The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-05-31

ANNH1ttf
been burned BY incendiaries.
! A flock Of twenty-scven mohair goats from
Asia Minor worc recently landed in London.
! Hon A. II. Stephens was taken niarmiugly
| i'll on Sunday last. He was better at last ae
counts.
The Legislature Of New York, Republican,
adjourned last week, after session Of nearly
1 five months.
The Illinois Legislature has appropriated
5000 for the monument to Stephen A. Dou
glass in Chicago.
A lady near Pedricktawn. n. H., short
time ago ran splinter under her finger nail,
and has since died Of loekjaw.
The U. S. ship Constitution arrived at New
I York on Saturday from Lisbon, with returned
goods from the Paris Exposition.
Col King, a Texas cattle man, has a fence
IS miles long, enclosing about 337 square
miles, on which range nc, 900 bensls
The Adyeniists have again fixed the time
for the final consumation Of all things terres.
trial. This time Il is set for the 18th Of July.
This being locust year in Missouri, the
seventeen year locusts have made their mp
pearancc, and the forests are vocal with their
noise.
Daring the year 1878 forty eight railroads
were sold under foreclosure, representing
Sl5l GIG, 700 of capital stock, and SlG0,0li,-
500 Of bonds and debt.
The Oriental Powder Company's magazine,
near Brighton. H., was struck by lightning
and destroyed, with $4,000 kegs Of powder,
on Sunday afternoon.
The project ola Worlds Fairin New York
city in 1880 is involved 10 wraugle between
two distinct organizations-eac struggling
to secure control Of the Enterprise.
The Irish Skirmishing Fund now amounts
to SIT,491, but the contributions have been
light of late. The Irish World Acknowledges
the receipt Of only S2l during the past week.
Wednesday, the 18th Of May, being the cen
tennial anniversary of Thomas Moore, the
gifted Irish poet, was observed in many Of
the cities Of Europe and IN the principal cities
in this country.
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid will deliver the address
before the Ohio Editorial Association at Gin
cinnah on Thursday evening, the 10Th OF
June. The association will make trip to
Kansas city, Mo.
A gang Of ruiiians, calling themselves cred
Men, or "Vigilants,n is reported TO be ter
rorizing Wetze county, West Virginia, They
have molested several men and women, and
ordered others to leave the county.
William Lloyd Garrison, the noted Boston
abolitionist, after long illness breathed his
last at half-past eleven O. clock Saturday night
at the Westmoreland Hotel, New York city,
in the seventy fourth year Of his age.
Bishop Gobat, Of Jerusalem, has Just died.
The patronage Of the bishopric rests alter
nately with Queen Victoria and the Emperor
of Germany. The Queen will ill the present
vacancy. The episcopal salary amounts to
$4,000 year.
The Dubuque Times publishes over 100 re.
ports from Northwestern Iowa, in regard to
the crops. They Indicate good harvest.
The small grains are backward in some places.
on account of drought, but the acreage of
wheat is greater than last year. Corn looks
we'll
There is apparently an epidemic Of divorce
IN Massachusetts at present. The number of
applications both in and out of Boston, aud
the evidence that accompanies them, reveal n
state of morals that is utterly shocking
Edwin A Perley has discovered u gold
and silver mine on his farm near Lebanon,
N. II. Operations have already commenced,
and considerable excitement prevails. Elk.
perleneed miners are trying to negotiate for
the ownership.
Henry Short, ut Slaughter's Beach, on the
Delaware Bay, recently caught ll3 drum. fish
at one haul in his one hundred fathom seine
The drums averaged thirty pounds each,
Other fish were also caught making the
wight VI tht Nholt tAlCh ANO touhs
During the winter of 1873, toward l, 500, 900
tons of ice were cut out of :he Hudson, about
1900 men and 600 horses being employed in
tbs work. Last winter, $500, 900 tons we're
gathered south of Albany alone, by the aid Of
the labor of II, 900 men and 800 horses
The burglars who broke into The house of
Mrs. Gardiner, at Providence, Rhode Island,
and nearly stranged her have been arrested.
They are Erwin Shattuck, grandson of the
old lady, and George A. Randolph, clerk in
a Wholesale drug store. Neither is yet 20
years of age.
In the U. S. Court at New Orleans, on Mon,
day, Judge Billings decided the act Of the
Legislature repeating the charter Of the Louis.
lana State Lottery Company to be inopera.
tive, and granted an Injunction restraining
the STATE and city authorities from interior.
ing with the Company.
Mr. Winans, the American millionaire, is
building IN the Clyde monster cigar shin Mt
cost Of close on e200,0O0. She Is to be of
1000 or 1000 tons burden, and il is believed
by her owner that she will be able to cross the
Atlantic in five days. This will be the third
vessel of the same type that Mr.. winans has
built
The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Soci.
ETY. has decided to hold the next State Fair at
Philadelphia, commencing September 10Th.
The premiums will be much larger than ever
before offered, aggregating about So, 900.
The tair will be held on the ground used for
the Centennial Exhibition and tho use OF the
Permanent Exhibition Building has been ten.
dered to and accepted by the Society.
man named Mcmahon, working for n
farmer named Ellis, near Taboryille, Mo,
teloniously assaulted daughter Of Ellis on
Thursday night week, and then fed. Ellis
hearing OF the crime, took up shot gun aud
pursued McMahon, but the latter, suddenly
spnnging up on Ellis from place OF conceal.
ment, snatched the gun and shot him. A
large force Of lynchers is searching for the
murderer.
A six year old boy, named MOZART, has
been arrested at Elizabeth, n. j., for kicking
a playmate named kiinler so that he died.
They were spinning tops, and quarreIIed,
when Kimler kicked his playmate twice IN tho
abdomen. MOZART did not feel any immedi.
ate effects from the kick, and went home.
Tuesday afternoon he began to complain OF
severe pains in the abdomen. A physician
was called, but too late, and at five O'clock
wednesday morning the boy died. Kimler
has been arrested.
Joseph Casey, eleven years Of age, empIoy.
ed in filling and lighting street lamps at Belle.
vue, suburb OF Scranton, was fatally burned
on Saturday night While on the ladder he
upset the contents Of the Gil oan on his clothes,
when, as is alleged, another boy appled n
lighted match TO him, and set him in a flame.
The poor boy rushed towards the river, a
quarter ola mile away, but was caught before
reaching it by citizens, who threw portions
Of their clothing upon him and extinguished
the flames, though too late to save him from
fatal injury.
Foreign immigration is setting ID again
strongly. and Castle Garden, New York, DO.
gins 70 assume something like the activity Of
the old anti-panic times. The arrivals for
last week are no. far from COCO, and The
steamer agents say they have adyices that The
emigrants due the week to come will even
exceed this large number. The new comers
embrace nearly all nationalities, but The Irish.
English and Germans predominant. A lar.
ger proportion Of English il looked for his
summer than heretofore, owing TO the vide.
spread industrial distress there.
The farewell session Of the Interna,;onaI
Convention Of the Young Mems Christian
Associations was held in the Mount Vernon
Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore. Sun.
day evening. The church was crammed win
people during the services, which lasted until
aiter midnight. Addresses were made by
Messrs- Wiswell, Of Chicago, Wallace. Of
Georgia. and Cobb, Of Indianapolis, General
llardie, Of Alabama, Rev. Messrs. Jones. Of
lilchmond, Va, and Bulge, Of Montreal. and
most OF the foreign delegates The farevatI