The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-07-01
News of the Week.

by Judge Fell.
The aggregate shipment of strawberries
over the Delaware railroad this season has
been ,230 car loads.
The committee to revise the tariff will meet
in Washington the 9Th of July for the purpose
of organization and preparation for work.
lockwood, Tenn, on the line of the South
ern Railroad, is almost depopulated by small
box. A dozen eases have developed within
few days.
In New York on Monday 101 deaths were
reported, % of which were ascribed TO the
effects of the heat. Seventy of the cases were
children under three years old.
Rev. R. Moffat Neil, acting pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, n. y,
is accused of having forged his certificate of
ordination and his credentials.
In Virginia there were in 1870, %, $40 farms,
and in 1880. lis. 517, an increase of GO per
cent. In West Virginia there were in 1870,
80. 77S farms. and in 1880, 81, GA, an increase
of IS per cent
Four persons were killed and eighty wound
ed by train from Long Branch running off a
bridge over branch of the Shrewsbury river,
near Little Silver station, n. j. Gen. Grant
was rescued unhurt.
John Phelps, who was shot in card room
in Richmond, Va, on the 18th ult., died Sun
day night In his delirium he imagined he was
playing poker, and his last words were, ''I'll
take three cards.
The Boston caalkers demand 81 per day
for eight hours work. The shipwrights and
shipowners have decided to take no new work
and hire no new men until after next Monday;
except at the old price, $3.50 per day.
Returns received from 1872 townships in
Iowa. including all the large cities, indicate
the adoption of the constitutional amendment
prohibitory to the manufacture aud sale OF
liquor in that state by maiorities estimated at
from $4,000 to 50,0oO.
On Wednesday night party Of twelve
Swedes, working on the North Pacific bridge,
were crossing the Missouri At Bismarck, d. l.,
in a skiGf. when a transfer boat came upOu
them. The boat was upset by swell. and
FIVE men were drowned.
Joseph +. Harris, baggage master on the
Chesapeake and Ohio road, died suddenly on
Tuesday a his train was nearing Staunton,
Va 1t was his las; trip, prior TO the ENJOY
ment of months furiough granted foT long
and faithful service, when death overlook HIM
The Tidewater Oil Pipe Lane has been ex-
tended from WilliamsysoFt, Pa, 20 IamaHead.
and Is being tested with water prior 10 the adj
mission 81 oil. The whole length Of pipe Is
nov about i6q miles, but there IS distance
Of Is miles yet 10 BE- Piped before reaching the
seabord.
An attempt was made Tuesday nigh, 20 blow
up the iail IA Moant Grove. No. Two kegs
u gunpowsler wsre placed under il. bat the
strength Of the building withsi0ed the shock
There IS no clue to the perpetrators. IL a
fight there GA "Wednesday two c0wboss shot
and killed james Burns.
Mrs. Naomi Barnes. a prominent menlser
81 the Society II Friends, aud one 81 ~ abicss
speakers. died 0n Saturday ~ her rusldenss
n the Purchase Wesichesfcr coants, y. L.,
in the eightieth year sf her ayr. She was the
widow 81 David II. barnes leader in the
: Friends Meeting for nearly half a century.
Strikes still continue throughout the North
aud West, With 40 pFoSPeci % eompEusalssa.
Ali trades joining IN. and the strike asassng
freight handlers IN Mes ork = causing de-
lss "a delivery Il freight and sntaiIing great
loss upon the country The miners al Hosts.
dale. Pa. resolved ON "Wednesday 10 strike.
The rsiu uh;eh Sell al Frunchbarg, Asailss
eoaatx. kantasky, 81 Maaaay Fzssea shz
ssrrans and Asl0led the streets a FFcEchhnFa
eight seet deep, sweeping away six dwellings
aud arowains six IL the inmAtes, namely
Ms. John Fax. Mrs. Brrne and twa daagh
fers and two Misses Watkins. The pssssossies
vas saFFied assay.
AZ Raiou. \. ". NnuIzy, Depats Shesia
DolHzan attempted b. arFcsf Gus. Aeafzei. .
gambler. The latter opened hre ap0u shost
assisting Dolsnann aHd killed Harry Noaliua
Hugh Eislsson aad :, II. jackson. ard sagn
de,i II. I.asisaer and n4peSy Sheria Bergen
The latter mogtaily. Meuisrl sas seizrd hy
body u eiiixeBs and hang a. sixa ofeF 10
Raton Bank.
