The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-31
News of the week.

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the 18th instant.
Two cases of yellow fever are reported At
Philadelphia Municipal Hospital, refugees
from Vicksburg.
The telephone has been adopted in all
branches of the German army. II Is tboupht
that It Will be exceedingly advantageous for
outpost duty.
The entire force in the Erie CITY. Pa. Iron
Works are at work, and for the first time
since the panic every machine in both shops
is in use.
The shoemakers' strike at Chicago is
ended, an amicable settlement between the
manufacturers and employees having been
effected.
firm IN Mechanicsburg, Pa, is shipping
the woodwork for the running gear of fine
carriages to Paris, London, and parts of
Germany.
A Westmoreland county, Pa. farmer
claims to have discovered process for max.
ing sugar from corn stalks at cost of three
cents pound.
At Princeton, KY, Monday, two men,
named Riggs and Luttrel, on trial for horse
stealing, attempted to escape from the court
room and we're shot dead.
The Elkton Nd. Methodists claim to have
the oldest Sunday school Superintendent in
the work, VIM. Torbert Esq. He has held
his office A consecutive years.
Horace II. Day, one of the first manufae-
turers of vulcanized rubber in this country un-
der the Goodyear patent, died in Manchester.
n. H., on Friday night, aged 81 years.
The sloop yacht Zephyr, with fishing party
from New York on board, capsized in Sheeps-
head Bay, l.. l., on Sunday, and four of the
party, including the captain, were drowned.
The united ages of thirteen persons, seven
men and SIX women, published in the IhiLd-
delphid Ledger, last week, aggregated LILY
years. Three of the number were aged 81
"a, and 80.
Samuel Harper, a prominent citizen of
Annville, Pa, and owner of considerable real
estate, was sentenced on Saturday to 20
months imprisonment in the penitentiary for
arson.
Three children of Mr.. Yenables, chief engi-
neer ofthe Toronto Water Works, aged re-
spectively 8, and years, were accidentally
drowned in the bay, at Toronto, on Sunday
night.
The paper currency of Austria has risen to
the level of silver, and the question of resump-
ton is beginning to be agitated, but is com
plicated there as here with that of the proper
relation of silver and gold
A blind man eighty years of age, an in
mate of the Andover Workhouse, in England.
has been remanded, charged, on his own con-
fession, with the murder of gentleman on
the Salisbury road many years ago.
Judge Stewart, of Cambridge, Md, has re-
Gently had his face operated upon by an EN-.
inent physician of Baltimore and is in a fair
way to recover from the dangerous tumor
that has troubled him for years past.
BY an act of the Legislature of PENINSULA
MIA every person who allows the Canada thistle
to grow ON his premises is liable to fine of
SIS. 1t is also made the duty of every consta-
BILE to see that such fine be imposed and paid.
The British steamship Yorkshire, which
arrived at Baltimore on Sunday, brought the
crew of the Russian bark Arvid, abandoned
at sea on the 10th instant. The cook of the
Arvid was lost in trying to get into the boat
The FIVE hundred American laborers who
went to Brazil to work on a railway are repor-
ted to be in deplorable condition. Only
five were able to work. Fevers, starvation
and everlasting rains have done the business
for them.
A new ordinance in Erie, Pa, under which
tramps are sentenced to thirty days hard
labor in the chain gang breaking stone in the
streets, is working well. 1t has greatly re-
duced the number of these pests, as, when
released, they nearly always quit the city.
An inspection of the United States steam
ships Congress, Sabine and Kansas, now at
the Portsmouth, n. II. Navy Yard, shows
them TO be worthless, and it is recommended
that they be broken up. 1t is doubted wheth-
er anything better can be done with the 0ma-
ha, at the same yard.
Reports have reached Portland, Oregon,
of threatened Indian trouble at Priests Ran.
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have been killed. Troops are to leave Cello
for the scene on Wednesday, and it is though.
that General Howard, now at Umatilla, will
probably accompany them.
The Methodist Conference of Colorado has
just been held in Golden, Bishop Simpson
presiding. Twenty-three ministers were in
attendance. The statistical report states
that there are 2035 members and 233 proba-
TONERS, 35 churches, % local preachers, and
1886 Sunday school scholars.
The Je'cish Messenger remarks that when
Richard CRur de Lion conquered Cyprus in
III he gave orders that no jew should be
present at the ceremony which completed
the conquest; and that now, eight centuries
afterward, England has to thank BENJAMIN
Disraeli, Jew, for its new possession.
A despatch from Boise City, Idaho, of the
| 10Th instant says that four men in pursuit of
Indians who had stolen their stock, were fired
upon by Indians near the Falls of Payotte, on
the 18th, and three ofthem were killed. The
other was wounded. One hundred Infantry
under Major Dunn went in pursuit Of the en-
envy.
In Newcastle, England, on the register of
! st. Andrews Church, is the following entry.
"April "a, 1888, were buried James Anchor
and his son Stephen who, in the month of
H. 4 - Al,
! Gala fat by the breaking in of the water
from an old waste. The bodies were found
after thirty-six years and eleven months"
The Chinese embassy will take up their res
idence in Washington about the middle of
September and present themselves to the
| President after his return from Minnesota.
1t is announced by their American Secretary
that they do not intend to give grand enter
tainments, but desire to live quietly and at
tend to the business upon which they we're
sent
Oscar McGregor, an employee of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, was at work
/ fastening the wires on the new poles between
| GTeenville and Pamrapo, n. j., on Wednes-
day, when a storm came up. He was joining
two wires at the time, and thought to finish
before descending. Suddenly the lightning
ran along the wire, and the shock compelled
him to release his hold. He fell to the
ground distance of twenty feet, but was
not seriously hurt.
| At the last session of Congress S15,0
were appropriated for preliminary survey
for ship canal across the peninsula between
the Chesapeake and Delaware bays. The
work of making the survey has been placed
/ by Col. Craighill under the charge of Major
/ n. II. Hutton, of Baltimore. Surveys will
| be made of all the proposed routes and esti-
mates of the cost and availability of each,
submitted to Col. Craighill. Parties will be
| put in the field Immediately.
! An engagement took place between twelve
revenue officers and gang of illicit distillers,
near Cookerville, in 0verton county, Tennes-
see, on Friday evening. The officers were
about to put up for the night, when they were
Unexpectedly fired upon by twenty or thirty
men. A skirmish followed, in which a distil-
Ter was seen to fall, aud three of the revenue
men were wounded, one perhaps fatally.
| Eighteen armed men left Nashville on Satur-
/ day night to reinforce the posse.
At Hartford, Conn, on the Odd instant,
! Rarus trotted the fastest three successive
heats ever trotted-2. Is, 2.134 and 2.l33.
! Each heat was trotted through without break.
/ The conditions Of the trial we're purse of
| 81, 500 if three heats averaged 2.lS or under,
and $500 extra if =. II was beaten. Lula and
! Great Eastern did not start. Edwin Forrest
/ only trotted two heats Time, = l4A, . l6.