The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-21
News of the Week.


| Norfolk, Va, has suspended publication.
A $500, 900 cotton factory will be put in OPP
Grafton at Henderson, ky., at an early day.
An incendiary fire at Greencastle, Pa,
| Sunday morning destroyed four stables. Loss
/ $4,000.
Birds -eye maple, which sells for $50 per
]. 900 feet in England, is used for frewood in
North Carolina.
Three gunboats are reported to be cruising
off Cork on the lookout for a dynamite laden
ship from America.
The organization of a society to murder
! landlords in the Crushcen district, Ireland,
| has been exposed.
On Sunday 4,469 immigrants arrived at
| New York, the largest arrival on any one day
since early last season.
According to the official reports India can
raise wheat at Il cost of twelve and one-halt
cents a bushel, and has 10, 32G.20O acres un-
der wheat
The Scott bill became law in Ohio on
| Tuesday. 1t taxes each liquor dealer IN the
State 5000 per year. Those selling only beer
and wine pay 500.
Joe Brady was convicted in Doublin last
Friday of the murder of Lord Frederick Cav
endish and was sentenced to be hanged on
! Nav r. He protested his innocence.
Henry d. Mcdaniel has been nominated
for Governor by the Democrats of Georgia.
| The election takes place next Tuesday.
Mr. Mcdaniel will have no opposition
There has been disastrous flood at 4ahua-
hia. Mexico. The river rose so rapidly that
the people could not escape. Six persons
were drowned, and much valuable property
and stock swept away
! Henry Emil johnson and James Donnelly
met in a store in Stockton, Cal, Monday
night, and fought with knives, killing each
other The trouble grew out OF a dispute
about the sale of a wagon.
| Two children, about eight years of age,
were burned to death in a dry goods box at
Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday. They were
sitting in the box smoking cigarettes, and ac-
cidentalIy set fire to some straw i'll the box.
Miss Katie Griffith, a school teacher at
Martins Ferry, West Virginia, in attempting
to correct VIM. Beck, tifteen-year old pupil,
was assaulted and so severely beaten by him
that she is thought to be fatally injured. The
boy was arrested.
The successful cultivation of oranges and
lemons in Florida is causing reduction in
the quantity of those fruits imported from for
eign countries and bids fair ere long to render
further importation unnecessary and unproht-
able.
The Tillie l.. Starbuck, the first iron sailing
ship built i'll America, was launched at the
yard of John Roach i Son, at Chester, Pa,
Saturday afternoon. The vessel is 276 feet
long, AZ feet beam, % feet inches hold, =,
800 tons burden, and has steel masts and
bowsprit.
s. W. Tallmadge of the Milwaukee Cham
Der of Commerce, has collected reports con-
corning the condition and prospects OF the
growing crops of winter wheat i'll ID OF the
principal States of the Union, and the sum-
mary places the yield 100000, 900 bushels
/ short of last year crop.
/ Forty eight cities and towns in Illinois vot-
ed upon the liquor question on Tuesday. In
baloting for municipal officers seventeen de-
clared for prohibition or anti-license, thirty
one declared for license, six of which were
! for high license, and four towns ignored the
/ saloon question and voted on straight politi-
cal issues.
! The local committee of the Newburgh, n.
/ Y. Centennial has selected Thursday, Octo-
/ Der Is, as the date of the celebration COM
memorating the disarmament of the revolu-
| tionary army under Washington and the con-
| cusion of peace with Great Britain. An ora
ton will be delivered at the celebration by
! VIM. NJ. EyartS.
/ The Delaware House of Representatives on
Tuesday by vote Of II to 5, indefinitely post
/ poned the Senate bill providing for the sub
mission of the question of license or prohibl-
ton to the popular vote. The Connecticut
! Senate has defeated the prohbitory consttu-
tional amendment by vote of II nays to
yeas, four members being absent.
A raid was made on the New York gam
! bling houses Monday night and ST., 600 worth
of implements were seized. The police com
missioners have discovered that the seizure
of gambling implements was illegal The
code provides that the implements can only
be seized when the owner is arrested, and
cannot be destroyed until he is convicted.
Hackett and Ragerty, coal operators at
Pittsburg, entered four suits against the Balti-
1 more and Ohio Railroad Company, in that
city, last Friday to recover SOTO damage
for loss of large quantity of coal shipped
from their works to the Pittsburg Gas Com
pany. The defendant company is charged
! with negligence i'll its capacity as common
| carrier.
While the Sheriff of Cumberland county,
Pa. with several deputies, was taking three
colored and three white cOnvicts to the penl-
Tertiary in Philadelphia on Tuesday, he was
knocked down by the prisoners, and the dep
uties were attacked with such terocity that
if the Philadelphia police had not come tc
their assistance they would have been over
powered. The prisoners were subdued
A contract has Just been closed at Fort
Worth, Texas, for the shipment Of 1900
head of cattle from the grazing region south
of that city on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Railway to Wichita Falls III miles north.
1t will require 5000 cars, or 30 trains OF II
cars each, at total expense OF 500, 1000
hyrf h1
large amount of fencing recently put up in
the southern part Of the State.
VIM. Dorsey, a machinist, at Montgomery.
Alabama shot his wife early Tuesday morn
ing. He had been on the lookout for burg
lars and had put pistol under his head to be
ready for Them During the night his wife
left the room in the dark while Dorsey was
asleep. As she was coming back he awoke.
and hearing a noise i'll the room, fired. The
ball struck her in the breast and she died in
a short time. Dorsey is overwhelmed with
grief.
There are now actually in operation i'll the
United States over 1870 narrow gauge roads,
operating some $500 miles of track, and con-
struction is now going on which will result in
| considerable increase above these figures.
From this it will be seen that about eight per
cent. of the whole railway mileage of the
United States is of narrow gauge. The stan
dard for these roads have been gradually
simpliied until that of three feet has been
adopted by the great bulk of them.
The city of Petersburg, Va, was visited
:. Monday nj ht by tremendous wind storm,
which continued without intermission until
/ Tuesday morning. Such storm has not been
witnessed there for years. In the adjacent
counties the fences were demolished and a
number of orchard trees destroyed. 1t is
feared that great damage was done to barns
and outhouses The telegraph wires at diff
erent points were blown down. AT Farm
vile Tuesday afternoon the Appomattox was
three feet above the ordinary water mark, and
was still rising. A heavy northeast storm also
I prevailed at Richmond Monday night and
! Tuesday, unroofing houses and doing other
! damage.
The Carlisle Pa, Herald says a railroad
from that place to Gettysburg is fixed fact.
| The contract has been awarded to Keller 4
Bush, of Lancaster, and work will be COM
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