The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-22
News of the W eek.

Greece is putting her army on war foot
ing.
North Carolina has SIS cotton factories and
$50 tobacco factories.
The new capitol building at Albany, N. T.,
cost 81, 597 ,699. 06.
Seven hundred piano makers are on q
strike in New York city.
J. E. Miuor, banker, of Fredericksburg,
Va, is missing. His affairs are IN great con-
fusion.
A gambling room was raided i'll New York
Tuesday night and nineteen persons taken
prisoners.
Rev. VIM. N. Sapp, treasurer Of Andrew
county, Illinois, Slapped the county OF $4,000
and departed.
Gen. Grant has accepted the presidency Of
the world fair commission to be held in New
York, in 1888.
Senator Williams was stricken with paral-
ysis whilst speaking in the Arkansas Senate
on Wednesday.
The Allan line steamer Manitohau, at Liv
erpool from Boston, lost $50 head OF cattle
on the passage.
Boston is out with $4,000 purse, free
for all stations, to be trotted for September
9Th, in Beacon Park.
Out of total of 18, 1897 votes cast in Neva-
da in November last, II, 259 were cast against
Chinese immigration.
At a recent sale of greyhounds in England,
ten brought 1855, the highest being sold
for $4,000, and the lowest for $50.
Geo. C. Ludlow, Governor of New Jersey,
and Thomas j. Jarvis, Governor of North
Carolina, were inaugurated on Tuesday.
Washington Gauvier, of Delaware City,
Del, committed suicide Friday of last week
by shooting himself, while temporarily insane.
The Rochester IN. " branch of the Irish
land league has passed a resolution protesting
against the persecution of the Jews in Ger
many.
The Delaware Game Protective Association
have purchased one hundred and fifty dozen
quail to be let loose in that State in the
Spring.
John Shoebottom, Postmaster at Ballymote
village, Ont, was found Tuesday morning
frozen to death with bottle of whskey in
his pocket.
The diptheria is still raging at Grand Ma
men, N. B. John Meggs recently lost eight
children within few days by the terrible
scourge.
In one of the camps on Ann River, Mimi,
lives Chippewa squaw who is enjoying the
society of her twenty-fourth husband, the
medicine man Of the tribe.
Frank Walsh, burglar, sentenced to TWEEN
ty years at Sing Sing prison, New York, at
tempted to escape on the ice Saturday, and
was shot dead by the guard
1t is reported that Victoria Woodruff is
soon to be married to ga scion of a noble
house. in England. There is no accounting
for taste, even i'll an Englishman.
The bill introduced into Congress to place
Grant on the retired list of the army, with the
rank and pay of General, has been adversely
reported, as it ought to have been.
Col. James g. Fair, senator elect from
Nevada, was born in Tyrone county, Ireland,
in 1884. His wealth is estimated at So, G00,-
600, and he has never been in public life.
Six million bales is now believed to be a
possible figure for this years cotton crop.
This enormous amount would be almost a
million bales greater than that of last year.
An order for IA locomotives, to cost over
81, 900, 600, has been given to the Baldwin
Locomotive Works at Philadelphia by the
Denver and Rio Grande Railway, for the
equipment of its extension.
O. B. Conger has been elected United
States Senator from Michigan, IL. l.. Dawes
from Massachusetts, s. }. II. Mcmillan from
Minnesota, Eugene Hale from Maine, John
son N. Camden from West Virginia.
Joseph Daroche, who killed Thos. II. Trel-
var, near Bodie, Cal, on account Of a ditli-
Guilty concerning Trelvar's wife, was captured
Sunday, taken to the scene of his crime, and
hanged in the presence Of 500 spectators.
The largest consignment of race horses
ever made for America is expected to arrive
here about the 25th inst, in the steamer
France. The lot includes stations, brood
mares, colts and FLIES They will be sold
under the hammer.
On Friday morning of last week in Chicago:
when the thermometer was II degrees below
zero, drunken man was found with both
hands frozen to q lamp post, which he had
grasped to prevent falling He will probably
have to suffer anputation.
William +. Dalrymple, of the famous grain
farm in Dakota, says that the clean profit for
1880 was over S25O,0QQ. He raised more
than half million bushels Of wheat on "a
600 acres, and disposed of 1t in Buffalo at
profit of fifty gents bqshel.
Collector Ball, of Sitka, Alaska, has sent
to Washington some very rich specimens of
gold quartz found in that Territory. The
gold field is near the coast, a party of miners
is already on the ground building huts, and
rush is expected there in the spring.
Homeopathy has received a severe blow in
Spain. The cure of Scudoni has declared
from the pulpit that any sick person belong
ing to his parish who has tried to cure him
self by homeopathy will, in the event OF his
death, be refused the rites Of the Church.
Cal Huey was hanged Friday at Osceola,
Ark, for the murder of John Broadway IN
the fall of 1879. Huey was one Of party of
four who entered Broadway's house masked
and killed him because he refused to give up
money that the masked men thought he had
in his possession.
A Niagara Falls dispatch says that the main
feeding pipe leading to the reservoir of the
Clifton Water Works Company burst Mon
day, and the water washed away about Is feet
of the cliff to the south Of Table Rock, besides
doing other damage to property. Clifton is
now without water supply.
Prof Wm. c. Fowler died in Durham,
Conn, Saturday night, aged eighty four. He
was formerly professor Of chemistry in Mid
dleburg College, Vt, and afterwards of rhet-
oric and oratory at Amherst College. lie
was son-in law of Noah Webster, and edited
the University Edition Of Webster's Dicton
airy.
Extremely cold weather preva ed III Can
ada and the lake region Wednesday, the
ranging from 10 to % degrees
below zero. At Chicago, Thursday night was
one Of the coolest of the season, and San
day morning, at O clock, the mercury stood
ct is degrees below zero. At St. Paul,
Mimi, it was q below,
Advices from Valparaiso, dated December
a, are rs follows: The Chilians operating
against Lima comprise 22,500 infantry, 500
cavalry and 2400 artillery, with so cannon
and 10 Calling guns-in all, about $4,000
men. The defenders of the city number 40,
900 In consequence Of an order of the
Gillian Government, Punta Arenas is being