The Democratic advocate., 1882-03-04
News of the Week.

reported III Cincinnati last week.
movement has been inaugurated in Lon
don to establish a college of music for the
British Empire.
The wild horses pasturing in the pampas of
the Argentine Republic are estimated to num-
her two and half millions.
The sugar crop of the Sandwich Islands for
the present year is estimated at $1,000 short
tons against 46, 200 last year.
The one hundrcdth anniversary Of Thomas
H. Bcnton's birth is to be- celebrated by the
Missouri Historical Society on the lIth of
March.
The President on Saturday signed the joint
resolution appropriating $780, 900 for the re
lief of the sufferers by the flood in the Missis-
sippi Valley.
The widow of Daniel Webster died at the
Leroy House. New Rochelle, \. Y. on sun
day night. She Mr.. Webster'S second
wife.
Within the last ten days claims to As gold
mines discovered in the state of New York
have been filed in the Office of the Secretary of
State, at Albnny.
The total value of real and personal proper
ty in st. Louis, assessed for taxation this year,
is 1892. .592 204. an increase of S25, l2S,0l0
since last year.
Herbert Lawrence died in New York city
on Wednesday. aged 95 years. He was
steamboat builder, and his first boat was
launched in 1917.
The Legislature of Utah adopted 4 memo
rial to Congress on Saturday, protesting
agninst the threatened deprivation of the
people of that territory of THE right of local
self-goverHment
A play bill dropped from the gallery Of the
Nolks Theatre, Copenhagen, took fire from
gas jet in its fall and, alighting ON a lady's
head. burned off her bonnet and nearly all her
hair before the flames could be cXtinguished.
Three hundred of the Italian immigrants
who arrived in Mexico last week are suffering
from a malignant disease, of which twenty of
them died on the voyage. The nature OF the
Inaady Is not stated.
The first through car from san Francisco to
New Orleans without breaking bulk reached
the latter city on Monday hy the Southern
Pacific Railroad. having been l44 days ON the
way. The freight rate was Sl.l2 per 100 lbs.
II is stated that the results Of recent geOlog-
ical explorations made in Russia by official
direction show the existence in that empire Of
phosphate deposits sufficiently extensive To
supply the wants Of Europe for nm indefinite
period.
In n trial before a Justice at Dodge City,
Kansas. a witness who was being bullyngged
hv a cross-examining lawyer called ON the
Court for protection. The justice handed him
n pistol. Il have no further questions. said
the lawyer.
Rev Mr. Blair. Of the United Presbyterian
Church. believed 10 have been oldest minister
in PENNSYLVANIA. died AZ Indiana Tuesday
night. ia the 9jth year of his age- He precah
ed IN Indiana without interruption for ~
years.
a I t,ssl. t,Aa
an exciting bold on the negroes. tweniy-three
IF whom werc immersed in one evening. An
irnTssticnt convert. unable to restrain himself
uuiii his mrn came. ihrcR himself head iure-
most into the water
A freight car loaded with brick was thrown
into n ditch. eight miles from Joliet, Illinois.
Ten tramp< Nere secre;ed IN the van az the
time. two II whom wrre killed oagrghi, and
the Others 50 badly injured thar shclr lives are
dgspaired ot.
ls,s1.e- growing i among the ucu industries
introduced into Texas. Recently hoek uf
geese. numbering .ft0, shipped from Boone
county No.. arrived az Gainesville, where a
ranchc bad hccH prepared for them. u =
ihoagbs that ihis investment wlli pay
AZ Northampton. Massachusetts, aa Satar.
dav. Eve students of Willistou Academy were
Z held IN 81 ESQ each to ansWeT--thrct foT kld.
nappins and tSo fpr ether haxing. Twenty
tao ssudenss uefr hela in Slon each % appear
a. vitnesses Thrce other rowgiy students
havr ieft the county.
