The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-04-22
News Of the Week.

During the past year &c, 236 immigrants ar
rived at the port of New York.
! A fire at New Alexandria, in Westmoreland
county, Pa, on Monday night, destroyed about
one-third of the town, causing loss estimated
4 at S25, 200.
| The bill to redistrict the State of Ohio for
1 congressional purposes, giving the republicans
fifteen and the democrats sin districts, has
become Il law.
The Republican State Committee of North
Carolina met on Tuesday in Raleigh and de-
cided to call State Convention to meet in
that city on the 14th of June.
! Mrs Susan p Veazie, wealthy widow, in
Bangor, Maine, died suddenly Sunday morn
/ ing from the effects of poison put up in pre-
seription by laundering druggist.
Mr.. +. p. O'Conner, member of Parlia-
ment for Galway, addre ssed large meeting
: of the Land l.eaguers of Chicago on Sunday
night, on his return from the Pacific coast.
Roderick Maclean, the man who recently
attempted to shoot Queen Victoria, had trial
/ this week. and in one day the was dis
I posed of, the jury acquitting him on the ground
( that he was insane.
/ The democrats of Green county, Pa, have
Z instructed their delegates to the State conven-
( ton in favor Of Hon. James II. Hopkins for
I Governor and Mr.. Chauncey F. Black for
Lieutenant GoveTnor.
Fifty couvicts tried to escape from the camp
at Fourche creek, Ark, ON Monday, by run
ming the gauntlet of the guards. They were
fired upon. and one was killed, two badly
wounded and FIVE escaped.
In the House of Representatives at Wash
ington on Tuesday. joint resolution was
passed appropriating 1896, 600 for deficiency
in the appropriation for public printing and
binding during the current fiscal year
The production of spirits in the United
States during the year ending June 80, 1881,
amounted to 10, 1919. O9O gallons. There
were lost by casualties during the same period
ESQ, 974 gallons, or fraction less than one
gallon for every 1000 produced.
The correspondents of the New York Herald
in Siberia report the burning Of the United
States shin Rodgers, which went 20 the Arctic
ocean to search for the IeanRett. Lieut.. Der
~. of the Rodgers, and Sc of his crew have
arrived at Trapka, near Cape Serdge.
ON Tuesday afternoon job n Shriver. aged
-. shot and dangerously founded Title
Webster Cross, aged isyears, IN Philadelphia,
and then shot himself. The affair occurred
in the house where the girl lives with her
mother. and Is supposed to have been caused
by jealousy. They are said 10 have been en-
gagged to be married,
A dispatch from Deadwood. Dakota. April
10th. saws The most severe blizzard for
wears began on the eth. continuing a week,
DESTROYING telegraph wires, which are not yet
repairesi Messages are being carried forty
miles on horseback Snow fell two feet on q
level. drifting badly. The storm extended
hundreds Of miles in every direction
The peaches in Piedmont. Virginia, are
,hOaght IA he generally killed In some sec
siosas those who have examined the buds,
however. report that = great maEy are still
alive, though IN other localities ali are dead.
The extraordinary abundance Of bloom, how.
ever, gives reason fnT the hope that good
deal IS safe, especially with the late varieties.
Rob jackson vas missed from Winnipeg.
having lasi been seen going away tram haF-
room drunk. After n week he was found
dead. with has feet and ankles imhcdded
in frozen earth and his body leaning against
fence lie bad stepped into deep mud, aud.
ton iacar&cit&ted BY rum TO cxsrieass himself.
had stood there until eald snap fastened
him.
SUIT was begun on Tuesday IN the [. ;. Cir
cnit Court, az Boston. by ]. Z. Graham, Of
Philadelphia. manHtsct Grcr ctchenllle tTIngcs,
against Cashman BrutheFs Co, 81 the form.
er CITY. Tor selling guois illegally mannfactuS.
I'd under paieats taken oui by Graham. Il Is
said thai similar suits vill h. hrnaghs against
two thousand firms in Different parts Of the
country.
