The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-07-10

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violin.
New Orleans boasts Of blocks Of ice with ma
ural flowers frozen ini0 them at its own ice
manufactures. t
Colonel ". NJ. shannon was shot dead oy
/ Colonel 4. b. Cash in a duel on the boruef "'
/ Camden couaty, 5, c., ON Monday
! A small excursion steamer with one nun
/ dred persons on board, sank IN Ca1cnoNa
Lake, N. v, ON Monday, bu, no lives were
The house OF NJ. S. Deyson, near Ocean
Beach, n. j., was struck BY lightning Tues
day, and Mrs. Deysou was injured, It Is iearea
| fatally
George Ripley, LII, D., President OF the
/ New York Tribune Association, and Literary
editor Of that paper, died Sunday, IN the 's''
/ year Of his age. No..
] One thousand six hundred and thirteen
! miles Of new railroad have beon haili thus tar
| this year, against 6S2 miles reported at the
/ same time ia 1879
The total assessed valuation Of real and
personal estate in the city OF New ORR Tor
/ the year 1880 is l,li3, T65, ~, an increase
of sac, 600, 1872 since 1879.
4 storm in Brunswick county, Va, caused
great damage, Tuesday. On one farm a
large barn was demolished, hnd 10000 pounds
OF tobacco were destroyed.
Flushing, Long Island, is visited by mos
quito plague. Clouds Of the troublesome IN
sects infest every place, the like OF which has
never before been known.
German manufacturers have found another
use for paper. They make stoves OF that
material, in which the ere blazes eheeriuliy
without the slightest injury to the paper IN
closing it,
-Four men, two named Dee and two named
Mccoy, fought in Atacosa county Texas,
lew DAYS ago. One Of each name was killed
aud the others we're badly wounded.
Vermont is the greatest maple sugar pro.
ducing state in the Union. Its annual yield
is about 5000, 900 ponuds, worth SIOO,OOO, or
about an average allowance of thirty pounds
for each inhabiiant.
There was riot 10 Troy Mills, Iowa, sun
day, growing out Of the slapp,ng OF man ;
face Tor insulting woman. Several hundred
persons took part ia free fight and -
were wounded. four, it is believed, fatally.
The 2OOth anniversary Of the discovery Of
! the Falls Of ST. Anthony by Father llennepIn
was celebrated on the campus OF the State
| University, IN Minneapolis, on Saturday. IL
( is estimated that 1000 persons were present.
The exports Of grain from New York on
4 FRIDAY Of last week Amounted 10 ,26i 49,
/ bushels, OF which 2JS, ijl consisted Of wheat,
/ gOJ, 200 Of corn, and 52.Si3 OF oats. This is
the irgest aggregate shipment ior any day on
/ record.
| The largu barn on the County Farm, at Ian
caster, Pa, was destroyed Sunday afternoon
4 by an inceudiary fire. The flames broke out
in three places at once, The horses and
/ horned cattle we're saved. but everything else
was consumed.
Ii Is said that a company Of Philadelphia
capitalists will shortly proceed 10 search tol
thewreck otthe British sloop.oi war De Baak
capslzed and sunk ia the hATbor at Lewes
| Del, eighty years ago, aud said TO have bect
filled With gold.
Alfred Simpson, q notorious thief. who ar
rived 10 New York a few DAYS ago from Bel
GUM was arrested in Boston Sunday night, II
being apprehended that he vas leader Of
gang in that city, and intended TO operate %
an extensive scale.
A Texas man prophesies a second delugy
TO come in November next, and is now har,
at work at an ark capable Of carrying fifty prr
sons. lie proposes to charge $500 passagD
for forty days and forty nigh,s-no reduction
TO ministers aud editors.
