The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-05-22
News Of the wsst.

I Blind Tom the musical phenomenon, IS
4 giving Civilizations ia Washington.
I Another Cuban instruction is fairly on is
way, and Spaia must serape together the
/ funds for alfesh army 10 eaiorce IFS anlhori
1 N In the sever, faithful isie.
Among the shipments for Europe on Satug'
/ day last, from New York, were 2l,21o boxes
/ Of the new crop OF cheese.
An alligator twelve feet long was shol aud
Killed near Jacksonville, Fla, and IN rs
! stomach "a well preserved hrickbat was
I found
! On Sunday nigh, week the farm Of llenry,
| Murphy, Warwick township, Pa, was visited
| by sheep killing dogs, and lhisiy.tso OF his
sheep aud lambs we're killed.
The 26ih annual session Of the Germha
Roman Catholic Association OF the United
States met in ST. l.onis on Monday, Henry j.
Spaunhorst, Of 81. Louis, the President, in
the chair.
Two periodical comets are expected da'
ring the latter half of lss0, Minneok's, Of
which the period is i've years and six months,
and Faye's, ofwhich the period is seven years
and four months.
The weather was very cold along the Had
son river on the night Of May t. Snow fell
upon the Caskills, aud ice was formed ia va
rious places in the counties along the river
DIR. Peck, Of indianapolis, has ampulatcd
the legs of young glrl ON account OF decay
in the bones, produced by excessive rope
jumping. lie advises parents and teachers
to prohibit this play under al Circumstances.
A violent bail storm passed over the coun.
ties Of Diuwiddie, Chesterfield and Amelia, 10
Virginia, on Friday Of las, week, doing great
damage TO vegetation. The Temperature al
Petersburg on Saturday morning, was only
Is degrees.
The proad mother OF seventeen chiIdren,
the eldest OF whom is eighty two years u
age aud the infant iorty-oight, Mrs. Brasscit,
OF Grand Rapids, IS just rounding a century
Of life. She is IN good health, Eilh unim
paired intellect,
jim lngraham, Of Wynu's Mil, Henry
eoanty, Ga, is said 10 he = century and n
quarter old. He is very iulirm aud totally i
blind, but can still make as good q bark collar
US q mule ever looked through, and really
seems TO enjoy the occupation.
Virginia is now about to furnish the zinc
used by the United States g0yefumen, tor al I
10y with silver in coinage. The Bertha Linc .
works, ofWythe county, have jest gotten the
contract, their "spel,er' being announced the I
purest produced anywhere in the country
The Crow Indians have agreed to sell TO .
the Government 1000 900 acres Of their rcscr-
yaiion IN Montana for $40 0ol per year for
- years. The Shoshones aud Bannoces, Of
Idaho, haye agreed 10 sell 10000 acres OF Z
their land for $40, 0o0 year for 20 years
Car OF Russia is hec0ming alarmed at the /.
uumbey OF subjects who arr leaving ,hcempirc
to seek their fortunes in this aad other hands.
lie has been for some time preparing plans .
TO check the exodus, and dispatch from 81. 7
Petersburg announces the arrest OF several
emigrant agents who wcrc busy drumming up
passengers for the liGos thry represented.
Rev. William Robertson died recently, Ht
his home, on Bold Camp Creek, IN Wise couu,
~, Va, ia the g1th year OF his age, having
been born January ~, liSi Practically,
says the llrstol Aeics, he Was as old az the
American republic. HIS father, Nj. VIM, p.
Robertson, died at the great age Of rs ycars, 4
and was first married when he was 50 years
OF age
The ihiernationalis,s completed the oFgaui
zaiion Of general EuropoaA strike, aud are
taking advantage o. the dissatisfaction in
France, Paris excepted, to sir up bad feeling
among tradesmen throughout the Continent 7
Already the seeds Of discomfort have been
sWon in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland,
aud the laboring classes Of those nations are
ia fall sympathy and CO operation with the
striking weaYers and miners Of England
The American Board Of Commissioners Of
Foreign Missions celebrated It's SEVENTEEN
in the Broadway Tabernacle, \
u, Sunday night The reports shoW that the
Board occupies B73 stations in AsiaGc couu-
tries, Turkey, Spain, Mexico and Austria, with
III ordained missionaries, 227 assistants, aud
HI native helpers; the total Number OF
churches being 2jl, RAd OF members 1900.
The regular donations necd 10 advance at
least 40 per cent beyond those of last year 90
meet appropriations already made for the
coming year.
Archbishop Tasehercau, of Quebec, on
sunday issued pastoral warning the Caiho.
lies under his spiritual Jurisdiction, on pain Of
accommodation, not 10 ATTACK, or eOuspire
10 attack auy person. because such persons
works, has worked, or is willing to wnrk Al
price which he thinks 6t.n Tho Archbishop
says IA this connection: "Lci every one re-
member thai a mans labor is his Owu, and
that It Is his liberty to sell it at whatsoever
price he pleRses. he has the same control
over his labor that man has over his own
arm. Therefore, labor Unions sin gricyous.
y against justice whenever they ailempt to
loree men To join these Unions, ar TO work
Tor the price fixed by these UniQns.n
Sanford +. Church, Chief Justice OF the
Ne" York Court Of Appeals, died suddenly.
Of apopleSy, At his residence, la Albion, n
", May Il. He had been slightly unwell Cor
several days. Aud on friday afternoon,
while IN the Orleans County Naiioual Bank,
he was seized with pain in his chest, aud
was driven home. He alighied aud walked
to his room without assistance, but his phy.
sieien was Of ONCE sumE.oned. When tho
doctor arrived Judge Church vas IN terrible
pain, and before medicine could be admins.
tered, he struggled little, turned slightly
purple, fell on his side and expired. Ills
death has gwen great shock to the eommu.
nifty Ia which no lived, for he was loved and
esteemed by all.