The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-14
News Of the Week.

The run on Eutaw Savings Bank III Dalti-
more ended on Saturday.
The Merchants Bank. of Prince Edwards
Island, has resumed payment.
The Newfoundland whale fisheries are re-
ported to be an almost total failure
Mrs. Van Colt, the revivalist, is doing her
utmost to drive wine from the communion
tables.
A colored woman named Rose Wise died
recently at Cris6eld said to be lie years OF
age.
1t is said that the Russian Government has
sent an agent to purchase Edison's electric
light inventions.
Four men we're killed and six wounded in
the renewal ofthe Breathtt county, Ky. riot,
on Wednesday week.
Fifty buildings in the business portion OF
Macon, Miss, were destroyed by hre on Sat
urday The loss is estimated at S2OO,OOO.
Grant is going to China on the United
States man-of-war Richmond, the flagship OF
the Asiatic squadron, as the guest OF the Gov
ernment.
A prominent and wealthy resident of Eliz-
abeth, N. j., has been incarcerated in the
Union County Jail because of his refusal to
pay his taxes.
A sixty days bicycle race is the latest
S0OrLlng
ly allowed to ride eighteen hours out OF the
twenty-four.
1t continued showing all day Saturday at
jamestown, N. Y, and by evening from 16
inches to two feet had fallen. The area OF
the snow storm was limited.
Whalers arriving at San Francisco from the
Arctic Ocean report a ship, supposed to be
the larger vessel of the Swedish Polar Ex-
pedition, blocked in the ice above East Cape.
The Methodists are agitating the expedien-
cy and usefulness of abandoning the old Wes-
| leyan system of the "Itinerancy," or the SUBJ
| stitution of permanent for temporary minis
| tiers.
| NJ Delbecque, director of the French
mint at Bordeaux, is charged with abstract
ing silver bars valued at thirteen hundred
thousand francs and substituting galvanized
silver bars.
The trial of Harley G. Brown, at New Cas-
tie, DEL, for wrecking train near Claymont,
and causing the death of four persons, in June
last, resulted on Saturday in verdict Tor
manslaughter.
Twin sisters, daughters of a widow in Cen
tralia, ILL.,, and eight years of age, were taken
with the same fever two weeks since, died
day or two ago in an hour of each other, and
were buried in the same grave.
Herman jacobson, of Toronto, who recent
ly took the oath on the Koran in civil suit,
alleging himself to be aMohametan, has been
arrested for perjury, it being claimed that he
is not follower of the Prophet.
While several boys were skating on the
canal at Ottawa, Canada, on Saturday, the
ice broke and one of them was drowned. An
other was rescued, but in such condition
that he was not expected to recover.
Miss Mary w. Underhill, of Oyster Bay,
L. l., was engaged to be married on the 18th
inst. Last Wednesday she addressed two
hundred invitations to her wedding. The
next day she was taken i'll and died.
A homicide took place at Brighton, Mont
gomery county, Md. on the lstinst. The par
ties we're the sons of colored minister's and
the quarrel originated about a woman. Cook
stabbed Aquila in the bowels and he died the
next day.
Mrs. Powers, the widow of the Philadelphia
Millionaire who died the other day, has en-
ployed four men to watch her husband S
grave and see that his remains are not stolen
by body snatchers. The vigil will be kept up
at least two years.
Gov. Hampton on Tuesday submitted to
theamputation of his rightleg below the knee
The Legislature compensated him to some
extent by almost unanimously electing him to
able day for the gallant Governor.
In 1877, Great Britain paid the United
States for bacon, hams, beef, butter and
cheese, $67, SOC, 900, against SIT, 100000 in
1868. The average annual amount paid by
Great Britain during the last five years for
American cotton, was S135, 100000.
Miss Louisa w. King, prominent, accom-
plished and benevolent Southern lady, died
in Augusta, Ca, on Saturday night, after a
shortillness. Although young, she had found
ed Widows Home and the Georgia Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
A large mass meeting of leading citizens of
New Orleans was held on the night of De-
cember 4th, at which resolutions were adopt
ed warmly thanking the people of the whole
country for the aid extended to the afflicted
people of the South during the yellow fever
epidemic.
LulI & Sage, extensive butter and cheese
makers, of New Berlin, Chenango county,
N. Y, have failed, and their liabilities are
estimated all the way from $500, 900 to $400,-
600. They have thirty or forty factories in
Chenango, Otsego, Madison, Herkimer- and
Oneida counties, and farmers will lose heavily
by their failure.
phia on Sunday evening. The parties to the
ceremony were John Foy, Chinese laundry
man, and Frederick Miller, buxom German
woman, six feet high. The courtship was of
three weeks duration, and the marriage cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Mr.. Burrell, of
the Baptist Church.
George Burns, W. A Mayer and Fanny
Van Gordon, living at Hollisterville, in Wayne
county, Pa, have been arrested for completely
in a recent act of incendarism and robbery.
1t is expected that the evidence adduced on
the trial will throw light on series of muir
ders, robberies, and other crimes perpetrated
in that region during several years past.
David Shepard, of Bridgeport, Conn, is a
youth of %, and he ran in debt to his land
lady 500. She is widow of uncertain age
anywhere between SO and 60-and she re-
leased him from his debt on his promise to
marry her. At the last moment the youth
declined to resume the responsibility, and a
breach of promise suit is the consequence.
A cable despatch received at Ottawa says
that the English Government has issued an
order in Council exempting imported Cana
dian and American cattle from the operation
of the law to prevent the introduction of dis
eased cattle, which required the cattle to be
slaughtered Immediately upon being landed.
This is important to the parties engaged in
the shipment of live stock.
One day last week Frank Sullivan, son of
Robert Sullivan, near Sandy Spring, in Mont
gomery county, Nd, while out hunting, acci-
dentally killed himself. He climbed upon a
fence to rest, and setting his gun stock upon
a rail- rested his chin upon the muzzle. The
stock slipped, and the hammer striking anoth-
er rail the gun was discharged, tearing off
one side of his face and head.
Walter Jameson, known as Sam Collyer,
fba ,1ri1a 6ohtar xvaS ralaa aSad MOndov avan-