The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03

A special from Austin, Texas, states that
intense excitement prevailed there Sunday
night and Monday, because of telegram re-
ceived by Governor Ireland that five hundred
colored men were under arms in the town OF
. Cause, Milan county, and an outbreak was
momentarily expected, and asking for imme-
date help. The late decision by the supreme
Court regarding the Civil Rights bill has
created very bad feeling among the colored
men in various parts of the state, and out
breaks have been looked for. Governor
Ireland Immediately issued proclamation
calling militia to arms. Two companies were
mustered at once, and before midnight Sunday
night over 1000 men at Austin, Houston,
Galveston and other places responded to the
call. At last accounts matters had quoted
down.
One of the most horrible suicides on record
occurred at Kent, Ohio, last Saturday. Sam
uel Biehl, aged "a, who had been working for
week at Day, Williams & Co.'S. glass works,
was standing by the furnace in those works
Just after a retort had placed in it, when one
of the workmen told him to stand aside, as
he wished to get at the furnaces. $50 did |, y
Biehl replied, and throwing his pipe on the
ground, he plunged headlong through the
ring whence the melted glass is taken, and
passing over the pot, landed on the intensely
hot Goals that surround it. So sudden and
unexpected were his movements that no-ehorts
could be made restrain him. The heat was
so great that death must have been instanta-
neous. A single breath drawn in that fiery
furnace would shrivel the lungs. There were
but few fragments Of his body left.
Mrs. Peter Offenbacker of St. Paris, near
Urbana, Ohio, died thirty four years ago, and
her husband died five years later. Their
remains were buried on the family farm.
On Saturday their bodies were taken up for
removal to new cemetery. The body of
Mrs. Offenbacker was found in perfect state
of petrifaction. The corpse was Of solid stone
and the features were as natural as life.
The remains have been placed on exhibition
in the village.
train struck a wagon in which were Mr.. v.
Hoepner, his wife and Jacob Grove, killing
the two latter and fatally injuring Mr.. Hoop
ner Mr.. Hoepner was moving his household
effects, and as the wagon was descending a
mountain road the brake gave way, the horses
ran off, and just as they were dashing across
the railroad track the express train struck
the wagon.
A dispatch Oct. 80, says the river Salem
bria, in Thessaly, has overflowed its banks,
causing widespread devastation. One hun
dred houses have been destroyed and several
lives have been lost. Larrissa and the villages
in its vicinity are surrounded by water. Com
munication with the flooded district is mich
delayed. the railways having been greatly
damaged.
At Virginia, New, Tuesday night, two
masked men robbed the vault of the county
treasury of So, 900, and then seized the treas
urer and locked him in the vault. The affair
is considered mysterious, as 81 1000 of the
amount was in silver, andt 90 heavy to readily
carried off.
Two very destructive cyclones occurred at
Paris, Ky. The first demolished house,
killing four colored inmates the second,
sweeping from west to east, at two o'clock
Monday morning, caused much destruction
of property, but no loss of life.
A cyclone struck the west side of Colum-
bus, Ind, between and = o'clock yesterday
morning, unrooing Mooney & Sons tannery
and Gaff, Gent & Thomas new fourstory
mill The cyclone also damaged the J., NJ.
and |. Depot.
The town of Gordonsville Texas. was to-
tally destroyed by conhagration on Monday
that started in drug store which had been
set on fire after being robbed.
A cyclone passed over Catah0afa and Ten
sas parishes, La, Monday, lemolishng u
number of houses and otheE buildings, and
iniurng twenty persons or more in its course.
Two thousand bales of cotton were burned
in the yards of the South Carolina Railway
Company at Charleston, S. c., Monday.
The loss is $1,000 covered by insurance.
The stationery and printing house of Gull
yer. Page & Hayne, of Chicago, closed its
doors Monday. The liabilities are about
$500, 600.