The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-10-20
News of the Week.

Three road agents robbed the Sill stage
near Galveston, Texas, Monday night, taking
all the mails and robbing four passengers.
A fve-year- son of John Well, of Lam
caster county, Pa, was bitten by rabid dog
September 20, and died of hydrophobia on
Monday.
The First National Bank of Chicago has
notified its $50 clerks that they must all pro-
cure bonds, which will range from $4,000 to
$500 each.
The Cincinnati Germans on Wednesday
celebrated the 200th anniversary of the first
German settlement in America. The process
sion comprised from Is, 900 to 20. 600 persons
Bishop Edward Hunter, presiding bishop
of the Mormon Church, is very i'll, and his
death is expected momentarily He is 81
years of age and the oldest bishop in the
church.
In Cincinnati Sunday night pipe used in
Morlein's brewery to conduct ammoniacal gas
burst in the stable through which it passed,
liberating the gas, which killed % horses in a
few minutes.
A Minnesota capitalist offered j. l. Case
100000 for the wonderful trotter, JayEye-
See, but Mr.. Case refused the offer, with the |
remark that nothing under 100000 would |
tempt him to sell.
AT meeting of the Central Labor Union |
in New York, last Sunday recommendation
from the Alliance Labor Club was received, |
urging that all workingmen form themselves
into military organizations to enable them to
defend their rights.
A horse distemper similar to that of four
years ago has broken out at Springfield, L. |.
The hog cholera is on the increase in that
locality, and many farmers, fearing that it
might spread among their animals, have killed
them for winter use.
Edwin G. Walker colored, who was nomi-
mated by Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, for
judge of a court in Cambridge, has sued the
Boston Post for 900 for libel for charging
that some time ago he was convicted in the
same court of disorderly conduct.
The population of Alfalfa, Mex, has been
decimated by yellow fever. The number of
deaths for two weeks averaged 20 day. On
the Sd inst. Altata was struck by hurricane
which killed several persons and destroyed
the greater part of the town.
Fowler Berry, leading merchant of San
dusky, Ohio, committed suicide Monday night
| by shooting himself. No cause for the act is
known. He was to have been married to a
Cincinnati lady Wednesday, and was dressed
in his wedding suit when he committed sui
eide.
The Synod of the Reformed Church in the
United States, in session at Reading, Pa, Mon
terday decided that every reformed minister
shall on sthe occasion of the 400th anniversa-
ry of the birth of Ulrich Zwingle, the reform
er, in January next, preach a memorial ser
mon.n
The PAGER tombstone, who paced a mile on
| the Chicago track last week in 40, beating
all former records at trotting or pacing, has
been sold for $4,000 to Commodore n. W.
Kittson, of st. Paul, the owner of Little
Brown jug, the next fastest PAGER, whose
record is 2.l14.
The Governor of Texas has called special
session of the Legislature, to meet on the
second Tuesday in January. 1t sets forth
that an extraordinary occasion exists for the
session, which probably relates to the fence
war, the public lands question and the invest
ment of school funds.
| During the services in Jewish synagogue
at Ziwonka, in the government of Podolia, on
Saturday, false alarm of fire was raised in
the women's gallery, which caused a panic.
| The people rushed for the door, where there
was a terrible crush, during which forty wo
men were killed and thirty others injured.
1t is said loophole has been found under
the China treaty which permits Cinnamon
other than laborers to land in America if they
| be provided with certificate from the Chi
nese government that they are engaged in
other than laboring pursuits. The Rio ia
metro on Saturday brought to San Francisco
1872 Cinnamon, II holding tradesmen's certif-
Gates.
If a report coming from Constantinople is
to be credited, the earthquake recently an
nounced as having occurred on the coast of
Asia Minor was unusually destructive. In
the region opposite the Island of Chios and
along the southern coast of the Gulf of Smyr
ma the loss of property and life was very great
Many villages are reported destroyed, and as
many as thousand persons are said to have
been killed
A celebrated legal contest was ended at
Erie, Pa, last week. Ten years ago the
councils of Cory issued 500, 900 of city bonds
at ten per cent. to give as bonus to several
manufacturing firms as an inducement to
come to Cory. The bonds were in active de-
mand until four years ago the city authorities
repudiated the debt upon the ground that it
was illegally created. The matter went before
legal arbitrator, who on last week sustained
the present authorities and decided the debt
an illegal one, and therefore all holders of the
illegal bonds will lose their investments.
Mr.. Simms, travelling agent for the Pitts
burg and Hurlburt Elevator Company for
Dakota, says that this year most of the wheat
in Manitoba is frozen and nearly useless for
milling purposes. The wheat buyers below
the line as far south as Hillsboro are also
troubled with wheat frozen in the milk, and
have to reject it. This has always been the
trouble in Manitoba, and always will be. 1t
is too cold there to raise wheat. On Satur-
day ten inches of snow fell along the boundary
line, covering up the wheat in shock, but that
would not hurt if it had only been properly
matured The frost catching it in the milk is
when the injury is done.
The tendency to loose views and loose prac-
tees in financial matters, which is the most
alarming symptom of the day in civil life,
would seem unfortunately to be extending to
the army. The number of officers who have
been on trial during the last few months for
duplicating their pay accounts has been so
large as to arrest the general attention, and TO
cause those who appreciate the importance of
preserving high standard of personal honor
in the army no slight uneasiness, one of
the latest cases is that of Lieut. Robertson, of
the first cavalry, whom the courtmartial ac-
Quilted of intentional frand, but found guilty
of neglect of duty and conduct prejudicial to
good order.
A thoroughbred Jersey COW, owned by
Valancey E. Fuller, of Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada and registered as Mary Anne, of st.
Lambert (6,770, is undergoing butter test
for one year, and has completed the fourth
month and an additional day, with the un-
paralleled yield of All pounds q ounces of
butter, which is sailed only one ounce to the
pound Two weeks of this test were verified
by committee of the Canadian Jersey
Breeders Association. The last week of the
test the COW yielded q pounds % ounces of
butter. Statistics give the average yield of
dairy cows during the grass season at about
one pound of butter day, and COW that
gives two pounds day is regarded very SUI
perior.
The first cotton for export over the Western
Maryland Railroad will shortly arrive in Bal