The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-03
News of the Week.
There were $40 deaths in Philadelphia last
week.

hOAS hClS c1v uGdluS III L Altdueipula las
week.
"Greenback Camp Meeting was hello
Sunday at Lake Manoncook, Maine.
Large shipments of gold have been made t.
this country from Hamburg and Havrc.
An earthquake at Tchesme, Asia Minor
opposite the Island of Scio, has caused grea
damage to property.
There were twenty six deaths from yellow
fever and three from smallpox at Havana
during the week ended Sunday.
Mccormick Reaper Works, in Chicago
were damaged by fire on Saturday morning
to the extent of about $50, 900.
The drought III Switzerland has been broker
by a succession of terrific thunder storms
Many buildings have been destroyed by light
ming.
A dispatch from Tombstone, Arizona, says
Indians attacked the town of Eureka, New
Mexico, last week, and killed all the citizens
said to be about 20 in number.
Forest fires are in progress in Algeria,
which have laid waste wide extent of coun
try. 1t is feared that these eonaagratiens are
the work of Arab incendiarics.
The latest news sent out from Pink Cot
tage, the Kentucky hospital of miracles is
that woman awfully curved spine straight
ened out while prayer was being made for
her.
The body of young woman, cut in two
and much decomposed, was found in a lonely
( place IN swamp near Freeport, Long Island,
on Friday evening. There is no clue to its
/ identity.
Miss Abby f. Goodsell, of Chambersburg,
+ Pa. has accepted he position of lady princi-
I pal Of Fsssar College. She is graduate of
the college, and is the first to attain position
/ in the faculty,
/ The right of bicycle riders to use sidewalks
( is TO be tested legally at Wakefield, Mass,
where stalwart pedestrian pushed bicyle
out of his way, throwing the rider on q pile
of stones.
Three Michigan girls made up a party and
eloped with young man. By going TO three
different minister, he married all Of his com.
panions, and then they went on a tripartite
bridal tour.
The whole business portion OF the town of
Plano. IN Texas, was burned on Saturday
morning, fiity-one buildings being consumed.
The loss Is estimated at 100000.
Not less than six cases of smallpox are re.
ported IA the vicinity of Pittston. Pa, two of
which are IN the town limits of East Pitts.
ton. There have been three fatal cases in
the suburbs from the disease
The five hundred Italian colonists expected
at the city Of Mexico will not reach there be.
fore the middle OF October, the Italian Gov.
ernmeut having established a quarantine
against Mexican vessels.
The Union Stove Company works a, Gar
reii, Massachusetts, were destroyed by fire ON
Saturday hight. The loss is estimated at
SO, zoo Seventy Eve workmen emploved
by The company lost an their tools.
Dr. lena. R4s,E.f4 l. ~
the delasion tha: be Is one Of President Gar
6eld attending physicians, has been com
muted by the New York Police Court for
meiicSl examination as to his sanity
Abbie u. Lawrence, sister o. DR.. Thomas
Lawrence, OF Newark. New Jersey. acciaea
tally So are to the mosquito netting OF her
bed on Sunday night aud was burned 10 death
She NRs % years % age, and an invalid
Gov. Sheldon has returned 10 New Mexico
and issued an address, announcing his inlea.
ton 20 organize and arm independent compa.
aies AZ once % act in conjunction with the
nttcd States troops for aggressive as we'll as
defensive operations against the hostile in.
diaos
The San FRANCISCO and Ocean side Rail.
road has been s1rrvyed from San Francisco
20 SAR;a Cruz, and on Monday ground was
broken for il on the beach near Lake MERGED
This - the connecting link in the California
Ceatsal liac, projected 90 New Orleass, by
way Of tab,
L Is reported thai the order OF "MplGe
Aagnres, under various Games, Is being re
organized 10 The Pennsylvania coal regions. I
The murder Of JOAN Sheridan, al The Penn
tylfaEIa C0al C0mpanY's works al Pit.ssoa
ca Saturday y credited 20 this recent organ
ssstaon. Great ,Foable IS apprehended tom 4
IS revival.
u an stfaf. to eaforce Ia ST. Louis Z Ian 4
agalasi carrying concealed weapons, knes a.
hish a. Sl00 Tor pistol sud $500 Tor slung-
shot are being sapose3- This movement i A
made because, o.; Of Is homieiJes uox IN
The s. Louis jail, all bat three became crim
inals through The hAa.s 81 going armed.
