The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-03-30


cigars in their way are as good as our beef
and oysters, and has begun to import them
on an immense scale.
The mountains along the line of the Balti
more and Ohio railroad near Cumberland,
Nd, were covered with snow, in some places
six inches deep, Monday morning.
WIN. NJ. Tweed refuses to give testimony
in behalf of the city of New York until the
promises made by the officials to have him
released should be carried into effect.
Major Welsh of the Canadian Northwest
Mounted Police, still discredits the rumors in
relation to the belligerency of Sitting Bull.
He says he believes Sitting Bull will adhere
to the peaceful promises he has made.
o. 7. Billiard, the member of the Pennsyl.
vania House of Representatives, who embez-
zled certain building association funds, and
escaped from the custody of the sergeant-at
arms in February, has been expelled from
the House.
At Waltham, Mass, on Wednesday, James
Larkin while drunk beat his mother nearly to
death, set fire to the house, and then jumped
in the river. The current bore him to land,
the police rescued his mother, put out the
fire and put him in Jail.
/ An effort is to be made to introduce the
/ Moffett register into the bar rooms of New
]
I q cents on each drink of spirituous liquor,
/ and half cert on each drink of malt liquor
would yield a revenue of several million dol.
lars in New York city alone.
The steamship Strasburg, which arrived at
| New York, Sunday from Bremen, reports
having passed, on the 18th instant, in latitude
AZ "A, longitude 20 26, ship on fire and
| abandoned. The vessel was apparently an
American craft, three-m asted, but whether
full-rigged ship or bark could not be ascer-
tanned.
Hon. J. CLANCY Jones died in Reading,
Pa, on Sunday night, aged &C years. He
was a native of Pennsylvania, and was elected
to Congress in 1850, serving until 1858. In
1856 he was one of the Democratic Presiden-
tal Electors. In 1858 he was Minister to
Austria, and served during the remainder of
President Buchanan administration.
John L. Vance, lately Democratic member
Of Congress from the Eleventh Ohio District,
disappeared from Cincinnati last Friday un.
der circumstances indicating that he either
wandered off while insane, or was decoyed to
1 disreputable part of the city and foully dealt
with. He had been suffering in mind for
some time in consequence of overwork.
Hon. John Allison, Register of the United
States Treasury, died suddenly in Washington
]
Allison was the son Of Hon. James Allison,
a distinguished lawyer of Western Pennsylva-
MIA, and member of the Eighteenth Congress
Mr.. Allison was born in Beaver, Pa, August
| 5, 1912.
| Mr.. Robert Maxwell, master mechanic at
Cumberland, Md, for the Baltimore and
| Ohio railroad company, has fallen in with
| good luck. His great grandfather, who was
Bavarian duke, has died, leaving an i'm
mense fortune. Mr. Maxwell is one of the
heirs, most of whom reside in Philadelphia
Mr.. Maxwelrs portion win amount to millions
of dollars.
| Besides the two men hanged in South Car
olina last Friday, and the three negro broth
ers named Childs, hanged in Alabama, and
the pair hanged in Delaware, Monday wit
messed q triple hanging in Pennsylvania,
while on Wednesday the two Brassell broth
ers were hanged in Tennessee. Twelve legal
hangings, not TO count lynchings, make hea-
Wy six days work of this sort.
Three men were killed by an explosion of
dynamite on Tuesday, at the Gunpowder
| Water Works, near Baltimore. Since the
commencement of the works sixteen men
have lost their lives; five by premature ex-
| plosions, three by n land slide at the Gun
powder dam, and the others by the falling OF
rocks and by men falling down shafts at diff
fsrent points along the works.
Telegraphic reports from numerous points
in the peach regions of Delaware and the
| Eastern Shore of Maryland state that the Sc
we're cold of Sunday and Monday has greatly
I damaged the peach crop, the buds of the late
varieties having been nearly ready to bloom.
The crop, it is feared, will be very small, but
the extent of the damage cannot be accurate
| " ascertained for some days.
The schooner General Miller sailed from
| San Francisco on the 10th of February for
Alaska, among her passengers being Colonel
] Woods, U. s. Collector of Customs for that
| Territory. Some days ago she was discov-
cred bottom upward few miles north of
the harbor of San Francisco, and there is
little doubt that all on board are lost. The
vessel and cargo are valued at $4,000.
The Treasury, having sufficient silver bull
lion on hand TO coin silver dollars for several
weeks to come, will not negotiate for addi-
tional purchases of such bullion in the
meantime, unless the price of silver falls to
such figure as will ''make it particularly
! advantageous for the Government to pur-
chase" Arrangements are nearly completed
by which two millions of the new dollars will
be coined in the Philadelphia Mint during
next month.
The L. S. sloop-of-war Wyoming, which
sailed from New York on the 18th instant,
with goods for the Paris Exposition, returned
to port on Sunday for repairs. When 500
miles out she was found to be leaky, and the
captain, fearing heavy head winds and in
creased leakage, concluded to put back. He
has gone to Washington for instructions. 1t
is said the Wyoming will probably go upon
the dry dock, and that her repairs can be
concluded in two days.
night destroyed the Ketterlinus block, a large
five-story iron front structure, at the southeast
corner of Fourth and Cherry streets, burned
several buildings on Fourth street and dam
aged several others, spread east along Cherry
street, then along LoXleys court, and then
east in spots as far rs the western side OF
Front street, destroying and damaging mum
Der of buildings. The total loss is estimated
at 81, 100000
John Wallace, the fend who was arrested
for the murder of his brother wife, child and
niece near LittletOn. West Virginia, on Wed
nesday of last week, and who subsequently,
confessed TO having committed the deed, was
, early Sunday morning taken in charge by a
party of fifteen men who, after placing rope
around his neck, dragged him distance of q
mile and half and hung him an apple
tree. George Wallace, charged with being
accessory TO the murder, has been brought to
Wheeling and lodged in Jail.
The British training ship Eurydice, capsiz
ed and sunk on Sunday off the Isle of Wight
was bound home from a cruise to Bermuda
with a crew of about $50 officers and men
including go young men in training for the
navy. Besides these she is supposed to have
on board about twenty officers and men taken
on board at Bermuda as invalids. The dis
aster occurred within view of the soiourners
at Yentnor, the famous watering place, and
they had been admiring the gallant sight of a
man OF. war under full sail, but dipersed by
the sudden snow squall, which also hid the
catastrophe. The spectators saw nothing
when the squat had passed but the schooner
Emma lowering her boats to pick up the few
survivors.
The international walking match came to 9
close on Saturday evening at ten minutes after
eight o clock, when o. Leary had completed
$50 miles and 420 yards, the best performance
on record. Vaughan retired at 1888, having
accomplished 500 miles. Brown made Az
miles and secured his third place, the rest Of
the competitors being far behind. O'Leary
was declared the winner amid the playing OF
national airs and boundless excitement and
enthusiasm. O'Leary, though of Irish birth,
was raised in the United States, and EN-.
barked in the match as the American cham
u.