The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-24

John Randolph's famous estate of Roam
oke, Va, is to be sold on the ID prox.
William Niblo, the veteran theatrical man
ager, died on Wednesday, in New York. aged
50 years.
Five illicit distilIeries have Just been de-
stroyed in revenue raid in Putnam county.
Tensessee.
James T. Davis, of Ironton, Ohio, filed a
petition in bankruptcy Tuesday His liabili-
ties are $3.50, 900; assets, 81, 900.
Richard Shannon, who murdered Mrs.
Rice at Waterford, n. Y on Tuesday, hang.
ed himself on Wednesday morning.
Queen Christina, the grandmother of King
Alfonso of Spain, died on Wednesday night
at Sainte Adresse, near Havre, France.
John F. Trow, publisher, of New York,
has made an assignment. His liabilities are
stated at S2lI, 1858; assets, Sl41,000
George Rush and John ]. Bailey were
burned to death by falling in vitriol vat, in
Baltimore, on Tuesday afternoon last.
There is pigeon roost from two to three
miles long, and from half to three-quarters of
a mile wide, in Potter county, Pa. Every
tree is full of nests.
Baron Won Schlozer, the German Minister
to Washington, and Captain Bogardus, the
pigeon shooter, arrived in New York Tues
day from Europe.
The city of Bristol, England, is afflicted
with typhoid fever, caused by an impure quail.
ity of the milk. Twelve deaths have occurred
during the past week.
The Post-oflice Department is informed
that IN Arizona the mail stages have been
stopped by highwaymen and the mails robbed
six times within the last two weeks.
A severe hailstorm on Saturday night last
did considerable damage to the corn crop in
the vicinity of Welsh Run, Washington coun-
ty, Nd. A number Of fields were completely
stripped.
The Liberian exodus ship Azor is at
Charleston, and will probably take cargo of
naval stores to Antwerp, earning money to
pay off claims against her ere she again sails
for Monrovia.
Henry F. Hills and Fisher E. Hartshorn.
of the firm of II. f. Hills 4 Co., straw hat
manufacturers of New York, have gons into
bankruptcy. Their liabilities are ststed at
upwards Of $4,000
The American bark Lena Thurlow was
sunk by collision with the British bark War
rem Hastings, off Nova Scotia, on the 25th of
July. The crew of the Thurlow were rescued
and taken to Queenstown.
Thomas Boyd, confined in the Ripley coun-
ty, Indiana, Jail, on the charge of attempting
q felonious assault, was murdered Monday
night, by mob of so ''vigilants,' who broke
into the jail and fired seventeen shots into his
body.
The Hon. Bailie Peyton died at Galla:in,
Tennessee, on Monday. He was on the staff
of General Taylor during the Mexican war,
served in Congress for two sessions, and was
Minister to Chill during President Filmore's
administration.
While Hayward S. Cozzens, of New York,
was ascending Prospect Mountain, at Lake
George, on Saturday, a revolver in his pocket
was accidentally discharged, and the ball
lodged in his groin. His condition was criti-
cal at last accounts.
A man fishing near the mouth of the Hous-
atomic river hooked q fine striped bass, and
as he was hauling in the prize, what was his
establishment to behold large shark make a
dash for it and take it, tackle and all. The
shark was eight or nine feet long.
The propeller Java sank off Point Ausable,
Lake Michigan, on Sunday morning, but no
lives we're lost. The Java was an iron bound
vessel of !, 700 tons burden, costing SIG, 900.
She had valuable cargo of mixed merchan-
die, which was fully insured.
Charles T. Hane, cashier of the exchange
Bank Of Canton, Ohio, was found Monday
morning in a third story room dying of pois-
on. Whether the bank is sufferer cannot
be told until the safe, of which he alone pos
esses the combination, is opened.
Albertus and Sylvester Peacher, who lately
escaped from the Hagerstown Jail, have been
recaptured in the mountains near Harper's
Ferry, and now occupy their old quarters.
Sylvester, in attempting to elude the officers,
was shot IN the thigh, but the wound is not
dangerous.
The corn crop in the West is represented
as being enormous. A letter from Washing
ton county, Minnesota, says:-All the wheat
here Is badly damaged, and will not average
more than ten or twelve bushels to the acre.
Very few lots have been threshed. Barley
all entirely spoiled.
At Port Jervis, n. Y, Tuesday, verdict
for $1,000 was obtained by D. p Clark, guar
dian of William Parson, aged 10, against a
farmer named Vail, for inhuman treatment of
the boy, who will be crippled for life. Pen
sions due William and his younger brother
we're also embezzled by Vail.
The First National Bank, of Quincy. ILL.,,
the only National Bank in that city, suspend
ed Monday. Its suspention is ascribed to
the inability of the tobacco firm Of Harris,
Beebe d Co., to meet their paper due the
bank. Several years ago the bank lost $780,
GOO by robbery. Its officers say that its IL
abilities will be met.
The Mennonites are increasing rapidly in
Nebraska, Kansas and Minnesota, owing
chiefly to the immigration of the Russian
Mennonites, who are allowed by the Russian
government until 1880 to leave Russia to avoid
military enlistment. There are about e, 1000
OF this sect in America, about one-tenth of
them in Canada.
The Episcopal church at Berlin, Nd, was
struck by lightning during the heavy storm
that prevailed on Saturday afternoon last. and
much damage was done the steeple by it, and
the fluid running down into the lower floor of
the church demolished one of the pews and
did other slight damage. 1t was fortunate it
escaped more serious injury.
General Grant has had an interview with
the Gar at st. Petersburg. The Emperor
manifested great cordially. The General
was presented by Prince Gortschakoff. His
Majesty talked of his health and the Generals
travels. He seemed greatly interested in our
national wards, the Indians, and made sever.
al inquiries as to their mode of warfare.
John Tynans and William Dorgan, quarry
laborers, vera murdered and robbed near
Pacific junction, Iowa, last Saturday even.
ing, as they were going home from work.
Dorgan had 500 in his possession when he
started for home. John McCreary and his
father and brother have been arrested on sus-
picion, circumstances being strongly against
them.
The schooner San Diego, reported lost in
Behring's Sea, returned to San Francisco
Tuesday. She was driven ashore and much
damaged, and her crew wintered where she
went aground, then repaired the schooner
and set sail. Only three men came back,
the captain, first and second mates, and sew
en- others having been drowned by the upset
ting of boat.
James Todd, Jr., a cadet from Indiana, Pa.
is believed TO have drowned himself at West
Point on Tuesday night. He had been sick
in the hospital for nearly three months, and
was missed Wednesday morning. His clothes
were found on the river bank, but his body
was not recovered Letters were left by him
expressing determination to commit suicide.
Todd was "a years OF age.
1t was Colonel Young's Command that
crossed into Mexico on the night of the 10th
instant, the rest OF Colonel Mackenzie's force
being prevented from crossing by high water.
1ouug's command has returned TO Texas
without capturing Ariola or recovering the
stolen cattle. Some Mexican troops arrived
at Newtown on the 18th, hut made no de-
monstration against the American troops.
In Portland, Oregon, about o'clock on
Tuesday morning, three strange men entered