The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-16
News of the Weak.


eastern Shore, has just planted 90 .O0O0 sal.
mon IN the tributaries of Elk river, Nd.
The British ship Fifeshire has been totalIv
lost on the passage from Madras to Liyerpooi.
twenty-five OF her crew were drowned.
Every machine shop in Hagerstown. Nd has
6een running to its full capacity in the MANN
iactnre OF useful implements of husbandry.
The mldshipmen of the Naval Academy ON
thanksgiving day will have sham parades.
| sack ana morse racing, base ball, &c, in the
u IS reported from Winnipeg that war has
broken out between the Sioux and BIaekfeet
ana the Assineboine Indians. Several of the
latter have been killed.
Black Warrior, celebrated stallion, with
ten other horses, persisted in the burning of
robert MeCrea's barn and store at Cham
plan, New York, on Saturday.
The training ship Minnesota has been order
cd from Newport to New York for the win
ter The training ship Saratoga has been or
dered from Philadelphia to Baltimore.
The city of New York has effected a set
Element with Messrs. Rogers and Jones. the
Tweed Ring stationers. They have accepted
100000 in full satisfaction for claims amount
ing to two millions.
The Paris Exhibition was finally closed
Sunday evening. The total receipts have
been II, 653, 746 francs or 81, $50. 929. The
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition receipts
were 1913, 1875.
The y. 5. Court now in session at Charles
town, w. Va, has before it 1Sl indictments
against illicit distillers, and the number is ex-
Pected to reach three or four hundred before
the close Of the session.
The old Endicott pear tree, set out by Gov.
/ E1nHleOft Al
estate, now owned by Mr.. Page, at Deavens-
port IS alive and hourishing, having borne two
bushels of pears this season.
w. II. Anderson, Sheriff of Dallas county.
Texas attempted to arrest William Collins,
one OF the train robbers in Pembina, Dakota,
on Thursday. Collins resisted, and the men
exchanged shots, both falling dead.
A member of the Howard Association, who
Is assisting IN making up the report of the
work OF that association, thinks that during
the last four months there have been 40, 600
cases of fever in New Orleans and its vicinity.
While man named Jamerson was going
up stairs in a boarding house in Poughkeepsie,
N :, on Saturday, carrying an open pocket
knife Ibis hand, he slipped and fell, and the
blade penetrated his abdomen, inhicting a
! fatal wound.
workman, named John David, attempted
to remove man hole from n large gasome-
ter on Star Island, near Portsmouth, n. H.,
on Saturday, when an explosion blew him
high into the air, causing fatal injuries The
building was wrecked.
The Holly System of heating houses with
steam sent throughout street mains has lust
been established IN Springfield, Mass, where
gas company has bought the right. Spring
field is the second city 10 try it, Lockport N
Y, having been the first.
AT Wappinger Falls, n. Y, on Thursday
night, Chas. Brewer, while drunk, assaulted
James Patterson, aged 81 years. Brewer
struck the old man with his fist, knocking
him down, and infiieting injuries which result.
ed fatally. The murderer escaped.
General Gilmore has been in Charleston.
S. c., for several days, arranging for the
transportation of granite and other material
for the national jetties in the harbor there
The work will be commenced on December
LIST on Sullivan's Island or north jetty.
Francis Murphy, the Total Abstinence ad-
Vocate, began crusade in the Seventh Street
NJ. Z. Church, in New York, on Sunday The
church was well filled in the morning, and
crowded in the afternoon and evening. Over
one hundred persons signed the pledge.
Mrs. Martha Rebecca Ireland died at Lyons,
n. Y, on October %, at the advanced age of
100 years and months. She was the widow
of Rev. Daniel Ireland, who died in 1S47.
She died from old age alone, and retained
her faculties up to the time of her decease.
Senators VOORHEES,, Patterson, Grover and
Garland, the committee appointed to visit the
Indian Territory for the purpose of ascertain
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of erectingit into the Ter
ritory of Oklahoma, will meet in st. Louis
this week and proceed to the scene of their
investigation.
There are again nnmistakable signs of an.
other railroad war in the matter of freight
and passenger rates. The cutting process |
has already begun and promises to continue |
until the managers put their heads together |
and again agree upon schedule to govern |
all the lines.
The weather on the continent of Europe is |
decidedly cold, with heavy falls of snow. |
The Apprentices and Black forest are covered, |
and the Swiss mountain passes are blockaded. |
In France the rivers are very high, threaten
ing foundations, and in England the weather /
is cold and wet.
Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, |
was seriously injured on Thursday afternoon /
of last week while deer hunting near Cofum-
bia. He was mounted on a mule, which be- /
coming frightened and the bride breaking, |
the Governor jumped off. His right leg was /
bones protruding. The injuries will con6ne |
him to his bed for a long time
Peter Froman, a seaman, killed a com
rade off the South Carolina coast q few 1
months ago and fed to England Arriving /
on British soil and confessing himself mur- |
derer he was held by the authorities until ex. /
tradited by the United States. On Saturday !
last while endeavoring to escape from the Off 1
GERS at Beaufort, South Carolina, he was run |
over and killed by passing railway train.
The Philadelphia Ledger says Paris talks i
about maintaining its Exhibition building as 4
a place for popular entertainments; and in a |
city like Paris, where there is so much de- /
mand for such accommodations on Sunday, I
use may be found for the great structure. 1t /
seems waste of money to tear down these /
grand edifices after using them for less than /
a year. Still they are quite likely to turn /
out 'white elephants" like our Machinery /
hall, when they are allowed to stand.
BY the report of the United States consul 1
at Glasgow recently transmitted to the depart |
ment 1t appears that wages are steadily de- 1
clining in that country. Laborers receive |
from fifty to seventy-fve cents a day; miners /
eight TO twelve cents per hour; mechanics 81 |
O week; printers So. On railways, eondue- /
tors are paid 50 to Sc week; switch tenders /
So; engine drivers 10 to Il cents an hour: |
hremeu TO cents an hour. The cost of /
living is about the same as in the United !
States.
Full particulars of the great fire which de-
vastated Cape May on Saturday show that
nine hotels, twenty cottages, about one
thousand bath houses, and Denizot's pier
were burned, and the loss is estimated at
about $780, 900. The FIRE Is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary. The hotels
destroyed we're the Ocean House, Congress
Hall, the Merchants Hotel, the Centre House.
the Atlantic House, the Avenue House, the
Centennial Hotel, the Knickerbocker House.
The burned district covers about forty acres.
Near Alexandria, No., last week Vim. P.
Andrus suspicioned that two colored men de-
signed robbing the the grave of the body of a
man who had just been buried on his farm.
About midnight he started to the grave, tax
ing with him double. barreled gun loaded
with buckshot. When within sixty yards of
the grave he discovered by the moonlight that
the robbers were at work in it. Hearing his
approach the men jumped out of the grave,
but Andrus fired both barrels and struck both,
killing one and severely wounding the other
Andrus was summoned before the grand jury,
but after investigation discharged.
The Minnequa, Pa, Springs Hotel was
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