The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-12-27
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| ihe steamer Maggie Burke, with e0O bales
of cotton, was burned at Mobile on Saturday.
Loss, $4,000.
Seven cases Of smallpox have appeared in
Washington, three Of them in the jail, where
$50 prisoners are confined.
Mr. Joseph jefferson. the actor, now owns
the best orange orchard in Louisiana. There
are FIVE thousand orange trees on il.
/ j. ID. Austin has been arrested ut Council
Bluffs, Iowa, for attempting to pass a counter
| felt 500 note on the First National Bank OF
| Boston.
1t is understood that General Sheridan,
whose health is not good at present, will ae.
company General Grant on his trip to Mex
leo aud Cuba.
The fishing season at Gloucester, Mass,
closes with the record OF the loss Of 80 vessels
and 200 human lives. The vessels were val.
ued at $4,000.
Pleuro. pneumonia, which ragged for several
months among the herds of milch cows in
| Putnam county, has extended to Weschester
county, New York
Mrs. II. NJ. Fiske died suddenly in the
Friendship Street Baptist Church, at Provi.
dence, II. l., on Sunday morning, after con.
GLIDING an exhortation on prayer.
The first regular passenger train over the
Boston, Hoosae Tunnel and Western Railroad
reached North Adams, Mass, on Saturday.
The road is fully opened for traffic.
] The earnings OF the Louisville and Nash.
/ vile Railroad for the eleven months ending
December LIST were $780, more than dur.
Ing the corresponding period of 1878,
Mrs. Malania Brown, Of New York, has
| purchased the whole 400 acres of the his
iorc Island of jamestown, in the river James.
A dwelling house and a paper mill are the
only buildings on the Island, which is COW
cred with orchards.
The malt house, elevator, barn and Office
Of Best's brewery, at Milwaukee, were de.
stroyed by fire before day light Monday morn.
| ing. The elevator contained over Sl50,0O0
worth Of grain, and the entire loss is esti-
mated at from 5000, 600 to S3OO,OOO
1 Fifteen eagoing vessels. including eight
steamships, with cargoes Of cotton, sugar,
molases, grain, &c, valued in the aggregate
At S3,00O,OO cleared from New Orleans on
Saturday The amount Of cotton shipped
was 1000 bales, including 30 900 for Liver
! pool.
The shoddy mill OF Seymour G.. Stone, ia
Bennington, VT, was destroyed by fire On
Saturday afternoon. Loss $4,000. Mr..
Stone inhaled flames while escaping from the
building, and fell dead when he reached the
street. His wife, on hearing of the catastro-
phe, became raying maniac.
Dan Rice, the circus man, announced in
St. Louis on Friday night that he had been
converted, and would at once enter the
field as an evangelist 1t is understood that
be will assist Mr.. Moody in St. Loais, and
then seek such fields as Offer the best pros
! poets of success in his new work.
Some years ago General Sanford brought
a number OF Swedes and located them on his
large tract Of land in Orange county, Florida.
| Many of them have done well, aud accumu-
lated property valued from $4,000 up. The
same gentlemen is now engaged in inducing
a colony of Italians to locate 10 Florida.
In Chicago, Fowler Brothers have dis.
charged the 200 employees in their packing
house who refused to WORK with non.union
men. Very few men are at work in the
other packing houses, and the whole number
now idle is estimated at more than 5000. The
men concluded to go to work on Wednesday.
Judge Abner Hazeltine, aged cighty.sx
years, probably the oldest practcing lawyer
in that State, died Sunday at jamestown, n.
Y. He was graduated at Williams College
in the class of 1916, was n member Of the As.
sembly in 1928 and 1929, and member Of
Congressin 1882 and 1884 Hepraetieed law
until week ago.
The first jury exclusively composed Of col.
ored men, in Ohio, was impanelled at Circle
vile, in that State, on Saturday, to try col.
ored man accused by another coIored man
They had no chance of rendering verdict,
however, as the case broke down under cir.
cumstances likely to cause the compliments
prosecution for perjury
Nearly five hundred Southern negroes pass.
ed through St. Louis last week on their way
to Kansas, where they intendt TO settle. There
are now in st. Louis about 100 emigra.
ting negroes who will have to be helped on
their journey. The negroes in Arkansas have
caught the emigration fever, and about 900 of
them are on the way North.
Edward King, aged IS, aud his widowed
sister, Mrs. Maria Mullen, aged 50, we're
burned to death on Thursday night Of last
week in their house near Greenport, Long
while tending fa % IS Sp sssd q hh e ii a
bied with an oil lamp in her hand Two dogs
and goat also persisted in the fire.
Thomas Wall, alias Robert Smith, who rob
bed the Southern Epxress office in New Or.
leans OF $40, 900 in December, 1868, was ar.
rested in Chicago few days ago. Upon be.
ing taken to New Orleans he made comics.
sion OF the robbery. Being arraigned before
the court, Wall pleaded guilty, aud was re.
handed to prison In default Of Sl0,0 bail.
The sub committee having in charge the
Baltimore postoilice bill have agreed TO report
in favor Of the Monument Square site and APP
propriate $3.50, 00O-the ciiy.to donate the
lots on North street which il owns 1t is
thought that the full committee will make the
extra $4,000 up to 100000, SC as TO require
The Government TO pay the whole cost, !. c.
$500, 900.
The official statement for the year Of hogs
packed by the Anglo American Packing and
Provision Company of Atchison, Kansas, is
325, 26T; l20,054 passed through the stock
yards, making the total Of hogs shipped asa.
S2l. From careful estimates Of the products
Of Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska
these figures will be more than doubled for
the coming year.
The outlaws Of Weizel county, W. Va,
known as "Red Men, invaded Tyler county
adjoining, Saturday night, and five Of the
gang robbed the store Of W. j. Umpleby of
$500. They knocked Umpleby senseless,
aud, thinking him dead, fred the building
and rode off, The Ere was discovered in time
to save Umpleby's life, but the store, with its
contents, was destroyed.
The corset aud suspender factory OF West,
Bradley 4 Carey, West Twenty.ninth street,
New York, was destroyed by FIRE Monday
night. The loss is estimated at 100000.
Twenty women were in the building when the
FIRE broke out, and four of them were seriously
Atolh tut htNtutn hlDfy 10
the roofs OF adjoining buildings, three stories
below. Two fireman were also severely in
jured by falling walls.
General lie Due, Commissioner Of Agrieul.
ture, has finished his report, aud it is under
stood that he estimates the increase ia the
value Of the crops this year over last at five
hundred million dollars. The total corn crop
is about loo, 600, 900 bushels, against 1850,
600, 900 for last year. The wheat yield this
year, while larger in bushels than last year,
receives its increased valuation principally
because Of higher prices.
Edward Harvey and James MeGreever,
young dry goods peddlers, were murdered BY
negroes in Russell county, Ga, last Friday,
and their bodies were thrown into the Chat.
tahoochie river. The murder was discovered
on Saturday, and two negroes, being arrested,
confessed the crime and implicated two others.
The two captured men were lynched, on Sun
day afternoon, by mixed mob of whites and
blacks. The other two have not been caught
William Mckee, Sr., proprietor Of the ST.
Louis Globe Democrat, died suddenly Of heart
disease in st. Louis, on Saturday morning.
He was "a years Of age Mckee was for.
merly known as the head of the notorious
whiskey ring, and in 1874 was convicted OF
eonspiring TO defraud the Government, and
sentenced to two years imprisonment and
$4,000 fine. lie was pardoned after being
confined two months and his fnA remitfed NJ