The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-10-22
News of the Week.

NEWS OF L16 w 6ohs
During September 5S,45 immigrants ar
rived in this country.
The Accomac, Va, sweet potato crop is
valued at Sl,0O0,000 this year.
Richardson & Robbins, of Dover, Del,
paid $40 per ton for tomatoes this season.
The Q. S. Senate adjourned on Saturday
in order TO participate in the Yorktown cele-
bration.
The dried apple crop of Casey county, KY,
will produce more money than the corn crop
this season.
In Chicago, last week, there were 80 deaths
from typhoid fever, 81 from smallpox, 10
| from diphtheria and 25 from other zymouc
diseases.
1t is estimated that the expenses incident
TO the late Presidents sickness, including
medical and surgical attendance, will aggre-
gate possibly $4,000
Straw is usually burned in California to get
rid of it. Daniel Whitmore has devised
press by which he turns straw into better fuel
than wood, and equal to coal.
The Supreme Court of the United States
convened on the 10th inst, with docket
| burdened with nearly one thousand cases. 1t
is said to be about FIVE years behind with its
| business.
Guiteau was arraigned in the Criminal Court
| at Washington Oct Il, and his trial was set
| down for November It'll. The question Of
! jurisdiction is to be argued and determined
| before October Both.
Two hundred coal miners from Germany
passed through Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday
| for the Corning mining regions, where they
are to work for five years on contract at
about twothirds of the price now paid for
coal digging.
A heavy sleet storm set in at Cheyenne,
| Wyoming, on Thursday of last week, which
Frustrated all the telegraph wires. The storm
Is moved eastward. Sunday morning the
temperature at Cheyenne was only degrees
above zero.
Governor Wilt, of Louisiana, died in New
! Orleans on Sunday. He was elected to the
/ legislature in 1874, and was speaker at the
time the legislature was dissolved, January 4,
! 1875, by the federal army, and protested
against that act in the strongest terms.
The relations between Mexico aud Gua,e.
mala are reported to be critical, owing 20
boundary dispute. The Guatemalan Govern
ment has asked mediation of our Government,
which has consented, bat Mexico refuses ar
biiratiou. The dispute, now becoming threat
ening, has lasted fifty years.
The total subscriptions to the Mrs Garfield
fund received and paid to the United States
| Trus, Company OF New York, amount TO
/ $3.50, s45.74 OF this SS4s, a6S75 has been
paid for the purchase Of $4,000 IN Z. 5.
Four Per Cent. Registered Bonds, leaving
cash balance with the company Of Sll $500.
John McCarthyTs house at Crooks Corn
ers. in Franklin county. New Y ork, was burn
ed on Saturday night last, and his four boys,
10 an upper room, were burned 10 death.
Mccarthy made an attempt TO rescue the
boys, but was driven back by the flames, and
he. his wife and three hltle daughters barely
escaped with their lives.
0ne hundred and Eve women. aged from
rs 10 50, were arrested on Sunday in New
YORK city as vsETanIs, habitgai drankards aud
idisrs. They we're sent 20 prison for terms
Tarying froul ten days TO six months One
Of the women, whose husband was in prison,
had an iniAHs boy, who Was entrusted 10 the
Society foT the Prevention Of Cruelty 10 Chil-
drSu.
Advieos from China and Japan to Septen-
Der Il. BY steamer which arrived n San Fran
cisco on Sunday last, state that terrible u
phooa bad devastated the Interior. A village
In The kow district vas swept away, aud ali is
inhabitants drowaed. Two hundred bodies
I bad been recovered. A iyphoon along the
japanese coasts, on September 18Th and
( i4sh, caused great destruction Of property
and the loss Of many lives.
since the lstof January las, there have been
/ 1859 cases 81 smallpox IA Chicago Of Which
/ about 90 per cent have proved fatal The
/ greater uauber Of cases have occurred IA one
wArd--the fouriccush-whers attempts al
vaccination lave been resisted b. s'opsn vio-
/ Hence AZ tines" Il is estimated that therc
! arc 20, coo persons IA thai ward uao are uu-
vaecinatsd, aRd il is stated that, Of los deaths
| from small .pox in ChicaEo dsring September,
/ 81 occurred in the Fourteenth Ward.
The nitro. slyceriue magazine beIoaging to
ths Roberts Torpedo Company, tus and a
[ half miles from Bradfsrd, Pa, coaiAiaing 600
Z pounds Of nitro glyceslae, blew Up on IhaFs-
/ DAY evening Of last seek. Il Is believed the
/ explosion vas caused by An aslemps o; bar
I glars TO rob the safe, and there = evidence
I that tWo men WeFe blo~a 20 atoms For
/ several reds around the groeud was plowed
I up as II bY an earthquake, and huge trees
/ we're blasted and scattered aboat. Some
I fragments Of lcsh and clothing wsre ioand-
The cholera is spreading ia The East aud
advancing toward Earope. Il has already
/ made considerable Tav4ges az Adea, and has
/ reached Mecca, where the Anszslmaas are
( imploring their Prophet Two other epidea-
I les attract serious Agsan;ion- The srst Is she
yellow fever in Senegal, where the namber Of
I victims has been great and the seeoad dipa
I iberia which hSs killed more people IN the
I south Of Rsssia than any othsr epidemic, not
excepting the plague. Il has prevailed there
/ sinee 1874 In Bsssarabia- 1890 eat Of
/ 81, 600 persons Eho sere attacked have sac
cambed 10 il. Dat Of 5000 cases, 5000
/ ended fatally, and in khAskoa, oas OF - 900
cases, there have beea 1900 aeaths-
/ John Davis, South Caroiiaa negro, had a
pretty malaiio vile, and Hank Johasoa, also
I a negro, fen ia love with her. She did not
/ encourage Hank, and be wsnt 10 a voud0O
I eoniarer, for n charm 20 Josch her heart
1 The coujurer, after mature reflection, decided
/ that the charm shoaid consist Of some fox hair,
I beeswax, a brakes foot, aRd htlle sand
l FROM Mrs Davs's shoe, AL sewed up IA =
I small bag and worn by Hank over bis heart.
I At the end Of week the woman confessed =
I love for him, but refused 70 separate from her
I husband on his ace0ant. The coBJuref made
/ a charm 10 ALLEVIATE Davis ircm has vile, bat
I il had no effect. Thea be gave johnson a
/ charmed bullet with which 70 murder DAVIS,
/ aud new bag Of scraps warranted 10 protect
| him from conviction By any jury tor the crime
| Johzsoa killed Davis as directed, aRd daring
/ the trial, which has jast been held Al Colum
/ bia, he had perfect confidence Ia the e0Rlar
/ er's assurance that 9 verdict Of guilty could
not possibly be readered. The Jurors, how
ever, we're not hindered by The voudoolsm,
/ and the marierer IS TO be hanged, though be
/ and many Of his snperSitioas friends believe
that be will niracuIously escape the halter
/ yet.