The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-20
News of the Week.

\ New York farmers club has denounced
the English Sparrows.
Maine had one divorce TO every twelve
marriages during 1877.
Strawberries, from the South, are Sl.25
per quart in New York.
Jeremiah Willis, colored man, III years
old, lives in Salem county, New Jersey.
The value Of the property of the Church of
England is estimated at $500, 900.
The water was turned off at 1900 hydrants
at Reading recently for non payment of water
tax.
AlIegany county, Nd, will hold an Agri-
cultural Fair at Cumberland. October 3D., 9Th
and 5th.
The Yoma, Arizona. Sentinel describes the
discovery in that Territory of gold ore assay
ing S44, 500 per ton.
Edwin Booth, the distinguished tragediau
will appear at Ford's Grand Opera House,
| Baltimore, next week.
''Shadwell,i the birthplace of Thomas JEFF
/ fersOn, is to be sold at auction, under deed
| of trust, on the 18th of May.
Post-offees were established in this State,
last week, at the Caves, Baltimore county, and
Wet Falls, Frederick county.
| A flock of blueiays attacked and defeated
| eighty English sparrows that were turned
loose in park at Dubuque.
| Bayard Taylor, Minister to Germany, left
\ New York Thursday week on the steamer
| Holsatia. Mark Twain is fellow-passenger.
John BulIinger, an athlete, died in New
| York Sunday night from injuries received a
few days ago while wrestling with bear in
! Albany.
Rain fell in the Green Mountain districts
of Vermont from Wednesday to Saturday
last, swelling all the streams and doing much
damage.
The Stockton, n D., spoke factory last
week received an order from England for
| 1000 spokes, to be used in the manufacture
of artillery carriages.
| There are ten sunken vessels in the Break =
water, at Cape May, n. j., with there masts
showing above water, one three masted
schooner with masts in her.
Thirty tons of steel wire per day are turned
out at the pulling mill in Conemaugh borough,
| Cambria county, Pa. The smallest size
made at present is 1-36th of an inch in diam
eter.
Governor Archibald, of Nova Scotia ar
rived in Baltimore, on Saturday, on the
steamship Scandinavian. Hewill visit Wash
ington, Philadelphia, New York, and other
Northern cities.
In row which originated in the African
Methodist Church at Jacksonville, ILL.,, last
week, Tobias Hannas shot Clarence Hubbard
dead and so badly wounded William Baker
that he died at night.
/ DIR. Mary Z. Walker is lying very low with
pneumonia in Providence hospital, Washing
ton. She attributes her illness to tobacco
smoke, which she has been compelled to
| breathe everywhere she went
| According to a telegram to the Galveston
| NelCs, firm in San Antonio, Texas, has
been shipping arms and ammunition to Mex
leo for several weeks past. A revolutionary
movement is, therefore, suspected.
Barbara Allen, an old beggar woman, who
was seized with fit at Brooklyn, l.. l.,
! ferry-house on Tuesday evening, and died
while being conveyed to the hospital was
found to be worth in the aggregate $4,000.
| Bob, the sorrel war-horse which Stonewall
Jackson was riding when he received his
fatal wound, is still living, at the age of
twenty three, on the farm of brother-in law
of the General in Lincoln county, North
Carolina.
| A discrepancy of $500 has been dis
covered in the books of the Huron and Erie
Loan and Saving Society, at London, 0nta-
rio. l.. Gibson, the manager, has made the
amount good and been suspended from the
management.
! Forty-two Indians, liberated from confine-
ment in Florida, arrived at Old Point Com
fort, Virginia, on Sunday morning. Sixteen
of them (youths) will remain at the Hampton
Normal School; the adults will be taken to
the Indian Territory.
A telegram from New Iberia, La, reports
the burning of the sugar house and ginnery
of DeYezin Oliver, near that place, and the
| capture and lynching of the incendiary, a
colored man. He confessed that he fired two
other sugar houses several months ago.
A tornado at Cottonwood, Kansas, on Sat
urday night, blew forty cars off the track of
the Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and de-
molished number of houses. 1t is reported
that several persons we're killed. The same
tornado wrecked stock train near Emporia.
Edward F. Masurett, cashier of the Ire
mont House in Boston, confessed on Satur
/ day that he had lost money belonging to the
hotel at faro, and offered to compromise the
matter. The proprietors refused and sent
/ for q policeman, whereupon Masurett shot
himself in the head, iniicting dangerous, if
not fatal wound.
! SANGER Chase, Treasurer of the Union
/ Mills at Fall River, Mass, confessed recently
to being a defaulter to the extent of $3.50, 900.
/ The mill property has been attached, and will
probably be thrown into insolvency. The
/ defaulter was a prominent man in society,
and has been in both houses of the State
Legislature as Representative and Senator.
The reports of the National Bankst to March
10Th, just compiled in the Office of the Comp
troller of the Currency, show that the banks
held on that day $54 1888, 200 of specie and
gold notes, the largest specie reserve reported
since the organization OF the system. Of the
above amount, S4,S4s, 800 was in silver coin,
S7,307 900 in gold coin, and S42, 892 800 in
gold notes.
John G.. Marshall, Of Georgetown, Ohio, a
cousin of General Grant, was found dead in
bed at hotel in Columbus, Ohio, on Sun
day morning. He had gone to Columbus to
argue case before the Supreme Court. His
death was caused by general debility. De-
ceased was formerly member of the Ohio
| Legislature, and served as a Colonel during
the late war.
| Mr.. James v Whitebeck, of Bethlehem.
I n. Y. was recently fined 800 for attempting
| to kiss Mrs. Margaret l.. Mead, wife of DR..
Jasper Mead as she sat upon her door step,
April 10, 1877. Once before he was com
PEELED to disburse S. to wrathful husband
whose wife he had kissed, and SO to another
woman's father. Kissing has been rather a
costly amusement to him.
A fire at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, on Saturday
night, destroyed over fifty of the principal
buildings in the town, causing a loss estimated
at $4,000 The burnt district covers fifteen
acres. 1t is believed that the fire was started
by negroes, in revenge for the "secret lynch
/ ing of one Of their color for attempting a
felonious assault, and the killing of another
/ by policeman while resisting an arrest.
Congressman, Ellsworth. of Michigan, now
on visit to his home at Greenville in that
State, was terribly beaten on Monday last by
by neighbor named J. j. Shearer. ELS
worths skull was fractured, and he is in a
critical condition. il is said that Shearer
had for several months, ''iniended to horsewhp
/ Ellsworth and two or three other gentlemen
foralleged interferenceinhi his domestic affairs -
Mr.. Tennyson got fifteen hundred dollars
in gold for his ballad in the last number of
the Nineteenth Century. The London Athe-
HOgum says that thus is "a very large sum-
but "quite in keeping with" the poets Gus
tomary receipts from his publishers. Mr.
Longtellow. it will he remembered, was re-
ported to have received recently from the
publishers of HaJPer's Magazine three thou
sand dollars for poem entitled Keramos
II. A. McIntire, President of the First Ma
tional Bank of Lake City, aud Vice President
of the First National Bank of Colorado
| Springs, in Colorado, has disappeared with
Z $40. 200. It is stated that before the vacancy