The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-25
News of the " eek.


Italy has negotiated a loan for the purpose
of resuming specie payments.
There were 600 passengers on the steamers
leaving New York for Europe on Saturday
last.
William Herudou, Abraham Lincoln for
mer law partaer, is now pauper at Spring
field, Ill.
Hon. Ben. Hill and j. Randolph Tucker
are announced TO make speeches in Philadel.
phia July 4.
Marfied--At Osceola, Iowa, in circus
ring. Major Littleinger, 81 inches high, to
MolIie Shade, 81 inches high.
President Garfield and family arrived at
Long Branch on Saturday evening, and took
possession of one of the Elberon cottages.
The new cotton factory at Rock Mills, Ran
dolph county, Ala, will be three times the
capacity Of the old one, recently destroyed.
The city of Elizabeth, N. j.. according to
the latest figures, owes S5,341, 29l, and its
property assessment amounts to only ST., OOO,
COO.
The annual procession in celebration of
Corpus Christi, at Montreal, took place on
Sunday, and was participated in by $4,000
people
Duringa hailstorma at Babylon, Long Island,
on Sunday night, hailstones as large as wal
nuts fell, smashing windows, and badly dam
aging the crops.
Legislative expenses are troubling the peo-
pie in New York The deadlock costs that
State about 81 800 per day, or between ten
and eleven thousand dollars per week.
Miss Bette Green, of Forsyth county, Ga,
has two silk dresses which she made herself,
having raised the worms, spun the silk, color
cd and woven them with her own hands.
The Simpson cotton mills in Alamauce CO.,
~ c., which were burned on Monday are to
be rebuilt on an enlarged scale. The old mill
had leo spjudles, whilst the new one will
have 500
The profits Of the New York Elevated Rail
road for the eiuh, months ending May 81 were
S476,9G5, and of the Metropolitan Elevated
Road Sg.1iG, which is equal to a dividend of
- per cent. on the capital stock.
Several supcrsiiijous persons in Quebec
sat up all Saturday night awaiting the an
tieipatcd ending Of the world, and many
others were much frightened by a slight shock
OF earthquake on Sunday morning.
Chas. X Taylor, a Sehuylkill county Pa,
lawyer, convicted several weeks ago, IN Potts
vile Of cmbezziing county funds, was SEN
fenced this week to two years imprisonment
and full restitution Of the amount embezzled.
The Augusta Ga Chroaicls says tina; the
fall capital Of $500, 900 for the proposed Sib-
ley cotton mills ia that city has been sub
scribed. and that IL has been obtained with
out paying q cent Of commission to anybody.
\ sensation has been created in Montgom
cry. Ala, by the removal OF j. ". Roberts,
postmaster Of that city and IAN immense pc
ti,ion, signed 10y business men and others,
will be sent 20 President Garfield, to urge his
retention
Among other requests ia the viii Of the
late Eli Bates Of Chicago, IS one Of 100000
Tor The erection OF monument to President
Lincoln nj the entrance 10 Lincoln Park, in
Chicago, and SIS, 900 donated to the Indus
isjal School
Judge Parker. in the United States Court
at For; Smith, Ark, sentenced 70 be hanged
ou September q George ". Padgett, Mm.
Brown. Patrick McGowan, Amos Manlry and
Abel Maaley, for murders committed by them
iu the Indian Nation.
7, Is said that carious tablet has been
found in Shepsi Providence. China, whose IN
scriptjou sh0Ns that Christianity vas intro
daced ia'o China \. d. CSC, and sanctioned
by jmpegia. decree 10 the year $50. The tab
Il, sa5 erected 4. p. Isl.
A severe storm passed over Northern Ohio
ou Friday nisht, ln various places trees were
uprnotsd, bridges swept away houses and barns
demolished 0r uurnutrd. aud horses and cat
i3c s5l.el and injured. The storm lasted al
hour. ba, i's path averaged only half a mile
in w.i,h.
