The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
News Of the Week

The production of pig iron in New Jersey
has doubled in FIVE years.
Mrs. Catharine Burroughs, of Lock Haven
was 100 years old Wednesday.
~ Inc Lorillards pay the Government 81.
oOOiOOo annually as a tax on tobacco.
The wheat in Queen Anne's county. Nd
turns out indiferently, compared with last
Samuel Weeks, melter and re6ner of the
mint "a AZ New Orleans, died on Saturday of
The Treasury Department expects tn co;p
about three millions and a.half Of silver dol.
lars during August.
Randall Hopkins, colored. fell in front of n
moving mower near Port Deposit. Nd. and
had his right leg and arm cut of.
Charles F. Thomas, OF Frederick countv
threshed from one wheat field All bushels
and from another 42l bushels FER acre.
Mr.. Zeb Bryant, of Hebron, Me-. 90 wears
o. age was moving in the hay field several
uays ago, ana cut good broad, clean swath
Ross and Celeste Winans, of Baltimore.
VIII hereafter reside in Russia. The com
1luIiisue demonstration, last summer, has
driven them from us.
A rlgld quarantine against arrivals from
New orleans aud other yellow fever ports
has been established at Shreveport, Memphis.
Galveston and Mobile.
A cargo of 227 tons Of Maine ice was shin.
ped to Chestertown, Nd, on the 27th Of
june Iol tons were landed, showing a loss
OF I6 tons on the passage.
A telegram from Portland Oregon. reports
that Lorenzo ID. Perkins and wife have
oeen murdered by Indians, near Rattlesnake
Anrfnng m he
John Shehan, the third person suspected
OF being implicated in the murder of Eugene
sullivan, IN Portsmouth, n. H., about Is
years ago, was arrested on Saturday.
The oats in Cecil county, Nd, are so light
that 1t takes two bushels to weigh as much as
one ought to weigh. The oats in Chester
county, Pa, are in the same condition.
Washington's viii is kept in a glass case in
the office of the clerk of Fairfax county, Va.
The writing has almost all faded away, and
the paper is 50 frail that it will not bear
handling.
number of children climbed into milk
wagon IN Washington Monday, and the horse
ran away, upsettlng the wagon and injuring
eleven of the children, two or three OF them
seriously.
Reports coming in from Northern Iowa and
Southern Minnesota state that crops are bad
ly damaged in those sections. Wheat, in
some counties, will not yield over seven bush
els to the acre.
The Socialists of Baltimore had picnic
Monday, which was attended by Hnot less
than one hundred men," George Winter.
assistant editor of the NelC Yorker Volks lei.
tuag, made an address.
The Italian bark Guilio ID. was wrecked
off Nantucket Shoals on Friday. She was
valued at S25, 900, and had a cargo of brim.
stone valued at $1,000. Her crew we're saved
and have arrived in Boston.
At Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, Rarus
trotted three heats for purse of 81 900 to
beat an average of 2.1s, aud made the re-
markable score of 2.144, ?. 10 and 214. This
equals Goldsmith Maid best record.
The Smyrna Times says Colonel George
w. Cummins with an orchard of I 900 trees
will have to buy peaches to preserve for his
own family. The same can be said of most
OF the other peach growers in this vicinity.
The Washington relics, purchased by the
Government for $4,000 have arrived in
Washington. They will be placed on exhibit
ton in the Patent Office as soon as the re.
pairs to that building are finished.
Circulars have been distributed to the
property owners of Boonsboro', Nd, signed
by The committee on Lower Rents or Fire
notifying them to lower rents to s. month
before August !, or have their houses burned.
A meeting was held at Lake George, N. Y.
on Saturday, to organize an association for
the purpose of stocking the Lake with fish,
and improving its surroundings. The stock
ing Of the lake will take place at once under
the auspices of Seth Green.
A telegram from Portland reports that the
rendezvous for all the unfriendly Indians in
Oregon and Washington Territory is at the
foot OF Priest Rapids, where they are collect
ing in large numbers. Chief Moses has given
warning to the settlers that he cannot control
his young men.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has ap-
pointed Prof. Low of Ithaca, Prof. Detmers
ofChicago, DIR. Dyer of Ottawa, ILL.,, DIR. Vo-
giles of New Albany, Ind, DIR. Dunlap of
Iowa City, Iowa, DR.. Hines of Kansas, and
DR.. Salmon of North Carolina, to examine
into the origin Of, and devise remedy for, the
hog cholera.
The fishermen in the Gulf of st. Lawrence
near Magdalen Islands complain of cold and
stormy weather during the last ten DAYS, re-
tarding their operations. Most of the fleet
have arrived at Halifax with small fares.
They report fish and bait very scarce all along
the coast.
a fish hawk Owed down into Druid Lake.
Druid Hill Park, and captured fish which
1t dropped before going far beyond the lake.
gentleman who observed the act got the
fish, which proved to be ''Gold Tench.''
which had been imported and put in the lake
to breed. The fish weighed about pound
and a half
Near jacksonville, Illinois, at midnight of
Sunday, Isaac Hammill rode up to John An
gelo's house and asked tc see his daughter.
Angelo refused the unreasonable request, and
at the same time ordered his son Jason, aged
u, to shoot Hammill. The boy obeyed, and
Hammill fell dead with a load of slugs in his
brain. The Angeles were arrested.
A party of Mexicans have fired into the
town of San felipe, Texas, in retaliation of n
raid into Mexican territory by Capt. Kelly,
who re captured stock stolen from Texas.
A Mexican was wounded by Parson Potter
while in the act of stealing his horses. These
affairs have caused much excitement along
the Texas border. Gen Escohedo has been
condemned to be shot.
On the 22d inst. cloud burst occurred at
the Mennonite settlement near Silver Lake.
Dakota Territory, submerging a large section
of the country, and causing the drowning of
seven persons. The west branch of the Var
mlliiou ItFtTs ofuliaFltN aDuut TWO RODS wide.
was filed to over a mile in width, and depth
of from ten to thirty feet. There was a great
destruction Property.
A telegram from Helena, Montana, states
that on the Dist ult., Lieutenant Wallace
overlook the Indians who committed the re-
cent murders on the north fork of the Clear
Water river, killed six and wounded three
Among the killed was Chief Tabador. TWEEN.
ty-three head of stock belonging 10 the In.
dams were killed and thirty-one captured
Wallace party numbered Is soldiers and
two citizens; the Indians, II men.
In Cleveland, Ohio, fifteen girls employed
at Madame SOmers' dressmaking establish
ment we're taken sick one day last week. after
drinking milk at dinner. Madame Somers
was also affected. All were able TO return to
work next day except two sisters, Mary and
Nettie Dewitt. Mary died on Monday, and
Nestie was in a precarious condition Tues.
day. The attending physicians stated that
they were poisoned, and the coroner has
taken the matter in charge.
An exciting scene was witnessed at a picnic
IN Winchester, ILL.,, few days ago The ia
bles had been spread the banquet was pre-
pared, the coffee steaming, and all hands we're
gloating over the prospect of bountiful re-
past, when suddenly horde of tramps burst
out of the bushes, seized upon the viands.
bolted the lunch and drained the coffee-pot
before the agOnized gaze of the picnicers
The tramps dined very heartily and marched
,1n in triumuh laayina thar hoete g,,ck