The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-05-20
News of the Week.


The cost of recent foggy day i'll London
was 100000 for 5000, 900 feet of extra gas.
The average yield of wheat per acre in
Holland is said to be the heaviest in the
world.
On May y six inches of snow fell at Wash
ington, Iowa, greatly damaging fruit and veg
citation.
Six thousand Swedish and Norwegian en-
igrantS passed through Hull on Sunday on
their way to America.
Details of the cyclone last week at McAllis-
ter, Indian Territory, states that 100 were
wounded and - killed.
On Monday G,741 immigrants arrived at
New York. This is the largest arrival, with
one exception since 1873.
The Tennessee Legislature mas passed bill
refunding the state debt at 60 cents on the
dollar, at 8, /. and per cent.
Eighty jurors summoned to appear in the
New York Marine Court on Tuesday were fin
ed $3.50 each for nen-attendanee.
The Egyptian ministers who revolted against
the Khedive have made humiliating submis-
sion and gave new pledges of loyalty.
The village of Marcilly in France has been
destroyed by fire. Eighty-four houses were
wrecked, and $50 persons were made home
less.
II has been an intensely cold spring in Aus
tria and the ryrol. and 30 to 80 per cent. loss
is feared in Austrian and Hungarian wine dis
trictS.
Twelve persons were drowned on Sunday
by the capSizing of sail boat on Lake Calu-
met They We're all residents of Pullman,
Illinois.
Jacob Warner, well-to-do farmer, of York
county, Pa. committed suicide Saturday by
hanging himself He was subject to fits Of
dependency.
The pink-eye has been very destructive in
the province to foals this spIing, On the is
land of Mautreal alone over 800 young colts
and fillies have died.
Hon. c. c. Washhurne. ex-member of Con-
greSs and eN-Goyernor of Wisconsin. died at
Eureka Springs. Ark, Sunday afternoon, of
paralysis aud Bright's decease.
About fifty bricklayers and hodcarriers in
Wilmington, Del, have struck for higher
wages. the briekayers for s.. so and the NOR
tar men and hodcarriers for - per day.
President Arthur has been sued at Akron,
Ohio, as one of the defendants in the suit of
j. ". Lush 4 Co.. against the Siemens- An.
dersou Steel Company Of Pitt>burg, Pa.
The weavers of the Herkanun mills at Rock
vile. Ct. have struck for an increase of 10
per cent. There are seventy-tive hands out.
This makes three wooden and one gingham
mill whose hands are on strike
Ohio has just thiriy-Six thousand paupers,
who cost the state every year $500. 600 Be
tween paupcrs and Office holders the state
seems pretty equally divided, although the
costs OF the latter exceed those of the former.
Mrs. Corkhill. wife Of the District attorney
who has been suffering from govt of the stom-
ach for several weeks past. was taken serious
IL I'D about noon on Sunday. An hour later
She became unconscious, and died at II pm.
The annual campaign against the locust,
has been ia progress some weeks in the island
Of Cyprus. The rewards offered by the Gov.
eminent last year resulted in the collection
aud destruction Of more than 200 tons OF
eggs.
Isaac Gardner and his three daughters, OF
Newrumcrstown, Ohio we're drowned ON
Wednesday while attempting 20 ford the Tus-
caravans river. Gardner drove his wagon into
the water against the protests of a number OF
bystAnders.
A col0red man was appointed letter-car-
ricr a. Toronto. Can, on Tuesday, whereupOn
the whole force of fifty carriers refused TO
work. The postmaster was obliged TO assign
the new appoIutee to other duty until the mat
ter is settled.
Carl klote, Of Antwerp, second officer of
German steamer Picter de Coninck, while on
the voyage from Antwerp to Boston hanged
himself because he was detected sleeping on
his watch when the ship was in dangerous
position, for which be was reprimanded by the
captain.
The steamer progress was burned ON We'd
nesday night in the st. Lawrence river. oppo-
site Green Island. Three of her crew per-
ishcd in the flames the remainder were taken
OF hy the steamer Resolute. The Progress
was considered the finest boat Of her kind in
the Dominion. aud was valued at Ss0,OlG
The men in all the principal tanneries in
Chicago struck az noon Thursday because
those ia the preparing department, who asked
for an advance Of 81 per week. were refused
t. They demanded Sl2 a week, The EN-
ployers will shut down. About l,000 of the
3. 100 tanners employed in Chicago are. there
fore, ont Of work.
At the session of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Conference in Poughkeepsie,
New York, on Tuesday, resolutions were
adopted denOuncing the action Of the steward
at the steamer John l.. Hasbrouck for reius-
ing To allow Bishop Moore and other eOlored
clergymen to sup at the same table with the
white passengers.
A vast iuceease in sudden deaths has been
one Of the most noticeable features Of this
season mortality in New FORK city. in proof
Ot which t need only be stated that within the
past six weeks there have been no fewer than
ESQ coroner's inquests. This is something
wholly beyond precedent. Sunday forenoon
sly sudden deaths were reported, requiring
the attendance of these officials.
The new cotton mill at Charleston s c..
will have a capacity Of >, 900 spindles, and
will cost about S5OO. 600. The machinery viii
be set in motion by the LIST of November. and
il is confidently predicted that it viii not only
prove rcmuncrative investment, but viii be
quickly followed by other mills on a more eX-
tensiye scale AS Charleston offers special al
yaHtages for manufacturing enterprises.
revival Of the Latter Day Saints or Nor
mons order has been in progress for some
weeks at the residence OF Mr. Monterville o.
Matthews. about one mile south of New Park,
Pc. Several persons have protessed to be
10 the new faith and have been
baptized in pond made near by for the pUr-
pose. Services are conducted by the Rev.
Mr.. Stewart, assisted by the above named
The heavy and continuous rains of last week
wrought great destruction in Indiana along
the valleys Of the White and Muscatatuck
rivers The entire country in the valleys of
these rivers is inundated, and the farmers in
jackson. Lawrence and Martin counties are
heavy losers. Fifteen miles of the track of
the Bedford Narrow Gauge Railroad were
washed out. fences have been carried away,
and in some places entire crops destroyed.
physician was called to the bedside of
Young man in Schoharie county, New York,
and while he was bending over the bed the
unconscious patient suddenly drew up his .
legs, and placing them against the doctors
stomach, kicked out and sent the doctor flying
over chairs and other furniture to the oppo-
site side of the room. The doctor was picked .
up unconscious, with three ribs broken, and
when he recovered consciousness the young
man was dead.
Helen A. Williams colored, sued New
ork druggist for 81, GOO damages. who alleged
hat the clerks wrongly labeled the bottles
,alled for by two prescriptions that she had
AIKEN TO the drug store to be made up, and
hat in consequence she took a viruent poison
nto her stomach by mistake, and suffered
great bodily pain and mental anguish, her life
icing endangered and her health injured.
The jury returned verdict for $500 damages.
Daniel McNullen, employed at the Grant
Smelter, at Leadville, Colorado, on Tuesday
made a misstep and fell twenty feet. into the
molten mass of metal below. He caught at
omething and held his head out of the metal,
md was hauled out as quick as possible, but
lie was so awfully burned that the flesh fell
way from the bones. To ease his agonies he