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


pally at Nashville and vicinity.
Rev. DIR. Henry W. Bellows, pastor of the
Unitarian Church of All Souls, in New York,
died Monday morning, in the 6Sth year of his
age
During 1881 the excess of exports of mer-
chandise from the United States over imports
amounted to $163, 396, 226, against 1892, $780,
246 in 1880.
John I. Best, one of the clerks of the Light
House District, in California, is reported to
have embez2led more than 50,000. He is
now in custody.
The disease known as pink-eye has appeared
among the horses in Buffalo. Eighty-one an
imals were suffering ON Saturday from an
AGATE form of the malady.
A deficiency of So, 900 is reported in the ac-
counts of Colonel Geo. w. Grant, postmaster
of Reading, Penna., and he has resigned.
The sureties are ample to cover the loss.
A reservoir burst at Calais, France, Monday,
and the escaping water destroyed a school
house and two other buildings. At last ad-
vices q bodies had been taken from the ruins.
Prof Huxley says that those who have taken
an active part in science should be killed at
sixty, as not being flexible enough to yield to
the advance of new ideas. He is himself
nearly fifty-seven.
The contract for building railway tunnel
under the St. Lawrence river, at Montreal,
has been awarded to j. B. Rouilliard, for So,
500, 600, including drainage and lighting com
plete, the work to be finished in 1885.
A great Methodist revival is going on in
Cincinnati In St. PauIs Church two weeks
of special revival services have resulted in 20C
conversions, and reports from other churches
swell the number to over 400. Similar reyi-
walls are occurring in Morrow and Camden,
Ohio.
The laborers living in the small town OF
Pennomene, near Panama, and working on
the De Lesseps canal, refused to be vacclnated.
During the past three months upward of one
thousand deaths have taken place there from
smallpox.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has affirmed
the conviction Of Charles +. Kronz for the
murder of Dora Broemser, a married woman,
of whom he was enamored. Kronz has been
tried four times, and has been in Jail at St.
Louis seven years.
The joint committee of Congress upon me-
mortal services upon the late President met
on Saturday and decided on a programme
similar to that adopted for President Lincoln.
AS heretofore stated, the eulogy viii be. de-
nVered on February ZIth.
Oscar l.. Baldwin, late cashier of tieo Ne
chanics' National Bank of Newark, n. D., APP
peared before the United States Court at
Trenton on Tuesday, pleaded guilty to several
indictments and was sentenced to Is years
imprisonment in the State prison.
While funeral procession was crossing the
Providence Railroad track, near Boston, on
Saturday afternoon, one of the carriages was
l. T,,l,, 4n-
driver, was killed, and the four occupants of
the carriage were severely injured.
William Seitz was fatally poisoned at Bridge
port, Conn, by taking two tablespoonful of
oxalic acid in mistake for German salts. VIM.
Halpin, the druggists clerk, who made the
mistake in sending the wrong article, has been
found guilty of criminal negligence.
The boiler in the Kennebec Framing Com
panys Mill, at Fairfield, Maine, exploded on
Saturday morning, demolishing the mill kill
ing one man and burying three Others in the
ruins. Several others were injured. two Sc
verely. The ruins caught fire and the wood
work was consumed
p H. Gunckel & Co., of Dayton, Ohio,
have purchased the property known as Hog
Island, in James river, near Jamestown Va,
containing :, 200 acres. These gentlemen are
noted stock raisers, and will devote their new
purchase to stock raising purposes. They
will eXpend from $4,000 to 100000 in i'm
proving the property.
To facilitate the withdrawal of mutlated
coins from circulation. the Secretary of the
Treasury has authorized the superintendent
Of the MINIS to purchase mutilated silver COINS
of standard fineness in sums of So and up
wards, without melting and assaying, paying
at the rate of 81 per ounce of standard silver
contained.
Edward Umholtz, prominent citizen of
Gratz, a small town few miles from Harris
burg, Pa, died last week of smallpox but
the nature of the disease was not given by the
physician and there was a large attendance at
the funeral. The sickness of three children
followed, and of those at the funeral II are
down with the disease.
'.Molly' Hoey, alias Molly 1Iolbrook,
was arrested in New York, on Saturday night,
for pocket-picking. In her house. in Chicago,
in 1872, man was drugged and robbed of
200 in cash. Soon after the robbery she
went to New York was arrested; escaped
while being taken back to Chicago, and re-
manned at large until her arrest on Saturday
night.
A young man named Lee, of West Middle
sex, Butler county, Pa, ON Saturday, while
on hunting expedition, met two young lady
acquaintance while in the woods, and with
out provocation fired two shots, wounding both
ladies'. A brother of one of the young ladies,
named Allison, started in pursuit, and Lee
finding arrest inevitable, committed suicide
by shooting himself.
An attempt was made at Clayton, ILL.,, ON
Monday to assassinate Col. Thos. e. Black.
Two men came into his office and attacked
l-piy hut ba off off
receiving a couple of dangerous gashes. He
says that he knows who his assailants were,
but refuses to give their names. He was one
of the ''306' who stood by Gen. Grant at the
Chicago convention.
The National Christian Association, which
has its headquarters in Chicago, and is OPP
posed to all secret societies, especially Ma
sonry, will hold convention in Batavia, New
York, on the 18th of February. The object is
to arrange for National Convention at Bata
via i'll September next, when, it is expected
a monument to William Morgan will be I'M
unveiled.
Bronze medals have been struck at st. Louis
for the delegates to the Chicago convention of
1880, who through the 36 ballots steadfastly
voted for Gen. Grant. These mementoes are
represented to be q inches in diameter, 3-1G
of an inch in thickness, and weighing nearly
a pound. On the face is a profile head of
Gen. Grant surrounded by wreath, and on
the reverse side will be inscribed the name of
the recipient. -4. ..[a
John Horan was awakened early Monday
morning by burglar breaking into his room
on the second floor of tenement house in
Greenwich street, New York Koran got out
ofbed, when the burglar took fright and jumped
out of the window to the fire escape, but mis-
sing his footing and falling to the ground was
killed, He was recognized as Thomas Hut
ton, % years of age, known to the police as a
professional thief.
Three young ladies were drowned in the
Shenandoah river, near Broadway, Rocking
ham CO., Va, on Monday, whilst attemptingto
cross on frail structure. Two of them were
sisters, aged 18 and ID years, respectively; ,and
were daughters of Michael Faidley. The
other was Miss Lena Wilt, about q years of
age. The bodies of Miss Wilt and the younger
Miss Faidley were recovered, but the third
body had not been recovered at last accounts.
An ice gorge formed in the Hudson river,
just below Troy, about midnight of Friday, and
one tug was swept from her moorings and an
other sunk The docks at Troy were flooded
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