The Democratic advocate., 1880-02-28
New. Of the Week.

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Diphtheria has carried olf 10000 PERSONS
ia two Russian provinces alone since Novem-
ber.
David Laudreth, the we'll known seed grow
er and merchant of Philadelphia, died Sun
day, age 7s years.
The wooden min Of the Mantle Company
At Lynnc Conn, vas burned on Monday.
Loss Si9,0O0.
The public schools at kokomo, Ind, have
been closed for two weeks on account ofan
epidemic of scarlet fever,
langdon W. Moore alias Charles Adams,
was held in $4,000 at Boston Tuesday for
breaking into the Warren Savings Institution.
A third of the business portion Of the vii
lage Of Brewsters, N. y, was destroyed by
fire Tuesday. The loss is estimated at $780,
600,
The distinguished pulpit orator, Rev.
| Thomas Guard, will shortly leave California
| to resume the pastoral charge OF Mount Yer,
/ non Church, Baltimore, Nd,
| A joint resolution appropriating $4,000
for the relief Of the poor in Ireland, was in
/ ,roduced in the New Jersey House of Repre-
sentatiyes on Monday night.
! A gunner Of the Dayton Light ARTILLERY had
an arm broken aud hand blown OH by the
premature discharge OF cannon, while hiring
a salute in Cincinnati on Monday.
Jacob Lincoln, an elderly man, was muir
dered 10y George Woods, in quarrel over a
game OF cards at laeey's Springs, near Har'
risonburg, Va, February 20th. The mur-
derer has been arrested
Mailadvices from Guaymas lsaP Paz, received
in San Francisco Monday, report the suppress
sion Of the rebellion in Lower California,
Some OF the reyoluiionsts have fled and others
surrendered.
The miners of the Cumberland region in
MARYLAND struck Monday, only the New
Central, Maryland, Borden, Georges Greek
and franklin Companies yielding to the de-
mand Of the men for 65 cents per ton.
A recent cyclone at the FIJI Islands caused
serious loss Ut life and destruction of ofproperty.
A Queensland steamer caught in the storm
was obliged to batten down her matches, and
of 100 natives on board 80 died.
In Reading, Pa, Saturday night, party OF
Young men attacked a saloon with stones where
they had been refused drinks. The proprie.
tor, Mr.. Gehring, blaZed away at them with a
shotgun, and painfully wounded Henry
Trump.
Three insane women, one Of them widow,
the others young women. were committed 10
the insane asylum at st. John, n. b., on
Saturday. The causes OF their insanity are
said to have been loss of property by the great
, / Ult anu consequent hNAtlluNlph sNNNHs
A National Convention Of Starch Manuiac
, turers has been called by the Geo. Fox Starch
, Manufacturing Company, to meet in Cincin
matt, on the Sd Of March. 1t is expected that
at will be attended by delegates representing
in aggregate capital of Sl0O,000 900.
Mrs. Clark, respectable women, living
near Garry, in Cass county, Texas, was felo
niously assaulted and murdered ON Sunday
last. Three men were arrested, and one Oi
them confessed the crime. He was then seiz
ed by mob, mutilaied, smeared with coal
OIL set on FIRE and hanged.
A despatch from Bismarck, Dakota, OF
Tuesday, reports that theheaviestsnow sIoru
, ever known in the Northeast has ragged there
for two days. succession ofstorms has in
ierrupted travel on the Northern Pacific Rail
: road during the last two months, and onl,
three trains from the East have reached Bis
marck since the first of this month.
T The labor troubles st. Louis are increas
/ ing. The wagon makers, cabinet makers
, brT inishers, moulders, and wood carver
a,s on a strike. Teamsters, painters, tanners
| done cutters, tobacco rollers, stone masons
store porters, pressmen, yarnishers, journey
men tailors are organizing to strike for highe
wages. Uneasy symptoms are again reporteG
I among the miners of the Bellyille region.
, John DoEier, q farmer, living near DeeI
Creek. in the Virginia peninsula, made him
/ self obnoxious TO his ucighbors by eniorcinI
: the ''Eence law On Thursday night Of las
, week a mob surrounded his house and KEEP
, up fire until Dozier and colored man raj
, out of rear door towards the woods Th,
eolored man was killed, but Dozier escaped
, Nc arrests have been made.
The horses in Montreal are suffering from
small pox. They were similarly affected ii
1871, but the disease is more prevalent now
e 1t is not fatal, and when communicated 4
man has no more disastrous effect than th'
ordinary vaccination from COW yirus. Their
I is violent horse distemper, supposed to b
1 the strangles, in Inverness county, Cape bre
, ton, Many valuable animals have died of II
| On Monday afternoon one of the tanks a
the Standard Oil Works on Broadway, u
} Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire, aud the fame
communicated to another tank. Seyerg
E thousand barrels Of blazing oil flowed into ih
creek aud river, threatening the destructio
l of the works. Five hundred men were set
t work constructing dam across the creek
and the fire was thus prevented from spread
a ing The total loss on oil and machinery
!. estimated at S3l, 900.
S A colored man, named brown, aud hi
| wife, have been arrested at Galesburg, Ill
for robbing the bank at that place A larg
y sum Of money was found in their possession
a Some excited citizens took their sou TO III
j. oatskiris Of the town, few days ago, and b
y threatening TO hang him extorted 4 confei
e sion. Heimplieates, not only his parents, b'
i Bill Stumps, Of Knoxville, and Louis Eli
Il worth and Edward Adle, OF Mangon, oil (
e whom have been arrested.
z The Treasury has information Of the arre'
h near jackson, Miss, of David Finn, for MAI
c ufaclqriug and dealing in counterfeit gold IN
is silver COIN, lie admits having manufacture
II counterfeit money for forty Yeas. Russe
o Hollis, alias W. S,anly, was arrested at Greer
ii vile, Hiss, few days ago, with about S4(
d in counterfeit $40 gold pieces and $500
!, counterfeit silver coins, which Finn coniesse
to have manufactured and sold to Holli
Is James L. Parker, another customer OF Finn
l. has also been arrested at Mobile, Ala, Il
1t passing some Of the base money.
e AT aSand Lot meeting in San Francisco,
e Monday, demagogue, uamed Cannon, sa
o that "Ihey would finish their rounds. amor
% the employers Of the Chinese this week, att
a which there would be less noise made, b
h meetings would be secret aud dangerous
n those who had refused TO comply with the
e demands The Board OF Supervisors, Chi
is Of Police aud number Of private citizei
II have held consultation, which is believed
10 have reference 10 some threats made by hea
IL ney last week. Some business men favor
,e Committee Of Safety.
,r Mr. Frank D. Millet has built biIself Q
le odd studio Of three rooms at Bridgewate
% Mass. Attached TO his painting room is a
il other, which Is simply an old fashioned ki
h chen taken bodily, every particle, from q hou
b. ia the neighborhood recently torn down, whi
Of was built 10 1893. All the furnishings a
!" old fashioned. The "settle, and clock, ii
~ warming pan, the flint lock arms, the croo
ed neck sqnashes and strings Of dried apple
etc; are all there. The windows are the o
IA diamond and fox aud geese style, the ide
h lica ones put in nearly 100 years ago. Ov
!. the kitchen, accessible by an ingenious swim
q. ing ladder, is sleeping apartment for the q
lists guests, which is furnished In the d.
he corresponding TO the kitchen.
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