The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-07-27
News of the Week.

nish amusement for boys at the seaside
At Toledo, Ohio, Rarus trotted a mile il
PIG, being the fastest time ever made on
half mile track.
Geo Livergood, local mail agent at Bald
win, Florida, was arrested Monday for ridinr
registered letters.
The sheep Of California we're depleted full,
one-third by the storms aud want Of feed il
that State last year.
The once famous Mormon Temple, at Nan
VOC. has utterly disappeared, not stone o
It remaining on the site.
A resident Of Marietta, Ga, has shipped
thirty-two tons of lead and iron gathered from
the batlleiields near that town.
L. D. Atchison was killed while making
balloon ascension at Glinwood, H., on Sun
day evening. He fell from height of 200 f.
There is an apple tree near Scranton which
WAS bearing when the massacre of the Wy
oming valley occurred, and which is now full
of fruit.
The Banks fishermen from Cape Cod are
doing well, both with cod and halibut, but
mackerel fishing has been poor business this
year.
An ice cavern 500 feet below the surface
of the earth is one of the wonders of the
Schnylkill region. There is said to be ice in
the cave all the year.
The number Of paupers in England on the
LIST Of January was "a, sII, a decrease Of 60,
4l2 from the number ia 1876, notwithstanding
the ''hard times"
Twenty-three clerks were dismissed from
the Patent Office, on Saturday, in conse-
quenee of the reduction in the appropriations
for that bureau.
Nearly all the business portion of Catletts
II al.
was destroyed by fire Monday. The loss is
estimated al 100000.
1t is stated that the growing crop Of wheat
in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota has been
damaged from IL 70 q per cent. by the late
storms and excessive heat.
1t is reported that the King ofthe Belgians
has offered TO defray the expenses Of another
trip across Africa by Stanley, and that the
latter has accepted the offer.
There are four hundred colleges in this
country, with an aggregate Of 300 profess
Ors; there are twenty-nine universities in the
German Empire, with 20, 900 students.
Charles L. Hitchcock, aged 80, salesman
In A. T. Stewart 4 Co.'s store at Chicago,
committed suicide on Saturday by taking
morphine. Dissipation was the cause.
The steamer Alaska has sailed from San
Francisco for Panama with the first lot of
Chinese laborers, sent from the latter place
under n three years contract, to work on
sugar platations in Peru.
The first bale of this seasons cotton was
received in st. Louis, on Saturday. 1t was
from Fayette county, Texas, was graded strict
low middling, and sold for 3lcents per pound.
II is TO be sent to Liverpool.
The Supreme Lodge of the independent
Order of Working Men, in session at Louis
rrett oh nf ca
urday. Il will henceforth be known as the
independent Order Of Mutual Aid
The boiler Of threshing machine exploded
near Belleville, Ill.,, Monday, killing three
men and injuring four others, one Of them
fatally. The disaster is attributed TO care
lessness or incompetency ofthe engineer.
Edward Graham charged with shooting
Frederick Buehimer, near Baltimore, on Sun
day night, surrendered himself Monday, waiv-
ed an examination, and was committed to the
Towsontown jail, to await the result of Blu
chimer's injuries.
The regular miscellaneous bids for carry
ing the mails on more than 700 routes, the
service to begin ON the first of October next,
we're closed BY the Post-offiee department on
Saturday. The awards will be made about
the end ofthis month.
The harvest in Nebraska this year will be
the largest known. The wheat crop viii not
fall short Of fifteen million bushels. The corn
crop viii reach fifty millions bushels, the oat
crop seventy-six million bushels, barley crop
three millions, rye one million.
One thousand three hundred and seventy
eight pieces Of skin, taken from the arms of
friends, have been engrafted on the head of
Mrs. Jonas Hay, Of jamestown, who lost her
scalp by her hair catching in the mill ma
chinery in which she was working. Mrs. Hay
rs rapidly recovering, and is now able to ride
out.
The Office for lost articles at the Prefec-
ture of Police in Paris, has been very busy
since the Exhibition opened About 200 ar
ticles day are left there, many of which are
never claimed. A diamond brooch, worth
about 5000 francs, was lately among the lost
articles, but the owner of that put in an APP
pearance.
While boy named Green was driving a
team from Sheffield to Canaan, Massachu-
sets, Monday morning, he was met by two
tramps, who demanded the team. The boy
whipped the horses and escaped, but was
dangerously, If not fatally wounded by bull
let sent after him by one of the rufians.
The tramps were captured soon after.
At a meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Boston Betting Company, held Monday, in
Boston, It was announced that John G.. Tap
pan, the Treasurer, who resigned few DAYS
previously, and was seriously i'll, had embez-
zled more than S500,000 of the Companys
funds, and had transferred to the corporation
a large amount of property to cover the loss.
A committee was appointed to make an in
vestigation.
More than four hundred cabin passengers
sailed for Europe from New York on Satur-
day 1t is said that it costs very little more
to 10. 49,
Europe than for the same tourists TO visit for
similar periods fashionable watering places
on this side of the Atlantic. But the converse
should also be made true, so as to induce Eu-
ropeans to visit the many pleasant places of
summer resort in this country.
Mrs. Katie McGarety, who was buried from
st. Agnes Hospital, BALTIC. Nd Tuesday, and
was 100 years old, leaves behind in that insti-
tuition several more women, like herself from
the Emerald Isle, who are not far from cen
tenarians. Some of them take more than the
usual interest in life, and seem to have no idea
of dying. Mrs. McGarety was born at Five
mile-town, Fermanagh county, ireland, and
had been in the institution since the l4th Of
March, 1868.
The new national bureau of education,
which viii shortly be opened in Washington
will, with the single exception ola similar
exhibition at the South kensington Museum,
be the best in the world. It will contain a
display of four thousand articles of an educa-
tionaI kind that were presented by the differ
ent Governments that had exhibits at the
Centennial, and viii display the educational
methods of nearly every European country,
as well as those Of several South American
States.
The President on Friday appointed Gen
A. J. Badger Postmaster at New Orleans, in
place off. NJ. G. Parker, suspended. Bad
ger was member of the Sixth Massachusetts,
Regiment in the beginning of the late war.
He accompanied General Butler expedition
to Louisiana and subsequently became Colo
mel of the First Louisiana Cavalry He has
since resided in New Orleans, where he has
held the Offices of Chief of Pc lice and Tax
Collector. Parker, who has been suspended,
Is a brother in-law Of Gen. B. +. Butler
New York and New England we're visited
on Sunday by destructive thunder storms and
tornadoes. At Concord, n. H., a school
building was struck by lightning and burned;
loss $500 AT Gloucester, Mass, dwell
ling was struck by lightning and two women
were killed. At Northampton, Mass, the
buildings of the Hampshire, Franklin and
Hampton Agricultural Society we're blown
down; loss $1,000. AT 0obbs' Ferry, n. Y,
trees faucac ard f.,...ff.l