The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-10
News of the Week.

ana are eroeheted OF very heavy light col
ored silk,
The total number of yellow fever cases at
New Orleans up to Saturday was 233, with GO
terminating fatally.
The Salem, n. ]. Standard was sold by the
Sheriff on Saturday, and purchased by Mr..
SinnicksonChew, of Camden, for SI4 900.
The Petersburg, Va, Under says that the
increase of insanity among the colored people
has been very marked during the past few
years.
New Haven, Conn.,, has a telephone com
pany which has put up over 400 telephones
and forty miles of wire during the last six
months.
The Cincinnati grocery firm of r. NJ. Bish-
op, the head OF which is the present Governor
OF the State, has suspended. The liabilities
amount to S360,000.
A bill has been introduced into the Paria-
ment of British Columbia imposing a tax of
sixty dollars FER annum for every Chinese
person IN the province.
Twenty thousand cabin passengers, accord
ing to an estimate Of the New York Herald,
have left that port for Europe this summer
the largest number during any single season.
James Whalen, n policeman, was fatally
stabbed by colored man named Wakefield,
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on Saturday night. Wakefield escaped.
Morris Mayer, fugitive from New Orleans,
who arrived in Nieksburg on the I'd inst has
been fined $3.50 and ordered out of the latter
city for violation of its quarantine regulations.
The L. S. MINIS during July coined . ,Os3,-
/ 100 pieces of the various denominations, hay-
ing an aggregate value of 50 ,G27, 9s3 The
coinage included ,S47, 900 standard dollars.
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their murderous doings and outrages worse
than death, are likely to lead to an uprising
Of the people that will sweep the ruifians from
the face of the earth.
An insane woman twenty-seven years old.
daughter of Thaddeus Frost, at Belmont,
Massachuseti, on Friday last poured kerosene
| over her head and clothes, and setting fire to
1t, was so terribly burned that death ensued.
The Mastin Bank of Kansas City, No., sus-
pended on Saturday, after a run of few
days. A receiver Unsupported for the bank.
Its liabilities are reported at 81 800, 200, and
Its assets at about the same figure, nominally.
The silly practice of lighting fires by the use
OF kerosene found another victim on Saturday
at Cohoes, New York, in Mrs. Rose Boudro,
/ who was literally roasted alive by the bursting
of q can while she was using it for that pur-
pose.
II. b. Conant, cashier of the Elliott Bank,
of Boston, has confessed the embezzlement
of $4,000, which he lost by specializing in
Bonanza stocks. He began to steal the
banks money about three months ago, to
pay his losses.
Homer Hill, a farmer of Batavia, n. Y,
was attacked in his barn by q robber, last
/ Saturday night, and robbed Of $500. His
skull was fractured, and he will probably not
recover. A man was arrested at Warsaw on
Sunday for the crime.
The Emperor of Brazil, according to Mr..
Hayden Edwards, of Ohio, late secretary of
legation at Brazil, reported the United States
to be sixteen to twenty years in advance of
Europe in general public civilization, roads,
civic improvements, DC.
The shipment of ice is giving the lower
/ kennebee river n very lively appearance
The Kennebec, Me-, Journal counted thirty
vessels loading with ice, or waiting between
Gardiner bridge and South Gardiner, dis
lance of about eight miles.
All the members of the Congress left their
| photographs ut Berlin, with their signatures
attached. These photographs are to form an
album, which will be deposited in the Ma
renkiriches Museum, where the table of Con.
gress will also be preserved.
| Ii turns out that W. Frank Turner, who
recently ran away from Middletown, n. Y,
to escape arrest for having two wives-one in
Kansas, with four children, and another in
Middletown, married within a year-has a
third living in Seneca Falls, N. Y.
A. NJ. Tullis, wealthy cattle raiser of
Grand Island, Sacramento county, CAL, was
murdered on Friday evening while at work in
his orchard. 1t is suspected that he has been
murdered because of his refusal to discharge
the Cinnamon employed by him as ranchmen
| On Saturday afternoon C. II. Stone, while
carrying package containing $40, 600, in
tended to pay the hands in Hales piano fac
tory IN New York, was garroted by two men,
who seized the money aud escaped in a
butchers cart which they had left a moment
before.
A number of cities and towns along the va
rious railroads In Texas have established a
rigid quarantine against the yellow fever.
/ The International and Great Northern Rail-
way Company refuses to carry passengers,
freight, express matter or mail matter from
/ New Orleans.
! Owing to the protracted drought, many of
/ the streams in Schuylkill county are nearly
dried up, and there is much difficulty in
working some of the mines. The Bear Ridge
Galleries, at Mahoney Plane, have been
stopped for want Of water, and 400 men and
boys are idle.
! The Governor of Illinois has been request
ed to send a company of militia to protect the
coal mines at Stanton, in MacOupin county,
which are threatened with destruction by
striking miners. He has ordered the Sheriff
TO the scene, with directions to call to his aid
such force as may be necessary.
The Pennsylvania Railroad shops in Altoo-
ma City are running full capacity. An order
has just been issued for the building of cars,
| freight and passenger, for the Pittsburg, Fort
! Wayne and Chicago and Pittsburg, Cincin-
matt and st. Louis railroads and other western
roads. Over $500 freight cars are being built
for the Fort Wayne and Pan Handle rail-
roads.
A farmers wife near Trenton, Iowa, after
/ giving dinner to two tramps, was outraged By
them and left ihsensible. To prevent the
cries of her infant child from attracting the
neighbors they had rolled it up tightly in a
/ blanket, and when extricated it was nearly
suffocated, and died soon afterwards. A sim
liar outrage occurred on Saturday near Bat
tleboro, VT, girl of fourteen being the
victim.
/ There was mailed in n small paper box at
/ Lewistown for Bethlehem, Penn. a live Young
rattlesnake, about one foot in length. When
the pouch reached the Harrisburg Office the
box had been broken open and when the mail
matter was dumped out upon the table the
snake wringgled out with it. IL was killed
and thrown away, and the fact reported to the
department at Washington.
a private letter received in Boston from a
member of Gilmore's Band, dated July IS,
says the Band is in Germany, where it has
been engaged for eighteen concerts; that the
salaries of the members have been regularly
paid, and that they have ''ilattering offers Of
engagements for managers in England for all
the concerts they can possibly give in the au-
tumn." The band is composed principally
ofGermans.
James Anderson, a milkman living ten
miles from DeadwoOd Dakota, started for
that town early on the ID inst, to serve his
customers. When two miles from his rancho
he was stopped by five masked robbers,
bound, gagged and robbed of $50 and the
horses attached to his wagon. The robbers
went on to the rancho, where they seized
three more horses and three saddles, and
then told the man ogo and liberate Anderson.
Near West Randolph, VT, on Saturday
morning, Michael Winn got up about four
o clock, partially dressed himself, and shot
his sleeping babe and wife. He attempted
to kill his eldest son, aged IL years, but the
boy escaped aud gave the alarm. The father
was pursued, and when almost Overtaken,
shot himself dead. His wife was believed to