The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-08-28
News Of The Week.

The paper mtil nl /. W. iioHiuSNotihs HA
East Walpele, Mass, Was b1ruoi Sunday
mouiing. Loss $4,000.
Isaac II Brown, the veteran sexton of Grace
Church. New orL, died ia Brapurd, Com, I
on Sunday, aged ds years.
John Elliott, aged 10, while playing base .
ball at 81. Johns, n. d., Tuesday, was struck .
on the neck by ball and instantly killed.
A gun burst on Monday on board Danish I
government schooner, AZ Copenhagen, ahd
two mou were killed and eleven wounded.
$. ". Hoffman, e. City Auditor of Cius.a. I
natl, was arrested Tuesday on the charge OF
cmbezlHng $4,000. He Was released on
bail
Judge Henry NJ spoaorj, who was the
claimant OF kelloggs seat in TIC United |
State $ Senate, died on Friday OF last wcth l
with a cougcstye chill.
Mrs. Nylcs, aged 80 years was found hang I
ing TO a tree near Wheeling, W; Va, on sal, I
urdny night II is supposed she committed .
suicide To escape "fnmily jars
Reading, Ia, is almost totally without wa I
ter, there being none flowing east OF Seventh /
street. The railroad shops and several man I
uGcturing establishments have been eompeh' l
ed to stop work.
An incondiary Gre at Edinburg, Clarion
county, Pa, Sunday morning, destroyed s'A' 1
teen stores, among them SIX erected since !
the Gre in May last The FIRE was started IA I
the rear Of a livery stable,
A horse belonging 10 buichcroi MonircaI' .
trottcd fly miles, on the Blue bonhe's race
course on Saturday Of last week. 90 iour hu9ts I
and fifty minutes. IL MAS wagcTed that hr
would not accomplish the feat 10 i've hours /
There is business enough at the Patterson
/ IN. J.l locomotive shops 10 keep Wom Aus3
ior months 10 come During ih' ii1st SIX
Il. . a Ia nsF1 ~ IUEEfIlU
uyes nguiust 20 during the same PERIOD last
year. ,,
i5T.2ls immigrants arrived 90 ,hc United
Sntes. or ~, III more than during ihc PIE
epdipc year. and only 2ibO Ices thuu dnrug
tho fiscal year 1873 when the number WAS
the highest recorded,
oswimmiue matches between Paul Bpyn
ton and George fearn at Atlantic tit{ last
week wero won by Fcarn. To the fret Boyn-
ton was 10 swim twelve miles and tearn teni
In the second Bpynton was 90 sSim two and
a half miles and fearu two.
The Brooklyn, y. y, Thirteenth Regiment
has sned the Rockauay Hotel Company for
$780, 900 damages for failure 10 carry ont rs
contract to supply food 10 the regiment while
! rncampcd on the beach. b0dsworih s band
I has also sued the company for $1,000 for
breach OF contract.
The first Sunday services Of the eleventh
annual camp meeting at Ocean Grove aud As.
bury Park, a. j., Sunday, attracted a great
, lhr0nr OF visitors from New York, Ph'iad1.
: phia and other points. Eleven diheyeai ser.
. vices were held during the day, aud each Nas
a largely attended,
j The annual meeting OF the puicbcs County
. Peace Society was held iua grove near Fough
, keepsie, n. e, Sunday. About three thou
Il sand persons were present, and after .isteutn.
e to addresses by several speakers, adopted res
Il oluiious deaoupcing var ''at any twe or ua
n der any circumstances.
n A serious cave is reported az Planr'
d near Wikesbarre, Pa, over the surface Of iht
!. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company mines
e About three ncrcs Of ground have suHs IRON
4. six inches to i've feet, several buildings layl
d been damaged OF the mine aud fave house
d are threatened with demolition.
