The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-06
News Of The Weak.

The public debt statement for March show.
a reduction of S2,313,6II.
Large orders have lately been coming tc
Troy, \. /. from China, for stoves.
Twelve inches of snow fell at St. John, n
b., on Friday night and Saturday of last week
California has thirty-6ve cases of minerals
packed and ready for shipment to the Paris
Exposition.
The total expenses of the recent war with
the Sioux Indians are officially stated to have
been S2,3l2,5 1871.
Henry Burnham died in Baltimore county,
near Baltimore, on the 3Oth ultimo, aged
100 years, 6 months and Is days
A general resumption of coal mining took
place IN the Sehuylkill region on Monday;
100000 tons will be mined this month.
Twenty-Five thousand emigrants arrived in
Kansas on the 2sth. The rush thither is
beyond all parallel in the history of the West.
Pennsylvania is agitated over the tariff;
public meetings have been held in various
parts OF the State. Iron and coal are objects
of special care
George w. Abbott, the broker, Of San
Francisco, who absconded with $50, 900 some
time ago, was brought back Monday on the
steamer from Panama.
Martin Burns, of Chillicothe. Iowa. excited
by dispute IN relation to fence lines, infict-
ed fatal blow upon his neighbor with
an axe and then hung himself in barn.
Mrs. Jane Bonner wife of Robert Bonner,
OF the Ledger, died Tuesday in the forty-ninth
year of her age. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Bonner lost a daughter by death few
weeks ago.
The schooner John Farnum, from Winter
Harbor, for Philadelphia, with a cargo of ice,
went ashore ON Tuckemock Island, on Sun
day, and will be total loss. Her crew went
TO Nantucket.
In pursuance of an order By President
Vanderbilt for u reduction of the force in the
machine shops of the New York Central Rail-
road, lS4 men we're discharged from the shops
at Syracuse on Saturday night.
Since March 18th, when the first of the
new silver dollars was coined, upwards of
one million of these dollars have been turned
out by the Mint. During April !, 75O, 900 will
be coined by the Mint in Philadelphia.
The total value of the lumber and timber
imported into the United States, from all
countries, during the year 1877, was 81 1922
7l5, while the value of that exported amount
ed to the sum of Sls,37l ,0S0.
The New York Assembly has adopted a
resolution favoring the introduction of the
Moffet liquor-tax punch in that State. The
Massachusetts Legislature have under con
sideration similar resolution.
The operatives in the Methuen Jute Mills.
at Lawrence, Mass, 200 in number, struck
Monday. Their wages were reduced a short
time ago, and they complain of having had
double work to do for the reduced pay.
The Bank of Jacksonville, Florida, was
robbed of 81, 800. A man engaged the at
tention of the Cashier while a confederate
entered the rear door and plundered the safe
The robbery was not discovered for several
hours.
The Chester City Councils have passed a
resolution inviting President Hayes to accept
the hospitality of the City of Chester upon
the occasion of his visit to the launch of the
steamer City of Para, at Roach's shipyard
to-day.
An audience of 1000 persons assembled in
Cooper Institute, New York, on Sunday af.
ternoon, TO hear an address on temperance
by the Widow Van Colt There was great
enthusiasm and many persons signed the
pledge.
The printing machines of the Lowell Print
Works, in Lowell, Mass, were stopped on
Saturday night, throwing out of employment
300 hands. In few days the whole estab
lishment will suspend operations for a month,
owing to the dizziness of the market.
At Eastville, in Northampton county, Va,
last week, Sidney Pitts and A. p. Thomas
fought duel with pistols, standing only six
feet apart. At the second round Pitts was
killed and Thomas received ball in the
head, which will probably prove fatal.
VI
RACES, steamboat and vessel wrecking, saw
mill and dynamite explosions, horrible disas-
tiers on the water, and appalling losses by
FIRE, daring burglaries, and all kinds of fiend-
ish acts all over the country is the current
news of the week.
Masked robbers entered the bank of South
Pueblo, COL, on Friday night, gagged the
cashier, compelled him TO open the safe, and
carried off $1,000 in currency and a gold watch
and chain. The safe of the Grand Trunk
Railway at Seaforth, Ont, was robbed of
$500 on Saturday evening
Jarvis A. Van Pelt, a married man. living
in New Brunswick, n. j., was committed to
the jail in Trenton, Saturday, on the charge
of having obtained Sll9, gold watch, and
other valuables from young lady of Penn
ington, under false pretenees. He represent
ed himself to be single and was engaged to be
married to the young lady.
About this time every year, when the army
and the Indian appropriation bills are matur-
ing in committee, look out for many rumors
of Indian wars to come off as soon as the grass
grows. When the last Indian is dead and
buried, he may depend upon having sincere
mOurners in the Hobbies of the Capitol the
ante-rooms Go the Bureaus, and around the
agencies.
The notorious Madame Restelle, who has
made an immense fortune in New York by
malpractice, and who was to have been tried
Monday on charges in that connection, com
mitted suicide in her bathroom Monday
morning by cutting her throat with carving
knife. She was found lying in her bath tub,
which was filled with water. Madame Res
tele left fortune estimated at from 81 ,O00,-
600 TO Sl,500,000.
The Place de r0pera, at Paris, has been
lighted up by electricity With eight Ian
terms and six small globes the illumination
was sufficient to make the neighborhood OF
the opera almost as light as day. The gas
from the cafes and from the advertisements
of various public amusements, which have
hitherto made this the brightest spot in Paris,
white electric light.
AuOipn OutFOs thc protector VI the OultO
| Tunnel, has brought a suit in the United
States Circuit Court at Carson for possession
of the Bonanza claim, on the ground that by
the law of Congress two thousand feet on
either side of the tunnel belongs to the com
pany If not previously located under the
mining law. He claims that the ground now
worked by the Bonanza Company was not
included in their original location.
Some notes issued by the Hagerstown, Nd.
Bank in the year 1886 we're presented to that
institution for redemption on Saturday last
by Messrs. Hoffman, Eavy X Co. They were
obtained from the estate of Mr.. Waltz, and
most of them looked as new and fresh as the
day they we're issued. They were probably
nGveE used after they left the bank. \ con
siderable amount of old silver dollars was also
received from the same estate in connection
with the notes.
Solomon Erwiue and his wife, residents OF
Allentown, Pa, had n quarrel while sitting
at the dinner table. She sat opposite him
with child five months old in her arms, and
a coffee pot filled with coffee on the table
beside her. In n moment of anger Erwine
lifted his end of the table high up landing
the dishes in fragments on the floor and emp
tying the hot coffee over the child, which was
so severely scalded that death resulted in a
/ few hours Mrs Erwine's hands were bis
tared.
The store of !. ). Jamison. at Westernport,
Nd, opposite Piedmont, W. Va, was robbed
on Friday night, 10Th uliimo, of $4,000 in