The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-13
News of the Week.

$500 at auction, and the watch guard $500.
Great crowds of people attend the Moody
and Sankey meetings at New Haven, Conn.
The L. S. sloop. of-war Wyoming sailed
again from New York on Saturday, with goods
for the Paris Exposition.
Ocean City, says the Salisbury AdUertiser,
promises to be more attractive during the
coming season than ever before.
The ship Azor sailed from Charleston. S.
I c., on Monday last, with large colony OF
eolored emigrants for Monrovia, Liberia.
The steamboat Colonel A. p Kouns was
sunk by snag, in the Red River, on Satur-
day, aud three deck hands we're drowned.
A poor-house building near Bath, n. Y,
was hired by an insane pauper, on Saturday
night and burned down. Fifteen of the in
mates persisted.
G. X. Clark, grain Spectator, of Detroit,
is reported to have disappeared after drawing
$4,000 from bank, and leaving debts to the
amount of $4,000.
The hills and mountains near Cumberland,
/ Nd, were set on fire last week by ineendia-
ries, and an immense destruction of property
/ has been the result.
Rev. A. P. Adams, convicted of heresy be-
/ fore the New England Methodist Episcopal
| Conference, has been suspended from the
ministry for one year.
| James Dornan, of Wingham, Ont, died on
/ Saturday, from the effects Of chloroform ad-
miRistered by a physician who was perform
I ing an operation on his hand.
John s. Wilcox, a Spectator, Of Elgin, ILL.,,
/ has gone into bankruptcy. His liabilities
aggregate 81 ,449,0 900, Of which 1926, 600 are
secured; his assets are nothing.
I I'll I Ctrtnt-ar .tt
zen of Baltimore. Nd, and for several years
Colonel of the Fifth Maryland Regiment, died
on Monday last, aged ~ years.
David Sheets, wealthy farmer of ''Rome
/ Corner" near Easton, Pa, was found on
Saturday morning hanging IN his stable, and
/ dead. The coroner's verdict was suicide.
1 Cephas Jones, colored, convicted of felo-
NOUS assault upon young lady, was sentenc-
\ ed in Washington. on Saturday, to thirty
/ years imprisonment inthe Albany Penitentiary.
/ A gold brick, valued at more than $50, 900,
was cast at Helena, Montana. on Monday,
from the product of the Penobscot mine. Il
was extracted from $50 tons of ore, and the
cost of its prodution was $4,000.
There arrived at New York during March
1886 immigrants, of whom 1882 were females.
/ The total immigration to New York during
the quarter ending March 51st, was 1886,
against 1850 during the corresponding period
of last year.
! A fifty-horse power boiler in the Boston
| Stamping Mandatory, at Cambridge. Mass.
/ exploded on Saturday evening, killing three
men, and injuring seven others, one fatally.
| The boiler house, two stories in height, was
/ demolished, and the main building consider
ably damaged.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina,
was arrested in New York on Sunday night,
on the charge of having forged the name OF
j. W. Woodruff for S316, and passed the
note upon James Allen. He will be taken to
| South Carolina to stand trial for official
misdemeanors.
Secretary Sherman had conference with
/ leading bankers of New York Tuesday. II
was strictly private, but the object is under
stood to have been an exchange of views on
/ the financial condition of the country, and
/ the praetieability of resuming specie payments
by the LIST of January next.
1 The body of Rose Vincent, of Methuen,
/ Mass, was found in the river at Biddeford,
/ Me-, Tuesday morning. Frederick SAVAGE,
being subsequently arrested, confessed the
crime, and when asked why he didit, said he
/ ''loved her so much.i Savage is married,
and the father of three children.
I The coinage of the new dollars in the Mint
at San Francisco will be commenced in q few
days, the dies for the purpose having been re-
ceived from Philadelphia. There are about
SOC, 900 ounces of silver in the San Francisco
Mint, "and good supply outside, mostly in
the hands of the Nevada Bank.
7 Bishop Andrews, of the New York Metho-
/ dist Conference, has decided that the licens-
\ ing of women as preachers is against the doc
/ trines of Wesley. The disappointed advo-
Gates of the new departure have taken an
appeal to the general Conference Of the Meth
odists of the whole country in 1880.
| The South Boston Savings Bank with de-
posts amounting to Sl,565, 962, and the
/ Wellfeet Savings Bank, with deposits amount
/ ing to 1922, 1853, being unable to meet the
demands of their depositors, have gone under
the provisions of the new law Of Massachu-
sets ''for the protection of depositors.
The Brazilian steamship City of Para, was
| launched at Chester, Pa, on Saturday, in the
presence of thousands of spectators. There
was present distinguished company includ-
| ing President Hayes, members of Congress,
| foreign diplomats, and invited guests from
Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore.
DR.. Stephen II. Tying, Rector of St.
! Georges Protestant Episcopal Church, New
/ York, took feeling and affectionate leave OF
I
istration of more than q third of a century.
/ The octogenarian retires on salary of $4,000
/ a year for life, rather more fortunate than a
majority of worn out pastors.
A palace car OR the North Pacific Coast
/ Railroad of California was thrown down a
/ forty-foot embankment into a creek on Mon
/ day afternoon. The car was occupied by j.
1 G. Eastand, President of the road, and q
4 party of friends. Mr.. Eastland and his
| daughter Ethel we're dangerously injured.
! The others escaped with severe bruises.
/ The house of P. P. Dumont, at Plainield,
/ n. j., was entered by burglars on Sunday
night, while the family were at church, and
robbed of nearly one thousand dollars worth
| of clothing, silverware, etc. The burglars
/ escaped with their booty, but man named
Holmes, seen running and suspected of the
theft, was shot and dangerously wounded by
the Chief of Police.
At Paterson, n. j., on Saturday, James F.
| Preston and Z. r. Rose, convicted of con-
| spiracy to defraud the Merchants Loan and
/ Trust Company, were sentenced each to pay
a fine of $500 and costs. Preston was then
/ sentenced to one year simprisonmentand the
/ payment of a fine of $500 for stealing the
( COmpanys funds. Preston was cashier, and
Rose director of the concern.
The long.projected union of the Central
American republics seems to be further of
/ than ever. Guatemala and Costa RIGA are
/ engaged in hostilities, and the war is being
/ vigorously prosecuted. Guatemala is report
ed to have bought a vessel named the Pelican
in San Francisco, and equipped her as a
man-of-war with view of destroying Costa
Rican commerce aud bombarding seaboard
towns.
/ A telegram from San Francisco states that
Guatemalan agents have been in that city for
! several weeks attempting to hire persons to
blow up the Costa Rican steamer Yrasa
On Monday, two suspicious characters board
ed the steamer at the wharf one of them was
arrested, aud the other ran off with a pack
age believed to have contained dynamite -
As there was no evidence against the captur-
| ed one he was released.
/ Col. o. L. Shepherd, of Newport, r. l.. a
retired army officer, has been convicted by
court martial of neglecting to pay over a
fund contributed by brother officers in 1864
for a monument on the Stone River Battle
1 ground. The sentence, which has been ap-
proved by the President, is that Shepherd
/ be confined at Fort Adams for one year. and
thereafter until the sum of $1,000, with inter
est from 1864, shall be paid.
| At a variety performance in Providence.
r. l., Friday night of last week, "Mademoi-