The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-23

Thus far there have been 1915 deaths
from yellow fever in New Orleans.
In Philadelphia, S2.l5 on the SIO0. i the
rate OF taxation for the ensuing year.
Mrs. Hannah Meredith, wife of the late
Jonathan Meredith, died in Baltimore. Ma
on the 10th inst-i in the 95th year of her age.
There are sTS cases upon the docket of he
Supreme Court of the United States Re-
tween 800 and 400 cases are usually disno-ed
OF at each term, and yet the number increases.
The disaster on the New Brunswick Rail.
way Thursday night week was caused by n trn;,
hand throwing off a large bale of grain .baos
AZ Peel Station, where the train did not stoo.
The bale fell short of the platform, aud
bounding back under the wheels, threw th.,
train from the track down an embankmept
hity feet high. The passenger train caught
hre, and four passengers were killed or burn.
ed to death.
All the real and personal property of the
81. Adams Iron and Steel Works, al St. AL
bans, VI. has been attached by creditors. and
the stoppage of the works thus caused has
thrown cut Of employment 100 men. The ca
tastrophe was precipitated by threat of the
assignee of the st. Adams Foundry TO insii.
tute proceedings for claim of $4,000. The
total liabilities Of the Iron and Steel Com.
pany are over SlOO,0OO.
The river Weusum, ia County Norfolk.
England, has inundated the town of Norwich,
submergIng four or FIVE miles of streets. rem
dering uninhabitable three or four thousand
dwellings. The Easements of all the factor
les, warehouses and granaries are flooded.
stopping work aud causing great destruction
OF goods. The flood is the result of eontin-
uous ram fall for a fortnight. The authorities
are maintaining the homeless poor.
At Marshaltown, Iowa, on Wednesday, J Ohm
\. Dakin was sentenced TO the penitentiary
for life for the murder of John X. Slough.
Dakin solemnly declared his innocence of the
crime. II will be remembered that after Da-
kin had been convicted by the jury, Frank
Ross, an Italian, voluntarily confessed that
he committed the murder. Ross is at Mar
shutdown, and asserts that he should suffer.
Dakin S attorney will appeal to the Supreme
Court. q
The Grand Jury at Xenia, Ohio, has indict
ed Messrs. A. II. Baughman, Alfred Trader,
Samuel Puterbaugh, John Steele and John
u. Allen, the cashier and directors of the
First National Bank of Nenia, ''lor embez-
cling and converting to their own use money
and bonds to the amount Of $50, 900, belong
ing to depositors, withou, the consent of the
banking company or the owners of the prop
erty. The persons indicted, who are Of
''the highest respectability,h have given bail
in 5000 each for trial.
Three counties in Maryland have now
adopted Local Option-or more properly,
rohibition-Caroline, Calvert and Kent, and
IN Talbot county four districts out Of five have
passed prohibition by vote, and in the other
district the grand jury enforced it practically
by refusing license. Eight districts out of
nine in Somerset county, twelve out of four
teen in Dorchester, three out of six in Queen
Anne's are prohibition districts Worcester
county has high license. In Baltimore coun-
" prohibition prevails at Woodberry, Mount
Washington, Mount Vernon, Warren factory
and Laurel factory.