The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-02
Esws Of the Week.

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tory, at Salem, Mass, was burned Tuesday
Loss S26, 200.
The Australian cricketers sailed for Sydney
Monday from San Francisco in the steamship
City Of New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright, at Newark, \. J..
are aged respective 1O4 and 100 years, quite
a venerable couple.
The united ages of nine persons whose
death was reported in the Philadelphia, Pa.
Ledger, last week, was I'll.
Jane Campbell, aged IS years died in Har.
risburg Pa, ON Saturday from injuries receiv.
ed by falling downstairs
| An inch Of snow fell at st. Paul. Minnesota,
on Monday night and depth of nine inches
fell on Sunday night in Ontario.
Peter Steliin's livery stable in Yankton.
| Dakota, was destroyed Tuesday morning. with
Il valuable horses, by an incendiary fire.
Joseph Brown, Wilkesbarre, banker, who
| failed last May, has been held to bail on the
charge OF having defrauded his depositors
! Two small boys were lately sentenced, in
London police court, to three days impris-
onment for stealing an onion valued at one
penny.
They are shipping tomatoes to London
from Rochester, n. Y, picked when perfect
ly green and wrapped in tissue paper, like
oranges.
A freight train on the Georgia Central
Railroad ran off the track at Fifteen Mile Post
on Saturday night, smashing eight loaded
box cars.
The President visited Baltimore on Thurs
day afternoon, to attend the Fair of the Mary
land Institute. The Chinese Minister was
| also present
The famous race horse Harry Bassett died
at Princeton, n. J., on Saturday. He was
owned by Colonel McDaniels, who lately re-
fused $4,000 for him.
The Indian Bureau contradicts a report
that the Spotted Tail Indians are in danger of
starving, and says they are abundantly sup
piled with beef, flour and pork.
The schooner Wyoming, from Port an
Prince, for Boston, has anchored off Cape
lookout, dismasted Her captain and one
seaman were lost overheard
Charles Ethridge, financial representative
of the New York Loan and Trust Company.
has disappeared under circumstances which
cast suspicion upon his honesty.
Miss Bancroft, granddaughter of the his
torian, fell down stairs at the Perry House,
in Newport, r. l., Monday, dislocating her
arm and receiving other injuries.
The John street Methodist Church in New
York celebrated its 18th anniversary on Sat
urday last Bishops Koran, Harris, Peck,
! Wiley and Scott were present ut the services
during the day
The steamship Frankfort arrived at New
| Orleans, Sunday from Bremen with one hun.
dred passengers to become food for the fever
unless a frost occurs before the infection
spreads among them.
The assessed valuation of real and person
al property in Massachusetts shows dimn-
ution. as compared with 1877, of 500, 23s, 572
of which S26, 81, 567 in personal and S73,-
026, COS in real estate.
Mrs. Mehan, a middIe-aged lady of Fort
Edward, \. y. was abducted by two ruffians
on Sunday night. One of them has been
arrested and confessed the crime, but there is
no trace of the woman.
It's awful hard times you know-wolf at
the door, and so on, and yet the United
States viii have surplus Of 100000, 900
bushels of corn, 40O,000,O00 bushels Of wheat
and ., 25O,000 bales of cotton.
The missing steamer Matilda, from Fred
ericksburg, Va, for Baltimore, arrived at her
destination on Saturday night. She had
grounded in the Rappahannock river, and
thereby escaped the gale in the Chesapeake
bay.
Mrs. Honora Burke, a steerage passenger
on the steamship Carolina, which arrived at
San Francisco on Sunday, committed suicide
on the passage by throwing herself overheard
Her body was recovered and buried at Punta
Arenas.
Evangelist Moody began his Baltimore
meetings Tuesday afternoon. The Mount
Vernon Place NJ. f. Church has been reiit
ted for revival. The platform has been ex.
tended ten feet and the rich carpet covered
with linen.
G. w. Angel, the treasurer of the Pull
man Palace-car Company, who ran away
from Chicago in August last, taking with him
100000 OF the compauy's funds. was seen
about ten days ago in Canada. Detectives
are on his trail.
While Rev. W. II. II. Murray was enter
tanning some friends with duck shooting, near
his residence on Long Island Sound, on Fri
day, his gun burst, SCATTERING his right hand
so badly that it was thought amputation
would be necessary.
The schooner Florence, Captain Tyson. of
the Howgate Arctic expedition, arrived at
Provincetown, Mass, on Saturday. She had
encountered terrible weather in her cruise,
was leaking badly and out of provisions, but
all on board were well.
Edward Ward whipped his wife so outra-
ge0usiy in Charlevoix, Mich, that his neigh
bors tarred and feathered him; but the wife
removed the tar and feathers from him, bound
up his wounds, and accompanied him in his
migration from the country.
Captain Marshman, of the steamer Sea Gull,
at Baltimore, on Sunday, from Charleston,
reports that on Friday noon, off Cape Halter
as, he passed yawl boat capsized fastened
to something at the bottom by long line.
A number of sharks were around the wreck
A woman, over one hundred years of age,
died few days ago at the BayView Asylum,
Baltimore City. She had been an inmate of
almshouses for at least half her life, and en-
joyed remarkable good health up to the time
of her death, WHICH was oecasioned by apo
plexy.
The Baltimore packing house oyster shuck-
ers are on strike demanding 20 cents for
eight pints, or about Sl.5O per day
They paraded through the streets on Monday
and had mass meeting at night. Two of the
packing-houses have yielded to their de-
mauds.
In Crompton Village, r. L., on Saturday.
boy named John F. James was firing at
chickens, and one of the bullets entered the
head of Samuel Beggs, who was painting in
the rear of his house, inficting a wound of
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wife and seven children.
While Sylvester Seals and John Reardon
were clearing away debris from the mouth of
and old shaft, at the Thomas Iron Company's
mines near High Bridge, n. j., Monday
morning, the earth and some rotten timbers
gave way, and they fell distance of 100 feet.
Seals was killed and Reardon fatally injured.
4 young married woman was recently Is.
ken i'll while making an ascent in the captive
balloon in Paris, aud, with the assistance of
doctor who happened to be present was safe
ly delivered of boy before i reached the
ground. The husband of the lady, the son
of a leading English manufacturer, pres
ented the doctor with 500 francs (Sl0Ol.
The New York Worids intelligence Office
has already developed the fact that the en-
ployment seekers do not want to go into the
country. A universal and almost insur-
mountable objection to accepting an engage
ment there prevails, and no matter how badly
the applicants need work they ''revolt at the
idea of going beyond the city limits to per
form it.
4 portion of the Tennessee moonshiners
who surrendered have been sentenced to
heavy fines and Imprisonment in the Nash
vile jail. This has demoralized one hundred
and fifty Of them not yet sentenced, aud they
have forfeited their bond and fled again to
the mountains. Twenty-Five of those who re-
NAMED were released on the promise not TO
again practice distilling.