The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-01
News of The Week.

Mr. Benz. p Shillaber, better known as
Mrs. Darlington, of Chelsea, Mass, is quite I'LL.
Burdens Hotel and three stores in toilette,
Ontario, were burned on Sunday night. Loss,
SIS, 900.
The post Office at Delhi, Quebec, was rob-
bed of all the registered letters in it on Sun
day night.
Joseph Donahue, tramp, was found frozen
to death in Eleventh avenue, New York,
Sunday morning.
Tho total population of the State of Yer
mont, according to the schedules returned to
the census Office by the enumerators, is 332,-
296.
A fire damp explosion in cold mine Mon
day at St. Etienne, France, caused the loss
of a number of lives. Eleven bodies have
been recovered.
Los Angeles County, with 5,673 acres of
land in vines, raised in 1880 So, 0O0, 900 pounds
of grapes, making 100000 gallons of wine
and 800 of brandy.
The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts,,
Tuesday celebrated the 250th anniversary of
its settlement. At sunrise bells were rung
and salutes fired.
The first Goldfish ever caught in a seine on
the Delaware beach was hauled in at Life saw
ing Station No. l a few days ago. ltweighed
twenty one pounds.
A number of cases of small-po have occur
red in Jersey City. N. j., recently. There
were SO deaths in Philadelphia. Pa, last week
from the same cause.
The grain crop of the Saskatchewan district
of Manitoba is a partial failure this year, owing
to ''the late spring, the cold, wet summer; and
the early fall Frost
Sixty houses were destroyed by floods on
Christmas day, at Liamsoe, Cyprus. Eight
don IN no
amount of $3.50, 900 was done.
Four persons were kiIed-one of them be-
ing burned to death in the wreck-by COLI
sion on the Air Line Railroad near Charlotte,
North Carolina, Monday morning.
A great snow storm prevailed In the North
of Scotland from Friday until Sunday morn
ing. A number of trains are embedded in
snow banks, and traffic was stopped.
A terrible epidemic of scarlet fever is re-
ported at Houtzdale, in Clearfeld county, Pa.
Since it began, few days ago, 80 children
have died, Is of the deaths occurring in one
day.
The finest sleighng of York county, Pa,
is on the Susquehanna river, just above the
over a solid bed of ice, which is twelve inches
thick.
Rats gnawed loose the fastenings of a trap
door at the Venango Mills, Franklin county,
Pa, by which tonr hundred bushels of corn
escaped into the creek below and was washed
away.
Sufficient census returns have been received
to indicate that the total population of the
United States is little over 81 ZOO, 900.
This shows gain of about $4,000, 900 in q
decade.
John Barmore, a hackman, was killed by
falling from his carriage while returning from
a funeral in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Sun
day afternoon. He was "a years of age. 1t
is supposed he fell from the carriage in fit.
The Hudson Bay Company recently'sen
force of men of the Saskatchewan river to get
coal. A seam three feet thick was found
about fifteen miles up the river, but the float
ing ice prevented them from taking much
away.
Elk Gov. Scott has been committed to Jail
for the murder of young DruIy at Napoleon,
Ohio, on Thursday OF last week. If he had
received his deserts he would have been
in jail long ago for plundering the people of
South Carolina.
James Barry, young man employed by a
quarry company Of Portland, Maine, was
Killed one day last week by the fall of an i'm
mense icicle from the ledge under which he
was at work. His skull was crushed and
leg and arm broken.
Geo. McGerk was killed by his insane
brother, LAYER McGerk, at McGerks Sta
ton, on the Missouri Pacific railroad, Mont
teau county, Mo-, Tuesday. The homicide
had just returned from an insane asylum at
Socorro, n. NJ.
Twenty prisoners in the county Jail at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, mutinied on Saturday, and half
the police Of the city were called in to subdue
them Cold water and pieces of coal were
used to queIl the revolt, with success. Sever
al of the prisoners were seriously injured by
being struck with the coal.
The Indian Farm School at Prince Albert,
in the British Northwest Territory, is reported
charge of the instructor, and making good |
progress in farming, building houses, and ac-
curing herds of cattle. Two thousand bush |
els of wheat were raised this year.
George Scott, of Sussex county, Del, after
drinking to excess on Christmas day, became |
involved in quarrel, and while in the act of
pulling off his coat for fight, fell dead on
the spot He was quite young man, and
his death is attributed to congestion of the |
brain from excessive drink and excitement.
Jacob Geagle and his wife, farmers at the |
village ofSantee' Mills, near Bethlehem, Pa,
were murdered i'll their bed, on Sunday night, |
by Joseph Snyder, who boarded with them.
Snyder, after canfessing his guilt, was taken
from the officers, while the Coroner's jury
was in session Monday, and was lynched by an
mob.
For Christmas Decorations this year the |
citizens ofPhiladelphia used15, 900 trees, $780, |
900 yards of laurel and other wreaths, and |
l 600 barrels of moss, costing in the aggregate |
about S54 900, to say nothing of vast stores of
holly and flowers. The trees came principally |
from Maine, and the laurel and moss from the |
swamps of New Jersey.
The inhabitants of Maryhill i'll Scotland, |
are being eaten out of house and home by le
gions of rats, which have taken up their quar-
ters in the town. They are actually running |
about by thousands, The keeper of a dairy
laments the loss of fourteen young pigs and |
forty fowls belonging to him, leaving nothing
behind but a few wel-picked bones.
During an alteration last Friday in Halifax
Va, between Marion Wimbish, a |
white boy, aged II, and a negro boy, about |
the possession of an ak, the negro attempted
to assault Wimbish with hoe, when the lat |
ter dealt him blow on the neck with the ak,
almost severing the negro's head from his |
body. The negro died in about ten minutes.
A sleigh containing six persons was struck
by train at a railroad crossing near Lucan,
Ontario, on Saturday night. James McGrath, |
his wife, his brother Matthew, and his cousin,
Ellen Blake, were killed. McGrath's thir-
cen mouths old infant was dangerously IN |
ured. Annie McGrath saved heselfby jump |
ing from the sleigh a moment before the COLI
sion.
Barney Duffy and John Mahoney, Migrants,
on Saturday evening laid down on a heap of |
cinders carried from a rolling mill i'll Paterson,
New Jersey. After a while Duffy was as
hyxiated by the gas from the smouldering
heap, and Mahoney made him some coffee in
IN old tin can, and then, procuring aid, took
him to hospital near by. Mahoney then
went back and laid down on the sane cinder
heap, where he was found Sunday morning,
lead and horribly burned. During the night
ne was smothered by the fumes from the coal
heap, and the wind freshening famed the