The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-12-13
News Of ths Week.

The tobacco crops Of Berks and Lancaster
counties, Pa, this year will bring 81 ,O0O, 900.
Upward of 10000 deaths have occurred
from this years visitation Of cholera in ia.
pan.
William Darlington, wcll.knosn lawyer
ofwest Chester, Pa. dropped deadinthe court
house in that city, on Saturday morning.
He was 70 years of age.
So large has been the increase Of the rev.
enue OF Lord Derby, who is one of the wealth.
lest men in England, that il is now esii-
mated at So, $50, 900 year.
Large quantities Of American goods are ar.
irving in Mexico, and the French merchants,
who were rapidly gaining trade, are very
much excited at the inroads ofthe American.
| The managers Of the New York Produce
Exchange on December 5 ordered that the
GENITAL system, so far as il relates to grain,
shall go into effect on the 3lst instant.
The Philadelphia Mint is coming eagles
and half eagles At the average rate Of 500, 900
daily II is expected that the total coinage
of this mint this month will reach $40, 600, 600.
John Jordan, eight years Of age, fell while
! playing with broken umbrella handle in
Providence, r. l., on Tuesday, and the stick
| pierced his eye, causing death in few hours
| John irving, colored expressman in Chi.
cago, heard a noise in his barn about II
O'Clock on Monday night, and going To the
place, was shot dead by an unknown man
The murderer escaped.
More than 1000 turkeys and 1000 geese aud
ducks were shipped from lugersoll, Ont, on
December Q, for England. Large numbers
| of geese and turkeys are also being shipped to
England from Nova Scotia.
The farm house Of Richard and William
Needham, brothers, in London township,
Ont, was entered on Sunday morning by
masked burglars, who took $500 and clubbed
the Needhams so savagely that their recoy.
cry is doubtful.
A dispatch from Fair Play, COL, reports
the discovery of uranium in the Sacramento
mining district. The mineral is found in
Bohemia, but never before in this country, as
far as known. The ore runs GO per cent, and
uranium is worth 81 900 per ton.
An Italian bark, with cargo of staluary
marble, was wrecked near Manasquan, n. j.. f,
in the winter Of 1913. Last week nearly 10
tons of marble, recovered from the wreck,
were sent to New York, the stone, after more
than so years immersion, looking pure and
fresh as if just qnarried.
AT the regular meeting of the Directors OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Wednesday
Mr.. John W. Garrett was reelected Presi-
dent of the Company for the twenty-gccond
consecutive time. Mr.. Garrett became the
President Of the road in 1853 and from that
time to this he has held the executive reins.
A FIRE at Troy, N. Y, early Sunday morn
ing, destroyed two boiler shops, machine
shop, laundry, n building occupied by FIVE
shirt and collar manufacturing firms, six ten.
ement houses and Lutheran Church The
total loss is estimated at S350,0O0. A FIRE.
man was injured by falling wall, Eighteen
hundred persons were thrown out of employ
ment by this fire.
While G. Nourse, Dennis Lynch and Den.
mis- Reardon were shoveling corn, on the sec
ond floor Of Ellis Packard's flour mill, ut
Brocton, Mass, December 3, the floor gave
way, and they were precipitaied into the eel
lar and buried under three thousand bushels
Of corn which fell with them. The bodies of
the unfortunate men were recovered in about
an hour and half.
On Monday lightning struck the house Of
the railroad hands at Campbells Station, on
the Great Southern Railroad, in Tennessee.
Ii MORALLY injured two men, and shiyered to
atoms the table at which they were sitting.
The stroke completely severed an arm from
the body Of one man, aud the other was
knocked senseless, with no hope Of recovery.
The house was badly damaged,
A young lady of Norfolk, Va, who has
been lying in trance for six months, startled
those around her on Monday by suddenly re.
covering her voice, and, to certain extent,
the use Of her limbs. She talks perfectly
well, but her attempts at walking are such us
would be made by child. She says she was
conscious all the time, though unable to
throw Of the lethargy that bound her.
BY severe wind storm at Renic, Randolph
county, Mo-, Tuesday evening, the residence
of Byrd Pyle was torn to p ieces, every mem.
Der ofthe family being more or less injured,
Mr.. Pyle fatally. The house of Joseph Pa.
trick was blown down, and Mrs. Wright,
visitor, received injuries from which she died.
The dwelling Of Noah Burkhead was demol-
ished and Mrs. Burkhead seriously wounded.
The hardest storm in the history of the
Northern Pacific railroad prevailed Wednes.
day all along the line from Bismarck to Du.
lulh, over an area 400 miles square. The
snow is one foot deep on level, and drifts
four feet. Trains are all delayed and bust.
ness in the towns is stopped. II is feared
casualties to settlers in exposed premises will
result.
Gen. Charles S. Merchant died at his home,
in Carlisle, Pa, Saturday. He was one of
the oldest officers in the army. No date Of
his birth is given in the army records, but he
was appointed to cadetship at West Point
as early as the summer OF 1912. From that
time until August l, 1868, when he was re.
tired 'for long and faithful service he be.
longed continuously TO the artillery branch of
the regular army He was an actor in all
our wars except the revolution, receiving pro-
motion for merit up the whole grade.
Alfred Morrison Lay, Representative in
Congress from the Seventh District Of Mis-.
souri,, died on Monday in Washington, in the
44th year of his age lie was stricken with
paralysis few weeks before his election in
the fall Of 1878, but was present at the extra
session Of Congress, and voted in the organi-
cation Of the House. He then went TO the
Hot Springs, where he spent the summer,
and returned to Washington apparently in
restored health. A second stroke Of paraly-
sis, however, proved suddenly fatal.
There is a society Of colored men near Viii.
liston, South Carolina, that is a law unto
itself, so far as the offence of larceny is con.
cerned. The men are cotton pickers, have a
president and rules and regulations for their
government A few days ago one Of them
missed IS. The proof was very plain against
former member, who was Immediately tried
BY jury Of six Of his peers and found guilty
lie was sentenced TO receive fifty lashes on
his naked back and be expelled from the So
ciety. The sentence was executed TO the let
ter.
W. A. Rice, colored Republican candidate
for District Attorney at Delta, La, has tele.
graphed to the Associated Press agent at New
Orleans, contradiction of the reports Of vio-
lenoe at the election in that parish. FIX Con,
gresham Morey writes TO the Washington
Republican denying that he and several others
are fngitives from Madison Parish. He went
TO New Orleans to attend the sale OF the North
Louisiana aud Texas Railroad otherwise
be would have been at his plantation in Mad.
ison,"