The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-02-12
News of the Week.

Philadelphia is about erecting monument
to Washington.
Tennyson, the poet laureate of England, is
in failing health.
Twenty-four thousand miners are on
strike in Lancashire, England.
Twenty-Five boys escaped from the West
boro' Mass Reform School last week.
The Hudson Bay Company's buildings and
fort at BelIacola, B. c., have been destroyed
by fire.
Thomas Carlyle, the distinguished author,
died in London on Saturday last, aged 90
years and months.
At Fall River. Massachusetts, on Sunday
| last, two men and two boys broke through the
ice and were drowned, whilst shedding.
/ The Capital Hotel, Dover, Delaware, was
I burned on Friday night of last week. Some
ofthe guests barely escaped with their lives
John J. Berry, cashier of the Bank Of Ber-
gen County, N. j., has been sentenced to
| five years in the State prison for embezzie'
ment.
Jay Gould will add about 900 miles Of new
/ road to the Missouri Pacific system during the
| present year, carrying it to the Rio Grande
at Laredo.
| The Rev. J. Y. Backman of Armington,
/ H., got drunk on communion wine, whipped
! his wife, and broke nearly all Of the Parson
I age furniture.
Five hundred cigarmakers in Louisville,
4 Ky, are on a strike for IS, SO and Sll per
| thousand for the different varieties, instead
of 81, s. and SO.
Great excitement is reported at Alma, Col
orado, BY the discovery Of three-toot vein
I of ore, mining Eve hundred ounces o! silver
/ to the ton, in one Of the mines.
! George F. Gard descended with light
( into the tar well Of the Stonington railroad
| gas works, at Stonington, Il. l., Monday.
/ An explosion followed, and Card was killed.
I Harry Lane died at Mount Vernon, lad,
/ on the Ist instant. He was supposed to be
/ l23 years Of age, and was q body servant OF
/ Gen Mercer during the Revolutionary War.
/ The California farmers convention has
formed wheai-groWers' association for mu-
tual aid and protection against middlemen.
/ They will establish IN agency at Liverpool
During last week 5 storm in Oregon a mum
/ Der Of houses we're blown down and large
/ school house, with loo pupils and teachers
was carried 50 yards. Several children we're
I badly hurt, bat none were killed.
/ A Canadian paper reports that Mr.. Nenaor
I has been invited 10 lecture in Washington on
the Sd OF 4jh Of March, aud that he has also
Z been requested to give now a general idea OF
the weather to be expected a, that time.
Res. Dr.. J. NJ. PieSens, late ereeaback
Z candidate Tor Governor Of Alabama, vas shot
aud killed at Mountain Home, IN that State,
Z last week, by Robert I.etson. while attempt.
/ ing to act as g peace maker between the latter
aud Wm. Davidson.
Chief Justice Conveys in the Criminal
Court st Wilmington. Del. Monday, called
+ the attention Of The grand jury 10 the recent
( address OF Col. lngersol IN that cIty, sayTug
I Il was worthy 0g their ALLEGATION as canning an
der the Iaw Ct blasPbsmy.
( The ice extended more than a mile out ia
{ the ocean from Long Branch, y. J., ON Non,
day. Rad the extraordinary sceae was witness
+ cd Of people walking oui 200 yards from shore
on the ice. Sssea of the iron columns OF the
ocean pies have beeu hrokea by heavy ice
driit.
The storm 10 Louisiana Sunday vss the
/ heaviest recorded there. The signal Gag
( the c,lsiom. hoasc iR New OricaRs wAs tosa TO
7 shreds Cgrvasses 10 the lercc on Moaday
/ haojcd large parijoa Of the city. The No
! bile railroad Sas flooded and trains stopped
running.
The Lake Shore aad Nschjeaa Soaihera
4 Railroad Company have contracted faS s.
I new locomotives, $50 cars abd large uaui-
Der Of passenger coaches, iuvolvlux the cx-
peadi,nFe u - 600 coo. Tke company will
also coasirncs a scceud track on the Western
division Of is road.
+ Accoaais from ireland indicate that dc
cidcd change for she better has occurred, bat
/ isrroyisas IN the VEST has not diasaisAcd.
