The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-05-01
News Of the Week.

I wy hoe Ntcn feuecod w oaiuhote 10 Slsvu
per thousand feet
Eighteen horses were burned at a livery
stable FIRE, ia New York, on Monday.
The new Liberal government Of England
has a project % foot to reduce the . per cent,
consols 10 q.
Thomas j. Mann, it,, a school teacher,
near Nashville, Tennessee, was struck by
lightning on Monday and instantly killed.
The Diocesan Convention Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of Maryland will convene
on Wednesday, the 18th OF Nay, in st. Peter /
Church, Baltimore.
The steamer StraslStrg arrived at Balti'
more on Sunday with ,9lSemigrants, the larg.
est number, It is said, ever brought over in
one ship on a single voyage.
The remains Of Pierre Weller. wealthy
German who died at Wo0dside, N. j., Sun.
day, were sent TO Lemoyne's crenaiory al
Washington, Pa, Tuesday night.
John Dihenbach one Of the heaviest stock
men in the West, was murdered on the 10Th
Of April by white thieves, and robbed Of 100
head OF cattle. He leaves wife and five
children.
The first shipment Of asparagus from Cen.
treyille, Queen Anne's county, Nd. was sent,
lew days since, by George Davidson, to
Boston, where IL brings from 70 cents to 81
per bunch.
The Western Nail Association met at Pitts.
burg, Pa, Wednesday, and decided to resume
next Monday, the Sd Of May. A resolution
was also adopted reducing the card rate from
So 25 to 81.
The three sons Of u. d. Bowen, Of Wadley,
Ca, all use crulches. Their bones are so soft
aud brittle as to often break from even slight
jar. The oldest, Sylvester, has already sus
tanned twenty.six fractures
ID. W. Middleton, Clerk of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, died on Tuesday
night. He had been connected with the
Court for more than iifty years, and was its
Clerk for nearly twenty years.
The price Of northern ice has declined lron
S4.10 TO S2.4O per ton. The cause is to be
found in the fact that much more ice than
usual was stored in the North on account of
the failure in the Southern ATTITUDES.
Mrs. Betsy FazenbAcker died at Barton,
Alegany county, Nd, last week, aged 1914
years and s months. she had been pen.
sioner of the government for % years, her
husband having been wounded 10 the war Of
1912.
By accident, petit juror at the late term
ofthe Somerset County Courfgot on the grand
jury, SO that the latter body was composed Of
twenty'fou members. Much Of the work had
w w ANht bNcl NnNAl Aut aCtAANuk was hAn-
covered.
Dr. Joseph T. Webb, the we'll known ply.
stefan Of Cincinnati, for two years resident
Of Minneapolis, Mimi, died suddenly Tues
day Of apolexy. He was a brother OF Mrs.
President Hayes and brother.in-law Of Hon.
Stanley Matthews
The steamer Kittanny, the first that ever
aeached Point Jervis, n. Y on the Delaware,
arrived home at Delaware water Gap We'd
nesday night having run the fifty miles in less
than hive hours. The steamer is sixty feet
long, fourteen wide, and carry seventy persons.
A private letter from Fort Mcleod, Mani
toba, dated April LIST, reports the weather eS
tremely cold, the thermometer indicating As
degrees below zero. The Indians have been
in great straits for want Of food, which is now
being supplied them by the Government from
the fort.
Over three hundred families ia New Jersey,
who have sustained themselves by the picking
and sale Of whortlebsrries, are placed in des.
titute circumstances by the destruction Of that
industry by the great forest fires. The loss in
this production in the southern portion Of
Ocean county alone will aggregate $4,000
for the season.
VIM. p. Gillespie, Of Columbus, Ind, on
his deathbed few days ago, made confes.
sion that he and two others killed wealthy
stock trader named Jamson ten years ago,
and divided between them large sum of
money found on his person. Jamison's body
was never found, and this is the first clue TO
the manner Of his death
Joseph Seligman, senior partner of the
Unknown banking house OF j. & W. Sslig.
man 4 Co., New York, died suddenly Of
heart disease in New Orleans on Sunday af.
ternoon. Mr.. Seligman went to Florida early
in the Water by the advice Of his physician.
and was on his way home when he died. He
was in his ed year.
Mrs. James Hamer, who was probably the
oldest person in Pennsylvania, died last week
in Pulaski, Lawrence county. She was born
in Germany in l773, and was l07 years old at
the time Of her death. Her Oldest surviving
child, son, is eighty years ofage. Her hus'
band lived to the age of l05 years, and her
father lived to see his ll5th birthday.
Five steamships landed 3,342 emigrants at
New York on Saturday, making the total for
the week 1928, and for the month 81, 500.
II the influx continues during the present
week, the total for April will be greater than
for any previous months. Castle Garden
having become over crowded, 5000 were de.
spatched on Sunday on their way to the West
A four ysar-old girl lately made the journey
across the continent to San Francisco alone.
She was a self.reliant little traveller, and was
inclined to resent any intimation that she
could not care for herself She was, however,
taken in charge by the conductors, in accord.
ance with written request on her ticket. Her
mother had died in the East, and she sought
her father.
In Harrison county, Ind, Tuesday, while
Henry Long was being examined before a
magistrate for the murder Of John c. Drinkel.
aker, mob Of 100 masked men rode up and
siezed him. He drew n revolver and shot
the leader, who proved to be Henry l.. 0lte,
neighbor. The mob fred on Long. He
retreated bleeding to the woods, and Is sup.
posed was there finished by his pursuers.
Cold weather and heavy soil have prevented
seeding in NEST parts Of the Northwest, and
farmers are much behind with spring work.
This seems to be particularly the case in Min.
nesota. Reports about winter wheat are con.
tiistlng In Illinois it seems to be in excellent
condition, while in Iowa, Minnesota and Wis.
consin it has been seriously damaged during
an open winter, and in some counties will be
almost q failure.
Mr.. Roads is a school teacher at Earl, Pa.
He is religious, and impiely shocks him.
When little girl deuied having torn book,
and called on God 10 witness that she had
told the truth, he was grieyed beyond express.
sion by what he deemed her blasphemy. He
grabbed her 10 one hand and club in the
other, and beat her until he was weary and
she was iasensible. She was manned for life.
and he has gone to prison for two years.
AT Winchester, Indiana, reyengeful mai.
den named Melissa Ann Woodbury., was some
how given TO understand that her alleged
sweetheart would take her out riding at A Ger.
tain hour on q certain day She dressed np
and sat at the front window waiting Tor him.
He drove rapidly by the house, and another
girl was in the carriage with him. That Night
his barn was burned, and that horse and ear
riage with il. Now the fair Melissa Ann Is
locked up as an alleged "6rebug.n
i. NJ. kallock, con of the Mayor of San
Francisco, CAL, killed Charles De Young,
on Friday night OF last week. The shooting
is denounced as deliberate and cold bloodod
murder. Kallock is minister, but since
kearney has been sent to prison he has been
drinking heavily. The elder Kalloek was
elected Mayor on the Sand Lot ticket last fall,
and De Young, editor Of the Chronicle, had
been saying some sharp things both about the
Mayor, kearney und his Sand Lot oons,it.
uency.
II seems that the West is not to have sach
an abundant wheat crop after all. The la,es,
reports Indicate that in Kansas the erop In a
number Of counties will be total failure. and
that in Iowa the winter eropis nearly destroy.
ed and the spring crop is 10 very uniayora.
lla condifion Tho ra,sr,. q. =. -. 49,