The Democratic advocate., 1878-09-14
News of the Week.

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next Sunday.
The estimated number Of conversions a,
Ocean Grove, as the result of the recent
meetings, is $40.
Emily Wilson, . young negress, was i'm
prisoned IN Annapolis Jail for beating her
siepmother 80 years Of age.
Crops in Virginia and the Carolinas and
Georgia are good, and the people cheerful in
anticipation of a revival of business.
The Oxford Iron Company OF Oxford, New
Jersey has suspended with liabilities estimat.
ed at between S5,0OO,0 900 and $4,000, 900.
The Salmon River Idaho, stage was captu-
ed and burned with the mails. by Indians.
on Friday evening. The driver escaped.
Morton McMiehael has returned from his
European trip to Philadelphia; G. c. Fulton
to Baltimore, and Michael Bannon to Annap-
oils.
Governor Wade Hampton has experienced
little benefit from his trip to the noun tains.
He Is still too uawell to resume his official du-
ties.
Mrs. Catharine Garland died on Thursday
last, III Philadelphia, at the age of IO7 years.
Deceased was born in Perry county, Pennsyi-
vania.
The Ellicott city Times says chills and fe-
yer have been prevailing in that city, and vi
cinity, the present summer to a considerable
extent.
Captain Boyton, the hero of the Merriman-
Boyton Life-dress, was mysteriously attacked
and beaten in Paris lately. None of his as
sailants were arrested.
The schooner Lookout, from Sagua, which
arrived at New York on Saturday lost her
first officer, steward and one seaman from
yellow fever during the voyage.
On and after the 10th inst, by direction
OF the Secretary of the Treasury, the Sub
treasures of the United States will exchange
standard silver dollars for L. S. notes.
Stirling Smith, the sheriff of Calvert coun.
tyi died on last Sunday after lingering i'll
ness. He had, previous to his last election. fill
ed the Office of sheriff for several terms.
Washington lodge Knights of Honor. at
Hagerstown, has voted S25 for the relief Of
their brethren in Tennessee, in response to a
call for aid from Grand Dictator Mckee
Twenty-Five tons of fine silver have been
shipped from New York to the Philadelphia
Mint to be coined into standard dollars. This
shipment is valued at eight hundred thousand
dollars.
Professor Collier, chemist of the Agricul-
tural Department at Washington, is engaged
4-t 1otA| hNAg AAl UEEtuAtutss 10 SHOW
whether or not sugar can be made from COM
mon cornstalks.
A mob at Murfreesboro, Tenn, on Mon
day night took out Of jail and lynched Pinck-
ney Bell, white man, charged with killing a
constable of Rutherford county while attempt.
ing to arrest him.
Lancaster's yellow fever fund has reached
$4,000. A concert by the Philharmonic
Muapnarrhnr ar,I ffh,,--,l =.
day night realized $3.50. The WiIkesbarre
citizens committee has collected 5000.
A man named Carrigan was knocked down
and robbed by FIVE men in the streets of Tren-
ton, y. j., at two clock on Sunday morn
ing. He lostp part of his clothing and most Of
his money. The robbers have been arrested.
Samuel NJ. Harrington, who fer number
of years was leading member of the bar of
Wilmington, Del, and who was Secretary of
State under Governor Cannon, died at VIII
mington, on Tuesday, after lingering ill.,
ness.
1t is estimated that at least two hundred
thousand persons have so far this season
gone down the bay on excursions from Balti-
more. This undoubtedly has been the most
successful season that the steamboat men
have known for many years.
The Treasury Department has ordered
that hereafter the effects brought from abroad
by our naval vessels shall be rigidly inspected
by customs officials, in order to break up
''the practice of innocent smuggling which
has been INDUCED in for years.
The British ship George Bell, which arriv.
ed at Baltimore on Monday last from Nova
Scotia, has been libelled in the United States
Court for S24. 900 damages for running into
and sinking the French fishing brig Savant
Ferran, on the Grand Banks, on August 9th
Brazilian orders for American products are
steadily increasing. The steamer Rio de
Janeiro, which sailed for Brazil from New
York on Friday last took out n large cargo
which included II, 100 barrels of flour, 800
cases of sewing machines and $50 cases of dry
goods.
The steamer Sarmatian, ofthe Allan Line,
lately arrived at Montreal, is reported 10 have
left Londonderry Aug. %, p NJ. and to have
arrived off Belle Isle light on the 2sth at TO-.
80 p. NJ, thus making the trip from CONT
nent to continent in the unprecedented time
of FIVE days.
The store Of Wang Lung, in Canal street.
New Orleans, was damaged TO the extent OF
$4,000 by an incendiary fire. A man and his
four children, sick of fever, in the upper part
were rescued. Joe Chez and john Lee,
clerks OF Wang Lung, we're arrested as the
inoendiaries.
More than six hundred bodies have been
recovered from the wreck of the excursion
steamer Princess Alice, sunk in the river
Thames by collision with the screw collier By
we'll Castle. 4 large majority were reeogniz-
ed by the relatives and-eighty three not claim
ed have been buried at Woolwich.
Lucretia Mott, at the age Of sl, weighs
less than SO pounds, hut enjoys hetter health
during the last two years than for the previ-
Gus 10. She sets off every Wednesday alone
from her home near Shoemakertown and goes
to Philadelphia to attend the Race-street
Friends meeting.
A boy Of fifteen has been brought before
the magistrates Of Bristol, England, charged,
with several burglaries. A wagon load Of
plunder, valued at from $1,000 TO $1,000. was
produced in Court, as alse the young gentle.
mans kit of fhonsebreaking tools and libra
ry exciting fiction of the ''penny dreadful
sort.
4 Masonic Lodge. composed entirely of
Hindoos, has been established at Bombay.
tits called Lodge Aryan. Polytheistical Hin
docs are not admitted, the membership being
composed of those who are among the more
conservative, namely, those who are anxious
to go back to the teaching of the Vedas. the
worship of one true God.
On Wednesday last several highwayman
well armed, rode into the mining camp of
Cariboo, Idaho, where - or 30 miners were
working on scattered claims, robbed each Of
the men, plundered the camp store, and took
off all the good horses shooting the poor ones.
The robbers secured about SlG, 900, mostly in
gold dust, from the miners.
There are 1000 cases on the docket OF the
Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for
tie October term. Among them are the
suit of Biggin rs. U. S. Grant, for $50, 900
damages for alleged false imprisonment, and
the suit of the widow Oliver against ex-Sena.
tor Cameron for $4,000 damages for alleged
breach of promise.
While a man aud boy were picking berries
near Deering Me-, Tuesday afternoon, they
saw coat sticking out of the ground, and
found that it contained a body, which they ex.
humed. II was that ofa man whose skull was
fractured and who had been dead about forty
eight hours. II was not identified. The
track of IA wagon led from the spot
From the mortality returns Of England and
Wales in the year of 1876, it appears that l3S
men and 400 women, total of 5g2 persons,
died IN that year who were past ninety FIVE
years of age. Fourteen men and forty-three
women had reached one hundred years ofage,
Of whom one man was one hundred and six
and one woman one hundred and eight.
The Union National Bank, Of Railway.
New Jersey closed lis doors o, Tuasdav ond