The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-15
News Of the Week.

SouuAt PURPOSES IS ~ cents III the Slo0.
Ruth Ann Price, colored woman lO7
years of age, died in Baltimore on Monday.
Bozman is the name of q new post Office es-
tablished in Talbot county, Maryland, last
week.
Asher w. Harmany. of Virginia, has failed.
He owns the Natural Bridge, and it IS down
among his assets for $4,000.
The printers in Baltimore have formed
themselves into large and flourishine item
perance legion
There was rush for Europe on Saturday
last -Four steamers left New York carving
$50 cabin passengers.
Grace Greenwood sailed in SATURDAYS
steamer for Europe. Her proper name is
Mrs. 5. j. Lippineott.
The Lochiel Lumber Company, of Garrett
county, Nd, employs about 100 men and dis.
burses about $4,000 monthly.
A large number of dissatisfied English cot.
ton operatives now in America are 10 be
taken back to fill places of strikers.
Don Manuel Freyere, Minister from Perm
TO the United States, died in Washington on
Sunday night, in the esd year Of his age.
n. S. Frost, of Frostburg, has a COW that
yields forty-two gallons of milk week The
cream produces eighteen pounds of butter.
Matthias Merriek, Esq.,, of Island Greek
Neck, Md, Trappe district, commenced har.
yesting his wheat crop on Friday, the 9TH
instant.
DIR. Andrew ]. Gibson was arrested in Ros-
ton Sunday for causing the death, by NAL.
practice OF Mrs. Rebecca Haines, who died at
bingham on Saturday.
The name of Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton has
been dropped from the roll of that congrega-
tion of saints, Plymouth Church, for SANDER
ing Rev. Henry Ward Beecherl
DIR. b. +. Holsclan murdered his wife and
committed suicide in fit of jealousy at Oro-
VILE, CAL, on Saturday morning They had
been married only a week.
About 400 cartridge-makers at the Win
chester, Conn.,, Arms Works are to be dis
charged because OF the cessation of orders
from the Turkish Government
Tilghman Foxwell, of Smyrna, Del, last
week sheared I79 pounds ofwool from Cots
void buck. 1t broughthim 81. 20, being about
four times the usual yield of a sheep.
At Philadelphia, Monday evening, while a
party was being held at house Of Mrs.
Kelley, the first floor gave way and precini.
tated 30 or 40 children into the cellar. A
few of the children were hurt, but none dan.
gerously.
William A. Bushnell, bookkeeper and con-
fdential agent for Butler, Stillman & Hub
bard, lawyers, of New York, is reported to
have embezzled $4,000. He stole securities
belonging TO the head of the firm and obtained
loans upon them.
Queen Anne's county, Nd, has organized
an Agricultural and Mechanical Society al
Centreville. 1t is the intention to hold an
nual fairs, and $4,000 toward the expense of
obtaining suitable location, &C., are al
ready secured.
John II. Snow, chief mate of the shin
Ihos- NJ. Reed, which arrived at San Francisco
Sunday, was arrested on the charge of muir
derlng, about year ago, in China, the Sec
ordinate of the ship o. P. Whitmore from
Baltimore.
While the steamboat Mcclellan was oppo-
site Caracole, in Columbia, S. c., on the LIST
of May, a hue of the boiler collapsed, scald-
ing nearly every person on the main deck and
blowing about fifteen into the river. As far
as known 26 lives were lost.
In the western suburb of Montreal Sunday.
The seats OF an amphitheatre gave way, SER
lously lnJuring number of persons. The
police attempting to dispense the crowd were
turned upon and badly beaten. No explana-
ton OF the affair is given by the kilograms.
During a military review at Montreal, on
Saturday evening, riot grew out of fight
between an Orange Young Briton and Cath
Ole. A troop of cavalry was unable to dis
perse the mob until reinforced by the police.
Several persons were wounded, and one was
arrested.
The President, on Saturday, nominated
General John G. Fremont to be Governor of
Arizona; John p. Hoyt, now Governor of
Arizona, to be Governor Of Idaho, in place of
Bragman, removed; and George n. Burd-
sail to be Assistant Appraiser for New York.
Judge Grant, of Davenport, Iowa, has
adopted seventeen girls, and most of them
are married. When he launches one of his
girls he always provides a generous outfit for
her. That Is the kind of practical philan-
thropy that takes out West with both sexes
a Vermont cat story says a Readsbory cat
recently brought from the woods a young red
squirrel, which she placed with her kittens
and is bringingit up with them. The squirrel
suckles with the kittens, and receives its due
share OF the mother eats affection and ca
resses.'
John A. White, prominent lawyer of New
York, died in February, 1877, and it is said !
the discovery has been made that he embez /
zled from iorty-hve to sixty thousand dollars |
from two estates of which he was trustee.
One OF the estates was held for the benefit of
mis- sisters-in-law.
1t is reported from northern Mexico that
Col. Naranio, with 200 cavalry, is advancing
70 reinforce Colonel Nuneie, who is holding
Eseohedo at bay near Lampassas. Escobedo
will then have to fight 400 men with half that |
number. 1t is supposed he will prefer to
dIsperse his band and return to Texas
The Mark Lane Express says wet weather |
has had an uniavorable effect upon the crop
prospects in England and Scotland, and how
ever favorable the weather may be in the |
next two months, appearances do not favor /
the presumption of more than bare average /
yield as regards wheat and barley
On Friday afternoon of last week. VIM. A.
and A. Waller Andrews, brothers, left Boston I
Tor Havre in the smallest vessel that has vet
attempted to cross the ocean. The craft is |
~ feet : inches in length, and feet inches |
IN beam. She is proyisioned for sixty days. |
though the adventures expect TO reach Havre /
in forty-iye days,
\ heavy wind and hail storm prevailed in |
the vicinity OF Augusta, Ga, Sunday. Thos. /
Mynn's gin factory and numerous smaller 4
buildings were Frustrated. The hail damaged /
cotton and corn considerably. Three chill |
dren are reported killed. Reports from the /
interior state that the hail, which was as large 1
as hen eggs, killed poultry, hogs and young 1
cattle, and beat through the roofs Of houses. /
Dispatches from Greenwich. Washington /
county, n. L., relative to the failure of the 1
national bank at that place, allege that great /
raseality has been praeticed by the officers:
that the entire capital of 500. 900 has been 4
wiped out, that the stock was held by farmers
and others who cannot afford their losses.
that large sums were loaned to parties unable
10 pay, and that the affairs of the bank we're
run by a ring.
The wounds Of the Emperor William. of
Germany, have healed, and though the right
arm is still swollen, it is less susceptible. He
celebrated on Monday the forty-ninth ami
versary of his marriage. 1t is expected that
Nobiling, the would-he regleide, will also re.
cover. Many arrests have been made among
the classes infected with Socialism, and the
excitement is kept up by the approaching
elections for members of the Reichstap, the
dissolution of the German Parliament baying
been ordered.
Adyices from the section of Mexico dis
turbed by the Lerdis; iusurreotion report the
defeat Of two hundred insurgents, under GAIA
Ayala, by Colonel Algeria, with one hundred
and fifty Government troops. at Los La.
drones, forty miles north OF New Laredo.
Many are reported killed and wounded on
both sides, but the insurgents were completely
routed, with the capture of prisoners, arms.
and horses. The people Of New Laerdo we're
rejoicing, regarding the insurrect;onas a com.