The Democratic advocate., 1882-02-18

The disease known as American pinkeye'
is rapidly spreading among horses in Liver
pool.
The Tammany men were given no chair
manships in making up the standing commit
tees in the New York Assembly.
The Catholic Bishop of Montreal has served
notice to quit on all tenants of church proper
/ ty who are selling liquor thereon.
/ A black walnut grove, which Wisconsin
/ farmer planted about twenty years ago on some
waste land recently sold for S27, 900.
! A correspondent of the London Stdist
/ shows that pound of tea, sold in China for
4 less than four cents. costs the consumer in
/ London fifty cents.
/ The Grecnbricr White sulphur Spring.
/ Company has decided to build Il race track in
I the meadow below Lover Leap, a lake on
the Beauregard place.
/ The charter election in Binghamton, New
( York, on Tuesday resulted in the choice of
James X. Weldon, Democrat, for Mayor,
\ and Democratic majority in the Board of
I Aldermen.
1 The prisoners in Franklin county (Ohiol
jail attempted to escape Sunday. They sawed
| through the iron bars of their cell windows,
/ and it was arranged to seize the sheriff, get
possession of the keys and set all the inmates
/ at liberty. The scheme was discovered in
/ time and the design frustrated.
/ A syndicate of St. Paul and Minneapolis
capitalists has been formed for the erection of
/ thirty elevators along the st. Paul, Minneapo-
I lis and Manitoba, Northern Pacific, and Chi
( eago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroads, all
/ to be tributary TO a 100000 bushels elevator
I to be Immediately erected near the freight
/ transfer grounds between st. Paul and Min
/ neapois
/ The revolver, according to London paper,
4 is in all probability destined to be shortly dis
4 earled from use in the army, navy, Irish con-
/ stabuary, and other Government services in
/ favor of a new weapon, the mitrailleuse pistol
F in which there are four barrels, which are
/ loaded at once by patent quadruple cartridge
big enough to afford good hold to the fingers.
/ Forty shots per minute can be discharged, and
the empty cartridges elected automatically.
As there is no opening through which anv gas
can escape, the weapon can be used gun fash
ion when aiming, and there are no screws,
( hammers, or projections to catch the clothing,
reins. or aeeoutrements. Above all there is
no fear of jam OF the weapon becoming un-
( serviceable from overheaiing. The pistol viii
take the ordinary Government cartridge.
+ George C. GOttung of San Francisco sus-
peeted that his wife was in love with another
E u.
/ her to go to a place where she supposed her
lover would met her. There she found her
husband instead, and he cruelty stabbed her
10 death, as well as the infant she had in her
arms Gottung was convicted and sentenced
TO be hanged. Mary +. Willis belonged to a
church choir, and every Sunday afternoon
she went with some city missionaries to sing
in the Jail She met the condemned wife
murderer, and it was soon noticed that she
carried him Bouquet at every visit. Love
letters were next exchanged. and few days
ago the couple were married in the DOOM
ed man cell. The bride is educated, refn-
ed. and has considerable money. which she
will spend in endeavoring to gain a new trial
for her husband.
4. M Soteldo. shot during the affray in the
office Of the National Republican, died of his
injuries in Washington on Saturday night
His brother, A. c. Soteldo. has been com
mitted without bail ON the charge Of having
done the shooting. Barton, the Reptblicdn
news editor. continues To improve. An au-
topsy on A. NJ Soleldo's body was held Sat
uriay, and bullet was extracted weighing
Sc grains. which corresponds with the one
that wounded Barton. Both are mimic bullets
and evidently came from the same pistol, in
di-atiug that 4. G. So;eldO shot his brother
while firing at Barton. coroner ; jury over
SoteldO body rendered the following verdict
ssThat the said Anlonia NJ Sofeldo came to
his death between 10 and IL o'clock. Z. NJ,
Feb. II, 1882. at Pr0Yidence Hospital. city Of
Washington. u. c.. from a pistol-shot wound
81 the neck inflicted with a pistol held in the
hands ol Augustus C. Soteldo ON the 9TH of
February, 1882 al the Republican Office, in
the said city Of Washington.