18th inst, from San Francisco in ref
hence to the tidal waves on the California
ebast. At Fort Point, at the entrance To Sau
francisco harbor, the waves were coming IN
NJ day on Thursday, the maxima being one
tbur apart, and the rise end fall fourteen
|kches. The locality of the earthquake was
n lquiqne, on the coast Of Peru. II occurred
q the l0th instant.
During temperance rally, in the Grand
Npera House, Wilmington, Del, on Sunday
6ternoon, which was attended by over 5000
ersons, the discovery Of the burning Of. a
Vantity OF burlaps in the cellar caused q
plpic among the audience. An old lady,
ith great presence Of mind, began to sing
'hilory Hallelujahl' and the hymn being
ken up by those op the stage, order was re-
bred. A man named Baird was arrested on
spicon Of attempting to burn the building
The wife Of Thomas Fix, Of Reading, Pa,
ID removed from her hip on Friday week, q
tkedle that had been in her body for twenty
&c years. The needle had entered her
Hnmb while washing, and had penetrated. Sc
1kepy that all Efforts 10 extract 1t proved oil
avail. About three weeks ago she began
experience severe pains in the feshy Por'
pn of the left lower limb; It gradually be
#me worse, and on Friday, Mr.. Fix made
ineisiou with the poiut Of a razor and de
cled some hard substance. This was pull
out and proved to be the needle that Mrs
* had run in her thumb 25 years ago
Campbell 4 layers oil works, 10 Watel
Feet, between Washington and Main streets
brooklyn, N. Y, we're destroyed BY hire OF
onday. The buildings were six storie'
@'gh, and covered half the square. There
ere more than Que hundred thousand galloni
oil in the building, besides thousands, o
EDunds Of linseed, and the flames burned al
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