The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-07-14
News of the Week.


Commons
Tt now costs the government about Sl6Oper
capita. to maintain the 10000 Indians IN the
United States that live on reservations.
Sundays storm did great damage to the
growing crops in Lancaster county, "a
Corn. oats and tobacco suffered greatly
The Tennessee State prison, with its convict
labor, was leased Monday to the tennessee
Railroad Coal and Iron Company Tor SIX
years, at SOL 900 per annum.
Saturday night lightning struck the house
of John Bunce, at Sayville, L.. l., oaaly
burning Mr.. and Mrs. Bunce and knocking
their three children out OF bed
H. W. Higham, the English bicyclist, de-
feated Jno S. Prince the American champion,
in 2O-mile bicycle race at Rochester, N;
Y. on Monday Time, l hour minutes and
573 seconds.
On July 8, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Powers,
of GETTYSBURG Pa, celebrated their golden
wedding They had six children, five OF
whom are living. Sixteen grandchildren and
their parents were present at the celebration.
The cholera is still raging in Egypt. From
80 to 100 deaths occur daily at Damletta ana
Mansurah People are dying from famine
also, as persons are neither allowed to leave
or enter the infected towns, and provisions
have run short.
At Phenixville, Pa, Monday night, Peter
Geisinger, a German, aged 40, was fatally
stabbed by James Coughlin. Coughln was
locked up, andduring the night party OF
tramp STUMBLED the lookup wall and all the
prisoners escaped.
On Sunday George Ayres, wealthy farmer
of Brown county, Ohio, shot and killed his
grandson, who was asleep, and set the house
on fire. He then went to the barn, set 1t on
fire, shot himself, and was burned up IN the
building. He was insane.
Dr. Thos. F. Scott, the Oldest and one OF
the most prominent physicians of Petersburg,
Va, died on Wednesday morning, aged 80
years. Deceased was nephew OF Gen. Win
field Scott and an uncle of Gen. P. B. Starke.
He was member of the Virginia Medical
Association.
The Illinois State entomologist reports that
vast numbers of the Hessian fly are now in
a dormant condition so low down in the stalk
that they are left behind in the stubble when
the wheat is cut This is true of the entire
winter wheat region of Illinois. he advises
that the stubble be burned.
Jem Mace and his Maori, Slade, are expect
ed in New York from England July Is. Ar
rangements have been made for a sparring
match between Slade and Sullivan, three
son Square Gardens July 81, Slade to receive
50 per cent. of the net receipts.
At public meeting of the New York pro-
duce trade on Tuesday resolutions were
adopted opposing any legislation by Congress
looking toward the redemption Of trade dol
lars at par as being in the interest of ring of
spectators, who have purchased the coin in
large quantities at its bullion value.
The river Thames, which flows through
London, has risen to an unprecedented height
and much property has been destroyed. Eight
houses have been carried away and railroad
travel stopped by washout. Several bridges
have been washed away, and barns by the
score. number of persons are missing.
The miners riot at Ely, VT, ended Saturday
with the arrival Of the State troops. Eleven
of the ringleaders were arrested. Some ofthe
miners are represented as on the verge of
starvation, and money is being raised for
them. The company promises to pay $4,000
of its Indebtedness to the miners at once.
Saturday night Marshal Hensley, of Green's
burg, KY, with Ben. Bagley and four others,
started out to arrest James Owen, a desperate
character. Owen had gathered a party of
his friends to resist arrest. About fifty shots
were exchanged. Marshal Hensley was
killed, Bagley MORALLY wounded, and the
rest of the posse fled.
In the lard investigation before commit
tee of the Chicago Board of Trade last Friday,
VIM. Martin, formerly foreman for Fowler
Bros, (who are charged with adulterating
land, testified that tallow and beef bones
were mixed with the hog fat and put into the
the rendering tanks. The product was put
into tierces and labeled ''prime steam lard
Mr. Gladstone, in the House of Commons,
on Wednesday, stated that when the French
took nt Tam otaVa NJ ~ Un and
proclaimed stage of siege, they ordered the
British consul out of town when he was i'll,
and he died seven hours after receiving the
notice. The statement Of this and other acts
of the French created much feeling in the
House.
The Massachusetts State almshouse at
Brigewater was burned last Friday. The 600
inmates were safely removed. The loss will
amount to $3.50, 900 John Gilmore, a col
ored inmate of the institution, was arrested at
Attleboro and confessed that he set fire to the
building. He said he had carried a match
for one year for the purpose.
Peter j. Byrnes, a lad 16 years old, died
on Monday night at Fort Hamilton, n. Y,
from hydrophodia. Six weeks before he was
scratched on the face by the family cat while
playing with it. The cat had been bitten in
fight with dog, and subsequently going
mad, was killed. The doctors believe that
the dog was mad, and that the cat transmitted
the disease to the boy.
The aggregate area of the corn crop, says
the Department of Agriculture, Washington,
is 68, O0O, 900 acres. The average for corn is
SO, against 50 last July, 30 in 1881 and 100 in
1880. In the South averages range from 90
in Tennessee to 103 in Louisiana. The
average of oats is 80. against l03 last July,
and of barley 81. The area of tobacco APP
IL, lz1-
ton 95.
A tornado struck Soldier City, a town of
two hundred inhabitants, eighteen miles west /
of Holton, Nebraska Tuesday night about 10 |.
O'Clock, and completely demolished number
of buildings and injured others. Among the
buildings blown down were two general stores, !
one drug store, livery stable and several |
residences. Three women and one child were |
killed outright, and some fifteen persons in
iured, several seriously. The storm passed |
from the north directly south. Ex-Sheriff
Stephenson, living one mile south of Soldier
City, lost his barn and dollhouse. The grow
ing crops were damaged.
Two months ago the four year old daughter |.
of James Wilson, living in Westmoreland /.
county, Pa, disappeared from home. Par
ents and friends searched for her for weeks, |
and finally gave her up for lost. On Monday /
a hunter found her ten miles from the home /
of her parents. She fled at his approach, but /
he pursued and captured her. She fought
him like tiger. Her body was naked and |
was stained all over with berry juice. She |
had lost the power of speech, and was unable
to give any account of her wanderings during
her absence. She had learned to eat frogs /
and crayfsh, devouring them alive with great |
avidity in preference to cooked food. With |
good care it is thought she will soon learn to
talk again, and forget her remarkable expe-
rience in the woods, among snakes and wild !
cats, which abound in that section of country.
There were 26 cases of sunstroke in New
York last Friday, three of which were fatal.
There were number in Brooklyn, two in
Jersey City and six in Philadelphia, five of
them fatal. There were 81 cases of sunstroke
in New York and Brooklyn Saturday, of
which 10 proved fatal. The highest temper
AZURE was 81 degrees. Twenty-Five sudden
deaths were reported at the coroner's office
in New York Saturday, and 176 deaths al