The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-04-15
News of the Week.

The accounts Of ex-Treasurer Gibson, OF
Delaware county, Indiana, are reported to be
$4,000 ''short.
Over 5000 Immigrants arrived at New
York on Tuesday, and 1000 more were ex- .
pected this week.
Three Cinnamon engaged in mining on
Comas Creek, Idaho. were murdered ON the
2nd inst and their gold stolen.
Reports received by the agricultural depart.
ment up to Saturday show very hopeful
prospect for good crops in the South
Mrs. Nichalas Smith Ida Greeley, the /
eldest daughter of the late Horace Greeley
died on Wednesday at Chappaqua, New ork
The waters of the Mississippi river fell on
Monday ten inches, and it is supposed will
have subsidized within their natural limits by
today.
Snow fell along the Hudson on Sunday
night. and Monday in portions of the Ohio
Valley, aud along the Upper Delaware IN
Pennsylvania.
Cashier Ruth, of the Washington, Pa,
Savings Bank is reported $4,000 short in
his accounts, having sunk the stolen money
in speculations.
Col. Henry d. Pierce, brother of the late
President Pierce. died suddenly at his resi-
denee in Hillsboro', \. H., on Sunday, aged
66 years He leaves TWO sons
Charley Ross. son of Mrs. Ross who made
the first United States flag as adopted by the
committee of the Continental Congress, is an
inmate of the San Francisco poorhouse.
An unknown assassin fired into the house
of Horace Jones. at Union, Wisconsin, ON
Sunday evening wouuding Jones, his wife and
a domestic, ALL it it is believed, fatally.
John Queen. the Irish comedian, was sent
1 g I,l k.a-t.
tai. Philadelphia. Pa. ON Saturday, violent
maniac Excessive drinking was the cause.
Choung- Chi Lang. chinaman. ~ feet tall
and weighing 800 pounds. arrived in New
York on SUNDAY, and is now on exhibition in
n museum there. His wife Is not hye feet
high.
John Phillips an old aud prominent citi-
zen of Dinwiddie county. Virginia, committed
suicide ON Sunday, by shooting himself. He
had previously made three attempts 10 kill
himself
Rev. I.oreuzo Barber, known rs the fight
ing chaplain of Ben,ian's Sharpshooters.
during the late war. accidentally shot himself
dead while hunting near Troy. New FORK, ON
Saturday.
Rev. l.. Hamilton. pastor of the lndcpen-
dent Church, Al Oakland Cal. died suddenly
on Sunday morning in the pulpit. He paused
IN his sermon, aud sinking down, expired al
most instantly.
A mob Of sixty men captured steamer at
RAYMOND CITY, West Virginia, one night last
( week went to Winfield and took from the Jail
! and lynched aegru named South who had
F feioniously assaulted the wife Of 4 railroad
( hand.
The wife 81 Hon F. t. Beltzhoovcr died
! al the residence Of her husband IN Carlisle.
Z = L. n. tel
place Tuesday afteEne15. The stricken has
/ hand has the sinceFs y npaihy Of his con
Z stiisests.
Edward Newman. % school teacher 81 IcF-
+ seville NeW Jersey, = reported to have been
[ made insane by fright Gn learning that he hsd
/ been vaccinaied with virus from the arm Of
[ "a man who bad frequent attacks Of temporary
insanity.
William Wes1eahaekcr. appointed hy Thos.
jefferson Secretary of the faeHlty sud lihFa.
ran 81 the University % Virginia in lS2a, and
who hlied the office ever since. died a. bis
residence IN Charlottesville, ON the 18th inst,
in the S5th year II bis age.
Il. Francis Naviers Romsa Catholic
Church, on sycamore street. tIueinnsti. vas
totally destroyed ly frr early last FRIDAY
morning. only the walls and tpWvr rcsaaining
standing in q shattered CONDITION. The haild.
fNM ana Ks afFslatttfH NAF'A Ar7Tstsa74s
Ten persons ,5siiias ia Brdesharg. Pa,
contracted irichinosas from eating ham baked
6,r a PARTY risea al ths hotel keps BY John g.
