The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-01-17
Ner. d the week.

traak Leslie, The publisher died III New
York; Saturday H.
About one hundred aad fay c6lorcd cmi'
grants from Mississippi are in ". Louis with
ont funds or friends. 49,
Captain c. l.. Pierce, q young lawyer OF
Erie, Pa, was choked to death 10 that city
Sunday 10y piece Of meat
Benjamin {. Bogeri, treasurer Of the New
York Produce Exchange, committed suicide
on Friday Of last week. Ills accounts were
short over $4,000.
Two houses aud several small buildings ~
| Taylorsyille, Ohio, were demolished by tor
nado ON Friday night Of last week. No per
son is reported injured.
An the steamers from Europe for this
country, due last week, were from three To
seven days late, owing to heavy of shore
winds.
The will Of William l.. Ripley, probated at
Columbus, Ohio, ON Saturday, gives about
$50, 900 to the Ohio Wesleyan University at
Delaware to endow q Ripley Proiessorship. ?
A severe wind storm in Montreal on Satur'
day morning proved very destructive to trees,
telegraph wires and chimneys. 4 massive
cross on the dome Of st, AIMS Church was
blOwR down.
The Superintendent OF the New York Chill
dren's Aid Society arrived at Petersburg, Va,
with number 81 orphan boys, who have been
bound to farmers in Prince George and Sus-
sex counties,
Jamestown, James City county, Va, Is the
oldest postollice IN the old thirteen States.
Letters have been delivered there ia some
form or other for 2s8 years, and yet the sal
AIRY is only SOL per annum.
Peter ierdie and Horace H.. Taylor were
convicted at Williamsport, Pa, on Saturday,
of conspiEng TO delraud the creditors of lay.
lor, who was private banker Of that city at
the time OF llcrdic' failure.
", Price, u young boy in Orange n, j.,
while playing with some comrades ON Sunday
was kicked IA the mouth, The bOs dis
lodged a tooth, which passed down his throat,
and he Ghokcd TO death in a lew minutes.
Three steamers LEFT New York for Europe
On Saturday. The aggregate shipments are
Iighl, including 1851 bushels wheat, l9O,.
0JJ bushels corn, 81, zoo boxes cheese, 1850
boxes bacon; 1908 bales cotton and iSOJ bar.
re,s and 1000 sacks flour
A rSlired Spanish soldier, Lopez, is III
years old. lie recently sent TO his son vt
/ Columbus, Ga, letter, saying that after
/ forty years Of army service he has been retired
on $1,000 year. The sou who received the
letter is ~ years old.
Very sad accounts are given Of the condi-
I ton Of the populations in the northern pro.
yinees OF the former kingdom OF Naples,
where fever is epidemic over large districts.
| In q population Of G2,01O the sick amount
to 5000 person. The deaths from July 10
December, 1879, numbered Las.
! George Edwards, the notorious bank rob,
/ Der, has been arrested aud returned TO the
[ Stale Prison at Trenton, \. j. lie made his
escape with the aid OF au accompce, in 1872.
! The accomplish put up at Bordenlown and
! had boat IN waiting to pull the robber over
( to the Pennsylvania side.
I Helen j. Ward, arrested for shooting her
mother IN Boston, on the night OF December
3Olh, was discharged on saturday, the Dis
I tTlct Attorney saying there was no evidence
1 to prove the shooting anything but acciden.
I tai. The fracture OF the skull Of deceased
/ remains mystery.
Joseph Halineg, Of Andalusia, Bucks coun.
/ ty, Pa, was committed to jail last Sunday
evening on the charge Of numbering Jacob
/ Gerber by shooting him in an alteration
about beard money His wife and child
called 10 see him Monday, When he was found
dead ia bed, having cut his throat from ear
TO ear.
