The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-03-26
News Of the Week.

/ Emperor William was 81 years old on Tues
day.
\ treaty of peace has been signed between
/ England and the Beers.
With the opening of spring the usual trade
strikes for higher wages are announced.
Four thousand dozen eggs were shipped to
4 New York from Milford, Del, last Tuesday.
Eighteen children died of diphtheria last
/ week in Thurso village, near Ottawa, Canada,
The ice bridge at Port Neuf, Quebec,
moved off during Sunday night without doing
any damage.
During the - months ended March |, Chi
cago packed 5,752, l9l hogs, an increase of
| l,07l, 554 over the preceding year.
The German Reformed Church in the Uni
| ted States number 157, 948 COMMITMENTS, and
| they gave last year to missions SIS, 987.
The ice in the Penobscot river went out
/ Sunday and the port of Bangor is now open.
! The river had been closed for is days.
Thirty-two cases Of typhus fever, forty of
small -poX, IS of diphtheria, and l36 of scar
! let fever were reported in New York last
week.
The Savannah river at Augusta, Georgia,
was higher on Friday last than it has been for
/ sixteen years. 1t rose twenty-four feet in
! twelve hoarS.
! The census wealth statistics place the valu
alton of real estate in the State Of New York
/ at S2,326, 500, SI3, and personal property
/ S352, 1863, $50; total S2,679, 1879, 1873.
A lwelye-year old boy named Robertson.
/ living with his parents near Woodville, Cana
/ da, comnitted suicide by hanging, on Mon
I day. No reason is assigned for the act.
1 The building of narrow gauge roads has
/ been steadily on the increase in The past two
/ years. OF 7,l5O miles of road built in the
/ United States last year, ,45S miles were mar
row gauge.
/ The amount stolen from the Ashuelot Sa-
wings Bank, at Winchester, New Hampshire,
/ by its Treasurer. it is now aScertaiaed, will
I exceed 100000. The steaIings began more
{ than Ave years ago.
/ Dr. Richard Henry Lee, of Philadeiphis,
/ Pa, well known physician, and descend
ant Of Richard Henry Lee, one of the Siguers
( of the Declaration OF Independence. died
Monday, in his 5ith year.
/ At meeting OF pressed glass manufacture.
ers Tuesday at Pittsburg. 1t was decided to
/ stop work for eight weeks between May J. 81
/ aad September lst. 1t is believed this action
7 will reduce the stock OF tableware nearly ST.,
/ 500, coo.
: 4 solemn requiem Mass Tor the repoSe Of
( the soui of the late Gar was celebrated sun
day morning. by Rev. Father Bjerring, IN the
3 Greek chapel, New York. Among those
present were Mayor Grace, All the foreign
Cousals in Nca York and ex Minister Slough
Z ton.
! The monster locomotive bulls at the Penn
sylvauia Railroad shops az Altoona made run
% thirty iour miles ia iorty-tour mIautes ON
ITS trial trip. One mile was run 10 stiy-cIghi
and another iu fry nine seconds, Il Is 20 be
ran on regular trains until Its capacity IS folly
tested
The King OF Siam, as a mark Of appgah=,,
ton G! the book upon Sam and Java r0ceutly
Published by Colonel Thomas ". Knox, has
created that gentleman 3" knight Of the Most
Exalted Order Of the White Elephant; Ii
is the irs. tine such distinction hss ever
been conferred uPon au America.
Mr Thomas 4 81 %. late president 81
F Penusyi,auia Railroad, has endowed the
+ Chair ol Mathematics in the University Of
Pennsylvania vsth q sif u $4,000. He has
also Etssn SSI,Hp 90 she JcfierSoa Medical
. COLLEGE. S3a. psFg 90 the 0rthoru-iic Hospital,
and S21.N1p 60 she Chiliraa' Uepa rtmrut 81
The Episcopal Hospital.
