The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-12-13
News of the Week.

A general snow storm prevailed in the West
on Thursday,
The health of Mr.. Jefferson Davis is report.
ed as failing very fast.
1t is reported that petroleum has been struck
in Choctaw county, Alabama.
There have been 100 cases of small -pox at
Hungerford Ontario, with large percentage
of deaths.
William Manchester died in Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, on Tuesday, at the alleged age
of l02 years.
The trustees of the State Normal School at
West Chester, Penna., have closed the school
until January 9th, fatal case of scarlet fever
having appeared among the pupils.
A passenger train, on the Little Rock,
Mississippi River and Texas Railroad, was
stopped by five masked robbers three miles
from Little Rock, on Saturday night The
express safe was rifled of $1,000, and the pas
sengers lost money, jewelry and watches to
the amount of about $4,000 more.
A despatch from San Francisco says that
the most violent storm ever experienced be-
gan there on Saturday night and continued on
Sunday. Passengers on the ferry boats were
made sea sick. Several vessels broke from
their moorings and were washed ashore, Two
sections of the sea wall were crushed in
and the breakwater at the foot of Green
street was completely washed away. Signs
were blown down and windows broken.
The storm of Saturday afternoon and night
was very severe in Pennsylvania in New York
and along the New England coast. A tornado
swept over the lower part of Chester, Penn
sylvauia, about half past nine clock, doing
great damage. 1t is estimated that at least
$50 buildings were wholly or partly unroofed
or damaged in some way by the storm. Pitts
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six o'clock, which unroofed and otherwise
damaged buildings, and fatally injured three
persons.
A delegation of Congressman, headed by
Commissioner General Morehead, of the New
Orleans Exposition, and Senators Lamar and
Hampton, called upon the President on We'd
nesday, and invited him, in view of his ina
bility to be present at the opening of the Ex-
position, to take part in the ceremonies while
he remained in Washington. 1t is proposed
to connect the White House with the EXPOSE
Buildings at New Orleans by telegraph wire.
At noon, the 10th instant, in the presence of
his Cabinet, members of Congress, Judges,
Government officials and Foreign Represen-
ia lives, the President is expected to start the
machinery of the Exposition by electricity.
The sewing machine works at Plattsburg,
New York, will soon resume operations with
q full force. IL has been decided 10 run tue
Plattsburg blast furnace this winter. All the
cotton factories except one in Columbus,
Georgia, are now running on full time, and
have advanced the price of goods. The plaid
mills are all full of orders, and business pros
poets are said to be Frightening. Nearly all
the cotton and wuollen mills at Laconia, New
Hampshire, and in its vicinity, are running on
full time at the old wages. A telegram from
Waterbury, Connecticut, says that interviews
with large number of brass manufacturers,
published in the american, show that, while
business is somewhat light and there have
been few reductions in forces or time. the
general outlook is good, and, in view of the
fact that the market is carrying low stock, a
steady but not booming demand for goods is
probable. Daring the past periods of de-
preston the brass interests have not suffered
much, and the feeling in regard to the future
is now good.