The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-11-29
News Of the Week.

Snow fell to the depth Of Eve inches at
Meyersdale, AlleganY county. Md, 90 Friday
night OF last week.
6ooding 4 Aliens aour mill, at Orinoco,
MINI, was burned Tuesday, with 10000
bushels of wheat. Loss $4,000
A series of lawsuits about an iron bolt,
valued at ten cents, has already cost the lltl'
giants five hundred dollars, at Plain City,
Ohio.
It is said the Russian contract for the
building Of iron vessels in the URited States
has been indefinitely postponed by the rise IN
the price Of metal.
Navigation at Ottawa has partially closed
for the season. Many crafts have gone into
winter quarters, and those which are on the
home trip are likely to be frozen in.
The eighth Avenue Railroad stables in
New York were burned Tuesday morning,
with about 200 horses. Loss about 500, 900.
Several fremen were injured one perhaps
fatally.
Two men, named Henderson and Dunn,
quarrelled while slaughtering hogs, near Ed
inburg, Ind, on Monday, and Henderson
killed Dunn by cutting his jugular vein. The
murderer escaped
A number Of boats wore passing east in
the Erie Canal at Syracuse, N. Y, Monday;
From Rome to oriskany the ice in the canal
was two inches thick. Monday evening the
obstruction was removed.
Ice formed in considerable quantities along
the shores Of the lower st. Lawrence, Tues
day, and seriously obstructed navigation.
Two sehooners are frozen in ut kamourska,
the crews of which were badly frost bitten
aud saved with difficulty.
On Saturday last the grand jury OF Hartford
county, Nd, presented all last year tax col.
lectors as defaulters to the State. Some oil
last years collectors are collectors this year.
These tax collectors are in default to the
amount of about $4,000.
At a large meeting in Boston, Tuesday,
Governor.elect Long presiding, speeches were
made by several Ponca Indians and others,
aud resolutions were adopted condemning
the Govenm, nt's Indian policy, especially
its policy towards the Poncas.
The steamer Waubanno, which left Col
lingwood, Ont, on Saturday morning for
Parry Sound, has not been heard Of since.
A tug. boat sent out Monday in search Of her
found portions Of the wreea of the Waubanna
near Moose Point, and also saw hte'boat
bottom upward.
Twenty. FIVE barrels Of the finest American
winter wheat flower, made by the newly pat.
ented process, were sold in New York Friday
| on the floor OF the Produce Exchange to fill
an order sent direct from the household OF the
Queen Of England. The price paid was ~
| per barrel.
AT bloomington, Ind, Tuesday, David
Tolliver, on trial for murder, was permitted
by the Court, while the jury was celebrating
on a verdict, to visit his boarding house in
charge Of deputy sheriff The deputy stood
at the front door while Tolliyer entered the
house and escaped by back entrance.
Mr.. George Wheeler OF New York, died
Saturday afternoon, after nearly weeks
| illness from eating piece of lemon pie that
is supposed to have contained poison. Nj.
Wheeler's mother and his sister and cousin
are also sick, the sister still being in such Q
dangerous condition that her life Us despared
Of. ~
The agent having charge Of the White
Earth reservation in Minnesota reports that
tho Chippewa Indians have been very success
| ful in an experiment in raising sorghum on
the reservation. Twenty.fv acres planted
last season yielded l60 gallons Of syrup per
acre, and the Indians viii plant two hundred
acres next year.
The Grand Jury at Coyington, Ky, Tues.
day, indicted John Freer, City Collector, Tor
ENLIGHTENMENT; County Judge Phelps, iaE
willful neglect of official daties in falling to
| keep IN Lis record; W. +. Mclaughlin, an.
other of cial, for malfeasance, and twenty one
saloon keepers for keeping pool tables with
out a license.
Operations in wool at Boston last week
were on an enormous scale, the sales amount
ing TO about six and Que, half million pounds,
Of which about two.thirds were domestic and
the remainder foreign. These are the largest
figures In the history Of the trade, and, as far
as can be Ascertaiued, large proportion of
the transactions was with manufacturers,
A meeting of representatives Of the 5000
| l. A. ~.
was held in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Saturday night,
and Mr.. Panshs prapesIsien 70 gFaaat an nd
vance Of tan per clint, dating from November
ist, was accepted. The company agrees to
pay further advance OF ten per cent, should
the price Of coal rise above 81 per ton at tide
water.
A colored burglar, who confessed that he
was one of gang Of robbers, was tAkoq Ga9
the Jail at Perry, Ga, on Moaday night, and
ynohed BY Gqb. Henry Walker, another
colored burglar, was taken from tho jail at
Fort Valley the same night and lynched. 1t
is suspected that the lynchers were his asso
ciatss who feared that he would inform upon
them.
On Monday David Van Sickle, farmer, Of
Delaware county, Ohio, gave shelter aud
work 10 a tramp, who requited his benefac-
| tor by ransacking the house after the family
went to bed. Mr.. Van Sickle interfering,
the tramp cut him seriously with butcher
knife, also attacked Mrs, Van Slekle, after
which he fed. Citizens are searching for
the scoundrel.
A passenger train came into collision with
a freight train on the New London Northern
Railroad near Palmer, Mass, Monday morn
ing, aud both engines and saveIal cars were
wrecked, seven persons, mostly train men,
we're severely injured. The collision resulted
from the stoppage Of the freight engineer $
watch, which caused him to be twelve minutes
behind schedule time.
At Richmond, Va, Sunday, Special Agent
Henderson, of the Postoffice Department, ar
rested ]. G. Baugh, a colored mail carrier,
on charge of robbing the mail He was en-;
trapped by q deeqY latter, and five marked
one dollaF bills were found on the person of
a white mail carrier named Hall, TO whom,
Baugh had just given them in charge. Baugh
was hailed in 81 500 by his mother.
While little girl named Pierce was being
punished by her teacher, in public school
at Norwich, Conn, fortnight ago, she AZ.
tempted to run home, The teApheE caught
her a the aaas, and, ia shutting il, iaRmed
her head between tho edge Of lhe door and
the post. The girl died last week, and post
mortem examination showed clots Of blood
on the brain, believed to have been produced
by the accident.
| A Springfield, Ills,l disRatch says an cpl
demlp Of SCARLET fever is now raging at that
PLACE. Il is spreading rapidly, and over Eve
hundred gases have been reported by the ply.
sicians and ten deaths. The board Of health
has ordered the public schools closed until
after January !, and adopted . resolution re.
commencing that no public funerals be held
either Al churches or private residences. The
physicians differ in their theories as to the
cause Of such an unusual endemic.
An Arab who was quafrying stone at 8
place about four and half miles from GAIA
in Palestine, recently, pnearthed marhls
figure supposed 10 be colossal god Of the
Philislines. The total height is fifteen feet
The hair hangs in long ringleis down upoT
the shoulders, and the beard is long, indicat
ing man Of venerable age. There is no 10
scription on the figure or the pedestal, which
ia huge block carved In one piece with thu
figure. The statue was found in reoumbeni
position, buried ia sand ON the top Of hill
near the sen.
At Cincinnati, early Tuesday morning, ihl
New Orleans steamer VI Dorado, lying at tn,
city landing in custody OF deputy sheriff
! with a writ Of attachment, was released by q
J trick Of the Captain. The latter talked to thu
deputy about tho crowded state Of the landing