The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-05-15
Hsws Of the Week.

e"e VI thp WeoAs
Gladstone, the new Premier Of England, ID
N The list year Of his age, aud still quite ac-
Mrs. Eunice R. Sweat, Of Belmont, N. H..
y lo4 years old, and has lived in that town
ninety years.
Two hundred aud one suits for divorce arc
before the Superior Judicial Court at Boston |
at rs present term-1ii uncontesled and co |
contested
Clarence Davis was convicted in Chicago,
on Saturday, Of being the husband OF three
wives and was sentenced to five years la.
prisonment.
All the weayers in the Arlington Cotton
Mills, at Wilmington, Del, struck Tuesday
Tor as advance Of five per cent. Strikes are
expected in other mills
Rev NeYin Woodsids, Of Piltsburg, Pa,
on trial before the Northern Preabytery in
New York, on charges ofimmorality and ".
ing, was suspended on Saturday.
a cable despatch received in Washington
says the Niearaguan Government has granted
liberal concession TO Americans for an 10.
tsrnauonai ship canal company.
Roy MeCrossin, aged years, and Thomas
+. Garland, aged 5 years, were burned to
death in barn, which they fired, by making
a bonfire, in Rochester, n Y, on Saturday.
Five boxes containing nearly 100 pounds
OF giant powder, Ia the blacksmith shop Of
the High Lode Mine, at Central City, Dakota,
exploded Tuesday morning, killing three
men.
The Senate Of New York Tuesday, by n
vote of II TO 10, passed u concurrent resolu-
ton to amead the State Consultation so as to
extend the franchise to women. The New
York Assembly passed a bill to establish
State Board Of Health.
While Miles b. Grippen, deputy sheriff,
was returning TO his home in Schuylerville,
N. y, 90 Sunday evening, his wagon was
struck by lightning and wrecked. The horse
was killed and Grippen stunned. He was
unable to do dniy Monday.
Slavery in Cuba has been abolished By Of.
fetal decree. The proclamation was doubt.
less FASTENED by the discovery of formidable
conspiracy IN the heart of the island which
derived much Of its strength from the sympa.
thy and secret cooperation Of the slaves.
Daring April last, 1881 immigrants ar
rived at the port Of New York, against | I ,6Ol
during April, 1879. The arrivals Of immigrants
at that port during the IL months ending
April so, 1880, were l0s,s76, against 81, 9O5
during the II monlhs ending April 80, 1879.
At the General Term Of the Supreme Court
of New York in Poughkeepsie, Tuesday, an
application Of Mrs. Beva A. Lockwood. Of
Washington, ID. c., Cor admission 10 the bar
was rejected, on the ground that males Only
are admitted TO the bar by the laws Of New
York.
George W. Rambo, Of Red Lion, Chester
county, Pa, has calf, ten days old, which
is rare curiosity. 1t has no eyes, but one
nostril, no tail and is as white as snow. In
all other respects il is like the general run OF
calves. II eats well, is quite risky, and bids
fair TO live.
LAUNDERING at Williamsport, Pa, is in ia
most active condition. The boom was filled
up 10 the nineteenth crib last week. Each
CRIB is supposed to hold l,O00, 900 feet, but
| as there has been no close packing, the
| amount OF lumber in the boom IS about Is >.
! OO0, 900 feet.
4 large party ofroughs left Erie and Bnf
ialo, Tuesday morning, for Port Dover, On.
tario, TO witness prize fight. The Canadian
authorities, however, were prepared, with a
focce Of police and militia, TO prevent theil
landing, and they returned home, without
having any fight.
The PiItsburg Post states that within the
last ten days twenty furnaces that sell iron il
Pitsburg have gone out oil blast. 1t is ais,
estimated that there is enough finished iror
iu stock to last till fall, and there ia not like
" to be any life in the pig iron trade till tina
| stock is exhausted.
Ii Is reported from Lake City, Colorado
that % "prospectors,h who Invaded the re.
seryation of the White River Utes, near Gun
nison River, have all been killed BY the Ia
dams. The unfortunate party is supposed Il
be one that left Del Norle and Lake Civ two
weeks ago, headed by prospeetor named
/ Bradbury.
This years. Russian famine, says Berlin
despatch to the London Standard, for Their,
Is no year without famine in some district o.
other, mainly effects the Caucasus In han
dreds OF Armenian and Mohammedan village
the whole Of the inhabitants are dead III,
Russian press dare not allude to the subject
except in distAn. and general way.
Secretary Schurz has been advised frou
| Wichita, Kansas, under date Of the 7th inst.
otthe truth OF the report Of the invasion o
the lndlan Territory by a number Of whit,
settlers under Captain Payne. The War De
partment issaed orders GU Saturday to the OF
heers commanding troops in the vicinity /,
drive out the trespassers.
Several regular steamers left New York OF
Saturday last Tor Europe, with full cargoes
the activity in the export trade Just nov bein.
something remarkable. Among the ship
ments were00O head Of cattle, GOO sheep, 400
/ quarters fresh beef, 1909 earcassas sheep and
| N.N1aNN HVka. hhN oPaitlf iDF A1lNtFpODl
took $1,000 bushels OF wheat, 1923 bales ba
con aud 1000 bales canned goods. The An
chora, for Glasgow, had 5000 bAles chees,
and 5000 packages butter, &c. The Belgen
land, for Antwerp, took u, 900 bushels wheat
/ Island No. 10, which before the war wn
three miles long, and contained two or tire,
fertile plantations, aad on which 1900 Con
iederates erected batteries TO obstruct tn,
passage of the UnioR gunboats, has been en-
tirely swept away by The resistless currents o
the Father Of Waters. Nothing remains O
this noted island except o sand bank. over
| grown With cottonwood aud willows. Tn,
land on the shore where the Confederates hat
their batteries has also been washed away
and but for the historical record there ID nc
trace of what was designed to be an impregna
Bile barrier TO the free navigation Of the Mis-
sissipp river.
| Trouble occurred at the Silver Creek Mine
in Wayne county, Ohio, on Saturday, nearl,
300 Nhlte miners threatening a riot il 2OI
eolored men, brought from Virginia, aud EN-
| ployed IN the mine, were not discharged. A
barricade was erected around the mine and
defended by rs special coustabies, but III.
rioters stoned the batricade and injured ,
constable. The Sheriff then asked the Gov
ernor for assistance, aud troops were sent Il
the scene. Sunday the Governor was advised
| by the Attorney General and Adiatant Gen
eral, who were at the mine, that matters were
quiet, an nothing serious need be apprehend
ed Two companies Of militia will be KEEP
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