The Democratic advocate., 1882-02-25
News of the Week.

There were 81 deaths from small-"ox III
! Cincinnati, and II in New York last we *.
The City Council of Chicago has ordered a
tax levy Of 81, 100, 900 for the municipal ex-
penses for the current year.
4 During last week 1904 immigrants landed
at New FORK against 1928 during the cores
/ ponding period of last year.
1t is stated that the Anti-monopoly League
/ in Chicago will begin crusade against rent
raising landlords on the lst of May.
/ The suspension of J. b. Ficklen & Sons. of
I the Bridgewater Mills, Fredericksburg, Va,
+ is announced. Liabilities estimated at $50,
900.
Freeman Blanchard, doorkeeper at the
skating rink. in Providence, was held on Sat
urday in $500 bail for trial for refusing admis
] sion to colored man who had bought
/ ticket.
The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia,
/ on Saturday night. indicted eX-Assistant Post
/ master General Brady, ex-senator Dorsey
and others in connection with the Star Route
frauds.
Diphthera is on the increase in Boston,
+ especially in the Italian quarter, where as
many as twenty persons sleep in one room,
1 surrounded by bundles of rags picked from
/ the cutters.
BY a sweeping confagration at Haverhill,
/ Mass. ON Friday night, 102 shoe manufac-
turers and over 200 other firms were burned
out The total loss is estimated at s., ,0tlD, 900.
! Four persons We're killed.
/ \ vein of pare camel coal. FIVE feet thick,
/ has been discovered in Marion county, Iowa,
+ thirty miles from DeS Moines. A vein of
common bituminous coal, six feet thick, lies
sixty feet beneath the camel.
Five masked burglars entered the house of
Michael Ulrich. few miles from Harrisburg,
+ Pa, on Saturday night. with drawn pistols.
compelled Ulrich and his wife to tell whore
their money was concealed and then secured
81 900 In cash.
The ice in the Hudson river at Albany
broke on Friday of last week and gorged be-
low. causing food along the wharyes, which
did considerable damage 20 merchandise stor-
ed there and In the cellars near by. The dam
age at Greenbush was greater than at Albany.
Two freight trains collided on trrstle bridge
thirty feet high, near Gainesville. Georgia, ut
one O'Clock Sunday morning. Both trains
were wrecked and the ;restle was badly dam
aged. Four of the cars were burned. Three
train hands were injured. One Of the trains
was running out Of time.
Second marriages by Hiudoo widows are
steadily increasing. two Of these ceremonies
having been celebrated last month in Bombay
and Calcutta. while a third viii take place this
month in Lahore. At the Calcutta wedding
the bride had been married at wears old. and
became q widow six months later.
On Saturday morning three men went into
the store Of Ralph Davis, in Albany, ostensi-
bis to buy silver ware. While Davis was ex-
hibiiing his goods in the rear Of the store one
Of the men slipped behind the counter and
carried ofs a tray Of diamonds valued as Sj.os0.
HIS confederafes escaped through a resr door.
Rev. George o. Barnes. the Mountain
Evangelist, Of Kentucky. closed seven
weeks revival in Louisville on Sunday even
ing. He i reported TO have converted 2472
people in thai city. and ''anoinied' about as
MANY others for bodily ailments Q certain
proportion of whom profess te have been
cured.
The Secrrisry of Internal Afatrs, 81 Har
rs.hurg, has plsce,i a liss 0f seventeen railroad
companies doing business in Pennsylvania IN
the hands Of The Attorney General requesting
him to pruceei against them for their failure
10 make an suuaai report To the Agditor Gen
eTsl within thirty DAYS after The expiration Of
their financial year, The penslty for each
sailnue ! SA,ossl.
