The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-02-03
News of the Week.

tempting to cross the Ogeechee river at Egypt,
40 miles west Of Savannah, Ga, on last Fri
day night.
That monster steamer, the Great Eastern,
is living idle at Milford Haven, England. The
owners can neither use her proftably nor sell
her at any reasonable price.
Memphis, Tenn, before the end of 1888
will have nine railroads in operation. 1t is
eventually to be in the near future one OF the
great centres of America.
| State Treasurer Vincent, of Alabama, is
| short in bis accounts over $500, 900, and he
has left Montgomery. The Governor has
taken the keys of the treasury.
A wheel weighing a ton burst on Tuesday
in Riley's hoop and heading factory at Green,
castle, Ind, fatally injuring John Elliott and
seriously hurting four others.
A storm prevailed on the coast of England
the latter part of last week and the first OF
this. Several boats were wrecked and some
thirty or forty lives were lost.
Thomas NJ. Bowen, republican, was elected
United States Senator from Colorado on Sat
urday for the full term of six years, and ID.
A. w. Tabor, republican, for the short term
of three years.
The farm house of A. D. Stage, near Das-
sell, Mimi, was burned on Tuesday night,
and four children persisted. Stage, with his
wife and baby, barely escaped, and were near
ly frozen to death.
Father Martineau, Roman Catholic priest
in Montreal, is waking up the churches of that
city on the temperance question, and has OBJ
tanned, in very short time, 5000 pledges to
total abstinence.
The Irish people in Donegal are suffering
from starvation, and unless the government
does something for their relief things will
come to crisis. An appeal for aid was made
in London on Monday night.
Crespo & Co.'s saw mill at Havana, Cuba,
/ was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The head
carpenter and a clerk persisted in the flames;
two other employees were seriously burned,
and thirty fremen were injured
| Maggie Donahue, aged five years, while
coasting at Lost Creek, near Shenandoah, Pa,
on Monday, plunged into an opening in mine
| fifty feet deep, and was fatally injured. The
opening was caused by a recent cave-in.
A terrific explosion occurred on Tuesday
at the fireworks factory of Senior Meyra, i'll
Amacueca, Mexico. Meyra and four other
members of his family were burned to death
and Il number of other persons were badly In
jured.
James +. Brown, eXstorekeeper OF the
| Philadelphia almshouse, charged with forgery
and conspiring with Major Phipps and others
to defraud the city, was convicted on Tues
day. A motion was made for new trial,
which was overruled.
! The committee on agriculture of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature has under consideration
the offering of bounty for the destruction OF
the English sparrow. tits asserted that near
ly half of last years apple crop in Massachu-
sets was destroyed by sparrows.
/ The members of Olive Baptist Church, col
ored, at Lawrence, Mass, are exercised over
the desertion of his flock by their pastor, Jas.
NJ. Powell. According to their statements he
has taken with him $3.50, the proceeds of
/ fair held for the benefit of the church.
The lower house of the New Jersey Legis-
lature on Wednesday passed bill making
four men out of a jury of SIX and nine men
out of jury of twelve competent to render
verdict. A bill was also passed repeating the
statute which makes labor strikes unlawful.
/ Gen. Charles f. Henderson, of Omaha, was
elected United States Senator from Nebraska
on Wednesday. Mr.. Henderson is described
as straight Republican who has not been
identified with any of the factions which have
disturbed the harmony of the party in Ne
braska.
Church and State are in conflict at Fort
Smith, Ark. The Mayor forbade all public
assembages, on account of the prevalence OF
scarlet fever The Protestant Episcopal and
Roman Catholic pastors disobediently opened
their churches for the usual services, and
were promptly arrested.
| At Glen's Falls, N. Y, last Tuesday, Den.
mis- Hickey, who was to have been married on
Wednesday, while walking upon the street
had his throat cut by some unknown person,
who escaped. The wound reaches from the
ear to the chin. Hickey may recover. Jeal-
ousy is probably the cause of the deed.
Mrs Langtry in passing through Mobile,
being asked how she had enjoyed her trip to
the South, replied: 81 have enjoyed it much
more than the journey through the Northern
States The fact Isl she added, 81 have been
treated with more consideration here. More
like the lady believe | am" She says she
noticed the change as soon as she reached
Memphis.
J. W. Goodspeed, brother of the distin-
guished Chicago clergyman OF that name, and
superintendent of the Paradise Mining Com
pany in Colorado, when crossing mountain
near Gothic, in that state, was caught in
snow-side and buried under hundred feet
of snow. His body cannot be recovered till
the snow mets.
Five boys were injured in coasting acct
dent at Shamokin, Pa, on Saturday, two of
them, it is believed, fatally. One lad named
Christian was hurt internally, while another
named Lobby is lying in commissions. A boy
named Schwenk had his nose and arm broken.
Two of the boys were going down steep hill
and lost control of the sled, striking three
boys who were coming up.
Franklin Pierce, claiming to be physician,
was held in So, 900 bail at Worcester, Mass,
on Wednesday, for manslaughter in causing
the death of Mrs. Barna BerniS, of Oakdale.
He treated her for internal erysipelas by bath
ing her in kerosene and rolling her up in
bandages saturated with that oil. The woman
was literally blistered and skinned alive, and
died after a week of suffering.
A snow-slide started from the summit of
Ruby Peak, Colorado, on Monday night, and
rushed down with fearful velocity to the bot
tom of the gulch, carrying with it all the
buildings connected with the Ruby Chief, the
Howard Extension, the Cakes and the Du-
range mines Eight men were carried down
and buried in the snow. One was dead when
taken out. and two others are not expected
to recover
A dispatch from Salem, Va, says the re-
ports concerning the smallpox at that place
| have been exaggerated. There is one case of
small pox in the town and two cases of vari-
aloid. The churches were opened Sunday,
acting upon the concurring Judgment OF ply
slclans, town authorities, ana trustees Inc
faculty of Roanoke College have determined
to resume exercises on February 1, and the
students have been notified to return.
On Tuesday, during heavy fog, the steam
! err Luray, of the Old Dominion Line, ran into
and sank the steamer Grace, of the Norfolk
and Rappahannock River Line, just off Cra-
ney Island. The Grace had on board the
largest cargo she had ever taken out, COM
prising almost every variety of goods, much
of which, it is thought, will be total loss.
All on board were saved except one, though
the Grace sank in three minutes after being
struck.
In 1871 Isaac Knapp of Fremont, Ohio, was
sentenced to prison for life for numbering his
brother. Last June he became so sick and
emaciated that he received pardon and was
sent home to die. In short while he was
as well as ever. He had produced inhama-
ton of the bowels by chewing the convicts'
hard soap. His quarrelsome disposition soon