The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-17
News of the Week.

Penitentiary.
Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks Of Indiana, has
gone to Newport.
4 The yellow fever IS at the quarantine sta
ton, and the Marine Hospital, Baltimore
A Russian torpedo boat exploded Monday
IN the harbor OF Nicolief, killing thirty men.
Mrs. Smith Johnson, of West Rutland, VI,
I tell from wagon on Saturday and broke her
neck
/ There are now over one dozen public laun-
dries IN Balumore,-ten years ago there was
not one.
The Allan Line Of steamships is carrying
large numbers from Baltimore to Halifax,
/ Nova Scotia, every trip.
/ The amount embezzled by Conant from
the Elliot National Bank of Boston is report
ed by the bank examiner at SOS, 900.
Work on the East river bridge, al New
/ York, has been suspended for the want of APP
Preparations, and five hundred men discharg-
! ed.
Daniel W. Reed, of Maiden, Mass, started
I on Monday from Boston, to walk to San
Francisco. He expects TO reach there in $50
days.
The tranquility of Cuba being fully restor-
ed, decree has been issued raising the state
of siege which has existed for more than four
years.
Thomas Titus, of Wilmington, Del. escap
ed Sunday night from the New Castle jail,
where he was serving out his sentence for
arson.
Some time during Sunday night the store
off. Stephany, Of Seaford Del, was entered
/ by burglars and robbed of $3.50 worth of
clothing.
Two thousand Of the S., 600 stolen from the
Exchange Bank at Anderson, Ind, on Sa,ur-
day, has been found in the cemetery at Elm
wood, Ind,
The people of Illinois have lost thus far
| S641 ,595 by delalcations on the part of TWEEN.
/ ty-three county officers. OF these only FIVE
have been punished.
The river Nile is rising favorably, and is
now higher than at any time last year. The
cotton crop, it is estimated, will consequent
" yield 100000 pounds.
Hon. Edward Stanhope, Secretary for India.
ANNOUNCED in the British Parliament on Tues.
day that !, $780, 900 persons had died from the
recent famine in that country.
The Post-ofiice authorities in San Francis.
CO, under instructions from Washington, are
preparing to transport 81 ,OOO, 900 in gold to
New York as third-class mail matter.
]. II. 0'Neil and Michael Curley, laborers.
had tight on Tuesday, in New York, during
which . Neil threw Curley down an embank-
ment q feet high and killed him instantly.
An excursion party of 620 persons, from
Western Maryland and the Cumberland Valley
left Harrisburg, Pa, Thursday week for
Cape May and returned safely ON Saturday
Mrs. Elizabeth Pierce was throttled, knock
ed down, savagely kicked, and robbed of sew.
eral packages by colored higEwayman, on
Fx-fh usr
ington, last Saturday night
Mr.. William Myers barn, in Oxford Neck.
Talbot county, Md. was burnt on the 9th IL
contained about 500 bushels Of wheat. The
fire is supposed to have been caused by
little negro girl playing with matches
Nearly one thousand cars of wheat, aggre.
eating about 400, 900 bushels, we're received
at Toledo, Ohio, during twenty-four hours.
ending at noon Monday, being the largest
amount ever received there in the same length
of time.
Wilbur q Wither's carriage manufactory, a
dwelling and barn at Sandy Hill, near Troy,
n. Y, were burned on Sunday; loss SIG
500. Mrs. Otis 4. Tiifit, an invalid, As years
of age, was frightened to death BY the sound
of the alarm bell.
The Chief Constable of South Carolina ar.
rived in Boston on Saturday with n requisi-
ton for ex-State Treasurer Kimpton. A tel.
egram from Governor Rice, of Massachusetts
who is at Saratoga, directs that full hear.
ing in the case be had.
A freight train on the Erie railroad ran
over the body of Bartholomew McGrail near
Passaic bridge, n. j., Sunday night The
head was severed from the body, but no blood
flowed from 1t and as the body was cold, il is
believed to be a case of murder.
VIM. MeNutt was shot and instantly killed
at Cannonsburg, Pa, Tuesday by n wealthy
farmer named Tannehll. who caught him
eating fruit in his orchard The deceased
was highly respected young man, 81 years
of age. Tannehill has not been arrested
The members of the Chinese Embassy who
arrived in Hartford, Conn, on Saturday, will
remain at the Chinese headquarters in that
city for two or three weeks They will de-
cline anything like public reception until
after their presentation to the President
George A. Deitz in letter to the Commits
sioner of agriculture, dated Sacramento, July
y, says:-.'We have the prospect of harvest.
ing the largest crop of grapes ever grown in
California, and are making preparations to
cure one thousand tons of grapes into raisins. -
Two men named Hanks and Gilman, the
latter collection agent for Boston house
were stopped while driving through the
woods near Medfeld, Mass, on Saturday. by
a gang of armed men and compelled to deliv-
er $4,000. Detectives are looking for the
robbers.
On Saturday afternoon two men entered
the Exchange Banking House of Grim & Co.
at Anderson, Ind, and while the cashier was
making change for one of them the other
stole $4,000 Both escaped. Two men sus-
peeted of being the thieves were arrested on
n train near indianapolis.
John b. Tinsley, Jr., the lessee of the
Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Virginia, died
. there on Monday. He was well known TO the
travelling public North ~and South. having
been connected for years with watering places
in the mountains of Virginia aud with hotels
in Baltimore and Richmond.
Yellow fever at New Orleans shows no
abatement, and the scourge is spreading to
other towns. Ii has broken out at Vicks-
burg, Miss, and at Grenada in the same
State, one hundred cases had occurred and
twelve deaths within twenty-iOur hours. St
/ Louis and Memphis also have it.
A gang of four tramps managed to rob the
express and baggage car of Western bound
train near Atchison, Kansas, on Monday
night ofover five thousand dollars in money.
There were four men in the car, whom they
! overawed by leveled pistols, and effected their
object and compelled them TO stop the train
while they got off.
4 telegram from Victoria, Y. l., saws the
| Parliament OF British Columbia has finally
passed the Chinese Tax bill reducing the
amount from $50 to $40 per year. The Col
oRist, an anti Chinese paper, attacks the bill
for the absurdity of its provisions, and says
It was drawn by heavy employers of Chinese
labor to insure its disallowance at Ottawa"
Willie George Richardson, flagman on the
! Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, was killed at
I Frederickshall, Va, by the western bound
express train Monday morning Richardson
was sitting on n cross-tie, with his red light
/ between his knees, awaiting the crossing Of
/ train, and in this position be fell asleep, the
/ express train running over him and killing
\ him instantly. His body was terribly mutt
( lated.
/ \ hail storm passed over at Pakraez, Sal
\ vonia, last, month, which lasted four hours
| One person was killed. % were fatally and
| $50 slightly injured. About 400 head of cat
I tie were killed. The harvest was destroyed,
the fruit trees were broken and even large
oak and fir trees were uprooted. Among the
hailstones weighed by the authorities we're
some six kilogrammes apiece, say thirteen
and a-quarter pounds.
Tho boot ovI .L,. + IN.