iyucblgrz, Va. l. rapidly attaining Der
/ aish u becoming ihe Pitisbarg OF the Soaih,
and in addition Wi.t sOon feel healthy iu
pulse trasa the completion Of the kiUhnasd
ana Ai5sEhaug HAiiraad sh.eh vail gve her
Access 20 abe coal Fields of West Virginia, aud
aHnri a direct ssstern cattle, ia5 the prodacys
u her tobacco factories agi iron works,
10 Cbarleuoa, iI,laeis, oa Friday aigbt u
lal week printed posters arge pgt up 20 the
streets, sAu.ae .Rvniy psrsoBs. abous hait Of
thrm acmcn, % leave toe place. they uou.d
escape regulation by the Nsgi.aats. Moss
Of ln5se uamci itii GA Saturday. Soa.c Of
- Y HaaH 49,
Robbery, arson ard even murder arc among
lhe eriasrs smPgied so 'se person. warned
away.
a tAe rcsaiar SUNDAY iuscti-g Of Socialists
10 Ch.caF1 Sunday night. resolutions were
adopted approving she assassination Of the
late Gear. oa the susuna that be Was "a bosl
der standing in the say Of human liberty, aad
she aaiy msaas Of getting him cat Of the way
aAs hy blasting kiu pui Secretary Blaine
aas hsaarei adb tar cunsnrr Of the msciIng
ios BE- despatch Of sympathy Wj,A the lmpe
raj fsullly and Russian people
4 despatch iram Rome. Ca, Margh 81
Szysi-fkc river as shis point is three feet
hg kcr thas rrrF before known. Nooley
bridge. hfteen miles above here. vas washed
aaAy, asd tors away gxo other bridges. Toe
loss OF property already occa2oued By The
Goods caunoi be less than Ssuo, COO. Busi
ness j. entirely suspended IN this city, sEd
even the newspapers have been compelled
10 suspend Publication No trans have been
ran on samc Of the railroads Gor three days,
The people are gong through the streets ia
boats And on floats.
Georsc farro,,, alias Big Nose George,
one Of the Elk Maautain WyoBiugi murder,
ers seuterced % be hanged April ., attacked
bis jAiier az Eawiins Tuesday evening, when
b. entered the corridor uf thc jail 10 lock the
prisoaess IN. ihe object Of toe murderer being
u eseapO. The jAiIor ails, hsArag tbs eoa.
sici, had the presence Of mind 20 lock the
OUTSIDE doaF and give an alarm, which brought
citizens 10 the rescue, ~heu Farrett ~as
uscrpowsrea and pat ~ dnRb!e Irous. Oar
ing tuesday night be was taken oal by mob
aud hanged 10 a telegraph pole.
Settlers il Nebraska have had rough ex
pefieace tkis Einiur. One Of them writes OF
a neisabos having had . eAid die daring a
violent snoy storm aud being unable to bury
j. tor oyer . seeS u heing Impossible 10 gg'
through the deep snG@ wlth H. When the
farmers rode 20 town 10 get the mail or gro
coriss they invariably took shovsls along 10
dig a way oat ID case their horses got stuck.
The early arrival OF winter took many farmer.
by surprise, aud a large quantity Of corn was
len in the sields. OF which urgent need has
SINCE been bad,
Daring last week there we're Ia Boston Al
cases ana 10 deaths Of diphlhcria, l / cases
aud death Of scarlet fever, and deaths from
measles ~ New Britain, Ct, small Pox
prevalent, but one death. Ia New York city
43 deaths from scarlet fever, 80 FROM diphthe
ria, - from; Group, II from small pox and
from measels In Brooklyn II deaths from
dii hlherja, from scarlet fever and ! from
small pox Ia Philadelphia 81 deaths from
small pox, from scarlet fever, from! diph
liberia ana frOJ,, measles. ia Richmond
Va, cases ofsmaltpo1. IN Wilmington, n,
c., one death from small pUy. In Chicago
there we're II deaths from diphtheria, from
scarlet fever, from Group, from measels
aud y from smallpox.
An Englishman lately visiting the Eagle
and Pha.nix Mills. Columbus, Ca, said the
new No. 3 mill was the best equipped mill in
the world. Certainly there is no mill making
a larger variety or better quality of goods. .
Il has every new Improvement aud some that
no other mills in the country are using. The +
profit Of these mills last year was 70 per cent. Z
on q capital OF 81 $50, GOO, or S5.76 per spin .
die. The mills are lighted with the Brush +
electric light, and water power IS used TO run I
them. 1t cost to light the Nc. mill fer six .