The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-06-21
News Of the Wees.


died on Friday night,
Mr. Fordham aud his family we're made
sick in Montreal by eating diseased pork
few days ago, and one Of the children died on
Friday night.
The Wayncsboro, Pa, Gazette, says;-
''0nr shops are crowded with orders for En-
gines and Threshers which daily pass our Of
fee for the depot.
Mrs. Catherine Massey died in Philadelphia
on Tuesday at the age OF 100 years. She was
born in the county Donegal, Ireland, and was
one ola family Of brothers and sisters.
At Utica, N. Y, Sunday, Mrs. Kate Sher.
man, while drunk, saw her little child on tho
railroad track. 10 rescue il, she ran in front
OF an engine and was killed; the child escaped
unhurt.
General Crook, who has Just returned to
Omaha from frontier trip, says the Indians
are generally quiet, but an outbreak may be
expected it the stealing Of the Sioux's ponies
is not stopped.
The S@ngerlest at Cincinnati closed, Sun.
day, with great picnic al lnwood Park.
The attendance in the afternoon was csti.
mated at $4,000. All the exercises passed
of without accident.
The emigration movement 10 Liberia among
our citizens Of color continues to boom gently.
Saturday for Afric's sunny fountains, took
out fifty negro emigrants.
A hose cart running to fire in Chicago, ON
Saturday, plunged into the river through the
open draw Of the State street bridge, and John
Coyle, new member OF the 70 ee, was drown
ed The horses were also drowned.
Reports from Southeastern Missouri aud
Northeastern Arkansas, where the harvesting
has begun, say the wheat is very line in quail
! ity, and will yield 10 to 25 bushels per acre.
| Corn and cotton look unusually well.
The champion seaturtle has Just been land
ed in New York. 1t wis caught off the Del.
aware capes. II is eight feet long, about six
feet wide, weighs about 200 pounds and Is OF
the spices known as the "leatherback. ~
Brazil sells about three-fOurths Of her cot.
fee crop Tor, in 1877 l,sO0,000 bags to the
United States, for which We pay chiefly in
gold, the gold balance paid in 1877 for Bra
lillian products amounting to $40, 100000,
The striking 'longshoremen at Buffalo, n.
| Y, decided on Saturday to resume work on
Monday at the old prices, and to submit iu
ture questions Of wages to arbitration. The
strikers number 400 and have been idle for
three weeks.
The Spanish Government has deposited
$40, O00at Proyineetown, Mass, as indemnity
to the owners Of the schoOuers Rzpah and
Rising Sun, seized by Spanish gunboat in
Cuban waters and thereby interrupted in
their whaling voyage.
| There has been an oyer-issue OF Sl00, 900
| Pennsylvania State bonds, and committee
appointed by the Legislature assembled at
| Harrisburg, on Tuesday, to investigate the
matter. The committee adjourned to reas.
semble in Philadelphia
| George r. Reynolds, the first Mormon con-
vieted OF polygamy since the passage of the
act of 1862, was sentenced Mt Salt Lake City
on Saturday to undergo two years imprison,
ment and pay fine of $500. lie will be
sent to the Detroit Penitentiary.
In the L S. District Court at Wilmington,
Delaware, Tuesday, Evans Rice, ex-Cashier
of the National Bank of Wilmington and
Brardywine, pleaded guilty to charges Of EN-
bezzlement and false entries and was sen.
fenced to FIVE years imprisonment.
| The legislature Of Texas has passed Mof-
| felt liquor law similar to tina: Of Virginia.
| +. ID. johnson, of Culpper, Va, has con.
tracted with the Texas authorities to make
and deliver 5000 Motiett registers by the LIST
of September next at $40 for each register.
