The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-12-17
News of the Week.

New York. There have been 1G7 cases since
October 1st. Ga of which have proved fatal.
Paul Tulane, New Jerseyman who made
a large fortune in New Orleans, will donate
81. O00, 900 to the educational fund OF that CITY,
The resignation of Assistant Secretary Up
ton. of the Treasury Department, was accept
ed bv the President on Monday, to take erect
on the 31st inst
The coast of Tonquin, China, was recently
devastated by typhoon, which caused great d
loss of life as we'll as property. Over Zoo
bodies have been recovered.
The charters of over one hundred national
banks throughout the country will soon EXPIRE
and the important question arises whether
these charters shall be renewed or not.
Hart won the 75-hour walking match at
Memphis, which ended at II O clock Saturday
night. The score at the close stood Hart
30G. O'Learv Boil, Hartman 21S, Schemhl
$40.
A dispatch from Franklin, Venango county,
Pa. states that considerable excitement pre-
walls there over the alleged raising OF the wife
of Rev. Benjamin Lloyd from death, by
prayer.
Two freight trains collided near kearney,
Kansas, on Monday afternoon, wrecklng both
engines and seriously injuring five train hands.
One of the injured men is not expected to re-
cover.
General Henry B. Banning, eXCOngress-
man from the Second District OF OHIO, was
found dead in bed at his residence in Cum
minsville. in that State, last Saturday morning.
He was A. years of age.
The smallpox continues to spread i'll
Chicago, Notwithstanding the efforts made to
check it bv the Board of Health. Nine new
cases were reported on Saturday, three OF the
sufferers walking into the Health Office.
Silk culture in Louisiana has of late become
a thriving industry and to-day promises an
abundant production. The mulberry trees
have escaped injury by frost, and the silk
worms are increasing in quality and numbers.
Oscar A. Rice, embezzling collector OF IN
ternal revenue, who pleaded guilty in New
Orleans last week, has been sentenced to pay
a fine of $40. 304, the amount he stole, and to
serve two years at hard labor i'll the pemten-
tiary.
In the United States Senate, on Monday,
Mr.. Edmunds introduced bill for defraying
the EXPENSES incurred in consequence OF the
assault on the late President Garfield, provid-
ed the aggregate allowed does not exceed
100000.
Trouble between the granite manufacturers
and their union wOrkmen, in Boston, resulted
on Saturday in a general lockout of the union
men, Business being dull at present, it was
considered favorable time for such action by
the employers.
Among the deaths in Philadelphia Tuesday
were Miss Mary Burroughs hurry, daughter of
a soldier of the revolution, aged % years;
Mrs Rachel Malone, aged 100 years and 8
months, and John Fleu. a soldier of the war OF
1872, aged 81 years.
The Warden of the District of Columbia
Jail has received number of anonymous let
ters warning him to remove prisoners from the
wing in which Guiteau is confined so that i'll
the event of dynamite explosion no lives eX-
cept that of Guiteau will be endangered.
Seneca V. Holloway, paying teller of the
Poughkeepsie, New York, National Bank,
was arrested on Monday on the charge of
stealing the banks money. His stealings
were estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000.
He was recently elected County Treasurer.
The Virginia Legislature, in joint conven-
ton Monday, counted the vote cast for State
officers at the election last month. The ma
ioritv for Cameron, the Readjuster candi
date for Governor, was II, 49, and for Lewis,
Readiuster candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
II, $50.
The Readuster caucus of the Virginia Leg
islature on Tuesday night nominated H. H.
Riddleberger for United States Senator, to
succeed John w. Johnston, whose term eX-
pires March 4, 1882. Mr.. Riddleberger's
nomination is equivalent to an election, which
will take place next Tuesday.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectured before
the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club last week.
His general topic was ''The Morality of Free
Trade and he denounced the immortality
and injustice of protection. He asserted
also that a protective tariff was adverse
to the interests of laboring men, and that the
politicians would soon find it out.
Joseph Miller, now in his ninety-second
year, and living in Ten Mile Valley, Washing
county, Pa, has been interviewed by a cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette in regard
to the Book of Mormon. He says the book
was written by Rev. Solomon Spauding as a
novel, and by some means it passed into the
hands of Joseph Smith, who converted it into
religious work.
The Memphis Appeal notes that since 1865
Tennessee has acquired nearly 400, 600 addi
tional population, and has made crops every
year of the annual net profit value of S27, 500,
900. Nashville has grown from II 600 people
in 1860 to $4,000 at present. Memphis, in
spite of three epidemics and the war, has
grown from %, 900 in 1860 to $1,000 in 1881.
The growth of Chattanooga, Knoxville and
other towns exhibits like gratifying expan-
sion.
A severe wind-storm passed over the city of
Memphis Tuesday night from the west, and
about two miles northeast of the city de-
veloped into a tornado, with track $50 yards
wide. Reports say the house of a Mr.. Brown
was blown down and himself and FIVE children
buried in the ruins. Mr.. Brown was sick,
and was taken out nearly dead. The children
escaped without serious injury. Several other
houses were either partly destroyed or totally
wrecked
j. Howard Welles, who is in the New York
TOmbs for writing threatening letters to Jay
Gould, inherited comfortable property at
Hudson, n. Y, where his father, an eccentric
man, lived for many years. One of j. How
ard Welles's sisters is the wife of DIR. Darling,
the president of Hamilton College, and anoth-
err married the late Judge Claudius Mcneil.
a brother of the prisoner lives in Poughkeep-
sic, n. u, where he married lady of large
wealth.
Before argument was heard in the court at
Harrisburg, Pa, on Tuesday, the rule to dis
solve the Southern Pennsylvania Mutual Re-
lief Association of Hanover, York county, the
officers of the corporation filed a paper deny
ing the truth of the commonwealth $ allega-
tons. Their paper then asked for a dissolu-
ton for the company, as they could not now
carry on their business in accordance with
their charter. The commonwealth accepted
this proposition, whereupon the court issued
a decree of dissolution and appointed re-
ceiver.
Gov. St. John, of Kansas, has issued
proclamation setting forth that combinations
of persons have been formed in Atchison, Lea
Topeka, Wyandotte and Dodge City
to evade and violate the prohibitory liquor
law, and offering a reward of 500 for the ar
rest and conviction of any one violating the
law in the aforementioned cities; also offer
ing rewards ranging from 500 to $500 for the |
arrest and conviction of officers who fail to do |
their duty with regard to the enforcement of
the law.
1t is announced that the old Whitehall gold !
mine in SpOttsylvania county, Va, has been
bought by a company, among the members of |
which are Senator Call, of Florida Senator
Jones, of Louisiana Congressman Springer
and Berry, Delegate Luna, of New Mexico. |
and II. b: Clifford, a mining expert of Arizo-
Gold was first foupd tbcra in 1900