Resolutions were adopted ut thr meeting u
ths executive committee II the Civil Service
Reform Assoc iation of Philaieiphia GA Tues
day advising the SIGHT for paFpr politics in
Pennsylvania TO bc mads on principles Of civil
service tsfsrrss. and not simply against indIvid
usis. aud appointing = committee 20 lay the
resolutions before the National C9vil Service
Reform League.
Messrs. Hilson and I.i.,ty, doing business
a. the krm Il A. T. Stewart ( Co, Nev
York, and SUCCESSORS ii the late A. r. stew
art, have announced their paFpose 20 sell oat
their .tore, mills, 3c-, and retirr from bass
nsss. The acws has GRATED sensation m
Nrw York. though the members Of thc firm
claim "a have made money ever yeas and 20
hs entirely solvent
Ex-senator Mcnonald, ii Indiana Hon.
Hagh j. Jewrst. q the Erie Road Hon. \.
:. Sallivan. II New York, and Mr.. Milton
Taylor. Of Cincinnati. have oFEsnized the
Florida Mil. Land aad lnmbeE Compahy.
With a capital II S50o,OOo. They have par
chased G15.oDO scTrs in thrre of the Gulf
coaHsiss Of Florida, from which they propose
to takr yellow pine for shipment 90 New
York.
/ The Rev. J. W Minor, colorcd. 81 81.
Laafs. j. ia seri0as sFaable. He SAs arrested
thf EtAteA3E = fNfEtA NNthhs AAtN Nh2 NA4ANNfN
searched the house, and found many things
not pertaining 10 the ministry, such as a rife,
q set Of surgical instruments, aud some bill
hard balls All these things were elzimrd by
persons who said they had lost them through
sneak theivery. Mr. Minor says that he does
not rely ga human aid in this emergency.
The April report Of the Department OF Az
rieulturc shows an increase OF , per cent, or
nearly 100000 acres, IN the acreage q winter
wheat The condition Of winter wheat Is high
throughout the West tOhio alone reporting
below 100, , ia the Cotton states, and 81 Della
ware. MARYLAND and Virginia. In NeE York,
Pennsylvania. New Jersey, and Ohio, she
condition Is from 10 Is per cent. below the
average. Ia Pennsylvania il Is per cent
below.
An sasg. bound freight train og thirty cars
separated while passing through the Hoosae
Tunnel before one . clock Sunday morning,
The forward part WIS oyertaken and Tan into
~ the rear section, aiier II bad slowed up,
near ghe misldlr Of the tunnel. Five cars
were thrown from the track. and two Of them.
laden with -four and peas, were demolished,
and their contents ruined. IL took ten hours
10 clear away the wreck. and make way for
other trains
The cattlc.hOuse Of Mr.. q. VI. Bsstable.
near warrenton junction, FauqHier county,
Virginia vas set fire 20 hy q eoiored ssan last
SUNDAY night, aud the house, seventy head of
cattle which were being fed for market, let
Of machinery, provenier, etc, burned. The
cattle were worth as beast $50 per head. and
the cattle house WIS one of the finest in Fan
quier county. There was a slight insurance
ON the house, but the cattle were uninsured.
Mr. Bastahle was formerly well known cattle
dealer in Baltimore.
There was very large meeting on Satur
day night ON Broad street, near SAMSON,
Philadelphia, of working men % express their
indignation of the veto by President Arthur
of the anti Chinese bill. Many trade organi
cations with banners and transpaFeneies pa
vaded, and addresses we're made by Frank \.
Kaufman, Charlie. II. Zimmerman, Of New
Jersey, Congressman I. II. Muroh, OF Maine:
Francis T. T0rbin, James NJ Munyon and ).
Waldman Resolutions were adopted approx
ing the bill as passed by Congress and con
demning the veto.
The United States House of Representatives +
on "Wednesday disposed of the contested cases
from Utah Territory by adopting the majority
report from the committee of elections, de-
claring that neither Cannon or Campbell were +
legally elected, thus creating vacancy, There +
was no question that Cannon, who received /
the vote of the polygamistS, obtained large
majority of the votes cast, hut Governor Muir
ray, who is an outspoken opponent of Nor,