The Democratic advocate., 1878-03-02
News of the Week.

each rabbit scalp.
BOstOn's new Post office has already cost
ever S4,OOO,000.
Strawberries from Norf6, Z. have appeared
in the New York market. they sold for "a
per box
A lawyer named HouiIIion is to be hanged
in Texas for the murder Of another lawyer
with whom he had difficulty.
A Chicago paper estimates that there are
at least $4,000 men wearing the red ribbon
of temperance in that city.
The Partisan hotel keepers, in solemn con-
clave assembled, have resolved to raise prices
Slightly" during the exposition.
Vermont will celebrate, on March 18th, the
one hundredthanniversaryo of the first meeting
of the State Legislature at Windsor.
A convict named Whalen, condemned to
be hung, committed suicide by hanging HIM
self in the Norristown, Pa, Jail on Sunday
last.
The application for new trial for I. c.
Anderson, of the Returning Board, was deni-
ed by Judge Whitaker, at New Orleans on
Saturday.
Pennsylvania is still engaged in the lauda-
bic business of hanging her Molly Maguires.
Writs for the execution of five OF them have
just been issued.
/ William Dickerzon, aged eighteen, fell
dead while attending prayer meeting at a
I private house, near the Providence paper
mill, in Cecil county, Nd, on Saturday
evening
4 The State Department has not yet heard
anything of the reported invitation to the
| United States TO participate in the European
/ Congress, beyond what has appeared in the
newspapers.
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ted States, and the English steamer Remus
is now at New Haven, Conn, loading Win
chester rifles and munitionsfor rConstantinople.
While the engineer corps at West Point
was getting ready for reTeiile Sunday morning
one Of the command, named Tobin, shot and
killed another named Albert. Jealousy.
assigned.
A firm in Fulton, Texas, killed fifteen
thousand beeves in the past season, and
canned two million of two pound cans of
beef, beside thousands of cans of turtle,
I tongues, soups, &c.
Mr.. Cartwright, the Dominion Minister of
Finance, delivered his speech on the budget
in the Dominion Parliament last week. de
said the trade of Canada had decreased $780,,
O00,0 during the past year.
There were two collisions between ferry
boats and other vessels in New York harbor
on Saturday, during fog. In each collision
one person askilled and several were injured.
Two persons are missing, and supposed to be
drowned.
The Worlds Conference Of Young Mems
Christian Associations will be held this year
at Geneva, Switzerland, August 1920. Ar
rangements are making for an excursion
thither from New York, by way of Scotland
and England.
The Constitution, Supply and Mercury
being insufficient TO take out goods for the
Exposition, the Portsmouth has been placed
at the disposal Of the Commissioner General.
She will leave Washington this week to take
a cargo at Brooklyn.
The British ship Tornado, loading at New
Orleans with cotton for Liverpool, caught fire
Sunday. She had 5000 bales of cotton on
board most of which is believed to be badly
damaged. The total loss on the vessel aud
cargo is estimated at Sl25, 700.
The Postmaster General has commissioned
Joseph Blaekfan, superintendent of foreign
mails, and j. N. Tyner, first assistant post
master general, commissioners on the part of
the United States to the general postal con-
vention to be held at Paris on the LIST of
May.
Wednesday, the newspaper Office of the
York, Pa, EreHing Dispatch and True Dem
Ocrat, Republican, with the book and station
cry store of Mr.. Hiram Young, at York,
were seized by the Sheriff, upon judgments
obtained by the York county National Bank.
Potato bug items are beginning to appear
in the Connecticut papers, together with dis
NAL prognostics as to the result of next
seasons crop. At Montyille, recently, a bug
was unearthed at depth of eighteen inches,
and was as frisky and full of enthusiasm as
if it had been midsummer.
negro named Henry Williams alias
Lewis Hill, was executed in Isle of Wight
county, Va. on the 22d ult. for brutal as
sault on handsome young white lady. He
confessed his guilt and said that he had per-
perpetrated several similar offences besides
the one for which he was about to die.
The jury in the Rande murder trial at
Galesburg, ILL.,, rendered verdict of guilty
on Saturday morning. after having delibera.
ted forty hours, and fixed the penalty at i'm
prisonmeDt for life. Rande is a notorious
desperate, who is accused of having commit
ted seven murders and many other crimes.
Isaac Miller, express agent of the Reading
Railroad, at Ashland, Pa, disappeared on
Friday, and his friends fear that he has com
mitted suicide. In 1876 he lost several hun
dred dollars which he had collected for
church, and had been trying to pay it back,
and the matter is said to have preyed on his
mind. The keys of his safe are missing.
Brigadier Gen. Crook returned to Omaha
on Saturday from the Indian Territory. He
denies that an expedition is to be organized
against Sitting Bull, and says no immediate
trouble need be feared from that chief, unless
the buffalo ''range south,n which is hardly
probable, as they have not done so of late
years.
The Dime Saving Institution, of Newark,
n. j., applied to the Chancellor, on Saturday
evening, for an order requiring the institution
to pay out only 20 per cent. of the deposits to
all depositors. The deposits aggregate ST.
632,SlS The banks trouble is said to arise
from failure 10 realize on 5000, 900 worth of
Chesapeake and Ohio bonds.
The Presbyterians recently dedicated the
First Presbyterian Church in Peking, China.
The church was built partly by native aid,
and the missionaries themselves assisted in
the mason and carpenter work The dedi-
catory services were wholly in the Chinese
language, and included an original hymn, a
sermon by Mr.. Sheffield, and an address by
DR.. Stevenson.
An unusual case is on trial before the Su-
perior Court at New Haven, Conn. A young
lady at Milford attended an elderly gentleman
who was nearly helpless with very bad form
of gout. He was led by her kindness to give
her a note for $4,000, and soon married her.
He died recently, and, the note remaining
unpaid, she has sued the estate to recover it.
A New Haven, Conn, workman unearthed
an old-fashioned urn the other day, which
was found to contain about so Spanish silver
dollars, besides a number of other coins, the
denomination of which could not be distin.
guished. The dates of some of the Spanish
dollars were 1887, 1884 and 1888. No ex-
planation could be advanced as to how the
urn came to be deposited.
A train on the Central Railroad of Texas
was boarded at Allen Station, on Friday night,
by gang of robbers, who rihed the express
car out of $500. An express messenger
fired at the robbers and is supposed to have
killed one of them, but he was overpowered.
No attempt to molest the passengers was
made, and the gang, after securing the pack
age from the express car, rode off in a north
westerly direction.
The Baltimore Daily Nelrs, of Saturday.
gives an account of a cowhiding administered
the night before, in the quiet town of Port
Deposit, Nd, by Wm. knight, member of
the Fifth Regiment, Baltimore, upon John
Oldham, proprietor of the Washington House
Stables, who was charged with defaminp n