A, One Of the missing boats, containing seYcI
At men aud Eve bags OF mail matter, from th
10 steamer American, OF the Cape Of Good Hop
Il and southampton line, which ioundored Apr
l. - near the equator, was picked up by ,h
n. P1rtuguese brig Tarujo aud the men and mail
Ne landed at Loanda, Africa, on July IL.
p j. kuraher, farmer Of luscarawas coHuty
Al o., has au iusaue son, who, n one of bis ats O
IN frcnzy some me since biz his fathers hpge
IN to the bone, tearing OF some OF the Hesb
i The arm became swollen and mortiheauo
Is set in. AmputatiOn was rcsottcd to, but ia
4, poison had extended to the body and deaf
h. ensucd
If The Rev. 5. +. Smith, who wrote IN
m Country, It's Of Thee" is >iill liying
n Newton, Mass. lie says lac wrote the verse
in on q waste scrap OF paper one dismal day
ID February. 1852, while at Andoyer Seminar
Mt and 'hsd no intention nor ambition 70 Great
a. anything that should have a national rcpuu
n ton
~ The tropical garden in horticultural Hal
~ ON the Centennial grounds, Philadelphia, COT
), tans a bamboo tree among the other siran.
or plants tina, render the interior SO attractive
ii The present time. The bamboo tree was
he youug shoe, on the 18th Of Jane yet sint
rs that time il has grown 30 feet, and bids Ga
n. 10 soon reach the top OF the buildiug.
re- The house Of Martin Wenrich, ON the TO
rs between Dane and Columbia counties,
be Wisconsin, was discovered on FIRE las, Suuda
n. night The door being forced, the bodies
va Weinrich aud his wife, bearing fatal sht
~. wounds, were found within. The couple ha
ia. lived unhappily, and It is supposed Neinrc
10. shot his wife aud then committed suicide.
he A Berlin despatch dated August % says
=. "Mhile deplorable harvest reports continued
DC ftEtlNtA llRNl 0iitelA anu 4 hNtN anu t.
M and West Prussia, the most favorable aceouu
.d. come from South Germany, All the croI
ms there show yield such as the oldest poop
scarcely remember to have seen, and the Tara
ers hardly know where 10 garner them
The fast newspaper train from New Gui
for Long Branch coilided with n train Of emp
passenger cars near the Long Branch static
Monday morning. The side Of one car OF II
ne news train was torn away and two other ca
vi were wrecked. ThreeyOung men were sever
or ly injured, one OF whom Is in a critical con,
zee ton. The disaster isaseribed to the carele.
an ness Of the engineer Of the empty passeng
oN train.
ate The supreme Lodge Of the World
IN Knights of Pythias assembled Tuesday in
ne Louis. After being received by the Ora
"a, Lodge Of the State with the usual cerom
ven MES, the Supreme body went into rcgu
aid session. ST. Louis is in holiday attire
ted the occasion, all the hotels and several oil
OF buildings being decorated with flags aud ey
va, greens. There was grand parade Of I
nld order in the afternoon.
INST The war between Peru aud Cali is rapi,
er reaching its final stage. The latter coun
en- has . splendid army OF 40, 900 men in the ie
ota and is preparing the siege OF Lima I
o former, its army gone, is ''rohbing the era
Ky, and the grave" by sweeping Consumption
ach all men between the ages of 10 aud 90 yea
nld These raw leyies cannot compete with
OF well trained Veterans Of Chill, and when Il
aud are defeated aud brushed away the Peruvi.
lew must necessarily sue for pence, and must
mp. eept any terms, however huinilialng, !:
,uid may be imposed upon them.
l. The body Of the man murdered for takin
EN- bunch of grapes at Agnew Station, near vi
3, burg, Pa, was found Saturday night n
see, Rochester, Pa, and has been identified as
OF OF Robert Bryson, Of Harrisburg, son
rry- Robert Bryson, Sr., a wealthy retired /
sent manufacturer, aud nephewof james and II
NIT ert Mccormick, two OF Pennsylvania sweA
tue lest men lie was also first cousin to Hon
,nld Donald Cameron's first wife. lie MAS HI
as ~ educated, but subject TO Il severe neY
not affection, caused by having once been ne
'iiy, suiiocaied BY gas, which slightly elouded
ped intellect. lie had been to the Hot Spri
ean Ark, some weeks, and il IS believed be
mo came deinented on his return trip aud ei
lose tramped irom ST. Louis or got oil train
terrific ihander-shower passed
Bridgeport, Conn, on Wednesday. Light
struck the schooner Mabel, Of Calais,
lying ia The harbor, SCATTERING her TOP
DOTS foremost and instantly killing Chas, f. 5
Der, the steward. lightning also struc
number OF places about the city. fur
a. storm also prevailed at Wilkesbarre,
800 on W Wednesday. Several buildings were a.