The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-02-22
News Of the Week.

the 9Th OF the coming July. :,
] David Eschbaeh, father of Rev. Dr. l.seh
bach, Of Frederick, died last week near Mui
ton, Pa,
A Turkish steaneris loading at New Haven
/ Conn, with cargo Of rifles, kerosene OIL
pressed bricks and cows.
Mrs. Hainss, aged Sc years, was fatally burn
! ed at old Walesboro, Ind, on Sunday night
by carelcssly putting a lighted pipe into hel
/ pocket.
The Senate on Monday confirmed JOIN
I Hartranil as Postmaster,a aud A. Louden Snow
/ den as Superintendent OF the Mint, at Phlla
1 delphia.
A woman at Luckiield, Me, recently enter
1 tanned three female visitors, who weighed res
| pectiyey $50, 2G2 and 2Sl pounds, or tota
of sg3 poonds.
The President has signed the bill for thu
paymentto the officers and soldiers otthe Mex
/ lean war of the three month pay provided by
the act Of July 10, 1878.
Temperance is so fer in the ascendency Al
Cambridge, Nd. that a temperance meeting
was held in the parlor of the old Dorchester
House the first Of the week.
r. II. Chiffon, who was Adiutant General
of General Robert Il. Lee, and since the war
President of manufacturing company in
Columbus, Ga, fell dead in that city Tuesday.
Right Rev. Thomas Foley, Bishop of Chi
cago, died on Wednesday last. after short
illness, from typhoid pneumonia. He was a
native of Baltimore, Nd, and was ia his 9th
year.
Henry Goodyear the well.known India rub
Der manufacturer, died in Paris on Tuesday
night, February II His funeral took place
on Thursday, and was attended by many
Americans.
III -. E S,:....- Dill: L., ,,,.,.,l N
divorce from him in the New York Courts
Tough. Brignoli has gone to Europe.
The existence of yellow fever in New Or
leans is denied by DR.. Samuel Chopin, Pres
ident of the Health Board Of that city, Mayor
Patton, Governor Nichols, and other promi.
nent officials aud citizens.
Henry Tudor, who says he will ride from
New York to Patagonia on horseback, passed
through Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday
afternoon. He must be somewhere in Nir-
gina or North Carolina by this time.
William Conrad, aged ID, was accidentally
hanged in n singular manner in his father 5
barn, at Decatur, Ind, on Monday, He fell
from the hay loft in such u way that his neck,
tic caught in a hook, and he was straugled to
death
Captain George Prince, of Bath, Me-, who
pleaded guilty TO the charge of having com.
mitted extensive pension frauds, was sen.
fenced at Portland on Tuesday, to ten years
imprisonment, ut hard labor, in the State
prison,
The small steamer l.. c. Mccormick was
sunk by the explosion of her boiler, near
Beverly, Ohio, on Saturday. One man was
killed by the explosion, and the captain, two
of the crew and three passengers we're severe.
ly scalded.
The scoaudrcl who tore a diamond earring
from Mrs, Debarry' car while she was walk
ing along Fifth avenue, New York, on Friday
afternoon, was arrested Tuesday night. His
name is David Pender, and he is notorious
burglar and thief.
Two very aged persons have lately died in
Maine. Lette Larrabee, of Knox, l0l years,
and John Eason, colored preacher OF Au.
gasta, who was born in Wareham, Mass, in
l176, and was consequently nearly 1903 years
of age at the time of his death
A man now residing in Idaho, who %
years ago cut his foot badly by stepping upon
broken glass, has just had piece OF glass re
moved from his foot. The glass had shifted
its position about six inches, working back
and upward from the toes to the ankle.
The Constitutional Convention Of Califor
MIA on Monday adopted a resolution, to be
tclegraphed to the President OF the United
States, asking him to approve the bill for the
restriction OF the Chinese immigration. A
similar resolution was adopted by the Nevada
Legislature.
Albert Beck, Eve years old, was drowned
IN Gwlun's Falls, near Baltimore, on the 10th
of December; last search was made for his
body, but il was not discovered until Wednes.
day week, when 1t was found floating in the
Paiapsco, stiff frozen, and was identified by
his father as his lost child.
Dom Pedro, of Brazil, has contributed to the
W ashlngtOn Monument q stone weighing near
ly eight tons to ''perpetuate the memory Of
the illustrious Father of the American Repnb,
lie, for whom he cherishes the warmest ad.
miration. The stone, which is engraved
and inscribed, is now in New York.
Miss May Marshall, Of Chicago, in Wash.
iagton Tuesday night completed the task of
walking 2796 quarter miles in as many con
secutiye quarter hours. This is said to be
90 quarter hours in advance of Madame An.
dorson's recent feat Miss Marshall made
a quarter in 3 minutes and . seconds.
The Treasury Department. adyices from
Alaska do not indicate any serious Indian
trouble there. '.Some little riotingH has
taken place among the Indians at Sitka, but
nothing more. There is o revenue cutter at
Port Townsend, which, in case of necessity,
could reach Stka i'll three or four days.
A catam0uut measuring thirty eight inches
from the nose to the tip OF his tail, was caught
IN trap in Cameron county, Pa, by boy
ten years old. When the lad discovered
what he had caught (hc set the trap for fox }
he went home, got a revolver and shot the
beast, which was so furious to get at him
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, now in Auburn
Penitentary, tn which he was sentenced for
twenty years for shooting policeman who
tried toarrest him, is seeking forapardon. lie
asserts that his sentence was for too long n
period, and presents the alleged heart, reuding
fact that while his fighting weight was 1850
pounds, his Imprisonment has brought him
down to $50 pounds.
Horace Bordley, Chas Riuggold aud Perry
Horney, all eolored, have been arrested on
Kent Island, charged with committing bur.
glary year ago, at the house Of Mr. Morde-
cal Cockey, when $500 was stolen. The dis
eovery was made through the confession of a
servant girl who saw them in the net, aud was
given bag of silver as hush money. She is
also in prison, awaiting trial
While Peter Schmidt and his son.in. law
were walking along the railroad track near
Port Jervis, N. Y, on Saturday night, 10
meet son Of Schmidt, who was about to ar
rive from Germany, they were struck by a
passing train. Schmidt was killed on the
spot and his son.in-law seriously injured.
Young Schmidt had arrived at the station be :.
fore the accident and reached home in time
to meet his fathers corpse.
Several masked burglars enter the house
Of dentist named 1iIton, at Amsterdam,
N. \. Friday morning They we're discover.
ed by the doctor son William, aged Is years,
and one of them shot him in the face, The
youth returned the FIRE and wounded one of
the rpliians, but the revolver failing to 90 off
second time, he was ieled senseless BY an .
other OF the robbers. DR.. Tilton appearing
by this time, the burglars fled, leaving dark
lantern and the family silver which they had
packed up for removal.
The administration building of the Soldiers
Orphans Home, at Xena, Ohio, was destroy
ed by fire Sunday morning, The six hundred
children Of the Home had Just finished their
breakfast in the main building and returned
TO their cottages when the fire broke out in
the first story. The teachers and several
members of the Legislature, who we're on a
visit to the Home, barely escaped with their
lives, Most Of them had to jump from the
Windows, and Senator and his wife escaped
BY leaping from second.story window into a
blanket held by men below. All the person.
al effects of the teachers were destroyed with
the building. The loss to tho State Is about
$4,000. 's''
Captain Paul Boyton, who began his trim
on the Allegheny river at Oil City, on Thurs
day morning 9Th inst roachad p,tt,l..