The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-05-24
NerD Of the WesL.

. News OF the Week.
An Iowa goose attacked boy and scared
him into conyulsions, from which he died.
The ~. hour bicycle race in New York was
won Saturday night by W, De Noille, who
covered 500 miles.
Out Of or, 0Js pieces Of baggage carried
over the PENNSYLVANIA railroad lines during
1878 only one was lost
Mrs. Polk, wife of the ex-Presideut, now
lives in jefferson, Ind, and is said TO be a
sprighty and well.preserved old lady.
During thunder storm at Fredericksburg
Ind, last weektw young men, named Dur
rill and Mourning, took shelter under tree
and were killed by lightning.
A fire at Galesbnrg, Illinois, on Monday
morning destroyed $50, 600 worth OF property.
In livery stable that was burned were seven
teen horses, all Of which were a total loss.
A skipping rope was placed among the
flowers on kittie Boylan's coffin, in Clyde,
Ohio. She had died from jumping it 100
times without stopping.
Asahel Peck, eX. Goyernorof Vermont, died
/ Monday at his residence in Jericho, aged 10
years. lie had boen a Judge of the Supreme
| Court OF his State for twenty years.
/ Mrs. Wren and Mrs. Howell were drowned
/ BY the upsetting of small boat on the west
/ branch OF the Susquehanna, near kopp's Sid
/ ing, above Sunbury, Pa, Monday afternoon.
| l.. Langebehm, Il farmer Of Costa Rica
I county, CAL, beat his little boy and girl to
death in n field on the 10th instant, aud then
committed suicide II is supposed he was In
sane.
William Morgan, cashier of the St. Ncho-
las Hotel, in Cincinnati, and his brother,
John, we're drowned by the upsetting Of
row.b boat on the Licking River, on Sunday
afternoon.
The new liquor law for Illinois permits all
persons, male and female, 10 vote ON the
question whether licenses shall be granted in
their town. There is u special and different
law for the larger cities.
The u. s. ship Constitution, the last Of the
Government vessels with returned goods from
the Paris Exposition, is now 3s days out from
Lisbon, aud expected to arrive in New York
this week.
A meeting to protest against "Sabbath
desecralion'' was held in Lowell, Mass, on
Sunday. Governor Talbot presided. Rsso.
lutions were adopted calling for the enforce
ment Of the Sunday laws.
At Columbus, Texas, Mack Anderson,
negro barber, whose wife had left him, dan.
gerously cut white man with n razor on her
account, and subsequently cut the woman's
throat nearly decapi,ating her.
A special session Of the New England La
Dor Reform League was held in Science Hall,
Boston, on Sunday and Monday. Resolu
tons were adopted and speeches made eX.
pressing ultra Socialistic ideas.
An explosion, caused by the boiling over
of two kettles Of turpentine, occurred in the
yarnish factory Of Berry Brothers, at Detroit,
Monday. Five men we're burned, three Sc.
yerely aud one, il is thought, fatally.
Congressman Carlisle, OF Kentucky, has
been invited TO address the Democrats OF Bos.
ton ut Faneuil Hall on the the questions which
have been pending in congress during the pres
ent session and will accept the invitation.
Saturday afternoon, a violent thunder storm
passed over Wilmington, Delaware, Several
houses were struck by lightning, which stun.
ned at least dozen persons in different parts
of the town. In two cases the parties did not
recover for some hours.
The farmers in tidewaier Virginia, have
commenced harvesting their eaily crops,
which are nearly month later than last year,
and the steamers for New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Westinghouse daily loaded to
their utmost capacity with new potatoes, as.
paragus strawberries, &c.
Monday afternoon, the track Of the Denver,
South Park and Pacific Railroad, in Colora.
do, reached the kenosha Summit, lO,liO !
feet above sea level, the highest point yet at.
tanned by a railroad on the North American
Continent. The road, when completed, will
connect Denver with Leadyille.
Ex-Stato Senator Cornish, convicted at
Belyiderc, n. D., Of conspirng to defraud the !
county OF $1,000, was sentenced on Saturday
TO one years Imprisonment in the Peniten-
tiary. j. II. Sweeney, ex. Chief Of Police of
Phillipsburg convicted of raising county
bill, received similar sentence.
While number Of children we're playing
ball at Somervile, Mass, on Sunday, len.
year.old daughter of William ii. Goodspeed
picked up the bali they had been using ans |
refused to give it back. Several of the boys
peited her with stones, one of which struck
her on the temple, causing her death on Mon
day morning.
The breaker at tho Stanton shaft, Wilkes.
barre, Pa, was burned TO the ground Sun !
dag morning The fire which broke out in !
this shan on the 9Th inst, has been burning
ever since, aud it is supposed the breaker
caught from the accidental ignition Of the IS
suing gas. The cost of erecting the breaker
and sinking the shaft was $3.50, 900.
A strike occurred Wednesday afternoon Mt
Joseph II. Browns iron works, South Chi. |
cago, which throws about 600 men out of
employment Originally fourteen mea ia the
butt department struck against reduction.
This caused a stoppage OF all the plate men,
and as the other departments depend on the
plate department, the whole number will be
out
William Nelson, eolored, was sentenced.
at Terrc Haute, Ind, Tuesday, TO pay a fine
Of $1,000 and be imprisoned ia the peniten.
tiary for one year, for marrying q white
woman. u is said the prosecution originated
IN spite. Nelson was convicted under a law
enacted in 1856, which the Judge, Long, held
TO be valid, through decision Of the Supreme
Court.
Lieutenant c. VI. Carrow, of the Seventh
Cavalry, committed suicide by shooting him.
self, in hotel at st. Louis, on Monday, He
was on his way back from the East, where a
surgical operation was performed on his knee
hive weeks ago, TO join his regiment at Fort
Llncoln. No cause for the suicide is known.
Carrow's father is a we'll. minister.
now residing at PoitsyiIle. Pa.
leading Boston merchant who has inst
returned from the West says;-sI have
never seen the time when the prospects, for
the West looked so bright. I noticed partic.
ularly the activity in all the Departments of
manufacture, especially in machinery, and
sllll more IN the specially of the manufacture
ofagricultural implements. Wherever went
was Informed by the manufacturers that
they were working night and day and vel were