The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-02-26
News of the Week.


met Wednesday in Pittsburg and unanimous
ly advanced the price of nails to SO per keg.
The Senate of Arkansas, by vote of eigh-
teen to FIVE, have passed resolution fixing
the pronunciation of the state to ArkdRsatc.
The village of Brevieres in Savoy, India,
has been destroyed by two avalanches. Dam
age 100000 francs. Fifteen persons were
| killed
Eight members of family named Sloan
persisted by the burning of building in East
Liverpool, Ohio, at half-past l O'Clock We'd
nesday morning.
This is the first season that actual icebergs
have been seen in Lake Michigan. They have
been formed with base below water of IF
teen feet in depth.
Rev. Daniel Engle. OF years of age, one of
the oldest and most influential ministers of
the Duukard denomination, died in Dauphin
county, Pa, last week.
In the Senate of New Jersey Wednesday a
joint resolution to fit out battalion for the
purpose of taking part in the Yorktown cele-
bration was passed by a vote of Is to ,.
| The elevators in St. Louis are busy loading
barges With wheat and corn for foreiga ship
ment by wa of New Orleans. Three to four
hundred thousand bushels we're sent out early
this week.
The remains of D. Konraden Herenzberg,
who died at indianapolis some days since,
were eremated at the Lemoyne furnace, Wash
ingtou, Pa, Saturday. This was the tenth
cremation.
! 1t is reported that gold and silver mine
has been discovered on a farm in Hamburger
township. near Buffalo, New York, which
| yields 80 ounces of silver AID SS2 ounces OF
gold to the ;on."
| The schooner Sturdevsnt, with coal for
! Norfolk. Virginia, was cut down by the ice
| 10 the Delaware river, opposite Chester. on
I Tuesday night. She was towed TO a wharf,
where she sank.
! The FRS, National Bank Diffusion, Pa. hast
[ decided to withdraw their circulation. The
amount is S35O,oOO. The Cooperstown n.
| Y. banks have decided 10 go ahead on the
l per cent bond basis.
/ The New York Herald OF late issue prints
two columns Of names of army officers, chArg-
/ ed with drunkenness. whose sentences have
I been modified or RENTED by President Hayes.
I This does act look very well for Hayes.
The immense ice field between Sandy Hook
I and the Highlands, New Jersey. broke loose
2 on Sunday and drifted out TO sea, carrying
everything before it. Fifty feet Of the South
I eru railway freight dock al Horse Shoe we're
| broken down.
/ Even Asia has not escaped an exceptionally
severe winter. In Japan there have been
snow storms the ike Of which are 40, remem-
bered to have occurred in forty years. The
snow Is ten feet deep in the fields and fifteen
I feet Oa the hills.
Stock depreiaiions in Oregon are becoming
so AaHoying 70 herdsmen that n movement IS
on foot for mataAl protection. Il is Intended 20
offer = standing re~ard OF $500 for the arrest
A
altering brAsds-
Sailse Matthews, eSiorei, beng discharged
from service by man nansed Cody, "a Mash
vile. or Monday, pai arsenic ia bis driaking
water. Cody IS dying and three Of bis chill
drea are believed 20 be also psu recovery
/ TAe woman Is in jail.
The wife Of wilsou Fowlkss, eolored, has
been sentenced 20 be banged IN LaRenhnrg
county, Va, for numbering her husband.
8 The deed was most attrocioaa She Drained
him Siih an az while be vas asleep. her Oh
jscS being 70 ges Fsd Of him for another man.
The Chicago Tines estimates that the
Losses on the principal WesseTa and North
~es,efn railroads hy the recent storms and
hloekades vilI more ghan equal their net earn
for Innaary and February. Nearly sll Of
these roads have been 6Shtiag saow since
IAnaary l.
sara BerHhards last week gave oae pei.
