The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-05-28
News Of the Week.

ne scarlet lever Is SpEtdulhS AZ AtlHH'Hf
Ga, and is pronounced to be OF malignant
type.
Mrs. Garfield continues to improve, and
her physician says her recovery is now as
sured.
Another revolution has been started in
Venezuela. and the cry is, Down with GuZ-
man Blanco.
A communist editor at Copenhagen has
been arrested for suggesting the murder OF the
King of Denmark.
Col. Gardner A. Sage, of New York, has
donated 800, 900 to the Theological Seminary
at New Brunswick, n. j.
A severe hailstorm, two miles in width,
has destroyed all the growing crops and fruit
in its path near Plano, Texas.
On Monday seven car loads of strawberries
were shipped over the Delaware railroad from
lower Maryland and Delaware.
Smallpox is on the increase at Wilkes
barre, Pennsylvania. 1t has also broken out
in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The steamship Powhatan is loading at West
Point, Va, with 10000 barrels of Hour from
the Richmond Mills for South America.
The steamer Faraday, with 1000 miles OF
the new Atlantic cable to be laid from tins
side. arrived at Dover Bay, \. S, Saturday.
The heaviest taxpayer in Vermont is John
p. Clark Of Milton, whose property is as
sessed at 5000, 600. There is not u million
aire in the State.
Farmers in Central Illinois report winter
wheat as suffering from chineh bug and hes
sian fly. Thousands of acres are being plow-
ed mp to plant corn.
John Refine, of Ottawa, Canada, ran a
mile in minutes and IS seconds on We'd
l.. IL
ming time on record in America.
The crop reports from the Interior Of Ar
kansas are not favorable, owing to heavy
rains, and the appearance IN some districts OF
the locus;s aud new species OF cut worm.
The Mexican Congress, on Monday, gave
the President fall powers 20 contract with
States and private parties for the construc-
ton of railways for the next eight msHIhs.
\ steam saw mill near Oakland, Ohio, was
demolished Monday BY the explosion Of its
boiler. Marshall Butler, the fireman, was
blo~n distance OF seven hundred feet aud
killed. Eight or ten others we're injured, one
severely.
It is announced that Gov. Tabor's match
less niue in l.eadyille, Col, Melted him So.
900 in February. $4,000 in March, SEQ, geo
in April, and this month will do better than
10 either OF these.
Robert :. Reynolds. a wealthy farmer, aged
% years, was killed by his son, who struck
him on the head with - stone, 81 Anna, H.,
on Monday Reynolds hiaiseif killed a man
named Frazer year ago.
The sum Of So, 600 has been subscribed
towards the proposed car factory at Knox
vile. Tenn, and the company viii be or
gained next week Several Northern capt
tails, are among the largest stockholders
A farmer Of Markham township, twenty
miles from Toronto, Canada, has discovered
a pi, on his farm containing 500 skulls land
hrc times as many leg and arm bones. Il
IS believed the pi; was an Indian burial place
aud that the remains have been there two hun
drc,i years
Francis LIghjfoos Lee, a member Of the
+ distinguished Lee fatally Of Virginia, de-
scendant Of s5sucr OF the Declaration Of Ia
dependence. and brother Of Richard Henry
+ lee, President Of the Lewistowu Pa Steel
[ Company. died in philadelpAia Monday from
consumption, aged Al years
While two msn we're digging drain sear
& tissvcasev between kilruAh and Ennis in
. Ireland, 90 NAY "a, they came upon an iroa-
elaspei chest OF large dimensions, lying on
I which vas a large sword. The box was found
I to be fall Of gold CONS of ancient date. Ca
the sword was engraved the word 20 NELL.
A. Sells Bros circas performance IA Mil-
waukec, Wis, Monday night, in al act where
T Bsller shoots potato from the bead OF
Raaghglan, Batter missed hts mark and the
bullet struck Baughman IN the head, Just
/ above the right eyebrow. The ball penetrat
. 81 the bone. The injay IS not necessarily
( fatal.
Z A dispatch from Dallas, Texas. Monday
Z L A.. 4 a.. 4
seclisa, aal that the quality was better than
{ a, any time during the past tUeive Years.
/ The Weld will average Us bushels 70 the acre.
Tho prospects eg ali the crops are good bat
. the general acreage W,l be smaller Than last
rear on Account Of the scarcity OF labor
Mss Pinaeo. Of Greeley. Col, last Saiur-
day defeated Miss Certis. Of ToPeks, in
ixcn;y mile race ca horseback, AZ Denver;
time 80 inmates, y seconds. Miss Curtis,
after riding lhirisea niles, becaae complete
IL exhausted, and vas compelled 20 leave the
track. Aaoat 1890 persons were present,
and large amoant Of money changed haads-
Col. Thomas 4. Scott. ex. president Of the
Pennsylvania, Northern Central. and nnmer-
Gus other railroads, died near Philadelphia
on SATURDAY. night last. III vas bora Dscem-
Der asah. is34 al L.oud0s, franklin county,
Pa In addition 10 the extensive railroad
interest IL which be was engaged, he was As
sis,aat Secretary Of War IN ls6l aud 1862,
under Liaeola.
Timbac,oo IS only collection Of insight
cant hats, aai the gre&i basin OF the saba.
IA desert, which Il was proposed 10 food by
the water OF the Mediterranean, and SO make
ano,heg inland sea, IS no basin at all, but
plain elevated considerably above this level
Of the Mediterranean. These are the revola-
tionary accounts brought back by DR.. Letz,
German traveller Just returned from journey
from TaagieT 20 Timbactoo.
A building in ST Joseph, Missouri, oceu-
MED as a saloon aad b,i!iurl room, was de.
molished on Monday night by an explosion of
fifteen barrels Of "DAniorth's fluid, stored
ia the cellar. 4 BambeT Of colored men we're
in the building a, the time. Two men we're
caught in the ruins and burned 10 death; the
body Of another vas found "Wednesday morn
ing, and = man and boy are missing. Twelve
persons we're injured, two or three perhaps
fatally.
Six ci,izeas Of Eagle Pass, Texas, crossed
the Rio GrAnde Ga Sunday evening 10 see
circus performance At R;edFss AegrOs. They
had pa Sosger antared the town than they
were arrested hy fineen soldiers, under Cap
thin Villareal, Of the Mexican garrison, and
taken to the jail, where they passed the night.
On Monday morning party OF their frieads
crossed the river to ind eat what had become
of them, aud the prisoners were then taken
before the Alcalde who discharged them, no
charge being made.
A statement has been prepared at the Post
Office Department kY the committee appoint
ed 70 ooaduc. The official count, showing the
amount al matter mailed in the United States
during the year ended neoem6er al, 1880
This IS The second count OF mail matter ever
made by the department, that made IN 1879
being the first. The statement Is based upon
an actual count Of matter mailed at the differ
cut posiotiioeS throughout the country during
the hrSi seven days of December, 1850. It
shows that the total number of pieces of all
classes mailed during the year was :, 20, pa,
252. The whole number Of letters mailed
during the year was ,053, 252, $40, or an aver.
age of twenty one for each man, woman, and
( child ia the United States; 324, j56, 4i0 pos
tai cards, Sl2, 032 900 newspapers, 40, las, 1872
magazines aud other periodicals, aud q ,5lo,-
So packages OF merchandise passed through
the mails during the year.
$4,000 -----------
YORK 6ounty Ra., ftsms,