The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-23
News of the Week.

Susquehanna the first day Of the ducking sea
son.
Boston is to be the next city with an eleva-
ted railroad, charter having already been
obtained.
Garrison Warner, Of Frederick county, had
sixteen valuable sheep killed last week by
worthless dogs.
Five pigs we're killed and mule shot on
the Talbot coInty Almshouse farm last Mon
day by gunners.
An earthquake shook Memphis, Tenn, on
Monday night Il was felt also at Little
Rock, and other places.
In Galloway county, KY, last week, Ronus
Kemp, aged 96 years, and Miss Mary Bridget
aged is years, were united in marriage.
The Pennsylvania State Grange of the Pat
rons of Husbandry will hold its annual session
at Bellefonte, on Tuesday, December 10th.
The annual convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association commenced in Cumber-
land on Thursday and win close tomorrow
William b. Hill, prominent Iagyer of
Baltimore, died in that city on Saturday, aged
So years. He was Secretary of State for
Maryland during the war.
About 1000 laborers aud mechanics are
employed at Halifax, n. S., in the erection
of arches, decorations, &C., for the reception
TO be given to the Marquis of Lorne.
There are now two hundred oyster shuckers
employed regularly in the oyster houses at
Cambridge, Md, aud equally as large mum
Der engaged in catching the oysters.
Judge James A. Stewart is in such feeble
health that il is thought he will not be able to
occupy seat on the bench during the pres
ent term Of Dorchester county court
The schooner Donna Anna from Amboy
for Boston, was run into by the steamer Atlas.
off Georges Island, on Saturday, and sank in
half an hour. Her crew were saved.
August Bolle, aged 45 years, sexton of the
French Catholic Church in Buffalo, n. Y,
died Saturday night from the effects Of inhal-
ing coal gas while sleeping in the church.
Central and South American news is not
calculated to encourage emigration to that
region. Earthquakes, grasshoppers, volca-
noes and revolutions seem to constitute its
chief items.
Ezra Brown, farmer of North Adams.
Mass, was found dead in his barnyard on
Friday night. A neighbor with whom he had
quarreled about the payment Of a small bill
is suspected of having killed him.
The United States Grand Jury of Charlie
ton, W. Va, adjourned on Friday night, after
having found 929 indictments against violat-
tors of the revenue laws and strikers on the
kanawha River Government Works.
The track Of the main stem of the Shenan.
doah valley railroad is to be laid through Shep-
herdstown to the Potomac river this fall, irl
order to afford an immediate connection with
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at that place
Michael Rossiter qusrreled with his wife in
New York on Saturday night, and threw a
lighted lamp at her. The oil was scattered
over her clothing, and she was so terribly
burnedthat she died on Sunday. ROssiter was
arrested.
Perry Green, colored barber of Water
town, New York, while drunk on Sunday had
his nose and mouth plugged up with mud by
some mischievous roughs and was afterwards
found dead from suffocation. Several arrests
have been made.
Pages foundry and agricultural works, at
Frederick city, suspended active operations
for the winter on Saturday last All of the
employees have been discharged with the ex-
eeption of two or three who have been retain
ed to finish uncompleted work remaining on
hand.
New discoveries of gold have been made in
Siberia, near the source of the Konnissar, and
a nugget Of gold, weighing l47 pounds, the
largest ever discovered in Russia, and proba-
bly, in the world, has been found on the banks
of the Upper Toungouska, about 100 versts
above the rivers mouth.
While a carriage containing FIVE persons
was going through Hamlet Village, Woon-
socket, r. l., on Sunday night, it left the
road in the darkness and fell into trench
forty feet wide, containing nine feet of water
Thomas Kennon, his wife Mary. and his
6augh ter we're drowned.
The British war steamer Black Prince, of
which the Duke Of Edinburgh, Queen Victo-
ria second son, is captain, arrived at Halifax,
Monday. About 900 workmen are employ
ed in Halifax in the erection of arches aud
decorations for the reception of the Marquis
of Lorne, the aeT Governor.
The Frederick Times of Saturday says:-
"Sugar Loaf Mountain was enyeloped in
flames last evening, presenting terrible, but
beautiful spectacle TO the residents of that
section and to passengers on passing tra;us
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The
surrounding country was illuminated for miles
around"
The large bank barn on the farm of Mrs. A.
Fl. Hager, near Hagerstown, Md, was entire
ly destroyed by FIRE on Sunday morning, to-
gether with its contents, including two wagons,
carriage, buggy, agricultural implements and
us barrels of corn. The contents of the
barn mostly belonged 70 Mr.. Reilly, tenant on
the farm.
The Allentown Pa, Iron Company has re-
solved to temporarily suspend business on No
vember 90. The stockholders are to meet to
receive a statement of the financial condition
of the company. The company has iour fur
naces in full blast, and their stoppage will
throw out of employment n large number of
hands.
The annual report Of the revenue marine
bureau shows that during the year the vessels
of that service haye bruised 23s, 500 miles,
81 ,096 vessels have been boarded, of which
5000 we're found violating the law. The val.
ne of property saved is about 81, 100 900, and
142 persons were rescued from death by
drowning.
A st. Louis sleeping car on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad was destroyed by fire near
Cumberland, Nd, about = clock Sunday
morning, by the upsetting of lamp. There
were 80 passengers in the car, including sew.
eral women and children. All escaped in
their night clothes, losing all their small bag.
gage and valuahles.
The Rochester n. Y, DaiqB says mass
of rock weighing many thousand pounds. fell
from the top Of the upper falls of the Genesee
in that city last Friday night, destroying for
ever the beauty of the falls The edge of the
rock for twenty feet back and extending a
hundred feet along the face went over and lies
directly under the building formerly occupied
as Touring mill,
General Edward L. Buckley, the oldest cit.
izen of North Granville, Washington, " Y,
died recently at his home there, in the nine
tieth year of his age. He lived in the same
house for siKty.6ve years, and bis death was
the only one that occurred in his home during
that time. General Bnlkley voted at every
Presidential election from the second election
of Madison TO the election of 1876.
In accordance with the opinion of the at-
torney general Of PENNSYLVANIA, Governor
Hartrant has decided to isue q warrant for
the execution, on the 18th of December next,
of the notorious Mollie Mcguire, John Kehoe.
Langdon, in Schuylkill county, in 1862 War
rants were also issued for the execution, on
the same day, of Martin Bergen, of Schuylkill
county; Charles Sharpe and James o. Donnell,
Of Carbon county, and Alexander Sayre, Of
Philadelphia.
General James A. Dumont, supervising in.
spector of steamboats,, in his annual report
states that the lives lost on steamers in the
United States during the fiscal year ended
June 80 we're From explosions, 33; from
fire, p; from collisions, 81; from snags.
wrecks and shaking, i0I; accidental drowning
Is; miscellaneous casualties, f. He saws
the decrease of casualties In the last two
years is no doubt due to the severe discipline
now rrevailin0 Of 900 Onn 900 ,arsc,,. 90