The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-19
News of the Week.

AmaSa Stone, mllilohalfe VI Si0'0it.liU'
Ohio, committed suicide last Friday after
noon.
There was a heavy frost in portions of
northern New York Monday morning, and
ice was formed in the low lands
The cotton mills at Admission, Ala, have
inst shipped / 900 bales OF goods to emma,
and have orders for 600 more.
In the three DAYS sale of Jersey cattle in
New York III animals were disposed OF, and
the aggregate sum realized was $685. $50.
Vim. Heads residence at Holly Springs,
Ark. was burned on Friday, and three chill
dren of his son in-law were fatally injured.
The canal stable of Edward White, West
Troy, n. Y, 60 tons Of hay and between 80
and 40 horses were burned Tuesday night.
Duke and Dandy, the two largest steers in
the world, are on exhibition at Carlisle, Pa.
One weighs $500 pounds, the other $500
pounds.
Hail stones an inch in diameter fell at Day
ton. Ohio, on Monday. They covered the
streets several inches deep. Considerable
damage was done.
Crops in most of the parishes of Louisiana
are reported as doing well, and, though plant
ed late, are rapidly catching up under the IN
auence of recent seaSonable weather.
Last Saturday Il colOred servant girl in the
house of Rev. DR.. Fletcher, at Franklin,
Mass, attempted to poison the family OF five
persons with arsenic mixed with cruel.
Wheat crop authorities in California now
say that the harvest will be the greatest ever
known in that State. 1t is calculated that
IL 500, 900 tons will be exported next year.
'Uncle Joe Gorum,'' colored man, died
at Fortress Monroe last week, where he had
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ment since 1876 His age was nearly 80.
A heavy shock, supposed to be an earth
quake, was felt in Kent county, Del, on Sat
urday A similar shock is said to have been
felt in Kent county, Md, earlier in the week.
The funeral of Mrs. Jessie r. Grant, moth
err of Gen. Grant, took place on Saturday from
the residence of Mrs. Corbin, daughter OF
the deceased, on Pavonia avenue. Jersey City.
Smith Island, in Smith Lake, near Ocala,
Florida, containing so acres, 30 OF which are
in an orange grove, sold a few days ago for
$4,000. Five years ago it could have been
bought for $780,
Twenty thousand immigrants arrived at
Castle Garden last week, and the engagements
for passage from Europe Indicate that the
total number for May will reach at least one
hundred thousand
At Newcastle, Del, on Saturday, Sheriff
Martin whipped nine prisoners, seven OF
whom had been convicted of larceny and two
of receiving stolen goods. Two of the pill
loried men were whites.
VIVA MorriSs, colored, of Amherst county,
Va. is lust u wears old and has thirteen chll-
dren She gave birth to three ofthat number
on the ID The little ones weighed twenty
seven pounds in the aggregate.
The Fourth of July is to be celebrated at
Harrisonburg. Va, in a style surprising any
thing of the kind ever seen i'll the valley.
The second Virginia regiment of infantry will
participate in the demonstration.
A boiler exploded in the shingle mill of
John Guyer, at Nappanee, Ind, on Saturday,
killing Henry Archer, q. p. Vail and James
Brundige. and seriously injuring Joseph Guy
err, John Guyer and VIM. Nicely.
Rev. Charles T. Steck, late pastor of Il
Lutheran church at Pittsburg, made Il sue
cessful debut on the stage at Indiana Pa, on
Saturday night as Hamlet and Richelieu. The
hall was crowded with the best people of the
town.
Wm Corners, aged - years, who shot and
killed two men and cut two others during II
drunken quarrel at Glenmary, Tenn, on Sat
urdav, was lynched in the evening. After he
was hanged his body was riddled with bullets
by the coal miners.
The One Hundred and Thirty First Penn
svlvania Volunteers Association will make an
excursion to Fredericksburg, Va, and the
battle-heds in that vicinity May 81 to 81.
The railroads have made liberal rates for the
eXcursionlstS.
While five men were being let down the
shaft at the PancOast Company 5 colllery, near
Scranton, Pa, on Tuesday morning, the rope
became oosened and the car fell forty fec to
the bottom of the shaft. All the men were
injured.
Mrs. Fair has been granted divorce from
her husband, Senator Fair, of Nevada, and
awarded the family residence in San Francis
co, the custody of the three minor children
and 81, $50, 600 in money and L. S. bonds.
Mr.. Fair has the oldest child and the wide
world.
Dispatches from Cairo, Illinois; Indiana
polls. Indiana: Jamaica, New York; Calves
ton. Texas; Norfolk and Petersburg, Virgin
III, report severe wind, rain and hail storms,
damaging buildings, injuring crops, and killing
stock on Monday. A Maidstone at Galveston
weighed half Il pound, and one at Cairo 81
ounces.
The survivors of the Fifth Virginia (COn-
federate) Regiment will leave Staunton, Va,
on the 18th instant for Niagara Falls and Buff
faIo, at which latter place they will attend
reunion of the Twenty eighth New York Reg
iment, and present to that regiment flag
captured from it during the war.
The Ohio Brewers and Maltsters' Associa-
ton, at their convention in Cleveland on
Tuesday, adopted resolutions declaring they
would oppose in a body at the polls all can
ddates for office arrayed against their bust
ness and that they would employ counsel to
test Immediately liz the Supreme Court the
constitutionality of the Scott law.
A treaty of peace between Chill and Peru
has been signed by Gen. Novoa and Gen.
Ig!esas, and is said to have been confirmed.
Peru cedes Tacna and africa for ten years.
At the end of that time a plebiscite is to be
taken to determine to which country those
provinces shall belong. The country acquir
ing them will pay indemnity.
On April 10, 1889, IA COW belonging to VIM.
H. Gaines, of Prince Georges county, Va,
dropped three calves, two heifers and one
bull. May 9, the same COW dropped two
calves, bull and heifer. Five calves in y
months and 20 days is pretty well for one cow.
Mr.. Gaines sent the three that were dropped
last year to Baltimore, where they were sold
for six dollars each.
Ex-Governor Israel Washburn, Jr., of
Maine, died at the Lafayette Hotel, Philadel
phia, Saturday, where he had been stopping
since April 20 receiving medical treatment for
pleurisy and inflammation of the covering of
the heart His demise was unexpected, as he
had loitered about the hotel Office Friday
seemingly in excellent health and in even joe
ular spirits. He was II years ofage.
The Piedmont Cotton Factory, at Pied
mont, South Carolina, has declared divi-
dend of twentyo one and one third per cent.
out of the profits of the concern for the past
year. The company now owns over thou
sand acres of land around the location occus
pied by the mill, and, besides adding new ma
chinery, have built tenement houses for the
hands and a stone-house capable of storing
FIVE thousand bales of cotton.
Two German residents, c. H. j. Muller, an
undertaken, and VIM. Baschorn, brewer,
both married men, had duel with broad
swords at Bowmanville, a suburb of Chicago,
last week. Six carriages, containing the
principals, seconds surgeons and friends,
proceeded to the rendezvous. The under