The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-02-16
News of the Week.

twenty-five thousand California salmon
were recently depositedin Cayuga Lake, n. Y.
II is a tough story. but California paper
asserts that Eulalia Perez, of Los Angeles il
l4O years Of age.
The Seatauket Rubber Company, at Port
jefferson, l.. l., has failed. Its liabilities
are stated at $4,000.
The South Carolina Senate has indefinitely
postponed bill introducing the Moffet liquor
bell punch in that State.
An eighty pound Goldfish, the largest seen
at New Haven, Conn, for many years, was
captured there several days ago.
The Sheriff. Office in New Castle county,
Del, is worth $4,000 per annum, and there
are number of applicants for it.
Marie Anne Duperon, of Nicolet, Canada,
died on the 9th instant at the age of l IL years.
She possessed all her faculties to the last.
The ceremony of investing the new Catholic
Archbishop of Baltimore with the paliium
the insignia of his office, took place in that
city on Sunday.
The Office of the Troy, n. Y, Times was
destroyed by fire on Sunday, loss $780,
600, caused by lighted cigar. A somewhat
costly cigar, that.
Hon. Gideon Wells, ex-Secretary Of the
Navy, died at As o'clock Monday evening,
at his residence in Hartford, Conn, from the
effects of a carbuncle.
Hon. Charles NJ. Conrad, successfully
member of Congress, United States Senator
and Secretary of War under President Fill
more, died at New Orleans on Monday.
The Chicago Tribune says a young lady in
! Wisconsin refused an offer of marriage on the
ground that her father was not able to sup
port larger family. Considerate girl.
At Clyde Station, H., on Monday night,
I an insane son of William Lancaster escaped
from his attendants and beat his father S
brains out with club while the old man was
asleep.
Daniel Houmans, young man convicted
of setting FIRE to barn at Mount Hope, n.
j., whereby forty horses and mules were de-
stroyed, was sentenced on Monday to five
years Imprisonment.
A"eongress of beauty is what exciIes New
York now. Four hundred women are on
exhibition at one of the places Of amusement,
and the attraction fondly announced as much
superior to fox chase or baby show.
Mrs. Ann Tut, residing near Cypress
school house, in Montgomery county, Nd,
gave birth to a child recently having twelve
toes and three hands. At latest accounts the
child was in good health and doing well.
Daniel Beard, his wife and four children,
occupying q house at Wickham, Queen
county, New Brunswick, all persisted by the
burning Of the house on Monday night. The
neighbors knew nothing of the occurrence till
the next morning.
Vice President Wheeler and Speaker Ran
dali are strictly enforcing the rule forbidding
the sale of liquors in the Capitol restaurants.
Until Thursday, beer could be obtained on
the Senate side, but even this is prohibited
by the Vice President.
Hon. John N Stokes, of Pennsylvania.
Grand Sire, has declined the Australian mis-
sion, rendered him by the Grand Lodge of
the United States, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and the Deputy Grand Sire,
Hon. John B. Harmon, of California, has
been selected to go in his stead.
The car record department has has con.
siderable difficulty in determining the number
of cars destroyed in the great eonhagraiion at
Pittsburg last July. At last the record is
complete, and the number is correctly set
down at sixteen hundred and eighty-two, en-
bracing every class, from a passenger to a
stone car.
At Mauch Chunk on Sunday, Rev. Fathers
Heinen and Bunce read, in their respective
churches, a letter form Archbishop Wood
pronoancing an alleged miraculous cure of a
sick woman to be delusion, and warning the
participants not to repeat the offence. Meth
er clergyman made any comment on the
letter.
A suspension of mining throughout the
Schuylkill region commenced on Monday,
and will continue for two weeks. The sus-
pension includes not only the company S
collieries, but the independent mines. Most
of the men thrown out of employment by this
stoppage have recently been working on halt
time.
Mr.. Leander ]. Mccormick, of Chicago,
has offered his great telescope to the Virginia
Legislature for the State University at Char
lottesville. There is now bill pending be-
fore the Legislature accepting and making
provision for the conditions of the gift, which
are that an observatory be erected for it at a
cost of $50, 900.
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, recently nomina-
ted by the President TO be Collector of the
port of New York, died in that city on Satur-
day night, in the 47th year of his age. He
was a man of great wealth, one of the found.
ers of the 0rthopadc Hospital, and at the
time of his death, one of the State Commits
sioners of Public Charities.
1t is announced that in view of an attempt
to steal the remains of President Lincoln from
their tomb, several years ago, the Regents of
the Mount Vernon Association have connect
ed Washington's tomb with the mansion by
an electric burglar alarm. If any one at
tempts to enter the tomb at night this will
give warning to the guard.
Captain Merryman, of the Revenue Service,
having been ordered by the Secretary of the
| Treasury to investigate the wreck of the Me-
tropolis, testifes at Washington to his belief
in her unseaworthiness. The fragments that
came ashore were unusually small, and he
submitted two specimens of decayed wood
from different parts of the wreck.
An agreement has been made with the Old
Dominion Steamship Company to build the
railroad from Lewis to Rehoboth Beach The
company agrees to have 1t in running order
by July LIST, on condition that the right of way
is secured free of charge, and that the Reho.
both Company will give them fifty building
lots as their contribution to the work
The special committee appointed by the
South Carolina Legislature to investigate the
charges against Daniel Corbin of improper
appropriation of money and bribing members
of the Legislature 10 vote for him for L. S.
Senator, made a report on the Sth inst
recommending that the evidence taken blythe
committee be turned over to the Attorney
General, administrations oprOsecute Corbin
A rumor prevailed in London on Wednes
uaE evening lHaL the government had recelv
ed information that the Russians had entered
Constantinople and were in possession o
several of the forts. The London Post pro
fesses to have news confirming this intelli-
gence, and expresses the utmost indignation
at the means by which this has been accom-
plished. The surrender of the Turkish wal
vessels in the Danube is also announced.
Mr.. VIM. Welsh, brother of the American
minister to the Court of ST. James, fell dead
Of heart disease at Wills Hospital, Philadel
phia, Monday, at which place he was visiting
at the time. AT the time of his death Mr.
Welsh was president of Girard College, anC
was identified with many benevolent institu
tons. He had also served as Indian com
missioner, and his name is familiar in con
nection with the Indian controversy which
was carried on under the administration o
President Grant
The sehr., Speedwell arrived at New Yorl
on Monday with the captain and crew of the
schooner Sallie NJ. Steelman. from Charles.
ton for Baltimore, abandoned at sea on tn,
Slst ultimO, in n sinking condition. Thecap
tain of the Steelman reports that she wa.
disabled in a storm on the 10Th ult., and on
the 23d their provisions gave out. The da,
before they were rescued, having had no fooC
for six days, n colored seaman, becoming
crazed, attempted to kill one of the mef
named Sampson, but was killed By the lattel