The Democratic advocate., 1878-07-06
News of the Week.

year ending on Saturday were SII0, 500. .T4s.
or Sc, ,3S4, ,00l less than during the preceding
| fiscal year.
Miss Lucy Stamps, niece of JEFF Davis, was
married in New Orleans last week TO Mr..
Edward III. Farrar. Mr.. Davis was present
and gave the bride away.
At Manchester, n. H. Tuesday, the mer.
curry stood at 1Os degrees in the shade and
| l4O IN the sun. At ten o'clock at night. in
Boston, it stood at 96l.
The aggregate age Of seventeen persons
/ seven men and ten women, published in the
obituary columns of the Philadelphia Ledger,
last week, amounted to 1882 years.
An engine on the New York Central Rail.
way blew up at Buffalo Sunday, but both en-.
| gineer and fireman escaped injury, although
the fireman was blown a distance of thirty
| feet.
Mr.. Charles Gilmor, of Baltimore county
was wounded in the hand and arm, while
cunning on Saturday last, by the bursting o.
his gun. While painful the wounds are moi
regarded serious.
! John Nicodemus, of Boonsboro', has pre-
sented Washington county, Nd, with n farm
OF III acres, for which he paid SI2, 500. The
farm is located two miles from Hagerstown,
and the new aims house will be erected upon
| it.
| The rate of taxation for county purposes,
as fixed this year for Charles Co., Nd, is 81
cents on the SlO0, and for the State ls3 cent.
on the 500, making taxation of 81. l63 or
the 500.
Cod fishing at Magdalen Island continued
last week, and the hooking Of mackerel com
menced in Pleasant Bay. Fish are reported
more abundant in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
than for several years.
Mr.. George W. Childs, the noble-hearted
proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger gave
all the newsboys of that city an excursion, a
visit to the Geological Gardens, and splen-
did collation., on the 4th instant.
A number of heavy grain firms in Liver.
pool are about to collapse. The big crops on
this side of the water, and the failure of Eng
land to go to war, according to programme,
has ''done the business for them.
Rear Admiral Rodgers having been re.
lieyed as Superintendent of the Naval Acade.
my by Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, left
Annapolis on the Both ult., for San francisco
to assume command of the Pacific Station.
In examining the affairs of Jacob Spears &
Sons, who recently made an assignment at
Paris, Ky, it was found the senior member
of the firm, who is County Treasurer, owed
the county $4,000. His bondsmen will paw
the amount
1t is said at the State Department that sew
eral weeks must elapse before arrangements
can be completed for the distribution to
American citizens of the first two installments
Of 5000, 900 received from Mexico on account
of claims against that country.
Three hundred and sixty thousand acres OF
white oak timber and mineral lands, in Nc
Dougal county, West Virginia, sold in New
York on Wednesday of last week, at an aver
age of only one cent per acre.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas, on Satur-
day, decided that the levee bonds of that
State, issued in lS69-70, were unconstitution-
al and are worthless. About three millions
in bonds are affected by this decision.
Sunday last was the hottest day of the season
in New England, the thermometer registering
96 degrees in Boston, 102 at White River
junction, VT, 100 at Lowell, 98 at Laconia.
n H., l02 at Bangor, Me-, and 100 at Man
chester, n. H.
John Mccormick was stabbed to death bv
John Fleming with a shoe knife, in Balti-
more, Sunday morning. Mccormick was
asleep in bed at the time. 1t was the result
of a drunken spree by Fleming the night
before.
The Zurich Gazette, Switzerland, recently
contained the following g:-"Church of Finn
tern. On the occasion of the national rife
contest, which will commence on Sunday
morning, public worship will be suspended.
The Council of the Parish
The Freethinkers are to hold a convention
at Watkins, n. Y, August % and %.
Among the invited speakers are Col Inger-
soil, ID. X. Locke, Robert Collyer, Rev.
Thomas Beecher, Rabbi Wise, James Parton
and Frederick Douglass. What medley.
Bradley Davis, q mulatto, was sent to Jail
for two years, for an assault on Miss Maggie
Grove, pretty young girl, about seventeen
years old The assault was made at the door
OF her dwelling, in Baltimore, about 10 o'clk
at night, last June.
Thomas Buckley, treasurer of the Abba
knitting Mills, was garroted on horse car
at Troy, n. Y, Monday morning by two
men and robbed of $4,000 which he was tak;ng
to the mill to pay off the hands. The robbers
escaped in hack, which, driven by a con-
federate, followed the car
The Pennsylvania coal companies have
stopped work until the 18th instant. %. 600
men are thrown out of employment. The 70.
ported disturbance fortunately proves TO be
untrue. The reason given for the stop
page Is the over production, yet the price has
been advanced 10 cents per ton.
Colonel Alvah Buckbee, a prominen. resi.
dent OF Elmira, n. Y. shot and, it is believ-
ed, fatally wounded his wife and mother.in-
law, and then blew out his own brains, Monday
afternoon. His wife left him several weeks
ago, and her refusal to return to him caused
the tragedy. Buckbee was about 32 years of
age.
Diaz the fraudulent President who speaks
for Mexico, has notified the authorities at
Washington that if United States troops in
wade his territory again he will be compelled
to take some notice Of them. As this is what
Hayes especially desires, he has only TO send
Mackenzie on another raid to start the war
which he Is known to covet
An express messengers bag, containing
S2l 900, was stolen in Plainsville, Ohio. on
Monday afternoon, while being conveyed in a
wagon from the express office to the railroad
depot. The agent Of the American EXPRESS
Company and the messenger rode together
with the driver on the wagon, yet they could
not tell how the package disappeared
4 fight took place in ST. Louis on Sunday.
between force of the s'city marshals.'' or.
ganized by the Mayor, and some "Metronoli.
tan police, in which two men were killed
and two wounded. The ''Metronolitansr are
not recognized by the Mayor; they were or
ganized under law passed by the Legislature
IN 1867, which has be0n several times decIar,
ed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
There has been a very rapid increase in the
number OF emigrants to the Western States
and Territories, and the records of the Gen.
eral Land Office at Washington, show a great
increase of the entries under the homestead
and pre-emptioR laws in Kansas, Nebraska.
Minnesota, Colorado and dakota. In single
district in Dakota there were over 1900 entries
by actual settlers at its single land office in
April, and more than 100 entries in MAY.
The Southern Express train on the Phila.
delphia, Wilmington and baltimore Railroad
was thrown from the track near Claymont
by an obstruction on Saturday night. George
n. Babe, The fireman, aud a man aud boy
who were stealing ride, were killed. Har-
ley brown, q former employe Of the campa,
ny, was arrested on suspicion of having caus.
ed the disaster. He made full confession,
aliedging that he intended to give warning to
the train so as to be reinstated on the road.
The Permanent Exhibition, at Philade ell.
phia, Is said to be at or near it last gasp.
Some months ago its creditors were called
together and the State of affairs explained to
them. Some waved their claims entirely a
majority consented to take their pay in Exhi.
hilton stock. The working force was cut
down to forty men, all told, and the daily
payroll SO. But the expenses are still in
excess of the receipts, and there is no reserv-
ed fund to fall back upon. Last week the
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