The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-22
Fonr hundred grain shovellers, in Buffalo

Four hundred gram shoNeheie, IN
struck Monday. There was no oisoruer.
The largest strawberry farm in the worla .
Is probably that of John r. Young, Jr;, ABOUT
two miles from Norfolk, Va ne cale's o,.or
$50 acres, and the yield last season was oNei
100000 quarts.
On Sunday during an interview between BIS
marck and Gortschakoff at Berlin a large
Danish dog belonging to the former made
a ferocious attack upon Gortschakoh, VINO
was rescued after considerable trouble.
It now believed that the Berlin Congress
will be in session many weeks before salis-
factory conclusion of the many dehcate que.
tons is arrived at. 1t was understood tna'
Bulgaria formed the topic of the discussion
Wednesday.
The National Division Of the Sons OF lem
nerauce met in Buffalo Tuesday. poem OF
welcome was read by Rey. J. Byington Smith,
and addresses were made by General Louis
Wagner, Lieutenant Governor lilly, OF New
Brunswick, and Neal Dow, OF Name.
1t is roughly estimated that TIE aggregate
of the appropriations made by Congress 1a I9T
the fiscal wear ending with June, 1879, Will
be about S170, 600, 900, the appropriation Tor
rivers and harbors being twice as large as IN
1877, and $500, 900 added to pay the Cana
dian fishery award.
Paris is doing very well with her exposition.
The best day of the French Exhibition OF
1867, when there were 172, 900 visitors, has
been beaten by the attendance on Whit Mon
day, 1873, when there were 49,, 249, paying
visitors That is still a long way behind
PENNSYLVANIA Day. at the Centennial, when
there were PSF, 1863 paying visitors
During the gust on Tuesday afternoon a
week party of ploughmen consisting OF SIX
persons and their teams, took shelter under
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the farm of J. A. Pearce, ESQ.,, near Chester
town and while there the lightning struck and
killed mule and knocked down two of the
men and two of the horses. The men and
horses were severely stunned, but have recov-
cred.
John, Isaac and Peter Hawn, old bachelor
brothers, living six miles from Huntingdon,
Pa, were attacked in their own house on
Wednesday afternoon, by two tramps, and
beaten numerically, Isaac being fatally in
iured. One of the ruffians then held the
housekeeper while the other ransacked the
house and secured $4,000 in bonds, $84 in
money, and some valuables. An alarm being
given they were pursued, but stopped their
pursuers by firing at them. Subsequently the
whole neighborhood was aroused, and the
chase for the ruffians resumed.
The Democratic State Convention of Maine
met on Tuesday in Portland, and organized
with Charles w. Larrabee, of Bath, as per-
manent President. Alonzo Garcelon, of Lew
iston, was nominated for Governor on the
first ballot, and accepted the nomination in a
brief speech. Resolutions were adopted de-
claring for the payment of the national bond
ed debt as rapidly as possible, and against
any further issue of Government bonds; fav
oring the substitution of greenbacks for ma
, tional bank notes; strongly approving the
Potter investigation, and demanding the pun
ishment of those found guilty of frauds, "who-
ever they may be and wherever found"
Seveal citizens of Annapolis have been
duped by imam styling himself ''Dr. Harrison,
of New York State" and claiming to be a
nephew of Ex-Governor Seymour. His ac-
? tions seem to have been those of lunatic.
He represented himself as very wealthy, and
, seeking warm climate, because he suffered
, from catarrh, and he was W ling to pay ex.
> travagant prices for farms in the neighbor.
, hood of Annapolis. He purchased one OF
more. farms, carrying on transactions until the
execution of the transfer deeds, when he sud
denly disappeared. Harrison is about 81
years of age, we'll educated; he is sh ort O
stature and spare in build.
: The body of young Devon, whose grave a
North Bend, near Cincinnati, was robbed
i about the same time as that of j. Harrison
:. has been recovered from picking vat in the
Medical College at Ann Arbor, Michigan, anC
reinterred at North Bend, with impressive
ceremonies. DIR. Morton, the resurrection
list" and j. Q. Marshal, Janitor of the Ohio
: Medical College in Cincinnati, have been in
; dicted by the Grand Jury for robbing thu
!, graves. No indictments having been founC
. against the Faculty of the Medical College fo
; completely in the body snatching, civil suit
> will be brought against them, claiming SO
' 600 in each case. A, similar suit will b.
/, brought against the Faculty of Ann Arbo
{ College.
!. The National Council of the Junior Orde
IL of American Mechanics began its sessions il
. Baltimore Tuesday. G. W. Ilgenfritz, the
. National Councillor, presented the annual re
!. port. According to the secretary's report
= the Order exists in the States of PENNSYLVANIA
: New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Indiana,
u Ohio, Massachusetts and New York. Tel
" new Councils were chartered during the year
4 and 1880 persons initiated Pennsylvania ha
! the largest number of Councils, 80, New Jer
! sey coming next, with "a. The total mem
= bership is 1896. Messrs. Calvin, of Pa,
Shol, of Md, and Hayse, of N Y, were APP
# pointed to confer with a similar cmmittee o
" the Senior Order to form a closer union be
!, tween the two bodies. The Junior american
IS Mechanic, published in Philadelphia was de
!, clared the official organ of the Order. In tn,
: National Council of the Junior Order q
: American Mechanics, at Baltimore, on Wed
# nesday, the following officers were elected 70
|, the ensuing year: National Councillor, J
J. Adam Sohl, of Baltimore; Vice Councillor
a II. w. Lewis, of Dayton, Ohio; Secretary
IS Edward S. Deimer, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Treasurer, VIM. P. Hayes, of Trenton, N. j
n Conductor, Sanford McKeeley, ofPort Jarvis
l. N. Y; Warden, j. NJ. Baker, of Indianapolis
& Ind; Sentinel, George p Monck, of Whining
l. ton, Del. New Brunswick, n. j. was chosen
J. as the next place of meeting. The Council
4 adjourned sine die.