The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-11-01
Nswa Of the Week.


ure of the grape vine.
The total amount sent from Baltimore,
through Mayor Latrobe, for the relief Of Mem .
This fever sufferers, in September and Octo.
Der, was $l,l2g.
Col Gillepsie, nominated by the Louisiana
republican convention for Lieutenant Gov.
3rn0r, refuses to allow his name TO be put on
he republican ticket.
Levi Slade, father Of VIM. Slade, Demo.
cratic nominee for Sheriff of Baltimore county,
Nd, died on Monday morning in his Silh
year, near Monkton, Tenth district.
Immense beds Of coal have been discovered
on the river Assiniboine, about sixty miles
south Of Graus Valley, Manitoba, and a com.
pany has secured 4, 800 acres Of land there.
The German Orphan Asylum, near Rose
HILL suburb of Chicago, was burned Sun.
day. The loss is estimated at 10000, well
insured. All the inmates escaped unframed.
News from Yokohama, Japan, Of October
II, states that the cholera is rapidly subsiding.
Official returns show upwards Of 10000
cases since the outbreak in April, and s5,-
600 deaths.
Up TO Tuesday last, A ,453, $50 standard
silver dollars have been coined. ll,22l ,0l0 |
are supposed to be in circulation, being out
side the Treasury vaultsi while 81, 1872, $40 re-
main in those vaults
Pittsheld, Mass, was held in $1,000 bail, on |
Saturday, ON the charge Of tearing postage |
stamps from newly.deposited letters and re-
placing them with cancelled stamps.
A collection in aid Of Archbishop Purcell |
was taken up Sunday in ST. Joseph's Cath |
ole Church in Petersburg, Va, and yielded
500. The congregation is small and poor,
but the contribution averages - for each
member.
The White House block in Dresden, near
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was burned Sunday. Loss
$4,000. The fire was started in a stable by
drunken man, who crawled into the hay
with a lighted cigar, and is supposed TO have
persisted.
The body found near Mller's Station, on
the shore of Lake Michigan, on Friday Of last
week, has been identified as that Of George
Burr, who made the balloon ascension with
Professor Wise three weeks ago. II will be
sent to st. Louis for iuterment
a fire at Hawkinsyille, Ga, on Saturday,
destroyed Bozeman's warehouse, six stores,
the Masonic Hall and library, and 1900 bales
of cotton, causing a loss estimated at $780,
600. The Monroe Female College was burn
ed on Saturday morning. Loss $4,000.
Last year there we're IL 900 cases Of yellow
fever and 5,l60 deaths in Memphis. This
year the number Of cases was ! SOB, and there
we're 40S deaths. The official notice Of the
end Of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis
comes four days earlier than the similar one
Of October, 10, 1878.
The remains Of w. s. Bodie, the original
dscoverer Of the Bodie mining district, and
who persisted in snow storm on November
IL, 1859, were discovered Saturday about
mile southwest Of the town Of Bodie. The
deceased is believed TO have been n native Of
either Rochesteror Poughkeepsie, New York,
where he left family.
The shoe factory, grocery and supply store
Of G., s. Woodruff Il Co., at Lockland Sta
ton, Ohio, was burned Tuesday morning; loss,
$4,000. Over fifty persons, mostly girls,
are thrown out OF employment by this fire.
The Chinese quarter and one business block
in Coliax, Cal, were destroyed by fire Tues.
day. Loss, $4,000. AChinaman was burned
TO death.
Dispatches on Tuesday say great damage
is being done in the vicinity Of Norfolk, n.
Y, by forest fires, the flames covering thou
sands Of acres. Quantities of timber and
stacked hay are being destroyed, and there
will be no green timber. There has been no
rain for thirty days. The ground is very dry,
aud the wind blows hard.
