The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-04-12
News Of the Week.

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= Antwerp has about the finest Geological
Garden in the world
A New Yorker offers to sleep against an,
I man for 500 and the gate money.
The Legislature of Delaware divorced 2.
married couples at its recent session.
, Over three thousand negroes have left Lou
isiana and Mississippi for Kansas and o,hei
, western states.
The ship Black Prince, from Rio Janeiro
is quarantined at st. John, N. b., with yellow
fever on board
Mr.. Frank Wheus, who died at Allegheny
Pa few days ago, was alleged to be more
than ZIG years old.
Robert p. Crockett, son of the famous
Dayy Crockett, is living near Granbury, in
Hood county, Texas.
The convention OF colored leaders, TO con-
slider the condition of the race in Louisiana,
will meet in New Orleans on the 18th inst.
A Cincinnati dentist broke seven year.
old child's jaw ia drawing tooth, and has
been sued by its father for $4,000 damages
Col. Thomas Buford who assassinated
Judge Ellicott, Of Kentucky, is insane. He
will be defended by Judge Courts, of New
York
Some few weeks ago, Norwalk Connec-
ticut, man secured divorce from his wife,
and day or two ago remarked the same
woman.
A British convoy of supplies, escorted by
lO4 men, was attacked by 1900 Zulus, March
~, and forty British troops were killed; twenty
are missing.
The New York bench show of dogs opened
Tuesday. There were 700 CANNES on exhibit
ton. Some Of them are valued by their own
ers at $4,000.
A German dealer recently received 30, 600
dead humming birds, 80, 900 dead aquatic birds
and S00,000 pairs of wings OF birds of all
kinds for ladies bonnets.
The American ship Lancaster, with l77O
bales of cotton, at Galveson, was burned to
the waters edge Friday morning the 4th inst
Vessel and cargo are a total loss.
/ 1t is reported in Ottawa that the Indians
at Lapelle river have seized the Canadian,
Government Stores Hunger, not hostility, is
| supposed to have caused the raid
The motion for new trial in the case Of
Oliver rs. Cameron was denied by Judge
Cartier on Saturday, and the case will now
go to the Court on bill OF exceptions.
The schooner Mary A. De Knight, of New
Jersey, was capsized in Chesapeake Bay on
Thursday of last week. Captain Hagar and
| the crew, three in number, were drowned.
Alexander Benn, colored youth, amused
himself in Petersburg, Va, on Saturday, by
hammering and old 32.pound shell, relic Of
the war. The shell exploded, injuring him
so severely that he died in few hours.
Timothy c. Murphy, of Norwich, Conn,
q years of age, has received silver medal
and autograph letter from Secretary Sherman
for saving II persons from drowning within
five or six years, many of them at great risk
to himself.
The schooner Ella Clifton, from St. John,
n. b. arrived at Fall River, on Sunday. She
r. Il
| by a hurricane off Nantucket Shoals on the
Slst ult., almost all Of which were disabled,
and some lost
Cambridge won the boat race against Ok.
ford on Saturday. This had been expected,
the crew Of this year being better ''form.
This makes the score during the past fifty
years, lS to II in favor of Oxford, SO Cam.
bridge has still one point against her.
/ In Boston, on Monday, Charles w. Nc.
keogh, steward Of the steamship Bohemia,
from Liverpool, was arraigned for smuggling
small parcels of Irish whiskey, and Edward
o. Malley was arraigned for receiving the Ii.
quor. They were each held in $500 bail.
Two hundred and fifty prominent South
/ Carolina Democrats are TO be tried before
Judge Bond at Charleston, for violation of
election laws. 1t is proposed, in electing
jurors, to apply the test OATH The cases are
| Suhells biVot aihim III tHe DoutheTl pOlltlVdl
circles.
! Miss Catherine Demsbach, aged so years.
was feloniously assaulted, murdered aud rob
bed of small some of money, near Cohoes,
/ n. y, on Saturday afternoon. A tramp,
who called at the house in the morning, os.
tensibly to secure work, is suspected OF the
crime.
The extremely cold weather Of last Friday
and Saturday is reported to have killed the
fruit and early vegetables in Georgia and
South Carolina Ice formed at most points
in Alabama on Saturday, damaging the crops,
and some Of the cotton will have to be re.
| planted.
A strange disease, called the eye.epxootic,
is prevailing among the children in Harris.
burg, Pa. The eyes become bloodshot and
become very painful, and closes with matter.
II lasts four days, but is followed by no serious
results. The disease is contagious and effects
whole families.
| Thunder storms as far north as Buffalo in
the month of March have been followed by
ice in the Cotton States in April as far south
as Alabama. While this may illustrate the
very wide range of climate in the United
States, it is hardly conducive to the safety Of
the crops either south or north.
! Mrs, Rose McCusker, q widow, was found
early Sunday impaled on the iron railing in
front OF ahouse in which she occupied rooms,
on West Sixteenth street, New York. She
died while being removed from her terrible
position. tits supposed that she accidentally
tell out OF the second story window during the
night.
Eli Keller died at Conshohocken, last Sun.
day. His mother, Mrs. Mary Keller, of
Pottsgrove, Pa, had previously gone to Con.
shohocken to visit him, and while there, was
stricken with palsy and died, The two deaths
Of mother and son q few hours apart, and
under the circumstances render the ease quite
remarkable.
Edward Kinney, a negro, and Mary his
white wife, have got themselves into trouble
aud the Virginia penitentiary for five years
each. They were married in Washington
lately, and were subsequently arrested and
convicted in Virginia, for violating the state
statute which makes the intermarriage of
whites and blacks a felony.
As man was passing house in Portland,
Me-, the other day, two year.old girl, who
was playing in a second.staEy yoom, Jumped
out Of tho window aud struck fairly on his
head. The child fell to the pavement aud
was badly bruised, though not seriously hurt,
and the man, except being half scared to
death, was not much injured,
The will Of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
DSt'~tFtN" W. w. HiSlcitif ihai ahu pciaohaif
to her grandsons jerome Napoleon and
Charles Joseph honsparts, who are also made
her executors. The real estate is devised for
life to her grandsons, and afterwards to their
children. Should either grandson die with.
out issue the real estate is to go to the suryi-
vor, and afterwards to his children.
William Gouverneur Morris, Special Treas.
ury agent in Alaska, reports that there are
enough American citizens in Alaska, not
counting thosa acquired by the purchase Of
the region, 10 entitle L to Territorial Govern.
ment. Tie population will be increased Mt
least 1000 this year by immigration. Slavery
exists among the Indians. He speaks highly
Of the mineral wealth Of the country.
Governor Fremont, Of Arizona, who is now
in New York, has submitted "a The Govern.
ment plan TOR bringing tho watars Of the
Gulf Of California back 10 their old basin In
Southern California. This, he says, would
create an inland area suitable for navigation
about 200 miles long, so miles broad and 800
feet deep, converting what is now a desert re.
gion into highway Of commerce. and he
thinks the climate Of Ari;epa and Southern
CajlllFnla would be Improved BY tie change.
Mrs. u Reilly, who IS q woman OF very VIC
lent temper, living al Port Even, New York,
was visited on Thursday night by her sister.
During the poByeFsatlon her mother complain.
ed 70 he visiting sIsler OF Mrs 0Reily's i'll