The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-12-21
News Of the Week.

Twenty-Five newspapers suspended in low
during November.
Snow to the depth of twelve inches fell a
Chicago on Saturday.
A Kershaw, S. c., farmer raised 416 bush
els of sweet potatoes to the acre.
A Jewess, Nine. Rachel Ben Hamon, ha
just died in Algeria aged los years.
Mrs. Mary Snowberger died near Waynes
bero, Pa, on the 18th inst, in the 9th yea
of her age.
Bayard Taylor, the United States Minister
to Germany, is said to be hopelessly i'll o
dropsy at Berlin.
Aladyin Somerset county Md. has just finish
ed bed quilt which she began 81 years ago
1t has 5000 pieces.
Edwin Booth is clearing from $1,000 to
81, 900 week by acting this season, his terms
being half the receipts.
Adams county, Pa, has boy, son of John
Nary, whose weight is 191 pounds. He is
only twelve years of age.
A clock that came over in the Mayfower is
exhibited at Omro, Wis. Fortunately, it
didn't ''stop when the old man died.
Cholera is raging with unusual severity in
Morocco. In one small village thirty-six out
of thirty-seven persons have died.
At Amherst, Va, Mr.. A. J.. Burks, white
man, was fined 500 and sentenced to a year. S
imprisonment for marrying negress.
The German colonies near Marengo, Iowa,
established twenty years ago, now own.30, 900
acres of land, valued at $50 per acre.
Over 1000 farmers in Maine have taken
hold of the beetsugar enterprise, and are
raising this root for the factory in that State.
A curiosity in the shape of white porcu-
pine, an animal rarely seen by naturalists,
was recently shot in the vicinity of Newbury
Vermont.
Mrs. Mary Stempson, mother in-law of
Brick Pomeroy, has gone deranged in Sher-
man, Tex, where she kept fashionable
millinery establishment.
Out of two hundred and thirty nine towns
in Kentucky which have voted under local
option law, two hundred and five have voted
"no license" or in favor ofprohibition.
The census of Centreville, Nd, taken
a few days ago, shows the population to con-
sist of ISL white and 401 colored persons,
total l, 152. Since 1870, So houses have been
built.
William Brown, ST., aged &c years, we'll
known citizen of Rockdale, near Chester, Pa.
on Monday morning drank two ounces of
tincture of aconite in mistake for whiskey,
and died instantly.
In the Superior Court, al Springfield, Mass.
on Saturday, Frank Finn, a tramp, convicted
of felonious assault upon Mrs. Tracey, IN
July last, was sentenced TO Imprisonment In
the penitentiary for life.
In the u. S. District Court, at Portland,
Oregon, the suit of the United States against
w. c. Griswold, charged with fraud in con-
nection with the Indian war claims of 1854,
has resulted in a verdict for the Government
of $35, 228.
Moses Ford, colored, convicted at Frank
lin, Va, on Monday, of stealing $40, was
to be whipped. After undergoing
the punishment, he went to the door Of his
mothers house and blew out his brains with
a shotgun.
The bodies of Seward Vantyne and Ethan
Allen, who left Plattsburg, N. Y, for Grand
Isle, in row boat, on the 4th instant, were
found in the boat in little bay of Low Is
land, on Saturday. They had persisted from
exposure and cold.
The United States Grand Jury at Madison,
Wis, has strongly censured J. l.. Mahon,
Indian Agent at the Lapoint Agency, for
gross neglect of duty in permitting the unre-
stricted sale of liquor to the Indians which
has gone on for years.
A half-breed Canadian Indian, named Nue.
has been found murdered in the
woods near Montpelier, VT, with his dog
lying beside him also dead. Loyal Carr, with
whom the Indian was last seen alive, has
been arrested for the murder.
Fifteen years ago the children of William
Gheris, of Hereford, Berks county, Pa. FIVE in
number, died of diphtheria. OF six children
since born five have recently died of the
same disease-the last two being inferred in
one grave only few days since.
The heaviest snow storm that has occurred
out West for ten years prevailed on the 18th.
1t lay on the ground to the depth of twenty
two inches, stopping railroad trains in the vi
cinity of Kansas City and at st. Louis. The
Missouri river was full of floating ice, and
was expected to be closed.
The Evangelical Ministers of Cleveland,
Ohio, have unanimously approved the propo-
sal of Mr.. Moody and the Ministers of Balti-
more, for "a united effort by all the churches
in the United States, in the month of Janua-
ry, following the week of prayer towards a
general revival throughout the land"
At the close of business on Monday, the
Treasury of the United States held S128, 100, :
Sol in coin. The Treasurer expects to have
on the first of January next, exclusive of all
demands, $135, 000,0 900 in coin, with which
to resume specie payments. Gold was quoted
in New York on Tuesday at par for the first
time since 1862.
A thrilling escape from death occurred last
week at the Pacific Falls. A man and boy
in lumber wagon were carried off by the
flood, and would have gone over the falls but
for the presence of mind of some spectators
who threw lines to the despair:ng man and boy
as they passed beneath the bridge above the
rapids. They were quickly hauled up out of
danger while the wagon and its load plunged
over the falls.
Our consul at Geneva Informs the State
Department that the first cargo of American
coal arrived in that city on November 22d.
1t was exported by the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company. The coal was
to have been tested at once in the founderies
and hotels of Geneva, and should the result
prove favorable, large portion of the coal
consumed In Switzerland will be imported
from the United States.
Because Miss Mary A. Staples, of Norwich,
Connecticut, persisted in marrying in his pow
erty, her lover, Edward F. Chase, her father,
the late James Staples, one of the richest
farmers in the State, refused to see them, and
when he died he left will providing that
while she lived with her husband she should
inherit none of his property. She got d.
voree, got the property, married her husband
again, and is now living with him in content
ment and comfort.
Jack Kehoe, the king of the murderous
Molly Maguires was hung at Pottsville, Pa, on
Wednesday. Kehoe's wife and six small
children called at the prison and took leave
of him. They remained long and the parting
was very affecting. His aged father then
babe him farewell. Kehoe bore himself with
fortitude during the day. He asserted his in
nocence of the murder of Langdon and of all
the crimes imputed to him, except the muir
of German James.
Four negroes fred a mill in Columbia
county, Florida, month ago, and, while
the Superintendent was extinguishing the
flames they went to his house, beat his wife,
and took $500 of her husband s money They
were arrested, aud confessed the crime. On
Saturday morning. before daylight, they were
taken from the jail, at Lake City, by DISCUS,
ed mob, who shot two of them dead and NOR
tally wounded third. The other escaped,
and gave himself up to the authorities.
The export movements in breadstuffs con
tinue to keep up, notwithstanding the unfa-