The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
News of the Week.

The cold weather in England continues, and
has increased in intensity.
Lancaster county, Pa, is to be re-stocked
with cartridges from North Carolina.
The social panic in Ireland has in a great
degree subsidized, outrages having become less
frequent.
E. A. Sothern, the eminent actor, died in
London, England, on the 10th, after two years
illness.
York, Pa, has a Marriage Mutual Aid AS,
ISOLATION. Members receive benefits at time
of marriage.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that
he had just declined an offer of 100000 to
lecture for one year.
The rice crop of Louisiana this year is est,
mated at 100000 barrels. Last years crop
amounted to 900 barrels.
Several persons have died of smallpox in
Accomac county, Va, lately, and Il number
of others are i'll with the disease.
A number of capitalists of Chicago have
formed an association for the construction of
a four wire telegraph from that city to New
York.
The schooner Island Gem, from North
| Sydney, Cape Breton, with coal, for st. Pierre,
has been lost, with her captain and one of her
| crew.
In digging trench on the West Phadel-
phia Amshouse property, sixty collins OF per-
sons who died of cholera in 1913 were I'M
earthed.
Rev. Edward Purcell brother of Arch
bishop Purcell of Cincinnati, died of apo
plexy, Friday night, at the Ursuline Convent,
in Brown county, Ohio.
Two brothers named Lafferty, living near
Parkersburg, W. Va, had a fight Friday
night, when the elder stabbed and instantly
killed the younger brother.
l. A large meeting of republicans was held at
| Little Rock, Ark, Saturday night, and pass
| ed resolutions urging Hon. VIM. Gibbs for a
| place in Gen. Garfield's cabinet.
The schooner Ida James, with $40 bushels
of oysters, and Andrew Johnson, with 700
| bushels, were sunk by the ice in the Chesa-
peake on Saturday. No lives were lost.
! The ice companies along the Hudson river
| have this season secured about 5000, 900 tons
of ice. The Kuickerbocker Company has
| gathered about l 100000 tons, against 150,
! QUO last year.
| Garibaldi's wife and children recently visit
! ed Nice, the birthplace of the General. The
! cesson Of Niceto France, i'll 1861 so excited
his wrath that he resolved never to set his
| foot in the city.
|
the people were complaining with the cold
the thermometer being at G90-and people I'M
able to sleep were forced to get up to search
; for more covering.
On Saturday night last the wife Of Elias
| Cummings, colored, living near Cranston, n.
j., gave birth to four boys. The mother and
children are doing well, and arc visited by
large numbers of people.
Reports from the southern parts of Indiana,
! Illinois and contiguous territory states that
there will be an almost entire failure Of the
wheat crop, owing to late planting and the
early and hard winter.
Sara Bernhardt concluded her two weeks
engagement in Chicago on Saturday. her six
performances last week producing $40, 800.
She has thus far given 90 American perform
ances, with S247, 02S gross receipts.
The large furniture factory of i. Mayer, in
Chicago, was burned Friday night. The front
wall fell, burying fourteen fremeu and one
policeman in the ruins. Four were fatally in
jured The others escaped with painful
bruises.
The republican central committee Of the
District of Columbia, at Washington, has re
moved Col. r. G. Ingersoll as their represen-
tative on the national republican committee
and elected exMayor Sayles J. Bowen in his
place.
A widow Of forty married boy of seven
teen, in Brook yn, on the 4th inst The boys
father has taken steps to annul the match and
to prosecute the clergyman who tied the knot.
The clergyman declares that the boy repre-
scented himself as of age.
A colossal mortgage was fled for record in
Chicago last week. BY its terms the Wabash
st. Louis and Pacific Railway pledges its en-
tire property fol the payment of a mortgage Of
0,U00,0 600 to the Central Trust Company Of
New York and James Cheney, Of Indiana.
The Woman Suffrage Association of St.
| Louis has appointed committee to visit JEFF
ferson City. and petition the Legislature of
| Missouri TO propose an amendment to the
State Constitution striking out the word
'male' and substituting therefor ''citizen."
Daniel O. Brien, Familiarity known at Scran-
ton Pa, died in the poorhouse there on Sat
urday, at the age of Ill. He had a remarka-
BILE memory, and told of his personal expert
ences in the Irish rebellion of 1898. He was
one of the pioneer settlers of Scranton, and
until 1870 was Il hard worker as a draymau
Congress got considerably more than it bar
gained for when it passed Il measure giving
soldiers arrears of pensions. At the time the
highest estimate of the amount necessary was
$50, coo, 900; but most Of the estimates
placed the sum at between $4,000, 900 and
! SSlUU,UUu,UOU. Inc commissioner VI pelISlOHS
now says that in his opinion the amount ne
cessary will exceed S5O0000 900.
The first DIVISION % miles, of the railroad
in Yeso, the northernmost island Of Japan,
has been completed. 1t is the first American
railroad in Asia, was built in II months by
Jos. NJ. Crawford a Pennsylvania, all of
| whose assistants we're Americans, and cost
$4,000 per mile, including rolling stock.
The English line between Toxic and Yoke
hama cost nearly 5000, 600 mile and it took
five years TO complete Is miles
1t is now known at the military headquar-
ters in Chicago, that Sitting Bull has all along
been acting in bad faith, promising to sur
render when he had no intention of doing so.
The last heard of was when he told the scout
Allison that he would surrender, and mme-
diately afterwards started for Canada. 1t is
believed, however, that Sitting Bull is NOW
crippled beyond the possibility of doing more
harm, and will have to sue for all asylum at
an early day"
Henry Bergh advises fogging in every
State Of the Union, as we'll as by the National
Government. in place of Imprisonment. lie
says: "There are $4,000 criminals in our
State prisons, and $4,000 more in our iails
and penitentiaries, of whom New York city
alone supplies $4,000. The criminal classes
cost 1000 900 a year in New York, and
there is one church to every 1000 citizens,
and rum shop to every -.
In the United States Court in Philadelphia,
in the suit of j. W. Carroll, Of Lynchburg.
Va, the manufacturer of the 'Ione jack
brand of tobacco, against Ertheller for in
fringement of the trademark which the de-
PENDANT has used upon cigarettes made by him,
a decree was made ordering an Injunction to
Issue, awarding TO Mr.. Carroll $4,000 dam
ages and the costs of the suit, and ordering
all cigarettes having the infringing trademark
to be delivered up and destroyed
At meeting of the Philadelphia council
committee investigating the management of
the city gas trust, Saturday, Mr.. John Hunter
complained of the Instructions thrown in the
way of the investigation, and said if the trus-
tees persisted in refusing to explain their
Transactions he would make distinct charges
| against them. He was prepared to say that
the trust is carelessly and grossly mismanaged,
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