The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-11-22
New. Of the Wssk.

From six 70 ten inches of snow ftll alon
Lake Champlain Tuesday.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been col
lected for the children Of the late Gen. Hood
Rev. G. ]. jaeger, Lutheran minister q
Hamburg, Pa, died Monday aged SO years
Ten inches OF snow fell at Whitehall, N. Y.
Tuesday, eight inches at Port Henry, and ST
at Plattshurgh, N. Y.
According to the estimates Of the Presiden
of the State Society, there are now co, 100
acres in California covered with vineyards.
The millers Of St Louis have decided nc
to purchase any more wheat until the pric
of that grain declines, or there is margi
on -four,
Memorial services in honor Of the lat
General Hooker were held in Music HA
at Boston on Sunday in the presence of
large assembly.
Spain's eqaanimily has been disturbed b
the news Of the Cuban instruction. Alton
SOS wedding festivities will not be made owe
joyous by the event
Henry W. Worthington, aged 40, being Dc
lirious from typhoid fever, Jumped from tn
iourthstory window OF hotel in Baltimore
on Saturday afternoon, and was killed.
Peter Hay, aged 0l years, died in Philadel
phia, Pa, on Saturday last. He was a sol
der in the war of lSl2.l4. He had attaiue,
considerable notorie,y as newspaper writer
Ii was a small boy who struck Grant will
an egg at Galesburg, Illinois, the other day
The egg was bad and so was the boy but III
attempt TO work tho incident up into trae
edy has failed
While Albert Woodward and his wife an,
two daughters were crossing river ford
near Columbus, Ind, in wagon, on Satur
day, the vehicle was swept away by the cur
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a freight train on the Chicago and Altol
Railroad broke through a bridge near Alton
| Illinois, on Saturday morning, although til,
bridge was new and well made. A brakeman
was killed, and the engineer and fireman wer
injured.
Senator Bayard's candidacy is advocated b.
the four German daily newspapers of st
Louis, every one Of the four representing
radically different class. One Of these papers
the Westleche Poste, is said TO be partl,
owned by Secretary Schurz.
On Saturday last the steamers from New
| York for Europe carried the following car,
goes Wheat, 205, 400 bushels; corn, 40, 50(
bushels; -four, 5000 barrels aud 81, 200 sacks
cheese, $3.50 boxes; bacon, 1900 boxes; cot
ton, lO,5OO balesi butter, $500 packages.
Some young men were together in room
IN Bristol, N. H., Sunday afternoon. 0rville
Halnes, aged 10 years, pointed a cooked re
yolver at the Others He was told to ''stop'
the revolver being loaded. lie then laugh
ingly pointed it at bis own head, when it wa,
discharged, killing him instantly.
Norfolk, Va, did an export business last
year Of $4,000, 600, and with her cotton re-
turns now ranks as the second cotton export
ing port in the United States. 1t is the first
peanut port in the world, receiving the entire
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the growths Of Tennessee and North Corolina.
Full returns from all the counties in Missis
sippi show the Legislature Of that State to be
composed Of 1870 democrats, Is greenbackers,
6republicans and independents; democratic
majority on joint ballot 1903. There are SIX
colored members Of the Legislature, four oil
whom are republican, one greenbacker, and
one democrat.
Mrs. Emily Smalley, soldiers widow, was
accidentally shot dead by her ten.year old
son, in Lowell, Ohio, on Saturday. She had
bought revolver for protection after drawing
her pension, and laid it on the table when
she got home. Her sou picked it up, and
while handling il one chamber was discharged,
the bullet piercing his mothers heart.
The schooner q. g. Breed, from Detroit
for Buffalo, with $4,000 bushels wheat, cap.
sized and sank near Point au Belize on
Friday Of last week. One Of her crew, named
Frank Davis, was picked up on Saturday
after floating in the water thirteen hours; a
second named David McAliSter, was picked
up after floating twenty four hours; the others,
SIX IN number, are supposed to be lost
A dispatch from Canton, Miss, says Eliza
Plnkston, Of returning board notoriety, was
arrested on Saturday charged with numbering
her husband, who died suddenly on the
morning Of the 10th inst The parties had
been married only two years. They had fire..
qaent quarrels and separated two weeks ago.
They met and quarFeled on Friday and be
diea ON Saturday. The coroner has the case
under investigation.
Two new cases Of yellow fever are known
to have appeared in Memphis within the last
ten days. One Of them was contracted BY
the patient visiting an old case, and the other
from house not disinfected. A telegram
from Frankfort, Ky, asserts that the fever
fingers in Memphis, and that ten refugees
who returned to the city since the frost have
died of the disease, but the facts arc suppressed
by the authorities and by the newspapers.
The Stanton mine, at Wilkesbarre, which
caught hire last spring, was flooded to extin.
guish the lanes, and on Wednesday Of last
week the work Of removing the water was
completed. On Monday II was discovered
that the fire had worked its way beyond the
point reached by the water, and was still burn.
ing. The mine must be again flooded, and
many weeks will elnpse before the FIRE can
can be extinguished and mining resumed,
The dwelling Of Henry Hatton, oolored, In
Prince Georges county, Nd, nearly opposite
Alexandria, Va, was destroyed by fire Sun.
day night Ii is stated that an attempt was
made TO set the house on fire a week or so
ago by negroes who wanted to drive Hatton
out OF the neighborhood on account Of his
having voted the democratic ticket, and it is
believed that the fire OF Sunday night was
caused BY the same parties and for the same
reason.
The barns Of Oscar Dunn, in Vantage
township, Sussex county. N. j., were burned
on Sunday night, with hay, grain, carriages,
farm implements, three horses and thirty one
cows. The stock barn Of Samuel II. Tooker,
near Slate Hill, in Orange county, was burned
the same evening, but the stock was saved.
The school.house At PhilIpshurg, near Mid
dletown, y. T., was burned on Saturday
night, after having stood for sixty years In
cendiarism is suspected in all these cases.
The Regulators Of Northeastern Ken
lucky have issued a proclamation, recilng the
assassinations, rohberies and olhar outraaes
R0ffohNeo1 ~ thht NtHloN dAitus tNu lAht
four years, and declaring themselves banded
together s'to protect tho lives and property
Of honest and honorable people," They as.
sure good citizens that they have nothing to
fear, but warn all barn burners and murderers
to leave the county, threatening them with
lynch law where the State fails 70 do its duty.
Cries were heard from cistern at Fort
Adams, at Newport, r. l., on Saturday night,
and, the cover being removed, soldier
named Franz kopp was taken out insensible,
with his head and face covered with blood.
When revived he was found to be so drunk
that be had no recollection Of what occurred.
He died Tuesday evening Of his injuries Il il
said he was pushed into the cistern by CON.
panon, who is under arrest The place
where he got the liquor has been closed for
the present.
Colonel John Frederick Van Werder died
IN Baltimore, on Sunday night, in the tooth
year OF his age. He was born ia Prussia,
and was successfully in the military service
OF his native country, Of France, Of Prussia
again, and Of Greece during her struggle fol
Independence. He came TO this country in
1919, and settled IN Virginia, where he wa,
reduced TO poverty by the destruction Of hi.
property by a food. He lost three sons ia
the Confederate army, and his wife and daueh,
ter died in 1854. Last summer he was com.
PEELED TO seek the shelter of the Aged Men,
Home in Baltimore, where he died.
Six lives were lost by ERE in a tenement
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