The Democratic advocate., 1878-07-20
News of the Week.

Three iron-clads built in England for Japan
have arrived at their destinations.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore receives about
$4,000 year as the proceeds Of her lectures
The value Of the whortleberry crop Of Wi
comieo county, Md. this year, Is estimated at
S25. 900.
A single firm of Sheffield, England, has
this year ordered $4,000 dozen of American
hay rakes.
The Cambridge, Nd, Chronicle says the
wheat crop in Dorchester will bring the
farmers in debt.
The influx of visitors to Ocean City, Nd,
is on the increase and every train adds TO the
number of guests.
The bud worm is said to have been very
destructive to corn in some sections Of Caro-
line county, Nd.
Thomas G. A. Sphinx, farmer Of Quidnes-
set, Il. l., fell from load OF hay Monday
afternoon and broke his neck.
The net profits Of the strawberry growers
in the Maryland counties on the Eastern
Shore are estimated at S342, GOO.
G. w. Morse, ex- Collector of the town of
Newport, Vt, is reported to be "deiaulter
for $1,000. He has gone to Canada.
Henry Wise, young man, was hanged at
of Mercer Brown, rival in a love affair.
The Centreyille, Nd. Record says that ". S.
Bishop has sold his crop of peaches at 5 per
basket to be delivered at railroad station.
Judge Wickes has gone to the West Vir-
ginia mountains for the recuperation of his
health, which has been feeble for some time.
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has
gone to Colorado to observe the total eclipse
Of the sun, which occurs on the 2Sth of this
month.
Richard H. Smith, of Middletown, Del,
has sold the fruit in his orchard on the East
ern Shore TO II. r. Willetts, of Middletown,
for $500.
Over fifty employees of the Patent Office
were discharged Monday, owing TO the re-
duction in appropriations. Most of the dis
charged are women.
The Delaware Democratic State conven-
tion will meet at Dover on the 9th of August,
for the nomination of candidates for Governor
and Congress.
II is stated that the amount embezzled By
John w. Bowker, the missing cashier of the
freight department of the Eastern Railroad,
in Boston, viii reach $4,000.
William Riley, one of the street car robbers
in Troy, n. Y, on the Ist inst, was arrested
in Toronto Monday. All these robbers are
now in custody.
A wel-known peach grower estimates that
| the peach crop on the whole peninsula will
not yield over one million baskets, or three
million baskets less than last year.
William Springs, deputy L. S. Marshal
was convicted at Greenville, S. c., Tuesday,
of grand larceny, and sentenced TO three
years imprisonment at hard labor in the pen
itentiary.
There has been eight cases of yellow fever
at the New York quarantine, landed from
rious vessels. One of them, fireman from
the steamer Niagara, from Havana, has prov
ed fatal.
jeremiah Kennedy shot his wife dead, and
then shot himself, in Chicago, about 2 O. clock
Monday morning. Domestic diseord, power
ty, and an unbalanced mind caused the trag-
edy.
j. Milton Turner, eolored Minister to Lii
IBERIA, who is now in St. Louis, has announc-
ed himself as candidate before the Republi-
can Convention of the Third Congressional
District of that city.
/ DIR. w. 7. Carver, OF San Francisco, ac-
complished the wonderful feat of breaking
with a rifle $500 glass balls thrown from the
hand at a distance of from ten to twenty feet
in eight hours nine aud half minutes.
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes crop
!
diana and Kentucky, showing not only a
/ greater acreage but larger average product
1 per acre than in any former year.
I At Pawtucket, r. l., Monday, John Beane
\ lighted fuse to explode six trains of powder
in pit 46 feet deep. He then started up the
/ ladder but a round broke and he fell to the
bottom, and was fatally injured by the explo-
/ sion.
4 A farm sixty miles long and ten wide in
one tract, mostly fenced, is that of Miller &
Lux, cattle monopolists of California. They
have $4,000 head of stock, own 700, 900 acres
of choice land, and are rated as worth $l5,-
/ 000,0 900.
/ The commanding officer on the Asatic sta
ton states to the Navy Department that after
a thorough investigation he is unable to find
/ that the report that American ships have been
engaged in the coolie trade has any good
/ foundation.
William jackson was found dead in Salem,
Me-, on the 18th of June, and il is supposed
that he died from the kick of horse. Some
doubling this, the body was exhumed, and
the result of an inquest, jast concluded, shows
that he was murdered.
Capt Isaac Bassett, Doorkeeper of the U.
S. Senate, is seriously Ill in Washington.
He has been an employe of the Senate for
forty-six years, his first position being that of
page, to which he was appointed in 1892,
through the influence of Daniel Webster.
At Trenton, n. j., Monday, Chancellor
Rnnyon appointed Charles Colwell receiver
of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Narrow
Gauge Railroad Company. The application
for n receiver was made by BENJAMIN William
son, on behalf of one of the creditors of the
road.
New Jersey takes the lead in the States in
the manufacture of window glass. Ii has "a
factories, Pennsylvania has so; New York,
/ II; Massachusetts, Illinois, and Maryland,
each s.; West Virginia and Missouri, each 9;
Indiana, 3; and Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Iowa, apiece.
The Middletown Dime Savings Bank, at
Middletown, Conn, has been forbidden by
the State Bank Commissioners to make pay
ments until the accounts can be scaled. The
capital Is supposed to be impaired by shrink
age of real estate, between 80 and 40 per
cent. The deposits amount toabout SO, 900.
William Lawshe, aged 81, and Samuel Ven
able, aged Is, quarreled in game of base
ball, at Atlanta, Ga, on Monday Lawshe
threw Venable to the ground, when Carl
Mitchell, aged Is, q friend of Venable, went
up and struck Lawshe in the head with a bat,
injuring him so badly that thedied on Tuesday.
About fifty delegates of both sexes sailed
iEOm new 1 Ofh On SATURDAY on bOaru the
steamer Ethiopia to attend the Worlds Con-
ference Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, which is to assemble at Geneva on
the 10Th of August. They expect to travel
through England, France and Scotland before
going to Geneva.
The failures in the United States for the
first six months of the present year were 1925,
as against 4749 in 1877, an increase of over
1000 in number, equal to nearly 25 per cent
The liabilities for the first half of 1878 were
S1SO,000,O 900, as against S99, 9,000,O00 for the
same period of last year, percentage of in
crease still greater.
In this State, last week, post offices were
established at Bennedick, Charles county;
Bonds Wharf, Drum Cliff, Fishing Point,
Sand Gates, and Wheatland, in st. Marys
county; Fair Haven, Anne Arundel county;
Cherry Lane, Sheridan's Point, Governor
Run, Island Creek, Mackall and Plum Point,
in Calvert county.
Proceedings have been commenced in New
York against the trustees Of the Teutonic Saw
ings Bank on the charge of converting to their
own use nearly thirty thousand dollars be-
longing to the bank. The former secretary
of the bank confesses that certain securities
purchased below par were charged to the
bank at par and the difference was divided