The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-18
News of the Week.

Richmond, Va, is forming an industrial
exposition society.
The bishop of Ross, Ireland, strongly de-
precates resort to violence.
One of the novelties of the coming season
at Atlantic City is to be floating hotel near
the inlet.
The rails on the Richmond and Allegheny,
Railroad have been laid within ten miles OF
Lynchburg.
Carloads of laurel roots from Southwest
Virginia are daily shipped through Lynch
burg to the North.
On Monday, May Both, 50 car loads of
strawberries passed over the Delaware Rall-
ssoad, the freight on which was over Sc 900.
While tearing down the old court house at
Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday last the root
fell in, injuring four men, three of them
fatally.
The late Tom Scott had in him plenty of
financial rebound. He passed through bank
rnptcy in 1878. and in 1881 died worth Sl2,-
100000.
Timothy Mahoney, a policeman, was shot
dead while trying to arrest two drunken
burglars, in Chicago, on Sunday night. The
murderers escaped.
Peter Miller, a miner in the Summit Branch
Colliery, at Wiliamstowa, in Dauphin county,
was found dead on Saturday morning under
heavy fall Of slate.
The Episcopal Diocesan Convention of
Vermont has raised fund of $4,000, the
| income of which is to 90 toward the salary of
the bishop Of the diocese.
/ In the General Lutheran Synod at Altoona,
/ Monday, resolution was adopted declaring
I it expedieni to establish an institution for eX
! clusirely German theological education.
suit by ]. 5. Brown, at Fort Worth,
/ Texas. to recover $4,000 from the Western
/ Union Telegraph Company, for non delivery
/ of a message, has resulted IN 4 verdict for
/ 5000.
! II is said that the check given by the Penn
4 svlvauia Railroad Company in payment for
( the Philadelphia. Wilmington and Baltimore
/ road. S4I .94g, O52, was the largest ever drawn
I in this country.
4 Near Charleston. $. c., a colored man
named Thomas Myers, whilst laboriug 1t is
/ believed, under religious insanity, shot and
/ killed his l3-year, old son, as sacrifice, he
claims, to the Almighty.
/ A stranger walked down the main stree; Of
/ Njuceanes. Iud., wearing a gr0Jssque hat.
i Tom Bower made fun OF IL. Perhaps yea d
I Ike to shoot 1t, the wearer remarked. Tom
responded with pistol shot, which MISSED
! the hat and killed the man.
+ Clara Follz. the san Francisco woman
I lawyer. being told by the opposing counsel IA
court that a woman proper place was at
homc raising children, rel0rted a woman
I had better be engaged 10 almost any business
/ than raising such men as you are, SIR.
{ Seven thousand wild pigeons from the
Z Indian Territory are now IN the ccops az
Jersey CITY. and 5000 more will arrive on
I the l.,A INST The birds are for the use OF
I the New York State Spor,suea $ Associa
tioa-s Tournament, which vail be held a.
( Cnuev Island next week.
While the standard dollar Is afflicted slIh
I a scr; Of inertia that keeps it IN the mials aud
I storing vaults in the North, there is a health
+ ni demand far Il IN the Southwest, and the
superintendent Of tbe mat a. New Orleans
expects TO pat $4,000, 600 in circulation
/ during the summer aud autumn.
( The whole basiaess portion Of the village
/ Of I.udlnst1n. Michigan. was destroyed by
3 FIRE on sunday Night. Besides a number o.
STORES. the Episcopal and CnHgres aiionAl
churches and the Cay Hall were burocd.
/ The loss IS estimated a, S2o1.p10. l.aiiaEion
I i situated or Lake Michigan, q; the 'srml'
nus OF the Flint and Pere Marquette Rail
way.
