The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-29
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Thirteen convicts, seven colored and SIX
white, were publicly whipped at New Castle,
Del, Saturday.
Jacob Hess, aged so, of Cannonsvile, and
Mrs. Smith, aged 10, living near Harvard, NY,
were married a few evenings ago.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is still IN
session, and the deadlock over the congress
sional appointment bill continues.
There have been more earthquakes in Italy.
On Sunday there were two shocks at Casa
miccola, and one house was wrecked.
The Jail at Ashville, o., was burned Monday
and one prisoner burned to death. He had
considerable money, and it is thought he was
murdered and the building set on fire.
The yellow fever still continues at Guaymas,
Mexico, and persons who fled from the city
are dying in the interior. 1t is reported that
six hundred persons are down with the fever.
Wednesday was Arkansas day at the Louis
vile exposition. Gov. Berry, OF Arkansas,
wore in the evening a suit made from cotton
picked "A hours before 500 miles away.
By an explosion at the rocket factory at
Woolwich, Eng, on Monday, rockets were
thrown a distance of five miles. Two lives
were lost and much damage was done to prop
erty.
The eighteen-year-old daughter of c. Atkin-
son. near Lafayette, Ind, was outraged and
murdered while alone at home Monday. Her
throat was cut and she was otherwise mutt
lated.
Florida taxable property in 1879 amounted
to 500, All ,648, whilst this year it will aggre-
gate $50, 900, 600, an increase of nearly 100 per
cent. in four years. This is Il wonderful
exhibit.
Junus B. and Charles B. Kaufman, we'll
known lawyers and pension agents, of Lam
caster, Pa, were arrested on Wednesday,
charged with frauds in connection with their
pension business.
Work on the Washington monument will be
resumed next Monday. The present height
of the structure is $40 feet, and it is expected
that 40 feet will be added to it during the
present season.
Collector Hartranft, at Philadelphia, has
been notified to exercise the strictest scrutiny
in examining cattle from Great Britain because
of the alarming increase of foot and mouth
disease in that country.
A hailstorm swept over the valley of the
Ohio river Sunday afternoon from Carrollton,
KY, to the vicinity of Lawrenceburg, Ind,
covering the ground from two to four inches
deep with hail and running the crops.
The full and corrected report of the losses
sustained by the French fishing fleet on the
banks of Newfoundland during the terri BILE
gales of August 26 and 80 shows thirty -ei ght
vessels damaged and forty nine lives lost.
The establishment of Chinese recruiting
office in New York for the war in AMMAN has
been followed by the institution of branch
in Philadelphia, Chong Lee, the proprietor OF
a laundry, being the accredited head of the
movement.
In San Francisco on Tuesday detectives
captured one Of the most complete counter
feiting outfits ever seen on the Pacific coast,
and arrested the operator, young man Civ
ing the name of B. F. Epson. His real name,
it is supposed, is Penton, and he is said to be
from Ohio.
On the evening of the 10th inst. two sons
of w. A. McAtee, living near Wadesville,
Clarke county, Va, aged respectively 8 and
years. mysteriously disappeared from their
home, and up to Tuesday evening last nothing
had been heard from them, although diligent
search has been made for them daily.
The extraordinary conduct ofthe approach
ing comet, which has suddenly increased to
fifteen times its former brightness, besides
undergoing remarkable changes ofform, great
ly puzzles the astronomers. There seems
now to be no doubt that this comet is really
the comet of 1912 returning and it is therefore,
of interest for other things besides its present
singular conduct.
John A. Feeney, an Irishman, supposed to
be insane fired two pistol shots at the British
consul in New York, on Tuesday afternoon,
and was captured while running at the top of
his speed, in a hatless condition, from the con-
sulate. He declared that he had come from
Canada to kill the consul who had been IL
belIing his character. His insanity was evil
dent.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
Do,1 Mopdo1, old tiol-atc from CbioonO
to indianapolis for one dollar, and at the local
rates to points beyond. On Monday the Pan
Handle and Kankakee lines met this cut in
rates. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois road
is also forced into the fight and the company
advertised tickets to Indianapolis on Tuesday
for five cents including a chrome.
A few car loads of peaches were shipped
over the Delaware Railroad on Saturday and
fifteen car loads Monday. This makes total
of about 4, $40 car loads shipped during the
season. The cars will average about 500
bushels each, thus making a total of about
2,17O, 900 bushels of peaches shipped over the
Delaware Railroad this season, or about q
OOO, 900 baskets The amount that has been
dried and canned will scarcely reach 100000
baskets, while the quantity shipped by the
Old Dominion Steamship Line was less than
400, 900 baskets, making a grand total of
nearly 1900, 600 baskets of Delaware peaches
grown this year.
The veteran zouaves, of Elizabeth, n. D.,
have decided to petition Congress at the APP
preaching session to provide homes for dis
abled Confederate soldiers. Their comman-
der, Gen. j. NJ. Drake, states that the corps
adopted the resolution because their hearts
have long gone out to the brave and distressed
ex-soldiers of the Confederate service, many
of whom they know to be in INDECENT circum-
stances He says that several zouaves, who
recently returned from an extended visit
through the South, found numbers of ex Con-
federates without home or shelter, and they
determined to do what in their power lay to
ameliorate the condition of those who once
confronted them in battle array.
Reports of destruction by storm come from
two parts of the world separated by thousands
of miles. A severe storm passed over Linn
erick on Wednesday, destroying the Town
Hall and other structures, and the steamship
City of Alexandria has just brought news of
great destruction wrought by a recent hurri
cane at Nassau. All but two of the vessels
in the harbor there were lost, many houses
were demolished, and many people persisted.
The hurricanes which originate in the West
Indies often cause as much destruction on the
islands as in their subsequent career upon the
Atlantic, and at this season, when there are
so many storms at sea, the British islands also
are frequently swept by destructive gales like
the one which has just damaged Limerick.
A LATE WINTER.-Vennor predicts con-
siderable amount of warmth for 1888. The
latter mart of Sanfamhar and n norton of