The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-11-27
News Of the week.

pFoht OF N%o,OVO Tor his owner this season.
John Conk, aged so years, ofdissolute hab-
rs, was found frozen TO death a; Long Branch
Tuesday morning.
The steam barge Morley, with q 900 bush.
els OF wheat, foundered at Long Point, Lake
Erie, on Sunday.
A thirty-two acre farm at Bareyille, Ian.
caster county, Pa, sold recently for $4,000
"a tritie over S2S4 per acre,
Professor James c. Watson, the eminent
astronomer, died Tuesday in Madison, Wis
consin, in the AID year OF his age.
Liverpool is talking Of getting her water
supplied from Wales through sixty seven miles
OF tunnel and dams seyenty-two feet high.
James D. Williams, Governor of Indiana,
popularity known as "Blue Jeans died on
Saturday, in indianapolis, aged ~ years.
Rev. Daniel N. Dorset died at Rlgin, ILL.,,
on Saturday. at the age Of 100 years, months
aud days. lie was a native of England
The Chinese appear to be leaving the eoun,
try Of their own accord Thus far in Novem.
Der over 1900 have sailed from San Francis.
CO.
The British steamer Bran,ford City, Captain
Alien, which arrived at West Hartepool on
the 10th ultimo from Boston, lost 4T6 head Of
cattle on the passage.
Diphtheria Of q very violent type is spread.
ing rapidly in Chicago, aud landlords are DO.
ing compelled to put the sewer pipes in their
houses in good condition.
Mr., Edwin Booth has sent telegram pro
testing against the production ofthe so called
''PassionPlay' at the New York theater built
by him which bears his name.
DIR. Thomas Wood, prominent surgeon OF
Cincinnati, died on Sunday of blood poison.
ing, caused by attending, with chapped hands
some persons injured in a recent railroad dis.
Aster.
Two ladies', Mrs. Frederick Chateau and
Mrs Amanda Gregorie, while crossing the ri,
yer on the ice from Dubuque, Iowa, f,A~day
evening, missed the track, fell into an all
hole and were drowned.
Benjamin Hasselman, one Of the inmates Of
the insane asylum at st. Peters, Mimi, has
confessed that he set fire to the building. He
was one Of the milder patients, aad allowed
the freedom Of the place.
The Commissioner of Pensions, in his an
nual report, shows that on the Both of June
last Zoo, 0S2 persons were receiving pensions
from the Government. Since 1861 there has
been pad 10 pensioners S455, sos.
Monday last was the day fixed by the Mil.
lerites, or Second Adventists, for the end Of
world. Disappointed again, but nothing
daunted, they will fix upon some other day,
and cherish their delusion all the same.
The Public Produce Exchange in Chicago
suspended Monday owing to the sudden rise
in grain, provisions, etc. Its liabilities arc
estimated at upwards Of 100000. Several
smaller concerns have suspended for the same
reason.
A dispatch from Rome says a terrific thun.
der storm, during which the rain fell in tor.
rents, prevailed there en- the 2lst inst. The
waters Of the Tber reached the lower streets.
Reports from other parts of the country are
alarming.
Diphtheria aud scarlet fever are prevailing
to an alarming degree in Brooklyn, n. Y.
Last week l1l cases of diphtheria we're re.
ported, Of which 40 were fatal. On Sunday
and Monday over 40 new cases were record.
ed at the health office.
The annual meeting OF the Western Asso.
ciated Press was held in Detroit, Michigan,
on Tuesday. Annual reports we're made
showing an expenditure for the past year of
about $4,000 for collection aud distribution
of news by telegraph.
A dispatch from Kieff, Russia, reports that
a great outbreak Of typhus has taken place in
the prison there, where there are a number
Of nihilists confined. Two hundred out of
seven hundred and fily prisoners have been
stricken with the fever.
A telegram from Knoxville reports that at
wedding reception near Kingston, Tenn
twenty seven persons we're poisoned by eating
cakes in which arsenic had been used in mis-
take for soda. Six Of those poisoned have
died, and three others are not expected to re-
cover.
Captains Francis, Franklin and Frederick
Sherwood, triplet brothers, and all retired
shipmasters, celebrated their 10th birthday in
Westport, Conn, on the 3D. inst. Their
mother is asserted to have been over fifty
years old at the time Of their birth, and they
are the only survivors Of her ten children.
At Reading, Pa, on Tuesday morning j .
NJ. Houek, aged thirty five, met with fright.
ful death. he was employed in the rolling
mill OF the Reading Iron Company When
near two very large revolving cog wheels be
was caught and drawn lengthwise. His body
was literally cut into line pieces, as were also
his clothes, shoes, &c.
The Chiefof the bureau of Statistics reports
that the total values Of the exports Of domes.
tic provisions and tallow from the United
States during the month of October, 1880,
were 81 ,4GS, 5l6, and during October, 1879,
S7,9S2,7lS. For the ten months ended Octo.
Der Slst, 1880, Sis, 1874, 4S0, and for the
same period in 1879 $50, 1914, 293.
The Delaware beet sugar factory is now
working up about fifty tons of beets per day.
The beets produce from s to Il per cent of
saceharine matter, aud are paid for the rate OF
$500 to 81 per ton. Ii is expected that the
factory will yield this season $4,000 pounds
of raw sugar, 200, 1000 pounds Of inolasses aud
!, 100 tons Of pulp, which is now selling at 81
per tor.
Two engines and niue freight cars were
wrecked by a collision ON the New York and
New England Railroads, uear Andover, Tues.
day. Several train hands were injured, one,
q breakman, named Peter Aplehet, so badly
that be died that night. The damage to prop
erty Is estimated at $4,000. The disaster is
attributed to the carelessness Of an engineer
named Gillette, who has disappeared.
That was salutary lesson given by Judge
Briggs, Of Philadelphia, recently, to the man
who wanted to be excused from jury duty on
the ground OF business 81 will excuse no
man. said the Judge, "for business reasons.
The business men are the very ones who are
continually clamoring and growing because
oil the Incompetence of juries, and yet these
very men and others, when they are summon
ed, come into court and get excused, and the
consequence is that the business Of the court
is turned over to the $3.50 men. We might
as well close the courts. The thing must be
stopped.
]. c. Levengood, a lad, Of Chester county,
Pa, in contesliug for the prize for corn cult.
walton, offered by the Chadd's Ford Farm
Club, raised corn at the rate of 1872 bushels to
the acre. This is not equal to the winner of
the first Bond prize, in Hartford county, Md,
who raised corn at the rate Of 200 bushels and
40 pounds to the acre. In the Pennsylvania
contest, however, the corn was not cut until
two weeks later than in the Bond contest, and
was not husked till twenty days had elapsed
from the time it was cut, so that its weight
was considerably decreased by the fae drying
weather. -
A. j.. Tullis, lawyer, and Jacob Nina, m
dicted ia Cincinnati for extensive forgeries,
were arrested Tuesday. II is alleged that, ia
connection with Cornelius McGoldrick, they
forged deeds to large tracts of land owned By
Jeremiah Tullis, an eccentric millionaire,
who died about two years ago, and that lands
in lows, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee
were thus disposed Of The deeds were made
from Tullis to AeGoldrick, dated wear or
two before Tullis' death; then MeGoldrick
would deed the land to another Of the party,
who would sell il to an innocent person. I'll
is said that ten thousand acres OF land, near
Fort Dodge, Iowa, we're sold by the accused
10 Innocent victims, who have settled upon
the tract.
J. Floyd King, Congressman from the Sc .
venfh District of I,onisiana has urittan a Ia,