The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-01
News of the Week.

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hibit of our business.
The Annual June examinations at West
Point Will commence to-day. This year.
graduating class numbers As.
Mr.. Jesse b. Fitzgerald, of Pocomoke CITY
Nd, will be 100 years old on his next birth
day. lie was a soldier in the war of 1872.
During the month of March, hotels wer,
burnt at the rate of two a day in the Unite,
States and Canada Sixty-fve in all wer,
destroyed.
Benjamin Pierce shot and dangerously
wounded his in-law, Huston, in a drunk
en- quarrel. at South Sandford, Me-, on Sun
da evening.
The trial of Alexander B. Joyce for killing
his wife in the Church of the Ascension, al
Philadelphia in December last, was eommenc
ed on Monday.
Two Italians quarrelled at I.attimer, nea
Hazelton, Pa, on Saturday, aud one of them
was stabbed to death by the other. The muir
derer was killed.
forest lire has been raging near Ware
ham, Mass, since Thursday of last week, anC
nearly five thousand acres of woodland have
been burned over.
One hundred thousand young shad were
placed IN the NaBticoke river at fredericksburg
last week, and another 100, 600 will be put in
Miles river at an early day.
George r. Waterman, the defauIting pay
master of the Pacific mills, at Lawrence,
Mass, who stole Sill, 900, has been sentene-
ed 10 Il years IN the state prison.
The Calcutta correspondent of the London
Times states that virnlent cholera has appear
ed at Moran, causing the death of thirty Eu-
ropeans out OF forty-one attacked.
A brakeman on the Lake Shore Railroad
was shot dead by boy named Gibbs, Il years
OF age, at Jefferson, Ohio, on Saturday. The
homicide was in consequence of quarrel.
The trial of Supervisor Egan at Troy, n.
I. for maltesance in Office, forauditing fraud1-
lent bills, terminated on Monday in plea of
guilty. The prisoner was remanded for SEN
tence.
The mill operatives at Lawrence. Mass.
went to work Monday as usual under the new
reduction of their wages, and all the mills
are in operation. The reduction is thesecond
IN four years.
Scarlet fever has killed %, 500 people in
Massachusetts during the last twenty wears.
according to paper which DIR. A. II. John
son, of Salem, contributes to the report of the
State Board Of Health.
A car loaded with barrels of kerosene ran
OF the track of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, near Cumberland, Nd, on Sunday, and
caught FIRE, destroying four other cars and a
hundred feet of the track.
The suit of Wallace P. Groom against Pc.
ter cooper for libel, which occupied the at
tenuon OF the Supreme court, Kings county,
New ork, for three days last week, resulted
IN disagreement of the jury.
Whittier, the embezzling treasurer of Me-
thuen, Mass, pleaded guilty, Monday, and
was released on $4,000 bail He promises
to pay the losses of the town, and it IS believ-
ed the case against him is ended.
The stoppage of thirteen of the mills in Fall
River, Mass, makes nearly II, 900 out of go
600 looms idle, andthrows 1000 operatives out
OF employment 1t is believed most of the
remaining mills in Fall River will shut down
Mr. Robert Barry, a former well-known
and respected Baltimore dry goods merchant,
died on Tuesday, at York, Pa, where he had
resided long time, aged Lightweight. Mr..
Barry came to Baltimore from Alexandria.
Va.
Lieutenant Butler, a son Of B. f. Butler,
was attacked near FL Paso, Texas, last Fri
day, by two masked men. The driver and
escort were badly wounded, but Butler was
unframed. Colonel Wade has captured the
men who attacked Butler.
Something closely resembling the aphis, or
green fly, has made its appearance in some of
the wheat fields in Talbot county, Nd, al
most running them. II attacks the heads of
wheat, cuts of the grain where it joins the
stalk, causing it to drop of.
While seven men we're preparing to have n
''hsh fry on an island at SmithGeld. R. l.,
Sunday afternoon, a thunderstorm came on
and they took shelter under a tree. Light.
ming struck the tree, killing two of the men,
seriously injuring two others, and stunning
the remainder.
Wheat harvesting IS now in progress in all
the southeastern counties Of Missouri, which
IS an extraordinary spectacle for that section
IN May, where grain cutting generally begins
about the 10th of June. The harvest in south
ern Illinois will commence this week.
William Day, chore boy in the family of
Mr.. Hamilton, at Tayloryille, ILL.,, murdered
Mrs; Hamilton last Thursday by splitting her
head with an axe while she was sleeping on a
sofa The boy said he did it in revenge for a
correction administered by her the day before.
The Salisbury, Mass, mills property. con.
sisting OF nine mills, warehouses, gas works.
$50 tenements, mill privileges, lands. dive
houses, &c, was sold on Wednesday to John
Gardener, of Boston, for Sl6O, 600. This
was one of the greatest properties in extent
ever sold at auction.
Frederick Clark, book-keeper of Vernon
Brothers and Co., paper manufacturers. at
Northampton, Mass, has confessed that he
has been stealing money from the firm for
eight or nine years past, and falsifying the
pay rolls. He was Appointment church mem.
Der. His theft is supposed to aggregate ten
thousand dollars.
Lieut. K. L. Hoxie, United States Army.
and Miss Winnie Ream, the sculptor. were
married in the Church of the Ascension. in
Washington, on Tuesday evening. Bishop
Pinkney officiating. General Sherman gave
away the bride. A marriage hymn composed
Tor the occasion by General Albert Pike, was
sung by the choir
James c. Taylor, a well-to-do farmer and
prominent member of the Methodist EMS
,opal Church of Clarksburg, w. Va. has
been arrested for outraging his daughter. a
beautiful girl of IL, the girl and his wife both
estitying against him. He was arrested and
S now IN Jail under a heavy guard, as the
people threaten to lynch him.
The schooner Eothen. IO2 tons burthen.
contributed by Messrs. Morrison & Brown, Of
New York, will sail from that city about the
9th OF June on n voyage to the arctic regions
n search Of relics of Sir John Franklin.
he vessel will be commanded by CAPTAIN
thomas +. Barry, and the search party hv
lieutenant Frederick Sehwalka, of the Third
J. S. Cavalry.
Mrs. Mary A Booth, widow of the late Ju-
nus Brutus Booth, has sold her farm in Ma.
yland, containing l4S acres. for $500.
his Is the place where Edwin Booth was
lorn. Junius Brutus Booth, being an Eng. /
shman and never having been naturalized. (
ould not hold real estate in fee simple, and /
Consequently leased the farm for 1000 years /
rom Richard NJ. Hall ut a yearly rate Of one 1
ent.
The annual report Of the Board of Health f.
I the District of Columbia shows the rate of 4
Mortality among the whites to be 1927 per
ent. and among the colored population a. so.
seems that this alarming diserepanes is
ot wholly explained by the unsanitary modes
{ living of the eolored people. OF il9 still
irths investigated by the medical sanitary
lspector, l07 were colored, a. of the latter
eing illegitimate issues.
At Arlington, H., on Saturday evening.
amuel Carney, young man, who had been
eiused permission to visit a Miss Culenbine,
ent TO her room and murdered her by cut.
er throat with a razor and then shooting her.
oing down stairs he met the father and
loiher, aud shot the father in the hip and
ut the mother with a butcher knife. He
len rushed into the yard and committed sui.
de by cutting his throat. The old eouple
re not fatally injured.