The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10

taA NtAs tf.lttstslt AAEttaEFsHA "a "4kaas 2aaA
ou the 2ud inss., al his homs in WiikeshayFs,
Pa, aged y years.
Lorenzo nelmonico, the famous catCrcr, Of
New York, died a. Sharon Spriars, on Ss,uy-
day eyeniRr, aged = years,
Tbs wheat harvest in Minnesota Is 6uishe,l,
nnd ihe yield Is cs,ims;sa ASA. Goo 90 bash
els, ahoas 3, 600, 0O9 bashcis less ;haa lass
yeas
Cholera has brosen oar ~ 4 moy sad ShAns.
hac. In China, and Bangkok, in Sam. Al
the latter place the mortality is from lac 10
100 daily.
Water s. selling AZ . ceais barre. 81
Frausiluville, Schsylkill eounsy, Pa. Ths
prolonged drought has dried up tie sells aad
streams
osias 70 ;he srcai scarcity Of saIsr. The
Lower shops u The Fenssy lvAuia Railroad
Company Il Allooaa have been obliged to
sssPend work.
David Crimmias. % Tosonio, committed
suicide by jumping over The Falls ifom the
log projecting from Table BOsk, AZ Niagara
Fails. oa Monday.
A iegri6e kaiissotm visited Nscol.et eOauiy,
MinHcsoga, on Friday eseuiuE 81 lsu seek,
Cora aaa grass we're beAseu d0Wn, aud 10.
nAa Was seriously iEjgred rs the stones
AEEUEUfeA 20 Asif GaesArasa faLFfA- EAE aa4ss
vai4e q the hsh prodacfs Of the GrrAs Lakes
fresh and prepASd 6sh. cAvcar, isinglAss
and osl-f5F the year 1879. HRs 81, $500.
By collision GA the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, NJ Thornton Station. W. Va, Taes-
day afternoon, aboa, Il persons wrfc injured.
cue o. whom has died Foay more died on
"Wednesday.
"A cid lady died in Sehuylsill county, Pa.
"a ~ - ~
Insurance. on her iiie aggvcgs,iag $3.50. 0Oo.
The policies Were placed ia nearly every
speculative insurance eomPany ia The eoaa.
try.
Morocco has beea suffering from heat that
is described a. all bet sHsupp0rtable. Il Was
50 great ,hAt the iasi Of The RnmRdan could
cot be kept. aud 10 The last removal OF tie
Sultan camp over ia eamels persisted Of
excessive beat.
4 marvellous gold discovery IS reported ia
iLe Central Hills, thirty niles from Dead.
wood, Dakota. The yeiH which y four feet
Wide. is alleged to contain more precious metal
than quartz, and 10 ran SlJ0,Go0 10 the ton
ia The foundation.
Ala soldiers reunion IN Lenaseo county.
Michigan, August 81, Colonel Amos SoPer,
81 years OF age, was introduce as ''lhe only
l.enawee county survivor Of the war Of 1872
he went home next day sick With dyscntery,
aad vas dead on Friday.
4 peculiarly destructive thunderstorm pass
e5 over AndOyer, New York, on Saturday.
b. single electric fash, four houses and i've
barns besides several smaller hgildings, we're
set on hre aud destroyed aud several persons
were Injured By the shock.
The mutila;ed body Of Bohemian farmer
was found in field near Cedar Rapids, Ia,
on Saturday morning. be having been killed
by a Jersey bull, which literally tore him 10
pieces The animal endangered the lives OF
all who approached him, but wSs killed after
being shot six tines
Tie work of dredging the channel Of the
Delaware river, between Bordentown aud
Trenton, was begun last week, under direction
Of Colonel William Ludlow, Of the T. 5. En-.
giaeefs. i is the third attempt to Improve
/ that part of the river, so as to make it navi-
/ gable for steamboats,.
The opening Of the schools In Covlngton,
XIV, on Monday was postponed on account OF
the breaking ont of smallpox in that town.
Z There have been many deaths from the dread
disease, aud many are stricken down. As
I the town is Just across the river from Cinciu.
/ natl. there is no small excitement over 1t.
The Cattle Commissioners returned to Chi
eago Monday from their visit to Peoria, and
resumed their Investigations in the former
city. Professor Thayer says nothing Was
seen q, Peoria to indicate the presence of
pleuro pneumonia, and, so far, the Commits.
sioners have seen nothing TO Indicate that il
| exists in the West.
A dispatch from London, England, Sep
teh,bsF 5, says The GRion line steamer
Wyoming. from Liverpool on the Sd inst,
| for New York, took out $50 MoFmaus fer
Great Salt Lake, from Great Britain, Ssit-
gerland and Germany, the two latter countries
contributing over goo. Including the fore
going, more than 1900 MoFmons have left
Liverpool this summer. Another contingent
will go before the season closes.
Miss Blanche Nevin, daughter of Rev. DR..
i. w. Nevin, of Lancaster, Pa, recently dis
tinsuIsAad herself at CarFara, Italy, where
she has studio. One day when she was
walking in the street she saw driver of
postal wagon thrown from his seat, SO that
one of his legs were entapgled in, one OF the
front wheels. The horses started to run and
the youpg artist seized them and held them
untii the driver was rescued from his danger.
Gus position. The plungng horses finally
threw Miss Neyin aside and ran away.
Charles Rust, William Benton, Charles
Thsrsbir and Charles Crause we're killed at
Saver City, RaaF HralfoFdl Pa on Tuesday
by the premature explosion 81 torpedo AT
an oil wen. William Satterly and Edward
Wilson were fatally injured by the same ex
plosion. The explosion was caused by the
reaklessness of Rust, who, finding the cap
would not it en- the primer of the shell,
knocked it down twice with his fist. +hf der
rick. engine house and boiler were blown
to atoms, and the men were frightfully man-
ulnd