The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-11-29
News Of the Week.

Snow fell to the depth Of Eve inches at
Meyeradale, Allegauy county, Md, on Friday
night OF last week.
Cooling 4 Aliens -four mill, at orinoco,
Mimi, was burned Tuesday, with 10000
bushels Of wheat. Loss $50,O0o.
A series of lawsuits about M iron bolt,
valued at ten cents, has already cost the liti'
giants five hundred dollars, at Plain City,
Ohio.
1t is said the Russian contract for the
building Of iron vessels in the UAited States
has been indefinitely postponed by the rise III
the price Of metal.
Navigation at Ottawa has partially closed
for the season. May crafts have gone into
winter quarters, and those which are on the
home trip are likely to be frozen in.
The eighth Avenue Railroad stables IN
New York were burned Tuesday morning,
with about 200 horses Loss about 500, 900.
Several iremen were injured one perhaps
fatally.
Two men, named Henderson aud Dunn,
quarrelled while Strengthening hogs, near I'D.
inburg, Ind, ON Monday, and Henderson
killed Dunn by cutting his juguiar vein The
murderer escaped.
A number of boats were passing east ~
the Erie Canal at Syracuse, n. T., Monday:
From Rome to Oriskany the ice in the canal
was TWO lnCuGA tulChs tNoh"6 wv
obstruction was removed.
Ice formed in considerable quantities along
the shores of the lower st. Lawrence, Tues.
Gay, and seriously DISTRACTED navigation.
Two sehooners are frozen in ut kamolrska,
the crews Of which were badly frost'bitten
aud saved with difficulty.
On Saturday last the grand jury of Hartford
county, Nd, presented all last years tax col.
lectors as defaulters to the State. Some OF
last wears collectors are collectors this year.
These tax collectors are in default to the
amount Of about $4,000.
| At a large meeting in Boston, Tuesday,
Governor Long presiding, speeches were
made by several Ponca Indians aud others,
and resolutions were adopted condemning
the Governm' nt's Indian policy, especially
its policy towards the Poncas.
The steamer Waubanno, which left Col-
lingwood, Ont, on Saturday morning for
Parry Sound, has not been heard Of since.
A tug.boat sent out Monday in search of her
found portions of the wreck of the Waubanna
near Moose Point, and also saw q hie-boat
bottom upward.
Twenty-Five barrels Of the finest American
winter wheat flower, made by the newly pat
ented process, were sold in New York Friday
on the noor OF the Produce Exchange to fill
an order sent direct from the household of the
Queen of England. The price paid was 50
per barrel.
At Bloomington, Ind, Tuesday, David
Tollyer. on trial for murder, was permitted
by the Court, while the jury was celebrating
on a verdict, 10 visit his boarding house in
charge Of deputy sheriff. The deputy stood
at the front door while Tolliver entered the
house and escaped by a back entrance.
Mr., George Wheeler, OF New York, died
Saturday afternoon, after nearly week S
illness from eating piece OF lemon pie that
is supposed to have contained poison. Mr..
Wheeler mother and his sister and cousin
are also sick, the sister still being in such q
dangerous condition that her life Us despaired
of.
The agent having charge OF the White
Earth reservation in Minnesota reports that
the Chippewa Indians have been very success
full in an experiment in raising sorghum on
the reservation. Twenty-Five acres planted
last season yielded 100 gallons Of syrup per
acre, and the Indians will plant two hundred
acres next year.
The Grand Jury at Coyington, Ky, Tues.
day, indicted John Freer, City Collector, Tor
embezzlement; County Judge Phelps, laE
wilful neglect of oftieisl dRties ia falling 70
keep VA lis record; W. 7. Mclaughlin, au-
other of cial, for malleaSance, and twenty'one
saloon keepers for keeping pool tables with.
out u license.
Operations in wool at Boston last week
were on an enormous scale, tho sales amount
ing 10 about six and Que, half million pounds,
of which about two.thirds we're domestic and
the remainder foreign. These are the largest
figures in the history Of the trade, and, as far
as can be ascertaiued, large proportion of
the transactions was with manufacturers.
meeting Of representatives Of the 5000
miners employed by Charles Parish 4 CO.,
was held in Wilkesbarre, Pa, Saturday night,
aud Mr.. Parish's prapositian 70 giant an ad-
vance OF ten per cunt. dating from November
LIST, was accepted. The company agrees to
pay further advance OF ten per cent, should
the price OF coal rise above 81 per ton at tide.
water.
A colored burglar, who confessed that he
was one of a gang of robbers, was taken ifa9
the Jail at Perry, Ga, on MGaday night, and
lypphpd BY q u.Qb. Henry Walker, another
eolored burglar, was taken from the jail at
Fort Valley the same night and lynehed. II
is suspected that the lynchers were his asso'
oiatSs who feared that he would inform upon
them.
On Monday David Van Sickle, farmer, Of
Delaware county, Ohio, gave shelter aud
work 10 tramp, who requited his beuefac-
tor by ransacking the house after the family
went to bed. Mr.. Van Sickle interfering,
the tramp cut him seriously with butcher
knife, also attacked Mrs. Van SICKLE, after
which he fed; Citizens are searching for
the scoundrel.
A passenger train came into collision with
freight train on the New London Northern
Railroad near Palmer, Mass, Monday morn.
ing, and both engines and sayetal cars were
wrecked, seven persons, mostly train men,
were severely injured. The collision resulted
from the stoppago Of the freight engineers
watch, which caused him To be twelve minutes
behind schedule time.
AT Richmond, Va, Sunday, Special Agent
Henderson, of the Postolfice Department, ar
rested J. G.. Baugh, a colored mail carrier,
on charge of robbing the mail. He was en-;
trapped by depqY letter, and five marked
ona dollar bills we're found on the person of
white mail carrier named Hall, TO whom
Baugh had just given them in charge. Baugh
was baied in 81, 500 by his mother.
While little girl named Pierce was being
punished by her teacher, in public school
at Norwich, Conn, fortnight ago, she al.
tempted to run home, The teRehss caught
her II the annE, apd, IN shutting il, iammed
her head between the edge OF the door and
the post. The girl died last week, and post.
mortem examination showed clots of blood
on the brain, believed to have been produced
by the accident.
A Springfield, Qlls, disE4tcA says an cpl.
dpmlp Of SCARLET fever is now raging at that
place. It is spreading rapidly, and over FIVE
hundred cases have been reported by the ply
sicians and ten deaths. The hoard of health
has ordered the public schools closed until
after January /, and adopted resolution re.
commencing that no public funerals be held
either At churches or private residences. The
physicians differ IN their theories as to the
cause Of such an unusual epidemic.
An Arab who was quafrying stone at a
place about four and half miles from GAIA,
in Palestine, recently, pnearthed q marble
figure supposed to be \ colossal god Of the
Philieiiles. The total height is fifteen feet.
The hair hangs ia long Finglets down upon
the shoulders, aud the beard is long, indicat.
ing man Of venerable age. There IS no ID.
seription on the figure or the pedestal, which
Il huge block carved 10 one piece with the
figure. The statue was found in reoumbent
position, buried in sand on the top Of hill
near the sea.
At Cincinnati, early Tuesday morning the
New Orleans steamer IL Dorado, lying at the
city landing in custody OF deputy sheriff,
with writ Of attachment, was released by a
trick Of the Captain. The latter talked 10 the
deputy about the crowded state Of the landing
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