The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-12-23
News of the Week.

crews of three wrecked vessels were drowned.
"A. steer escaped from a drove in the neigh
borhood of Central Park, New York, on Sat
urday evening and tossed two men before he
was lassoed and shot.
Hon. Robert Ould, distinguished lawyer
of Richmond, Va, and Confederate commits
sioner of exchange during the war, died last
Friday.
The Governor of Jamaica has telegraphed to
New York that six hundred houses were de-
stroyed by the great fire at Kingston and
many people are homeless.
The expert accountants who have been ex-
amining the books of the Brooklyn board OF
education find that ex-Secretary Stuart IS
defaulter to the extent OF $2oo,ooo.
A case believed to be genuine leprosy has
developed in the almshouse at Salem, Mass;
The patient is Charles Derby, who arrived
from San Francisco week ago.
disease has broken out among the swine
in several portions of Queens county, Long
Island. 1t is located in the head and throat,
and then the swine finally becomes blind.
A recount of the ballots cast for mayor in
the election at Newburyport, Mass, changes
the result from majority for Hale, hep. TO
10 majority for Johnson, Dem.
Thirteen vessels and lis lives were lose in
the Gloucester fisheries this year, more than IN
any recent year since 1879, when - vessels
and 249 lives were lost. ..f
The Governor has decided to refuse city
charter to the borough of Y ork, on the ground
of irregularities in the election held upon the
subject of charter.
Mrs. Kent M. Mason, claiming to be dis
tinguished temperance lecturer, was arrested
at Keokuk, Iowa, last week, for obtaining
$137 worth of dry goods under false pretenses.
Monday was the seventy fifth anniversary of
the birth of the poet John Greenleaf Whit
tier He spent the day quietly in his room at
the Hotel Winthrop in Boston and received
numerous callers ~
A powder-house connected with the works
of the American Flash and Cap Company, at
Waterbury, Conn.,, blew up on Saturday,
shaking buildings all over the city and break
ing window panes.
There were three suicides in New York on
Tuesday-H. P. Davis, young Englishman,
who recently arrived in this country Henry
F. Washburn, of Brooklyn, salesman, and
Henry A. Schmook, German.
The county commissioners of Custer county,
Colorado, have ordered the county seat to be
removed from Rosita to Silver Cliff, but the
people threaten to resist any attempt to remove
the records.
At Wadesboro', N. c.. on Tuesday, Charles
Perkins, a revenue agent from South Carolina,
attacked VIM. Henley, an editor, for having
publicly denounced him. Henley shot Per-
kins three times.
The case of Mrs. Scoville, who was recently
adjudged insane at Chicago and then granted
new trial. has been stricken from the docket
by agreement. 1t is reported that the unhappy
couple are reunited.
Two boilers in the Parlin & Orendorff Com
panys extension to their agricultural nipple
ment works, at Canton, ILL.,, exploded Satur-
day morning, killing number of persons and
demolishing the brick engine-house.
The postoffice at Monroeton, Bradford CO..
Pa, was entered by burglars on Saturday
morning. The safe was blown open and sew
eral hundred dollars in stamps were taken
together with some registered letters.
A pouch at the postoffice, containing mail
matter for the East, suddenly burst into flames
from spontaneous combustion, at Detroit, on
Saturday, and was destroyed. 1t was hlled
with merchandise OF all sorts.
Eight true bills of indictment were found by
the grand jury in Philadelphia on Tuesday,
against DR.. VIM. S. Forbes, demonstrator OF
anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, for
completely with resurrectionists in the de-
spoliation of graves in Lebanon Cemetery.
ne Mexican COISTGSS lido hCu uheii
April l. Before adjourning the President was
authorized to grant permission for the estab
lishment of banks throughout the country.
The date for commencing work on General
Grants Mexican Southern Railroad has been
extended six months.
Two brothers, George and James Fraley,
were arrested in Comanche county, Texas,
charged with stealing cotton, and were placed
under guard at Hazel Dell. At midnight a
mob armed with shot-guns overpowered the
guard and hung the prisoners on the same
limb of a tree.
The directors of the Matthews Cotton Fac
tory, atSelma, Ala, have resolved.to increase
the capital stock from 100000 to 100000.
Extensive plans of enlargement have been
determined on, and they will be commensurate
with the amount of increased stock taken.
The factory is in most prosperous condition.
There was great fire at Canton, China, on
November and 8. Eight hundred houses
were destroyed and many lives lost, including
firemen, who were burned to death. The
viceroy visited the scene with body of sol
diers to prevent robberies, and fierce fights
occurred between the thieves and citizens.
An immense assemblage gathered at the
Cooper Union, New York, Monday night, to
greet the German socialist, Herr Johann Most
He stated that the European organization were
so far perfected as to paralyze kings and that
revolution may shortly be expected in Ger
many.
On Tuesday night an unknown tramp at
tackled woman, 70 years of age, named Fix,
living near Pittsburg, and after beating her
until she was unconscious, bound and gagged
her and then ransacked the house, taking $50
in money and other property. The woman
may not recover.
James Brennan, laborer, was choked to
death in a dining saloon in Brooklyn, n. T.,
last Friday. 1t is reported that he had just
said that he was a good Catholic, but had a
Protestant stomach and would eat meat.
A piece of meat lodged in his throat and
strangled him before assistance could be rem
dered. .e
On Thursday night of last week about
o'clock Mr.. Parks Lermine and his two sis
tiers, Flora and Alice, were killsd on the rail-
way at Upton Station, two miles east of Al
toona, Pa They were returning from pray
ermeeting, walking on the track. They step
ped off the track to avoid passing train, and
, in doing so were run down by an engine on
the other track. They were all young and
unmarried.
There were heavy rains for three days in
Oregon and Washington Territory last week,
and much damage was done to railroads,
} bridges, &c. By the flood the Pendleton river
rose SO rapidly that many of the inhabitants
were forced to take refuge in trees, where
; they remained all night. Mills, houses and
other property were carried away. No loss
of life has been reported.
A colored man entered the store of John
Wright, near Memphis, Tenn, on Saturday,
and demanded of Mrs Wright, who was tenn
6 porarily in charge of the store, the money that
was in the drawer. She refused to give it up,
and the robber thereupon shot her, robbed
the store and made his escape. A little
daughter of the murdered woman was the only
, witness.
Hon. GodIove S. Orth, member of Congress
from the ninth district of Indiana, died at his
J from blood poisoning, superinduced by can
GER Mr.. Orth was born near Lebanon, Pa,