The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-18
News of the Week.

John J. Dwyer. well known pugilist, died
last week in a hospital in Brooklyn, OF con-
sumption.
The Secretary of the Treasury on Tuesday
issued three calls for S15, 100000 of continued
skies, as announced previously.
Mormon missionaries are at work in the
Kings Mountain District of North Carolina,
and have made about fifty converts to date.
Vennor gives notice that severe wind
storm, with heavy rain, viii sweep along the
Atlantic coast on the 18th and 18th instants-
A movement is on foot in Newport, Rhode
Island, to procure the appointment of George
I. Downing, eolored as Minister to Liberia.
John Fl. Bailey, tax collector of West Che5-
ter, Pa, was arrested in Philadelphia on Mon
day. charged with being short in his accounts.
Miss Amanda. who was to ride bicycle
GOO miles at st. Louis in six days. of II hours
each. ended the ride Tuesday night, making
6175 miles in 81 hours 30 minutes actual riding
time.
Robert Mcmahon, while having frozen toe
amputated, at Lindsay, Ont, on Monday, was
put under the influence of chloroform. AT
the conclusion of the operation he was found
to he dead.
II. G. Reese. serving a sentence OF three
years in the Auburn, n. Y, penitentlary Tor
bigamy, committed suicide on Monday by
hanging himself in his cell. He was formerly
a-clergyman.
The attorney General for the Post-offiee
Department decides that toll gate and ferry
keepers cannot lawfully detain the United
States mails even if the mail carrier refuses to
pay charges.
The American Print Works at Fal River,
Massachusetts, have shut down for several
&TFs4aAn ffeFH
is being taken by other print works through
Oat the country.
A boat containing three sailors of the Aus
tralian bark Bulwark. arrived at Empire City,
Oregon, on Monday evening, and reported
the probable loss of the vessel with the rest of
the officers and crew, Is in all.
Ia saloon at Syracuse, New York. on
Sunday morning. Charles Smith challenged
Henry I4entz to a fight. They went outside
the saloon, when Lentz seized Smith by the
throat and choked him to death.
Mr.. j. c. Campbell. q merchant and plan
ter, Of Hampton, :. c., was thrown from his
buggy and killed Saturday. He was tried
th, previous day On the charge of assault and
battery with intent to kill, and acquitted.
A crowd surrounded a barn ia Scranton. on
Sunday, for the purpose Of lynching Daniel
Wagner. 81 years Of age, who had feicuious-
Is assaulted little girl. He was arrested,
however. and committed in default Of $1,000
bail
In the United States District Court q, Pail
adelphia on Monday. John Pasco, Of Camden
y. J.. was sentenced to eleven months i'm
prisonmeu, in the Eastern peuitentiary for
making a fraudulent application for pen
son.
The President on Tuesday sent e. the SEN
ate communication FROM the National Board
of Health. calling attention. ~ the necessity
Tor additional legislation to prevent the iHtF''-
ducgion Of infectious diseases frsm tHrwisu
coHH;ries
Services were disturbed Is a drunken man
~ thu Lutheran church ai Black River, WIS.
The minister walked cody dowE frpm toe
platform. scSred the offender, threw him ual-
aaors. and resumed his ssraoa IS though
uofhing had happened
The Ss.cretary II the Interior has gwen per
mission 10 the Indian Agent at tbs tFow
Agency 10 Montana To send one hundred q
the children unAer hts care To- Chic. - lie
Esraad - eertaia farmers 90 be esiaeatea and
Tparcd a. IA usefulness.
Ms. sarah r. Hove. ps,.sidcai Of the
swiaaling concern Va iSessugs kuesn a she
ladies pcy=aslt was sentenced On N6H3sy
TO three wears Imprisonment in the linuse 9f
Carrrcsisa. she ha. alrvady s,een eigh,ecn
months in lasi
A rsatsrcnrresl IN Thir,l Cresk. Nosth Care
Ina sTa Saturday. l'rtHeea af'oas oiis hansis"d
whstss and hacks, growing 0gls - . SIGHT tss'-
swepn enc II zach eIsluF, T0seps gHsilssi thr
disturbance. and many - Tho rioters weTe af.
