The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-05-18
News of the Week.

Hon. Michael Bannon, State Senator from
Anne Arundel county, will leave July 1st fol
The American Print Works, at Fall River.
Mass, are expected to resume operations
June lst
There will be a camp meeting at WE. Nd.
the 10Th. N''''
rive tramps were arrested at Washington,
NO., Sunday, for cutting open and rifine .
mail pouch sent from ST. Louis.
Three horse thieves were lynched so miles
west OF Caddo, in the Indian Territory, las.
Wednesday night week.
The French Custom House officials will
not permit arms from the United States des.
tined tor Russia to land at Havre
The Rothsehilds have taken the remaining
hfteen million Of the four and half per cent.
bonds under the Syndicate contract.
John W. Painter has been arrested Mt Har.
risonburg, Va, for counterfeiting five cent
niekels. The moulds used bv him were seized
Warren Stanton and Dennis Davis, both
eolored, quarrelled at Frederick, Nd. on
Saturday night, and Stanton cut Davis throat.
causing death IN an hour.
General Grant accompanied by the Amer
lean Minister, Mr.. Noyes, Commissioner
General Mccormick and large delegation
OF Americans, visited the Paris Exhibition
on Saturday.
One hundred acres of sugar beets will be
planted this season. in the vicinity of Fairfield.
Name, as result of the establishment in the
State of Maine Of beet sugar factories.
Saturday was observed as Memorial Day
at Nicksburg, Mississippi, and the blue and
the gray marched in the same procession and
decorated the graves Of their dead comrades
with flowers.
Over 5000 acres of forest, near VINEYARD
Haven, Mass, have been devastated by fire.
Vineyard Haven was threatened by the flames
on Sunday night, but they were extinguished
Monday morning.
Miss Eifie De Costa, of Philadelphia. trod
on a parlor match. which ignited her dress
and resulted IN her fatal burning. Hattie
Green who came to her assistance was also
fatally burned.
AT Nelson Furnace, Kentucky, several
days ago, girl eleven years old was attacked
by game cock, which stuck one of its spurs
through the side of her head and into the
BRAIN, inficting fatal wound
Mrs. Sally Stockwell, of West Brattleboro.
has just celebrated her 99th birthday. Three
OF the guests present on the occasion we're
over so and ten over 20 years of age. Mrs.
Stockwell still retains all her faculties.
Edwin W. Hall, ex-President of the Mer-
chants National Bank of Whitehall, n. Y,
was arrested, on Saturday, on a charge of
having embezzled 100000 from the bank.
He was taken to Troy and held in $40, 900
bail.
The pauper population of Paris is relative
ly smaller by two-thrds than it was at the
beginning of the century, yet the figures are
still very high. The returns for last year
state that 1887 persons received public
relief
The trial of William Thomas, at New Cas-
tie, Del, for the murder of his wife, resulted
in his acquittal on Saturday night, the iury
believing him to have been Temporarily in
sane from drink at the time the crime was
committed.
A young man tried in Loudoun county.
Va, last week, for shooting into a crowd
who visited him the night of his marriage as
calathumpian band, thereby killing one of
the party, was sent to the Penitentiary for
eighteen years.
The steamboat Martha Washington, plying
between Baltimore and Fredericksburg, Va,
struck snag in the Rappahannock river on
Saturday night, and sunk after reaching her
wharf. Her passengers and freight were
landed before she sank.
G. X. Waterman was arraigned at Law
renee, Mass, on Saturday, for the embezzle-
ment of 100000 from the Pacific Mills cor
poration. He waived an examination and
pleaded not guilty. He was remanded in
default Of $4,000 bail.
Hannah Bordley, colored, died in Balti-
mo r~a fEhurcdax~ h.,1-aI - IL
years and three months old. She was a
laundress, and kept up her occupation until
shortly before her death. Her death was
preceded by one weeks illness.
There are now in GEORGETOWN, d. c., canal
level, about 100 coal boats unable to dis
charge their cargoes, in consequence of no
vessels being there to ship the coal to Eastern
ports. Hundreds of tons Of coal are piled
on the wharves awaiting shipment.
A Greenland, or right whale, forty feet
long, came ashore on q shosl near Long
Branch one day last week. IL was killed by
a farm laborer, who waded into the water
and plunged a scythe blade in its side. 1t
was towed to the fshoil factory at Port Mon
mouth, and is expected to yield forty barrels
of oil.
4 singular accident occurred several days
ago at New Lexington, Ohio. little girl,
while playing in a cemetery, approached a
small monument and caught playfully around
the stone when it parted at the joint and fell
on her, inficting such injuries upon the head
and body that the child died in few hours.
Notice ola reduction of four per cent in
the wages of the operators has been posted in
the Langdon Mills, at Manchester, n. II.
Similar notices will probably be posted in
the other Manchester mills this week. Owing
to the dullness of the market, the Stark Mills
have discontinued the manufacture of linen
goods, and are making crash goods from
cotton.
There were severe frosts in New England,
New York and portions of the Middle States
on Sunday night. The growing crops have
been damaged to some extent. Along the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, in North
western Virginia, the temperature was below
freezing on Sunday night. The higher noun
tains in New Hampshire and Vermont are
capped with snow.
In the Criminal Court at Memphis on Sat
urday Mark Williams was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment for shooting at several
negroes. On hearing the sentence the priso-
ner escaped from the court room and opened
fire from two revolvers on the officers pursu-
ing him. He was at last brought down by a
bullet in the hip and secured. He is under
indictment for numbering two colored men.
1t is reported from Buffalo that the military
at Fort Erie, Ont. Canada, were called out
before two o clock Sunday morning by Fe-
MAN scare. st. Catharine' was also reused,
and four companies of infantry and battery
were ordered to be readyto march at any time.
Military preparations are going on along
nearly the whole Canadian border TO resist
an anticipated Fenian raid.
Jason Scrihner, brutal father, living on a
small farm near Augusta, Maine, made an
onslaught on his own children with n spade
on Saturday. A girl three years old, a boy
of FIVE and babe were all fatally injured. A
boy of eleven made his escape, as also did
the mother with her infant, after the child
had received fatal wound. The mother the
day before had applied to the authorities for
protection, but it was unheeded.
A Meriden, Conn, storekeeper has a cat
which is nursing several kittens. A few days
ago young rat was caught and thrown into
the box in which the mother and family
were, the expectation being that they would
kill it. Strange to say the cats did not harm
it, but the mother adopted il, and is now
nursing and feeding it rs if it was one of her
own family. Since its adoption she has
killed several other rats.
Professor Joseph Henry, Secretary and
chief of the Smithsonian Institution, and
President Of the National Academy of Scien-
ces IN the United States, died on Monday in
the slst year of his age. The cause of his
death was an acute attack of Brights disease,