The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-12-25
News Of the WesL.

ueeu Oounuutteu IN Vuto uutlhB the last year.
The city Of Cambridge, Mass, is 10 eele-
on Tuesday, Dec. rs.
Diphtheria continues It's ravages in Brook.
lyn, New York, $50 cases OF the disease and
SO deaths were reported last week
The Virginia Midland Railroad was sold at
publc auction in Alexandria Monday, to
syndicate Of creditors, for $1,000, 900.
Diphtheria prevails in Buffalo, New York,
and the public schools in one Of the sections
have been closed in consequence.
The house of Mrs. Todd, in youngstown,
Ohio, was robbed Of $1,000 worth Of diamonds
and iewelry, while all the family were at
home.
Ii is expected that the Hudson River ice
crop will this year reach four million tons.
The industry snow employing 1000 men and
600 horses.
Jones 4 Mcdonald, wheat spectators, of
Chicago, failed Monday. Their liabilities are
estimated at S60O,00O, and their assets (se-
cured) at about $i50,000.
A private letter from Sitka, Alaska, TO q
resident Of Washington, speaks of the diseoy-
cry Of gold quartz that was found to yield
gold at the rate of 81, 900 to the ton.
Mr.. Gardner, Of the suspended firm Of
Gardner, Stone 4 Co., Chicago, says the liza.
bilities Of the firm are in the neighborhood of
100000 Mr.. Gardner is an Ex-Governor
Of Massachusetts.
The total value of the exports Of domestic
provisions and tallow from the United States
tor the eleven months ending November 80,
1850, was Sl2S, liz, 92l, against 500, 1870, 03s
during the corresponding period OF 1879.
The Philadelphia, Pa, Ledger, on Saturday
last, contained notices OF the death Of twenty
persons-four men and sixteen womeu--who
had lived to or beyond 50 years. There was
one each of 90, o., "a, 80 and 100 years
The schooner J, j. Moore, bound from
New York to Charleston with cargo of stone
put into Norfolk Wednesday, having lost sails,
boat and cranes during the late storm. Her
crew were completely exhausted by overwork,
and new crew has been placed on board OF
her.
The would-be colonsts at Caldwell, Kan,
are still determined in their project to invade
the Indian territory. The merchants of Cald-
well have given them 81 900 worth Of proyis.
sions. Many Of them will 90 home TO spend
the holidays, bat are pledged to return and
join the colony.
|. Nj. Myer, Of Augusta, Georgia, reported
at police headquarters in Jersey City, Friday
of last week, that while on the way there
from Philadelphia, in sleeping car, he was
robbed between the hours Of four aud six
O'Clock, Of lhe.sum OF $40, 800, which was in
bag under his pillow.
William g. bradley, Postmaster ut Prince.
ton, Caldwell county, Ky, has been arrested
for the recent robbery Of the post.oliee AT
that place, and has confessed his guilt. His
accounts are $1,000 short, in addition to the
SSSS stolen. Bradley was respectfully con.
uected and had just been married.
Fifteen armed men from Georgia aud Lake
4 ID u.
from Jacksonville, Fla, on Tuesday aud seiz.
ed gang Of gamblers who infest the place,
aud who had swindled four or five friends OF
the party out of $1,000, and made them dis.
gorge. They then drove the gamb lers out OF
town.
A telegram from Halifax, Nova Scotia, re.
ports that while woman was walking along
the street, on Sunday night, holding an UNI.
brella IN front OF her to protect her from the
snow, she came into collision with a man and
tainted from the shock She was revived in a
neighboring drug store, but has become insane.
According to the statement OF Mr.. Hubbeli
in the House of Representatives, based upon
the authority Of the commissioner Of pensions,
the government is annually paying out TO
swindlers on bogus pension claims the large
sum Of 81 100000. IL this be so il behooyes
Congress to see if this big leak cannot be
stopped.
woman at Lodi, Pa, deliberately starved
herself 10 death. The process required six
weeks Of total abstinence from food, though
she drank sparingly Of wafer. she had long
been eccentric, and the death Of her mother
destroyed her reason. Thereupon she went
to bed with the avowed intention Of dying,
and never ate again.
Gardner, Stone d Co., aud ]. S. Taylor,
produce dealers, of Chicago, suspended Tues.
day, owing to the heavy decline in the Prov
sion market. Tuesdays quotations showed
decline Of cent on corn, cents on wheat,
cents on barley, to 10 cents on lard, aud
Is to 70 cents on pork, following sharp fall
the previous day and steady decline for the
last two weeks.
/. +. 0'Brien, owner Of a large amount Of
real estate was arrested in Montreal on Sat
urday, for forging the names Of r. A. Ram
sey and Henry Hadley to receipts for Sls,-
600 and Sll 900 respectively, for alleged pay
menl of a mortgage on his property. BE is
also accused Of forging receipts for $50, 900 in
the name OF j. Rennie, formerly manager of
the Consolidated Bank.
1t was announced in st. Louis on Tuesday
that the commission house of Manson, Bar
tholow 4 Co. had failed for some six or eight
cents per bushel on 500, 900 bushels Of wheat.
The firm is one of the oldest and most promi-
nent in ST. Louis. For some time past they
have been ''long' for their customers, and
have also held large amounts Of cash grain in
store. The late decline in wheat is the i'm.
mediate cause of their suspension.
On Saturday of last week Mrs. Kate AL.
bridge, widow Of Joseph Aldridge, was found
dead in her home, near the Conococheague
creek, near Hagerstown, Md She was near.
iy eighty years Of age, and for the last twenty
four years, since the death Of her husband,
che has lived the life Of hermit, her only
companions being a dog, a cat and some chick
ems. Some neighbors offered To stay with her
on Friday, but she objected, ard by morning
death had overtaken her.
A Pennsylvania has discovered process
by which peaches, pears, &c, can be presery-
ed in q natural state for months. The Mid.
dlet0wn (Del. Transcript has seen specimens
of peaches preserved by this process. aud they
looked natural aud firm, and were without any
marks Of decay. The discoverer of the pro-
cess claims that be can keep the entire product
Of an orchard for sixty days at a cost OF TWEEN,
iy cents per basket, above expense of labor
He has been working at the process for seven
teen years and has now fully developed his
discovery.
Tuesdays snow storm extended FROM the
interior OF North Carolina TO New England,
and was severe in all sections Ia Northern
Virginia the snow fall lasted thirty three hours
without iniermission. The depth of snow on
level varied in Virginia from seven to twelve
inches, with occasional drifts Of from two 20
three feet Railroad travel was delayed in all
directions. New York and Long Branch
trains got stuck at Little Silver 10 drift ten
feet deep. A furious gale has ragged along
the New Jersey coast since Monday night
Eighty feet Of the pier at Long Branch has
been destroyed and the loss is estimated at
$50, 600,
At Tupolo, Monroe county, Miss Saturday
night, Mr., Brown Riding, whose family con
sisted Of bis wife and an infant daughter, per
mitted two strange men to stay over night in
his house During the night the s.sangers
chloroiormed them, rifed the house Of 81, a
watch, a suit Of clothes and pair Of boots,
scattered cotton aud coal oil over the floor
set II on FIRE and left. The house was burned
to the ground, and the inmates persisted. A
posse afterwards captured one Of the men,
and he confessed. He was pinioned, sur.
rounded with pine splinters, and burned TO
death With HORRIBLE toFluye. Pufsuis was
made Of the other murderer, who will share
the same fate if caught.
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