The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-15
News of the Week.

Gen. Grant has gone South for the benefit
of his health-or his presidential BOOM
An unknown revenue informer was hanged
by ''moonshiners, in Foyed co., Virginia,
last Saturday night. ~ 81
In the United States there are 81, 700 Sunday
schools, attended by $3.50, 1856 scholars and
932, 283 teachers, comprising total member
ship of 1853, llS.
The wife of B. B. Matthews, of Bound
Brook, New Jersey, was killed last Friday
night by the accidental discharge of rifle in
the hands of her eldest SON.
A snowslide near Alta, in the little Cotton.
wood district of Utah, on Friday night of last
week, swept away the works of the new Emma
mine, killing eleven men and one woman
By the burning of the Markley Block, at
Memphis, Missouri, last Friday, three per-
sons lost their lives, being killed by falling
wallis Four others we're dangerously injured
There was scloud burst near Calicote,
California, Friday night, which covered the
Southern Pacific Railroad track and the roofs
of buildings near by with sand to depth Of
Is inches to 2 feet. ..5.
George Cragin, who assisted John II. Noyes
in founding the Oneida Community, thirty six
years ago, was found dead in bed in the Com
munity on Sunday. He had long suffered
from disease of the heart.
Susan B. Anthony, Phoebe Cousins, Mrs.
Hagert and other members of the Women
Suffrage Association, on Saturday addressed
the House Committee on the Judiciary in
favor of the extension of the suffrage to their
sex.
The Governor of Delaware has respited
Lewis F. List, convicted of the murder of
George B. Taylor, until the second Friday of
March, 1910. The Governor having no power
to commute, took this method of changing
the death sentence to one of Imprisonment
for life.
The last spike of the Mexican Central
Railroad was driven on Saturday six miles
from Fresnillo, in the state of Zacatecas
There is now unbroken railroad communica-
ton between the city of Mexico and the Rio
Grande. -
A severe snow storm prevailed last Friday
night and Saturday in Ontario and Nova
Scotia. Travel was much interrupted by the
blocking of the roads and railways. Two
feet of snow fell in New Hampshire on Sat
urday night.
Mrs. Woodward Kirkloft, of Upper Potts
grove township, Montgomery county, Pa,
being crazed from malarial fever, left her
bed on Sunday night, set her clothing ON fire,
fought off those who tried to extinguish the
flames, and slowly burnt to DEATH. H
A prize of S10,0 900, open to all nationalities,
is offered in France, in December, 1887, for a
discovery enabling electricity to be applied
economically either as source of heat, light,
chemical action, mechanical power, or a
means of transmitting intelligence. Is.
The cigar manufacturers of Chicago on
Monday declared a lock- out, which throws
about HOO cigar makers out of work. The
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Cigar Makers Union that two men engaged
in making peculiar brand of cigars should
be paid higher wages. ,-.'-i : - ~
The pawn shop of Isaac Myer, in Boston,
was robbed on Saturday afternoon, during his
absence at dinner, Of 48 gold and silver
watches, 200 gold rings, number of gold
chains, and other jewelry. The burglars got
into the shop by saving a hole through a
wooden partition of vacant adjoining house.
Frank Rand, the desperate who made an
attempt upon the life of Deputy Warden Nc
Donald, of the Joliet; Illinois, prison, and
who was placed in solitary cell, succeeded
in hanging himself His right name was
Chas. c. Scott. He killed five men in 1877.
and is supposed to have murdered thirteen
persons in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
A grand encampment of Southern military
will be held at Rome, Ga, between July and
IL. The place selected for the encampment
is an open plateau on the bank ofthe 0ostan-
aula, opposite Rome, and only 500 yards
from the business portion of the city 1t is
expected that thousands of ex-Confederates,
who have not met since the close of the war,
will take part in the affair.
Last May the Twenty eighth New York
Volunteers entertained at Niagara Falls the
Fifth Virginia (Confederate) Veterans This
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invitation to visit the Valley of Virginia. on a
day not yet fixed. They will be entertained
by the survivors of the Fifth Virginia at VIM
chester, Staunton and other points.
A telegram from Topeka, Kansas, says that
Major Sims returned on Sunday from the
district infected by the foota and mouth disease.
The district infected, which is about S5,miles
in area, is now rgidly quarantined, andevery
effort will be made to stamp out the disease.
1t is proposed to buy all the diseased cattle,
kill them and burn their bodies. The cattle
are reported to be healthy,in every other part
of Kansas. .o15 7lcl $50 sl .a-.
I Statistics of the hog product of Cincinnati
for the year show that besides decrease of
nearly 1000 head in the number hacked,
there is a marked decline in the average
weight, amounting to IL! pounds per head,
making a difference in weight between the
past winter and the winter before of q, 400, 900
pounds. The average cost for the past winter
per 100 pounds gross was 1924 against SG.44
for the preceding season.
Ten men left Spokane Falls, Washington
Territory, for. Rathdruni, three weeks ago, tos
locate a trail to the Coenr d Alene gold min
ing district. They struck off from a point
twenty-five miles from Rathdrum. taking four
days rations, and instrIoting man to take
charge of other provisions and wait for their
return. Nothing has been heard Of them
since, and 1t feared they have persisted in the
deep snow. They have since returned.1
{ The county jail of Fairfax Court House,
Va, was set on fire early on Sunday morning,
and before daylight was burned so as to leave
only some of the walls standing. The fire
was kindled by two prisoners, Wheeler and
Lane who fired the wood work of their cell,
under the impression they could burn hole
through and escape. but the flames spread
and they were discovered. Lane escaped,
but Wheeler was taken to the jail at Alex
andria. - ---t- -L---iAl& go 1-
|" Heavy rains fell Sunday ia Virginia, and
a Hood Ia The Apponiatox river is reported.
Farming operations have been greatly retarded
by the protracted bad weather. At Peters
burg the storm of Sunday included two sep
arate thunder storms and considerable hail.
An ice storm began at Hartford, Connecticut,
on Friday night, which was the most destruo.
tive for many years. An Joe coating of ex-
| traordinary thickness formed on the trees and
telegraph wires, and the, streets were filled
with fallen trees and branches and broken
wires. IL i.A- -si-'-- l1iI 4 D,s-.ilAa
A dispatch from Birmingham, Alabama,
says that arrangements have been made TO
consolidate the Pratt Coal aud Iron Com.
pany, the Alice Furnace Company and the