The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-12-28
News of the Week.

night was three feet.
25.779 pounds of Christmas poultry was
shipped from Wilmington to Philadelphia on
one train Monday morning.
Frank Myers, aged IA years, shot himself
dead while carelessly handling a loaded pistol
in Washington, Tuesday morning.
Washington Territory voted on a State con-
stitution last month and adopted it by vote
of 1862 to 1921, precisely two to one.
The brig C. R. Burgess, from Boston for
Gloucester, England, has long been overdue,
and is given up tor lost, with all on board.
The Collector at Norfolk, Va, has been in
structed by the Treasury Department to IN
spect all cattle shipped at that port for Eng
land.
The British steamer Lorraine, cleared from
Norfolk, Va, for Liverpool on Wednesday,
with 1850 bales of cotton, los live cattle and
152 sheep.
The report of the Auditor of Dakota shows
an increase of so per cent in the assessed
valuation of the Territory during the past
year.
A New York baby, three months old, gets
a salary of ten dollars week for its nightly
appearance on the stage in play now run
ming in that city.
A fire at Goldsboro, York County, Pa, on
Saturday morning, destroyed the Northern
Central Railroad station the telegraph ONCE
and six dwellings.
There was Congregational council IN
Brooklyn on Thursday, of last week, ana
Brother Beecher wasn't present because ne
had not been invited.
A number of marine disasters are reported
from along the coast owing to the gales. OF
Friday and Saturday, but none OF them IN
volve large or important vessels.
The Evangelical Alliance of the United
States, through its Executive Committee has
appointed Jan. SIP, 1879, as aoeeE OF
PRAYER, to be observed throughout the land.
The Snow Hill Messengerreports that Miss
Lillian Duer, the young woman who shot
Miss Ella Hearn, has gone ravlng mad. her
trial is to take place in March.
In the u. S. Circuit Court at Portland, Me-,
on Saturday, John o. Winship and George
w. Swett the former lawyer, were convict
ed of conspiring to defraud creditors in a
| bankruptcy case.
Brown, finance clerk at the Washington
City Postofice, mysteriously lost a package
on Saturday containing nearly Sll,OOO. Inc
money has since been recovered.
A telegram from st. Faul says that Ignatius
Donnelly has filed notice of contest OF the
election of William Washburne to Congress,
on the grounds of bribery, intimidation, vlo-
lence, fraud and corruption.
The wedding of the Duke of Cumberland
and the Princess Thyra of Denmark, took
place on Saturday. The Prince is the son OF
the deposed King of Hanover, and the bride
| is the sister of the Princess of Wales.
At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on Friday, DIR. Heyl,
convicted of grave robbery, was sentenced
to one years Imprisonment and the payment
of fine of 5000. Eaton, his accomplice,
was sentenced to four months Imprisonment
and the payment of 500 fine.
Three boys, named Bebo, Connors and
Jayes, the eldest only nine years of age, were
drowned while sliding on the ice at North
Cambridge, Mass, on Saturday. On the
same day Edward Shoemaker, aged IL, was
drowned while skating near Trivoli, Ne"
York
E. Il Haywood, sentenced to two years
Imprisonment at hard labor in the county jail
at Dedham, Mass, for circulating obscene
literature through the mails, has been pardon.
ed by President Hayes. he was released
on Thursday eveing after having served sever
months Of his term.
The returns from the poor houses in anC
about London show the poverty and distress
to be wide spread. The houses are all filled
to overaewing, and the funds provided for re
lief are utterly insufficient. The intense cold
has thrown thousands of dock laborers out Of
employment, adding to the number of those
requiring aid
George Draper, colored, convicted OF muir
der in the second degree, was pillored and
received sixty lashes, at New Castle, DEL, or
Saturday morning, in the midst of severe
snow storm. The remainder of his sentence
is Imprisonment for life. Draper was asked
how it felt, when he replied sit was heaI
better'n hanging"
The State Department is advised that the
cotton crop of Egypt, for 1878, falls far shor
of the average annual yield, and the quality
is very inferior. The present crop is estimat
ed at l 200, 900 quintals of SO pounds each
while the ex ports of Egyptian cotton for the
three previous years have averaged 1900, O0C
quintals per year.
In the Cathedral at Cincinnati, on Sunday
Archbishop Purcell announced to the con
gregation that he had written to the Pope
asking to be relived, on account of the infir'
mites of old age. He was consecrated Dc
tober 10, 1888, and has therefore been at the
head ofthat diocese forty-fveyears, nearly hal
the time as Archbishop. He is now seventy
nine years old, and feels that his age entities
him to the privilege of being relieved.
Snow has fallen to the depth of from two
to three feet at Buffalo and other points IN
northwestern New York since Saturday.
There was no connection on the New York
Central Railroad west of Rochester. The
upper Hudson was full of heavy ice, and a.
Stuyvesant the river was frozen from shore tc
shore. 1t has become very cold in the North
west. At St. Paul, Mimi, Monday morning
Al. Al. -oporoA from g tn IL 1aOFQPs
below zero.
The committee appointed by the creditors
of the German American Bank OF Washing
| ton, to investigate its condition, have made
| report. The Banks liabilities are $500, 1853,
and its assets, after throwing out everything
considered doubtful by the receiver, amount
to S3O5, 642. 1t is estimated, however, that
it will cost about $15, 000to windup the affairs
of the bank, which would leave about 5 pei
cent of the Indebtedness to be met by the
stockholders.
On a Grand Trunk Railway train, neal
Ridgeway, Mich, last Thursday night, Walter
Storms was attacked by man named Crabb,
while standing on the rear platform OF the
rear car. Storms throat was cut, he was
robbed of 5000 and thrown off the car. He
| fell in a snow bank, and crawled to a farm
house where medical aid was obtained, but
he is not expected to recover. His assailani
was gambler, and it is suspected that Storms
was his partner, and that the tragedy was the
result of quarrel about money.
Dispatches on Tuesday say :-Switzer-
land and France are suffering from the heav-
lest fall of snow that can be remembered by
the oldest inhabitants. The wolves have pen
etrated as far as the gates of Metz. In Gen
eva large force of workmen are engaged in
clearing the streets of the snow, and the rail
road travel has been suspended. The wealth,
| err is severe throughout Great Britain, All
the railways in the north of Scotland are
blocked up. Two London mail trains are
showed up twelve miles from Aberdeen, and
Ave other trains are in the same condition N
other localities, so that traffic is suspended.
The snow in some places is over twelve feel
deep.
The Associated Banks doing business al
the New York Clearing House have given
notice substantially that they intend to take
/ M stems backward in the matter of discrim
mating against the silver dollar after the LIST
of January. The leading bank Presidents
saw they have no approximations that the Con
pressional threat of compelling them to go IN
to Humiliation as penalty will amount to any
thing. at will soon blow over" The Amer
| .ora-.L,noa National Bank and the Me