The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-10-05
News Of the Week.

~ AtSusfaSA 2u.f it-UVsuVu cans OF corn this
season.
Chin Lam Pin, the Chinese ambassador
presented his credentials TO the President on
Saturday.
The apple crop in Connecticut is very large
this year. Sales in Hartford, las, week. AZ
fifty cents per barrel.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia.
on Saturday, declared the Chinese Tax bill
unconstitutional and void.
Rumors of a new plot against the Emperor
we're lately current al Berlin, aud several sns.
pected persons were arrested.
Among new inventionsare eelluloid collars
cuffs and even neekties, for gentlemen. which
come in all colors and are very flexible ard
durable.
Christopher Mann of independence. Mo.
has just celebrated his los birthday. He has
a son only eight years old, and is the father
of twenty-eight children.
Two of the Mexicans who recently murder
ed an ex-Sherif and ex-County Clerk, near
Tucson, Arizona, have been captured in SON
ora and shot by order of the Governor.
The Ohio Methodist Epiecopal conference,
IN session at Columbus, on Saturday dismiss
ed from the ministry Rev. IA Spencer for
immortality, and Rev. j. X. Davis for unmin
isterial conduct.
The Ohio Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has declared against the
use of tobacco and has announced that ali
applicants for future orders must be free
from the pernicious habit
Saturday last, Sept, %, was 'sRosh Has
hama, celebrated by the Jews as the anniver-
sary of the day on which God created the
world. The synagogues everywhere observe
It with considerable ceremony.
A monastery is to be built near the Pigeon
Hills, Adams county, Pa, for the accom-
mediation of $50 Trappist Monks. who are to
migrate from France and Ireland. The Monks
will erect the buildings.
The Australian team of cricket players ar
rived in New York on Sunday, on the steam
er City of Richmond They are all in excel
lent condition, and viii shortly play match
on the Hoboken grounds.
4 young lady of Frostburg, Nd, bruised
her foot two years ago at the Centennial.
Since then her foot has caused her a great
deal OF pain, and several days ago it was ne
cessary to amputate it.
Edward O'Meagher Condor and Patrick
Melody, the released Fenian prisoners. ar.
rived IN New York, Sunday, on the the steam
er Mosel. They received an enthusiastic
welcome from their countrymen in New York.
AT Bridgeport, Conn, Monday, Edwin
Hoyt, convicted of the murder of his father.
was sentenced to be hanged on the 24th of
October, 1878. This is said to be the first
death sentence passed in Fairfield county.
Conn, for sixty years.
Joseph Head attempted to drown his wife
near Hannibal, Mo-, on Friday. His SON an.
peared with a shotgun, whereupon Head
released his wife and committed suicide nv
cutting his throat. His wife had recently be-
gun suit for a divorce.
The steamboat Adelphi burst her boiler al
South Norwalk, Conn, on Saturday morning.
killing ten or eleven persons outright, and
injuring about twenty. A telegram TO a
New ork paper says her boiler was old and
had been patched in two places.
The Episcopal Register is responsible for
the statement that the Rev. William Scott. a
colored clergyman of Baltimore, claims TO
have attained the ripe old age of one hundred
and forty-nine years. How this venerable
man substantiates his claim is not mentioned.
The Hon. George Bancroft, the historian,
who Is seventy-eight years old, was thrown
from carriage Tuesday at Newport, r. l.,
and was seriously injured about the head,
and It is feared his legs are broken. A lady
and the coachman were also thrown out and
somewhat injured.
A Long Island Railroad train dashed into
funeral procession at Atlantic avenue, in
Brooklyn, on Saturday morning, and smash
ed one OF the carriages. Two women we're
KILLED, and the driver Of the carriage and
three children were seriously injured. The
driver is not expected TO recover.
The product of the Cumberland coal region
Tor ha asalr -
1878, was 40, 439 tons, and for the year to that
date, 1,I24, 04s tons, an increase of Sc. $50
tons as compared with the corresponding
period of last year.
Last week fine ripe strawberries and rasn.
berries were for sale in Salisbury, Wicomico
county, Md, grown on the farm of Mrs. J.
II. jackson, in Fruitland The berries were
large and well formed as those usually grown
IN the spring and early summer.
Mrs. Samuel Hooper's summer residence
at Lenox, Massachusetts. was robbed ON
Monday nigh; of plate valued at two thousand
dollars by burglars without disturbing the
family. Mrs. Bristed's residence was broken
into the next night, but the burglars were
routed before securing any booty.
The case Of Rev. Z. I. Baird. ex.Secretary
of the Presbyterian Board of Publication Of
Richmond Va, who is charged with embez-
element OF the Church funds, has been dis.
posed of by the East Hanover Presbytery.
This body has reinstated him in the oommu.
Mon OF the Church, but deposed him from the
ministry.
Thomas Mcclure, employed in a lumber
camp near Gilmore, Michigan, being attacked
with what was believed to be yellow fever,
was refused shelter by his fellow workmen,
and without any one TO nurse or give him sus.
tenanee, was suffered to lie out under tree
exposed to drenching rain and die. This
selfish brutality has not prevented the disease
from becoming epidemic.
Information from Sitting Bull states that he
was deferred from making a raid in the Black
HILLS country last spring by the distribution
OF the United States troops and by the knowl-
edge that the British Government would not
permit his return to Canada il he made the
raid. There is abundance of game in the
section he occupies, and his men are well
supplied with arms and ammunition.
The deaths from yellow fever in the coun.
try during the present season up to Saturday
last, are reported to aggregate 1868. New
Orleans has lost over 200 persons by the
fever, and Memphis about = 400. The deaths
IN Nieksburg number nearly 700, in Grenada
2I9, IN Greenville 300, in Holly Springs I22
ahu olt OioSun lbo, canton has lost 9S,
Plaquemine, La, %, Hickman, Ky, so. and
Brownsville, Tenn, 90.
The British steamship Donati, which ar.
rived at Baltimore on Tuesday from Rio.
reports that on the evening of the oath ult.,
IN latitude 20.30 north, longitude 5S. 40 west.
she fell in with large ship enveloped in
flames. There was no sign of a crew. and
no name could be discovered. The burning
vessel had evidently been abandoned but
short time, as signal of distress was flying
on the foremost head.
Mr.. James B. Hosmer, aged o. wears. the
oldest citizen of Hartford, Conn, died on
Monday. He was during his long life closely
identified with many business corporations
and benevolent institutions. He lived "a
years under the same roof, and was never
married. He was possessed of ample means,
which he used literally for benevolent objects.
Among his recent gifts was one of 500, 900
TO the Hartford Theological Seminary. of
which institHtiop he was Treasurer for 80
years.
Lucy Osburn, pretty young woman. had
her entire scalp torn off by machinery in New
Milford, Conn. She was brought to a New
York hospital, and there the tedious process
of grating on her head a new scalp was sue
cessfully ended few days ago, and she has
returned to her home. The new scalp was
of minute bits Of skin, Il, 600 being
used, taken from the arms of the hospital sur
geons, and put on carefully one at n time.
One surgeon supplied more than thousand
of them.