The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-02
News of the Week.

Michigan has the only uniformed female
brass band in the world.
Oscar de Lafayette, senator of France and
grandson of Gen. Lafayette, is dead.
Henrietta Liews, native of Germany, died
in New York Sunday, aged 100 years.
The smallpox has appeared in several
districts of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Hugh j. Jewett, president of the Erie Rail
road Company, has declined the presidency
of the New \ ork worlds fair commission.
/ William Beach Lawrence, ex.Governor of
Rhode Island, died early on Saturday morn
ing in New York. He was 81 years OF age.
The body of Rev. Abiel Silver, a we'll known
/ Swedenborgian minister of Roxbury, Mass
/ chuSetts, was found floating in the ST. Charles
river Sunday night.
/ The investigation of the affairs of the Ash
uelet Savings Bank at Keene, New Hamp-
shire, has been finished and the deficit is
/ certaiRed to he SIP, 400.
The Union timers of Pttsburg and Allie
gheny City struck Monday Tor an advance in
wages, averaging 20 per cent The advance
was conceded by several firms.
I \ young woman living near Greene, Mimi,
I while making cake the other day broke an egg
which contained snake seven inches long
and about the size Of pipe-s,em.
On March 18th the temperature fell to s.
/ below zero at ST. Vincent, Minnesota. Re
( ports from other points in the west show fall
/ Of from 20 to 34' in eight hours.
! Albert c. Bogert, of Paterson. New Jersey,
! celebrated on Monday with his children,
grandchildren, great and great-great- grand
children, the l0Jth anniversary of his birth.
/ 4 large wood fire was raging Monday be-
/ tween Gloucester and RUCkport. MaSSachu
Q E4rRsr FIRE VIC o. -. Inn On the
mountains near WilkeSbarre. Pennsylvania,
1 Moaday night.
! The amount of fye-c cent nickel coins out
( standing being found redundant, the coinage
/ Of such pieces at the minis has been discon-
/ tlnued ustll 1t shall appear reasonable 10 re-
same their coinage.
/ The law in Rhode Island against iutermar-
I rage between blacks and whites has been re-
psaiei. There Is now no such statute in New
I England. bul several of the Northern State
1 still prohibit such marriages.
Articles Of incorporation of the Central
+ Tunnel Railway Company were filed in Alba
. ny on Saturday. The capital l. 5000, 600,
and the railway is 20 run from the City Hall
90 the Grand Cenlraj Depot in New York.
4 whale is on exhibition ia Philadelphia,
Pa. II was killed off Cape Cod in November
last. and is preserved lu s8uHd condition by
. being filled with ice and salt. HIS whalgship
Is go feet long, has Eir'h OF - feet. aud
weighs $1,000 pounds.
Ann Eliza Jones. an aged woman. hanged
f. herself IA Bridgeport, oA'c, ON FRIDAY night
OF last week 4 i-w hours before the suicide
she made u,il giving her body 20 physi-
clau lu payment o., dsht Of SI7. Il Is sand
thc physician viii claim The bo1y
The FRS; National Bank Of Rome. Georgia.
which suspended on Saturday, Is reported To
have liabilities, exclusive OF the capital stock,
amounting 90 Sib5.5s3 Is assets arc uomg-
uAliy S32l, 200. an amaant which IL expect.
ri v. BE- greatly reduced on a correc; yaiaa-
ton.
The steamer Northern Light. after drifting
about 1n she zee no Northumberland STRAITS
.ay nearly lsa weeks, arrived a. Pict09. Nova
Scotia. ON March 1t'b Sac landed her pas
sengers baI ua. uaab.s to and her freight,
and .eii gg Saturday morning for FTiace FL
uar.is Island
The Gavcrnor af Wisconsin, has signed the
b.i. recently passed ay lhr Legislature pro
hhilu- tAr prsriiea oi treating ,a ghal state.
