The Democratic advocate., 1883-09-15
News of the Week.
,e cholera in Egypt is decreasing.

The cholera in Egypt is decreasing.
Owing to cattle disease only American beef
is to be had in some sections of England.
Hon. Samuel j. Randall acted as a juror
in the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions
Monday.
VIM. Sheriff, of New York, and his backer,
Arthur Chambers, have put up 81 900 for a
private glove fight with John l.. Sullivan.
Ex-Gov Wm Smith, of Virginia, was sc
years old September 5th. His carriage is as
erect as that of young man, and all of his
mental faculties are well preserved.
The German Lutheran Theological Semi
nary in st. Louis, known as Concorda Col
lege, was dedicated Sunday. 1t is the highest
institution of learning in the Lutheran Church
| Harry Hill, stakeholder in the Slade- Mitchell
| fight, decides that the men must fight within
! 100 miles of New Orleans on Oct. %. Slade
is training at Flushing, l.. l., and Mitchell is
in Kansas City.
| Dick Liddell, one ofthe notorious Jesse James
gang, has made full confession. The story
reveals almost every phase ofcrime, captured
! trains, plundered banks and highway robber-
les in plentiful profusion.
/ The town of Deep Creek, on the Dismal
! Swamp Canal, below Norfolk, Va, was nearly
destroyed by fire Saturday night, many of the
inhabitants barely escaping in their night
clothes from their dwellings.
! Reports from Wareham, Mass, say the last
six or eight weeks have been the driest the
cape has known for years, and the drought
| together with fruit and vine worms have caused
havoc in the great cranberry fields.
Thirty thousand persons attended the open
ing exercises of the Canstatter Festival at
Schuetzen Park, Phila., Sunday. Over 20, 900
plates of sauerkraut were disposed of, whilst
the consumption of beerwas enormous.
The last spike in the Northern Pacific Rail-
road was driven Saturday afternoon by H. C.
Davis, assistant general passenger agent of
the road, who drove the first spike on the
opening of the road, and was the same one
first driven by him.
A proposed gigantic land steal enveloping
several millions dollars worth of United
States redeemed timber lands in the northern
part of California, has been brought to light
in San Francisco. 1t is alleged that govern
ment officials are acting in collusion with the
parties engineering the scheme.
At Cairo, H., Monday night, Kate Cotton,
colored, became incensed at Alf Miller, who
refused to marry her, and put some poison in
the coffee at the house ofMiler' father in law
and the whole family were poisoned. One
member has already died and the rest are
very low.
Reliable reports at the Office of the Missis-
sippi commissioner of agriculture show that
the cotton and corn crops of Mississippi, are
much injured by the unfavorable weather
The decrease in the cotton crop as compared
with last year amounts to 25 per cent, and IN
the corn crop to Is per cent.
| At Danville, Ark, Saturday night sixteen
masked men took John Coker and Dr. Flood
from jail and hanged them. Coker was
charged with leadinginto ambush the sheriff S
party in search of outlaws several weeks ago,
when two men were killed, and Flood was ac-
cused of harboring the outlaws.
At Erwin, Ills, Saturday, an attempt was
made to kill the Rev. c. A. Obershaire, the
the organizer ola polygamous sect known as
the Pilgrims The Pilgrims completed a
new church on Friday, which was wrecked
with giant powder. Obershaire generally slept
in the building, but at the time Of the explo-
| sion was away.
| A Jacksonville merchant has just shipped
| North two hundred boxes of lemons grown
in Florida. They are said to be as fine lemons
as can be grown anywhere, their color being
perfect, while they are finely favored and as
juicy as the best Messinas. Mr.. Bean, the
shipper of this lot, says the fruit-growers
throughout Florida are paying very much
more attention to growing lemons since a
successful experiment was made in curing
them last season, and are setting out or bud
ding a number of trees.