The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-03-15
News Of the Week.

Michael Maginnis, being drunk, WIS killed
by falling down stairs in Boston Or Saturday
night.
Shucked oysters have been shipped from
Salisbury to London, says the ST. Michaels
A lot Of jackfsh * to be brought from
land.
Mrs. NJ. c. Williams has succeeded her late
husband as President Of the State National
Bank of Raleigh, N. G.
About Sil 900 silver dollars have been
coined in New, Orleans Mint since 1t resumed
operations, few weeks ago.
The 10Th anniversary Of the Atlantic Cable,
was celebrated at the residence of Cyrus W. |
Field in New York city, on Monday night,
ne hrst colored juryman ever drawn In
York county, Pa, has just been drawn for
the April term ofthe Quarter Sessions Court.
The FaH Mall Gazette says private letter
from high Indian official states that the PEG
pie OF Cashmere are dying Of famine like flies. /
Joseph Himmel, German, residing in Gin
cinnati, left for London last Thursday, to re- /
cover 100000 to which his wife is said 1
to be heiress.
The Brooklyn Presbytery met as Grand |
Jury, on Monday and found an indictment |
against the Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage for |
ialsehood aud deceit.
Queen Victoria il is rumorcd, has express
] ca strong wish to see Canada, and the |
Prince of Wales is encouraging her to visit |
both that country and the United States.
Since the Maryland House Of Correction
has been open the dodgers at the Baltimore
police stations have fallen off 10 per cent.
and but few professional beggars are on the
streets.
The Official statement from the United
States Treasury Department makes the bal.
ance ftrade in our favor for the last calendar
year 1927 ,GS0,0G3.
The severe wind and rain storm in Califor.
MA continued on Sunday. At Summit Sta
ton, IN the Sierra Nevada, the snow was ''siX-
teen feet deep, and still falling"
Al a recent session Of the Jefferson county
Pa, Court, Judge jerks threatened to impris-
on several attorneys for their unnecessary
wrangling while cross.examining witnesses.
Our Minister to England, Mr.. Welsh finds
the climate very uniayorable and the salary
connected with the position entirely made
quate TO his wants IL his health does not
improve during the summer he will resign.
The Treasury Department on Monday paid
over to captain Eads $3.50, OO0 the sum given
to him in the Sundry Civil bill on account Of
his improvement Of the South Pass of the
Mississippi.
Miss Margaret Leary, houskeeper Of the
Ocean Hotel, at Long Branch, was arrested
on Saturday, on suspicion of being the per-
son who attempted to burn down the hotel
q week ago.
The man who married whole family lives
in Traverse county, Michigan. His FIRST wife
died and he married her sister, She too,
died, and then he married the mother Of his
two former wives.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad employee
has computed that if the cars belonging to
that company were coupled together in one
continuous string they would cover a distance
ofover 100 miles
American pork and bacon, declared by En-.
glishmen as equal to the best English pork and
bacon, is sold in England for nine cents, at
retail, while the same cannot be had in New
: York for less than twelve cents
} The Newport, Ala, Era says: --"old Aunt
, Patsy Lawrence, who nursed VIM. Henry
Harrison, the President, and who is l0i years
old, has been quite i'll at her home, in New
Town, colored suburban village
The Harmony Mills, including the Ogden
and Strong Mills, at Cohoes, N. Y, which
have been running on half time for the last
four weeks, resumed full time on Monday, at
reduction in wages of ten per cent.
The snow storm of Saturday in Nova SEQ.
tia was so severe that no services were held in
, , any Of the churches Of Halifax on Sunday
! The drifts in many places were from eight TO
ten feet deep. Railroad trains were all de-
layed.
l Mr.. Jacob Brown, attorney for the widow
, and children Of the late Samuel Cooper, has
docketed a suit at Cumberland against Her
bet Bell, at whose hands Cooper received a
wound resulting in his death, for damages in
Z the sum of $4,000.
' The steamer Atrato, from London, which
: arrived at Boston on Sunday, reports that on
the 22d ult, in latitude 46. 10, longitude l6 40
she passed burning ship supposed to be an
r r. q L. M
+. name of the vessel could not be ascertained.
/. Some citizens of Waynesburg, Pennsylya.
{. MIA, came to the conclusion last week that on
v habitual wife-beater in their neighborhood
/, should be disciplined, and taking him out one
u night gave him what he richly deserved--a
n severe eow.hiding. He now knows how il i.
0 himself
The forty-eight citizens of Natchitoches,
La, who were acquitted by the United Safes
Court at New Orleans Friday, Of charges OF
political conspiracy, we're escorted to the
steamboat for their homes, Saturday, by
volunteer military company with band Of
music. A salute was fired in honor Of the
{ event.
There are no tdings Of the fourteen Glou-
/ GO ster fishing vessels which went to the
Georges Banks, and it is feared that all were
lost w.'h their crews, in the storms of last
month Two Of the missing vessels Of the
I, Gloucester Mass, fishing fleet have returned
10 port
The principal measures which became laws,
in addition 70 ten general appropriation bills
at the late session OF Congress, were the In
iernai Revenue. Census, Payment of Pen.
sion Arrears and National Health bills, and
{ the bin for the issue Of Certificates in aid of
retuHding the National debt.
Congressman elect Murch, Of Maine an.
nonnces that hc will introduce at the extra
session Of Congress- joint resolution, declar.
} ing eight hours q legal day 3 work for all Ia.
! borers and mechanics employed by the Gov.
ernment A similar resolution passed the
! House in May, s7s, but failed in the Senate
Two burglars broke into the residence of
John P. Richards, in East Eighty sixth st.,
New York, Oh Sunday night Mr.. Richards
surprised the burglars, shot one ofthem dead
and captared the other. The dead man was
recognized as Timothy easy, the captured
ruiiian James DUNCAN, both wen known TO the
police
Fifteen masked men called at the house of
William Moore, at Winchester, Ky, on Satur-
day night, and told him be must Immediately
pay his debts or quit the county. He fired
iuto the mob, who Cred and severely wound
ed him. Two of his suspected ASSISTANTS
were lodged in jail. But liberated BY g gang
OF eoufedcrates On Monday.
I I ne Hlttl Hthlau Luipittt wrecked Oh niW
Duck Island on the coast nf Maine, was 4
composite vessel, that Il, partly iron aud mart.
" wood, OF 1000 tons burshen. builtAnd own
cd in England. and formerly Known as the
Stamboul. Her captain and six men perished;
the pilot, Robert Cline, and seventeen men
were washed ashore, more or less bruised by
collision with the rocks.
Isaac II. Krox has telegraphed TO the Sec.
retary Of the Treasury from the National
Stock Yards, at Chicago under date of Tho
sth instant, denying that the business OF Eat.
tcning cattle for the East with sop feed Il
carried on there in the neighborhood. He
says farther, "fhe cattle received here dur.
ing the last year and this year TO date have
been noted as unusually healthy, and the dis.
case ofpleuro pneumonia is not known"
disastrous Ere occurred at Mr.. VIM vii.
sons Bull Mountain farm, Elk Neck, Nd,
on Saturday night. The FIRE broke out at Ii
o'clock in tho barn, and owing TO the inlam.
mable material stored there the flames soon