The Democratic advocate., 1878-07-13
News of the Week.

The only medical college for negroes is in
Nashville. 1t has an ample endowment.
George S. Appleton, of the New York pub
fishing firm of ID. Appleton & Co., died Mon
day.
Twelve camp meetings are annouced on
the Eastern Shore of Maryland audin Della
ware.
The United States pays annually 10 other
countries Sl00,O0O,0OO for sugar and mo-
lasses.
General James Watson Webb is gradually
sinking, and his death, his physicians say,
can only be question of few hours.
The house of Governor Van Zandt. of
Rhode Island, at Newport, was robbed on
Saturday evening of a watch and jewelry val
ued at S300O
In West Finley township Pa. there are six
brothers named Sprowls, whose farms adioin.
Among them they can boast of So children
and 4S grand children.
The first Maryland peaches were received
IN Baltimore on Monday, aud sold from 81. rs
to s2.75 per box. The lot contained 325
boxes and were from Kent county.
Martin Claire was robbed and murdered at
Gatineau Point, Ont, on Sunday. He had
received a large sum of money the day before
At Newark, n. j., on Saturday, Noyes the
convicted ex-insurance President, was SEN
fenced to is months imprisonment in the
penitentiary and the payment of costs.
The Landgrave of Hesse made a pretty
good thing by letting his troops hire during
our Revolutionary War; 81, ,355, 600 was paid
being at the rate of $50 head for each man
killed.
VIM. Sutelif, winner in a recent "a mile
swimming match, was drowned in the Mis-
sissippi river, at New Orleans, Sunday. He
jumped for boat to catch the swell ofa tow.
ventured too near, was struck by barge,
and after rising once sank to the bottom.
Professor Lewis Swift, of Rochester, n. Y.
discovered n comet in the constellation Her
cuies at two O'Clock Tuesday morning. 1t is
IN right ascension about IL hours 40 minutes,
deelination north Is degrees. The celestial
visitor is large, but faint, and moves very
slowly in the southwest
Harlow f. Coy, real estate dealer of Chi.
cago, was arrested on Saturday on the charge
of swindling d. b. Gray, of Boston, out of
six or seven thousand dollars By forgeries, in
the shape of notes and deeds Coy. having
waivedan examination, was heldin $1,000 bail
The arrest caused sensation, Coy being a
deacon in Chicago avenue church.
George Fessler, the abseonding Stark coun-
ty treasurer, arrived in Canton, Ohio, from
Canada, on Friday, and is in jail He brought
$4,000 with him, the balance of his stealings
being $4,000. He prefers to stand trial in
Canton rather than 90 to prison in Canada
for carrying stolen goods, because his money
packages retained the Stark county seal.
James Gilmore, an employee of the United
States Express Company is missing from Gin
With cnu,a n0n IN -, Il
ages. The robbery was committed on the 4th.
and the plumber consisted of packages for
local delivery that were contained in a tin
box in the company's safe, of which Gilmore
was the custodian.
1t has been reported to Governor Gear, of
Iowa, that tramps are infesting Marshalltown
and other places in that state, and have in
some cases stakenpossession of railroad trains
The Governor has therefore issued procla-
nation calling upon Sheriffs and Mayors TO
be dilligent in preserving the peace, and di-
recting attention to the statute authorizing
them to call out the militia or other citizens
when necessary.
The land sales to migrants 10 the State of
Kansas from January to May amounted to
81, ,OO0, ,0O0-nearly ten times as much as the
sales for the corresponding time in 1877. 1t
IS estimated by Kansas journals that the new
bhHeEs VI ibuuS nave uEOuEul INTO lue state
fully S25, 900, 900 in addition to the amount
paid for lansd. And yet there are thousands
of acres of land in Maryland and the Virgin
las which, location and price conidsered, pre-
sent far greater advantages to emigrants seek
ing homes.
James Silvis, aged about % years, was shot
while attempting to break into b. & J. Say
ler's grocery store in Reading, Pa Saturday
night. The shooting was done by a man
named Yoder, who lived in a building adjoin-
ing the store, but the wounds are not fatal
Silvis, who is connected with some of the best
families of Reading, confessed that hehad been
robbing Sayler's store of money and goods
during the past nine months His confession
was corroborated by the finding of about
half ton of stolen goods in the house.
In the United States Court at indianapolis
on Saturday, Thomas A. Scott and II. B.
Hurlburt, trustees of the third mortgage bonds
of the indianapolis and st. Louis Railroad
filed an application for foreclosure of the
mortgage, and the appointment of receivers.
They suggested H. B. Hurlburt, the present
president, and W. c. Quincy, of Newark,
Ohio, as the receivers, and stated that dim
mutton of business on the road had caused n
floating debt of 5000, 900, and the July inter
est on the bonds could not be met. Judge
Gresham refused to appoint two receivers
and the parties being unable TO agree upon
one, the matter was laid over.