The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
News Of the Week.

Three gas companies compete for the illu-
minailon of the Monumental City.
A panther is said to be prowling about the
woods near WestwoOd, Bergen county, n. ].
| There will be 400 American exhibitors AT
the Paris Exposition, III Of whom are from
! New York.
Baltimore claims that she will have 35O. =
600 inhabitants by 1880 No doubt of II.
if she gets the belt.
! Good farming land in Stafford county. Va.
was sold few days since at less than one
dollar an acre.
A woman in Fairfield, Me-. has a growth
Of natural hair eight feet and one inah long.
and has refused, it is said, s., 600 for it.
The steamboat Lizzie Taylor was sunk by
snag in Atchafalaya Bay, La, on SUNDAY
morning. No lives we're lost.
Governor Mccormick, commissioner gem
eral from the United States to the Paris ex-
position, will sail for Europe next month.
January was a black letter month in bust
ness. The mercantile failures in New York
city were larger than in any month since 1873.
Thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
tons of iron pipe, of twenty-oue pounds per
foot, will be required for the Seaboard Pipe
lins.
Aaron Earl and bis wife, of Chester. Vt
"a and 7S years old respectively, celebrated
their 6Oth marriage anniversary several weeks
ago.
George Cruikshank, the well-known carl
catGrist and draughtsman, who died in Lon
don on Friday, was in the seth year of his
age.
Fortytwo Chicago firms went into bank
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j. Madison Wells was taken to New Or
leans on Monday and lodged in the Parish
prison.
John Johnson and wife, of Freeport, Ne,
aged respectively 92 and 80 years, have re-
Gently celebrated the 10th anniversary of
their marriage.
Owing to the refusal of the United States
Sub-Treasury toaccept trade dollars the Post
master at New York will not accept them in
payment for stamps.
Secretary Schurz favors the abolition of the
absurd system of making treaties with tribes
and bands of Indians, as if they each possess.
ed national autonomy.
A Shanghai despatch reports the burning
OF an asylum for women and children at Tien
Tsin, China, by which over 1000 persons
Brigham Young's twenty.fv widows and
forty-hve children are dissatisfied with the
distribution of the Prophets property and
threaten to bring lawsuit.
The New England fishing feet in New
Foundland waters has almost entirely failed
this season, owing to the determined hostility
of the New Foundlaud fishermen.
The public printing of the General Gov
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year, or more than the annual interest on
forty millions of four per cent bonds.
Patrick Sullivan was frozen to death on
Broad Mountain, while trying to walk home
from Hecksherville to Gordon Plane, in
Schuylkill county, Pa, on Sunday night
A widow 60 years old, and having ten
children, has just married youth under 10,
in st. Albans, VT, much to the disgust Of
her sons. One of them knocked the bride
groom down.
During the performance Of a circus at Cal
ais, France, on Saturday night, false alarm
of fire caused a great rush, in which ten per
sons were suffocated or trampled to death
Several others were injured.
During the month of January there have
been reported l29 failures in New York city,
with liabilities of S7,083, ,039, and assets of
81 ,433, ,839. This is the largest in both num-
Der and amount since the panic of 1873.
The frequency of deaths from hydrophobia
is creating much excitement in New England.
bill to make the tax $40 and $50 on male
and female dogs has already been introduced
in the Connecticut Legislature.
Mr.. Moody will visit New Haven, Conn,
on March 10th, and as no building now in
the city is large enough to accommodate the
the meeting, temporary one is to be put up
which will seat 5000 or 5000 persons.
Chief Justice Waite on Monday allowed a
writ of error to the Maryland Court Of Ap-
peals, TO bring up for review the refusal Of
that Court to allow Charles Taylor, colored,
to practice in the Maryland Courts Of Record.
Justice Bradley refused the application of
the Louisiana Returning Board for transfer
of their cases to the U. S. Circuit Court. He
has forwarded his decision in the matter to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court at New Orleans
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
not to coin trade dollars at the Philadelphia
Mint. Arrangements will be made with the
view of preventingthe coinage of trade dollars
in the West for shipment to the Eastern
States.
Mr.. John S. Hunichen and Mr.. Levin S.
Morris were elected in Baltimore, on 3Ist
ult., as delegates TO the Legislature in the
places made vacant by the death of the la
mented Col. s. Sands Mills and John f.
Wiley.
The Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives have resolutions pending asking Con-
gress to fix a national rate of interest at
per cent or less Also a resolution for the
expulsion of o. F. Bullard, member now
under arrest for embezzlement.
The contest for president of Bryan, Texas,
College is between s. Minor, a Mississippi
black, and graduate of Western college, and
two white ministers. Minor is said to be
highly recommended as a scholar by Mr.
Davis, as well as by Senator Lamar.
Charles Schutter, justice of the peace,
was arrested in HaZelton, Pa, Wednesday,
by United States Detective, on charges of
compounding a felony and malfeasance in Of
fee. He was held in $1,000 bail. 1t is al
legged that he released from custody Mollie
Mcguire arrested for passing counterfeits.
The roof of the furnace house of the New
England Glass factory at East Cambridge,
Mass, fell IN on Saturday, making a terrible
ruin. 1t was of iron, 100 feet long by 30
wide and was built II years ago at cost
of $4,000. There was no snow upon it,
and its fall is attributed to contraction of the
metal by cold.
Nineteen more senatorial elections to gil
vacancies occurring March 4, 1879, are yet
to take place. The Democrats so far have
gained two, and in the elections to follow are
certain to gain FIVE more Senators. If they
gain no more they will have a majority of
eleven in the Senate in 1879, counting David
Davis as an independent.
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