The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-02-02
News of the Week.


uit., Mrs. Grace B. Griffin, aged ia years.
The Maryland Annual Conference of the
NJ. 7. Church will meet in Easton on We'd
nesday the 18th Of March next.
| George P. Gordon, of New York. the
inventor of the Gordon printing press. died
at his farm, near Norfolk, Va, on Sunday,
aged 6s years.
A convention Of delegates from the various
State Agricultural Societies of the country
will meet in Washington on the third Tuesday
of February.
The coal miners in the Wheeling district
/ OF West Virginia, who struck three weeks ago
| for higher wages, resumed work on Saturday
at the old rates.
One hundred and twenty>eignt witnesses
were in attendance at the Cireait Court of
Anne Arundel county, in the case of Judge
Yellott. Who pays the bill? The taxpayers
OF Baltimore county, Nd.
A number of the merchants of ST. Louis
propose to hold meeting in a few DAYS to
arrange for specie resumption. The plan is
to give gold, silver and currency in equal
proportions in making change for customers.
/ At Pittsield, Mass, on Saturday, colored
tramp was sentenced to Imprisonment for
life, for felonioasly assaulting Mrs. Murray,
and another colored man was sentsned to
fifteen years Imprisonment for assauIting a
girl.
The United States ship Supp y, one of the
vessels detailed to carry goods TO the Paris
! Exposition, and which will be the first vessel
to sail on that duty, this month, was put
in commission last week at the Brooklyn
| Navy Yard.
A requiem for the dead King Victor En-
manuel and jubilate over the nuptials of the
young King OF Spain were the social events
at Washing ton last week. Both were grace
ful tributes from the capital of the New World
to the Courts of the Old.
The Siamese Government has applied to
Mr.. B. G. Northrop, of Hartford, Conn, for
information in regard to the Chinese students
now in this country, with a view of sending
thirty sons of Siamese princes and mobiles to
be educated in American institutions.
The revenue officers of Manitoba have
seized an Illicit STILL with large quantity of
material and whisky IN the woods, seventy
miles west of Winnipeg. No arrests were
made. The chief customers for the whisky
were the Sioux refugees from Minnesota.
The day of King Alfonso's marriage in
Spain, fanfaronade of one hundred trumpets
travers ed the streets Of Madrid at eight in the
morning, sounding the reveilie. At ten at
night there was grand torchlight procession,
with 600 musicians, 400 singers and 1000
torch bearers.
An ineendiary fire at Towsoutown, Nd, on
Saturday morning last, destroyed the Odd
Fellows Hall, the Herald printing Office, and
several stores. Loss $40, 600, insurance
$4,000. The FIRE broke out in Mrs. Shee-
leyis store. A very serious fire occurred
eighteen months ago on the same premises.
A great religious revival is now going on
at Greensboro, Nd. under the leadership of
Rev. I. II. Purdy. Themeetingsare attend
ed with the old-fash toned demonstrations of
shouting, falling down, &c, and people come
! from long distance to attend. Mr.. Purdy
is making it particularly lively for sinners
down the Eastern Shore.
A telegram from Bradford, Pa, states that
company has been organized in the oil
towns Of Western New York and Northwest
| PENNSYLVANIA to ship oil in bulk BY the Gen
esee Valley and Erie Canals to Buffalo,
Rochester and New York. The transporta-
ton of oil has heretofore been monopolized
by the railroads.
The Stanley Matthews resolutions passed
the Senate of the United States by vote of
43 to 22-barely one vote short of a two
thirds vote. If the Bland bill gets such a vote
as that, there is but the very slenderest chance
| for defeat of the bill by veto. The Mat
thews resolutions have now to go through
the House.
John Chinaman does not propose to be ex-
cluded from the Pacific slope without a stout
resistance. AS an argument why he should
be allowed to come his brethren in San Fran
/ cisco have sent q memorial to Congress show
| ing that of the seven millions of import duties
received at the Custom House at that point
they pay more than one-fourth.
Sunday morning FIVE armed and masked
men entered the railway station at Kinsley,
Kansas, and ordered the telegraph operator
to open the safe. He refused, and BY des-
| perate effort broke loose aud aroused the
inmates of a neighboring hotel. A party of
citizens at once started in pursuit of the rob
bers, also asquad of cavalry from Fort Dodge.
! At Reading Tuesday, the rioters convicted
| on Saturday, were sentenced as follows
| Hezekiah Wooten and John squirt, each two
years Imprisonment Thomas Francis and
John Noll, one years imprisonment; Aaron
/ Deaxe three months, and Robert Reber, who
pleaded guilty, nine months. In addition,
each was sentenced to pay fine OF one dollar
and costs.
| Gen. Miles commanding the United States
forces in the Northwest, reports that Sitting
/ Bull continues at Woods mountain, over the
| Canadian border, but he has lately been on
| this side. Additions are being made to his
! lodges, by desertions from the Red Cloud and
| Spotted Tail agencies. Military preparations
against raid by Sitting Bull will be made.
| Myra Clark Gaines has presented claim
! to the General Land Office for nearly 1900
acres of land in Missouri, within 10 miles of
| st. Louis. The land was granted and con-
hrmed to her father, Daniel Clark, in 1901
and 1904, by the Old Board of Land Com
missioners. Mrs. Gaines visited the General
Land Office Tuesday, to ascertain to whom
patents for these tracts have been innued.
Captain Frederick D. Stuart died on the
! 25th Jan. in Washington after a short illness.
| He was a member of the scientific corps
attached to the famous Wilkes expedition,
and Commodore Ringgold's party for taking
/ deep sea soundings. During the war he was
volunteer commander of Union war vessel.
About eight years ago ne was Grand Sire of
the Order of Odd Fellows.
| Receiver Jewett of the Erie Railway has
/ been held to bail in New York on q charge
/ of perjury preferred by an English stoekhold-
| err of the road, who is now in New York.
| The affidavit alleges that Jewetts sworn
statements were untrustworthy and false in
several particulars. Mr.. Jewett has made
statement refuting the charges, showing that
| the reports were made in the usual form and
| not intended to deceive.
! A number of young ladies of Cumberland
| have organized cooking club" The Nelcs
says the club is to meet weekly at different
houses, the meeting including the discussion
| of refreshments made up of articles prepared
by the members of the society, each lady
| being required by the rules to contribute some
article Of her own manufacture. A similar
society has been in existence for some time
past in Baltimore, and has been found very
amusing and of great practical benefit.
AT Petersburg, Va, on Saturday, the suit
| of the Citizens Bank against S. p. Arlington.
one Of the surelies of its cashier, to recover
nearly $1,000 which the cashier had over
/ checked, resulted in favor of defendant. The
case arose from the embezzlement of ST.
900 in 1876, by Samuel H. Thornburn, the
individual book keeper of the bank, and the
defence claimed that the Overlooking was
done by his connivance, and not with the
knowledge of the cashier.
Lieutenant Ward, of the Tenth Cavalry, in
letter dated Fort Clark, December Is, says
that Lieutenant Martinez, of the Mexican
Army, invited his command into Mexico, and
both commands followed a trail of cattle
thieves for twenty miles, until it was OBJ
liberated by heavy rain. Lieutenant Ward
was treated with great courtesy by Lieutenant
Martinez, who offered ito take him to any
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