The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-28
News of the Week.

Four inches of snow fell at Champagne, H.,
! on Tuesday.
Leonard Sylvan Jules Landau, the French
novelist, is dead
There we're severe frosts in parts of Ohio,
Indiana and Kentucky Tuesday.
Preparations for the coronation of the Gar,
to occur on May 81, are being made.
Two thousand houses were burned in Delhi,
India. on April Doth. Many families are des
titute and homeless.
Vennor says May will be ushered in with
snow and seet in northern and western sec
tons, and cold rains at others.
A new weather prophet in Allegheny city,
Pa, predicts that this country will suffer
from a great drought during the coming sum-
mer.
The Iowa Supreme Court, made decision
on Saturday reafirming its previous decision
declaring the prohibitory liquor amendment
null and void.
The steamship British Commerce, bound
from England to Melbourne, was sunk off the
English coast in a collision Wednesday and
IS lives were lost.
At the farm of Joel Platt. in Sabetha, Kan
sas, deaf and dumb son of Plat set fire to a
barn and was burned to death. His mother,
.
The Western North Carolina Railroad has
been considerably damaged by the recent
floods. Seven land slides are reported, and
MANY trestes west of Asheville are washed
away.
J Thomas Budd says that Delaware con-
| tains %, 600 horses, 1000 mules q 800 milch
! COWS. &c. 900 other cattle, $4,000 sheep and
II 900 hogs The total value is about 3d.
| 1000.
A negro school teacher was assigned to duty
/ in a white public school i'll Patterson, \. j.,
/ last week, and the scholars all left and the
! parents became so indignant the teacher had
10 be removed
! John L. Sullivan, the noted puglist, has
had hemorrhage of the lungs, and his use
fulness as a prize fighter is seriously impaired.
/ His constitution has been greatly weakened
/ Soy too high living.
=. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss, April %,
! saws Eliza Pnkston, the famous Louisiana
witness in the electoral controversy of 1876
! II, has died in Jail at Canton, where she was
/ serving term for larceny.
One day last week two car loads of live
chickens passed over the Cumberland Valley
, Railroad. There were said to be 5000 OF
them, and the cars being divided into tiers
! the fowls were transported i'll safety.
1t is said that prisoner in kimainham
! Jail has given important information regarding
certain Dublin murders. The English gov
eminent is said to have received valuable in
formation as to the Fenian organizations.
A well -trained Irish setter belonging to C..
W. Sproul, of Gainesville, Ga, stood a covey
+ of birds OH the railroad track just as the train
was coming He refused to be coaxed away
or to flush the birds, and was killed by the
locomotive.
O'Briens circus and menagerie exhibited
ut Dover, Delaware last Saturday. After the
evening performance the circus was attacked
bv mob. and several employees were wound
ed one fatally. 1t was caused by an EN-
ployc insulting II lady.
\ dispatch from Austin, Texas, says gen
tleman largely interested in cattle, who has
lust returned from an extensive trip among
the ranches, says % herds Of cattle, averag
ING $500 each, will be driven out of the
State this spring.
A fire at the village of Katawa- Iwanoskoi
in the government of Orenburg, Russia, on
the 18th inst, destroyed 800 dwelling houses
the telegraph station, post-otfice, Il number OF
stores, large quantity of coal and wood and
much mining property.
One of the largest sales Of Mexican land:
ever made has just been effected by A. b.
Linderman to a London syndicate. The es
tate, which is known as the Bustamente tract
comprises million acres in Lacatecas, Mexl
co. and was sold for 81, 800, 900
Kate Kane, the only woman lawyer III Mil
waukee, threw glass of water IN the face o
JUDGE Mallory, in the Criminal Court, Mon
day, and was fined $50. She claims thu
Judge insulted her, but will not say how. Sh'
refused to pay the fine, and went to Jail.
The trial of eighteen prominent Nihilists
ended at st. Petersburg ON the 18th inst, ant
resulted in the conviction of all the prisoners
Six were condemned to death, two to lite-lOn!
servitude, and the remainder to terms OF I'M
prisonment varying from fifteen to- twent.
years.
Fiftv-five infantry companies, five batterie:
of artillery and several noted military bands
+. of music from different parts of the United
States have entered for Il competitive drill a
Nashville, Tenn, on May u. The military
will be encamped on an elevated plain, I'VE
miles west of that city, in tents.
Miss Annie Bryson, of Germantown, Pa.
has Just been sent to lunatic asylum, the
victim of melancholia. Up to a few months
heard that slanderous reports were in circula
ton about her. From that time she became
sad, and despite all her friends could say she
drifted into a state Of melanchOha.
At the Tewksbury, Mass, almshouse inves
tigation Wednesday, Christian Mueller testi-
fed to tanning human skins received from
various doctors and students, and pair O
uppers for slippers made from a woman $ ski
were shown. Frank G. Haverlin testified
, that he remembered patient who had re
ceived extreme JUNCTION from Il priest being
taken by the back of the neck and forced
screaming into bathtub. He died 36 hours
afterwards.
Steps are being taken in New York for the
relief of Mrs. Meilleham, the last surviving
granddaughter Of Thomas Jefferson, who Is
said to be living at present in absolute neec
in Georgetown, D. G. Mrs. Meikleham is the
daughter of Martha Jefferson Randolph, Mr..
Jefferson's favorite daughter, and was his at
tendant during his last illness A bill was
introduced in the last Congress for the relief
of Mrs. Meikleham, but it was not acted on.
Arrangements were completed in New DIRK
on Saturday for fight with bare knuckles
between Charles Mitchell, the British cham
pion, and Herbert A Slade, Jem Mace 5
Maori Its to take place September IL, 1883,
between and o'clock in the day, within
200 miles of Kansas City, and to be governed
by the new rules of the London prize ring.
! The fight is to be for 81, 800 side, and for
felt of 81 900 side was placed in trust OF
Harry Hill Saturday night. The rest OF the
money is to be paid July 81.
A letter from Jacksonville, Florida, says :
/ at is estimated that not less than $4,000 WIS.,
itors have heen to Florida the past winter.