The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-10-02
New. Of ,as Week.

Enumsrators will take the census OF toe
Indians this month.
81. Julien trolted mile in 2.lSl At ltoaeon
Park, Boston, on Saturday.
Father Ryan, the poei-prost, Is 'ak'ng aU'P
through The Northern States. -
Diphheria is epidemic at Bennlng'o"' 'e'
mont The schools have all been closed
Seven murder cases are 70 be tired ~ wv
October session Of the Suffolk County IA -
Court.
len cohyicls, four OF them colored, we're
publicly whipped in the jail at New CasOoi
Del, on Saturday.
-Four inches of snow fell on September 70
at Lookout Station, on the Union fAelhe
Railroad, ia Wyoming Territory.
The protrae.ed drouth in Monmouth ana
Ocean counties, n. j., is causing much ansie'
ty on account OF the lack Of water for catue;
Barney Nichols, colored, was fatally siaooeu
by George Dorsey, c0lored, in a quarrel o'ef
a game Of cards in Baltimore, Monday nigW,
The new tobacco crop will be the snaAiles,
for many years in Virginia. Worms aau
heavy rains at critical time are among 'he
causes 4,
The first fair in the Black Hills region closeld
Mt Deadwood, Dakota, on Saturday, alIer
successful week 1t will be repeated weary
hereafter.
The thirty ninth and last representation OF
the Passion play at ODER Amergau was gwen
on Sunday last. Thirty FIVE hundred persons
were present
Thirty.thousan dollars worth OF property
was DESTROYED Wednesday by collision on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton kai''
road, at Hamilton, Ohio.
The wife of Dr.. Joseph ii. DaCosta was
killed by being thrown from her carriage al
Red Bank, n. j., on Saturday, She was
about to become a mother.
Frank Bierman, ex land agent of the Bur
lingtuu and Missouri Railroad, has been ar
rested at Omaha, charged with extensive
swindles in the sale OF lands,
Teemachus, Maryland colt owned by
Clapham Smith, won the mile and hall dAsh,
on Saturday, over the Concy Island course
beating the field OF tive by three lengths
The decayed body of IL. II. Cunani, was
found in the woods around his house at Cicero,
Ill.,, on Saturday evening. Hehad lived alone
ndi,is believed he was murdered by robbers.
Mrs. Prudence Larkiu, who had reached the
alleged age Of lO6 years, was buried frame
her residence 10 Hancock, y. y, sept ~
Her son. u preacher in the South, Is sad To
be 80 years OF age,
The Pullman Palace Car Company began
suit in the L. 5. Great Court al Baltimore
on Saturday, against the Baltimore aud ONO
Railroad, for violation Of contract and m
fringement ofpatent
Mrs. Annie Perkins, aged lOi, the oldest
inhabitant Of DanYile, Va, was buried on
Monday She was the mother Of the teT.
William Perkins, a minister Of the Old hard
shell Baptist denomination.
During a rain storm in New Orleans little
girl, three years, fell into q gutter and the
rushing torrent carried her under bridge al
the street crossing and she was drowned be
fore she could be rescued.
The State Prisons of California are employ.
cd at making grain sacks, OF which they are
expected 10 turn out 100000 this year
The grain product Of the State requires about
| 80, 900, 900 Of these sacks per year.
A lunatie WhoeSsapcd lately from the asylum
at Williamsburg, Va, has been reoaptured.
lie was armed with a razor, and had to be shot
/ before he could be recovered. The ball took
/ effect in his back, inhieting q serious wound.
| A watermelon grown At Columbia, Ga,
was found to contain another melon weighing
| u pounds. The rind Of the inner melon was
! Of an orange color, and the hear, Of the inner
one was of a brighter red than the iuclosing
one.
| Benjamin Terchner murdered his father,
aged 80 years, near PoWhatan, Ohio, Septem'
Der %, because the old man was about TO
marry. The murderer gave himself up. lie
/ said ''he could not bear the thought OF his IA
Their marrying and deprying him ofone third
| Of the property
The Dutch are about to capture Bombay
| Hook on the Delaware Bay. A proposition
| is on foot to purchase this island aud settle II
/ ~ III a Il
aud make them valuable The track covers
about 1900 acres And it is believed will sup,
| port 400 families.
1 Eleven carrier pigeons from Toms River
were released at Mddleiown, \. j., on SAtur.
day morning at 20 minutes pas, II O'Clock.
| The first bird reached its coop at Toms River
a distance Of 3G miles, at II .fA. NJ, making
the distance in q minutes. The remaining
birds were one minute later.
The Postmaster General has issued an or.
| der re.alhrmlng the order of the Postmaster
| General, dated July Is last, Excluding from
the mails, at less than letter postage at card
matter other than U. $. postal cards bal
the date on which the order will take effect j,
postponed until the LIST Of January next.
Some boys recently dragged out OF the bed
OF the river, near Saltwater Village, Saratoga
county, New York, one Of Burgoyne's four.
FOUNDER iron cannons, which has lain there
for nearly l03 years. /, is in good state OIL
preservation. aud j, has been proposed tina, Il
be discharged on the Anniversary of the sur.
render.
James Oliver Wright, cashier Of the late
Civil Sheriff Gauthreaux, Of New Orleans,
was arrested Monday evening on the charge
Of embezzling $50, 600 in transfer claims Due
the city, and valued at $4,000 He is also
charged with having conuiyed at the embez
element of S2i 500, converted By Gaatharaux
TO his own use
Lord Mounimorres was murdered on Sat
urday night at Rusheen, within mile Of
Clonbur, county Galway, Ireland. The seen,
of the assassination was a neck Of land be
tween Tough Mask and Tough Corrib. Tn,
yisconnt attended meeting Of magistrates OF
Saturday afternoon at the court house Of
Cloubur, and was seen TO leave the town abou
eight O'Clock. Half an hour afterward hi,
horse and carriage arrived at his residence, i
mile distant, without him This aroused sus
picion among his family. Search having beer
made, he was found lying on the side OF n,
road, in pool Of blood, lfeless. The polie,
were at once sent for, aud the body was con
veyed to Ebor Hall, the family seat. LORI
Mountmorres appears to have received one
bullet in his head, penetrating the skull; tire,
IN the neck and two in the body. He had
hiteen tenants with whom be had most I'M
happy relations. Quite recently he obtained
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