The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-05-03

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number 450,0 900.
The State canals Of New York will be
opened to navigation on the Sth OF May.
Susannah Webster died in Philadelphia,
last week, at the advanced age Of ITO years.
The grand jury has indicted Mark Gray at
Chicago for the attempted murder Of Edwin
Booth.
The President issued proclamation on
Saturday warning all trespassers from the
Indian Territory.
William Dunston and his wife were fatally
gored by bull on Friday on their farm, near
Clarkson, Mich.
The iron side.wheel steamer Elias, intended
for the Amazon river trade, was launched at
Chester, Pa, on Saturday.
Lake Champlain was reported "all clear OF
ice Monday morning, aud navigation upon
il was resumed this week.
J. Milton Turner, ex. Minister TO Liberia,
one Of the ablest colored men in the country,
is opposed to the negro exodus from the
South.
Hon. Rush CLARK, member of Congress
from Iowa, died suddenly in Washington, on
Monday, after an illness of less than twelve
hours.
Lord Falmouth's Charbert won the 1900
guineas stake at Newmarket, on Wednesday.
Lorillard's Uncas was ninth in the race.
Fifteen starters.
Mr. IL. Welsh, of Chestnut Hill, has sold
Maiden, the dam of Parole, and her colt, by
bennington, foaled last month, to Mr.. p.
Lorillard for $1,000.
During the war an old bachelornamed Nc.
Kissick was killed near Waco, Texas, and the
other day, while tearing down his shanty,
negro found 5000 in gold.
When the constitution is finished on which
will be the seventh since that State was adj
mlied into the Union in 1872
Two hundred colored refugees have arrived
at Manhattan, Kansas. The citizens are civ.
them food and shelter, and trying to procure
work for them on farms and in families.
A dispatch from Nidalla, Concordia Parish,
La, received in New Orleans on Saturday,
reported that 5000 negroes we're on the river
bank, awaiting transportation to Kansas
fight occurred among the colored roust
abouts on the steamer Holiday, at New Or
leans, Monday, in which two men were killed.
Another jumped overheard and was drowned.
Heavy rains have fallen in Texas within n
lew days, causing serious floods. In Houston,
on Friday, the water rose to depth Of from
four to ten feet inthe streets, flooding buildings
and driving many families from their houses.
The wife Of John HORNE, Anderson county,
Kentucky, gave birth, last week, TO five chill.
dren, all doing well. She is y years old
She first had twins, then triplets, and at the
last accouehmcnt the remarkable number Of
FIVE.
DIR. Frank b. Loring, of Washington city
was married to Miss Lille, youngest daugh.
ter Of Mr.. John IL. b. Latrobe, aud sister Of
Mayor Latrobe on Monday, The wedding
was very quiet one, none but the immediate
family being present
Three cOlored women and u child were
poisoned ut Potter's Grove, near Savannah,
ia, last Saturday night Two of the women
have died, and the other woman and child
are not expected TO recover A colored
woman has been arrested for the crime.
Nearly the whole business portion Of Cor.
ham, n. H., was destroyed by fire Monday
morning, including the post.oiIice, brewery,
Burt building, MouRtdineer office, Grand Trunk
Railway sheds and seventeen stores and dwell.
ings. Thirty families are rendered homeless
The loss is about $4,000.
The Italians are building the most formid-
able iron-clad war ship in the world. Her
armor is three feet thick and she carries guns
Of enormous calibre. The English papers
say she will be more than match for any
ship in the British navy, and she will proba.
bly, go 10 the bottom in her first cruise.
The steamship Rio de Janeiro, at New
York, Sunday, reports that on the night OF
the 10Th nlt., in dense fog she ran into and
sank the Norwegian bark Velocity, from Hull
for Philadelphia, in ballast. The captain and
ten of the crew climbed into the steamer by
the anchor chain, but the steward and boy
were lost.
Pennsylvania follows Connecticut, Massa.
chusetts and Vermont in the enactment of u
strict law to punish tramps. The Legislature
orders year imprisonment for begging aud
three years for entering a dwelling against
the will of the occupant, for lighting fires
upon the highway, or for carrying firearms
law fully as stringent is before the New
York Legislature.
The jury in the Poindexter case at Rich.
mond, Va, Friday, returned verdict o.
voluntary manslaughter and condemned the
youthful shooter to two years imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Poindexter, il will be
remembered, horsewhipped a young man
named Curtis for insulting lady friend.
When Curtis called at his place of business to
return the compliment he deliberately shot
and killed him.
Richards, the murderer of nine persons,
was hanged ut Mindea, Nebraska, on Satur.
day. A crowd Of twenty-five thousand per.
sons gathered and tore down the fence which
had been erected to conceal the execution
from public view. Richards addressed the
crowd, denying his guilt, and making profes
SION OF piety, even going so far as TO lead in
singing two verses Of hymn before he was
sprung into eternity.
The tide Of emigration this year is setting
IN from the Eastern TO the Western continent
to an UNUSUAL extent. The steamship City OF
Richmond, Monday, in New York, from lv.
erpool, landed 75S emigrants. II isexpected
there will be a large coming of emigrants
from Ireland, England and South Germany,
where much distress prevails. Emigration
has commenced earlier than usual this year,
and h Is anticipated that this year will be at
least q hundred thousand emigrants landed
on our shores.
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, attempt.
ed 10 escape from the State Prison at Con-
cord, on the 18th ult. BY means of case
knife, the edge and point Of which were tooth
ed like saw, he cut one Of the iron bars Of
the cell asunder at the bottom and nearly
asnnder at the top. The cast.iron fittings
were also sawed apart and replaced with saw
dust and soap, which acted as a cement 10
keep them in place. In replacing the cast.
iron parts, Pomeroy failed to restore them
IN line, and the deviation caused the discovery.
The jury in the case of Peter 4. Stevens,
on trial in Chicago for killing his wife, re.
turned verdict Sunday of manslaughier, and
fixed the penalty at fourteen years imprison.
ment in the PeEitentiary. As Stevens WINS
being taken from the courtroom 10 bis cell.
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Young, stepped up
behind him, put pistol to his head, and
pulled the trigger. Fortunately for him,
handkerchief IN which the pistol had been
concealed, caught the hammer, and the pistol
missed fire. A warrant has been issued for
the woman's arrest.
tramp entered the house Of G.. II. Kiteh.
en-, near New Lebanon Ohio, on Friday morn.
ing, during the absence Of the famlly, and
began 10 search bureau, Carrie Roberts
a young servant girl, stole unobserved upon
the robber, suddenly cluiehed him by the hair
with one hand and tried TO wrench box Of
lewelry from his grasp with the other. Fail.
ing. IN this, the brave girl spraug upon a chair
took revolver from the top Of clock, and
fired several shots at the tramp. The latter
dropped the box, ran into the yard, and cs.
capped over the fence.
W. +. Cassebohem, first assistant CITY
Treasurer ofNew Orleans, committed suicide
Monday afternoon. He left note TO The
Coroner, saying that he had been led into
stock speculation by Alexander Austin, late
Tax Collector, (who also committed snicidel:
that be had lost $35, 900 in speculation, and
used $4,000 Of the city's money to cover
margins, and, being unable to make il good.
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