The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-12-09
News of the Week.

| Six inches of snow fell at Quebec on Tues
| day.
There were AZ deaths from diphtheria in
Philadelphia last week.
Anthony Trollope, the English novelist,
died on Wednesday.
The Liverpool theatres will in future be
closed throughout Passion week.
Gen. NJ. c. Butler has been reelected to
the United States Senate by the South Carroll
ma Legislature.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald
| Campbell TAFT died in London on Sunday
nearly II years of age.
Burglars carried off $12, 900 in jeweIry and
diamonds from the house of Col. VIM. Harris,
of Cleveland, Tuesday night.
The St. Nicholas Bank of New York and
the National Bank of New York have deter
mined to become State banks.
Shawnee College, near Bedford, Ind, was
burned on Wednesday, with its museum of
Indian curiosities, valued at $4,000.
The postoffice at Pottstown, Pa, was broken
into Tuesday night and robbed of money and
stamps to the amount of about $40.
The track of the Northern Pacific has ad-
vanced this year 154 miles, and is now $40
from Winnipeg. No more will be laid this
year.
James Cavanaugh, who was bitten by dog
about year ago, died in Philadelphia on Mon
day of hydrophobia. He first showed symp-
toms of the disease on Friday.
J. w. Bosler, the Republican candidate for
State Senator in the thirty-second Pennsyl-
vania district, Gettysburg, will contest the
election of S. c. Wagner, Democrat.
One hundred and thirty-one persons were
arrested for violating the provisions of the new
penal code in New York on Sunday, and 10
liquor dealers for violating the excise law.
| At Pittsburg, Pa, Tuesday night, Annie
| Syden, domestic, jumped from fourth story
window and was fatally injured. She was
charged with theft, and jumped to make her
I Escape.
A great fire broke out in London, England,
on Thursday, destroying the Alhambra the
atre and eight other buildings. Loss on the
theatre S750,O00. The fire was extending at
last account.
number of small pieces of dough, contain
ing arsenic, were found mixed with the feed
stored for live stock on the farm of Lewis
Adam, in Berks county, Pa. Three hogs have
died from the effects of the poison.
Tobias Forbes, of Clyde, N. Y, nearly so
years old, whose father was a cousin of VIM.
Morgan, of Masonic notoriety, says Morgan
was not murdered, but went to Melbourne,
Australia, and started newspaper.
Rear Admiral Robert Fl. Wyman, COM
mander of the North Atlantic Station, died in
Washington of paralysis on Saturday, aged 81
years He was native of New Hampshire,
and had been in the naval service about forty
two'years.
The members of foreign birth in the next
Congress, together with the Senator's will
make 35, of whom 10 are natives of Ireland
| and eight are of German birth. Seven OF
these are Republicans and twenty-eight Dem
ocrats.
Some thirty union shoemakers at Burlington,
! n. j., whose employers refused to retain them,
are making arrangements to start co-opera
I tive shoe factory in that city, and are putting
up building. The capital is to be furnished
in New York.
A church in Bavaria accommodating 1000
people has been almost entirely built of pa
pier mache, which can be supplied at a cost
little above that of plaster. 1t can be made to
initiate the finest marble, as it takes polish
superior to slate. .E
The new Pension Office will be one of the
most splendid buildings in Washington, with
a frontage of 400 and depth of 200 feet, the
height of the main cornice being IS feet. 1t
will have 200 square feet of flooring and
space for 500 clerks. Congress enacted
| that the cost was not to exceed 100000.
The engines and machinery of the Charles
ton, S. c., cotton factory, which was begun
in August, 1881, were successfully tested on
Wednesday, and next week spinning will be-
gin. The mill has $4,000 spindles, with
capacity for fifteen thousand more. 1t is the
first cotton mill erected in Charlestown since
the war. ..
Municipal elections were held in a number
of cities in Massachusetts, Tuesday. The
question of liquor license was voted on with
varying results. In Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
Tuesday, the republican candidates for mayor
and most of the minor city officers were elect
ed. In Hudson, n. j., the Democrats were
succe ssful.
The Utah commission, in its report to the
Secretary of the Interior, recommend that a
marriage law be enacted by Congress declar-
ing all future marriages void unless witnessed
by certain designated persons and registered
in specific public Offices. Female sufragei is
regarded by the commission as an obstacle in
the way of the efforts for the suppression of
polygamy.
An old resident of Simmons Gap, in Geor
gia, who is now four score, is living with his
ninth wife. Nor in wives alone has this fine
old gentleman been we'll and extensively en-
dowed. Fifty three persons are entitled to
call him papa and at recent family gath
ering over three hundred of his descendants
were present.
The Ohio State canvassing board in the
Wallace Mckinley contest, in the eighteenth
congressional district, decided on Wednesday |
that Mckinley, Republican, was elected by
eight majority, and issued a certificate of cleo
ton to him. In the seventh district Morey,
Republican, was declared elected, and in the |
twelfth district Hart, Republican.
A tramp offered to drink as much liquor as
anybody in an Evansville barroom would pay
for, and proved it by emptying full tumbler.
He then said he would drink twelve glasses of
beer as fast as they could be drawn, and sue
ceeded in that undertaking. A few minutes
afterward in another saloon, he drank two
trimming tumblers of whiskey. Then he
died. SCI.
A committee representing the New Jersey,
Newark Methodist Episcopal Conference, the
Baptist State convention, the Presbyterian
Synod and the Reformed Dutch Church, in
Newark, N. j., have adopted resolutions re-
commencing the churches to memorabilia the
Legislature in favor of prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of any distilled or fermented
liquors.
With the view of increasing the emigration
of Germans to Canada line of steamers, to
be run under the auspices of Mr.. Munderloh,
the German consul at Montreal, has been
promised the assistance ofthe Dominion gov
eminent in the shape of subsidy. The steam
ers will probably be run from Bremen to Que
bee and Montreal in the summer, and to Hal
flax in the winter.
In the trial of John Dewey for libeling Au-
gust Belmont, in the New York General SEES
sions Court on Monday, Dewey, who took the
witness stand to testify in his own behalf, re-
fused to disclose who was the head of the rev.
dictionary Irish party that appointed him a
committeeman, and was committed for 80 days
forcontempt. The trial was adjourned till the
expiration of the sentence.
The Pittsburg and Western Railroad, hereto
fore narrow-g gauge, was broadened to the
regular standard in fifteen hours on Sunday by
the laying of a third rail- which required 1000
men to do the work. Thirteen miles of rail