The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-29
News of the Week.

Colonel EOfSytues OL 0Guerdi SucFluau .
staff, says there is no cause for the Indian
alarm in Wisconsin.
The President will attend the Wyoming
Centennial Celebration, near Wilkesbarre, on
the Sd and 4th of July.
John D. Patton, of Georgetown, d. c., a
clerk in the Patent Office, II years of age,
dropped dead in church Sunday morning.
Ex-senator Revels, now pastor of the At
rican Methodist Episcopal Church at Rich.
mond, Ind, has had a stroke of paralysis.
Gov. Hartranft has appointed Mr. Christian
X. Ross, father of Charlie Ross, Master War
den of the port of Philadelphia; salary 50, 500
The First National Bank of st. Joseph,
manner on Friday. 1t has surplus of $780,
600.
Four hundred bushels of peas were shipped
in one week to Baltimore by Mr.. Solomon
from his farm, near Solomon Island, Calvert
county.
The discovery of rich gold field in Bear
Paw Mountain, Montana, is reported, and
there is great excitement at Fort Benton in
consequence.
Thomas Fleming, young inmate of St.
Mary's Industrial School, near Baltimore,
was g0red to death by bull on Saturday
afternoon.
The Hagerstown steam Touring mill prop
erty, was sold on the 25th inst, at public sale
for S13, 400, to Robert Willett, of Washing
ton, D. c.
A large porcupine was killed near Port Jer-
Wis, N. Y, last week. A dog which attacked
it, was so badly wounded by its quilts that it
had to be killed.
E. Fl. Hayward has been sentenced to two
years. hard labor and to pay fine of 500 at
Boston for circulating obscene literature
through the mails.
Nine of the gang of counterfeiters, having
their headquarters near Baxter's Springs,
Kansas, have been arrested, and officers are
hunting the others.
The Susquehanna camp meeting. under the
auspices of the Household of Faith of Cecil
county, Md, in MAYORS woods, near Perry
vile, commences July 25th, and will last over
two Sundays.
The Secretary of State has notified J. Mer-
edith Read, United States Charge d Affairs in
Greece, that Congress having made no pro-
vision for his Office for the next fiscal year, it
is therefore abolished.
S. Angler Chase, the embezzling Treasurer
of the Fall River Mills, on trial at New Bed
ford, Mass, pleaded guilty in court Monday.
He was sentenced to II years Imprisonment
IN the State Penltenuary.
Mr.. Merrick, of Island Greek Neck, Talbot
county, Nd, commenced harvesting his wheat
crop on the 9th of June, on the 18th he COM
menced threshing, and on the 18th he had
some of his wheat ground into flour.
An eclipse of the sun will occur on Mon
day, July both. 1t Will be total in the United
States, the shadow belt being about one hun
dred and thirty miles wide. 1t will be visible
from four to six o'clock in the afternoon.
Earl Russell's funeral was of the simplest
possible character. Theprocession consisted
of hearse, one mourning coach and two pri-
vate carriages. The chief mourner was the
new Earl, the little grandson of the old noble
and son of the late Viscount Amberley.
Last week John Nichodemus of Boonsbo-
ro', Md, purchased at private sale the farm
of i'll acres, located about mile and a-halt
will, il is understood, deed it to the county as
site for the almshouse, which will be remov-
ed there.
J. Fl. Downs and Margaret King have been
arrested at Sayville, l.. l., for setting fire to
the building of Andrew B. Lane, in Monroe,
in September last. They confessed their
guilt, Downs stating that Lane paid SAT for
the firing of the building. Lane has also
been arrested and held in $1,000 bail.
Russia is about to wheel into the line Of
other Christian nations by adopting the Gre
gorian Calendar. It is nearly three centuries
since the Gregorian or new style was substi-
tuted for the Julian by Pope Gregory XIII,
and for more than century it has been in
use in all Christian countries save Russia.
General Mackenzie and Colonel Shafter
have returned to Eagle Pass from Mexico.
| They have made no captures during the ex-
petition, but were met by a Mexican force
under Valdez, and at one time fight was
threatened, but the Mexicans withdrew. They
kept in sight of the Americans, however, I'M
til the latter crossed the river.
Unparalleled rain storms are reported to
have occurred in Southwestern Kansas last
week. 1t is stated that the rainfall at Win
field on Wednesday afternoon was estimated
at Twenty-Five inches. The country was food
ed, bridges and fences were swept away and
cattle, hogs and poultry drowned. A man
and several children living on Beaver creek
| lost their lives.
Henry A. Parr was arrested Tuesday al
Boston by United States officers on warrant
for murder committed on board the steamer
Chesapeake while on her passage from New
! York to Portland in December, 1868. Parr
was one of seventeen passengers who took
possession of the vessel in the name of the
| Confederate States, shooting the second en-
gineer and throwing him overheard.
F. w. Bennett & Co., auctioneers, Balti
more, last week sold Is volumes of the Balti
more Sun, from 1864 to 1869, inclusive, al
SIS per volume, the Congressional Library,
at Washington, being the purchaser. At the
same sale five volumes of the Baltimore
american, from 1924 to 1926, inclusive,
brought $3.50 apiece; two of the Baltimore
Wing from 1809-10, and eight of the New
York Herald for 1862, a, sand g, bringing
the same price per volume
Four large boilers in the puddle mill of the
Chesapeake Rail Works at Harrisburg ex
ploded before daylight Tuesday morning,
killing the fireman and badly scalding foul
of the workmen. The mill was completely
demolished; one boiler was blown to pieces
another was thrown over an adjoining mil
IS feet high, and landed in field $50 teet
away. The third and fourth boilers were
blown through the roof into brick warehouses
adjoining, damaging both materially.
The story posted at all the communistic
Headquarters, New York, on Tuesday, that 6
great mass meeting of workingmen, one hun
bred thousand strong, was to take place
| shortly in Washington, turned out to be al
moonshine, or sheer fabrication. A promi
nent workingman said, who was interviewed
on the subject, it would cost something tc
carry 1000 men to Washington from all the
principal cities in the Union, and the CUES
ton was where was the money to come from
The funeral of ex-Mayor Kane, of Balti.
more, took place in that city Tuesday, and
was attended by the City Council, Corpora
ton officers, Hibernian Society, two hundred
of the Police, the Fire Department, and the
Fifth Regiment. The services were held IN
the Church of St. Ignatius, where Solemn
Requiem Mass was sung, and Rev. W. j.
Clarke, S. j., preached sermon. Arch
bishop Gibbons gave the absolution.. The
interment took place in Bonnie Brae Gene
ktery.
Owensville, Ind, has recently been the