The strike IN the Pegperell and Iaeouia
Mile. a. Biddt(srd, Name, did no, end Mon
day. as ~as expected. TIE PepPerell Com
uanY raid oil their hands and closed the mill.
Nearly one hundred Of the strikers leu Mon
day. Tor various parts Of New England aud
Canaja-
Alta meeting &c she Council q Cleveland,
Oslo, on Monday, }. II. Wade offered rs a
giis 60 The eity large tract Of land, on It's
eastern Iitsil, valued at S5oo, eco, which he
has been converting. during several years,
into . beautiful park. Il viii be known as
Wade Park
Ths United States steamer Alliance sails 20
the Arctic seas 20 search for the Jeanette.
The Jeanette bad herself gone oat to search
Tor a prior expedition. Perhaps six or eight
months hence another steamer. manned by
brave aud devoted crews, viii 90 forth 10
seach for The Alliance
An old usan and woman Who lived in abject
poverty near Gerry, Crawford county, Pa,
applird 90 The poor superintendent for ard,
which uus granted, but subsequently II was
discovered hat the man had in bis possession
a deed for o farm OF four hundred . res, and
abs old souau had $500 ia cash.
Cbieaso Is Go haze a grand musical festival
from The 1gih OF June until the Sd Of July,
inclusive The orchestra will be composed
OF $50 oi the bes, musicians in the country
iae male ehoras viii have 1900 yolces, and the
mixed chorus 500. Tao so'ots,s will c1n-
- ~ and an
reps
The tents, horses aud paraphsruaiA OF the
Great London Sh0N, a eireas, vas seized
by deputy sheriff from Chicago. at Des
PLANES, Illinois, on Saturday afternoon, Just
As a performance Was about to begin. The
seizure was made on au altachmeu, for debt
Of Ss00 The circus material was taken TO
. Chicago.
\ Goa, train vas wrecked by striking a COW
on the edge OF an iron bridge, near Iowa City,
loaa. on Monday night The first section Of
the bridge was thrown into The river, and part
Of the l7i..a rolled down q steep embankment.
Job Morton, engineer, and Patrick Malone,
fireman, we're killed, apd another man was
badly injured.
The mate aud tour men Of the schooner
Eusiace, from Saa Francisco for Mazatlan,
arrived at that port on the lTth instant,
aud reported that during the voyage the Chi
nese cook killed the captain, and was i'm
prisoued In the cabin. bat set the vessel on
hre The cargo valaed al SO, 900, included
a quantity Of giant powder and gun powder.
An investigation which has been going on
At Keokuk, Iowa, for two weeks, into the
Affairs of the keokuk Elevator, owned by
John Sjurgis. shows that since May 18th 100,
COO bushels Of grain have disappeared from
the elevator FOR this grain Francis j. Ken
nett 4 Co., Of Chicago, hold warehouse re-
ceip,s. No trace of the grain eau be found,
aud both civil and criminal suits are To be
. commenced.
The pnorh0ase at indianapolis was man.
aged With such cruelty to the inmates, and so
exclusively for the profit of the officers, that
a mass meeting was held in one Of the
churches 10 demnad an investigation. A
committee was appointed, with Ex-Governor
Hendricks at its head, 10 reform the institu-
ton. \ commission is now taking teStlmo-
nv, and the revelations Of inhumanity already
made are astounding. Sick paupers were
whipped and confined in underground cells,
diving ones were left in uaheated rooms in
the coolest weather, aud all were fed with
stuff unfit to be eaten
Gov. Hoyt, Of Pennsylvania, has vetoed
the judicial apportonmeni bill recently passed
by the Legislature of that State The Cover
nor saws there is now universal recognition
Of the iaexpediency of the great increase OF
Judges in the Courts of Common Pleas, him
dering their efficiency and affecting the digni-
ty of the judicial office, and adds that the