The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-05-08
News Of the Week.

Dayton, Ohio, was burned Sunday. Loss,
S35, 600.
A bin providing that jurors must be able
to read aud write has passed the keatucky
Senate.
Thomas A. Scott resigned the Presidency
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ON
Saturday.
Three creyasses we're reported in the Mis-.
sissippi River at different points above New
Orleans Monday.
Snow fell 10 Pike county, Pa, on Friday
night Of last week, and ice formed in places
quarter of an inch thick.
Philadelphia alone produces annually u
100000 more yards OF Competing than the
whole Of Great Britain.
Two men were found hanging TO tree in
Denton county, Texas, on Sunday. II Is
supposed they were horse thieves.
The sum OF $4,000 in aid OF the Irish Relief
Fund was raised at public demonstration in
Hayerhill, Mass, on Saturday night.
Telephone connection was established on
Sunday between Charlotte, n. c., aBd Grear-
vile, s. c., ITO miles distant from each other.
The First Light Infantry Veteran Association
Of Providence, r, l., voted Tuesday evening to
take part in the Yorktown celebration next
year.
A FIRE in olcott 4 King Law office, Albany,
Sunday morning, destroyed several old and
valuable portraits, among them one OF Ruiu
II. King, ST., and one OF Thnrlow Weed.
All the growing crops throughout Alabama
are reported to be several weeks behind those
Of last year, and the weather continues unia'
vorable.
There were snow squalls along the Hudson
river on Saturday. The Catskills are still
snow.clad, and ice formed in Green and VI
ster counties, N. Y, on Saturday morning,
Adam Waggoner, an old man, was shot
dead by his nephew Philip, on his farm, in
Gallia county, Ohio, on Saturday. They had
quarrelled about some laAd. The murderer
fled.
The Long Branch Hotel, at Alameda, CAL,
was burned Tuesday. The flames were start.
ed by the use of coal oil to kindle fire and
Mary Spaulding was burned to death. The
loss on the building is $4,000.
The Chippewa river in Wisconsin is very
high at Chippewa Falls. Ii is estimated that
from the Big Eddy to Eagle Rapids, dis.
lance Of Eve miles, there is log raft contain
| ing over 100, 200, 900 feet Of lumber.
| Joseph Smith, son of the original Joe Smith,
| on Sunday dedicated church of Latter Day
Saints, or Joe Smith Mormens, as they are
sometimes styled, in Chicago. Ii is the first
regular church of the sect in that city.
On Friday of last week Mr.. Hayes tender
| ed Postmaster General Key the position oil
| U, S. District Judge for Eastern and Middle
| Tennessee, made vacant by the death Of Judge
Tritf, aud Mr.. Kew accepted the position.
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Pa
terson, n. j., was destroyed by fire about two
O'Clock Sunday morning. The FIRE was pro.
baby the work ofaR incendiary. An attempt
was made to burn the building few moathS
ago.
Two South Carolinians, who have been at
law four years for the possession of bull,
are still at it, The costs exceeds 81 900, ex.
elusive OF counsel fees, and the bull is dead.
Its hide has been stuffed and is to be produc.
ed in the court.
There are now living near Lynnville, Team,
! three persons who are known to be over 100
years of age. One is a white man, one a ne.
gro man aud the third negro woman. The
white maa's age is 1902, the others cannot be
told exactly, but are known to be over 100.
Fifteen miles of new sewers have been laid
in Memphis, and house connections are being
made as rapidly as possible. The work Is
substantially completed in the business and
thiekly settled portions Of the city. In the
less thickly built regions, operations will be
carried on until the LIST Of Juns.
Mr.. McEachran, the veterinarian Of the
Dominion Government, saws the hog cboIera
is prevalent among all American hogs. Not.
outstanding this, the Dominion Minister Of
Agriculture has ordered that American hogs
shall be allowed TO enter Canada, on condi.
ton that they are slaughtered on their arrival.
A Telegram from Chicago says that hot
weather and oyercroxding caused q remark
able mortality among the hogs arriving there
Monday. 1t appears that 20 car loads of
IaaA 80 - .ss -, Il,
| and in one car Of lOl hogs 81 were dead. 30
| crippled, and only IA in good condition. In.
stances we're frequent Of 20 or 80 hogs dead in
one car.
George W. Bernadou frame cottage, barn
and outhouses at Claymont, Del, we're burned
to the ground Sunday morning. Maggie Nc.
Namara, domestic, persisted in the flames,
and another servant, Mary Hall, received Sc.
we're injuries by jumping from an upper window
Of the residence. The other inmates of the
house escaped.
/ A herd OF %, 500 cattle are being driven
| from Oregon to Montana; 100 mounted men dc
the driving, and the outfit includes provision
wagons, arms and ammunition, 500 horses, and
forty dogs. The journey is made slowly, A
days travel not exceeding nine miles, and
the speed will be lessene when hot weathe,
comes on, in order not to get the beasts into
bad condition.
Mexican herders s,old all the eggs that
Shaefer's hens laid, at Webb, Texas. So ht
bored holes in several eggs, ard drugged then
with tartar emetic. There were several sicI
men in the neighborhood next day and Shaef.
err was delighted; but that night he was mobbed
and so nearly killed that his recovery wa,
ut FIRST deemed impossible.
A wealthy farmer named Miner, living neal
Jonesboro, Ind, who had been adiudGed in
sane, but not confined, became Jealous OF 4
poor neighbor named johnson. On Frida,
evening they met aud quarrelled, and Minel
cut Johnson's throat with razor, killing hin
on the spot. The lunatic then took TO III,
woods with bottle of stryehnine, but seem
not to have used the drug, as his body wa
found on Saturday with the throat cut by III,
same razor that killed his victim.
Harvey P. Fureusou, of Edineburg. Ind
about six weeks ago caught common hous,
rat in -four barrel, and endeavored to smoth
er il with o meal sack. Ia the struggle 10
life the rodent bit him on the thumb, Tn,
wound was mere scratch, and healed nm /,
few days. A month had not elapsed whe,
the thumb became sore, and his whole system
was filed with poison. After enduring In
tense pain lock Jaw set in, and was foliowe,
by hydrophobia, ending in death on Thurs
day Of last week.
On Monday morning the German socie,ie
Of Paterson, n. j., assembled Garrett Noun
tain ''io greet the rising Of the sun as usua
on the first Sunday in May" Some youn
men attempted to cross the farm Of William