vested ana loslS,.d IN nil
On Manday niEhs sosus seeandrels sas the
Fsshfss.r imhsss coHn@essnx Hfth the arr. eaRkes
an "a ears iysaK IN ms yards og shs chicago
Milwaukee amd - Paal, Ehiez<o apd Alion
ard Chicago. BurIingtan aad Qesaey kallr~ad
CGsnr&aiss 81 t.hirage,
The county commissioners 81 Lancaster
eslsnfv. Pa. have offered inward u $50 t'sT
she arrest ~ danes SAs~. she murdered h'S
uIEs ca Azsxh Z. nrhr hsrtYills. W that ct'En
Il. lie l. Supposed 10 - d fhilasiripata -
Balsiss0Fe. aad ~ill pFuisshls - n esssfe so
Igsland.
Jonathaa Holmes Ccias,, weli kpasu ~ s
Ia2yer ard IN eonuvSsi0n with hls s'ieeesstni
has aurrmancsasive experiment n is.at 10
.yanafsrtare silk 81 shs cultivation II laFge
+ rnaltrgTy orchards in Massachusetts, and ~
Virginia. died ii Besson ea Saadsy. asess
IS EoaFs-
Ii the Scaass If Massachusetts On Tuesday
= rlssfson Ia fssor 81 biennial state siset5sssas
sas passesl ~ = vote 81 28ta :. Ia the h.sas..
= nrsshiiisssry lataas bili was passed 60 third
reasaiae ~ i Fssc IT los Ia - u y slasiaE
10 tis jill pFohihisoFy laa u Massachusetts,
With the exception ~ elanse pgusatue ser
~ ssihrnissisn 70 the people.
4 girl III Pektn. NJ, vss si'oui to be asaF-
red o. vOaae sweetheart. man IN the
UeishteFh0od hearsl II Il, and told beg mother
shat. A. bis wife xas Eelnz 80 de soes, BE-
~oald lazrfy the gsd himseai. 4 she woald
wast. As b. Was rich, she bargain aas ssssfsf,
AMI IN thrce months she wedding took pssee.
On Sunday evening mob 81 the railroad
strikers ~ Omaha surrounded the quarters q
the srldieFs. and some hriekhals were thrown
a the afkerFs. A squad Of soldiers charged
fha mol. ara a ssan nsassd q. r. Armstrong
rvcsived hayonet wound ia the breast. fruut
which hs died later ia the night fhe pnn-
strikers resumed Eusk Monday. and NO fur,
Their disturbances arr reported.
DR. James S,ill, eoloEed. residing 1t Med.
ford, BuFiiugton county, y. J., died on IN
dsv morning of last week at tbs age q ~
wears. be- Still was known throughout the
sosntry a. tie .shlack cancer doctor. aud
was re,used 10 have made many wonderful
cures. He was wealthy, and had eree'ed :
large hotel Ia accommodate his patieH's
great tam. Which has Tor some tiase heeu
IA course III construction tor clearing the
railroad tunnel IN NJ lsuufs ct smoke from
usssing trninS. i now In successful operation.
h i said that the entire taHnel can be clear
ed OF smoke from the heaviest freight train in
three minutes. and when no trains are ia #
the air u as clear aud fresh as that outside
The Fashionable Exodus to Europe this
year will be- very great, The inquiry for state
rooms At the Offices Of the iavorite lines IN
New York is said By the steamship men 10 be
larger than ever. At the Offices Of two 81 the
lines it was stated that applications for berths
are fully double what they were two years ago.
The demand has been such that there are bat
few berths left in the Nav sailings. and sever
FL of the steamers to sail in that month arr
now entirely engaged. The outgoing steam
ships Saturday carried nearly three hundred
cabin passengers.
Walter Saunders, Il clerk IN a shoe store at
Kansas City, Mo-, somewhat addicted TO
drinking. while standing with couple OF
friends IN a saloon, u few days since, was
seized by four men, who rushed into the
building and dragged him outside, where they
we're joined by eight more. The whole party
ran of, carrying Saunders with them. Il Is
now said that he was taken to a house where
a Young lady charged him with assaulting her,
aud then his captors took him to the river
and threw him in. He has not been seen BY
his friends since the day Of his abduction.
The Belmont vineyards aud fruit farm, near