The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-08-14
News Of he Wess.

A. II. kimball, Baltimore hardware mer.
chant, was drowned Sunday while bathing at
Bay Ridge
The reunion Of the Federal veterans al Co.
lumbus, Ohio, closed on Thursday with PFC.
eession Of rs, 600 men.
Miss +. W. Belville, formerly Of Berks
CO., Pa, died at Delaware City ON the list inst
Of starvation, having tasted for SO days.
James A. llilburn, farmer in Berks coun-
y, Pa, has COW, which gave birth to two
calves joined together like the Siamese twins.
Negotiations are on foot to make claremont
the joint stockyard sor the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio railroads at the port OF
Baltimore.
A Reading man only sixty Eve years old
has been married three times, and Isl the father
Of eleven pair Of twins, He has forty-one
children in ALL
ExPostmaster General John A. J Ores
we'll has started on a European tour, accom-.
panied by his wife, taking passage in the Gal.
liza from New York.
Nine business houses aud one private resi-.
dence were burned at Bel,sville, Ohio, early
on Saturday morning. the loss being $50, 900,
one half Of which is covered By insurance.
Col. Vim. o. Butler, who died in Kentucky
last Friday, was the candidate for Vice presi,
dent in ls4S on the Democratic ticket with
zen. lass tor lrtsidenl-
The census of the upper district Of Kent
county, Nd, is said to be very imperfect A
strip of territory, embracing eight hundred
aud fifty persons, has been entirely overlook.
ed.
l.. w. Jamison, a horse trainer, at Spring
field, Ill.,, shot and fatally wounded William
Lewis, a negro, on Friday night, for attempt
| ing to ielouiously assault Hattie White, a
/ young servant girl.
Parties who were blackberrying near Locust
| Valley, Loag Island, on Sunday, found the
body OF a man near the woods; the severed
head was lying six or seven feet distant The
man had been dead four or five weeks.
Capt. II. A. Neynaber, Of the German
steamer Mosel, completed his l0oth voyage
across the Atlantic on Saturday.
Dispatches from Wilmington, \. C., report
heavy freshels in the Cape Fear river, caused
I by coutisuous rains The river has risen 50
feet at Fayetteville, overhowins the loVlands
and seriously damaging the corn and cotton
crops.
The United States steamship Povhaian,
which has been cruising on the Cgbau coast
| to prevent insults TO the American flag by
| Spanish war vessels, has returned to Port
Royal, $. c., and will be replaced by the
Vandalia.
Ex Governor Bigler, of Pennsylyalia died
at Clearield, in that State, on Monday, aged
81 years. For number years he had been
affected with yalyular disease of the heart,
and for the past three months was confined to
his room.
A nephew Of Mr.. Cyrus Field has construct
ed motor which obtains its propeliing power
from electricity. Ii is TO be tested On the
Elevated railroad in New York, and L sue
cessful will doubtless solve the problem OF a
cheap and noiseless locomotive.
George Van Brnnt, druggist, of Seabright,
n. j., in mistake, gave Elizabeth Monaghan,
fatal dose of solution of morphia instead
Of Epson salts. She is dying, and Van Brunt
who is Il strict temperance man and bears a
eight reputation, is nearly frantic.
A large number of appointments 10 the
Census Office at Washington, d. C., have
been made within the past few days. Few
will receive over 5000 per year. Il is est
mated that it will take three years 10 com
plete the compilation Of the census.
The inventor Of a toy pistol, which was used
in Philadelphia last 4th OF July, ought to be
satisfied with its deStractiveness. Boys to
the number OF l57 we're injured, and fourteen
died. The cartridges were made ofcard5Oard,
bits of which were blown into the wounds,
causing lockjaw.
The Baroness Burdeu Coutts, the richest
woman in England, if not in the world, is
about to marry Ashmead Bartlett, born in
Philadelphia, but naturGlized Englishman.
She is sixty-two and he twenty nine. By the
marriage she gives up an income OF i've hun
dred thousand dollars year. She must think
pretty well Of her young lover.
The damaged stone at the top OF the inc0m
plete shaft OF the Washington Monument, at
Washington, ID. c., has been removed, aud
the work OF completing the monument. was
begun on Saturday, the first stone being laid
in the presence of President Hayes, who
placed in the cement some coins bearing his
initials and the date.
1t was found Monday that the bodies ofthe
men entombed in the Hudson river tunnel
could not be reached by means Of the Golfer
dam, and the immediate constructions OF
eaisson was decided upon. II is now thOaght !
the bodies cannot be recovered in less than
four weeks. About $4,000 have thus far
been spent in the attempt.
Three American merchant ships have been
stopped aud searched on the high seas by Z
Spanish cruisers and number OF American
citizens have been imprisoned in Moro Castle, /
Havana, suspected OF giving aid and comfort I
10 Cuban insurgents. The Government at
Washington have these cases under consider
alton and will demand redress from Span.
The display of a "Saubarst' in an U Con
nell procession, in Toronto, on Friday, caused |
a riot the following day between GOO Orange
men and Roman Catholics, both parties fight /.
ing with sticks and stones. Inc police charg. /
ed on the mob, few of whom we're badly (
beaten. Constable Norman was SO severely /
injured on the head with n stone that he is not
expected to recover.
special from San Antonio, Texas, says
that the tilibusters at Austin, styled the Army
Of Occupation, are closely watched by Gener
al Ord, who thinks, however, that there is /
little in the movement. Their purpose is to
wrest from Mexico the four provinces adjacent
to the United States, and form them into an
independent republic, and then, perhaps, an
mex them 10 this country, a la Texas.
Pietro Balbo, hanged in New York on the /
9th inst, for the murder Of his wife, was in
tered on Saturday. A large number Of dele l
gates from several Italian societies assmbled /
with flags and music, and an elaborate pro-
cession by a circultous route TO the cemetery
had been arranged, but the police put stop
to the pageants Wife murder is not eousid. /
cred sufficiently meritorious, yet, ia this
country, 10 warrant public demonstration of
that sort.
The inside workings Of the Keely Run coli. |
cry, at Shenandoah, Pa, were discovered on |
fire in two of the breasts Monday morning /
al tnc MOfhluko we're niiSu WIN smoke, Dut 0
the mules and all loose property we're rescued. !
The fire Is serious one, aud will prove very
expensive. The mine cannot be flooded, and (
TO exiinguish the fire will offer one Of the
greatest engineering problems yet presented /
in connection with anthracite mining. This I
is the mine where the three men, Reese,
Wesley and Whitman, lost their lives several I.
days ago in endeayoring to remove the gas
from the old workings.
For some years the Bender family have
been a terror in Kansas. Recently the old |
man and his wife fed from their home in that
state, went 10 Nebraska, where they were ar.
rested to answer charges Of murder, Re- pre-
ferred against them. They have both made
confessions, the statements tallying. from
which il appears that they first began their
meTders on their farm near jackson. Illinois,
subsequently going 10 Iowa and then Kansas.
In the latter State they kept a tavern, and
guests with money or yaluAbles, except horse.
thieves, rarely ever left the place alive. 10
Kansas the father, mother, son, daughter and
Maggie Bender cousin, lived and operated
together.
For tie Democratic Adroeate.
Did the Truth Triumph ?