The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-09-28
News of the Week.

/ A company for the manufacture of glass
collins Is being organized in Wooster, Ohio.
Among the convicts of Auburn prison n.
I =, are torty-two lawyers, twenty-seven cler-
gymen and thirteen physicians.
Twelve soft shelled turtles, captured in one
ofthe streams in Ohio, were placed in the
Codorus, at York, Pa, recently.
Sixty compositors were dismissed from the
Government Printing Office at Washington,
on Thursday Of last week, for want of work.
Miss Victoria Freyre, daughter of the late
/ Colonel Freyre, Peruvian Minister to this
country, died in Washington last Friday night,
of consumption.
! Mr.. John Merryman, Of Hayfields Balti-
more county, will sail for Europe with his
daughters about the LIST Of November and be
absent several months.
The opposition to the Metropolitan Elevated
I Railway New York is practically extinguish-
ed by the refusal of the Grand Jury to find
an Indictment against it.
| The corn canning factory of the Portland
Packing Company, at Casco, Maine, was
burned on Friday night by the breaking OF a
coal oil lamp. Loss, $4,000.
| Our State Department is advised that Ash
attic cholera has appeared in the cities of
Mequinez and Fee, Morocco, and causes 30 to
30 deaths daily in the former place.
A section of Robinson's Circus train was
thrown into ditch near Mount Carmel, Ohio,
on Sunday, and five cars we're demolished
-Four employees were seriously injured.
The barn of the late Thomas Moore, at
Darby, Pa was burned Saturday night. Loss,
$1,000. Mrs. Moore, aged ninety years, died
from excitement occasioned by the fire.
A boy named Kuhn was shot and fatally
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he was stealing at Altoona, Pa, on Sunday
afternoon. Rodgers has been lodged in Jail.
The books Of the Post-off Department
show that the money-order business during
the year ending June 80 amounted to $751;
O0O,0 900, an increase of 50, 900, 900 since 1876.
Adolph Hoffman, of New York, co nvicted
of marrying nine wives within a short period
of each other, has pleaded guilty, and on
Monday was sentenced. His victims were
nearly all in Court
A young lady, named Nelson, on visit
from North Carolina, was shot dea by the
accidental discharge of gun in the hands of
q young man named Deale, near Boyker's
Depot, Va, on Saturday morning.
In the U. S. District Court at Baltimore,
Monday, Captain Edward S. Hudgins, of the
schooner Maggie, was indi cted for the murder
of his mate, W. II. Weaver, during voyage
from Baltimore to Rio, in June last
Sherman City, a small village of Isabella
county, Mich, was completely destroyed by
a tornado on Thursday, the 18th inst. The
people took shelter in their cellars, and only
three ofthem were severely injured.
Robert c. Winthrop gave banquet Sat.
urday evening, at Boston, to Dean Stanley.
Governor Rice and other distinguished citi.
zens were present. Trinity Church was filed
to OVERLOOKING Sunday 10 hear Mr.. Stanley
preach.
A Canada COW lately died in spite of two
doctors; and post mortem revealed darning
needle in her heart. In the stomach of a
Canada horse were found y shingle nails and
ib. of gravel stones, the nails being worn
very smooth.
The State Department has not yet received
the third installment from Mexico on account
of claims adjudicated in favor of American
citizens by the late United States and Mex
lean Commission. BY the treaty, $500, 900
is required to be paid yearly until the whole
amount awarded shall be paid.
The Somerset Herald says The engineer
ing corps, engaged on the proposed route for
ship canal across the peninsula, are busy
at work between Seaford and East New Mar.
ket. They will complete the survey in about
two weeks and then go further north, where
they will run the line of the St. Michaels
route.
Frederick Markoe, Of Philadelphia elected
something like lizard but without legs from
his stomach the other day which he swallow
ed fifteen years ago while with Mcclellan on
the Peninsula. The reptile had given him
much trouble and during the last few years
he has been treated for various imaginary
maladies.
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only day or two old, the woman's skull be-
ing crushedin, were found Tuesday on the farm
of Marshall Palmer, near Indianapolis The
bodies had been dead at least two weeks, and
heavy log, too much for one person to move,
lay across them. There is no present clue to
the murderers.
The Credit Mobilier cases, the Government
suit against the Pacific Railroad for the re-
eovery of five per cent. per annum of the net
earnings under the original law, and the Utah
cases, involving the validity of Congressional
legislation regarding polygamy in Utah, will
come before the next session of the U. S. Su-
preme Court for argument
At Boston, on Monday, U. S. Commission
er Hallett ordered the discharge of Henry A.
Parr, engaged with others in the capture of
the steamer Chesapeake in the name of the
Confederate Government during the late war
that PARIS case was covered by the General
Amnesty Proclamation of December %, 1868.
The New York Sun of the 18th inst, states
that there was well-attended meeting, both
of laymen and ministers of all Protestant
denominations, in the chapel Of the Church
of the Boly Trinity, to make preparations for
the great conference to be opened in New
York during October to discuss the question
of the second coming of Christ The Rev.
DR.. Stephen H. Tying, Jr., presided.
The Spanish-American Commission for
the settlement of of claims of citizens of the
United States growing out of the instruction
in Cuba have allowed claims to the amount
of more than 81 600, 600, which have been
promptly paid by Spain. Claims aggregat-
! ing at least 81 100000 more await the action
of the umpire, Barron Blanc, the Italian
Minister, who is expected to return from
Europe in November
In Washington, on the 10Th inst, Cohen.
the labor agitator, collected several hundred
men, mostly colored, and many of them
armed with heavy clubs, and visited the brick
/ yards to induce the men to strike, but without
success. In the evening he addressed a
meeting at the City Hall, but the attendance
was very slim. Additional arms were issued
/ to the Washington police and two companies
of artillery were brought from Fort McHenry
| to maintain the peace.
Paul Jones, prominent lawyer of Terre-
| Haute, Ind, was attacked in the centre of
| the city by several robbers at two o'clock on
| Tuesday morning. He was thrown down.
and one of the rutfians placed pistol to his
head and warned him to keep still. Jones
struck the pistol aside, and in doing so it was
/ discharged and the ball passed through his
/ right lung, causing a dangerous wound The
men then took $500 from him and fed.
| The body snatching excitement in Cleve-
land, Ohio, was increased on Saturday by the
! discovery in the vat of the Homeopathic Col.
/ lege of another body, the remains of an old
lady of Garrettsvile, Ohio, who died nearly
a month ago. The college authorities, hear
/ ing of the intended search for the body, had
1t taken to an undertaker's, properly dress
ed and cotfined, and delivered to her friends
The chief members of the Faculty were arrest
/ ed but released on bail
! Colonel Miles reports to General Sherida
that Sitting Bull has sent six Sioux envoys
to Fort keogh, Montana, to ascertain upon
what terms his people would be permitted to
surrender to the United States military au-
thorilies, the Sioux who have taken refuge in
| Canada being anxious to return to the United
! States General Sheridaa reDlies tn ColonaI