The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-07-27

The death of Mrs. Commodore Norris is
announced. She was the mother in law Of
". W. Corcoran, Of Washington.
The boilers of the recently notorious steam
yacht Estelle exploded in Galveston harbor
on Saturday, scalding the engineer.
California expects to realize $4,000, 0O0
on her wheat crop this year, an increase oil
SIG, 1000, 900 on the receipts Of last year.
The Baltimore Bulletin says that gangs Of
well-dressed young ruffians, gamblers, bnllies
and pimps infest Fayette street the live long
day from Calvert to Gay
J. w. Sharp, Treasurer Of the Williams
burg township, Clermont county, Ohio, has
disappeared to avoid prosecution for forgery.
A deficit in his accounts is also reported.
The Nevada Bank has sold 1000, O0C
ounces of fine silver 10 the Government, pay
able IN standard dollars, delivered immediate
~ at the San Francisco and Carson MINIS.
The freedom Of the city of London will be
conferred on the Lords Beaeonsheld and
Salisbury on the Sd Of August, Immediately
before the ministerial banquet at the Mansoni
House.
Captain Bogardus was not successful in bis
pigeon shooting match with Mr.. Wallace, Of
England, for GOO side. Wallace killed II
birds and Bogardus only 81. OF the first p
birds Bogardus missed 16.
A large number OF heavy, broad-tired
wheels were made in West Chester and have
been shipped 10 England, whence they will
be sent to Southern Africa, where they will
be used for heavy hauling.
General Escobedo the Mexican Revolution
ist, has been captured by Diaz' troops under
Colonel Nuncio, near Cnaltro Sienegas, and
taken to Monterey. 1t is doubted on the
border whether he will reach there alive
Fourteen cases of yellow fever are reported
at New Orleans, Of which seven have proved
fatal. Two fatal sunstroke cases occurred
Wednesday, aud the price Of ice has been adj
yanced from twenty-five to sixty dollars per
ton by the ice ring.
It's reported that a farmer near Faribault,
Minnesota, shot and instantly killed two
tramps whom he caught in the act of setting
fire to the harvesting machine in his wheat
field. He gave himself up to the authorities,
but was instantly released.
The hot weather has reached London and
Paris, and for the time being the Exposition
is deserted by the Parisians. There is an
extraordinary large attendance of foreign Wis
itors, however, the United States are sending
more tourists to Europe than ever before.
The yacht Ina, containing FIVE young men,
was capsized by squat near South Point,
Lake Michigan, on Saturday night. The
occupants got upon the upturned boat and
hoated ashore, except one, VINO started to
swim ashore, and has not been heard of since.
Near Fluvanna Court House, Va, on
Tuesday, Wilson Howchins murdered his
wife, mother-in-law and one of his ehildrea,
and then committed suicide. His seven year
old son seeing him attack his mother, took
the baby from the cradle and fled to a place
Of safety
Mayor Latrobe, Of Baltimore, will, it is
said, signalize his installation by vigorously
taking up the projects left unfinished on his
retirement from the Mayoralty, last November
such as the remedy Of the Basin nuisance,
the Jones Falls improvement, and the reduc-
ton of water rates.
A school girl in Ann Arbor, Michigan, took
her lovers as theme for an essay, which she
read on commencement day, much to the as
constituent of the assembly She gave the
names of the lovers and described infinitely
their varied manner Of courtship, novel
theme for such an occasion.
A fatal political ARRAY occurred Wednesday
at Nashville, Tennessee, between Samuel
Hicks and three sons of Judge Nathaniel
Baxter, nominee for reelection. The trouble
grew out of speech made by Hicks the night
before Hicks and James Baxter were fatal
ly injured, both dying soon after.
Pursuant TO the uggestion of the Burgo-
master of Brussels, national subscription by
all the women of Belgium for the purpose Of
offering a present to the Queen of the Bel
gians on the occasion Of her silver wedding,
on the I'D ofnext August, will be instituted.
The subscriptions are limited to FIVE cents
Since its notification of Thursday 18th inst.
that silver dollars could be obtained for green
backs, free Transportation, the Treasury has
received from national banks orders for 3I0,-
OOO, 900 of such dollars. 1t is believed that in
future there will be but little difficulty in get
ting the new dollar into circulation.
The workshop of the State Prison at Con-
cord, Mass, was almost totally destroyed by
fire before daylight on Saturday. The build
ing was 400 feet long, and occupied by sever
al firms, and the loss is estimated at $780,
600. An unknown man was arrested in the
yard on suspicion of having fired the building
Large numbers of dead fish are found along
the West Canada creek and other streams
and it has been ascertained that large guam
titles of potato bugs, while endeavoring to fly
across the streams, have been blown into the
water and greedily eaten by the fish, and that
soon afterward the dead fish were noticed
Judging from the number of blossoms on
the chestnut trees the nut crop promises to
be very large next fall. The old folks say
that when nuts are abundant we may look
out for hard winter. Last fall there were
very few ehestnuts and hickory nuts and the
winter was an unusually mild one. There
may be something in it.
A gang of armed tramps boarded an excur-
sion train at Cheshire, Conn, on Saturday
night, insulted women, assaulted men and
stole clothing. They unshackled the rear
car and caused the train to stop several Ii mes,
the conductor and passengers being helpless.
Finally, after a few tramps had been thrown
from the cars, the rest left at Blainville.
Another international exhibition is an
nounced. Ii Is TO be opened two years hence
in Melbourne, Australia, although II Is not
likely to be as much talked about as the Paris
Exposition, it will probably prove of more
substantial benefit to the exhibitors of we'll
made tools and useful machines American
machinists and manufacturers should profit
by such an exhibition.
Captain Bogardus, the American ehampion
pigeon shooter, added to his laurels Tuesday,
by winning the return match with Mr. Chol-
modely Pennell, member of the English Hur.
bingham Park and Gun Clubs, whom he had
defeated at the International match on the
2Sth of June. Capt. Bogardus won by two
birds. They shot at one hundred birds each,
for one thousand dollars side.
A telegram from Newport, VT, says the
bush fires which have been burning in Can
ada, from the frontier to some distance in
the interior, are becoming dangerous The
fires took q new start Wednesday, being fan
ned by a high wind, and the country, for
hundreds of miles in Canada, Northern New
York and Vermont, is covered with dense
smoke. No rain has fallen in that region for
several weeks.
Crops at the West have suffered recently
very considerably. Dispatches to the Pic
neeT Press to the 10Th inst, from the heaviest
wheat growing counties report probable loss
of crop from rain and hot weather of from
20 to 40per cent. In Goodhue county, which
usually gives the largest yield of wheat in
Minnesota, the damage from blight is estima-
ted at from 80 to 20 per cent. Many fields
will yield from FIVE to ten bushels to the acre.
Harvesting will commence tomorrow in many
places.
The bark Azor, belonging to the African
Exodus Society of Charleston, returned TO
that city Wednesday. She brought back as
passengers Mr.. A. B. Williams, the Nears
and Courier correspondent, and fifteen col
ored persons who were sent out to Liberia
by the American Colonization Soeietv last