The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-05-29
News Of the Wesk.

J ork on Saturday last
The Governor Of Bermuda, ia proelama
ton dated May 18Th, declared the Bahama,
infected with yellow fever.
The receipts OF the Musical Festival in Gin.
cinnali, which closed on Saturday last, real
ized Sa2, goo, expenses $4,000.
Ii is estimated that over thousand barns
have been burned in the northern part o.
Pennsylyania during the month of May.
AT Rondoul, N. T., the thermometer ind
Gated ess Tuesday afternoon in the shade,
/ Seefreitz, a earnian, was fatally sunslruck,
! Jenny Lind is u member Of the chorus o
/ the Bach Society OF London, Of which Herr
/ Goldschmidt, her husband, is tue conductor
/ Mrs. Ann Eliza Corson was killed by fall
/ ing down stairs and breaking her neck, while
sleep.walking, in Williamsport, Pa, Wednes
| day morning.
4 Mrs Ann Randall, mother Of Samuel J,
/ Randall, died on Saturday ailerRoon, at hei
residence in Germantown, Pa. She was oveI
so years Of age.
/ The house OF Job Ennis, Mennonite set
1 tier near Winnipeg, was consumed by light
ming on Saturday. Ennis was killed and his
4 wife so shocked that shs died Sunday.
! While three boys were playing in barn ut
/ Tamaqua, Pa, Tuesday, they set fire to the
hay, Aad two barns and ten dwellings were
consumed. The loss is about $1,000.
Thirteen or fourteen persons were killed
and about forty injured by the railroad disas'
/ ter at Santa Cruz, CAL, on Sunday afternoon.
/ Several Of the injured are not expected to
recover.
On Friday oflast week the Philadelphia and
/ Reading Railroad company suspended. II
/ will only be temporary. Great CONSERVATION
4 was created among stock brokers, several OF
/ whom failed.
A case Of small. pox was found among the
! immigrants on the steamer Par,hia, at BIOS.
| ton, on Sunday, and all the passengers and
crew, nine hundred in number, were prompt
I y yaceinaied.
/ In the Presbyterian General Assembly at
1 Charleston, S. c, Monday, an answer to an
/ overture ON the subject OF women preaching
was adopted, taking decided ground against
the innovation.
! The Grst Council Of the Roman Catholic
| Church in the Province Of Pennsylvania, pub
liely hogan It's sessions in Philadelphia on
| Sunday last, after the celebration Of a solemn
Pontihcai mass by Archbishop Wood.
The fear Of infection caused some persons
nj Memphisto burn all their clothing, aud even
a prayer book of deceased cholera patient
was consigned to the flames; but six $40 bills
found on his person were religiouslypreseryed.
John o'Rourke, of the Boston Bass Ball
Club, while attempting to make difficult
play in Troy, n. Y, Monday, ran against a
fence, and received cut i've inches long ia
his throat, besides sustaining internal injuries.
The house Of Mrs, Balser Fielder, in Lock
haven, Pa, was burned early Saturday morn.
ing, and her body was found in the ruins.
Foul play is suspected, as she lived alone and
was said to have had large sum Of money ia
her possession
Ia the Methodist General Conference at
Cincinnati, Monday, the report Of the Gener-
al Committee on Legislation, providing that
the General Conference shall be composed OF
two houses, lay and ministerial, was defeated
yeas 10, nays 2ll.
A ere at Edeubarg, in Clarion county, Pa. +,
on Saturday night, destroyed seventy build
ings, including the post Office, Clarion COun
" Bank, two hotels and the United Pipe
Line offices. Loss, Sl50,0O0. More than
one hundred families are homeless.
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard and the French gov
eminent are going to explore the ruins OF Mex
leo. The French Government will hit out the
expedition, and Mr. Loyillard will give most
Of the cash needed afterwards. A French
scientist and explorer will superin,end the
work
Peter thinner, aged so years, Of Port Wash
iBgton, Wis, was arrested IN Buffalo, on Sat
arday, on telegram from the sheriff at Port
Washington, charging him with the murder
Of his son. thinner was on his way to New
York, TO meet an intended wife coming from
Germany
At Erie, Pa, on Monday u babe was born
without a head, but otherwise fully developed.
