The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-12-18
News of the Week.


Twenty-Five feet have been added 10 the
monamentin Washington.
A petition for the appointment ola woman
on the police force is circulated in Milwaukee
One hundred and sixty.eight new cases of
diphtheria were reported in Brooklyn, n. Y,
last week
On Monday the steamships Mosel aud Ari.
zona brought from Europe in gold bars aud
gold coins S3,43s, 600
Ernest A. Thomalin, stamp clerk Ia the
Internal Revenue office a; Chicago, is reported
TO have disappeared with $1,000.
A successful porcelain factory is being run
by Frenchmen in New Orleans The clay
used is from Louisiana and Texas.
A couple Of Cincinnati servant girls, Mary
aud Rosa Stegeman, have fallen heirs to q
fortune Of 100000 by the death Of an aunt in
Philadelphia.
The Rev. II. C, Yates, of Dixon, Ill.,,
brought suit for SANDER against the deacon
who accused him Of immortality. The verdict
was for the deacon.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British minister
to Washington, is soon to be succeeded by
Francis Cape Ford, who was secretary of lega.
ton at Washington in lS6IGS.
Aiaelory has been discovered at Milwaukee
from which II, 900 pounds of oleomargarine
are sent out every day, with no marks TO dis.
tinguish il from genuine butter.
Three men were frozen to death while sleep.
ing in the streets in New York. Saturday
night. Hymen Vallenberg was found frozen
stiff in his room in the same city.
Genevieve Pilson, sixteen. months. old
baby, was burned to death on Saturday by
upselting a coal oil lamp in her
parents house in Baltimore, Md.
II G..Il. -. - 80 r
Eugene Hale, had his skull fractured by
stroke Of lever, last Saturday, in Turner,
Maine. He is not expected to recover.
Stella Sehwab, aged two years, was Killed
on Saturday by the bursting of a range in her
parents house in Baltimore, Nd. Mrs.
Sehwab and her little boy we're also injured
Great freshets, causing serious damage, are
reported in British Columbia. They followed
an incessant rainfall Of forty hours, and car
ried off all the snow and ice from the river
valleys.
Elbert and Jacob Lee went TO sleep in their
wagon ten miles from Savannah on Tuesday
night, and while sleeping were knocked in the
head by some negroes and robbed Of $500.
The former will die.
The steamship ST. Adams arrived at Balti.
more, on Saturday, with the captain and
eighteen sailors Of the British bark Belgrayia,
from Quebec for Greenock, abandoned in a
sinking condition on the 2sth ult
Mrs. James Jones, wife Of wealthy far.
mer, near independence, Mo-, and her two
little children were killed by the explosion of
a can Of kerosene, which the mother was fill.
ing lighted lamp with Monday night.
The foreman Of the Boston and Albany
Railroad machine shops, in Albany, Boston
and Springfield, have been ordered TO reduce
the payroll of the shops 10 per cent, and
the shops at Hudson will be closed for the
winter.
Ohio papers say that goitre is prevailing in
epidemic form in the southern portion of
Montgomery county, that State, and causing
much alarm. There are some 40 cases ia
one township, and 05 per cent. of the victims
are women.
The steamship Arizona, which arrived at
New York on Monday afternoon, made the
passage from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in
Z days, % hours and 80 minutes, which is re.
garded as very quick passage for this sea.
son Of the year.
1t is proposed TO tattoo recruits ia the
British army as a check against desertions,
which now reach FIVE thousand year. A
small instrument has been offered to the Horse
Guards, furnished with spring, which cuts
a y luslaElAlkOuhlNs
only requires Indian ink to be rubbed on to
make il indelihle.
At Dcnville, Va, Wednesday, James T.
Whitfield, colored, was convicted of burglary
committed in October last, and sentenced TO
the penitentiary for term Of eighteen years.
After committing the burglary the convict set
fire TO the house, in which several children
were sleeping, and they were in danger of
being burned to death.
The Yorktown Centennial celebration will
begin on the 9th Of October, 1881, and las,
twenty-five days. The United States Govern
ment will be allotted the opening day, the day
OF laying the corner stone and the closing day.
The other days will be allotted to the States
which have been admitted to the Union since
the Revolutionary War.
The members of the NJ. Z. Church at Red
Bank, n. j., who seeded on account Of a dis.
pute about the pastor, have gained their case
III the State Court Of Appeals, in which the
parent congregation claimed subscriptions
promised by the seeding members. The
court decided the claim unjustfable. The
seceders are going to build church of their
own.
During the last seven years the production
of the gold aud silver mines of the United
States aggregated $3.50, 0OO, 900 in gold, and
$2Tl, 10000 in silver This is an average
yearly production Of 40,0O0, 600 gold and
S3s, 100000 silver. 0fthe total production,
about 95l per cent. of the gold and Coz per
cent. OF the silver went to the minis and assay
Offices TO be converted into coin or bars.
After four days blockade by snow, train
LEFT Tracy, Minnesota, for the East on We'd.
nesday evening Of last week, with $50 passen-
gers. AT half-past two O'Clock on Thursday
morning, near New Ulm, the axle tender
broke, and all but oue of the cars we're thrown
from the track, and upset in the snow. Sew.
eral oil the cars were wrecked, aud a baggage
car was partially destroyed By ERE. Nine Of
the passengers were seriously injured, but all
suffered greatly froG the cold, the tempera.
ture being 20 degrees below zero. They
were transferred TO New Ulm as soon as pcs.
sible.
An area OF high pressure moved down from
the North to the Lower Lake region during
thursday night Of last week, bringing with il
very cold weather. The temperature at Parry
Sound, Ontario, Friday morning, was 20 de
srees below zero. At Burlington, Vermont,
the temperature was 2 degrees below zero.
AT Davenport, Iowa, it was degree above
zero. At Lacrosse, Wis, and Indianapolis,
Indiana, it was al zero. The cold wave de
esSNNAe VIZ foiiNg VI tue IluuaOh Ittudl
night, the temperature falling to zero al
Poughkeepsie. AtLong Branch, NevJ Jersey
the temperature was below zero before sun
rise Friday.
II must be confessed that the building Of q
stable for twenty horses on the top Of pri
waite mansion, access TO which is obtained b,
means ofalift, iscaleulated to awaken feeling
OF astonishment even in these days of maryels
Yet this is the case on house Just erected il
Belgraye square, London, by Mr.. Sassuon
Ground is very valuable in that Fashionable,
part OF London, and by RELOCATING the horse
10 the top of the house two birds are killes
with one stone, for space is saved and tn,
smell Of the stables avoided The horses d,
not seem By any means to object to the mod,
Of ascent; possibly they are unconscious of /
on account Of the closed shutters of the lift
t