The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-15
News Of the Week.

UnlteQ StateS Is oV5Oo1. .
The tax in Washington county, Mo, LOT
county purposes, is 80 cents III the SloU'
Ruth Ann Price, colored woman lo'
years of age, died in Baltimore on Monaay'
Bozman is the name of a new post office es
tablished in Talbot county, Maryland last
week.
Asher w. Harmany, Of Virginia, has failed.
He owns the Natural Bridge, and It Is do"n
among his assets for SD, 900.
Tie printers in Baltimore have formed
themselves into a large and fiourIshlng ITEM
perance legion"
There was a rush for Europe on Saturday
last. Four steamers left New York carrying
$50 cabin passengers.
Grace Greenwood sailed in Saturdays
steamer for Europe. Her proper name Is
Mrs. S. J. Lippincott.
The Lochiel Lumber Company, of Garrett
county, Md, employs about 100 men and DIS
burses about $4,000 monthly.
A large number of dissatisfied English cot
ton operatives now in America are to be
taken back to fill places of strikers.
Don Manuel Freyere, Minister from Peru
to the United States, died in Washington on
Sunday night, in the esd year of his age.
N. S. Frost, of Frostburg, has a cow that
Yields forty-two gallons of milk week. The
cream produces eighteen pounds of butter.
Matthias Merrick, Esq, of Island Creek
Neck, Nd, Trappe district, commenced har-
vesting his wheat crop on Friday, the TIN
instant.
DIR. Andrew j. Gibson was arrested in Bos-
ton Sunday for causing the death, by NAL
practice, of Mrs. Rebecca Haines, who died at
bingham on Saturday.
The name of Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton has
been dropped from the roll of that congrega-
ton of saints, Plymouth Church, for SANDER
ing Rev. Henry Ward Beecher!
DIR. B. F. Holsclan murdered his wife and
committed suicide in fit of jealousy at Oro-
vile, CAL, on Saturday morning. They had
been married only week.
About 400 cartridge-makers at the Win
chester, Conn, Arms Works are to be dis
charged because of the cessation of orders
from the Turkish Government.
Tilghman Foxwell, of Smyrna, Del, last
week sheared 17A pounds ofwool from Cots
void buck 1t brought him $4. 20, being about
four times the usual yield of a sheep.
At Philadelphia, Monday evening, while
party was being held at house of Mrs.
Kelley, the first floor gave way and precipi-
tated 80 or 40 children into the cellar. A
few of the children were hurt, but none dan
gerously.
William A. Bushnell, bookkeeper and con-
fidential agent for Butler, Stillman d Hub
bard, lawyers, of New York, is reported to
have embezzled $4,000. He stole securities
belonging to the head of the firm and obtained
loans upon them.
Queen Anne's county, Nd; has organized
an Agricultural and Mechanical Society at
n Il Il I,1I1
nual fairs, and 1000 toward the expense OF
obtaining suitable location, &C., are al
ready secured.
Thos. NJ Reed, which arrived at San Francisco
Sunday, was arrested on the charge of muir
dering, about year ago, in China, the Sec
ordinate of the ship o. P. Whitmore from
Baltimore.
While the steamboat Mcclellan was oppo-
site Caracole, in Columbia, S. c., on the LIST
of May, hue of the boiler collapsed, scald-
ing nearly every person on the main deck and
blowing about fifteen into the river. AS far
as known 26 lives were lost.
In the western suburb of Montreal Sunday,
abe seats of an amphitheatre gave way, ser
iously injuring number of persons. The
police attempting to dispense the crowd were
turned upon and badly beaten. No explana-
ton of the affair is given by the kilograms.
During military review at Montreal, on
Saturday evening, riot grew out OF fight
between an Orange Young Briton and Cath
Ole. A troop of cavalry was unable to dis
perse the mob until reinforced by the police.
Several persons were wounded, and one was
arrested.
The President, on Saturday, nominated
General John C. Fremont to be Governor of
Arizona; John P. Hoyt, now Governor of
Arizona, to be Governor of Idaho, in place OF
Bragman, removed; and George N. Burd-
sail to be Assistant Appraiser for New York.
Judge Grant, of Davenport, Iowa, has
adopted seventeen girls, and most of them
are married. When he launches one of his
girls he always provides generous outfit for
her. That is the kind of practical philan-
thropy that takes out West with both sexes.
A Vermont cat story says a Readsbory cat
recently brought from the woods young red
squirrel, which she placed with her kittens
and is bringing it up with them. The squirrel
suckles with the kittens, and receives its due
share of the mother cats affection and ca
resses."
John A. White, prominent lawyer of New
York, died in February, 1877, and it is said
the discovery has been made that he embez
zled from forty-ive to sixty thousand dollars
from two estates of which he was trustee.
One of the estates was held for the benefit of
mis- sisters-in-law.
1t is reported from northern Mexico that
Col. Naranjo, with 200 cavalry, is advancing
to reinforce Colonel Nuncie, who is holding
Escobedo at bay near Lampassas. Escobedo
will then have to fight 400 men with half that
number. 1t is supposed he will prefer to
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The Mark Lane Express says wet weather
has had an unfavorable effect upon the crop
prospects in England and Scotland, and how
ever favorable the weather may be in the
next two months, appearances do not favor
the presumption of more than bare average
yield as regards wheat and barley.
On Friday afternoon of last week, VIM. A.
and A. Waller Andrews, brothers, left Boston
for Havre in the smallest vessel that has yet
attempted to cross the ocean. The craft is
10 feet 2 inches in length, and feet inches
in beam. She is provisioned for sixty days,
though the adventures expect to reach Havre
in forty-fve days.
A heavy wind and hail storm prevailed in
the vicinity of Augusta, Ga, Sunday. Thos
Wynn's gin factory and numerous smaller
buildings were Frustrated. The hail damaged
cotton and corn considerably. Three chill
dren are reported killed. Reports from the
interior state that the hail, WHICH was as large
as hens eggs, killed poultry, hogs and young
cattle, and beat through the roofs of houses.
Dispatches from Greenwich, Washington
county, N. Y, relative to the failure of the
national bank at that place, allege that great
rascality has been practiced by the officers;
that the entire capital of 100000 has been
wiped out, that the stock was held by farmers
and others who cannot afford their losses,
that large sums were loaned parties unable
to pay, and that the affairs of the bank were
run by ring.
The wounds of the Emperor William, of
Germany, have healed, and though the right
arm is still swollen, it is less susceptible. He
celebrated on Monday the forty ninth ami
versary of his marriage. 1t is expected that
Nobilfng, the would-be regcide, will also re-
cover. Many arrests have been made among
the classes infected with Socialism, and the
excitement is kept up by the approaching
elections for members of the Reichstag, the
dissolution of the German Parliament having
been ordered.
Advices from the section of Mexico dis
turbed by the Lerdist instruction report the
defeat of two hundred insurgents, under GAIA
Avala. by Colonel Algeria, with one hundred