The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-12-16
News of the Week.

A severe gale swept over Newfoundland on
Tuesday night which wasafollowed by tide
of unprecedented height Wednesday morning.
+ In Cambridgeport, Mass, last Friday, Mich
ael Clarity, while picking up wood near CIR
cular saw, slipped and fell against the saw,
which cut his head off.
49, Gov. Foster, of Ohio, has ordered an cleo
ton to be held January 2 to fill the vacancy
for both terms caused by the death of the late
Congressman ,Updegraf. rs
D The amount of the State debt of Pennsyl-i
vania at the close of the fiscal year, Novem
Der 80, was $40, 225 ,O83. %, reduction during
the year of S915, 1O4. Il.
The Philadelphia health officer reports that
during the week ended December there were
So deaths from diphtheria. Since December
4 there have been l55 new. cases. T
The Triton Cotton Mills, of New Castle,
Del, which suspended work last Saturday,
resumed operations ON Tuesday, all the work
men submitting to the reduction in wages.
Sumter, S. c., voted on local option last
Friday, the total vote being 425. The majority
for no. license was 1853. Manning, S. c., also
voted for no license by decided majority.
The report of the secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania State Grange of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry shows that there are 10000 members
of the order in the State, distributed among
400 lodges.
The annual report of Superintendent Max
we'll. of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce, shows an increase in the receipts of all
kinds of grain of l ,7S0, 900 bushels.
A boiler in the Bayview distillery, San Fran
cisco, exploded on Saturday, seriously wound
ing six persons. The boiler was old and leaky
and was being examined by an expert when
the explosion occurred. ''
There is deadlock at the Kingston (Ont.
Medical College caused by the demand of the
male students for the expulsion of female
students. The ladies were the sole attendants
at lectures on Wednesday.
In the suit of Jane NARROW against Chi
cago saloon-keeper for selling her husband
liquor to the extent of making him almost an
imbecile, the jury gave verdict of $780, She
asked for $4,000.
The Jail at Delta, La, was burned on Sun
day night. Fifteen prisoners were released
to save their lives. Some of them remained
and worked manfully to put out the fire; the
others ran away
An explosion last Friday in tunnel No.
of the Oregon and California Railroad extern
sion, twenty miles from Riddle, Oregon, killed
four Cinnamon, dangerously injured four
others, and blew number out the tunnel.
At Gibsonton Mills, Pa, Monday, copper
still containing twenty-five barrels of whisky
exploded, killing William Lucas and setting
fire to the building, in which 1000 barrels Of
whiskey were stored. The loss is estimated
at S225,000. ~ T.. .n,a.. ..g
Joseph Carlin, while drunk, got on an en-
CINE at East Syracuse, N. Y, on Saturday
night, and ran the engine eastward until he
~ n ctu,or nd hound Locomotives Tho an
gines collided and were both badly damaged.
No one was hurt. ~
By decree of the President of the French
Republic, dated November I, 1882, the grade
of cheyalier in the Legion of Honor has been
conferred on Capt. St. George Tucker Mason,
Virginian by BIRTH for fifteen years service
and sixteen campaigns. >'
A passenger train bound from Macon, Ga,
for Montgomery, Ala, ran off the track near
Eufaula, Ala, last Friday, and was thrown
hundred yards down an embankment. Every
person on the train was more or less injured,
but no one was killed.
The receipts of grain at Chicago during the
year have been 25, 100000 bushels less than
in the preceding year. This is attributed to
the increased ability of the farmers to hold
their crops for rise in prices and the rapid
increase in. milling capacity.
Last Friday eleven convicts, at work on the
penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark, attacked
and disarmed the guards and escaped They
were pursued with bloodhounds, The con-
victs Killed three of the dogs, and night COM
ing on the pursuit was abandoned. F-e. .t
The Denver Fire Insurance Company, of
Denver, Col, has collapsed. 1t was organ
lied fifteen months ago, with nominal capt.
tai of ST ZOO, 900, and it is reported that it
i ALL l.
assets consisted of unsecured notes and tracts
of unimproyed land, held by an imperfect
title. IL
A new horse disease, which battles the We
terinary surgeons, has broken out in West
Troy, NY. Capt. Sweenys trotter, Chief
tain, valued at $40, 900, is one of the victims.
The symptoms of the disease are inability to
masticate food and rapid fall of the pulse and
temperature.
The schooner Harvest Home, from the
Rappahannock river for Fair Haven, Conn,
with oysters, was run into off the Delaware
capes on Sunday by large steamship, sup
posed to have been the City of Macon, bound
from Philadelphia for Savannah. The schooner
was badly damaged.
William c. Frazier, a school teacher at
Cumberland, Ohio, during an attempt to dis
cipHne his pupils on Monday becameinvolved
in general fight, in the course of which he
stabbed and killed John Hayes, aged 20 years,
and severely cut Charles Luce. Frazier gave
himself up and is now in jail.
A Tuesday dispatch says: The Amherst
burg crossing of the Canada Southern Rail-
way is completely blocked by snow and ice.
A train of twenty six cars loaded with cattle
is held fast in the river, and the animals are
in a deplorable condition owing to the extreme
difficulty of feeding them. ..
Owing to the municipal troubles in Opelike,
growing ont of contest over the election of
mayor and alderman, the Alabama Legisla
ture has passed an act vacating its charter,
and authorizing the Governor to appoint
local government until new one can be
elected.
Eleven men employed in J. Vincen & Sons
saw mill, at Shawneetown, Ill.,, were about
the engine-room eating their luncheon on
Monday, when the boiler exploded wrecking
the mill. Eight of the eleven were killed
outright and the other three were wounded.
One was blown into the river and two more
were hurled 200 yards. Several of the men
were actually blown into pieces. "--t .a'
Corken was Congregational preacher at
Salisbury Point, Mass. He was rapidly max.
ing reputation as an orator when village
paper reported one of his sermons, and it was
Canon Wiiberforce Then he left the pulpit,
and became physician in Lynn, but with no
better luck, for he is now under arrest for
malpractice. ss adlsl IL hais.oti. 81
2. Rev. Mr.. Ackworth, who was assigned to
the colored Methodist church at Lee, Mass,
by the New England Conference, on Sunday
last was locked out of the church. A trustee
named Freeman, who opposed Ackworth, was
inside, and when the pastor and his friends
BROKE broke in lively fight isn i Freeman
in the evening, his subject being ''Victory.'
The Enterprise cotton mills, at Manayunk,
Pa, were totally destroyed by fire Tuesday
afternoon, mourning loss of $4,000 on
building and $50, 900 on the stock and machi-
merry. The fire broke out in the picker room,
on the fourth floor, land spread with great rapid
ity.i About 100 operatives were at work at
the time, those on the fifth floor being expos
ed to the most danger. AS there were no fire
escapes in the building the only means of
hy ', ia.