After ten years ,lsJaatc the German i.ssis-
laisge has determined to creAtc a permanent
Parliament Hoasc. on . scale worthy the ma
tiou. oa the k1nigs Plaiz. lii;lc 10 the north
II the Brandenbure Gate, and not far trofa the
end * the 1 inter- den. Linden The eos; will
b., al,oni So jnO. .OO for the site aud -. 5Oo,-
90 sog the huiidiuE. Funds Tor the pnrpose
arr alrrady al the disposal of Parliament
uu4ins a celebration of Washington birth
day at Wessera Maryland Celle4e. ON We'd
nesday afternoon. hy the Juniors, the Seniors
pr,.senIcd the Juniors wiih faded bouquets
lha, bad bcen lying around the rooms Of the
College for the past three or tour moaihs-
The Juniors. after receiving them should have
appeared ON she stage aud sung lis hui \
iitlr faded ioweF. lsag Oh. how ieadly dear.
The Nafsli Gras festivities AZ Ncw Orleans
cnsltd On Tpesiay siih : parade 81 the ia.
seauss al the King q The Carnival, 'phanny
phagty Pheiious. and ''Indepenslent Order *
ihe MC-,u. There were hity tve ears in all,
ard the procession, iacludihg eavalcales and
hands nf u.usie. sas $50 ,airs Ia ieigth. Al
ghe sah.eeis werp cosnic. The Order af the
Moun had sixteen ears illustrating popular
ballads in srutcsquc style
1 eaH f,r q rational cunscatiou Of the
Cnioa GrcsuisCk labor parry. 60 be held .,
- .ouis un March :, was issued Al s. isouis
on Tuesday Il Is sigued by Hugo Prycr. as
chairman of the party, and saws she ciubs do
noi desire 30 bar ans irae grcrubagSeFs irosa
participating IN this convention. \ prominent
gveeuhsckef says the PuTVose Of the eonyen-
tina i 20 paFsfy the parfy - peFS0as who
have betrayed /, for money
The buildings u the Philadelphia Exhili.
tioR Of 1875 asc Widcly scattered. One i
Cosaey Island holel. others .rn haAsls n i.aas
RyaEgh sRi Atlantic City, aa,Rbcr are pr
vaia snmIaaF residences. and nos the main
structure !. being taken down. some OF Il to
hsalid stations along the Pennsylvania Rail
road. and the rest i0F an iron mill in Pitts.
hnEg. The aFt gallery and iiastlsaliurai Hal
remain, - they ecTp intended for permanent
features of FairmSuR; Park
There was 3 terrible explosion on FRIDAY Of
last seek at Professor Jackson's fireworks
factory ia Chester, Pa, by which seventeen
PERSONS were killed and fiity. seven injured,
some seriously. The old Porter mansiaB. la
which ,he safk II che ia.ipry sas dSHe, it1Hl
saaie unexplained cause took tire, sud Il was
whilf the bremen Eere an the ground, and
whsu the building vas surrounded With peo-
pie, that she explosion took place. An IN
quest vas begun in the aftenloen, aud NJ
meeEings of oiiisens eoRsdesa;Iie sula Of
money ~as contributed for the beneti Of the
sufferers.
Il J. understood that holders Of Virginia
la.ands intend 10 contest ia the courts the vail
dity Of recent acts Of the General Assembly in
The settlement Of State debts, snG that, With
that end in view, Vim. l.. Royall. Esq, form.
erly Of Richmond sud naw Of New Ierk, has
leen eMplssed b. Enslish baud holders to IN
stitute necessary legal proceedings. Mr..
Royal j. now Ia Richmond making prepaFa-
items for contest The fight will be made
against the two bills known as the coupon
bill, " as well a. against the the ''RiadlebeTger
debt hill
A Young girl has been arrested IN New
York for wearing mems elalhfs, YhiSh she
had assumei for the parpSse of getting higher
wages as u olerk than Sould have been allow,
ed had her sea been known. She has heea
sentenced 20 prison inF ak mouths but her
case has been lakeR bethre higher court on
a writ Of hahenS corpus and strong effort wilt
+ be made 10 secure her release, Her offence
having been merely that of trying To get rid Of
Z the disadvantage II her sex in getting employ
ment, the law should certainly be very lenient
with her.
The cases of Congressman Wise and Sena-
F tor Riddleberger, and of the latter and Richard
f. Beirne, editor Of the State, charged with
violation of the law against dnellng, were on
4 Monday before the eaua.y Canr' ia Riahmond,
+ Virginia. Counsel ipr the accused opposed
the examination of auy witnesses preRent, on