The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
News of the Week.

The CITY Bank and Fifth Ward Savings
Bank, of Jersey City, N. j., suspended pay
ment on Wednesday.
Nearly 800 coal miners along the Mono
gahela river are idle on account OF a suspen-
sion of operations in IS mines.
Sixty members of the Pigeon Creek Pres
byterian Church near Monongahela City, Pa,
have been suspended for dancing.
According to a local newspaper, cattle val
ued at $13, 100000 are now grazing in what
was six years ago absolutely Indian country
in Texas.
1t is reported from Cork that the Inman
Line steamship City of Brussels has been run
down in the English channel and ten persons
were drowned.
California is not generally considered
cotton state, yet one plantation in Sonoma
county this season yielded 10000 pounds
from 225 acres.
Male teachers in Massachusetts receive
SCI 54 per month, or $810.48 per year. Fe-
male teachers average $685. a month, or
$367.0e per year.
The Kentucky Democratic State Conven-
ton has been called to meet May 16 at Louis
vile to nominate candidates for Governor and
other State officers.
The funeral of the late Gambetta occurred
in Paris on Saturday. Over 100000 persons
took part in the ceremonies, and the demon
stration was unprecedented.
The floods are increasing in Hungary and
snbsiding along the Rhine and the Main.
Fifteen thousands marks have been received
in Frankfort from New York.
A shock of earthquake was felt in different
parts of the northern Ohio between l and 2
A. NJ, on Saturday. People were aroused
from sleep and some chimneys toppled over.
The three days auction sale of choice seats
for the Cincinnati opera festival closed Satur-
day, 1851 seats having been sold at a total OF
$64, $40. The remaining seats will bring In
about $4,000.
Four men and woman were killed by a
boiler explosion at Bethlehem, Pa, on Tues
day, and on the same day ten men were killed
by an explosion in a coal mine near Coulters-
vile, Illinois.
The Newall House at Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
took fire about O clock Wednesday morning,
and was totally destroyed. Between so and
80 persons, mostly employees of the hotel, per-
ished in the flames.
Matthew Franklin Whittier, aged 10 years,
only brother of John G. Whittier, the poet,
died in East Boston on Sunday. He had been
a clerk in the Boston custom house, and was
the author of the ''Ethan Spike letters.
John McCrary, of San Antonio, Texas, was
accidentally shot and killed on Wednesday at
Barclay, Illinois. While playing with one of
his childred the pistol in his pocket was dis
charged, and the bullet entered his heart.
Small -pox has assumed an epidemic form
at Salem, Va, over thirty cases being report
ed Roanoke College has suspended and the
students have scattered to their respective
homes. The public schools have also closed
and business is stagnated.
The floods in Austria and Hungary have
caused widespread distress. The town of
Raab, Hungary, has been abandoned. Quite
number of lives were lost. Twenty thousand
persons are homeless, and between three hun
dred and four hundred houses have been in
undated.
Five bills of Indictment were found in the
New York Court of General Sessions on Mon
day against George J. Rice, late president of
the Utica, Ithaca and Western Railroad.
| Three of the indictments charge him with
embezzlement and larceny, and two of them
charge forgery.
At Williamsport, Pa, ON Saturday, ex-
County Commissioners Daniel Corson and
VIM. Elmer, who pleaded guilty to the charge
of embeZzlement, were sentenced each to pay
fine of $40, and to be imprisoned in the
Eastern penitentiary-Corson for q months
and Elmer for Is months.
VIM. H. Robinson, colored, on returning to
his house in Boston on Saturday found man
in his room whom he supposed to be bur-
glar He fired two shots at him, inficting
wounds which will prove fatal After the
shooting he discovered that the man was a
lodger in the same house.
The boiler of small engine in the tobacco
shed of VIM. Zeller at Newmanstown, Leban-
on county, Pa, exploded on Tuesday. Eff
teen men were at work in the shed at the time,
four of whom were badly scalded. The win
dows and doors of the building were forced
out and the engine wrecked.
Henry S. Harris, member of Congress from
the fourth New Jersey district has served a
notice of contest on Mr.. Howey, who was
elected to the next Congress from that dis
trict. Mr.. Harris charges that money collect
ed from United States officials, contrary to
law, was used to secure Mr.. Howey' election.
The steamship Donan, of the North German
Lloyd's Company, which arrived at New York
Monday evening, had narrow escape from
destruction by fire. When nine days out from
Bremen a fire broke out among her cargo.
The ship was put about and the pump was
soon set to work to flood the compartments.
The Democratic: caucus of the lower House
of the Pennsylvania Legislature on Wednes-
day, adopted a resolution deferring the cleo
ton of thirteen subordinate officers of the
House for thirty days. At the end of thirty
days if it is found that the work cannot be
done without the officers the House will then
elect them.
Marshall I. Polk, treasurer of Tennessee,
and a nephew of President James X. Polk, is
defaulter to the amount of about $600,0O0
He left the state last Friday, but was arrested
on Wednesday in Texas and taken back to
Nashville. Polk loaned the states money to
personal friends, losing which he began to
speculate to cover his losses.
Dispatches from Shiloh, KY, state that
smallpox is raging there. Stores are closed
and business is suspended. Reports from the
eastern and western shore counties of Virgi-
MIA bordering on Chesapeake Bay are that
smallpox has been recently carried to those
sections from Baltimore and other Northern
cities, and that the people are very much ex-
ercised over it.
Preparations for the carnival at Montreal
on the oath inst, are advanced Hundreds
of men are building the ice palace on Domin-
ion Square, which is to be a gorgeous affair.
The centre tower will be 125 feet in height.
Forty thousand feet of ice will be required.
The interior will be lighted with electricity.
Suites of rooms are already engaged at the
hotels for prominent New York families,
The wooden and other mills along the Pc
nobscot river have been compelled to COM
mence running OH halftime for lack of water,
The operatives are making barely enough to
pay their board, and the mill owners are losing
money, not being able to fill their orders.
Such a drought has never been equaled in
Maine, even in summer, and the mills never
closed before for want of water in winter.
The York county, Pa, Agricultural society
met in York on Tuesday, and elected the
following officers President, Michal Schall;
vice presidents, E. G. Smyser, ID. A. Rupp;sec-
rotary, Edw. Chaplin; corresponding secretary,
H. j. Deitch; treasurer, DIR. VIM. S. Roland;
managers, Hartman Hoke, Elias Ebert, John
Wogan, B. F. Roller, Reuben Hoof helms,
Edward Smyser, Joseph Irwin, Harris Wilton
and Isaac Lanckz. The next fair will be held
October 2, 3, 4 and 5.
A riot occurred at Aspinwall on December
"a on the arrival of the English steamer Med
way Some ,TamaieanS attamnted tn oo IN