( The whaling schooner Ei~AFd Lee, Of
+ ProvincetaWn, Massachusetts. vas speksu
+ Lass Saturday or Cu,tyhank. She reported
thu. "she sent beats crcw after whale
{ and after making fast to ii that the boat aBd
Z crew suddenly disappeared. Iae schooner
sailed around the sgo: for somn time, bat saw
f no trace Of the tDen.
I Asccs;ainiaE thas, 10 disregard % Governor
Mvsray certificate. CAnnoH's naDe has been
PLACED on the roll 81 the JH,led States
I House 81 Representatives as delegate from
{ Utah, Campbell. his CONTESTANT. has brought
sst, n the Ib.rd nissriui C0urt s.; SAs lake
I Ci,v. % establish the fact ihEi Caauan "a Hat
E a cisizeu Of the listed States
/ 4 dispatch jrom Laredo, Texas, ssys HAT
< the work Of constructing tke Mexican
Z National Railway il progressing rapidly on
{ the Naxscaa ssle of the Fyveg where ~ msn
+ are engaged. The road, ., Is expected. u.H
reach Mnatrrry by January !, ish2. taa
I ,racts fl- ba5iinz the sabine Pass Railroad
are ouf. and w9rS wi3 commrsce lmsnca'-
alc,y
( John Taylar. calored, accused II an assault
upoa a uhitc lady. vas taken from shc jail a.
/ Greensboro. North Carolina. early Sunday
morHiss. aud iruchcd BY = disguised Eao5.
z A tnaa named kesmhelmrr, Who had .cUa-
mitird & highway robbery zad severely
. woauded bis victim. Vas taken iscm the iaii
Al RoSkport, Missouri on Saturday morning.,
and lyEchsd
A break. caused By 8 defective calvert, oe.
CARED SUNDAY morning ig Scgl!cn Va q iAs
F Erie eaH4i tso m,.cs wrsi li Ailany. Forty
( fees Of the cans, bank s9oa gave way, sad The
water flooded the Counlry around. sweeping
awav fenees and bridges A sonsH and
Shul saved themselves by seltas og toP Of a
Z pen. which hoA,ed about a miic before
they wrre rescued. FOE ioia3 damage IS
estimated g! sn,0oo.
4 horrible plot b Kill woFSmrs Was dis
covered 10 the Chicago Stove Works on Fu
aav night ,iusg az iaa m1al1crS, aAmEl
FIrure and Sessions, serc aboui 70 poaT
molten irou into one Of shc n0aiis, one Of
. them saw that Il bad beea tampeFed Ni;h, aad
an examination showed that two pounds OF
guBporjcr wesc h.dden ia the mould. Had
Il not been discovered the hery nctal would
haze been blaWu over all tbe men IH the
foundry The crime Is attributed 20 sss.kiH.
moulaers who have boea hzusiag ab1al the
foundry for months,
On Monday ight an armed laO,-oi - men
took possession Of the Jail at Dover, Pope
eouEiy, Arkansas. and lyachcd Emory, shO,
with James Ioungblood, frlouious.y assault
"a aad murdered his hetrothed, Mary +.
Taylor, In Franklin coguiy, nearly year ago
Emory had been sentenced to be hanged tor
this horrible crime, but the Governor, ON the
recommendation Of the Judges 81 the
Sur7sme Court. Of whom q new trial wss
asked, c5maqted Eis sentence 20 y years
Imprisonment. luungblOod. the aiheE
murderer, also received the Executive
clemeuoy, and is nov serving term OF inl'
pFisanmsni.
The case Of the Chinaman and the white
woman who married each other in Colorado
and we're indicted therefor in Cheyenne,
Wyoming Territory, was decided Tuesday By
Chief Justice Sever, OF the Territorial Court
He held that the marriage. being legal in
Colorado, was also legal in Wyoming, under
Inc stats,e, and ordered the defendants to be
Discharged. a eariaus result OF the marriage
is the social ostralism Of the husband, loo
Chin, By his own countrymen, gho sly he has
lisgranad himself by marrying white