The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-06-28
News Of the Week.

Caiharine Massey, aged 100, and John
Donohue, aged l07, died last week in Phia.
delphia, Pa.
The damage 10 the crops by Sunday nights
hailsiorm in Columbia county, N. Y, is est.
mated at $4,000.
The revenue cutter Seward has left Pensa
cola for st. Andrews Bay, TO look after the
Spanish steamers landing cattle al that place.
Philip Lutz, aged rs years, lay down in
front OF an approaching train, near Orange
station, Conn, on Saturday, and had his head
cut or
A mail carrier was stopped near Cold
| Springs, Texas, few days ago by six high.
waymen, who severely stabbed him and rob.
bed the mail sacks and registered packages.
| The Dubuque Herald publishes crop re.
ports from most Of the counties in Iowa, ind.
eating greater yield than in any previous
year. The corn crop is also in splendid con.
] dition.
Alexander Taylor, catcher Of the Star base
| ball club of Ballston, N. Y, was fatally in.
jured by being accidentally struck on the
head with bat, while playing game, on
Saturday afternoon.
| The civil authorities Of Austria are energet
ically suppressing Protestant worship in the
Empire Mission Churches in Prague, Vienna
and elsewhere, and Bible readings have been
suppressed under threat of fine and imprison
| ment.
A white boy, named Tennis, eight years
| old, was kicked and beaten to death by d col
ored youth named Harley, aged II, at High
spire, near Harrisburg, on Friday. Harley
was lodged in Jail at Harrisburg, in default OF
$1,000 bail.
A freight train on the Chicago and North.
western Railroad was thrown from the track
near Dowdon, Iowa, on Saturday morning.
Four tramps, stealing a ride in one Of the
cars, were killed, and the conductor was ia.
tally injured.
A Mrs. Potts, who is said to be walking
from Philadelphia to New Orleans and return,
for a wager of $4,000 arrived in Atlanta
Oh Saturday. She will be due in New Or
leans on July 23d, but says she will reach
that city by July 10th.
Olive c. Holmes, daughter ofjudge Holmes,
Of Syracuse, N. Y, and Alfred T. Sanford,
son Of Professor Sanford, of Chicago Univer.
sity, were drowned in 0nondaga Lake on
Saturday afternoon. They were rowing in n
boat, and upset it in trying to change places.
Immense quantities Of white potatoes are
being shipped north from Norfolk, Va, and
an additional steamer has been placed on the
Old Dominion Line to accommodate the
| freight. Nineteen thousand barrels Of pota'
toes were shipped to New York on Saturday.
Chastine Cox, eolored, was arrested in B0s
ton, Monday night, for the murder Of Mrs.
DIR. Hull, in New York. He confessed the
crime, but said he did not intend to kill her,
robbery alone being his object. Cox was a
waiter in the neighborhoOd Of the HulI's res
idence.
Ex-Secretary Borie, who has been travel
ling with President Grant since the LIST OF
January last, reached Council Bluffs, Iowa,
on Saturday evening, on his way home to
Philadelphia. Mr.. Borie told reporter that
General Grant would probably reach San
Francisco on September 10th.
Professor Swift, of Rochester, n. Y, dis.
covered a new comet Friday morning last at
l o'clock. 1t is in the constellation Perseus,
right ascension minutes aud 80 seconds, de.
clination north So degrees. II is quite bright,
Of strong condensation, with short tail, and
moves about degree per day east Of north.
! Mrs. A. ROLAND, wife Of A. ROLAND, man
uiacturer Of firearms in Liege, Belgium, who
was making pleasure tour with her husband,
persisted at Niagara Falls on Saturday. She
slipped off rock at the Three Sisters Islands,
and was swept over the Horseshoe Fall. She
had not been long married, and was % years
Of age.
The Dominion Government has rescinded
ALI permissions to American troops to visit
Canada under arms, for the alleged reason
that such visits might lead to future eompli
cations. The visits Of the Detroit Light
Guards and the New York Sxty.ninth Regi.
ment to Canada on Dominion Day will there.
fore be abandoned.
At Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon, after
the boat race was over, John j. Graham and
his sister, Mrs. Mcfarland, wer, driving
home through Fairmount Park, when their
! hnrcaa hacat.a ftntnana0ahln tho
carriage, throwing Mrs. Mcfarland out and
killing her instantly. Mr.. Graham received
dangerous injuries.
William Savage and Lewis W. Snyder, ma.
chinists, and James Harkins, boiler maker,
were descending the deep slope Of the viii
Jamestown Colliey, at Williamstown, Pa,
Monday, when the chain broke, and they were
precipitated to the bottom, distance Of 800
feet. The machinists were killed and liar
kins seriously injured.
An iron safe which during the flood Of 1865
disappeared along with the court house of
Arrapahoe county, Colorado, is reported to
have been discovered in the Platte river
The finder is anxious to know whether the
. reward offered at the time for the recovery
will be paid before he discloses its where
aoouts. Since the flood the site Of the little
court house has become the centre Of the
city of Denver.
Official reports from the Mayors and Health
Officers Of Memphis, Vicks6nrg, Granada,
Holly Springs, jackson aud Canton, in Mis-.
sissippi, Shreveport, in Louisiana; Colber-
vile, in Tennessee; Hickman, in Kentucky;
Decatur and Tuscumbia, in Alabama; helena,
in Arkansas, oil bearing date Of June 10th,
say the health OF those places are unusually
good, and there have been no indications OF
u return Of the yellow fever,
A singular premonilion was that Of Nathan.
iel Root, OF Coventry, Conn. an old man of
81, who said on Saturday last :--.'I am ex-
pecting to die to-day" He attended TO his
work as usual in the morning and after eat.
ing dinner rose from the table showing no
signs FITNESS, remarking az go and lie down
aud die now" No one supposed be was
; serious but on going to his room hall an hour
later he was round TO be stone dead.
A boiler in an ore mine near East Texas,
Pa, exploded on Saturday morning, killing
four men and fatally injuring three others,
who died in a few hours afterwards. Six
others we're injured, but not fatally Il is re-.
ported that the boiler had been for some time
IN q dangerous condition, and also that the
| engineer was drunk at the time Of the expIo-
4 sion. A boiler explosion In the same mine.
two years ago, caused loss Of eight lives.
, Gen. Aisp4yn's a,iemft TO oyertun the
, government OF Panama has proved a fallura.
c After some desultory fighting on The line Of
the Panama railway he lound his cause hope.
less, and surrendered Sunday, Nav Is. 10 Inc
forces Of the legitimate government, the lat.
r ter agreeing 70 pay the expenses OF the reyo.
J luton, which is considered very good thing
for Aizpurn. Yictors and yanquished re.
$ turned to Aspinwall together the same even.
! ing.
d ]
. John KemRler murdered his three it'll,
. daughters al South Holyoke, Masa., on Sat
urday. He began BY attempting 10 poisor
them ia their mother absence, hnt tho cid
: est, 10 whom the poison was hrst given, tire,
E 1t up, il being an overdose. He then sho
them dead, one after the other He was snb
e sequently arrested, and confessed the crime
I saying that poverty induced the deed, and h
b wanted to die himself Remmler is is rear
:, OF age.
(. A committee Of the Atlanta, Ca, Board a
/, Trade has visited Port Royal, S. c., with
:, view Of making that harboF their direct hin
Z ping terminus during the coming cotton ahI
, grain season. Committees from LonisyilI
4 and Cincinnati, and other cities, are expecte,
: TO enter the scheme, and the combination
q expects TO do an immense business for South
ern and Western direct expectation, importa
ton and immigration, on better terms thal
. via New York.
1 George W. Bishop and Isaac W. l.. Klein
! were cnnsicted in the criminal court Of Balti
g more. TaeAday, Of forgery, The forgery con