The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-09-20
News Of the Week.

NoNo VI tAo Hoohs
Mr.. Donahue, of Bedford county, Pa, will
have upward of $4,000 bushels Of apples THU
fall.
Austin Burchard, an uncle Of President
Hayes, died Monday nj Fayetteville, W..
aged So.
Quail imported from Europe last fall, nc
cording to the Watsontown, Pa, Herald, are
multiplying rapidly in Northumberland co.
The bankruptcies in the ''wholesaIc trade
in Great Britain and Ireland were 2i72 in
1877, 26i2 in 1878 and 1858 in the first hal
Of 1879.
The walls of building No /. West -Four,
teenih street, New York, fell Saturday, bury.
ing FIVE workmen, injuring them more or less,
but none fatally.
The receipts of wheat at Cincinnati since
July LIST are reported by the Price Current at
2,6l9,O00 bushels, against 2,2l7, 62i bushels
for the corresponding time last year.
Mrs. Mary Long, said to have been l0I
years old, died at Shamokin, Pa, Monday.
Two weeks ago she walked from Shamokin
to F~eelsiOr, distance Of four miles.
Twenty-Five thousand visitors at the State
Agricultural Fair, Philadelphia, on Saturday,
brought vivid reminder OF the great DAYS IN
1876. This is the last week OF the exhibi.
ton.
Gold has been discovered at Burk's Gut,
Newfoundland, and copper at Harbor Main,
Conception Bay, Newfoundland. A rich vein
of silver and lead has been found near Meri.
deth, New Hampshire.
The Philadelphia commercial exchange on
Tuesday BY vote Of "a to Ga adopted the
GENITAL system as the basis for the purchase
and sale Of grain, flour and seeds, to take
effect on January l, 1880.
The smallpox is reported TO be epidemic
at Mier, Mexico, fifteen deaths having oc.
Cured in one day. The disease has reached
Rome, Texas, and the ranches in that vicin.
ity are reported to be badly infected.
IL is announced that the Mammoth Cave,
Ky, has been purchased by company Of
Eastern capitalists for S200,O00. The inte.
rior will be Illuminated with electric lights,
and telegraph wires will be introduced ia the
cave.
The latest and most intelligent estimates
Of the crop deficiencies in England place the
amount Of wheat that must be imported at
l2s,0O0, 900 bushels. This is about $4,000,
900 bushels in excess Of an average year,
such as 1889.
The miners and other employees Of the LIE.
high Valley Companys Exeter shat, Pitts.
ton, resumed work Tuesday at the old wages.
There are about $50 men and boys employed
at the colliery, and they have been on strike
for two months.
Lester Chase was caught in the cog wheels
Of cider mill at Erie, Pa, Monday, and had
his left leg so badly mangled that it had &c
be amputated. The heels Of his boots, stop.
ping the machinery, saved him from being
drawn in and crushed.
In swimming match Sunday, opposite
Bath, Long Island, for prizes of $1,000 and
$3.50, Ernest Won Schoening, of Brooklyn,
was declared the winner, after he had swum
I Is miles, Captain Webb second, he having
swum miles in the same time.
There died recently near Ligonier West.
moreland county, in Pennsylvania, woman
whose dimensions were something exlraordi-
nary. She measured thirty.t four inches across
the shoulders and weighed within a fraction
of FIVE hundred pounds,
Rear Admiral Charles Boarman died at
Martinsburg, Va, last Saturday night, aged
81 years. lie was born in Maryland, and
was appointed Midshipman in 1871. His
last cruise expired in 1850, and he has been
on the retired list for many years.
A wooden pumpkin has been taking all the
premiums at the Kansas fairs. 1t measured
seven feet around and weighed go pounds.
The fraud was discovered at Council Grove
last week by an old man who tried TO tap it.
There are good many mad farmers in Kan
sas Just about this time.
The Grand Lodge |. o. o. L. Of the United
States began its iiity-i1h annual session in
Baltimore on Monday. There has been de-
crease Of 572S in the membership of Lodges
during the year, a decrease of Sl56, 066.S3 in
revenue, but an increase of S35, l3S. o. in the
total amount expended for relief.
A line Of seven steamers, having an aggre .
gate tonnage of 1857 tons, is about to be
established by the Messrs. Reynolds, cotton
merchants, of Norfolk, Va, to run between
Norfolk and Liverpool, at intervals Of ten
days. The steamers have been engaged and
all preliminary arrangements made.
Bishop Chaiard at indianapolis says Arch
bishop Purcelrs debts amount TO over 81,
100, and cannot be paid. He advises
bankruptcy proceedings, and the appointment
Of trustees to receive money offerings to raise
the debt, to be used to keep the church prop
erty together aud aid needy depositors.
At Mahanoy Plane, Pa, Saturday, the cav.
ing in OF the Stanton colliery continued, and
six or seven houses, which had been aban.
doned by their tenants, were swallowed up
The ground that has so far given away is
about 200 feet in length and 100 feet wide.
1t is said the streets of Mahanoy Plane are
all cracked.
Mr.. Charles Joseph Miller, now residing
with his son, Mr.. Urias G. Miller, at Ash.
land, Baltimore county, Nd, is the only sur.
vivor of the Hanoyerians who marched TO
North Point, in 1914. There were two COM
panies, comprising about 100 men in all.
Only one of the York volunteers, Daniel Small,
formerly Of York, now of Schuylkll county,
Pa, survives.
A despatch on Tuesday to the Baltimore
Sun from Cumberland says :-''Presideut
Garrett, Chief Engineer Randolph and other
officials of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
went to Somerset, Pa, to-day, to look into
the proposed extension Of the Somerset and
Cambria Railroad from Somerset 10 Johns.
town. The Hempfeld route will also proba-
bly, be examined
A despatch from Quincy, ILL.,, to the Chi
eago Journal, On Tuesday, reports that an in.
coming passenger train on the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy Railroad was wrecked
seven miles from Quincy by tie bound
across the track by some malicious person.
The fireman was killed, aud two postal clerks
and a train hand severely injured. None OF
the passengers were seriously hurt.
The american Mdchiaist says that arrange.
ments are in progress and will soon be com
pleted for lighting the entire Capitol building
at Washington with electric lights Of the
latest invention. The apparatus Tor general
ing the electricity Is placed 10 the basement,
and the plans will include the placing on th,
dome series Of very powerful lights, for the
purpose Of experimenting, with regard Il
lighting extended areas from elevated points
The Corbin Hotel, occupied by Henry Cor
bin, at Westeryille, Ohio, was blown up bl
gunpowder on Sunday night. Although Their,
were several people in the house, no one wa
injured except Mr.. Corbin, aud he was no
fatally hurt. He asserts that his house wal
blown up by some Of the villagers, who has,
been trying to prevent him from selling liquo
in the place. Similar means we're successfully
employed against him in the same place fou
years ago. He left the town then, and hat
only recently returned. The damage to Ia,
hotel and adjoining buildings amounts /,
about 5000.