The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-23
News of the Week.

mond county, Va.
The committee appointed by the Southern
evangelical churches to locate Southern
"Chautauqua'' have selected Mount Eagle
Springs, Tenn.
Twenty-Five Mormon emissaries left New
York on Tuesday to gather proselytes in
Europe. One of them was robbed of $140
while in New York.
Five people were killed in a church in Con-
cordia, Mexico, which was struck by light
ming. number of other persons were seri-
ously injured in the rush to escape.
A comet was plainly seen with the naked
eye from Georgetown and Central City, Colo
orado, Tuesday about IL A. M. 1t was about
five degrees from the sun, and in direction
trihe south of west.
daughters of T. McKenna, of Wyoming, Ont.
drove into creek to water the horses They
got into deep water and the girls were drown
ed. The boy escaped.
The tax returns for the State of Georgia
for the present year confirm the claims put
forth of the prosperous condition of the State.
These returns show an increase of SIG, 255,
SIS over the total value of last year.
The tornado which swept through the edge
of Winsted, Conn, at eight o'clock on Thurs
day night of last week from west to east, cut
a swathe fifty yards wide and two miles long.
Ten dwellings and seven barns were destroy
ed.
Ex-President Hayes run up a bill of $685.
with the Yosemite Stage Company when he
visited the Yosemite valley. The other day
the Yosemite commissioners refused to pay
the bill, which the company had presented to
them.
The scheme to erect $4,000 monument
in Paramount Park, Philadelphia, to the
memory of the late PRECEDENT Garfield still
hangs fire. So far only $40, 780 has been sub
scribed, and the contributions are very slow
in coming in.
I A German farmer near Depere, Wis, re-
joices in an immense crop of cabbages this
year. He estimates that by the close of the
season he will have sold over 10000 head,
and will have cleared net profit of more
than $500 per acre.
London has its anti Chinese movement, too
A company of Cinnamon, doing business in
that city, have gone into scheme for import
ing their countrymen in large numbers for
employment as servants, farm laborers and
in the trades. The project is being denounc-
ed in mass meetings.
Three Chicago physicians experimental
with electricity on the body of man who was
hanged in that city last Friday, and succeed
ed in restoring the rhythmic notion of the
heart They are of the opinion that they
could have brought the man back to life if his
neck had not been broken.
A boy named Joseph Falkner, living two
miles from Charlotte, n. c., was caught in a
belt in mill wheel on Wednesday and car
ried round eight or ten minutes, at the rate
of $50 revolutions to the minute. His arm
was torn from the elbow and his body horri-
bly, crushed and mangled He died in short
| time.
John Herman, truck farmer, living in Y ork
county, Pa, was arrested at Harrisburg, on
Saturday on charge of feloniously assault
ing his own daughter. The girl testified that
the assaults were made on frequent occasions
while on the way to the Harrisburg market
before day. Herman was sent to jail in de-
fault of bail.
| Maurice Welsh of Norwich, Conn, earns
his living by manual labor, and is so willing
to do so that he voluntarily gave up his pen
sion of 81 month. He wrote to the pension
agent that his wound, received in the war, had
ceased to trouble him, and that he could not
conscientiously receive any more help from
out whether Welsh was sane. He was.
Coup's Circus, which came to grief in the
West lately, was sold out at Detroit, Michi-
gan, Saturday last The hippopotamus brought
$4,000, pair of lions and leopard 81 ,250,
the gnu 1925, the South America jaguar S135
and kangaroo 500; three hyenas brought
only 500 and pair of porcupines $50. The
ladies pets were cheaper still, the monkeys
bringing only $14 each, and the cockatoos
only $72.
Anthony Barnard and his sister, Mrs. Mary
Ann Hugg, both colored, were arrested at
Snow Hill, short distance from Camden,
N. j., last week, ON the charge of numbering
Catherine Diamond, an Irish woman, at that
place some fourteen years ago for her money.
The woman was first murdered and then her
house was burned. The crime had just come
to light, having been revealed by daughter
of Mrs. Hugg.
By an agreement between the United States
and Swiss Postoffice Departments executed
on Wednesday in Washington, by the sigma
ture of the Postmaster General and approval
of the President, the limits of weight and
dimensions of sample packets exchanged be-
tween the two countries are increased to $50
grains in weight, 80 centimetres in length, 20
depth. The increase goes into effect on and
after LIST October, 1882.
Harry Robson, of G reenville, Ohio, died
on Tuesday from the effects of melanosis,
from which disease he has suffered since last
spring, turning perfectly black He was born
of white parents. His case is one of the most
remarkable on record, only one other being
known, and that was in England. DIR. Fall,
of Cincinnati, DR.. Langdon and other noted
physicians have been summoned to attend a
post-mortem examination.
On the Sd instant the largest blast yet fired
on the Oregon and California Railroad was
set off near Stevens camp. The charge con-
sisted of 2,700 pounds of Judson and 5000
pounds of black powder. 1t was placed in
sixty foot drill in the side of the mountain.
The effect of the blast was simply tremend-
Gus. 1t tore down the side of the mountain,
damned up the creek for mile and blocked
up the wagon road for half mile.
Two freight trains collided at tunnel three
miles west of Kirkwood, on the Missouri Pa
cifc Railroad, on Saturday, wrecking both |
trains and slightly injured a couple of the
crew. The cars took fire, and burned furi-
ously inside the tunnel. A fire-engine was
sent from st. Louis on Saturday night to SUBJ
due the flames. Twenty cars and locomo-
tive were destroyed, and the walls of the tun-
mel were badly cracked by the fire. The |
damage is estimated at $4,000.
The officers of the Insurance Company of |
North America, Philadelphia, announced on |
Monday that they had discovered discrepancies
in their stock account, result of frauds perpe-
trated by the transfer clerk, Alfred Rogers, |
whose shortage, they say, twill not exceed
$25, 00O." Alfred Rogers, the defaulting trans
fer clerk, has been arrested and held in $25,
900 bail for hearing. 1t seems that he de-
frauded the company by raising certificates
of stock after they had been issued and then
borrowing money on them,
The Thirteenth Annual Fair of the Shen-
andoah Valley Agricultural Society will be
held at Winchester, Va, on the 10th, 18th,
18th and 18th of October next. Among the
features will be a competitive drill by the COM
valuable prizes, to be awarded by Gen. Fitz
Lee, Gen. ]. R. Herbert, Gen. F. H. Smith,
fthe Virginia Military Institute, COL Purcell,
of the First Virginia Regiment, and Adjutant-
General Mcdonald, all of whom have accept
ed invitations to act as judges
A car equipped with the electric light ar
r;ued at the Broad Straat Station of IL, pa....