MANY rass.s ui small pox having appeared
in sh. snteriag cities Of MeNicu. the Secretary
of the Interior has issued = circular 20 the
Governors ~ The Mexican States. informing
them 81 ths. spsead Il the disease in the Jni-
ted States, and advising compulsory Ssecina.
tiun aui othrr preventive measures
The monument crceged hy Deas Stanley
and Cyrns ". Field 20 the memory ef MAJOR
Aptr.. ~ TNpgSn, Ncw York, N1ls badly de-
faerd ~ some person or persons unknown.
4 small Amsrican iiaE iest iioatinz above
fhe aeuuaas.nf, and some words rejecting apon
thy ''trniSor's shna werc srittcn underneath.
Rsxh, Rcy Patrick \. Lynch, RoIaan Cath
olie Bishop ~ Charleston. SoHth Carolina,
diesi SUNDAY morning. ascd 81 yeavs. neceas-
ed aas a NATIVE ot ChariestaH. and Was cousc-
Grated Bishop in isssS. Ne Was distinguished
Tor scientise as Nei a. Theological attain.
raents. and aas aliks eloquent Wita the touSue
and the pen
NJ. Vi. Goodiu. 81 Belsaon; Park, New
York. haviaE determined % retirv from the
Easf, hHs SOLD ms valuable stock Of irutters at
aacts0R. The grey gcid,ng ''t'rcy Chief uas
Sold 70 Barney Dem0rrst, uf New York, Tor
- .na, The hsy sisslioa kienzi brought 81,
II > ~, hgoashi Si,i7G,
~ FlantsyiiIe. Cuuu.. on Suuiay, fsu girls,
aee,i : and .. and boy aGcd Is, children Of
John Collias, c0asted down hill aad oa a
E.sud. where the ice broke aud the little E,rls
were drOSnrd ia sight Of their pArcngs and
gyeai crowd. The boy Eas with difficulty rvs
csicd. bat hts iiic Is despairrd cf The bodies
wrrc recovered.
Hear, wadsWosth Iongfellow began his
7sih wear ou Monday The eyent vas eele
bras,d IN Portland, Maine, his native place,
hy decorating the puhiic buildings with flags.
Ia the public schools 0f Cambridge there were
anniversary exercises, aud selections from the
y,sset' works we're rad. There we're exercises
of a similar character in the pHelie schools Of
Atlanta, Ga
The viii of Charles All,ess Read, lately de.
ceased. of Newton, Mass, gives $1,000 10 the
Treasurer II the United States, "a be applied
20 the reduction oi the war debt. To the at
teH,iing physician Of the tcstator s-iOois gwen,
on condition expressed as follows; That
my head j. severed from nv body, n have
a great horror as being barred alive.
The Virginia Legislature, on saturday clec-
ted a. Judges OF the supreme Court OF Appeals
the ave nominees of the ReadjRster caucus
held on Thursday night, as follows; Robert
A. Richardson, 7, 7. tauntleroy l.. l.. Lewis.
h. W. Lacy and bruTy \. Hinton Lewis i
a Republiean. and Is nov I. ). district Attor-
ney tor the Eastern district at Virginia. The
eleescd mostly, are of small cahhrc.
A Young man named Deering, aceused of
hars, stealing, WIS taken from an officer and
lynched near Gatesvile, Texas, last week.
ON Saturday a hundred armed Reighbors of
Deering rode into the town and demanded the
arrest Of the lynchers or they would take the
law into their own hands. The sheriff, under
this threat. arrested a man named Leavi;t and
his two sons and at las; accounts was search
ing for Others Of the lynchers.
Such Is the desire to encourage railroad
construction in Mississippi that the Legisla-
tare has passed law eXempting these cor
por1ltinns from taxation for twenty years. and
charters are granted as soon as asked for. In
a few years. according 10 the present outlook.
every section Of Mississippi will be well pro-
vided with railroads, and a choice OF markets
will be presented for the products of its rich
and aud generous soil.
The northern portion of Texas was visited
by a STERN on Monday night of exceptional
severity. In the town Of Hampstead the two
churches were badly damaged, and private