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


The Spirilaalisls Of Pennsylvania are organ.
izing to hold large camp-meeting this sum.
mer.
A huge dredge Is kept q. work day and
night OF the Port Said entrance Of the Suez
Canal 10 keep i clear OF silt,
Mrs. Polk, wife Of the ex.president, now
lives in Jefferson, Ind, aud IS said to be a
sprighlly and well preserved old lady.
Three seamen Of the schooner Mary A.
Witham which arrived at New York Wednes.
day from Mragoane, died OF yellow fever on
tho passage.
NinC children have died from drinking
poisoned water in brook at Newark, Yer
mont, and q number of others are not ex-
peeied To 1--we.
The excess Of exports over imports of the
United States for the twelve months ending
April so last, was S272, 2l5, 40, agains, S22l, Z.
6sO,0la for the twelve months ending April
30, 1878.
Miss Della Wheeler. aged 65, only sister Of
Vice President Wheeler, died suddenly at the
home of the Vice President, at Malone, N.
T., Wednesday afternoon. She was an in.
valid for several years.
A large lot Of machinery belonging to the
estate OF William G.. Davol, bankrupt, was
sold at Fall River, Mass, Tuesday, for $1,000.
Il was appraised at $4,000 and was adyer-
tised to be sold in lots, but was sold in "a body
to the Fall River Iron Works,
No tidings having been received from tho
Gloucester, Massachusetts, schooner VIM.
Thompson, It is feared she Is lost. She has
not been seen or spoken since April IL. She
had n crew Of fourteen men, who leave seven
widows aud twelve fatherless children.
In Paris and its suburbs there are more
than 1900 people who live by ragpieking or
rag selling There are 10000 ehifiioniers
who go about collecting scraps Of rags or
paper and 5000 old clothes dealers who buy
rags, and who again employ 20OO workmen.
A fire near Carleton Place, Ontario, Tues.
day evening, supposed to have been started
by sparks from the passing locomotive, de-
stroyed I2,000, 900 feet of lumber piled along.
side the Canada Central Railway. The loss
is estimated at $1,000
The Marquis Of Lorne is having two beau
tiiul cars built for him in Troy, n. Y. at a
cost Of Sl5, 200. One is to be used as o sitting
room, the other for smoking. Their fittings
are Injurious and they are made TO run on
any road. They will bring the Marquis and
Princess to this country.
The miseegenation case in which Miss Moore,
of Beaver, Pa, was the heroine, has had
singular squel. Shortly after her marriage to
Jones, the colored man, she was removed to
her home, and alter careful study by her
physicians, she was pronounced insane, and
sent to an asylum. Her husband has disap.
peared.
A remarkable eouple-Dr. Jacob Damp.
man aud wile-liye in ST. Mary's, Chester
county, Pa. They have been married sixty.
eight years He Is eighty.nine, she eighty.
six. They have had rs descendants. The
doctor chops wood, plants potatoes, does
other outside work, aud last fall husked all
the corn that was raised on his premises.
A mob of seventy.fve men captured the
Jail at Bakersfield, Cal, about L. 10, A. NJ.
Wednesday, and hanged Thomas and William
Yoakum in their cells. The latter, being
chained to the floor, was hanged with the
chain on his feet. The Yoakums were i'm.
prisoned for the murder, over u year ago, Of
johnson and Tucker William had been
tried and convicted, but the Superior Court
last week granted him change Of venue
The Globe Mutual life Insurance Company,
New York, has finally succumbed after a
Reorganization which il was hoped would re.
sulti restoring the companyto solyency. The
company have requested the Attorney Gen.
eral TO bring an action TO wind up the com.
pany and to obtain the appointment Of John
W. Barrow, the present president, as receiver.
A single member Of the board voted against
this step, aud in concert with policyholders
has employed counsel to oppose the proposed
action.
The C0rahM Magazine gives the following
interesting facts about the city of London -
London is spread over about 20 square
miles There is one death there every six
minutes, and one birth every four. The
growth OF the population is at the rate of TO-
900 year, or 206 each day. The total length
Of streets in London is about 1000 miles;
there are built every year about 1900 new
houses, by which the length Of the streets is
increased by lweniy.eight miles. Ia the jals
there is an average Of about 1000 prisoners.
The foreign born residents Of London mum.
Der abont 100000; but thirty. seven per cent.
were born out Of the city
Queen Victoria Goth birthday was celehra
ted on Saturday, in Montreal, hy a grand
military review and sham battle, in which the
Thirteenth Regiment of Brooklyn, New York,
participated Before the battle the troops
were reviewed by. the Governor General and
the Princess Louise. Ia the evening there
was grand banquet, at which addresses were
made by the Governor General, Consul Gen.
eral Smith and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
who accompanied the Brooklyn Thirteenth as
its chaplain. At Mount Vernon, near Wash.
ington, ID. c., Sir Edward Thornton gave A
dinner, ut which the diplomatic CORPS was
largely represented Sir Edaard Thornton
and Attorney General Devens responded re.
specliyely to the toasts Of the Queen and the
President. In New Orleans a dinner was
given by committee Of British residents. AT
which the British Consul, Mr.. De Fonblanque,
nrogida1 -