The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-07-12
News d lAe WeeL.

IIIaNA 4aIaH Ham al
" e ssa~ Wa5s uamn,on Is NOW suffering
as"1s ~, w a,,'rnia,ad lee and ms CONC
seseis5 s o.,t' ~, s,s ~ ~
"s, .,.s 70 SCUM S".vs 20 ,.u,e,;ns the de
NY I'lS ~ c.'"ai..'' pass ssas =, East Farm.
set'p', n' - N 49,. 800 ..r,,,I hoax
"'' m, 49, c,,I.s i;ye,y stshle IN Warwick,
i N ipou,us io ',aiS H.: 90 ;ncan5;ary ere on
=, Wa ~, NV, bnrsss were burned.
i1.a NV g snn
49, Ga., $3.50 scno,r Kents grain elevator,
IN. IN i.ashals 81 rrain ~ Shelbyylle,
I vi ,ioY' ,arnsS On Saturday evening last.
Lose nss Sin oOO
Tb 4 l,;ntan,. (;eneral If Texas publishes
n, ~ NEARLY i. 400 fugitive criminals who
Lase aed from that State. s51 of whom arc
acc,.ed nf mnrder'
General Walker, who is to superintend the
initial Srales census in 1880, estimates that
NJ, Ln"eo aIa,;o,, Win ne be,ween lorty.six and
ear,Y' s,.vsn m;ll;ons
Tbe fisheries an The coast of Newfoundland
are mostly reported 10 be good. The crops
ON The island have been injured by the late
and continued cold weather.
A telegram has been received at the State
Denartment announcing the dangerous illness
4 of The wife OF James Russell Lowell, United
I States Minister at Madrid.
Mort Lee, a negro charged with feloniously
assaulting white woman, was taken from an
] officer, at Coalburg, w. Va, Tuesday night
and lyuched by mob Of 2OO0 men.
The largest ice house OF the hnckerooeker
Ice Company, at Rockland, N. Y, was de-
siroyed Wednesday morning by an incendiary
lire. II contained GO,O0O tons OF ice
The house and barn OF Adam Martin, at
Merchantvllle, y. j., were burned on satar'
day night, aud Mrs. Still, an elderly neigh
Dor Of Martins was frightened to death.
Leonard Welch was arrested IN biddeiOrd,
Me-, Wednesday, for fatally beating ms son,
eight years OF age. The boy was iound IA
bed, with bones broken and otherwise injured;
Milton j. satold, q prominent lawyer ana
! politician OF California died IN San Francisco
on Saturday OF cerebral hemorrhage, ~lth
which he was se'zed WINE walking III me
street
A telegram from hnehtowh says ue eo9'
miners at Eckley and Back Mountain struck
Wednesday morning Tor higher wages A
general strike IN the hazletoSn region IS eN'
/ pacted.
A butter tub factory and dry house with
1900 butter tubs, owned by the Norwood
/ Lumber Company, at Norwood y. l., was
( destroyed by fire on Sunday night Loss,
/ S90,OOO. -
Seventeen plcnickers at Lanesboro Min
neso,a, were poisoned on Saturday by drink,
ing lemonade, supposed to have contained
tartar emetie. Some OF them were ~ CRU
cal condition.
There were severe iros,s IN portions o.
] Nova Scotia last Saturday. In Eastern hant'
beans were killed. potatoes IN bloom cut
down to the ground, and other vegetables
greatly damaged.
Eight lneendiary hires have occurred M
/ Flushing, l.. l., within three months, and
Thomas Connerton and Thomas brenmeu
were arre4ied July j, on suspicion aud have
since confessed their crime.
A colored man who ielonionsly assaulted I
young woman near Linsdale, Texas, Wednes'
day week, was arrested on Friday OF last
week, and, after being identified by the girl
was hacked TO pieces by mob.
A society has been established ~ LondoI
for the prevention Of street accidents anc
dangerous driving. Il Is estimated that 10,
600 persons we're injured by vehicles IN th'
streets Of London last year.
1t is estimated by competent persons tina
tho amount OF lumber rated out OF thu
booms at Williamsport, Pa, up to the clos
OF the ii OF July, will aggregate between %,
OOO,000 aud 100 ,OOO,0 coo feet
Russia has one hundred and twenty tor
pcdo boats in her navy aud her sailors ar,
learning how to handle them so as to blo'
any other power sky high in case il shouh
tread on the great bears corns.
! Frank Davidson, convicted OF the murde
Of William Haggeriy, in September last wa
hanged Wednesday at Warrensburg, No., II
presence OF 10000 spectators. A few hour
before his execution he was baptized.
Miss Jessie Dunbar, aged 81, was walking
ON the street at Matteawan, n. y, on Saiur
day afternoon, when a boy threw 5 FIRE eracke
under her skirt, setting fire TO her clothe
and burning her so badly that she died in I
! few hours.
/ On Wednesday, at st. Louis, the thermonl
eler registered gs in the shade. Ten cases o
/ sunstroke were reported, four fatal. Their,
were two deaths from sunstroke in Memphis
the same day one from yellow fever, and on
death from sunstroke at Springfield, Illinois
The foreign exports of Cotton goods from
England fell of $50, 600, 900 yards in 1878 a
compared with the previous year. This wa
owing TO the United States supplanting he
in many foreign markets, our exports Of cot
ton goods having largely increased.
The Mississippi Valley Emigration Com
pany have had an agent at Castle Garden
New York, with a view Of ascertaining whethe
a supply Of white European labor can be Oh
tained there, TO take the place Of the negro o.
the cotton and sugar plantations of the Gu
States.
II is an interesting fact To know that til
Postal Union is now so well organized tina
a letter can be sent around the world in les
than three months, aud that the service 70
long distances is done at rates which gener
alton ago scarcely served to carry letters with
in the boundaries Of single nation.
Alanson Work, one Of the early abolition
lists and coworker with William Lloyd Gar
rison, and others, died Sunday at Hartford
Conn, in the eightieth year OF his age. Iii
zeal in 1871 led him TO visit st. Louis aud al
in the escape Of slaves. He was prosecuted
convicted and sentenced, but sabseauentl
} pardoned.
The crowd that assembled at Niagara Fails
on the Fourth, to see man jump from III
! small suspension bridge and run the risk Q
killing himself, got mad because he was to,
drunk to attempt the feat. They even al,
played brutality TO the extent Of wanting hir
to jump ANYHOW, although il would have bee
certain death
In the U. S. Circuit Court, at San Fra,
t cisco, Monday, Justice Field, Of the Suprem
! Court of the United States, decided that III
State ordinance providing for the cutting o
Of the queues Of all the Cinnamon imprisone
{ for petty oifenses, was invalid, being IN cor
= hct with the Fourteenth Amendment 10 m
Constitution OF the United States.
The iwo.years strike Of the glass chime,