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

Colonel forsythe, of General Sbar;dan-s
stan, says there is no cause for the Indian
alarm IN Wisconsin,
The President will attend the Wvor;no
Centennial Celebration. near Wilkesbarre oS
the Sd and 4th of July.
/ John ID: Patton, of Georgetown. d. G a
clerk IN the Patent Office, II wears of ace.
dropped dead IN church Sunday morning.
Ex-senator Reyels, now pastor of the Af
rican Methodist Episcopal Church at Rich
mond' Ind, has had stroke of paralysis.
6ov Hartranft has appointed Mr.. Christian
n. Ross, father of Charlie Ross. Master War.
den OF the portof Philadelphia; salary s., 500.
The First National Bank Of ST. Joseph.
Mo-, was robbed of SIS, OO0in some unknown
manner on Friday. Ii has surplus of 500
-Four hundred bushels of peas we're shipped
IN one week 10 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.
:, Ihomas Fleming, young inmate of st.
Marys industrial School, near Baltimore.
was gored to death by bull on Saturday
afternoon.
/ The Hagerstown steam Touring mill prop
erty, was sold OH the 25th inst, at public sale
ton, d. c.
A large porcupine was killed near Port Jer-
vas, N. Y, last week. A dog which attacked
\ It, was so badly wounded BY its quilts that il
had to be killed.
Z. II. Hayward has been sentenced to two
years hard labor and to pay fine of 500 at
Boston for circulating obscene literature
through the mails.
I 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, underline
auspices Of the Household of Faith of Cecil
county, Nd, 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
Greeee, that Congress having made no pro-
vision for his Office for the next fiscal wear. IL
Is therefore abolished.
). Angler Chase, the embezzling Treasurer
OF the Fall River Mills, on trial at New Bed.
ford, Mass, pleaded guilty in court Monday.
de was sentenced to u years imprisonment
in the State Penitentiary.
Mr.. Merrick, of Island Creek Neck, Talbot
county, Nd, commenced harvestinghis 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 -four.
An eclipse of the sun will occur on Mon
day, July 10Th. II Will be total in the United
States, the shadow belt being about one hun
Il raI i
from four to six clock in the afternoon.
/ Earl Russellis funeral was of the simplest
| possible character. Theproce ssion 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 Niehodemus of Boonsbo-
ro', Nd, purchased at private sale the farm
OF Ill acres, located about mile and a half
north of Hagerstown, for So, 500 cash, and
will, 1t is understood, deed it to the county as
site for the almshouse, which will be remov-
ed there.
}. II. 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. II 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 Mexican force
under Valdez, and at one time a fight was
/ threatened, but the Mexicans withdrew. They
kept in sight of the Americans, however. un.
til the latter crossed the river.
/ Unparalleled rain storms are reported to
have occurred in Southwestern Kansas last
week. Ii is stated that the rainfall at Win
| field on Wednesday afternoon was estimated
at Twenty-Five inches. The country was flood
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 at
Boston by United States officers on a warrant
for murder committed on board the steamer
/ Chesapeake while on her passage from New
/ York to Portland in December, 1863. 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 San, from 1864 to 1869, inclusive, at
/ So per volume, the Congressional Library,
at Washington, being the purchaser At the
/ same sale hve volumes of the Baltimore
american, from 1924 to 1926, inclusive,
/ IL N Al d.
| Wing from lS09-10, and eight of the New
York Herald for 1862, a, and '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 four
of the workmen. The mill was completely
demolished; one boiler was blown to pieces,
another was thrown over an adjoining mill
| 65 feet high, and landed in field $50 feet
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 a
great mass meeting of workingmen, one hun
dred thousand strong, was TO take place
I shortly in Washington, turned out to be all
moonshine, or sheer fabrication. 4 promi-
nent workingman said, who was interviewed
on the subject, it would cost something to
carry 100000 men to Washington from all the
principal cities in the Union, and the ques-
ton was where was the money to come from.
The funeral of OK 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. lgnatius, where a Solemn
Requiem Mass was sung, and Rev. w. j.
Clarke, S. j., preached a sermon. Arch
bishop Gibbons gave the absolution. The
interment took place in Bonnie Brae Gene
terry.
0wensville, Ind, has recently been the
scene ofmueh lawlessness. On Monday night