The Democratic advocate., 1878-09-21
News of the wast

Inc urand Lodge of Odd Fellows, of the
United States, met in Baltimore on Mon.
day. y" -''0"
The cotton crop in America for Is77-7s Is
reported oy the National Cotton Exchange al
Mrs Miliard Fillmore heads the Buffalo
INST oil subscribers to the yellow fever fnnd
General Shields, reported to be threatened
with paralysis in New York. on SATURDAY.,
was much better on Sunday.
Robert Carvella, balloon traneze ner.
former, was fatally injured BY falling tiftv
ieet from balloon at Phoenix, n. T.. on
A Swiss watch has been devised the dial of
Mhlch WIN pe Phosphorescent, so that at
the hours. saw"
Hon. Caleb Cushing has been snss-;no
from erysipelas in the head for tsro .e.s rao,.hss
past. It has compelled him to suspend ali
literary work. p0''N Oh
Captain Porter burned the steamer po-.s-is
injected barge Mingo a few miles above Gin.
cinnatl on Monday night. The barge was
valued at $4,000.
A Cologne paper says that for wears there
| has not been such lively season On tha
Rhine. Englishmen and Americans are nm
usually numerous.
After an incarceration of eleven wears
Edward . 'Meara Condor. the Fenian rris
oner, was released from Portland prison.
England, on Tuesday morning, and placed
on steamer for this country.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Chief of the
bureau OF Engraving and Printing of the
treasury department, has resigned his posi-
uon 70 become political editor of the Phil
adelphia Press and successor of Iohn w
Forney.
The Swiss watchmakers have held a meet.
ing at Geneva to devise means for the rein.
tation OF certain injurious statements concern
| ing the Swiss watch trade said to have
been published in circulars by the American
exhibitors at Paris.
General Miles official report of his recan.
engagement with the Bannocks, at Clarkis
Ford, show that IL Indians were killed ri
captured, and 200 ponies taken. Cantain
Bennett, of the Fifth Infantry, and two friend
/ ly Crows were killed.
A large snake was found eoiled on the
reading desk IN the church in Borth, Wales,
out 1t ran into hole on being disturbed. A
tuneon the organ drew him out, however, and
he was caught. The villagers regarded the
reptile with superstition.
At Morgantown, W. Va, on Saturday.
student of the university, named Costello
descended into a we'll to examine il and was
overcome by foul air. A man named Meyer,
who went to his assistance was also over
come, and both persisted.
| Of Longfellow's five children. Onslow.
/ the eldest, Is married and Ia business in Bos-
toni Ernest Is painter, studying in Europe:
Alice, the eldest daughter, is a writer: Edith
is now Mrs. Richard H. Dana, Sd; and Anna
is literary in her inclinations.
While young man and woman were going
home from circus, at Lewistown, Me-. on
Saturday night they were seized by six ruf
hans, two OF whom held the man while the
othersfeloniously assaulted the woman. Five
men have been arrested for the crime.
Charles Baptiste, eolored, was stabbed 10
death in quarrel by Vulcan St. Martin. an
ex-deputy sheriff, at st. Charles Courthouse,
La, on Saturday night. St. Martin was
lodged IN jail, whence he was taken by a col
ored mob, the same night, and shot dead.
Joseph Dougherty, superintendent of the
Hnnnewell coal mines, at Grayson, Ky., was
killed on Friday by a fall of slate. Miners
working IN one of the rooms reported danger.
Dougherty went in to show them that there
was no danger, and ton of shte came down
upon him.
James Broadbelt, of Indianapolis, reports
that while he was on his way from that CITY
to Chicago, few days ago, he was robbed of
Slo,OOO. de received the money from the
settlement of property in England, over a
year ago, and had since carried it about his
person, being afraid to trust the banks.
a party of deputy marshals and revenue
agents took possession of an illicit distillery
IN Larue county, Ky, on Sunday, no one
Deing IN the building. An hour after they
were attacked by six men and retreated To
Elizabethtown, after one deputy and two of
the attacking party had been wounded.
At a school district election in New Haven
Conn.,, Monday, the issue being an attemnt
to re-establish devotional exercises in the |
pubic schools, the Bible ticket was elected
by about 1900 majority. Catholics united
with the Protestants in supporting this ticket |
against the Secularists and nonreligionists.
In fire last week at the residence of Judge |
Payne, IN Bowling Green, Ky, there was des- |
troyed the old family Bible, which had been in
his family for over q hundred years, and
which contained manuscript account OF his
grandfather, William Payne, knocking Geo.
washington down in an alteration at Alex
andria.
A farmer, named Worley, gave lodging TO
a tramp at Bridgeport, Ohio, on Saturday.
The tramp was taken sick during the night,
and the physician called in declared his ill
ness yellow fever. When the sick man learn
ed the nature of his disease, he suddenly
drew pistol and shot himself through the
brain.
The suit of Emight & Stevens against the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was commenced
| before the U. s. Commissioner, sitting as :.
Master IN Chancery, in Baltimore, on Tues
/ day. The object is TO ascertain the amount
OF profits made by the Company by the use
OF Stevens patent car break, and the dam
ages sustained by patentees
George Siebold alias William Gierslidge.
tramp, was arrested in Cumberland, Nd.
Monday on the charge of murder. Moses A
Lowther, another tramp, who claimed to be
detective, charged Gierslidge with ''having
murdered his wife and three children in Phil
adelphia two months since" The accused
was committed for hearing on Friday next.
The arrival of the Chinese embassy in
Washington, on the 29th inst, is expected
| with much interest. 1t is said that in addi-
ton to the modification of the Burliueame
Treaty, the subject Of the treatment of Chi
nese immigrants on the Pacific coast will re-
ceive attention. 1t is claimed that under the
provisions of the above treaty Chinese should
be as effectually protected in our Pacific
States as Americans are in China.
Herman Chapman, an express driver, was
| assaulted and robbed by three men in La
Sale, ILL.,, on Saturday evening He was
robbed of $4,000 and watch and left in a
dangerous condition, The money was sent
by the First National Bank of Chicago to the
Matthiessen and Hegler Zinc Company. The
robbery was committed in a much frequent
ed place, yet it seems to have had no wit
a~sces. CHAPMAN has since died.
The steamship Great Eastern has been
purchased bya company who intend using
her as a cattle boat to ply between Texas and
London. She is now being fitted out at Mil. |
ford Haven, and is to have new engines and
boilers, manufactured by the Ciyde Iron
Works, at a cost of S5OO,0OO. Refrigerators
will be built in her for the purpose Of carry.
ing fresh beef. II is estimated that she will |
carry 22OO head of cattle and 5000 head of
mutton.
Mrs. Van Cott, the preacher, was born in
New York city and she is nearly fifty years of
age. Her father was Major Newton, man.
ager of John Jacob Astor's estate. He be. |
come insane. Marrying and soon becoming
widow she attended to her husbands bus |
iness of drug broker. She was converted on !
Fulton ferryboat while thinking about reli- |
| gion. Becoming a preacher she travelled |
through the country, and she counts more
than twenty-seven thousand conversions as