The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-09-04


The wheat crop Of Minnesota Il estimated
at from forty TO iity millions Of bushels.
Inc census Of Wyoming Territory shows
population Of p 900, against 9i7e n 1870.
II. Julien will trot against time on the Ma.
.lonal FAIR Grounds at Washington on Octo.
II. N. Gambrill, proprietor of the Drn;d
Cotton Mill, near Baltimore, died of parnly.
SIS, Monday night, aged 90 years.
John 2. Knox, ex-Attorney General and
Judge Of the Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania.
died IN Harrisburg on Thursday.
=, seven prisoners escaped from the iail at
Mays Landing, N. j., during the absence Of
the deputy sheriff on Saturday night
The barn Of Thomas Stanley, in Pontiac
county Ont, was burned on Saturday morn.
ing and his two children persisted in the
flames.
The grading Of the extension Of the North.
ern Pacific Railroad west Of the Missouri
hiyer will be completed to the Yellowstone
early in October
The end Of the track Of the Southern Pacific
Railroad is now within 1896 miles Of FL Pnso,
and Il rs intended to reach that point on or
before the Both Of January next
Owing to the predictions Of heavy gales
during September, the az life.sayiug stations
on the New Jersey coast were manned on
Wednesday, month earlier than usual.
All the entry books for the PENNSYLVANIA
State fair, which opens on Monday next, have
been closed. Every foot Of available space
IN the building has been assigned to exhibi.
tors.
The Maryland Greenback convention will
meet al 62l West Baltimore street, Baltimore.
on September 10, for the purpose Of selecting
Presidential Electors and candidates for Con
gTess.
The factory of the Norfolk Knitting and
Cotton Manufacturing Company, at Norfolk,
Va, was burned Tuesday afternoon. The
loss IS partly covered by an insurance Of
| $50, 200.
The steamer Marine City, running between
/ MacklDac and Detroit, was burned SUNDAY
afternoon few miles from Alpena, Mich.
There were lGOpersons on board Of whom 1870
/ were saved
DR.. William Luears, n young dentist Of
Clarion county, Penna., met with terrible
accident recently. He was engaged in vul.
canizing teeth. The vulcanizer exploded and
I tore of his right arm.
Two freight trains on the Cumberland Wal.
ley Railroad eollded near Chambersburg,
Pa, on Saturday evening, and both engines
and FIVE cars were wrecked. The men es.
capped injury by jumping of.
II IS now alleged that exleRsiya census
frauds have been committed in Florida, but
thus time in the interest of the Republicans,
the population IN one county being returned
at 5000 less than it really is
81. Julien trotted a mile in 2lli, at Hart.
ford, Connecticut Aug ~ beating his old
record Of 2:lll. Mr.. Hickok, his owner, and
his horse were loudly cheered by thousands
of spectators on the success Of the race.
Daniel Ryers, brakeman on the Indianap.
oils, Peru and Chicago Railroad, was knocked
oil his train on Saturday night by a stone
thrown by some unknown person. His skull
was fractured, aud he is not expected to re
cover.
Fifty four young ladies took the veil Al
members Of the Order of School Sisters oil
Notre Dame, Mt the mother house Of the Or
der, in Milwaukee, on Saturday. Fifty.si,
others were admitted as noyices on the l5tl
instant.
According to a telegram from Montreal, q
company with capital Of ten millions o
francs has been formed in Paris for the pur
pose Of establishing beetroot sugar iactorie
in various parts of Canada. Each factory i
to cost from 500, 900 TO Sl20,00O.
At an early hour Tuesday morning the Rev
James c. Watson, ID. d., a prominent Pres
byterian clergyman of Milton, Pa, died a
his room, at the Washington Hotel, Philadel
phia, Of heart disesse. lie was at one tim
in charge Of the Presbyterian Church in Get
tysburg, Pa.
The internal revenue receipts for Augu.
amounted to $40, 497 ,09l, which is 81 ,0G9, u
more than the receipts for August, 1873
The gain in revenue receipts for the first tw
months, July and August, Of the present f..
cal year, on the receipts for the correspond
ing months Of 1879 is s., I2s, 1887.
Tue man nau,aA Waal nnI G.l
{ gagged in prize fight in a ring within fet
yards Of tho main ihoroughiare in Red BanI
n. j., Sunday morning. After fighting a
hour aud q halt without interruption, Wee
! fell upon Splaner, and the latter had his ari
broken in two places. Neither was arreste,
! John Delaney, Of Beekman, and G.. Los.
and Cyrus Perkins, Of Union Vale, Dutche
county, N. Y, recently signed what they sol
] posed 10 be contracts TO sell moving maehif
! grinders, but which proved to be $500 not,
! made payable to Orr 4 Co., of Syracuse,
, May last. The victims refuse to pay the not,
and lawsuits are expected
: The Treasury Department has ordere
S20,0OO,OO0 in gold coin in the New Yor
sub Treasury to be placed to the credit Of III
! Superintendent Of the Assay office in tbs
city, TO pay for foreign bullion as il arrives
: Ii is officially estimated that about $1,000
wv IN iOItiku kOlu viii arrive ia New ! or
each week until November LIST.
, During a thunder storm on Saturday even
ing $4,000 barrel oil tank at State Line, nea
Bradford, Pa, was fred by lightning. Tn
spread Of the ere beyond the tank was pre-
vented by firing solid shot into its bottom, an
drawing off the burning oil. During the storf
other property in the oil field was destroyed
and the losses are estimated at S40, 900
Peter Deysher, Of Washington township
Berks county, Pa, recently sold ten tons 0
hay that had been in bis barn hily.four years
being part Of the first crop that was house,
after the barn was built 81 years ago. Mr.
Deysher sold the hay on condition that il
was not found good the purchaser need no
pay for it, but II turned out to be periecll
sound, and was paid for promptly, according
to agreement.
One of the most violent rain storms eve
known in Richmond, Va. visited that city OF
Monday night. The rainfall, nearly all with
in two hours, measured 1920 inches, aud por
tons OF the city we're inundated. A number
OF poor people, mostly colored, were driver
from their homes, leaving their household
goods to be swept away. The thunder and
lightning were incessant, and the lightning
struck in several places, but no serious dam
age is reported. The storm was also sever.
in the surrounding country.
The New York Freeman $ Journal publish.
es n cable despatch from Rome announcing
that Chicago has been raised To the dignity Of
a metropolitan See, with Alton and Peoria a.
its sufIragan sees, and that Right Rev. T.. A.
Feehan, now Bishop Of Nashville, is promoted
TO be the FIRST Archbishop Of Chicago. Kansas
| City, in the Archdiocese Of st. Louis, is made
an Episcopal See, and Right Rev. DIR. Hogan,
now Bishop Of st, Joseph, is named as its first
Bishop, remaining administrator of his form
er diocese.