The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-17
News of the Week.


sachusetts.
The commander of the French squadron at
Madagascar has been ordered to blockade
the Shore.
j. w. Jones, of Smyrna, Delaware, ship
ped 20, 900 muskrat hides to Philadelphia one
day last week
In the Illinois State Legislature on Tues
day, the House passed the bill to punish wife
beaters by whipping.
Missouri is about to spend $1,000 in geo
logical researches, with a view to discovering
more about her mineral wealth.
w. C. France, of New York, has purchased
of Allan Bashford, of Paris, Ky, the seven
year-old trotter London for 81, 500.
Four children were drowned by the falling
of house that had been surrounded by the
overflow of the Mississippi near Helena on
Sunday.
Mrs. Lucinda Foreman aged 81, and her
daughter Lucinda, aged 30, were murdered
with an axe i'll their house, near Indianapolis,
on Friday last
Chas w. Green, of Philadelphia, commit
ted suicide Saturday afternoon on a passen-
ger train on the West Jersey Railroad by cut
ting his throat.
Prince Gortschakoff, ex chancellor of the
Russian empire died at Baden Baden on
CunudN. lie WAS HcdIly OF NtdlS Olu' anu
was an able statesman.
dispatch from Butler, Pa, says Colonel
John NJ. Thompson, eX-Congressman, has
been arrested on charge of raising note
from $500 to $4,000.
A bill passed the Arkansas Senate Saturday
changing Dorsey County to De Sofa County.
1t was named for ex-senator Dorsey during
the reconstruction era.
IN, Nauy Nnr ahnut
perfecting a process by which iron will be
rendered as impervious to rust as silver, brass
or gold, and at cost slightly in advance of
present prices.
The tunnel under the English Channel has
been finished to a mile and quarter from
the French shore, and the engineers say they
can advance 1872 feet day. At this rate the
tunnel could be completed to Dover in year
and half.
Elliott, the prize fighter, who was shot in
Chicago last week. was buried in New York
on Sunday, and the Associated Press dispatch
says every well known thief in the city was
present at the funeral
Right Rev. John Quinlan, Catholic Bishop
of Mobile since 1852 died last Friday morn
ing at the pastoral residence attached to St.
Theresa's Church, New Orleans. He had
been sick for two months.
David Rank, of fremont, Schuylkill Coun-
ty, Pa, was arrested last week for accepting
an illegal fee for the collection of a pension.
He was instrumental in obtaining pension Of
about $500, and it is alleged took 500 for the
service.
1t is rumored that corner i'll May corn at
Chicago is being run. 1t is estimated that
there are three million bushels OF No. corn
In store in that city deliverable on contracts.
The market is said to be short 10000, 900 for
May delivery.
Ifthe Nihilists allow the Emperor of Rus
STA to sit on the throne he will carry scep
tire worth 81, 000, 900 rubles, which was made
for his ancestor, Paul |. 1t is tipped with the
Orloff diamond, which alone is valued at g.
000,0 900 rubles.
In the case of Enos j. Crowther, who is
charged with completely in the robbery of
100000 worth of city bonds from the treas
John S. Cox, one ofthe defendants. has turned
State evidence, and confessed.
Hon. Thos. S. Flourney died suddenly at
his home in Halifax county, Va, Tuesday
morning. He represented his district in Con-
eress before the war, and was a candidate for
Governor on the know kothing ticket in 1855,
but was defeated by Henry A. Wise.
On Saturday fire occurred at Grove Sta
ton, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
near Pittsburg, Pa, resulting in the destruc-
ton of two frame houses, in one OF which two
childred named Crawford, aged, respectively,
five and three years, were burned to death.
John H. Jacobs, who killed Miss Catharine
Edwards, at Caseyville, ILL.,, on Saturday, by
playfully swapping a gun at her which proved
to be loaded, has been committed to Jail with
out bail, Notwithstanding the coroner's jury
rendered verdict that the act was uninten
tional
A life convict named Samuel Ulum has just
been pardoned out of the Michigan State pris
on, where he has been confined 30 years for
the murder of a man named Estabrook, in
ST. Joseph county, in 1858. There is little
doubt that Ulum is entirely innocent OF any
connection with the murder.
The London, England, Society for the Sup
preston of Blasphemous Literature propose
to get up cases against Prots. Huxley and
Tyndal, Herbert Spencer, the publishers of
John Stuart Mills's works, Mr.. John Morley
and others who ''by their writings have sown
widespread unbelief, and in some cases rank
atheism
On Thursday of last week the steamer Ma |
varre, bound from Copenhagen to Leith, |
foundered during a gale. There were 81 per-
sons, mostly emigrants, on board, only l6 OF
whom were saved OF the Navarro pas
sengers six had intended to embark for Amer
lea by the Anchor Line, and SO adults and 10
infants by the State Line.
The third anniversary of the Salvation /
Army was celebrated by aparade with drums,
banjos, guitars, accordeons and viohns IN
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Monday night. AT the City |
Hall man picked up small boy and drop
ped him through the big bass drum, the end
of violin was broken, and female member |
was rolled down the steps.
The will of the late S. L. Croker, OF Taun-
ton, Mass, bequeaths $4,000 to the Domes-
tic and Foreign Missionary Society OF the |
Protestant Episcopal Church; $4,000 to the
Massachusetts Board of Missions, and $4,000
to Brown University to endow scholarship
to be called Caroline Croker. He also
gives $40, 900 to the local parishes.
Pasquale Malone and Michael McGloin
were hanged in New York last Friday.
Robert Cochran, colored, was hanged at
CLAYTON, Ala, for the murder OF NJ. L. Drew.
The prisoner took drink of whisky, lighted
a cigar. seated himself on his coffin and was
driven half a mile to the gallows. He con-
fessed his crime before the drop fell.
A murder was committed at Graysville,
Ohio. two weeks ago, but was not discovered
till Monday last J. Wilcox and John Rneker
ouarreled about the sale of corn, and Wilcox
struck Rucker with a poker Rucker was
either unable or unwilling to tell, and it was
supposed that he died a natural death. The
body was disinterred and the wound found.
Robt. MeGaughy, of the Chicago live
stock commission firm of Darlington, Nc
Gaughy 4 Co., has purchased the entire
Texas herd, well-known throughout the whole
Southwest as the go. L. brand, formerly
owned by Lees Harris. The total number
of cattle included in this herd amounts to
over Il, 900. The cash price paid was 1925
600.
Il is said that series of papers have been
Gled before the Treasury Department, Wash
ington, charging the existence OF granite
ring. The charges and specifications are SAID
to be very voluminous, and to set forth that
by combination of New England operators
The Government has been charged larger
sum for the granite used in the construction