The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-03-16
New. Of the Week.

Mayor Kane, of Baltimore, has gone South
for his health, and will remain for some time.
A Butler county oil we'll is said to emit
balls of fire, which explode with a tremendous
noise.
Negroes are ineligible to the Iowa Legisla-
ture, the most bigoted Republican State in
the Union.
1t will take three years to finish the revision
Of the Bible which is now being made by the
American and British Committee.
Cubaus living in New York have resolved
to send men and means to their compatriots,
who are still fighting for independence in
Cuba.
The State Geologist Of Georgia asserts that
its gold region is RICHER than that of Califor-
mia, and says that its yield must very soon
become enormous.
! Thurlow Weed, General Dix and Daniel
/ Drew, drew their pensions as soldiers of the
war Of 1912, last week, in New York. Each
/ of them received S24.
| Rev. John Baer, the oldest minister of the
| Baltimore Annual Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, died on Monday in
Baltimore, aged 81 years.
| Thirty sacks of newspapers and twenty
registered cases Of letters that left New York
on Saturday we're burned at Edgerton, tihio,
in the storage car on train.
A. \. Robinson, who was treasurer Of
/ Clermont county, Ohio, when its treasury at
Batavia was robbed several months ago, was
arrested Tuesday for the crime.
All the life-saving stations on our coasts are
being furnished with a set of international
code signal flags, 10 in number, togetherwith
detailed instructions for their use.
Eighty-seven emigrants, from Hagerstown,
Nd, and Chambersburg, Pa, started over
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, last week,
for Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska.
Augustus G.. Buell., a well-known journalist,
and Madeline Polk, daughter of the door
keeper of the q. S. House of Representa-
tives, were married on Monday in Washington.
Three hundred colonists for Kansas, from
the Cumberland Valley, left Harrisburg, Pa,
on Tuesday for the West. A party Of fifty
left Pottstown for Kansas the same evening.
Lieutenant James l.. Mast, of Company NJ,
Second U. s. Artillery, left his post, at Fort
McHenry, Baltimore, on Wednesday evening
week, without leave, and has not been heard
of since.
The levee below New Orleans was damaged
by the storm in that section on Saturday and
two crevasses are reported on the right bank,
one eighteen miles and the otaer thirty five
miles below tne city.
The English steamer Remus, which has
been at New Haven, Conn.,, for some weeks
taking in a cargo of cartridges and cartridge
machinery for the Turkish government, sailed
Sunday night for Constantinople.
An engine and seven cars of freight train
fell through bridge between st. Charles and
Saginaw, Mich, Monday morning. The fire.
man was killed and the engineer badly iniur-
ed. A ''wash OUT caused the disaster.
A large whale was seen in Chesapeake bay,
off Fort Monroe, Monday 18th inst, by Capt.
Edward Bradshaw, of the schooner Sea Gull.
The head and some thirty-five or forty feet of
the body we're visible. The whale headed
towards Hampton Roads when last seen.
The press, single and double wheel mills of
the American Powder Company at South
Acton, Mass, blew up Tuesday morning,
killing two of the employees. The explosions
were heard q distance of twenty-five miles.
The loss of property is stated at 100000.
1t is reported that at meeting of Cuban
refugees in Key West, on Monday, "a solemn
protest was made against all negotiations
with the Spanish Government not based on
the independence of Cuba 1t is also re-
ported that two hundred men, fully armed
and equipped, were to have left Kew West
to join the insurgents.
Robert McAdams and Charles Patton,
each aged about II years, quarrelled at Phil
adelphia, Monday, about dividing a stick of
candy, and Patton drew pistol and shot Nc
Adams through the head, killing him almost
instantly. The young desperate fled, and
has not been captured.
An engine drawing a number of coal cars
ran into another coal train at Marion Station,
on the Reading Railroad, Tuesday morning
John A. Cummiskey, fireman, was killed;
James Cummiskey, engineer, severely injur-
ed, and John Humans, terribly scalded.
Thirty coal cars were wrecked.
A terrible explosion of gas generator
took place in the village of Harrison, Ohio,
in which the new town hall was destroyed and
number of persons killed and wounded.
| The exact cause of the accident cannot be
ascertained, because the explosion obitera-
/ ted the apparatus and silenced the witnesses
in death.
The heaviest storm ever experienced in
| West Virginia passed over jefferson county,
Monday night. A number of houses were
unroofed. Hailstones larger than eggs fell
for an hour, breaking glass and killing cattle,
hogs and sheep. The heavy rain which fol
lowed washed out the growing wheat, inflict-
ing heavy loss. Damages estimated at from
/ $4,000 to 100000.
The famous sea lions of Seal Rock, near
San Francisco, have been presented to the
Legislature as q nuisance demanding abate-
ment The Fish Commissioners declare that
unless salmon be protected there will not be
one in the Sacramento river ten years hence.
The seals devour 100000 fish every year,
and are themselves protected by law which
makes it penal TO kill them.
The steamboat Shannon, with 900 bales OF
cotton, was sunk Sunday morning at three
O'Clock by running into the monitor Canoni-
Gus, anchored in the river at New Orleans.
The loss is estimated at 100000. 1t is
thought no one was drowned. The Shannon
is the second steamer sunk by collision with
the Canonicus, and her owners allege that the
light displayed by the monitor is insufficient.
James A. Brown, O farmer of Pitts6eld
ILL.,, was robbed several days ago by two
highwaymen, one of whom was lodged in Jail
On Monday morning, while Mr.. Brown was
attending to his farm work, he was shot dead
by an unknown assassin, supposed to be the
prisoners accompliee. The people of the
neighborhood threaten to lynch the prisoner
and the Governor has called out troops to
guard the jail.
The delegates of the FIVE Indian nations o.
the Indian Territory, who are now in Wash
ington, have sent to Congress protest agains
the transfer of the Indian Bureau 10 the War
Department. They say the consequence of
transfer of Indian affairs to military manage
ment Twill be wholesale breaking up of ths
work of civilizing and Christianizing, as now
organized and prosecuted among the Indians
by the Churches of the country
A terrific earthquake shock was felt at Co
) lumbus, KY, at o'clock Monday morning
creating great CONSERVATION. Bedsteads weri
rolled across the room, people were tumbleC
out of bed and bureaus thrown down anC
: broken. A portion of the Mississippi rive
bank caved in near the town, leaving on,
house hanging over the bluff The move
ment caused the bells on locomotives to ring
The shock lasted only few seconds.
The crew of the British bark Gypsy, from
Baltimore for am irish port mutinied in tn
: Chesapeake, on Friday morning, alleging tina
. the vessel was unseaworthy. The Captain
Paine, put into Annapolis Roads, and b,
assistance from the Naval Academy, the crew
including the second mate and coxswain
were placed in irons. The captain said tn,
vessel was seaworthy, but the men, havinl
received advance pay, wanted to get back L
! Baltimore. He will ship an additional crew
i and carry the mutineers IN irons TO Ireland
! The most yiolent snow storm yet known a
, Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, began at
: cock Thursday night of last week, and con
tinued until Saturday noon. The wind bley
al the rate of fifty to sixty four miles an hour
2 and drifted the snow into banks ten to fifteei