The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-11
News of the Week.

| nited States.
Fourteen deaths from smallpox were re-
ported in New York and twenty-seven in Gin
cinnati last week.
Robert Sewer, colored, was lynched at
Franklin, Kentucky, ON Monday night, for
attempting to assault white girl.
Diphtheria of very malignant type is re-
ported TO be carrying off many children in the
eastern and western sections of Nova Scotia.
The Utah Legislature has adopted resolu-
ton calling convention for April 10 to frame
a constitution aud take steps for the admis-
sion of Utah as a state.
Kansas man and woman have been mar
ried to each other once a year for four years,
a divorce having separated them after every
union except the last one.
The Senate of Iowa has agreed to the House
proposing a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
liquors as beverage.
During last week thirteen cases of small
pox and eight deaths were reported in St.
Louis; nine deaths in Allegheny City, Penna.,
and ten cases near Hagerstown, Nd.
The property of ex-President U. S. Grant,
ferred to his wife, Mrs. Julia Dent Grant.
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The banking house of Charles A. Sweet 4
Co., of State street, Boston, suspended Mon
day, with liabilities estimated at about 81
500 900, principally divided among several
Boston BANKS.
Joseph Paneoast, NJ D., emeritus profes
sor of anatomy in the Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, died on Tuesday morn
ing, aged II, of pneumonia. His illness was
of short duration.
David Navajo, the fiat boy" who has
been on exhibition in different parts Of the
United States, died in Pittsburg, Pa, on
Tuesday of smallpox. He was II years old
and weighed 200 pounds.
The Virginia Legislature expired by consti-
tutional limitation on Monday night last, and
was immediately re-convened by the governor
in extra session. On Tuesday both houses
adjourned until the 10th inst.
The Rev Thaddcus Salters, the first colored
man ever admitted to the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in South Caro-
lima. was last week ordained priest in ST.
Marks Church, by Bishop Howe.
The Patterson family of seven persons, re-
siding at Monmouth, n, j., are seriously i'll
from eating biscuit in which arsenic had been
used instead Of cream Of tartar. The young-
est child aged six years, cannot recover.
The Rev. George Fl. Pecke of the Leaviti,
Street Congregational Church, Chicago. de-
elares that Brother Rossiter habitually sits in
a rear seat aud makes wry faces at him in or
der to diseoneert him while he is preaching.
Rossiter is to be tried by church committee.
Two men went into ring to fight at Water
ford. y. Y The first blow did not knock its
recipient down. or injure him much, but it
convinced him that there would be no fun in
even finishing the round, and he took the
sponge out Of his seconds hands and threw it
up.
Ben Hogan. once pagilist, now Chicago
evangelist Says that most prize fighters die
prematurely al weakness and disease brought
on by injuries received in the nng. He cites
a number of instances in point, and declares
that he Is himself sufferer from old pound
iHgs-
Hardy solomon before the war was PreSi-
dent Of n South Carolina bank in which ex-
Senator Patterson was director. Patterson
lately came across him in Kansas City, inn
poverished, bat working indastri0usly rs a
baker, and made him his secretary, at s., 600
= year.
4 terrible hail storm visited the City Of
Mexico, on Sunday evening". and the hail
people to witness she performance. A Hnm-
Der Of persons we're injured, but only two
men, who were struck BY falling poles, re-
ccived seFioas injuries.
The Lake Superior Powder Company ;
packing- house at Marquette. Mich, blew up
Monday morning, killing foar men Nothing
remsihs TO show where the building stood. 1t
contained ahoat ton aEsl n. half Of powder.
Two pailiuls Of thu remains Of the men killed
have been ioand.
The house Of John Taylor, at Meadow Lea,
Mauitata. was destroyed by FIRE during n ter
rihle storm last Saturday. and hts wife and
three daughters were subsequently found
frozen 10 death Mr.. Taylor hands and feet
verr badly trexrn, and a Mrs Reid, who was
visiting the family, was frozen slightly.
A man ia Wisconsin harFo0m remarked
that he was glad thas Gniseaa murdered Gar
field. The biggest of the listeners undertook
To knock him down. but got most thoroughly
whipped instead. Il turned out that the at
tcrer Of the unpopular sentiment was hraiseT
spelling for q SIGHT. and took that way Of bring
iag one on.
The English Secretary Of Legation al
Bass=os AyreS reports that when visiting the
interior lately he found that all agricultural
implements and machinery were supplied by
the United States ''In the School Of Agri-
culture in Mendoza. be SAYS. II do not re-
member seeing n single article Of English man-
ufacfare among all the machines, &c, except
one for shreshing.
On Thursday Of last week, Arnold Howard
aud Frank Young charged with cattle steal
ing, were lodged in Jail At Del Norte, Colorado.
Next day an attempt was made Ia break lail
On SATURDAY. night 100 stockmeh oyerpowered
the guards and Tired upon the prisoners, kill
ing Howard and mnrsal!s woanding Young
Howard had been arrested for cattle stealing
twelve times, and acquitted each time.
Three additional indictments were foand ON
Saturday hy the grand jury of the Criminal
Court In Washington IN the star-roufe cases.
the principal being against cx-Assistant Post
master General III hos j. Brady, who's charged
with eonspiring with W. IL. Turner, a clerk
in his osiiee. and j. W. Dorsey, Stephen W.
Dorsey, John r. Miner, III. NJ. Vail, J. l..
Sanderson and John VI. Peck, contractors, to
increase, the service upon certain mail routes
in the West upon fraudulent representations,
by which the compensation of the contractors
was largely increased.
A mass meeting Of Jewish citizens was held
in Brooklyn Monday afternoon, 20 protest
against the persecution of the lSraelitcs IN
Europe. anu tatetuef utsbleuFNS thA AaS tNhNt
of Jewish immigrants. Adolph +. Sanger,
one Of the speakers, said that in the last four
or FIVE DAYS $50, coo had been collected in
New York for the refugees; but he predicted
that a great tide Of Jewish immigration would
soon SET in, aud to meet the necessities of the
immigrants not less than $500, 600 would be
needed. He referred to successful Jewish
colony which had been started in Louisiana,
where sixty Jewish families are engaged in
husbandry, aad said the immigrants from
Russia would make exemplary citizens A
committee of fifty was appointed 70 solicit
subscriptions in Brooklyn.
The six days Ego as you please walking
match in New York closed on Saturday night,
with nazael the winner Less interest was
felt in the result since the withdrawal of
RoweiI ON Thursday. The following was the
closing score :--Hazael, coo miles; Fitzgerald,
577; Noremac. $40; Hart, $40; Hughes, $50;
Sullivan, 525. The highest previous scores
ever reached in six days matches, were 5s2
miles made BY Fitzgerald, in the Ennis race
in New York, last year, and 56Sa made by
Hughes for the o'Leary Belt, also in 1881.
Distribution was made on Wednesday Of the
share of the proceeds of the match that fell to
the contestants. Hazael received 50, $50 gate
money and $1,000 sweepstakes; Fitzgerald
80, - a. : alrsasy.