The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-12
News of the Week.


on Wednesday for prize fight between John
l.. Sullivan and Tug Wilson.
The shoddy mill of Charles Schreubler, FIVE
miles from Chambersburg, Pa, was destroyed
by fire Wednesday morning. Loss $4,000;
insurance So, 500.
A Chilean garrison, "a strong, stationed at
Conception, in the Ganin valley, Peru, has
been mastered by the inhabitants. The SOL
diers had ill-treated some women.
The forest fire between Sandwich and Po-
casset, Mass, has broken out again in two
places, and is progressing faster than ever.
A Berlin, Germany, dispatch reports a
destructive FIRE in Stovropol and along the
Kuma river, in the Caucasus. Crops cover
ing an area of fifty square miles have been
burned.
Corporation Counsel Whitney, of New
York, has given Mayor Grace an elaborate
fight between Sullivan and Wilson is prize
fight within the meaning of the law.
| During the fog on Sunday morning two
freight trains collided near Monmouth June.
ton, n j., on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Frank Haverson, engineer, was seriously in.
jured. Part of the train took fire and burned
up.
/ A detective passed through Lynchburg,
I Va. on Monday having in his custody David
I French, who has confessed to being accessory
to the murder of George WoodsOn, colored
at Dublin, Va, nine years ago. He duplicates
a number of his kinsmen in the crime.
Peter Dart, who lives near Marietta, Ian
caster county, Pa, has thrashed 90 bushels Of
/ Russian wheat, cut from one acre of ground,
and Mr.. Fletcher, living near Maytown, Ian
caster county, thrashed 303 bushels from six
acres, an average of 500 bushels per acre
William Miller, of Bird-in- Hand, Lancas
ter county, Pa, on Sunday night got on freight
I train to ride TO his home, and, installing the
place in the darkness jumped off as the
train was crossing Mill creek bridge. He
/ fell distance of so feet and sustained fata
{ injuries.
Alta colored camp-meeting at Eastman, Ga.
DEPUTY marshal shot dead a fleeing prisoner
named Jake Tarrapy. A mob ran the deputy
marshal into house where there was 4
4 white man named James Harwood, whom
I the mob shot and beat to death in mistake
I for the deputy marshal.
An engine and six cars were thrown from
the track of the Virginia Midland Railroad
/ about two miles from I.ynchburg, on Saturday
morning by strikinga COW. 1ardmaster Sex
I ton was badly hurt, and Brakeman Davis re
ceived fatal injuries, dying soon after be wa;
7 taken from the wreck.
I A man at Haddo, in st. James parish, ia
maica. has set himself up as a prophet he
Z Processes 20 have been inspired by God to
heal the sick, and people tell Of remarkable
! cures. for which be refuses to take pay. Not
T less than 1880 persons are ON the road going
! 10 and from the prophet.
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Monday surrounded the Jail at Pomeroy,
& Ohio, 10 get Holmes, the negro charged with
( assalting little girl near Rutland. When
+ they had nearly broken through the walls
they found that Holmes had been sent e
/ Columbus for safe-keeping.
DR.. Nelson, Of Panama, writes 10 the Ma.
tioaal board OF health at Washington that
yellow fever is sweeping away the canal
Z lahorsrs at Aspinwall. Some OF the cana
Z officials have died, aud the lady superior OF
I the canal hospital. The death rate in pop
+ alatioa Of 6,HO0 IS loo a month.
Every wholesale grocer in Philadelphia was
( on Wednesday notified Of the advance in the
( price Of matches from . cents 10 Sl-5o pei
/ gross. according 90 kind, and the jobbers and
dealers in matches announced a proportion
ate rise on their part. Notices are ON theil
F way throughout the Union TO Ike same eject
( Ex.United States Deputy Marshal T. G.
( Hewlett shot ard killed Sandy Bynnm, color
ed. the most prominent leader Of the republi-
/ cans in Madison county, Ala, st an independ.
eat rally Saturday. A mob OF eolored meE
vowed to Kill Hewlett, and were paeified witi
great difkealty. Hewlett ied, but was arrest
I ed later.
Willis :. DelaiRe, who was seized by u mot
/ in Polk county, Iowa. some weeks since and
hang 60 the limb Of tree until be made !
I confession that he had aided in the murder O
the mayor Of Polk City, has brought sui
against members Of the mob for 81, 200
Deiaine was acquitted Of the charges made ia
accordance vita his confession.
Gold mining has been resumed on the 18th
mus OF Panama. Several quartz mines have
4 been opened eight miles from Aspinwall, and
aliuwisi deposits are being worked between
E Cruces and Emperador. Chinamen have
tAken out = considerable amount Of gold from
old placer mines. near the keadwaters Of ths
4 ChasreS river, which were worked long agS
nv the SpaniarslS.
When the steamer City Of Sydney arrived
al san Francisco on Tuesday she was no, al
loved 70 dock ansil her Chinese crew twho
uere nos provided with retaFn certificates IN
accordance wifh the new lawl were put IN the
hulk. Il : understood thst she steamship
company will make = test case Of this by suini
oat a wit u haheas corpus in the Unites
States Circuit Court
Crest excitement prevails in North Heidel
berg township, in the vicinity Of Reading, Pa
owing to the rapid spread Of a disease that i
kiiliag many eoz8. Over thirty have die
during the past few daysoH SIX different farms
and many new eases sre reported. Some 50,
il Is rinderpeSt, Others plenro- pneumonia
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from eating meadow grass. The matter hal
been reported 70 the State authorities, a
the local veterinary surgeons cannot stay III
disease.
senator Stewart, the independent Repahli
can candidate for Governor Of Pennsylvania
has proposed 10 Gen. Beaver, the Republican
candidate, joint discussion OF the politica
differences ia the state, al such places ant
times a. may be agreed upon by the chair
man If the respective state committees. i
Is said that Mr.. Stewart contemplafes inviting
Comptroller Pattison, the Democratic eandi
date for Governor, TO meet him in joint dis
eassion of the issues Of the campaign.
While in this country there is a prospec
of extraordinarily large cereal crops, consula
reports TO the State Department show that tn
erops In England aad Belgium have sufieres
severely from profraeted wet weather. Ii
Belgium potatoes are taken cat of soil =
vet that they commence 10 rot a week alfe
they are gathered. Large importations mus
necessarily follow, and American farmers or,
strongly urged TO devise means for placin.
their Irish potatoes on the markets Of Bras
sells and Antwerp
Monday afternoon as Mr.. William A. Con
rad, of Johnstown, Pa, was driving a.aHg u
dense piece Of woods near the village o
New Germany, and about four miles frou
Ebenshurg, be was met BY three men. A
they came up 70 him the middle one seizet
his horse hy the bride and the other tw'
seized Mr.. Conrad aud demanded his money
He said he had none, whereupon they Jerke'
him roughly from his wagon. One OF then
struck him over the head with club and tor
his clothes and robbed him of about $4i'
They then permitted him to depart.
The Wheeling W. Va Daily Intelligence
af Saturday reports that Ed. II. Dick and q
A. Benter, Of that city, while on recent visi
in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry. discovered
the entrance of a cave, the existence OF which
had been known before but which had never
been explored. Il was on the farm OF Ra
dolph Ran, back of Harper Ferry, and within
short distance of the Baltimore and OhiS
track, on prominence known as Prospec
Hill. Messers. Dick and Benter, IN company
with two of Mr.. Rsu's sons, explored the cave
aud report that it fairly equals If 1t does no
surpass either the Mammoth Cave OF Ken
lucky or that of Luray.
A train of seventeen cars, heavily loaded
l.. l.. a