The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-09
News of the Week.


Titusville, Pa, has had two-inch fall of
snow.
San Francisco.
A heavy snow storm began at St John, N.
B. Monday night
Joseph Dixon died at Keyser; W. Va,
recently, aged ITO years.
In Ireland it rains on an average two hun
bred and twenty days in the year.
The German American National Bank of
Washington, d. c., suspended on Thursday.
The steamer May Martin was burned at
her dock, on Chatauqua Lake, n. Y, on Sun
Evangelist Moody will preach at the BaIti-
more City Jail every Sunday morning during
Eleven stores, in Montezuma, Ga, were
destroyed on Monday, by fire supposed to
be incendiary.
.oryille Gardner, the ex-pugilist, and his
wife have been admitted into a home for the
aged in New York
Cowan, Sheets & Co., bankers, of Bellaire.
OHIO, failed on Saturday Liabilities. $50.
600; assets, $4,000
Charles Knox, halter, of broadway, New
ORR, made an assignment on Saturday. He
Is said to owe 100000.
The police force of Memphis, Tenn, was
Teorganized on Friday, and now includes
eleven colored patroimen.
seven prisoners escaped from Jail at Stan
lord Ky, on Thursday, by prying apart the
IRON bars OF the cell of an outer window.
What IS said to be the first granulated white
sugar ever made from beets in this country,
mas just been received in Boston from Maine
Two children, left by their mother in
cradle near the stove, in house at Lowell.
Mass, were burned to death by their cloth
ing taking fire.
The Hickory Ridge colliery, near Sham
okin, Pa, was destroyed by fire on Monday
evening. Two hundred men and boys were
deprived of employment
Easton L Co. S elevator, at Peoria. Illinois.
with %, 900 Bushels of corn and oats. was de-
stroyed by an ineendiary fire on Sunday night.
The loss is about $4,000.
Two tugs sent to the relief of the steamer
Quebec, wrecked near Cockburn Island,
Lake Huron, were also wrecked on Wednes-
day right. The crews were saved
Gen. Grant has given up his trip around
the world, and after short run into Africa
he will return to Paris, where he will remain
until his departure for home.
The Clarendon Hotel, at Saratoga. N. Y.
was damaged by fire on Sunday to the exent
OF nearly $4,000. There was no one in the
building, and the origin of the fire is unknown.
The amount stolen by r. J. O'Reilly, the
ASCENDING Paymaster's Clerk at the Charles.
ton Navy Yard, is now stated at 81, 200. He
attempted 10 commit suicide before abscond-
ing.
r. q. Minor, convicted of body-snatching
at Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced on Satur.
day TO four months imprisonment in the work
house and the payment Of fine OF 500 and
costs.
Dean Stanley preached in Grace Church,
New York, Sunday morning, to a large con-
gregation. Bishop Potter was present The
Dean sailed from New York for home on
Wednesday.
w. w. Brown, wood chopper in Placer
county, CAL, has been arrested for making
and counterfeiting standard silver dollars and
halt dollars. Dies and material were found
IN his cabin.
A petition has been fled in the L. S. Court
at Milwaukee, on behalf of the European
bondholders of the Wisconsin Central Rail
road, asking the appointment of receiver
/ for the road
! A willow tree in the yard of Hon. Alexan.
der II. Evans, of Elkton, Nd, which was
Frustrated during the great storm last week,
grew from cutting from a willowet the grave
OF Napoleon, on the Island of ST. Helena
Two highwaymen, named Mansfield and
Mclaughlin, who were being conveyed from
Cheyenne to Deadwood under guard of two
men, were taken from stage coach by FIVE
masked men near Laramie, on Friday night.
and lynched.
Captain Pratt, United States Army, passed
through Baltimore on Monday, in charge of
40 Indians ca route for the government school
at Hampton, Va. The party arrived from
| Washington in the morning and took the
boat for Norfolk.
The export of apples this year to Europe,
owing to the enormous crop, is the greatest
ever known. Some vessels have taken from
Boston as many as 1900 barrels, and the
-'CanOpus,n of the Warren Line, October I6,
took 5000 barrels.
| Andrew Z. Anderson was arrested in BOs.
ton Sunday, for mansaughter. On the 18th
ult., he called on his washerwoman Betsy
Renaldo, for his clothes, they not being ready,
and he assaulted her so savagely that she
died on Monday last.
! 1t is announced from Washington that the
third installment of the award of the Mexican
| Commission to pay American claimants will
The larger part of the installment is already
on deposit in New York.
Great preparations are making for the Al.
ALBANIA State Fair, which is to begin at Mont
gomery on the 18th inst, and is expected to
be the greatest fair held there since the war.
Ex-Governor Hendricks has been invited To
deliver the opening address.
Two plasterers, named Murphy and Con-
ley, ut work on the new Produce Exchange
building in Toledo, Ohio, stepped on the end
OF a swinging scatfold on Saturday and fell
into the cellar, so feet below. Conley was
killed and Murphy fatally injured.
At Wigan, England, more than thousand
looms and nearly ten thousand spindes are
stopped, and twenty-five hundred looms and
three hundred and ten thousand spindes are
running on short time. This is equal to a
reduction of thirty per cent. in operatives
wages.
The recent gale on the lakes is reported TO
have been the severest for sixteen wears.
The schooner John p Marsh is reported
lost, with her crew of four men, in little Tray
erse Bay, on Lake Michigan The propeller
City of Montreal, from Chicago, for Ogdens-
burg, is missing.
A serious assault has occurred atthe Wool
len Mills at Oregon City, Oregon, upon the
Chinese operatives by the whites. Several
on both sides we're severely wounded. and
one Chinaman probably fatally The author
tiles quelled the disturbance, but renewal
of the trouble is feared.
A few days ago fisherman, near Sioux
City, Iowa, saw a box floating on the surface
of the water. He secured it, and it proved
to be water-tight and contained an infant sew
eral weeks old, provided with bottle of milk
and sufficient clothing to keep itwarm There
Is no clue rs to how far the little waf had
sailed, or to whom it belonged
Potter, the trans continental traveller who
arrived at San Francisco with his wheelbar-
row few days ago, made the whole distance
from Albany to San Francisco, about 1000
miles, in l72 days. He made an average of
234 miles a day, or little more than four
miles more than he agreed to make each day.
IN order to win his wager of one thousand
dollars
In Philadelphia, on Saturday, the grand
jury found indictments against William b.
'Oickerson and Joel Vanarsdalen, lawyers.
and Herman c. Pulte, on the charge of con.
spring to utter and publish a certain false
and fraudulent instrument as the genuine
will of the late Robert Whitaker of that CITY.
who died in August last leaving nm estate