Late. One % hssn, the SIfe q MT. i-ait, Died
On Monday. and the other ine, iaciuding iuar
q the Lat1 chtldr'n, arC critically II.
A younz clergyman of Richraond. va. &c.
cefted an invitation 10 maTry TURNER sweet
ks.art ~ his owu "a a tnore suressstal Sooer.
T The Ordeal proved too severn fps hiai- aud he
falisred and ssugucd IN the midst Of the cerc-
inouy. which therofarc had 10 Be deferred scv
czal huurs-
Inu,hl. the iarsess captive elephant in the
world recently purchased hy Mr.. y. I. Bar
uam from shr fsrsdon Geological Soetety- ar
siyed IN New York on Sunday By thr sieafuer
Assyriau Monarch. Amer landing lumho sual
lowed dunk 81 whisky quart gwen him
by b., keeper.
james Cill:iaad vas bs.ried in Ne~ Bruins
wick. New jersey, tkree weeks ago. HIS
lEuthsr arrived IN thc city and bad the body
,.xhnsnrd an Monday morning, whon i bore
evidence u having bern buried alive. Il was
turned on one side and the iscs Sas scratched,
apparently from struggling.
In tho New York Methodist EFtSeerssl Con
ference IN Sing Stag LAS week. Rev. James NJ.
King and Mr.. John y. CorReli Were appoint.
. I'd I eummiftee a. confer With The CeHtral
Comm,tteo .oE arranging ior Centennial
I meeting 81 the Representative 81 Rli the
Methodist Churches IN 1854
The euil,eEzlruseu; Of Arthar Muelier. alb
seonglinr teller II The Central haak 81 India.
na,,olis, i found 10 be Ss0.O0 The HiTre
sors on Saturday closed tbs baak uutil they
shall b. ordered BY The stockholders 10 NJ
same The bsHk 5 capitsl stock Is sIt1,lsu
is deposits amount Is SleS-osA
4 passenger train on the Cali. Colorado
and Santa rs Railruad. in Texas, was boarded
by six masked robbers AZ wafer station a
few miles froia Ciehurne, on FRIDAY night Of
last week The amount taken j. yaFiously
reported at from 500 To 81 800, The con
dnctoF was fired at bHi escaped
Louise Montague. the prize beauty Of FoFc
tsangh circus professions last season, had a
lex bruised ia a Kentucky railroad collision.
The hurts wsre not permanent and did not
disablc her for exhibition purposes. vet she
brought q salt for $4,000. and has obtained
81 go by a eoInpronise witk the company.
The first large party Of English eoloHisis
for Manitoba, upwards 0f 40 in number. ar
rived at Halifax on Saturday By steamer. aud
.eis the same night hy train ior the Northwest.
They have with them Sums Of money aggregi-
tang siOD,0a. The next steamer from Eng
land Is expected "a bring about iesio more col
onists
A sale of finely bred troiiing stock from the
Eden View. Indian Hin aud Wood Lake
stables took place near Louisville. kentgeky
ON Monday. Mr.. Robert Bonner, 81 New
York. bought number of the best horses,
paving for one. THREE ear-old Cuyler iiily,
5000 The - head sold brought $50, 30.
The sts,ck has a wide distribution.
Frederick Makes, Of Pitisburg. was robbed
ON a Chicago, Rock Island aud Pacific Rail
way train. one night last week, of seatehel.
which be- saws contained 100000 in mining
stoeks. The robber was blind man named
Davis, who got off at La Sale, Illinois. Mai
kles discovered has loss at Ottawa and return.
ed to La Sale, wherc Davis was arrested in a
hotel where he with a boy who accompanied
him. was engaged in burning the securities in
a stove About SIG,0OO Of them had been
burned.
Senator John J. Gardner Of Atlantic City,
\. j.. has prepared farm in the meadows
not far from the iulet, where he Is going TO try
10 raise diamond back terrapins from the eggs.
The farIa or pond comprises area of about
two acres of water. His experiment Is origi-
nal in that the farming Is done right in the
native mud of the diamond back, instead of
in uncOngenial soil, where artificial means
must be employed to make it adaptable to the
terrapin. The Senator also says that he has