The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-05
News of the Week.


1872, died in Bucks county last week, aged
90 years.
A trestle bridge across Lake Pontchartrain,
on the New Orleans and Northeastern Rail
road will be twenty miles long.
A street car conductor in Liverpool has
been notified that he is found next of kin to
West Indian planter who has left S500,0OO.
The telephone line between York, Colum
hin. Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pa, was
opened to the public for business on Wcdncs-
day.
The ice bridge at Cape Rouge still prevents
navigation between Quebec and Montreal.
The ice was moved by blasting on Wednes-
day.
Three factories in the United States con-
sumo nearly two million eggs year in max
ing peculiar kind of paper used by photo
graphers
A $500, 900 cotton factory is to be started
at Florence, S. G. The company has been
organized and over Sl00,00 was subscribed
at the first meeting.
The terrible discovery has been made by
the n. Y. Sun that the fearful disease OF lep-
rosy prevails to an alarming extent IN that
city and is on the increase.
William Demint, who died Monday in Car
roll county, Ky, was the first male white
child born in Louisville. He served in the
war of 1872, and was 100 years old.
Hon. Alexander Mitchell, the Western
railroad king, thinks the prospect is that there
will not be as much railroad building this
wear as last, though there will be considera-
bic.
The ST. Petersburg authorities believe that
the nihilists are making preparations tor SIM
ultaneous disturbances in various portions OF
the empire during the period of the Cars
coronation.
Miss Margaret Wayland, teacher in the
Swan School, Chester county, Pa, has been
arrested and held for court on the charge OF
cruelty whipping pupil, aged II years,
named Henry 6. Moore.
Hattie Thornton, aged y, a daughter OF
one of the occupants of the Hotel Glendon,
Boston, was discovered Tuesday night trying
to set fire to it. She said she did it because
''she wanted to see the blaze.
RiAeman, the celebrated stallion, died at
Red Bluff, California, on Friday of last week,
aged % years He was the reputed oldest
stallion in America. His pedigree, in posses
sion of his owner. is traced back to the year
400.
In Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday, Pat
rick Delaney and Thomas Catfrey, two of the
Phoenix Park conspirators, pleaded guilty OF
murder and were sentenced to be hanged.
They corrobrated the testimony of the in
formers.
Eight officers, including "a colonel, were
arrested at ST. Petersburg Monday charged
with Nihlism. Sixteen officers have been
arrested at Smolensk. 1t is stated that II
widespread military conspiracy has been dis
covered.
The New York police vigorously enforced
the excise law Saturday and arrested 100
liquor dealers who sold intoxicants. Among
those taken in was Justus Schwab, the So
cialist, who was arrested week ago on the
same charge.
A little daughter of John O'Connell fell in
to the hydraulic canal at Middletown, Ohio.
He sprang into the canal to rescue her, and
being unable to swim, went to the bottom.
His wife followed him into the water and was
also drowned.
James j. Madden, clerk in the importing
house of Muser 4 Bros, New \ DIRK. was ar
rested Monday night on the charge of stealing
S23. 900 worth of laces. He admitted the
theft. and gave the names of several persons
to whom he had sold the goods, all of whom
were arrested.
O. A. Browne of Accomac Court House,
Va, who is bringing Hungarian labSrers to
the lower Eastern Shore, requires an advance
fee of SO from each. farmer who wants a man,
for the agents expenses and the advance pas
sage money for the man ordered. These la
borers hire for IS month.
Harry Smith, of St. Johnsbury, Vt, shot
and instantly killed himself at jamestown,
ID. T., on Saturday. He went there to be
married to u young lady from his former
heme. but she refused to fulfill her promise.
While out walking with her on Saturday he
drew a revolver and blew his brains out.
While dozen men were on the top floor of
the elevator at Benden's blast furnace, at
Troy, n. Y, Wednesday morning. repairing
Il broken wire rope, the tackle above gave way
and two men were jerled down the shaft, Il
distance of sixty feet, by the falling rope.
Edward McCabe was killed by the fall, and
Vim. Scott was dangerously hurt.
A lamp dropped on the stove on Saturday
night in the rooms Of Mrs. Margaret Schroe-
der, of Guttenburg, n. j., and set fire to her
clothes and those of her infant child, which
were tied on chair. The mother disregarding
her own danger, succeeded i'll eXtinguishing
the flames in the child's wraps, but was her.
self so badly burned that she died.
At Richmond, Va, on Tuesday. special
fast freight trains began that morning trans
porting the large orders which the tobacco
manufacturers had been holding back await
ing the change in the tax. New revenue
stamps amounting to Sl65, 900 were sold that
day. In Lynchburg 5000 Of stamps were
issued and 800, 900 pounds of tobacco were
shipped.
The heavy rains in California during the
past month have brought up the growing
wheat, and the crop is expected to be fully
equal to that of last year. Only four counties
report the presence of the grain-bug. The
increase of acreage is estimated at 20 per
cent. The fruit crop promises to be the lar
gest ever grown in the State. Napa county
alone expects to make 100000 gallons of
wine.
The grand jury Of the United States Court
at Portland, Maine, has indicted John {.
Friend, of Etna, and DR.. John B. Benjamin,
of Carmel, for conspiracy and detrauding
United States pensioners. 1t is alleged that
Friend and Benjamin have for years acted as
claim agents, and charged illegal and eXOr-
bitant rates. The government claims it can
show they have eXtorted at least S2O0,0O0,
perhaps more, from pensioners. Benjamin
has been arrested, but Friend has left.
The steamship British Prince, from Liver
pool, Tuesday, brought over to Philadelphia
i 400 passengers, the majority of whom are
Scandinavian and German immigrants.
Among the passengers in the steerage were
300 Irish, who come under the term of assist
ed emigrants." They consist OF family par
ties. and were taken on board the steamer at
Queenstown, and the passage of all of them
was paid by the British government. These
immigrants are very poor, and they come
from the Southwest of Ireland.
Eli johnson, well-known temperance
speaker of Brooklyn, has brought suit against
Henry A. Higley, of New York, claiming
100000 damages for the alienation of his
wife's affections. Mr.. Higley is grain and
provision broker, and prominent member of
Beecher's church. Mr.. Johnson's wife, Mrs.
Mary c. johnson, is also well-known tenn
perance worker, and has been for nine years
president of the First Brooklyn Woman's |
Christian Temperance Union. She and her |
husband recently had quarrel and separated.
Reports from the railroad coal mines around |
Pittsburg Tuesday night state the strike against
a reduction of a-half cent per bushel in the /
price, of mining has extended to all the mines
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