The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-06-19
News Of the Week.


Cured from yellow fever and II from small
pox.
A number Of men have deserted from the
UAiled States man.of.war Tennessee at New
York.
Castle Garden, n. Y, during Sunday and
Monday was q scene Of confusion, 1884 emf
grants having been landed.
A great sale of unsettled lands in Pike
CO., Pa, began Monday in Milford. Thous-
ands Of acres will be sold for unpaid taxes.
Lafayette Clapp, town treasurer OF East
Hampton, Mass, has disappeared, and his
accounts have been found short about $1,000.
Five million feet Of logs owned by Shree'
ker 4 Mueller, Of Tremplean, Wisconsin,
broke away on the night of June 10 and we're
lost. Loss $4,000.
Handleih, Ellis 4 Co, iron dealers Of Bos
ton, failed June IL for about $750,001. Five
sixths Of their liabilities are said to be due To
bank, and security.
The last three days Of last week in Chicago
were very warm, the thermometer indicating 30
degrees in the shade. Several cases of sun
stroke and three deaths were reported.
The newspaper train was run from Jersey
City to Philadelphia Monday morning in nine
tythree minutes. The train made four stops.
The distance run was ninety miles. Inking
out time for stops, the average run was over
one mile minute.
The other day, at Chicago, Mrs. Belya Lock
wood denounced as a crime that action OF the
Chicago School Board forbidding the employ
ment Of married women as teachers, saying
that woman has as much right to support
her husband as n husband has to support his
wife.
An unknown tramp attacked twelve year
old school girl, named Agnes Doekrell, uear
D I,,.ahnv. N.s- NarE Inua n druNgpH
her into the woods and cut oil her hair, close
to the scalp, with jack knife. The rulhan
was frightened of by approaching footsteps
and escaped.
A boiler in the distillsry Of Waldeck X
Wirtz, at Milwaukee, exploded Monday morn.
ing, and twenty minutes afterwards, second
boiler blew up, low water being the cause IN
both cases. One man was killed, and another
fatally injured aud the building damaged to
the extent Of $4,000.
Charles A. Hill, a lawyer Of st. Louis, was
arrested in that city June IL for counterfeit,
ing. lie was taken in his Office in the act OF
Transforming one dollar greenbacks into ten
dollar notes. complete counterielters out
fit was found in his sleeping room. A man
named Buckingham, who was in Hills ohice
at the time, was also arrested.
The American schooner Eunis L. Newcomb,
Captain Baker, which arrived at Boston Mon
day from Port Antonio, reports that on the
30th ult., twelve miles Oft the Cuban coast,
she was fired upon by Spanish cruiser and
hove to. The schooner holsted the American
flag, but was boarded aud searched for arms
before she was allowed TO proceed
The army worms are working much destruc'
ton in Berks county, Pa. A twenty acre field
OF rye near Womelsdorf was destroyed by them
in twenty. -four hours. They were on Monday
feasling on corn field near by cutting il down
as they went along The farmers will at once
commence cutting grass for hay for fear that
they may lose all. The army worm has dis.
appeared from around Long Branch, n j.,
after eating up $1,000 worth of growing crops.
The inquest in the case Of Mrs. Maria Man
gano, the Italian woman murdered in New
York last week, has rendered verdict charg
ing 0rfrio Mangano, the husband, with her
death. His son, little boy, under cross
examination, eontradicted his former state
! ments, aud admitted that when he len home
his father and mother were together, but that
when be next saw his father at the police
station he was cautioned not to disclose the
| fact
! No Criminals in the Prison and no Poor in
the poor-house is the gratifying condition OF
Potter County, Pennsylvania. At the last
attorney stated that he had no indictment to
present to the grand jury; the sheriff said be
had no criminals in the prison, aud the dIrec'
tors Of the poor reported that no paupers
were being supported at the expense OF the
people. Potter county has had no licenses 10
sell liquor for nearly thirty years.
The First National Bank of Newark, \. j.,
suspended June II, aud its directors applied
| for the appointment Of a receiver. Its capital
of $500, 900 is believed TO be gone, but its de-
| posts and circulation are said to be safe.
/ There are rumors Of irregularities in con.
nectiOn with the failure, but nothing definite
| is likely to be known until the Government
examiners report. The Cashier, james A.
Hedden, whN sailed for Europe last week, on
leave Of absence, will be ielegraphed to come
back.
| The United States commercial agent at AK
I La Chapelle, in dispatch to the Department
Of State, says: The long continued spell of
/ dry weather in Europe has naturally affected
the agricultural interests Of Northwestern
Germany. Scarce quarter of an inch of rain
had fallen from April to May IS. The rye
crop, Il is anticipated, will not yield one. half
what it did in 1879. Rye bread has risen
pfsnnig per three pounds. A long, cold win.
ter has also damaged the grape crop. Large
emigration will eusue. Similar adyices are
received from consular officers in Belgium.
Shortly before twelve 0 clock on Friday
June IL the Sound steamer Narragansett was
run into, near the mouth of the Connecticut
River, by the steamer Stoningtou, Of the same
line, a thick fog prevailing at the time. The
Narragansett side was crushed in. aud the
wreck caught fire and blazed iiereely until il
sank, in a few minutes after the collision.
About twenty FIVE Of those on board the Mar.
ragansett we're lost, The survivors we're pick.
ed up by the Stonington and by the steamer
CITY Of New York. which was near the scene
ofthe disaster. The Narragansett was launch.
ed about ten years ago, rebuilt year ago,
and cost nearly S9O0. 900.
There was much excitement in Leadyille,
Colorado, on Saturday. An the stores were
closed at ten O'Clock in the morning, and the
armed citizens, 1000 strong, psraded the
streets during the day To prevent the striking
miners from molesting the workers. In the
afernoon a mob of the strikers collected in
front Of The Chroniele Office. aud their leader,
Mooney. advised 10 eohome. He was arrest.
ed a few moments afterwards and lodged In mi.
| Later in line day mob collected in front Of
| the Clarendon Hotel. hut were dispersed by a
firing. On Tuesday the Governor proclaimed
martial law and placed Major General ID. G..
Cooke in command.
The imports Of merchandise at the port oil