81 provide -aHi any person UHI shall ask
another 20 ir,as 81 ba- expense. oy ANY per
son CnBseHuat io 4r5ak % another expense,
shall De- liable f2 srrrss and punishment
Charies Wo.sacncroa OF the Salvation
Army, van oaer came tn this eoaBiry as al
uyA1trIIs.. has been semitic prison n E1siaai
i1r stealing sa'cb tic uas arrested while
contracting a prayer meeting, and the watch
was iagBd ia bis pocket Two other members
O. ( che army have beea convicted q JhicyiHs
Fo1r siadcuts Of ssc Syracuse University.
at Syracuse, y. r.. Nsrc arrested on Sailr-
d. evenluE Tor "hazsas = tril9s sgRdrai.
named fupp5r IheY setsei fuppie boaBi
au8 gagged bim. auI earned hlm several
81 HH - d
io a ire- aHj ssagst al the hair oa hss hs4i .
The railroad laborers ~ha have no, been .
PAID tor la3 months bE "a. Phllaielph.A aud .
Long B-aarA Railroad coal-arJ1r a. Toms .
Rive, have attached the pile drivers, rails. +.
ssovc-s. pleas. aud ozaer property % the con .
tractor Az a1rE on the rozi j. stopped,
.hs wr1 reiayHs go 81 va Ia,i. they have been
paid.
"Oli Abe, ,he famous eagle carried
throash the late aaT ay the. gath Wisconsin
Volunteer IafarGry, died m lhc Capliol ~
NaaJfaa, Wisconsin, Ass ~cek. Il vas pre-
scented % lh- regiment lH lsGi, carried through
she iaaF years Struggle uliaoas receiving
scratch and SINCE tben carefully kept aud
tended iH . room in ibe basement Of the Cap.
HoL
The three sHassci schooner l. VIII,
afore, 81 Bocklsnd, Maine, from Alexandria
saF -HH& At-a WIS 2 ~ ha t9Efh HtAA
ashore on Absec1B Shoals Jas; Saturday even
iEs W5ih she assistance Of the Bsieantias
Beach lie saving crvw, aho threw overheard
about lu00 Bushels Of cora, she Vas hoaiei
before daylight sunday. aal proceeded 10
Scu YORK.
Ga Monday evcginE tkr las; spike vas dri-
ven al L.aEay, completing the Shenandoah
valley Railroad trota Hagegstovn, Maryland,
20 Naynesooro', Virginia, where il connects
vilh the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
Through trains from HaScrsioNR to Wsyues-
b1ro' will be Running by the ljih prox,mo
his road opens Hea aud independent line
Tor b-siargs hcswcua the Ailanue coast and
the South aud Southwest.
Mcssrs. v. Fritscbs and Louis Viereek.
leading Social Democrats OF Germany, the
t5rner member Of the Rcichsias, were
entertained By number ct German citizens
Ia 81 LOUIS uu Sunday afternoon. Mr. Fuit.
sche made a speech, explaining The condition
and objects OF the Democratic parry IN Ger
macy. lie crnsurcd the assassination of
rulers aud said iAe condition Of the people
''coulI only br changed and belterel By .Au-
eating the masses up 20 pure republican pr'n.
ciplvs II
The Southern express train on the Phi'a-
De lphiA, Wilmington aud Baltimore Railroad.
due nj Wilmington az 7.5j on Saturday
AAi+tAil-r htAh lAHNf AseaAAhN AtaeA'HAt NAA AtAG
outskirts ui that City. The draw OF the
Brandywiue Railroad bridge was open, and
The engineer OF the train did not see the sig
nal, owing. Il Is sand 10 Il heavy snow sqgall.
Il was only when on the bridge THAI the
brakes were applied; the train came 20 a stand
on the edge of the draw, but the ENGINE plung
ID into the river. The engineer aud fireman
saved themselves by Jumping from the eastuc.
Charles Yoaug, clerk, attempted 10 XIII
bis wife on Sunday night al a hotel IN Chica
90. " mere they had been spending their. hoa- |
symoon Although not more THAI six weeks
married, they had qusrrelIed on account Of
marked attentions paid to Mrs loang by =
A scoundre named Plae On Sunday night !
Young became SO exnsperated that his wife 5
led from the room. Tic fired at her as she
reached the stairway, aud missed, but she lost Z
her footing and fell to the bottom of the stairs
spraning her ankle ia the fall As she lay
helpless Young fred two more shots at her
without effect, and then disappeared.
\ mass meeting was held Sunday afternoon
in Germania Hall, Brooklyn, n Y, to form .
a permanent organization OF rent payers, ITO !
prevent the contemplated increase OF rent
from May LIST, and resist all unjust demands I
NJ landlords for the f1tnre - 4 bout 500 per