The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-01-04
Nsws Of The week.

The Trenton, N. j., potteries are running
full handed aud on full time.
One thousand magistrates are to be elected
by the next Legislature of North Carolina.
The Emerson Piano Company's factory, in
Boston, was burned on Saturday evening.
Loss S65, 900.
A bald eagle with a rusty steel trap attach
cd to one Of its legs was shot near Port De-
post last week.
The Cocheco Print Works, at Dover, N.
H., were damaged by fire ON Saturday morn.
ing to the extent of about $4,000.
A dispatch from Newburyport, Mass, an
nounces the death, at lila o'clock Thursday
night, Of Hon. Caleb Gushing, in his 10th year.
During 1878 there were 9l7 failures in New
York city, with liabilities amounting to near.
ly S64, 900 and assets only Sls,659,5Sl.
l.ouis Stormer, an undertaken, was found
frozen TO death at the roadside near Dallas,
in Luzerne county, Pa, on Saturday morn
ing.
Annie Schetter, aged II, who was disap.
pointed in love, killed herself with dose Of
corrosive sublimate in Reading, on Sunday
night.
Under the general law of Missouri, jurors
must be able to read. In st. Louis this dis
qualities over ninety per cent. of the coiored
residents.
On the 9th of January the sheriff Of Phila.
dclphia, Pa, will sell 1000 pieces of real es'
tate at public sale 1t will be the largest sale
ever held by sheriff.
A vehicle containing two men and a woman
broke through the ice while crossing from
Richmond to Melbourne, Quebec, Tuesday,
and oil were drowned.
At South Byfeld, Mass, on Monday night
John II. Caldwell, while kneelng at family
prayer, was killed by his insane wife, who
split his head with an axe. He was 45 years
Of age.
Charles l.. Otto, of Peoria, Ill.,, who report.
ed that his jewelry store had been robbed, has
since confessed himself the thief, and the
property has been recovered and attached by
his creditors.
The State taxes of the Chicago and Lake
Huron Railroad, amounting to $4,000, were
paid on Friday, to prevent the sale Of the
road on an execution by the Auditor General
of Michigan.
Texas has 100 convicts, of whom some
500 are kept in prison, and the rest are hired
out TO work on railroads and farms. One,
undergoing life sentence is hired by his wife,
and lives comfortably at home.
Colonel Edward wilkins, lately Collector
Of Customs at Baltimore, died on Saturday,
at his residence, near Chestertown, Md, aged
60 years He was probably the most exten.
sive peach grower in the country.
1t is not the English manufacturers and
tradesmen only that suffer from American
competition. The English farmers also COM
plain that American grain and meat are sell.
ing for prices with which they cannot com.
pete.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company on Monday took possession of
the Washington Iron Works, at Pottsyille,
and began TO prepare for the establishment
of repair shops. This will give employment
TO $50 men.
The contents of the pocket book lost by
the Importers and Traders Bank Messenger,
in New York, on Friday, were received back
through the mails, on Saturday morning, less
the cash, nearly $1,000, and 5000 worth Of
gold certificates.
A locomotive shop in Patterson, N. j., is
said to have received an order for seven im.
mense electric lanterns from the Russian
Government. These lanterns are TO be
placed ut the bows of the seven largest Rus.
sian men.of,war.
The Rend Rock dynamite works, at Oak
Ridge, near Patterson, New Jersey were
partially demolished by an explosion on
Saturday morning, supposed to have been
caused by the overwhelming of nitro glycerine
Three men were killed.
The steamship darlington, with 1000 bales
of cotton, from Savannah for Reyel, was
wrecked on reef northwest of the Bermu.
das on the 10Th instant. The crew escaped
in the boats. 1t was thought 1000 bales of
cotton could be saved
Two horses attached TO hoarse, while on
o ferryboat returning to Richmond from a
funeral, probably being overcome by life of
melancholy, jumped overheard and, together
with the hearse, found watery grave at the
bottom of the Pamunky river, Virginia.
An ice bridge formed across the Niagara
river, below the falls, on Sunday last, and
hundreds Of people have crossed upon it,
The trees and buildings in the immediate vi.
cinliy Of the falls are covered with frost work,
and present u spectacle not witnessed since
1874.
The Indian excitement in Washington Ter.
ri.ory has subsidized, and the Yakima volun.
:eers have returned home. Four of the muir.
derers of Perkins are in Jail. Chief Moses
also remains in custody. and it is intimated
that he "will never be allowed to leave Yak.
ina. "
Col. Frederick d. Grant sailed from New
York, Saturday, for Liverpool, in the steam
ship Brittania. He is TO meet Gen. and Mrs.
Grant in Paris, and after paying visit to Mr..
and Mrs. Sartoris, in England, he is to start
for India with his father. Mrs. L. ID. Grant
will remain in Chicago.
The State Superintendent of Instruction in
South Carolina has issued a report which
shows that the attendance of colored children
at the public schools in that State has increas
ed under the Democratic administration near.
ly thirteen thousand over the attendance un.
der the Republican administration.
Rev. James A. Dickson, clergyman of New
Albany, Ind, attempted to commit suicide Mt
a hotel in Memphis, Tenn, on Friday night
by taking strychnine. Letters were found in
bis room, assigning, as cause for the deed
an "indiscretion' with young lady of New
Albany, and the scandal arising therefrom.
Forty cases are now pending before the
United States and Spanish Claims Commission.
The State Department desires that all cases
shall be ready on the parts Of the claimants
for submission on or before the lst Of FebFu.
NNh tNht hll the iADOTs
of the commission can be closed within three
months thereafter.
Revenue Agent Atkinson telegraphed to
Commissioner Raum that he had Just return.
ed to Knoxville from raid along the Tennes
see and Kentucky line. Over 400 miles had
been travelled on horseback, aud the captures
comprised 10 distileries, 10 copper stills and
worms, 260 mash tubs, Is, 800 gallons of mash
and 2d3 gallons Of whiskey.
A man calling himself Wallace Evans was
arrested in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on Monday, and
committed in default Of $1,000 bail, on the
charge Of obtaining money under false pre-.
fences. He is alleged to have swindled sew.
eral ministers and Sunday school teachers by
representing himself as an agent of the Meth.
odist Book Concern in Cincinnati.
I Some time ago, Mr.. Reuben Springer offer
ed $50, 900 to aid the erecution Of an exposi.
ton building adjoining the Music Hall, in
Cincinnati, on condition that the citizens
should add 100000 TO the amount by the
LIST of January 1879. The citizens subserip.
ton reached $685. Tuesday; so an emo.
sition during 1879, IN Cincinnati, Is assured.
The Eureka Leader says ;--0n the 4th Of
July, 1868, at the battle Of Gettysburg, Albert
jackson was shot in the right lung. The
bullet was not extracted. Mr.. jackson re-
covered and removed to the Pacific coast.
Monday he was taken with violent fl of
coughing, something obstructing his wind
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