The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-02-04


bad harvests is estimated at from hundred to
hundred and fifty million dollars year.
The oldest member of the British House of
Commons, w. B. Hughes, is eighty-four; the
Youngest, James Dickson, is twenty-three.
A Chicago Grand Jury wishes the Mayor
and Chief of Police to explain why thirty
gambling houses are open i'll the business part
of the city.
An agitation is growing i'll Wisconsin III
favor of the restoration of capital punishment,
which was abolished in that state more than
a quarter of century ago.
The new city loan of Wilmington, Del, for
SEQ, 900, bearing Al per cent. interest, has been
placed, mostly with Philadelphia parties, at
rates ranging from par to 1015.
/ Snow to the depth of six inches fell along
the line of the Norfolk, Va, and Western
Railroad Monday night There was also a
heavy fall of snow at Petersburg, Va.
Some fresh discoveries have been made in
the accounts of Palmer the defaulting auditor
of Newark, n. j., and his defalcations now
foot up the respectable sum of 1929, 600.
About 100 puddIers employed by the Phe-
nix Iron Company, at Ph9nixville, Pa, have
struck against an order requiring them to make
six heats per day, instead of five as heretofore.
| A freight train and construction train on the
Scioto Valley Railroad collided near Hanging
Rock Ohio, Tuesday, killing two workmen
| and severely injuring five others. 1t Is SAID
the conductor of the train was going without
orders.
| Snow fell in New England and New York
| state on Tuesday night to depth of IA to "a
inches on a level. At Boston the depth was
nearly Is inches, at Poughkeepsie Is inches,
! at Port Jervis IA inches, and at Narrowsburg,
thirty miles west of Port Jarvis, "a inches.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue re-
ports that there were in the distillery ware
! houses on January 1st. 1906 l4 taxable
| gallons of spirits, which is about 40,O00,0O0
| gallons in excess of the quantity on January
| I, 1881.
Twelve thousand dollars worth of silks
stolen from the store of Camp, Morrill, & Camp,
at jackson, Michigan, on Wednesday night OF
last week, have been found in the office of a
lawyer named J. NJ. Welsh, adjoining the
store. Welsh is in Jail.
| Probably the largest check ever issued in
| Pennsylvania was: drawn OBI Wednesday in
Philadelphia by Drexel Il Co., and sent to the
State treasury to, pay for bonds recently bid
| for by that firm. The amount of the check
was Sc, 767, 7G6.75.
( ]. Lawrence, alias John C. White, aged Is
! years, has been arrested in St. John, New
| Brunswick, for bigamy. 1t is alleged that he
has Il wife and seven children at Fox Creek,
New Brunswick, and wife and three children
at Salmon River, Nova Scotia, and that he
deserted the first wife seven years ago.
immigration is still ON the increase. The
arrivals at New \ DIRK for the month of Janua-
ry were II ,242 against S,082 for the cores
ponding month last year, an increase of 3, $50.
This is the slack season, but the increase in
dicates that the arrival of immigrants during
year will be i'll excess of all previous years.
There has been very great damage done by
the floods in the Warrior, Bigbee and Tombig-
bee rivers in Central Alabama. Four or five
colored people were drowned and large
amount of live stock lost. Several parties
have lost from 100 to $50 head Of sheep. A
large number of fine Cashmere goats were
lost by one farmer, and several lost il number
of horses and mules.
A telegram from Panama says that the
French Government, upon learning that the
Supreme Court of Guatemala had acquitted
the soldiers charged with assaulting the Sec
rotary of the French Legation on November
7th, refused to receive the Guatemalan envoy.
France has ordered frigate to Guatemala to
demand satisfaction, and an indemnity of TO-
600 francs and the Imprisonment of the as
sailants.
A party of PhiIadel phia capitalists contem-
plate engaging in sheep raising on an extern
sive scale in Dakota. A tract of land, 100
acres, near Bismarck, has been secured,
portion laid out in town lots, houses erected
and a station formed. The capital which will
be embarked i'll the enterprise is $50, 900, and
from this fund buildings will be erected and
proper shelter provided for the animals during
the severe winters of the Northwest.
At Albuquerque New Mexico, last Thurs
day, O'Neill, a saloon keeper, shot man
named White through the heart, while nobody
was present. He stood the corpse in the cor
ner, and when customers expressed aStoniSh-
ment at his quietness, told them that the man
had been shot in Il quarrel short time before
by man who had skipped out. They ac-
cepted the story, and when the train reached
Albuquerque O'Neill skipped out also, and
the officers are now in pursuit of him.
The famous Gold of Ophir rose tree on the
Maddox farm, i'll Eldorado county, Cal. was
recently destroyed by a violent wind. Its
stem was twenty-siX inches in circumter-
ence, and the shrub itself had grown around
and over an oak fifty feet high, stopping in
its upward progress only because there was
nothing upon which to climb higher. When
in full bloom splendid mass of golden flow
ers concealed the oak entirely from view with
blaze of glory, which many persons have
tfaNeleu lar 10 see.
Morris Simon, Jr., Il member of the firm of
Mendel Simon & Son, of Chicago, was cow
hided by Miss Celia Belman on Tuesday. 1t
is alleged that Mr.. Simon caused a story to be
circulated which, if true, would cast serious
reflection upon the young lady. Miss Bel
man, accompanied by a number of friends,
met Mr.. Simon on South Franklin street and
gave him severe castigation. The affair was
witnessed by large crowd of people. Mr..
Simon, besides being severely cut over the face
and head, will be sued for $40, 900 damages 10y
Miss Bieman.
Peter Ray, Il muatto, and one of the super
intendents in Lorillard's tobacco factory, III
Jersey City, n j., died Monday. aged, it is
claimed, 107 years. He was first employed in
1889 by the grandfather of the present senior
member of the firm. He was able to attend
to his business almost to the end of his life.
His property, real and personal, is estimated
at from $50, 900 to 100000. 1t was claimed
for him that he was the best Judge of cut to-
bacco living, and that he could tell in mo-
ment the particular district that had grown any
sample shown to him.
The old '.World'' building, in New York
CITY, covering about half the block between
Park Row, Nassau and Beekman streets, was
entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday morning
1t was occupied by the New York Betting and
Packing Co., Willy Wallack, Stationer; the
New York Observer, the TMf, Field and
Farm, Scottish 1n.e,icdn, National Bunk
Note Reporter and other journals, and by Sc
veral law and business firms, and the loss is
estimated at about S75O,OO The flames
spread so rapidly that there was scarcely time
for those in the building to escape, and sever
al of them persisted The number of lives
lost is estimated at from four to six.
In Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday evening,
the gasometer of the Citizens Gas Comany
exploded, leaving the northern portion of the
city IN darkness. The iron cylinder covering
the gasometer became tilted by the weight of
snow upon it and by the force of the wind,
until the chains holding it in place broke.
The top of the gasometer then struck against
the brick sides of the tank producing spark,
which caused the explosion. A sheet of
flame leaped two hundred feet into the air,
suddenly lighting up the whole city; the next
instant the whole northern section was in
darkness. The gasometer contained 100000