The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-10-06
News of the Week.

The Georgia Legislature has voted to build
Capitol in Atlanta, to cost s., OOO,O 600.
Three inches of snow fell in the northern
part of Franklin comfy, Me-, Saturday night.
Black smallpox is causing great mortality
in Zapachula, Mexico. Out of a population
of ten thousand twelve hundred have died of
the disease,
On Saturday last, in British America, the
mercury registered from 100 to 200 below the
freezing point Snow fell in Quebec, Canada,
on the same day.
The house of Lenney Hartman, colored, at
Duck Hill, Miss, was burned Tuesday night,
and two boys, aged seven and nine respec
lively, were burned to death.
Creameries are being established in several
counties in Tennessee. 1t is claimed that
well-managed creameries in that State will
yield $50 to S75 per head for every good cow
Miss Thompson, daughter of Mr. Jas. B.
Thompson, wealthy farmer of Roanoke coun-
ty, Va, was married last week to n. b. Aims
worth, young Choctaw Indian, who gradu-
ated at Roanoke College recently.
The department of agriculture at Ottawa,
Ont. has received advice from Liverpool that
a cargo of l 900 sheep from Canada have been
ordered to be slaughtered on account of one
sheep said to have been affected with scab.
The Chicago Rail,oay Age shows in its cur
rent issue that the amount of main track added
to the railways of the Union during the nine
months ending September 80 was 4, pa miles,
against S,075 miles for the same period last
year.
During a thunder storm Saturday night the
residence of Harvey Wheeler, situated in
Amherst, N. H., was struck by lightning, and
Mrs. Wheeler was killed. Water being scarce
upon the premises, Wheeler extinguished
the fire with milk.
A fatal case of continent small pox occurred
last Friday near Mattoon, ILL.,, and as the pa
tent was visited by several neighbors before
the nature of the disease was known, fears OF
an epidemic prevail and the public schools
have been closed.
A severe wind storm at Lexington, KY,
Monday, blew down the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad Company's engine-house and took
off the roofs of the roofs of the First National
Bank, the Press Office and Baker Mason s
warehouse. Forshee's tobacco warehouse
was demolished.
Two-thirds of the cattle raising in Wyoming
and Montana is in English hands. 1t costs
SO to raise three ear-old, and the ANIMAL is
then worth $40. The more cattle a man owns
Ll6 lllG COSJ vi IdlSlLS anu Ntii hS Abi
each animal Most of the grazing is done on
public lands.
Burglars robbed the postoffice at Glouces.
ter, Mass, Monday night of $500 in cash and
a book of postal notes, which are payable to
bearer. Postoffices throughout the country
have been notified not to receive or pay postal
notes purporting to be issued by the Glouces
ter office between certain numbers. This Is
the second office robbed ofpostal- note books
Greenville, S. c., is growing rapidly, the
census Just completed showing a population
of 8, 355, an increase of 204 since 1880. The
population in 1870 was only 2,757. There are
now in course of erection in Greenville about
| fifty residences and business houses, and
the manufacturing industries are more pros
porous than at any former period.
! A letter from DIR. Valladez, of Mazatlan
Mexico, says that between Aug. Is and Sept
Is three hundred and eighty deaths were re-
ported in that city from yellow fever. An.
other letter from the same place says the fe
yer was moving south, and that Preside, Con
cordia, Rosario and Qualacan were visited by
the disease. Out of one battalion of 600 sol
diers $50 had died.
An unknown Italian woman about 80 year;
| old made desperate but Intellectual attempt
to drown herselfon Wednesday in Philadel
| phla. She threw her chlld; BOY ABOUT thret
years old, into the Delaware, and then attempt
ed to leap in herself, clutching her daughter
a girl about ten years old. The boy was res
cued by citizen, and the woman and hei
children were locked up.
At Pittsburg (Pa. Saturday John G. Cor
den, r. NJ. Geary and Albert Cruzen, mem
bers of band of highway robbers who ope
rated extensively in Maryland, West Virgins
and Western Pennsylvania, were sentenced tC
20 years each in the Western penitentiary
Dr. JAS P. Buck, who was convicted of com
plicity in the robbery, was remanded to jai
to await hearing on the motion for new
trial.