The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-05-11
News of the Week.

The Pennsylvania Legislature will adj
journ on the oath inst.
A Boston paper says there are only FIVE
banks in that city whose weekly loans are
less than 100000
Thomas Morris, arrested at Pittstou,
Pa, a few days ago, confessed that he
murdered his wife in Kansas City last
January
If the proposed Chinese capitation tax
of one hundred dollars a head should be-
come law it will probably keep the citi-
zens of the Flowery Land at home.
A lion broke out of his cage in Port
land, Mo-, and killed defenceless jack
all; but when courageous keeper con-
fronted him he skunk into corner.
The AdUertiser of St. Adams, Vt,
learns that the Fenian Brotherhood in
that section are getting ready for work in
the event of a war between England and
Russia.
Tillie Richards, aged 16, colored, was
fatally stabbed by Henry Speaks, aged 81,
also colored, in boarding house in Balti-
more on Tuesday. The murderer was
subsequently arrested.
On Wednesday, May 18th, an excur-
sion will be run over the Western Mary
land Railroad from Hagerstown to Balti-
more, leaving about o'clock A. NJ, and
arriving in Baltimore at 10.
A resident of Uniontown, Pa, suggests
the propriety of the United States and
Great Britain uniting in erecting suita-
BILE monument over the grave of General
Braddock, near that place.
A despatch to the Galveston Ne,os re-
ports the failure of an attempt to get up
revolution against Diaz in the State of
Chihuahua. Many of the conspirators
are in Jail, the others have fed.
A portable engine used in hosting ice
out of barge at Memphis exploded on
Monday morning, killing the engineer,
and severely injuring five other men, one
of whom is not likely to recover.
The monster Krupp gun, which was on
exhibition at the Centennial, has been
purchased by Russia, and now forms an
important and formidable part of the ar
mament of the fort Cronstadt, in the
Baltic Sea.
J. H. Pierce, colored, Hagerstown, Md,
shot his wife, on Sunday night last, and
then fred several shots into his own head,
wounding himself badly, but probably not
fatally. Pierce was confined in Jail. Jeal-
ousy was the moving cause.
The sixty-third annual session of the
Baltimore Conference of the African NJ.
E. Church began in Baltimore on Satur-
day The Conference embraces Maryland
and the District of Columbia, and is COM
posed of seventy-Ave itinerant preachers.
Four robbers entered the house of John
johnson, at Brockville, Ont, on Friday
night and demanded money. Being re-
fused, they tied him to bed and beat
him fatally with club. They then secured
one dollar. Several arrests have been
made.
Prof. Herman Ferry, of Chestertown,
Md. has invented an apparatus for re-
moving trees of any size and at any sea-
son, without injuring or retarding the
growth. He has applied for a patent for
the same. Mechanically the apparatus is
simple and can be made cheaply.
The Protestant ministers of Montreal,
having signed an address to the Orange
men, asking the latter to desist from a
public celebration on July 18th, the mat
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district Masters of Lodges. The result
is 367 for procession, to against it.
General Mcdowell has been instructed
by the War Department to institute a
watch along the Southern border of Ari-
zoua and California to prevent any viola
ton of the neutrality law by the Lardist
conspirators. General Ord has distribu-
ted his forces along the Rio Grande, with
a similar purpose in view.
The House of Bishops of the Protestant
Church, is to assemble in New
York, on the 18th of June, at which meet
ing a court of inquiry into the case of
Bishop McCoskery will be ordered. tits
not doubted that the Bishop will be fully
and entirely indicated from the charges
recently made against him.
General John NJ. Brinckley, ex-United
States Attorney General, disappeared from
Milwaukee on Saturday morning. He
left letters addressed to the Mayor and
other gentlemen, indicating that he con-
suicide. He had been suffering
greatly from domestic trouble, which, it
is believed, rendered him insane. His
is unknown.
Nightly robberies for the past three
weeks, and the presence of small army
of tramps in Omaha, Neb., have caused
the citizens to organize a Committee of
Safety. On Saturday night one hundred
and fifty men acting under the committee,
made thorough search of the city, for
the purpose of arresting suspicious charac-
tiers. The search will be repeated nightly
until the robberies cease.
The Western Emigration Society, con-
posed of colored men who intend to go
West in search of homes, met in Wash
ington on Monday night, and adopted
to Congress asking an appropri-
alton to send them there. They desire
Congress to pay their fare out and furnish
them with farming implements and seeds
for the first year or two, until they can
support themselves. The present mem
bership of the Society is 300.
The great imported running stallion,
bennington, dropped dead on Monday, at
Chestnut Hill, the residence of his owner,
Aristides WEIGH, near Philadelphia. Lea
mington was % years cid, and was the
sire of many of the noted racers in this
country, among them Longfellow, Enquir-
er, Littleton, Parole, and many others.
His winnings have been very heavy in
eight of twenty-five trials. He was pur-
chased in England by R. W. Cameron, of
New York, for 91575, or 81 ,S75.
The Labor Reform League commenced
its eighth annual convention on Monday
in Masonic Hall, n Y, the proceedings
continued two days, Among other SUBJ
jects for consideration was "The great
strike of last summer" together with ats
relations to labor, property and govern
ment." Other questions were "Ought
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