The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-14
News of the Week.

\ ERE at Toxic. Japan, on the 18th ult, de
Stroyed 40 houses.
Judge Wilson. of Greene county. Pa. ne
fuses to license liquor sellers.
The project OF worlds fair in Boston has
been abandoned. Talk was plenty and money
scarce.
The father of the British army j. Gen Geo.
Macdonald. who entered 1t IN lSsli and j. aged
~ years months.
The total corn crop of Illinois during 1851
was ia. 9ss6. 900 bashels, ar 20 per cent. Of
the crop OF $3.50. and only half Of that Of 1879
" g. Douglass. mail agrn, between san
Francisco and SACRAMENTO has heen arrested
for stealing letters aud has confessed his guilt.
William f. Powell, Assistant City Clerk. Of
Newark. New jersey. was arrested an Tues.
dAy. for completely IN the city hall fraud there.
During December there we're l L. deaths
from smallpox in Chicago. oat II a total
mortality # iU2u The deaths from small,
poN ia October numbered lsG.
Riclsard Henry Dana. Jr., The Wrll-kpowu
lawyer. author aud politician II Bostnu. dicd
va kame Italy, 90 SATURDAY, 1T pneumonia.
Tie was in the s7th war of HI. age.
The heaviest Snow fall 1T the seas,n IN
Quebec and Nova Scotia. occarrrd ON last
FRIDAY night and SATURDAY, IN onehec the
roads we're made impassable hy the drifts.
The Republicans caucus of the Iowa I.esisla.
tare. 0n TUESDAY evening. nominated James
+. Wilson fpr L. ;. Senator for the long term,
beginning in tsss. aud ]. " Mcljli the i'm
cambeay. for the short term.
The stage coach le,4cr. Tombstone and
Bislee. Arizona, was rubise3 ap FRIDAY Of last
vrsk IN hsr hiehUayHeu. Wells A fsrgo's
trsssurc box. containing Ssi5fo. ~as taken.
bat tbr passengers urrv net nolc-ts,i.
Mslignaui diphthrria prevails ia Norfolk,
~ Lawrence COUNTY. New layk. H. nns
family os .ceeu children. ,hrry have died
ofth. disease. aud TWO others sgp MT expected
to recos~r. \ physician Is also sex II The
utalaty.
\ last mail train i,gtarrn Nrw York and
Washsngioa Was stepped several times a few
DAYS agn, by tWe elephants who happened g.
~ ia The ears Vailinz the bell rope. L was
more than aa haa5 before the eans.. 81 the
stupFar,s ua- discovered
The great stzar refinery 81 Hascneyvr &
Fides. IN Williamsburg. New York. Was do
.tsoyc,i by fre Sgnday evening. ualy The chas
house. which !. firv ysroof. escaping. The loss
+ c-,itnat,d as 81 ,so.osi. and i,sso men are
thrown oui ~ employment.
4 prr,dcut theatrcal company ,sicgraI.hed
~ sale from smallpox iu that ciEy. The tify
Physician rrpised 'Osy pzfirnts Rre nj
safely ladsed IN the hospital. aud none 1t
theta care % attend yuar performance,
The small. pox i rapidly increasing IN Pitts
burg. Flfty s3x new casss--ls Of them in Al.
i,xhany Cify-werg gefarsri Is the Beard u
Health oa Monday IA alarming increase oi
small .poX 8. reported in Jersyy City within the
last lev days- several cas.s 81 ihe DISEASE. 81
q malignant type, are reported AZ MH,amorns.
Pa. Susall- paN has hs,lken cat a, Middle
soun, nlHphiu coaaty, Pa
Therr appeared la, wrek, ia the obituary
colamns of the Philadelphia Pa. L>j9a, no,
tiers u thg deaths 1T p persons ~ fnen aud
n uomen--~ho had lived To or bryond ihr
aasanced age Of ~ wears, tn ~.it. Mary Ryan.
~: Agnes Mcmillan. ~; MARI ;. FELTON,. 81;
Louisa Frssler. ~; John Mclaughlin, ~
sophia b. Grant, 81 Conrad oraer, 81 Joha
Gooies. ~ Thomas Lcahy. -; Jacob Selig,
- Elizabeth b. Fcuton, ~ Sarah Emery.
50 Benjamin Finn, 81 John Quinn, -;
Joha r. Gould. -; Mar Eslen, ~ FredeTi-
ka Gcbhars, " Elizabeth Hatzlrr I.amhader,
~; Patrick Bigley. AZ Nancy Hughes, -,
and james McTagns. loo