About five years ago the Etnn Iron Works,
near Allegheny, Pa, made all attempt to
strike natural gass near their works, but the
effort was unsuccessful. They drilled down
eight hundred feet and there struck a salt
water vein, which continues to run at the rate
of 5000 barrels per day. The firm is now
building large salt works, which will be com.
1 pleted in short time.
/ Early Sunday morning FIRE broke out in
/ the centre Of the Pinkerton tunnel, on the
/ Pittsburg division of the Baltimore and Ohio
/ Railroad, near Confluence, Pa. The tunnel
is timber lined, aud half a mile long. Pas.
/ sengers were transferred to the other side in
wagons, bnt no freight was moved por.
ton Of the tunnel has caved in, and il is feared
the fire will ignite vein Of coal in the noun
tain above the tunnel.
| The John 81. Methodist Episcopal Church
in New Iork city, celebrated its 18th ami.
versary Sunday. In the morning. there was
a love feast, Bishop Harris presiding, at which
many members connected with the church
over fifty years ago were present One old
/ lady, who was member GO years ago, related
her experience. Rev. DR.. Foss, President
/ OF Wesleyan University, preached in the morn.
ing, and Rev. J. o. Peck in the evening.
| a mob of thirteen women in Fredecktown,
! Ohio, on Saturday, marched to a liquor sa.
loon, beat in the doors and windows with
hatehets, broke up all the fixtures and de.
stroyed the liquors. They then visited an.
other saloon and destroyed the liquors there.
They also notified the proprietors Of the drug
stores to remove their liquors by Monday, II
they wished to escape similar treatment. The
women are to be arrested. They are said to
| to have "a strong money backing
The Philadelphia Press says that a. the
present market value of Northern Pacific Sc.
curities those creditors of Jay Cook & Co
who have not disposed of the stock allotted
to them will be able to realize from 81 .O5 to
ST. 10 for every dollar of Indebtedness held by
them. The probabilities are that the stock
will further advance in value. The develop
ment Of the region traversed by this great
Northern line has yindioated tho estimate
placed Upon the enterprise by Mr. Cooke.
In st. Mary's, Nd. recently, Mr.. James 4.
Thomas, while digging in his garden ut the
seminary, unearthed q valuable antiquity in
the shape Of n bottle, in which was blown
"William Denman, London, 1894 Mr..
Thomas presented il to DIR. Dalrymple, Pres.
ident Of the Maryland Historical Society, from
whom he learned that Denman was the pro,
prieior Of considerable ale brewing eslab-
lishment in London in colonial days.
Probably the oldest of the early American
statesmen now alive is Peleg Sprague, Of
Maine. He is eighty eight years Of age and
entirely blind. lie was q member of the
United States Senate from 1929 to 1896,
when Webster, Clay, Calhoun and Benton
were the leaders of that body, and he was a
memberof the national House Of Representa-.
tiyes from 1925 to 1897. He was Judge Of
the United States District Court Of Massachu
sets from 1871 to 1861.
About thirty gentlemen, representing as
many agricultural societies IL the United
States, met last week In Cooper Union, N.
y, TO consider the question OF organizing
national agricultural society. The meeting
was organized by the election of Hon. Victor
+. Polett, Of Pennsylvania, as chairman, and
Ezra Whitman, editor Of the Maryland Far.
mer, and d. w. Wilson, OF New Jersey, as
secretaries. Tho objects Of the association
were the protection and advancement Of
agriculture by practical methods.
murder that for GOODNESS and deliberaiion
Is not often surpassed is reported from Brett
enbaeh, Germany. A married couple having
qdarrelled, the wife left the house, and for
several days stayed away, sleeping At night in
barns or wherever she found It convenient
Meanwhile the husband remained calmly at
home. ThisindiAerenee exasperated the wife
70 pitch Of diabolieal hatred, and about II
O'Clock one night she went 10 the house, and
while her husband lay asleep in an adjoining
room went into the kitchen, started a fire,
hiled the kettle with water, and put il on the
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