The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-08
News of the W eek.

Augusta, Ga, is enjoying the irstsleighing
for twenty-five years. ~ r,-g 81f44l
Twenty one deaths occurred in New York
from diphtheria on Tuesday.
| Richard Curry, aged S5 years, was burned
| to death in a shanty near Bradford, Pa, on
Monday morning '|
John A. Springer was frozen to death while
driving home in Chesterfield county, Virgin
ia, on Sunday.
The house of Elihu Sperry, in New Haven,
Conn, was robbed On sunday night OF about
$45, 900 worth of securities.
The body of Edward Quick, colored, was
found frozen to death in his house IN New
Brunswick, New Jersey, Tuesday morning.
It is said the lumbermen in the vicinity OF
Middletown, Pa, have lost at least S5o,ooU
by the low water and subsequent cold weather.
Right Rev. Thomas Atkinson, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, died IN
Wilmington, Tuesday evening, aged 70 years
Rev. VIM. Fell, of Randolph, n. ", a
Methodist minister, was killed Saturday nlgnt
at Steamburg, Pa, by runaway accioent,
his horse taking fright at a passing traln
Robt w. Andrews, a lawyer of Brooklyn,
N Y. slipped and fell while leaving his home,
Saturday, struck his head on the sidewalk and
died shortly afterward from the conclusion.
The recent extreme cold weather in New
jersey has killed off all the quail left by the
destructive forest fires last summer. Game
of all kinds old and young, have persisted In
large numbers.
Niagara is now in its glory. The Horse
shoe Fall is frozen solid two hundred feet
from either shore, and the ice mountains in
front of the falls have reached height OF
upward of 120 feet.
James Callahan, employed in paper mill
at Pittsfeld, Mass, was Wednesday caught
in the machinery and whi' led round and
round until he was nearly torn to pieces and
his brains scattered all over the room.
In the U. S. District Court at Baltimore on
Monday, Judge Bond refused to grant the in
junction asked by the Pullman Palace Car
Company against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for infringement of com
plainants' patents.
Mrs. Harriet A. Cooper, colored, died in a
suburb of St. Louis, last Saturday, at the al
legged age of lis years. She was the mother
of % children, the youngest, it is said, being
81 years old Her husband survives her, at
the reputed aged of lo1.
j. W. King, of Ringgold county, Illinois,
has commenced suit against Miss Belle Tharp
for breach of promise of marriage, asking a
Judgment of S2,O31-$2, 900 to repair his
damaged affections and $31 for money ad-
vanced to buy her trousseau.
The Kansas newspapers declare that ply
stefan of La Cygne, in that State, narrowly
escaped lynching, because he invented com
pound that would instantly sober drunken
man. Public sentiment was against anything
that tended to cause waste of liquor.
Two freight trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad ran into each other at Monmouth
junction, New Jersey, Monday afternoon.
Twenty five loaded cars were thrown from
the track and wrecked, but no person was
hurt Travel was interrupted for near tive
hours.
The Dixon Crucible Company of Jersey
City suspended on Tuesday, owing to the
failure of Fowler, Compton q Co., OF New
York, and Edward f. G. Young was appoint
ed receiver The Crucible Companys liza,
bilities and assets are estimated at about ST.
100000 each.
An ''ice bridge railway was laid across
the river at Longueil, Quebec, Wednesday
morning, and large quantity Of freight was
through and lies in twenty feet of water.
The engineer and fireman, hearing the ice
crack, Jumped off and saved themselves
A hollow tree IN southern CallIOEHlet las
been converted into dwelling Doors and
windows have been put in, and floors built for
eight stories, the entrance to them beng
made by means of ladder. Outside the
topmost room is a small balcony, shaded by
the foliage of the tree.
A company is soon to be chartered with a
CAPITAL of one hundred thousand dollars, hav-
ing for it's object the working and developing
of the valuable quarries lying in the vicinity
of Petersburg, Va. The granite in these
ouarries is said to be the best in the United
States, and the quantity is well nigh mex
haustible.
A fatal sleighing accident occurred in Park
erdale, N. j., Monday. Mrs. Mary Chad,
wick, widow lady, was out sleighing, &C
companied by her brother, when heavy
sleigh, carelessly driven by an intoxicated
man named Herring, came in collision with
Mrs. Chadwick's team, killing one horse.
The lady was so severely injured that she sur,
vived but few moments.
A pastor at Grundy Centre, Iowa, was re-
Gently very sick, and, believing that he was
near death, confessed that he had not long
before been on most deplorable spree in
Chicago. He did not die, however, and his
wife not only deserted him, but reported him
to the church. His people are more charta-
ble and will probably let him off with re-
primand, as his penitence seems genuine.
One of the growing industries of Australia
is the cooking and canning of rabbits. The
Colas Preserving Company near Melbourne
had on an avera ge 1000 of these agile rodents
brought in every night at the beginning of the
past Season, and the supply increasing, orders
were given to limit the daily quantity to 2, zoe
pair. During the season, which lasted for %
weeks, $4,000 rabbits were canned by this
establishment alone.