The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-07-03
News Of the Weak.


Three hundred families left Manitoba this
sprsng for the United Stateg
lhere were seventeen deaths from sun.
stroke IN New York Tuesday.
Tue census gives Utah population of nbopt
ldo,OOOi aud Salt Lake City about u 900.
~ W. Dellinger's Touring mills at Ripon,
WIS., were burned on Saturday night. The
loss Is about $4,000.
A boy named Spraule was killed by light
ming while fastening a horse 10 a telegraph
pole, at Carp, Ont, on Sunday.
deorge Dick was sunstruek while digging
grave at lsehighton, Pa, Monday morning,
and was found dead in the grave.
On account Of the oppressive heat Monday
outdoor work IN Camden, N. j., was gener
ally suspended, The crops are suffering for
the want Of rain.
or the eleven iron furnaces ia the Hooking
aud Shawnee (0hio) region all but two have
stopped on account Of the high price Of mi.
ming and these two will stop.
In New York Dr. S. IL. Tanner is trying
the experiment Of fasting for forty day Sew
eral medical and scientific men are closely
attending the performance.
A lire IN rapport, near Bradford, Pa, June
10, destroyed thirty.one buildings, among
them three hotels, the Post. office and the Oil
Exchange. The loss is about S35, 900.
Trees were leyelled and buildings unroofed
at Birdsyille, N. c., and Danyille, Va, Tues.
DAY, by storms. Much damage was also done
to the crops in the surro lnding country.
There was procession Of Roman Catholic
Societies ia Montreal Tuesday as public pro.
test against the expulsion of the Jesuits from
France. About 1000 persons were in the
line.
The Hood in the upper Mississippi has sub.
sided. The river fell five feet at MeGregor,
Iowa, on Monday, and the running Of railroad
trains was resumed, after suspension Of two
weeks.
The steamer Seawanhaka, plying between
New York and Roslyn, l.. l., was burned
Monday afternoon, of RandalIs Island.
About forty OF her passengers persisted By be.
ing burned or drowned.
ureat mortality is reported among the cat.
te IN Ocean and Monmouth counties, New
Jersey m consequences Of the continued
drought and heat. Destructive forest fires
counties.
The internal revenue reeeipts for the 6seal
year, which ended on the Both inst. are ahout
100000 ,000-Sl0,00O 600 more than the
receipts OF last year, and SO, 600, 900 ia excess
OF the Department estimates at the beginning
OF the present year.
Lock No. OF the l4achine Canal, at Mon.
treal, was burst in Tuesday by The steamer
Bohemian. The steamer was badly damaged,
TWO bsrges were sunk and the navigation OF
the canal was suspended for one day. The
loss is estimated at Sl0O, 600.
The Bayard family has had four members
in the United States Senate, grand. father, two
sons and grand son. The grand mother was
the daughter Of Senator, Richard Bassett,
making i've in all. No other family in the
country has been equally houored
he contract for the construction OF turn
pike from Monocacy TO Hyattstown, Nd, a
distance ofseyen miles, has been awarded hy
the directors Of the road TO Messrs. Boyau
and Gilbert, of Mechaniestown, for $4,000,
INC work TO be commenced Immediately.
During the u hours ended noon June %, Ia
New York 207 deaths occurred, and for IN,
week l,O3o. This is the highest rate Of NOR,
tality recorded this year. The increase i,
chiefly due TO the fatal prevalence OF cholera
iniantum among the children, especially Of til,
poor.
The levee at Warsaw, ILL.,, broke during
Monday night, and crevasse 200 feet wide
was formed, through which the water pour,
IN perfect torrent II is feared that all tn,
crops on an area Of $4,000 acres will be de
/ stroyed. The farmers were busy Tuesday IL
saving their live stock.
/ Christian Becker, member off firm OF panc
| makers, OF Kingston, Ont, and his little son
/ we're drowned near that city on Sunday even
ing. The boy was bathing, line being pu
out OF row boat for HIM to keep hold OF,
lie happened to let go, when the father jumpe,
out OF the boat to save him, causing il to cap
size, and both persisted.
| Tuesday was the hottest day of the season
at various points on the New Jersey coast
at Long Branch, the temperature at one tim,
was 20 degrees on the pier and 90 in the yil
/ lage. Several persons were sunstruek, one
Henry Finch, OF New York-it is believed ia
tally, AZ Perth Amboy, the Temperature
1 reached 30 degrees in the shade, al Red Baul
100, and at South Amboy lO2.
The schooner Herman Babson. which sail
| ed from Gloucester, Mass, for the Greenlnn,
haiibut fisheries on the 18th Of Nav, has beer
forced TO return by the immense quantities o
| ice she encountered off the Straits of Belle
Isle. The ice blockade was unparalleled il
the captains experience. Ii extended dowr
to the I'D parallel Of latitude, with thousands
OF leebergs Of every size and shane.
| The farmers on Long Island are great,
alarmed by the continued drought. The crop
already harvested have yielded only a fourth
| ofthe usual amount. The early cabbage, pea
aad timothy have failed, aud there is so little
pasture that many farmers arc feeding thei
cattle on hay-a thing without precedent Il
June. The thermometer marked lO2 degree
in the shade at College Point, l.. | June %
The killing Of William Jones by reyenu,
raiders, in Campbell county. Ga, last week
Is considered an outrage by the people Of tina
| coanty, II being asserted that Jones was an
unoilending young man. An indignation
meeting OF prominent citizens was held Mon
day at Red Oak, at which resolutions wer,
adopted denouncing the conduct Of the poss,
and demanding a full investigation OF tn,
killing.
Last Monday morning Mr.. Edward Hensell
oil winchester, Virginia, was engaged in box
ing with fellow clerk in hardware store il
that town when he received severe blow il
the breast and fell backward, over a wheel
barrow. He did not rise and his companion
rushed forward 10 find him dead Physician
were hastily SUMMONED, and decided that hi:
death was caused by heart disease precipita
ted by the accident. He was about seventeen
years of age.
A telegram on Tuesday from Petersburg
Va, reports the continuance Of the destruc.
tive drought in Virginia. In many counties
no rains Of any service have fallen for four
months, and the wells and streams are dryin.
up and the ground baked to hardness. II
Petersburg there is fear that the water supply
will fail, aud prayers have been offered in Ia,
churches for rain. A similar report come.
from Vermont. Throughout that State tbs
weather for the last fifteen days has been til,
hottest known in June for thirty years. III,
hay crop will be less than halt the average
and corn is backward.
A despatch from San Francisco states tia
dispatches from various sources state that the
rivers ia Oregon, and Washington Territory
and British Columbia are swollen by melting
snow, and floods are imminent. AZ no pre.
vious time for many years have the river,
been so high. In consequence Of the melted
snow at this period Of the year, Skagit river
Is rising at the rate Of ten feet daily, and has
now overlooked the banks in many places.
The Columbia river has overiowed the banks
at Portland, and most Of Front street is sab.
merged. Merchants have anticipated the
floods, and removed their goods to the upper
stories and places of safety. Great fields Of
wheat have been destroyed on lands adjacent
TO the river.
On June 20, about midnight, meteor a.
large as barrel, starting from the zenith,
plunged down the north eastern sky, and ex.
ploded near Macon, Georgia, with a report
that reserberaied for thirty seconds, and
shook the earth points distant. The me
teor was about eve seconds 10 falling, during
which time the city was liz up as though by a