The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-22
News of the Week.

Somerset county IdfucIo VIM ~
last week state that the yield per acre VIII not
be more than half as great as last year.
The county levy in Garrett county, Md,
has been fixed at ST. 10l cents on the 500,
decrease of D cents below the levy OF 1871.
Some English crockery manufacturers have
been in Trenton, n. j., lately, looking up
site for establishing new large pottery IN that
city.
A firm at Oxford, Nd, can about 10000
crabs daily. The supply of the crustaeea is
very abundant in the waters OF the Chesa-
peake.
This years wheat crop, though not in pro.
portion to the area sown, is estimated az
400, O0O, 900 bushels, the largest ever gathered
in this country.
Madame Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who is
about SO years old, is now enjoying GOOD
health, having recently recovered from a Sc
we're attack of sickness.
Col. Fred Grant has gone to the Rocky
Mountains for six weeks trip, under orders
from General Sheridan, to gather information
about the country.
Eighteen persons were poisoned IN Pitts
ton, Pa, Monday, two of them, it Is feared,
fatally, "by drinking the milk OF COW whose
udder had been bitten by q snake.
Bishop McCoskry has confessed the sins
WIN winch ne WAS CudESGQ diiO obOPES0
and out Beecher would have lied about 1t
and his congregation have sustained him.
The annual Fair of the Talbot County Ag
ricultural Society will be held at the grounds
of the Association on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, September the 18th, 18th and 18th.
A German by the name of Seer is trying to
invent what he calls, in his native tongue, "a
singing machine" So we shall have Singers
sewing machine and Soers singing machine.
Levi Miller, aged about so years, commit
ted suicide by drowning himself in a small
stream that passes through the grounds of
Montevue hospital, near Frederick Nd, last
week.
The strawberry season on the Maryland and
Delaware Peninsula, closed on June IL.
From May to that date the growers shipped
| 5,O96, 600 quarts Last year the shipments
were one million less.
The largest drive of logs that ever hoated
| down the Connecticut river has just passed
Brattleboro, Vt. 1t consisted of thirty mil
lion feet of timber, ploying in its passage
the constant services of two hundred and fifty
men.
The bark Azor, which sailed from Charles
ton, S. c., on the 21st of April, with $50 col
ored emigrants for Liberia, arrived at Sierra
Leone on the 18th of May. During the pas
sage Tue water SHUT, anu 40 VI bhO CLhA
grants died of ship fever.
cow case, involving $50, has just been
concluded in the circuit court for Caroline
county, and the costs and lawyers fees foot
up $500. They do things better in Charles
county, for the May term of court there ad-
journed with single jury trial.
Some of the merchants of Deadwood, Da-
kota, have presented bills to the Bismarck
Stage and Transportation Company for mer-
chandise captured by Indians while on the
way to the Black Hills. The goods are now
supposed to be in Sitting Bulls camp.
Two boys, aged respectively ten andtwelvt
years lost their lives on Saturday while fishing
from a trestle bridge near Petersburg, Va
A heavy plank from a freight train which
was crossing the bridge fell on the boys, kill
ing one and knocking the other into the water
where he was drowned.
The 103d anniversary ofthe Battle of Bun
3 ker Hill was celebrated ON Mondayin Boston
The day was observed as a holiday, business
being suspended and the public building
r closed. Bells were rung, salutes fired ant
, concerts given, and there was military pa
rade and review. The day was also celebra
; ted in other New England cities.
Edward H. Costley, who was hung in Fred
erick Yesterday, for the murder of his cousin
dJlSuIpJGu " pIOSulC pOloOh q "NOh
D ly through a servant Of Hon. John Richie
: who revealed the attempt to the warden
, On Wednesday morning, while the prisoner
: were being fed, he darted out the door of hi
!, cell and made his escape into the street
: but was captured and returned to his cell
D and double guard placed over him. H
has made full confession of the crime.
e The extensive pork packing establishment
q of Charles H. North & Co., at Somervile
near Boston, covering an area of four acres
$ was DESTROYED by fire on Sunday night, in
n volving a loss of between seven and eigh
j, hundred thousand dollars and throwing fiv
hundred men out of employment. Thirtee
hundred live hogs persisted in the flames
There was also destroyed 200 newly-slaugh
tered hogs, 1000 tierces, 1000 cases and 0OI
It barrels Of lard and l 800 barrels of glue.
O vast amount of meat in various stages OF cuI
r ing was also consumed.
At two o'clock, on Friday morning, fou
: men awakened James A. Abbott, agent c
: the Adams Express Company at Golconda
ILL.,, and said they wanted him to go to hi
i store for a sick person. Hewent to the store
o and when there they robbed him of pack
age containing $40. Three of them then fol
n ced him into skiff, took him down the rive
few miles, and then threw him overheard
s saving that s'dead men tell no tales" All
g bott succeeded in reaching the shore, and
G man supposed to be one of the robbers wa
i arrested.
The sham battle between the Midshipme
. and Marines of the Naval Academy at An
napolis Monday was attended with accident
II that sent two men to the hospital. The Mic
) shipmen, representing the naval forces, al
) tackled and captured stronghold defended
! by the Marines. Midshipman Hill was injul
o,,J bxyo hlonl- d0e
: and Donaldson, Marine, who thought h
: had fired off his last cartridge, snapped tn
e trigger of his musket while his hand was O.
n the muzzle. His hand was terribly lacerate
: by the discharge.
r 1t is reported from Eagle Pass, Texas, tha
. the Mexican Government, having discovere
~ that General Mackenzie is in Mexico wit
American troops, has ordered Col. Nunci
l. falsely reported dead, to pursue Maekenzi
It with 100 troops. Nuncio's force being poorl
q mounted, are not expected to overtake Mac
kenzie's. General Canales has started /
pursuit of Colonel Shafter, who crossed int
9 Mexico on Saturday night The latest repoI
n is that "scarcty of water will compel Gen
J. eral Mackenzie to return, and that courie
n has been sent to recall Shafter.
q The Jennings Association met in Camden
N. j., on the 18th inst.,. to take action in rel
: erence to measures necessary to prescott
their title to final determination before tn
n courts of England to secure the large estat
said to have been left by Samuel Jennings
/ Henry Jennings and Isaac Jennings, witt
came to America between the years 1866 an
1909. Quite large number of persons wer
IS present. The heirs in New Jersey numbe
h about 1885, and the value of the estate
IF England is said to be three hundred millio
. dollars. A committee, consisting of tw
claimants of each branch of the Jennings fan
:, ily, was appointed to look into the matter {
collecting money for employing counsel t
S prosecute the case.
: There was some excitement in st. Loui:
: Pittsburg and other cities, on Monday morn
ing, regarding general strike which, it wa
reported, would then begin throughout tn
country. There was no indication, however
: of any movement of the kind either in tn
Y factories and workshops or on the railroads
. In this connection the st. Louis Times say
!, that ample precautions were taken by tn
! military and police authorities to prevent dis
; order should a strike occur. Recon- devel
J. opments show that there is thorough organ
h ization among the tramps and Wandering
a harvesters During the past two weeks thes
y .oor1a hava Ivifhout nxeantlOn worn llttl