Z Ths government appears 10 he we'll prepared
% defeat the plans Of she FcHrans- Nc. Par
uail has s0ae 10 Paris on bnslrcss ccunsetsd
With ,hc and league faNl,
The steamship Bohaui;az. from Bosi0a for
7 Liverpool, vas wrecked IN DaniDzgh bar,
Z Ireland, Sauday night. Fbisly 10 lircs wesu
lost The ship bfcmea, from BreDan Tor
T Baltimore, uas wrecked near Lsrrick, SdeS
land Islands To-day. rhirteea ct ihS sfe~
uefe dr80ncd and seyea saved
+ The gale is Ncw O-ieans sandy b!eu
+ 3owa 'hc srcmeas lockout ,u@~r, uhteh
crushed 10 ihr rO2f Of ajisialpE hoasg.
I loss S5.00l The WAtcrs 81 she gaii uefe
bla~u over the iosiaads, and sabmpFgri part
( u ,he Nsv 0rlcaas and Mob,lc railroad A
I fseiEh, train IS reported wrecked
Chief Ircn Dog and his baai 81 IS ialiAus
I arrived 81 Fort Baford Saturday As the
I poar hAli-ss&Fxsd creatures GIsd throaxh she
/ post il sas hard 10 realize iha, they uerc
Z nogtion Of the Formidable bard that sent such
Z : iAaa Of horror lhrough the couusry ~ ISIS
F y she massacre 81 Caster sailaai haud-
Col. Jerome Baaap4rie aaa bis ~sir are eos
I living ia Washsngtua and ts5sssnsag great
deal Mrs BoHapaue-A granddaughter ot
Daniei " eAsier--is q charming E0uan, dress
"a naRni6cgnsiy and uf.en wears bcNaufal
{ je4eis. . large shAFe II which descended 70
her from The late Elizabeth Pai;srsoa Hona-
paFse.
A controversy a. Ies1yiIle. Cal. ab0st a
. trfsftaAr
/ between niue msn, Who were gsardlng the
property. and aa attacking party Of IS. The
Z 5ghi was kept uP mill Aonday rlcTuiHg. shea
Z Inc guards Surrendered. uae IL the guards,
+ O. p Field. vas killed. and FL. Phillips as
! woandel 10 the leg None .ol the attacking
( party werr injured.
Adsices on Tuesday ia regard 10 the Cali
fnrnia dh.age stale that IN the SACRAMENTO
Z valley the waters are falling I'D the worst X
t thGurhi 20 be ever. Macy steamers are ply
I ing over the submerged plains, taking Of PEG
/ pie and stock, the latter eOagregated on ieyees
/ aud kn0,ls, and IN many instances standing
I IN shallow watsr, \ number o, people and
/ many cattle base bSen drowned.
( Addison Rowland. a misery shoemaker.
Z supposed 10 be wre,ehelly poor. died IN Cleve,
lanA. Ohio, recently and every ehiuk and
Z ercvice IN his old shaniy vas found % con
I tain money, Ia gold, silver or greenbacks, az
ereeatins S4,a5l besides a bushel OF pennies,
E gaaRiifies Of fractional currency, county or
ders not counted, ak gold aud ,weaty hVe sil
yer watches and lot Of jswlery.
I At owensville, Ky, George Plerat, bach
elor, aged seventy years, living with his aged
sister, who is paralyzed, went 10 thrOw back
I log on the IRE one night last week. and fell
with the log into the FIRE and was burned to
death. HIS sister, unable 70 assist him, wit
messed his horrible fate She lay awake al
night. aad was sill further horriied BY seeing
the cats feast upon the iaee and neck Of tue
unfortunate man.
The old depot of the New York Ceatral
RailrOsd, on Exchange street, in Buffalo,
crushed in Tuesday morning, owing 10 the ae
emulation Of snow on the roof, and the
weaAering Of one Of the walls by the removal
Of Offices. Four men we're killed, but no Que
else seems to have suffered serious injury.
Only one train was in the depot Ut the time,
and the few passengers IN the cars received
nc injury beyond a terrible fright.
The north bound express on the Texas
Central railroad was wrecked near Hemp
stead, Texas Saturday. The engine tell
through q bridge, and the express, baggage
and two passenger cars tumbled down en- EN-
hankment, the sleeper only keeping the track.
The Strakoseh & Hess English Opera Troupe
were among the passengers. Eighteen per-
sons we're injured including Conductor Littig,