The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-02-21
News Of the week.

Sunday schools we're first established in
/ England in 1880, and grand centenary les
I tiyal is being organized there.
A fire in nornellsville, n. Y. sunday night,
destroyed four brick stores, with the DelaSan
House and the City Hall, causing loss oil
$50, 900.
A gold deposit five feet in depth is report
ed to have been discovered in the township oil
Madoc, near Delleyille, Ont. Ii is being
worked BY Buffalo capitalists.
The cabinet makers Of ST. Louis threaten to
strike for an advance Of 10 per cent. in their
wages. The brass founders and tiuishers
are already on astrike.
4 The free warehouse portion OF the Empire
| Warehouse, on Market street, in Chicago
was destroyed by ire on Saturday night.
/ The total loss is about SII5,OOO.
An Ohio girl sued man for breach CT
/ promise, aud proved him such mean scoun'
! drel that the Jury decided she ought 20 pay
/ him something for not marrying her.
/ An attempt has been made to blow up the
! Russian imperial family in the Winter Palace.
Five soldiers we're killed and IS wounded,
Three fourlhs Of the strikers in the braid
mills, at Attleboro Falls, II. have resumed
work at the old prices. The places OF the
other strikers are being filled by girls from
| New York.
The necessary authority has boen obtained
for the participation OF the troops ~ Fortress
Monroe in the parade in Norfolk, Va, on
the 22d, In connection with the convention OF
the Mexican Veterans.
The Amoskeag, Manchester aud Stark cor
porations, Of Manchester, n. H., will increase
/ the wages of their employees TO 10 pee cent,
on the LIST of March. II is said the Derry
/ Mills will also give an increase.
Frank Dillingham;, who murdered his aunt
( near Londonderry, n. H., recently, died in
| the Jail at Portsmouth, n. H., Sunday morn
/ ing, from the effects of the bullet wound in
/ his head, inflicted by himself.
! The futile 4 Whttemore Compauy's Nal
/ leable Iron Works, at Union City, Conn,
| we're damaged by fire Sunday morning to the
+ extent Of about 81, 200. Three hundred
persons are thrown out Unemployment by this
lire.
I'm the Maine Senate Tuesday commuuica.
ton was received from the Governor show.
ing the expenses connected with the recent
action Of the late Governor aud council in
seating aud unseating members amounting to
$4,000.
Thomas +. Phillips, a retired merchant,
partially paralyzed, was garotted and robbed
in Thompson street, New York, by three col
ored wo men, Sunday night The women
were afterwards arrested, aud stated they were
from Philadelphia.
The intense cold weather in British Co
lumbia has been so fatal to stock, that unless
there is a speedy change to mllder temper
ature, the colony is expected to be largely
dependent on Oregon and California for meat
for ut least three years to come.
DR.. Edward $. May, juror in the Roihs
child tobacco case, at Detroit, was fined SlOl
ON Saturday, by Judge Brown, because he
went in the night time to the house Of one o.
the defendants for the purpose Of conierng
with him ia reguard 10 the verdict IN the case
Rev DR.. j. Il. Jeter, one of the Oldcs
Baptist ministers in Virginia, died IN Rich
mond, Wednesday, aged rs years lie was
native OF Bedford county, Va. entered til,
ministry in 1872, and was present at the or
gauization Of the Baptist General Association
of Virginia, in ls2a.
The business Of lending money 10 farmers
so far as Illinois is concerned, seems to hay,
come to an end. In fact, there is no deman,
for money at all. The farmers have beel
meeting their January interest promptly, ais,
paying of their mortgages that have becom
due. Very few farms are being sold under
foreclosure.
. Owing to the remarkable increase 10 til,
price OF printing paper, the proprietorS o
T newspapers in New Orleans ON Tuesday he'll
meeting and resolved TO ask the Louisiana
Representatives in Congress TO use their ia
fuence to have the duty on printing paper
chemicals and materials used in the manuiac
ture thereof removed or materially reduced
A strange murder case has just come t.
light in Newfoundland. twenty-five year
ago a man named Bearns was murdered b.
one Collins. Six months ago an importan
witness, who was present at the the time o
the murder. gave evidence beiur magistrat
which has resulted Ia the arrest Of Collins
who Is now in Jail at Bureu, ~ s., awaiting
trial.
The New York papers state that Mrs Jen
ME Collins Tyler, niece Of eX-Presiden
r Tyler, died in great poverty 10 Brooklyn
, Tuesday, and that unless some assistance i
rendered she will be buried in Potler's field
'. 1t is said the deceased was once a reignin
belle in Washington aud possessed Of a com
, Portable fortune, which was spent BY her frs
husband, who then deserted her. The secon,
|, husband, Collins, is very poor aud withou
work.
The little town Of 0sceola, Green county
Kentucky, has been almost swept away by
ireshet in Little Barren river. A number o
\ houses were carried off with nearly all ihei
, contents. Many persons were hardly able I
, get their furniture out before the water sal
, merged their homes, Goach's fine hourin
! mill was shivercd TO pieces by dashing waite
, and carried down the current. The loss
will foot up Sl00,000.
= Five steamers left New York on Saturda
r last for Europe. The live stock shipment
, are on the increase, and there is also a stead
. movement in fresh meat. 90 tons of the la
=. ter were shipped to LIVERPOOL 1900 quarter
beef to Glasgow; 500 quarters beef, 200 ca
4 cases sheep, and 10 head cattle TO l.ondoi
. $50 tons fresh meat, % horses, $50 sheer
. 100 pigs aud 1856 head Of cattle TO Liverpool
. and 200 head OF cattle to Hull. The graf
r aud provision shipments were up to the ave
!, age.
!. Much excitement prevails at Cleveland, q
i over the mysterious disappearance Of Berthol
. Landon, OF the National Kischerscher Bars,
/. Society, who bad in his keeping nearly $40
!. 600 Of the society's funds. He announce
e his intention Of going to New York two weel
/. ago, and is known TO have had SI7, 900 on h
person then, since which time he has not bee
. seen. Ii is feared he has been foully dea
= with. At the same time ii has been asce
! tanned that there are no fundsin bank whei
3 $4,000 fthe societys money was suppose
. to have been deposited
o The gross earnings Of the Northern Paciii
II Railroad for January, 1880, were S8i, Sl3; f
!. January, 1879, were $37, 0l4; increase, Sll
4 800. We see il stated that the general mar
. ager Of this road has been recently inieryiev
I ed on the progress Of some Of the recent er
4 terprises Of the company. He states that
/. amount Of work has been done on ii
= Dakota division west Of, the Missouri riy,
q during the present winter, and preparation
). are being made to push the construction 1
soon rs the severe weather is over. He G,
: poets to have completed aud opened for has
ness about $50 miles Of road wesl OF n
Missouri river early in the summer, and thl
! the whole 205 miles from Bismarck TO II
: Yellowstone will be opened By Septemb,
= next. The work for the Yellowstone diyisis
!. tits proposed TO put under contract as soc
!. as the engineers now making survey of ii
!, line have completed their work and locat.
the road. This part Of the line will trayer
1 large portion Of hne pasture lands in No
. tana, and the general manager says that
: completion will give the line an immense bu
, mess IN the way Of bringing cattle to Il
i. Atlantic seaboard. Contracts have alreai
been made TO bring out large number Ii
! current year. In point Of quality Il Is clai,
\ ed that the Montana cattle are not inferior
the best granted stock raised in the State
: Work on the Pacific end Of the road is nj
being pushed forward. The rails for the 2
miles OF track now under contract are uo,v