The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-05-25
News of the Week.

About 1900 soldiers in Philadelphia re
eeive pensions for services during the late
war.
Commodore FoxhalI Parker assumes com
mand at the Naval Academy, Annapolis
July |.
The United States government has paid
nearly $500, 900, 600 in pensions since 1880
over half of it since 1875.
The first crate of Georgia peaches left Ma
con on Saturday for New York. Forty thou
sand crates viii soon follow.
William Crown, house painter, aged
forty years, was killed by falling from a scat
fold in Washington on Saturday.
General Gordon is announced to deliver the
Grafton at the decoration of the graves of the
Confederate dead at Frederick next month.
The united ages of twelve persons publish
ed in the obituary columns Of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, of last week, aggregated lOl7
years.
The first new wheat of the season arrived
in st. Louis, Monday, from near Dallas,
Texas 1t graded No. 4, and sold at auction
at SIPS.
Martin Head, aged I6, while running to
the home base in the base ball game at John
ston, R. l. Friday burst blood vessel, and
fell dead.
Mike White, of Chattanooga, was killed by
a mob. His life was insured for $4,000.
The insurance company now sues the county
for that sum.
A Massachusetts manufacturer has estab-
lished shoe factory at Beaver Dam, Hano-
yer county, Va, and is now turning out FIVE
hundred pairs of shoes per day.
During a revenue raid near Tracy City,
/ Noll he hot
and killed Joseph Haynes. There is intense
excitement in that section.
The Secretary Of War is considering the
advisability of removing some of the young
Nez Perez Indians now imprisoned at Fort
Leavenworth to the Normal School at that
place.
The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
have elected Professor Spencer F. Baird,
Assistant Secretary, to be Secretary of the
Institution, in place of Professor Henry,
deceased.
Senior Zamacona, the Mexican Minister at
Washington, has advices from Mexico, show
ing the utter failure of the Lerdist revolution
lists in every State where they have been con-
spring.
A telegram from Ottawa, Canada, says the
Dominion Government received despatch
| from the Imperial Government Monday after
noon, announcing that war between England
| and Russia is inevitable
The f'Fenian encampment'' reported in the
wood near North Troy, VT, turns out to have
been an encampment of "a dozen or so of or
binary tramps,; there and is an easier feeling
on that part of the border.
Mary Jane Powers, the fat woman, 90
years Of age and weighing $40 pounds was on
exhibition at Towsontown, recently. Her
little brother who tips the beam at 600, was
on exhibition at the same time.
A man at New Haven, Conn, missed S575
several days ago, and had his son arrested for
the supposed theft, but when he returned
home he found the money in an out-of-the
way place where he had misladid it.
An explosion of gas took place in the old
Sydney, Nova Scotia, mines Tuesday. Six
men were soon taken out dead, among them
Mr. Greenwell, chief oversser. Many were
injured. 1t is thought that all have been
taken out Of the pit.
The catch during the Potomac fishery sea-
son just closed, was smaller than in any
previous season. At the fish wharf at Alex
andria, which receives half the catch of the
river, the number OF fish received was 1900
600, against 3, 49, 900 last pear.
The Dime Savings Bank, of cramento,
Cal, has suspended, with deposits amounting
to S45, 200, and nominal assets of $4,000
1t was never incorporated, was conducted in
connection with a pawnbrokers shop, and
most of its depositors we're children.
A nine year old daughter of Patrick
O'Neale was fatally burned in Cumberland
woods, near Providence, r. l., on Sunday
evening. She was walking with her father
and he threw away lighted match, which
set fire to the dry furze and the flames caught
her clothing.
The Treasury Department has had some
difficulty in the purchase Of silver bullion for
coinage. As such bullion contains on an
average 40 per cent. of gold to 60 of silver,
its owners wanted gold for it. The Treasury,
however, refused te pay for it except in the
standard silver dollar.
Two burglars entered the house of Mrs.
Trumbull, in Bradford, Pa, Monday morn
ing, and after obtaining $40 demanded more,
threatening to kill her if she refused. She
fred at them, wounding one, when both fed.
They were tracked some distance by blood
stains, but escaped.
Hon. John A. Mcmahon, of Ohio, one of
the committee to investigate the alleged cleo
toral frauds, was born in Frederick county,
Nd, in 1888. He studied law with Hon.
Clement L. Vallandigham, and has practced
in Dayton since 1854. He is now serving his
second term in Congress.
The Frederick Times says reports from
various portions of Frederick county agree
that the wheat crop, which gave such fair
indications of an immense yield few weeks
ago, has been seriously damaged by the re-
cent frost, and fears are now entertained that
only half crop will be realized.
A severe storm passed over the northwest
ern portion of st. Louis and adjoining SUBJ
urbs on Saturday afternoon. Heavy rain fell,
and the wind reached a velocity of sixty miles
an hour. Eight or ten persons were injured
and the damage to property is estimated at
O,OO0. There was heavy rain in other pnr-
tons of the city, but little wind.
JEFF Davids, colored man, convicted of
murder, was reprieved Friday last when about
to be hanged, at Abbevlle, S. C. The knot
had been adjusted, and prayers and farewells
| said, when Governor Hampton's order re-
| spitiRg the doomed man until the I4th of
June, was read to him upon the scaffold.
! Davids had protested his innocence to the
last, but the respite was unexpected.
In the General Conference of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church South, at Atlanta, on Sat
urday, resolutions we're UNANIMOUSLY adopted,
favoring "a Methodist Ecumenical Confer.
ence and a Grand Centenary of American
Methodism, to be held in Baltimore, Decem-
Der 25th, 1884" Resolutions of Christian
greeting to the Southern Presbyterian Assem-
blies were also adopted.
| The earthquake in Venezuela, mention of
which has been made before, occurred on
April Il. The town Of Qua, eight leagues
from Caracas, was entirely destroyed, as we're
all the surrounding farms. The river Tuy
became heated to such degree that the fishes
| fda Of
shocks were felt in Caracas, and we're the
heaviest known since 1872. Property in Car
acas was destroyed to the amount Of 500, 600.
The Chicago Times condemns the action of
Congress in ordering the printing of 300, 900
copies of the Report of the Commissioner of
| Agriculture for 1877, because by the time the
books are ready for distribution they will be
| from two to three years old, and most of the
matter as useless as a last years almanac
| Compiled as these reports are by clerks who
scarcely know cucumber from a pumpkin,
their publication might be intermitted for
almost any length Of time without serious loss
to the agricultural community.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the 18th
inst, sent to the Senate a statement of the
circumstances under which the coinage ofthe
trade dollars was stopped. He enclosed a
letter from the Director of the MINIS stating
that the coinage of these dollars was suspend
ed for the reason that it was in excess of the
demand for export, and also for the reason
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