A train carrying the members of the Maen.
nechor Society from Cincinnati TO lndanapo,
lis, on Sunday night was fred into by an
unknown villain near the latter city. The
bullet struck window casing, and, glancing,
dangerously wounded Miss Frck, one of the
singers, in the head
At Boswell, Ind, on Saturday afternoon,
$50 persons, gathered for shooting match,
took shelter in lumber shed from thunder
storm Lightning struck the shed, killing
Michael Wagman and Louis Shermes, and ia
tally injuring John james and John Lane.
| Four others were severely injured
John J. Moore, charged with the murder
of Miss Woodward, on the 9th inst, was
taken from the Jail at Spartanburg, s. C., on
Monday night, by one hundred and fifty armed
men, aud hanged in the woods near Wexford,
the scene of the murder, twelve miles from
Spartanburg Moore asserted his innocence
to the last
The Chicago Tribune says There i
little reason to doubt that grain was taken
from this city to New York at n cents per
100 pounds as late as two weeks ago. This
is a cents per bushe on wheat, or bare canal
rates, leaving nothing to pay for lake transporla.
ton. No wonder lake freights have been
dull, with such competition as this
The meeting of Spinners at Fall River,
Mass, on Saturday evening, was largely at.
tended, and it was resolved, by vote OF TOO
to 49, that there should DO general strike
ten days notice to be gigen on Monday of the
intention to quit work. The strike will in
clude all the mills in the city, wide cloth a.
well as print cloth, except, possibly, tho KIM
Philip and Moutauk mills.
The Working Mems Municipal Convention
Of San Francisco met on Tuesday, penni,
kearney, President Resolutions were adopt
ed pedging the party tu secure q reduction q
40 per cent. in city taxes, the ohli.oration o.
chinatown" the compelling Of the Chinest
to live outside Of the city limits, and the no
ceptance by officials Of reduction Of noarl,
50per cent. of their respective salaries.
1 Al Memphis, on Tuesday, during the trim
Of John J. o. Brien for the alleged betraya
OF Lizzie Voss, and while defendant was ties
tifying that he was innocent, Lizzie suddenl,
arose and drawing pistol, attempted to shoot
him, but the weapon was wrested from her b,
a deputy sheriff. In March last, her father
committed suicide on learning OF his daugh
ter's disgrace. The snit against 0'Brien Il
for $1,000 damages
A young man named Stephens, IA nigh
Waterman in lumber mill at Hunter Creek
near Lapeer, Mich, went home suddenly OF
Friday night and found a laborer name
House talking to his wife. Frenzied will
jealousy he went back to the mill, and, re
| W tht uOuec WIN u itfuiNtFt bUO
House and the woman, fatally wounding both
He then committed suicide. He had bpcr
only few months married.
A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Junl
10, says terrific hail storm passed over ,
tract Of country, six miles in width, near Ger
mantown, Columbia county, between IL ant
IL o'clock, last night. Hail stones fell ant
panes Of glass were demolished in every farm
house. Fowls were killed, fluit of every kline
was destroyed, trees uprooted, fences broker
down, and one or two houses near Clermon
were unroofed. The storm lasted only ter
minutes.
4. DE Wit Talmage, Of the Brookiyn TIA
bernaele, preached on Sunday last IL III,
lslington Presbyterian Church, london, /,
an immense congregation. Much cusiosity
was evlnced by the people to see the eccen
tflc American preacher, a dense crowd block
aiding the streets leading to the Church. Tn,
enthusiasm was immense. Half amile befor,
the Presbyterian Church was reached IN,
carriage Of the reverend gentleman was life,
from the ground and carried bodily to III,
church.
Eleven persons, including two women aut
three children, were drowned BY suddei
overflow Of Beaver creek, caused by water
spout, at Buffalo Gap, Dakota, on Thursda'
night Of last week. All were emierants eoini
10 the Black Hills, from Iowa. Nine Of then
4 were encamped near the banks Of the creek
ln hive minutes from the time the alarm wa
given the whole country for miles around va
Hooded, and the Hood subsidized as quickly n