Torrance each al Nsw Orleans. Alfalfa saa
Nashville and three at Mtmphis, the receipts
Of the six performance hfsng SIS, coo. Sac
was lil two aays. Thas lar she haS given %
American performances, aEgregHting SSis,'
D. gross receiPts-
The steamer Fair Play, with so bales Of
eo,i0s. and he uharf beat katies, with 800
bales. beside. other freight, we're burned Sal
. Q I &Nf1 4Nas.s
EAbaa.And ThOs. 0ber, clerk had their faces,
and hands badly barred. Edward Hancock,
a psiates, Pertshsd.
Two afro Elyeerine explosions on the Ca.
aadiza PariEe Railway werks, near RAs Por.
iaEe, MasiiobA, last Friday, killed one nan,
fatally iajared tuo others aud Inflicted scfious
Injuries spou sssss. The men, IN both cases,
seat back 70 YORK. after ssttiug the blasts,
before al Of thea bad exploded.
A preliminary repoF, S$aa The silk asAsu
h.esuse Of The Caised States ha& been issued
BY the Censas Bsnsaa, shosins thAS, for the
wear sasing Jane sch last the total Tas==z Of
The goods E4s sSI,sl0.s6S; namber Of facto-
rirs. SIS; Looms. std7; greatest number OF
hands employed, sI,itoi capital Invested,
Sls. SIS, 800, wages Pasd, -, loI SIS
The dykes placed ia the Delaware river,
ksgwesa Ror4entaHa Aad TEsstOa, b the
United States ausNFnment, recently, % i'm
prove nArigsiioa, have been washed out By ths
Good and ice gorge Part Of the railroad
docks :, SANDY Hook, The supports Of which
had besa broken By ice, gave Way on NoadAy
night sad loaded freight car saak ~ish the
wreck.
C;eaesaI Miller. the new senator from Cali
losnia. asserts Ihas the Alaska Fur Seal Con
paay has PAID the United States government
81. 0Ca, 90 Of the g., sO0. eco giEen 10 Baszi4
Tor The territory ia lsdT. Before he grant
expires the eompaRy Will hare repaid the en-
tire sum received By Rsssia, while ibe seals,
being carefully projected, are more nuueroas
than ever.
On January n il commenced snowinK IN
the Wood river region, Idaho, and never let
up doing so until the night Of the l5sh. The
total depth Of snoW 81 ketehum, sad for hf
teen miles below it, Is feS inches over sax
feet. Above kesehum, toward Gsiena, the
snow is over six feet deep. The nail IS all
being carried on snoSshoes ahave k5tehuHa,
10 Galena and Sawteothes on the salmon.
A special train conveying funeral party
Wednesday rushed into the rear Of regular
passenger train just leaving President Station,
thirteen miles east OF Oil City, Pa The es-
Gaping steam from the locomotive hlled the
rear passenger coach, seaiding many OF the
Z passengers. Nl1 we're QalCfAt1G
Daily one Of them, Mr.. Charles 4. hahoOek
Of Franklin, is believed to be fatally injured.
There are at present about 500 Cherokee
Indians in North Carolina, owning 50, 200
acres of land and $40, 600 IN cash, which the
Government holds in trust for them An
bassadors from the Cherokee nation have just
been visiting them for the purpose Of indne
ing them 10 emigrate TO the tribe reservation
in the Indian Territory, and Ia is believed the
various branches Of this nation will soon be
reunited.
II is now stated that the severe winter will
cause loss ranging from 10 TO rs per cent.
OF the herds throughout the entire cattle graz
ing grounds of the West The terrible hard
ships which the animals have had TO dergo
will also cause great diminution IN the nstu
raj increase. William Parton a member oil
the Nebraska legislature, estimates his loss al
Sl35, 900, and J. n. McShane, another mem.
Der. calculates that be has lost 10000 out oil
80, 900 head of cattle. The full extent OF the
damage cannot yet be sscertained
A case of black fever at LenOxyille, Pa,
is creating the widest excitement among the
residents. The victim is a farmers daughter
nineteen years of age. In 1868 the black fe,
yer accomplished its fearful work in the coal
country, carrying of hundreds Of people,
among whom were many prominent men and
women Families Of eight and ten were
stricken down, and in the smallest towns
from five tn ten interments occurred dal lY.