The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-07-30

The Rev. Jesse Way of Wabash, Indiana,
eloped with his daughter-in-law.
Massachusetts Republicans will hold a
State convention on September 2lst.
Thirty years ago it cost Massachusetts 81. 81
TO educate each child; now it costs $3.50.
A number of brieklayers in New York de-
manded $3.50 per day. Their request was
refused.
Michael Myers, employed at the Jersey
City abattoir, was fatally gored by bull on
Wednesday morning.
Governor Hall, of Delaware, wants to
charter a steamer to convey his staff, the
State officials and mihtia-three hundred per-
sons in ALTO Yorktown during the centen-
NAL.
A Georgia railroad conductor elected a
passenger for persisting in riding with his coat
off on the ground that it was not polite to the
women in the car. The legality of the act is
to be tested in court.
In Great Britain more persons were killed
during last year by horses than by all the
railways of the United Kingdom. The num-
! Der of violent deaths registered, from all
causes, reached $4,000.
There is another comet approaching the
earth in the north eastern heavens, which
will shortly be visible to the naked eye. The
first one is gradually fading from sight, in the
region of the north star.
! The treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital
paid the wages of employees in Mexican dol
! lars which he bought at a discount. The
| profit of this was $40, and the loss was a po-
sition worth 81 200 year.
VIM. r. Diekerson and Joel Vanarsdalen,
two lawyers, were convicted in Philadelphia
Wednesday of forging the will of Robert
| Whitaker, by which it was proposed to divert
an estate valued at 100000 to their own
ends.
A Justice of the Peace at Alexander, Pa,
is called the Marrying Squire, because he has
tied l ,S46 matrimonial knots. He is an old
man, and 70. ffty-two years has ofhciated at
nearly all the weddings in his part of the
country.
A number of Milford fruit evaporaters have
gone to Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Caro-
linas to locate evaporators. They have re-
eeiYed guarantees from residents of those
States that they can secure from 5000 to l0,-
/ 600 bushels of peaches for each machine at
/ thirty -five cents per bushel.
/ A dispatch from Long Branch, n. j., says:
Much damage to the farm lands and suffer
ing to cattle IS being caused by the prolonged
1 drought. The army worms thrive on the
parched grain and cornfelds. A repetition
of last Summers terrible drought is feared. ="
The potteries in Trenton, New Jersey, in
/ Guiding those for decorating purposes alone,
are 20 in number, and they employ nearly
! 5000 persons. They have an aggregate cap
| ital of 81 1902, 500, and the annual value of
their products is about 81, 800, 000-said to be
little more than half thel value of all the
pottery produced in the United States.
The Baltimore american thinks it curl
Gus coincidence, that on the same day on
which lunatic was arrested at Albany for an
alleged intent to shoot Governor Cornell,
crank should be taken into custody at st.
Paul for expressing desire to kill Governor
Pillsbury Governor Hamilton il says should
get out his boiler-iron overcoat and send it to
the nearest rolling mill to be pressed.
A pastor of three churches at a well known
watering place in the Welsh diocese Of Ban
gor, by himself or agents, rents aud works a
salmon factory, is tenant of q large farm, a
coal merchant, team owner and general
carrier, car proprietor, private road con-
tractor, stage coach proprietor lin conjunc-
ton with railway company, a chief part
ner in public baths and mineral wells, holder
OF turnpike gates, lodging house keeper, a
guardian Of the poor and a member Of the
sanitary authority.