The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-02-17
News of the Week,

and cold weather will amount to 10 per cent.
The 15Oth anniversary of the settlement of
the State of Georgia was celebrated at Savan-
nah on Monday by parade. Gov. Stephens
made an address.
An endemic of winter cholera prevails at
Watertown, Conn, caused, it is thought, by
the snow water in the city reservoir. About
$50 persons are affected.
Nine stock cars were wrecked on the Lee
high Valley Railroad above White Haven, Pa,
ON Saturday night, by a broken wheel.
Twenty head of cattle were killed.
The sheet mill of the Reading iron works
indefinitely suspended work on Saturday,
throwing 800 men out of employment. Dull
ness in the trade is assigned as the cause.
Lunsick's oilcloth mandatory, at Astoria,
L. l., was burned on Saturday. The fire was
caused by spark from two revolving knives
on one machine coming in contact. Loss 9lo,-
600.
The Virginia State Democratic Committee
met in Richmond on Wednesday, and decd
ed to call State Convention for July 18th,
to consider the better organization OF the
party.
The Florida ship-canal scheme has been
completely shelved for the present by the re-
fusal of the State Senate to grant the some
what extraordinary franchises asked for by
the corporators.
Eighty thousand packages of tea were re-
fused a landing in England under the Adult
teration act during 1881 and 1882, and it is
said much of it found its way into the gift
tea stores of the United States
At Chattanooga, Tenn, Monday, Tom
Virgins. colored, finding his wife from whom
he had separated, in company with colored
preacher, cut her throat with a razor and then
cut his own throat. Both will die.
The Superior Court of Newcastle County,
Delaware, has decided against Purnal j.
LYNCH Democrat, who contested the election
of James Martin, the successful Republican
candidate for sheriff of that county.
Ex-Governor Edwin D. Morgan, of New
York died at his residence in New York
City, on Wednesday morning. He was Y
wears old on the 8th of this month, and leaves
an estate of from 100000 to Sl2,OOO,OOO.
Edwin Booth appeared in Berlin, Prussia,
Saturday night as Othello. After the per-
Torrance he was presented with silver lau-
rel crown, amid storms of applause. The
presentation was accompanied with comph-
mentary address.
The Alabama Legislature has passed a bill
500, 900. A bill has passed the Senate and
is pending in the House appropriating $780,,
600 to the University and $4,000 to the
Agricultural College.
The residence of j. S. Hademan, on the
Northern Central Railway, few miles south
of Harrisburg, was burned on Saturday after
noon. Loss $4,000; no insurance. The
cause of the fire is supposed to have been
spark from locomotive.
The large new hotel at Newport News, Va,
is now nearly ready for occupancy. 1t is to
be elegantly furnished at a cost of S25, 900.
The grounds between the hotel and the beach
will be laid off in lawns, landscape garden
er of New York being now at work on the
designs.
Young Ballard, who robbed his sick and
helpless father few weeks ago at Des MONIES,
Iowa, upon being arrested disclosed the fact
that there was a large gang of robbers engag-
ed in all kinds of outlawry in the Northwest.
The leader of the gang, Knowlton, has prob
ably fled.
John Sheffield, dissolute character living
near Madison, Wis, quarreled with his fami-
ly and left them about two weeks ago. Tues
day morning their house was set on fire, and
two of his daughters, one aged IA years and
the other an infant, were burned to death.
1t is believed that Sheffield did it.
English capitalists, represented by j. D.
Wing, of New York. have purchased the Owen
farm, in Warsaw, N. Y, comprising so acres
of land and will erect a large soda ash man
ufactory there, with an employing capacity of
1000 men. 1t will be the only mandatory
of the kind in the United States.
Ex-Gov. Marshall Jewell died at his home
in Hartford, Conn, on Saturday night, of
acute pneumonia. He was born in Winches-
ter n. H., October 20, 1926. In early life
gagged in the leather business at Hartford for
many years, accommodating large fortune.
Among the revelations in the investigation
of the almshouse at Pottsville, Pa, is the fact
that many thousands of dollars, spent osten-
sibly for outdoor relief of the poor, went to
reward personal friends of the Commissioners
and to make political capital. Orders for
whiskey and cigars often amount to 5000 in
day.
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, pronounced
eulogy on the late Senator HILL of Georgia,
in the United States Senate recently. The
New York Baptist Weekly criticised the ora
ton and stated that Ingalls, was an infdel.
The Senator wrote to the editor, denouncing
him as ''bigoted slanderer and malicious
liar
Oliver H. Dockery, Republican candidate
for Congressman at large from North Carolina,
a month ago served on r. T. Bennett, his sue
cessful competitor, notice of contest Ben
nett has filed an answer, claiming the cleo
ton by 400 larger majority than shown by the
official count. Dockery will abandon the
contest.
A consultation of leading Democratic mem
bers of the Pennsylvania Legislature was held
Wednesday night, at which it was agreed to
support the Nicholson apportionment bill,
with few notifications. 1t gives the Re-
pubicans fourteen Congressional districts,
Democrats thirteen, and leaves one district
doubtful.
A dispatch on Sunday last said since the
winter began 10 feet inches of snow have
fallen at WATERFOWL, New York. Only one
train has passed over the railroad between
WATERFOWL and Ogdensburg since the Sd in
slant No trains have been run on the King
ston and Pembroke Railroad (Ontario) for
two weeks.
A prize-f fight for $500 side, between John
Marion, of Pittsburg, and Franklin Glazier,
of Harrisburg, took place near Cleveland,
Ohio, on Wednesday. Twenty one rounds
were fought, resulting in Glazier being badly
whipped Laurence Guire, of Philadelphia,
was stakeholder, and VIM. Mccain, of the
same place, referee.
The 2,577 buildings erected in New York in
1882 cost $44, 79S, 1856, an increase of about
81, 800, 600 over 1881. Twenty dwellings cost
over $50, 600 each, eighty eight cost between
1000 and $4,000, All cost less than $780,
OOO,57 apartment houses cost over $4,000
each, twenty-five, Office buildings cost ST.
4O3, 645, seventeen churches cost $685., 200,
and twelve theatres cost S4l9,775.
The ice on which two Philadelphia boys
were skating broke off from the main body
and foated down the Delaware River, losing
in size every minute, and finally becoming SO
small that it would not float them. They
babe each other good-by and plunged into the
cold water, supposing that they would not be
able to swim to the shore, but determined to-
make vigorous effort, and their pluck saved
them.
Influenza, sore throat and pneumonia are
prevalent just now in New York to an extent,
if the doctors can be credited, that is quite
unusual. They impute the fact to the sud-
den and severe changes in the temperature
during the week or ten DAYS past There is