Tho lorStovn centennial COMMITTEES Of The
Pennsylvania Legislators have decided that
he Fenasyiraaa representation should IA,
slaaa TIE heGds Of the executive and Judicial
departments, lhe Legislature Of she State, the
oiheeFs q established historical societies aud
companies 81 the National Guard. The CON.
ni'iee vii meet al Philadelphia on Sep, Is.
Mrs. Hannah Cox died AZ Holderness,
Nes Hampshire on Monday. ut the ace OF
les years and two months. She vas the
daughter % Captain Isaac W Stanton, Of
he C0nBeciiegt Volunteers dgFiaE the Revn.
War, cad vas born IN Connecticut.
A. the lime of her death she had been a widow
ioE 80 years. She had seven chiidrca, two Of
<hsm survive
The meeting appointed 10 take place in
Dcs Maiaes, Iowa, By the Democratic State
rsntral Committee, has been postponed, owing
% the critical condition Of President Garfield.
l. is likely that there will be a truce in the
loliiieai canvass until The President IS pro.
iougced eonvaicseea,, as the Republican
State Commi''ee eon,emplates no meetings |
sntil then.
A dael was fooght near Warrenton, Va,
dosday evening, between james c. Scott and
Robert T. Campbell, youag lawyers Of that
llace, in which the former received wound /
. the hand. The meeting grew out OF pc. 4
iiical dispBte. Campbell Is the son ir-laN Of 5
'ol. John ). Mosby. and Scott IS a son of !
isj. John Scot, Commonwealth attorney
{ Fmqpier county. :
4 desperate aud uasDccessfal attempt was &
lade Tuesday night TO destroy Oshkosh, Wis
'eysh inCeRdinaFy kres were started al the
ame time The wind was blowing a gale, {
I'D disaster was only prevented by the aid
ivea 70 the fire department by citizens The .
nly buildings burned were Nandercook &
argasoa's storage ware house, flied with
aled hay and agricultural implements, also |
40 residences Losses are about $4,000. {
An east bound freight train on the Alaha.
n aud Central Division Of the East Tennes- c
&c, Virginia and Georgia Railroad ran into :
n open switch at Paausdale on Sunday
,oFuiBg at 3 o'clock and eollided with con.
ruetion train on the side track. The en-
ine and number Of freight cars of the
eight train were wrecked. Engineer Chas.
rane lost both legs and died in few hours
he fireman was badly scalded aRd has died
nee.
Typhus fever recently appeared among the
lldren in the Roman Catholic Orphan Asy-
.m on. Fifty FIRST street, Nes York, and about
lirty OF them were removed 10 the Riverside
hospital, one OF whom died Four more
iildren in the asylum were prostrated with !
lie fever on Sunday, but they we're placed IN
,ows apart from the healthy inmates. It's
ot known how the fever was introduced as
e asylum is kept clean and well ventilated, :,
I'd has not been Oyer.crowded.
4 slight fire occurred early Sunday morning .,
a hay and feed store on the ground floor Of .,
building in Cincinnati, the upper floors of q
hich were used for cheap lodgings An n
zen chute, or enclosed hatchway, ran from ~
e store TO the fourth story, and up this aue :,
c hot air and smoke assembled and poured Is
TO the roems. Seven persons were injured, e,
ur seriously, by inhaling the fumes, and a 10
unr man named Rohert War-pn Was killed