The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-01-19
News Of the Week.

E arrived in Paris on Wednesday.
4 great number Of Canadians are emigrat-
ing to the lower Chesapeake and Delaware
Peninsula.
John Morrissey is in Florida. He is said
= TO be in critical condition from an attack OF
Bright's disease.
1t cost the Northampton, Mass, bank $50, :
900 to arrest and convict the men who
robbed its safe.
There were ffty-two failures in Boston
during December last, with liabilities of 3d.
1917, 600 and assets of $2,370,000.
The Dunkard Church in Pennsylvania has
$1,000 members in roand numbers, and in the
United States not far from $4,000.
A telegram from Milwaukee says that Mr..
Robert Bonner, of New York, has purchased
the trotting horse Manzanilla for $4,000.
The Bannoek aud Shoshone Indians in
Idaho threaten to make trouble. Three
companiesof cavalry and two of infantry have,
therefore been sent to Fort Hall.
Almost fifty million Of dollars are deposited
in the thirty nine savings institutions in the
State of Rhode Island, and the largest deposit
tor has nearly $4,000 to his credit.
General John 0'Neill, who led the Fenian
incursions against Canada at Fort Erie, Ont,
in 1866, and st. Adams, VT, in 1870, died in
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The bank Of Buffalo, n Y, at meeting
on Saturday, unanimously resolved to CO OPP
crate with the New York banks in such action
as they may take in opposition to the Bland
bill.
Elmira, New York, is to have public ex
hibition Of Edisons wonderful phonagraph,
which bottles up and reproduces, as desired,
the speech and tone of voice of any one who
talks to it.
Judge NJ Wood had charge Of a store
belonging to the Grange of Henry county,
Mo. The store was burned about a month
ago, and the "Judge' now stands indicted
for arson.
Robert Fishburne and Walter S. Harley,
brothers.in-law, fought duel near Savannah,
Ca, on Saturday afternoon, with revolvers.
Harley was fatally wounded. His antagonist
has fed.
One of the large cattle sheds in the stock
yards of FaiFbanksi distillery, at Terre Haute,
Ind, was destroyed by FIRE Sunday evening,
| with 800 cattle, va lued at $40 per head. The
cattle we're owned in Chicago.
The Nautilus Boat Club of New York in
tends to send Messrs. Walsh and Levien to
row for the pair-oared championship of the
world at the International regatta to be held
on the Seine, at Paris, in July next.
Three men attempted to rob the room of
the Senate Patent Committee in Washington
at two o'clock on Saturday morning. Upon
| leaving the Capitol with their plumber two of
them were arrested but the other escaped.
Governor Bishop, of Ohio was inaugurated
on Monday at Columbus, with the usual mill
tary display. His inaugural was brief; it re-
commended economy and judicious legisla-
ton, and said nothing about national affairs.
Charlie Park Drum and George Russ, 4
and years old respectively, were given an
old revolver to play with at Iitusville last
Friday. The younger boy was accidentally
shot and instantly killed by his companion
The meeting of the ''National Convention
of the United States Export Trade" which
was to have been held in Washington on the
22d inst, is postponed until February l9th-
The postponement is to give oil the CONNER
cial boards of the country an opportunity to
elect delegates.
Frederick Coon, Of Schuyler Falls, New
York. one of the Oldest residents Of Northern
New York, has just celebrated the one hun
dred and first anniversary of his birthday.
He still makes livelihood BY selling willow
baskets, aud recently walked eight miles in
carrying them to market.
James Lick collected during his lifetime
the material for building two large conserva-
tories, modelled after those in the Kew Gar
dens, London. A party Of liberal gentlemen
have just purchased the property and pre-
sented it to the city of San Francisco, to be
placed in one of the parks.
The steam yacht Estelle was seized by the
United States Marshal at Bristol, r. l., Mon
day morning. The seizure was made by
order of the President, and the vessel will be
detained until further orders, or until it is
satisfactorily ascertained that she is not in
the Cuban rebel service.
Ad7ices from Central America tc Decem-
Der Both indicate a rupture of the friendly
relations between Guatemala and Costa Rica.
| The quarrel seems to be a personal rather
than political one, the press of Guatemala
being engaged in criticising the President of
Costa Rica and his policy.
Peter Walcott, proprietor of the Kingston
House at Kingston, Pa, was arrested on Sat-
urday evening for passing counterfeit five
dollar bills on the First National Bank of
Hanover, and held in $1,000 bail. Thomas
Irving was arrested at Pittston Sunday morn
| ing for passing similar counterfeits.
The Secret Service Bureau has information
l that there is now san immense amount of
counterfeiting in operation throughout the
country Much of the counterfeiting is of
silver coin, but, with one exception, that of
an offender not yet captured, the counterfeit
ers make a poor imitation of the genuine
coinage.
kilograms from Maine on Saturday, re-
ported a large coal schooner and two small
vessels ashore near Cutler, seven fishing YES
| sells ashore at Lepreux and FIVE at Beaver
/ Harbor. A schooner with cargo of herring
is a total wreck at Lewisburg, n. S. A tele
gram from Provincetown, Mass, reported
the recovery of three bodies Of drowned sail
ors by the life-saving crews.
A large number of Western and Southern
merchants are to leave Savannah in day or
two for Havana The object of the trip is to
open direct trade with Cuba by means of
steamship line between Savannah and that
| island. Thirty business men of st. Louis
have already arrived in Savannah to take
part in the excursion, and it is expected that
the total number of excursionists will be $50.
The iron steamer Remus arrived at New
Haven, Conn. on Saturday afternoon, to load
a cargo of war material for Turkey. The
steamer John Bramall, having on board
cargo of that kind valued at more than ST.
500, 900 has not yet sailed. She has remain
ed in the Sound just outside New Haven
harbor, and for fourteen days has been draw
ing demurrage at the rate of $3.50 per day.
The fishing schooner little Kate, of Boston,
was totally wrecked off Duxbury, Mass,
during the storm of Thursday night week.
/ one nau Il crew OF thirteen, all residents OF
| South Boston. 1t was at first reported that
they were saved, but the Captain Of the Dux-
bury Life Saving Station telegraphs that they
were probably all lost, and that one body has
been recovered. The calamity makes seven
widows and twenty one orphans.
A resolution was offered in the New York
Assembly, Monday evening, directing the
Committee on Railroads to investigate the
alleged coal combination, and if it shall APP
pear that any railway or other chartered
corporation has violated any of its granted
rights by participating in such combination, to
report within twenty days by bill or otherwise,
for the purpose Of compelling such corpora
tons to respect the laws.
The cargo Of the schooner f. Ii. Pray,
scuttled and turned adrift in the North river,
has been found, and one of her crew is in the
hands of the police. His story is that Capt
Clark planned and executed the crime of
stealing the cargo and destroying the vessel,
and that the two men composing his crew
were to share the spoils with him. The
cargo was for Baltimore.
Colonel Mcleod the ''Chief Magistrate
of the British Northwest Territory, has arriv.
ed at Helena, Montana, and reports that
Sitting Bull and his band have ''never crossed
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