The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-23
News of the Week,

Inere were y deaths from cereD0- spinal
meningitis at st. Louis last week.
Joha Errierdo, trapeze performer. fell
and broke both his lea S while rehearsing, on
Monday, at Hoboken.
Four steamers on Tuesday landed 5, III i'm
migrants at Castle Garden, New York-the
largest number ever recorded for one day.
Z. r. Blakeslee, railway postal agent, was
arrested on Tuesday at Cleveland, and over
one hundred stolen letters were found in
his possession.
Several leading farmers of Tarrant county,
Texas, have applied for a charter incorpora-
ting company to build 100000 cotton
factory in that county.
tornado passed over Chewacla Lime
kilns, Lee county, Georgia, on Sunday, I'M
roofing number of houses and completely
demolishing one dwelling. No lives were
lost.
Two train hands and seventeen passengers
were injured, all slightly, by an accident on
the Chicago aud Northwestern Railroad,
seventeen miles South of Milwaukee, on Sat
urday night.
Benjamin H. Rose, wealthy farmer of
Pike county, Pa, was killed Monday after
noon, near Milford, by being thrown from
his wagon down a steep embankment by an
unruly horse.
The farm house of Eugene Parnell at
Hastings, Neb., was struck by lightning on
Sunday night and burned to the ground. Mr..
Parnell was probably fatally injured and his
wife was killed.
\ woman named Mutt, being insane, drown
ed her five children in a well near Camden,
Arkansas, on Monday. The eldest, boy of
twelve years, she knocked in the head before
throwing him into the well.
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York. Sixty weight new cases and twenty
deaths were reported last week. There were
III smallpox and los typhus patients in the
hospital Ia New York on Tuesday.
James Leunahan was fatally injured Mon
day by being struck by train while trying to
cross the New Haven Railroad track in his
truck at Bridgeport, Connecticut. The truck
was smashed and two horses we're killed.
A terrific gale prevailed on the coast of
New England on the 9Th instant, aecompani-
ed with binding snow storm. At RoSbury,
Vermont, the snow was fOst deetp and at
some other places over two feet in depth.
Gen Joseph Lane died at his home in Rose.
burg, Oregon, Wednesday night, aged 70
year.. Gen. Lane was for many years IN the
Onited States Congress, and was candidate
for Vice President in 1850 on the Breckenridge
ticket.
4 fire al Savannah. Georgia, Monday af
teTuoon, destroyed the steamer ". 7. Wheel.
~, with 800 bales OF cotton and other freight.
snd also q warehouse on the wharf, contain
ing 80 tons of gasno and several bales Of
cotton.
There we're ten cases Of small pox among
the Chinese immigrants on the 81 Gamer Gee
anic, which arrived al San Francisco on san
day from Houg Kong. The vessel IS kept al
quarantine, but the saaiis were iamisaisd aut
sent ashore.
E Are. supposed to be the Work Of an in.
ceuiiary. destroyed thirty buildings and tents
IN San Marcial. New Mexico, on TUESDAY
night, The oaiy bnildiHg LETT in the business
parS OF the village vas one containing several
tons OF poader.
Several hundred horses are sadyt treat
meat at Chicago for a peculiar disease which
has spread yapidly The disease FIRST appears
~ swelling below the fe,lBck, bn, unless
JTompJIy treated develops into running sore,
which resalts ia jeaih.
Il WAS showing on Mouus Washington from
the llth 70 the l9,A lassani, the saow on the
saamiJ htins deeper ard the drils greater
than ~ any time during Ihc wister. Tue
temperature vas Il above Eero, the ~isd We
ioSisy Iuo miles per hour.
4 tornado in Ores county, Arkansas, oH
Friday 81 last 4cCk ievellei trees and houses
and caused, as TAR as knoua. loss Of i've
iivrs, besides iuIaraE May persons one
woman vas iosnG dead in a tree top, with her
babe IN her arms eniaiaFed.
