The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-12-06
News Of the Week,

there were 20 absentees--2l Senators, and 65
Representatives,
Forest fires are again raging in the Dismal
Swamp, near Deep Creek, aud the flames
were seen from Norfolk, Va, on Saturday
night.
The new Queen Christine, of Spain, is to
receive curious present from an inhabitant
Of Madrid-.a pair Of stockings made from on
ion peel.
The front and back walls and roof Of the
new Baptist Church, in Hamilton, Ont, tum.
bled down Monday The erection Of the bull
ding cost $4,000.
Two children of Donald MeMorlon were
killed by the explosion Of a bottle Of gunpow-
der with which they were playing, at Ross,
Ont, on Saturday.
The White River Utes have arrived at Los
Pinos and gone before tho Commission. The
Indians are in large force, and there is said
to be "dls,rusl on both Sides
Fifteen cars of freight train on the Lit.
tie Rock Railroad rah OH the track and were
wrecked and burned near Forest City, Ark,
Monday. -Four persons were killed.
The cats around Waynesboro, Franklin
county, Pa, have nearly oil died from dis.
ease called the mango and, as conse-
qpence, the rats are having things their own
way.
The Permanent Exhibition Company at
Philadelphia have passed resolution olTer
ing the exposition building to the two great
political parties for their national conventions
next year
The wife Of Franklin Chase died suddenly
at West Point, Mass, eleven days ago and Is
still unbured Her body is 50 lile-like that
her friends cannot decide whether she is dead
or in trance.
1t is said in St. Louis that the merchants
and capitalists of that city will subscribe ST.
900, 900 toward making Port Royal, 5. c., a
great exporting and importing point for the
West and South.
Two car loads of hogs arrived at Buffalo
Monday, with the animals cut and sashed in
a fearful manner. The atrocious act had ev.
identity been done by some scoundtel or scoun.
drels out Of spite.
The total coinage of the U. S. Minis in No.
vember amountedto 6,0l2, 1879 pieces, valued
at 81, 439, 42l. The number of standard sill
yer dollars coined was 2,499, 600, and the
value Of the gold coinage was S9,0D9,lS5.
The hickory tree at Madison, N. D., which,
as q saphng, was transplanted on the inaugu'
ration OF James Madison as President Of the
United States for the second time, in 1881, is
now handsome and thrifty tree over one
hundred feet high.
General jefferson c. Davis OF the U. S,
army died in the Palmer House, Chicago, ON
Sunday afternoon, in the SD year OF his age.
The cause of his death was pneumonia, con
tracied at the unwilling of the Thomas statue
in Washington, on l7Ih ult.
The mothers Of Gov. T.. W. NJ. Holiday,
Of Virginia, aud Lieutenant Governor James
A. Walker, of the same State died within
week Of each other last monlh-Mrs. Walker
on the 2lst and Mrs. Holiday on the 2sth.
Both we're in their s2nd year.
Colonel ]. 6. Tucker, Of Brownsville, Tex
as, is in Washington, aud says the removal OF
troops from South Maria has exposed other
sections to renewal Of the raids from Mex
leo. He urges the War Department TO order
the immediate reoceupation OF the post.
The schooner n. II. Phillips, which sailed
from Gloucester, Mass, on October, LIST, for
Grand Menan, with thirteen men on board,
is given up for lost. Anxiety is felt at Glou
cester for the safety OF the schooners Andrew
Leighton and Harvey c. Mackey, which are
over due.
Sixteen revenue deputies in Towns county,
Ga, were surrounded on Saturday last hy o
large mob of armed moputaineers aud com
PEELED to surrender an ILLICIT distiller whom
they had captured. The deputies made no
fight, but one Of them was severely, it not
fatally wounded by the moo.
Governor Talbot and other Massachusetts
officials aud railroad men were in baltimore,
Monday, inspecting the terminal railroad ia'
cilities, shipping wharyes and elevators at
Canton and Locust Point Of the Pennsylvania
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, with
a view to similar facilities in Boston.
Several archaeological wonders have re
Gently been caught in the water around the
lob - Nnv- Nnrk Tho laat ,vua Al fat
long, four feet wide and had a head crowned
with two spires about eight inches high. 1t
is supposed to belong to the skate family,
which seel. tho shelter Of hsrbors after cou
tinuous stormy weather.
james NJ. Lowe, arrested in Portland, Me-,
on Friday, for the murder Of his brother
Joseph on the 9th Of September last, was
arraigned in Portland, Me-, on Saturday, and
pleaded not guilty. In an interview in the
jail the same night he confessed the murder
and detailed It's circumstances, There was
trouble between the hrnIheEs about some
property.
Trouble arose In q grading party on the
Kansas Central Railroad, beyond Topeka, on
Saturday. While contractor was paying
his men, il is said, largo number Of forged
time checks were presented which he reius'
ed to pay, until compelled to do so by mob
Of the graders, who threatened him with re.
volyers. The citizens of the neighborhood
subsequently organized posse aud arrested
the leaders Of the mob.
A fair was held in Philadelphia Tuesday
night at the Presbyterian Church, corner Of
Broad aud Oxford streets, to detray the ex-
penses of new organ. Early Wednesday
morning some Of the decorations caught lire,
and the new organ and the whole interior Of
the church were destroyed, Tho ehareh cost
Sl50,000 Ten years ago: The Stone walls aud
the steepIe remain, and the loss IS estimated
at 500 200, insurance S5uOOp,
The officers of the Bank Of Montreal re-
peived o telegram on Saturday night from
New York, prononnoing cashier dram Tor
$4,000 forgery. The draft purp0rled TO have
been drawn By the Commercial Bank of Ro
chester on the American Exchange Bank of
New York. II was presented by two horse
dealers, named Wilson and Smith, who drew
$500, on Thursday and the balance on Fri
day. and then escaped to the United States.
Gloucester IN. J.) eity's cid jail L Still
standing The STRUCTURE eAs built $50 years
ago. Along The riyer-bank, near bergen,
street, is frame dwelling house which is l25
years ofage. General Lafayette lodged there
| two nights. ltis nov In an excellent state Of
preservation and three families live IN l..
| Another dwelling, which has been occupied
by q woman named Budd for ninety years,
was extripated two years ago. 1t was erected
| in 1851.
A telegram from Chaplin, Nelson county,
Ky, says that Anthony Kelly, colored, was
persuaded by colored woman, who olaimed
1 the power OF working miracles, to murder a
woman named Kate Miller, 10 order to sell
her body for dissection. On Thursday morn.
ing Of last week he killed Kate, aud when the
neighbors, alarmed by boy, went 10 the
scene they found the cabin on IRE, and KEEL.
ley lying in the doorway with bis thFoat cut.
Airs, j. y. Rogers, Who resides near Mt,
Salem, Sussex county, n. j., met with q sin
gular accident week ago last Sunday. She
started TO ascend the stairs in her residence,
when her little child, who was playing at the
head Of the stairs, threw a smoothing iron
down, which struck her on the head, inlIict
ing fatal wound. She fell insapsihle 10 the
HooF, Tho neighbour Wero oalied, and Il wa,
found that portion Of tho skull had beer
crushed. She died on Thursday week.
The freight business Of the Baltimore anc
Ohio Railroad has arisen to such enormous
proportions that Piltsbarg kilograms stat,
that it amounts 10 blockade of the road a
that point Il has been necessary to take OF
three accommodation trains in order to &C
1ommodale freight bushes, and the bgsines
offering ID bey0nd the facilities of the road