L. l. Ia -
excresence protruding from the top Of the
trunk between the shoulders, were the neck
ought to be, which has two large eyes, q nose
and mouth with hare lip. There is no oc.
eipiial or parieial bones, and no brain. la q
sitting posture the child resembles huge
frog
Rhode Island has the following statute:
IAN marriages between a white person aud
negro shall be absolutely null aud void; aud
the person joining them ia marriage shall be
subject to penalty of 500" Samuel ID.
Dorrell, fullblooded negro, was lately mar.
ried at Providence TO Ellen Darlington,
white gir The Rev, George II. Smith, who
performed the ceremony, is TO be prosecuted,
in order to test the Law.
A San Francisco man went to a dentist,
while temporarily insane, aud said that be
wanted his teeth all extracted. The dentist
advised him no, 10 get nd Of them, rs they
were sound; bat be insisted, arguing that
false set would be far handler AMI more com.
Portable. As he did not seem CRAY, the den
list performed the job. On reeOyring bis
reason be brought suit for 5000 damages
under the California law against professional
malpractice.
Great alntsa has been caused 10 shipping
circles in New York by the reports Of the
presence, in unusually large quantities, of
floating masses Of ice from Polar latiiudes in
the track Of oceaa vessels Ii is thought by
some people that the loss ef the training ship
Atalanla was due TO this cause, aud two yes.
sells were recently reported to have been dis.
abled by collision with icsbergs. The steam.
er Mercaior, which left Antwerp March Sd,
for New York, is long overdue.
While workmen were engaged near Water.
vile, Pa, recently, inlowering section of
the IideEAter pipe line into the ditch prenar.
ed for it, the pipe pulled apart and stream
Of oil two inches thick spurted out with great
force. 1t struck A. d. RodArmel about his
middle, and he turned two scmersaults, and
landed him about two rods away, completely
delnged with e.. Que thousand barrels OF
oil were wasted, running into Pine Bottom
Run, aud killed or drove out all the trout.
Al New Castle, Delaware, Monday Chief
Justice Comegys rendered decision in tho
case OF William Neal, colored, indicted for q
felony. Ii was claimed that the Indictment
should he quashed, orlhe case removed 10 the
United States Court, as there were no c0lored
men on the jury, and the prisoner was thus
denied the right granted him by the Four.
teenih Amendment. The Court refused the
motion, holding that the prisoner was not dc.
MED any right to which he is entitled by any
law, State or Federal. Exception was iakea
TO the ruling Of the Court The trial pro.
ceeded and on Wednesday be was convicted.
The punishment is death.
The Methodist General Conference in ses.
sion OF Cincinnati, postponed indefinitely, on
rhursday Sf last week, the question OF the
election Of negro Bishop by a vote Of 22l
10 1850. A coIored brother who spoke In ia
vof Of the posiponemeni was denounced b,
another eolored brother as a traitor TO hi.
race. III closing the debate Dr. I.ahahan, Of
Book Concern fame, referred to the threat
that the eolored brethren would secede i
theiF gishes we're not complied with. Tbs
MeibQdist Episcopal Church was not TO b,
scared by that sorl ortalk, he said.
ln Pennsylvania, Delaware and New lerse,
The drought u becoming serious. The Della
ware aud Maryland berry crop has falleh Of
largely, only 700 car loads Of Strawberries be
ing shipped up is Tuesday night. when lherl
should have been 600. Ia Philadelphia III,
water Is failing in the reservoirs. The pric,
Of early vegetables has advanced fully 90 pe
cent. and the price Of butter has also ad
vanced. In New Jersey many farmers hay,
not planted corn, grass has failed and caltlI