As result Of jim Keene's operations there
is q tremendous grain blockade in Chicago
There are stored there over fourteen million
bushels ul wheat aud corn, and the railroads
are refusing to receive any more. All the
elevators arc full, and the blockade will
continue until there is material change in
prices.
Governor Holiday on Monday seat to the
/ Virginia Legislature petitions from the OH
cla.s and people oi Lancaster county, asking
protection from marauding oystormen, who
have invaded the Rappahannock river in
armed vessels, and driven citizens from the
oyster beds. Two citizens have been killed
10 fights with the invaders.
The work OF moving Cherry Island from the
middle Of the Delaware river opposite vii.
mington, ia now ia the hands Of the govern
meut contractors. The sand aud mud are
being thrown on the Christiana marsh, 10 re .
CLAIM the waste land there. A large bank
aud wharf TO protect the property are to be
erected near the Jackson aud Sharp Rolling
/ Mil,
A strike took place among the Austedt
miners in kanawha Valley, West Va, last
week. Trans on the Chesapeake aud Ohio
/ Railroad were boarded By the men who visited
the other mines The sheriff Of tho county
/ with strong military free is there to pro.
tect those who desire to work, The cause OF
I the strike is that the owners OF the Hawks.
nest mines pay only IS cents per tot, while
all the other operators pay 80 cents.
] bAiAA AAAlAuuAioh - H4AA ~ pttNAu AT
Wlkesbarre, Pa, because Coy Hoyl has ap
I pointed Hon. Stanley Woodward, Dsmo
/ crat, Judge Of the llth Judicial District ia
preference TO Republican. At Kingston,
Gov. lioyg's late home, the Hoyt Club tore
down transparency in front OF their club
house because 1t boNe the Governor picture
| H0yi and Woodward ara warm personal
friends, aud the latter supported Hoyt for
! governor.
Three colorcd men, namad Bedford, Quee-
nan and Plan, have been arrested in Wash
iRgtou, ID. g., for killing George p. Hirth,
/ who was murdered on the night Of the 9Th in
slant. Another colored man, named John.
son, who was with them and saw the murder,
testified before the Coroner's jary Monday
afternoon. After hearing him and other vii.
nesses the jury rendered verdict against
Bedford, Queenan and Pinn. Bedford had
been 10 Hirth's employ.
Gov. blackburn, Of Kentucky, draws a re.
voting picture OF the condition of the peni.
Tertiary Of that State. They have l73 more
prisoners than cells. As a necessity, nearly
$50 wretched men are immured in cells which
are but three feet nine aud a.half inches
wide, six feet three and a-n;iif inches high
aud six feet eight inches long. These cells,
dark and disseminated, do not contain suiii-
clent AIR 10 support one man, and the death
record gives abundant proof of il. This death
rate is over 20 per cent.
a snow Storm mged in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, along the line of the Central Pa
chic railroad, Thursday aud Friday Of last
week. The snow tell eight to ten feet deep,
and the wind driiied the cuts full. The snow
sheds ia many places were crushed by drifts
Is feet deep. Some 500 feet Of snow she'd.
ding, west Of famarock station, has been de
stroyed. The passenger trains east aud west
were ll0pkgded ai Gold Aqn, hut il was ex.
peeted would get through Saturday night. A
dispatch from TrueEee, Monday night, re.
ports the track cleared Of snow and Of the
wreck Of the sheds, aud trains running again.
Bealy James, boy, disappeared from his
home at Loc4poFt, Ky, Il was eonieetured
that he had been murdered, as no trace OF
him could be found Two years anerward q
murderer named Shuck was in jail at Owen
town, awaiting execution. He made con
fession, not only Of the crime Of which be has
been convicted, but Of participation 10 thl
killing Of the missing Bealy James. He de
clared that FIVE men, whom he named, anS
one Of whom was the boy s father, had Joined
him IN the murder. Mr. James fed but iht
four others were hanged by mob. That wa
IN 1874. Bealy James has now turned ~
alive having been wanderer in the far Yves
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