The Rev. NJ. Jasper, u Riehnosd, Va
whose theory sAas The ''sas DO move h4i
made him acted. has = black shccp ia 81
iauaily. Has son William vas before tA'
Masoy 90 Turslay, charged 18th dssoFsleFil
coadues and bcaiisg saioFra hFpsheF Issi
Mayor iufaTmes' TIE jsRieF lsspeF lhHg be-
faiheE's Theory ~as eeTrrcf The sog do ts'ss'
TO Jail for Tea days
Adyicsss fso.a The Indian Territory say cha
small. pos Is raging nth fatal ssfces salohg M
Greek isdlaas AZ Okmalsce theFo arr :
eases. MACY IT which all likely proys fatal
The scSiargc i spreading rapsdly- and sis
aeigahprsHx villages have qaaEahtiNed an
grnersl sArsiraIiga g PFHgrtssll 4
ukmtiEes shr Naesiisipe saen avs adapiins
YeEy unsiss trosimeat, which kilis uaamy p
iirafN
A eaaeh Ia whieh a hnt;ber nf yoaag pea
pie srosa san Francisco, Cal. who had hsel
camping oat IN the vicinity Of Santa Cruz
xere taking ride. wegt gvcF the sarupik
izank. near FELTON,. killing The Misses ~
Coxdcry. Eva Sassey. Celia Scott and haste
tieargr Sresl, and wtaniing masters Barr
BeaismiH. negiiRE snA Wia- Aoekles seriaqs
y. Ehe aoeideai wss eag~sd iy tbs horse
shying,
Wishia The laa frw weeks thirty HunsAri
ans aud Poles, .aitanag fFam senrvy IL i
worst form. - veil o. pueunauiz. have ira
admitted 20 the Potfsyillc, Pal HOSPITAL
The alarming increase % such eases has pru
vs,kea much continent, and the matter wlii b
laid before the doctors asseciaiion. The dis
case Is asesiied 20 the almost exclusive rs
Of salt meat rs aud snclean habits Of The I'M
ported lsboFers ahOgs the miRes,
Cleveland sas Visi,ud b. Iidal wave las
Friday morning, which rose Eeariy Hine Ter
ahuve the usual waier-m mark. CONSIDERABLE
damage was done To property un the shore q
the lake. The same section Of Iowa that ~
sweep, by tornado on Jane 18th, hasi sisai
lar visitation 0n jane 22nd. A circus "a
wrecked by the storm NJ Independence an
tNo men we're killed. Ihrre men we're in
siantiy killed during a thunderstorm on Thurs
.lay night al FiRdicy, IN.
joya on Saturday nighs. at Los Vegas. Ne'
Mexico, threw lariat around the neck Of K
II. Hutter, Who Sas walking ia the street Wit
his wife. The villain put spurs 70 his horsi
and dragged HgueF 0fET the stanes fer a haH
dred Yards The hysiandrrs commenced hFiH
a Ihh Indian, when he cut the laFiat aud Is
capped, but was soon oyeEiakeR aud sahse
qaenty lynehed Hutter was nearly lsa
when released. but is gradually recovering.
On Thursday john Roach, laborer, prs
sented himself to the Hoboken, y. Y. pole
station, and confessed to having COMMITTEE
murder in trsiha, Somerset county, Pa, j
tae summer of 1872, and desired TO give hiH
self up, He and another man named job
Mitchell had waylaid Levi Hand. killed biz
aud then threw his body ON the railroad track
The police telegraphed TO Ursina, aud learne
that such "a crime had been eammittad
Raaph says be has lelalHe o0RslieRee sIriek
gu and has not bad good nights rest 70
years.
A lady in Lyman, Me-, aged niuety -egl
years. was engaged when girl TO be Marie
60 a respectable young man, and was maxim
wedding dress. Her father entered tn
room aud forbade the marriage She an
swered, well, father, you will have To main
tain me as long as ! live She stuck he
needle into the unfinished dress, arose an
put il into the drawer. where il has rename
ever sinee-eighty- years. The dress is
white cambria. The skirt was finished, ex
cept a rnffie TO go around the bottom, o
which she was at work when laid aside.
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