The Amateur Regatta al Frederick sburg
| Va, came OF Tuesday. The four.oared ri
race was won by the Hives erew Of the Uni
versity Of Virginia, the four cared she'll rae
By the Potomac crew Of Georgetown, ID. c.
and the single scull race by Roberts.
| Major George A. Reynolds, Of Parsons
Kansas, died Tuesday in Washington, after
a very short illuess. He vas a prominea
| Democratic politician, at one time q msmbe
| Of the Kansas Democratic State Committee
| aud was formerly connected with the Nilsson
/ RI, Kansas and Texas Railroad
] Independents Day was celebrated at Allan
/ IA, Ca, oa Saturday, ID the finest style sines
| the war, the celebration attracting ahoni ~ ,
| 900 visitors to the city The programme In
| cluded a military, civic aud industrial parade
an address by Z. $. Senator Brown, in the at
ternoon, aud a display Of iireWorks in ,h
| evening.
A large crowd gathered at Wilmington, d
/ c., OH Saturday, Tor athletic sports rboma.
Hall, ships boatswain, created 4 disturb
auee, and was chained to a post ia the stabl,
Of the Willingtou Hotel. S0on after ID,
stable was discovered 70 be On Gre, and a rasl
was made 10 unbind Hall bat the aame
drove back the rcscuers, aud he wAs burnet
TO death before their eyes
The fishing schooner Ida H. Freeman, 0.
Welltlect, Mass, arrived al that port on SAT
urday with 90 barrels Of mAckefel. aud al
chored in the harbor. The crew went TO lhei
homes, except three Swedes, who rename,
on board. On Sunday night the Suedes 70
the vessel under weigh aud left for parts IN
known. They took besides the vessel cargo
boats and nets, the clothing Of the Grew, an,
are Proyisioned for eight weeks.
An immense raf, consisting PRINCIPALLY q
walnut logs, has reached New Orleans
There are 300 walnut logs. some Of which ar
six feet in diameter, witch were cut alop,
the banks Of the White and ST. Francis river
in Arkansas. The raA is 800 feet long an,
pos feet wide. The walnut logs being 10,
heavy 10 float, they are kept on the level a
the water by 800 cypress logs The logs az
10 be sent 70 Connecticut by rail, the ireigb
charges being less by lhalrout than by s,eau,
ers.
Particulars Of the powder explosion A
Monterey, Gal, on Sunday, by which W. C
u Irke was killed, and Il. +. Hastings serious
ly, 1t not iatally, injured, show that il wa
caused by Hastings earelessness. The tw,
men and another named Buckbee, entered
magazine tent where powder was stored. |,
prepare cartridges for cannon. Has,ins
took Ratchet to open @ 25.pound can Z
powder and the explosion followed ,he H.,
blow on the can. The tent and its canton,
were blown IN all directions, Burke was killed
aud Hastings mangled aud burned bevon
recognition, so that his recovery i donbtfal
Backbee escaped with slight injury.
The Ottawa Herald publishes a repor, tbs
the reason Why Sir Charles Upper will nro
badly go to England before visiting Manitoba
is that for some time past the Dominion (,ay
eminent has been ia treaty with Represents
lives Of an English syndicate with view !,
I forming company to build the whole Of IN
Canada Pacific Railroad. The capiinl M ~
company is to be Slo0, 200, 900, and the Gov
eminent is 10 give land subsidy Of fiiy a
sixty millions Of acres, and .'take no 6prihs
responsibility Sir Charles Is Understood /,
be only awaiting adyiees from England befor
going thilher TO nifty the engagement W,
the principals, whose agents are now in OF
tawa.
Rev. Barnas Sears, u. D., IL. d.. die
Tuesday in Saratoga, N. Y, aged II wear.
DR.. Sears was for long time President a
Brown University IN Providence, II. l. AN
was the author OF several books on ednea,ion
al subjects. When Mr.. George Peabod
gave the muni6cent fund which bear. h
name, for educational purposes in the Soo,I
Dr. Sears was made its manager, assisted 4.
an advisory board Of trustees. lie tbsn ,gs,
to live in Virginia, taking up his residence /;
Stannton. He went 10 Saratoga for his heal,
about a month ago, and last week finished a
address on ''Educatioual Progress N Inc Il :
!ed States during the last FiflyY ears whic