The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-12-07
News Of the Week.

The failure of Garfield & Co., jewelers. OF
Baltimore, was announced on Saturday.
Fifteen removals we're made on Saturday
in the New York Custom House to diminish
expenses.
A large force is at work grading the Texas
and Pacific railroad from Fort Worth to
Weatherford.
The public debt statement for November
shows an increase of So, PA, 242. The IN
crease is owing to the payment OF the HALIFAX
award.
tt is expected that the House of Correction
at Jessup's Cut, Anne Arundel county, Mo;
will be ready for occupancy by the hrst Oh
January next.
A little four year old son of L. NJ. Shaw,
of Franklin, Pa, fell upon the blade OF a pen
knife on Tuesday week, and, severing the
iuglar, died in few minutes.
The International Dairy Fair in New York
was formerly opened Monday night, with
large attendance. Ex-Governor Seymour
delivered the opening address.
A large quantity of dry goods-silks, pat
terms. rugs, carpets, etc., was seized on the
Bremen steamer Nuremberg at New Orleans,
Monday, for violation Of the revenue laws
William Lewis, brother of exU. S. Sena-
tor Lewis, was drowned, on Monday, with
his colored driver while crossing the Shenan-
doah river in a buggy, at Port Republic, va
In the County Clerks Office at Albany, New
York, on Monday, judgments were docketed
| against the Eagle Moving and Reaping Ma
chine Company of Albany, aggregating $751;
1872.
Dean Stanley is quoted as saying since his
return to England that his journey had done
him good and that his reception in the United
States had been everything he could have
desired.
Senator Dennis, of Maryland, whose term
expires on the Fourth of March next, has
formally announced himself in Washington as
candidate for the Secretaryship of the next
| Senate.
The wall of the new extension of the Ro-
chester Brewing Company's buildings, at Ro-
chester, N. Y, fell Monday, burying seven
men. All were severely injured, two or three,
perhaps, fatally.
The total coinage of the .. S. Minis during
November was $3.50, GIL, including 2, 1885,
$50 standard silver dollars. Up to December
1st the total number of standard dollars coin
ed has been 20, 438, $50.
The English troops have captured Peiwar
Pass and the Notifications, with eighteen guns,
losing about eighty killed and wounded. The
enemy's loss was very heavy. An advance
on Candahar is impossible this winter.
Jim Keene, the California Spectator, has
left New York for Chicago. He has recent
ly purchased four millions of bushels of ID e.
cember wheat for So, 10000 He has stored
it in elevators and is waiting for the raise.
A gang of masked highwaymen entered
Trabling's Rancho, twenty eight miles north
of Fort Kinney W. T., on the 18th ult., or
dered the employees to "throwup their hands, y
and then rifed their pockets and plundered
the store.
At meeting of 60 prominent citizens of
Cincinnati, last evening, committee was APP
pointed to secure the enforcement of the ex-
listing Sunday laws, and, if necessary to OBJ
tain additional legislation for the observance
of the Sabbath.
John O'Neil and William Clifford, Cana
dian counterfeiters, were arrested in Buffalo,
| N. Y, Monday. A number of counterfeit
half dollars were found, with metal, &c.
Clifford was for five years keeper of the Cen
trail Prison at Toronto.
Belair, Md K'gis says Mr.. j ohm Barnes, who
lives near Churchville, raised, on portion
of his land, this year, twenty-five barrels, or
ITO bushels of shelled corn to the acre. We
doubt if this yield has been exceeded Iii any
part of the State this year.
The steamer Royal Diadem. loading with
cotton at Charleston, S. c., for Amsterdam,
caught fire in the hold on Saturday. She was
towed ashore and filled with water. The fire
being extinguished, the water was partly
pumped out. She has on board 1547 bales
of cotton valued, at $4,000.
A violent storm of wind and rain prevailed
in New England on Monday and Monday
night. In Hartford county, Conn, tobacco
houses were demolished and church spires
blown down by the wind. In Maine heavy
rain fell, damaging bridges and buildings, and
interrupting railway travel in some places.
A. N. Wilcox, local agent in charge ofthe
mail between post Office and railroad depots
in Richmond Va, was arrested Sunday
morning for stealing letters, and held in So
600 bail. He had number of stolen letters
Oh his person when arrested Hewas formerly
proprietor of the State Journal, a Republican
newspaper of Richmond.
A telegram from Cape May says the inves-
tigation into the cause of the great fire there
has just closed, and shows that the fire was
started by an incendiary. Twenty-three of
thirty witnesses examined give testimony
vomiting to Samuel R. Ludlam as the guilty
party, and he will be arrested. He denies
all knowledge of the origin of the fire.
A silver spoon was brought to New London
last week by Captain Burlington, of the whal-
ing schooner Simmons, from Repulse Bay,
where it was given to him by an Esquimaux.
1t bears a Efaded" crest, which has been
identified as that of the Franklin family of
England, so that no doubt is entertained of
its genuiueness as a relic of Sir John Frank
lin.
The steamer Brazilian, from Boston, with
a cargo consisting of 253 head of cattle and
LOO sheep, has landed every animal at Birk-
enhead, England, and in good condition. In
cluded were some cows in calf and about
forty prize cattle, weighing 1000 pounds each.
The success of this trips settles the question
as to the trans Atlantic trade in cattle during
the winter.
In the United States District Court at st,
Louis on Saturday judgment was entared
against George AtchinsQn for failing to &C
count for an amount over fourteen thousand
dollars, placed in his hands as an army officer
for distribution among the Indians in Min
nesota in 1870. The accused has been re-
peatedly called on to refund the money or &C
count for it, but he paid no attention to the
demands.
The coal combination which has existed
for some time in Pennsylvania and which
has regulated the mining and price of coal,
is about to ha dissolved. This action will
probably be followed by coal war, resulting
in lower prices. The prospect pleaSes the
miners, as dissolution of the combination
will give them plenty of work instead of short
spells, as heretofore, when mining was done
by quota.
The steamer Cotton Valley was sunk by
collision with the steamer Charles Morgan,
opposite Donaldsonville, La, before daylight
on Tuesday morning, and from Is to 20 live:
were lost. The sunken vessel was valued at
SIS, 1000, and had cago valued at $4,000
The boats going in opposite directions, were
rounding a point, and their officers saw the
danger two late to avert the catastrophe
Most of the lost were colored rousta bouts
The Rail,oay World estimates that during
the last eight years there has been an addition
of at least 100000 to the population of Texas
and that the assessed valuation of the proper
ty has been increased during the same period
$3.50, 100000. The frontier districts of Kan.
sas, which were famine stricken few years
ago, have increased the annual wheat croI
of that State 20,0OO,O00, and also made enor-
nous additions to the product of live stock
The severest snow storm ever experienced
in Southern Colorado and adjacent parts o
New Mexico set in on Thursday, the 28th O