The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03


Colonel Nicholas Smith, the on-in-law of
Horace Greeley, Is leeturing in Kentucky.
There are said to be unsold and ready for
the market 5000, 900 barrels of oil in the oil
regions.
President Raymond, Of vassar College.
New York, is seriously i'll and in a critical
condition.
Two attempts have been made to burn the
house OF the clergyman who preached 10 the
Montreal Orangemen on the 18th of July.
Thirty-one new cases Of yellow fever and
hive deaths were reported in New Orleans for
the twenty-four hours ending Wednesday at
noon.
The Union Bank Of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
with $780, 600 capital, has resolved to 90 into
liquidation and close its business on the LIST
of August.
Twenty tramps we're arrested in Buffalo,
Tuesday. Seventeen of them were sentenced
to the county Jail for thirty days, and three
for sixty days.
The New York Sun insists that the real
owners of the New York World at present
are G: W. Childs, of Philadelphia, and An
tonic Drexel.
Hon. William Walsh has been confined to
his bed at Oakland, where he has been for
some time in hopes OF recovering from his
spell of sickness.
J. Z. Gauthier, aged Il, being mistaken for
a burglar, was shot dead by Charles Herman
dez, IN whose house he was lodging. in New
Orleans, on Monday night.
DIR. Alex. Hardcastle of Castle Hall, Car
oline county, estimates his peach crop of the
present season at $1,000 baskets. The Doc.
tor declined an offer of Sl0,0OO for his crop.
The Middletown, Del, Transcript says =
All the Peninsula editors, who have saved
enough money from the sale of eggs and early
potatoes, are spending few days at Ocean
City.
The Office of the Narrow Gauge Railroad
at South Camden, y. j., was entered on Sun
day night by three masked burglars, who
gagged the Waterman and robbed the safe of
$500.
A family of four persons in New Orleans
was poisoned Tuesday morning by using OK
alie acid in mistake for sugar. One of them
died, but it was thought the others would
recover.
Sixty-seven failures occurred in New York
city in July, with liabilities amounting TO So
3S,17l, an increase of fifty per cent. in mum.
Der and one hundred per cent. in liabilities
over the same month last year.
A masked mob rode into the town of Mon
roe, La, at one o. clock Tuesday morning.
took from the Parish Jail four colored men
accused of murder, and hanged them from a
tree in the Court House square.
The City Council of Cairo, ILL.,, has pro-
vided for quarantine against steamboats, and
railroad trains from below. Entrance to the
city is forbidden not only of fever patients.
but Of any kind Of baled goods likely to con
vey infection.
The firm of Scheppers Brothers, extensive
wooden manufacturers of Philadelphia, have
an arrangement with their creditors,
and viii resume business. This will give
employment to about sixteen hundred men,
women and children.
There we're FIVE steamboat excursions, CON-
posed of colored persons, to st. Michals on
Sunday last; three from Baltimore, one from
and one from Cambridge. The
was the assembling of the colored
Conference at that place.
Two convicts in the new penitentiary at
Concord, n. a., attempted to escape on Sat
urday afternoon. They were discovered on
the roof of the main building by the guard,
who fired several shots at them. wounding
one, it is thought, fatally.
There was more rioting in South Washing
ton among the disafected laborers on Satur-
day, and some of the leaders were arrested
on Saturday night and Sunday A meeting
of the disconnected is talked of, but, it is
said, the police will not allow it to be held.
The house of John Beltzhoover, near Boil.
ing Springs, in Cumberland county, Pa, was
entered on Monday night by two burglars.
who bound and gagged Beltzhoover and his
housekeeper, and secured about SI00inmoney.
The housekeeper succeeded in freeing herself
and alarmed the ueighbors, but the burglars
A violent storm of wind and rain passed
over Detroit, Michigan, Wednesday after
noon. During its continuance the fat gravel
roof of q wing of the moulding shop OF the
Detroit Stove Works was crushed in by the
weight of water upon it, and fell upon thirty
men. Only one of them, however, was seri-
ously injured
Last Saturday morning, some men fishing
with net opposite Five Mile Beach, Cape
May, n. j., caught an enormous saw fish.
The monster was hauled ashore and killed
with 4 boat hook. The fish measured sixteen
feet in length and five and one half in width.
The saw is four and one half feet long and
has fortY-nine teeth.
William Hines, a refugee from New Or
leans, has fallen sick of yellow fever in Gin.
cinnati, and was removed from 9 hotel to the
hospital, in that city, Tuesday. Quarantine
will be established st Cincinnati
for boats coming from New Orleans, though
it is believed there is no danger of yellow
fever spreading in the former city.
The Philadelphia iron mill owners have
given notice to their hands that on the lst of
a reduction of ten per cent will
be made in their wages The hands refused
to submit to it, but have been allowed till the
18th to decide whether they will accent or
not. If no decision is made by that time the
will certainly take place.
The New York Sun has story to the effect
that jaw Gould, the New York stock opera-
tor, is financially embarrassed and that loan
of his $4,000, 900 was thrown out of bank on
Tuesday in consequence of the fimsy nature
of his collaterals, which had evidently been
taken from the bottom of his box. The fall
ofGranger stocks is said 20 have pinched him.
There is no doubt about the malignant
character of the yellow fever seourge which
prevails in New Orleans. Up to July 80
eighty cases and thirty-six deaths have been
reported. This is fearful mortality. Ac-
tive quarantine regulations may save some
of the Gulf ports from visitation, but
the Mississippi river towns as far north as
Memphis viii probably be attacked.
James B. Mclaughlin, a lawyer, was shot,
and perhaps fatally wounded, by a client,
named Edward Orr, in Little Rock, Ark,
Wednesday morning. Orr, who has lust been
released from the county Jail, demanded his
valise, which had been left with the lawyer
as security for payment of his fee. The la
ter refused TO give it up until the fee was
paid, and Orr shot him in the lungs, thigh
and leg.
TROUBLED still threatened between the ri.
val muncipaliactions in St Louis A number
of Springfield rifles have been obtained and
placed IN the market house in East St. Louis
for Mayor Bowman's deputy marshals, to be
used in defense of the city property against
the Metropolitans. The Bowmanites say they
do not intend anything beyond defense, but
they will defend themselves and the city prop
erty ''to the last extremity.
Reports from the Rio Graude state that
Gen. Pedro Valdez, in command Of fifteen
hundred Mexican troops, is stationed in the
mountains above Eagle Pass watching for
Col. Mackenzie in. case he makes another raid
into Mexico in pursuit of the cattle robbers
who drove sixty head across the Rio Grande
last week to feed these very troops. The re-
ported capture of Gen. Escobedo is confirmed.
He was sick and concealed in a hacienda near
CuatrO Genegas, in the State of Coahuia.
The owner was threatened with death unless
he disclosed Eseobedo's hiding place, when
the General, to save his host, surrendered
himself.