While repairing = bridge on the Moatreal
Railroad, al East Concord, New Hampshire,
oa SasdAy, tsrsy men ~ere ssrpi Oh tbs s,rac-
tare by ibe ssinsisg aruasd vi large piece
u lumber. and feIi 20 the track siieen feet be
los -Four citizen we're seriously injured.
The tuvlfth aauaal resaioa of the Society
Of the Array Of the Potomac uitl b hsld 81
Hartford, Conuectisgt, GA The sta Of Igae-
Msjor Geacrai Horatio q. Wright ssa pre-
side. naalsl DaagheCty gill deliver the ora
iion, aad CaplAia 5. b sammer read the
poem
Arabic laad Ia England has been gradually
decreasing In area, the decrease - Hye years
being az, go ACRES and thcgc has also been
a decrease IL the uzmbeg Of cattle adecrease
% 90 feRer tkna 500 Coo sheSp SINCE 1874,
and an appreciable rsdacii0p in the namber
Of PCS aad horses
4 paister named Harrison was bound and
robbed % 800 b. three masked neu, 10 bis
kouss IN -. Fraacis county, Arkansas, on
FRIDAY ujEhs Of .asg seek. Tie robbers were
pursued ~ q body Of armed msa, one Of them
wAs capiared, another aaortally wounded. and
tbs third escaped.
Hcury Tetler, st Philadelphia, uho vas
bitten by : dog zb0ai HIne weeks ego, ~as
.siEed ujih hydraphobiA on Saturday, and
continued IN couvulssoas untii A0aday syea
ing, when be died. Peter hireheT vas bit
tea al gse sane ume sy the animal bas as
YET has sbowz no synPto rs o. the masady.
l.ocass eontinae gbeiE rayagcs throughout
the island Of New Caledonia aided by the long
and severe drought Over 5f09 k'lss lover
SIX and eae- hAlf tons Of young iocasIs have
been basgcd, delivered 10 AMI paid ior 81
raie Of oae irane kilo by The Government
II Is estimated that Ihas 81 COO, 600 have been
destroyed
Serious foods are reported in Wisconsin,.
Al Fond da lac The giyer - q raging forrest,
and at 6ve o clock Monday Aitegaooa u had
flooded the Westefs section Of the city, CON
pelhzg iAmJhes IN three OF the wards 70 gait
their dwellings,. At Waterfowl the river
was rising rapidly. and two bridges bad been
swept away.
The Department OF Cus,oms, at Ottawa,
has printed and sent is every Collector IN the
Dominion a 'biaek list, containing the
names Of all exporters in the United States
who have al any time given invoices OF goods
under valued. The Collectors are directed to
| pay particular attention 10 all eaIries made by
suspected parties.
Z Ia test case at Milwaukee, on Saturday,
Judge Mallory decided the Anli- treating law
passed by tbs last Legislature OF Wisconsin,
10 be imperative and void, because Of aH error
T IN the text Of It's supposed enactment Ihe
Z bill A. drawn specified the repeal OF al esd
( aw that was dropped in the receat revision
I Of the State statutes.
+ There was u saddeu collapse in the pork
corner at Chicago Wednesday and under
I heavy sales and hundreds OF Eumors the price
for Jane, which opened weak al Sls.S5, sold
with many fluctuations and great excitement
I doNa to Sl7.2O, lard and meats declining IN
proportion, At noon the price for pork WAS
( Sl7.35 bid, which was ~ cents higher than
4 fve minutes before.
( There had been = serious division ia the
colsred Methodist church at Ehzabethtown,
+ Ky. a meeting OF the members developed a
/ great amount OF bitterness, When all IN IA
/ yor of a certain resolution we're requested to
hold up their right haAds Brother Winter.
/ bowers hand was upliited, and Brother Lee
/ shot q bullet through il. Both men then fired
/ indiscrimiHately, and the gathering dispersed
without waiting for formal dismissal.
I Agent Berry writes from Los PiEos Agen-
cy, under date Of the LIST inst, that there IS no
/ foundation for the reports Of indications OF q
/ hostile feeling among the Ute Indians. IL is