The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-08-09

lage OF Marshallton, Chester county, Pa, o
Sunday night
A sattlesnake eight feet long and with twer
h tyive ratties has just been killed near Bris
iol, Tennessee.
Several houses were damaged and the toy
mast OF a schooner was shivered by lightning
in New Orleans, Tuesday.
Two dwellings and stable in Washington
were Struck by lightning on Monday after
noon. A horse was killed and man ha,
one Of his arms paralized
Thirteen barns have been burned within
few months in the western part of Chicago
and it has TRANSFERRED that boys fired them 10
fun.
Rosa Christian, little girl, who was bitter
by New Foundland dog four weeks ago
died Of hydrophobiA on Tuesday, in New Or
leans
There was a slight run on the Exchang,
Bank in Montreal Monday, and many people
refused bills Of tina, Bank in the payment o
accounts.
George p. Rogers and Walters S. Slyer, Sar
Francisco clerks, were drowned By the up
setting OF boat in Lake San AndTeas, Cal.
on Sunday.
Every silk mill in Patterson, n j., is run
ming to its fullest capacity, aud some Of the
manufacturers are not able TO take all ;,ie
work that Is offered.
Z The amount Of lumber on hand at the diff.
ierent points on the Susquehanna Is repre-
scented as larger this year, at this season, than
for years past at the same time.
The town of Volcano, in Wood county,
West Virginia, containing 1000 inhabitants,
was destroyed by fire Monday morning. The
FIRE vas started by and ineendlary.
{ Iibc Studley fatally beat his sleeping wife
with a club in East killingly, Conn, on Sun,
day morning. He was irenzled by Jealousy,
excited by the gossiping OF neighbors =.
Frederick Z. Grlifing and Catherine his
wife, of Brooklyn, \. \. are 70 years Of age
and had celebrated their golden wedding.
I And yet she applied for divorce few days
since.
The taxpayers convention Of Hartford
county appointed committee OF I'VE 10 ex'
anime into the financial Affairs of the county
and elected ten delegates to the State con
vention.
I A house IN Missouri took lire lately Of
/ nigh, and the first alarm came from an old
/ shot gun hanging on the wall IL got red not
and boomed away, and the family had time
to save themselves.
A boat containing six plcnickers was upset
at a dam IN the Mississippi, near Lacrosse
4 Wis, on Sunday night, and three OF them
/ John Thomas, Mary Hanson and an Italian
mnsician--were drowned.
The Health Board Of Chester, Pa, on
/ Tuesday passed a resolution prohibiting the
brig Shasta, which arrived at Quarantine Sta
/ ton some time ago with yellow fever among
/ the crew, from dieharging her cargo at Ches
I ter.
/ Forest fires are reported IN the townships
of bedford, HiRohhrook, 0lden and Kemp
/ vile, Ontario, threatening considerable de
strucsion Of property. \ family, named Pat
I icrson, IN Bedford, is supposed to have per
I ished
A family OF seven persons, named Monetie
I has been poisoned al Point Yeau, Quebec, b,
eating bread which chad been standing in the
same place with Paris Green.n Three o
them were dead and the others no, expected
to recover.
4 0ne hundred and twenty five car loads o
| peaches were shipped from the peninsulS
Monday, IS being for New York, AZ for Phil
adelphia, and the remainder for other points
The shipment is unusually large for so earl,
in the season.
Francis Walker kilea Thomas Iesors in 4
quarrel, AZ Yeddo, Pa, on Saturday night
My striking him on the side Of the face viii
the edge Of his open hand" Walker gave
himself up TO the authorities at Wilkesbarre,
Lizzie b. Abbey, young music teacher
broke through rotten plank while crossing
a railroad bridge at BoiceyiIle, in Ulster
county, n. Y, last Saturday, and fell on Tho
rocks, twenty-five feet bslpw. Her saul wa.
fractured and she died IN an hour.
Louis Mayer, y medical student, If phila.
delphia, ald Joseph Q. Jones, Of Consha
hooksn, we're dFawned while bathing at Allan.
tic City Monday. An excursionist, supposed
to he Matthias Baker, of Philadelphia, -
was drowned Monday morning at Cape May,
j A tslessAa' ftoaa Ogden, Itch, eorreets IL.
report Of Saturday last, that brigham Young
executors had given bonds, and had been re-
leased. They failed TO give bonds, and were
sent TO W. penilentiary Monday. John lay
lor, the Mormon President, was released, he
giving bond.
Daniel jones ygs arresled IN st. Louis, on
Saturday, for passing counterfeit silver coin.
He had just been released from short term
ia PRISON for q similar offence. On the same
day James Sheridan was arrested in New
York, Charles Cross IN Cincinnati, and Ste
phen Foster iq s. baGl, tet Messing counter
ie,t com.
The six men convicted OF Lebanon, Pa, Of
the murder Of Joseph Raber, for the purpOsC
OF obtaining an insurance on his life, wer,
taken into Court Monday TO hear the decision
on their application for new trial. The ap
plieaiion was granted in the case Of George
Zeehman, but denied to the others, who wer,
remanded for sentence.
IgMes hGss, aaioreq isfmst, OF Sussex
county, Va, visited Petersburg on Friday
pnrlng his absence his wife, whom he ha6
iiorsaken to live with another woman, named
Maggie Tins, went TO bis house, aecompan
led by colored man. The man shot Mag
sc Tins dead, and the niie chopped OF the
head Of her rivals infant with 3 spade.
Paul Boyton, in his paddle from Ions
Branch to Coney Island on Sunday last, il
his rubber suit, found himself surrounded b.
a school OF sharks, three Of which FOLLOWED
him distance of two miles. He kept them
at bay by beating the water with his pad
de Like iona he will probably make ,
meal for s99e big fish one Of these days, Il
he doesn't look sharp.
The London Times Of Monday ppblishei
review Of the agricultural PROSPECTS, /,
which il i estimated that the 'eaudition o
the hay and other fiddler oFops throqahou
England Is many millions Ct pounds short O
the average value. In the principal barley
growing district the worth Of tho barley il
nearer 80 TO 90 than ~ per acre, which has
Oeen inc average value IN olher years.
a message mas Deen received 10 BOISE City
Ieaho' RON Colonel Bernard reporting tina
iaegtenAAt toltiey VS. attacked and deietieC
W 4naiaha on 'he Iotn W.. Two OF his mel
were wounded aud all his provisions, most o
his baggage aud tWentV.three of his mula